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Show ONCE FINE HOTEL WILL BE TORN DOWN NEW PORK, March 29 The Buckingham Buck-ingham hotel, relic of fashionable New York of the Victorian era le to be torn down after June 1 to make way for a $ I rum 000 department store. Saks and company. W'lth Its parsing, another of New York's landmarks will have fallen before the steady march of commerce. I he llu' gingham, at Fifth avenue and fiftieth street. Is one of the hotels which radiated the stout respectability of another generation. In I87.r, when Oeorge Kemp an architect, built It. It was considered a marvel of modern convenience and luxury and was for man years the finest and most fashionable fash-ionable apartment hotel In the city. |