COPVRIGHT DEPOSnv 
 
BACKWARD GLANCES 
 
 Reminiscences of an Old New- Yorker 
 
 By THOS. FLOYD=JONES 
 
 1914 
 
 NEW YORK BROOKLYN LONG ISLAND 
 
.37 
 
 Copyright, 1914 
 By Thos. Floyd- Jones 
 
 SEP 28 I9J4 
 
 V 
 
 tCI,A379686 
 
^ ILLUSTRATIONS 
 
 ^ THE AUTHOR Frontispiece 
 
 Page 
 
 THE EMILY GLENTWORTH CUP Facing 3 
 
 WHITE HALL, PETER STUYVESANT'S 
 
 HOUSE Facing 9 
 
 FIRE TRUMPET— Presented to Thomas Floyd- 
 Jones, Nov. 12, 1867, by the members of 
 Atlantic Hose Company Number One, Vol- 
 unteer Fire Dept., Brooklyn Facing 38 
 
 LADY SUFFOLK Facing 64 
 
 IMPORTED MESSENGER— Running horse. . .Facing 65 
 
 *RIPTON AND CONFIDENCE— Centerville 
 
 Course, Long Island, July 19, 1842 ; won 
 
 by Ripton ; driven by Hiram Woodruff ; 
 
 Confidence, driven by William Whelan ; 
 
 two-mile heats; time, 5:10, 5:14^., Facing 66 
 
 COLD SPRING HARBOR, LONG ISLAND— 
 Scene of the author's Grey Eagle Dilemma 
 in 1852. The Major William Jones Sand 
 Beach, dividing the Inner and Outer Har- 
 bor observed in the distance, with his old 
 residence built in 1800 on the hill to the 
 
 left Facing 69 
 
 FLORA TEMPLE— Owned by James D. Mc- 
 
 Mann, New York, 1855 Facing 79 
 
 AMERICAN ECLIPSE— Running horse Facing 93 
 
 WILD DUCKS IN A SWAMP Facing 158 
 
 MASSAPEOUA LAKE— Created by damming 
 
 of Brick House Brook in 1837 Facing 169 
 
 fPATENT TO INHABITANTS OF TOWN OF 
 
 OYSTER BAY, LONG ISLAND. ... .Following 174 
 tTHREE PATENTS TO INHABITANTS OF 
 
 TOWN OF HUNTINGTON, L. T Following 174 
 
 *(Froin Turf Register and Sporting Magazine). 
 fBy Colonial Governors, confirming Indian Deeds. 
 
This Book is dedicated by the writer 
 
 to his Hfelong friend, 
 
 GEORGE F. JOHNSON 
 
 of New York 
 
PREFACE 
 
 The Author of this production, before putting it before 
 the public, would most respectfully beg leave to say that in the 
 waning months of the year 1907, Mr. Sidney S. Toman, the 
 enterprising editor of that very lively weekly periodical "The 
 Trotter and Pacer," which is a paper edited in New York 
 devoted principally to the exploiting of that grand animal the 
 Trotting Horse, approached the writer with the urgent re- 
 quest that he would dictate an article to be produced in his 
 Holiday Number, which had been projected with the purpose 
 of making it the very best one in the history of the paper. 
 The write-up to be reminiscences of about half a century ago, 
 as relating to New York, Brooklyn, and vicinity. 
 
 After due deliberation, it was not deemed advisable to 
 take up the task on account of the limited time granted be- 
 fore going to press, as it was too short to produce any 
 writing that would be of any credit to the producers or in- 
 terest to the many readers of his production. 
 
 Subsequently the new year of 1908 came in, and during 
 the author's spare moments, he penned a series of recollec- 
 tions, with the heading, "Looking Backward — Reminiscences 
 of an Old New-Yorker." The article was really most gen- 
 eral, as it described almost everything as I saw them in 
 this vicinity over fifty years ago. It might be called a hodge- 
 podge, too broad for a horse paper, and too much horse, the- 
 atrical and sporting matter to be given to any of the various 
 monthly magazines, whose interest did not lie in this direc- 
 tion. Mature thought came into play, and the decision ar- 
 rived at was that "The Trotter and Pacer" was the proper 
 source to promulgate the article, which duly appeared in 
 the weekly editions of April i6th, 23d, 30th, and May 7th, 
 1908, and the final disposal proved to be a most successful 
 
 iii 
 
iv PREFACE 
 
 and happy one, as the paper was perused and the produc- 
 tion was most favorably commended by many people, old 
 New-Yorkers and Brooklynites, who were not particularly in- 
 terested in field sports, but eager to observe general accounts 
 of many, many years passed by, and in which a large number 
 of them were interested in some way. A Giicago paper, as 
 also a New York monthly, referred to it, both of which were 
 devoted to Music and the Drama, with the hope that it would 
 appear in book shape, so that it would be seen by more of 
 the general public and be kept as a book of reference. At 
 the same time, they deplored the abrupt ending of the series, 
 so in accord with the desires of many lifelong friends, I have 
 taken up this work and put it in book shape, having secured the 
 nucleus of same from the original article, and added mat- 
 ter in several instances, also inserting new memories as I pro- 
 gressed, and have changed the momenclature to the new one of 
 "Backward Glances." This without any apologies to Edward 
 Bellamy's Ghost, which cognomen amply expresses all con- 
 tained therein. Further, it may not look well for the writer 
 to apologize when putting out the foregoing, but he really 
 feels for his own gratification, that the reader must be ap- 
 prised that the book will likely appear a shade crude in the 
 eyes of a college graduate ; but look charitably upon the 
 efforts of merely a layman, who has done the best he knew 
 how, to let the present generation gain knowledge of how 
 affairs looked in days of long ago, so as to compare them 
 with the great, successful, and magnificent ones of the present 
 age in our great City of New York. 
 
 Thos. Floyd-Jones. 
 New York, 1914. 
 
CONTENTS 
 
 CHAPTER I Pp. 
 
 The author at Battery Park ruminating in 1914. 
 Aspect of same at that time. Elevated railroad 
 obscured eastern view, barge office and the aqua- 
 rium the southern, derricks, shafting, tackling, 
 boiler houses, etc., etc. 
 
 Entrance of new tunnel to Brooklyn, noise of ma- 
 chinery combined made strong contrast, peaceful 
 spot of years ago. 
 
 Aspect of same locality in i860. It was then en- 
 closed with an iron fence. Trees extended over 
 the entire park. The breathing spot and promen- 
 ade for residents of the lower wards, used largely 
 by nurses and children. Central Park being 
 opened 1856-7. Prospect Park, Brooklyn, i860. 
 Last slaver, the bark "Cora" at anchor in the 
 Bay. The distant hills of Staten Island observed. 
 Arrival of the steamship "Great Eastern," the 
 largest vessel ever built, on her voyage to New 
 York, June 28, i860. The Bay crowded with 
 crafts as her escort. The Battery holding thou- 
 sands of citizens to welcome her. Her second 
 arrival was at Flushing Bay, Long Island, Au- 
 gust 27. 1862. 
 
 Old Castle Williams on Governors Island, with 
 parapet crowned with guns. Flag hauled down 
 at setting of the sun from flagstaff on same. 
 Castle Garden, formerly Castle Clinton, aban- 
 doned as a fort in 1820-22, used for the recep- 
 tion of Lafayette in 1824, President Andrew 
 Jackson, 1832. President John Tyler, 1843, and 
 Kossuth, 185 1. The American Institute held 
 
vi CONTENTS 
 
 their fairs there in 1846 to 1850. Awards of sil- 
 ver cups to Major William Jones of Cold Spring 
 Harbor, Long Island, for best blood and brood 
 mares. Names of mares, Emily Glentworth and 
 Young Dove. Present owners of the cups. Used 
 as a concert hall by Jenny Lind in 1850 under the 
 management of Phineas T. Barnum. First re- 
 served seat bought by John N. Genin, the hatter, 
 for $250. Used as an emigrant depot in 1855. 
 Last reception there was to Cyrus W. Field 
 in 1858. 
 
 Atlantic Cable celebration, the cable being laid by 
 the U. S. man of war steamship "Niagara." It 
 proving a failure (the subsequent one laid by the 
 Great Eastern). Procession of citizens, militia, 
 and societies, to the Crystal Palace. Mr. Field 
 presented with freedom of the city by a docu- 
 ment in a gold box. Night procession of the 
 New York Volunteer Fire Department. Fire 
 works at City Hall. Cupola of same destroyed by 
 fire. Battery Park increased by filling in, oblit- 
 erating the wooden bridge from the main land 
 to Castle Garden, used for a parade ground by the 
 State Militia. 
 
 Arrival of hordes of emigrants, Irish and Ger- 
 man, by packet ships generally and by a few clip- 
 per ships, viz: "Flying Cloud" and "Dread- 
 nought," subsequently by steamers, the Irish re- 
 maining in New York and the Germans going 
 West. 
 
 Quarantine on Staten Island and the New York 
 Pilot Boats. 
 
 Halls Baths, former owner Doctor Rabineau, held 
 by chains off the Battery. 
 
 CHAPTER 2 Pp. 7—17 
 
 State Street and brick houses facing the park. 
 
CONTENTS vii 
 
 South Street to Coenties Slip. Basin occupied by 
 Canal boats. Storehouses in the Atlantic Docks 
 and on East River front Brooklyn. 
 Names of firms in flour and grain trade, members 
 of the Corn Exchange on South Street. Design 
 of certificate Volunteer Fire Department, Brook- 
 lyn. 
 
 Names of California Clipper ships and London 
 and Liverpool Packet ships on East River front, 
 New York, from Coenties Slip to Catharine 
 Street. 
 
 Burning of "Joseph Walker" and "Jeremiah 
 Thompson" packet ships. And from Old Slip to 
 Burling Slip on South Street and vicinity. Names 
 of old firms of shipping merchants, shipping 
 agents, commission merchants, importers, export- 
 ers, wholesale grocers, drugs, tobacco, teas, sugar, 
 molasses, butter and cheese, salt and salted fish 
 dealers. Auctioneers, sugar refiners, etc., etc. 
 White Hall Street, later called Broadway. New 
 Produce Exchange on Broadway and Moore 
 Street. Army headquarters, eastern department. 
 Names of hog slaughterers and provision dealers, 
 members of Produce Exchange, and final disposal 
 of the former trade in New York. French line 
 steamships and their agents. 
 Horsemen of the Exchange. Great double team 
 race at Fleetwood. The winners owned by a 
 member of the Exchange, who was also a real 
 estate operator. Names of celebrated trotting 
 horses. 
 
 Bowling Green buildings and British Consulate, 
 15 and 17 Broadway, and owners of same. Of- 
 fices of Collins, Cunard, Inman, Guion and 
 French lines steamships. Loss of the "Arctic," 
 1854, "Pacific," 1856, "City of Boston," 1870, 
 "City of Glasgow," 1854. Names of Coastwise 
 
viii CONTENTS 
 
 and Havana Lines on the North River Piers. 
 Names of Coastwise and Havana Steamships. 
 Account of the "Star of the West" relief steamer, 
 to Fort Sumter in 1861. Loss of the "Central 
 America" and her commander, Captain Herndon. 
 His monument at Annapolis, Maryland, in Na- 
 val Academy Grounds. 
 
 Loss of the "Evening Star." Billy Birch the 
 minstrel was saved. 
 
 Names of Albany night boats and day boats to 
 places on Hudson River. Names of night boats 
 to New England Cities. Day boats to Long Is- 
 land towns. Burning of the Seawanaka in Hell 
 Gate. Names of Harlem boats and of lines to 
 New Orleans from the East River front. 
 Arrival of European steamers and newspaper 
 issued "Extra." Account of receipt of mails at 
 Post Office (Old Dutch Qiurch) and delivery 
 of same. 
 
 CHAPTER 3 Pp. 18— ?6 
 
 Washington Hotel (Kennedy Mansion), Broad- 
 way and Battery Place, and names of merchants 
 dining there. 
 
 Pacific Engine Co. No. 14, Brooklyn, and some 
 members. Mechanic Hose Co. No. 8, New York 
 Fire Department, John Rouse, Foreman, Pork 
 Inspector of New York. 
 
 The Clay mare episode in Brooklyn. Restaurants. 
 Stock Exchange in Lord Court. Members of 
 same, horsemen. Dry goods trade (wholesale) 
 in Exchange Place and Broad Street and mem- 
 bers of same, prominent horsemen. George 
 Downing (colored man) oyster saloon in base- 
 ment of No. 3 Broad Street, Patrons of same. 
 Cricket Club on Staten Island. New York Yacht 
 
CONTENTS « 
 
 Club on Staten Island. Great Ocean Yacht Race 
 1866. 
 
 Coney Island Hotels, Delatours Soda Water 
 Fountain in Wall Street. Jaunceys Court in Wall 
 Street. Names of Marine Insurance companies 
 in Wall, Pine and William Streets. Journal of 
 Commerce, newspaper, Hanover Street, corner 
 of Beaver Street. Names of banks, bankers, 
 Wall 'Street and vicinity. Names of cotton 
 brokers and auctioneers, Pearl Street, Hanover 
 Square and Wall Street. 
 
 Ohio Life and Trust Company failure in 1857 
 and account of panic. 
 
 CHAPTER 4 PP- 27—3 
 
 Brick building corner of Wall and Nassau Streets. 
 Morning Express newspaper. James and Eras- 
 tus Brooks. 
 
 Jay Cook and Co., Bankers. Bankers Trust 
 Company. Additional banks. Mock auction 
 places on Broadway, Park Row, Chatham Street 
 and Courtlandt Street. 
 
 Names of real estate brokers, hat, cap. and fur 
 trade dealers. Wholesale dry goods merchants 
 on Broadway. Trinity Church and graveyard. 
 Soldiers monument. Grave of Charlotte Temple. 
 42 Engine Co. monument, also monuments of 
 Captain James Lawrence, U. S. Frigate, Chesa- 
 peake, Robert Fulton and Alexander Hamilton. 
 Iron yards, Broadway, Broad, South and Mar- 
 ketfield Streets. 
 Celebrated trotting horses. 
 
 Old Tom's Chop and Ale House in Temple Street. 
 Fraunces Tavern, Broad Street, corner of Pearl 
 Street, New York. The Eastern Hotel, corner 
 South and Whitehall Streets. 
 Mutual Life Insurance Company, Broadway, cor- 
 
X CONTENTS 
 
 ner of Liberty Street. Equitable Life Assurance 
 Company, Broadway, Henry B. Hyde, President 
 of Equitable. 
 
 Howard House, corner of Broadway and Maiden 
 Lane. Gilsey House, corner of Broadway and 
 Courtlandt Street. Hotels in Courtlandt Street. 
 Foot Bridge, Broadway and Fulton Street, 1866. 
 Barnum's Museum (American), Broadway, cor- 
 ner Ann Street. Description of freaks, the happy 
 family and names of actors and actresses in 
 "Uncle Tom's Cabin" on the stage of lecture 
 room there in 1853, City Hall Park, City Hall. 
 New City Hall, Old Hall of Records, formerly 
 Provost jail and a fire company house. 
 "Uncle Tom's Cabin" at Chatham Theatre and 
 cast of players, 1853. 
 Burning of Barnum's Museum, 1865. 
 New York Fire Department Volunteer System 
 Companies. Brooklyn Fire Department Volunteer 
 System and names of members of Atlantic Hose 
 Co. No. I. 
 
 CHAPTER 5 Pp. 36—40 
 
 New York Fire Department Volunteer System 
 and names of prominent members. Names of ad- 
 ditional companies, chief engineers and assistant 
 engineers of same. Changed to paid system, 
 1865. Names of chief engineers Volunteer Sys- 
 tem, Brooklyn, 1861-68. Title of companies, 
 locations and officers. Changed to paid system 
 1868-69. Noted fires in New York. Greenwich 
 Avenue school, 1853-54, Pearl Street House, 
 1852-53, W. J. Jennings' Clothing Store and Har- 
 per Brothers, 1853-54. In Brooklyn the Furman 
 Street disaster was in 1865 by fire. Narrow 
 escape of Hose Co. No. i members at same. 
 Jewelry trade, Broadway. Tobacco, retail, Cham- 
 
CONTENTS xi 
 
 bers, Centre, Catharine, Broadway and Cedar 
 Street. Drug stores in Broadway, Dr. Helmbold 
 and his Buchu and Grand Park equipage. 
 
 CHAPTER 6 PP- 41—47 
 
 The Astor House. Abraham Lincoln, 1860. 
 Body of President Abraham Lincoln at New 
 York City Hall, 1865. 
 
 Names of stage companies in New York and their 
 routes. Names of stage owners in New York, 
 Postage stamps and shinplaster script used for 
 fares. Names of car lines in New York and 
 their routes. Names of car line owners in New 
 York. 
 
 Crystal Palace fire 1858. Latting observatory 
 fire, West Forty-second Street and Sixth Avenue 
 in 1856. 
 
 Hotels on Park Row, New York. Brick Church 
 on Park Row and graveyard. Old Dutch Church 
 (post office). Nassau Street corner of Liberty 
 and Cedar Streets. Tammany Hall, corner of 
 Frankfort Street and Park Row, New York. 
 New York Sun, newspaper. Staats Zeitang, 
 Tryon Row, New York. Robert L. and Alexan- 
 der Stuart residences in Chambers Street. Rob- 
 ert L. and Alexander Stuart sugar refinery and 
 candy factory, Chambers and Greenwich Streets, 
 later Ridley and Company, corner of Hudson and 
 Chambers Streets. Hudson River Railroad De- 
 pot, College Place, Chambers and Warren Streets. 
 Trotter and Pacer office. College Place and Cham- 
 bers Street. Hudson River Railroad Depot, 
 Thirtieth Street station. Girard House Hotel, 
 Chambers, corner of West Broadway, New York. 
 Old residences on Hudson, Beach, Laight, 
 Greenwich Streets and St. John's Park. Har- 
 lem Railroad Depot, White and Centre Streets, 
 
xii CONTENTS 
 
 New York, subsequently Fourth Avenue and 
 Twenty-sixth Street, New York. New York, 
 New Haven and Hartford Depot, Fourth Avenue 
 and Twenty-sixth Street, New York. Round 
 Houses, Fourth Avenue, Thirty-third — Thirty- 
 fourth Streets, New York. Cattle yards, Robin- 
 son Street, Sixth Street and Third Avenue, and 
 Forty- fourth Street and Fourth Avenue. 
 Madame Restell and her end by suicide, Lang- 
 ham Hotel, New York. The old Bowery Theatre 
 and Atlantic Gardens. Title of dramas at Bow- 
 ery Theatre. Names of actors and actresses 
 associated with same. 
 
 City Hall Park and Five Points. Dead Rabbit 
 Riots, 1857. Police Riots, 1857. Metropolitan 
 Police System inaugurated 1857. Seventh Regi- 
 ment, New York. Colonel Abraham Duryea. 
 Names of Police Commissioners. Police head- 
 quarters. Names of chiefs. Police Gazette news- 
 paper. Names of Police Justices. 
 
 CHAPTER 7 Pp. 48—58 
 
 City Hall Park, April, i86r. New York. Songs 
 on wires on the fence around the park. Arrival 
 of Seventh Regiment back from Washington, 
 D. C, May, 1861, three months campaign. Thir- 
 teenth Regiment of Brooklyn and names of prin- 
 cipal officers. Company G, 200 men. Captain 
 Richard Van Wyck Thorne, Jr. Home Guard, 
 Brooklyn, 1861. Twenty-third Regiment, Brook- 
 lyn. Fourteenth Regiment, Brooklyn, 1861. 
 Colonel Alfred M. Wood. Forty-eighth Regi- 
 ment, Brooklyn, Colonel Bennett. The Four- 
 teenth Regiment of Brooklyn in Bull Run bat- 
 tle. Colonel Wood captured and in Libby 
 Prison, Richmond, Virginia. Colonel Wood, 
 Mayor of Brooklyn. 
 
CONTENTS xiii 
 
 Burton's Theatre, Chambers Street. American 
 News Company site. William Burton as Toodles. 
 Mrs. Russell, subsequently Mrs. John Hoey. A. 
 T. Stewart and Company, retail dry goods, 
 New York. A. T. Stewart and his residences. 
 Jones's Claremont, Roadhouse, New York. 
 To an amiable child. Liester Pollock. Solitary 
 grave Claremont. Kings Bridge Road, Kings 
 Bridge Hotel on Isle of Manhattan. 
 Elmer Ellsworth of Chicago. Ellsworth Zou- 
 aves. New York firemen. Willard's Hotel, 
 Washington, D. C, 1861. Fields Building, 
 Washington, D. C, 1861, fire. Washington Fire 
 Department, 1861. Killing of Ellsworth by 
 shooting at Alexandria, Virginia, by James W. 
 Jackson, proprietor of Marshall House. Jackson 
 shot by Sergeant Brownell. Succeeded by Lieu- 
 tenant Colonel Noah L. Farnum as Colonel of 
 Regiment of Hook and Ladder Company No. t, 
 New York, Fire Department Volunteers. Fifth 
 Ward Hotel, West Broadway and Franklin 
 Street. D. Devlin and Company, Broadway and 
 Warren Street, clothing. 
 
 Beach pneumatic Railroad tunnel, 1869, on Broad- 
 way and Warren Street. Removed 1913. Atlantic 
 Street tunnel, Brooklyn, Long Island Railroad 
 owners. 
 
 Chemical Bank, New York. Organizers of bank 
 and officers of same. Irving House, Broadway 
 and Chambers Street. Jenny Lind there in 1850. 
 Adams and Colt murder at Irving House. New 
 York Hospital location. Old Broadway Theatre. 
 Plays at same. Actors and actresses there. Wil- 
 liams, Stevens and Williams Picture store. Gos- 
 lings restaurant. Mealio's hat store. Hotels on 
 Broadway. W. C. Langley of Bay Ridge, Long 
 Island. Ice Cream saloons. Grand saloons. Bars. 
 
xiv CONTENTS 
 
 English chop and ale houses. "The Tender- 
 loin." Palace Garden, Sixth Avenue and Four- 
 teenth Street. Greenwich Savings Bank, J. & 
 R. Lamb. Names of piano manufacturers in 
 New York. Names of sheet music houses in New 
 York. Names of stationery trade houses in 
 New York. Jardines and Roosevelts church or- 
 gan makers. New York. 
 
 Names of retail dry goods houses, Chambers 
 Street to Grand on Broadway and vicinity. West- 
 chester House, Bowery and Broome. J. H. John- 
 sons jewelry house, Bowery and Broome. Re- 
 tail clothing trade, Fulton Street, Bowery and 
 Chatham Street. E. V. Haughwout & Company. 
 Burning of Barnum's New Museum, formerly 
 Chinese assembly rooms. Masonic Hall, subse- 
 quently Gothic Hall, Apollo Hall, Brooks Danc- 
 ing Academy, Dodworths Dancing Academy, 
 Bryants Minstrels, Christys Minstrels, Christy 
 and Woods Minstrels. E. P. Christy founder 
 of minstrelsy. George Christy (George Har- 
 rington). Way down south in Dixie, song, 1859. 
 Park and Tilford, Tom Benton, Jessie Benton, 
 Lincoln and Hamblin, Douglas and Johnson, 
 Breckenridge and Lane, Bell and Everett, i860 
 presidential candidates for president and vice 
 president, Sherwood Cambpell, minstrel, with 
 Bryants minstrels, later opera singer. English 
 opera at Grand Opera House. Caroline Ritch- 
 ings troupe. The heart bowed down sung by 
 Campbell. Prendergast, Griffn, John Wilde, 
 Mulligan, Bartholomew and Nelse Seymour, 
 prominent minstrels. William Castle, of Christys 
 minstrels in English opera and singer in church 
 choir in Brooklyn. Died in Chicago. Wood and 
 Marsh, combination of children, at 472 Broad- 
 way during the summer season. Theatre was 
 
CONTENTS XV 
 
 called Broadway Varieties. They played in 
 "Black Eyed Susan" and other pieces. Odd Fel- 
 lows Hall, Grand, corner Centre Street, Board 
 of Education Building, Elm, corner of Grand 
 Street. 
 
 CHAPTER 8 Pp. 59—84 
 
 The Broadway House, St. Nicholas Hotel, and 
 Prescott House all on Broadway. Celebrated 
 jewelry houses. Wallacks Theatre, Broadway 
 and Broome Street. Names of the stock com- 
 pany actors and actresses. Others appeared here 
 on stated occasions viz. Dion Boucicault and 
 wife, Agnes Robertson, Matilda Heron, Robert 
 Stoepel, leader of orchestra. Barney Williams 
 (Bernard Flaherty) Mrs. Barney Williams, 
 James W. Wallack, John E. Owens, Billy Flor- 
 ence and wife in various comedies. James Bev- 
 ins, who married a sister of Mrs. Williams, and 
 Mrs. Florence named Pray, kept a holstelry 
 near Centerville Track, Long Island. He was 
 later the bell ringer of the Jefferson Market Fire 
 Tower. Metropolitan Hotel. Prince of Wales, 
 Duke of Newcastle, Lord Lyons, Fernando 
 Wood, Mayor. 
 
 Revenue cutter, Harriet Lane, named after Pres- 
 ident James Buchanan's niece. Prince Albert's 
 brother George's arrival in New York. Ball at 
 Academy of Music. The Duke Alexis of Russia 
 in 1871 at launching of the "Grand Admiral" man 
 of war built for the Russian Navy. Reception 
 to him at Brooklyn Navy Yard, given by Rear 
 Admiral Melancthon Smith, who was in com- 
 mand of the Mississippi with Farragut at New 
 Orleans, George Dewey being his first officer. 
 Niblos Garden in rear of Metropolitan Hotel on 
 Broadway. 
 
xvi CONTENTS 
 
 Charlotte Cushman as Meg Merrilies, and as 
 Romeo in "Romeo and Juliet." Mrs. John 
 Wood, Maggie Mitchell, Edwin Forrest, E. L. 
 Davenport, Dan Harkins, Margaret Mather, 
 Lydia Thompson, Pauline Markam and Bon- 
 fanti the great dancer, all appeared on the stage 
 of this theatre. "The Black Crook" and "White 
 Fawn" were played here for many months under 
 the management of Jarrett and Palmer. Mel- 
 ville, Stone, Sebastian, Dan Rice, Nat Austin, 
 of the circus, as also The Ravels, in pantomime 
 appeared here. Little All Right, a Japanese acro- 
 bat, was also quite a feature at this house. 
 The great Stanwix Hall tragedy, shooting of 
 Bill Poole, a pugilist, in 1855, and his death, his 
 funeral. "I die a true American" were his last 
 words. Lafayette Hall on Broadway. Captain 
 Shumway's Company quarters Seventh Regi- 
 ment, also of Light Guard, Tompkins Blues. 
 The City Guard on Broadway also. The Old 
 Guard. Lafayette Hall, quarters of trotting 
 horse owners. Vauxhall Garden. Wagon ma • 
 ers. Corporal Thompson's old road house at 
 Twenty-third Street and Broadway, subsequent 
 site of Franconi's Hippodrome. Chariot racing. 
 Fifth Avenue Hotel. Finley's race track. Bloom- 
 ingdale, Strykers Bay, Jones' Claremont Hotel 
 and Burnhams road house, as also The Abby at 
 One Hundred and Second Street and the North 
 River. 
 
 Residences of Fernando Wood, Jerry and Neil 
 Bryant, Hosea Perkins, Lawson N. Fuller, Ben- 
 jamin Wood. Lady Suffolk. Race Course on 
 Hempstead Plains in 1665, called Salisbury 
 Plains. This track was called New Market. 
 Location near Hyde Park, or Isle of Trees, Long 
 Island. 
 
CONTENTS xvii 
 
 Track at Jamaica, Long Island, around Beaver 
 Pond, another on Lispenard Meadows in Green- 
 wich Village (old Ninth Ward) also a track on 
 the Bowery at First Street and one at Newtown, 
 Long Island. The Centerville Track laid out 
 in 1825. Albany Girl feat in 1847. Attempted 
 and failure. Lady Suffolk foaled in 1833 at 
 Smithtown, Long Island. Pedigree, owners, and 
 her career. Names of prominent competitors. 
 Reference to Gipsy, Night Hawk (Jupiter) Lady 
 Emma and Pearsall. The Union course be- 
 tween East New York and Jamaica, Long Is- 
 land, and the Centerville Course. The Hunting- 
 ton, Babylon, Massapequa and Washington 
 Course in Hempstead Plains all on Long Island. 
 Huckleberry frolics at the Hempstead Track. 
 Description of same. "Licker up" beverages. 
 Hewletts Hotel and St. Georges Church, Hemp- 
 stead. Remsens and Cale Weeks Hotel at Ja- 
 maica, Long Island. The Hamilton half mile 
 track, Ninety-third Street and Columbus Ave- 
 nue, New York. The Red House half mile 
 race track, Second Avenue and One Hundred 
 and Fifth Street, and one on Harlem Lane near 
 the river at 148th Street. Grey Eagle and Hiram 
 Woodruff his trainer and horses he trotted 
 against. The Grey Eagle episode at Cold Spring 
 Harbor, Long Island, in 1852. Dicken's char- 
 acter Nicholas Nickleby and Whackford Squeers, 
 R. I. P. Major William Jones' wager in 1818 
 with Colonel Bond of Baltimore, Maryland, of 
 $1,000 — to produce a horse to trot a mile in har- 
 ness under three minutes. The horse named was 
 Boston Pony. The race was on the turnpike 
 west of Jamaica, Long Island. It was won by 
 the Major. Boston Blue called the Slate Colored 
 American. Sorrel mare Gipsy and stallion Jupi- 
 2 
 
xviii CONTENTS 
 
 ter. Rules and Regulations adopted for the 
 Union Course, Long Island, March 25, 1848, at 
 the house of Green and Wessel, New York. 
 Successor to Lady Suffolk, bobtailed mare, Flora 
 Temple. Where foaled, and pedigree. Union, 
 Centerville and Fashion Tracks on Long Island. 
 Location and description of Fashion Race Track, 
 1856. Names of horses pitted against Flora 
 Temple, she vanquishing all of them. She was 
 owned at different times by George E. Perrin, 
 John C. Perrin a Mr. Borum and Lew Pettee, 
 driven by Hiram Woodruff, Warren Peabody 
 and Darius Tallman, subsequently owned by 
 James Irving and Mr. James D. McMann con- 
 jointly. This partnership dissolved, the latter 
 buying out Irving's interest. She was later sold 
 to Mr. McDonald of Baltimore, being in charge 
 of Mr. McMann. Names of celebrated horses 
 and road drivers. Flora's race with Medoc and 
 against Ethan Allen and Running Mate about the 
 year 1863, on the Union Course, Long Island, 
 the team beating her. The same team met her 
 at the Fashion Track and won the first heat, 
 being distanced in the second. In the next race 
 the team beat her. In 1864 Dexter appeared on 
 the turf. His pedigree and owner. Names of 
 his competitors. Lady Thorne and her pedigree 
 and owner, Mr. James McMann. She beat Dex- 
 ter in one race and Dexter beat her in three 
 races. Lady Emma and her races. 
 Stage lines on Long Island, Amityville to Brook- 
 lyn and Hempstead to Brooklyn. Names of own- 
 ers of stage lines and driver of Amityville stage. 
 Montgomery Queen stages in Brooklyn. Phil Gro- 
 gan and Dominick Colgan's oyster houses in 
 Brooklyn. English ale and chop houses in Brook- 
 lyn. Hotels in Fulton Street, Brooklyn. Billiard 
 
CONTENTS XIX 
 
 rooms in same and members of the Excelsior 
 Baseball Club "Nine". 
 
 Mr. Chadwick of the Stars and Reporter. His 
 death in 1908. Elysian Fields, Hoboken. Names 
 of New York Baseball Clubs. 
 Rough house on Hoboken Ferry boats. Dickey 
 Pierce and the O'Briens, members of the At- 
 lantic Baseball Club, Brooklyn. 
 
 CHAPTER 9 Pp. 85-96 
 
 Three and four mile heats in Lady Suffolk's day. 
 Endurance performance of pair of stage horses 
 in 1841. Register of house at Montauk Point, 
 Long Island, kept by P. T. Gould. Copied by 
 William Jones Weeks, 1847. Mr. Gould being 
 keeper of the light house at that time. Match 
 for $600 between Isaac Willets from Hemp- 
 stead and Gilbert B. Miller of Brooklyn. Mr. Wil- 
 lets bet Mr. Miller that he could drive a pair of 
 mares belonging to John and Joseph Curtis, from 
 Brooklyn to Montauk Point in twenty- four hours 
 to a wagon weighing 300 pounds, being 140 miles 
 by the post road in the month of March, 1841. 
 Full account of the performance. Mr. Willets 
 the winner. Account of the trotting match from 
 the Long Island Star, published in Brooklyn under 
 date of March 10, 1841, Account of same from 
 the American Turf Register and Sporting Mag- 
 azine, Volume 15, issued in August, 1844. 
 Additional members of the Excelsior Baseball 
 Club of Brooklyn on their great "Nine." Rivalry 
 between the Excelsiors and Atlantics. The Em- 
 pires of New York and Athletics of Philadel- 
 phia. James Creighton's style of pitching the 
 ball. Dan and Tom Dean's billiard room, as 
 also Suydams, in Brooklyn. General Thomas 
 
XX 
 
 CONTENTS 
 
 Dakin, a baseball player, as also Honorable John 
 Shields. 
 
 The Park Theatre on Fulton Street, Brooklyn, 
 erected by Gabriel Harrison, actor. Dorlon and 
 Schafer's oyster saloon in Fulton Market, New 
 York. Frederick B. Conway, subsequent owner 
 of the Park Theatre, with his wife. Her name 
 was Sarah Crocker, a sister of Mrs. Bowers, ac- 
 tress, and mother of Minnie Conway, wife of 
 Levy the cornetist. Frank Conway, an English- 
 man, played at Broadway Theatre, New York. 
 Hooley's Minstrels in Brooklyn, Archie Hughes, 
 an end man. Dime Savings Bank, Brooklyn, was 
 on the site of former Minstrel Hall. Hooley's 
 Theatre, Chicago. His treasurer from Hemp- 
 stead, Long Island. Academy of Music, Brook- 
 lyn, erected 1860-61. Sanitary Fair during the 
 war. First night of a great European songstress 
 under the management of Henry E. Abbey there. 
 Full account of the affair, and how it was ar- 
 ranged beforehand. 
 
 Reference to the passing at Albany by the Legisla- 
 ture of a bill for the paid fire department in New 
 York in 1865, and Brooklyn, 1868-69, thereby 
 abolishing the volunteer system. The last row of 
 the New York Volunteer Department in 1865. 
 The experience of the writer in going to a fire in 
 Brooklyn in 1866. Names of track drivers re- 
 siding in New York, Brooklyn and Queens Coun- 
 ty, Long Island. 
 
 Match race Prospero and Honest Dutchman for 
 $5,000 a side in 1873, Dutchman shut out the 
 first heat, was at Prospect Park Race Track which 
 was built about 1863. Match race between Judge 
 Fullerton, chestnut gelding, and the mare, Amer- 
 ican Girl, on Prospect Track, Brooklyn, in 1863, 
 which was won by the mare. The Deerfoot half 
 
CONTENTS xxi 
 
 mile track, Brooklyn, bought by Mr. John Shults. 
 Names of celebrated Brooklyn road horses and 
 road drivers. Uncle Dan Willets^ the veteran. 
 The filly Tempest by Hambletonian, dam Co- 
 quette by Jupiter, subsequently called Nettie 
 Plummer. Article, by a letter referring to the 
 pedigree of the filly Tempest, as traced back 
 through her dam Coquette, and grand dam Suf- 
 folk Maid, to Old Henry, the competitor of 
 Eclipse in 1823 on the Union Course, Long Is- 
 land. Race won by Eclipse. Full account of 
 same. 
 
 CHAPTER 10 Pp. 97—1 1 1 
 
 The Revere House, Broadway corner of Houston 
 Street, Charles Coe, proprietor. Fleetwood in its 
 declining days. The four mares, Emma C, Daisy, 
 Margaret O. and Maud. Reddy the Blacksmith 
 saloon on Broadway and Houston Street. Allen 
 brothers, Mart and "The," ran the St. Bernard 
 Hotel. Tony Pastor as the clown. Harry Hill's 
 Public House and dance hall, Crosby Street cor- 
 ner of Houston. English ale houses, Cliftons, 
 House of Lords, House of Commons, in same 
 locality. St. Thomas's Church, corner Broad- 
 way and Houston Street. Henry Maillard's ice 
 cream and candy place, next door. Florence's res- 
 taurant in basement, southwest corner Broad- 
 way and Houston Street. Headquarters of prize 
 fighters. Heenan, Sayres, Coburn, Morrissey, 
 Mulligan and Mathews referred to. John C. 
 Heenan's fight with Sayres in England. Heenan 
 and Morrissey sparred at Hoymes' Theatre on 
 the Bowery. Morrissey defeated Heenan in Can- 
 ada. Heenan sparred at the New Bowery Thea- 
 tre with Aaron Jones and Murphy the Irish Giant. 
 Sam Collier and Billy Edwards heads of the light 
 
xxii CONTENTS 
 
 weight class. Eating saloon and barroom of 
 George and Jerry Thomas, Broadway near Twen- 
 ty-second Street. Cartoons by Thomas Nast 
 great attraction there. The Lotus Club possess 
 most of these pictures. 
 
 Beginning of the cheap concert rooms. Canter- 
 bury Hall, formerly Mozart Hall and the Me- 
 lodeon (Chinese assembly rooms) were the first 
 of this kind. Koster & Bial's was very prominent 
 of the same description at Twenty-third Street 
 and Sixth Avenue. 
 
 Barmore & McCollough's ice cream saloon, 
 Broadway near Eighth Street. Mr. Barmore or- 
 ganizer of the Knickerbocker Ice Company. 
 The Sinclair House, southeast corner of Broad- 
 way and Eighth Street. 
 
 The great Burdell murder case in 1857 at 31 
 Bond Street, a boarding house kept by Mrs. Cun- 
 ningham. Doctor Harvey Burdell, Mr. Eckles, 
 Mr. Snodgrass and Dan Ullman boarded there. 
 Frank Leslie's Illustrated with harrowing wood 
 cuts. Mrs. Cunningham and her bogus baby, a 
 fraud discovered, left for California where she 
 died. 
 
 Laura Keene's new theatre No. 624 Broadway. 
 Laura Keene as Camille also in "The American 
 Cousin." Sothern as Lord Dundreary and Broth- 
 er Sam. Holland, Couldock. Reverend Dr. 
 Sabine mentioned, as also the Church of the 
 Transfiguration, Reverend Dr. Houghton "The 
 Little Church Around the Corner." Joseph Jef- 
 ferson as the American in "The American 
 Cousin." John T. Raymond and Lotta also ap- 
 peared here. Laura Keene at Ford's Theatre, 
 Washington, D. C, in "The American Cousm," 
 April 15, 1865, where and when the president, 
 Abraham Lincoln, was shot by Wilkes Booth. 
 
CONTENTS xxiii 
 
 John Duff leased Laura Keenes Theatre and 
 called it the Olympic, Augustin Daly his son- 
 in-law, the playwright acting as his agent, as- 
 sisted by James W. Morrissey. Mrs. John Wood 
 appeared here in 1866. The pantomine "Humpty 
 Dumpty" with George L. Fox as the clown oc- 
 cupied this theatre in 1868 for an indefinite per- 
 iod. "Under the Gas Light" with C. F. Parsloe 
 in the cast had a long run here. "The Railroad 
 Scene" was a great feature. "The Sea of Ice" 
 or "A Maiden's Prayer" met with quite a success 
 on the stage of this house, George Jordan being 
 in the cast. It was spectacular and grand. While 
 George L. Fox was at the Olympic he put on the 
 drama "Richelieu" as a burlesque, he taking the 
 part of the cardinal. At this temple of the muses, 
 George Jones (The Count Johannes) appeared 
 in Shakesperian characters, being greeted at 
 every performance with cat calls and pelted with 
 onions, apples, turnips and even eggs, the house 
 crowded at every show. In 1856 a new theatre 
 was erected at 677 Broadway, former site of 
 Tripler Hall, Metropolitan Theatre, later called 
 Laura Keenes Varieties, under this name only 
 for a short time, succeeded by William Burton 
 from Chambers Street acting in many of his 
 old characters and in the new comedy "Brig- 
 ham Young" a satire on the sect known as Mor- 
 mons or latter day saints. The bedroom scene 
 described. On Burton's retirement, this theatre's 
 name was changed from FJurtons Theatre to the 
 Winter Garden. Charles Mathews, an English 
 actor, appeared here. Row with Dolly Daven- 
 port, a cow hide whip playing a part. Attentions 
 of the former to the wife of the latter was the 
 cause of the quarrel. She was a beautiful wom- 
 an and appeared in "The Naiad Queen" a spec- 
 
xxiv CONTENTS 
 
 tacular piece. English opera was presented here. 
 This theatre was in the rear of the Lafarge 
 House, now the Broadway Central Hotel, called 
 the Grand Central at one time. Scene of the 
 shooting of James Fisk, Jr., January 6, 1872, by 
 Edward S. Stokes. Burton's country home at 
 Glen Cove, Long Island. Harry Placide at Baby- 
 lon, Long Island. Dion Boucicault and his wife, 
 Agnes Robertson, at the Winter Garden in "The 
 Octaroon." "Midsummers Nights Dream," a 
 spectacular piece, was put on the stage of this 
 theatre, Helen Western appearing in this, as also 
 "The Naiad Queen." Kate Bateman, in "Evan- 
 geline" and "Leah." Charlotte Cushman as 
 Lady MacBeth, supported by Studley. Charles 
 Mathews, Mark Smith, Mrs. John Wood and 
 John Brougham in "Pocahontas" all appeared 
 here, as also in 1864 Edwin, John Wilkes and 
 Junius Brutus Booth in "Julius Caesar." This 
 theatre was destroyed by fire March 23, 1867, 
 and was not rebuilt. William R. Blake, Harry 
 Placide, Barney Williams, William J. Florence, 
 William E. Burton, Fred B. Conway and his 
 wife Sarah Crocker, John Brougham, Charles 
 M. Walcott, Lester Wallack and his father, 
 James W. Wallack, Harry Montague and Laura 
 Keene are all interred in Greenwood Cemetery, 
 Brooklyn. The Academy of Music, New York, 
 on East Fourteenth Street and Irving Place, 
 was opened October 2, 1854. LaGrange, Brig- 
 noli, Adelina Patti, Carlotta Patti. Piccolomini, 
 Lucca, Clara Louise, Kellogg, Parepa Rosa, 
 Emma Abbott. Campanini, Del Puenti, Ravelle, 
 Christine Nilson and Gurster all sang at this 
 house in Italian opera. It was destroyed by fire 
 in 1868 and was rebuilt. Obliteration of old 
 theatres down town, viz : Barnums at Ann Street, 
 
CONTENTS XXV 
 
 Burtons in Chambers Street, National in Chat- 
 ham, Broadway on Broadway above Pearl Street, 
 and Wallacks on Broadway near Broome Street, 
 by fire, or to make way for business houses. 
 Niblos, Olympic, and the minstrel shows, Bry- 
 ants, Christys and Buckleys Serenaders, re- 
 mained on their old sites for some years. Wal- 
 lacks moved to Broadway and Thirteenth Street 
 about 1 86 1. His old theatre was then called the 
 Broadway, Theodore Morse Wallacks, Manager. 
 Harry Montague, an English actor, at Wallacks 
 Thirteenth Street house 1871-72. Barney Wil- 
 liams as lessee of the Broadway (Wallacks old 
 theatre). Billy Florence appeared here with his 
 wife in the comedy "Caste," he taking the char- 
 acter in the role of George D'Alroy, his wife 
 portraying that of Polly. William Davidge as 
 Eccles, Mrs. F. S. Chanfrau as Esther Eccles, 
 Mrs. G. H. Gilbert as the Marquise. In 1868 
 Mr. Wallack produced this comedy at his Broad- 
 way and Thirteenth Street house. Charles Fish- 
 er as D'Alroy, J. H. Stoddart as Eccles, Rose 
 Eytinge as Esther, Effie Germon as Polly and 
 Emily Mestayer as the Marquise. Osmond 
 Tearle, John Howson, Rose Coghlan, Ada Dyas 
 and Madalene Henriques appeared at this the- 
 atre. The great piece "Rosedale" was put on the 
 boards of this house in 1863, Oct. 5, Lester Wal- 
 lack as Elliot Grey, supported by Mrs. John Hoey, 
 Mary Gannon, Effie Germon and Mrs. Vernon. 
 John Gilbert as the Gipsy, Charles Fisher also in 
 the cast. Graphic account of the play with the 
 song Lord Bateman was a Noble Lord. The 
 Grand Opera House built by Samuel Pike, open- 
 ed 1868, then called Pikes Opera House, acquired 
 by James Fick, Jr., 1869, now owned by Gould 
 family. The Fifth Avenue Theatre in Twenty- 
 
xxvi CONTENTS 
 
 fourth Street opened 1867 by Christys Minstrels. 
 Subsequently used by Leffingwell, John Broug- 
 ham and Augustin Daly. "Frou, Frou," "Man 
 and Wife," "Divorce," "Hazel Kirke," "The 
 Rajah" were all played here. Burned down in 
 1873 and rebuilt. Steele McKay manager for 
 some time. Theatre at 728 Broadway erected 
 by A. T. Stewart on site of Unitarian Church. 
 Lucy Rushton opened it, then by the Worrell Sis- 
 ters who called it the New York Theatre. Mark 
 Smith and Dan Harkins managed it for some 
 time. Later Harrigan and Hart took it and met 
 with great success. Called it Theatre Comique, 
 subsequently called Streets of Old London. Later 
 taken by Daly and called Dalys New Fifth Ave- 
 nue Theatre. "Alixe." "New Magdalene," and 
 "Under the Gaslight" played here. Hope Chapel 
 altered to a theatre. Davenport Brothers and 
 Signor Blitz, Kelly and Leon, and Lena Ed- 
 wards managed it at diflferent times. The Union 
 Square Theatre erected by Sheridan Shook in 
 1871. Managed later by A. M. Palmer. "Two 
 orphans" first put on at this house. Later played 
 at the Brooklyn Theatre 1876. Theatre burned 
 with great loss of lives. The Park Theatre, 
 Broadway and Twenty-first Street opened 1882, 
 destroyed by fire before the curtain went up. 
 Lillie Langtry was the star. Theatre rebuilt 
 and managed by Henry E. Abbey. Oakey Hall, 
 formerly Mayor of New York, appeared here in 
 a play written by himself. Booth's Theatre was at 
 Twenty-third Street and Sixth Avenue. Barret, 
 Bangs Levick, and E. L. Davenport played at this 
 house in 1876 Julius Caesar. Thalberg at hall 
 on Broadway near Metropolitan Hotel (Pianist). 
 • New York Hotel, St. Bartholomew's Church, 
 Mercantile Library, Clinton Hall, Astor Place 
 
CONTENTS xxvii 
 
 riots, McCready, Forrest, actors, Parrish Man- 
 sion, Doctor John Gray, Philip Hone House and 
 Hope Chapel referred to. Hoop skirts and Peep- 
 ing Tom's. Brevoort House, Eighth Street and 
 Fifth Avenue. Elevated road, first one erected. 
 The Grecian Bend referred to. 
 
 CHAPTER II Pp- 112— 1x6 
 
 Prominent men met on Broadway. John Jacob 
 Astor, Peter Cooper, Samuel J. Tilden, Frank 
 Copcut, Dr. Townsend from Albany, also a quack 
 doctor in Puritan garb, and Mark Twain, Josh 
 Billings and Jeemes Pipes lecturers, and others 
 noted in different ways, viz: Tom Hyer, prize 
 fighter, Brown the Sexton of Grace Church, The 
 Blue Man, The Lime Kiln Man, The Old Straw 
 Man, The Irish Dwarf, Little Mac, and Mar- 
 cus Cicero Stanley. 
 
 The Penniman Mansion (Maison Doree). 
 Roosevelt, Evarts, Grinnell, Drew and Goelet res- 
 idences. Dr. Cheever's church, Spingler Insti- 
 tute, Tififany store, Spingler House, Union Square 
 Park, Washington Monument, Stuyvesant pear 
 tree, the new Parrish residence. Dr. Mofifatt resi- 
 dence, Fenian headquarters. The Everett House, 
 Mrs. Haight's house. Gordon S. Burnham's, 
 August Belmont's, Robert L. Stuart's, Francis 
 B. Cutting's and Lenox's homes are referred to, 
 also St. Germain Hotel, Flat Iron Building, Mr. 
 George Irving, Washington Irving, Dr. Town- 
 send, sarsaparilla fame, and the Townsend house, 
 Stewart Marble Palace, Knickerbocker Trust 
 Company, Rutgers School, Roman Catholic Ca- 
 thedral, mentioned. Snow flake marble from 
 Pleasantville, New York. Colored Orphan Asy- 
 lum fire, also Draft Riot fires. The Nathan mur- - 
 der. Residences of WiUiam Butler Duncan, Al- 
 
xxviii CONTENTS 
 
 fred B. Darling, Mrs. Paran Stevens, Francis 
 Skiddy, Hendricks Family, Mr. Schenck, Peter 
 Moller, John Jacob Astor, John H. Harbeck, 
 Frank Work, and the Waldorf Astoria Hotel. 
 
 CHAPTER 12 Pp. 117— 120 
 
 Fleetwood Park, Morrissania, MacCombs' Dam 
 Bridge, Morris Manor place. Officer Isaacs at 
 Bridge. Celebrated horses. John R. Gentry, Star 
 Pointer, Phallas, Majolica, Phil Thompson, Lucy 
 Gernent, Jay Eye See, Edward, Dick Swiveler, 
 Maud S., Aldine, Early Rose, St. Julian, Rarus, 
 Edwin Forest, Santa Claus, Joe Patchen, Guy, 
 Steve Maxwell, Sunol, Startle, and Great 
 Eastern all trotted on this track. Some owned by 
 Robert Bonner, William H. Vanderbilt, Frank 
 Work, Nathan Strauss and J. I. Case of Ra- 
 cine, Wisconsin. Accident to Mr. W. H. Vander- 
 bilt. John Murphy and Charley Green. Sleigh- 
 ing carnivals by New York and Brooklyn horse- 
 men on Long Island and Bloomingdale road. Carl 
 Burrs at Comae, Long Island, Burnhams, The 
 Abbey, Jones's Claremont, Bertholfs, Freemans, 
 Atlantic Hotel, Florence's, Gabe Case's, Judge 
 Smith's, Sibbon's, mentioned, also John I. Sned- 
 icor's road house, East New York, and Jim Rem- 
 sen's and Cale Weeks' at Jamaica. Sleigh ride 
 from Love Lane. Brooklyn. Death as their 
 driver. A sad ending to merriment. 
 
 CHAPTER 13 Pp. 121— 12> 
 
 The draft riots in New York. Fires, robl^ery and 
 murder prevailed. Quelled by the Regulars. The 
 State Militia absent and police powerless. Weeks- 
 ville refuge for negroes. The Orange Riots on 
 the 1 2th of July. Battle of the Boyne. The brown 
 stone rear of the New York City Hall. Breath- 
 
CONTENTS xxix 
 
 ing spots in New York, Bowling Green, Battery 
 Park, Central Park, City Hall Park, St. John's 
 Park, Washington Park, Union Square Park, 
 Gramercy Park, Stuyvesant Park, Madison 
 Square Park, Reservoir Park, Hamilton Park, 
 Tompkins' Park, and Jones's Woods, all on 
 Manhattan Island. 
 
 Grand summer homes for New Yorkers on the 
 Hudson River, Long Island, Staten Island, New- 
 port, Rhode Island, New Rochelle and on the 
 Sound shore, and summer hotels at New Ro- 
 chelle, Glen Cove, Far Rockaway, New Brighton, 
 Bath Beach, Fire Island, Babylon, Islip, Bergen 
 Point, Passaic, West Point, Watch Hill, Sharon, 
 Cooperstown, Lake George, Lenox, Saratoga, 
 Ballston, Long Branch, Cape May, Old Point 
 Comfort. Hotels at Long Branch and steam- 
 boats. Atlantic Highlands and Lake Mahopac 
 included. 
 
 Newspapers of New York and Brooklyn. Sad 
 ending of Horace Greeley. 
 
 Short streets in New York. Names of the prin- 
 cipal markets. 
 
 CHAPTER 14 Pp. 128—130 
 
 Relative to old grave yards. Disposal of gar- 
 bage. Military organizations in New York. 
 
 CHAPTERS 15-16 Pp. 131— 138 
 
 Churches of most all denominations and names 
 of many rectors. Locations of churches in New 
 York and Brooklyn. Principal libraries in New 
 York. (16) Millionaires and near millionaires. 
 The Goddess of Liberty on Bedloes Island, Castle 
 Williams on Governors Island, the Custom House, 
 the Produce Exchange, the Field Building, the 
 Bowling Green Building, the Standard Oil Build- 
 
XXX CONTENTS 
 
 ing, the four bridges to Brooklyn, ten bridges 
 across the Harlem River, grand apartment 
 houses and hotels meet your vision at this time, 
 1914. 
 
 CONTENTS OF APPENDIX A Pp. 139—156 
 
 "Merman" "Mermaid" "Memoirs" 
 
 Full account of the New York gunning and fishing sports- 
 men, sojourning at "Scio," Jim Smith's old hotel on the south 
 side of Long Island in 1840, describing the unique bar within 
 its portals, and their temporary life in the fishermen's hut 
 on Fire Island. Legendary tales told by various ones of the 
 party to the assembly, to pass away the evening hours. Ned 
 Locus' story of the mermaid of Brick House Brook, and 
 his unsuccessful pursuit of her down the stream. Daniel's 
 Merman off Wanza's Flat. 
 
 Location of bridges, old and new, in Queens County. 
 Turnpike roads of the locality, as also the Massapequa Race 
 Track and the three pound trout. 
 
 Graphic reference to one of the Baymen (a native) in 
 his handling of a boat at a trying moment to affect a desired 
 result and how it culminated. 
 
 The Loquacious peddler, of North Carolina sweet potatoes 
 and Long Island clams described in a realistic manner. 
 
 The lone graveyard on the highway depicted. 
 
 The duel of Philip Hamilton with George L. Eacker at 
 Weehawken in 1802, Hamilton being shot, and his death. 
 Prominent resident of New York and Long Island, who acted 
 as his second on the unfortunate occasion. 
 
 CONTENTS OF APPENDIX B Pp. 157— 175 
 
 Stools and Batteries 
 
 sentiment ov j. cypress, jr., 1839 
 
 Shooting wild ducks in a swamp by fowlers. Through 
 their experience in the salt waters of the Great South Bay of 
 long Island, having faced what damage percussion caps, bat- 
 
CONTENTS xxxi 
 
 teries, and patent cartridges in the hands of skillful gunners 
 have effected, wounded and crippled, the birds have gone to 
 the fresh water brooks to recuperate, only to run into the 
 clutches of destroyers to their well being there, by other means, 
 in contra supposition to what they had expected in their 
 retreat. 
 
 Biddleize and Swartwoutize, a similitude with the bank- 
 ing experiences of Biddle of Bank of United States, Phila- 
 delphia, 1829 and out of existence in 1836, including the many 
 duels (shootings) of the Swartwouts in 1802. 
 
 Encomium on Jim Smith, and the Sportsman's Hotel at 
 the pious neighbourhood of Jerusalem Lane and the South 
 Turnpike. Babylon, the mother of miscellaneous people, is 
 nine miles further east. 
 
 Experiences encountered setting out stools, getting in the 
 frail batteries, and preparing for the wholesale slaughter of 
 all and any species of wild birds. 
 
 The April fool joke of Jim Smith, on Mr. Cypress, by 
 representing a stool which he had "planted" as a real bird, and 
 Mr. Cypress' act and discomfiture. 
 
 Bill enacted by the Legislature of New York at Albany 
 in 1839-40, being offered by General Jones (Henry O. Floyd- 
 Jones) State Senator forbidding the use of batteries in the 
 Great South Bay, Long Island, for killing birds, and the 
 penalty if the law is violated. 
 
 Names of soldiers on a muster roll of Militia at Fort 
 Green 1814 from Jerusalem South, Long Island. 
 
 Copy of original patent to inhabitants of Town of Oyster 
 Bay and copy of three original patents to inhabitants of Hun- 
 tington, Long Island, by Colonial Governors Nicolls and 
 Dongan, signed by S. Bayard, Colonial Dep. Secretary. 
 
 Suit of Town of Oyster Bay against Jackson and Jones 
 families as to ownership of meadow lands in Great South 
 Bay, Long Island, in 1771. Decided by Supreme Court of the 
 Colony in favor of the latter. 
 
 Places covered by these patents in Towns of Oyster Bay 
 and Huntington. 
 
CHAPTER ONE 
 
 OBSERVING on many occasions in the periodicals 
 of the present age, quite a number of very in- 
 teresting articles descriptive of old-time places, 
 scenes, and events, and of individuals who were 
 in many ways connected with same in New York, Brooklyn, 
 and vicinity, as also in those devoted principally to the chron- 
 icling of trotting horses and their races, theatres, actors, and 
 matters in general which I have greatly enjoyed perusing, 
 they bringing back to me many pleasant memories, — of what 
 I saw personally and heard from others, — has led me to con- 
 jecture whether the limited knowledge possessed by me and 
 indited would prove as interesting to the every-day reader as 
 those penned by others have been to me. 
 
 Replying to this interrogatory in the affirmative, as a lay- 
 man I will endeavor in a plain way to give you my recollection 
 of about fifty years ago, describing places, events, individuals, 
 and celebrated trotting horses, also including a reference to the 
 actors and theatres of that time in New York and vicinity,, 
 as well as the old volunteer fire system of New York and 
 Brooklyn. 
 
 It is characteristic of mankind, as we all know, to havfe 
 a strong inclination to glance backward and compare in a 
 most marked manner the scenes of early days with those of 
 the present, and to many of our eyes slightly dimming. It 
 is in many cases to the disadvantage of the latter, but we 
 must not flatter ourselves in this particular. Progress is the 
 watchword of our time, and we must all concede that great 
 strides have taken place in every branch of the world's in- 
 dustry, and nowhere has it been exemplified more than in our 
 old home. New York. 
 
 /while seated on one of the rustic benches in the Battery 
 Park at five o'clock in the afternoon, a few days since, my 
 3 I 
 
2 BACKWARD GLANCES 
 
 memory reverted to about half a century ago, and the strong 
 comparison held up to my vision of that time with the present, 
 as to the aspect of that locality, I can with all truth ob- 
 serve. In this case it was amazingly in favor of the former. 
 
 As I now see it, a long elevated structure obscured the 
 eastern view, the Barge Office and the Aquarium the south- 
 ern, while derricks, shafting, tackling, boiler houses, etc., 
 etc., coupled with the entrance to the new tunnel to Brooklyn, 
 and the deafening noise of machinery and the elevated road 
 combined, made the strongest kind of contrast with that ol 
 the peaceful spot of many years ago. It was then inclosed 
 with an iron fence, large trees extended over the entire park, 
 which was the breathing spot and promenade for the residents 
 of the lower wards. Central Park was under way, but had not 
 yet been opened for general use. It was opened in 1856-1857, 
 being followed by Prospect Park, Brooklyn, in i860. 
 
 Glancing over my shoulder, the sun is observed setting 
 in the west, with its glimmer on the turbulent waves of the bay 
 (in whose waters a few months later, December i860, I saw 
 resting at anchor the bark "Cora" she being the last slaver 
 captured by the United States), whose rays were also shown in 
 an effulgent manner on the distant hills of Staten Island. A 
 dense cloud of smoke is observed on the horizon, out of which 
 slowly emerges that leviathan of the deep, "The Great East- 
 ern," built by Brunei, lazily working her way up the North 
 River to her pier at the foot of Christopher Street. This 
 28th day of June, i860, she was on her maiden trip to America, 
 and was surrounded by all kinds of craft crowded with people, 
 while the Battery held thousands of citizens to welcome the 
 largest vessel ever built, being 680 feet in length. The writer 
 of this article was among them and subsequently visited the 
 ship at her berth. She arrived m America again on Augtist 
 2^, 1862, coming through Long Island Sound, and anchored in 
 Flushing Bay, not coming to New York City. While old 
 Castle Williams on Governor's Island frowns Vv'ith the many 
 gims which surround its parapet, one of which is soon to be 
 
AWARDED BY 
 THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE SOCIETY 
 HELD AT CASTLE GARDEN ON THE BATTERY 
 NEW" YORK, OCTOBER 1846 
 
 TO MAJOR WILLIAM JONES 
 
 FOR THE BEST THOROUGHBRED BROOD MARE 
 
 NAMED "EMILY GLENTWORTH". 
 
BACKWARD GLANCES -j 
 
 heard as denoting the setting of the sun, at which time the flag 
 is hauled down. Close by looms up that historic enclosure 
 called Castle Garden, now the Aquarium. 
 
 This quaint old brick structure was originally erected in 
 1807 by the general government as a fort, the same as Castle 
 Williams, being situated about three hundred yards from 
 the mainland. It was called Castle Clinton, after Governor 
 George Clinton, whose nephew, was DeWitt Clinton, under 
 whose administration the Erie Canal was built in 1825. As a 
 means of defense it was abandoned about 1820-22, and it was 
 then used as a place for reception purposes, as also entertain- 
 ments, concerts, fairs, etc. Lafayette was received there in 
 1824; President Andrew Jackson in 1832; President John 
 Tyler in 1843, ^^d Kossuth in 1851, the Federal Government 
 having ceded it to the city. 
 
 The American Institute held their fairs there in 1846, at 
 which time Major William Jones, of Cold Spring Harbor, 
 Long Island, who was one of the pioneers of trotting and 
 running races in New York State early in the nineteenth 
 century, was awarded a silver cup for the best thoroughbred 
 brood mare. She was called Emily Glentworth, foaled 23d 
 February, 1838, by Imported Trustee dam Princess. And at 
 the twenty-third annual fair in 1850, Major Jones was award- 
 ed a silver cup for the best blood mare. She was called Young 
 Dove. Both of these mares were of royal pedigree and bred 
 on Long Island. The first cup is now in possession of the 
 writer, after whose mother the mare was named. The Young 
 Dove cup is in the possession of the wife of Rear Admiral F. 
 E. Chadwick of the United States Navy, the Major being the 
 great-grandfather of the present owners of both cups. 
 
 The exhibitors at these fairs were from New York City, 
 Long Island, Staten Island, Westchester County, and near-by 
 counties in New Jersey. Long Island generally carried ofif 
 most of the prizes in the equine department of the fair. It 
 was only a few months after this, on September 7th, 1850, 
 when Jenny Lind sang there under the management of the great 
 
4 BACKWARD GLANCES 
 
 showman, Phineas T. Barnum, when John N. Genin, the hat- 
 ter under Barnum's Museum, subsequently the Astor House, 
 bought the first reserved seat at the large premium of two hun- 
 dred and twenty-five dollars. 
 
 Part of the board walk was still there which led out to the 
 main entrance, it being used as an emigrant depot, to which 
 purpose it was appropriated in 1855. One of the last events 
 in a reception way in which it figured was on September ist, 
 1858, when the Atlantic Cable celebration took place, and Mr. 
 Cyrus W. Field, the projector of same, landed at Castle 
 Garden, received by a national salute from the forts on Gov- 
 ernor's and Bedloe's Islands, where the Statue of Liberty now 
 stands. He was escorted by an immense procession of the 
 militia, various societies and citizens, in which the writer 
 joined with the Mercantile Library Association of Astor 
 Place, going up Broadway to the Crystal Palace. Here Mr. 
 Field was given the freedom of the city, and presented with a 
 gold box in which the documents giving him such privileges 
 reposed. 
 
 This cable was laid partly by the U. S. Man of War 
 "Niagara." It being a failure, the subsequent one was simi- 
 larly laid by the "Great Eastern," which turned out a great 
 success. 
 
 On the 17th following, the celebration was kept up by a 
 night procession of the Volunteer Fire Department, and fire- 
 works were shot off in front of the City Hall, which termin- 
 ated rather disastrously, as a spark caught in the cupola and 
 totally destroyed same ; but no damage of any note was done 
 to the Old City Hall, except to the part mentioned. 
 
 The bridge or walk was soon entirely obliterated by the 
 filling in of earth out to the breakwater. This largely in- 
 creased the size of Battery Park and made it large enough for 
 a parade ground for the State militia, then under the command 
 of Major-General Sandford. It also put Castle Garden on 
 the mainland.\ Steamboats came up in the rear and delivered 
 the emigrants, who were arriving at this Gateway of America 
 
BACKWARD GLANCES 5 
 
 in hordes from both Ireland and Germany, generally coming 
 in the steerage by the steamer lines. Previously they had 
 arrived in the second cabin and upper decks of sailing vessels, 
 which naturally limited the number emigrated ; and great also 
 was the difference in time between the two means of reaching 
 their destination. By steam they could cross the Atlantic in 
 from twelve to eighteen days, while the packets generally 
 took from five to six weeks (except in one or two cases, like 
 the clipper "Flying Cloud," fast as a steamer, and clipper 
 "Dreadnought," which crossed m less than thirteen and a 
 half days),^that is, if they escaped the treacherous sands of 
 the south shore of Long Island from Montauk Point to 
 Coney Island, and the Jersey shore from Barnegat to Sandy 
 Hook. Quarantine was on the east side of Staten Island, 
 covering quite a large tract of land direct at the entrance of 
 the Kill von Kull, which had situated upon it fine suitable 
 buildings painted yellow. It was surrounded by a brick wall 
 of the same color. The sailing vessels would anchor in 
 the Narrows adjacent, where they would discharge their pilot, 
 who had boarded them seventy-five to one hundred miles out 
 at sea from one of the numerous pilot boats, which were two- 
 masted schooners, strongly built and very much like a yacht 
 in appearance and speed, that were owned at and cruised out 
 to sea from the port of New York ; while the steamers, which 
 also had to take a pilot, would run up and anchor in the North 
 River. Both would deliver their human freight into steam- 
 boat^ or barges to deliver at Castle Garden. 
 
 vThe Germans, most of whom had been fairly educated at 
 their birthplace, did not care to tarry in the great cities of the 
 seaboard States, except to a very limited extent. The majority 
 immediately started for the West, which at that time were the 
 States of Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois and Wisconsin. 
 Many of them remained in the cities of Cincinnati and Mil- 
 waukee, while most of them went beyond these points to the 
 more extreme West, Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska, Kansas and 
 Colorado. The poor emigrant of that period and his descend- 
 
6 BACKWARD GLANCES 
 
 ants are now the owners of the rich farming land of the 
 great Middle West, as also the owners of many of the great 
 mining interests there, coupled with most of the ownership 
 of the immense breweries, elevators, and pork and beef pack- 
 ing establishments in the cities of that part of the United 
 States, also becomingi bankers and respected citizens in every 
 tra4e in these cities^ 
 
 i With tlie Irish it seemed to be different. They evidently 
 had received enough experience farming on impoverished 
 land not owned by them at home, that would not tend to make 
 them take up another trial of the same kind on arriving m 
 the new home of their adoption. They rather desired to re- 
 main in the seaboard towns, although some went west with the 
 Germans and took up agricultural pursuits. The majority 
 preferred city life, becoming masons, builders, mechanics, and 
 tradesmen generally ; acquiring ownership in a corner store 
 which was used for both grocery, living, and the liquor busi- 
 ness, seemed to be the height of ambition of this nationality, 
 as also to get into politics and the police force ; so at one time 
 fully three quarters of the police of New York City and 
 Brooklyn were of Irish birth or extraction. A native M. P. 
 was a rarity. The descendants of this race, however, the same 
 as came over in colonial and revolutionary times, became in 
 due course great lawyers, judges, mayors of cities, and gov- 
 ernors of States, and our most estimable citizens. ) 
 
 The enlarging of the Battery forced the removal of Hall's 
 Baths, which had been located here many years, to an outside 
 location, where it was securely held by large chain cables, as 
 the current was very swift at this extreme southern point of 
 Manhattan Island. These baths were quite famous, they 
 formerly being owned by Dr. Rabineau and purchased from 
 him by Isaac Hall, a shipchandler of Broad Street near Front, 
 who resided in Montague Street, corner of Hicks, Brooklyn. 
 
f CHAPTER TWO 
 
 PASSING by the west side of State Street, which was 
 lined with handsome brick houses two and three 
 stories in height occupied as dwelHngs and erected 
 early in the nineteenth century, and going out of the 
 park at the southeast entrance, leaving the host of promenaders 
 and nurses with babies in carriages to their enjoyment we 
 wander along South Street as far as Coenties Slip, where will 
 be observed the large basin, it being occupied by canal boats. 
 At this point they discharge their cargo of fiour and grain. 
 No elevators were then in existence in New York City, and 
 most all the large flour and grain merchants were in this vicin- 
 ity. There were only a few storehouses in the Atlantic Docks 
 in South Brooklyn, Laimbeer's and Masters', and Harbeck's 
 on the East River front. Many of them had been located here 
 for a great many years, such as Holt & Co., David Dows & 
 Co., Wallace & Wicks, Sage & Co., Weeks & Douglas, Isaac 
 H. Reed & Co., Harriott & Co., Theodore Perry, Tompkins 
 & Co., W. H. Newman & Co., Lane & Mangam. Thos. Richard- 
 son & Co., Carlos Cobb, Peter J. Nevius & Co., Hoagland & 
 Bogart, Josiah M. Fisk & Co., and Jeremiah Leacraft ; while 
 in the vicinity of Peck Slip and Roosevelt Street were Noah 
 T. Sweezy, William R. Foster, Theodore Banks and the 
 Heckers ; and at the foot of Fulton Street, Brooklyn, were the 
 large Jewell Mills. The picture of these mills was considered 
 so appropriate on account of the mills having been destroyed 
 by fire at one time, that the design was used by the Volunteer 
 Fire Department of Brooklyn on their steel engraved certifi- 
 cate of membership for a new member joining the system. 
 
 i Looking east, was seen in the distance on the long rivei 
 front from Coenties Slip to Catharine Street, innumerable masts 
 of the many Californian clippers and London and Liverpool 
 packets, with their long bowsprits extending way over South 
 
 7 
 
8 BACKWARD GLANCES 
 
 Street, reaching nearly to the opposite side. Among these was 
 the "Dreadnought," "Sovereign of the Seas," "Black War- 
 rior," "W. T. Coleman," "Rainbow," "London," "Yorkshire," 
 "Charles H. Marshall," "Comet," "A. A. Low," "Albert Gal- 
 larin," "Challenge," "Invincible," "Surprise," "Sword Fish," 
 "Jacob A. Stamler," "Liverpool," "Jeremiah Thompson," 
 "Moses H. Grinnell," "Swallow," "Isaac Webb," "Victoria," 
 "George Washington," "Flying Cloud," "Joseph Walker," and 
 many others, including the old packet "Harvest Queen^'/ 
 
 The "Joseph Walker" was burned at her pier at the foot 
 of Market Street on the East River. Ship "Jeremiah Thomp- 
 son" was totally destroyed by fire directly ofif Bedloe's Island 
 in the upper bay of New York about 1861. She was loaded 
 with cotton for the Liverpool market. 
 
 V And from Old Slip to Burling Slip on South Street and 
 vicinity were the stores and offices of world-renowned old 
 firms of shipping merchants, such as Youngs & Co., Peter V. 
 King & Co., Alsop & Co., Aymar & Co., Sutton & Co., How- 
 land & Aspinwall, Dunham & Dimon, Grinnell, Minturn & 
 Co., Charles H. Marshall & Co., Kermitt & Carow, Joseph 
 Eneas, N. L. McCready & Co., W. F. Coleman & Co., How- 
 land & Frothingham, A. A. Low & Bro., Benjamin Blossom, 
 Samuel Thompson's Nephew, Sturges, Bennett & Co., Josiah 
 Macy's Sons, D. & A. Kingsland & Sutton, P. Harmony's 
 Nephews, Boorman, Johnston & Co., W. R. Grace & Co., 
 Phelps, Dodge & Co., Maitland. Phelps & Co., Oehlrichs & 
 Co., Moses Taylor & Co., Wetmore, Cryder & Co., Boyd & 
 Hincken, Ship Agents, L. E. Amsinck & Co., Ship Agents and 
 Importers, Peter Cooper's Glue Factory, Strong's Drug House 
 in Burling Slip, Burdett, Jones & Co., auctioneers foot of Wall 
 Street west side ; Henry Sheldon & Co., Grocers, Front Street ; 
 Patterson & Price, Tobacco Dealers, Robert & Williams, Sugar 
 Importers, Water Street near Wall ; Francis Skiddy, Sugar 
 Importer, Peter Moller & Co., Sugar Refiners, Victor & 
 Duckwitz, Exporters, Pearl Street near Old Slip; B. Blanco, 
 Cuban Importer, same locality ; Havemeyer & Elder, Sugar 
 
M 
 
 ■■"a,--"--- -•' — ^' -^ i- 
 
 ^ 
 
 WHITE HALL 
 
 Corner of Front and IMoore Streets, New York. Built 
 Ijefore \(,(A. Home of Lambert Moore, 1727 
 
BACKWARD GLANCES q 
 
 Refiners, Ralph Mead & Co., Grocers, Coenties Slip, Hemen- 
 way & Bevericlge, Sail Makers, Wall Street Ferry, Dutcher 
 & EUerby, Hops, Pearl Street near Coenties Slip, Seguine & 
 Johnson, Provisions, Water Street near Coenties Slip, Work 
 & Rossiter, Provisions, Front Street near Broad, and Fred 
 and Joseph Leggett, Cheese and Butter, Front Street near 
 Broad, also J. W. Elwell, Ship Broker. 
 
