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Astor never sold? A.: Once in a while he sells, yes. Q.: But the rule is that he does not sell? A.: Well, hardly ever; he has sold, of course. Q.: Isn't it almost a saying in this community that the Astors buy and never sell? A.: They are not looked upon as people who dispose of real estate after they once get possession of it.
Do you understand?" "Me savvy," said the Chinaman, calmly. "Doctor no belong Astor Hotel. All same belong Oliental Hotel." "I don't care where he belongs," Bobby cried impatiently. "Get him over the telephone. And send somebody up from the office, do you understand?" "Oh, yes, me savvy," he said, with the imperturbability of his race.
"And at the magistrate's command, And next undid the leathern band That bound her tresses there, And raised her felt hat from her head, And down her slender form there spread Black ringlets rich and rare." Old Hurricane meanwhile dined at the public table at the Astor, and afterward went to his room to rest, smoke and ruminate. And he finished the evening by supping and retiring to bed.
I bought them at a ten-cent store on Sixth Avenue when I was twelve years old." "Oh! What made you do that?" "All the regulars at the Astor Library wore them. At the time it seemed to be the thing to do, and of course they soon became second nature to me. But I daresay no one ever had a sounder pair of eyes than I."
He walked a little beyond the Astor House, and, crossing Broadway, turned down Fulton Street. On the left side of the street his attention was drawn to a restaurant, and he was led by the prompting of appetite to enter. The prices he found to be reasonable, and the tables were already pretty well filled with clerks and business men, who were partaking of their midday lunch.
"He has just been reading the slabs sent from Nineveh by Mr. Marsh; their date is only about five hundred years B.C. "Mr. Seyffarth's published works amount to seventy, and he was surprised to find a whole set of them in the Astor Library in New York. "March 19. We came on board of the steamer 'Magnolia, this morning, in great spirits.
It is to make a title a money transaction. Let us have a tariff for titles. If American millionaires, like Lord Astor, want them let them pay for them at the market rate. It would be at least a more wholesome method than the present system. And it would bring the whole imposture into contempt. Nobody would have a title when everybody knew what he had paid for it.
All inquiries as to whether any lady answering to her description had been seen there had resulted in failure. He would have been there yet, growing angrier all the while, had not a gentleman who had overheard his troubles suggested that he telephone the Astor House, in the hope that the lady might be waiting there.
We went from our table to the pier to see her descend from the steamer. Triumphal arches of evergreens and flowers had been erected over the way she passed. A great crowd had collected. Bands were playing. Her face came into view. Shouts arose. She bowed and smiled to the wild throngs about her as she rode with Barnum to the Astor House. Here the Swedish and American flags floated in her honor.
In the course of this work it has already been shown in specific detail how Peter Goelet in conjunction with John Jacob Astor, the Rhinelander brothers, the Schermerhorns, the Lorillards and other founders of multimillionaire dynasties, fraudulently secured great tracts of land, during the early and middle parts of the last century, in either what was then, or what is now, in the heart of New York City.
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