Excerpt from The Spendthrift In Washington Square, New York's extremes meet. The most exclusively aristocratic portion of Fifth Avenue - where the newly-prosperous are quite unknown - debouches into it, and its North side is bordered by the residences of the rich, and, curiously enough, distinguished. New York does not contain another row of equal length as notable. The South side is held by artists, other anarchists, and little business folk, like dealers in that vehicle once popular, now obsolete, the bicycle. To the East rise mighty business buildings where once the University serenely gloomed. Only the West side is miscellaneous. There have been erected flats in which all classes and conditions doubtless live, as elsewhere in flat buildings. Oh, yes, another detail. There is a church, of really progressive principles, among the anarchists of the South side. It is a fine memorial to a great, unselfish man, a missionary surnamed Judson, and bearing the fine given name Adoniram. Years ago a woman walked and wept upon the center span of Brooklyn Bridge - a poor, frail girl who had gone wrong and much regretted it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.