the near-by Hoffman House, where the presiding genius and
stakeholder, Billy Edwards, divided attention with the paintings of
fauns and nymphs that adorned the walls. That youth of yesteryear has
come to grizzled hair. There are crow's feet about the eyes, and the
world is one of vastly changed values, and the game at which the heart
is throbbing is a more poignant one than that which involved touchdowns
and goals from the field and desperate stands on the two-yard line. But
it is the same old-time spirit, that then expressed itself in the call,
"Hold them, Yale," or "Hold them for Old Nassau!" that, passed on to
succeeding generations, is grimly awaiting the shock on the plains of
Picardy.

Of all the monuments that have graced Madison Square that which first
comes to mind is one that has gone. Twenty years ago a splendid white
arch spanned the Avenue, with one pier close to the sidewalk in front of
the Fifth Avenue Hotel, and the other touching the edge of the opposite
Park. It was in direct line with Washington Arch seventeen blocks away.
Under it, on September 30, 1898, passed the victor of Manila Bay, whose
name it bore, bowing right and left to the city's riotous welcome. For
months it remained there, and then disappeared. Why was the beautiful
structure not made permanent? The Worth Monument, in the centre of the
triangular piece of ground bounded by Fifth Avenue, Broadway,
Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth Streets, dates from 1857. By order of the
Common Council the plot was set apart for the erection of the shaft in
December, 1854. Major-General William J. Worth, of Mexican War fame,
died at San Antonio, Texas, June 7, 1849. The monument was dedicated
with a parade and a review November 25, 1857, and the General's remains
interred under the south side. In bands around the obelisk are recorded
the names of the battles in which Worth took part. On the east face, cut
in the stone, may be read "_Ducit Amor Patriae"_ and on the west face,
"By the Corporation of the City of New York, 1857--Honor the Brave." At
the moment of writing the building beyond the Worth Monument, at the
corner of Fifth Avenue and Twenty-fifth Street, is in the process of
demolition. At one time the New York Club was housed there, and there,
for years, the sign of the Berlitz School for Languages stretched
across the southern face of the structure.

"Were all the statues in New York made by St. Gaudens?" was the recent
naive and ingenuous questi