 The street at this point of the Battery Park was called 
 Whitehall, which ran from Bowling Green to the South 
 Ferry. It was afterwards widened and called Broadway. 
 Close by stands out prominently the new Produce Exchange, 
 on the corner of Pearl and Water Streets, facing Whitehall, 
 the rear being on Moore Street. This street got its name 
 by being on the site of the old White Mansion, erected by 
 Peter Stuyvesant about 1661, called White Hall, which was 
 the home of Lambert Moore in 1727. His wife was a daughter 
 of Edward Holland, who was at one time mayor of Albany, as 
 also of New York. The new Produce Exchange took the 
 place of the old Corn Exchange, which was in South Street 
 near Broad. The former is now the Army headquarters for 
 the Eastern Department. 
 
 Many well known horsemen were members of this associ- 
 ation, and after business hours were seen behind their trot- 
 ters on the old Bloomingdale road, Harlem lane, or on the 
 way to the Red House track at 105th Street and Second 
 Avenue ; while those who resided in Brooklyn hied for the 
 Coney Island road, or the road which turned off. from Fulton 
 or at Bedford to East New York, leading out to Bill Whelan's, 
 Hiram Woodruff's, Hoagland's, and John I. Snedecor's hostel- 
 ri^'. 
 
 ( Josiah Fisk, the great flour merchant of South Street, 
 was an enthusiastic horseman. He resided in Fifth Avenue, 
 where the old Brunswick Hotel formerly stood — in fact, his 
 house formed part of the hotel near the corner of Twenty- 
 Seventh Street. He was a pioneer in upper Fifth Avenue, 
 having erected his new house on the corner of Seventieth 
 
lo BACKWARD GLANCES 
 
 Street when there was hardly a residence between that point 
 and Fifty-Ninth Street. His stables were in the rear of his 
 house, and when you met him on the road driving his team 
 of Durocs you would meet a strong competitor. Timothy 
 Eastman, the big cattle dealer of a later date, had his home 
 and stable directly in the rear on Seventieth Street, in which 
 there were many good trotters. Other horsemen of the Ex- 
 change were George Knapp and his brother Robert. They 
 came from Orange County, residing in the Ninth Ward for 
 many years, eventually settling on stock farms near Tarry- 
 town. At one period they were of the old house of Patterson, 
 Knapp & Co., pork packers, in Washington Street near Charl- 
 ton Street. This was when pork packing and ham and bacon 
 curing was a great industry in New York. Many of the 
 principal houses in this trade were Robt. P. Getty and J. A. 
 Amelung of Yonkers; Geo. D. Cragin, Beckstein & Co., Fred 
 Link & Co., Jewel Harrison & Co., C. F. Mattlage, Benj. Floyd 
 of Broome Street, east of Christie, William Clark on Christie 
 Street near Grand, Halstead & Co., Forsyth near Houston, 
 Chamberlain, Roe & Co., First Street near the Bowery, Wil- 
 liam T. Marshall in Second Avenue and First Street, Richard 
 Sager in First Avenue and Fifth Street, Silberhorn on Christie 
 near Grand, Ferris in Elizabeth Street near Houston, Coates & 
 McMillan in West 32(1 Street near Tenth Avenue, C. H. Me- 
 day, Washington Street corner King, Sinclair & Co., Tenth 
 Avenue and Sixteenth Street, Millerman in West Street neai 
 Barclay, Rohe Bros. West 33d Street and Tenth Avenue. 
 Brooklyn was represented by John Lockett &, Co. on Fulton 
 Street near Orange and W. B. Barber on Columbia Street near 
 Arnity. 
 
 / Cattle and hogs were driven through tlie streets at all 
 times of the day in droves, with wagons following to pick up 
 those that dropped ofif fatigued. Eventually laws were passed 
 prohibiting day driving; so late at night you would frequently 
 hear them coming, from side streets, even on those lined with 
 brownstone houses adjacent to Fifth Avenue, on their way to 
 the hog yards or slaughterhouses. , 
 
r 
 
 BACKWARD GLANCES ii 
 
 There were several slaughterhouses for hogs, cattle and 
 sheep around East Houston Street, near the Bowery, but the 
 majority of them were situated on the North River, foot of 
 Thirty-Ninth Street, and the East River, foot of Forty-Fourth 
 Street. The principal men engaged in the hog-slaughtering 
 business were Tobey & Booth, Monroe Crane, Spring & 
 Haynes, Charles White & Co., Bartlett & Struble, Allerton 
 & Co., Stahlnecker & Co., Lippincott & Co., and Halstead & 
 Co. This business began to assume such immense proportions 
 that the authorities put many restrictions on same, forcing 
 most of them to move away from the city. Many went to 
 Communipaw, N. J., just on the bay south of Jersey City. 
 Eventually this industry began to decline in New York, by the 
 opening up of so many large packing plants in the middle west, 
 where they could work to better advantage, as they were nearer 
 their source of supply, such as Cincinnati, Chicago, St. Louis, 
 Kansas City, St. Joseph, Mo., Omaha, Neb., Cedar Rapids, 
 Independence, Oskaloosa and Keokuk, Iowa. 
 
 Having digressed a little, that is, from horses to hogs, I 
 will get back to the former. 
 
 John R. Griffith, Robert Morrison, and John G. Dale were 
 all Englishmen and had some good trotters in their stables ; 
 W. H. Newman, the large flour merchant of 78 Pearl Street, 
 and who resided on Toad Hill, Staten Island, owned several 
 good ones, which he speeded from Vanderbilt Landing on his 
 way home. 
 
 George Slauson, the wholesale grocer of Southworth, 
 Slauson & Co., of 84 Pearl Street, who was from Ulster 
 County, and Isaac H. Reed, flour merchant of State Street, 
 who resided at the New York Hotel, could always be seen 
 most every day driving a team of well matched trotters both 
 in the park or on the road. 
 
 Frank Moulton, of Woodruff & Robinson, salt dealers in 
 Coenties Slip, you often met on the Brooklyn roads behind a 
 speedy pair. His partners, who resided on Brooklyn Heights, 
 foot of Remsen Street, were also in the van. 
 
12 BACKWARD GLANCES 
 
 Horace Waldo and his relatives, Frank Fox and his 
 brother, who were the American Agents of the French line of 
 steamers "Arago" and "Fulton," drove on the New York roaas 
 the best obtainable, as also Jacob Smull of the Inman Line. 
 George F. Johnson, the large real estate owner of New York 
 property, rode behind many good ones in his early days, as his 
 father, Frederick Johnson, owned such celebrated trotters a» 
 Jack Cade, Grey Messenger, Fred, California Damsel, Genes- 
 see, Woodpecker, and others. One of the last that he owned 
 was the chestnut horse Prince, who, with Walker's black 
 mare May Bird as mate, trotted on the old Fleetwood track 
 in its early days in one of the greatest team races that ever 
 took place, their competitors being Clara G. and New Berlin 
 Girl, owned by James Breslin and driven by Dan Mace ; Lady 
 Dahlman and Charley Green, driven by John Murphy; and 
 a team from Poughkeepsie, Uncle Dave and Mate. Uncle 
 Dave was a roan rat tail, not much of a looker. John Doty, 
 who drove Prince and May Bird, won the race in three straight 
 heats. May Bird was subsequently sold to Robert Bonner. 
 Woodpecker I would also refer to particularly. He was a 
 rather small black stallion, coming originally from Canada, 
 and was trained by Wood Conklin at Huntington, Long Lsland. 
 I well remember this so called little horse, and great was the 
 rivalry between him and the little chestnut stallion Ploughboy, 
 who was owned at one time by George Hunt of Brooklyn, as 
 also by Lambert Suydam of Brooklyn. He was driven and 
 trained by the brother in law Seaman, or Charlie Sammis, who 
 lived at the corner of Main and Washington Streets, Hemp- 
 stead. Each of these horses had the strongest kind of parti- 
 zans among Long Islanders. They were about even as to 
 speed, and many matches were made. But they never mater- 
 ialized, as one or the other would pay forfeit, something would 
 happen, lameness or sickness. 
 
 ' Wandering around Bowling Green on the south side, fac- 
 ing the enclosed fountain, the New York Custom House now 
 occupying the site, stood five or six brick houses with peaked 
 
BACKWARD GLANCES 13 
 
 roofs with dormer windows, which were formerly residences. 
 They were occupied at this time by all large steamship com- 
 panies. The Cunard Line was No. 3, the Panama Line was 
 No. 5. Commodore Vanderbilt had his office on this block. 
 The end house on the corner of State Street was still a 
 private residence, occupied by Stephen Whitney. The British 
 Consulate's headquarters were m the building 15 and 17 
 Broadway. It had two iron lions in front, one on each side of 
 the stoop entrance. They are still there. This property be- 
 longed to William H. Guion, of the Guion Steamship Line, 
 who sold it to the Mr. George F. Johnson previously men- 
 tioned, since resold by him. The Stevens House, formerly 
 Delmonicos, was close by on the corner of Morris Street, pa- 
 tronized largely by Englishmen. The office of the Collins Line 
 was at 64 Wall Street. E. K. Collins was the principal owner 
 and agent. It was the rival line to the Cunard Company to 
 Liverpool, being an American Company. Among its side- 
 wheel steamers were the "Atlantic," "Baltic," "Arctic," "Pa- 
 cific," and "Adriatic." The last one was built by George 
 Steers, the great drydock shipbuilder. She was the queen of 
 the fleet. The "Arctic" was lost ofif the coast of Newfound- 
 land, Cape Race, on September 27, 1854, being run into by 
 another steamer, the French steamship "Vesta," Captain Du- 
 chesne. Many lives were lost. Captain Luce, commander of 
 the "Arctic," was saved after experiencing many hardships. 
 In his latter years he was employed by one of the large 
 marine insurance companies as inspector, the Atlantic or the 
 Great Western. 
 
 The "Pacific" was also lost. No tidings have ever been 
 heard of her. On her last trip to Liverpool, the writer took 
 some late letters and gave them to the purser on board of 
 her. On the return trip the latter part of January, 1856, with 
 one hundred and eighty passengers, she was lost. Her dock 
 was at the foot of Canal Street, North River, and at that 
 period the sailing of a steamer was a great event, friends bid- 
 
14 BACKWARD GLANCES 
 
 ding each other good-by as if they never expected to set 
 them again after an ocean voyage. 
 
 The Cunard Line seemed to be the most successful one. 
 Among tlieir steamers were the "Africa," "Asia," "Persia," 
 "Arabia," and "Russia," and for many years they were rep- 
 resented in New York by Sir Edward Cunard, and later by 
 Mr. C. G. Francklyn. Their pier was at the foot of Mont- 
 gomery Street, Jersey City, N. J. 
 
 The Inman Line came into existence at a later date, and 
 was represented here by John G. Dale at 13 Broadway. Jacob 
 Smull and Robert M. Floyd had charge of their freight de- 
 partment. Their pier was at the foot of Charlton Street, 
 North River. Among their steamers were the "City of Balti- 
 more," "City of Glasgow," "City of London," "City of Liver- 
 pool," "City of Cork," "City of Limerick," "City of Boston," 
 "City of Washington," "City of Edinburgh," "City of Phila- 
 delphia," "City of Paris," "City of Manchester," and "City of 
 New York." The* "City of Glasgow" and the "City of Bos- 
 ton" were lost at sea and never heard from, the latter being 
 lost in 1870. The former 1854. 
 
 The docks of the coastwise steamers wxre on the North 
 River from the foot of Morris Street up, such as the Norfolk, 
 Charleston, Savannah, New Orleans, and Havanna lines. 
 Among them were the steamers "Savannah," "Jamestown," 
 "Georgia," "Star of the West," "Black WVrior," "Nashville," 
 "Morning Star," "Evening Star," "Charleston," "Alabama," 
 "Florida," "Huntsville," "Central America," and "Augusta." 
 Of these side wheel steamships, the "Star of the West," of 
 the New Orleans line, Captain McGowan in command, will 
 go down in history with the greatest record. This boat was 
 selected by the War Departmenr of the United States Gov- 
 ernment, in January, 1861, to take supplies and an increase to 
 the garrison stationed at Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor; 
 which was very small and unable to defend same, being under 
 
 'For Philadelphia. 
 
BACKWARD GLANCES 15 
 
 the command of Major Robert Anderson. This fort was 
 surrounded by Confederate batteries, so no rehef could be 
 obtained from the mainland. The foregoing mentioned left 
 New York on January 5, 1861, with some two hundred men 
 and officers, arriving at Charleston, S. Car., on January 9th 
 A. M. She was fired upon from Fort Moultrie and batteries 
 on Morris Island and hit twice, and although not damaged 
 to any great extent, it caused her commander to stop and re- 
 treat, heading for New York, where she arrived back January 
 12, 1861, witliout fulfilling her mission. Some of the other 
 boats were used in the service of both sides during the Civil 
 War in various capacities, except the "Evening Star" and 
 "Central America," which were lost at sea on voyages from 
 Havanna to New York. Captain Herndon was in command 
 of the latter. Pie was lost, with many others, September 12, 
 1857. His monument is in the Naval Academy grounds at 
 Annapolis, Maryland. Many lives were lost by the sinking of 
 the "Evening Star," October 3, 1866. Billy Birch, the noted 
 minstrel, was among those saved in a sensational manner, 
 which gave him quite a notoriety at the time. 
 
 The Albany boats went from the foot of Canal Street. 
 The grand night boats of that tmie were the "New World" 
 and the "Isaac Newton." My first trip to Albany on the 
 former in 1858 was the event of my life, my bunk being in 
 the hold forward, used for the dining room. The berths were 
 all around the sides and back of the tables, with very little 
 ventilation. . The day boat to Rondout and Kingston and in- 
 termediate places was the "Mary Powell." She got the reputa- 
 tion of being the fastest boat on the river, which was kept up 
 for many years. The night boats were the "Thomas Powell," 
 "Hasbrouck," and "Rondout." 
 
 On the East River were the docks of the New Haven, 
 Hartford, and Bridgeport night boats. They left from the 
 foot of Peck Slip. The boats were called "Traveller," "City 
 of Hartford," "City of New Haven," "Elm City," "Granite 
 State," "Empire State," and "Continental." While the day 
 
i6 BACKWARD GLANCES 
 
 boats running to Sands Point, Glen Cove, Oyster Bay, and 
 Cold Spring Harbor, left from the same locality, such as the 
 "Croton" and the "Seawanaka," the latter being burned in 
 Hell Gate just at the entrance of the Harlem River, where she 
 was run ashore. Many lives were lost in this disaster. The 
 "T. B. Arrowsmith" also belonged to this line. 
 
 The Harlem boats were quite a feature of rapid transit, 
 for if you took the horsecars, it would take you fully two and 
 a half hours to get to Park Row or back lo Harlem ; while the 
 Harlem boats, which left Peck Slip every half hour, would get 
 you there before you knew it. The crack boats of this line 
 were the "Sylvan Stream," "Sylvan Shore," "Sylvan Glen," 
 "Sylvan Dell," and "Harlem." Their docks in Harlem wert- 
 at East ii6th Street, East i22d Street, and Third Avenue 
 Bridge on the Harlem River, where you took the boat "Tiger 
 Lily" for 1 [igh Bridge. That part of Harlem in those days, 
 viz., Pleasant Avenue and the side streets, was very choice, 
 and property east of Third Avenue was really worth double to 
 that of West side. This was in the late sixties. 
 
 The "Old Colony," "Stonington," "Newport," "Fall 
 River," "Providence," and "Bristol" ran at the same time from 
 the foot of Warren Street to Fall River, Newport and Provi- 
 dence. 
 
 The Ward Line, New Orleans & Galveston steamers 
 ran from the foot of Wall Street, East River, and the Mallory 
 Line from the foot of Burling Slip. 
 
 A European steamer's arrival was first heralded by the 
 newsboys, who appeared upon the street about two hours af- 
 ter they cast anchor, with a one-sheet newspaper, generally 
 the "New York Herald," edited by James Gordon Bennett, 
 whose printing office was in Nassau Street, northwest corner 
 of Fulton street, or the "Evening Post," corner of Nassau and 
 Liberty, William Cullen Bryant, editor. They appeared with 
 a large heading, marked Extra — Arrival of the "Ba/ltic," 
 "Atlantic," "Asia," "Arago," or others of the three steamer 
 lines then in existence. 
 
BACKWARD GLANCES 17 
 
 The blazing headlines gave in a very few words the latest 
 foreign news. The price of the extra was six pence. This 
 way of letting the people know of the latest European news 
 was kept up until the Atlantic cable came into existence. 
 Quite well do I remember the anxiety of some New-Yorkers 
 to get the latest news during the storming of Sebastopol in 
 the Crimean War between England and Russia, until the fall 
 of that stronghold, September 9, 1855, after a long siege. 
 Also of the latest news from India, November 17, 1857, when 
 the English garrison was relieved at Lucknow, where Sir 
 Henry Haverlock was penned up and Sir Colin Campbell came 
 to the rescue during the Sepoy Rebellion in India. 
 
 The mails were taken to the Post Office in Nassau Street, 
 between Cedar and Liberty (Old Dutch Church). Long lines 
 were formed, extending from about fifteen delivery windows 
 clear out into the street. After a patient wait of nearly an 
 hour, the mails would be assorted and put in the various boxes 
 belonging to the banks and mercantile houses ; then the shut- 
 ters or gates would all open at a signal, and the letters and 
 papers delivered. Postage was quite an item, and those apply- 
 ing for their mail were freely supplied with silver or gold, as 
 the letters were weighed and cash paid on delivery. Many 
 bankers and merchants paid as high as five to twenty dollars 
 postage at the first delivery and more later on. No bills of any 
 kind were received by the Post Office. Only gold and silver 
 passed muster, and a man those days had to carry a Thomp- 
 son Bank Note Reporter in his pocket to consult before he 
 would accept a bill, to find out if it was good. 
 
CHAPTER THREE 
 
 THE old Washington Hotel (formerly the Kennedy 
 Mansion) stood on the corner of Broadway and 
 Battery Place, the Field Building now occupying 
 the site. It was a great place for Produce Ex- 
 change members to dine in the late fifties and early sixties, j 
 I met many of them there on many occasions, among them 
 Thomas Richardson, George D. Cragin, the great pork packer, 
 and members of the Kingan and Sinclair firms, who were en- 
 gaged here as Irish packers, representing Belfast provision 
 houses ; Thomas Harrison, of Jewell, Harrison & Co., and 
 William H. Popham, who resided at Scarsdale. Both of these 
 gentlemen were horse fanciers. On Beaver Street, near Broad, 
 was the fire company (volunteer system). Mechanic Hose 
 No. 8. John Rouse of the old pork inspectors on the Produce 
 Exchange was foreman of this company. Corner of Broad 
 and Beaver was the large ducking and sail-making material 
 house of Fox & Polhemus. Harry Polhemus of this firm was 
 an old Brooklynite, being at one time a member of Pacific 
 Engine Co. No. 14, of the old volunteer fire department, whose 
 house was in Pierrepont Street, near Fulton. He always drove 
 a trotter or team of same on the Coney Island plank road, hav- 
 ing in his stable many speedy ones to select from. 
 
 Other members of that grand old fire company who were 
 enthusiastic horsemen were William A. Fowler, who at one 
 time was connected with the large rice dealing concern of 
 Talmadge & Co, in Water Street, near Old Slip. He was 
 subsequently Commissioner of Public Works in Brooklyn. 
 Also Frederick S. Massey, Joseph Leggett, Frederick Aymar, 
 Lewis Howard, and in later days Smith C. Baylis and Eddie 
 O'Flyn. 
 
 Frank Howard, who was with Spoflford, Tileston & Co., 
 corner of Morris Street and Broadway, who were agents of 
 
 18 
 
BACKWARD GLANCES 19 
 
 the Charleston and Havanna steamers before the war, owned 
 many good horses, which he drove on the Brooklyn roads 
 when Hicks Post's roadhouse was in the woods just off Flat- 
 bush Avenue, now Prospect Park, and Mort Tunison's (By 
 Jimmy Neddy) was at Parkville on the Coney Island road, 
 two of the great roadhouses of that locality, including Ben 
 Nelson's on the Flatbush road. Mr. Howard was the owner 
 of the fast gelding called Snake (Rattle Snake). He was 
 matched against William Park's roan horse Red Jacket. The 
 race was trotted over the Union Course, Long Island, being 
 won by Snake. Mt. Howard also owned a bay mare which 
 he bought from F. J. Nodine, called the Clay mare. It was 
 an overnight purchase, and when the buyer called for his mare 
 the next day to be hooked up for a drive, another mare was 
 substituted, which very naturally the purchaser would not 
 stand for, and a lawsuit of long endurance followed. In the 
 interim the mare was taken from Mr. Nodine's stable one 
 night, which was on Pierrepont Street near Fulton, and put 
 in Evart Snedecor's stable in Boerum Street near Fulton 
 Avenue, where the courthouse now stands. She was so dis- 
 guised in her appearance that the two detectives — I believe 
 they were Messrs. Frost and Denton — who were looking for 
 her could not recognize her. 
 
 This unpleasant matter came to a disastrous end, as she 
 was found dead in her stable one morning after only a few 
 days' sojourn in her new home. It was the general impres- 
 sion that some enemy of Mr. Howard's had poisoned her. 
 I saw her remains, and can distinctly remember the deep 
 feeling engendered among the horsemen of the day at the sad 
 ending of this valuable mare. 
 
 \^ Sieghortner's restaurant was in Pearl Street directly op- 
 posite Coenties Slip. Seymour Burrell, who was in the butter 
 and cheese trade in close proximity, drove a good team on 
 the Brooklyn roads, as also Maynard Thorne in the lighterage 
 business on Water Street near Coenties Slip. He was the 
 grand uncle of Tommy Murphy, the popular and proficient 
 
20 BACKWARD GLANCES 
 
 r 
 
 driver of to-day. Delmonico's was in Beaver Street, corner ot 
 South William, where it is at the present time. LorenzO' 
 Delmonico was often seen on the New York roads behind a 
 good pair of trotters. The Stock Exchange was in the center 
 of the block (Lord's Court), with entrances on William 
 and Beaver Streets, part of the building being on the latter 
 street. Many of the members were trotting-horse men, such as 
 George Alley ; Commodore Dodge, of Clark, Dodge & Co., his 
 residence being on State Street corner of Garden, Brooklyn,, 
 with his stables adjoining; James Bache, who also resided in 
 Brooklyn, where he kept his horses ; August Belmont, whose 
 office was in Wall Street near William, always had many good 
 trotters. His residence was at the corner of Eighteenth Street 
 and Fifth Avenue, with stable in the rear. He wintered many 
 of his stock at Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, also at 
 Babylon, Long Island, where he had a large farm. William 
 Parks of Brooklyn, as also Henry N. Smith, Frank Work, Jay 
 Gould, Col. Fred Lawrence of Bayside, L. I., and William 
 Rockefeller, were prominent horsemen. 
 
 I In Exchange Place, on the north side of the street, near 
 Witliam Street, was the dry goods house of William Watson 
 & Co. They subsequently removed to Park Place Corner of 
 Church Street, on part of the eld site of Columbia College 
 before this institution removed to Madison Avenue and Forty- 
 ninth Street; Robert and William Watson, Jr., were brought 
 up in this house, and before and during the early days of 
 Fleetwood the latter drove many good horses in company with 
 that genial and much respected horseman, David Bonner ; also 
 with Col. Kip, Sheppard F. Knapp, Pierre Lorillard and Peter 
 Moller. Janesville belonged to William Watson and was quite 
 a speedy horse. John Waller, who was in the dry goods trade 
 with the house of Paton & Co., on the west side of Broad 
 Street, near Wall, where the Stock Exchange now stands, and 
 who married a daughter of James Nye who was a member of 
 the first police commission under the metropolitan system of 
 New York and later territorial gfovernor of Nevada before it 
 
BACKWARD GLANCES 21 
 
 became a State, was a trotting hoi se enthusiast and drove some 
 good ones in Brooklyn and later in New York. Frank Baker, 
 who had an exchange office in the basement corner of Wall 
 and Broad Streets, the site now being occupied by J. P. 
 Morgan & Co., owned Ethan Allen, while his brother owned 
 Honest Allen. Ethan Allen was a grand animal in every re- 
 spect. He was sired by Morgan's Black Hawk (or Flying 
 Morgan) out of a Messenger mare. He trotted in 2:34^ 
 and was exhibited in Niblo's Garden in 1863-64. 
 
 I Other celebrated restaurants was an oyster house kept by 
 the negro George Downing, in the basement of No. 3 Broad 
 Street, it being considered the best of its kind, and many prom- 
 inent men of that day could be seen there at lunch hour, such 
 as Jacob Little, the Quaker stock-broker ; James B. Glent- 
 worth, tobacco inspector for the United States ; Jacob Barker, 
 also a Quaker; Fitz Green Hallock, John H. Coster, Stephen 
 Whitney, Josiah Macy, Erastus Brooks, Wilmerding, the 
 auctioneer; Albert H. Nicolay and Anthony J. Bleecker, real 
 estate brokers ; Francis B. Cutting, the great lawyer ; Jacob 
 Hays and his brother William, who lived at Inwood where 
 the Abbey now is and had a stable full of horses ; and David 
 Dudley Field, the great lawyer. Downing resided on Mercer 
 Street near Houston, and was a great caterer for all kinds of 
 entertainments. 
 
 Pettit, of Pettit & Crooks' eating house in Water Street 
 near Pine, and David Goold, who had a restaurant in Nassau 
 Street where the Bank of Commerce now is, were drivers on 
 the Brooklyn roads. Among other good restaurants was the 
 Auction Eating House in Water Street near Wall, kept by 
 George W. Brown ; Clark & Brown's in Maiden Lane near 
 Liberty Street; Windust's, 13 Park Row. Over the entrance 
 was the motto "Nunquam non paratus." The cheaper ones, 
 such as Meschutts', Mrs. Weeks', Jones', and Belmont House 
 in Fulton Street, were in the same vicinity. These were all 
 downtown eating houses. Clark & Brown's I will describe 
 more minutely. The dining room was a large one. being the 
 
22 BACKWARD GLANCES 
 
 place where you could get the very best roast beef, rare, cut 
 in thick slices, or a beefsteak about warmed through, English 
 plum pudding, and a mug of the best half-and-half. This 
 place was known as an English chophouse and was patronized 
 by Yorkshire men. The tables were really in pews, as you 
 were enclosed by a high back, and could not observe who was 
 in the adjoining box. Windust's was a great place for actors 
 to take their meals, such as young Tom Hamblin, Ed Forrest, 
 and the Booths, as also Fernando Wood, Henry Ward Beecher, 
 and Thurlow Weed. The first being Mayor of New York, 
 the second the eminent Brooklyn preacher, and the third a 
 prominent Republican politician. I heard Henry Ward Beech- 
 er in about 1887 preach one of his last sermons in the parlor 
 of the Grand Pacific Hotel, Clark Street, Chicago, 111. The 
 St. George Cricket Club was formed at Clark & Brown's, 
 composed of English residents. I dined here with my father 
 as a boy and later as I advanced toward manhood. The 
 grounds of the Cricket Club were on Staten Island, close to 
 the New York Yacht Club House, in front of which you 
 would see resting at anchor the low rakish sloop yacht "Maria" 
 or the "Julia," owned by John Stevens of Hoboken, in close 
 proximity to the "Rambler," "Wanderer," "Rebecca," "Comet," 
 W. H. Langley, owner, "Vesta," "Fleet Wing," George Os- 
 good, owner, and "Henrietta," the latter and the "Rebecca" 
 owned by James Gordon Bennett, Jr. The "Henrietta" gained 
 great prominence in 1866, winning the great ocean yacht race 
 from Sandy Hook to the Needles, off the Isle of Wight, for 
 a stake of $90,000, December 11, 1866. It was between the 
 "Henrietta," "Fleet Wing," and "Vesta." The match was 
 made by George and Franklin Osgood and Pierre Lorillard. 
 The "Fleet Wing" arrived second and the "Vesta" third. 
 Great interest was taken by every one until the result was 
 heralded. 
 
 V Guerin's, a French pastry cook shop, was on Broadway 
 between Pine and Cedar Streets, No. 120, and was largely 
 patronized, as was also Hitchcock's on Park Row. Blanks Ger- 
 
B..CKWARD GLANCES 23 
 
 man Bakery was in Cedar Street just west of Broadway on 
 the south side. John Davidson had a bakery at the corner of 
 Broad and Stone Streets, where you could get a good piece of 
 pie for sixpence and a glass of milk for three cents. This 
 was in 1855-60. Crook & Duff's, which was quite a celebrated 
 eating house, came into existence later, and was on Park Row 
 in the Times Building. It was patronized largely by politicians 
 and employees of the public departments in that vicinity, as 
 also Leggett's and Sweeney's. Smith & McNeil's fed the 
 Washington Market butchers and others in their restaurant 
 on Washington Street opposite the market. Milton Sweet 
 catered to the Fulton Market butchers and many Brooklyn 
 people at his dining rooms at the corner of Fulton and South 
 Streets. Farrar & Lyon's saloon being next door on South 
 Street. Berry's Dining Rooms, also of a later date, were 011 
 Broad Street where the Mills Building is at present. Suther- 
 land in Liberty Street near Nassau. Cable was an employee 
 of the latter. He opened a restaurant for himself on Broad- 
 way near Cedar Street, also a hotel at Coney Island, in which 
 it was said the Culver Road was interested. He made a great 
 success of this place, as it was really the pioneer of making 
 Coney Island regenerated. Felter kept the Oceanic at the end 
 of the Shell Road just over the bridge. There was another 
 house where you could get good clams, fish, and oysters near 
 the shore — Thompson's. These were really the only two 
 houses of any account kept open to the public on that part of 
 Coney Island until the advent of Tom Cable. The west end 
 of the Island was considered a rough place to go. It was called 
 later Norton's Point, as Mike Norton, a New York politician, 
 opened a hotel here, and the boats from New York made their 
 landing, there being no other landing place for steamboats 
 on the Island. 
 
 There was also quite a celebrated place which had an en- 
 trance on Wall Street, really a hallway about three feet in 
 width, which was in the rear of the building at the corneB 
 of Broad, it having an exit on Broad Street next to No. 3. 
 
24 BACKWARD GLANCES 
 
 It was the celebrated retail soda water place of A. J. Delatour. 
 In the summer time you would often see a line formed on 
 Wall Street fully fifty feet in length awaiting their turn to 
 reach the fountain. The glasses were kept in tubs of ice, with 
 only one valve to draw from, syrups being kept in bottles. One 
 man poured out the syrup while the other drew the soda water, 
 it being the very best. After drinking your long glassful you 
 would eijierge out of the other narrow entrance into Broad 
 Street. /A, J. Delatour was a horse lover and had a fine 
 country place at Bayside, Long Island. The Delatour business 
 is now owned by that prominent and liberal horseman, Mr. 
 A. C. Schuyler, of the New York Driving Club. 
 
 Jauncey's Court was directly east of Delatour's, being 
 filled with offices for lawyers. No. 35 Wall Street was the 
 office of the Mercantile Mutual Marine Insurance Co. Elwood 
 Walter, an old Brooklyn Quaker, was the president ; Charles 
 Newcomb, vice president ; Archie Montgomery, who resided 
 at Whitestone, Long Island, was second vice president, he be- 
 ing succeeded by Alanson Wilson Hegeman ; C. J. Despard 
 being the secretary. On the corner of William Street was the 
 office of the great Atlantic Mutual Insurance Co., the largest 
 in America. John D. Jones was the president; diaries Dennis 
 of Brooklyn, vice president; W. H. H. Moore second vice 
 president ; Townsend Jones being secretary. Across the hall in 
 the same building, which was 51 Wall Street, were the offices 
 of the Sun Mutual Insurance Company, Moses H. Grinnell 
 being its president ; Mr. Seton, vice president. On the corner 
 of William and Cedar Streets were the offices of the New York 
 Mutual Insurance Co. Thomas B. Saterthwaite was the presi- 
 dent ; James Lyle, vice president. The Great Western Mutual 
 Insurance Co. was around on Pine Street between William 
 and Nassau. Richard Lathers, who resided at New Rochelle, 
 was the president of same ; Mr. Coxe, vice president. '" The 
 New York Fire and Marine was in Wall opposite Hanover, 
 these being the only American marine insurance companies 
 in New York. Brown Bros. & Co., Bankers, were on the 
 
BACKWARD GLANCES 25 
 
 corner of Hanover, where they are at this dat^ L. von 
 Hoffman & Co., the German bankers, were in the Post Build- 
 ing, corner of Exchange Place and Hanover. The Office of 
 the "Journal of Commerce" was on the corner of Beaver and 
 Hanover Streets. Wotherspoon, Kingsford & Co., as also 
 John T. Adams, cotton brokers, had their offices in the Post 
 Building, while S. Munn, Son & Co., in the same trade, were 
 at 122 Pearl Street, and Eastons, Cahoone & Kinney were at 
 the corner of Wall and Pearl; W. H. Draper and Minturn & 
 Partridge, auctioneers, were on Hanover Square, Brown & 
 Secomb being the successors of the latter. ; The Hanover Bank 
 was on the corner of Stone Street in the- Hanover Building, 
 while the Bank of Commerce was on the corner of Broad 
 Street and Exchange Place, where the Johnson Building now 
 is. Thomas B. Cummings' hardware store was at the corner 
 of Pearl Street and Old Slip, and Winslow Lanier & Co., 
 Bankers, were in Wall Street nearly opposite Hanover, toward 
 William Street. 
 
 The Merchants' Exchange was built of granite with im- 
 mense pillars in front, and faced on Wall Street, covering the 
 whole block between William and Hanover, the rear being on 
 Exchange Place. It was occupied by the Custom House when 
 they removed from the present United States Treasury Build- 
 ing. It is now owned and occupied by the City National 
 Bank, the largest bank in America. 
 
 Hammond had a jewelry, clock and watch store on the 
 William Street side of the Merchants' Exchange. You could 
 always set your watch the correct time at this place, which be- 
 came quite celebrated. Tlie Bank of New York was on the 
 corner of Wall and William, Charles P. Leverich of Newtown, 
 Long Island, being its president. The Bank of America, Union 
 Bank, and Bank of North America and Merchants Bank on 
 the next block up north side of Wall Street. On the south 
 side were the Phoenix Bank, the Shoe and Leather and the 
 Mechanics. The Marine Bank was on the corner of Pearl and 
 Wall- the Seaman's Savings Bank being on the opposite cor- 
 
20 BACKWARD GLANCES 
 
 ner. The Eleventh Ward Bank was at the corner of Pearl 
 and Burling Slip. The Bank of the Stale of New York was 
 at the corner of William and Exchange Place. The Ohio 
 Life and Trust Co. was on the southeast corner of William 
 and Exchange Place. Carpenter & Vermilye were in the 
 basement of the B^ank of North America, Manhattan Bank 
 being next door, j 
 
 The great financial storm in the autumn of 1857 was 
 precipitated by the suspension of *this company on the 24tli 
 of August, for the immense sum of seven million, dollars. 
 Their downfall was followed by the closing of the Philadel- 
 phia Bank. There followed a general suspension of banks in 
 Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Maryland and the District of 
 Columbia ; in fact, a panic was on the whole country, j The 
 New York Legislature authorized the suspension of pay- 
 ments in all banks in the State for one year. This measure 
 tended to restore confidence, and the banks in New York City 
 and Brooklyn resumed payment at Christmas. The estimated 
 amount of failures throughout the States amounted in liabili- 
 ties, it was said, reaching fully three hundred million dollars. 
 
 *Ohio Life and Trust Company. 
 
k CHAPTER FOUR 
 
 ESUMING the tramp, we pass the Custom House 
 on the corner of Nassau and Wall Streets (now the 
 United States Treasury) and the tall Callender 
 building on the northwest corner of Wall and Nas- 
 sau Streets, which was occupied principally by lawyers, also 
 being the headquarters of the "Morning Express," edited by 
 James and Erastus Brooks. This brick building was subse- 
 quently torn down and a grand marble edifice erected on the 
 site. Jay Cooke & Co., the great bankers of war time days, had 
 their offices on the Wall Street side of the new building. It 
 was not long, however, before this was found too small for 
 the site and was again demolished, a skyscraper being erected ; 
 but even this was found too contracted, and a new thirty-story 
 structure now covers the site, and is high enough to remain 
 there for a few years at least, the Bankers' Trust Co. being 
 the owners. 
 
 Adjoining the old building was the Continental Bank, and 
 next door was the banking house of Duncan, Sherman & Co., 
 on the corner of Nassau and Pine Streets, where the Hanover 
 Bank is now located ; and the Bank of the Republic on the 
 corner of Wall Street and Broadway, the president of which 
 was Robert Soutter, who lived at Astoria, and R. H. Lowery, 
 the cashier, who lived in Henry Street, Brooklyn, including 
 the paying teller, Mr. Henry Ford. All of these gentlemen had 
 valuable horses in their stables. 
 
 Just a few doors north of Wall Street was located for 
 many years what was called a Mock Auction place. There 
 was also one just below Wall, and there were two on Park 
 Row near Ann Street and several on Chatham Street and the 
 lower part of Cortlandt Street. Watches were put up at auc- 
 tion, and a stool pigeon was at the door looking out for 
 victims, generally countrymen. H one came in sight, great 
 activity was immediately shown by spirited bidding, and if 
 
 27 
 
28 BACKWARD GLANCES 
 
 they got him in a sale was made, a brass watch was sub- 
 stituted for the one put up for sale, which was a good one 
 used as a decoy. It was a wonder that the authorities ever 
 allowed these thieving places to exist, but they had a pull 
 somewhere. 
 
 Lane, Lamson & Co. were on Broadway at the corner 
 of Cedar Street, Bowen & McNamee being in the same block. 
 
 The principal real estate auctioneers were Anthony J. 
 Bleecker, Albert J. Nicolay, Adrian H. MuUer, and P. R. 
 Wilkins & Co., while Wilmerding & Mount, and Ruderow, 
 Jones & Co., the latter at the corner of William and Liberty 
 Streets, were the principal drygoods auctioneers. John Ander- 
 son had a tobacco store at the corner of Pine Street and 
 Broadway, southeast corner, over which a wooden statue of 
 Sir Walter Raleigh stood. The American Surety Company 
 now stands on this site. John Anderson owned the site of the 
 Plaza Hotel, Fifty-ninth Street and Fifth Avenue. The fur 
 trade was carried on in Maiden Lane and the lower part of 
 Broadway, Gunther being the first one to go uptown to Fifth 
 Avenue and Twenty-third Street, close to James Bell, the 
 fashionable tailor. 
 
 Passing Trinity Church, in the churchyard of which had 
 been erected in 1852 a monument to the soldiers of the prison 
 ships of the Revolution, also one to the dead of 42 engine 
 (old volunteer system). These were close to the grave of 
 the ill-fated Charlotte Temple, an English girl who was found 
 murdered in a bawdy house in Thomas Street, also the 
 monuments of Captain James Lawrence of the United States 
 Frigate "Chesapeake" and of Robert Fulton and Alexander 
 Hamilton. All of these can be seen at the present day. It 
 was said that the soldiers' monument was placed in that part 
 of the yard so as to prevent the city authorities from cutting 
 through same and extending Pine Street to the North River. 
 
 On the corner of Rector Street, running back to Trinity 
 Place, stood the large brownstone drygoods house of J. R. 
 Jaffray, who had a stable full of horses at his place on the 
 
BACKWARD GLANCES 29 
 
 Hudson. This house afterwards removed to the northeast 
 corner of Leonard Street and Broadway. / 
 
 The hat and cap trade was in lower Broadway. Mr. 
 Archie Finn, of Finn & Ruggles, who was a great Long 
 Island trout fisherman, and George Osbom, of Osborn & May 
 drove on the road the very best obtainable. Mr. Osborn came 
 from Danbury, Conn. His daughter married Mr. Abraham Mil- 
 ler, who formerly resided in Buffalo, and who owned the fast 
 one Genteel H., that came down the circuit in 1907 in company 
 with Sonoma Girl, Highball, Wilkes Heart, Margaret O.. 
 Beatrice Bellini, Lotta, Tempus Fugit, and several other 
 crackerjacks. Mr. Miller died in 1912, Genteel H. went to 
 New Zealand, where he died in 191 1. 
 
 Henry R. Pierson's iron yard was on Broadway just 
 above Beaver Street. The Standard Oil Building is now on 
 the same site. The PubHc Stores (U. S.) were on the south- 
 east corner of Exchange Place and Broadway. 
 
 There was also another large iron yard, which was in 
 Broad Street, west side, corner of Marketfield Street, Thomas 
 Coddington & Co. being the owners. The Abeels Iron Yard 
 was on South Street, up near Roosevelt Street. 
 
 The dilapidated brick building on the corner of Pearl 
 and Broad Streets was the historical Fraunces Tavern. A 
 lager beer saloon occupied the corner, junk shops in the base- 
 ment, while the stores on Pearl Street were used by plumbers 
 and small tradesmen in produce ; the upper part of the house 
 was used for flour, hops, butter and cheese storage. This 
 antiquated pile was erected by Etienne de Lancey as his city 
 home. He was born at Caen, France, in 1663, and came to 
 New York on June 7, 1686. He rharried Anne, daughter of 
 Stephanus Van Cortlandt and Gertrude Schuyler, his wife. 
 He owned a large tract of land extending from the Bowery 
 to the East River, from Stanton Street to Division Street, 
 which was his country residence. He died November iS, 
 1741, and was buried in the family vault under the middle 
 aisle of Trinity Church, nearly under the chancel. The old 
 house subsequently became a hotel, and it was here that 
 
30 BACKWARD GLANCES 
 
 Washington took leave of his officers on resigning command 
 of the army. This old mansion is now owned and occupied 
 by the Sons of the Revolution of the State of New York, it 
 having been rebuilt and renovated ; and in appearance, it is 
 the same as it was in Colonial times. The Eastern Hotel was 
 on the corner of South and Whitehall Streets. ; On the south- 
 east corner of Liberty Street and Broadway stood the large 
 marble Mutual Life Insurance Co. Building, demolished m 
 19 1 3, and a new edifice put up on the old site by the Guarantee 
 Trust Co. of New York. Well do I remember, as a young 
 lad of seventeen or eighteen, in 1859-60, calling in there with 
 a check to pay for the life insurance premium of my em- 
 ployer. The young man who always waited upon me and 
 returned to me the receipt for same was a Mr. Henry B. 
 Hyde, who was a most courteous and polite gentleman, fully 
 showing that he was born and bred same. He subsequently 
 founded the Equitable Life Assurance Society, which under 
 his management became one of the largest in the United 
 States. What a strong contrast I can depict of the above 
 polished official of those days compared with many of the 
 icicle upstarts put in many banks and monetary institutions 
 of the present day by the influence of wealthy relatives, as 
 all kinds of officers, second, third, fourth and fifth vice presi- 
 dents and cashiers, and every one of them feeling that on his 
 shoulders rests the whole weight of the institution. Courteous- 
 ness is at a discount in this atmosphere, and a prospective 
 customer leaves with the idea that he will call next door, 
 where he will not encounter the glassy eye stare, and see if 
 they want his business, which the frozen manner of the first 
 drove away. The stockholders in this case generally turn out 
 the sufferers. I can still call to mind, to carry out the truth 
 of the foregoing, that the success of one of our largest 
 savings banks in New York from its beginning was derivfti 
 from the most polite attention of the treasurer. Every man, 
 woman and child was received and treated as though they were 
 doing a favor to the bank in being a depositor, and feeling 
 this way, advised all their friends to open an account there. 
 
BACKWARD GLANCES 31 
 
 The success of the institution, from a little two-story brick- 
 banking house in Canal Street to a grand marble one uptown 
 fully carries out that politeness in the long run counts for 
 something. 
 
 (On the corner of Maiden Lane stood the Howard House, 
 while the new, elegant Gilsey was on the corner of Cortlandt, 
 where it now exists at this writing. In the rear stood the 
 Western, Pacific, National, and Merchants hotels, the Meccas 
 for Jerseymen and Pennsylvanians. Old Tom's chop house 
 could be seen in Temple Street opposite the Trinity Building, 
 in the basement of which was the drygoods house of Claflin, 
 Mellen & Co. Mr. Claflin, who resided on Kingsbridge Road, 
 Fordham, in the summer time, and in Brooklyn in the winter, 
 had the best that could be obtained in the trotting line. He 
 always drove in from Fordham to some stable below the 
 Park, returning in the afternoon, when he could see some 
 of the good ones on the lane to take a chance at. 
 
 Bowen & McNamee removed to their new marble store 
 northeast corner of Pearl Street and Broadway, where the 
 Citizens' Central National Bank is at this time ; S. B. Chitten- 
 den & Co., a large drygoods house, moved into the old store, 
 basement of iii Broadway, and on their removing to the 
 drygoods district further up Broadway, the real estate auc- 
 tioneers took possession of this large room in tlie Trinity 
 Building, which they occupied until the old yellow brick 
 edifice was demolished a few years ago. 
 
 Knox's hat store was on the corner of Fulton Street 
 and Broadway, with an all-night eating house in the base- 
 ment. At a later date (in 1866) a footbridge was put across 
 Broadway at this corner, according to designs of a man named 
 Lowe. Mr. Knox objected to it, as it cut off the view of his 
 store, and being very little used except by sightseers, it was 
 removed in 1868. 
 
 Barnum's Museum is observed on the corner of Ann 
 Street. The vista from this building was considered grand, 
 as it overlooked the City Hall Park, which was enclosed by 
 an iron railing, there being a large fountain where the Post 
 
^2 BACKWARD GLANCES 
 
 Office now stands. There were only four buildings in the 
 City Hall Park at this time, viz. : the City Hall, New City 
 Hall, which is the brownstone building facing Chambers 
 Street, a fire company house (lately removed), and the old 
 Hall of Records. (Provost Jail.) 
 
 The whole front of the American Museum was always 
 covered with startling canvas signs, depicting the great curi- 
 osities within, such as the wonderful educated seal Ned ; the 
 White whale, the only one ever captured ; the Woolly horse ; 
 President Washington's nurse, Joyce Heth, she being a 
 negress ; the Fee Jee Mermaid, a beautiful female with a 
 fish's appendant, with long streaming hair, cavorting in the 
 water (in the altogether, as it is called in these times). "> Among 
 others was the "What is It," Tom Thumb, and the Happy 
 Family, also Lavinia Warren, who became Tom's wife; Ad- 
 miral Dot, who now keeps a hostelry at White Plains ; Daddy 
 Lambert, the Siamese Twins, Hutchinson the Lightning Cal- 
 culator, who died in 191 1. Tom Thumb and Lavinia Warren, 
 the famous dwarfs were married in St. Paul's Church in 
 1863. Barnum made a big advertisement of the event. A 
 band of five or six pieces occupied the balcony in front and 
 played for hours in the middle of the day, alternating when 
 the show began in the lecture room. Uncle Tom's Cabin 
 being played on the stage in the lecture room, it was not 
 called a theatre, as many persons objected to visiting theatres, 
 but would witness a play on the stage in the lecture room. 
 Kate Bateman, Susan Denin, Emily Mestayer, Qiippendale, 
 Clark, Mrs. J. J. Prior, Mr. Hathaway, Mrs. Jamieson, and 
 many others appeared there, in the Maiden's Vow. Hidden 
 Hand, and other thrillers. Uncle Tom's Cabin was taken from 
 the book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, a sister of 
 Henry Ward Beecher, and it was the opinion of many Ameri- 
 cans that our Civil War would not have taken place if this 
 book had never been written.* It was staged at the Chatham 
 
 *"The American Nation," "Causes of the Civil War." by Rear Ad- 
 miral F. E. Chadwick, folios 59 and 148; and the "History of the 
 American People," by Woodrow Wilson. Vol. iv, folio 160. 
 
BACKWARD GLANCES 33 
 
 Theatre on July 18, 1853. The version that was portrayed 
 was that of George L. Aiken's interpretation. He was a 
 Bostonian, born in that city in 1830, and died in 1876, being 
 only twenty-two years old when he dramatized the play. It 
 ran for 325 performances, under the management of A. H. 
 Purdy. H. J. Conway's version of the play was brought out 
 at Barnum's Museum on November 7, 1853. 
 
 The cast of the original production at the Chatham was 
 G. C. Germon as Uncle Tom, George L. Aiken as George 
 Harris and George Shelby (two characters), George C. How- 
 ard as St. Clair, Charles R. Fox as Phineas Fletcher and 
 Gumption Cute (two characters), W. J. Lemoyne as Mr. Wil- 
 son and Deacon Perry (two characters), C. Leslie Allen as 
 Shelby, Frank E. Aiken as Marks, John Davis as Haley and 
 Legree (two characters), Cordelia Howard as Eva, Mrs. G. 
 C. Germon as Eliza and Cassy (two characters), Mrs. Emily 
 Fox as Ophelia, Miss Emmons as Mrs. St. Clair, Mr. G. C. 
 Howard as Chloe and Topsey (two characters). Most all 
 actors took two characters in a play in those days, and a 
 one act farce always preceded the main drama. 
 
 The first performance that I ever saw on the stage of a 
 theatre was in Barnum's Museum. I think it was in 1849 o^ 
 1850. 
 
 The Happy Family was considered one of the most 
 interesting of the many curiosities exhibited in the old museum. 
 It was on the third floor, south side of the building, and con- 
 sisted of a long wire cage, say about ten feet in length and 
 four or five feet in width. Confined within this enclosure 
 were two or three dogs, several cats, a couple of monkeys, half 
 a dozen squirrels, a dozen white mice and rats, parrots, 
 chickens, ducks, turkeys, quails and pheasants, also guinea- 
 pigs, rabbits, turtles, snakes, frogs, robins, pigeons, etc., etc. 
 It was designed to demonstrate how so many diflferent species 
 of animals, fowls, birds, reptiles, etc., etc., could dwell to- 
 gether in peace and unity. 
 
 There was also in the museum a tank containing two or 
 5 
 
34 BACKWARD GLANCES 
 
 three alligators, a seal, a box of snakes, a whale. No bears, 
 kangaroos, or lions were kept here except stuffed ones. 
 
 A few years later, July 13, 1865, at ten o'clock in the 
 morning I happened to be on Broadway near Maiden Lane, 
 when I saw a sheet of flame drive out the front of this old 
 curiosity shop. It proved to be a most disastrous fire, burn- 
 ing the whole front on Broadway from Ann to Fulton, which 
 embraced Knox's and White's hat stores, also destroying all 
 buildings down Fulton Street as far as the Belmont House, 
 and nearly reaching the "Herald" office on the corner of 
 Nassau Street. The New York Fire Department at this time 
 was just preparing to merge into the paid system. The bill 
 had passed at Albany making the change, causing considerable 
 demoralization in the volunteer system. The Brooklyn depart- 
 ment was asked for some help, and several companies of the 
 old volunteers came across Fulton Ferry, passing the white 
 marble United States Hotel on the corner of Fulton and Pearl 
 Streets and up to the fire. Among them was Atlantic Hose 
 Co. No. I, which lay in High Street near Fulton. This com- 
 pany was organized in 1835, being the oldest hose company 
 in Brooklyn. Many prominent citizens were members thereof 
 in its early days such as Robert Luckey, Rufus Story, Abia 
 
 B. Thom, Thomas F. Mason, Pascall C. Burke, Lyman 
 Greene, Henry Hosford. Robert Malcolm, Ira Ketchum, and 
 R. W. Bigley ; while in its later days some of its well known 
 members were Judge Rufus B. Cowing of New York, Henry 
 
 C. Place, Charles S. Mason, E. G. Sheldon, W. R. Wood- 
 ward, C. M. Fletcher, Thomas T. Knight ; as also Wm. H. 
 Langley and George P. Merrill, drygoods merchants of 
 Worth Street ; James A. Brodie, furs in Maiden Lane, J. C. 
 Nicholson, Frank Arnold, J. H. Taylor, and Gunther K. 
 Ackerman, formerly scribe of Tammany Hall in the days of 
 John Kelly's leadership. The writer had the honor of being 
 the assistant foreman of this old organization, and was in 
 command of same at this fire. 
 
 The learned seal "Ned" was saved by Clifford Pearson, a 
 member of Company G, Thirteenth Regiment of Brooklyn. 
 
BACKWARD GLANCES 35 
 
 He took it under his arm, and, going down Fulton Street to 
 the market, put it in Alfred Dorlon's fishtrough. The old 
 negress, Joyce Heth, and the "What is it," who was a half- 
 witted negro, got out safely and took refuge in the negro 
 quarter in Church Street, from which place they likely ema- 
 nated ; while the white whale, which had a few pale spots on 
 it, likely a diseased or shedding skin, and the Fee Jee mermaid, 
 which was a stuffed monkey's skin and head with a dried fish's 
 tail, this being in a glass case, and the woolly horse, all went 
 up in smoke, although Southwark Engine Co. No. 38 and 
 Humane Hose Co. No. 20, Jared A. Timpson, foreman, lay in 
 Ann Street directly back of the museum; and Protection En- 
 gine Co. No. 5 "Honey Bee," lay in Ann Street near William, 
 and No. 14 Engine in Church Street near Fulton, in rear of St. 
 Paul's Church. But the proximity of these old companies of 
 volunteers could not put down this great conflagration of that 
 time, which destroyed this old New York landmark and tin- 
 der-box. 
 
CHAPTER FIVE 
 
 JOHN DECKER was Chief of the New York Fire De- 
 partment at this time and in charge of this f're. EHsha 
 Kingsland was an assistant engineer, as also EH Bates, 
 George Rhodes, and Bonner. These latter volunteers 
 joined the paid system when it was inaugurated. Among some 
 of the uptown companies was Amity Hose No. 38, which lay 
 in Amity Street near MacDougal. They had a silver reel on 
 their hose carriage, with silver lanterns and other silver trim- 
 mings. Most all their members were bankers, merchants, or 
 manufacturers. Among them was Albert Weber, the great 
 piano-maker, whose factory was in the immediate neighbor- 
 hood, afterwards removing to the corner of Sixteenth Street 
 and Seventh Avenue, also WiUiam H. Wickham, who was 
 Mayor of New York in 1874 and president of the volunteer 
 fire department at one period, residing on Lexington Avenue 
 and Thirty-eighth Street. John F. Giles, of Lawrence, Giles 
 & Co., importers on South William Street opposite Delmoni- 
 co's, also resided on Lexington Avenue near Thirty-ninth 
 Street corner. Fred Ridabock and James F. Wenman, cot- 
 ton brokers, on Pearl Street. 
 
 No. 61 Hose lay in Fourth Avenue, east side, near Twen 
 ty-eighth Street, New York City. No. 28 Hose lay corner of 
 Fifth Avenue and Twenty-first Street, east side, next door to 
 the home of Francis B. Cutting, the great lawyer. Many of 
 the old chiefs you would meet daily on Broadway, such as Al- 
 fred Carson, John Decker, and Harry Howard. The latter 
 resided in Elm Street at the corner of Attorney, right in the 
 rear of the Tombs. There was a big brass nameplate on his 
 door, on which his name was engraved in large letters. He 
 was decrepid the last part of his life, and was given a position 
 in the Tax Office, really for charity. 
 
 Big 6 lay in Henry Street. Bill Tweed was at one time 
 foreman of this company. No. 7 Engine was the first one to 
 
 36 
 
BACKWARD GLANCES 37 
 
 have a steam engine when they came into use for fire purposes 
 in 1863. It was pulled to fires by hand. There were two en- 
 gines propelled by steam, the John G. Storm and the James 
 G. Carey, but both proved failures. No. 36 Hose lay in Henry 
 Street. Dan Slote and his brother Alonzo belonged to this 
 company, also *George Miller. 
 
 In 1865, when the change was made, and Elisha Kings- 
 land appointed Chief of the paid system, a large number of 
 the old volunteers went into the new department. In New 
 York the only company that they did not recruit from to any 
 known extent was No. 38 Hose ; and in Brooklyn when the 
 change was made in that city to the paid department in 1868- 
 69 every company was represented except Atlantic Hose Co. 
 No. I, of whose membership not a solitary one took any posi- 
 tion in the paid system. 
 
 In 1 86 1, the Brooklyn Volunteer Fire Department, which 
 was considered a very efficient one, had about 1450 members. 
 William H. Furey was chief engineer, and a very capable one. 
 He was succeeded by John Cunningham, who remained chief 
 until the paid system came into existence, which was in 1868- 
 69. Among some of the well known old companies of this 
 department was Washington Engine Co. No. i, Patrick Leahy, 
 foreman. It lay in Prospect Street near Main Street. Frank- 
 lin Engine Co. No. 3, Robert Barr, foreman, Henry Street 
 near Pineapple (Firemen's Hall). No. 2 Engine lay in South 
 Brooklyn, William Vanderveer, foreman. Eagle Engine Co. 
 No. 4, High Street near Fulton, Frank Spinola, foreman. He 
 was afterwards quite a prominent Congressman. No. 5, 6 and 
 7 Engines lay in the Navy Yard district. Pacific No. 14 lay 
 in Pierpont near Fulton Street, Isaac Leggett, foreman. Sub- 
 sequently Fred S. Massey and Smith C. Baylis were at the 
 head of this company. Brooklyn Engine No. 17 lay in Jay 
 Street near Myrtle Avenue, William Burrell, foreman. No. 9 
 Engine lay in Carlton Avenue, Seaman Searing, foreman. No. 
 19 Engine lay in Pacific Street near Court, and No. 22 in 
 
 *Whose father. James Miller, was an assistant engineer. 
 
38 BACKWARD GLANCES 
 
 Degraw Street near Court. In the later years of the Volun- 
 teer Fire Department, James Dickey was foreman of this com- 
 pany. 
 
 Among the Hose Companies was Atlantic Hose Co. No. i. 
 Richard C. Elliott, a New York lawyer, was foreman. They 
 lay in Firemen's Hall, Henry Street, and on disbandment 
 of No. 4 Engine they removed to their house on High Street. 
 They were an old Company, organized in 1835, ^"^ kept 
 up to the time of their disbandment when the paid system 
 came into existence in every way a high-class and efficient 
 organization. The Author of this book was foreman of same 
 for the last three years of its existence as Volunteers. 
 
 Several noted fires took place from 1853 to 1854 in 
 New York. One of them was the burning of part of the 
 Greenwich Avenue Public School, where many children were 
 lost; another was W. J. Jennings & Co.'s clothing store, 231 
 Broadway. Some twenty volunteer firemen were lost here. 
 Another was the Pearl Street House, which was in Pearl 
 Street, south side, between Coenties and Old Slips. Harper 
 & Bros., on Franklin Square, was burned December 10. 1853. 
 A marble tablet is now on the front of the brick warehouse 
 where the hotel formerly stood. 
 
 Pearl Street was largely given to the hardware trade. 
 William Bryce & Co. were at 228 in 1854; subsequently they 
 removed to Chambers Street opposite the new City Hall 
 (present brownstone building), used by the City Court. Pearl 
 Street has the unique distinction of starting at the lower part 
 of Broadway (or really State Street) and forming a crescent, 
 ending at Broadway opposite Thomas Street. Ball, Black & 
 Co. were at 247 Broadway before they removed to their 
 grand marble store, southwest corner of Prince and Broad- 
 way. Tiffany, Young & Ellis being opposite the St. Nicholas 
 Hotel so far uptown, was likely the cause of the former house 
 removing so far away north. Lillienthal's Snufif & Tobacco 
 Store was at the corner of Chambers and Centre Streets. 
 McAlpin's (Same business) was in Catharine Street. 
 
 Rushton's drug store, corner of Barclay and Broadway, 
 
Fire Trumpet presented to Thomas Floyd-Jones, Nov. 12, 1S()7, by mem- 
 bers of Atlantic Hose Company, No. 1, Volunteer Fire Department, 
 Brooklyn, L,. I- 
 
BACKWARD GLANCES 39 
 
 was quite prominent in its day; later a Dr. Helmbold opened 
 an elegantly fitted up store with marble counters on Broadway, 
 east side, just below Houston Street, and achieved quite a 
 notoriety in advertising Helmbold's Buchu. I don't remember 
 what it cured, but I think all the ills that man is heir to. He 
 rode alone in Central Park behind four black horses driven 
 by a colored driver, with two footmen in livery sitting on 
 the rear of a big carriage, they being negroes also, something 
 of the same style in which Jim Fisk amused himself about 
 the same time; only the latter would have four or five women 
 with him, actresses from the Grand Opera House, Twenty- 
 third Street and Eighth Avenue. The four black horses were 
 frequently hitched tandem. It was a sight to see them. 
 
 One of the most disastrous fires that ever took place, as 
 far as the loss of life to firemen was concerned, in the records 
 of the Brooklyn fire department, was on April 4th, 1865. It 
 was called the Furman Street disaster. The fire broke out 
 about half past one to two o'clock A. M., in a three-story brick 
 building in Furman Street between Fulton and Wall Street 
 ferries No. 93-95. The place was being used as a co-operage 
 and oil refinery. It being situated directly under Columbia 
 Street, and a garden belonging to the Columbia Street property 
 covered the whole roof of the Furman Street building. The 
 earth comprising same was fully three to six feet thick. 
 The roof fell in, accelerated by its great weight, carrying 
 with it in its descent a large number of firemen of the old 
 volunteer system, who had their hose pipes in the scuttles. It 
 came without any warning. Among those who lost their lives 
 (bodies recovered) were Casper K. Cammeyer of Hose Co. 
 No. 2, *Eugene P. Baker of Hose Co. No. 8, Alexander S. 
 Benson of Hose Co. No. 11, Joseph H. Brown, No. 17 engine, 
 and Lewis Gardner of Hose Co. No. 5. An assistant engineer, 
 Robert Barr, and a member of No. 17 engine, James H. Rug- 
 gles, were rescued after going through to the bottom, both 
 escaping serious injury, also William Williams, engine 17, 
 
 *A runner. 
 
40 BACKWARD GLANCES 
 
 Michael McGibney, Hose Co. No. 5, Edward Bassett, Hose 
 Co. No. 8, William A. Lee, Hose Co. No. 17. The escape of 
 Hose Co. No. i from this holocaust seemed providential. They 
 being one of the closest located near the fire, their route to 
 same would have been straight through Cranberry Street, 
 which would have placed them right on top of the building. 
 On the alarm being received, which was a still one, the city 
 hall bell not yet having struck, the hose carriage rolled out 
 of the house No. 12 High Street, now covered by the entrance 
 to the Brooklyn Bridge, and took the route directly toward 
 Fulton Street. On reaching the corner of this street, a 
 drunken man ran out and grabbed the end or bight of the 
 rope, which swung the apparatus around the corner and down 
 the Fulton Street Hill, instead of across, which was intended 
 by the two members on the tongue. The writer of this 
 *episode, which for the first time has ever been written, was 
 in command of the company. On observing the situation, 
 he rushed at the man and pushed him to the sidewalk, when he 
 let go of his hold on the rope, and the carriage was swung 
 down Fulton Street. All hands jumped on and rode down the 
 hill on the car track, and arrived at Fulton Ferry, proceeding 
 from there to the fire on Furman Street, coming in front of 
 the building instead of on top. This scene can never be oblit- 
 erated from the vision of those who participated in it and 
 those who miraculously escaped with their lives, now forty- 
 eight years ago. This, the act of a drunken man, came as a 
 blessing in disguise. The owner of the garden who occupied 
 the Columbia Street house was a prominent and much re- 
 spected Quaker citizen, named John J. Merritt. 
 
 No. I Truck lay in Henry Street, in Firemen's Hall, near 
 Cranberry Street, Brooklyn. No. 2 Hose lay in Jay Street 
 near Tillary Street. No. 4 lay in Love Lane near Henry 
 Street. No. 3 in Hoyt near Fulton Avenue. No. 11 in 
 Court Street near Joralemon. No. 14 in the Gowanus district, 
 John Delmar, foreman. No. 12 in Hicks Street near State 
 Street. 
 
 *The author. 
 
f 
 
 CHAPTER SIX 
 
 THE Astor House built in 1836, one of the very best 
 of the period, as it is at the present time, was 
 located on the same site which it now occupies, 
 Broadway, Vesey and Barclay Streets.) I saw 
 Abraham Lincoln on the steps of this renowned old hotel when 
 he ran for the first time for the presidency in i860, and subse- 
 quently saw his remains after his assassination by J. Wilkes 
 Booth. They were in the New York City Hall. The line of 
 people desiring to see same extended up Chatham Street to 
 the Bowery. It was three A. M. when I succeeded in getting 
 to the head of this long procession. 
 
 The vicinity of the Astor House on Broadway was the 
 most difficult to cross of most any part of this prominent 
 thoroughfare. Stages were the principal means of locomotion, 
 except four- and six-horse sleighs in the winter season after a 
 good snowfall. The sleighing would last for about two or 
 three days. Eventually it would get all humps, then the stage 
 companies would use picks and shovels and throw the ice and 
 snow in the middle of Broadway three or four feet in height, 
 so that driving down had to be done on one side and up on the 
 other of this obstruction, which would last until rain or a thaw 
 rernpved it. 
 
 1 It was no uncommon sight to see a block of stages or 
 omnibuses for hours from Canal Street to the Bowling Green. 
 Our present traffic squad, one of the really most efficient parts 
 of the police system and which has been a great success, would 
 have come in very handy on many occasions to imravel the 
 tangle. There were many stage companies, each one having 
 about thirty vehicles, among them being the old Broadway 
 line from Forty-second Street to South Ferry ; the Madison 
 Avenue line to Wall Street Ferry from Thirty-second Street ; 
 the Fourth Avenue line from the same point went to South 
 Ferry; the Sixth Avenue line from Forty-second Street 
 
 41 
 
42 BACKWARD GLANCES 
 
 through Ninth and Eighth Streets, as also the Twenty-third 
 Street line to Twenty-sixth Street and Ninth Avenue also went 
 to South Ferry; the Fifth Avenue line from Forty-second 
 Street to Fulton Ferry; Bleecker Street line (Yellow Bird) 
 from Eighth Avenue and Twenty-third Street to South Ferry ; 
 Grand Street line, dry dock foot of Tenth Street to South 
 Ferry, as also East Broadway line from Grand Street Ferry; 
 Spring Street line, Second Street and Third Avenue to foot of 
 Canal and Cortlandt Streets ; Bowery line. Bull's Head, Twen- 
 ty-fourth Street, to South Ferry. There was also a stage that 
 left the old Bull's Head Hotel, Twenty-fourth Street and Third 
 Avenue, at stated hours for Yorkville and Harlem on the east 
 side, while the Bloomingdale stages ran from Thirty-third 
 Street and Broadway (now Gimbel's Big Store), to Blooming- 
 dale and Stryker's Bay. Most all of the proprietors of these 
 stage lines were horsemen having many good trotters in their 
 stables for their personal use. Sidney Nichols, of the Twenty- 
 third Street line, who was at one time Police Commissioner 
 and one of the organizers of the Fifth National Bank, comer 
 of Twenty-third Street and Third Avenue, with such co-direc- 
 tors as Judge Richard Kelly, General Wiley, Napoleon J. 
 Haines and his brother Francis ; Thompson W. Decker the milk 
 dealer, and Edmund Stephenson, ex-Immigration Commis- 
 sioner, was often seen on the road and track. Among others 
 was Andrews, of the Fifth Avenue line; Mr. Palmer of the 
 Fourth Avenue line and president of the Broadway Bank, cor- 
 ner of Broadway and Park Place. His brownstone residence 
 was on Madison Avenue north of Thirty-fourth Street ; Mr. 
 Marshall and Mr. Wilkins of the Broadway line ; Kip and Mr. 
 Brown of the Bleecker Street line ; Murphy and Lent of the 
 Second Street line; and Johnson and Shepherd of the Sixth 
 Avenue line. 
 
 There were also several car lines. The Sixth Avenue line 
 ran from Vesey Street and Broadway up West Broadway, 
 Canal, Varick, Carmine, and Sixth Avenue to Forty-second 
 Street. Many of these cars were drawn by mules, and on the 
 sides of several of them appeared the sign, "Colored People 
 
BACKWARD GLANCES 43 
 
 Allowed in this Car." There was also the Eighth Avenue line 
 from the same downtown terminus up West Broadway, Canal, 
 Hudson, and Eighth Avenue to Forty-fourth Street. George 
 Law was the principal owner of this line. His son, young 
 George, could be met most any day driving a good one on Har- 
 lem Lane. The Fourth Avenue line ran from Tryon Row up 
 Centre, Broome, and Grand, Bowery, and Fourth Avenue to 
 Thirty-second Street, and at a later date through the tunnel 
 to Forty-second Street. The Third Avenue line ran from the 
 City Hall up Chatham, Bowery and Third Avenue to Sixty- 
 third Street. This road was largely owned by Henry Hart, 
 Maltby G. Lane, and the Remsen family. The fare on both 
 stages and cars was sixpence; and in l86i, when silver went 
 out of circulation, postage stamps were used to pay the fare ; 
 and on a wet day, both passenger and driver suffered, where • 
 return change in stamps had to come to you through the little 
 hole in the roof of the omnibus, all stuck together. When the 
 shin-plaster script came into use they took the place of the 
 postage stamps. There were no mats, but plenty of good clean 
 straw or sedge hay on the floors of cars and stages. This kept 
 your feet fairly warm in cold weather. There was also a Second 
 Avenue line from Sixty-third Street down Second Avenue, 
 through Grand Street to the Bowery and Peck Slip on the East 
 River. The Crystal Palace at Forty-second Street and Sixth 
 Avenue opened in 1853. It was adjoining the reservoir. Bry- 
 ant Park is now on the site. This point was the end of many 
 of the lines, the Sixth Avenue line not extending above Forty- 
 second Street until after 1855. The bob-tailed cars only ran 
 to Canal Street and Broadway, where they swung around and 
 went back, one horse only being used on these. I saw the 
 Crystal Palace burn on October 5, 1858, from the roof of my 
 home in Waverly Place. It was a veritable tinder-box, and 
 was quickly reduced to ashes. There was a high tower on 
 the upper side of Forty-second Street opposite the Crystal 
 Palace, for strangers to view the city. It was called the Lat- 
 ting Observatory. There was no elevator in it, so they had to 
 walk up, over 280 feet high. It burned down August 30, 1856. j 
 
44 BACKWARD GLANCES 
 
 Strolling up Park Row, passing the International, Powers' 
 and Lovejoy's Hotels, the latter on the corner of Beekman 
 Street, and the Brick Church, which originally stood where the 
 old Times and Potter Buildings are at present, surrounded by 
 graves, all of which was removed in, 1856, looming up in the 
 rear on Nassau Street, corner of Cedar, the Post Office, 
 formerly Old Dutch Church, can be easily seen. This brings us 
 to French's Hotel, on the corner of Frankfort Street, now 
 the site of the World Building, while just across the 
 street was Tammany Hall, which Building is now occupied by 
 the New York "Sun," and where the "Staats-Zeitung" Build- 
 ing stood for some years, which was demolished in 1908, to 
 make way for the Bridge enlargement, was a row of brick 
 houses called Tryon Row, after Governor Tryon, the English 
 governor of the Province of New York before the Revolution. 
 These houses were erected at that time, being private resi- 
 dences. Law offices eventually filled them all. There were 
 also quite a number of private residences in Beekman, Spruce, 
 and Cliff Streets ; many of them kept boarders, while across 
 in Chambers Street near Greenwich, resided Alexander Stuart, 
 the bachelor sugar refiner. His brother, Robert L., had re- 
 sided next door, but trade beginning to creep in, he removed to 
 his grand new house, with stables in the rear filled with fine 
 stock, corner of Fifth Avenue and Twentieth Street. Their 
 sugar house was on the corner of Chambers and Greenwich 
 Streets, extending to Reade Street. It is now a cold storage 
 plant. The two brick houses, residences of the two brothers, 
 can still be seen in Qiambers Street. Stuart's candy, broken, 
 and sugar plums, was considered the very best. They were 
 made of sugar. No terra Alba, glucose, or other foreign 
 ingredients ever confaminated this world-iienowned candy. 
 Their retail store was on the corner of Hudson and Chambers 
 Streets, now the site of a trust company. The Stuarts sold 
 their candy business to Ridley & Co., and from that time to the 
 present it has gone under the latter name. It was directly 
 opposite the Hudson River railroad depot, corner of College 
 Place and Chambers Street, with an entrance on Warren 
 
BACKWARD GLANCES 45 
 
 Street. The Gerken Building now occupies part of this site, 
 home of the "Trotter and Pacer." 
 
 The large passenger cars were towed up to Thirtieth 
 Street and Tenth Avenue by four horses, a man going ahead 
 of each car on a horse, waving a flag, the locomotive being 
 attached at the Thirtieth Street passenger station. 
 
 The Girard House was on the northeast corner of Cham- 
 bers and West Broadway, now called the Cosmopolitan Hotel. 
 Many of the old three-story brick houses on Hudson, Varick, 
 Beach, Greenwich, Laight and adjoining streets, especially 
 around St. John's Park, became boarding houses for the retail 
 drygoods clerks of Broadway, many of the former occupants 
 having moved way uptown above Washington Square. James 
 Fenimore Cooper lived at No. 3 Beach Street in 1820. Uni- 
 versity of the City of New York was on University Place 
 facing Washington Park. 
 
 On the east side, the station of the Harlem Railroad 
 was at White and Centre Streets, just above the Tombs, and 
 a passenger entrance was in Canal between Centre and Broad- 
 way, also one in Broadway just below Canal ; but soon after it 
 went up to Twenty-sixth Street and Fourth Avenue, where 
 the New Haven and Hartford and the Harlem Railroad oc- 
 cupied jointly the whole block as a depot. The Madison 
 Square Garden now covers the site. The locomotives were 
 housed at Thirty-third Street, where the Seventy-first Regi- 
 ment Armory now is, and were backed down to Twenty- 
 sixth Street to attach to trains. The first cattle yards that I 
 can remember were in Robinson Street near Greenwich (now 
 called Park Place). They subsequently removed to Sixth 
 Street near Third Avenue, then to Forty-fourth Street, where 
 the Grand Central Depot now is. j 
 
 Quite a celebrated character, ^who was always in trouble 
 with the police, also lived in Chambers Street, near Hudson. 
 It was the well known Madame Restell. She removed from 
 there into a grand, new brownstone mansion at the corner of 
 Fifth Avenue and Fifty-second Street, No. 657 Fifth Avenue, 
 and was known as the wife of Doctor Lohman. She erected 
 
46 BACKWARD GLANCES 
 
 the Langham Hotel, next door to her home (both are now 
 demolished), and most every day she could be seen riding ni 
 her carriage through Central Park, either alone or with her 
 husband by her side. She was found dead in her bathroom one 
 morning, April i, 1878. It was believed that she met her end 
 by suicide, by stabbing herself, as a large ivory handled carv- 
 ing knife was found beside her with the lifeblood of a vampire 
 of the Avenue on its blade. 
 
