Fifth-ave

He's just one of these big, handsome, overfed chappies that help the mounted traffic cops to make Fifth-ave. look different from other Main-sts.

Odd Numbers Being Further Chronicles of Shorty McCabe Sewell Ford 1907

I'll bet that's the only one of the kind ever pulled off on Fifth-ave.

Odd Numbers Being Further Chronicles of Shorty McCabe Sewell Ford 1907

Not havin 'a stretcher handy, we drags him out to the curb, and I blows some more of my expense account against a taxi, which lands us safe and sound at this Fifth-ave. number up in the 70's.

Torchy Sewell Ford 1907

He'd just made plans to build a solid gold mansion on Fifth-ave. and hire John D. Rockefeller for a butler, when he strays into one of these Gospel missions and gets religion so hard that he can't shake it.

Torchy Sewell Ford 1907

Say, I paid off the taxi and floated down Fifth-ave. as light as if it was paved with gas balloons.

Torchy Sewell Ford 1907

You know the kind, that begin at Fifth-ave. with a double-breasted old brownstone, and end at Sixth with a delicatessen shop.

Torchy Sewell Ford 1907

She'd dragged Ferdie into town for a couple of weeks, and they'd been stayin 'at the Ellins's Fifth-ave. house, just visitin' and havin '

Torchy, Private Sec. Sewell Ford 1907

Why, I pawed over whole bales of stuff in a sure-enough Fifth-ave. tailor works; had blueprint plans of the front and side elevations drawn, even to the number of buttons on the cuffs, and spent three diff'rent noon hours havin 'it modeled on me before they could pull a single bastin' thread.

Torchy, Private Sec. Sewell Ford 1907

What if the asphalt over on Fifth-ave. was softenin 'up, with the mercury hittin' the nineties, and half the force off on vacations?

Torchy, Private Sec. Sewell Ford 1907

Fifth-ave. joints where they have an extra night force on call for coming-out parties and dinner dances and the like.

Torchy Sewell Ford 1907