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TELEPHONES FITZROV{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 ROBERT GRIER COOKE, PRESIDENT MICHAEL FRIEDSAM, FIRST VICE-PRESIDENT ANCELL H. BALL, SECOND VICE-PREDIENT DOUGLAS L. ELLIMAN, THIRD VICE-PRESIDENT HARRIS A. DUNN, TREASURER WILLIAM J. PEDRICK, GENERAL MANAGER THOMAS W. HUGHES, SECRETARY BOARD OF DIRECTORS ROBERT ADAMSON, PRESIDENT PETROLEUM HEAT AND POWER COMPANY ANCELL H. BALL, PRESIDENT BEST & COMPANY WALDRON P. BELKNAP, VICE-PRESIDENT BANKERS TRUST COMPANY JAMES G. BLAINE, JR., VICE-PRESIDENT NEW YORK TRUST COMPANY PAUL B. ODEN, TERMINAL HOTELS L. M. OOMER, PRESIDENT WALDORF-ASTORIA J. HOWES BURTON, BURTON BROTHERS ROBERT GRIER COOKE, PRESIDENT THE FIFTH AVENUE ASSOCIATION, INC. ELIOT CROSS, CROSS & CROSS HARRIS A. DUNN, VICE-PRESIDENT IRVING BANK - [[??]] COLUMBIA TRUST CO DOUGLAS L. ELLIMAN, PRESIDENT DOUGLAS L. ELLIMAN & COMPANY, INC. EZRA H. FITCH, PRESIDENT ABERCROMBIE & FITCH COMPANY MICHAEL FRIEDSAM, PRESIDENT BB. ALTMAN & COMPANY J. M. GIDDING, PRESIDENT J. M. GIDDING & COMPANY JOHN A. HARRISS, CAPITALIST WILLIAM W. HOPPIN, ATTORNEY AT LAW ROBERT H. KOEHLER, ATTORNEY AT LAW EMIL W. KOHN, TREASURER THEODORE A. KOHN & SON WALTER E. MAYNARD, REAL ESTATE C. STANLEY MITCHELL, VICE-PRESIDENT CHATHAM AND PHENIX NATIONAL BANK WILLIAM J. PEDRICK, GENERAL MANAGER THE FIFTH AVENUE ASSOCIATION, INC J. R. POLLOCK, DIVISION COMMERCIAL MANAGER NEW YORK TELEPHONE COMPANY SAMUEL W. REYBURN, PRESIDENT ASSOCIATED DRY GOODS CORPORATION OF NEW YORK WILLIAM POST SACKETT, DIRECTOR FRANKLIN SIMON, PRESIDENT FRANKLIN SIMON & COMPANY JOHN SLATER, TREASURER J. & J. SLATER JOAN SLOANE, PRESIDENT W. & J. SLOANE WALTER STABLER, COMPTROLLER METROPOLITAN LIFE INSURANCE CO. LOUIS STEWART, DIRECTOR REV. ERNEST M. STIRES, D.D.M RECTOR ST. THOMAS' CHURCH GAGE E. TARBELL, REAL ESTATE CHARLES THORLEY, FLORIST JOHN H. TOWNE, SECRETARY YALE & TOWNE MANUFACTURING COMPANY WILSON H. TUCKER, DIRECTOR LORD & TAYLOR ARTHUR WILLIAMS, GENERAL COMMERCIAL MANAGER NEW YORK EDISON COMPANY September 4, 1923 TO THE MEMBERS AND NON-MEMBERS OF THE FIFTH AVENUE ASSOCIATION, INC.: Subject: Request to display flags September 6th and September 17th Next Thursday, September 6th, will be the anniversary of the birthday of Lafayette, as well as the anniversary of the Battle of the Marne. The Lafayette Day National Committee is urging the general observance of this day. We have co-operated on this occasion in the past, and we are again urging you to join in the celebration, by displaying the American and French flags side by side, or at least by flying the American flag, on this day. We have a further request to make of you, and that is to display the American flag on Monday, September 17th, on which day New York City will observe Constitution Day. The Sons of the American Revolution are urging a nation-wide observance of this day, and have expressed the hope that our Association will co-operate as fully this year as it did last year. Very truly yours Thomas W. Hughes Thomas W. Hughes Secretary ARC
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