 The old Bowery Theatre, now called the Thalia, on whose 
 boards many prominent actors appeared, such as John Broug- 
 ham, Chanfrau, George L. Fox, Mrs. Jones, Mary Taylor, 
 Fanny Herring, and others ; also many blood-curdling dramas 
 were enacted here, such as "Jack Sheppard," "Oliver Twist,"' 
 and "The Three Guardsmen." It is still in existence, on the 
 west side of the Bowery just below Canal Street, being used 
 for plays in the Yiddish language. The Atlantic Garden was 
 next door north. It cost one shilling to go in the pit (now 
 the orchestra). It was generally packed solid with newsboys, 
 while the select part of the house was the balcony. The price 
 for seats here was four shillings. The top gallery was one 
 and two shillings. Negroes were only allowed in the upper 
 part of the house, next the roof. 
 
 Will retrograde to the City Hall Park, not going through 
 the Five Points to get there, which locality was most dangerous 
 to traverse, either by day or night. The "Dead Rabbit" 
 riots on July 3, 1857, were in Bayard Anthony, Mulberry, 
 Elizabeth and Centre Streets, being between the Roach Guards 
 of Mulberry Street and the Atlantic Guards of the Bowery, 
 — one vicious element of the lower strata arrayed against an- 
 other of the same kind. The streets were barricaded with 
 wagons, boxes, or anything that they could obtain as breast- 
 works. Paving stones and pistols were their weapons. This 
 riot was put down by the Seventh Regiment. The Mission 
 House which was erected in the Five Points was the chief 
 means of cleaning up this vile spot. The Quarantine riots 
 occurred in 1858, the buildings ail being destroyed by a fire on 
 Staten Island, September ist. 
 
BACKWARD GLANCES 47 
 
 Looking across City Hall Park, quite a commotion t^ 
 observed there. It proves to be a fight between the police 
 under the control of the mayor and the newly appointed com- 
 missioners under the head of the new police system. This 
 took place June 16 in 1857. Fernando Wood was mayor and 
 his men were called M. P.'s, which, it is said in the vernacular 
 of the street, meant "Mayor's Pups," the proper name being 
 Municipal Police. The Metropolitan system was inaugurated 
 at Albany when John A. King of Jamaica was governor. 
 Commissioners were appointed, but the mayor would not rec- 
 ognize them in any way. This led to a descent on the City 
 Hall, and a clash ensued between the two opposing interests. 
 The Seventh Regiment was going down Broadway at the 
 time on their way to Boston by boat, it being under the 
 command of Colonel Abraham Duryea. They were stopped 
 and called upon to allay the disturbance. The mayor was 
 threatened with arrest. It eventually ended in his giving uj) 
 the struggle after considerable blood spilling, and the Metro- 
 politan Police System was inaugurated, which has continued 
 from that day to the present, being looked upon as one of the 
 best in the world. This scrimmage was called the Police Riot. 
 
 General Hall was in command of the Militia of New York 
 of this division. The first police commissioners appointed were 
 Simeon Draper, James W. Nye, and Jacob Caldwell, all of 
 New York City. Police Headquarters was in the basement of 
 the City Hall. George W. Matsell was Chief for many years 
 (1853). He resided in Allen Street near Grand, and after his 
 retirement from the police department he edited the paper 
 called "The Police Gazette." John A. Kennedy became Chief 
 a few years afterward. Although a small man in size he was 
 as brave as a lion, and a terror to evildoers. The new Police 
 Headquarters in Mulberry Street near Houston was estab- 
 lished during the incumbency of Supt. Kennedy, he being the 
 first one to occupy the same officially. The principal Police 
 Justices of those days were Judge Dowling, Hogan, Finn, and 
 Richard Kelly, who subsequently was president of the Fifth 
 National Bank, corner of Twenty-third Street and Third Ave- 
 nue. 
 
CHAPTER SEVEN 
 
 IT was only a few years after this when the City Hall 
 Park presented a very different appearance. In April, 
 1861, barracks for the soldiers extended from Chambers 
 Street on Broadway to the foot of the park, and up Park 
 Row to Spruce Street, being erected inside of the iron railing 
 which surrounded the City Hall Park, and which was used 
 largely by venders of songs, they being strung along on wires 
 against the fence. Some of these were "Ben Bolt," "Father, 
 dear Father, come home with me now," "Listen to the Mock- 
 ing Bird," "The Old Oaken Bucket," "Yankee Doodle," 
 "Suwanee River," "Way down South in Dixie," "When this 
 Cruel War is over," "Shoo Fly, Don't Bother Me," and all the 
 popular songs of those days, maify of the war songs being 
 written by Charles Carroll Sawyer. 
 
 The famous Seventh Regiment, under command of Col- 
 onel Marshall T. Lefferts, had been down Broadway 
 April 19th, on their way to Washington, where they were 
 camped for thirty days, as it was expected that the war would 
 not last much longer than that. The writer saw them there in 
 May, 1 86 1, the day they broke camp and were to return to 
 New York, their time having expired. Many threats were 
 made that it would be hot for them going through Baltimore, 
 but these rumors proved to be idle, as they were not molested 
 in any way and arrived safely at their armory on Third Ave- 
 nue and Seventh Street, and subsequently many hundred of the 
 members recruited many companies which were formed into 
 regiments, enlisting for the war, they going out as officers of 
 the same. 
 
 The 13th Regiment of Brooklyn, Colonel Abel Smith, com- 
 mander ; Robert Clark, Lieut.-Colonel, Joseph Leggett, Ma- 
 jor, and E. L. Molineux, Adjutant, whose armory was on 
 Henry Street corner of Cranberry, stopped in the New York 
 City Hall Park barracks before taking steamers for Annapo- 
 
 48 
 
BACKWARD GLANCES 49 
 
 lis, Md., in May, 1861, on their thirty-day campaign. Later 
 they went to the front, enlisting for three months. On the 
 thirty-day call they took out over 1200 men. Company G, 
 under command of Capt. Richard Van Wyck Thorne, Jr., took 
 out over 200 men in his company alone. 
 
 On the Thirteenth Regiment leaving Brooklyn the first 
 time, a kind of Home Guard was instituted. A company was 
 formed in Apollo Hall, which was in Jay Street near Sands, 
 by a Mr. Frothingham, assisted by Capt. William Everdell, 
 who died in 1912. I saw them drill with canes, and if I 
 remember rightly, this small band was the nucleus of the cele- 
 brated Twenty-third Regiment of Brooklyn. They were com- 
 posed of ex-members of the old City and Light Guard of 
 Brooklyn. 
 
 The Fourteenth Regiment of Brooklyn, Colonel Alfred 
 M. Wood, and the Forty-eighth, Colonel Bennett in Williams- 
 burg, both enlisted for the three-months campaign, the same as 
 the Thirteenth. The Fourteenth was in the first battle of 
 Bull Run. Colonel Wood was captured and kept in Libby 
 Prison a long while. On his return, he was elected Mayor of 
 Brooklyn. 
 
 Resuming our stroll, going through Chambers Street, Bur- 
 ton's Theatre is passed, the American News Co. Building now 
 being on the site. William Burton was considered the greatest 
 actor of his day in humorous parts. I saw him play "Toodles" 
 in this theatre. Mrs. Russell, who afterwards married John 
 Hoey, president of Adams Express Co., began her career in 
 this house. On the corner of Broadway, extending to Reade 
 Street, was the great wholesale and retail drygoods house of 
 A. T. Stewart & Co. His partner, Mr. Wm. Libby, who re- 
 sided in, Park Avenue corner of Thirty-seventh Street, and 
 had his country j)lace at Inwood, was a well known driver on 
 the old Bloomingdale road to Jones' Garemont. Mr. Hopkins, 
 their head bookkeeper, also resided at Inwood, driving in 
 daily. The Stewart store is still in existence, being now oc- 
 cupied by many city departments. Mr, Stewart's residence 
 was in Dapau Row, Bleecker Street, corner of Greene. He 
 6 
 
50 BACKWARD GLANCES 
 
 subsequently moved to the northeast corner of Fifth Avenue 
 and Thirty-fourth Street. 
 
 Jones' Claremont was a great place during the sleighing 
 season. It was really the last roadhouse to reach, with one or 
 two exceptions, so the sheds were crowded, and it was open 
 house all night. Out on the lawn close to the river bank stood 
 that little solitary marble monument surrounded by an iron 
 fence, with this inscription on the side of the stone : 
 
 To an amiable child 
 Liester Pollock. 
 
 He was the son of an Englishman who was visiting the family 
 who resided in this old mansion before the Revolution. The 
 monument is still there, adjacent to the magnificent tomb of 
 General U. S. Grant. 
 
 The most distant roadhouse of all reached on an after- 
 noon's drive was on the Kingsbridge road, called the Kings- 
 bridge Hotel, just after crossing the bridge from Manhattan 
 Island on to Isle of Manhattan, where it was located. Its rear 
 was directly upon the Spuyten Duyvill Creek. There oysters, 
 clams, and fish were kept fresh. It was largely patronized all 
 the year round. 
 
 Quite well do I remember the advent in New York in i8()0 
 of Ellmer Ellsworth of Chicago. He was a young lawyer 
 there, and organized a company of young men of the fra- 
 ternity, the members of which agreed to abstain from the use 
 of liquor, tobacco, and all sorts of immorality. They were 
 trained by Ellsworth until they worked with great skill, and 
 went through all the east giving exhibition drills. They gave 
 one in the City Hall Park and were veiy proficient. I saw 
 one of them in Chicago in 1886, when he had become quite 
 aged — a Mr. John Long. I called to his mind that I had seen 
 them drill on the plaza in front of the City Hall. When the 
 war broke out in 1861, Ellmer Ellsworth saw his chance and 
 came to New York with a commission to recruit a regiment, he 
 having procured same at Washington on his way to New York. 
 
BACKWARD GLANCES 51 
 
 His first appeal was to the New York Fire Department to 
 form a regiment of Zouaves, and in less than a week 1200 
 able bodied men, accustomed to all kinds of hardships, pre- 
 sented themselves for enlistment. They had red shirts, grey 
 jackets and trousers, and on April 29, 1861, I saw them as 
 they marched down Broadway, escorted by the Fire Depart- 
 ment and an immense crowd of citizens. They sailed on the 
 old Collins side wheel steamship "Baltic." If I remember 
 rightly, they landed either at Annapolis or Baltimore, and 
 thence to Washington, D. C. Their first experience on arriv- 
 ing there was to save Willard's Hotel on Pennsylvania y\venue 
 from fire, with which it was threatened. The Washington Fire 
 Department was very inferior, so the city officers sent for the 
 Zouaves. That made the local firemen jealous, so they cut 
 the hose, and did all they could to obstruct them. The fire 
 was early in the morning in the Fields Building, which ad- 
 joined the hotel. There were no ladders, so the firemen used 
 the lightning-rods and got on the roof that way. The Fields 
 Building was pulled down very quickly, and Willard's was 
 saved from flakes of fire falling on the roof. It was only 
 three or four weeks after this event that I stayed at Willard's 
 for a day. 
 
 Ellsworth's career was very short, as he was shot by a 
 man named James W. Jackson, proprietor of the Marshall 
 House, Alexandria, Va., when he rushed into same to tear 
 down a Confederate flag flying from a flagstaff on the roof. 
 Jackson was immediately shot by Serjeant Frank H. Brownell. 
 Upon the death of Colonel Ellsworth, Noah L. Farnham, 
 Lieut. -Colonel, who was formerly a member of Hook and Lad- 
 der No. I, became colonel. He was wounded at the battle of 
 Bull Run, and died from the efifects. 
 
 On the corner of West Broadway and Franklin Streets 
 stood the Fifth Ward Hotel. It was quite a novel place, as it had 
 a large exhibit of stuffed birds, mounted and in glass cases, 
 — the finest exhibit in New York, really a museum. In front 
 of this hotel stood a high Liberty pole, which was used by 
 the volunteer firemen in matches of hand engines, to see which 
 
52 BACKWARD GLANCES 
 
 company was superior in throwing water the highest. There 
 was great rivalry in this regard. 
 
 On Broadway at the corner of Warren Street was the 
 large clothing house of D. Devlin, & Co. The first tunnel 
 under Broadway, built in 1869, was directly in front of their 
 store, which was on the southwest corner. It was called the 
 Beach pneumatic tunnel. It was about thirty or forty feet 
 long, built of brick, with rounded roof and base, with a car 
 about thirty feet long in same, of cylindrical pattern, fitting 
 close to the sides of the tube, so as to exhibit what an under- 
 ground road was. The entrance was through the Devlin store. 
 Twenty-five cents was charged for any one to see this first 
 underground road in New York City. It never went any 
 farther, and the hole was removed in 1913 for the Broadway 
 subway. Another tunnel existed in Atlantic Street, Brooklyn, 
 from Boerum Street to Columbia near South Ferry. It be- 
 longed to the Long Island Railroad. Both ends were closed 
 up when the road changed its depot to Hunter's Point, now 
 Long Island City. 
 
 That little brownstone building on Broadway, just below 
 the corner of Chambers, was the great Chemical Bank, organ- 
 ized by the Jones and Mason families. The front was lately 
 changed to granite. Its president was John Q. Jones ; the 
 cashier was George G. Williams. It was the only bank in New 
 York that did not stop specie payment in the panic of 1857. 
 On the northwest corner of Chambers Street stood the old 
 Irving House, where the great Adams and Colt murder case 
 of an earlier period occurred. Jenny Lind stayed at this hotel 
 when she sang here at Castle Garden. This building was sub- 
 sequently occupied by Delmonico as a restaurant. The Broad- 
 way-Chambers now covers the spot. The New York Hospital, 
 with its high iron fence, was on Broadway, west side, directly 
 opposite Pearl Street, while just above Pearl, on the east side, 
 was the old Broadway Theatre, Teft, Weller & Co.'s store is 
 now on this site. Christian Shaffer had a grand saloon in the 
 basement thereof. I saw Forrest play "Metamora" in this 
 house, also saw Ed Eddy in "Heme, the Hunter," Adah Isaacs 
 
BACKWARD GLANCES 53 
 
 Menken in "Mazeppa," Hackett as "Falstaff," and that grand 
 old actor, William Blake, in "The last Man." He now lies in 
 Greenwood adjacent to Harry Placide's grave. John Jack as 
 Falstaff, a member of Forrest's company, with Lucille West- 
 ern, also appeared at this theatre. Appleton & Co., the large 
 publishing house, was on the next corner, now occupied by the 
 New York Life Insurance Co. Building. It was a large store, 
 which they occupied on the corner of Anthony Street. 
 
 Williams, Stevens & Williams had a picture store on 
 Broadway east side, just above Leonard. I well remember 
 a large colored picture in their show window, entitled the 
 "Seasons." I know of only two now in existence, which are 
 in the Author's family. Gosling's restaurant was on Broad- 
 way below Canal Street. Mealio's hat store was on the cor- 
 ner of Canal and Broadway, and James' hat store was on 
 Broadway, west side, under the St. Nicholas Hotel. Florence's 
 Hotel was at the corner of Walker Street, east side of Broad- 
 way. 
 
 When the New York Hospital moved up-town to West 
 Fifteenth Street, the old grounds were sold to various parties, 
 and the present location of the drygoods trade was established. 
 Thomas Street being cut through to Broadway, and the name 
 of Anthony Street changed to Worth Street after General 
 Worth, of Mexican War fame. William C. Langley, who 
 removed from lower Broadway, was one of the first to locate 
 there. He resided at Bay Ridge, Long Island, where he had 
 the largest and finest stable of trotting and carriage horses in 
 Kings County, or on Long Island. His four-horse team of 
 that period was the talk of the day, and they would invariably 
 capture the first premium at the Queens County Fairs at 
 Hempstead, Jamaica and Flushing, they being held at these 
 towns alternately every three years, in the largest field obtain- 
 able, the horse ring being very small. The great Mineola 
 grounds succeeded the former primitive exhibition grounds. 
 Mr. Langley always drove from his home to the Hamilton 
 Ferry daily on his way to his business in New York. His 
 son, William H. Langley, who succeeded his father, was equal- 
 
54 BACKWARD GLANCES 
 
 ly as fond of horses, and it took a clipper to head him on the 
 old Brooklyn roads. 
 
 / Journeying along, 1 glance down to Church Street. This 
 street was lined with negro hotels, lodging houses, and other 
 miscellaneous places — in fact, the Tenderloin of that time be- 
 gan at Duane Street, extended up Qiurch, taking in parts 
 of Leonard and White Streets, thence to Canal, through 
 Greene, Laurens and Mercer to Amity Street on the west of 
 Broadway, and from Anthony Street through Elm and Crosby 
 to Bleecker Street on the east side of Broadway. Truly a 
 large hotbed of vice. Harry Jennings' place was in White 
 Street, near West Broadway. It was the scene nightly of 
 chicken controversies, dog fights, and rat-killing matches. Tay- 
 lor's restaurant, or ice-cream saloon, with its grand fountains 
 and marble tables and floors, was on the corner of Franklin 
 Street. It was, when erected, considered the finest of its 
 kind in America, if not in the world. The Brandreth House 
 was at the corner of Canal and Broadway, being owned by 
 Dr. Brandreth, of pill fame, who had his factory and residence 
 at Sing Sing. John Ireland's Chop and Ale House was in 
 Lispenard Street, being one of the best of its kind. It was 
 called the Star. Cobweb Hall was on Duane Street, south 
 side, east of Broadway. It was not known very well in those 
 days, but in late years got its special mention as an old land- 
 mark, English chophouse and alehouse, by its whimsical or 
 euphonistic appellation. It is still on the same site. The most 
 elegant saloons besides Taylor's and the Maison Doree was the 
 Gem, corner of Broadway and Worth Street. The bar and 
 walls were covered with mirrors. Solaris, northwest corner 
 of Eleventh Street and University Place, was quite a noted 
 place for a good meal. 
 
 Other places of similar kind as the Star was the Shake- 
 speare Inn, southwest corner of Broadway and Thirteenth 
 Street, and the Grapevine, southwest corner of Sixth Avenue 
 and Thirteenth Street. Only a little way above the latter 
 place, on Sixth Avenue between Fourteenth and Fifteenth 
 Streets on the west side of the Avenue, in the late fifties, was 
 
BACKWARD GLANCES 55 
 
 the celebrated Palace Garden. It was formerly an old half 
 country residence in the center of the block, a large frame 
 house with a piazza around it. The grounds were laid out 
 with gravelled walks and flower-beds, being illuminated with 
 rows of iron pipes with gas jets in red, white and blue globes. 
 Instrumental music was furnished of the best description. 
 The refreshments being ice cream, lemonade, and cake. This 
 place was well patronized in the hot summer months, the the- 
 atres being closed. It was the only place of its kind on the 
 west side where beer was not sold. A sherry cobler or claret 
 punch was obtainable, but no cocktails or champagne. At the 
 corner of Waverly Place and Sixth Avenue the Greenwich 
 Savings Bank was located and opposite Amity Street on the 
 west side of Sixth Avenue the well known old house of J. 
 and R. Lamb, makers of interior church fixtures, were located, 
 enjoying the same reputation in their line as the Jardines and 
 Roosevelts did in church organ building. 
 
 Solomon & Hart, carpets, was on Broadway near Walker ; 
 Union Adams, gents furnishings goods, on Broadway near 
 Eighth ; the principal piano manufacturers in the fifties and 
 early sixties were : Nunns & Clark ; J. & C. Barmore ; J. & 
 C. Fischer ; Bradbury ; Nunns & Fischer ; David Dunham ; 
 Grove & Christopher ; P. T. Gale & Bros., East Twelfth Street 
 and Third Avenue ; Raven & Bacon ; Stoddard, Wooster & 
 Dunham ; Lindeman & Son, Bleecker Street ; Decker & Barnes, 
 Third Avenue and Fifteenth Street; Haines Bros., Fourteenth 
 Street and Third Avenue, subsequently Twenty-first Street 
 and Second Avenue ; Hazleton & Bros ; Steinway & Sons ; 
 Albert Weber ; Steck ; Kranich & Bach ; Decker Bros. James 
 & Holstrom and Mehlin came along at a later period. 
 
 The principal sheet music houses being: Hall & Sons, 
 and William A. Pond & Son. 
 
 The principal houses in the stationery trade being : George 
 F. Nesbitt & Co., Pearl Street ; Nathan Lane & Co., Wall near 
 Pearl ; Corlies & Macy, Nassau Street corner of Liberty ; 
 Root & Anthony, Nassau Street near Cedar; Hosford & 
 
56 BACKWARD GLANCES 
 
 Co., Cedar Street, all being in the banking district ; and Francis 
 & Loutrel ; D. Duyckinck. 
 
 The retail drygoods trade extended then from Chambers 
 Street to Grand. Miller & Grant were near Lispenard Street ; 
 Arnold, Constable & Co. were on the corner of Canal and 
 Mercer, running through to Howard Street; while Le Boutil- 
 liers' was next door on Canal Street. Hearn's was just above 
 Howard Street, and Lord & Taylor on the corner of Grand. 
 They also had another extensive store on Grand Street near 
 Allen, having removed there from Catharine Street near East 
 Broadway. Beck & Co., and Ubsdell, Pearson & Lake were on 
 Broadway near White Street. The latter firm merged into 
 Lake & McCreery. The Westchester House was at the corner 
 of the Bowery and Broome Street, owned by a Mr. Mathews, 
 now the Occidental. J. H. Johnson's jewelry store being on 
 the northwest corner opposite. 
 
 The retail clothing trade was largely in Fulton Street. 
 Raymond's was on the corner of Nassau ; Smith Bros, were on 
 Fulton Street just east of Nassau. They were succeeded by 
 B. Hagerman & Co. Next door to them was Tredwell, Jarman 
 & Slote. On the corner of Greenwich was the store of Aaron 
 Close. P. C. Barnum & Co. was in Chatham Square ; Frank 
 Baldwin's was in the Bowery near Canal ; and Brooks Bros, 
 were on the northeast corner of Grand and Broadway. E. 
 V. Haughwout & Co. were on the northeast corner of Broome, 
 while Mitchell, Vance & Co. were on the east side of Broad- 
 way just north of Houston Street. These two concerns were 
 the largest manufacturers of gas fixtures, bronzes, etc., in 
 New York. E. V. Haughwout was one of the organizers of 
 the Union Dime Savings Institution and was its first presi- 
 dent when it first opened, on the corner of Canal and Varick 
 Streets. His residence was on Twenty-first Street opposite 
 Gramercy Park, his near neighbors being Cyrus W. Field on 
 the corner of Lexington Avenue, and his brother, the great 
 lawyer, David Dudley Field, being next door. Peter Cooper 
 and Abrani S. Hewitt resided adjoining on Lexington Avenue. 
 The old Carlton House was on the corner of Walker Street, 
 
BACKWARD GLANCES 57 
 
 east side of Broadway, Earl's Hotel being on the corner of 
 Canal and Centre Streets. Thompson's ice cream saloon was 
 on Broadway above Spring Street, west side, near the Chinese 
 Assembly Rooms. The latter was occupied by Barnum, Sep- 
 tember 6, 1865, as a museum after he was burned out on the 
 corner of Ann. But his stay at the new place was only for a 
 limited period, as on a cold day in winter it was completely 
 destroyed by fire, March 3, 1868. It was so cold at this fire 
 that the water froze as fast as it struck the building, and the 
 next morning the front of same, which was of granite, was 
 covered with a sheet of ice, resembling a miniature Niagara 
 Falls. Masonic Hall subsequently Gothic Hall was on the 
 east side of Broadway, 314 and 316 just below Pearl Street. 
 It was famous for model artists. Mozart Hall was on Broad- 
 way near Houston Street. The Fernando Wood democracy 
 occupied it at one time as their headquarters. 
 
 Old Apollo Hall was on Broadway, east side, below Canal 
 Street, and the city assembly rooms were at 444 Broadway. 
 Many dances or balls have I attended at both of these places, 
 firemen's at the former and the Liederkranz at the latter. 
 Brook's dancing academy was at 336 Broome Street near the 
 Bowery, where I first attempted the light fantastic in my 
 patent leather pumps. Dodworth's was the swell dancing 
 academy on Broadway, east side, near Houston Street. The 
 theatre at 444 was the home of minstrelsy, it being the head- 
 quarters of Christy's Minstrels. Bryants' Minstrels were at 
 472 Broadway, Mechanics' Library Hall, Dan, Neil and Jerry 
 were the original Bryants. George Christy was the principal 
 one in this troupe at 444 Broadway. His real name was Har- 
 rington. It being sometimes called Christy and Wood's Min- 
 strels, as Henry Wood was interested with George Christy. 
 The City Assembly Rooms were in the same building, which 
 was destroyed twice by fire. / 
 
 E. P. Christy was the original one of the name who made 
 negro minstrelsy popular. He had a troupe at 472 Broadway, 
 which was in the Apprentices Library or rather Mechanics' 
 Library Building, previous to the Bryants taking that house. 
 
58 BACKWARD GLANCES 
 
 The popular song, "Way Down South in Dixie," which 
 was written by Daniel Decatur Emmett in the spring of 1859, 
 was first sung in this house. I heard it sung there before the 
 war, and the music played by the bands in the political pro- 
 cessions of the fall of i860, at which time the four tickets, 
 Lincoln and Hamblin, Douglas and Johnson, Breckenridge 
 and Lane, and Bell and Everett, were in the field for Presi- 
 dency and Vice Presidency, Dixie being the popular tune for 
 all the parties. When John C. Fremont was the first Republican 
 candidate for President in 1856 this song was not known. 
 Fremont at that time resided on the upper side of Ninth Street, 
 just east of Sixth Avenue, the store of Park & Tilford being on 
 the corner. His wife was a great favorite. Her name was 
 Jessie Benton, being a daughter of Tom Benton, a Western 
 celebrity. 
 
 Sherwood Campbell sang here in burnt cork. He subre- 
 cjuently appeared in English opera at the Grand Opera House, 
 with the Caroline Ritchings troupe (Mrs. Bernard, daughter 
 of Peter Ritchings). His rendition of the song, "The Heart 
 Bowed Down," was considered grand. Tom Prendergast, who 
 lived in Brooklyn, was one of this same troupe of ininstrels, 
 as also G. W. Griffin, John Wilde, Bartholomew, and the great 
 comic impersonators, Mulligan and Nelse Seymour. William 
 Castle belonged to the Christy minstrels. He subseciuently 
 graduated into the English opera, and belonged to the choir of 
 Dr. Farley's Unitarian Church, on Monroe Place, Brooklyn. 
 In his latter years he resided in Chicago and died there in 1909. 
 
 During the summer season of 1858 the stage of No. 472 
 Broadway was occupied by the Wood and Marsh combination 
 of children, they playing many of the principal pieces. I can 
 well remember Black Eyed Susan. They were fine little actors 
 and actresses. During their engagement the theatre was called 
 Broadway Varieties. Odd Fellows Hall was corner of Grand 
 Street and Center. Board of Education Building being corner 
 of Elm and Grand Street. 
 
CHAPTER EIGHT 
 
 THE Broadway House was on the corner of Grand, 
 while the magnificent St. Nicholas Hotel, of white 
 marble, erected 1850, was on Broadway from Sp'-ing 
 Street south extending through to Mercer Street. 
 The Prescott House was on the upper corner of Spring and 
 Broadway. Tiffany, Young & Ellis, the great silver and jew- 
 elry house, were directly opposite the St. Nicholas Hotel. A. 
 Rumrill & Co. were on the corner of Murray and Broadway, 
 and Seymour Hoyt & Co., corner of Fulton and Water; and 
 Welch in Greenwich Street near Vesey. These three last were 
 the principal downtown jewelry retailers. Wood & Hughes 
 were on John Street. They were principally silversmiths. 
 
 Wallack's Theatre was on the west side of Broadway, No. 
 485, just below Broome Street. It was formerly called 
 Brougham's Lyceum. The stock company of this theatre was 
 second to none in America,' being composed of such well known 
 and great actors as Joseph JefTerson, Lester Wallack, John 
 Brougham, Harry Placide, William Davidge, Mark Smith, E. 
 L. Johnson, T. B. Johnston, Harry Pearson, Walcott, Wheatley, 
 Bangs, Parsloe, Chippendale. Dolly Davenport, Edward Soth- 
 ern, Charles Fisher, John Gilbert, J. H. Stoddart, James Lewis, 
 and W. R. Floyd ; while the actresses were Mrs. John Hoey, 
 Mary Gannon, Fanny Morant, Madame Ponisi, Mrs. Jane 
 Vernon, Rose Eytinge, Jane Combs, Effie Germon, and Mada- 
 line Henriques. She was of the old Henriques family, who 
 were stock brokers and resided in Bank Street. Mrs. John 
 Hoey, while she was a member of Wallack's company, resided 
 at 331 West Twenty-third Street, subsequently removing to a 
 grand brownstone house on Fifth Avenue, west side, near 
 Twenty-eighth Street. 
 
 Many others of note appeared at this theatre on stated 
 occasions, among them being Dion Boucicault and his wife, 
 Agnes Robertson, in "Jessie Brown ; or, the Siege of Luck- 
 
 59 
 
6o BACKWARD GLANCES 
 
 now," a drama founded on the Indian Mutiny. Matilda Heron 
 in "Camille" and "Medea," in 1857, supported by both Lester 
 Wallack and Edward Sothern, she being the wife of Robert 
 Stoepel, the composer, dying in New York in 1877, the funeral 
 taking place at the Church of the Transfiguration. I always 
 considered that Matilda Heron was one of the best of Ameri- 
 can actresses. Others were Barney Williams and his wife, 
 who resided at Bath, Long Island. His real name was Bar- 
 nard Flaherty, and this is the name which is on his monu- 
 ment on Battle Hill in Greenwood Cemetery ; Billy Florence 
 and his wife in "Caste" and "The Ticket-of-Leave Man." Mrs. 
 Williams and Mrs. Florence were sisters, their maiden name 
 being Pray. Mrs. Maria Kathleen Williams died on May 6, 
 191 1, in her eighty-sixth year. They had another sister, who 
 was the wife of James Bevins, who kept a hostelry close to the 
 Centerville track. Mr. Bevins subsequently became the bell- 
 ringer of the Jefferson Market fire tower. One of his daugh- 
 ters married a son of Mrs. John Hoey. There was also James 
 W. Wallack in "The Veteran," an East Indian comedy ; also 
 appearing as Shylock in "The Merchant of Venice." John 
 E. Owens in "The Victims" as Joshua Batterby, and as Solon 
 Shingle in "The People's Lawyer." 
 
 Well do I remember in the trial scene of this drama the 
 figure of "Justice" blindfolded being painted upon the scenery 
 over the judge's desk. Owens glances up at it and remarks to 
 the Court: "Judge, is that your sore-eyed sister up there?" 
 
 /The Metropolitan Hotel, a large brownstone building, was 
 on rhe corner of Prince and Broadway, extending to Crosby 
 Street. It had a large frontage north on Broadway, built 
 in 1852.^1 I stood on this corner on October 11, i860, and 
 saw the Prince of Wales, late King Edward of England, pass 
 in his carriage, sitting beside the Duke of Newcastle, the 
 mayor of the city, Fernando Wood, being also of the party, 
 with Lord Lyons, the English minister. He landed at the 
 Battery. The revenue cutter "Harriet Lane," named after 
 James Buchanan's niece, had been sent to take him on board 
 
BACKWARD GLANCES 61 
 
 at Amboy, and at 2:30 he and his suite entered Castle Garden 
 through the Water Gate. 
 
 Only a few years later Prince Albert's brother George, 
 the sailor prince, visited New York, I saw him at the ball 
 given in his honor at the Academy of Music. The Duke 
 Alexis of Russia was here in 1871, at the launching of the 
 "Grand Admiral," a man of war built here for the Russian 
 Navy. I attended a reception given to him at the Brooklyn 
 Navy Yard by Rear Admiral Melancthon Smith, who was in 
 command there at that time. Admiral Smith was in command 
 of the steamer "Mississippi" with Farragut at New Orleans, 
 *George Dewey being his first officer. He died at Green Bay, 
 Wis., in 1893, and was buried there. 
 
 Niblo's Garden was in the rear of the Metropolitan Hotel. 
 Noted ones played on the stage of this theatre, such as Char- 
 lotte Cushman as "Meg Merrilies" and as Romeo in "Romeo 
 and Juliet." She died in Boston, February 18, 1876. Mrs. 
 John Wood, Maggie Mitchell in "The Cricket on the Hearth ;" 
 Edwin Forrest in "Richard the Third" and in other characters ; 
 E. L. Davenport, Dan Harkins, and later the Ravels, with 
 Bonfanti, the great dancer; also Margaret Mather, Lydia 
 Thompson in "Ixion," and the "Black Crook" and "White 
 Fawn." The precursors of the leg drama, which was tame in 
 comparison with the scantly clad drama of the present day, 
 Buckley's Serenaders, opened a new theatre at 587 Broadway 
 in 1856, subsequently occupied by the San Francisco Min- 
 strels, at which Billy Birch, Bernard, Wambold, Charley 
 Bachus, and Eugene, the wench dancer, appeared. Toney 
 Pastor later took this theatre. Lillian Russell and May Irwin 
 appeared here. Pauline Markam was the beauty and the prm- 
 cipal one in the "Black Crook" cast. She was a British 
 blonde, and came here with Lydia Thompson and Harry 
 Beckert. This spectacular drama was produced later under 
 the lesseeship of Jarret & Palmer, and had an unprecedented 
 run in 1866 to 1868. Niblo's stage, which was a large one, 
 
 ♦Admiral 1914. 
 
62 BACKWARD GLANCES 
 
 was also used by a circus company, the ring being directly on 
 the front, which was considered quite an innovation for a 
 theatre. Melville, Stone, and Sebastian were the great bare- 
 back riders of the time, Dan Rice taking a prominent part, that 
 of the Clown. Nat Austin was a proficient ring master. 
 
 Gabriel, Antoine, Jerome and Francois Ravel were won- 
 ders. I well remember one of the four brothers taking the 
 part of a monkey. I think the pantomime was called "Jocko 
 the Brazilian Ape." The stage at Niblo's Garden had more 
 trap doors on it than any other theatre in New York, so came 
 in handy for their uses in pontomime. A Japanese troupe of 
 acrobats appeared here in the early sixties, Little Allright be- 
 ing the idol of the troupe. He would slide on a wire from 
 the top gallery to the stage, and on landing would exclaim 
 "Ayright," which brought down the house. 
 
 [ Niblo's Garden was the first theatre that had an illumi- 
 natal sign, it being the name "Niblo's," composed of gas jets 
 in red, white and blue glass cups strung on an iron pipe. It 
 stood out very prominent and was much admired, as quite 
 something very odd. il will leave the reader to imagine the 
 difiference between this crude makeup as compared with those 
 of the present day, as represented on the Great White Way, 
 or in many other parts of New York, even in 125th Street, 
 which at night is as light as day. 
 
 (On the west side of Broadway, just a few doors below, 
 near Prince Street, Stanwix Hall was located, No. 57Q. This 
 place was the rendezvous of prize fighters, gamblers, and 
 sporting men of every description, j It was particularly made 
 memorable as being the place in which Bill Poole was shot, 
 February 24. 1855. he dying March 8, 1855, ^t his home. 
 Many prominent individuals of this fraternity were mixed up 
 in this disgraceful imbroglio, among them being James Irving, 
 who resided in Twenty-first Street east of Second Avenue, 
 next to the old Haines Bros.' piano factory ; also Paudeen and 
 a man named Baker, also James Turner. Paudeen's real 
 name was McLaughlin. 
 
 The finger of Justice pointed toward Baker as the per- 
 
BACKWARD GLANCES 63 
 
 petrator of this foul deed, shooting a man down Hke a dog 
 without a chance to defend himself. Baker escaped on a 
 schooner for the South, the "Isabella Jewett," which was owned 
 by George Law ; but the authorities sent the fast sailing clipper 
 "Grape Shot" after him. He was captured at sea and brought 
 back to New York, was tried for murder, but was not con- 
 victed. Bill Poole was a second rate prize fighter, having been 
 born in America. He fought John Morrissey on the Amos 
 Street (now West Tenth Street) pier and got the best of the 
 argument. Poole belonged to the Know Nothings, an organ- 
 ization which existed at that time (1854-55) prejudicial to 
 foreigners, especially the Irish. His funeral took place on a 
 Sunday from his residence at 164 Christopher Street, it being 
 a public one. The coffin was draped with the American flag, 
 with the following inscription on same: "I die a true Ameri- 
 can." It was said that these were his last words. This blight 
 on Stanwix Hall soon caused its closing up, in April, 1855-56. 
 Lafayette Hall was a few doors above nearer Houston Street 
 on the same side of Broadway. It had a large billiard room in 
 the rear on Mercer Street, with a large hall over same used for 
 drilling purposes, and the company quarters of Captain Shum- 
 way's command, 7th Regiment, as also quarters of the Light 
 Guard, Captain Ned Vincent, who was formerly Captain of the 
 Tompkins Blues. The City Guard, whose rooms were oppo- 
 site on Broadway, were their greatest rivals. Both of these 
 independent companies eventually merged into what is now 
 known as "The Old Guard," they being the nucleus of these 
 grand old veterans. Lafayette Hall was the principal head- 
 quarters of all the old-time trotting horse element. Many of 
 the butchers of Center, Washington, Fulton, Jelferson, and 
 Spring Street markets all owned good trotters, and after clos- 
 ing their stalls in the afternoon you would always meet them 
 on the road and later at some of the Broadway resorts, gener- 
 ally at Lafayette Hall or Vauxhall Garden, kept by Harry 
 Jones, as there were many public stables in this vicinity on 
 Mercer Street and a large one under Ottignon's Gymnasium, in 
 Crosby Street near Bleecker. Dusenbury and Van Duser had 
 
64 BACKWARD GLANCES 
 
 their light wagon works on Crosby Street further down. R. 
 M. Stivers and Brewster also made fine wagons. Frank 
 Bellow's stable was at the corner of Crosby and Prince Streets. 
 3n 1853 Corporal Thompson's old road house, called 
 Madison Cottage, stood on the west side of Broadway at 
 Twenty-third Street. This location was the beginning of the 
 dirt road after getting off the paved streets. This landmark 
 was removed in 1854 and the Franconi Hippodrome was 
 built on the block front, Broadway, 23d to 24th Street. It was 
 here that chariot races were first installed in America, and there 
 was hardly a day passed but that an accident of some kind 
 happened in this immense equestrian arena, many of them 
 being fatal. It was not a paying venture, as the people were 
 always afraid of some mishap to mar their pleasure. The ring 
 was soon obliterated, and the magnificent Fifth Avenue Hotel 
 was erected on the site by Paran Stevens and Amos Eno. 
 
 [ Broadway subsequently was paved with cobblestones to 
 Thirty- fourth Street (where the Macy and Herald Buildings 
 now stand), making this the starting point of the dirt road 
 which led out to Finley's half mile track, which was at about 
 Seventy-third Street and Broadway; Bloomingdale, Stryker's 
 Bay and Jones' Claremont Hotel, as also to Burnham's road 
 house at Eighty- fourth Street, and the Abbey, at i02d Street 
 and North River. Mathew Brennan, who was at one time 
 sherifif, lived on Broadway near 84th Street. Fernando Wood, 
 the mayor, had a large place on Broadway at Seventy-sixth 
 Street. In this vicinity resided Jerry and Neil Bryant, the 
 great negro minstrels. Hosea Perkins lived at quite a dis- 
 stance up Broadway, I72d Street, as also Lawson N. Fuller. 
 Both Mr. Perkins and Mr. Fuller were enthusiastic horsemen. 
 The latter was often seen driving four horses. Benjamin 
 Wood, proprietor of the "Daily News," brother of Fernando 
 Wood, lived in West Twenty-third Street near Ninth Avenue. 
 Many of the habitues of Lafayette Hall could well remember 
 that grand gray mare, Lady Suffolk. It was believed that she 
 could beat all creation at the trotting gait, and tmly she carried 
 this out, being almost invincible. I not only heard her praises 
 
*LADY SUFFOLK 
 
 Sired by Engineer 2ncl; Grand Sire Imported Messenger, 
 Running Horse; Dam by Plato, Running Horse; Sire of 
 Plato, Imported Messenger. Foaled 1833. Died at Bridge- 
 port, Vermont, March 7, 1855, aged 22 years. 
 *From Trotter and Pacer. 
 
O 
 
 to 
 ^^ 
 
 Q 
 < 
 
>^' 
 
 CQ 
 
MESSENGER 
 RuNNiNc; Horse, (iRky in Color 
 
 Sire Mambrino by Engineer. 
 
 Foaled at New Market. England, about 1780. Imported 
 by Mr. Benger, 1791. Landed at New York. Stood at 
 Farm of Townsend Cock, Oyster Bay. Queens County, 
 Long Lsland. where he died Jan. 28. 1808. 
 
 Descendants of Messen<;er 
 
 Mambrino, died 1831. Trotter, foaled 1806. John Treo- 
 \Vell, West Hills, Huntington. L. I. 
 
 Abdallah. Trotter. Foaled 1823. Died 1854. 
 
 Rysdicks Hambletonian. Trotter. Foaled 1849. Died 
 1876. 
 
 Electioneer. Trotter. l'"oalcd i8f)8. Died 188^). 
 
 May King, Trotter. Foaled 1886. Died 1911. 
 
 Bingen. Trotter. Foaled 1893. Died 1913. 
 
 L'^HLAN. Trotter. Foaled 1904. 
 
BACKWARD GLANCES 65 
 
 sung by my father and grandfather, but from all the negro 
 help on the manor place of my boyhood, and you may rest 
 assured that the darkies of Long Island well knew what a good 
 one was. 
 
 Long Island seems to have been the banner place for 
 horse racmg, as in 1665 Governor Nicolls, who was the uncle 
 of my grandfather, six generations removed, ordered a race- 
 course to be set aside on Hempstead Plains, called Salisbury 
 Plams, for encouraging the bettermg of breed of horses which 
 through great neglect had been impaired. This course was 
 called New Market. It was near where Hyde Park is at the 
 present time, or Isle of Trees. 
 
 In 1757 there was a track in Jamaica, Long Island, which 
 was around Beaver Pond. There was also another racecourse 
 on the Lispenard Meadows in Greenwich Village Told Ninth 
 Ward) and a running track owned by the De Lancey family, 
 1776, fronting on the Bowery and the present First and Sec- 
 ond* Streets and one in Newtown, Long Island in 1758. The 
 Centerville Track was laid out in 1825, where in 1847 the 
 Albany Girl was tried to run one hundred miles in ten con- 
 secutive hours in harness. She actually accomplished ninety- 
 seven and one half miles in nine and one half hours and then 
 broke down, surely such sport shows degeneracy somewhere 
 Now the account says she ran in harness, maybe she may have 
 trotted. This latter account is from "History of Long Island" 
 by Peter Ross, published by Lewis Publishing Company, New 
 York. Lady Suffolk was bred at Smithtown in Suffolk County 
 Long Island, in 1833 by Leonard W. Lawrence, being sired bv 
 Engineer 2nd, he by Messenger. Her dam was by Plato a 
 son of imported Messenger, who was bred by General Floyd 
 of Smithtown, Long Island (a relative of the writer). Lady 
 Suffolk was sold as a young filly (two years old) to David 
 Bryant, a resident of the same county for $112.^0 havin- 
 previously been sold to Charles Little for thirtv-two dollars 
 ^"'^ fi^^y «"ts, and by him for sixty-two dollars to Richard 
 
 *The stable being on old First Street (now Crystie Street) and the 
 paddock on old Second Street (now Forsyth Street) 
 
66 BACKWARD GLANCES 
 
 Blydenburg. She was fifteen hands one and one half inches in 
 height. She was iron gray in color, but in old age was quite 
 white. She commenced her career about 1838, continuing until 
 1853, during which time she met almost all of the fast ones 
 of those days, and it was not only mile heats three-in-five, but 
 often two, three and four-mile heats. In 1841 she trotted two 
 mile heats under saddle, also one of three-mile heats. In 
 1842 she trotted two-mile heats in harness against Ripton and 
 in 1844 under saddle against the same horse. About 1849 
 she trotted three-mile heats in harness against Trustee and 
 Pelham, the fastest time being seven minutes forty-five and one 
 half seconds. All of these races were won by Lady Suffolk. 
 The many good ones which she met and conquered were Sam 
 Patch, Vermont Black Hawk, Rattler, Dutchman, Apollo, Lady 
 Victory, Henry, Ellen Jewett, Aaron Burr, Confidence, Wash- 
 ington, Awful, Oneida Chief, Ripton, Rifle, Beppo, Independ- 
 ence, Taconey, Americus, Duchess, Moscow, James K, Polk, 
 Lady Moscow, Lady Sutton, a small brown mare ; Mac, Grey 
 Eagle, Pelham, Jack Rossiter, Trustee, Long Island, Black 
 Hawk, Hector, Roanoke, Brown Columbus, Kentucky Chief, 
 Pet O'Blenis, Boston Girl, Honest John, Kemble Jackson, Ben 
 Ringer, Sontag, Lady Palmer and Peerless. The last was a 
 gray mare, which later was owned by Robert Bonner, who 
 also owned Flatbush Maid, Palmer and Pocahontas, the great 
 pacing mare, two minutes seventeen and one quarter seconds, 
 beating Hero in wagon race on the Union Course in 1855. I 
 must also mention Selim. He was owned by my father, who 
 sold him to George Raynor. I think he was the hardest colt 
 to break that I ever saw. He would rush right into a fence or 
 any other obstruction, being really a dangerous horse to 
 handle. He had great speed. In his old age he was found 
 in the stable of a defaulting teller of a prominent New York 
 bank, whose residence was in the vicinity of Rockaway. The 
 large sorrel mare Gipsy was owned by the writer's grandfather, 
 who sold her to George Burnett, of New York, for eight hun- 
 dred dollars — a large sum in those times. She was the dam of 
 Jupiter (formerly Night Hawk) and grandam of Lady Emma 
 
BACKWARD GLANCES 67 
 
 and Pearsall. The two principal tracks that were used at 
 this time close to New York were the Union Course on the 
 Jamaica turnpike between East New York and Jamaica, and 
 the Centerville Course, which was originally called the Eclipse 
 Course, I think the name was changed previous to 1840. This 
 track was about one and a half miles southwest from the 
 Union — in fact, about three-fourths of a mile west of the pres- 
 ent Aqueduct running track in Queens County, Long Island. 
 A small part of one of the lanes, which was fringed with 
 trees and led to the track, is still visible, as I saw it a few 
 days ago. There were also several other mile tracks on Long 
 Island, the Huntington track, the Babylon track, the Massape- 
 qua track at South Oyster Bay, and the old Washington 
 Course, which was on Hempstead Plains, about two miles 
 south of Mineola. The Huckleberry frolics always took place 
 at this track. It was on the open prairie, no fence enclosing it, 
 so admittance was free. The purses were made up by someone 
 passing around in the crowd with a tumbler, in which they 
 would put either one, two or four shillings, which would prob- 
 ably amount to ten or twelve dollars. They would trot for 
 the whole afternoon and often away past sundown. Horses 
 would come from Brooklyn, Babylon, Huntington and other 
 distant places on the Island, starting from home in the morn- 
 ing. These trotted races all the afternoon. They had the 
 stamina in those times, as no horse was trained to race under 
 five years old. 
 
 The judges' stand on this track was very crude, it being 
 two stories about six feet square, the bar occupying the ground 
 floor. After each heat the crowd was supposed to "licker up" 
 the drink being gin and sugar, rum or brandy. After the races 
 everyone would go for his horse and wagon, and a merry 
 scramble was had by those going to Hempstead to get to Steve 
 Hewlett's Hotel on the corner of Main Street first. This hotel 
 was adjoining old St. George's Church, which was erected over 
 two hundred years ago. Others of the crowd would go to 
 Jamaica and stop at Remsen's Hotel or at Cale Weeks' both 
 places being on the main street of the village. 
 
68 BACKWARD GLANCES 
 
 There was great speed shown on these country roads and 
 dangerous to try to pass your competitor, as you were liable 
 to go in the gutter. There were also several half-mile tracks. 
 One was called the Hamilton, where ninety-third Street and 
 Columbus Avenue cross, near where St. y\gnes Church is nov; 
 located, the old Apthorpe house was right in front of it on 
 Columbus Avenue ; also one on Harlem lane near the river 
 just above Harry Bertholf's old road house at 148th Street, 
 also the Red House on Second Avenue and 105th Stree.. 
 Before bringing this part of my article to a close in con- 
 nection with Lady Suffolk, I desire to refer to a grand, good 
 horse who met her on the turf on many occasions. This wa^ 
 Grey Eagle. He was a gray gelding, fifteen hands high, being 
 really a beautiful little horse. Hiram Woodruff was his train- 
 er. It was in 1849 that he trotted against Lady Suffolk under 
 saddle, also trotted against her in harness, he being vanquished 
 on both occasions. The best time of the last race was two 
 minutes, thirty-four seconds. 
 
 In November, 1850, he ag?in met Lady Suffolk, mile 
 heats, three-in-five, in harness, he proving the victor in three 
 straight heats, two minutes, thirty-seven seconds being the 
 fastest one. On July 13, 1851, he trotted a race of three-mile 
 heats in harness against Trustee, Shavetail and Bluffer. The 
 day was extremely hot. The first heat was won by Trustee in 
 eight minutes, thirty-eight seconds, but the extreme tem- 
 perature of this summer day was too much for Trustee, as it 
 completely knocked him out and he died in harness. Grey 
 Eagle came very close to meeting the same untimely end from 
 the like cause, he being saved by blood-letting. The others 
 went three heats and Bluffer was drawn. While referring to 
 this horse, Grey Eagle, I cannot refrain from relating quite 
 an amusing episode that happened to the writer in which Grey 
 Eagle was the star performer and in which the other one of 
 the cast appeared in the most ludicrous light which might have 
 ended most seriously to both, in which case this little squib 
 would never have seen this, its present publicity. 
 
 It was in the spring of 1852. Grey Eagle had been win- 
 
< 
 
 CO. 
 
 I— I 
 
 o 
 
 Pi 
 o 
 m 
 
 O' 
 
 •-I 
 
 c^ 
 
 cu 
 
 o 
 
 a 
 
BACKWARD GLANCES 69 
 
 tered on the farm of David W. Jones at Cold Spring Harbor, 
 Long Island. He was sent up there after his nearly death 
 race of the previous July. I do not remember whether he was 
 the property at that time of Hiram Woodruff or of Daniel 
 Youngs Jones, of New York. I rode behind him on several 
 occasions going out to the Red House in 1855, accompanying 
 Mr. Jones, my great-uncle. But now to my story : 
 
 In 1852 I was at a boarding school at Cold Spring HarUo. , 
 Long Island, very close to the home of Major Wm. Jones. 
 The school was kept by an Episcopal clergyman, he being an 
 Englishman and who was at one period in the British navy. 
 At this time he was rector of an Episcopal church there and 
 one of his principal amusements, whether deserved or not, 
 was to thrash the boys who were confided to his care with a 
 rattan across the back of their fingers, first giving them a 
 taste of it on the open palm of their hands. It was freely said 
 for years afterward that all the poor victims who eventually 
 got away from this clerical flayer, who was a most worthy 
 successor, transplanted to America, of Dickens' character m 
 "Nicholas Nickleby," the despised Whackford Squeers, car- 
 ried hands with unsightly big knuckles for the balance of their 
 natural lives. But he likely now R. I. P., we forgive him, it 
 being part of my story. It was one fine day during my so- 
 journ at this school that my respected parent was expected 
 to dine at the home of his relative at this place. Word was 
 sent to me to dress up in my Sunday-go-to-meeting clothes 
 and meet him, he coming from across the Island about eighteen 
 miles distant. Flattering myself that I was immaculate in my 
 attire, brass buttons, buckles, large turned-down collar, etc., 
 etc., I quickly walked up the hill to the rendezvous, as I had 
 been away from home nearly three months and was anxious 
 to see him. The anticipated guest not having yet arrived I was 
 asked, in spite of my good clothes, if I would like to mount 
 Grey Eagle, who appeared as white as the driven snow, and 
 ride him down to the long sand beach which separates the 
 outer from the inner harbor. Quickly assenting, I was in- 
 structed by my cousin, young David Jones (who is still alive 
 
70 BACKWARD GLANCES 
 
 at this writing and who resides at Flushing, Long Island, be- 
 ing over eighty-five years of age), to ride Eagle in the water 
 while I was down there, so as to wet his legs a little. At the 
 time of day it happened to be low tide. Thinking the water 
 of the outer bay a little rough where there was a good sound 
 footing of sand and being a shade timid, I started him toward 
 what little water I could see in the inner harbor, which was 
 very quiet and very little of it, which was some two hundred 
 feet from the sandy shore. But I kept after that water when 
 without any warning Eagle went floundering into a mud hole 
 and sunk down to his body and off I went head over heels into 
 the same slimy muck. Quickly scrambling up I grabbed his 
 bridle and after several plunges in which he fell again and I 
 with him, I finally succeeded in getting him out, myself, also, 
 and oh, what a sight we both presented. He was only a few 
 short minutes before this a white horse — without a red-headed 
 girl in sight — and I a white lad in my elegant attire. But the 
 transformation was quick and realistic. Leading my partner 
 up the beach to a stone wall in front of the Major's old home- 
 stead, I got on his back, clutched the reins and started for 
 home and we got there mighty quick. From the moment I 
 mounted, he started on a run up the hill fully half a mile. I 
 was slipping on the muddy saddle and the reins slipping 
 through my hands prevented me from getting any hold, so 
 had to let him go. On arrival at his stable the young- 
 er David Jones happened to be there and witnessed our 
 return. Well can I remember his astonished look and exclam- 
 ation : "Where have you two been ?" All hands were called 
 to wash off the supposed White Eagle, while I was stripped 
 and went through the same ablution. I will here remark that 
 when my parent arrived I was sitting composedly drying be- 
 fore the kitchen stove, while my clothes, which had been 
 washed and cleaned by my good great-aunt, were on the clothes 
 horse also drying. I can safely say that I did not try any more 
 of these kind of stunts after this experience. T never heard 
 whether my great-grandfather saw from his piazza the ludi- 
 crous plight of his great-grandson. If he did likely his opinion 
 
BACKWARD GLANCES 71 
 
 would have been that the horse strain of common sense was 
 wofully lacking in his descendant. 
 
 Major WilHam Jones is accredited with the honor of 
 having produced a horse that trotted a mile in harness under 
 three minutes. The true account of the feat is as follows. It 
 was at a jockey club dinner which took place in 1818 believed 
 to have occurred at Baltimore, Maryland, that he made the 
 wager with a Colonel Bond for the sum of $1,000. He told 
 his son Daniel Youngs Jones as also his two grandsons David 
 Jones and the late Elbert Floyd Jones, three representative 
 men of Queens County, the full history of the event, all of 
 whom have always been considered the best authority on 
 trotting annals of Long Island. The horse he named to win 
 the bet was called Boston Pony who was fifteen and one-half 
 hands high, called a pony in those days. He had him brought 
 from Boston on a sloop or schooner. The race was trotted 
 on the turnpike just west of Jamaica, Long Island, and he won 
 the bet. It was always believed and quoted for many years 
 in periodicals of the day that the horse called Boston Blue was 
 the hero of this feat of nearly a century past. It was indeed a 
 very different animal. Boston Blue was a big horse of a queer 
 gray color. He was sent over to England at that period, being 
 called there The Slate Color American, accompanied by the 
 gray mare, Lady Blanch, she was over fifteen hands high. 
 Billy Baxter, the trainer, went with them. Some scandal arose 
 at the time of rather queer methods abroad and both animals 
 returned to the United States. From this we can draw the 
 deduction that underhand ways in the racing world were not 
 entirely the creation of later days. Billy Baxter subsequently 
 worked for the author's father and trained the big sorrel mare 
 Gypsy, the dam of Jupiter. I saw her many times when a 
 boy return home without anyone in the yellow wheel sulkey ; 
 or if the seat was filled the occupant was oblivious to all his 
 surroundings until the mare stopped of her own accord at the 
 barn and her trainer was lifted out by some one of the negro 
 help connected with the family residence, Fort Neck, South 
 Oyster Bay, Long Island, (now Massapequa). This was in 
 
72 BACKWARD GLANCES 
 
 1848. I have in my possession a relic of the early days of 
 trotting on Long Island. It was found among my father's 
 effects in 1900, viz : 
 
 "Rules and Regulations Adopted 
 
 for the Union Course, Long Island 
 
 March 25. 1848" 
 
 A comparison of these rules with those in force to-lay is inter- 
 esting, but it will be noted that the latter are to a considerable 
 extent based upon this old code drafted sixty-six years ago 
 with extensions and alterations to suit the times. 
 
 Rules and Regulations 
 adopted for the 
 Union Course, Long Island. 
 
 At a meeting of the supporters and admirers of trotting 
 and pacing held at the house of Messrs. Green and Jessel in 
 New York on the first day of March, 1848, the following rules 
 and regulations for the government of all trotting and pacing 
 matches to come off on the Union Course, Long Island, was 
 unanimously agreed upon : 
 
 ARTICLE I. 
 
 Nature of Rules. 
 
 All matches or sweepstakes which shall come off over this 
 course will be governed by these rules, unless the contrary is 
 mutually agreed upon by the parties making sucii match or 
 stake. 
 
 ARTICLE II. 
 
 Power of Postponement. 
 
 In case of unfavorable weather or other unavoidable causes 
 all purses, matches, or sweepstakes announced to come off to 
 
BACKWARD GLANCES 73 
 
 which the proprietors contribute they shall have the power to 
 postpone to a future day upon giving notice of the same. 
 
 ARTICLE in. 
 
 Qualification of Horses Starting. 
 
 Horses trained in the same stable or owned in part by 
 the same person within three days shall not start for a purse ; 
 and horses so entered shall forfeit their entrance. A horse 
 starting alone shall receive but one-half the purse. Horses 
 deemed by the judges not fair trotting horses, shall be ruled 
 off previous to or distanced at the termination of the heat. 
 
 ARTICLE IV. 
 
 Entries. 
 
 All entries shall be made under a seal enclosing the en- 
 trance money (ten per cent, on the purse) and addressed to 
 the proprietor at such time and place as may have been pre- 
 viously designated by advertisement. 
 
 ARTICLE V. 
 Weight to be Carried. 
 
 Every trotting horse starting for match, purse or stake, 
 shall carry one hundred and forty-five pounds, if in harness, 
 the weight of the sulkey and harness not to be considered. 
 Pacing horses liable to the same rule. 
 
 ARTICLE VI. 
 Distances. 
 
 A distance for mile heats, best three-in-five shall be one 
 hundred yards ; for one mile heats, eighty yards ; and for 
 every additional mile an additional eighty yards. 
 
74 BACKWARD GLANCES 
 
 ARTICLE VIL 
 
 Time Between Heats. 
 
 The time between heats shall be for one mile, twenty 
 minutes, and for every additional mile an additional five 
 minutes. 
 
 ARTICLE VIII. 
 
 Power of Judges. 
 
 There shall be chosen by the proprietor of the course or 
 stewards, three judges to preside over a race for purses, and 
 by them an additional judge shall be appointed for the dis- 
 tance stand ; they may also during or previous to a race appoint 
 inspectors at any part of the course, whose reports and theirs 
 alone, shall be received of any foul riding or driving. 
 
 ARTICLE IX 
 Difference of Opinion Between Judges. 
 
 Should a difference of opinion exist between the judges 
 in the starting stand on any question, a majority shall govern. 
 
 ARTICLE X. 
 
 Judges' Duties. 
 
 The judges shall order the horses saddled or harnessed 
 five minutes previous to the time appointed for starting : any 
 rider or driver causing undue detention after being called up 
 by making false starts or otherwise, the judges may give the 
 word to start without reference to the situation of the horse 
 so offending, unless convinced such delay is unavoidable on 
 the part of the rider or driver in which case not more than 
 thirty minutes shall be consumed in attempting to start, and 
 at the expiration of that time the horse or horses ready to start 
 shall receive the word. 
 
BACKWARD GLANCES 75 
 
 ARTICLE XL 
 
 Starting of Horses. 
 
 The pole shall be drawn for by the judges ; the horse win- 
 ning a heat shall for the succeeding heats be intitled to a 
 choice of the track on coming out on the last stretch. Each 
 horse shall retain the track first selected ; any horse deviating 
 shall be distanced. 
 
 ARTICLE XII. 
 
 Riders or Drivers. 
 
 Riders and drivers shall not be permitted to start unless 
 dressed in jockey style. 
 
 ARTICLE XIII. 
 
 Weights of Riders and Drivers. 
 
 Riders and drivers shall weigh in the presence of Oi.. 
 or more of the judges previous to starting; and after a heat 
 are to come up to the starting stand and not dismount until 
 so ordered by the judges. Any rider or driver disobeying 
 shall on weighing be precluded from the benefit of the weight 
 of his saddle and whip, and if not full weight shall be dis- 
 tanced. 
 
 ARTICLE XIV. 
 
 Penalty for Foul Riding or Driving. 
 
 A rider or driver committing any act which the judges 
 may deem foul riding or driving shall be distanced. 
 
 ARTICLE XV. 
 
 Horses Breaking. 
 
 Should any horse break from his trot or pace it shall be 
 the duty of the rider or driver to pull his horse to a trot or 
 
76 BACKWARD GLANCES 
 
 pace immediately, and in case of the rider or driver refusing 
 to do so, the penalty shall be that the next best horse shall 
 have the heat. If the rider or driver should comply with the 
 above and he should gain by such break, twice the distance so 
 gained shall be taken away on the coming out. A horse break- 
 ing on the score shall not lose the heat by so doing. 
 
 ARTICLE XVI. 
 
 The Winning Horse. 
 
 A horse must win two heats to be entitled to the purse, 
 unless he distance all other horses in one heat. A distanced 
 horse in a dead heat shall not start again. 
 
 ARTICLE XVII. 
 
 Relative to Heats. 
 
 A horse not winning one heat in three shall not start for a 
 fourth heat unless such horse shall have made a dead heat. 
 When a dead heat is made between two horses, that if either 
 had won the heat the race would have been decided, they 
 two only shall start again ; in races best three-in-five, a horse 
 shall win one heat in five to be allowed to start for the sixth 
 heat, unless such horse shall have made a dead heat. Such 
 horses as are prevented from starting by this rule shall be 
 considered drawn and not distanced. 
 
 ARTICLE XVIII. 
 
 On Heats and Distances. 
 
 If two horses each win a heat and neither are distanced 
 in the race, the one coming out ahead on the last heat to 
 be considered the best. The same rule to be applied to horses 
 neither winning a heat and neither distanced. If one horse 
 wins a heat he is better than one that does not providing he 
 does not get distanced in the race, then the other if not 
 
BACKWARD GLANCES ^^ 
 
 distanced shall be the best. A horse that wins a heat and is 
 distanced is better than one not winning a heat and being 
 distanced in the same heat. A horse distanced in the second 
 heat is better than one distanced in the first heat. 
 
 ARTICLE XIX. 
 
 Horses Drawn. 
 
 Horses drawn before the conclusion of a race shall be 
 considered distanced. 
 
 ARTICLE XX. 
 
 Outside Bets. 
 
 In all matches made play or pay outside bets not to be 
 considered P. P. unless so understood by the parties. 
 
 ARTICLE XXI. 
 
 Of p. p. Matches. 
 
 All moneys bet on P. P. matches by outside bettors are 
 not considered P. P. 
 
 ARTICLE XXII. 
 
 Betting. Absent Bettors. 
 
 A confirmed bet cannot be let off without mutual consent. 
 If either party be absent at the time of trotting, and the money 
 be not staked the party present may declare the bet void in the 
 presence of the judges, unless some party will stake the money 
 betted for the absentee. 
 
 ARTICLE XXIII. 
 
 Compromised Matches. 
 
 All bets made by outside betters on compromised matches 
 are considered drawn. 
 
78 BACKWARD GLANCES 
 
 ARTICLE XXIV. 
 
 Bettors of Odds, Etc. 
 
 The person who bets the odds has a right to choose the 
 horse or the field. When he has chosen his horse, the field 
 is what starts against him ; but there is no field unless one 
 starts with him. If odds are bet without naming the horses 
 before the trot is over it must be determined as the odds were 
 at the time of making it. Bets made in trotting are not de- 
 termined till the purse is won, if the heat is not specified at the 
 time of betting. 
 
 ARTICLE XXV. 
 
 Horses Excluded from Starting or Distanced. 
 
 All bets made on horses precluded from starting (by rule 
 XIX) being distanced in the race, or on such horses against 
 each other, shall be drawn. 
 
 ARTICLE XXVI. 
 In Cases of Dispute and Improper Conduct. 
 
 In all cases of dispute not provided for by the rules, the 
 judges for the day will decide finally. In case of a trot or 
 match being proved to their satisfaction to have been made or 
 conducted improperly or dishonestly on the part of the princi- 
 pals, they shall have the power to declare all bets void. 
 
 ARTICLE XXVII. 
 Size of Whips to be Used. 
 
 No rider or driver shall be allowed any other than a rea- 
 sonable length of whip, viz : for saddle horses, two feet ten 
 inches ; sulkey, four feet eight inches ; wagon, five feet ten 
 inches. 
 
S a 
 
 CN '^ 1-1 
 
 W 
 -4 
 2- 
 
 < 
 
 O 
 
 to 
 
 1— 1- 
 
 O K 
 ° & 
 
 (U o 
 J o 
 
 *" & 
 
 ^ V 
 
 ° M 
 
 o o 
 
 .~ 1- 
 
 V- 
 
 O 
 
*FLORA TExMPLE 
 
 Died December 21, 1877, at Chestnut Hill, Pa and was 
 buried on the lawn of the farm of her last owner, Aristides 
 
 Welch. ^ ^^ ^ ^ t t 
 
 =^Furnished by Gurney C. Gue, of Hempstead, L. 1. 
 
BACKWARD GLANCES 79 
 
 ARTICLE XXVIIL 
 
 In Case of Accidents. 
 
 In case of accident, but five minutes shall be allowed over 
 the time specified in rule number X, unless the judges think 
 more time necessary. 
 
 ARTICLE XXIX. 
 Judges' Stand. 
 
 No person shall be allowed in the judges' stand but tha 
 judges, reporters and members at the time of trotting. 
 
 ARTICLE XXX. 
 
 In Case of Death. 
 
 All engagements are void upon the decease of either party 
 before being determined. 
 
 Very many of the lovers of the trotter who are now ad- 
 vancing in years, can glance backward and well remember the 
 worthy successor at a later date of the great Lady Suffolk. I 
 refer to that grand little bob-tailed mare Flora Temple. She 
 was foaled about 1845 i'^ Oneida County, near Utica, sired by 
 One-Eyed Hunter, dam's pedigree unknown. She trotted over 
 the Union, Centerville and Fashion tracks on Long Island. 
 The latter course was at Newtown and had a brick wall around 
 it, with broken glass on top. The rear of the track was on 
 Jackson Avenue. Flora trotted against Centerville in 1852. 
 He was a dark brown gelding about sixteen hands high. I 
 rode behind him and also on his back in my boyhood days. She 
 also met Young Dutchman, Lady Brooks, Black Douglass and 
 Highland Maid, George Spicer's great mare (later owned by 
 F. J. Nodine), Tacony, Grey Eddy, Green Mountain Maid, 
 Mac and Jack Waters. When she trotted against these horses 
 she was owned by George E. Perrin, later by John C. Perrin, a 
 
8o BACKWARD GLANCES 
 
 Mr. Boerum and Lew Pettee, being driven by Hiram Wood- 
 ruff, Warren Peabody and Darius Tallman. Flora now changed 
 hands, having been bought by James Irving, who sold her to 
 Mr. James D. McMann, of New York. At first they owned 
 her conjointly, but on Irving being mixed up in the Bill Poole 
 fracas, Mr. McMann demanded that the partnership in Flora 
 be dissolved, so James Irving sold his one-half interest in the 
 mare to James D. McMann. Under his ownership she met 
 such good ones as Sontag, Lady Franklin, Frank Forrester, 
 Miller's Damsel, Hero, Chicago Jack, Lancet and Tacony. 
 The Fashion Course came into existence during her career, 
 about 1856, being originally constructed for a running track. 
 Flora also met Brown Dick, Rose of Washington, Ethan Allen 
 and the great California mare, Prii^cess, in 1861, she being 
 formerly called Topsey. Flora was sold to Mr. McDonald, of 
 Baltimore, in 1858, for $8,000, but remained in charge of Mr. 
 McMann. When Mr. McDonald died his wife in closing up 
 his estate, would not dispose of Flora Temple, as she had heard 
 that her husband had promised that at his death the great mare 
 should be presented to Mr. McMann. The latter went on to 
 Baltimore, saw Mrs. McDonald and thoroughly dispelled all 
 and any grounds which existed to foster this belief. One of 
 the most honorable horseman of those days, it was not surpris- 
 ing when he gave this decision in which he might greatly have 
 profited if decided otherwise. She beat Prince, Reindeer and 
 George M. Patchen in 1859. The latter horse belonged to Mr. 
 Watermire. Flora was at this time fourteen years old. One 
 of the prominent road drivers was Edward Pear sail, who 
 resided at No. 3 Waverly Place. He was the owner of Em- 
 press, the dam of Lady Emma, who was sired by the sorrel 
 stallion Jupiter, owned by Dr. Rich, of New York. Mr. Pear- 
 sail sold Emma to Carl Burr, who resold her to Lew Pettee. 
 She was in Hiram Woodruff's hands. Others were Cornelius 
 Vanderbilt, Wm. Turnbull, George Osgood, Joseph Harker, 
 Henry Eldert, Charles Kerner, Wm. H. Vanderbilt, Anson Liv- 
 ingston, Capt. Jacob Vanderbilt, August Belmont, James Bres- 
 lin, A. B. Darling, Charles Weeks, Leonard Jerome and his 
 
BACKWARD GLANCES 8i 
 
 brother Lawrence, Frank Work, M. L. Mott, Wm. Rockafeller, 
 Wright Sandford, John Harbeck, J. W. Coster, Isaiah Ryn- 
 ders, George Law, C. A. Griswold, George Burnett, James Wat- 
 son, Lew Pettee, Henry Genet, Joe Crocheron, Daniel Under- 
 bill, Jacob Somerindike, Robert Bonner and David Bonner, 
 Joseph Godwin, Harry Felter, J. H. Flagler, Sheppard F. 
 Knapp, Thomas Kilpatrick, Oliver Marshall, John A. Morris- 
 sey, pugilist and politician, at one time congressman. 
 
 Many celebrated horses came on the turf at that time 
 and at a later date such as Robert Fillingham (afterwards 
 George Wilkes), Contraband (afterwards General Butler), 
 Dexter, Lady Thorn, Goldsmith Maid, Prince, American Girl, 
 Lady Emma, Judge FuUerton, Mountain Boy, Vanderbilt, 
 Toronto Chief, Tom Wonder, Pocahontas, Plough Boy, Wood- 
 pecker, Thomas Jefferson, Bruno, Brunette and Great Eastern, 
 also George M. Patchen (stallion). He was foaled at Free- 
 hold, New Jersey, was brown in color, being sixteen hands 
 high, sired by Cassius M, Qay, dam by brother of Trustee. 
 
 One of the hardest races that Flora was ever engaged in 
 was against the chestnut gelding Medoc, afterwards called 
 John Morgan. His sire was Pilot, Jr., son of old Pilot Pacer, 
 dam was by the race horse Medoc, a son of American Eclipse. 
 Morgan had a white foot and a blaze in the face, big horse, 
 sixteen hands high, strongly built in every particular. Jim 
 Turner was one of his owners and drove him in his races 
 against Flora, There was really up to 1863 nothing that could 
 be found that she had not vanquished, so they pitted her 
 against Ethan Allen and running mate on the Union Course. 
 They succeeded in beating her in two minutes, twenty-two 
 seconds. Horace Jones drove them. They met again on the 
 Fashion Track. The team won the first heat in two minutes 
 twenty-one and three quarter seconds, and were distanced in 
 the second. In the next race Horace Jones drove them and 
 they beat the mare. Mr. McDonald owned her at this time. 
 It was about 1864 when the great gelding Dexter came into 
 prominence. He was bred in Orange County, sired by Hamb- 
 letonian, dam by American Star. He was foaled in 18^8. 
 8 
 
82 BACKWARD GLANCES 
 
 Well do I remember him — his white legs and blaze in his face. 
 George Alley purchased him and sent him up to John Mingoe's 
 at Flushing, Long Island. He was always driven by Hiram 
 Woodruff as long as Mr. Alley owned him. He trotted against 
 Stonewall Jackson, Lady Collins and General Grant on the 
 Fashion Course and won the race in two minutes thirty-four 
 and one quarter seconds, best time. Dexter also met Lady 
 Shannon, Shark, General Butler, George Wilkes, Rocking- 
 ham and Commodore Vanderbilt. The only trotter that ever 
 took his measure was the big mare Lady Thorne, who was 
 owned by Mr. James D. McMann. This fast one was from 
 Kentucky, sired by Mambrino Chief. She had beaten Stone- 
 wall Jackson and was matched against Dexter to trot on the 
 Union Course. She won the race, best time two minutes, 
 twenty-four seconds. They met three times after this, Dexter 
 winning each time. It was the general opinion among horse- 
 men that if she had not met with an accident while being 
 loaded in a freight car, that she would have been "The Lady 
 Suffolk" of her day. At the time Hiram had Dexter in his 
 stable he also had Lady Emma, whom my father raised. T 
 saw her in a wagon race on the Fashion track, in 1865, beat 
 General Butler, John Morgan and the Hartford horse Prince, 
 and later on the Union Course saw her beat George Wilkes in 
 harness. This mare was a light chestnut, long tail, and carried 
 her head high. Without exception, I have always considered 
 that she was the most perfect piece of horse flesh in every 
 particular that I have ever seen in my life, and I have seen 
 very many. 
 
