Word: delmonico
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Died. Jacob ("Jake") Volk, 56, of Brooklyn, N. Y., potent razer, Russian-born butcher's son; of pneumonia; in Brooklyn. Razer Volk began with a horse and wagon; ended with a swift demolishing squad. He razed more than 2,500 buildings, including Delmonico's famed restaurant and the homes of Vanderbilts. He cleared the ground for the Woolworth Building, Equitable Building, N. Y. Cotton Exchange, Bankers Trust Co. When he razed the 13-story Chemical National Bank in downtown Manhattan he displayed a sign: "JACOB VOLK-THE MOST DESTRUCTIVE FORCE IN WALL STREET." His fondest dream...
...articulate, young Bennett knew that he would always be rich and that he would some day run the Herald. Tutors, France, champagne and the freedom of the Herald office furnished his education. New York's fastest society embraced him, because, unlike his father, he was a sporting blood. Delmonico's for luncheon, the Union Club* for late afternoon, anywhere for the evening?went young Bennett...
Philip D. Armour I's wealth helped James G. Elaine lose the presidency to Grover Cleveland in 1884. With Jay Gould, Henry H. Rogers, Cyrus W. Field, Russell Sage and other men of "oppressive wealth" he gave a dinner to Mr. Elaine at Delmonico's in Manhattan, just before the 1884 elections...
...necklace of emeralds and pearls for Mrs. Isaac Bell, for $5,500. Later the centre pearl alone of this necklace brought $90,000, money that went to establish the Bell Home for Gentlewomen. Twenty years in the U. S. brought him some wealth. So he moved to Fifth Avenue. Delmonico's was next door. Bankers and merchants would be there, eager to crowd about his table. As they poured their wine, he poured his pearls on the table, rubies, emeralds and sapphires. He taught them beauty in gems and they bought for their women. Some began...
That amusing and quite frivolous weekly the New-Yorker, has reached journalistic maturity--for it is being sued for "defaming the name of a citizen". The gospel of the sophisticates took occasion to criticize the structure known as the Delmonico Building, comparing the grace of the tower to that of "an over-grown grain elevator", and found that legal complications ensued. The Delmonico Building, unfortunately for the New Yorker, did not "just grow" a In Harriet Beecher Stowe, but was designed by an architect, one no less than Mr. H. Craig Severance, who appears to be extremely sensitive to derogatory...