THE MACY'S OF TODAY
By 1903 the new Macy's in Herald Square was finished and the business
going forward in great strides
Fifty years ago, as Rowland H. Macy walked home one evening with his daughter—as was his frequent wont—from the simple little old red-brick store in Fourteenth Street to their new house in Forty-ninth, he paused for a moment with her in front of the old Broadway Tabernacle.
"I want you to notice this corner, very carefully, Florence," said he. "A half-century hence and the business of New York is to be centered between Thirty-fourth Street and Forty-second. Here is to be the future business heart of this wonderful city."
It is upon the vision of men quite as much as upon their prudence that the success of their enterprises depends.