 There were several stage lines on Long Island during 
 these days, one of them being a three-horse stage that be- 
 longed to Judson Cornelius and was driven by Daniel Cniches- 
 ter from Amityville (which was originally called Huntington 
 South) to Fulton Ferry. It would start about 7 o'clock in the 
 morning, making the first stop at Hewlett's Hotel, Main Street, 
 Hempstead, where the horses were watered : thence on to 
 Jamaica, stopping at Remsen's Hotel, then taking the old turn- 
 pike road past the Union Course, through East New York and 
 
BACKWARD GLANCES 83 
 
 Bedford, down through Fulton Street to the American House 
 at the ferry. This hotel was kept by Com. Jones, later by 
 Martin Wood. It would reach this destination about 6:30 
 P. M. The fare was fifty cents ; on the railroad it would cost 
 $1.00. Many of the natives of the vicinity of Freeport (then 
 called Raynortown) and Greenwich Point (then called Rum 
 Point), near Hempstead, availed of these stages in going to 
 "York," as New York was called. The stage would return 
 the next day over the same route. It was a great treat to sit 
 up on the front seat with the driver. Another line belonged to 
 the Curtis family, who kept a hotel corner of Main and Fulton 
 Streets, Hempstead. It also ran to Brooklyn. 
 
 Montgomery Queen was one of the pioneers of stages in 
 Brooklyn, and his four-horse stage sleighs were the wonders 
 of the day. Old Brooklynites will readily recall them, as also 
 Phil Grogan, who kept an oyster house in Fulton Street; 
 Dominick Colgan, one in Clinton Street, and the great chop 
 and ale house of John C. Force, 16 High Street, near Fulton, 
 where he had over $100,000 worth of paintings on his walls.' 
 John Russell kept an ale house on the corner of Johnson and 
 Washington Streets; Tom Blakely (The Bank) in Fulton 
 Street; Hartshorn's was at Adams and Willoughby Streets; 
 Zeke Baldwin, the Franklin House at Fulton Ferry; Mike 
 Henry, champion ball player, also in Fulton Street, near Front, 
 kept a hostelry. John Ferguson kept a billiard room on Wash- 
 ington Street near Johnson, opposite old St. John's Church, 
 later the site of the ill-fated Brooklyn Theatre. Ferguson's 
 was the headquarters of the Excelsior baseball club ,whose 
 great rivals were the Atlantics, of Brooklyn ; Mutuals, Knick- 
 erbockers and Gothams, of New York. James Creighton was 
 the great pitcher of the Excelsiors, and from that day to this 
 we have never seen his equal. His monument is in Green- 
 wood. Joe Leggett was the catcher; Pearsall, first base; Asa 
 Brainard. second base; Flanly, shortstop; Cummings, in the 
 field. 
 
 Mr. Chadwick, of the Stars, always reported the games for 
 the press. This grand old veteran died on the 21st of April, 
 
84 BACKWARD GLANCES 
 
 1908, the funeral taking place on the 24th, which was largely 
 attended by old Brooklynites and baseball lovers. The Stars 
 of Brooklyn was the nursery out of which graduated the great 
 players of the Excelsior Club. Dickey Pierce and the O'Briens 
 were members of the Atlantic Club. The Elysian Fields of 
 Hoboken was the grounds of the New York Clubs, Gothams, 
 Knickerbockers and others and when a Brooklyn club played 
 them there, it was Rough-house, and the ferryboat coming 
 home to New York was a dangerous spot as fight predom- 
 inated. 
 
CHAPTER NINE 
 
 AT this part of my narrative I desire to retrogade d 
 few years back to the two, three and four-mile 
 heats, which were trotted in Lady Suffolk's day. A 
 horse's endurance quality was viewed as a valuable 
 adjunct, and it was even carried to wagers being made that 
 teams could not trot certain distances in a given time. The 
 one I call to mind was the remarkable performance of a pair 
 cf stage horses in 1841, this being the year that the author of 
 this article first made his appearance on this mundane sphere, 
 the first day of spring, 21st of March. 
 
 The account was given by Wm. Jones Weeks (cousin of 
 the writer), who saw the register of the house at Montauk 
 Point, Long Island, in 1847. The account on the register, 
 which was kept by P. T. Gould, who was keeper of the light- 
 house at that time, was : Match against time for $600, between 
 Mr. Isaac Willets from Hempstead, and Mr. Gilbert B. Millei 
 of Brooklyn. 
 
 Mr. Willets bet Mr. Miller that he could drive a pair of 
 mares, one belonging to John Curtis and the other to Joseph 
 Curtis, from Brooklyn to Montauk Point in twenty-four hours 
 to a wagon weighing 300 pounds, being 140 miles by the post 
 road, in the month of March, 1841. 
 
 Mr. Willets started from Brooklyn on the fifth day at six 
 in the evening and arrived at the Point on the sixth at 5 :o2 
 P. M., performing the distance in twenty-three hours and two 
 minutes with ease. The last two hours in a snowstorm, wind 
 east. 
 
 Isaac Willets, of Hempstead, 
 Gilbert B. Miller, of Brooklyn, 
 Platt Willets, of Hempstead, 
 William Curtis, of Hempstead, 
 E. M. Snedicor, of Jamaica, 
 Samuel Denton, of Jamaica, 
 Samuel Willets, of Bellport, 
 Charles E. Snedicor, of Southampton, 
 Robert Isaacs Pilot, of Easthampton. 
 
 85 
 
86 BACKWARD GLANCES 
 
 (The above names in the register are original signatures). 
 The following item is from the Long Island Star, pub- 
 lished in Brooklyn, under date of Wednesday, March lo, 1841 : 
 
 The Trotting Match 
 
 The match of $300 a side to drive a pair of horses before 
 a light wagon to Montauk Point, 140 miles, in twenty- four 
 hours, was accomplished with ease by Mr. Willets, and he had 
 one hour and six minutes to spare. The snowstorm, which 
 commenced here on Saturday morning, was no impediment and 
 not felt until 3 o'clock in the afternoon at Easthampton, where 
 the rain fell moderately, as the wind was about northeast. This 
 fact concerning the course and progress of storms may be of 
 some importance as illustrative of Mr. Espy's theory. 
 
 The foregoing copy of the entry in the register kept at 
 Montauk Point in 1841, is the only authentic and reliable 
 account of the match, although in Volume Fifteen of the 
 "American Turf Register and Sporting Magazine' issued in 
 August, 1844, the following account was given of this per- 
 formance : 
 
 A pair of stage horses trotted from Brooklyn to Mon- 
 tauk Point, the extreme length of the Island, about one hun- 
 dred and twenty-six miles in twenty-four hours. The match 
 was made by Mr. Willis, the stage proprietor at Hempstead, 
 who drove a pair of old mares that had been driven for years 
 as leaders in his stage team. 
 
 A good joke is told of this match, but we do not vouch 
 for its authenticity. A short time before the match was to 
 come off, Mr. Willets selected his horses, and to make assur- 
 ance doubly sure as he thought, actually drove them the entire 
 distance in a trial to ascertain whether it would be safe to lay 
 out his money on the match. If any one has heard of a longer 
 private trial, we should like to hear of it. The match was 
 driven during a northeast snowstorm dead ahead, but the 
 last fifty miles Willets partly avoided this by engaging a large 
 Rockaway covered wagon to go before him out of which the 
 
BACKWARD GLANCES ^7 
 
 bottom was mostly taken, so that he could drive his mares quite 
 up to the axletree and almost under cover. We think we see 
 a man "getting ahead" of a Long Island Yankee — we do. 
 
 In addition to the foregoing members of the Excelsiors 
 as constituting part of their great "Nine," the following filled 
 the other positions, Harry Brainard, third base, Russell and 
 Manley in the field. The feeling between the Atlantics and 
 Excelsiors, the two home clubs was really more bitter than 
 existed between them and their New York rivals, including the 
 Empires as also the Athletics of Philadelphia. James Creigh- 
 ton's style of pitching the ball I desire to comment on as he 
 pitched it instead of throwing it (the present method). His 
 delivery of same was like a ball out of a gun. It was freely 
 told at the time that in his spare moments his practice was 
 against a barn door, and in doing so, got in all the curves to 
 bother the man at the bat. He died from an injury received 
 in this sport, so it was reported at the time. A marble bail 
 and bat constitute part of his monument. 
 
 Dan Dean and his brother Tom kept a billiard room in 
 Montague Hall, Court Street, corner of Montague, and Lam- 
 bert Suydam one in the rear of the Academy of Music on 
 Montague Street. These places were the headquarters for 
 the meeting of baseball lovers, as also the volunteer firemen. 
 
 General Thomas Dakin, of the Thirteenth Regiment, was 
 a member of the Pastimes or Eckfords, and if I remember 
 right, our much respected U. S. Commissioner, Hon. John 
 Shields, was an enthusiastic baseball player as a young man, 
 being the left-handed pitcher of the Putnams, up on the hill. 
 
 The Park Theatre was on Fulton Street opposite the 
 City Hall — the first theatre to have a stock company in Brook- 
 lyn. It was erected by Gabriel Harrison. He was an actor 
 and took part there in all its productions. Previous to the 
 building of this theatre, Brooklyn residents were forced to 
 go to New York for entertainment of this kind, and on their 
 way home by the Fifth Avenue Omnibus Line to Fulton 
 Ferry, they would invariably stop in to Dorian & Schafer's 
 Oyster saloon in Fulton Market for refreshments, where you 
 
88 BACKWARD GLANCES 
 
 could get the very best fish and oysters in New York. Under 
 Harrison's management, this theatre was not a success, event- 
 ually merging into the hands of Frederic B, Conway, who was 
 its manager for many years, with his wife. Her name was 
 Sarah Crocker. She was a sister of Mrs. Bowers, a well- 
 known actress, and the mother ot Minnie Conway, who mar- 
 ried Levy, the great cornetist. Fred Conway was an English- 
 man and was very popular at the old Broadway Theatre be- 
 fore he went to Brooklyn. Hooley's minstrels were on the 
 corner of Court and Remsen Streets. They met with great 
 success for many years. Archie Hughes, one of the end men, 
 was a whole show himself. You would never forget him. 
 Hooley played the violin in black face in the circle on the 
 stage and then in the orchestra for the after acts. The Dime 
 Savings Bank subsequently covered the site of this old home 
 of negro minstrelsy. Hooley went to Chicago and made a 
 great success there in the theatrical business, being the founder 
 of Hooley's Theatre on Randolph Street, opposite the Court 
 House in that city. His treasurer, who helped him to succeed, 
 was Bliss Whitaker, son of an undertaker from Hempstead, 
 Long Island. The Academy of Music was the largest theatre 
 in Brooklyn. It was erected on Montague Street, between 
 Court and Clinton, in about 1860-61. The sanitary fair was 
 held in this building during the war. I must also refer to an 
 episode in which the writer took a hand, which happened dur- 
 ing the late seventies. 
 
 A celebrated European songstress was about to make a 
 tour of the United States in grand opera under the manage- 
 ment of a prominent theatrical manager of New York, Henry 
 E. Abbey, who paid her a fabulous price for each performance, 
 $4,000. 
 
 The opening night was to be in Brooklyn as a start-oflF, 
 it being held in the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Great prep- 
 arations were made to make it a success in every way. The 
 lobby of the house was filled with flowers, a band was on the 
 sidewalk playing as the audience assembled and every seat in 
 the house was sold, the top gallery bringing $2.00 each. The 
 
BACKWARD GLANCES 89 
 
 opera went off with great eclat and after same the closing per- 
 formance took place. It was fully 1 1 130 o'clock when the 
 audience emerged from the opera, delighted with the evening's 
 performance. On reaching the sidewalk a large band was 
 playing on the side opposite the Academy. Every one seemed 
 to loiter to see what it all meant and what was to come after, 
 A carriage, with a grand pair of bay horses attached, stood 
 at the stage entrance of the building waiting for the great 
 artist to take her, with her husband, back to New York ru 
 her hotel. As she emerged, attended by several New York 
 friends, who put her in the carriage with her husband, a trans- 
 formation scene at once took place. The horses, who ap- 
 peared attached to the vehicle were in, say five seconds, coni 
 pletely detached and a rope was run out some fifty feet, whicn 
 had been fastened to the whiffletree. At the same moment a 
 squad of about thirty young men, in full dress suits, who had 
 been to the opera, at a given signal, manned the rope and amid 
 huzzas of the multitude pulled the carriage, with its precious 
 occupants, down Montague Street to the private entrance 01 
 the Pierpont House on Remsen and Henry Streets, where a 
 grand supper was given to the prima donna and the press. 
 The next morning all the newspapers gave elaborate accounrs 
 of the opera and the after event, proclaiming that the populace 
 of Brooklyn went wild, not being able to restrain their enthu- 
 siasm, had pulled the horses from the carriage and dragged tc 
 themselves to its destination. The real facts were that the 
 matter was all arranged some weeks ahead, and the head car- 
 man of a prominent piano manufacturing house engineered 
 the whole part as referring to the horses, while the young 
 men who did the pulling act were formerly members of the 
 old volunteer fire department of Brooklyn, assisted by mem- 
 bers of a militia regiment and the Brooklyn Club. At this 
 point I desire to give some reasons which were innumerable 
 which led to the passing by the legislature at Albany of a bill 
 for the paid fire department in New York and Brooklyn, there- 
 by abolishing the volunteer system, and although it looked to 
 an outsider that it was done in the interest of politicians to 
 
90 BACKWARD GLANCES 
 
 make a large number of positions for their benefit, the volun- 
 teers were largely responsible for the causes in the mam 
 which started the agitation culminating in their over throw. 
 Ruffianism was rampant to a large degree and although it was 
 not a legal member who was the aggressor, they got the blame 
 all the same, the real culprit being what was termed a runner 
 or hanger on. Most every company had a few of these in- 
 dividuals always looking for a scrimmage. Certainly great 
 rivalry existed which apparatus should get to the fire first, 
 especially companies who layed close to each other, and when 
 started, it was then a rush for a hydrant and a controversy 
 would likely ensue, who got there first and who should have it. 
 On their way to obstruct their rival to try to pass, they would 
 swing right into an opponent's machine and drive it against 
 the curb, anyway to carry their point and get ahead. Then 
 when at a fire more water was thrown on than was needed and 
 a water fight would ensue in many cases, one party on one 
 side of a building having the pipe on a line of hose, and an- 
 other on the opposite side. Instead of putting the water on 
 the fire they would play it upon each other and try to drown 
 them out. So bitter was the feeling that was engendered, that 
 even on their way home to their headquarters they could not 
 refrain from a row. The last one I saw by the New York 
 Department was on Broadway close to John Street, just as 
 the old volunteer department was going out of existence. 
 Only in one case did the writer sufifer from this intense rivalry. 
 Alongside of his company while passing No. 5 engine on 
 Myrtle Avenue opposite Fort Green in 1866, a hoodlum ran 
 out from the sidewalk and struck the author of this in the 
 face. The fire cap falling ofif by force of the blow, gave him 
 no chance to protect himself by use of his trumpet, as he was 
 trying to recover his cap. By this time the assailant vanished. 
 The members of No. 5 engine saw the dastardly act, and on 
 arrival at the fire two or three of their representative members 
 came and offered a most abject apology for the act of a party 
 not a member of their organization. Many acts of bravery 
 I can well remember during my experience of seven or eight 
 
BACKWARD GLANCES 91 
 
 years as a volunteer of the Brooklyn Fire Department as a 
 member of Atlantic Hose Company No. i, too numerous to 
 mention. After forty-six years past they come back in a most 
 vivid manner. 
 
 We will now resume getting back to the horses again. 
 Many of the regular track drivers, such as Darius Tallman, 
 Sam McLaughlin, Horace Jones, Dan Mace, Ben Mace, Dun 
 Walton, Eph Simmons, George Spicer, Doty, Jake Somerin- 
 dyke, and Charley Green, made their homes in New York, while 
 Hiram Woodruff, Sim Hoagland, James Whelply, William 
 Whelan, F. J. Nodine, Dan Pfifer, Isaac Woodruff made their 
 homes either in Brooklyn or in Queens County ; and among the 
 Brooklyn road drivers was James Weaver, whose son, young 
 James, married a daughter of Mayor Kalbfleisch. Mr. Weaver, 
 Sr., owned the chestnut stallion. Honest Dutchman. He made a 
 match with Wm. M. Parks, who resided on Montague Street, 
 near Henry, to trot a race over Prospect Park track against his 
 black four-year-old, Prospero, by Messenger Duroc, for $5,000 
 a side. Dan Pfifer drove Honest Dutchman, Charles G. Green 
 drove Prospero. Dutchman was shut out the first heat, time 
 about two minutes forty seconds. This race took place eight 
 or ten years after this celebrated track came into existence, 
 which was later than those before enumerated. It was at 
 Gravesend, and is now called the Gravesend track, being used 
 for running races. I think it was projected about 1863. The 
 foregoing race was in 1873. ^^- Parks also owned Red 
 Jacket, a fast roan horse. It was about the same time that the 
 great match race between the chestnut gelding. Judge Fuller- 
 ton, owned by William Humphrey, and the big bay mare, 
 American Girl, owned by William Lovell, both of New York 
 took place on this track, being won by the mare. A large 
 lot of money changed hands on the result of this race. The 
 Fullerton adherents went home to New York with very empty 
 pockets. 
 
 The Deer foot half-mile track was nearer Brooklyn. It 
 was subsequently bought by Mr. John H. Shults. Among other 
 prominent drivers on the road was Benjamin Prince, who 
 
92 BACKWARD GLANCES 
 
 owned Lady Anne and Democrat. Shiptimber was also owned 
 in Brooklyn, as also Petroleum, who was a pacer and could 
 pace a half-mile in fifty-nine seconds. I can also call to mind 
 William Hunter, George Hunt, James Brundage, Wm. Van 
 Anden, John Cornell, Fred Dietz, Charles Moser, Thomas 
 Jackson, Doctor Talmage, Felix Campbell, Samuel Jackson, 
 Evert Snedicor, Lambert Suydam, Whitson Oakley, Arthur 
 Benson, George Floyd-Jones, who owned several good ones, 
 such as Lady Blanche, Scar-Faced Charley, Boston Boy and 
 many others, also A. G. Gwathniey, who is the owner of the 
 fast gelding, Tiverton, two minutes four and one-half sec- 
 onds, of the present day. Before bidding adieu to the Brook- 
 lyn contingent reference must be made to Uncle Dan Willets. 
 He was truely one of the old guard of road drivers, and owned 
 many a crackerjack. He resided in Columbia Street, on the 
 Heights. One of the best that he ever owned was the suck- 
 ling filly Tempest, by Hambletonian, dam Coquette, by Jupi- 
 ter. She was sold to him by my father, the late Elbert Floyd- 
 Jones, who raised her, for the sum of $i,ooo. Her name was 
 afterwards changed to Nettie Plummer, the dam of Harry 
 Plummer. She ended her days on the farm of that old horse- 
 man, Charles Kerner, at Great Barrington, Massachuestts. The 
 fast gelding. Little Dick, record about two minutes nine and 
 one-half seconds, who is now owned in New Jersey, in his 
 declining years, traces his pedigree back to this well-bred mare. 
 I append the contents of a paper, which I found among 
 the efifects of the raiser and first owner of Tempest, which truly 
 speaks for itself, showing that Little Dick and every other one 
 of these times, that can trace back to her and have such a pedi- 
 gree, are surely born in the purple: 
 
 South Oyster Bay, May 17, li 
 
 Seaford p. O., Long Island. 
 "To all who may be concerned : I make the following 
 statement to wit: 
 
 "In the summer of 1838, my father purchased a chestnut 
 mare from the farmer of Samuel Gardiner, of Shelter Island, 
 
r 
 
 
AMERICAN ECLIPSE 
 Running Horsk 
 
 Dark sorrel with a star 15 hands 3 inches in height. 
 
 Sired hy Duroc. a Virginia Horse; Dam Miller's Dam- 
 sel, by Imported Messenger. 
 
 Foaled 25th of May, 1814, on farm of Nathaniel Coles; 
 his Breeder Dosoris, Queens County, Long Island, N. Y. 
 
 Died at SnELnvviLLE, Kenti.'cky, on the farm of Wilson 
 Yates, July nth, 1847. 
 
BACKWARD GLANCES 93 
 
 Long Island. The man stated to my father (as my father 
 told me) that the mare was then five years old and was raised 
 on the farm of Mr. Gardiner and that Mr. Gardiner purchased 
 the dam of the mare from Mr. Stevens, of Hoboken (I do not 
 recollect which it was John or Robert Stevens), and that Mr. 
 Gardiner told him that Mr. Stevens told him that she was in 
 foal by Old Henry. I named the mare Suffolk Maid, as there 
 was a mare called Lady Suffolk, and also one called Maid of 
 Suffolk. In proof of the assertion of the farmer, several years 
 after, and when I then owned Suffolk Maid, I chanced to be 
 snowbound on the Long Island Railroad for some days and 
 came in contact with Mr, Samuel Gardiner. I told him that I 
 was anxious to learn from him, personally, the pedigree of the 
 mare my father purchased from his farmer. He then corrob- 
 orated all that the farmer had told my father, and added that 
 he did not recollect the breeding of the dam, but that she was 
 well-bred. My conversation with Mr. Gardiner satisfied me 
 and ought to satisfy any fair-minded man, that the sire of 
 Suffolk Maid was Old Henry. 
 
 "In conclusion, I bred Suffolk Maid to Jupiter and raised 
 a mare called Coquette, and Coquette I bred to old Hamble- 
 tonian, and from her a filly which I called Tempest, and sold 
 to Daniel Willets, and which I am told was afterwards called 
 Nettie Plummer. Although some of the above is from mem- 
 ory, yet I herewith make my affidavit, that to the best of my 
 knowledge and belief, the statement made above is correct, and 
 that there is not the least doubt but that Suffolk Maid was 
 sired by Old Henry, the competitor of Eclipse." (The author 
 remembers well both Suffolk Maid and Coquette ; rode behind 
 them many times in a wagon and also under saddle). 
 
 Sir Henry was the horse that ran the great race on May 2'], 
 1823, against Eclipse, the latter being the victor. It was the 
 North against the South and some $200,000 was wagered on 
 this contest. It took place on the old Union Course, Long 
 Island. Sir Henry represented the South. He was bred by 
 Lemuel Long, near Halifax, in the State of North Carolina, 
 foaled on the 17th day of June, 1819. He was sired by Sir 
 
94 BACKWARD GLANCES 
 
 Archy (son of imported Chestnut Diomed) his dam by Diomed, 
 grandam by Belle Air, g. g. dam by Pilgrim, g. g. g. dam by 
 Valiant, g. g. g. g. dam by Janus, g. g. g. g. g. by Jolly Roger, 
 which four last named were imported horses and are found 
 in the English stud books. The match was made by William 
 R. Johnson, of Baltimore, with John C. Stevens, of Hoboken, 
 New Jersey. 
 
 Before closing up references to the doings of celebrated 
 horses (trotters), I would like to refer to the great advance 
 recorded in their speed from that of the Boston Pony in 1818 
 to that of the present period. Certainly the improvement in 
 breeding has had the largest part to do with it, but other 
 causes have materially helped in a large degree, such as light 
 shoeing, light harness, boots of all kinds with toe weights, and 
 last but not by anyway least, is the bicycle sulkey weighing 
 twenty-nine pounds. I am not willing to concede that the 
 drivers of to-day are any more proficient than those of sixty 
 years ago, such as Hiram Woodruff, F. J. Nodine, William 
 Whelan, George Spicer, Mr. McMann, Dan Pfiffer, Horace 
 Jones, Sam McLaughlin, and later Dan Mace, Budd Doble, 
 John Splan, Charley Green, John Murphy and others. We 
 really cannot date the accelerated speed in horses from the 
 year 1818, in which year the feat was performed on the turn- 
 pike at Jamaica, Long Island, but from 1845, 1-ady Suffolk's 
 day, to 19 1 2, sixty-seven years. 
 
 Time made on trotting tracks in harness 2 :29J/2 to i 158 
 — Difference 31^ seconds. 
 
 Lady Suffolk Oct. 13. 1845 2 :29i^ 
 
 Flora Temple Oct. 15, 1850 2:19^ 
 
 Dexter Aug. 14. 1867 2 -.17^ 
 
 Goldsmith Maid Sept. 2, 1874 2 :i4 
 
 Maud S July 30, 1885 2 :o8^ 
 
 Sunol Oct. 20, 1891 2 :o8i4 
 
 Nancy Hanks Sept. 28, 1892 2 :o4 
 
 Alix Sept. 19. 1894 2:03^ 
 
 The Abbott Sept. 25, 1900 2 :03i4 
 
 Cresceus Aug. 2, 1901 2 :02i/i 
 
BACKWARD GLANCES 95 
 
 Major Del Mar Sept. 25, 1903 2 
 
 Lou Dillon Oct. 24, 1903 i :58^4 
 
 Uhlan Oct. 8, 1912 1:58 
 
 Uhlan Oct. 6, 1913 One quarter 27 
 
 The author of this work has had the honor of officiat- 
 ing as a judge and timer of a very large number of trotting 
 races, having officially timed several thousand heats, the most 
 famous ones being: 
 
 Lou Dillon, Aug. 17, 1903, against time. Brighton Beach, 
 first quarter 28^; mile 2:0394- 
 
 Dan, Patch, pacer, Aug. 19, 1903. against time. Brighton 
 Beach i -.^g. 
 
 Prince Alert, pacer, Sept. 23, 1903, against time. Empire 
 Track, with wind shield i i^y. 
 
 "Swift," trotter, Sept. 1903, in race. Empire Track 2:07. 
 Major Del Mar. trotter, Sept. 25, 1903, against time. 
 Empire Track with wind shield 2. 
 
 "King Chimes" and "Governor Holt" against time. Em- 
 pire Track, Aug. 6, 1905, time 2:13^, to wagon driven by 
 amateur W. C. Floyd Jones. 
 
 King Direct, pacer, in a race 1906 driven by amateur 
 James Butler, Empire Track, world's wagon record 2 104 -)4. 
 
 King Direct, pacer, against time. Driven by amateur 
 James Butler, Empire Track, wagon record 1906 2 104^. 
 
 Bolivar, pacer, 1907, against time. One half mile track 
 White Plains, New York, track record 2 :o8. 
 
 Uhlan, trotter, against time. One half mile track Goshen, 
 August, 1911, world's record, timed by writer unofficial 2:02^. 
 Colorado E., Trotter — in race — Empire Track — three 
 year olds, Aug. 23, 1910, 2:07^. 
 
 In. addition to the race trades of old times, before men- 
 tioned, I find in "Champlain," Rev. Edmund Banks Smith's 
 records, after years of research by him that a race track ex- 
 isted on Governors Lsland in 1784, Governor George Clinton 
 having leased same to a Dr. Price. Races were run there in 
 1 784- 1 785. 
 
96 BACKWARD GLANCES 
 
 Extreme Speed for Team Racing. 
 
 Lady Palmer and Flatbush Maid, May lo, 1862. Time 
 2 :26. Driven by amateur Robert Bonner. 
 
 Bruno and Brunette, Sept. 11, 1867. Time 2:2^%. Driven 
 by a professional. 
 
 Small Hopes and Lady Mac, Sept. 11, 1877. Time 2:23. 
 Driven by amateur Wm. H. Vanderbilt. 
 
 Mill Boy and Jay Gould, Sept. 23, 1881. Time 2:22. 
 Driven by amateur John Shepard. 
 
 Edward and Dick Swiveller, July 13, 1882. Time 2:16^. 
 Driven by a professional, 
 
 Maud S. and Aldine, June 14, 1883. Time 2:1^}^. 
 Driven by amateur Wm. H. Vanderbilt. 
 
 Belle Hamlin and Globe, July 4, 1892. Time 2:12. 
 Driven by a professional. 
 
 The Monk and Equity, Oct, 21, 1904. Time 2:07^. 
 Driven by amateur C. K. G. Billings. 
 
 King Chimes and Governor Holt, Aug. 6, 1905. Time 
 2:13^. Driven by amateur W. C. Floyd-Jones. 
 
 Uhlan and Lewis Forrest, Oct. 15, 1912. Time 2:0314. 
 Driven by a professional. 
 
 Extreme Speed for Half Mile Track. 
 
 Uhlan at Goshen, New York, August, 191 1. Time 2:02^. 
 Driven by a professional. World's record. 
 
 Extreme Speed for Two Year Old Colt. 
 
 Peter Volo, trotter, by Peter the Great in race Oct. 6, 
 1913, 2:043^. 
 
 Lady Suffolk was twelve years old when she trotted in 
 2:29^. 
 
 At the age of nine to twelve it was believed that the great- 
 est speed could be shown by a trotter. 
 
CHAPTER TEN 
 
 RETURNING again to Broadway, which we deserted 
 to follow the trotters, finds us at the corner of 
 Houston Street. The Revere House was on the 
 southeast corner and was kept by Charles Coe. 
 Among his string of trotters was the black mare Emma C, 
 who trotted on old Fleetwood in its declining days. She was 
 sired by Timothy Jackson's Superb, being a full sister to the 
 black mare with a blaze face called Daisy and owned by John 
 Hendrickson, of Jamaica, Long Island, and later by W. Chaun- 
 cey Floyd-Jones, who in 1907 campaigned the great mare Mar- 
 garet O., 2.0514- Daisy was on the turf at about the same 
 period as Emma C.^, and trotted on the same track, and many 
 good races in competition with the bay mare Maud, owned by 
 Thomas Disbrow, of Jamaica, were had. The latter mare gen- 
 erally had a little the best of the argument. 
 
 LReddy the Blacksmith had a saloon on Broadway just 
 e Houston Street, east side, which catered to the under 
 world and the Allen Brothers Mart and "The" ran the St. 
 Bernard Hotel, corner Mercer and Prince Streets of the same 
 description. Tony Pastor who started on the Bowery as the 
 "Clown" graduated in Broadway, west side near Houston 
 Street, subsequently Fourteenth Street Tammany Hall "variety 
 kind." 
 
 Harry Hill's public house and dance hall was on the cor- 
 ner of Houston and Crosby Streets. His country place was 
 on the shell road facing Flushing Bay. This sporting character 
 was fond of horses and kept quite a number of good ones in 
 his barns. Houston Street, just east of Broadway, was largely 
 filled with English ale and chop houses, such as Clifton's, 
 House of Lords, House of Commons and others. St. Thomas' 
 Church was on the northwest corner of this street, being next 
 door to Henry Maillard's celebrated chocolate ice cream and 
 candy place. | This church burned down in the early fifties^ 
 J 97 
 
98 BACKWARD GLANCES 
 
 was rebuilt and subsequently removed to Fifth Avenue and 
 Fifty-third Street. Fire seems to have followed it even tliere, 
 as it was totally destroyed again in 1906. Florence's eating 
 house and saloon was in the basement of the southwest cornf. 
 This was considered a first-class place to feed the inner man. 
 It was also the headquarters of the second or third rate prize 
 fighters, such as Billy Mulligan and Pat Mathews. If cor- 
 nered, men of this type would result to any unfair means to 
 carry their point. It was also the rendezvous of Joe Coburn. 
 He got into an argument with Mathews in about i860, and 
 although he was the champion heavy weight, Pat had the best 
 of him. Mulligan was quite a dude. He and Pat met in 
 Bleecker Street and had a bad scrap. Mathews was gen', rally 
 liked. Mulligan was shot to death from across the street by 
 the California Vigilance Committee in San Francisco. 
 
 John Camel Heenan, the Benecia boy a native American 
 and John Morrissey, an Irishman, were the noted pugilists of 
 i860. Heenan had whipped Tom Sayres in England, although 
 the fight was called a draw, so he was considered a top notcher 
 at that kind of business. Heenan and Morrissey gave a spar- 
 ring exhibition together at Hoymes Theatre on the Bowery. 
 Heenan was considered a handsome man and a very scientific 
 boxer. Morrissey was a hard fighter and defeated Heenan 
 about 1859 in Canada, but Heenan made him look cheap as a 
 fancy sparrer. Heenan also sparred at the New Bowery The- 
 atre, which was on the Bowery near Division Street, east side 
 with Aaron Jones and Murphy, the Irish Giant. About that 
 time Sam Collier and Billy Edwards were at the head of the 
 list in the light weight class. In the early seventies there was 
 quite a noted resort on the west side of Broadway extending 
 through to Fifth Avenue near Twenty-second Street. It 
 was kept by George and Jerry Thomas, being an eating saloon 
 and bar room. One of the greatest attractions of the place 
 was a collection of cartoons made by Thomas Nast, which he 
 got up for the Sanitary Fair during the war. It was popula. 
 for strangers visiting New York to see these relics. Jerry 
 
BACKWARD GLANCES 99 
 
 Thomas eventually went to Denver where he died. The Lotos 
 Qub now possesses most of these pictures. 
 
 (^ The beginning of the cheap concert rooms began about 
 1859-60. Canterbury Hall, formerly Mozart Hall, Broadway 
 near Houston Street, and the Melodeon, near Spring Street 
 (Chinese Assembly Rooms), were the first of the kind of 
 these vile places of recreation, which spread like a disease to 
 other parts of Broadway and to the Bowery, even up to West 
 Twenty-third Street and Sixth Avenue. There were per- 
 formances on the stage and tables in front of same, on which 
 was served liquors, cigars and refreshments, the waiters being 
 girls./ Koster and Bials was on West Twenty-third Street 
 near Sixth Avenue and was very prominent of its kind. Bar- 
 more and McCoUough's ice cream saloon was on Broadway 
 near Eighth Street. The Sinclair House being on the south- 
 east corner of Eighth Street. Mr. Barmore was the orgamzti 
 of the Knickerbocker Ice Company, and resided at Bayside, 
 Long Island. 
 
 Close to this locality was the noted house, No. 31 Bond 
 Street, it being in a row of grand brick residences extending 
 from Broadway to the Bowery, occupied by old citizens. It 
 was on January 31, 1857, when the great Burdell murder took 
 place at this location. Doctor Harvey Burdell, a prominent 
 dentist, who had his home here, was found murdered in his 
 room. The house was kept by a widow, Mrs. Emma Augusta 
 Cunningham, who had two grown-up daughters. The other 
 boarders were a Mr .John H. Eckles, who was in the hide and 
 fat business in First Avenue, and a young man named Snod- 
 grass, son of a clergyman at Warwick, New York, and Dan 
 Ullman, a prominent politician. All of these people were 
 brought into the case in a most unpleasant way, being sus- 
 picioned. No case of its kind ever attracted so much in- 
 terest in New York as this one did. Crowds of people were 
 in front of No. 31 daily for weeks, and years afterwards 
 strangers would stop on the sidewalk and view the house. 
 Extras were gotten out three or four times daily by the news- 
 papers, describing the latest phase of the tragedy. Frank 
 
100 BACKWARD GLANCES 
 
 Leslie's Illustrated, a weekly paper, got out two editions a 
 week with harrowing wood cuts depicting everything horrible, 
 but the papers sold, and that was what was desired. 
 
 The mystery which has hung over this foul deed has 
 never been dispelled. Mrs. Cunningham, after trying to palm 
 off a bogus baby, as the heir of Dr. Burdell, the fraud being 
 discovered, left for California, where she died. 
 
 Laura Keene's New Theatre was just above Houston 
 Street on the east side of Broadway, number 624. It was 
 opened November 18, 1856. It was owned by James Meinell, 
 who resided at South Oyster Bay, Long Island. His heirs 
 were three daughters, who now reside in France. He also had 
 two sons. Laura Keene played "Camille" here, as also "The 
 American Cousin," when the elder Sothern made his mark as 
 "Lord Dundreary" and "Brother Sam," also the elder Holland 
 and C. W. Couldock got well known, the former, especially, 
 as when he died, the Rev. Mr. Sabine, of a church on Madison 
 Avenue, refused to officiate at his funeral because he was an 
 actor, but referred the applicant who desired the service, to a 
 little church around the corner. This proved to be the Church 
 of the Transfiguration (Episcopal), Rev. Dr. Houghton, rec- 
 tor. The funeral took place here, and this church has always 
 been known from that time as "The Little Church Around 
 the Corner." Rev. Mr. Sabine died August, 1913, funeral at 
 his residence on Madison Avenue. 
 
 Joseph Jefferson played at this theatre in "The American 
 Cousin," taking the character of the American. It brought 
 him no fame, as Sothern's character over-shadowed him. John 
 T. Raymond also played here, as also Lotta. 
 
 This theatre on being vacated by Laura Keene in 1863, 
 who went on the road with her troupe and was playing "The 
 American Cousin" at Ford's Theatre in Washington, when 
 and where the President, Abraham Lincoln, was shot by 
 Wilkes Booth, April 15, 1865, changed proprietorship and 
 name. 
 
 It was acquired by John Duff, who called it the Olympic 
 Theatre. His son-in-law, Augustin Daly, the playwright, 
 
BACKWARD GLANCES lot 
 
 acted as his agent, ably assisted by that very efficient gentle- 
 man, James W. Morrisey. Mrs. John Wood acted here in 
 1866, and in 1868 the humorus pantomine "Humpty Dumpty" 
 with George L. Fox as the clown occupied the boards for an 
 indefinite period. "Under the Gas Light" with C. F. Parsloe 
 in the cast had a long run. "The Railroad Scene" was a 
 great feature. "The Sea of Ice" or "A Maiden's Prayer" 
 met with quite a success, George Jordan being in the cast, it 
 being spectacular and grand. The drama "Richelieu" was 
 burlesqued by George L. Fox as the cardinal, and it was at 
 this Temple of the Muses that George Jones (The Count 
 Johannes) appeared in Shakesperian characters and at every 
 performance, he as well as his support male and female, were 
 greeted with cat calls, being pelted with onions, apples, turnips 
 and even eggs. The attack was really against him, and not his 
 associates, many of them being quite proficient in their re- 
 spective parts. The theatre was crowded at every perform- 
 ance and this was what was desired by the management. The 
 shows at last got so riotous that the police had to be in the 
 house and this soon brought them to an abrupt ending. 
 
 In 1856 a new theatre was erected at 677 Broadway 
 where Tripler Hall had formerly stood. It was called Metro- 
 politan Theatre, later Laura Keenes Varieties. It remained 
 under her name only a short time, as William Burton re- 
 moved there from Chambers Street in 1858 and renamed It 
 Burtons Theatre. I saw Burton here in many of his old char- 
 acters made famous in Chambers Street, and in a piece called 
 "Brigham Young" which was a satire on the sect known as 
 Mormons or Latter Day Saints, who founded Salt Lake City, 
 Utah. I remember vividly one scene in particular depicted, 
 there being some five or six large beds on the stage, and when 
 the curtain went up each bed had four or five children in it. 
 A pillow fight was in progress, the air being full of them 
 when the father of the family, supposed to be Brigham Young, 
 who at that period was the head of that community, being 
 portrayed by Burton, suddenly appears upon the scene. Bed- 
 lam is at once let loose and more than a dozen pillows were 
 
I02 BACKWARD GLANCES 
 
 shot at him at once by the more venturesome, while the 
 others scrampered for their beds to get under the sheets, the 
 audience screaming with laughter. On Burton relinquishing 
 this theatre, it became the Winter Garden. Charles Mathews, 
 an English actor, also appeared here. It was rumored at 
 the time that he had a little altercation with Dolly Davenport. 
 It took place in the lobby of the theatre, and in which a 
 cowhide whip played a prominent part. The former's at- 
 tention to the latter's wife was believed to be the cause of the 
 trouble. She was a beautiful woman and appeared in the 
 Naiad Queen, a spectacular piece. English opera was pre- 
 sented here, where for the first time I heard it. This theatre 
 was in the rear of the Lafarge House, now the Broadway 
 Central Hotel, which was called The Grand Central at one 
 time, and was the scene on January 6, 1872, of the shooting 
 of James Fisk, Jr., by Edward S. Stokes. He was convicted 
 of murder, retried and convicted of manslaughter and served 
 about four years in Sing Sing. He was within a few hours 
 of being hanged when the stay came for his second trial. 
 
 Burton built a very fine house and hot houses adjoining 
 at Glen Cove, Long Island, and his display of grapes at the 
 County Fairs were of the finest description. Harry Placide 
 resided at Babylon, Long Island. Many of the old Babylonians 
 who are now living remember him well and speak of him in 
 the highest manner for his many good qualities. 
 
 At the Winter Garden Dion Boucicault played in the 
 "Octaroon" with his wife, Agnes Robertson, as Zoe. "The 
 Naiad Queen," as also "Midsummer's Night's Dream" was 
 produced in grand style. Helen Western, who was a beauti- 
 ful woman, appeared in both pieces. Kate Bateman played 
 in "Evangeline," as also in "Leah." Among others were 
 Charlotte Cushman, supported by Studley, as Lady Macbeth, 
 and Charles Mathews, Mark Smith, Mrs. John Wood and 
 John Brougham in "Pocahontas." And it was here, in 1864, 
 Edwin, John Wilkes and Junius Brutus Booth were seen to- 
 gether in "Julius Caesar." The theatre was destroyed by fire 
 March 2'^, 1867, and not rebuilt. 
 
BACKWARD GLANCES 103 
 
 In addition to William R. Blake, Harry Placide and 
 Barney Williams, previously mentioned, the following are in- 
 terred in Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, William J. Flor- 
 ence, William E. Burton, who died February 9, i860, Fred 
 B. Conway and his wife Sarah Crocker, John Brougham, 
 Charles M. Walcott, and in the Wallack burial plot is the 
 grave of Lester Wallack and his father James W. Wallack. 
 Under an imposing sarcophagus of white marble in the Wal- 
 lack plot is the grave of Harry Montague. Laura Keene's 
 grave is also in Greenwood. 
 
 The Academy of Music in East Fourteenth Street and 
 Irving Place, was opened October 2, 1854. La Grange, 
 Brignoli, Adelina Patti, Carlotta Patti, Piccolomini, Lucca, 
 Clara Louise Kellogg, Parepa Rosa sang here in the late 
 fifties and early sixties, and in the seventies Emma Abbott, 
 Campanini, Del Puente, Ravelle, Christine Nilson and Gurster. 
 Adelina Patti sang here November 24, 1859, at the age of 
 sixteen in Lucia, she being under the management of hei 
 brother-in-law. Max Strackosch. It was destroyed by fire, 
 May 21-22, 1866, rebuilt and again in 1868 and rebuilt. As 
 years rolled by the old theatres down town, such as Barnums 
 at Ann Street, Burtons in Chambers Street, and Wallacks on 
 Broadway near Broome, were obliterated, some by fire and 
 others to make way for business houses. Niblos, Broadway 
 above Prince Street, Olympic, Broadway just above Houston 
 Street, and the Minstrel Shows of the Bryants, Christys, 
 Buckley's Serenaders remained on their old sites for some 
 years. Wallacks moved to northeast corner of Broadway and 
 Thirteenth Street about 1861, which ground was formerly 
 occupied by a circus. His old theatre was then called the 
 Broadway. "Caste" was first played here by Billy Florence 
 and his wife in August 1867. At the same time many new 
 theatres were erected and many new actors and actresses ap- 
 peared. Wallack with his old company removed entire to 
 his new theatre, his business man and partner being Theo. 
 Morse. The young English actor Montague appeared here, 
 but only for a short period, as he was taken ill, and died in 
 
I04 BACKWARD GLANCES 
 
 New York universally lamented. It was in 1871-72 that I 
 was introduced to Harry Montague while making a New 
 Year's call at the home of N. L. McCready, 10 West Twenty- 
 second Street. Barney Williams, the brother-in-law of Flor- 
 ence, being the lessee of the Broadway, or its manager, Flor- 
 ence took the part in the role of George D'Alroy, his wife 
 portraying that of Polly, Mrs. F. S. Chanfrau that of Esther 
 Eccles, while that grand old comedian, William Davidge, took 
 the character of Eccles, and last but not least Mrs. G. H. 
 Gilbert as the marquise. In 1868 Mr. Wallack produced this 
 comedy at his Broadway and Thirteenth Street Tb«^atre. 
 Charles Fisher had the role of D'Alroy, J. H. Stoddart as 
 Eccles, Rose Eytinge as Esther, *Effie Germon appeared as 
 Polly and Emily Mestayer as the marquise. It had a good 
 run. Osmond Tearle, John Howsen, Rose Coghlan, Ada 
 Dyas and Madelene Henriques appeared on the boards 01 
 this theatre. The great piece "Rosedale" made a success here 
 in 1863 (Oct. 5), Lester Wallack taking the character of 
 Elliot Grey, ably supported by Mrs. John Hoey, Mary Gan- 
 non, Effie Germon and Mrs. Vernon. John Gilbert took the 
 part of the gipsy in this piece. Charles Fisher was also of the 
 cast. One of the most interesting scenes in this play was the 
 third act depicting the gipsy camp in the woods, which has 
 come back to me in the most marked way on many occasions, 
 as I saw Lester Wallack disguised as an old broken down 
 soldier, associating with these Nomad's and singing to them 
 the cracksman's song, so as to carry out his assumed character. 
 Night comes on and the whole aggregation are at rest, when 
 Elliott Grey sneaks out to find the child Sir Arthur, who had 
 disappeared and supposed to have been drowned. Mary Gan- 
 non as Rosa Leigh had recited to Elliott Grey and which he 
 had committed to memory the ballad. Lord Bateman, which 
 she had often sung to the missing boy, and which Elliott Grey 
 knew the boy would recognize at once if he heard it, pro- 
 vided he was anywhere within the environments of the camp. 
 
 *Effie Germon died March 6, 1914. 
 
BACKWARD GLANCES 105 
 
 Mary Gannon while reciting the song is seen wrapping her 
 handkerchief around a wound on the wrist of Lester Wallack. 
 Quite a characteristic part of the scene. Every gipsy was 
 asleep when Elliot Grey started to sing the following lines : 
 
 Lord Bateman was a noble lord, 
 
 A noble lord was he of high degree ; 
 
 And he determined to go abroad, 
 
 In hopes some foreign countries he might see. 
 
 But then there was a reason good, 
 To think the little boy alive might be ; 
 So he went to the wild, wild wood, 
 To find and take him to his mother dear. 
 
 As he finished the last word, a poor little ragged, half-starved 
 looking child crawls across the stage to him, and recognizing 
 him cries out "Elliot" who grabs the child in his arms and 
 embracing him says "You little rascal, what will your mother 
 say to you?" Mrs. John Hoey taking the character of his 
 mother. At this moment Miles McKenna (John Gilbert) the 
 chief of the tribe comes on the scene and calls his gipsies, 
 who run on with clubs, as Elliot calls out for his lancers, who 
 had surrounded the camp, and they capture the whole outfit. 
 
 The Grand Opera House of a latei date was built by 
 Samuel Pike of Cincinnati, Ohio, corner of Twenty-third 
 Street and Eighth Avenue. It was opened January 9, 1868 
 called Pikes Opera House. . In 1869 James Fisk, Jr., acquired 
 it through his connection with the Erie Railroad. He named 
 it Grand Opera House. It is now owned by the Gould family, 
 who inherited it from their father Jay Gould, who was at one 
 time a partner of James Fisk, Jr., Fortescue, Roland Reed and 
 Sol Smith Russell all appeared in New York at a later period 
 at one of the prominent theatres. 
 
 The Fifth Avenue Theatre, which was one of those of a 
 later date was in Twenty-fourth Street adjoining the Fifth 
 Avenue Hotel. It was opened about 1867 by Christy's Min- 
 
I06 BACKWARD GLANCES 
 
 strels. / After that Leffingwell ran it with a burlesque com- 
 pany, then John Brougham took it in 1869 and called it 
 Broughams Theatre, which was not a success. Later it was 
 taken by Augustin Daly, with a grand stock company, the 
 principal ones being George Clark, William Davidge, John 
 Drew, Ada Rehan, James Lewis, Agnes Ethel, Kate Newton, 
 Mrs. Gilbert and Fanny Davenport. "Frou Frou" was played 
 here, as also "Man and Wife and Divorce." The theatre was 
 burned down on January i, 1873, but was rebuilt. Couldock 
 made a name here in "Hazel Kirke." "The Rajah" was also 
 played here. Steele McKay was the lessee for a long time. 
 The stage of this theatre was a double one. It raised and 
 lowered so a scene could be set while a performance went on. 
 In 1865 there was a theatre on Broadway, No. 728, directly 
 opposite Waverly Place, it being erected on the site of a 
 Unitarian church. It had a most varied career. It was erected 
 by the A. T. Stewart Estate, of which Judge Henry Hilton 
 was the executor. If I remember rightly, Lucy Rushton was 
 the first lessee. Subsequently the Worrell Sisters came in 
 possession and called it the New York Theatre. It was a 
 failure. Mark Smith as also Dan Harkins tried as managers 
 to make a success here, which also ended in disaster, and 
 the theatre seemed to be a hoodoo until Edward Harrigan and 
 Toney Hart took it and called it the Theatre Comique. They 
 had a great success, which really was their undoing, as at 
 the zenith of same they separated and each one went his own 
 way, and neither succeeded. Together they were a good 
 team, but apart seemed failures. Annie Yeamans appeared at 
 this house. I think this was about 1870. After Harrigan 
 and Hart left this place, it was called the Streets of Old Lon- 
 don and became a home for prize fights and other low uses. 
 It was really desecrated until Daly took it in 1873, after the 
 burning of his Fifth Avenue Theatre, and called it Daly's 
 New Fifth Avenue Theatre. He opened it with "Alixe," 
 Oara Morris (Mrs. Harriott) in the title role. "The New 
 Magdalene" was also played here, and the sensational drama 
 "Under the Gaslight." 
 
BACKWARD GLANCES 107 
 
 Hope Chapel, which was formerly a church, was situated 
 on the east side of Broadway just below Eighth Street. I 
 saw the Davenport Brothers here in their wonderful "spirit" 
 cabinet trick. Signer Blitz, who resided in Brooklyn, sub- 
 sequently occupied this house with his performances, "slight 
 of hand" he being one of the best in that line. Kelly and 
 Leon, the latter Eugene, the wench dancer, had a minstrel 
 troupe here in 1866. Lena Edwards afterwards occupied the 
 prernises about 1870 for theatrical purposes. 
 
 iThe Union Square Theatre was erected on Union Square, 
 between Broadway and Fourth Avenue early in 1871, directly 
 adjoining the Morton House. It was owned and managed 
 by Sheridan Shook, subsequently by A. M. Palmer. "The 
 Two Orphans" made a great success at this house, where 
 this piece was first produced. Kate Claxton, Charles Steven- 
 son, O'Neill and Ringold being in the cast, and Ida Vernon as 
 the nun. Clara Morris, Agnes Ethel, Stuart Robson, W. H. 
 Wilder, Sara Jewett, Meta Newton, Emily Mestayer, Eliza 
 Weathersby, Maude Granger and Marie Wilkins all appeared 
 here, as also Charles R. Thorne, Lingard, Florence Gerard, 
 McKee Rankin, Maud Harrison, John Purcell, W. H. Crane 
 and W. S. Wheatleigh, F. F. Mackay, Montgomery, Claude 
 Burroughs. At a subsequent date, December 5, 1876, this 
 piece "Two Orphans" was being played at the Brooklyn The- 
 atre, Kate Claxton and many of the original cast being in 
 it. The theatre caught fire and was destroyed, which caused 
 a great loss of life, about three hundred people being lost. 
 Kate Claxton was among those saved in a heroic and sensa- 
 tional way, while poor Ringold was among the lost. Croak- 
 ers at the time looked upon it as a retribution, as the the- 
 atre was erected on the site of old St. John's Church, corner 
 of Johnson and Washington Streets. The land on which the 
 church stood had been donated by the late Rev. E. M. John- 
 son and the church built, he being its rector for many years, 
 being succeeded by Dr. Guion and Dr. Seymour, who eventually 
 became Bishop of Illinois. Business came in the neighbor- 
 hood and a new church was erected further awav and the 
 
io8 BACKWARD GLANCES 
 
 old church demohshed, the theatre taking its place under the 
 management of Mrs. Fred B. Conway. 
 
 The Park Theatre which was on Broadway east side 
 just above Twenty-first Street, was also of a later date. It 
 was erected in 1882 and on the day of its opening, October 
 30, 1882, at five o'clock in the afternoon, was totally destroyea 
 by fire. Henry E. Abbey was the lessee. Lillie Langtry, the 
 great English Beauty (Jersey Lily), was to have played here 
 at the opening. She was staying at the Fifth Avenue Hotel 
 and saw the fire from the window of her room. The stage 
 setting was very elaborate. The furniture I think was loaned 
 by Herter, one of New York's best manufacturers. It was 
 all lost. The piano, which was to have been in the same 
 scene with the handsome furnishings, was to have been loaned 
 to the theatre by the well-known old piano manufacturers, 
 Haines Brothers. The instrument was on the dray, just al)out 
 leaving their factory, corner of Second Avenue and Twenty- 
 first Street, when the writer of this work saw the fire, and 
 advised them of its location. The delay of delivery of the 
 piano toward sundown had saved it. Harry Hill offered the 
 Jersey Lily his theatre in Houston Street, which was declined 
 with thanks. The ofifer was doubtless made in good faith 
 by the donor. This theatre was quickly rebuilt, Henry E. 
 Abbey still being its manager. I saw Oakey Hall, who was 
 Mayor of New York, 1869 to 1871, during the Tweed ring 
 exposures (he succeeding John T. Hoffman as Chief Mag- 
 istrate of the City) act the principal character in a play 01 
 his own production at this theatre after his term of office as 
 Mayor had expired. He was indicted by the Grand Jury and 
 stood trial for malfeasance in office. He was honorably ac- 
 quitted, the verdict being a popular one. The drama in which 
 he appeared was written and acted by him, so as really to 
 portray his own case, to show that an innocent party could 
 very readily be placed in a position where his acts on the 
 surface appeared to the eye as that of guilt, at the same 
 time being perfectly and absolutely innocent of any wrong- 
 doing. The stepping stone to the office of Mayor for him had 
 
BACKWARD GLANCES 109 
 
 been that of District Attorney, which position he had filled 
 with great ability and approval of the citizens of New York. 
 His unfortunate occupancy of the Mayorality at this season 
 of crookedness in official positions of so many men connected 
 with the city government of New York, cast a dark cloud 
 upon the bright future of this man, which was little anticipated 
 by him or his many friends, causing his latter days to be 
 ended in obscurity. John T. Hoffman who had been Recorder 
 of the city, and then Mayor, had been elected as Governor 
 of the State of New York, 1869-72. 
 
 Booth's Theatre was on Twenty-third Street corner of 
 Sixth Avenue. I saw Barrett, Bangs, Milnes Levick and E, 
 L. Davenport at this house in Julius Caesar in 1876. Laurence 
 Barrett was Caius Cassius, F. C. Bangs was Marcus Antonius, 
 E. L. Davenport was Marcus Junius Brutus, Milnes Levick as 
 Casius Julius Caesar. E. K. Collier was Octavius Caesar, 
 Mary Wells was Portia, wife to Brutus, Rose Rand as Cai- 
 phurina, wife of Caesar. John McCollough also appeared 
 here. 
 
 I can confidently say that I saw nearly every one of the 
 actors and actresses, as well as opera singers, that I have 
 mentioned in the foregoing. I also heard Thalberg, Pianist, 
 play in a hall on Broadway just above the Metropolitan Hotel. 
 I think it was called Chickering Hall. Around on Mercer 
 Street, near Houston, in the vicinity of Firemen's Hall, was 
 the stable of Horace Jones, and where Brokaw's clothing store 
 now is, Lafayette Place and Eighth Street, was the stable of 
 Underbill and Fleet, both of whom came from Oyster Bay, 
 Long Lsland, and were great horsemen. Commodore Vander- 
 bilt's home was on the corner of Mercer Street and Washing- 
 ton Place, his stable adjoining, the New York Hotel, built 
 in 1847, being directly opposite, which occupied the whole 
 block front on Broadway, Washington Place and Waverley 
 Place. It was a great home during the war for Southern 
 sympathizers; Langley Bruce, one of the great wits of the day, 
 made his home at this hotel, which was kept by Hiram Crans- 
 ton. 
 
no BACKWARD GLANCES 
 
 St. Bartholomew's Qiurch was on the corner of Fourth 
 Street and Lafayette Place. Just above it was the Astor 
 Library, while the Mercantile Library was in Clinton Hall, 
 location of the Astor Place riots in 1849 against McCready, 
 the English actor, by the friends of Ed Forrest, the American 
 actor, in Astor Place, corner of Eighth Street, opposite the 
 old Parrish Mansion on the corner of Lafayette. The old 
 specialist. Doctor John Grey, resided next door to the Parrish 
 home; corner of Broadway and Fourth Street was the home 
 of Phillip Hone, Hope Chapel being just above on Broadway, 
 on which was the great promenade, from Chambers to For- 
 teenth Street and later to Twenty-third Street. This was the 
 boundary for many years. Hoopskirts were worn by the 
 women, and if two came abreast, a large part of the side- 
 walk was taken up ; and when a stage stopped to take in a lady, 
 passersby would at once come to a halt to see how she man- 
 aged to get through the stage door. Some of them would 
 tip the skirt to one side, while others would compress it on 
 both sides. It was a difficult undertaking, with all the Peeping 
 Toms around, and when they got in only three could sit on 
 each side, where six men could sit. Broadway from Bowling 
 Green to Fourteenth Street was paved with a smooth block of 
 stone called the Reuss pavement, dangerous for man or beast. 
 It was channelled, but eventually removed, the Belgian Block 
 taking its place. The long black charcoal wagons which you 
 would see all over the city were quite a distinctive feature, as 
 also the crying out of the chimney sweeps. '1 
 
 [ The Brevoort House was on the corner of Fifth Avenuc 
 and Eighth Street, where it is at present, largely patronized 
 by Englishmen, especially captains of the English steamers. 
 Dickel's Riding Academy was on Fifth Avenue near Thirty- 
 seventh Street. The first elevated road was a crude affair built 
 on stilts over the sidewalk on both sides of Greenwich Street 
 from the Battery to Houston Street. The propelling power 
 was an endless cable running over a wheel or drum at each 
 end. It was not a success until Cyrus W. Field acquired it 
 from its projectors and put on small locomotives. It was then 
 
BACKWARD GLANCES lu 
 
 extended to Thirtieth Street, New York Central and Hudson 
 River Railroad Depot, Ninth and Tenth Avenues. 
 
 The style of walking by some women in 1868-69 was 
 reaHy vile. It was called the Grecian Bend. It was seen at 
 this time in all its glory or absurdity. Described, viz. high 
 heeled shoes, head thrown back, bust protruded, bustle ditto. 
 In this position they looked like the letter S. They assumed 
 a sickening mincing gait and attracted every passerby. It 
 did not last long. Horace Lingard sang a song at the Comique 
 Theatre called the Grecian Bend. 
 
 Prominent merchants and bankers you could meet most 
 any morning on their way down town. A large man with a 
 red moustache and side whiskers would be seen every day 
 walking down on the west side of Broadway, which was 
 called the two shilling side, on his way to his office, which 
 was on the north side of Prince, just west of Broadway, being 
 a one-story building. This was John Jacob Astor, who re- 
 sided northwest corner of Fifth Avenue and Thirty-third 
 Street. The little old gentleman passing in a one-horse coupe, 
 the horse attached being a handsome brown mottled, and the 
 occupant of the vehicle distinguished by his spectacles with 
 side as well as front glasses, he carrying under his arm an 
 inflated rubber ring cushion, was the greatly revered citizen 
 and philanthropist, Peter Cooper. You would often meet 
 Samuel J. Tilden on horseback riding up Fifth Avenue to 
 the park. Frank Copcutt, who was a batchelor and was of an 
 old New York family of rosewood and mahogany importers 
 you would likely meet almost daily either on Fifth Avenue or 
 Broadway. He was a thorough exquisite in appearance, being 
 immaculate in his dress, carrying a gold headed riding whip, 
 with moustache and side whiskers dyed a jet black, and spec- 
 tacles on, he would be mounted on a grand long-tailed black 
 horse. Being a most accomplished equestrian, attention was 
 attracted to him at once, which he seemed to rather enjoy.] 
 
CHAPTER ELEVEN 
 
 "^R^ JJf^ ANY queer characters were met on this long 
 
 .^ j^k /M thoroughfare. The long lanky built man, ap- 
 
 j ^^ I proaching, taking his morning walk, getting a 
 
 JL ▼ JL little round shouldered, is the celebrated old 
 pugilist, Tom Hyer, who fought Yankee Sullivan and proved 
 the victory Hyer was quite a horseman, and in his late years 
 owned the old gray mare, Lady Blanch, the first foal that 
 Abdallah got. She was raised by John Tredwell, of West 
 Hills, Long Island, and accompanied the slate-colored Ameri- 
 can (Boston Blue) over to England. She died in 1855 at 
 Sim Hoagland's, East New York, he being her last owner. 
 
 (The pompous and fat individual close behind Hyer, also 
 taking his morning walk, is old Brown, the well-known sex- 
 ton of Grace Church at Tenth Street and Broadway. He was 
 an undertaker by day, a caterer and major domo who sup- 
 plied the supper and summoned the carriages at private parties 
 or weddings at night, and the grand usher, in his swallowtail 
 coat, of the church on Sunday. He was a most proficient man 
 at each one of these callings. Old Doctor Townsend, who was 
 formerly from Albany, with his long white beard and hair, 
 dressed in immaculate white, with a white hat, carrying an 
 umbrella of the same color, attracted much attention ; as also 
 another doctor, a large, tall man with long gray hair and 
 beard, dressed in black clothes, generally velvet, with ruffled 
 shirt front with cuffs, knee breeches, low shoes and silver 
 buckles on same. His coat was generally very long. He wore 
 spectacles and a cocked hat on his head. It was surmised that 
 he dressed this way for notoriety, being a quack. The Blue 
 Man was also met on many occasions, his complexion being a 
 queer freak of nature. The lime kiln man was also quite a 
 curiosity. He was always covered with lime, being a tall and 
 uncouth figure and usually dressed same as a laborer, being 
 bespattered with lime. His long hair was matted with the 
 
 112 
 
BACKWARD GLANCES 113 
 
 same material, as also his face. Though he looked as if he 
 was in great poverty, this singular mortal was not a profes- 
 sional beggar as he never asked for alms on the street or 
 anywhere else and he never noticed anyone who looked upon 
 him with pity, but stalked right along entirely unconscious of 
 all surroundings. ) No one knew from whence he came. He 
 was found dead some years afterward in a lime kiln on the 
 Hudson River, where he generally slept. The little sawed 
 off Irish dwarf, Little Mac, was often visible on the street. 
 His first appearance as a freak was at Bryants Minstrels. His 
 last to date was carrying a sign board advertising a restaurant, 
 as I saw him in 191 3 on Prospect Avenue in the Bronx. 
 Quite a unique character was the Straw Man. He had a 
 farm wagon with shelvings on it loaded with straw and a 
 poor looking white horse attached, and would slowly meander 
 down on the east side as far as Park Row, calling out "Stroh, 
 Stroh," but I never saw him sell a sheaf, still he kept it up for 
 years. It was at that time used for mattresses. Another 
 character was Marcus Cicero Stanley. He had red hair and 
 beard and was a man quite well known around town. Josh Bill- 
 ings with long black hair, and Jeems Pipes with his mop head 
 of liair were often met, as well as Mark Twain. 
 
 (The large brown stone mansion on Broadway, east side 
 just south of Thirteenth Street, was the residence of Judge 
 Roosevelt, and the brick house on the west corner of Four- 
 teenth Street was also the home of the Roosevelt family. 
 Fourteenth Street, both east and west, was occupied by private 
 residences, except the old Penniman brown stone house be- 
 tween Broadway and University Place. This became the 
 celebrated Maison Doree, an elegantly fitted up restaurant and 
 ice cream saloon with gilt entrance, Willim M. Evarts' house 
 being on the northwest corner of Second Avenue, while Moses 
 H. Grinnell lived on the northeast corner of Fifth Avenue, 
 Daniel Drew lived on the southwest corner of Seventeenth 
 Street and Broadway, Robert Goelet being his neighbor in the 
 brick house on the northwest corner. On the corner of Fif- 
 teenth Street and Union Square Dr. Cheever's church stood. 
 
114 BACKWARD GLANCES 
 
 The old Tiffany store is now on the site. Next door to Dr. 
 Cheever's church on the west side of Union Square was lo- 
 cated the Spingler Institute. It was subsequently changed 
 into a hotel and called the Spingler House, being run by Coe 
 of the Revere House. Union Square Park had an iron fence 
 around it with large gates at each end and on the sides. Tne 
 equestrian Washington monument was erected on the Four- 
 teenth Street side about 1855 to 1856. The Stuyvesant pear 
 tree, which was quite historic of early New York, was on 
 the northeast corner of Third Avenue and Thirteenth Street, 
 It had an iron fence around it. The new Parrish residence 
 was on the east corner of Seventeenth Street and Broadway, 
 while further east on the same block was the grand brown 
 stone mansion of Doctor Moffatt used as Fenian headquarters, 
 the Everett House being adjoining, which was finished m 
 1855-56. Mrs. Haight's grand house was on the corner of 
 Fifteenth Street and Fifth Avenue, later occupied by Marshall 
 O. Roberts. Gordon S. Burnham, who gave the Webster 
 statue to the city, being in Central Park, resided on the south- 
 west corner of Eighteenth Street and Fifth Avenue, while on 
 the northeast corner resided August Belmont, formerly United 
 States Minister to The Hague. His picture gallery was in 
 the rear, directly over the entrance to his stables. Robert 1-. 
 Stuart was on the northwest corner of Twentieth Street ; 
 Francis B. Cutting, corner of Twenty-first Street and Fifth 
 Avenue, east side ; The Union Club on the west side of Fifth 
 Avenue, northwest corner of Twenty-first Street ; Peter Got;- 
 let had the whole block front on Broadway, Nineteenth to 
 Twentieth Street ; his large brick house stood in the center, 
 his barns being in the rear, where he kept fancy poultry, cat- 
 tle and horses; James Lenox lived on the corner of Fifth 
 Avenue and Twelfth Street. The St. Germain Hotel was on 
 Twenty-second Street, Broadway and Fifth Avenue. It was 
 erected about 1856-57. The Flatiron Building now covers the 
 site. All of the streets crossing Broadway from Fourteenth 
 Street to Fourth and Sixth Avenues up to this point were 
 lined with rows of four-story brown stone houses. Mr. 
 
BACKWARD GLANCES 115 
 
 George Irving, an old New Yorker, lately residing at the Fifth 
 Avenue Hotel, resided in East Twenty-second Street. I saw 
 his uncle, Washington Irving, the great historian, at this place 
 in 1857, who died November 28, 1859, and was buried in 
 Sleepy Hollow Cemetery at Tarrytown, New York. He was 
 born at 131 William Street and resided for many years corner 
 of Ann Street and William. Madison Square is now reached, 
 with its beautiful foliage. There was a fence around this 
 park for many years. Some grand houses were on Fifth 
 Avenue from Twenty-third to Thirty-fourth Street, on the 
 northwest corner of which Dr. Townsend, of sarsaparilla fame, 
 had erected the finest house in New York. It was really the 
 show place of the city. The house cost about $250,000. It 
 was demolished to make room for the new Stewart marble 
 palace, which in its turn was obliterated. The Knickerbocker 
 Trust Company edifice now covers the site. Hardly any resi- 
 dences were above this point, as the Rutgers' School was at 
 Forty-first Street and Fifth Avenue. I took a long walk up 
 there on a Sunday afternoon in 1858 to see the corner stone 
 of the Roman Catholic Cathedral laid by Archbishop Hughes. 
 The lower part of this grand edifice is constructed of marble 
 procured at Pleasantville, Westchester County. It was called 
 snow flake quarry marble. The Colored Orphan Asylum was 
 on Madison Avenue, about Forty-fourth Street. It was burned 
 down by the rioters in the draft riots of 1863. 
 
 The author of this article saw the fire at 1190 Broadway, 
 near Twenty-ninth Street, where the first drawing was taking 
 place to get soldiers for the army, July 11, 1863. This build- 
 ing was also destroyed by the rioters, as also the factory, 
 corner of Twenty-first Street and Second Avenue, Haines 
 Brothers piano factory. It was then being used for the mak- 
 ing of guns by George Opdyke, who was mayor of the city. 
 He lived on Fifth Avenue near Nineteenth Street. The 
 author's name was in the wheel three times, but was never 
 drawn. The Benjamin Nathan residence was a four-story 
 brown stone house on the south side of West Twenty-third 
 Street near Fifth Avenue. Mr. Nathan was found murdered 
 
ii6 BACKWARD GLANCES 
 
 here. This was July 29, 1870. The Rutgers College was a 
 long brick building painted yellow and took up the whole 
 block front on the east side of Fifth Avenue between Forty- 
 first and Forty-second Streets. William Butler Duncan's 
 residence is corner of Eighth Street and Fifth Avenue, No. 
 I, west side. Alfred B. Darling's was near Twenty-fifth 
 Street, Mrs. Paran Stevens near Twenty-seventh Street, the 
 Hendricks family at Twenty-eighth, Francis Skiddy corner 
 of Thirtieth, Peter Moller, the great sugar refiner, at Thirty- 
 second, northeast corner, Mr. Schenck, 323 Fifth Avenue, W. 
 B. Astor corner of Thirty-fourth Street and John Jacob Astor 
 corner of Thirty-third Street, both west side. The Waldorf 
 Astoria Hotel now covers the site of both of these residences. 
 John H. Harbeck resided near Twenty-seventh Street on 
 Fifth Avenue and Frank Work on Twenty-sixth Street op- 
 posite Madison Square Park. 
 
CHAPTER TWELVE 
 
 FLEETWOOD Park came into existence at a later 
 date. It was just across the Harlem River (Mac- 
 Combs Dam Bridge) at Morrissania, being laid out 
 on the old Morris Manor place, at about 164th Street, 
 opening in the early part of 1870 and the closing race was on 
 October 23, 1897. I believe that I saw the opening and the 
 closing of this favorite old track, it being close to the city it 
 could readily be reached, so that the attendance was generally 
 good. I can well remember light road wagons and carriages 
 on their way there getting choked up at the entrance to the 
 bridge, which was under the care of that much respected old 
 police officer, Charley Isaacs, who would always untangle the 
 jam and get everyone over safely without a smashup. He 
 was well known and had the respect of all the road drivers, 
 and at Christmas time was remembered in a very substantial 
 way by them all. Some of the greatest trots that ever took 
 place came off on this track under the bluff. I will only men- 
 tion a few of the principal ones. John R. Gentry against Star 
 Pointer, the former winning by a close margin. The great 
 three-minute class in which Phallas, who belonged to J. I. 
 Case of Racine, Wisconsin, was entered, he being looked upon 
 as a sure winner by his western adherents, but a little bay 
 horse who had been bought at an auction sale was also entered. 
 He belonged to Nathan Strauss and was driven by John Mur- 
 phy. His name was Majolica. The latter winning the race. 
 Time was about 2:17. Another prominent race which took 
 place there was a fast class one, in which Phil Thompson 
 Lucy Gernent, Jay Eye See and others competed. Phil 
 Thompson was driven by John Murphy, and Gernent by 
 Charlie Green. The former choked at the quarter pole, 
 swerved and fell down, the mare going right over him, re- 
 sulting in a bad mix-up. Roth drivers were quite badly hurt 
 and it was a long time before they could drive again. Jay 
 
 117 
 
ii8 BACKWARD GLANCES 
 
 Eye See was also in this race, which he won with ease. Ed- 
 ward and Dick Swivler owned by Frank Work trotted a mile 
 on this track in 2:16^, which time knocked everything on 
 record up to that date. William H. Vanderbilt drove Maud S. 
 and Aldine a mile in public here in 2:15^, which was in 
 1883. I saw Mr. Vanderbilt drive Aldine and Early Rose 
 about that time one afternoon about four o'clock. While 
 driving the reverse way of the track on the first turn he was 
 run into by a trainer driving a single horse to a skeleton 
 wagon. Mr. Vanderbilt was thrown out and knocked sense- 
 less, but being covered with sealskin robes, escaped any con- 
 tusion. He was picked up by a very popular and afifable man 
 of that day, Mr. John Quinn, who had a stable in 125th 
 Street near Madison Avenue. On being taken to the Club 
 house, he quickly recovered and was taken to his home cor- 
 ner of Thirty-ninth Street and Fifth Avenue in a carriage. 
 I think this accident made him a shade timid, as I rarely saw 
 him driving after this event. The horses were not hurt, being 
 quickly caught by the stableman on the track. Many noted 
 fast ones turned the old Fleetwood Track, such as St. Julian, 
 Rarus, Edwin Forest, Santa Claus, Joe Patchen, Clingstone, 
 Henry, Great Eastern, Geora, The Black Wonder Guy from 
 Cleveland, who was a whirlwind, Jay Eye See, Steve Max- 
 well, Maud S., Sunol, and Startle. Rarus trotted a race here 
 under saddle against Great Eastern in 1877. Eastern won in 
 
 2:i5M- 
 
 I must not forget to refer to the sleighing carnivals which 
 
 were enjoyed by New York and Brooklyn horsemen. As a 
 general thing, most all the best horses were in the winter sea- 
 son sent out on Long Island to be kept by the farmers, both 
 in Kings, Queens, and Suffolk Counties. Carl Burr's place 
 at Comae was in the latter county, but a good reserve was 
 generally kept for sleighing purposes, the old Bloomingdale 
 Road being the principal snowpath on Manhattan Island, the 
 road houses being Burnham's, The Abbey and Jones' Clare- 
 mont. Harlem Lane came in a little later, the Atlantic Hotel 
 being on the corner of 125th Street, Bertholf's at 146th Street, 
 
BACKWARD GLANCES 119 
 
 Freeman's at the bridge, with Florence's directly opposite. 
 John Barry kept the latter hostelry for many years at a later 
 period, and across the bridge you got on Central Avenue, 
 which became a great speeding ground. The sheds at Gabe 
 Case's, Judge Smith's and Sibbons, on a good snow fall were 
 always full, with the people standing on the piazzas seeing the 
 trotters race by. Many of the downtown horsemen would 
 cross the ferry and join the Brooklyn contingent, up Fulton 
 Avenue, through the toll gate at Bedford, then to East New 
 York, leading past Whelan's to John I. Snedicor's Hotel. 
 This celebrated place was noted for its suppers and balls dur- 
 ing the winter season. There was always a crowd and mucli 
 difficulty was experienced in having your horses cared for ii 
 you arrived late. It was really the mecca for the sleighride 
 parties and during the sleighing season, which sometimes 
 lasted several months, a dance was given every night in the 
 large ball room on the second floor of the house. The music 
 and suppers were of the best obtainable and Heidsieck flowed 
 like water all night. Those desiring a more extended ride 
 would go on to Jamaica stopping at the well-known road 
 house of Jim Remsen and that of Cale Weeks. It was open 
 house all night at all of these places and along toward day 
 break the revellers would race home to Brooklyn or to Fulton 
 Ferry by those who had come from New York to the accom- 
 panying sweet cadence of the crisping snow and the numerous 
 strings of bells on the horses. Many a New Yorker was 
 observed straggling over the ferry by day light and very often 
 on the bare ground, having been caught in a thaw. You 
 would see many four-horse teams attached to large family 
 sleighs covered with strings of bells around their necks and 
 over their backs, and many of these teams were speedy. 
 Extreme cold weather sometimes prevailed, which necessitated 
 the merry makers being well covered with Buffalo skins, these 
 being in general use and could be bought very cheaply. 
 
