re is a bronze one of William H.
Seward, Lincoln's Secretary of State, the work of Randolph Rogers. The
effigy of Roscoe Conkling, by J.Q.A. Ward, is at the southeast corner.
Cold and proud is the stone as the man was cold, and proud, and biting.
What chance had haranguing abuse against his icy: "I have no time to
bandy epithets with the gentleman from Georgia"? Then there is the
drinking fountain by Emma Stebbins, given to the city by the late
Catherine Lorillard Wolfe, and the Bissell statue of Chester A. Arthur.

No other structure in the city is so many different things to so many
different people as the Madison Square Garden. To the old-time New
Yorker, who likes to babble reminiscently of the past, the site recalls
the railway terminus of the sixties, when the outgoing trains were drawn
by horses through the tunnel as far north as the present Grand Central.
To one artistically inclined the creamy tower, modelled on that of the
Giralda in Seville, suggests the collaboration of St. Gaudens and White,
and the surmounting Diana the early work of the former inspired by
Houdon's Diana of the Louvre. To the more frivolous, the sportingly
inclined, the seekers after gross pleasures, the Garden has meant the
Arion Ball, or the French Students Ball, the Horse Show, Dog Show, Cat
Show, Poultry Show, Automobile Show, Sportsman's Show, the Cake-Walk,
the Six-Day Bicycle Race, or events of the prize-ring from the days of
Sullivan and Mitchell to those of Willard and Moran; Buffalo Bill and
his Wild West Show, or the circus, the Greatest Show on Earth, with its
houris of the trapeze and the saddle, and its animals, almost as fearful
and wonderful as the menagerie of adjectives that its press-agent, the
renowned, or notorious, Tody Hamilton, gathers annually out of the
jungles of the dictionary. Also the interior of the vast structure
echoes in memory with political oratory, now thunderous and now
persuasive. Through the words directed immediately at the thousands that
fought their way within the walls Presidents and candidates for
president have sent ringing utterance throughout the land.

Opposite the Garden, at the southeast corner of Twenty-sixth Street, is
the Manhattan Club, in a house that was formerly the home of the
University Club, and adjoining it to the south, is the Appellate Court
House, architecturally one of the city's most distinguished buildings.
Designed by James Brown Lord, it was completed in 1900, at a cost