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TELEPHONES FITZROY 5600  5601  5602  5603  5604
"To conserve the highest and best interests of the Fifth Avenue section"
THE FIFTH AVENUE ASSOCIATION
(INCORPORATED)
358 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK CITY
AT 34th STREET

OFFICERS
JOHN H. TOWNE, CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD  MICHAEL FRIEDSAM, FIRST VICE-PRESIDENT  DOUGLAS L. ELLIMAN, THIRD VICE-PRESIDENT  WILLIAM J. PEDRICK, GENERAL MANAGER
ROBERT GRIER COOKE, PRESIDENT  ANCELL H. BALL, SECOND VICE-PRESIDENT  HARRIS A. DUNN, TREASURER  THOMAS W. HUGHES, SECRETARY
June 10, 1924

TO THE MEMBERS AND NON-MEMBERS OF THE FIFTH AVENUE ASSOCIATION, INC.:  
SUBJECT: Fifth Avenue and the National Democratic Convention

The National Democratic Convention will convene at Madison Square Garden on June 24th next. For the first time since 1868, New York City has been chosen for the national convention of a major political party, bringing to this city delegates from every part of the country, accompanied by their families and friends.

Through the eyes of these visitors, New York will register a nationwide impression. Through the additional medium of the press of the entire country, descriptions will be broadcast of our City in convention dress, of its streets, its institutions, its charms and its friendliness.

To the end that these impressions may be favorable, elaborate plans have been made by both the Citizens' Committee and the City of New York, for the reception and entertainment of the delegates, and for the proper decoration of the city.

Fifth Avenue will be "The Avenue of the States." Each state and territory will be represented by a section of the Avenue, in which the lamp posts will bear flag clusters draped behind the state seal. Electric lights, typifying the city colors, will be strung from post to post along the curb. The regular street lights will be replaced with the amber globes which have illuminated the famous "Golden Way" on occasions of similar interest in the past. 

In order that the City's scheme of decoration may be fittingly completed, it is suggested that the members and non-members of our Association decorate their buildings by flying the National, [[strikethrough]] State and City flags, [[\strikethrough]], - in any event the National flag, should you not be in possession of the State and City emblems.

Our Board of Directors, at its meeting on May 14th, adopted resolutions requesting our members to co-operate with a flag display that will harmonize with the City's street decorations and which will be an appropriate gesture of welcome to the visitors. If you have no present arrangement for flag poles, we hope that temporary arrangements will be made in order that the display may be uniform throughout the length of the Avenue from Washington Square North.

Fifth Avenue is a national institution. It has been called the "show window of America." It will be a centre of national interests and attraction not only as a great street but because Fifth Avenue's response to similar decorative opportunities has been in the past a pageant of unusual dignity and beauty. That our Avenue's traditions will be faithfully followed on this occasion, we have no