 During the last winter of the existence of these carnivals 
 the cold was so intense that a party from Love Lane, Brooklyn, 
 arrived home at the stable only to find the driver on the box 
 
120 BACKWARD GLANCES 
 
 seat frozen to death and holding the reins in his hands, he 
 being the son of the proprietor of the stable who owned the 
 sleigh and horses. The party was entirely oblivious that they 
 were taken to their destination safely by instinct of the good 
 horse with Death as their driver. 
 
CHAPTER THIRTEEN 
 
 THE City of New York during the draft riots faced 
 the worst situation probably that it ever encountered. 
 The government started the draft, which was the 
 first experience of this kind that the people of New 
 York had ever faced before, at a most inopportune time. Re- 
 cruiting had diminished and the only way to fill the ranks of 
 our army, which was being decimated, was to resort to this 
 extreme. The State Militia were out of the city on a three 
 months' enlistment. The rough element took advantage of 
 this and used the drafting as an excuse for all kinds of lawless- 
 ness. Men were hung to lamp posts, robbery in every shape 
 occurred, houses were broken in right in the day time with 
 their occupants at home, and goods stolen without anyone to 
 stop them. The police were perfectly powerless. I stood on 
 the corner of Wall and South Streets and saw a lot of hood- 
 lums march past grabbing people right on the sidewalk to 
 join them. No negro dared to show himself, so all that could 
 do so, got out of the city to Weeksville, which is in the lower 
 part of Brooklyn. No street cars were running for three days. 
 The writer being at Twenty-third Street on the second day of 
 the riot there was no way for him to get to the ferry so as to 
 cross to Brooklyn, so he got across the upper ferry to Green- 
 point and reached his destination by that route. A floating 
 elevator was burned in the Atlantic Dock, and as a volunteer 
 fireman, the author was there with his company. It being 
 about II :i5 at night, he carried a pistol for the first and only 
 time in his life for protection. 
 
 At last the government brought a detachment of regulars 
 here. They landed foot of Eighteenth Street East River and 
 came up to Second Avenue, where they met the rioters between 
 Twentieth and Twenty-first Streets directly opposite the Haines 
 Brothers Piano Factory, and immediately gave them a volley. 
 This rather dampened their ardor and stopped the riot in that 
 
 121 
 
122 BACKWARD GLANCES 
 
 part of the city until the police department could get in shape 
 again from their utter demoralization, (July 13-16, 1863). 
 
 On every twelfth of July there always occurred for many 
 years trouble between the Orangemen and those opposed to 
 them, who did not care to see the battle of the Boyne com- 
 memorated, which took place in Ireland over two hundred 
 years ago. Fighting in the streets and parks was in vogue in 
 many parts of the city and the State Militia was often called 
 upon to subdue same as the police did not appear to be able to 
 meet the situation. The last riot was in 1871 and 1872. 
 
 I would mention here a little history relative to the New 
 York City Hall referred to in previous chapters. When the 
 City Hall was erected in 181 1 it was considered a long way 
 up town, really in the country, and to cut down the expense 
 of building it all of marble it was thought that the rear of 
 same would rarely be seen, therefore a cheaper material 
 should be used there in place of the marble which is on the 
 front and two ends. Brown stone from Bellville, New Jersey, 
 was used to fill the bill and to make it correspond in color with 
 the balance of the edifice, which had remained as originally 
 designed for one hundred vears, the rear was painted white 
 a few years ago (1890). (^Besides Battery Park at the south 
 and Central Park at the north end, the only real breathing 
 spots for New Yorkers were the Bowling Green, foot of 
 Broadway, City Hall Park, Broadway, Chambers Street and 
 Park Row, St. Johns Park, Hudson and Varick Streets, Wash- 
 ington Park, Waverly Place and Fourth Street, Union Square, 
 Fourth Avenue, Broadway and Seventeenth Street, Gramercy 
 Park, Irving Place, Twentieth and Twenty-first Streets, Stuy- 
 vesant Park, Second Avenue, Fifteenth to Seventeenth Streets, 
 Madison Square Park, Broadway, Madison Avenue and Twen- 
 ty-sixth Street, Reservoir Park, Fifth Avenue, Forty-second 
 Street and Sixth Avenue, Hamilton Park, Third Avenue and 
 Sixty-sixth Street, Tompkins Park, Eighth, Tenth and Ave- 
 nue A, Jones Woods, foot of Seventy-second Street and East 
 River, all located on Manhattan Island. 
 
 In the fifties New Yorkers, if any way possible, would 
 
BACKWARD GLANCES 123 
 
 get out of town for two weeks' vacation in the summer time, 
 by those in moderate circumstances, while the wealthy would 
 stay away the months of July and August. It was only the 
 extreme rich who could afford a country place in the summer 
 and a four-story brown stone house in the city for their winter 
 home. The latter had elegant places on the east bank of the 
 Hudson River as far up as Garrisons, also grand places at 
 Newport. Many were on Long Island, Staten Island, and on 
 the East River from Astoria to Throggs Neck, and on the 
 Sound at New Rochelle, where the Iselin family and Lelands 
 had grand mansions. The Wooliey's, Buckley's and Soutter's 
 resided at Astoria, while the Dickey's Watson's Spofiford's, 
 Vyse's, and Adees lived at Hunts Point and the Havemeyer's, 
 Barreto's, Caswell's, Lorillard, Huntington, and Zerega's were 
 on the same shore further east. The watering place hotels 
 nearest New York were the Neptune House at New Rochelle, 
 Pavilion at Glen Cove, Pavilion at Far Rockaway, Long 
 Island, Pavilion at New Brighton, Staten Island, Bath Beach 
 Hotel at Bath Beach, Long Island, Dominy's and Surf Hotel 
 at Fire Island, Argyle and American at Babylon, Stellen- 
 werths and the Pavilion at Islip. The LaTorreate House was 
 at Bergen Point, New Jersey. The Rutherford Park Hotel 
 was on the Passaic River near Passaic, while small boarding 
 houses abounded in all these localities. The Fashionable places 
 for the well-to-do were Cozzens, and Roes, Hotel at West 
 Point, Watchhill on the Sound, Sharon, Cooperstown, Lake 
 George, Lenox, Saratoga and Ballston, New York, while Long 
 Branch, Cape May and Old Point Comfort were the principal 
 seashore places. Long Branch being the closest to New York. 
 The principal hotels there were the United States, Howlands, 
 Mansion House, and Conovers. The easiest way to get there 
 was by boat to Sandy Hook. The boats were the "Alice 
 Price," "Long Branch" and "Highland Light." At the point 
 of the hook, you would take stages with wide tired wheels, 
 taking a ride four miles along the shore. At Atlantic High- 
 lands near the lighthouse there were several summer hotels. 
 
124 BACKWARD GLANCES 
 
 Lake Mahopac was also quite a summer resbrt, the hotels be- 
 ing Thompsons, Deans, and the Pavilion. / 
 
 At other parts of this work I have mentioned some of the 
 daily papers of the late fifties, but will here give them in de- 
 tail as I remember them. The Journal of Commerce was on 
 the corner of Beaver and Hanover Streets, and was edited by 
 a Mr. Stone, who resided in Brooklyn. The Courier and 
 Enquirer office was in Pearl Street between Wall and Pine, 
 opposite the great printing house of George F. Nesbitt and 
 Company. The editor of this paper was James Watson Webb. 
 In politics it was Republican, while the Journal of Commerce 
 was Democratic. In the late fifties or early sixties, the Courier 
 and Enquirer merged with the New York World, the editor 
 of same being Manton Marble. The New York Morning ana 
 Evening Express was in Nassau Street corner of Wall and 
 was edited by James and Erastus Brooks. The politics of this 
 paper tendered rather toward the Native Americans or Know 
 Nothings, later it became a Democratic paper. 
 
 The Evening Post edited by William Cullen Bryant was 
 corner of Nassau and Liberty Streets. It was Republican in 
 politics. The Commercial Advertiser was on Fulton Street, 
 southwest corner of Nassau, the New York Herald being 
 directly opposite on Nassau Street, edited by James Gordon 
 Bennett. The Commercial was Republican in politics. The 
 Herald was independent and in April 1861 when everyone was 
 supposed to show their colors, a mob of men surrounded the 
 Herald as well as the Journal of Commerce office and forced 
 them to put out the American flag. The New York Sun was 
 corner of Frankfort and Nassau Streets, edited by Charles 
 A. Dana, Republican in politics. The New York Tribune was 
 on Nassau corner of Spruce, Horace Greeley being its editor. 
 This paper was also Republican, really abolition in its senti- 
 ments, and before the war it was so strong in its articles in 
 favor of abolition, that many people in New York City not 
 coinciding in its views would hardly sit on the same side of a 
 car with a man who they saw perusing the New York Tribune, 
 and it was only a few years after this when Horace Greeley 
 
BACKWARD GLANCES 125 
 
 became candidate of the Democratic party for President of 
 the United States, which was in 1872, that those who reviled 
 him years before walked up to the polls and voted for him. 
 During the presidential canvass he was caricatured in the 
 most cruel way by a noted cartoonist of the times in a weekly 
 periodical, and within about forty-eight hours after the elec- 
 tion in which he was most disastrously beaten I saw him 
 standing on Forty-second Street with his light colored coat on 
 looking in the gutter, just in front of the Grand Central Depot, 
 not a soul with him, and my heart went out to the good old 
 man. He died within three weeks of this time broken in 
 mind and body. The illustrated weekly papers were Harper's 
 Weekly, Frank Leslie's and Police Gazette. The New York 
 Ledger, a story paper, came into existence in the early fifties, 
 being edited by Robert Bonner. The Sunday papers were the 
 New York Mercury, Sunday Times, Sunday Courier. The 
 New York Daily Times was not as prominent as it is to-day. 
 It was later edited by George Jones and Henry J. Raymond, 
 who laid the foundation of its present greatness. The Brook- 
 lyn Eagle and the Brooklyn Union and Times were the only 
 papers across the river of any account. The former was edited 
 by Mr. Isaac Van Anden, being Democratic in politics. The 
 two latter were Republican. The German paper was the 
 Staats Zeitung and the French Des Etats Unis. 
 
 New York has been noted for having many very short 
 streets, which are really not known to many people who have 
 resided here all their life time. The shortest one of all is 
 directly opposite the police station house in Oak Street, just 
 off New Pearl Street, running from the latter street to Oak 
 Street. It is about thirty feet in length and is called Chestnui 
 Street. Edgar Street is the next shortest, from Trinity Place 
 to Greenwich Street above Morris. Weehawken Street runs 
 for one block from Christopher to West Tenth Street, being 
 the first street from West Street. Jones Street runs from 
 West Fourth Street to Bleecker Street, named for Dr. Gard- 
 ner Jones. There are two Jones Alleys of one block in length, 
 one of them runs from Bond Street to Great Jones Street, 
 
126 BACKWARD GLANCES 
 
 directly east of Broadway, the latter was named by Judge 
 Samuel Jones, the other from Front Street to South Street, 
 between Old Slip and Wall Street. The latter is called Jones 
 Lane. Extra Place is in First Street, just east of Bowery. 
 
 Judge Samuel Jones was the great great grandfather of 
 the writer. He and Doctor Gardner Jones married sisters, 
 daughters of Elbert Haring, a large land owner in Greenwich 
 Village. The upper part of Bleecker Street was called Her- 
 ring Street (Haring) for many years after the family of this 
 name. Cornelia Street, Fourth to Bleecker, got its name from 
 Cornelia Haring, wife of Samuel Jones. 
 
 Among others was Hancock Street, Bleecker near Mc- 
 Dougall; Marietta Street, Bleecker Street opposite Downing; 
 Courtlandt Alley, Leonard Street to Canal; Jersey Street, 
 Crosby to Mulberry Street; Catharine Lane, Broadway to 
 Laffayette Street; Theatre Alley, Ann Street to Beekman; 
 Hamilton Street, from Catharine to Market ; City Hall Street, 
 between Pearl and Duane; Mechanic Street, between Cherry 
 and Monroe; Birmingham Street, between Madison and 
 Henry ; Congress Street, from King to West Houston ; Caro- 
 line Street, Duane to Jay, just east of West Street; Mission 
 Place, Worth to Park Street; Patchin Place, Tenth Street 
 between Sixth Avenue and Greenwich Avenue ; Milligan Place, 
 on Sixth Avenue between Tenth and Eleventh Streets. Ben- 
 son Street is east of Broadway at Worth Street. East Street 
 runs from Grand to Houston, along the East River. Tinpot 
 Alley runs from Broadway to Church Street, directly op- 
 posite to Exchange Place. Temple Street is west of Broad- 
 way just above Trinity Church, running from Thames to 
 Cedar Street. Albany Street runs from Greenwich to West, 
 between Carlisle and Cedar. Coenties Alley runs from Pearl 
 to Stone, opposite Coenties Slip. Dover Street runs from 
 Bowery to Pell Street. It is in the Chinese quarter. Gay 
 Street runs from Waverly Place to Christopher Street. Shin- 
 bone Alley runs from Bleecker to Bond Street, just east of 
 Broadway ; Pell Street, between Mott Street and Bowery ; 
 Liberty Place, Maiden Lane to Liberty Street ; York Street, 
 
BACKWARD GLANCES 127 
 
 West Broadway below Canal to St. Johns Lane rear of St. 
 Johns Church; Staple Street, Duane to Harrison, west of 
 Hudson Street; Hall Street, rear of Tompkins Market at 
 Seventh Street ; Dutch Street, between Fulton and John ; 
 Jacob Street, between Frankfort and Ferry Streets, Carlisle 
 Street, Greenwich to West, next to Rector Street. 
 
 The large markets were quite a feature of old times. 
 Housewives would visit them and take home enough to last 
 for a week. Among them was Franklin Market in Old Slip, 
 Fulton Market at the foot of Fulton Street, East River, Cath- 
 arine Market at the foot of Catharine Street, East River, 
 Essex Market, Grand Street, near Ludlow Street, Center 
 Market, on Broome corner of Center, Washington Market, 
 foot of Vesey Street, North River, Clinton Market, corner of 
 Spring and West Streets, Jeflferson Market, Sixth Avenue and -. 
 Eighth Street, Tompkins, Third Avenue and Seventh Street. /' 
 
CHAPTER FOURTEEN 
 
 RELATIVE to graveyards, most all of them have 
 been obliterated, except those in churchyards, like 
 Trinity, St. Paul's, St. John's, St. Mark's and the 
 Roman Catholic Cathedral in Prince Street. There 
 was one corner of Carmine and Hudson, which is now a park. 
 Another was on East Houston Street near the Bowery next to 
 Fisher and Bird's marble yard. St. Augustine's Church is now 
 on the site. Another was the corner of Houston and Forsyth, 
 tenement houses are now on that site. Still another was on the 
 north side of First Street, east of Second Avenue. The 
 graves were all removed and tenements built up on the site. 
 There were also a few graves on Second Avenue, east side 
 between First and Second Streets, in the rear of some tene- 
 ments, which have never been removed. The gravestones were 
 knocked down and some vestige of them still remains to this 
 day. A little Jewish graveyard still exists on New Bowery 
 just off Chatham Square, south side in rear of some tene- 
 ments. It can be seen from the elevated road. The New 
 York City Marble Cemetery in Second Street, between First 
 and Second Avenues still exists and interments are sometimes 
 made there in old family vaults. A marble monument now 
 stands therein to the memory of Preserved Fish of an old New 
 York family. The same company, New York Marble Ceme- 
 tery, owns another one situated in center of block between Sec- 
 ond and Third Street, the entrance being on the west side of 
 Second Avenue, solid wooden gates obscuring any view of 
 the interior. There is a little graveyard on Twenty-first Street, 
 west side in rear of a large dry goods house on Sixth Avenue, 
 also one corner of Sixth Avenue and Eleventh Street, west side. 
 :' The disposition of ashes and garbage was quite a problem, 
 until the present disposal of same was instituted. The garbage 
 was taken by parties who resided on the vacant lots or rocks 
 above Fifty-ninth Street on the west and Forty-second Street 
 
 128 
 
BACKWARD GLANCES 129 
 
 on the east side and from there to Harlem. Many of them kept 
 hogs which roamed on the streets most everywhere. The 
 ashes being used to fill in sunken lots, the householders paid 
 to remove same daily. .Another unique combination was con- 
 nected with this same industry, which you would come across 
 in every part of the city, even on Second and Fifth Avenues. 
 This was a cart of a rather ramshackle condition with a 
 decrepid old woman walking inside of the square bars in front 
 with a strap over her shoulders and two dogs hitched with 
 traces to the axle, one on each side. The traces were old pieces 
 of rope generally. The woman was slovenly dressed, bare- 
 footed in summer, a really repulsive outfit. This aggregation 
 would pull up to the curb, the dogs would sit down on their 
 haunches to rest, while the woman with a hook would delve to 
 the bottom of all the cans on the sidewalk and throw what she 
 wanted in the cart. When loaded, they would start for home 
 in some squalid quarters on the rocks or vacant lots. These 
 people were termed squatters. Woe be to any person that 
 came near the cart in the owner's absence, as the dogs were 
 faithful to their trust. 
 
 The principal military organizations in New York in the 
 late fifties, were the Seventh regiment, Colonel Abram Duryea, 
 later commanded by Colonel Marshall Lefiferts, the Seventy- 
 first regiment. Colonel Vosburg, organized originally as native 
 Americans, the Eighth Washington Grays, Colonel Varian, the 
 Ninth Regiment, Colonel Green later by Colonel James Fiske, 
 the Sixty-ninth Regiment, mostly those of Irish birth or parents, 
 Colonel Michael Corcoran, the Fifty-fifth Regiment or Guard 
 Lafayette were all Frenchmen. The Seventy-ninth were all 
 Scotchmen and on parade wore kilts. The Washington Gray 
 Troop composed largely of butchers with their gray horses 
 was a good organization. The two separate companies were 
 the City and Light Guards. The latter merged into the Sev- 
 enty-first Regiment, Company A. Subsequently the Fifth Reg- 
 iment was organized, composed largely of Germans, and com- 
 manded by Colonel Charles Spencer, a prominent lawyer and 
 II 
 
130 BACKWARD GLANCES 
 
 politician, also the twelfth. The Twenty-second Regiment was 
 organized about the same time, which was rather rivals to the 
 seventh. It was organized first among the insurance and bank 
 men of Wall Street. 
 
CHAPTER FIFTEEN 
 
 AS this work is general in describing, I must not for- 
 get the churches, so will enumerate a few as I 
 remember them at that period, and it is character- 
 istic that most of the Episcopal and Roman Cath- 
 lic Churches are at this time at the same place as they were half 
 a century ago. All the other denominations were migrators, 
 many of them moving three or four times during this period. 
 The principal Episcopal churches were Trinity on Broadway", 
 head of Wall Street, Dr. Berrian being the rector. The steeple 
 of this church was largely visited by sight-seers, it being the 
 highest point in the city.) The sexton charged one shilling, 
 $.12^ for the privilege. It was a favorite spot for newly- 
 married couples, and there were thousands of names cut in the 
 woodwork in the top of the spire and in plages hard to get 
 at, so that they would never be obliterated. (^ St. Paul's on 
 Broadway between Fulton and Vesey Streets, St. George's on 
 Beekman Street corner of Cliff. About i860 St. George's 
 removed to Sixteenth Street corner of Livingston Place oppo- 
 site Stuyvesant Park. Dr. Stephen Tyng was the rector. St. 
 John's, Varick Street opposite St. John's Park. The park is 
 now a freight depot for the New York Central and Hudson 
 River Railroad. St. Stephen's, corner of Broome and Christy 
 Streets, St. Thomas', northwest corner of Broadway and Hous- 
 ton, burned down about 1857. This church is now corner of 
 Fifth Avenue and Fifty-third Street.^ Fire seems to have fol- 
 lowed it as the church here was burned in 1907. A temporary 
 one is now occupied, a new one being in course of erection on 
 the same site. ' St. Mark's on the Bowery, Tenth Street and 
 Second Avenue, Dr. Vinton rector for many years, being suc- 
 ceeded by Dr. Rylance. The graveyard of this church con- 
 tains the remains of Peter Stuyvesant, the last Dutch Governor 
 of New York, and the church has a reverance for the writer 
 as his great-great-great-great-great-grandmother, Margrietje 
 
 131 
 
132 BACKWARD GLANCES 
 
 Cozine, was married there in 1662 by the Reverend Henry Sol- 
 gus, who was pastor at that time, it being the first marriage to 
 take place in the church after its erection. The graveyard 
 which surrounds the edifice came into unpleasant notoriety some 
 thirty-eight years ago by having the body of Alexander T. Stew- 
 art, which had been interred there, stolen. It was a long time 
 before it was believed to have been recovered and it is pre- 
 sumed that it is now buried in the crypt under the cathedral at 
 Garden City, Long Island, which church was erected by Mrs. 
 Stewart as a memorial to her husband in 1877. Among the 
 many others were St. Luke's, Hudson Street near Carmine; 
 Wainwright Memorial, Waverly Place corner of Amos Street, 
 now West Tenth Street ; Church of the Annunciation, Dr. Sam- 
 uel Seabury, rector, south side of Fourteenth Street between 
 Sixth and Seventh Avenues. Salvation Army building is now 
 on the site. Church of the Holy Communion, corner of Sixth 
 Avenue and Twentieth Street, Dr. Muhlenberg, rector ; Cal- 
 vary, corner of Fourth Avenue and Twenty-first Street, Dr. 
 Hawks, rector ; Grace, Broadway and Tenth Street, Dr Hunt- 
 ington, rector; St. Bartholomew's, on Lafayette Place near 
 Fourth Street, Reverend Dr. George Cook, rector. This church 
 has since removed to Forty- fourth Street and Madison Ave- 
 nue. Church of the Ascension, Fifth Avenue corner of Tenth 
 Street; Church of the Heavenly Rest, Forty-fifth Street and 
 Fitfh Avenue; St. Peter's, Twentieth Street near Ninth Ave- 
 nue; St. Ann's, Seventeenth Street near Broadway, subse- 
 quently became church for deaf mutes, Dr. Galhiudet being 
 rector. Trinity Chapel, Twenty-sixth Street near Broadway, 
 Dr. Francis Vinton being rector ; Church of the Holy Apostle, 
 Ninth Avenue and Twenty-eighth Street; Christ's Church, 
 Fifth Avenue and Thirty-fifth Street. There was also an 
 Episcopal Church in Leonard Street in 1855. corner of Church 
 Street, on south side of street. I don't remember its name. 
 Church of the Incarnation, Madison Avenue and Thirty-fifth 
 Street, and Church of the Transfiguration, No. i East Twenty- 
 eighth Street, Dr. Houghton, rector. Also St. James' now at 
 Seventy-third Street and Madison Avenue. Reverend Dr. Ho- 
 
BACKWARD GLANCES 133 
 
 ratio Potter, D. D., was the Episcopal Bishop of the southern 
 New York Diocese in 1855. He was succeeded by Bishop 
 Wainwright. 
 
 (^ Among the Roman CathoHc Churches were St. Peter's on 
 Barclay, corner of Church Street; St. Andrew's, Duane near 
 Chatham; St. Alphonsus's, South Fifth Avenue and Canal; 
 St. Anthony's, Sullivan and Thompson- near Prince Street. The 
 old cathedral was in Mott Street, corner of Prince. Third 
 Street Church at First Avenue ; Second Avenue Church, corner 
 of Second Street; French Church, Twenty-third Street near 
 Sixth Avenue ; St. Joseph's Church, Sixth Avenue West Wash- 
 ington Place; St. Francis Xavier, Sixteenth Street and Sixth 
 Avenue ; St. Bernard's West Fourteenth Street and Sixth Ave- 
 nue ; St. Ann's, Twelfth Street, Rt. Reverend John Hughes was 
 the Archbishop. 
 
 Among the Presbtyerian Churches was the Brick Church 
 on Park Row, Beekman and Nassau Streets, which was sur- 
 rounded by a graveyard. This was torn down and the church 
 moved to Fifth Avenue and Thirty-seventh Street. The site 
 of the old church was occupied by the Times and World Build- 
 ing. Fifth Avenue Presbtyerian, Fifth Avenue and Twelfth 
 Street is still there. Dr. Alexander's, University Place and 
 Tenth Street, they removed to Fifty-fifth Street and Fifth 
 Avenue. Spring Street Presbyterian was on Spring Street 
 near Varick. Dr. Crosby's Church was corner of Fourth Ave- 
 nue and Twenty-second Street, now located corner of Broad- 
 way and 1 14th Street, west side. 
 
 The Methodists had the old John Street Church. Also the 
 Bedford Street. St. Paul's, corner of Fourth Avenue and 
 Twenty-second Street, another on Second Avenue and Four- 
 teenth Street and one in Seventeenth Street near First Ave- 
 nue. The Washington Square Methodist was on Fourth Street 
 Washington Square. There was another Methodist Church 
 in Seventh Avenue near Fourteenth Street. 
 
 Among the Congregational Dutch Churches there was one 
 on Fulton Street comer of William. Dr. Cheever's Church 
 was on Fifteenth Street Union Square. Tiffany Building is 
 
134 BACKWARD GLANCES 
 
 now on the site. The Tabernacle (Dr. Chapin) was on Broad- 
 way above Spring Street, east side. It removed to Sixth Ave- 
 nue, corner of Thirty-fourth Street. Hope Chapel was on 
 Broadway opposite Waverly Place. St. Matthew's, northeast 
 corner of Broome and Elizabeth Streets was the only Lutheran 
 Church in New York. 
 
 The principal Baptist Church was on Second Avenue and 
 Tenth Street. There was another in Broome Street called 
 the First Baptist, Dr. Thomas Anderson was the rector. The 
 latter removed to Thirty-ninth Street and Park Avenue. All 
 Souls Unitarian Church, Dr. Osgood, was the comer of Fourth 
 Avenue and Twentieth Street, called the Beefsteak Church, the 
 color and way the bricks were laid of which it was built 
 resembled a beefsteak. The Quakers had their two meeting 
 houses, one on Sixteenth Street, corner of Livingston Place, 
 opposite Stuyvesant Park, and the other on Twentieth Street 
 near Third Avenue. In Brooklyn, Holy Trinity, Dr. Little- 
 john, rector, was on Clinton Street near Montague. Grace 
 Church was on Grace Court, foot of Remsen Street. St. 
 Ann's was on Washington Street corner of Sand Street, 
 removed to Clinton and Livingston ; St. Peter's on State Street 
 near Nevins ; St. John's corner of Johnson and Washington ; 
 St. Luke's on Clinton Avenue, Dr. Diller, rector, who was lost 
 in the Seawanika disaster. These were all Episcopal Churches. 
 Plymouth Church was in Cranberry Street near Henry. Hen- 
 ry Ward Beecher was the preacher. Church of the Pilgrims, 
 corner of Henry and Remsen Streets. Reverend R. S. Stors 
 was the pastor. Both of these were congregational. The Old 
 Dutch Church was corner of Court and Jerolemon Streets. 
 The Sands Street Methodist was on Sand Street just off Ful- 
 ton Street, and ran through to High Street. The clergyman 
 here was Reverend Charles Fletcher. Dr. Farley'f. Unitarian 
 Church was on Monroe Place, near Pierpont Street. St. 
 James' Roman Catholic Church was on Jay near Concord 
 Street, Reverend Dr. McCloskey, rector. St. Mary's of Star 
 of the Sea was in Court Street below First Place. St. Charles 
 Boromeo was in Sydney Place comer of Livingston Street. 
 
BACKWARD GLANCES 135 
 
 Father Pease was the rector. There was a Methodist Church 
 corner of Johnson Street and Lawrence called the Eel Pot. 
 
 There were many more that I can locate, such as one cor- 
 ner of Jerolomon and Clinton, Amity Street near Henry, Clark 
 Street corner of Monroe Place, but do not remember their 
 pursuation. 
 
 Dr. Cuyler's was on Lafayette Avenue near Hanson Place. 
 Reverend DeWitt Talmage's Tabernacle was built at a later 
 date on State Street corner of Nevins, destroyed by fire. 
 
 The principal libraries were the Astor in Lafayette Place, 
 Society Library, University Place and Thirteenth Street, Ap- 
 prentices' Library, Mechanics Hall, Broadway and Broome 
 Street, Mercantile Library, incorporated in 1823, in Clinton 
 Hall, Astor Place, of which the author was a member in 1855, 
 New York Historical Society Library, Second Avenue and 
 Tenth Street., 
 
CHAPTER SIXTEEN 
 
 AT this part of my narrative I must not forget to 
 mention the names of those that were considered 
 milHonaires fifty-five to sixty years ago in New 
 York. As near as I can remember they come about 
 the two dozen limit, although there were many that were close 
 to it and really counted as such. William B. Astor, Lafayette 
 Place, headed the original list. Then came Stephen Whitney, 
 7 Bowling Green, William H. Aspinwall, Tenth Street and 
 University Place, James Lenox, 53 Fifth Avenue, Peter Loril- 
 lard, George Law, 243 Fifth Avenue, A. T. Stewart, DePau 
 Row, Bleecker Street, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Mercer Street cor- 
 ner of Washington Place, Peter Cooper, Lexington Avenue and 
 Twenty-first Street, Peter Goelet, Broadway and Nineteenth 
 Street, Robert Goelet, Seventeenth Street and Broadway, 
 Moses Taylor, Fifth Avenue and Seventeenth Street, Henry 
 Parish, Broadway and Seventeenth Street, Henry Brevoort, 
 Fifth Avenue and Ninth Street, Jonathan Thorne, 3 Washing- 
 ton Square, W. B. Crosby, Rutgers Place, James Gordon Ben- 
 nett, Paul SpoflFord, John D. Wolfe, Mr. Hendricks, Gardiner 
 Howland, Peter Harmony, Frederick Bronson, Peter Scher- 
 merhom, 61 University Place, S. Lispenard, John Haggerty, 26 
 Bond Street. There were quite a number near or quite mil- 
 lionaires, viz., Hamilton Fish, Second Avenue corner of Sev- 
 enteenth Street, Robert B. Minturn, Stephen B. Munn, Sam 
 Willets, Lafayette Place, Anson G. Phelps, Rutherford Stuy- 
 vesant. Second Avenue and Fifteenth Street, Gourveneur Mor- 
 ris, James Brown, A. C. Kingsland, W. P. Furness, 11 Bond 
 Street, William E. Dodge, Richard K. Haight, Fifth Avenue 
 and Fifteenth Street, Don Alonzo Cushman, Twentieth 
 Street and Ninth Avenue, P. T. Barnum, Eugene Ket- 
 tletas, 37 St. Marks Place, John Q. Jones, John Harbeck, 
 Jonathan Sturges, C. V. S. Roosevelt, Royal Phdps, William 
 Niblo, Dr. Townsend, G. S. Burnham, Cyrus W. Field, Lo- 
 
 136 
 
BACKWARD GLANCES 137 
 
 renzo Delmonico, Philip Hone, James Beekman, Jacob Cram, 
 William E. Dodge, Thirty-seventh Street and Madison Avenue, 
 William Rhinelander, 14 Washington Square, James Ker- 
 nochan, 145 Second Avenue, R. L. Stuart, A. A. Low, Oliver 
 H. Jones, David Dows, W. B. Astor, Jr., John Jacob Astor, 
 Marshall O. Roberts, George Opdyke, Daniel Drew, Edwin 
 Mathews,! Francis Skiddy, James Meinell, August Belmont, Mr. 
 Samson. . 
 
 The reader most likely by this time may have had a sur- 
 feit of old times and is ruminating to himself how could the 
 author have written so many memories without having docu- 
 ments handy for reference. Also his knowledge of general 
 events of many kinds may seem astonishing. This condition I 
 must be allowed to explain, viz : As a boy at school I was 
 always reading the papers of the day, which appeared in many 
 cases by the week, and I remembered what I read. As a young 
 man I continued same but got the papers daily instead of 
 weekly. I was fond of all athletic sports and was a member 
 of a gymnasium, Burnam's in Brooklyn, often visiting Ottig- 
 non's in Crosby Street and Wood's in Twenty-eighth Street 
 near Fifth Avenue, thus watching the doings in the art of self- 
 defense, without associating in any way in that strata of society, 
 residing alone in a boarding house hall room, $3.50 per week, 
 with meals thrown in, gave me large opportunities to visit the- 
 atres, and without being egotistical, would say I vv^as a great 
 observer of life in every way. My knowledge of horse events 
 was bred in me. That accounts for my being posted somewhat 
 in horse history, and for some parts to get many dates to be 
 accurate consulted my scrap book. I would now call your 
 attention to view the present period and make your own com- 
 parisons. The Goddess of Liberty with torch in her hand has 
 for some years been standing on Bedloe's Island, very close 
 to the site of Albert W. Hicks' the Pirates Hanging. From her 
 high pedestal she looks down at the Battery this year of our 
 Lord 1914, and if life existed in that inanimate bronze figure, 
 would exclaim, "Can this be the Battery of old times ?" although 
 to her gaze on Castle Williams, which was erected by Colonel 
 
138 BACKWARD GLANCES 
 
 Williams, an officer in the army, that still retains its ancient 
 appearance. The Custom House, just completed, faces Bowl- 
 ing Green. On the east is the new Produce Exchange. On 
 the west facing the Battery Park the Field Building, the Bowl- 
 ing Green Building being next door on Broadway. The Stand- 
 ard Oil Building is on the east just above Beaver Street. 
 
 Observe the four bridges to Brooklyn, the elevated rail- 
 road, subways, and electric tramways. Go to the east and go 
 to the west and the same vision meets your eye. Immense 
 buildings of commerce, banks, trust companies, insurance and 
 law offices exist. Follow the line of Broadway for twelve miles 
 clear to the Harlem River, where ten bridges cross and you 
 will note grand apartment houses, hotels, churches and resi- 
 dences nearly the whole length, some hotels having one thou- 
 sand rooms and apartment houses, four hundred apartments 
 under one roof, and on the east side take Madison Avenue 
 across the river at 138th Street, and up in the Borough of 
 the Bronx to West Farms. Immense structures meet your eye 
 on Third and Westchester Avenues. There are too many to 
 enumerate, so I ask the reader, observe for yourself and draw 
 your own deduction of the buried past and the living present. 
 
 I will now draw my reminiscences to a close with the hope 
 that my book may not be too unfavorably criticised because I 
 may have omitted to put in matter which others may remem- 
 ber, I having only inserted my own memories, and in doing so 
 have been forced to freely use the pronoun "I" to make my 
 meaning plain to the everyday reader, for which liberty it is 
 hoped indulgence will be granted. During the past few years 
 in the daily papers have appeared inquiries relative to events 
 of years ago. This work may come in good to determine and 
 explain many disputed questions. 
 
 Trusting that they have been enjoyed by the reader as 
 much as it has pleased me in writing them, I can now say adieu. 
 
APPENDIX A 
 
 Several Writings from the Old Epoch 
 "Merman" "Mermaid" "Memoirs" 
 
 AFTER closing up the foregoing part of this work 
 which largely refers to affairs in New York and 
 Brooklyn, with allusion in some cases to Long 
 Island matters, by mere chance I found a rare 
 volume in my library, which had been overlooked for many 
 years, containing events which happened on Long Island close 
 to four score years past, so I have deemed it advisable to insert 
 this discovery as an appendix to this production, being perfectly 
 sanguine that it will be of unusual interest to many residents of 
 the new County of Nassau, as well as to those of the old County 
 of Suffolk. 
 
 In the years 1839 to 1840 several New York gentlemen 
 who were fond of shooting and fishing would make a sporting 
 pilgrimage down on the south shore of Long Island to a place 
 called "Scio." This was Jim Smith's old hostelry situated on 
 the main turnpike, Brooklyn to Babylon, being on the north- 
 west corner of the road which led to Jerusalem from *Jerusa- 
 lem South (now Sea ford). This hotel was quite famous as a 
 stopping place for those driving out from New York and 
 Brooklyn, as also for those who arrived by the railroad. At 
 this period the Long Island Railroad did not extend any further 
 east than Hicksville, so stages were taken at this place for Jeru- 
 salem South, South Oyster Bay and Babylon. These city 
 sportsmen would generally drive down, reaching their destina- 
 tion about sunset, being in good time for supper, which was a 
 royal feast indeed. After a bracer of gin and tansy, a bever- 
 age concocted in those days, they would sit down around the 
 festive board and partake of a nice broiled yellow leg snipe or 
 
 •"Subsequently Atlanticville. 
 
 139 
 
140 APPENDIX 
 
 a plover, with trout out of Smith's pond, which was just west 
 of the house, and then last but not least, fried and stewed eels 
 fresh out of the Bay, with home made wheat and rye bread 
 and butter, as an accompaniment. Could you wish for any- 
 thing more delectable? I would here observe that in my youth- 
 ful days I never saw wheat bread furnished at a meal, except 
 in the home of a land owner or person in fairly good circum- 
 stances. The poor farmer who leased the land and tilled it on 
 shares with the owner and the Dayman who thrived upon what 
 he could procure from out of the Bay usually had rye bread or 
 corn meal bread upon his table. After satisfying their appetite, a 
 whale oil lamp was provided to give them light and they would 
 retire for the night, lying in the center of a thick feather 
 bed, to be awakened about 2 A. M. to get down to the creek 
 to take a skiff across the Bay or a sail boat to Fire Island, so 
 as to be there at break of day, when the snipe, ducks and geese 
 would begin to fly, or they would drive down to Babylon, a 
 distance of about eight miles, and take a skiff and cross the Bay 
 at that point for Fire Island, they being accompanied by sev- 
 eral Daymen from Verity's Creek (now in Sea ford) who had 
 been engaged before hand by them to act as guides. These 
 Baymen were Uncle John Verity. Obadiah Verity, John Alibi 
 and (Venus) Parmenus Raynor and Raynor Rock. The latter 
 had constructed a hut on Fire Island not far from the old light- 
 house, which was used by his crew for living purposes when 
 operating their seine to procure fish to send to Fulton Market, 
 or as a refuge in the winter season when a vessel got ashore on 
 Jones's Beach for they then would remain out there two or 
 three weeks at a time, getting what they could gather from off 
 the wreck. John Alibi used his old flint lock gun at this time 
 and when he brought it to his shoulder to fire at a flock of 
 birds you may be sure not a shot was wasted. A swath would 
 be visible as if a scythe had plowed through the aperture. 
 
 Among the New York contingent referred to in the ])re- 
 ceeding lines was a *Mr. J. Cypress, Jr., who was a writer of 
 
 *( William P. Hawes). 
 
APPENDIX 
 
 141 
 
 articles on sporting matters for a monthly periodical edited in 
 New York by **J. S. Skinner, called The American Turf Reg- 
 ister and Sporting Magazine. When on these trips the even- 
 ings were passed all hands sitting or lying around the fire in 
 the middle of the hut by stories being told by one or the other 
 of the city bred men, for the edification of the rural mem- 
 bers of the household, as the Baymen always took their guests 
 to their hut to reside while on the expedition, and Mr. Cypress 
 would put these stories in good shape and then send them in 
 to the magazine in New York. Oliver Paul, a Quaker (Hick- 
 site) and Ned Locus, whose uncle was porter of the Pearl 
 Street Bank (so he says) belonged to this aggregation, as also 
 
 Daniel , a native and Peter Probasco were accessions. 
 
 All good story tellers, each one taking his turn. One of the 
 letters appear in Volume Eleven, which was issued in May, 
 1840, headed "A Week at the Fire Islands on Long Island," 
 t>y J- Cypress, Jr. 
 
 The following is copied from this letter, which was on 
 "Mermans" and "Mermaids." 
 
 "ASLEEP! Venus!"— cried Ned,— "it would be difficult 
 for any sensible person to fall asleep during a recital of such 
 original and thrilling interest. The Argonautic expedition, the 
 perilous navigation of Eneas, the bold adventure of the New 
 England pilgrims" — 
 
 "Have my doubts," snorted Peter, interrupting Ned's lau- 
 dation, in a voice not so articulate but that the utterance might 
 have been acknowledged for the profound expression of the 
 sentiments of a gentleman in the land of dreams. Peter's 
 drowsiness had finally prevailed not only over his sense of 
 hearing, but also even over his sense of imbibition. I picked 
 up his cannikin, and solemnly shook my own head in place of 
 his, as he pronounced the oracular judgment." Have my doubts, 
 mostly, mister, I say," he grumbled again, and then the veteran 
 gray battalion that stood marshalled upon his chin, erect, and 
 John of Gaunt like, or rather like the ragged columns of the 
 
 **Subsequently by Wm. T. Porter. 
 
142 APPENDIX 
 
 Giant's Causeway, bristled up to meet the descent of his over- 
 hanging, ultra-Wellington nose. There was a noise as of a 
 muttered voice of trumpets, — and then it gradually died away, 
 and there was a deep, deep peace. To use Peter's own classical 
 language, he was "shut up." 
 
 "Asleep? Not a man, Venus," said Oliver Paul. "If 
 thee tell us such yarns as that, we wont go to sleep all night. 
 But thee must not ask us to believe them." 
 
 "Well, every man must believe for himself," replied Venus, 
 "I expect. I admit it's likely the captin must have stretched a 
 leetle about the length o' time he was out, I should say. But 
 it's easy to make a mistake about the number of days in them 
 latitudes, you know ; 'cause I've heerd say the sun shines there 
 several days together on a stretch, sometimes, without goen 
 down none; and then agin it's as dark as pitch for a hull 
 month, and no moon nother. Some people reckons the sun 
 can't rise there, no how, winter momens, on account it's bein' 
 so darn'd cold. How is it about that, Mr. Cypress? You're 
 college larnt, I expect." 
 
 "It's a long answer to that question, Venus. Since Captain 
 Symmes returned from his penetration into the north pole, there 
 has been a vast addition to our stores of knowledge of the 
 character and habits of the sun. Professor Saltonstall con- 
 tends, and proves, to my satisfaction, at the least, that the god 
 of day is a living animal, the Behemoth of the Scriptures. But 
 I'll tell you all about that some other, better opportunity ; — the 
 next time we're stooling snipe together, in Pine Creek. Let's 
 have another story, now. Zoph, can't you get up something? 
 What was that Venus said about mermaids ? Were there ever 
 any mermaids about here?" 
 
 "Can't say — can't say," answered Zoph, with a hesitating, 
 inquiring sort of deliberation: "Can't say, for my part; but 
 I've heerd folks tell there used to be lots on 'em." 
 
 "Sarten, sarten, no doubt;" continued Daniel, with better 
 confidence. "I know, that in th' time o' my gr't gr'ndf'th'r 
 they used to be pr'tty considerabl' plenty. Th' old man had a 
 
APPENDIX 143 
 
 smart tussel with a he merm'd — a merman, I sh'd say — one 
 day." 
 
 "Let's have that, Dannel ;" cried two or three voices at 
 once. 
 
 "Let's have a drink, first ;" interposed Dan's co-partner in 
 the eel trade, — who probably knew the necessity of soaking the 
 story — at the same time uncorking the jug. "Here, Dannel, 
 hand the tumbler over to Mr. Paul." 
 
 "Don't drink — don't drink, boys ;" advised the virtuous 
 Oliver, as usual. "Well, if you will," — resting the jug upon his 
 knee with his right hand, and bringing its avenue of discharge 
 into no merely suspicious juxta-position to the tumbler in his 
 left — "if you will, you will. Some pork will boil that way." 
 
 "It's goen to be a dry story, I expect, Mr. Paul. My 
 throat feels 'mazen dusty a'ready." 
 
 A general drought prevailed, and the watering-pot per- 
 formed its interesting and refreshing functions. 
 
 At last, the ground being put in order, Dan prepared to 
 sow the crop. So he hummed and hawed, and threw out his 
 quid, and drew his sleeve across his chin, and began his work 
 after this wise — Dan, it will be perceived, is a special econo- 
 mist of vowels, and uses no more words than are precisely 
 necessary to "express his sentiments." 
 
 "Why, y' see, th' old man was one o' th' first settlers that 
 come down from M'sschus'tts, and he tuk a small farm on 
 shears down to Fort-neck, and he'd everything fix'd accorden. 
 The most his time, hows'm'ver, he spent in the bay, clammen 
 and sich like. He was putty tol'r'bl' smart with a gun, too, 
 and he was the first man that made wooden stools for ducks. 
 So he was out bright and arely one morn'n — he'd laid out all 
 night, likely — and he'd his stool sot out on th' n'r-east side o' 
 a hassck off Wanza's Flat, — (the place tuk its name from gr"t 
 gr'ndf'th'r,) — th' wind bein' from th' so'-west princip'ly; and 
 he lay in his skiff in th's hassck, putty well hid for't was in th' 
 fall of th' year, and the sedge was smart and high. Well, jest 
 arter day'd fairly broke, and the faawl begun to stir, he reck- 
 oned he heer'd a kind o' splashen in the water, like geese pick'n 
 
144 APPENDIX 
 
 and wash'n themselves. So he peeked through the grass, 
 softly, to see where the flock was ; but, 'stead o' geese, he see a 
 queer looken old feller waden 'long on the edge o' th' flat, 
 jest by th' channel, benden low down, w^th a bow and arr in 
 his hands, all fixed, ready to shoot, and his eye upon gr't 
 gr'ndf'th'r's stool. 'That feller thinks my stool's faawl,' says 
 the old man to himself, softly, 'cause he 'xpected the fell'r was 
 an Ingen, and there wa'n't no tellen whether he was friendly 
 or not, in them times. So he sot still and watched. The bow 
 and arr kept goen on, and to rights it stopped. Then the feller 
 what had it, ris up and pulled string, and let slip. Slap went 
 the arr, strut into one o' gr't Gr'ndf'th'r's broadbills, and stuck 
 fast, shaken. The old man sniggled as he see th' other feller 
 pull, and then jump and splash thro' th' water to pick up his 
 game, but he said nothen. Well, the merm'n — as it turned out 
 to be — got to th' stool, and he seemed most won'rf'll s'prized 
 th' birds didn't get up and fly, and then he tuk up the br'db'll, 
 and pulled out his arr, and turned the stool ov'r and ov'r, and 
 smelt it, and grinned, and seemed quite uneasy to make out 
 what 'twas. Then he tuk up 'nother one, and he turned *em 
 putty much all ov'r, and tore their anchors loose. 
 
 "Gr't gr'ndf'th'r wa'n't a bit skeered, and he didn't like 
 this much, but he didn't want to git into a passion with an 
 Ingen, for they're full o' fight, and he loved peace : and besides 
 he didn't want to take no dis'advantage on 'im, and he'd two 
 guns loaded in th' skifif, and th' other fellor hadn't only a bow 
 and arr, and the old man hoped he'd clear out soon. It wa'n't 
 to be, hows'mver, that the old man shouldn't get int' a scrape ; 
 for what's the feller with the bow and arr do, arter consideren 
 and smellen a smart and long spell, but pick up the whole stool 
 — every one on 'em — and sling 'em ov'r's shoulder, and begin 
 to make tracks ! Gr't gr'ndf'th'r couldn't stand that 'ere. So 
 he sung out to him, putty loud and sharp, to lay down them 
 stools ; and he shoved the skifif out the hassck, and then he see 
 plain enough it was a merm'n. Then the old man was a leetle 
 started, I expect. Hows'mver, he shoved right up to him, and 
 eot his old muskets ready. Well, the merm'n turned round. 
 
APPENDIX 145 
 
 and sich another looken mortal man gr't gr'ndf'th'r said he 
 never did see. He'd big bushy hair all ov'r 'im, and big whisk- 
 ers, and his eyes was green and small's a mushrats, and where 
 the flesh was he was ruther scaly-like. He hadn't stitch clothes 
 ont' 'm, but the water was up to's waist, and kivered 'im up 
 so that gr't gr'ndf'th'r couldn't see the biggest part on 'im. 
 Soon's the old man got done jawen, the merm'n he begun to 
 talk out the darndest talk you ever heerd. I disremember 
 'xactly, but I b'lieve 'twas something like 'norgus porgus carry- 
 Yorkus,' and all sich stuff. Ephr'm Salem, the schoolmaster, 
 used to reckon 'twas Lating, and meant somethin' 'bout takin' 
 load o' p' porgees down to York other some said 'twas Dutch : 
 but I can't say. Well, the old man let him talk his talk out, 
 and then he tuk his turn. Says the old man, says he, 'it ant 
 respect'ble, 'tant honest, mister merm'n, to hook other people's 
 property. Them's my stool,' says he. 'Ye lie,' says the 
 merm'n, — speakin' so gr't gr'ndf'th'r could hear 'im plain 
 enough when he cum to the pint, — 'ye lie,' says he, 'I jest now 
 shot 'em.' 
 
 " 'Shot 'em, you b ,' says the old man, gittin mad: 
 
 'shot 'em? them's wooden stools what I made myself, and 
 anchored 'em here las night.' 
 
 " 'That's 'nother,' says the merm'n ; 'ye blackguard, 
 they're only dead ducks spetrer fried and turned into white oak. 
 I'm seen 'em here, and knowed they was cotched fast into the 
 eel grass, a smart and long while : good mornen, my old cock, 
 I must be goen.' 
 
 " 'Lay them stool down,' says gr't gr'ndf'th'r, 'lay them 
 stool down, or, by golly, I'll put a charge o' shot into ye.' 
 
 " 'Shoot away, my man,' says the merm'n, sneerin like, 
 and he turns off to clear out. So, the old man sein his stool 
 walked off in that 'ere way, cotched up one o' his guns, and, 
 by jings, he let slip right into the merm'n's back, and marked 
 him from his shoulders down, thick as mustard-seed, with 
 about three ounces of No. 3, — what the old man put in for 
 brant the night afore. The old thief was putty well riddled, 
 I expect. He jumped up out th' water 'bout a yard high, 
 
146 APPENDIX 
 
 and squealed out's if he was killed. But he wa'n't tho', for 
 arter rubbin his back a leetle while, he turned round, and says 
 he, 'now, I s'pose you think you've done it, don't you ?' quite 
 sharp and saucy: 'I wanted a little lead into me for ballast; 
 what's the costs, squire?' 
 
 " 'Lay down them 'ere stool,' says the old man, 'lay down 
 them 'ere stool.' 'I won't,' says the merm'n. 'If ye don't,' 
 says gr't gr'ndf'th'r, 'I'll give ye t'other gun, and that's loaded 
 with double B ; may be ye won't like that quite so well, per- 
 haps.' 
 
 " 'Fire away and be d — d,' says the merm'n, and the old 
 man giv' it to him, sure enough. This time he planted it right 
 int' his face and eyes, and the blood run out all white like milk. 
 The merm'n hollored, and yawked, and swore, and rubbed, and 
 he let the stool drop, and he seemed to be putty much blinded 
 and done up, and gr't gr'ndf'th'r thought he was spoke for. 
 Hows'm'ver he thought it was best to load up and be ready in 
 case o' the merm'n's gittin well, and comin at 'im 'gen. But 
 just as he tuk up his horn to prime, the merm'n div and van- 
 ished. 'What's the how, now?' says gr't gr'ndf'th'r, and he 
 got up onto the gunnels o' the boat, to watch for squalls ; and 
 he stood there teteren on a larboard and starboard straddle, 
 looken out putty sharp, for he reckoned there was somethin 
 comin. There wa'n't no mistake 'bout that, for t'rights the old 
 man felt the skiff shaken under 'im, and he see right off that 
 the merm'n was down below, tryen t'upset 'im and git 'im int' 
 the water. That ruther started the old man, for he knowed 
 if he once got int' th' water, he'd stand no kind o' chance with 
 a merm'n, which is jest the same as an otter, 'xcept the sense, 
 you know. So he jumped down to his oars, to pull for the 
 hassck. That wouldn't answer much, tho', for th' oars hadn't 
 touched water 'fore the merm'n broke 'em smack off, and the 
 old man had to pull the sprit out the sail, and take to shoven. 
 The moment he struck bottom, he heerd a kind o' gnmten laugh 
 under th' skiff, and somebody drew the sprit down, deep int' 
 th' mud, so that th' old man couldn't pull it out ; at th' same 
 time th' merm'n tilted th' skiff over smart and far, so that her 
 
APPENDIX 147 
 
 keel was 'most out o' water, and th' old man was taken strut 
 off both's feet, and highsted up int' th' air, high and dry, holden 
 onto the eend o' the sprit ; and the skiff shot away, and left 
 'im, twenty yards off, or twenty-five I sh'd say, mostly. The 
 sprit was putty stiff, I expect, tho' it bent smartly; but gr't 
 gr'ndf'th'r hung on't, like death to a dead nigger, his feet bein 
 'bout three foot from the water's edge when he held up his 
 knees." 
 
 "Dan," said I (taking advantage of a moment's pause, 
 during which he experienced imbibition), "was the old gentle- 
 man on your father's or your mother's side?" 
 
 "Have my doubts he don't know nuther," again muttered 
 the sleeping sceptic, whose tympanum readily acknowledged 
 the interruption of a voice foreign to the story, — "but his 
 father was a smart man, and I knowed him." 
 
 "Gravius anhelata! Good night, Peter." 
 
 "Mr. Cypress," said Dan, with a face full of sincere 
 anxiety, "would I tell you anything I did not believe?" 
 
 "No, Dan, never; no, no; go on, go on. I only asked 
 for information." 
 
 "Well, where was I? — Yes — yes — Well, there th' old man 
 hung ont' th' top th' sprit, not taken much comfort, I sh'd say. 
 Then, up, by course, pops the merm'n, and begins to make all 
 kinds o' fun th' old man, and gives 'im all sorts o' saace, whilst 
 he stood in the water clost by th' sprit, washen off the blood 
 and pick'n the shots out his face. Gr't gr'ndf'th'r wouldn't 
 answ'r 'im back, tho', 'cause he knowed it wa'n't no use, but 
 he kept wishen some boat would come along and give 'im a 
 hand, and he 'xpected there must be somebody or nother out 
 that day. Meantime, tho', he tho't 'twas best to let th' merm'n 
 see he wa'n't 'fraid on 'im none, so he tuk out his tinder-box 
 and pipe, and struck a light and set up smoken, quite at ease. 
 Well, there he hung and smoked, putty much all of three hours, 
 till he got consid'r'ble tired, I sh'd say, and the merm'n looked's 
 good's new, only 'xcepten the holes in's face, which was all 
 thick together like th' holes in th' black banks, where the fid- 
 dlers come out on. 'Wont you walk down, sir?' says the 
 
148 APPENDIX 
 
 merm'n, arter a while, to gr"t gr'ndf'th'r, quite p'lite; 'I sh'ld 
 be quite happy to shake hands wi' ye, and make it up.' 
 
 "Gr't gr'ndf'th'r wouldn't say a word. 
 
 "'Wont ye answer, d — n ye?' says the cunnen devil, 
 gritt'n's teeth ; and he walks up to th' sprit, and lays hold, and 
 shakes it hard, jist as ye'd shake a young pear tree. 'Drop 
 off, drop off,' says he, shaken 'er all his might. 
 
 "Then th' old man made up his mind he'd got to come ; 
 so he watches 'is chance, and gives a spring, and jumps, so as 
 to strike th' merm'n's shoulder, and from that he jumps agin, 
 a good long stretch, tow'rds the hassck, where the water was 
 shallerer. 
 
 "The merm'n was arter 'im strut, and cotched 'im up in no 
 time, and then they clinched. That 'ere fight I sh'ld like to 
 seen, may be I don't think. It was hip and thigh, and toss up 
 for the best, for putty much an hour 'bouts ; sometimes the 
 merm'n bein' ahead, and sometimes gr't gr'ndf'th'r, dependen 
 mostly on th' depth th' water ; for when th' old man could 
 keep's ground in shaller water, he could lick the merm'n to 
 thunder ; but the merm'n was leetle the activest in deep water. 
 Well, it couldn't be 'xpected but what they sh'ld both get pr'tty 
 smart and tired, and I reckon they was both willen to 'cknowl- 
 edge beat. Th' old man was jist goen to, when the merm'n 
 sings out, 'Mister, let's stop and rest.' 
 
 " 'Done,' says gr't gr'ndf'th'r, glad enough; and they stop- 
 ped short, and went to th' hassck, and sot down en th' sedge 
 grass, both breathen like a porpus. 
 
 "Arter they'd sot there a little while, and got breath, th' 
 old man sung out he was ready ; but the merm'n said he wa'n't, 
 and he reck'n'd he felt putty smart and bad. So th' old man 
 thought 'twould be a good time to go arter's skiff. 'You 
 oughtn't t've shoved my boat away, any how,' says he; 'how 
 shall I get back t'hum t'-night ?' 
 
 " 'That's true,' says the merm'n, quite reason'bl' ; 'if y'll 
 promise to come right back, and finish this 'ere fight, I'll let ye 
 go and swim arter it.' 
 
 "'I will,' says th' old man, 'Honor bright;' and off he 
 
APPENDIX 149 
 
 swum. When he got off 'bout two rod, he looked back at 
 the merm'n, and he thought he seemed to be 'mazen pale and 
 sick. 'Make haste back,' sings out the merm'n. 'Ay, ay,' 
 says th' old man, and he strtick away. 
 
 "The tide had drifted th' skiff a smart ways off, and she 
 lay putty much down t' th' beach, on a bar ; and 'twas quite a 
 spell 'fore the old man could get back to the hassck. But when 
 he arriv' there wa'n't a hair of a merm'n to b' seen, only in the 
 place where he'd sot there was a big heap o' white jelly, like a 
 stingen quarll. Gr't gr'ndf'th'r kicked it over w'his foot, and 
 it made a thin squeak, like a swaller high up overhead, and he 
 reckoned it giv' 'im a kind o' lect'ral shock. So he .-ot to work 
 and picked up his stools, which was scattered putty much all 
 over the bay, and he cleared out t'hum. That's the last he 
 seen o' that merm'n." 
 
 "Surely, surely. Walloped him into nothen, I expect;' 
 said Venus. "I give in arter that, Dannel." 
 
 "Have my doubts, agen ;" sung out Peter, waking up from 
 the straw, where his universally incredulous judgment had been 
 for some time past taking unquiet and sonorous repose. "Have 
 my doubts, mister, I say." 
 
 "You're drunk, old vulture-nose;" cried Ned, authori- 
 tatively. "Shut up ; I'm satisfied that the story is true. What 
 object could the old man have had in telling a lie? Besides, 
 everybody knows that mermaids were plenty here once. 
 Wasn't Jerry Smith's wife a mermaid? Didn't I see one 
 myself, once, in Brick-house brook, when I was trouting?" 
 
 "Likely, likely;" quoth Oliver. "Tell us about that, 
 Eddy. When was it? I never heard thee mention it before." 
 
 "Yes, you have, Oliver, fifty times: but, as it is a short 
 story, and I should like to resolve Peter's doubts, for once, I'll 
 tell it again. — Don't interrupt me now. — It was one April 
 morning, in that year when you and I had the great flight of 
 geese, Raynor. I went up through the woods, and struck into 
 the brook about two miles above the turnpike, and started to 
 wade it down to the road. You know how wild the country 
 is there, and how wantonly the brook runs, bending, and wind- 
 
I50 APPENDIX 
 
 ing, and coquetting with the wintergreen arid cranberry vines 
 that fringe its banks; how it is constantly changing its depth, 
 and strength, and color, sometimes dashing on, in a narrow 
 current not more than three or four feet in width, and curling 
 darkly and swiftly around the old stumps that are rotting by 
 its edges, and then, at a little distance ofif, spreading free, and 
 flowing smooth, to the breadth of twenty yards ; while all the 
 way it is overarched, and in some places nearly hidden by the 
 intertwined hazel, and alders, and scrub oaks. It is just the 
 stream that I should think would captivate a water nymph's 
 fancy ; it is so solitary, and quiet, and romantic. You hear 
 no noise while you are fishing, save of your own splashing 
 footsteps, or the brushed-by, crackling bushes, — scarcely even 
 the rushing of the wind, — so deep and thick is the envelopment 
 of the woods ; and in wading half a mile, and basketing thirty 
 fish, you might think you was alone in the world, if you did not 
 now and then startle a thirsty fawn, or a brooding wood-duck. 
 Well, I was coming down through a broad, shallow, beautifully 
 gravelled bottom, where the water was not more than half- 
 way up to my knees, and was just beginning to take more 
 stealthy steps, so as to make the least possible noise ( for I was 
 approaching a favorite hole), when suddenly I heard what 
 seemed to be the voice of a young girl of fifteen or sixteen 
 burst out a-singing ahead of me, just around the next bend of 
 the brook. 
 
 "I was half frightened to death, for I thought it must be 
 some poor mad creature that had escaped from her confine- 
 ment ; and in fact I had heard that Rosina — what's her name? 
 I forget — had been rather flighty ever since young Jones left 
 off paying attentions to her. However, there was no backing 
 out for me, now ; nulla vestigia rctrorsum, in the case of a 
 woman. Cypress. I was in the scrape: revocare gradum was 
 out of the question. So I went ahead softly, and when I got 
 to the bend, I put my left eye around the bushes, and looked. 
 By all the little fishes, it was a lovely sight ! She was sitting 
 upon a hemlock log that had fallen across the brook, with her 
 naked feet and legs hanging into the water. There she sat. 
 
APPENDIX 151 
 
 paddling, and splashing, and combing her long, beautiful, float- 
 ing hair, and singing. I was entranced, petrified. She would 
 sing a little ballad, and then she'd stop and wring her hands, 
 and cry. Then she'd laugh and flirt about her long hair. Then 
 again she would look sorrowful, and sigh as though her heart 
 would break, and sing her song over again. Presently, she 
 bent down to the stream, and began to talk earnestly to some- 
 body. I leaned forward to take a look at the stranger, and 
 to whom do you think she was talking? It was a trout, a brook 
 trout, an old fellow that I have no doubt would have weighed 
 full eight pounds. He was floating on the top of the water, 
 and dimpling, and springing up about her, as though he, too, 
 felt and acknowledged the heavenly influence of her beauty. 
 She bent her long fingers, and tickled him upon his back, and 
 under his side, and he absolutely jumped through her hands, 
 backwards and forwards, as if in a dehrium of frolic. (It was 
 by her hands that I knew she was a mermaid. They were 
 bluy, and webbed, though not much more than a black-breasted 
 plover's feet. There was nothing positively icthyal in their 
 formation). After a while she commenced singing again. This 
 was a new tune, and most exquisitely sweet. I took out my 
 pencil, and wrote down the words of the song, on a blank leaf 
 for memoranda, in my fishing book. Shall I repeat them ?" 
 
 "Do it," we all cried out with earnestness. 
 
 "I'll try," said Ned, sighing. "I wish I could sing them. 
 They ran somewhat in this way : — 
 
 'Down in the deep, 
 
 Dark holes T keep. 
 And there, in the noontide, I float and sleep; 
 
 By the hemlock log. 
 
 And the springing bog. 
 And the arching alders I lie incog. 
 
 'The angler's fly 
 
 Comes dancing by, 
 But never a moment it cheats my eye; 
 
 For the hermit trout 
 
 Is not such a lout 
 As to be by a wading boy pulled out. 
 
152 APPENDIX 
 
 'King of the brook, 
 
 No fisher's hook 
 Fills me with dread of the sweaty cook ; 
 
 But here I lie, 
 
 And laugh, as they try ; 
 Shall I bite at their bait? No, no, not I. 
 
 'But when the streams. 
 With moonlight beams. 
 Sparkle, all silver and starlight gleams, 
 Then, then look out 
 For the hermit trout ; 
 For he springs and dimples the shallows about. 
 While the tired angler dreams.' 
 
 "The words are not much ; but O ! how exquisite was 
 that music! Cypress. It was like the mellow tone of a soft 
 harp!" 
 
 "Jewsharp, ha-a?" accorded long John: "that's a nice kind 
 o' music. I'm told they have 'em large, down to York, and 
 use 'em in meeten. How'st?" 
 
 "Yes, 'tis so, John, they do. But let me get through with 
 my story. After the syren had finished her tune, she began 
 playing with her companion again. Thinks I to myself, 'old 
 speckled-skin, I should like to have you in my basket: such r. 
 reverend old monarch of the brook is not to be caught every 
 day in the year. What say you for a fresh worm, this morn- 
 ing?' So I shortened my rod, and run it behind me, and let 
 the dobber fall upon the water, and float down with the hook 
 to the log where the old fellow and the mermaid were disport- 
 ing. His love for the lady did not spoil his appetite. He bag- 
 ged my worm, and then sprung at my float, and cut. I jerked 
 back, and pulled in, and then he broke water and flounced. 
 The mermaid saw that he was in trouble, and dashed at my 
 line, broke it short off, and then took iip the trout and began 
 to disengage the hook from his gills. I had no idea of losing 
 my hook and my trout, besides one of Lentner's best leaders 
 (that cost me half a dollar), for any woman fishy or fleshy, 
 however good a voice she might have. So I broke cover and 
 came out. The moment she caught glimpse of me, she 
 screamed, and dropped the trout and ran. Did you ever see a 
 deer flash through a thicket? She was gone in an instant — 
 
APPENDIX 153 
 
 "Gone like the lightning, which o'er head 
 Suddenly shines, and ere we've s.aid 
 Look ! look ! how beautiful ! 'tis tied." 
 
 "Compelled by an irresistible impulse, I pursued. Down the 
 brook, and through the brake, we went, leaping, and stooping, 
 and turning, and swimming, and splashing, and I, at least a 
 half a dozen times, stumbling and falling. It was but at inter- 
 vals, as the brook made its longest bends, that I could catch 
 a glimpse of the fugitive nymph, and the last time I put my 
 eager eye upon her, she had stopped and was looking back, 
 with both her hands crossed upon her bosom, panting, and 
 apparently exhausted. But as I again broke upon her sight, 
 she started and fled. With fresh ardor I pressed on, calling 
 to her, and beseeching her to stop. I pleaded, promised, 
 threatened, and called the gods to witness that my intentions 
 were honorable, and that I would go and ask her mother first 
 if she did not live too far off. In the desperation of my 
 entreaties I talked a little Latin to her, that came into my head, 
 apropos, and which was once used by another *gentleman in a 
 similar case of Parthian courtship: — Parthian? — Yes, that is 
 a correct word, for, O ! what arrows did the beauty of the 
 flying nymph shoot into my soul ! Telling her that she might 
 depend upon my honor, and all that, I continued — 
 
 "At bene si noris, pigeat fugisse : morasque 
 Ipsa tuas damnes, et me retinere labores — 
 
 that is to say, boys, according to Bishop Heber's translation — 
 
 "If you knew me, dear girl, T am sure you'd not fly me ; 
 Hold on half an hour, if you doubt, love, and try me. 
 
 But, alas ! the assurance and the prayer added fresh pinions to 
 her wings. She flew, and despairingly I followed, tearing my 
 hands and face with the merciless brambles that beset my way, 
 until, at last, a sudden turn brought me plump up against the 
 bridge upon the turnpike, in the open fields, and tlie mermaid 
 
 ♦Polyphem to Gal or Met 13.808. 
 
154 APPENDIX 
 
 was nowhere to be seen. I got up on the railing of the bridge, 
 and sat there weary, wet, and sad. I had lost my fish, left my 
 rod a mile off, and been played the fool with by a mongrel 
 woman. Hook, fish, leader, heart, and mermaid, were all 
 lost to me forever. 'Give me some drink, Titinius,' or Daniel, 
 which I take to be the correct English translation. I feel mel- 
 ancholy and mad to think of it, even now." 
 
 One More for the Last 
 
 The islands came in sight again, and ho! land! and Ray- 
 nor Rock ! 
 
 Glad enough was I to hear our bow grind the sand near 
 Raynor's hut, on the evening succeeding our court's last night's 
 entertainments. Ned Locus had come in, and Peter Probasco 
 was smoking his usual short pipe, and the boys had some fresh 
 fish and "things accorden." Zoph and I had had a hard pull, 
 and we were bay-salted and shivering, but not so tired as to pre- 
 vent us from bringing up a good bunch of brant. More of 
 them, and a few of the black ducks, and sheldrakes, and that 
 goose, anon. 
 
 ''That's a lie, mister, that story you told t'other night. 
 Plave my doubts, it's all a lie. Pve said it." — Such was Peter's 
 judgment. — "Mr. Locus, you dreamt that sometime or other." 
 
 "Stick it out, Ned," said I, "why the fellow is trying to 
 get angry !" and Ned actually had worked himself into such a 
 state of feeling, that between the excitement of the story, and 
 the soft impeachment of its veracity, and his liquor going 
 down the wrong way, his face was suffused, and seven or eight 
 globules of eye-water ran a race for the goal of his pea-jacket 
 upper button. 
 
 "My friend," he at last rejoined, "you're mighty civil. 
 Quite complimentary, forsooth. Do you suppose that I could 
 imdertake to coin a story so minute, and particular, and spe- 
 cific — so coherent and consistent in all its parts, so supported 
 by internal and circumstantial evidence — " 
 
 "So ingeniously stolen from Ovid," interrupted L 
 
 " 'Et tu brute,' Cypress !" 
 
APPENDIX 
 
 155 
 
 "I make no doubt it's all true, mostly," said Daniel. "I've 
 been by the bridge, and seen the place where Mr. Locus sot, 
 when he came out." 
 
 "Well, gentlemen, what's the unbelievable part of the 
 story ? You don't deny the brook, or doubt its being inhabited 
 by mermaids, do you? Then why shouldn't I be as likely as 
 anybody else to see one?" 
 
 "Festina lente," cried I. 
 
 "Not so fast, I pray thee," said the quiet Oliver. "I 
 admit the brook, but I deny thy eyesight. Thy water-nymph 
 lived but in thy brain, she is the offspring of thy dreams only — 
 none but pagan priests and poets, and dreamy boys, and Quaker 
 sea-captains, have seen the creature of fancy, called a mer- 
 maid." 
 
 "Why, Oliver ! you infidel ! Do you deny the Oceanides, 
 the Nereides and Naiades, the Limnades and Potamides — " 
 
 "No such families in the island^ d — d if there is," cried 
 Peter. 
 
 "Have you never heard of Galatea and Amphitrite, Me- 
 lita, and Leucothoe, and Thetis, Calypso, and glorious Are- 
 thusa— ?" 
 
 Peter — "Never heard of such people before." 
 
 Oliver — "Vile incarnations — the false deities of the old 
 heathen poets. Too much antiquity hath made thee mad. 
 Ned, or rather, too much deviltry hath made thee a quiz." 
 
 "He don't quiz me," said Daniel, with a compression of 
 his lips that said "I know too much." "I don't know 'bout 
 carnations and deities, or old poets, and I reckon I don't 
 believe iniquity ever made Mr. Ned Locus mad, but what I 
 know I know. Sam Biles is my wife's cousin's aunt's sister's 
 brother-in-law, and he's been a sealer. Sam knows. Seals 
 is nothen but nigger mermaids, as Silas said last night, or night 
 afore. Sam told me he see 'em often together, and the mer- 
 maids licked 'em and kicked 'em about jist as they was amind 
 to. They caught one one day, but she played the devil among 
 the sailors, and the captain chucked her overboard. — Shaa! 
 
156 APPENDIX 
 
 why Jim Smith see a mermaid once down to Gilgoa inlet, 
 riden a sea-horse — don't you b'Ueve it? — ask Jim." 
 
 "Ah! Daniel, Daniel," said Ned, "They're a set of unbe- 
 lievers — don't try to persuade them." 
 
 "Shut up. Shut up, boys. Change the subject. Here ; 
 will you smoke?" said Raynor, producing some short stub 
 pipes, and an old segar-box stuffed with tobacco. 
 
 It has always been our rule that, "when we are at Rome, 
 we must do as the Romans do." So, it is to be recorded, that 
 we committed, or rather submitted to, that sin. We smoked. 
 
APPENDIX B 
 
 Stools and Batteries 
 
 sentiment of j. cypress, jr. 
 
 1839 
 
 "Whither, midst falling dew, 
 While glow the heavens with the last steps of day, 
 Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue 
 
 Thy solitary way!" 
 
