SOCIAL CENTRE MOVES NORTH

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                   December 24, 1905, Sunday
                   Page 2, 951 words
                   The social centre of New York City, 
                   which for the past eighty years seems 
                   to have moved up town one block, or 
                   200 feet each year, has jumped in 
                   the last three years from Fifty-second 
                   Street in 1902 to a point midway in 
                   the block between Fifty-seventh and 
                   Fifty-eighth Streets, just west of Fifth 
                   Avenue, or at an accelerated pace of 
                   nearly 300 feet per annum. . . .

I was hunting down Harry Raymond, a Pynchon Partner in Chicago, this is a page 
from 1905. After noting the northward migration of the smart set on the island, 
we audition Jan Kubelik with Alphonse A. Mucha, followed by a cotillion with the 
Harrimans and Jay Gould. At the end, the International Socialist Bureau of 
Brussels calls for universal revolution.

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