 WE wonder if the Poet ever got any answer to 
 that question. We will bet a bag of buckshot 
 that the water- fowl to whom the interesting 
 interrogatory was addressed, was out of sight, 
 and out of the sound of its echo, before the spoken sentimen- 
 tality ran up against a mark of interrogation. "Whither," aye, 
 "whither should a duck go, in the age of percussion caps, bat- 
 teries, and patent cartridges? Under what upper cloud may 
 "the fowler's eye" mark in "distant flight" his "figure floating," 
 "vainly," or without power to do him "wrong" or his fowler 
 self, justice? The bird, which the bard apotheosised, must 
 have been either close by, or afar off. If he was near, he 
 could have been talked to, or shot at, according to the taste of 
 the spectator, and there would then have been no gammon 
 about "vainly the fowler's eye," if he was too far off, and only 
 "painted on the crimson sky," then neither goose-shot nor poet- 
 ical questions could have touched a feather on his ear. 
 
 Let us pray to be forgiven by all just admirers of the 
 thoughtful music from which we have adopted the entabla- 
 ture of our present madness, if we have seemed to borrow, — 
 God save the word ! when could we repay ! — steal — look at — 
 with any sort of levity, — the choice-culled flowers of phrase 
 that sculpture those sweet dreamings of Bryant. They are 
 
 157 
 
IS8 APPENDIX 
 
 mournful philosophy, reasoning grief, imagination with feet. — 
 Sense, heart, mind, flight. That brings us to the subject of 
 ducks. 
 
 Talk of "flights," and you will remember straightway old 
 Drayton : — 
 
 "The duck and mallow first the falconer's only sport, 
 Of river flights the chief," — 
 
 Permit us, dear reader, to call your attention, for a few 
 moments, to the flight of the mallard, or shoveller — which, we 
 know not — in the precedent picture. If thou art blind, yet 
 hast shot heretofore, know that the engraving exhibits, water, 
 sky, bushes, hassocks, two ducks in trouble, a boat, one man 
 with a setting pole, and another with a gun, in the bow. If 
 thou BE blind, thou hast not lost much, for we do not hold the 
 picture dearly. Two very-gentle-men have come out, at three 
 hours after sunrise, to shove for crippled birds of any nation 
 or species, black or white, infidel or christian, grasseater or 
 crabcannibal. They are of the class of people who take their 
 comfort while they shoot. Their clothes are accurate and 
 comely fits. The gentlemen with the pole, shoves with his 
 coat on, buttoned up. Doubtless, they will knock over the 
 invalid who flutters in the rear. It will be a merciful certainty, 
 if the shooter stands firm, and holds right. The wounded one 
 winnows the air weakly. Those birds had flown to the up- 
 gushing fountains of the fresh meadows, and the healing creek- 
 greens, to cure their stricken pinions, and sides sore with lead 
 spent to sting them, in the lower bays ; — not killed, but fever- 
 ish after a hard experimental blow, struck by some patient 
 point-shooter, who had begun to be tired of waiting for a com- 
 pany to wheel up nearer to his stool. That wooden parallelo- 
 gram, called a scow, chiefest for a trout-pond, cannot accom- 
 plish an original death ; — unless a spring of teal, or a river 
 broadbill, lie in close security behind some straggling patch of 
 rushes, in the direct track of the intended water road. Yet let 
 us not do injustice to the pretty picture. It shews, how, in a 
 quiet way, a lover of pure air and kaleidiscopical colors, may 
 
APPENDIX 159 
 
 float down an ebbing stream, through channel-enclosing bushes, 
 and sedges trespassing upon the ancient but diminishing 
 dominion of the river gods, and suddenly startle from his 
 falsely imagined safety, some unfortunate speculator in water- 
 weeds, who thought his weak or shattered fortune would be 
 made sound and fat by "going in." One of these ducks is 
 clearly "lame." The other looks as though he was taking the 
 benefit of the wild- fowl absent debtor act. — (That act dif- 
 fers from the enactment of the human New York Legislature, 
 in one peculiar respect. In the one case, if the fowl owes you 
 any feathers, or flesh, and can get out of your jurisdiction — 
 or rather Collineo diction — he is safe ; and may grant, bargain, 
 sell, devise, bequeath, and run away from, all and singular his 
 right, title, principal and interest in and to, and so forth, his 
 temporary home and feeding spots. In the other case, the 
 Sheriff is apt to form a strong attacJiment for the feeding 
 places and singular chattels of the abscondant, and hold on io 
 them, against his assignee, with a love "passing the love of 
 women.") — The gentlemen have made a call upon him: but 
 he is "out," — out of reach. Whither is thy flight, good fowl? 
 Of what shell-bank wert thou cashier? "Whither, midst fall- 
 ing due" notes, of which (knowing thy business place, and full 
 of trust), we thought we held the substance? — Thou art 
 lost, gone, etherealized, silvered over with a cloudy dinner set, 
 and wilt set thy table in other waters! 
 
 "Yes, thou hast vanished, singing, from our sight ! 
 
 So, must this earth be lost to eyes of thine : 
 Around thee is illimitable light. 
 
 Thou lookest down, and all appears to shine 
 Bright as above ! Thine is a glorious way. 
 Pavilioned all around with golden spreading day." 
 
 How crippled fowl will ^Biddleizc and ^Swartwoiitizc, and 
 make the fowlers who are after them d — n their eves! 
 
 fNicholas Biddle was president of Bank of United States, Phila- 
 delphia, 1829. It went out of existence in 1836. 
 
 §John Swartwout was director of Manhattan Bank, New York, 
 1802. He fought a duel with DeWitt Clinton, July 30, 1802. Robert 
 Swartwout fought a duel with Richard Riker in 1802. 
 
i6o APPENDIX 
 
 "The pale purple even 
 
 Melts around thy flight ; 
 Like a star of heaven 
 In the broad day light, 
 
 Thou art unseen, and yet I hear thy shrill delight."' 
 No matter. There are ducks enough left, not so flighty, and 
 with whom we can, easier, talk, in plain sight. Who doubts 
 the assertion? If it be he who goes to Audubon's exhibition, 
 and judges from that heterogeneous mixture of fish, flesh, 
 and Indian sculls, what the glorious bays of Malowacs* can 
 produce, in this present, existing November, of Anseric and 
 Anatic providence ; or he who tries to assimilate or to recon- 
 cile the classifications of the proudest ornithological gram- 
 marians — Latham — Buffon — Bewick — Wilson — Audubon — and 
 all the rest, — into any sort of society, of which the members 
 may be identified by some possible nomenclature without an 
 alias, or without a doubt expressed as to their family title; — 
 men that call the American gander "Anas Canadiensis," in- 
 stead of "Anser," forgetting those Roman "hawnkers," worthy 
 of a classic name, who saved the empire treasury from the 
 rapacious Gauls ; — then, we pray thee, friend, come with us, 
 and look at the streaming squadrons, crucking, quacking, 
 whistling and perutting in the Great South bay of Long Island. 
 The most accurate images, — and those of Audubon — bird 
 Prometheus — almost live, are faint copies of the rushing glor- 
 ies of the bay. No one can paint like Goddess Nature. Break 
 thy pallet, tear thy canvas, thou mortal who dare presume. 
 
 Knowest thou Jim Smith? — James X. Smith, — called by 
 
 *For the best history of Matowacs, or, as it is generally called, 
 "the State of Long Island," see the comprehensive, minute, and ex- 
 cellent book of B. F. Thompson, Esq., lately published. No islander, or 
 island-frequenter, has his library complete without it. There is hardly 
 an inhabitant of the three counties, unless he be very insignificant, who 
 cannot find out in this accurate Register of things public and private, 
 who his great-grandfather was,— which is a great thing, now-a-days, 
 to know, — or who of the family were indicted for witchcraft, or whipped 
 for theft, or promoted to the ermine; and where they lie, and what 
 their epitaphs were. It is a book meritorious in another respect: it not 
 only compromises the annals of private families, but of concurrent pub- 
 lic actions. There is timber enough in it to build twenty literary edi- 
 fices. Friend, try to get a copy of it. Buy, don't borrow. 
 
APPENDIX i6i 
 
 judicious distinction from some rascals, who, by paternal 
 authority, have stolen his name, James Xcnophon Smith? — 
 Illustrious cognomen ! — worthily won ; as every angler well 
 appreciates, who has perused the map of his "Anabasis" to 
 Stephe. Sweesy's pond, and has moralized over the stumps 
 where Jim and we once pitched our tents, long, long before 
 "Yorkers" found out that trout floated there, and before Jim 
 X. had learned that he could make monies out of frail tra\- 
 elling nature, by building a good ice-house near "The Sports- 
 man's Hotel." James X. Smith's biography is yet to be 
 written. He lives now, and we introduce him briefly. Ample 
 provision will, unquestionably, be made in his will, for his 
 eulogist. We name James X. as being the fortunate proprie- 
 tor of one of the chiefly selected stopping haunts, and sallying 
 ports, of all shooting visitors of Matowacs. You cannot mis- 
 take his house, if you hold up at the sign-post at the corner 
 of Jerusalem lane and the South turnpike. It is a pious 
 neighborhood. The name gives you confidence in that truth. 
 Babylon, the mother of miscellaneous people, is nine miles 
 farther east. 
 
 But what changing panoramas of vocal regiments of air- 
 climbers will you not see shifting, with their living paintings, 
 all singing in their own particular crochets, when you go out,, 
 in the early morning, striking the sleeping inlets with your 
 oar, before the sun has waked up ! Will you look into Wilson 
 for an enumeration, or gloat over Audubon ? Yet neither they, 
 nor Bonaparte have told the names (for they never had their 
 acquaintance), of all their familiar varieties. Probably the 
 families have intermarried and crossed the breed, since those 
 authors wrote, and new baptisms are to be sprinkled. Wilson 
 was certainly never on Matowacs. He shot his own acquired 
 specimens, at Egg Harbor and Cape May. The rest were sent 
 to him^ with an eel-spears-man's description, which he trans- 
 lated. 
 
 We are not learned, nor critical, which latter we might be 
 without being instructed ; but every bayman on Long Island, 
 to whom you would read the ill-arranged ordines, genera, and 
 
 13 
 
i62 APPENDIX 
 
 species, of Wilson, translating the Latin to him, and putting 
 it into honest South-side dialect, would say "Pshaw! he hasn't 
 got down one-half the difTerent kinds of broadbill, — let alone 
 other salt-water birds who hold their public meetuigs on our 
 marshes!" But even in Wilson, you find twenty-odd enumera- 
 tions of feather-floaters, who either strut by their own domi- 
 ciles, or, occasionally, call in at the Squaw Islands, Linus' 
 Island, or Wanzas flat, and are ready for the reception of vis- 
 itors, who come in the shape of Youle's No. 3. 
 
 Let us take a skiff and put out and bless the abundance. 
 It is three o'clock A. M. If thou art cold, and last night, 
 slept too little (for reasons, which as a dear friend, loving thy 
 usual abstinence, and chastising thee by silence, rather than 
 by unnecessary recapitulation, we forebear to hint at), lie 
 down in the bottom of the boat, in the dry salt-meadow grass 
 which thy man will fix for thee, with thy head upon an air- 
 cushion resting upon the bow-head, and sleep. Sleep ! when 
 birds are swimming in the skiff's pathway, and ducks quack, 
 and brant cronk, and broad bill prut about thee? No: thy 
 polar or oarsman, even if he had not read Shakespeare, would 
 soon cry out to you "Sleep no more," — or else, "Mister, I 
 reckon there's fowl ahead — close by — take them as they rise." 
 
 Such a heart-stirrer and ambition-provoker, puts you on 
 your knees, and you will try to see through the dark. How 
 queer! we bend our bodies upon our knees when we pray to 
 be saved ; and yet we often kneel, in the same way, to destroy 
 ducks! When are our prayers most earnest? — Don't think of 
 it. Knees have dangerous associating reflections. 
 
 But you will by-and-by arrive at some jutting point, or 
 thatchy island, where you may lie securely hid, wrapped up in 
 the warm envelopments of sedge-grass and your overall, and 
 wait for the peeping daylight to set the various tribes of ducks 
 to their works of travel and diving. Happy wretches ! who 
 have nothing to do but to fly, and to feed, and be loved, and 
 shot, — killed without notice, without lingering sickness, or 
 surgical torment. Yet they, many of them, have their ails, and 
 aches ; and the inexperienced amateur, shooting when they 
 
APPENDIX 163 
 
 fly in his eyes, and the old leather-head batterer straining a 
 broken mttsket at a distance immeasurable but by a fowl, has 
 planted many a shot-wound needlessly, by accident, in the side 
 of a straggler, or luck-loser of the flock. 
 
 But thou art at thy hiding-place now, and thy poler — 
 polar star of thy existence, if thou knowest not the road, and 
 how to pull, and he fall overboard, — is setting out his stools. 
 
 If thou be inexperienced, thou mayest look into all the 
 dictionaries that have ever been collated, and we hold the last 
 (Richardson's, the poorest, and a great humbug, yet it comes 
 nearer to our taste in its illustration of this word), and thou 
 wilt not learn what the sporting meaning of "stool" is. To 
 save the trouble of distant reference and inquiry, we will there- 
 fore certify and explain that "stools," in shooting phraseology, 
 are graven images made in the likeness of geese, brant, and 
 ducks, before which the hassock-skulking adventurer bows 
 down and worships — not the graven images — but the provi- 
 dence that permits the living squadrons at whom he shoots, to 
 be cheated by the false colors which he has hung out, to per- 
 suade them to come in. How many — many — honorable vil- 
 lains, might be indicted for obtaining ducks under "false pre- 
 tences." The district attorney of Queen's might soon make 
 his fortune, if he would only do his duty. Stools, to talk plain 
 American, are wooden devices of the shape, size, and com- 
 plexion of the fowl you wish to subduce from the upper air. 
 Sculptor and painter are employed in their manufacture. Jim 
 X. Smith's boys unite and body forth the sister arts. Let 
 them set out a congregation of stool for thee, and thou wilt 
 for ten minutes cry out "there's a bird," fast as guns can be 
 reloaded, and shoot every stool to pieces. The old man, him- 
 self, was not slow at sculpture. We remember one April day 
 — (it was the first, and the old man wanted his revenge on us 
 for some innocent devil-play), — when lying in Goose-Creek, 
 after sheldrakes, Jim suddenly got up, and wrapping his pea- 
 coat around him, stepped from the boat to the marsh, and said 
 "he believed he'd take a walk, and see if there wasn't any 
 black ducks sitting in that pond down there," — somewhere. 
 
i64 APPENDIX 
 
 He went. After a quarter of an hour's travel he returned, 
 and with all the solemnity of a regular cheater, observed that 
 "he reckoned he see a crippled faawl sittin down on the 
 edge of that are pint." "I'll go after him,'' exclaimed our 
 companion, who had in the meantime, with poor luck like our 
 own, called to give us a visit of condolence, in another skiff. 
 "No, no ;" cried the excellent Jim X., "I want that fowl in 
 our boat. I found him first, and Mr. Cypress is entitled to 
 the shot. You can come along, and if he misses, you can kill 
 after him." And so we went — slop, sink, stick, jump, through 
 and over a wet, soft meadow. At last we heard the welcome 
 intelligence, — "Stop, Mr. Cypress, there he is: don't you see 
 him? — just a leetle north-east of that bunch of bushes on the 
 edge of the bank ?" We looked : there he was. 
 
 "Jim, that's a dead bird. He can't rise." 
 
 "Yes, he can ; and if you don't shoot it sittin, he'll tumble 
 off into the water, and dive, and there'll be an end of him. 
 Shoot, shoot, and if he rises take him with the other barrel ; 
 stand ready, Mr. B ." 
 
 We shot. The bird sat and grinned at us. 
 
 "You've killed him — you've killed him, cried Jim, — "don't 
 shoot your other barrel." 
 
 It is not a great grief to renew ; but we had rather tell the 
 story ourselves : and it was April day, and it was James X, 
 So we went and picked up our game, one of his aforesaid 
 stools, which he had privately secreted under the folds of his 
 great coat, and carried out to help the solemnization of 
 April-fool day, in the South bay. We have not had our re- 
 venge yet. James X. is wary, and moves out of the country on 
 the last day of March. But retribution is in pickle for him ; 
 and it will be funny. 
 
 This simple incident in our biography illustrates the sub- 
 ject of stools. They are miserable wooden pictures of bay 
 birds, whose distant view brings enchantment to the living 
 jaunters, when they dip in here, and who are apt to look at 
 the arrival-book of the public places of "entertainment for 
 ducks," and stop where their friends are ; and will, of course, 
 
APPENDIX 
 
 i'J5 
 
 call in and say they're "happy to see them." Alas! how many 
 credulous, runined hearts, of human structure, have been 
 pierced, and stricken, bleeding, by a similar profession of fond 
 love, and good feeding-ground ! The stools are anchored oflf, 
 some twenty or thirty yards, held safely by a brick or angular 
 stone, tied to a string attached to a nail driven in their middle, 
 and there they float, like independent slaves tied to their desk 
 or counter, bobbing up and down and looking "happy — very 
 happy," but yet unable to take the wings of the morning, or 
 of the moonlight, and to fly away. The fresh flocks just 
 arriving, and not knowing where to go, following example, as 
 they imagine, whirl, with congratulatory clang, into the ex- 
 pected welcome of their fancied neighbors, only to be met by 
 the rough, harsh, remorseless bang, hang, with which "the 
 obtainer of ducks under false pretences," lies hiding to destroy 
 them. 
 
 They used to have another device "down East" called 
 "machines." Dannel Post, Ike Rose, and the Alibi's, were, if 
 not the inventors, at all events, the constant practisers and 
 mechanists, in the time of the prevailing architecture to which 
 we refer. Let no man flatter himself that that order of art 
 is beneath his notice. The genius of the structure itself sneers 
 at the Corinthian, speaks with cold respect to the Doric, and 
 calls itself the Colline-onatic. But those old batteries are decay- 
 ing ; for the Legislature has enacted a law, forbidding worship 
 in such temples. ^General Jones, of Queen's, Senator and 
 nobleman, noble-man, as a Republican could wish to be, takes 
 the responsibility of the constitutionality of the imposed pen- 
 alty. Fifty dollars for every bird shot out of a battery! All 
 honor to him if the law can be enforced. Whether it be a law 
 just and sustainable upon the ground of "equal rights," or the 
 "sumptuary" prerogatives of law-making power, we have not 
 yet made up our conclusion. Our judgment is only doubtfully 
 retained, having been spoken to on both sides, without an ad- 
 
 *Henry O. Floyd-Jones. 
 
i66 APPENDIX 
 
 vanced fee from either; therefore, we decline being anxious 
 to precipitate an opinion. 
 
 We must confess, however, that, personally, we have lain 
 in those coffins, not dead, nor dying, but the cause of death in 
 many two-legged people with feathers on. But we have always 
 had doubts about the morality — the mor — what ! — what is 
 morality, as applied to ducks? A duck's safety lies in his wings 
 and feet, not in acts of the Legislature. He can spring yards 
 enough, at a single leap, to cheat his enemies ; fly two miles in 
 a minute, to overtake his friends ; and dive, and scramble, and 
 hide, better than the cunningest Seminole. Yet, perhaps, our 
 ducks need protection. Perhaps we ought to repair our house, 
 and make things comfortable, or the tenants will move away. 
 There is a great deal in that consideration. Years ago, the 
 southern bays of Matowacs were brilliant with sparkling plum- 
 age, and bright eyes of birds of every hue and shape. Now ! — 
 Look for the intended progenitors of a "long line of descend- 
 ants," in the kitchens of people who go to Fulton Market. The 
 marshes which were joyfully obstreperous, even in summer, are 
 now silent. The banquet halls of the feeding-flats are deserted. 
 Instead of taking board, or hiring a house and lot, and making 
 themselves comfortable, as in old times; the ducks, now, are 
 only travellers, who just stop and take a drink, where they see 
 the proper sort of bar. It is natural, and therefore excusable, 
 that they stop at those Hotels where they see the most people 
 congregated : for a congregation argues good patronage ; and 
 good patronage argues good beverage. 
 
 This brings us back to the subject of machines. A ma- 
 chine, or battery, is a wooden box of the necessary dimensions 
 to let a man lie down upon his back, just tightly fitting enough 
 to let him rise again. — (It is not unlike that box which we 
 have all got to be shut up in at the end of the chapter of our 
 lives). It is fitted with wings of board horizontal, and so 
 sustained and nailed as to lie flat upon the water without sink- 
 ing, the top fringing, and the sides keeping you unwet by the 
 surrounding and over-floating tide, which gurgles around your 
 ears, and just does not come in, because the weight of stones 
 
APPENDIX 167 
 
 laid upon the wings, accurately adjusts the sinking depth of the 
 box. This receptacle for the body of the fowl slayer, is 
 anchored in some middle bay, where in its shallow waters, the 
 birds have a "haunt," and fly to feed upon the thick-growing 
 crops of Valisneria, and other goodly sea- wheat, far from any 
 point or plashy hassock, where, with their constant experience, 
 they might fear some skulker hid. The battery is anchored. 
 The wings, about five feet by seven, are covered carefully with 
 sand and carelessly scattered sea-leaves, and there is thus built 
 an artificial sand-bar in the middle of the wide, and to the 
 credulous victim, seemingly safe, bay. You get into this ma- 
 chine, and lie down and watch. Your man disposes the stool- 
 birds to your leeward, and sails away to stir up flocks miles 
 ofT, and drive them towards you, leaving you in the waste of 
 waters, where a little leak might sink and anchor you at the 
 bottom, — fun for ducks to dive and flop at, — to lie, cheat, 
 counterfeit, and kill. That is "shooting out of a machine." 
 The new arrivers coming in from sea, see the supposed happy 
 family you have around you, afar ofif, and set their willing 
 wings, fatigued with long exertion, and come, cruckmg musical 
 "good mornings," among your false masques. Then, then ! — 
 as they swoop in thick company before they settle, — you rise 
 from under the water, like a sudden demon, and scatter thun- 
 der and lightning and death among the deceived and ruined 
 imfortunates ! 
 
 Plant these machines all along the southern coast of Mato- 
 wacs, from Gowanas bay to Montauck point, and can any man 
 wonder that James X. (who hasn't got any proper spot to set 
 out a battery), should sometimes say that "ducks is scace?" 
 
 Mercy on us! we came near expressing an opinion! But 
 we are not committed. And lo! we have prosed a long half 
 hour, almost, and have not said a word we intended to. Dear 
 reader, we will usurp no more. Talk, now, thyself. 
 
i68 APPENDIX 
 
 Note 
 
 The writer when a boy, say from 1846 to 1851, well re- 
 members *Jim Smith and his hotel. Directly opposite on the 
 east corner of Jersusalem Road was a general country store 
 which was operated by members of the Jerusalem Quaker 
 family of Joneses, subsequently run by Samuel and John Post 
 from Jerusalem. The bar at Jim Smith's was quite unique. 
 It was crescent shaped and fully five and one half feet in 
 height, so that no one could lean upon it or hardly look over 
 it. A shelf ran around the inside part of the top which was 
 wide enough to hold some glasses, a bottle, and a pitcher of 
 water. I stopped at this place many many times when out 
 driving with my grandfather before 1851. My honored an- 
 cestor, after whom I was named, and who was the owner of 
 Brick House brook, always drove a good horse, and when on 
 the road would generally make this spot one of his stopping 
 places. On driving up to the stoop. Uncle Jim would come 
 out, and after passing the time of day, would say, "General, 
 what will you have?" The reply to this question was ,"Well, 
 Jim, you may give me a little gin and sugar." I would here 
 say that my grandfather got the gin and I got the sugar. After 
 a while some of the gentry of the county or contiguous one 
 of Suflfolk, would drive up, and a drink or two more was par- 
 taken of, after which the respective ones would make a start 
 east for home. You may rest assured that it was a brush the 
 whole distance. While I hung on to the seat of the buggy, 
 my grandsire would manipulate the reins, as he was very 
 proficient in this regard, and we were not the last one in the 
 crowd when Fort Neck, my ancestral home, was reached. 
 The mare that he drove was a chestnut blaze face bobtail. She 
 had been nicked and docked in our own barn and was a 
 beautiful animal. Her name was Kate. She had quite a little 
 
 *The author attended school with Jim Smith's two sons at the old 
 school house on the turnpike nearly opposite the old hotel. Jerusalem 
 South in 1849. The teacher's name was Walworth. He would send 
 a boy down to the adjacent swamp to cut a gad (whip) and then lace 
 him with it on his return. 
 
Q 
 
 
 Z 
 
 re 
 
 < 
 
 00 
 
 J 
 
 ""• 
 
 m 
 
 _c 
 
 "■^ 
 
 
 O 
 
 ^ 
 
 Z 
 
 8 
 
 o 
 
 -4 
 
 
 
 4J 
 
 
 t« 
 
 < 
 
 3 
 
 D 
 
 O 
 
 3'' 
 
 >^ 
 
 W 
 
 ^ 
 
 o, 
 
 o 
 
 < 
 
 'C 
 
 m 
 
 « 
 
 < 
 
 'o 
 
 
 
 f^ 
 
 M 
 
 
 C 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 W 
 
 ^ 
 
 <: 
 
 rt 
 
 _! 
 
 -o 
 
 < 
 
 (U 
 
 ^ 
 
 ■'-' 
 
 "",) 
 
 >, 
 
 w' 
 
 ,Xi, 
 
 CL, 
 
 733 
 
 <: 
 
 41 
 
 tn 
 
 rt 
 
 iXl 
 
 V 
 
 <: 
 
 
APPENDIX 169 
 
 speed, and at the owner's demise in 185 1, she was retained by 
 his only daughter. I drove her many times, and also rode her 
 under saddle. 
 
 Mr. Cypress died in 1841. Relative to the mermaid story 
 so ably portrayed by him I would say that the episode was 
 supposed to have happened before David S. Jones dug out for 
 the Massapequa Lake, and put up the long earthwork dam in 
 1836-37 that exists at the present time, both of which are now 
 owned by the Brooklyn Water Works, having been acquired 
 by them from the progenitor of the present owners of the 
 Massapequa House and lands, the House having been erected 
 at the same time when the Lake was made. If I remember 
 rightly, my father gave me to understand that the turnpike 
 road as now constituted, which runs in front of the large lawn 
 of the old mansion, and then west over the big bridge, which 
 spans the Fluent and parallel with the south side of the high 
 embankment, which dammed up the brook, thereby forming 
 the big Lake, was the creation of David S. Jones, which was 
 planned by him so as to form a large lawn in front of his new 
 house. Both visible at this date, 1914. Now at this late year 
 of my life, scenes come back to me very plainly, discernible in 
 my boyhood days, so I can imagine that the new road began 
 at a point about one hundred feet west of the southwest corner 
 of Grace churchyard, Massapequa, running directly west, close 
 to where the old Brick House stood, (torn down in 1836) or 
 really over its site, or running through the garden and orchard 
 adjoining the old house. In fact several apple or pear trees 
 have existed for many years on the spot, really locating where 
 the old house stood. Then continuing past the pond described 
 in the foregoing to the west, passing the old family graveyard 
 West Neck, within twenty-five to fifty feet of the graves of 
 Mr. Jones' father, who was interred here November, 1819, and 
 his grandfather, August, 1779, connecting a short distance 
 west with the old turnpike which passed in front of the ancient 
 William Jones' house at West Neck, erected 1733-35. which 
 was the birth place and ancestral home of David S. Jone.s. 
 The house and graveyard are still in existence. Family grave- 
 
170 APPENDIX 
 
 yards were not located in those days directly on the great high- 
 way, as this one appeared after the new road was laid out, all 
 of which is plainly discernible to a passer-by at the present 
 time. They were placed in some obscure part of the estate, 
 where it was not likely to be molested by posterity, except 
 without a good motive in their behalf, and especially by any act 
 of their own kin and blood. This old graveyard most likely 
 was originally laid out in 1779, one half to one acre in extent, 
 evidently at a location quite a little distance south of the 
 original old turnpike road. Its projectors never for a moment 
 conceived the idea that a new turnpike would ever have been 
 compiled so as to be directly adjacent to same. 
 
 Now from the mermaid legend I am enabled to strongly 
 draw upon my imagination as to the locality of the old road 
 where it ran to, before being deflected at the point referred 
 to in front of the church yard. It likely ran a shade north- 
 west right in front of the old schoolhouse where the writer 
 attended school 1845-47, then to the west over land. That 
 was subsequently (1847-48) taken in and made part of the old 
 Massapequa Race Track. Continuing west from there on a 
 line say one hundred feet from the Big House to the Brick 
 House Brook, where it crossed the bridge (as described in 
 the mermaid narration) that spanned the stream, which he so 
 ably describes as having followed. I can well remember seeing 
 the big lake, which with the brook covers over one hundred 
 acres of land, entirely denuded of water, so that you could 
 walk across to Marys Island, located off the west shore. Now 
 in the centre of the lake, winding toward the east, about 
 opposite the big house above referred to. coursed the channel 
 of the brook, over which a bridge had been erected, and when 
 the water was out of the lake, this bridge was plainly visible. 
 I crossed it many times in my early days. This bridge was 
 never removed during the incumbency of the original, or family 
 owners of same, anyway prior to the years 1854 to 57. When 
 the lake filled up again, it entirely overflowed the bridge, the 
 water at that point being fully five feet in depth. After 
 crossing the old structure, the original road ran directly west, 
 
APPENDIX i;i 
 
 passing the Jones (West Neck) homestead, which faced it. 
 This record may be of great interest to old Queens County 
 residents, as well as to those who are the present owners of the 
 property. Although drawn fairly clear, it is for the most part 
 imaginative. I will here end this part of my notes by saying 
 that the last trout caught by me in the Massapequa lake was 
 a "corker," so termed in the vernacular of the natives. It 
 weighed just three pounds. I never heard of one being caught 
 in my day out of the Long Island trout ponds that weighed 
 as much as this one did. This catch was in the fall of 185 1 or 
 the spring of 1852, and I hooked him directly over this old 
 submerged bridge on the east side of the lake, trolling from a 
 row boat. 
 
 Referring to the old Baymen, Uncle John Verity, Oba- 
 diah Verity, John Alibi and Parmenus Raynor (Venus), the 
 first one of this combination was very highly respected, and in 
 185 1 when General Thomas Floyd-Jones died, his children 
 presented a knife which was greatly prized by the old pos- 
 sessor, having in it over thirty different parts, to Uncle John as 
 a token of their esteem for him, and in memory of his old 
 friend, their father. The writer was a witness of ihis presen- 
 tation, which occurred late in 1851. 
 
 Now as to Obadiah Verity, who was called "Diah." The 
 characteristic part of h.is make up was demonstrated by his 
 slowness of articulating when conversing, and one of the inci- 
 dents told of him manifested this idiosyncrasy in the plainest 
 manner, it being related by a member of the family who witness- 
 ed the occurrence, or by the participant, who thought it a good 
 joke upon himself. I likely heard of this incident fully sixty- 
 five years ago. The other member of the case beside the 
 redoubtable Diah was the Honorable David S. Jones, who was 
 a son of Judge Samuel Jones, Recorder of New York, 1789, who 
 was styled Father of the New York Bar, and brother of Major 
 William Jones of Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, previously 
 referred to in these chapters where horses are the prominent 
 or distinctive part thereof. David S. Jones was quite a prom- 
 inent man in his day. He was Corporation Counsel of New 
 
172 APPENDIX 
 
 York in 1812-13, and at one time, 1797, private secretary to 
 Governor John Jay. His city home was number 2 P>ond Street. 
 In appearance he was called a handsome man, being very par- 
 ticular in his apparel, in fact quite an exquisite. He was mar- 
 ried three times, his last wife being a daughter of Governor De- 
 Witt Clinton. *He took quite a part, a prominent one, in the 
 duel which occurred in 1802 between George L. Eacker and 
 Philip Hamilton, residents of New York, being the latter's 
 second. The trouble which brought on the duel originated at 
 the Park Theatre, where Mr. Eacker imagined that Hamilton 
 and his friends were making him a subject of ridicule, which 
 was resented by his sending a challenge to young Hamilton, 
 who was son of Alexander Hamilton, Secretary of the Treas- 
 ury. Hamilton accepted same with alacrity and immediately 
 sent for David S. Jones to act as his second. The duel took 
 place at Weehawken in New Jersey and Hamilton was hit by a 
 ball, which went through his right side, passed through his 
 body, and lodged in his arm. He died July 23, 1802. While 
 residing in his summer residence at Massapequa, a beach part}' 
 would be projected by some of the neighboring families, Mr. 
 Jones being an invited guest, and Diah V'erity being employed 
 by them to sail the boat, as he knew every channel, sand bar 
 and current in the Bay. While on one of these excursions, 
 likely over to Gilgo, Mr. Jones very indiscreetly stood upon the 
 gunwale of the sail boat, at which moment D^ah deemed it 
 advisable to make a turn, so in his drawling manner of speecli, 
 he lets out "Mistarr Joones weare goin' tew gybe." Before 
 he got as far as going, he swung the tiller over, and around came 
 the boat and over came the boom, knocking Mr. fones over- 
 board. Surely he was hopping mad at his dilemma, and when 
 he got in the boat again, being an adept swimmer, he gave it to 
 Diah in a most classical manner, likely with a few adjectives 
 thrown in on the side to make it more expressive, telling him 
 that next time he wanted to gybe, to kindly commence his dis- 
 course half an hour before he proposed to begin his act. As a 
 
 *In the work "History of City of New York" by Mrs. Martha J. 
 Lamb and Mrs. Burton Harrison. 
 
APPENDIX 173 
 
 boy I heard Diah express himself many times, and I always 
 felt like saying "spit it out Diah." 
 
 David S. Jones died in East Fifteenth Street, New York, 
 May 10, 1848, his remains being interred in St. Marks Church- 
 yard in the Bowery. 
 
 Old slobbering Scudder was another character of the 
 times, who might be termed a "Genus Hobby." He was a ped- 
 dler of North Carolina sweet potatoes some months in the year. 
 These were considered quite a luxury, as none of them were 
 grown on Long Island. Scudder would procure his wagon load 
 at Brooklyn, and sell them as he meandered along the road, so 
 that by the time he reached South Oyster Bay, his load was 
 quite depleted. But if he only had a half peck left in the cor- 
 ner of the bottom of his wagon, he would still continue to call 
 out "Swit, Swit, Swit potaters dam it" with the saliva pouring 
 out both sides of his toothless mouth, and in other months he 
 would peddle hard clams, by beginning to call out in a low 
 voice one-quarter of a mile from any house, "Clic, Clic, Clic, 
 Clic," his voice gradually increasing in volume, and by the time 
 he got to the front gate the last "Clic" could be heard and 
 "Clams dam it" come out in a sonorous cadenza. 
 
 On a *muster roll of a company of detached militia under 
 the command of Captain Thomas Floyd-Jones in the Second 
 Regiment of New York State Infantry, commanded by Colonel 
 Daniel Bedell from the second of September, 1814, to the 
 eighteenth day of October, 1814, and the fifteenth of Novem- 
 ber, 1814, to the twenty-eighth of November, 1814, at Fort 
 Green, Brooklyn, the following names are inscribed : 
 
 John Verity, James Smith,, 
 
 Obadiah Verity, James X. Smith. 
 
 Full description of FOUR ILLUSTRATIONS which 
 follow this folio: 
 
 *Presented by the author of this book June 10, 1901, to the Delan- 
 cey Floyd-Jones Library, Massapcqua, Long Island. 
 
174 APPENDIX 
 
 FIRST — A Copy of the Original Patent issued by Colonial 
 Governor Edmond Andros sptli September, 16/ y, to 
 Inhabitants of the Town of Oyster Bay, Long Island, 
 Granting and Confirming all Deeds made to them from 
 the Indians. 
 SECOND — A Copy of the Original Patent issued by Colonial 
 Governor Richard Nicolls jrd, November, 1666, to 
 Inhabitants of the Town of Huntington, Long Island. 
 Granting and confirming all Deeds made to them from 
 the Indians. Copied 3rd August, 1769, and signed 
 vS. Bayard D. Secy. 
 THIRD — A Copy of the Original Patent issued by Colonial 
 Governor Dongan 2nd of August, 1688, to Inhabitants 
 of the Town of Huntington, Long Island, Granting and 
 Confirming all Deeds made to them from the Indians. 
 FOURTH — A Copy of the Original Patent issued by Colonial 
 Governor Richard Nicolls 5th of October, 1694, to In- 
 Copied igth June, lyyi, and Signed 6". Bayard 
 Granted by William and Mary. 
 Copied loth June, i^/i, and Signed 5". Bayard, 
 D. Secy. 
 Sanniel Bayard, Jr., was Colonial Deputy Secretary ijSg- 
 /i. His signature is a very peculiar one on these Copies, 
 showing that he spelled his surname Bauyard, and the last 
 letter D a capital, serving for last letter in his name as well as 
 D. Secy (see illustration). 
 
 These Relic Manuscripts are owned personally by the 
 author, being his heirlooms, the Oyster Bay Patent being 2^/ 
 years old, and one of Huntington 2.^8 years old ; the others 
 of Huntington 226 and 220 years old rcspectiz'cly. 
 
 The Copy of the Original Patents were made 14^ to 7^5 
 years ago at a tirhe about 17/ 1, when the Town of Oyster Bay 
 had the great Law-suit with Jackson and Jones families, as 
 to the ownership of the meadozv lands on the south side of 
 the Great South Bay of Long Island opposite Jerusalem South 
 and Fort Neck, extending to the ocean, which included Gilgo 
 Inlet, Wanzas Flats and Jones' Beach. The contents of these 
 

 ■ 
 
 
 
 
 , 
 
 
 1 
 
 
 ■■' / -• 
 
 
 
 
 //- X' 
 
 / 
 
 ;^ H 
 
 
 /■ . 
 
 '/ ' •■/•■^ x ■■■■ 
 
 / 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 />////. .■ .'" . /.• 
 
 
 
 
 
 . '//- //>^/ ■-■./// 
 
 
 
 
 
 . /// ., "y/^/ /// / .'/ / /v .'^. ' ''/ 
 
 
 
 
 
 ..^.'/,,/, ///,-. , / / /- /. ■/ 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 / 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 ' /^^ /• //. ■///,, .// v.. / . / /.- / . . 
 
 / . 
 
 
 
 
 .;•'. / // .;•//// /; // v /. . ; y 
 
 
 
 
 1 ..^■- :>^'--.-.^v:^^'^v..:-,..-./^... ,X 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 '/ 
 
 
 
 /... /..-.-^^ ./. '-• / .• ..< ,_ 
 
 / /^ 
 
 ^ / 
 
 
 / / • ../. . . /.-//V /-y ,-,■. - / 
 
 
 
 .' V ' ■ / / 
 
 
 
 
 • •■, / / 
 
 
 
//■, 
 
 '/'yf //a^- y}/y /i^< ^i-////// </'/,//' ; , 
 
 //^/. 
 
 
 
 '//y y/ / y.. y/A^ yl 
 
 / 
 
 -'/ 
 
 ,/,. 
 
 , . /. ':'y/.'yyyy'y/'/W^,7/' 
 
 'W ■ -y^L - A //y // ■> y . ' /- y.///A ■■ ry/ry"y//f'.yy. y^/. ryyy .y 
 
 '\'y' y. >/' y /■' ".■•'■••■ ''^ y/y <yy/y/yA^'-^/.' 
 
 :■/■' y.^' -^ • y/ }■/ /y^. /.-:/'/ 'yl ■ ry' / A / 
 
 ../y:/-/y,'( 
 
 / . 
 
 '^.'v'Av./^ 
 
 r.y/y/.y ,^.' 
 
 .,^. 
 
 :/ 
 
 /-•> 
 
 / 
 yf y y y//// / /y . / 
 
 /y'y < //f.y / // /^y^ '/, // ■ t, '/. / • yy 
 
 </ 
 
 / 
 
 ■// 
 
 /- 
 
 
 / 
 
 ,v/^xv /y/' 
 
 ./yy 
 
 y • ~ 
 
 'yy^y/(/y • /' jyy^^iy/jy^ 
 
 ///yy,// , /,,/y ^-,./^, 
 
 ./^ '/^ y^f^L^-v)./' 
 
 '.^/ 
 
 / 
 
 
 i_jj y /-/y 
 ..^3-- 
 
 •'^^ . . 
 
 .O' - '■ /■-•' 
 
 /r>'.- / 
 
 'y ■ • ' '""■/• yy ^/ /yy /^/ 
 
 '' / '-^ '-^ ^> yy //y/y'^a .// 
 
 ^-?'^£/'/ y /_ys^ ///:i^//^y //^yyyy 
 
 - - • ^" — — ^y ' !i ■ 
 / // //,'v.r- ///■/ yy4.y^ //Ay/ 
 
 ,-^, y yy/ ' y ■ /y 'yy/y-y.-y- 
 
 ■ ''-'■ y/y/ / ^^/'y /yyy//y^ y/ - 
 
 /y . ■/ ■// ////.'yy // i/ 
 
 //'/ .y/y // ' / y/..yy/ /y/ 
 
 ' /.-■ ' y.-y - // , / 
 y .■ / ■ y. . / 
 
 V 
 

 
, ■ • / ^ 
 

 
 tff,f,vfifHjt<'j/'':ir/-iC'r !.>::••''''■ '^ 
 
 
 /;;,■/; 'v/!< 
 
 -.v,-.-v:) 
 
 
 
 
 

 I 
 
 '■"'" , J ■, {■ , -.If/- 
 
 
 ij^:trv c/ff-^nj at^crrcy 
 
 /f,^ %od Jy u'l^'^f ^l9^^"'^ '-^^^ 
 
 /^;^^'?'/-^^^^l^;i«;/./:V.y. ^ -) 
 
'fU'^-i'- I'/ 'h/ J-'^xf/^' 
 
 ,/..■/ 
 
 ( If /uu/Y ///,;./ (,L->ilj, 
 ^/ilalJeiiia-irHirtKjlcinn.y Aj/. /I'l '-' ' 'y 
 
 '''"/ 
 
 Ian a 
 \cH nine ^^ 
 
 ly/LMdmn ^ i'//L . \anLC o/l I'afLryrt, a,Lc i,n,r/y 
 cmdc/L^J^f(^jdxc Ja ^M^/nuVnyM^ 
 
 avdnJicr ,tny i^fnM(rru< //irt.u./irn aic /r/dryi 
 
 yf^/^«^/V WfXv^<r-/>V»' Hcthi/anA^JIaidca^.'XiA,^ 
 ^MarA*? y/a-/<^ ■<? /dyihJnahau'fiu iij /lun/ifij rj^-yi /< ny m^r 
 
 'J(if<di In nn^iU -f /cr/AL'^^cX/do/^/i i' an(^.::»'rfrr>J,/c .' niMif^ 
 4>iU^ff(/t) a C(^i'i^('-1^^'{^'^^.(y^/^^'dfit ''<'>(■' ((r>a iil-JrL 
 
,?////. Jcl >U-( J ^^^''^ '" ^1^^^'/ ^^'^^"^ ''^^'^ cT'/zA .//w ^-j/,/// 
 
 '/Iui/lJ^c ^a i///rr?>va c //rxino^ 
 
 <f /vc/i r>^ //■ 
 
 lfcJlcr,n,nUycaac')/<///^tJ''A'^nJ'</d.irrX r/ , . 
 JacUyaatarL a n? /y /I ty(l'ji /k cr/jJ/mJ ^ , 
 
 /PriinA"^ 
 
n 
 
 
 
 ■ t'.'/iu . i/ao7ii. ana r/i //u t^rrfh (-u/li- ,' I 
 <(icr^'.n<nc /ci^ui/L /(.</*/// /^./V,- a /.,<- /■,!. ■/.■ .. / / 
 
 atl'<yt(inx/ i^ranM/r/i t/nu-r^\i/uvi <^•^l /rl<iuni/ /r-/A: 
 jcujo Jmi7i cjoiu^i^i ny/i7ia^ai< 'c a /(Jjo (•< nuZ/d/Zi.., j 
 {o'MiA^^uatTije.s/ffcodiArLt^^tJcaclefTc-,/ '^^a^'/atcj. //.!■.:■:,■ 
 
 0fcLrcun La/LLu>dy,,dru/( an.-llyc/ /./../,// L/,y 
 \fmr. Jai/^-^nnj:cL :fAav^. aJd^ /^ y / /'' -^ ^'/> '>'"'y 
 f.'u>^cn.*n Clniin(<'-/ir,iyi<'rni (yicTn/a,i . //^y///-//^'/' 
 
 ■fM'i .n/^-/v^^c ryyi ('. ' .-'^ <"> yAatir^^'-^^-'^-'^ 
 
 Mi . 
 
 
 (c.A. jrU^Tr."-! 
 
 /■' ^ ■: 
 
 
■ ■.' ' J.I../!.- 'f. t ?/..'.-,. i ,. f//.,/t ci'/ /, Vw/A-.y,'.; v// 
 ('■(fiyZ-rftn.^fAc/ J/i_ l}y^/(ua <yi(i', L , ../l:/ ,/„ / 
 /. /ii-7i n ( i///u ~ lt(/)L i r/lW<'{v^ ii>Y a^^/i( /■,//,.,//,.• , 
 Jcalk^rnv^/ic iAtn^c/mc t/auc crfd Jtn f^y /c //f </ /,/a 
 Jen anr rri'/A(.'~ir?'/fiiy/hc Jci/ nr //id/ ro/ui u (h /uc n 
 ca-V^ax/?JJcc//cj ^o.H! an'"//LCL mrane Lr^i/nf/iJ <i/i- < yi 
 »ii>^a>at///yiX'^Y?ti. ziui-nina/rc/K //v /h-il'i/r/i. ^n '4 //r 
 cn/&f an?/i,nc/rn (i//kt^lfaMc c///u /rrj/iSr/u /( // /f.,J 
 ^i/docf/Pfi^Mian trVait ■ai'7/^//iru ■ i^rr/n //unci, /ra J,ih, 
 cm/ntJca^A ^<e/i cincr^ax^<'y^/a>icc/JaJ^aii- an A (^nj 
 J>\yi((- r/,-L^ \icr<.o^i{{AJumAauia'iU4/4niJ an^/rr>H //il jm.- 
 d't^i^t'iu /! futitpJciiTh Ar/tu uiiyc i/ra/h Jca \ 
 
 c tuvya / Jl(t< / ///y -cj/y/, cc ///,i,H />/ / //I. 
 
 4ym/J/-<-yy 
 
 
 
 
 '-* '^ 
 
 
 
 
 
APPENDIX 175 
 
 documents was very likely utilized as evidence conclusive, the 
 suit thereby being decided in favor of the latter, viz : Jack- 
 sons and Joneses, by the Supreme Court of the Colony. 
 
 The Oyster Bay Patent also covers in its environs Hicks- 
 ville, Salisbury Plains Race Track, Cold Spring Harbor and 
 Beach on the north, and Jerusalem south, Fort Neck, 
 South Oyster Bay, Brick House Brook and Massapequa Trot- 
 ting Track on the south. 
 
 The Huntington Patents in their territory include in same 
 Babylon and Fire Island. 
 
 On folio 215, referring to old bridges and new turnpike 
 roads at Fort Neck, it is expressed as being for the most part 
 imaginative. But the Illustrated Copy of Original Patents of 
 Oyster Bay and Huntington, Long Island, are not a product 
 of the author's conception, but the actual evidence of what 
 they profess to prove beyond the possibility of doubt. 
 
 THE END. 
 
INDEX 
 
 A 
 
 A Week at the Fire Islands 141 
 
 A. A. Low, packet-ship 8 
 
 Aaron Burr, horse 66 
 
 Abbey, Henry E., theatrical manager 88, 108 
 
 Abbott, Emma, opera singer 103 
 
 Abdallah, horse (John Tredwells) 112 
 
 .^beels Iron Yard, N. Y 29 
 
 Academy of Music, N. Y 61, 87, 103 
 
 Academy of Music, Brooklyn 88, 89 
 
 Ackerman, Gunther K., Brooklyn 34 
 
 Adams & Colt, murder case, N. Y 52 
 
 Adams Express Company, N. Y 49 
 
 Adams, John T., cotton broker, N. Y 25 
 
 Adams Street, Brooklyn 83 
 
 Adams Union, haberdasher, N. Y 55 
 
 Adees, Hunts Point, N. Y 123 
 
 Admiral 61 
 
 Adriatic, steamship 13 
 
 Africa, steamship 14 
 
 Aiken, Frank E., actor 33 
 
 Aiken, George L., dramatist 33 
 
 Alabama, steamship 14 
 
 Albany, N. Y 9, 15, 34, 47, 89, 112 
 
 Albany Girl, mare 65 
 
 Albany Steamboats 15 
 
 Albany Street 126 
 
 Albert Gallatin, packet-ship 8 
 
 Aldine, mare 96, 118 
 
 Alexander's, Dr., Presbyterian Church, N. Y 133 
 
 Alexandria, Virginia 51 
 
 Alibi 140, 152, 171 
 
 177 
 14 
 
178 INDEX 
 
 Alibis 165 
 
 Alice Price, steamboat 123 
 
 Alix, mare 94 
 
 Alixe, comedy 106 
 
 Allen Brothers, hotel and bar saloon 97 
 
 Allen C. Leslie, actor 33 
 
 Allen Mart, saloon keeper 97 
 
 Allen, The, saloon keeper 97 
 
 Allen Street, N. Y 47, 56 
 
 Allerton & Co., hog slaughterers 11 
 
 Alley, George, stock broker, N. Y 20, 82 
 
 Allright, Japanese acrobat 62 
 
 All Souls, Unitarian Church, 4th Ave. & 20th St., N. Y.. . 134 
 
 Alsop & Co., shipping merchants, N. Y 8 
 
 Amboy, New Jersey 61 
 
 Amelung & Co., J. A., N. Y., provisions 10 
 
 America, United State 2, 24, 25, 54, 59, 63, 64, 69 
 
 American 163 
 
 American Actresses 60 
 
 American Actor no 
 
 American Company, steamships 13 
 
 American Eclipse, horse 81 
 
 American Flag 63, 124 
 
 American Gander 160 
 
 American Girl, mare 81, 91 
 
 American House, Hotel Babylon, L. 1 123 
 
 American House, Brooklyn 83 
 
 American Marine Insurance Companies, N. Y 24 
 
 American Museum, "l)arnum's," N. Y 32 
 
 American Native 98 
 
 American News Comi)any, N. Y 49 
 
 American Star, horse 81 
 
 American Steamer Agents 12 
 
 American Surety Company, N. Y 28 
 
 American Turf Register and Sporting Magazine 86 
 
 Americans 32 
 
 Americans, Native 124, 129 
 
INDEX 179 
 
 Americus, horse 66 
 
 Amity Street, N. Y 36, 54, 55 
 
 Amity Street, Brooklyn 10, 135 
 
 Amityville, L. 1 82 
 
 Amity Hose Co., No. 38, N. Y. Fire Dept., Volunteers. . . 36 
 
 Amos Street:, N. V 63, 132 
 
 Amphitrite 155 
 
 Amsinck & Co., L. E., importers, N. Y 8 
 
 Anabasis 161 
 
 Anas Canadiensis 160 
 
 Anatic 160 
 
 Anderson, John, tobacco, N. Y 28 
 
 Anderson, Robert, Major U. S. Army at Fort Sumter. . . 15 
 
 Anderson, Thomas, Rev. Dr., First Baptist Church, N. Y. . 134 
 
 Andrews, Proprietor Fifth Ave stage line, N. Y 42 
 
 Andros, Edmond, Col. Gov 174 
 
 Annapolis, Maryland 15, 48, 51 
 
 Ann Street, N. Y 27, 31, 34, 35, 57, 103, 115, 126 
 
 Anthony Street, N. Y 46, 53, 54 
 
 Anser 160 
 
 Anseric 160 
 
 Appleton & Co., publishers, N. Y 53 
 
 Apollo Hall, N. Y 57 
 
 Apollo Hall, Brooklyn 49 
 
 Apollo, horse 66 
 
 Apprentices' Library, N. Y 57, 135 
 
 April fool day 164 
 
 Apthorpe House, N. Y 68 
 
 Aquarium, Battery Park, N. Y 2 
 
 Aqueduct Running Race-Track, Queens County, L. I. . . . ^j 
 
 Arabia, steamship 14 
 
 Arago, steamship 12, 16 
 
 Arctic, steamship 13 
 
 Arethusa 155 
 
 Argyle Hotel, Babylon, L. 1 123 
 
 Army Headquarters 9 
 
 Arnold, Constable & Co., dry goods, N. Y 56 
 
i8o INDEX 
 
 Arnold, Frank, Brooklyn 34 
 
 Asia, steamship 14, iG 
 
 Aspinwall, W. H., N. Y 136 
 
 Assistant Engineer, N. Y. Fire Dept. Volunteers. .. .36, 37 
 
 Assistant Engineer, Brooklyn Fire Dept. Volunteers 39 
 
 Astor, John Jacob, N. Y in, 116, 137 
 
 Astor House, hotel, N. Y 4, 41 
 
 Astor Library, N. Y no, 135 
 
 Astor Place, N. Y 4, no, 135 
 
 Astor Place, riots, N. Y no 
 
 Astor, William B., N. Y n6, 136 
 
 Astor, William B., Jr 137 
 
 Astoria, L. 1 27, 123 
 
 Athletics of Philadelphia, Base Ball Club 87 
 
 Atlantic Cable 4, 17 
 
 Atlantic Base Ball Club, Brooklyn 83. 84, 87 
 
 Atlanitc Dock, Brooklyn 7, 121 
 
 Atlantic Gardens, N. Y 46 
 
 Atlantic Guards, Bowery, N. Y 46 
 
 Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey 123 
 
 Atlantic Hose Company, No. i, Brooklyn. . . .34, 37, 38, 91 
 
 Atlantic Mutual (Marine) Insurance Company, N. Y. .13. 24 
 
 Atlantic Ocean 5 
 
 Atlantic Street Tunnel, Brooklyn 5.? 
 
 Atlantic Steamship 13, 16 
 
 Atlanticville, L. 1 139 
 
 Attorney Street, N. Y 36 
 
 Auction Eating House, N. Y 21 
 
 Audobon 1 60 
 
 Augusta, steamship 14 
 
 Austin, Nat. Circus Ring Master 62 
 
 Author of this book 38. 40, 173 
 
 Author's family 53 
 
 Avenue "A," N. Y 122 
 
 Awful, horse 66 
 
 Aymar & Co., ship chandlers, N. Y 8 
 
 Aymar, Frederick, Brooklyn 18 
 
INDEX i8i 
 
 B 
 
 Babylon, L. 1 20, 67, 102, 139, 140, 175 
 
 Babylon RaceTrack, L. t 67 
 
 Babylonians, L. 1 102 
 
 Bache, James, banker, N. Y 20 
 
 Bachus, Charley, minstrel, N. Y 61 
 
 Baker, Eugene P., Brooklyn 39 
 
 Baker, Frank, banker, N. Y 21 
 
 Baker, Lew (Bill Poole fracas), N. Y 62, 63 
 
 Baldwin, Frank, clothing, N. Y 56 
 
 Baldwin, Zeke, hotel, Brooklyn 83 
 
 Ball, Black & Co., jewelers N. Y 38 
 
 Ballston N. Y. State 123 
 
 Baltic, steamship 13, 16, 51 
 
 Baltimore, Maryland 48, 51, 71, 94 
 
 Bangs, F. C, actor 59, 109 
 
 Bank of America, N. Y 25 
 
 Bank of Commerce, N. Y 20, 25 
 
 Bank of New York, N. Y 25 
 
 Bank of North America, N. Y 25, 26 
 
 Bank of State of New York, N. Y 26 
 
 Bank of The Republic, N. Y 27 
 
 Bank of United States 159 
 
 Bank Street, N. Y 59 
 
 Banks, Theodore, flour and grain merchant, N. Y 7 
 
 Bankers Trust Co., N. Y 27 
 
 Baptist Churches, N. Y 134 
 
 Barber, W. B., provisions, Brooklyn 10 
 
 Barclay Street, N. Y 10, 38, 41, 133 
 
 Barge Office, Battery Park, N. Y 2 
 
 Barker, Jacob, stock broker, N. Y 21 
 
 Barmore, Mr., N. Y 99 
 
 Barmore, J. & C, piano manufacturers, N. Y 55 
 
 Barmore & McCollough's ice cream saloon, N. Y 99 
 
 Barnegat, New Jersey 5 
 
 Barretos, Long Island Sound 123 
 
i82 INDEX 
 
 Barr, Robert, Asst. Eng. Fire Dept. Vol., Brooklyn. .37. 39 
 
 Barrett, actor 109 
 
 Barnum, P. C., clothing, N. Y 56 
 
 Bassett, Edward 40 
 
 Barnum, Phineas T., showman, N. Y 4, 32, 136 
 
 Barnnm's Museum, N. Y 4- 3I) 33, 57- 103 
 
 Barry, John, road house, N. Y 119 
 
 Bartholomew, minstrel, N. Y 58 
 
 Bartlett & Struble, slaughterers, N. Y 11 
 
 Bath, L. 1 60, 123 
 
 Bath Beach Hotel, L. 1 123 
 
 Battle Hill, Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn 60 
 
 Batteries 157 
 
 Battery Park, N. Y 2, 3, 4, 6, 9, 60, no, 122, 137, 138 
 
 Battery Place, N. Y , 18 
 
 Bateman, Kate, actress 32, 102 
 
 Bates, Eli, Asst. Engineer N. Y. Fire Dept. Volunteers. . . 36 
 
 Batterby, Joshua, character in the comedy "Victims" 60 
 
 Baxter, Bill, horse trainer 71 
 
 Bayard Street, N. Y 46 
 
 Bayard, Samuel, Jr 174 
 
 Baylis, Smith C. Brooklyn 18, 27 
 
 Baymen 140, 141, 171 
 
 Bayside, L. 1 20, 24, 99 
 
 Bay Ridge, L. 1 53 
 
 Beach Street, N. Y 45 
 
 Beach Pneumatic R. R. Tunnel, N. Y 52 
 
 Beatrice Bellini, mare 29 
 
 Beaver Pond, Jamaica, L. 1 65 
 
 Beaver Street, N. Y 18, 19, 25, 29, 124. 136 
 
 Beckstein & Co., provisions, N. Y 10 
 
 Beck, Retail Dry Goods, N. Y 56 
 
 Beckert, Harry, actor 61 
 
 Bedell, Daniel 1 73 
 
 Bedford, Brooklyn 9, 83, 1 19 
 
 Bedford Street Methodist Church, N. Y 133 
 
 Bedlam loi 
 
INDEX 183 
 
 Bedloes Island, N. Y. Bay 4, 8, 137 
 
 Beecher, Henry Ward, Rev., Brooklyn 22, 32, 134 
 
 Beefsteak Church, 4th Ave., N. Y 134 
 
 Beekman, James 137 
 
 Beekman Street, N. Y 44, 126, 131. 133 
 
 Behemoth of the Scriptures 142 
 
 Belfast Provision Houses 18 
 
 Belgian Block Pavement no 
 
 Bell, James, tailor, N. Y 28 
 
 Bell and Everett, Presidential Candidates i860 58 
 
 Belle Air, horse 94 
 
 Belle Hamlin, mare 96 
 
 Bell Ringer, horse 66 
 
 BeHport, L. 1 85 
 
 Belmont, August, banker, N. Y 20, 80, 114, 137 
 
 Belmont House, hotel, Fulton Street, N. Y 21, 34 
 
 Bellows, Frank, livery stable, N. Y 64 
 
 Belleville, New Jersey 122 
 
 "Ben Bolt," song 48 
 
 Bennett, James Gordon, editor N. Y. "Herald". . 16, 124, 136 
 
 Bennett, James Gordon, Jr., N. Y 22 
 
 Bennett, Colonel, 48th Regiment, Brooklyn 49 
 
 Benson, Arthur, tea importer, Brooklyn 92 
 
 Benson, Alexander, Brooklyn 9, 39 
 
 Benson Street, N. Y 126 
 
 Benton, Jessie 58 
 
 Benton, Tom, U. S. Senator 58 
 
 Beppo, horse 66 
 
 Bergen Point, New Jersey 123 
 
 Bernard, Mrs. (Caroline Ritchings), opera singer 58 
 
 Bernard, minstrel 61 
 
 Berrian, Rev. Dr., Rector 131 
 
 Berry's Dining Rooms, Broad Street, N. Y 23 
 
 Bertholfs, Harry, road house, N. Y 68, 113 
 
 Bevans, James, fire bell ringer, N. Y 60 
 
 Bewick 160 
 
 Biddle, Nicholas 159 
 
i84 INDEX 
 
 Biddleize 1 59 
 
 Big House 170 
 
 Big Six Engine Co., N. Y. Fire Dept. Volunteers 36 
 
 Bigley, R. W., Brooklyn Fire Dept. Volunteers 34 
 
 Biles, Sam 155 
 
 Billings, Josh, writer 113 
 
 Billings, C. K. G., N. Y 96 
 
 Birch, Billy, minstrel 15, 61 
 
 Birmingham Street, N. Y 126 
 
 "Black Crook" (1865), drama 6r 
 
 Black Douglas, horse 79 
 
 "Black Eyed Su.san," drama 58 
 
 Black Hawk (Morgan's), horse 21 
 
 Black Warrior, steamship 14 
 
 Black Warrior, clipper ship 8 
 
 Blake, Wm. Rufus, actor 53-103 
 
 Blakeley, Tom, ale house, Brooklyn 83 
 
 Blanck's German Bakery, N. Y 22, 23 
 
 Blanco, B., exporter, N. Y 8 
 
 Bleecker Street, N. Y 49, 54, 55, 63, 98, 125, 126, 136 
 
 Bleecker Street Stage Line, N. Y 42 
 
 Bleecker, Anthony J., real estate broker, N. Y 21, 28 
 
 Blitz, Signor, sleight-of-hand performer 107 
 
 Bloomingdale, N. Y 42, 64 
 
 Bloomingdale Road, N. Y 9, 49. "8 
 
 Bloomingdale Stage Line 42 
 
 Blossom, Benjamin, merchant, N. Y 8 
 
 Bluffer, horse 68 
 
 Blydenburg, Richard, Smithtown, L. 1 66 
 
 Board of Education Building 58 
 
 Boerum Street, Brooklyn 19, $2 
 
 Boerum, Mr 80 
 
 Bolivar, horse 95 
 
 Bonaparte 161 
 
 Bond. Colonel, Baltimore, Md 7^ 
 
 Bond Street, No. 31, N. Y 99, 126, 136, 172 
 
 Bond Street, N. Y 125 
 
INDEX 185 
 
 Bonfanti, dancer 61 
 
 Bonner, Asst. Engineer, N. Y. Fire Dept. Volunteers. .36, 96 
 
 Bonner, David, publisher, N. Y 20, 81 
 
 Bonner, Robert, editor N. Y. "Ledger," 12, 66, 81, 125 
 
 Boorman, Johnston & Co., merchants, N. Y 8 
 
 Booth, Edwin, actor 102 
 
 Booth, Junius Brutus, actor 102 
 
 Booth, J. Wilkes 41, 100, 102 
 
 Booths, actors 22 
 
 Booth's Theatre, N. Y 109 
 
 Boston, Mass 47, 61 
 
 Boston Blue, horse 71, 112 
 
 Boston Boy, horse 92 
 
 Boston Girl, mare 66 
 
 Boston Pony, horse 71, 94 
 
 Bostonian, actor 33 
 
 Boucicault, Dion, actor 59, 102 
 
 Bowen & McNamee, dry goods, N. Y 28, 31 
 
 Bowery, N. Y 
 
 10, II, 29, 41, 43. 46, 56, 57. 65, 97, 98, 99, 126, 128, 131, 173 
 
 Bowery Stage Line, N. Y 42 
 
 Bowery Theatre, N. Y 46 
 
 Bowers, Mrs., actress 88 
 
 Bowling Green, N. Y 9, 12, 41. no, 122, 136, 138 
 
 Boyd & Hincken, ship brokers, N. Y 8 
 
 Boyne Battle, Ireland 122 
 
 Bradbury, piano manufacturers, N. Y 55 
 
 Brainard, Asa, Excelsior Base Ball Club, Brooklyn 83 
 
 Brainard, Harry, Excelsior Base Ball Club, Brooklyn .... 87 
 
 Brandreth, B., patent medicines, N. Y 54 
 
 Brandreth House, hotel, N. Y 54 
 
 Brazilian Ape 62 
 
 Breckenridge & Lane, presidential candidates (i860) .... 58 
 
 Brennan, Mathew, sheriff of New York 64 
 
 Breslin, James, hotel proprietor, N. Y 12, 80 
 
 Brevoort, Henry, N. Y 136 
 
i86 INDEX 
 
 Brewster, wagon maker, N. Y 64 
 
 Hrick Church, Park Row, N. Y 44, 133 
 
 Brick House, L. 1 169 
 
 Brick House, Brook 149, 168, 170, 175 
 
 Bridge Enlargement, Brooklyn 44 
 
 Bridgeport Line Steamboats 15 
 
 Brignoli, opera singer 103 
 
 "Brigham Young," comedy loi 
 
 Brighton Beach Race Track, Coney Island 95 
 
 Bristol, steamboat 16 
 
 British Blonde, actress 61 
 
 British Consulate 13 
 
 British Navy 69 
 
 Broad Street, N. Y 6, 9, 18, 20, 21, 23, 25 
 
 Broadway, N. Y.. .4, 6, 9, 13, 14, 18, 22, 23, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 
 34, 36, 38, 39, 41, 43. 45. 47. 48, 49. 52, 53. 54. 55. 56, 
 57. 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 90, 97, 98, 99, loi, 103, 104, 
 106, 107, ic8, 109, no. III, 112, 113, 114, 115, 122, 
 126, 131, 132, 133, 134, 135, 136, 138 
 
 Broadway Bank, N. Y 42 
 
 Broadway Central Hotel. N. Y 102 
 
 Broadway Chambers, N. Y 5^ 
 
 Broadway House, hotel 59 
 
 Broadway Stage Line, N. Y 41, 42 
 
 Broadway Subway, N. Y 52 
 
 Broadway Theatre, N. Y 52, 88 
 
 Broadway Theatre (formerly Wallacks). Bnoome St. and 
 
 Broadway. N. Y 103, 104 
 
 Broadway Varieties, N. Y 5^ 
 
 I'.rodie, James A., furs, Brooklyn 34 
 
 Brokaw's, clothing, N. Y 109 
 
 l^rooks Brothers, clothing, N. Y 56 
 
 Brooks Dancing Academy, N. Y 57 
 
 Brooks. Erastus, editor N. Y. "Express," N. Y...21, 2"], 124 
 Brooks, James, editor N. Y. "Express," and Congress- 
 man 27, 124 
 
INDEX 187 
 
 Brooklyn, L. I.. .2, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 2-2), 
 
 24, 26, 31, 34, 37, 39, 40, 48, 49, 52, 58, 62, 83, 84, 85, 
 
 86, 87, 88, 89, 91, 92, 103, 107, 118, 119, 121, 124, 134, 
 
 137, 138, 139, 173 
 
 Brooklyn Base Ball Clnb 83 
 
 P.rooklyn Bridge 40 
 
 Brooklyn Club 89 
 
 Brooklyn Engine Co., No. 17, Vol. Fire Dept., Brooklyn. T^y 
 
 Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn 11, 92 
 
 Brooklynite 18 
 
 Brooklyn Navy Yard, Brooklyn 61 
 
 Brooklyn preacher, Brooklyn 22 
 
 Brooklyn Quaker, Brooklyn 24 
 
 Brooklyn Roads, Brooklyn 11, 19, 54 
 
 Brooklyn Theatre, Brooklyn 83, 107 
 
 Brooklyn Water Works, Brooklyn 169 
 
 Bronson, Frederick, N. Y 136 
 
 Bronx, N. Y 138 
 
 Broome Street, N. Y.io, 43, 46, 57, 59, 103, 127, 131, 134, 135 
 
 Brougham, John, actor 46, 59, 102. 103, 106 
 
 Broughams Lyceum, Theatre, N. Y 59 
 
 Broughams Theatre (formerly 5th Avenue Theatre. 1869) 106 
 
 "Brother Sam," comedy 100 
 
 Brown, Joseph H 39 
 
 Brown, George W., restaurant, N. Y 21 
 
 Brown, James 1 36 
 
 Brown, Sexton of Grace Church, N. Y 112 
 
 Brown Brothers, bankers, N. Y 24 
 
 Brown Columbus, horse 66 
 
 Brown Dick, horse 80 
 
 Brown, stage proprietor, N. Y 42 
 
 Brown Stone 122 
 
 Brown & Secomb, auctioneers, N. Y 25 
 
 Brownell, Frank H., Sergeant, Zouaves 51 
 
 Bruce, Langley, N. Y 109 
 
 Brundage, James, Brooklyn 92 
 
 Brunette, mare 81. 96 
 
i88 INDEX 
 
 Brunei, steamship builder 2 
 
 Bruno, horse 8i, 96 
 
 Brunswick Hotel, N. Y 9 
 
 Brutus, character in "Julius Caesar" 109 
 
 Bryant, Dan, minstrel 57 
 
 Bryant, David, Smithtown, L. 1 65 
 
 Bryant, Jerry, minstrel 57, 64 
 
 Bryant, Neil, minstrel 57, 64 
 
 Bryant Park, N. Y 43 
 
 Bryant, William Cullen, editor "Evening Post," N. Y.,.. 
 
 16, 124, 157 
 
 Bryant's minstrels 57, 103, 113 
 
 Bryce & Co., Wm., Hardware, N. Y 38 
 
 Buchanan, James, President U. S 60 
 
 Buckley family, Astoria, L. 1 123 
 
 Buckley's Serenaders, N. Y. minstrels 61, 103 
 
 Buffalo, N. Y. State 29 
 
 Buffalo Skins 119 
 
 Buffon 160 
 
 Bulls Head, 24th St., N. Y 42 
 
 Bulls Head Hotel, 24th St. and 3d Ave., N. Y 42 
 
 Bull Run, Battle of, (Virginia) 49, 51 
 
 Burdell, Harvey, dentist, 31 Bond St., N. Y 99, 100 
 
 Burdell murder, 31 Bond St., N. Y 99 
 
 Burdett, Jones & Co., auctioneers, N. Y 8 
 
 Burnett, George 66, 81 
 
 Burnham, Gordon S., N. Y 114, 136 
 
 Bumham's Road House, N. Y 64, 118 
 
 Burnham's Gymnasium, Brooklyn 137 
 
 Burke, Pascall C, Brooklyn 34 
 
 Burling Slip, N. Y 8, 16. 26 
 
 Burr, Carl, Smithtown, L. 1 80, 118 
 
 Burrell, Seymour, butter and cheese, N. Y 19 
 
 Burrell, William, jeweller, N. Y ^7 
 
 Burroughs, Claude, actor 107 
 
 Burton, William E., actor 49, 101,102, 103 
 
 Burtons Theatre, N. Y 49, loi, 103 
 
INDEX 189 
 
 Burton's New Theatre, formerly Laura Keene's Varie- 
 ties, N. Y loi 
 
 Butler. James, N. Y 95 
 
 By "Jimmey Neddy" (Mort Tunison), Coney Island Road 
 
 House 19 
 
 C 
 
 Cable Tom 2}^ 
 
 Cable Hotel, Coney Island 23 
 
 Caen, France 29 
 
 Caesar, see page 109 
 
 Caius Cassius, character in "J"li"s Caesar," drama 109 
 
 Caldwell, Jacob, police commissioner 47 
 
 Callender Building 27 
 
 California, State 80, 100 
 
 California Damsel, rnare 12 
 
 California Vigilance Committee 98 
 
 California Clippers, sailing vessels 7 
 
 Calphurina, wife to Caesar 109 
 
 Calvary Church, Episcopal, 4th Ave. & 21st St., N. Y. . . . 132 
 
 Calypso 155 
 
 "Camille," drama 60, 100 
 
 Cammeyer, Casper K., Brooklyn 39 
 
 Campanini, opera singer 103 
 
 Campbell, Felix, Brooklyn 92 
 
 Campbell, Sir Colin, India 17 
 
 Campbell, Sherwood, opera singer 58 
 
 Canada 12, 98 
 
 Canal Street, N. Y 
 
 31, 41, 42, 43, 45, 46, 53, 54, 56, 57, 126, 127, 133 
 
 Canal Street, North River, N. Y 13, 15 
 
 "Can this be the Battery of Old Times?" 137 
 
 Canterbury Hall, Cheap Concerts, N. Y 99 
 
 Cape May, New Jersey 123, 161 
 
 Cape Race, Newfoundland 13 
 
 Caroline Street, N. Y 126 
 
I90 INDEX 
 
 Carlisle Street, N. Y 126, 127 
 
 Carlton Mouse Hotel, N. Y 56 
 
 Carlton Avenue, Brooklyn -^j 
 
 Carmine Street, N. Y 42, 128, 132 
 
 Carpenter & Vermilye, bankers, N. Y 26 
 
 Carson, Alfred, Chief Engineer N. Y. Fire Dept. Vol... 36 
 
 Case, J. I., Racine, Wisconsin 117 
 
 "Cassius, Julius Caesar," drama 109 
 
 "Caste," drama 60, 103 
 
 Cases, Gabe, Road House, N. Y 1 19 
 
 Castle Clinton, Battery Park, N. Y 3 
 
 Castle Garden, Battery Park, N. Y 3, 4, 5, 52, 61 
 
 Castle Williams, Governors Island, N. Y. Bay 2, 137 
 
 Castle, William, opera singer 58 
 
 Cassius M. Clay, horse 81 
 
 Caswells, Barettos Point, L. I. Sound 123 
 
 Cas.sy, character "Uncle Tom's Cabin," 33 
 
 Catharine Market, N. Y, 127 
 
 Catharine Street, N. Y 7, 38, 56, 126, 127 
 
 Catharine Lane, N. Y 126 
 
 Causes of the Civil War 32 
 
 Cedar Rapids, Iowa it 
 
 Cedar Street, N. Y 17, 22, 23, 24, 28, 44, 55, 56, 126 
 
 Cemeteries, N. Y 128 
 
 Centerville, horse 79 
 
 Centerville Race Track, Long Island 60, 65, 67, 79 
 
 Center Market, N. Y 63, 127 
 
 Central America, steamship 14, 15 
 
 Central Avenue (later Jerome Avenue), N. Y 119 
 
 Central Park, N. Y 2, 39, 46, 1 14, 122 
 
 Centre Street, N. Y 38, 43, 45, 46, 57, 58, 127 
 
 Chadwick, F. E., Rear Admiral U. S. Navy 3, 32 
 
 Chadwick, F. E., Mrs 3 
 
 Chadwick, E., base ball reporter 83 
 
 Challenge, Clipper shij) 8 
 
 Cliamljerlain, Roe & Co., ])rovisions, N. Y 10 
 
INDEX 
 
 191 
 
 Chambers Street, N. Y 
 
 32, 38, 44, 45. 48, 49, 52, 56, 101, 103, 110, 122 
 
 Chanfrau, F. S., actor 46 
 
 Chan f rail, F. S., Mrs., actress 104 
 
 Chaplain, Governors Island, N. Y 95 
 
 Charles H. Marshall, packet-ship ^ 
 
 Charleston, S. C 15, 19 
 
 Charleston Harbor, S. C 14 
 
 Charleston Line Steamships 14 
 
 Charleston, steamship 14 
 
 Charley Green, horse 12 
 
 Charlton Street, N. Y 10, 14 
 
 Chatham Theatre (National), N. Y ^2, 33 
 
 Chatham Square 56, 128 
 
 Chatham Street 27, 41, 43, 133 
 
 Cheever's, Rev. Dr., Church, Union Square, N. Y.113, 114, 133 
 
 Chemical Bank, N. Y 52 
 
 Cherry Street, N. Y 126 
 
 Chesapeake, U. S. Frigate 28 
 
 Chestnut Street, N. Y 125 
 
 Chicago, 111 II, 22, 50, 58, 88 
 
 Chicago Jack, horse 80 
 
 Chichester, Daniel, stage driver 82 
 
 Chief of Police 47 
 
 Chickering Hall, N. Y 109 
 
 Chief Engineer, Fire Dept. Vol. N. Y 36 
 
 Chief Magistrate of the City, N. Y 108 
 
 Chief Engineer, Fire Dept. N. Y. paid system 36, 2>7 
 
 Chinese Assembly Rooms, N. Y 57, 99 
 
 Chinese Quarter, N. Y 126 
 
 Chippendale, actor 32, 59 
 
 Chittenden & Co., S. B 31 
 
 Chloe, character in "Uncle Tom's Cabin" ^t, 
 
 Chop and Ale House 54 
 
 Chrystie Street, N. Y 10, 131 
 
 Christmas, 1857, N. Y 26 
 
 Christopher Street, N. Y 2, 63, 105, 125, 126 
 
192 INDEX 
 
 Christy's Minstrels, N. Y 57, 58, 103 
 
 Christy, E. P., minstrel, N. Y. manager 57 
 
 Christy, George, minstrel 57 
 
 Christy and Woods Minstrels, N. Y 57 
 
 Christ Church, Episcopal, N. Y 132 
 
 Church of the Annunciation, Episcopal, W. 14th St., N.Y. 132 
 
 Church of the Ascension, Episcopal, N. Y 132 
 
 Church of the Heavenly Rest, Episcopal, N. Y 132 
 
 Church of the Holy Apostles, Episcopal, N. Y 132 
 
 Church of the Holy Communion, Episcopal, 6th Ave. and 
 
 20th Street, N. Y 132 
 
 Church of the Incarnation, Episcopal, N. Y 132 
 
 Church of the Pilgrims, Clinton Street, Brooklyn 134 
 
 Church of the Transfiguration, Episcopal, N. Y.60, 100, 132 
 
 Church Street, N. Y 20, 35, 54, 132, 133 
 
 Cincinnati, Ohio 5, 11, 105 
 
 Circus Company 62 
 
 Citizens Central National Bank, N. Y 31 
 
 City Assembly Rooms, 444 B'way, N. Y 57 
 
 City Court, N. Y 38 
 
 City Guard, N. Y 63, 129 
 
 City Guard, Brooklyn 49 
 
 City Hall, Brooklyn 87 
 
 City Hall, N. Y 4, 32, 41, 43, 47, 50, 122 
 
 City Hall (New), Brown Stone Building, N. Y 32, 38 
 
 City Hall Park. N. Y 31, 32, 46, 48, 50, 122 
 
 City Hall Park, Barracks, N.Y 48 
 
 City Hall Street, N. Y 126 
 
 City National Bank, N. Y 25 
 
 City of Baltimore Str 14 
 
 City of Boston, steamship 14 
 
 City of Cork, steamship 14 
 
 City of Edinburgh, steamship 14 
 
 City of Glasgow, steamship for Philadelphia, lost 1854. . 14 
 
 City of Hartford, steamboat 15 
 
 City of Limerick, steamshij) 14 
 
 City of Liverpool, steamshij) 14 
 
INDEX 193 
 
 City of London, steamship 14 
 
 City of Manchester, steamship 14 
 
 City of New York, steamship 14 
 
 City of New Haven, steamboat 15 
 
 City of Paris, steamship 14 
 
 City of Philadelphia, steamship 14 
 
 City of Wasliington, steamship 14 
 
 Civil War, North and South 15. 32, 39 
 
 Claflin, H. B., Brooklyn and Fordham, N. Y 31 
 
 Claflin, Mellen & Co., dry goods, N. Y 3T 
 
 Clara G., mare 12 
 
 Clark, George, actor 32, 106 
 
 Clark & Brown, restaurant, N. Y 21, 22 
 
 Clark, Dodge & Co., bankers, N. Y 20 
 
 Clark, Robert, Lieut. -Col., 13th Regiment, Brooklyn 48 
 
 Clark Street, Chicago, 111 22 
 
 Clark Street, Brooklyn 135 
 
 Clark, William, provisions, N. Y 10 
 
 Claxton, Kate, actress 107 
 
 Clay Mare 19 
 
 Cleora, mare 118 
 
 CHff Street, N. Y 44, 131 
 
 Cleveland, Ohio 118 
 
 Clifton's English Ale and Chop House, N. Y 97 
 
 Clingstone, horse 118 
 
 Clinton Avenue, Brooklyn 134 
 
 Clinton, DeWitt, Governor of New York 3, 159, 172 
 
 Clinton, George, Governor of New York 3, 95 
 
 Clinton Hall, N. Y no, 135 
 
 Clinton Market, N. Y 127 
 
 Clinton Street, Brooklyn 83, 88, 134, 135 
 
 Close, Aaron, clothing, N. Y 56 
 
 Clown, circus 62, 97 
 
 Coates & McMillan, provisions, N. Y 10 
 
 Coburn, Joe, pugilist 98 
 
 Cobb, Carlos, flour merchant, N. Y 7 
 
 Cobwell Hall, ale and chop house, N. Y 54 
 
 15 
 
194 INDEX 
 
 Coddington & Co., Thos., iron yard, N. Y 29 
 
 Coe, Charles, hotel, N. Y 97, 1 14 
 
 Coenties Alley, N. Y 126 
 
 Coenties Slip, N. Y 7, 9, 11, 19, 38, 126 
 
 Coghlan, Rose, actress 104 
 
 Cold Spring Harbor Beach 175 
 
 Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island 3, 16, 20, 69, 170, 175 
 
 Coleman & Co., W. F., ship agents, N. Y 8 
 
 CoUine-onatic 165 
 
 Colgan, Doniinick, oyster house, Brooklyn 83 
 
 Collineodiction 159 
 
 College Place. N. Y 44 
 
 Collier, E. K., actor 109 
 
 Collier, Sam, pugulist 98 
 
 Collins, E. K., shipping agent, N. Y 13 
 
 Collins Line, .steamships, N. Y 13, 51 
 
 Colonial Deputy Secretary 174 
 
 Colonial Governor 174 
 
 Colorado, State 5 
 
 Colorado E., horse 95 
 
 Colored Orphan Asylum, N. Y 115 
 
 Colored People allowed in this car, N. Y 42, 43 
 
 Colt Murder Case, N. Y 52 
 
 Columbia Street, Brooklyn 10, 39, 40, 52, 92 
 
 Columbia College, N. Y 20 
 
 Columbus Avenue, N. Y 68 
 
 Comae, Suffolk County, L. 1 118 
 
 Comet, clipper ship 8 
 
 Comet yacht 22 
 
 Combs, Jane, actress 59 
 
 Commissioner of Public Works, Brooklyn 18 
 
 Commodore Vanderbilt, horse 82 
 
 Communipavv, New Jersey 11 
 
 Company "G" Thirteenth Regiment, Brooklyn 34, 49 
 
 Concord Street, Brooklyn 134 
 
 Coney Island, 5, 23 
 
 Coney Island road 9, 18, 19 
 
INDEX 195 
 
 Confederate Batteries 15 
 
 Confederate Flag 51 
 
 Confidence, horse 66 
 
 Congregational Dutch Churches, N. Y 133 
 
 Congress Street, N. Y 126 
 
 Congressman 37 
 
 Conklin Wood, Huntingdon, L. 1 12 
 
 Connecticut 29 
 
 Conovers Hotel, Long Branch, New Jersey 123 
 
 Continental, steamboat 15 
 
 Continental Bank, N. Y 27 
 
 Contraband, horse 81 
 
 Conway, F. B., actor 88, 103 
 
 Conway, Mrs. F. B., actress 88, 108 
 
 Conway, H. J., dramatist 33 
 
 Conway, Minnie (Mrs. Levy) 88 
 
 Cook, Rev. George 132 
 
 Cooke & Co., Jay, bankers, N. Y 27 
 
 Cooper, James Fenimore, writer 45 
 
 Cooper, Peter, N. Y 56, in, 136 
 
 Cooperstown, N. Y. State 123 
 
 Copcutt, Frank, N. Y in 
 
 Coquette, mare 92, 93 
 
 Cora, Bark "Slaver" 2 
 
 Corcoran, Michael, Colonel 69th Regiment, N. Y 129 
 
 Corlies & Macy, stationers, N. Y 55 
 
 Corn Exchange 9 
 
 Cornelia Street 126 
 
 Cornell, John 92 
 
 Cornelius, Judson, stage owner, Amityville, L. 1 82 
 
 Corinthian 165 
 
 Corporal Thompson's Road House, N. Y 64 
 
 Corporation Counsel 171 
 
 Cosmopolitan Hotel, N. Y 45 
 
 Coster, John H., N. Y 21 
 
 Coster, J. W., N. Y 81 
 
 Couldock, C. W., actor 100, 106 
 
iy6 INDEX 
 
 County Fairs, L. 1 102 
 
 Court House, Chicago 88 
 
 Court House, Brooklyn IQ 
 
 Court Street, Brooklyn 37. 38, 40, 87, 88, 134 
 
 Cortlandt Street, N. Y 27, 31, 42 
 
 Cortlandt Alley, N. Y 126 
 
 Cowing, Rufus B., Judge 34 
 
 Coxe, Vice-President Insurance Co., N. Y 24 
 
 Cozine Margrietje 131, 132 
 
 Cozzens Hotel, West Point, N. Y 123 
 
 Cragin, George D., provisions, N. Y 10, iS 
 
 Cram, Jacob 137 
 
 Crane, Monroe, slaughterer, N. Y 11 
 
 Crane, W. H., actor 107 
 
 Cranberry Street, Brooklyn 40, 48, 134 
 
 Cransotn, Hiram, hotel proprietor, N. Y 109 
 
 Creighton, James, base ball pitcher, Brooklyn 83, 87 
 
 Cresceus, horse 94 
 
 Cricket Club, Staten Island 22 
 
 Crimean War, Russia 17 
 
 Croakers 1 07 
 
 Crocker, Sarah (Mrs. F. B. Conway), actress 88, 103 
 
 Crocheron, Joe, Road House, L. 1 81 
 
 Crook & Duff, restaurant, N. Y 2}, 
 
 Crosby, W. B., N. Y 13^^ 
 
 Crosby, Rev. Dr., Church, N. Y 133 
 
 Crosby Street, N. Y 54. 60, 63, 64, 97, 126. 137 
 
 Croton, steamboat i'^ 
 
 Crystal Palace, N. Y 4. 43 
 
 Culver Railroad, Brooklyn 2}^ 
 
 Cimard, Sir Edward, steamship agent 14 
 
 Cunard Line, steamship 13. 14 
 
 Cummings, Thomas B., hardware, N. Y 25 
 
 Cummings, base ball player, Brooklyn 83 
 
 Cunningham, John, Chief Engineer Brooklyn Fire Dept. 
 
 Volunteer System 37 
 
 Cunningham, Mrs. (Burdell Case, N. Y.) 99, 100 
 
INDEX 197 
 
 Curtis Family, Hempstead, L. 1 83 
 
 Curtis, John, Hempstead, L. 1 85 
 
 Curtis, Joseph, Hempstead, L. 1 85 
 
 Curtis, Wilham, Hempstead, L. 1 85 
 
 Cushman, Charlotte, actress 61, 102 
 
 Cushman, Don. Alonzo 136 
 
 Cutting, Francis B., lawyer, N. Y 21, 36, 114 
 
 Cuyler's, Dr. Church, ijrooklyn 135 
 
 Cypress, J., Jr. ( W. P. Hawes) 
 
 140, 141, 142, 147, 150, 152, 157, 164, i6g 
 
 D 
 
 Daddy Lambert, museum freak 32 
 
 "Daily News," newspaper, N. Y 64 
 
 Daisy, mare 97 
 
 Dakin, General Thomas, Brooklyn 87 
 
 Daly, Augustin, playwright and theatrical manager .. lOO, 106 
 
 Daly's New Fifth Avenue Theatre, N. Y 106 
 
 Dale, John G., steamship agent, N. Y 11, 14 
 
 Dan Patch, horse 95 
 
 Dana, Charles A., editor N. Y. "Sun" 124 
 
 Depau Row 49 
 
 Danbury, Conn 29 
 
 Daniel (Dannel) (Titinius) . . 141, 142, 143, 147, 149, 155, 156 
 
 DarUng, A. B., hotel proprietor, N. Y 80, 116 
 
 Davenport, Dolly, actor 59, 102 
 
 Davenport Brothers, spirit cabinet tricks 107 
 
 Davenport, E. L., actor 61, 109 
 
 Davenport, Fanny, actress 106 
 
 Davidge, William, actor 59, 104, 106 
 
 Davidson, John, Baker, N. Y 23 
 
 Davis, John, actor 33 
 
 D'Alroy, George, character in "Caste" 104 
 
 Deacon Perry, character in "Uncle Tom's Cabin" 33 
 
 Dead Rabbit Riots, N. Y 46 
 
 Dean, Dan, Billiard Room, Brooklyn 87 
 
rpS INDEX 
 
 Dean, Tom, Billiard Room, Brooklyn 87 
 
 Dean's Hotel, Lake Mahopac, N. Y. State 124 
 
 Death, Sleigh Ride 120 
 
 Decker Bros., piano manufacturers, N. Y 55 
 
 Decker, John, Chief Engineer N. Y. Fire Dept. Volunteers 36 
 
 Decker, Thompson W., bank director, N. Y 42 
 
 Decker and Barnes, piano manufacturers, N. Y 55 
 
 Deeds 174 
 
 Deerfoot Race Track, Brooklyn 91 
 
 Degraw Street, Brooklyn 38 
 
 DeLancey, Etienne, N. Y 29 
 
 DeLancey Family, N. Y 65 
 
 Delatour, A. J., mineral waters, N. Y 24 
 
 Delatours, soda water fountain, N. Y 24 
 
 Delmar, John, Judge, Brooklyn 40 
 
 Delmonico, Lorenzo, N. Y 20, 136, 137 
 
 Delmonicos Restaurant, N. Y 13, 20, 36, 52 
 
 Del Puente, opera singer 103 
 
 Democrat, horse 92 
 
 Democratic, political party 124, 125 
 
 Dennin, Susan, actress 32 
 
 Dennis, Charles, Vice-Pres't Ins. Co 24 
 
 Denton, Detective, Brooklyn 19 
 
 Denton, Samuel, Jamaica, L. 1 85 
 
 Denver, Colorado 99 
 
 Depau Row, Bleecker Street, N. Y 136 
 
 Despard, C. J., Sec'y Ins. Co., N. Y 24 
 
 "Des Etats Unis," French Newspaper 125 
 
 Devlin & Co., clothing, N. Y 52 
 
 Dewey, George, U. S. Navy (Admiral) 61 
 
 Dexter, horse 81, 82, 94 
 
 Diah 171 
 
 Dick Swiveller, horse 96, 117 
 
 Dickens' Character 69 
 
 Dickel's Riding Academy, N. Y no 
 
 Dickie, James, Brooklyn 38 
 
 Dickey's, Hunts Point, N. Y 123 
 
INDEX 199 
 
 Dietz, Frederick, Hempstead, L. 1 92 
 
 Diller, Rev. Dr., Rector St. Luke's Church, Brooklyn. ... 134 
 
 Dime Savings Bank, Brooklyn 88 
 
 Diomed, Chestnut Horse ( Imported) 94 
 
 Diomed, horse 94 
 
 Disbrow, Thomas, Jamaica, L. 1 97 
 
 District Attorney 109 
 
 District of Columbia, Md 26 
 
 Division Street, N. Y 29, 98 
 
 ■'Divorce," comedy 106 
 
 "Dixie," song 5^ 
 
 Doble Budd, Track Driver 94 
 
 Dodge, Commodore, Brooklyn 20 
 
 Dodge, Wm. E., N. Y 136, 13? 
 
 Dodworth's Dancing Academy, N. Y 57 
 
 Dongan, Thomas, Colonial Governor 174 
 
 Dominy's Hotel, Fire Island, L. 1 123 
 
 Doric 165 
 
 Dorlon & Shaffer, oyster saloon, Fulton Market, N. Y. . . 87 
 
 Dorlon, Alfred, Fulton Market, N. Y 35 
 
 Dot, Admiral, dwarf 32 
 
 Doty, John, track driver 12, 91 
 
 Douglas & Johnson, presidential candidates i860 58 
 
 Down East 165 
 
 Dows, David I37 
 
 Dows & Co., flour merchants, N. Y 7 
 
 Dowling, police justice, N. Y 47 
 
 Downing, George (colored man"), oyster saloon, 3 Broad 
 
 Street, N. Y 21 
 
 Downing Street, N. Y 126 
 
 Doyer Street, N. Y 126 
 
 Draft Riots, N. Y 115 
 
 Draper, Simeon, police commissioner, N. Y 47 
 
 Draper, W. H., auctioneer, N. Y 25 
 
 Dreadnought, clipper ship 5- ^ 
 
 Drew, Daniel, stock broker, N. Y 113, 137 
 
 Drew, John, actor, N. Y 106 
 
200 INDEX 
 
 Duane Street, N. Y 54, 126, 127, 133 
 
 Duchess, mare 66 
 
 Duchesne, captain of steamship Vesta 13 
 
 Duff, John, theatrical manager 100 
 
 Duke Alexis of Russia 61 
 
 Duke of Newcastle, England 60 
 
 Duncan, Wliliam Butler, N. Y 1 16 
 
 Duncan, Sherman & Co., bankers, N. Y 27 
 
 Dunham, David, piano manufacturer, N. Y 55 
 
 Dunham & Dimon, ship agents, N. Y 8 
 
 Durocs, horses 10 
 
 Duryea, Abram, Colonel 7th Regiment, N. Y 47, 129 
 
 Dusenbury & Van Duser, wagons, N. Y 63 
 
 Dutch 143 
 
 Dutcher & Ellerby, hop dealers, N. Y 9 
 
 Dutch Governor of New York 131 
 
 Dutchman, horse 66 
 
 Dutch Street, N. Y 127 
 
 Duyckinck, D., stationer, N. Y 56 
 
 Dyas, Ada, actress 104 
 
 E 
 
 Eacker, George L., N. Y 172 
 
 Eagle Engine Company, No. 4, Brooklyn Volunteer Fire 
 
 Dept 2>7 
 
 Earl's Hotel, N. Y 57 
 
 Early Rose, mare 118 
 
 East Broadway, N. Y 56 
 
 East Broadway stage line, N. Y 42 
 
 Eastern Dept. U. S. Army, N. Y 9 
 
 Eastern Hotel 30 
 
 Easthampton, L. 1 85 
 
 East Indian Comedy 60 
 
 Eastman, Timothy, live stock dealer, N. Y ro 
 
 East New York, Long Island 9, 67, 82, 112, 119 
 
 East River, N. Y. . .7, 8, 11, 15, 29, 43, 121, 122, 123, 126, 127 
 
INDEX 201 
 
 East Street, N. Y 126 
 
 Eastons, Cahoone & Kinney, cotton brokers, N. Y 25 
 
 Eccles, character in the comedy "Caste" 104 
 
 Eccles, Esther, character in the comedy "Caste" 104 
 
 Eccles, Polly, character in the comedy "Caste" 104 
 
 Eckfords, base ball club, Greenpoint, L. 1 87 
 
 Eckles, John H. (Burdell Case, N. Y. ) 99 
 
 Eclipse, horse, (American) 93 
 
 Eclipse Race Course, Long Island 67 
 
 Eddy, Ed, actor 52 
 
 Edgar Street, N. Y 125 
 
 Edward, horse 96, 1 18 
 
 Edwards, Billy, pugulist 98 
 
 Edwards, Lena, actress 107 
 
 Edwin Forest, horse 118 
 
 Egg Harbor, New Jersey 161 
 
 Eight-Hose Co., "Mechanic," N. Y. Volunteer Fire Dept. 18 
 Eight-Hose Co., "Water Witch," Brooklyn Volunteer 
 
 Fire Dept 39, 40 
 
 Eighteenth Street, N. Y 20, 114, 121 
 
 Eighth Avenue, N. Y 39, 42, 43, 105 
 
 Eighth Avenue car line, N. Y 43 
 
 Eighth Regiment Washington Grays 129 
 
 Eighth Street, N. Y. ..42, 55, 99, 107, 109, no, 116, 122, 127 
 
 Eighty-fourth Street, N. Y 64 
 
 Eldert, Henry. N. Y 80 
 
 Electric Tramways, N. Y 138 
 
 Elevated Railroad, N. Y 2, 138 
 
 Eleven-Hose Co., Brooklyn Volunteer Fire Dept 39. 40 
 
 Eleventh Street, N. Y 54. 126, 128 
 
 Eleventh Ward Bank, N. Y 26 
 
 Ellen Jewett, mare 66 
 
 EHza, character in "Uncle Tom's Cabin" ^^ 
 
 Elizabeth Street, N. Y 10, 46, 134 
 
 Elliott, Richard C, lawyer, N. Y 38 
 
 Elliot, character in the comedy "Rosedale" 105 
 
 Elm City, steamboat 15 
 
202 INDEX 
 
 Elm Street, N. Y 36. 54. 58 
 
 Ellsworth, Elmer, Colonel, Zouaves 50, 51 
 
 Elwell, J. W., ship broker, N. Y 9 
 
 Elysian Fields, Hoboken, N. J 84 
 
 Emily Glentworth, mare 3 
 
 Emma C, mare 97 
 
 Emmett, Daniel Decatur, song writer 58 
 
 Emmons, Miss, actress 33 
 
 Empire Race Track, N. Y 95 
 
 Empire State, steamboat 15 
 
 Empires, base ball club, N. Y 87 
 
 Empress, mare 80 
 
 Eneas 141 
 
 Eneas, Joseph, importer, N. Y 8 
 
 England 17, 71, 98, 112 
 
 English Ale and Chop House 22, 54, 97 
 
 English actor 102, 103, 109 
 
 English beauty 108 
 
 English garrison 17 
 
 English girl 28 
 
 English Governor 44 
 
 English minister 60 
 
 English opera 58, 102 
 
 English steamer, captains no 
 
 English stud book 94 
 
 Englishman 50, 69, 88 
 
 Englishmen 11, 13, 1 10 
 
 Engineer, 2n(l horse 65 
 
 Eno, Amos, real estate, N. Y 64 
 
 Episcopal Church in Leonard Street, corner of Churcli 
 
 Street, in 1855 132 
 
 Episcopal Church at Cold Spring Harbor, L. 1 69 
 
 Episcopal Bishop of N. Y., Southern Diocese 133 
 
 Episcopal Churches 100, 131, 134 
 
 Episcopal Clergyman 69 
 
 Equity, horse 96 
 
 Equitable Life Assurance Society 30 
 
INDEX 203 
 
 Erie Canal, N. Y. State 3 
 
 Erie Railroad 105 
 
 Espys, Mr 86 
 
 Essex Market, N. Y 127 
 
 Ethan Allen, horse 21 , 80, 81 
 
 Ethan and Running Mate, horses 81 
 
 Ethel, Agnes, actress 106, 107 
 
 Et-tu-Bute 1 54 
 
 Eytinge, Rose, actress 59, 104 
 
 Eugene, wench dancer, minstrel 61, 107 
 
 European steamers 16 
 
 European songstress 88 
 
 European news 17 
 
 Eva, character in "Uncle Tom's Cabin" 33 
 
 Evarts, Wm. M., lawyer 113 
 
 "Evangeline," drama 102 
 
 "Evening Post," newspaper, N. Y 16 
 
 Evening Star, steamship 14, 15 
 
 Everdell, Wm., Capt. Old City Guard, Brooklyn 49 
 
 Everett House, hotel, N. Y 114 
 
 Excelsior Base Ball Club, Brooklyn 83, 84, 87 
 
 Exchange Place, N. Y 20, 25, 26, 29 
 
 "Extra," arrival of steamers, newspaper 16, 99 
 
 Extra Place, N. Y 126 
 
 F 
 
 Fall River, Mass 16 
 
 Fall River Steamboats 16 
 
 Falstaff, character in drama 53 
 
 Farragut, Admiral 61 
 
 Farley, Rev. Dr., Unitarian Church, Brooklyn 58, 134 
 
 Far Rockaway, L. 1 123 
 
 Farnum, Noah, Lieut-Colonel Zouaves 51 
 
 Farrar & Lyons, saloon, N. Y 23 
 
 Fashion Race Track, L. 1 79, 80, 81, 82 
 
 "Father, Dear Father," song 48 
 
204 INDEX 
 
 Father of the N. Y. Bar 171 
 
 Federal Government, U. S 3 
 
 Fee Jee Mermaid, museum freak 32, 35 
 
 Felter, Harry, Coney Island 81 
 
 Felter's Hotel, Coney Island 2^ 
 
 Fenian Headquarters, N. Y 114 
 
 Ferguson, John, billiard room, Brooklyn 83 
 
 Fernando Wood Democracy, N. Y 57 
 
 Ferris, Edward, provisions, xM. Y 10 
 
 Ferry Street, N. Y 127 
 
 Field, Cyrus W., promoter, N. Y 4, 56, no, 136 
 
 Field, David Dudley, lawyer, N. Y 21, 56 
 
 Fields Building, Washington, D. C 51 
 
 Fifteen and Seventeen Broadway, N. Y 13 
 
 Fifteenth Street, N. Y 54, 55, 113, 114, 122, 133, 136, 173 
 
 Fifteenth Street, West, N. Y 53 
 
 Fifth Avenue, N. Y.. .9, 10, 28, 36, 44, 45, 50, 59, 98, no, iii, 
 
 113, 114, 115, 116, 118, 122, 129, 132, 133, 136, 137 
 F 
 F 
 F 
 F 
 F 
 F 
 F 
 F 
 I<^ 
 F 
 F 
 F 
 F 
 F 
 F 
 F 
 F 
 F 
 
 fth Avenue Hotel, K. Y 64, 108, 11$ 
 
 fth Avenue Presbyterian Church, N. Y 133 
 
 fth Avenue Stage Line, N. Y 42, 87 
 
 fth Avenue Theatre, N. Y 106 
 
 fth National Bank 42, 47 
 
 fth Street, N. Y 10, 20 
 
 fth Ward Hotel, N. Y 51 
 
 fty-second Street. N. Y 45 
 
 fty-third Street, N. Y 98 
 
 fty-fifth Street, N. Y 133 
 
 fth-ninth Street, N. Y 10, 28, 128 
 
 nley's Half-Mile Race Track, N. Y 64 
 
 nn. Archie, N. Y 29 
 
 nn & Ruggles. hats and caps, N. Y 29 
 
 nn police justice, N. Y 47 
 
 re Dept. Volunteer System, N. Y 4, 34, 51, 89, 90 
 
 re Dept. Vol. System, Brooklyn. . .7, 34, 37, 38, 39, 89, 91 
 
 reman's Hall, Volunteer System, Brooklyn ;^y, 38, 40 
 
 Fireman's Hall, Volunteer System, N. Y 109 
 
INDEX 205 
 
 Fireman's Balls, Volunteer System, N. Y 57 
 
 Fire Company House, City Hall Park, N. Y 32 
 
 Fire Island, Long Island 123, 139, 140, 175 
 
 First Avenue, N. Y 10, 99, 128, 133 
 
 First Baptist Church, N. Y 134 
 
 First Place, Brooklyn 1 34 
 
 First Street, N. Y 10, 65, 126, 128 
 
 Fish, Hamilton, N. Y 136 
 
 Fish Preserved, marble cemetery monument 128 
 
 Fisher, Charles, actor 59, 104 
 
 Fisher & Bird, marble yard, N. Y 128 
 
 Fischer, J. & C, piano manufacturers, N. Y 55 
 
 Fisk, Jr., James, colonel, N. Y 39, 102, 105 129 
 
 Fisk. Josiah M., N. Y 9 
 
 Fisk & Co., Josiah M., flour dealers, N. Y 7 
 
 Five Bowling Green, N. Y. steamship offices 13 
 
 Five-Engine Company "Protection," N. Y. Volunteer Fire 
 
 Dept 35 
 
 Five-Engine Company "Union," Brooklyn Volunteer Fire 
 
 Dept 37, 90 
 
 Five-Hose Company "Frontier," Brooklyn Volunteer Fire 
 
 Dept 39, 40 
 
 Five Points, N. Y 46 
 
 Flagler, J. H., N. Y 8t 
 
 Flaherty, Barnard (Barney Williams), actor 60 
 
 Flanley. base ball player, Brooklyn 83 
 
 Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn 19 
 
 Flatbush Maid, mare 66 
 
 Flatbush Road, Brooklyn 19, 96 
 
 Fletcher, Phineas, character in "Uncle Tom's Cabin". ... 33 
 
 Fletcher, Rev. Charles, Brooklyn 134 
 
 Fletcher, Charles M., Brooklyn 34 
 
 Fleetwing, yacht 22 
 
 Fleetwood Park Race Track, N. Y 12, 20, 97, 117, 118 
 
 Fleetwood Park Club House, N. Y 118 
 
 Floating Elevator 121 
 
 Flora Temple, mare 79, 80, 81, 94 
 
2o6 INDEX 
 
 Florence, William J. ( Billy), actor 60, 103, 104 
 
 Florence, Mrs. William J., actress 60 
 
 Florences Hotel, N. Y 53 
 
 Florences restaurant, N. Y 98 
 
 Florence road house, N. Y 1 19 
 
 Florida, steamship 14 
 
 Floyd, Benjamin, provisions, N. Y 10 
 
 Floyd, General, Smithtown, L. 1 65 
 
 Floyd, Robert, Inman steamer line, N. Y 14 
 
 Floyd, W. R., actor 59 
 
 Floyd-Jones, Elbert, farmer, L. 1 71, 92 
 
 Floyd-Jones, George, Brooklyn 92 
 
 Floyd-Jones, Henry O., State Senator, South Oyster Bay, 
 
 L. 1 165 
 
 Floyd- Jones Library, (Delancey), Massapequa, L. I.... 173 
 
 Floyd- Jones, Thomas, General, Fort Neck, L. I.... 171, 173 
 
 Floyd-Jones, W. Chauncey, stock broker, N. Y 95, 96, 97 
 
 Flushing, L. 1 53, 70, 82 
 
 Flushing Bay, L. 1 2, 97 
 
 Flying Cloud, horse 8 
 
 Flying Morgan, horse 21 
 
 Flying Cloud, clipper ship 5, 8 
 
 Force. John C, English ale house, Brooklyn 83 
 
 Ford, Henry, bank teller, N. Y 27 
 
 Ford's Theatre, Washington. D. C 100 
 
 Fordham, N. Y 31 
 
 Forrest, Edwin, actor 22, 52, 61, no 
 
 Forrest's Company, actors 53 
 
 Forster, W. R., flour merchant, N. Y 7 
 
 Forsyth Street, N. Y 10, 128 
 
 Fort Green, Brooklyn 90, 173 
 
 Fort Neck, South Oyster Bay, L. 1 71, 143, 168, 174, 175 
 
 Fort Moultrie 15 
 
 Fort Sumter 14 
 
 Fortescue, actor 105 
 
 Forty-two Engine Co., Monument Trinity Church Yard, 
 
 N. Y. Fire Dept. Volunteers 28 
 
INDEX 207 
 
 Forty-first Street, N. Y 115, 116 
 
 Forty-second Street, N. Y 41, 42, 43, 116, 122, 125, 128 
 
 Forty- fourth Street, N. Y 11, 43, 45, 115, 132 
 
 Forty-fifth Street, N. Y 132 
 
 Forty-eighth Regiment, Brooklyn 49 
 
 Fifty-ninth Street, N. Y 20 
 
 Four Bridges to Brooklyn 138 
 
 P'our-engine Co. "Eagle," Brooklyn Volunteer Fire Dept. 38 
 
 F.jur Forty- four, Theatre, N. Y 57 
 
 Four illustrations 173 
 
 Four-Seventy-two B'-oadway, Theatre, N. Y 57, 58 
 
 Four-Hose Co., "Crystal," Brooklyn Volunteer Fire Dept 40 
 
 Fourth Avenue, N. Y. . .36, 43, 45, 107, 122, 132, 133, 134, 161 
 
 Fourth Avenue Car Line, N. Y 43 
 
 Fourth Avenue Stage Line, N. Y 41, 42 
 
 Fourth Street, N. Y no, 114, 122, 125, 126, 132, 133 
 
 Fourteen Engine, Fire Dept., Volunteers, N. Y 35 
 
 Fourteen Engine, Fire Dept., Volunteers, Brooklyn 37 
 
 Fourteen Hose Co., Fire Dej^t., Volunteers, Brooklyn, 
 
 "Eureka" 40 
 
 Fourteenth Regiment, Brooklyn 49 
 
 Fourteenth Street, N. Y.54, 55, 97, 103, no, 113, 114, 132, 133 
 
 Fowler, Wm. A., rice merchant, N. Y 18 
 
 Fox, Charles R., actor 33 
 
 Fo>, Mrs. Emly, actress 3< 
 
 Fox, Frank, steamship agent 12 
 
 Fox, George L., actor 46, 100 
 
 Fox and Polhemus, ducking goods, N. Y 18 
 
 France 29, 100 
 
 Francklyn, C. G., agent Cunard Line steamships 14 
 
 Francis & Loutrel, stationers, N. Y 56 
 
 Franconi's Hippodrome, N. Y 64 
 
 Frank Forrester, horse 80 
 
 Frank Leslie's, illustrated newspaper 100, 125 
 
 Frankfort Street, N. Y 44, 124, 127 
 
 "Franklin" Engine Co., No. 3, Fire Dept. Volunteers, 
 
 Brooklyn 37 
 
2o8 INDEX 
 
 Franklin House, hotel, Brooklyn 8.^ 
 
 Franklin Market, N. Y 127 
 
 Franklin Street, N. Y 51, 54 
 
 Franklin Square, N. Y 38 
 
 Fraunces Tavern, X. Y 29 
 
 Kred, horse 12 
 
 Freehold, New Jersey 81 
 
 Freeman's Road House, N. Y 118, 119 
 
 Freeport, L. 1 83 
 
 Fremont, John C, general 58 
 
 French Roman Catholic Church, 23d St. near 6th Ave., 
 
 N. Y 133 
 
 French Line Steamships, N. Y 12 
 
 French Pastry Cook Shop, N. Y 22 
 
 French Steamship, N. Y 13 
 
 Frenchmen 129 
 
 French's Hotel, N. Y 44 
 
 Front Street, N. Y 6, 8, 9, 126 
 
 Front Street, Brooklyn 83 
 
 Frothingham, Col., Brooklyn 49 
 
 Frost, Charles, detective, Brooklyn 19 
 
 "Frou-Frou," comedy 106 
 
 Fuller, Lawson N., N. Y 64 
 
 Fulton Avenue, Brooklyn 9, 19, 40, 1 19 
 
 Fulton Ferry, Brooklyn 34, 40, 82, 83, 119 
 
 Fulton Ferry, New York 42, 87 
 
 Fulton, Rohert 28 
 
 Fulton Market, N. Y 35, 63, 87, 127, 140, t66 
 
 Fulton Market, butchers, N. Y 23 
 
 Fulton Steamship 12 
 
 Fulton Street, Brooklyn. 7, 10, 18, 19, 34, 37, 39, 40, 83, 87, 134 
 
 Fulton Street Hill 40 
 
 Fulton Street, Hempstead, L. 1 83 
 
 Fulton Street, New York 
 
 16, 21, 23, 31. 34, 35, 56, 59, 124, 127, 131, 133 
 Furey, William H., chief engineer Brooklyn Volunteer 
 
 Fire Dept 37 
 
INDEX 209 
 
 Fiirman Street, Brooklyn 39, 40 
 
 Furnian Street Disaster, Brooklyn 39 
 
 Furness, W. P 136 
 
 G 
 
 Galatea 155 
 
 Gale & Bro., P. T., piano manufacturers, N. Y 55 
 
 Gallaudet, Rev. Dr 132 
 
 Galveston steamers 16 
 
 Gannon, Mary, actress 59, 104, 105 
 
 Garden City, L. 1 132 
 
 Garden Street, Brooklyn 20 
 
 Gardiner, Samuel, Gardiners Island, L. 1 92, 93 
 
 Gardner, Lewis 39 
 
 Garrisons, N. Y. State 123 
 
 Gateway of America, N. Y 4 
 
 Gay Street, N. Y 126 
 
 General Butler, horse 81, 82 
 
 General Grant, horse 82 
 
 Genessee, horse 12 
 
 Genet, Henry, N. Y 81 
 
 Genin, John N., hatter, N. Y 4 
 
 Genteel H., horse 29 
 
 Genus Hobby 17-5 
 
 George M. Patchen, horse 80, 81 
 
 George Washington, packet ship 8 
 
 George Wilkes, horse 81, 82 
 
 Georgia, steamship 14 
 
 Gerard, Florence, actress 107 
 
 Gerken Building, N. Y 45 
 
 Germans 5, 6, 129 
 
 German Bankers 23 
 
 Germany 5 
 
 Germon, Effie, actress 59, 104 
 
 Gormon, G. C., actor 33 
 
 Germon, Mrs. G. C., actress 33 
 
 16 
 
2IO INDEX 
 
 Getty. Robert P., provisions lo 
 
 Giants' Causeway 142 
 
 Gilbert, John, actor 59, 104, 105 
 
 Gilbert, Mrs. G. H., actress 104, 106 
 
 Giles, John F., N. Y 36 
 
 Gilgo, Inlet Great South Bay, L. 1 156, 172, 174 
 
 Gilsey House, Hotel, N. Y 31 
 
 Gimbel's Big Store, N. Y 42 
 
 Gipsey, mare 66, 71 
 
 Gipsy, character in comedy "Rosedale" 104 
 
 Girard House, hotel, N. Y 45 
 
 Glen Cove, L. 1 16, 102, 123 
 
 Glentworth, James B., real estate & U. S. tobacco inspec- 
 tor, N. Y 21 
 
 Globe, horse 96 
 
 Goddess Nature 160 
 
 Godwin, Joseph, N. Y 81 
 
 Goelet, Peter, N. Y 114, 136 
 
 Goelet, Robert, N. Y 113, 136 
 
 Goldsmith Maid, mare 81, 94 
 
 Goold, David, restaurant, N. Y 21 
 
 Goose Creek, Great South Bay, L. 1 163 
 
 Goshen Half-Mile Race Track, N. Y. State 95, 96 
 
 Goslings, restaurant, N. Y 53 
 
 Gothams, base ball club, N. Y 83, 84 
 
 Gothic Hall, N. Y 57 
 
 Gould, Jay, stock broker, N. Y 20, 105 
 
 Gould, P. T., light-house keeper, Montauk Point, L. I.. . 85 
 
 Gould family 105 
 
 Governor of the State of New York 109 
 
 Governor Holt, horse 95, 96 
 
 Governors Island, New York Bay 4, 95 
 
 Gowanus Bay, Brooklyn 167 
 
 Gowanus District, Brooklyn 40 
 
 Grace & Co., W. R., shipping merchants, N. Y 8 
 
 Grace Church-yard, Massapequa, L. 1 169 
 
 Grace Church Episcopal, Broadway & loth St., N. Y.. 112, 132 
 
INDEX 211 
 
 Grace Church, Episcopal, Brooklyn 134 
 
 Grace Church, Grace Court, Brooklyn 134 
 
 Gramercy Park, N. Y 56, 122 
 
 Grainger, Maud, actress 107 
 
 Grand Jury 108 
 
 Grand Street, N. Y 10, 43, 47, 56, 59, 126, 127 
 
 Grand Street Ferry, East River, N. Y 42 
 
 Grand Street Stage Line, N. Y 42 
 
 Granite State, steamboat , 15 
 
 Grant, General U. S . . 50 
 
 Grape Shot, clipper ship , 63 
 
 Gravesend, L. 1 91 
 
 Gravesend Race Track, L. 1 91 
 
 Gray, Doctor John, N. Y no 
 
 Great Barrington, Mass 92 
 
 Great Eastern, horse 81, 118 
 
 Great Eastern steamship 2, 4 
 
 Great Jones Street, N. Y 125 
 
 Great South Bay, L. 1 160, 164, 174 
 
 Great Western Mutual (Marine) Ins. Co., N. Y 13, 24 
 
 Grecian Bend in 
 
 Great White Way, N. Y 62 
 
 Greely, Horace, editor N. Y. "Tribune" 124 
 
 Green Bay, Wisconsin 61 
 
 Green, Colonel 9th Regiment, N. Y 129 
 
 Green Street, N. Y 49, 54 
 
 Green, Charley, track driver 91, 94, 117 
 
 Green and Jessel, Union Course, L. I., rules 72 
 
 Green, Lyman, Brooklyn 34 
 
 Green Mountain Maid, mare 79 
 
 Greenpoint, L. 1 121 
 
 Greenwich Avenue, N. Y 126 
 
 Greenwich Avenue Public School, N. Y 38 
 
 Greenwich Point, L. 1 83 
 
 Greenwich Savings Bank, N. Y 55 
 
 Greenwich Street, N. Y 44, 45, 56, 59, no, 125, 126, 127 
 
 Greenwich Village, 9th Ward, N. Y 65, 126 
 
212 INDEX 
 
 Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn 53, 60, 83, 103 
 
 Grey, Elliot, character in comedy "Rosedale" 104, 105 
 
 Grey Eagle, horse 66, 68, 70 
 
 Grey Eddy, horse 79 
 
 Grey Messenger, horse 12 
 
 Griffin, G. W., minstrel 58 
 
 Griffith, John R., merchant, N. Y 11 
 
 Grinnell, Moses H., Prest. Sun Marine Ins. Co., N. Y..24, 113 
 
 Grinnell, Minturn & Co.. shipping merchants, N. Y 8 
 
 Griswold, C. A., proprietor 5th Ave. Hotel, N. Y 81 
 
 Grogan, Phil, oyster honse, Brooklyn 83 
 
 Grove & Christopher, piano manufacturers, N. Y 55 
 
 Guaranty Trust Co., N. Y 30 
 
 Guard Lafayette, N. Y 129 
 
 Guerins, pastry baker, Broadway, N. Y 22 
 
 Guion, Rev. Dr., Rector St. Johns Church, Brooklyn 107 
 
 Guion Steamship Company, N. Y 13 
 
 Guion, Wm. H., shipping merchant, N. Y 13 
 
 Gumj)tion Cute, character in "Uncle Tom's Cabin" 33 
 
 Gunther, C. G., furs, N. Y 28 
 
 Gurster, opera singer 103 
 
 Guy, horse 118 
 
 Gwathmey, A. G., cotton broker, N. Y 92 
 
 H 
 
 Hackett, actor 53 
 
 Hagerman & Co., clothing, N. Y 56 
 
 Haggerty, John, N. Y 136 
 
 Haight, Mrs., N. Y 114 
 
 Haight, Richard K 136 
 
 Haines Bros., piano manufacturers, N. Y 55, 62, 108 
 
 Haines Piano Factory, N. Y 115, 121 
 
 Haines, Francis W., piano manufacturer and bank direc- 
 tor, N. Y 42 
 
 Haines, Napoleon J., piano manufacturer and bank presi- 
 dent, N. Y 42 
 
INDEX 213 
 
 Hall, A. Oakey, mayor of New York 108 
 
 Hall, General, N. Y. State militia 47 
 
 Hall, Isaac, ship chandler, N. Y 6 
 
 Hall of Records, N. Y 32 
 
 Hall & Sons, sheet music publishers, N. Y 55 
 
 Hall Street, N. Y 127 
 
 Hall's Baths, Battery Park, N. Y 6 
 
 Haley, character in "Uncle Tom's Cabin" 33 
 
 Halifax, North Carolina 93 
 
 Hallock, Fit? Greene, writer 21 
 
 Halsted & Co., provisions, N. Y 10, 11 
 
 Hamblin, Tom. actor 22 
 
 Hambletonian, horse 81, 92, 93 
 
 Hamilton, Alexander, monument. Trinity Church-yard, 
 
 N. Y 28, 172 
 
 Hamilton Ferry, Brooklyn 53 
 
 Hamilton half-mile race track, N. Y 68 
 
 Hamilton Park, 3d Ave. and 66th Street, N. Y 122 
 
 Hamilton, Philip, N. Y 172 
 
 Hamilton Street, N. Y 126 
 
 Hammond, W., jeweler, N. Y 25 
 
 Hancock Street, N. Y 124, 126 
 
 Hanover Bank, N. Y 25, 27 
 
 Hanover Building, N. Y 25 
 
 Hanover Square, N. Y 25 
 
 Hanover Street, N. Y 24, 25 
 
 Hanson Place, Brooklyn 135 
 
 Happy Family, museum freaks, N. Y 32, 33 
 
 Harbeck, John H., storage, N. Y 81, 116, 136 
 
 Harbeck's Stores, Brooklyn 7 
 
 Harker, Joseph, stock broker, N. Y 80 
 
 Harkins, Dan, actor 61, 106 
 
 Harlem, N. Y. city 129 
 
 Harlem Lane, N. Y. City 9, 43, 68, 118 
 
 Harlem Railroad, N. Y. City 45 
 
 Harlem River, N. Y. City 16, 117, 138 
 
 Harlem Stage Line, N. Y 42 
 
214 INDEX 
 
 Harlem, steamboat i6 
 
 Harrigan & Hart, actors, N. Y io6 
 
 FTarrigan, Fxlward, actor and manager, N. Y io6 
 
 Harriott & Co., flour merchants, N. Y 7 
 
 Harrison, Mrs. Burton, N. Y 173 
 
 Harrison, Gabriel, actor, N. Y 87, 88 
 
 Harrison, Maud, actress 107 
 
 Harrison, Street 127 
 
 Harrison, Thomas, provisions, N. Y 18 
 
 Haring, Cornelia 126 
 
 Haring, Elbert 126 
 
 Haring Street 126 
 
 Harmony, Peter 136 
 
 Harmonys, Nephews P., ship agents, N. Y 8 
 
 Harper & Bros., publishers, N. Y 38 
 
 Harper's Weekly, newspaper, N. Y 125 
 
 Hart, Henry, pawn broker, N. Y 43 
 
 Hart, Tony, actor 106 
 
 Hartford. Conn 82 
 
 Hartford Line steamboats 15 
 
 Hartshorn's English ale house, Brooklyn 83 
 
 Harris, George, character in "Uncle Tom's Cabin" 33 
 
 Harriet Lane, Revenue Cutter, U. S 60 
 
 Harrington (Geo. Christy), minstrel 57 
 
 Harry Hill's dance house, N. Y 97, 108 
 
 Harry Plummer, horse 92 
 
 Harvest Queen, packet ship 8 
 
 Hasbrouck, steamboat 15 
 
 Hathaway, actor 32 
 
 Haughwout & Co., China, bronzes, etc., N. Y 56 
 
 Haughwout, E. v., N. Y 56 
 
 Havana Line, steamers 14 
 
 Havana, Cuba 15, 19 
 
 Havemeyer & Elder, sugar refiners, N. Y 8 
 
 Havermeyers, L. L Sound Shore 123 
 
 Haverlock, Sir Henry, English Army 17 
 
 Hawes, Wm. P., newspaper correspondent, N. Y 140 
 
INDEX 215 
 
 Hawks, Rev. Dr. Calvary Church, N. Y 132 
 
 Hays, Jacob, bank president, N. Y 21 
 
 Hays, William, bank president, N. Y 21 
 
 "Hazel Kirke," comedy 106 
 
 Hazleton and Bros., piano manufacturers, N. Y 55 
 
 Hearns, Retail Dry Goods, N. Y 56 
 
 Heber, Bishop, N. Y 153 
 
 Heckers, flour mills, N. Y 7 
 
 Hector, horse 66 
 
 Heenan, John Camel, pugilist 98 
 
 Hegeman, Alanson Wilson, Vice-Prest. Ins. Co. (Marine) 24 
 
 Heidseick, wine 119 
 
 Hell Gate, East River, N. Y 16 
 
 Helmbold, Doctor, druggist, N. Y 39 
 
 Helmbold's Buchu, patent medicine 39 
 
 Hemenway & Beverage, sail makers, N. Y 9 
 
 Hempstead, L. 1 12, 53, 67, 82, 83, 86, 88 
 
 Hempstead Plains, L. 1 65, 67, 220 
 
 Hendricks family 116 
 
 Hendricks, Mr., N. Y 136 
 
 Hendrickson, John, L. 1 97 
 
 Henrietta, yacht 22 
 
 Henriques family, N. Y 59 
 
 Henriques, Madeline, actress 59, 104 
 
 Henry, Sir, horse 93 
 
 Henry, trotting horse 66, 118 
 
 Henry Street, Brooklyn . . . .2y, 37, 38, 40, 48, 89, 91, 134, 135 
 
 Henry Street, N. Y 36, 37, 126 
 
 Henry, Mike, ale house, Brooklyn 83 
 
 "Herald," newspaper, N. Y 16 
 
 "Herald," building, N. Y 64 
 
 "Herald" Office 34 
 
 Herndon, Captain 15 
 
 "Hern, The Hunter," drama 52 
 
 Hero, horse 66, 80 
 
 Heron, Matilda, actress 60 
 
 Herring, Fanny, actress 46 
 
2i6 INDEX 
 
 Herring Street, N. Y 126 
 
 Herter, furniture manufacturer, N. Y 108 
 
 Heth, Joyce, Negress, museum freak 32, 35 
 
 Hewitt, Abram S., mayor, N. Y 56 
 
 Hewletts, Steve, hotel, Hempstead, L. 1 67, 82 
 
 Hicksite (Quaker) 141 
 
 Hicks, Albert VV., the pirate, 137 
 
 Hicks Street, Brooklyn 5, 40 
 
 Hicksville, L. 1 139, 175 
 
 "Hidden Hand," drama 32 
 
 High Ball, horse 29 
 
 High Bridge, N. Y 16 
 
 High Street, Brooklyn 34, 37, 38, 40, 83, 134 
 
 Highland Light, steamboat 123 
 
 Highland Maid, mare 79 
 
 Hill, Harry, theatre, N. Y 108 
 
 Hilton, Henry, judge, N. Y 106 
 
 "History of the American People," (book) 32 
 
 "History of Long Island," (book) 65 
 
 "History of City of New York," (book) 172 
 
 Hitchcock's Restaurant, N. Y 22 
 
 Hoagland, Sim, track driver 9r 
 
 Hoagland and Bogart, flour dealers, N. Y 7 
 
 Hoagland's road house, East New York, L. 1 9, 112 
 
 Hoboken, New Jersey 22, 84. 94 
 
 Hoey, John, Prest. Adams Express Co., N. Y 49 
 
 Hoey, John Mrs., actress 59. 60, 104, 105 
 
 Hoffman, John T., recorder, mayor, governor 108, 109 
 
 Hogan, Edward, judge, N. Y 47 
 
 Holy Trinity Church, Episcopal, Brooklyn 134 
 
 Holland, Edward, mayor of N. Y 9 
 
 Holland, George, actor 100 
 
 Holt & Co., flour dealers, N. Y 7 
 
 Home Guard, Brooklyn 49 
 
 Hone, Philip, mayor of N. Y no, 137 
 
 Honest Allen, horse 21 
 
 Honest Dutchman, horse 91 
 
INDEX 217 
 
 Honest John, horse 66 
 
 Honey Bee, No. 5 Engine N. Y. Volunteer Fire Dept 35 
 
 Hooley's Theatre, Chicago, 111 88 
 
 Hooley's Minstrels, Brooklyn 88 
 
 Hoopskirts no 
 
 Hope Chapel, N. Y 107, 1 10, 134 
 
 Hopkins, Mr., road driver, N. Y 49 
 
 Hosford & Co., stationers, N. Y 55 
 
 Hosford, Henry, Brooklyn 34 
 
 Hotels 166 
 
 Houghton, Rev. Dr., N. Y 100, 132 
 
 House of Commons, ale and chop house, N. Y 97 
 
 House of Lords, ale and chop house, N. Y 97 
 
 Houston Street, N. Y. . .10, 11, 21, 39, 47, 57, 63, 97, 99, 103, 
 
 108. 109, no, 126, 128, 131 
 
 Houston Street, West, N. Y 126 
 
 Howard, Cordelia, actress 33 
 
 Howard, Frank, steamer agent, N. Y 18, 19 
 
 Howard House, hotel, N. Y 31 
 
 Howard. George C, actor ^^ 
 
 Howard, Mrs. George C, actress 33 
 
 Howard, Harry, Chief Engineer N. Y. Vol. Fire Dept.. 36 
 
 Howard, Lewis, dry goods, N. Y 18 
 
 Howard Street, N. Y 56 
 
 Howland, Gardiner, N. Y 13'') 
 
 Howland and Aspinwall, ship agents, N. Y 8 
 
 Howland and Frothingham, ship agents, N. Y 8 
 
 Howland's Hotel, Long Branch, N. J 123 
 
 Howsen, John, actor 104 
 
 Hoymes Theatre, Bowery, N. Y 98 
 
 Hoyt & Co., Seymour, jewelers, N. Y 59 
 
 Hoyt Street, Brooklyn 40 
 
 Huckleberry Frolics, Long Island 67 
 
 Hudson River, N. Y 29, 113, 123 
 
 Hudson River R. R., Depot, N. Y., College Place and 
 
 Chambers Street 44, 122 
 
 Hudson Street, N. Y 43, 44, 45, 127. 128, 132 
 
2i8 INDEX 
 
 iiughes, John, Rt. Rev., Roman Catholic Archbishop.) 15, 133 
 
 Hughes, Archie, minstrel 88 
 
 Humane Ho.se Co., No. 20 N. Y. Volunteer Fire Dcpt... 35 
 
 Humphrey, William, N. Y 91 
 
 "Humpty Dumpty," pantomine loi 
 
 Hunt, George, Brooklyn 12, 92 
 
 Hunts Point, L. I. Sound, N. Y 123 
 
 Hunter, William, Brooklyn 92 
 
 Hunters Point, L. 1 52 
 
 Huntington, L. 1 12, 67, 174, 175 
 
 Huntington, L. I., patents 174, 175 
 
 Huntington, Rev. Dr., rector Grace Church, N. Y 132 
 
 Huntington Race Track, L. 1 67 
 
 Huntington, South, L. 1 82 
 
 Huntington's "F'amily," L. I. Sound Shore 123 
 
 Huntsville, steamship 14 
 
 Hutchinson, Lightning Calculator, museum attraction... 32 
 
 Hyde, Henry B., Pre.st. Equitable Life Ins. Co., N. Y. . . . 30 
 
 Hyde Park, L. 1 65 
 
 Hyer, Tom, pugilist 112 
 
 'T die a true American" (last words of Bill Poole) 63 
 
 Illinois State 5, 22 
 
 Illustrated copy of Original Patents 175 
 
 Illuminated Sign 62 
 
 Immigration Commissioner 42 
 
 Imported Chestnut Diomed, horse 94 
 
 Imported Messenger, horse, runner 65 
 
 Imported Trustee, horse 3 
 
 Independence, horse 66 
 
 Independence, Iowa State 11 
 
 Independent Politically 124 
 
 India 17 
 
 Indian 160 
 
 Indian Mutiny 60 
 
 Indiana, State 5 
 
 Ingen (Indian) 144 
 
 Indians 174 
 
INDEX 219 
 
 Inman Line Steamships 12, 14 
 
 International Hotel, N. Y 44 
 
 Invincible, packet ship 8 
 
 Inwood, N. Y 49 
 
 Iowa, State 5' ^ ^ 
 
 Ireland, British Isle 5 
 
 Ireland's, John "Star," ale and chop house, N. Y 54 
 
 Irish 6, 63 
 
 Irish Birth or Parentage 129 
 
 Irish Dwarf 113 
 
 Irish Man 9^ 
 
 Irish Packers, provisions 18 
 
 Irving, George, N. Y 114, 115 
 
 Irving House, hotel, N. Y 5^ 
 
 Irving, James, butcher and assemblyman, N. Y 62, 80 
 
 Irving Place, N. Y 103, 122 
 
 Irving, Washington, writer 115 
 
 Irwin, Mary (May), actress 61 
 
 Isaac Newton, steamboat 15 
 
 Isaac Webb, packet ship 8 
 
 Isabella Jewett, schooner 63 
 
 Isaacs, Charley, police officer, MacCombs Dam Bridge, 
 
 N. Y 117 
 
 Isaacs, Robert, pilot. East Hampton, L. 1 85 
 
 IseUn Family, New Rochelle on L. I. Sound 123 
 
 Isle of Trees, Queens County, L. 1 65 
 
 Isle of Manhattan, N. Y 50 
 
 Isle of Wight, English Channel 22 
 
 IsHp, Suffolk County, L. 1 123 
 
 "Ixion," spectacular opera (comic) 6t 
 
 J 
 
 Jack Cade, horse 12 
 
 Jack, John, actor 53 
 
 Jack Rossiter, horse 66 
 
 "Jack Sheppard," drama 46 
 
220 INDEX 
 
 Jack Waters, horse 79 
 
 Jackson, Andrew, President of the U. S 3 
 
 Jackson Avenue, L. I. City 79 
 
 Jackson Famihes, L. 1 174, 175 
 
 Jackson, Thomas, L. 1 92 
 
 Jackson, James W., Alexandria, Va 51 
 
 Jackson, Timothy, L. 1 97 
 
 Jackson, Samuel, L. 1 92 
 
 Jacob Street, N. Y 1 27 
 
 Jacob A. Stamler, packet ship 8 
 
 Jaffray, J. R., N. Y 28 
 
 Jamaica, L. 1 47, 53, 65, 67, 71, 82, 85, 94, 97, 1 19 
 
 Jamaica Turnpike, L. 1 67 
 
 James, Hat Store, N. Y 53 
 
 James and Holstrom, piano manufacturers, N. Y 55 
 
 Jamestown, steamship 14 
 
 Jamieson, Mrs., actress 32 
 
 James G. Carey, steam propeller fire engine, N. Y. Fire 
 
 Dept. Volunteers Zl 
 
 James K. Polk, horse 66 
 
 Janesville, horse 20 
 
 Janus, horse 94 
 
 Japanese Troupe, acrobats 62 
 
 Jardincs, organ builders, N. Y 55 
 
 Jarret & Palmer, theatrical managers 61 
 
 Jaunceys Court, Wall Street, N. Y 24 
 
 Jay, John, governor, N. Y 172 
 
 Jay Eye See, horse 117- ^ ' ^ 
 
 Jay Gould, horse 96 
 
 Jay Street, N. Y 126 
 
 Jay Street, Brooklyn 37, 40, 49, 134 
 
 Jefiferson, Joseph, actor 59' ^00 
 
 Jefferson Market, N. Y 63, 127 
 
 Jefferson Market, bell tower, N. Y 60 
 
 Jennings, Harry, dog and rat pit, bar saloon, N. Y 54 
 
 Jennings & Co., W. J., clothing house, Broadway, N. Y. . . 38 
 
 Jeremiah Thompson, packet ship 8 
 
INDEX 221 
 
 Jerolemon Street, Brooklyn 40, i34, I35 
 
 Jerome, Lawrence, stock broker, N. Y 8i 
 
 Jerome, Leonard, stock broker, N. Y 80 
 
 Jersey City, New Jersey i^' ^4 
 
 Jersey Lily (Mrs. Langtry), actress io« 
 
 Jersey Shore, N.J 5/ 
 
 Jersey Street, N. Y ^^^ 
 
 Jerseymen ^ 
 
 Jerusalem, Long Island ^39. ^^ 
 
 Jerusalem Lane, Long Island ^^^ 
 
 Jerusalem Road, Long Island ^^^ 
 
 Jerusalem, South, Long Island i39, 168, 174, i75 
 
 ""Jessie Brown, or The Siege of Lucknow," drama 59 
 
 Jewell, Harrison & Co., provisions. N. Y 10, iS 
 
 Jewell Flour Mills, Brooklyn 7 
 
 Jewett, Sara, actress ^°7 
 
 Jewish Graveyard 
 
 lockev Club, Baltimore, Maryland 7^ 
 
 i , 62 
 
 Jocko, ape 
 
 Joe Patchen, horse 
 
 John of Gaunt ■■■ ^^i 
 
 John Morgan, horse ^ ' 
 
 John R. Gentry, horse ^ ^7 
 
 John Street, N. Y 59,90, 127 
 
 John G. Storm, propeller fire engine, steamer, N. Y 37 
 
 Johnson Building, Broad Street, N. Y 25 
 
 Johnson, Rev. E. M., Brooklyn 1°/ 
 
 Johnson, Frederick, veterinarian and real estate, N. Y.. .. 12 
 
 Johnson, George Forrest, real estate, N. Y 1,12, 13 
 
 Johnson, J. H., jeweler, N. Y S^ 
 
 Johnson, E. L.. actor 59 
 
 Johnson, stage proprietor 4^ 
 
 Johnson Street, Brooklyn 83, 107, I34, I35 
 
 Jchnson, WiUiam R., Baltimore, Md 94 
 
 Johnston, T. B., actor 59 
 
 Jolly Roger, horse 94 
 
 Jones, Aaron, pugilist 9 
 
222 INDEX 
 
 Jones Alley, Bond Street to Great Jones Street, N. Y.. . . 125 
 
 Jones, Commodore, hotel, Brooklyn 83 
 
 Jones, Claremont, road house, N. Y 49, 50, 64, 118 
 
 Jones, Cornelia Haring (Mrs. Samuel) 126 
 
 Jones. Daniel Youngs, farmer, L. 1 69, 71 
 
 Jones, David, farmer, L. 1 69, 90, 91 
 
 Jones, David S., lawyer, N. Y 169, 171, 172, 173 
 
 Jones, David W., fanner, L. 1 69 
 
 Jones families, L. 1 174, 175 
 
 Jones, Gardner, Dr., N. Y 125, 126 
 
 Jones, G-eneral, L. I., State Senator Queens County. . . . 165 
 
 Jones, George, actor (The Count Johannes) loi 
 
 Jones, George, editor New York "Times" 125 
 
 Jones, Harry, Vauxhall Garden 63 
 
 Jones, Horace, track driver 81, 91, 94, 109 
 
 Jones, John D., president Ins. Co., N. Y 24 
 
 Jones, John O., N. Y 52, 13G 
 
 Jones, John Q., family, N. Y 52 
 
 Jones, Mrs., actress, N. Y 46 
 
 Jones, Oliver H., N. Y 136 
 
 Jones Street, N. Y 125 
 
 Jones, Samuel, judge, N. Y 126, 171 
 
 Jones, Townsend, secretary Ins. Co., N. Y 24 
 
 Jones, William, major, farmer, L. 1 3. 69, 70, 71, 171 
 
 Jones, William, Old House, West Neck, L. 1 169, 171 
 
 Jones, "Young" 1 50 
 
 Joneses Lane, Front to South Street, N. Y 126 
 
 Joneses, Jerusalem Quaker family 168 
 
 Joneses Beach, L. 1 140, 174 
 
 Joneses Woods, foot East 72d St., N. Y 122 
 
 Joneses Restaurant, Fulton St., N. Y 21 
 
 Joones, Mi.star 172 
 
 Jordan, George, actor 10 1 
 
 Joseph Walker, packet ship 8 
 
 Judge, character in comedy "Solon Shingle" 60 
 
 Judge Fullerton, horse 81, 91 
 
 Julia, yacht 22 
 
INDEX 223 
 
 "Jwliiis Caesar," drama 102, 109 
 
 Jupiter, horse 66, 71, 80, 92, 93 
 
 Justice 62 
 
 K 
 
 Kalbfleisch, Martin, mayor of Brooklyn 91 
 
 Kansas, State 5 
 
 Kansas City, Mo 11 
 
 Kate, mare 168 
 
 Keene, Laura, actress 103 
 
 Kellogg, Clara Louise, opera singer 103 
 
 Kellys, John, N. Y 34 
 
 Kelly and Leons, minstrels, N. Y 107 
 
 Kelly, Richard, Judge, N. Y 42, 47 
 
 Kemble Jackson, horse 66 
 
 Kennedy, John A., chief of police, N. Y 47 
 
 Kennedy Mansion, N. Y 18 
 
 Kentucky, State 82 
 
 Kentucky Chief, horse 66 
 
 Keokuk, Iowa 11 
 
 Kermitt & Carow, ship agents, N. Y 8 
 
 Kerner, Charles, hotel proprietor, N. Y 80, 92 
 
 Kernochan, James, N. Y 137 
 
 Ketcham, Ira, Brooklyn 34 
 
 Kettletas, Eugene, N. Y 136 
 
 Kill von Kull, New York Bay 5 
 
 Kilpatrick, Thomas, N. Y 81 
 
 King Chimes, horse 95, 96 
 
 King & Co., Peter V., shipping merchants, N. Y 8 
 
 King Direct, horse 95 
 
 King Edward of England 60 
 
 King, John A., Governor of N. Y 47 
 
 King Street, N. Y 10, 126 
 
 Kingan & Co., provisions, N. Y 18 
 
 Kings County, L. 1 53, 118 
 
 Kings Bridge Hotel, N. Y 50 
 
224 INDEX 
 
 Kings Bridge Road, N. Y 31, 50 
 
 Kingsland & Sutton, D. & A. ship agents, N. Y 8 
 
 Kingsland, A. C 136 
 
 Kingsland, Elisha, Asst. Engineer N. Y. Volunteer Fire 
 
 Dept 36 
 
 Kingsland, Elisha, Chief Engineer N. Y. Fire Dept. (new 
 
 system ) 36, 37 
 
 Kingston, N. Y 15 
 
 Kip. Colonel, N. Y 20 
 
 Kip, stage proprietor, N. Y 42 
 
 Knapp, George, provisions, N. Y 10 
 
 Knapp, Robert, provisions, N. Y 10 
 
 Knapp, Sheppard F., Banker, N. Y 20, 81 
 
 Knickerbocker Ice Co., N. Y 99 
 
 Knickerbocker Trust Co., N. Y 115 
 
 Knickerbockers, base ball club, N. Y 83, 84 
 
 Knight, Thomas T., Brooklyn 34, 63 
 
 Know Nothings, Political Organization, N. Y 124 
 
 Kossuth, Hungarian Patriot 3 
 
 Koster & Bials, concert room. N. Y 99 
 
 Knox's Hat Store, N. Y 31, 34 
 
 Kranich & Bach, piano manufacturers, N. Y 55 
 
 L 
 
 Lady Anne, mare 92 
 
 Lady Blanche, bay mare 92 
 
 Lady Blanche, gray mare 71, 112 
 
 Lady Brooks, mare 79 
 
 Lady Collins, mare 82 
 
 Lady Dahlman. mare 12 
 
 Lady Emma, mare 66, 80, 81, 82 
 
 Lady Franklin, mare 80 
 
 Lady Macbeth, character in drama 102 
 
 Lady Mac, mare 96 
 
 Lady Moscow, mare 66 
 
 Lady Palmer, mare 66. 96 
 
INDEX 225 
 
 Lady Shannon, mare 82 
 
 Lady Suffolk, mare 64, 65, 66, 68. 79, 82, 85, 93, 94, 96 
 
 Lady Sutton, mare 66 
 
 Lady Thorn, mare 81, 82 
 
 Lady Victory, mare 66 
 
 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn 135 
 
 Lafayette General 3 
 
 Lafayette Hall, N. Y 63, 64 
 
 Lafayette Place, N. Y 109, 1 10, 132, 135, 136 
 
 Lafayette Street, N. Y 126 
 
 Lafarge House, N. Y 102 
 
 La Grange, opera singer 103 
 
 Laight Street, N. Y 45 
 
 Laimbeers Stores, Brooklyn 7 
 
 Lake George, N. Y. State 123 
 
 Lake Mahopac, N. Y. State 124 
 
 Lake & McCreery, retail dry goods, N. Y 56 
 
 Lamb, J. & R., church decorations, N. Y 55 
 
 Lamb, Martha J., Mrs., historian, N. Y 172 
 
 Lancet, horse 80 
 
 Lane, Lamson & Co., dry goods, N. Y 28 
 
 Lane, Maltby G., grain dealers, N. Y 43 
 
 Lane & Mangam, flour and grain, N. Y 7 
 
 Lane, & Co., Nathan, stationers, N. Y 55 
 
 Langham Hotel, N. Y 46 
 
 Langley & Co., W. C, dry goods, N. Y 53 
 
 Langley, W. H., dry goods, N. Y 22, 34, 53 
 
 Langtry, Lily, actress 108 
 
 Latham 160 
 
 Lathers, Richard, Prest. Ins. Co., N. Y 24 
 
 Lating 143 
 
 Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) loi 
 
 Latting Observatory, N. Y 43 
 
 La Torreate House, Bergen Point, N. J 123 
 
 Laura Keene's New Theatre, N. Y 100 
 
 Laura Keene's Varieties, N. Y loi 
 
 Laura Keene 100 
 
 17 
 
226 INDEX 
 
 Laurens Street, N. Y 54 
 
 Law, George, Prest. 8th Avenue Railroad Co., N. Y 
 
 43, 63, 81, 136 
 
 Law, George, Jr 43 
 
 Lawrence, Fred, stock broker, N. Y 20 
 
 Lawrence, Giles, & Co., exporters, N. Y 36 
 
 Lawrence, James, Captain U. S. Frigate Chesapeake, Mon- 
 ument Trinity Church-yard, N. Y 28 
 
 Lawrence, Leonard W., Smithtown, L. 1 65 
 
 Lawrence Street, Brooklyn 135 
 
 Leacraft, Jeremiah, merchant, N. Y 7 
 
 "Leah," drama 102 
 
 Leahy, Patrick, Brooklyn '^'j 
 
 LeBoutilliers. retail dry goods, N. Y 56 
 
 Lee, Wm. A 40 
 
 Lefferts, Marshall colonel 7th Regiment, N. Y 48, 129 
 
 Leffingwell, actor and manager 106 
 
 Legislature, N. Y 165, 166 
 
 Legree, character in "Uncle Tom's Cabin" 33 
 
 Leggett, Fred & Joseph, butter and cheese dealers, N. Y.. 9 
 
 Leggett, Isaac, Brooklyn 37 
 
 Leggett, Joseph, Brooklyn 18, 48, 83 
 
 Leggett's Restaurant, N. Y 23 
 
 Leigh, Rosa, character in "Rosedale" 104 
 
 Lelands, New Rochelle 123 
 
 Lemoyne, W. J., actor 33 
 
 Lenox, James, 53 Fifth Avenue, N. Y 114, 136 
 
 Lenox, Mass 123 
 
 Lent, stage proprietor, N. Y 42 
 
 Leonard Street N. Y 29, 53, 54, 126 
 
 Lentners 152 
 
 Leucothoe 1 55 
 
 Leverich, Charles P., bank president, N. Y 25 
 
 Levick, Milnes, actor 109 
 
 Levy, cornetist, Brooklyn 88 
 
 Lewis Forrest, horse 96 
 
 Lewis, James, actor 59, 106 
 
INDEX 227 
 
 Lewis Publishing Co., N. Y 65 
 
 Lexington Avenue N. Y 36, 56, 136 
 
 Libby Prison, Richmond, Va 49 
 
 Libby, WilHam, N. Y 49 
 
 Liberty Place, N. Y 126 
 
 Liberty Pole, N. Y 51 
 
 Liberty Street 16. 17, 21, 23, 30, 55, 80, 124, 126 
 
 Liederkranz, German Society, N. Y 57 
 
 Light Guard, N. Y 63, 129 
 
 Light Guard, Brooklyn 49 
 
 Lillienthal's, snuff and tobacco, N. Y 38 
 
 Limnades I55 
 
 Lind, Jenny, opera singer 3, 52 
 
 Lindeman & Son, piano manufacturers, N. Y 55 
 
 Lincoln, Abraham, president U. S 41, 100 
 
 Lincoln and Hamblin, presidential candidates i860 58 
 
 Lingard, Horace, actor 107, 1 1 1 
 
 Link & Co., Fred K., provisions, N. Y 10 
 
 Linus Islands, Great South Bay, L. 1 162 
 
 Lippincott & Co., slaughterers, N. Y 11 
 
 Lispenard Meadows, N. Y 65 
 
 Lispenard, S., N. Y 136 
 
 Lispenard Street, N. Y 54, 56 
 
 "Listen to the Mocking Bird," song 48 
 
 Little All Right, Japanese acrobat 62 
 
 Little, Charles 65 
 
 Little Dick, horse 92 
 
 Little Jacob, stock broker, N. Y 21 
 
 Little Mac, dwarf 113 
 
 Littlejohn, Rev. Dr., Rector Holy Trinity Church, Brook- 
 lyn 134 
 
 Liverpool, England 8, 13 
 
 Liverpool, packet-ship 8 
 
 Liverpool, packets 7 
 
 Livingston, Anson, N. Y 80 
 
 Livingston Place, N. Y 131, 134 
 
 Livingston Street, Brooklyn 134 
 
228 INDEX 
 
 Lockett & Co., John, provisions, Brooklyn lo 
 
 Locus, Ned Hh H9, ^S'^, i54- i55. 156 
 
 Lohman, Dr., N. Y 45 
 
 Q 
 
 London, packet-ship ° 
 
 London Packets 7 
 
 Long Branch, steamboat ^^3 
 
 Long Branch, New Jersey 123 
 
 Long Lsland, N. Y.. .3, 5, 12, 19, 2a 24, 25, 29, 53, 60, 65, 67 
 69, 70, 71, 72, 79, 82, 85, 88, 92, 93, 94, 97. 100, 102, 
 109, 112, 118, 123, 132, 139, 141, 160, 161, 171, 173' 174 
 
 Long Island Black Hawk, horse 66 
 
 Long Island City, L. 1 52 
 
 Long Island Railroad 52, 93- U9 
 
 Long Island Sound 2, 123 
 
 Long Island Star ^^ 
 
 Long Island Yankee ^7 
 
 Long Islanders ^^ 
 
 Long John, Ellsworth's Zouaves, Chicago, 111 5° 
 
 Long, Lemuel, near Halifax, North Carolina 93 
 
 Lords Court ^° 
 
 Lord & Taylor, retail dry goods, N. Y 5^ 
 
 "Lord Bateman," song ^04, io5 
 
 Lord Dundreary, character in "The American Cousin," 
 
 comedy i°° 
 
 Lorillard, Peter ^36 
 
 Lorillard, Pierre, N. Y 20. 22 
 
 Lorillards, Barettos Pomt, N. Y • 123 
 
 Lotta, actress ^°^ 
 
 Lotta, mare ^9 
 
 Lovejoy's Hotel, N. Y 44 
 
 Love Lane, Brooklyn 40. 1 19 
 
 Lovell, William 9i 
 
 Lotos Club, N. Y 99 
 
 Lou Dillon, mare 95 
 
 Lowery, R. H., bank cashier, N. Y 27 
 
 Lowe (Broadway Bridge) ■ 3^ 
 
 Low & Bro., A. A., shipping merchants, N. Y 8 
 
INDEX 229 
 
 Low, A. A., Brooklyn ^37 
 
 Lucca, opera singer ^°3 
 
 Luce, captain of steamship Arctic ^3 
 
 Ludlow Street, N. Y 127 
 
 "Lucia," opera ^^3 
 
 Lucky, Robert, Brooklyn 34 
 
 Lucknow, India ^7 
 
 Lucy Gernent, mare ^ ^7 
 
 Lutheran Church, New York ^34 
 
 Lyie, James, insurance officer, N. Y. 24 
 
 Lyons, Lord, English minister 60 
 
 M 
 
 Mac, horse ^^' 79 
 
 Macdougall Street, N. Y 3^ 
 
 Mace, Ben 9i 
 
 Mace, Dan 12, 91, 94 
 
 MacCombs Dam Bridge, N. Y 1 17 
 
 Machines ( for Gunners) i^S 
 
 Mackay, F. P., actor io7 
 
 Macy, Josiah ^^ 
 
 Macy Building, N. Y 64 
 
 Macy's Sons, Josiah, lard refiners, N. Y 8 
 
 Madison Avenue, N. Y 
 
 20, 42, 100, 115, 118, 122, 132, 137, 138 
 
 Madison Avenue Stage Line, N. Y 4i 
 
 Madison Cottage Road House, N. Y 64 
 
 Madison Square Garden. N. Y 45 
 
 Madison Square Park, N. Y "6, 122 
 
 Madison Square, N. Y ^ ^5 
 
 Madison Street, N. Y 126 
 
 Maid of Suffolk mare 93 
 
 Maiden Lane, N. Y 21, 28, 31, 34, 126 
 
 Maidens Prayer drama ^^^ 
 
 "Maidens Vow," drama 32 
 
230 INDEX 
 
 Maillards, Henry, ice cream saloon and candy makers, 
 
 N. Y 97 
 
 Main Street, Brooklyn };] 
 
 Main Street, Hempstead, L. 1 12, 67, 82, 83 
 
 Maison Doree, restaurant, N. Y 54, 113 
 
 Maitland, Phelps & Co., shipping merchants, N. Y 8 
 
 Majolica, horse 117 
 
 Major Delmar, horse 95 
 
 Malcolm, Robert, printer, N. Y 34 
 
 Mallory Line Steamers 16 
 
 Mambrino Chief, horse 82 
 
 "Man and Wife," comedy 106 
 
 Manhattan Bank, N. Y 26, 159 
 
 Manhattan Island, N. Y 6, 50, 118, 122 
 
 Manley, base ball player, Brooklyn 87 
 
 Mansion House, hotel, Long Branch, N.J 123 
 
 Marble, Manton, editor N. Y. "World," (newspaper)... 124 
 
 March 164 
 
 Marcus Antonius, character in drama "Julius Caesar"... 109 
 
 Marcus Junius Brutus, character in drama "Julius Caesar" 109 
 
 Margaret O, mare 29. 97 
 
 Maria, yacht 22 
 
 Marietta Street, N. Y 126 
 
 Marine Bank, N. Y 25 
 
 Markham, Pauline, actress 61 
 
 Market Street, N. Y 8 
 
 Marketfield Street, N. Y 29 
 
 Marks, character in "Uncle Tom's Cabin," 33 
 
 Marquise, character in "Caste" 104 
 
 Marquise, character in comedy "Rosedale" 105 
 
 Marshall & Co., C. H., shipping agents 8 
 
 Marshall. Oliver, stage proprietor, N. Y 42, 81 
 
 Marshall, William T., provisions, N. Y 10 
 
 Marshall House, Alexandria, Va 51 
 
 Mary Powell, steamboat 15 
 
 Mary's Island, Massapequa Lake, L. 1 170 
 
 Maryland, State 15, 26, 49, 71 
 
INDEX 231 
 
 Mason, Charles S 34 
 
 Mason, Thos. F 34 
 
 Mason Family, N. Y 52 
 
 Masonic Hall, N. Y 52 
 
 Massachusetts, State 57, 92, 143 
 
 Massapequa, L. 1 71, 172, 173 
 
 Massapequa Lake, L. 1 169, 171 
 
 Massapequa Trotting Track, L. 1 67, 170, 175 
 
 Massapequa House, L. 1 69 
 
 Massey, Fred'k S., Brooklyn 18, 37 
 
 Masters Stores, Brooklyn 7 
 
 Mate, Running, horse 81 
 
 Mate, Trotting, horse 12 
 
 Mather, Margaret, actress 61 
 
 Matthews, Charles, actor 102 
 
 Matthews, Edward, N. Y 137 
 
 Matthews, hotel proprietor, N. Y 56 
 
 Matthews, Pat, pugilist 98 
 
 Matowacs, L. 1 160, 161, 166, 167 
 
 Mattlage, C. F., provisions, N. Y 10 
 
 Mattsell, George W., chief of police, N. Y 47 
 
 Maud, mare 97 
 
 Maud S., mare 94, 96 
 
 May Bird, mare 12 
 
 Mayor, city official 47, 108, 109 
 
 Mayor's pups 47 
 
 M. P. (police) 6, 47 
 
 Mayor of New York 22, 36, 108 
 
 Mayor of Brooklyn 49 
 
 Mayorality 109 
 
 Mazeppa," drama 53 
 
 McAlpin, tobacconist, N. Y 38 
 
 McCready, N. L., N. Y 104 
 
 McCready & Co., N. L., ship agents, N. Y 8 
 
 McCready, actor (England) no 
 
 McCollough, John, actor 109 
 
 McCloskey, Rev. Dr., rector 134 
 
232 INDEX 
 
 McDonald, Mr., Baltimore, Md 80, 81 
 
 McDonald, Mrs., Baltimore, Md 80 
 
 McDougall Street 126 
 
 McKay, Steele, actor 106 
 
 McKenna, Miles, Gipsy in comedy "Rosedale" 105 
 
 McGibney, Michael, Brooklyn 40 
 
 McGowan, steamship captain 14 
 
 McLaughlin, Sam, track driver, L. 1 91, 94 
 
 McLaughlin (Paudeen), Bill Poole fracas 62 
 
 McMann, James D., Stable Hunters Point, L. 1 80, 82, 94 
 
 Mead & Co., Ralph, wholesale grocers, N. Y 9 
 
 Mealios, hatter, N. Y 53 
 
 Meccas 31 
 
 Mechanic Hose Co., No. 8 N. Y. Volunteer Fire Dept. . . . 18 
 
 Mechanic Street, N. Y 126 
 
 Mechanics Bank, N. Y 25 
 
 Mechanics Library Hall, N. Y 57, 135 
 
 Meday, C. H., provisions, N. Y 10 
 
 "Medea," drama 60 
 
 Medoc, trotting horse 81 
 
 Medoc, running horse 81 
 
 Meg Merrilles, character in drama 61 
 
 Mehlin, piano manufacturer, N. Y 55 
 
 Meinell, James, L. I 100, 137 
 
 Melita 155 
 
 Melodeon, Concert Hall, N. Y 99 
 
 Melville, circus rider 62 
 
 Memoirs 139 
 
 Menken, Ada Isaacs, actress 52, 53 
 
 Mercantile Library Association, N. Y 4. no. 135 
 
 Mercantile Mutual Ins. Co. (marine), N. Y 24 
 
 Mercer Street, N. Y 21, 54, 56, 59, 63, 97, 109, 136 
 
 Merchants Banks. N. Y 25 
 
 Merchants Exchange, N. Y 25 
 
 Merchants Hotel. N. Y 31 
 
 Merrill, George P.. dry goods merchant. N. Y 34 
 
 Merritt, John J., Brooklyn 40 
 
INDEX 22,^ 
 
 Mermaid, L. I I39 
 
 Mermaids 141 
 
 Merman, L. I I39 
 
 Mermans 141 
 
 Meschutts, restaurant, N. Y 21 
 
 Messenger, horse 65 
 
 Messenger Duroc, horse 9^ 
 
 Messenger, mare 21 
 
 Mestayer, Emily, actress 32, 104, 107 
 
 "Metamora," drama 5^ 
 
 Metropohtan Hotel, N. Y 60, 61, 109 
 
 MetropoUtan Police System, N. Y 47 
 
 Metropolitan Theatre, N. Y loi 
 
 Mexican War Fame 53 
 
 Michigan, State 6 
 
 Middle West 5 
 
 "Midsummer Night's Dream, A," spectacular drama .... 102 
 
 Miller, Abraham, Brooklyn 29 
 
 Mill Boy, horse 9^ 
 
 Miller, Gilbert B 85 
 
 Miller, George, N. Y Z7 
 
 Miller, James, N. Y 37 
 
 Millerman, provisions, N. Y 10 
 
 Miller & Grant, retail dry goods, N. Y 56 
 
 Millers Damsel, mare 80 
 
 Milligan Place, N. Y 126 
 
 Militia, State soldiers 47 
 
 Mill's Building, N. Y 23 
 
 Milwaukee, Wisconsin 5 
 
 Mineola, L. 1 67 
 
 Mingoes, John, L. 1 82 
 
 Mineola fair grounds, L. 1 53 
 
 Minister to The Hague (U. S.) 114 
 
 Minstrel Shows, N. Y 103 
 
 Minturn & Partridge, auctioneers, N. Y 25 
 
 Minturn, Robert B., N. Y 136 
 
 Mississippi, U. S. Man-of-war 61 
 
234 INDEX 
 
 Mission House, Five Points, N. Y 46 
 
 Mission Place, Five Points, N. Y 126 
 
 Missouri, State 5. 11 
 
 Mitchell, Maggie, actress 61 
 
 Mitchell, Vance & Co., China, gas fixtures, etc., N. Y. . . . 56 
 
 Mock Auction Places, N. Y 2-j 
 
 Model Artists 57 
 
 Mofifatt, Dr 114 
 
 Molineux, E. L., adjutant 13th regiment, Brooklyn 48 
 
 Moller & Co., P., sugar refiners, N. Y 8 
 
 Moller, Peter, N. Y 20, 116 
 
 Montague Street, Brooklyn 6, 87, 88, 89. 91, 134 
 
 Montauk Point, L. 1 57, 85, 86, 167 
 
 Montague Hall, Brooklyn 87 
 
 Montague, Harry, actor 103, 104 
 
 Monroe Place, Brooklyn 58, 134, 135 
 
 Monroe Street, N. Y 126 
 
 Montgomery Street, Jersey City, N. J 14 
 
 Montgomery, Archie 24 
 
 Montgomery, actor 107 
 
 Moore Street, N. Y 9 
 
 Moore, W. H. H., Vice-Prest. Ins. Co., N. Y 24 
 
 Moore, Lambert, mayor, N. Y 9 
 
 Morgan & Co., J. P., bankers, N. Y 21 
 
 Morning Express, N. Y 2'j 
 
 Morning Star, steamship 14 
 
 Morant, Fanny, actress 59 
 
 Mormons, or Latter-Day Saints loi 
 
 Morris, Clara (Mrs. Harriott), actress 106, 107 
 
 Morris, Gouveneur 136 
 
 Morris Island, Charleston Harbor, S. C 15 
 
 Morris Street, N. Y 13. 14, 18, 125 
 
 Morris, Manor Place 117 
 
 Morrison, Robert, provisions, Belfast agent it 
 
 Morse, Theodore, theatre manager, N. Y 103 
 
 Morton House, N. Y 107 
 
 Morrisania, N. Y 117 
 
INDEX 235 
 
 Morrissey, John A., congressman, pugilist 63, 81, 98 
 
 Morrissey, James W., theatrical manager loi 
 
 Moscow, horse 66 
 
 Moses H. Grinnell, packet-ship 8 
 
 Moser, Charles, Brooklyn 92 
 
 Mott, M. L., N. Y 81 
 
 Mott Street, N. Y 126, 133 
 
 Moiilton, Frank, salt dealer, N. Y 1 1 
 
 Mountain Boy, horse 81 
 
 Mozart Hall, N. Y 57, 97 
 
 Muhlenberg, Rev. Dr., rector Holy Communion Episcopal 
 
 Church, N. Y 132 
 
 Mulberry Street, N. Y 46, 47, 126 
 
 Muller, Adrian H., real estate, N. Y 28 
 
 Mulligan, minstrel, N. Y 58 
 
 Mulligan, Billy, pugilist 98 
 
 Munn Son & Co., cotton brokers, N. Y 25 
 
 Munn, Stephen B., N. Y 136 
 
 Municipal Pohce, N. Y 47 
 
 Murphy, John, track driver, N. Y 12, 94, 117 
 
 Murphy, pugilist (Irish Giant), N. Y 98 
 
 Murphy, stage proprietor, N. Y 42 
 
 Murphy, Tommy, track driver 19 
 
 Murray Street, N. Y 59 
 
 Museum, Barnum's (Old), N. Y 3^, 32, 33 
 
 Museum, Barnum's (new), N. Y 57 
 
 Mutual Life Insurance Co., building, N. Y 30 
 
 Mutuals, base ball club, N. Y 83 
 
 Myrtle Avenue, Brooklyn ^7, 90 
 
 N 
 
 Naiades (water nymphs) 155 
 
 "Naiad Queen," spectacular drama 102 
 
 Nancy Hanks, mare 94 
 
 Narrows, N. Y. bay 5 
 
 Nashville, steamship 14 
 
236 INDEX 
 
 Nassau county, L. 1 139 
 
 Nassau street, N. Y 
 
 16, 17, 21, 23, 24, 2-7, 34, 44, 55, 56, 124, 133 
 
 Nast, Thomas, artist 98 
 
 Nathan, Benjamin, N. Y 115 
 
 National Hotel, N. Y 31 
 
 National Theatre (Chatham), N. Y 33 
 
 Naval Academy grounds, Annapolis, Maryland 15 
 
 Navy Yard district, Brooklyn ^^j 
 
 Ned, "Seal" 32, 34 
 
 Nebraska, State 5, 11 
 
 Needles, England 22 
 
 Nelson's, Ben, road house, Brooklyn 19 
 
 Neptune House, New Rochelle, N. Y 123 
 
 Nesbitt & Co., Geo. F., stationers, N. Y 55, 124 
 
 Nereides ( Sea Nymphs) 1 55 
 
 Nettie Plummer, mare 92, 93 
 
 Nevius & Co., Peter I., flour dealers, N. Y 7 
 
 New Jersey, State 3, 14, 81, 92, 94, 122, 123, 172 
 
 Nevada, State 20 
 
 Nevins Street, Brooklyn 134, 135 
 
 Newman & Co., W. H., flour and grain merchants, N. Y.. . 7 
 
 Newman, W. H., Staten Island 11 
 
 New Berlin Girl, mare 12 
 
 New Bowery Theatre, N. Y 98 
 
 New Bowery Street, N. Y 128 
 
 New Brighton, Staten Island, N. Y 123 
 
 Newcomb, Charles, vice-prest. Ins. Co., N. Y 24 
 
 New England Pilgrims 141 
 
 Newfoundland 13 
 
 New Haven Line Steamboats 15 
 
 New Haven and Hartford RR. Depot, N. Y 45 
 
 New Market Race Track, Long Island 65 
 
 New Orleans, La 14, 61 
 
 New Orleans Line Steamers 14 
 
 Newport, Rhode Island 16, 123 
 
 Newport, steamboat 16 
 
INDEX 237 
 
 New Rochelle, N. Y 24, 123 
 
 Newton, Kate, actress 106 
 
 Newton, Meta, actress 107 
 
 Newtown, L. 1 25, 65, 79 
 
 New World, steamboat 15 
 
 New York.. .1,2,3,5,6,7,8,9, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16,20,21,22,23, 
 24, 25, 26, 29, 30, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 41, 46, 48, 50, 51, 
 52, 53, 56, 61, 62, 63, 65, 66, 67, 69, ^2, 80, 83, 84, 87, 
 
 88, 89, 91, 98, 99, 118, 104, 105, 108, 109, 114, 115, 119, 
 
 121, 122, 123, 124, 125, 131, 134. 136, 139, 140, 141, 159, 
 171, 172, 173 
 
 New York Central and Hudson River R. R. depot. .111, 131 
 
 New York Driving Club 24 
 
 New York Fire & Marine Ins. Co 24 
 
 New York Mutual Marine Ins. Co 24 
 
 New York Historical Society Library 135 
 
 New York Hospital 52, 53 
 
 New York Hotel 1 1 , 109 
 
 New York Landmark 35 
 
 New York Legislature 26, 159 
 
 New York Life Insurance Building 53 
 
 New York roads 9, 12 
 
 New York State 3. 30, 95, 96 
 
 New York Yacht Club House 22 
 
 New Yorker 119 
 
 New Yorkers 17, 122 
 
 New Zealand 29 
 
 Niagara Falls, N. Y 57 
 
 Niagara, U. S. man-of-war 4 
 
 Niblo, William, N. Y 136 
 
 Niblo's Garden Theatre, N. Y 21, 61, 62, 103 
 
 Niblos, N. Y 62 
 
 Nichols, Sidney, police commissioner and bank director, 
 
 N. Y 42 
 
 Nicolls, Richard, colonial governor of N. Y 65, 174 
 
 Nicholas Nickleby, farce from Dickens 69 
 
 Nicholson, J. C 34 
 
238 INDEX 
 
 Nocolay, Albert H., real estate broker 21, 2$ 
 
 Nigger Mermaids 155 
 
 Night Hawk, horse 66 
 
 Nilson, Christine, opera singer 103 
 
 "Nine," base ball 87 
 
 Nine Engine Co., "Continental," Brooklyn V^olunteer 
 
 Fire Dept ^y 
 
 Nineteen Engine Co., "Empire," Brooklyn Volunteer 
 
 Fire Dept 37 
 
 Nineteenth street, N. Y 114, 115, 136 
 
 Ninth avenue, N. Y 42, 64, in, 132, 136 
 
 Ninth street, N. Y 42, 58, 136 
 
 Ninth ward, N. Y 10 
 
 Ninety-third street, N. Y 68 
 
 Nodine, F. J., livery stable, Brooklyn 19, 79, 91, 94 
 
 Nomads (Gipsies) 104 
 
 North Carolina, state 93, 173 
 
 North river i, 5, 11, 13, 14, 28, 64, 127 
 
 North vs. South 93 
 
 Norton, Mike, Hotel, Coney Island 23 
 
 Nortons Point, Coney Island 23 
 
 Norfolk Line Steamers 14 
 
 "Nunquam Non Paratus," motto 21 
 
 Nunns & Clark, piano manufacturers, N. Y 55 
 
 Nunns & Fischer, piano manufacturers, N. Y 55 
 
 Nye, James W., police commissioner, N. Y 20, 47 
 
 O 
 
 Oak Street, N. Y 125 
 
 Oakley, Whitson, Brooklyn 92 
 
 O'Briens, base ball players, Atlantic Club, Brooklyn. . . 84 
 
 Occidental Hotel, N. Y 56 
 
 Oceanic Hotel, Coney Island 23 
 
 Oceanides 155 
 
 "Octaroon," drama 102 
 
 Octavius Caesar, character in drama "Julius Caesar". . . 109 
 
INDEX 239 
 
 Odd Fellows Hall 58 
 
 Oelrichs & Co., exporters, N. Y 8 
 
 O'Flynn, Eddie, Brooklyn 18 
 
 Ohio, state 5, 105 
 
 Ohio Life & Trust Co., N. Y 26 
 
 Old Babylonians, L. 1 102 
 
 Old Brooklynite 18 
 
 Old Brooklynites 83, 84 
 
 Old Colony, steamboat 16 
 
 Old Drayton 1 58 
 
 Old Dutch Church, N. Y 17, 44 
 
 Old First Street, N. Y., (Chrystie Street) 65 
 
 Old Guard, N. Y 63 
 
 Old Hall of Records, Cit> Hall Park, N. Y 32 
 
 Old Plenry, horse 93 
 
 Old New York 128 
 
 Old New Yorker 115 
 
 Old Ninth Ward, N. Y 65 
 
 Old Pilot, pacer 81 
 
 Old Point Comfort, Va 123 
 
 Old Second Street (Forsyth Street) N. Y 65 
 
 Old Slip, N 8, 18. 25, 38, 126, 129 
 
 Old Tom's Chop House, N. Y 31 
 
 Old Volunteer Firemen, Brooklyn 89 
 
 ■'Oliver Twist," drama 46 
 
 Olympic Theatre, N. Y 100, 103 
 
 One-Eyed Hunter, horse 79 
 
 One Engine Co., "Washington," Brooklyn Volunteer 
 
 Fire Dept 37 
 
 One Hook & Ladder Co., Montross Volunteer Fire Dept. 40 
 One Hose Company "Atlantic,"Brooklyn Volunteer Vol- 
 unteer Fire Dept 38, 40 
 
 One Hook & Ladder, N. Y. Vol. Fire Dept 51 
 
 One Hundred and Second Street, N. Y 64 
 
 One Hundred and Fifth Street, N. Y 9, 68 
 
 One Hundred and Eleven Broadway, N. Y 31 
 
 One Hundred and Fourteenth Street, N. Y 133 
 
240 INDEX 
 
 One Hundred and Sixteenth Street, N. Y i6 
 
 One Hundred and Twenty-second Street, N. Y i6 
 
 One Hundred and Twenty-fifth Street, N. Y 62, 118 
 
 One Hundred and Thirty-eighth Street, N. Y 138 
 
 One Hundred and Forty-sixth Street, N. Y 118 
 
 One Hundred and Forty-eighth Street, N. Y 68 
 
 One Hundred and Sixty- fourth Street, N. Y 117 
 
 One Hundred and Seventy-second Street, N. Y 64 
 
 Omaha, Nebraska 1 1 
 
 Oneida Chief, horse 66 
 
 Oneida County, N. Y 79 
 
 O'Neill, actor 107 
 
 Opdyke, George, mayor of N. Y 115, 137 
 
 Ophelia, character in "Uncle Tom's Cabin" ^^ 
 
 Orange County, N. Y 10, 81 
 
 Orange street, Brooklyn 10 
 
 Orangemen, Irish 122 
 
 Original Patent 174 
 
 Osborne, George, Brooklyn 29 
 
 Osborne & May, hatters, N. Y 29 
 
 Osgood, George, N. Y 22, 80 
 
 Osgood, Franklin, N. Y 22 
 
 Osgood, Rev. Dr., N. Y 134 
 
 Oskaloosa, Iowa 11 
 
 Ottignon's gymnasium, N. Y 63, 137 
 
 Ovid, Latin Poet 154 
 
 Owens, John E., actor 60 
 
 Oyster Bay, L. 1 16, 109, 174, 175 
 
 Oyster Bay, L. I., patents 174, 175 
 
 Oyster saloon 87 
 
 Pacific Engine Co., No. 14, Volunteer Fire Dept., Brook- 
 lyn .18, 37 
 
 Pacific Hotel, N. Y 31 
 
 Pacific steamship 13 
 
INDEX 241 
 
 Pacific street, Brooklyn 37 
 
 Palace Garden, N. Y 55 
 
 Palmer, A. M., theatrical manager, N. Y 107 
 
 Palmer, horse 66 
 
 Palmer, Mr., president Broadway Bank, N. Y 49 
 
 Palmer, Mr., proprietor Fourth Ave., stage line, N. Y. 42 
 
 Panama Line Steamers, N. Y 13 
 
 Park avenue, N. Y 49, 134 
 
 Park Place, N. Y 20, 42, 45 
 
 Park Row, N. Y 16, 21, 22, 23, 27, 44, 48, 113, 122, 133 
 
 Park street, N. Y 126 
 
 Park Theatre, Brooklyn 87 
 
 Park Theatre, New York 108, 172 
 
 Park and Tilford, retail grocers, N. Y 58 
 
 Parks, William, Brooklyn 19, 20, 91 
 
 Parkville, Brooklyn 19 
 
 Parsloe, actor 59» loi 
 
 Parrish, Henry, N. Y 136 
 
 Parrish mansion, N. Y no 
 
 Parrish residence (new), N. Y 114 
 
 Parthian 153 
 
 Passaic, New Jersey 123 
 
 Passaic River, N. J 123 
 
 Pastime Base Ball Club, Brooklyn 87 
 
 Pastor, Tony, actor 61, 97 
 
 Patchin place, N. Y 126 
 
 Patterson, Knapp & Co., provisions, N. Y 10 
 
 Patterson & Price, tobacco dealers, N. Y 8 
 
 Patti, Adelina, opera singer 103 
 
 Patti, Carlotta, opera singer 103 
 
 i'aton & Co., dry goods, N. Y 20 
 
 Paul, Oliver 141, 142, 143, 149, 155 
 
 Paudctn (Bill Poole fracas), N. Y 62 
 
 Pavilion Hotel, Glen Cove, L. 1 123 
 
 Pavilion Hotel, Islip, L. 1 123 
 
 Pavilion Hotel, Far Rockaway, L. 1 123 
 
 Fdvilion Hotel, New Brighton, Staten Island 123 
 
 18 
 
242 INDEX 
 
 Pavilion Hotel, Lake Mahopac, N. Y 124 
 
 Peabody, Warren, track driver 80 
 
 Pearl Street (new) 125 
 
 Pearl Street, N. Y 
 
 8, 9, II, 19, 25, 26, 29, 34, 36, s8, 52, 55, 57, 124, 126 
 
 Pearl Street Bank, N. Y 141 
 
 Pearl Street House, N. Y 38 
 
 Pearsall, base ball player, Brooklyn 83 
 
 Pearsall, Edward, N. Y 80 
 
 Pearsall, horse 67 
 
 Pearson, Clifford, Brooklyn 34 
 
 Pearson, Harry, actor 59 
 
 Pease, Father, Rev. Rector, Brooklyn 135 
 
 Peck Slip, N. Y 7- 10, 15, 43 
 
 Peeping Toms no 
 
 Pell street, N. Y 126 
 
 Pelham, horse 66 
 
 Peerless, mare 66 
 
 Penniman brown stone house 113 
 
 Pennsylvania, state 26 
 
 Pennsylvanians 3^ 
 
 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D. C. . 5^ 
 
 Peter the Great, horse 96 
 
 Pet o' Blemis, horse 66 
 
 Petroleum, horse 9^ 
 
 Pettee, Lew, iron dealer, N. Y 80, 81 
 
 Pettit & Crooks, restaurant, N. Y 21 
 
 Pettit, Mr., Brooklyn 21 
 
 Perrin, George E 79 
 
 Perrin, John C 79 
 
 Perkins, Hosea, N. Y 64 
 
 Perry, Theodore, grain and flour, N. Y 7 
 
 Persia, steamship 14 
 
 Peter Cooper's glue factory, N. Y 8 
 
 Peter Volo, horse 96 
 
 Pfifer, Dan, track driver 91, 94 
 
 Phallas, horse 117 
 
INDEX 
 
 243 
 
 Phelps, Anson G 136 
 
 Phelps, Dodge & Co., metals, N. Y 8 
 
 Phelps, Royal, N. Y 136 
 
 Phoenix Bank, N. Y 25 
 
 Philadelphia, Pa 14, 87, 159 
 
 Philadelphia Bank, Pa 26 
 
 Phil Thompson, horse 117 
 
 Piano Makers 55 
 
 Piccolomini, opera singer 103 
 
 Pierce, Dickey, base ball player, Brooklyn 84 
 
 Pierrepont House, Brooklyn 89 
 
 Pierrepont Street, Brooklyn 18, 19, 37, 134 
 
 Pierson's Iron Yard, N. Y 29 
 
 Pike, Samuel, N. Y 105 
 
 Pike's Opera House, N. Y 105 
 
 Pilgrim, horse 94 
 
 Pilgrims (New England) 141 
 
 Pilot, Jr 81 
 
 Pine Creek, L. 1 142 
 
 Pine Street, N. Y 21, 22, 24, 27, 28, 124 
 
 Pineapple Street, Brooklyn t^j 
 
 Pipes, Jeems, lecturer 113 
 
 Place, Henry C 34 
 
 Plato, horse 65 
 
 Placide, Harry, actor 53, 59, 102, 103 
 
 Plaza Hotel, N. Y 28 
 
 Pleasantville, N. Y 115 
 
 Pleasant avenue, N. Y 16 
 
 Ploughboy, horse 12, 81 
 
 Plymouth Church, Brooklyn 134 
 
 "Pocahontas," drama 102 
 
 "Pocahontas," mare 66, 81 
 
 Polhemus, Harry, Brooklyn 18 
 
 Police Chief, N. Y 47 
 
 Police Commissioner, N. Y 42 
 
 Police Commissioners, N. Y 47 
 
 Police Department, N. Y. 47 
 
244 INDEX 
 
 Police Headquarters, N. Y 47 
 
 Police Justices, N. Y 47 
 
 Police riot, N. Y 47 
 
 Pollock, Liester (amiable child) 50 
 
 Polly, character in "Rosedale" 104 
 
 Pond & Son, W. A., sheet music publishers, N. Y 55 
 
 Ponisi, Madame, actress 59 
 
 Popham, Wm. H., lard refiner, N. Y 18 
 
 Porter, Wm. T., newspaper proprietor, N. Y 141 
 
 Poole, Bill, pugilist, N. Y 62, 63 
 
 Portia, wife to Brutus 109 
 
 Post, Daniel 165 
 
 Post, Hicks, road house, Brooklyn 19 
 
 Post, John, Jerusalem, South L. 1 168 
 
 Post, Samuel, Jerusalem, South, L. 1 168 
 
 Post Building, N. Y 25 
 
 Post Office, N. Y 17, 31, 44 
 
 Potamides 155 
 
 Potter Building, N. Y 44 
 
 Potter, Horatio, Rev., D. D., Bishop of N. Y., 1855.132, 133 
 
 Poughkeepsie, N. Y 12 
 
 Powers Hotel, Park Row, N. Y 44 
 
 Pray, Miss, actress 60 
 
 Prendergast, Tom, minstrel 58 
 
 Presbyterian Churches, N. Y 133 
 
 Prescott House Hotel, N. Y 59 
 
 President of the United States 58, 125 
 
 Presidency 58 
 
 Price, Dr 95 
 
 Prince Alert, horse 95 
 
 Prince Bay, horse (Hartford) 80, 81, 82 
 
 Prince Chestnut, horse 12 
 
 Prince Albert of England 61 
 
 Prince Benjamin, Brooklyn 91 
 
 Prince George of England 61 
 
 Prince of Wales 60 
 
 Prince Street, N. Y 38, 60. 62, 64, 97, 103, iii, 128, 133 
 
INDEX , 245 
 
 Princess, running mare 3 
 
 Princess, trotting mare 80 
 
 Prior, Mrs. J. J., actress 32 
 
 Prison Ship, soldiers and sailors monument, Trinity 
 
 churchyard, N. Y 28 
 
 Probasco, Peter 141, I47, i49, i54, i55 
 
 Produce Exchange, N. Y. (new 1858-60) 9, 10, 18, 138 
 
 Produce Exchange, N. Y., (new 1890-93) 138 
 
 Prometheus 160 
 
 Prospect avenue, N. Y. (Bronx) 113 
 
 Prospect Park, Brooklyn 2, 19 
 
 Prospect Park, Race Track, Brooklyn 91 
 
 Prospect street, Brooklyn 37 
 
 Prosper©, horse 9^ 
 
 Protection Engine Company, No. 5, N. Y., Volunteer 
 
 Fire Dept 35 
 
 Providence, Rhode Island 16 
 
 Providence steamboat 10 
 
 Province of New York 44 
 
 Provost Jail (Hall of Records), City Hall Park, N. Y. . . 32 
 
 Public stores, N. Y • 29 
 
 Purcell, John, actor lo? 
 
 Purdy, A. H., theatrical manager 33 
 
 Putnams of Brooklyn, Base Ball Club 87 
 
 Q 
 
 Quack Doctor 112 
 
 Quaker 40, H^ i55. 168 
 
 Quaker, stock broker 21 
 
 Quarantine, Staten Island 5- 4^ 
 
 Quarantine riots, Staten Island 46 
 
 Queen, Montgomery, stage driver, Brooklyn 83 
 
 Queens County, Long Island. .67, 71, 91, 118, 163, 165, 171 
 
 Queens County Fairs, L. 1 53 
 
 Quinn, John, stable, Harlem 118 
 
246 INDEX 
 
 R 
 
 Rabineau, Harry C, doctor 6 
 
 Racine, Wisconsin 117 
 
 Rainbow, clipper ship 8 
 
 Rambler, yacht 22 
 
 Rand, Rose, actress 109 
 
 Randolph Street, Chicago 88 
 
 Rankin, McKee, actor 107 
 
 Rarus, horse 118 
 
 Rattler, horse 66 
 
 Rattle Snake, horse 19 
 
 Ravel, Antoine, actor (pantomime) 62 
 
 Ravel, Francois, actor (pantomime) 62 
 
 Ravel, Gabriel, actor (pantomime) 62 
 
 Ravel, Jerome, actor (pantomime) 62 
 
 Ravels, pantomime actors 61 
 
 Ravelle, opera singer 103 
 
 Raven & Bacon, piano manufacturers, N. Y 55 
 
 Raymond & Co., A., clothing, N. Y 56 
 
 Raymond, Henry J., editor 175 
 
 Raymond, John T., actor 100 
 
 Raynor, George, L. 1 66 
 
 Raynor, Parmenus (Venus), L. 1 140, 171 
 
 Raynortown, L. 1 83 
 
 Reade street, N. Y 44, 49 
 
 Rebecca, yacht 22 
 
 Recorder of the City, N. Y 109, 171 
 
 Rector street, N. Y 127 
 
 Reddy the Blacksmith, bar saloon, N. Y 97 
 
 Red House Race Track, N. Y 9, 68, 69 
 
 Red Jacket, horse 19, 91 
 
 Reed, Isaac H., N. Y 11 
 
 Reed & Co., Isaac H., flour, N. Y 7 
 
 Reed, Roland 105 
 
 Rehan, Ada, actress 106 
 
 Reindeer, horse 80 
 
INDEX 247 
 
 Relic Manuscripts i74 
 
 Remsen Family, N. Y 43 
 
 Remsen Hotel, Jamaica, L. 1 67, 82, 119 
 
 Remsen Street, Brooklyn 11, 88, 89, 134 
 
 Republican, political party 22, 58, 124, 125, 165 
 
 Reservoir, N. Y 43 
 
 Reservoir Park, N. Y 122 
 
 Restell, Madame, N. Y 45 
 
 Reuss Pavement, N. Y no 
 
 Revere House, hotel, N. Y 97- IH 
 
 Revolution, American, 28, 44, 50 
 
 Rhinelander, William, N. Y I37 
 
 Rhode Island, State 26 
 
 Rhodes, George, assistant engineer N. Y. Vol. Fire Dept. 36 
 
 R. I. P 69 
 
 Rice, Dan, circus, N. Y 62 
 
 "Richard the Third," drama 61 
 
 Richardson & Co., Thos., flour and grain merchant, N. Y. 7 
 
 Richardson, Thomas, N. Y 18 
 
 Richardsons 163 
 
 Rich, Dr., N. Y 80 
 
 "Richelieu," drama loi 
 
 Ridabock, Fred, N. Y 36 
 
 Ridley & Co.. candy manufacturers, N. Y 44 
 
 Rifle, horse 66 
 
 Riker, Richard, N. Y I59 
 
 Ringold, actor 107 
 
 Ripton, horse 66 
 
 Ritchings, Caroline (Mrs. Bernard), opera singer 58 
 
 Ritchings, Caroline, troupe 5^ 
 
 Ritchings, Peter, opera manager 58 
 
 Road House, N. Y. roads 9 
 
 Roach Guards, bowery, N. Y 46 
 
 Roanoke, horse 66 
 
 Roberts, Marshall O., N. Y 114, I37 
 
 Robert Fillingham, horse 81 
 
 Robertson, Agnes, actress 59» 102 
 
248 INDEX 
 
 Robert and Williams, sugar importers, N . Y 8 
 
 Robinson Street, N. Y 45 
 
 Robson, Stuart, actor 197 
 
 Rockefeller, Wm., N. Y 20, 81 
 
 Rockaway, L. 1 66 
 
 Rockaway Wagon 86 
 
 Rockingham, horse 82 
 
 Rock, Raynor, L. 1 140, 149, 154, 156 
 
 Roes Hotel, West Point, N. Y 123 
 
 Robe Bros., provisions, N. Y 10 
 
 Roman Catholic Cathedral, 5th Avenue, N. Y 115 
 
 Roman Catholic Cathedral, Prince Street, N. Y 133 
 
 Roman Catholic Cathedral Church Yard, Prince St., N. Y. 128 
 
 Roman Catholic Churches 131, 133 
 
 Romans 156 
 
 Rome, Italy 156 
 
 "Romeo and Juliet," drama 61 
 
 Romeo, character in "Romeo and Juliet" 61 
 
 Rondout, N. Y 15 
 
 Rondout steamboat 15 
 
 Rosa, Parepa, opera singer 103 
 
 "Rosedale," "Or the Rifle Ball," comedy 104 
 
 Rose of Washington, mare 80 
 
 Roosevelt, Judge 113 
 
 Roosevelt family 113 
 
 Roosevelt, organ builder, N. Y 55 
 
 Roosevelt, C. V. S., N. Y 136 
 
 Roosevelt street, N. Y 7, 29 
 
 Rose, Ike 165 
 
 Rosina 1 50 
 
 Ross, Peter, historian 65 
 
 Root & Anthony, stationers, N. Y 55 
 
 Rough House, Hoboken ferry-boat 84 
 
 Rouse, John, pork inspector, N. Y 18 
 
 Ruderow, Jones & Co., auctioneers, N. Y 28 
 
 Ruggles, James H., Brooklyn 39 
 
 Rumrill & Co., A., jewelers, N. Y 59 
 
INDEX 249 
 
 Rum Point, L. 1 83 
 
 Rushton, Lucy, actress 106 
 
 Rushtons, druggist, N. Y 38 
 
 Russell, John, English ale and chop house, Brooklyn .... 83 
 
 Russell, Lillian, actress 61 
 
 Russell, Mrs., actress 49 
 
 Russell, Sol Smith, actor 105 
 
 Russell, base ball player, Brooklyn 87 
 
 Russia, steamship ^ 14 
 
 Russia 17, 61 
 
 Russian Navy 61 
 
 Rutgers Place, N. Y 136 
 
 Rutgers School, N. Y 115, 116 
 
 Rutherford Park Hotel 123 
 
 Rylance, Rev. Dr., Rector St. Marks on the Bowery, N.Y. 131 
 
 Rynders, Isaiah, N.Y 81 
 
 S 
 
 Sabine, Rev. Dr 100 
 
 Sage & Co., grain and flour dealers, N.Y 7 
 
 Sager, Richard, provisions, N.Y 10 
 
 Salem, Ephram, schoolmaster, L. 1 143 
 
 Salisbury Plains, race track, Long Island 65, 175 
 
 Salstonstall, Professor 142 
 
 Salt Lake City, Utah loi 
 
 Salvation Army Building, N. Y 132 
 
 Samn'is Churley Hempstead, L. 1 12 
 
 Sammis, Seaman, Hempstead, L. 1 12 
 
 Samson, Mr., N. Y 137 
 
 Sam Patch, horse 66 
 
 Sandford, Major General N. Y. State militia 4 
 
 Sandford, Wright, Brooklyn 81 
 
 Sands Point, L. 1 16 
 
 Sands Street, Brooklyn 49, 134 
 
 Sandy Hook, New Jersey 5, 22,123 
 
 Sanitary Fair, Brooklyn 88 
 
250 INDEX 
 
 Sanitary Fair, New York 98 
 
 San Francisco Minstrels, N. Y 61 
 
 San Francisco, California 98 
 
 Santa Claus, horse 118 
 
 Saratoga, N. Y 123 
 
 Saterthwaite. Thomas B., president Ins. Co., N. Y 24 
 
 Savannah, steamship 14 
 
 Savannah Line Steamers 14 
 
 Sawyer, Charles Carroll, song writer 48 
 
 Sayres, Tom, pugilist 98 
 
 Scar Faced Charley, horse 92 
 
 Scarsdale, N. Y 18 
 
 Schermerhorn, Peter, N. Y 136 
 
 Schenck, Mr 116 
 
 Schuyler, A. C, N. Y 24 
 
 Schuyler, Gertrude, N. Y 29 
 
 School House (old). South Oyster Bay, L. 1 170 
 
 School House (old), Jerusalem South, L. 1 168 
 
 Scio, Jim Smith's Road House, Jerusalem South, L. I. . 139 
 
 Scotchman 129 
 
 Scriptures 142 
 
 Scudder, Slobbering 173 
 
 Sculptor 163 
 
 Seabury, Rev. Samuel, rector Church of the Annuncia- 
 tion, N. Y 132 
 
 Seaford, P. O., Long Island 92 
 
 Seaford, Long Island 139, 14a 
 
 Seals 155 
 
 Seamen's Savings Bank, N. Y 25 
 
 Searing, Seamen, Brooklyn 37 
 
 Seawanaka, steamboat 16 
 
 Seawanaka Disaster 134 
 
 Sebastian, circus rider 62 
 
 Scbastopol, Russia (Fortress) 17 
 
 Second Avenue, N. Y.9, 10, 43, 62, 68, 108, 113, 115, 121, 122 
 
 128, 129, 131, 134, 135, 136, 137. 
 
 Second Avenue Car Line, N. Y 43 
 
INDEX 251 
 
 Second Avenue Roman Catholic Church, corner 2d St. 133 
 
 Second Regiment, N. Y. State Infantry 173 
 
 Second street, N. Y 42, 65, 128, 133 
 
 Second Street Stage Line, N. Y 42 
 
 Secretary of the Treasury 172 
 
 Seguine & Johnson, provisions, N. Y 9 
 
 Selim, horse 66 
 
 Seminole 166 
 
 Sepoy Rebellion, India 17 
 
 Seton, A., vice-president Sun Mutual Marine Ins. Co., 
 
 N. Y 24 
 
 Seven Engine Co., "Constitution," Brooklyn Volunteer 
 
 Fire Dept 37 
 
 Seven Engine Co., N. Y. Volunteer Fire Dept 36 
 
 Seventh Avenue, N. Y 36, 132, i33 
 
 Seventh Regiment, N. Y. State militia 46, 47, 48, 63, 129 
 
 Seventh Street, N. Y 48, 127 
 
 Seventeen Engine Co., "Brooklyn," Brooklyn Volunteer 
 
 Fire Dept 40 
 
 Seventeen Hose Co., "Brooklyn," Brooklyn Volunteer 
 
 Fire Dept 40 
 
 Seventeenth Street, N. Y 113, 114, 122, 132, 133, 136 
 
 Seventieth Street, N. Y 9- 10 
 
 Seventy-first Regiment Armory, N. Y 45 
 
 Seventy-first Regiment, Company "A," N. Y. (Light 
 
 Guard) 129 
 
 Seventy-second Street, N. Y 122 
 
 Seventy-third Street, N. Y 64, 132 
 
 Seventy-sixth Street, N. Y 64 
 
 Seymour, Nelse, minstrel 58 
 
 Seymour, Rev. Dr., Bishop of Illinois 107 
 
 Shaffer, Christian, Saloon, Broadway N. Y 62 
 
 Shakespearian Characters loi 
 
 Shakespeare 162 
 
 Shakespeare Inn 54 
 
 Shark horse 82 
 
 Sharon, N. Y 123 
 
252 INDEX 
 
 Shave Tail, horse 68 
 
 Shelby, character in "Uncle Tom's Cabin" 33 
 
 Shelby, George, character in "Uncle Tom's Cabin".... 33 
 
 Sheldon & Co., Henry, wholesale grocers, N. Y 8 
 
 Sheldon, E. G 34 
 
 Shell Road, Coney Island, L. 1 23 
 
 Shelter Island, L. 1 92 
 
 Shepard, John, Boston, Mass 96 
 
 Shepherd, stage proprietor, N. Y 42 
 
 Shields, Hon. John, U. S. Commissioner, N. Y 87 
 
 Shinbone Alley, N. Y 1 26 
 
 Shinplaster Script, "Money" 43 
 
 Ship Agents 9 
 
 Shiptimber, horse 92 
 
 Shoe and Leather Bank, N. Y 25 
 
 Shook, Sheridan, theatre manager, N. Y 107 
 
 "Shoo, Fly, Don't Bother Me," song 48 
 
 Shults, John H., Brooklyn 91 
 
 Shumway, Captain 7th Regiment, N. Y 63 
 
 Shylock, character in drama "Merchant of Venice". ... 60 
 
 Siamese Twins, freaks at Museum 32 
 
 Sibbons, road house, Jerome Avenue, N. Y 1 19 
 
 Siege of Lucknow, India 59 
 
 Sieghortners, A., restaurant, N. Y 19 
 
 Silas 155 
 
 Silberhorn, provisions, N. Y 10 
 
 Simmonds, Eph., N. Y 91 
 
 Sinclair & Co., Irish bacon packers, N. Y 10, 18 
 
 Sing Sing, N. Y. State Prison 54, 102 
 
 .Sir Archy. horse 94 
 
 S'/ Arthur, character in "Rosedale" 104 
 
 Sir Henry, horse 93 
 
 Sir Walter Raleigh Statue 28 
 
 Sixth Avenue, N. Y 
 
 43. 54. 55. 58, 109, 114, 122, 126, 127, 128, 132. 133. 134 
 
 Sixth Avenue Car Line, N. Y 42, 43 
 
 Sixth Avenue Stage Line, N. Y 41, 42 
 
INDEX 253 
 
 Sixth Street, N. Y 42, 45. 99 
 
 Six Engine, N. Y. Volunteer Fire Dept 3^ 
 
 Six Engine, "Protector," Brooklyn Volunteer Fire Dept.. 37 
 
 Sixteenth Street, N. Y 10, 36, 131- i33> I34 
 
 Sixty-one Hose Company, N. Y. Volunteer Fire Dept.. . 36 
 
 Sixty-third Street, N. Y 43 
 
 Sixty-sixth Street, N. Y 122 
 
 Skiddy, Francis, sugar importer, N. Y 8, 116, 137 
 
 Skinner, J. S., editor Turf Register 141 
 
 Slate Colored American, "horse" 7^, 112 
 
 Slauson, George, wholesale grocer, N. Y 11 
 
 Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, "Tarrytown," N. Y 115 
 
 Slote, Alonzo, clothing, N. Y 37 
 
 Slote, Dan, N. Y 37 
 
 Small Hopes, horse 9^ 
 
 Smith, Abel, Colonel 13th Regiment of Brooklyn 48 
 
 Smith Bros., clothing, N. Y 5o 
 
 Smith, Edmund Banks, chaplain Governor's Island, N. 
 
 Y. Bay • • • 95 
 
 Smith, Henry N., stock broker, N. Y 20 
 
 Smith, James ^73 
 
 Smith, James Xenophon, L. 1 160, 161, 164, 173 
 
 Smith, Jerry ^49 
 
 Smith, Jim, Hotel at Jerusalem, South L. I 
 
 139, 156, 160, 168 
 
 Smith, Jim, X boys, Jerusalem, South L. 1 163, 168 
 
 Smith, Judge, road house, N. Y 119 
 
 Smith, Mark, actor 59, 102, 106 
 
 Smith, Melancthon, Rear Admiral U. S. Navy 61 
 
 Smith and McNeil, restaurant and hotel, N. Y 23 
 
 Smithtown, Long Island 65 
 
 Smull, Jacob, Inman Line Steamers 12, 14 
 
 Snake, horse ^9 
 
 Snedlcor, Charles E., Southampton, L. 1 85 
 
 Snedicor, E. M., Jamaica, L. 1 85 
 
 Snedicor, Evert, livery stable, Brooklyn 19, 9^ 
 
 Snedicor, John L, road house. East New York, L. I. .9, 119 
 
254 INDEX 
 
 Snodgrass, Mr., Warwick, N. Y 99 
 
 Snow Flake, "Quarry Marbk" 115 
 
 Society Library, N. Y 135 
 
 Solaris Restaurant, N. Y 54 
 
 Solgus, Rev. Henry, St. Mark's Church, N. Y. (1662).. 132 
 
 Solomon & Hart, carpets, etc., N. Y 55 
 
 Solon Shingle, character in comedy "The People's Lawyer" 60 
 
 Somerindike, Jacob, N. Y 81, 91 
 
 Sonoma Girl, mare 29 
 
 Sons of the Revolution, N. Y 30 
 
 Sontag, mare 66, 80 
 
 Sothern, Edward, actor 59, 60, 100 
 
 Southampton, L. 1 85 
 
 South Bay 160 
 
 South Brooklyn 7, 37 
 
 South Carolina, State 15 
 
 South Ferry, N. Y 9, 41, 42 
 
 South Ferry, Brooklyn 52 
 
 South Fifth Avenue, N. Y 133 
 
 South Oyster Bay, L. 1 67, 71, 92, 100, 139, 173, 175 
 
 South Side 162 
 
 South Street, N. Y 7, 8, 9, 2}^, 29, 30, 121, 126 
 
 South Turnpike, L. 1 170 
 
 South William Street N, Y 20, 36 
 
 Southern Sympathizers, N. Y 109 
 
 Southworth, Slavvson & Co., wholesale grocers, N. Y. . 11 
 Southwark Engine Co., No. 38, N. Y. Volunteer Fire 
 
 Dept. 35 
 
 Soutter, Robert, bank president, N. Y 27 
 
 Soutters, Astoria 123 
 
 Sovereign of the Seas, clipper ship 8 
 
 Spencer, Charles, Colonel, N. Y 129 
 
 Spicer, George, track driver 79, 81, 94 
 
 Spinola, Frank, General 37 
 
 "Spit It Out, Diah" (Obadiah Verity) 173 
 
 Splan, John, track driver 94 
 
 Spofford, Paul, N. Y 136 
 
INDEX 255 
 
 Spofford, Tileston & Co., steamer agents, N. Y 18 
 
 Spoffords, Hunts Point, N. Y 123 
 
 Spring Street, N. Y 57, 59, 99, 127, 133, 134 
 
 Spring Street Market, N. Y 63, 127 
 
 Spring Street Presbyterian Church, N. Y 133 
 
 Spring Street Stage Line, N. Y 42 
 
 Spring & Haynes, slaughterers, N. Y 11 
 
 Spruce Street, N. Y 44, 48, 124 
 
 Spuyten Duyvill Creek, N. Y 50 
 
 Squaw Islands, Great South Bay, L. 1 162 
 
 "Staats Zeitung," German newspaper, N. Y. (building) 44 
 
 "Staats Zeitung," German newspaper, N. Y 125 
 
 Stahlnecker & Co., slaughterers, N. Y 11 
 
 Standard Oil Building, N. Y 29 
 
 Stanley, Marcus Cicero, N. Y 113 
 
 Stanton Street, N. Y 29 
 
 Stanwix Hall, 579 Broadway, N. Y., bar saloon. .. .62, 63 
 
 Staple Street, N. Y 126 
 
 Star of the West, steamship 14 
 
 Star Pointer, horse 117 
 
 Stars, Base Ball Club, Brooklyn 83, 84 
 
 Startle, horse 118 
 
 State of L'long Island (Matowacs) 160 
 
 State of New York 30 
 
 State Militia, N. Y 4, 121, 122 
 
 State Street, N. Y 7, 11, 13, 38 
 
 State Street, Brooklyn 25, 40, 134, 135 
 
 Staten Island, N. Y 2, 3, 5, 11, 22, 46, 123 
 
 Statue of Liberty, N. Y. Bay 4 
 
 Steck, George, piano manufacturer, N. Y 55 
 
 Steers, George, ship builder, N. Y 13 
 
 Steinway & Sons, piano manufacturers, N. Y 55 
 
 Stellenwerth's Hotel, Islip, L. 1 123 
 
 Stevens, John, Hoboken, N. J 22, 93, 94 
 
 Stevens House, N. Y 13 
 
 Stevens, Paran, N. Y., hotel proprietor 64 
 
 Steve Maxwell, horse 118 
 
256 INDEX 
 
 Stevens, Mrs. Paran, N. Y 1 16 
 
 Stevens, Robert, Hoboken, N.J 93 
 
 Stevenson, Charles, actor 107 
 
 Stevenson, Edmund, Commissioner of Emigration, N. Y. 42 
 
 Stewart, A. T., N. Y 49, 132, 136 
 
 Stewart, A. T., estate, N. Y 106 
 
 Stewart & Co., A. T., retail dry goods, N. Y 49 
 
 Stewart's Store, N. Y 49 
 
 Stewart, Mrs. A. T., N. Y 132 
 
 Stewart Marble Palace, N. Y 115 
 
 Stivers, R. M., wagon maker, N. Y 64 
 
 Stock Exchange, N. Y 19 
 
 Stoddart, J. H., actor, N. Y 59, 104 
 
 Stoddard, Wooster & Dunham, piano manufacturers, N. 
 
 Y 55 
 
 Stoepel, Robert, orchestra leader, N. Y 60 
 
 Stokes, Edward S., N. Y 102 
 
 Stone, Eton, circus rider 62 
 
 Stone, Mr., editor "Journal of Commerce," N. Y 124 
 
 Stone Street, N. Y 23, 25, 126 
 
 Stonewall Jackson, horse 82 
 
 Stonington, steamboat 16 
 
 Stools and Batteries 157 
 
 Storrs, Rev. R. S., Brooklyn 134 
 
 Story, Rufus, teas and coffees, N. Y 34 
 
 Stowe, Harriet Beecher, writer 32 
 
 Strauss, Nathan, N. Y 117 
 
 Strackosch, Max, opera director 103 
 
 Strong's Drug Store, N. Y 8 
 
 "Stroh," "Stroh," straw man, N. Y 113 
 
 St. Agnes' Church, Episcopal, 9th Ave. and 93d St., N. 
 
 Y 68 
 
 St. Alphonsus' Church, Roman Catholic, South 5th Ave., 
 
 N. Y 133 
 
 St. Ann's Church, Roman Catholic, 12th St 133 
 
 St. Ann's Church, Episcopal, East i8th St., N. Y 132 
 
INDEX 257 
 
 St. Ann's Church, Episcopal, Washington Street CCHn- 
 
 1;on Street), Brooklyn ^34 
 
 St Andrew's Church, Roman Catholic, N. Y I33 
 
 St! Anthony's Church, Roman Catholic, Duane Street, 
 
 N. Y ^^^ 
 
 St. Augustine's Church, Episcopal, E. Houston Street, 
 
 N. Y ^^^ 
 
 St. Bartholomew's Church, Episcopal, Lafayette Place, 
 
 N. Y. (Madison Avenue) i lO' ^32 
 
 St. Bernard's Church, Roman Catholic, West 14th St., 
 
 N. Y ^^^ 
 
 St. Bernard's Hotel (Aliens), N. Y • • 97 
 
 St. Charles' Boromeo Church, Roman Catholic, Sid- 
 ney Place, Brooklyn ^34 
 
 St. Clair, character in "Uncle Tom's Cabin," drama.. 33 
 St. Clair' Mrs., character in "Uncle Tom's Cabin," 
 
 drama ' ' ' 
 
 St. Francis' Xavier Church, Roman Catholic, West i6th 
 
 Street, N. Y ; ^33 
 
 St. George's Church, Episcopal, Beekman and Cliff Sts. 
 
 (East i6th Street), N. Y ^3^ 
 
 St. George's Church, Episcopal, Hempstead, L. i 67 
 
 St. George's Cricket Club, Staten Island 22 
 
 St Germain Hotel, Broadway and 22d Street, N. Y... 114 
 St lames' Church, Roman Catholic, Jay Street, Brook- 
 
 •^ , I ^4 
 
 lyn ^^ 
 
 St. James' Church, Episcopal • • ^32 
 
 St John's Church, Episcopal, Varick St., N. Y....r26, 131 
 
 St. John's Church Yard, Varick St., N. Y 128 
 
 St. John's Church, Episcopal, Brooklyn 83, 107, I34 
 
 St. John's Lane, N. Y ^^7 
 
 St. John's Park, N. Y 45, 122, 131 
 
 St. Joseph, Missouri • 
 
 St. Joseph's Church, Roman Catholic, 6th Ave. and 4th 
 
 St., N. Y ^33 
 
 ^ ^ ,. , 118 
 
 St. Juhen, horse 
 
 St. Louis, Missouri ^ ^ 
 
 19 
 
258 INDEX 
 
 St. Luke's Church, Episcopal, CHnton Avenue, Brook- 
 lyn •• 134 
 
 St. Luke's Church, Episcopal, Hudson Street, N. Y... 132 
 St. Mark's Church, Episcopal, 2(1 Ave. and loth St., 
 
 N. Y 131 
 
 St. Mark's Churchyard, 2d Ave. and loth St., N. Y.. 128, 173 
 
 St. Mark's Place, N. Y 136 
 
 St. Mary's of Star of the Sea Church, Roman Catholic, 
 
 Court Street, Brooklyn 134 
 
 St. Matthew's Church, Lutheran, Broome St., corner 
 
 Elizabeth Street, N. Y 13-I 
 
 St. Nicholas Hotel, Broadway, N. Y 38, 53. 59 
 
 St. Paul's Church, Broadway and Fulton Street, N. Y. 
 
 (Episcopal) 32, 35. 131 
 
 St. Paul's Churchyard, Broadway and Fulton St., N. Y. 128 
 
 St. Paul's Church, Methodist, N. Y 133 
 
 St. Peter's Church, Episcopal, Atlantic St., Brooklyn.. 134 
 St. Peter's Church, Episcopal, West 20th Street, N. Y. 132 
 St. Peter's Church, Roman Catholic, Barclay St., N. Y. 133 
 St. Stephen's Church, Episcopal, Broome, corner Chrys- 
 
 tie Street, N. Y 131 
 
 St. Thomas' Church, Episcopal, Broadway, corner Hous- 
 ton St., N. Y 97. 13T 
 
 Stryker's Bay, N. Y 4-^ 64 
 
 Stuart, Alexander, sugar refiner, N. Y 44 
 
 Stuart, Robert L., sugar refiner, N. Y 44, 114. I37 
 
 Stuart's Candy, N. Y 4-1 
 
 Studley, actor i^^^ 
 
 Sturges, Bennett & Co., wholesale grocers, N. Y .S 
 
 Sturges, Jonathan. N. Y 13''^ 
 
 Stuyvesant Park, N. Y 122, 131, 134 
 
 Stuyvesant, Peter, N. Y 9- 131 
 
 Stuyvesant Pear Tree, 3d Ave. and 13th St., N. Y 114 
 
 Stuyvesant, Rutherford 13'^ 
 
 "Sun," newspaper, N. Y 44 
 
 Sun Mutual Ins. Co. (Marine), N. Y 24 
 
 Sunday i ^ - 
 
INDEX 259 
 
 "Sunday Courier," newspaper, N. Y 125 
 
 "Sunday Times," newspaper, N. Y 125 
 
 Suffolk County, L. 1 65, 118, 139, 168 
 
 Suffolk Maid, mare '. 93 
 
 Sullivan Street, N. Y 133 
 
 Sunol, mare 94, 118 
 
 Superb, horse 97 
 
 Supreme Court of the Colony 175 
 
 Surf Hotel, Fire Island, L. 1 123 
 
 Surprise, clipper ship 8 
 
 Sutton & Co., agent California Clipper Ships, N. Y 8 
 
 Sutherland's Restaurant, N. Y 23 
 
 "Suwanee River," song 48 
 
 Suydam, Lambert, billiard room, Brooklyn 12, 87, 92 
 
 Swallow, clipper ship 8 
 
 Swartwout, John 159 
 
 Swartwout, Robert 159 
 
 Swartwoutize 159 
 
 Sweet, Milton, restaurant, N. Y 23 
 
 Sweeny's Hotel and Restaurant, N. Y 23 
 
 Sweezy, Noah T., flour, N. Y 7 
 
 Sweezys, Stephe, L. 1 161 
 
 Swift, horse 95 
 
 Sword Fish, clipper ship 8 
 
 Sydney Place, Brooklyn 134 
 
 Sylvan Dell, Harlem steamboat 16 
 
 Sylvan Glen, Harlem steamboat 16 
 
 Sylvan Shore, Harlem steamboat 16 
 
 Sylvan Stream, Harlem steamboat 16 
 
 Symmes, Captain 142 
 
 T. B. Arrowsmith, steamboat 16 
 
 Taconey, horse 66, 79, 80 
 
 Talmadge & Co., rice dealers, N. Y 18 
 
 Talmadge, Dr., Brooklyn 92 
 
26o IXDEX 
 
 Talmadge, Rev. DeWitt, Brooklyn 135 
 
 Tallman, Darius, track driver 80, 91 
 
 Tammany Hall, N. Y 34, 44 
 
 Tammany Hall Theatre, N. Y 97 
 
 Tarrytown, N. Y 10 
 
 Tax Office, N. Y 36 
 
 Taylor, Mary, actress 46 
 
 Taylor, Moses, N. Y 136 
 
 Taylor & Co., Moses, shipping- merchants, N. Y 8 
 
 Taylor, John H 34 
 
 Taylor's Ice Cream Saloon, N. Y 54 
 
 Tearle, Osmond, actor, N. Y 104 
 
 Teft, Weller & Co., dry goods, N. Y 52 
 
 Tempest, mare 92, 93 
 
 Temple, Charlotte, Trinity Church Yard 28 
 
 Temple of the Muses Theatre loi 
 
 Temple Street, N. Y 31, 136 
 
 Tempus Fugit, horse 29 
 
 Tenth Avenue, N. Y 10, 45, in 
 
 Tenth Street, N. Y 42, 112, 122, 126, 131, 132, 133, 134 
 
 Tenth Street, West, N. Y 65, 125, 135, 136 
 
 Thalia Theatre, Bowery, N. Y 46 
 
 Thalberg, pianist 109 
 
 Thames Street, N. Y 126 
 
 The Abbey, road house, N. Y 21, 64, 118 
 
 The Abbott, horse 94 
 
 The American, character in "The American Cousin"... 100 
 
 "The American Cousin," comedy 100 
 
 The American Institute, N. Y 3 
 
 "The American Nation," book t,2 
 
 "The American Turf Register and Sporting Magazine" 141 
 
 The Argonautic Expedition 141 
 
 The Atlantic Hotel, 125th St. and 8th Avenue, N. Y. .. 118 
 
 The A. T. Stewart Estate, N. Y 106 
 
 The Bank, ale and chop house, Brooklyn 83 
 
 The Beefsteak Church (All Souls), 4th Ave. and 20th 
 
 Street, N. Y 134 
 
INDEX 261 
 
 The Benecia Boy (Heenan) 98 
 
 The Blue Man . . ., 112 
 
 The Borough of the Bronx 138 
 
 The Bowhng Green Building 138 
 
 The Brevoort House, Hotel, N. Y no 
 
 "The Brooklyn Eagle," newspaper 125 
 
 The Brooklyn Theatre 107 
 
 "The Brooklyn Times," newspaper 125 
 
 "The Brooklyn Union," newspaper 125 
 
 The Cardinal, drama "Richelieu" loi 
 
 The Cathedral, Garden City, L. 1 132 
 
 The City of New York 121 
 
 The Commercial Advertiser, newspaper, N. Y 124 
 
 The Count Johannes, actor loi 
 
 The Courier and Enquirer, newspaper, N. Y 124 
 
 "The Cricket on the Hearth," comedy 61 
 
 The Custom House, N. Y 25, 27, 138 
 
 The Custom House (new 1913), N. Y 12 
 
 "The Daily Times" 125 
 
 The Eel Pot, Methodist Church (colored), Brooklyn... 135 
 
 The Electric Tramways 138 
 
 "The Evening Post" 124 
 
 The Field Building 18, 138 
 
 The Fifth Avenue Hotel, N. Y 105 
 
 The Fifth Avenue Theatre, N. Y 105 
 
 The Fifth Regiment, N. Y 129 
 
 The Fifty-fifth Regiment, N. Y 129 
 
 The Flatiron Building, N. Y 114 
 
 The Four Bridges to Brooklyn. 138 
 
 The Fourteenth Regiment, Brooklyn 49 
 
 The Gem, bar saloon, N. Y 54 
 
 The Goddess of Liberty Statue, Bedloe's Island, N. Y. 
 
 Bay 137 
 
 The Gould Family, N. Y 105 
 
 The Grand Admiral, Russian man-of-war 61 
 
 The Grand Central Depot, N. Y 45, 125 
 
 The Grand Central Hotel, N. Y 102 
 
262 INDEX 
 
 The Grand Opera House, N. Y 39, 58, 105 
 
 The Grand Pacific Hotel, Chicago 22 
 
 The Grapevine, bar saloon, N. Y 54 
 
 The Great Eastern, steamship 2, 4 
 
 The Harlem River, N. Y 16, 117, 138 
 
 The Heart Bowed Down, song 58 
 
 The Huntington, Long Island, Patents from Colonial 
 
 Governors, Confirming Indian Deeds 174, 175 
 
 The Irish Giant, pugilist 98 
 
 The Irish Dwarf 113 
 
 "The Journal of Commerce," newspaper, N. Y 25, 124 
 
 The Last Dutch Governor of New York — 
 
 "The Last Man," drama 53 
 
 The Lime Kiln Man, N. Y 112 
 
 The Little Church Around the Corner, N. Y 100 
 
 "The Merchant of Venice," drama 60 
 
 The Methodists 133 
 
 The Monk, horse 96 
 
 "The New Magdalene," comedy 106 
 
 The New York Central and Hudson River Railroad De- 
 pot, 9th and loth Avenues 45 
 
 The New York City Marble Cemetery 128 
 
 "The New York Herald," newspaper 16, 124 
 
 "The New York Ledger," newspaper 125 
 
 "The New York Mercury," newspaper 135 
 
 "The New York Morning and Evening Express," news- 
 paper 27-124 
 
 "The New York Sunday Times," newspaper 125 
 
 "The New York Sunday Courier," newspaper 125 
 
 "The New York Sun," newspaper 124 
 
 The New York Theatre, N. Y 106 
 
 "The New York Tribune," newspaper 124 
 
 "The New York World," newspaper 124 
 
 The Ninth Regiment, N. Y. State Militia 129 
 
 The O'Briens, base ball players, Brooklvn 84 
 
 The Old City Hall ' 4 
 
 The Old Dutch Church, N. Y 17 
 
INDEX 263 
 
 The Old Dutch Church, Brooklyn 134 
 
 The Old Fleetwood Race Track, N. Y 97 
 
 The Old John Street Methodist Church, N. Y 133 
 
 The Old Morris Manor Place, N. Y 117 
 
 "The Old Oaken Bucket," song 48 
 
 The Old Sands Street Methodist Church, Brooklyn. . . . 134 
 
 The Old Straw Man, N. Y 113 
 
 The Old Washington Course, Hempstead Plains, L. I. 67 
 
 The Old Washington Hotel, N. Y 18 
 
 The Oyster Bay Patent, L. I., confirming Indian deeds 174 
 
 "The People's Lawyer," comedy 60 
 
 The Pirate's Hanging (Albert W. Hicks) 137 
 
 "The Police Gazette," newspaper, N. Y 47, 125 
 
 The Quaker Meeting House, N. Y 134 
 
 The Railroad Scene in Drama, "Under the Gaslight". . . loi 
 
 "The Rajah," drama 106 
 
 The Rutherford Park Hotel, Rutherford, N. J 123 
 
 "The Sea of Ice, or A Maiden's Prayer," drama loi 
 
 The Seasons, picture 53 
 
 The Seventh Regiment, N. Y. State Militia 46, 47, 48 
 
 The Seventy-First Regiment, N. Y. State Militia 129 
 
 The Seventy-first Regiment, N. Y. State Militia, Com- 
 pany A 129 
 
 The Seventy-ninth Regiment, N. Y. State Militia 129 
 
 The Shakespeare Inn, bar saloon, N. Y 54 
 
 The Sinclair House, Hotel, N. Y 99 
 
 The Sixty-ninth Regiment, N. Y. State Militia 129 
 
 The Spingler House, hotel, N. Y 114 
 
 The Spingler Institute, N. Y 114 
 
 The Sportsman's Hotel, Jerusalem, South L. 1 161 
 
 The Standard Oil Building, N. Y 29, 132 
 
 The Star, Ireland's Ale and Chop House, N. Y 54 
 
 The Stars, Base Ball Club, Brooklyn 84 
 
 The State of Long Island 160 
 
 The St. Germain Hotel, N. Y 114 
 
 The Stock Exchange, N. Y 20 
 
 The Streets of Old London, theatre, N. Y 106 
 
264 INDEX 
 
 The Subways, N. Y 138 
 
 The Tabernacle, Dr. Chapin, N. Y 134 
 
 The Tabernacle, Talmage's, Brooklyn 135 
 
 The Tenderloin, N. Y 54 
 
 The Theatre Comique, N. Y 106, 1 1 1 
 
 The Thirtenth Regiment, N. Y. State Militia, Brook- 
 lyn 48, 49 
 
 "The Three Guardsmen," drama 46 
 
 "The Ticket of Leave Man," drama 60 
 
 The Trotter and Pacer, periodical, N. Y 45 
 
 The Trotting Match 86 
 
 The Twenty-second Regiment, N. Y. State Militia, N. 
 
 Y 130 
 
 "The Two Orphans," drama 107 
 
 "The Veteran," drama 60 
 
 "The Victims," comedy 60 
 
 The Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, N. Y 1 16 
 
 The Winter Garden Theatre, N. Y 102, 116 
 
 Theatre Alley, N. Y 126 
 
 Thetis 155 
 
 Third Avenue, N. Y 
 
 16, 42, 43, 45, 47, 48, 55, 114, 122, 127, 134, 13S 
 
 Third Avenue Bridge, N. Y 16 
 
 Third Street Roman Catholic Church, near ist Ave., 
 
 N. Y 133 
 
 Third Avenue Car Line, N. Y 43 
 
 Third Street 128 
 
 Thirteenth Regiment, Brooklyn 48. 49, 87 
 
 Thirteenth Street, N. Y 54, 103, 104, 113, 114, 135 
 
 Thirtieth Street, N. Y 45, iii, 116 
 
 Thirty-second Street, N. Y 10, 41, 43, 116 
 
 Thirty-third Street, N. Y 10, 42. 45, in, 116 
 
 Thirty-fourth Street, N. Y 42, 50, 64, 115, 116, 134 
 
 Thirty-fifth Street, N. Y 132 
 
 Thirty-seventh Street, N. Y 49, no, 133, 137 
 
 Thirty-eighth Street, N. Y 36 
 
 Thirty-ninth Street, N. Y n, 36, n8, 134 
 
INDEX 265 
 
 Thirty-eighth Engine Co., N. Y. Volunteer Fire Dept. . yj 
 Thirty-six Hose Company, N. Y. Volunteer Fire Dept. t^j 
 Thomas, George and Jerry, bar saloon and restaurant, 
 
 N. Y 98 
 
 Thomas Jefferson, horse 81 
 
 Thomas, Jerry, saloon 98, 99 
 
 Thomas Powell, steamboat 15 
 
 Thomas Street, N. Y 28, 38, 53 
 
 Thompson, B. F., N. Y 160 
 
 Thompson, Lydia, actress 61 
 
 Thompson Street, N. Y 133 
 
 Thompson's Bank-Note Reporter 17 
 
 Thompson's Hotel, Coney Island 23 
 
 Thompson's Hotel, Lake Mahopac, N. Y 124 
 
 Thompson's Ice Cream Saloon, N. Y 57 
 
 Thompson's Nephew, Samuel, N. Y 8 
 
 Thorn, Abia B., Brooklyn 34 
 
 Tliorne, Charles R., actor 107 
 
 Thorne, Jonathan, N. Y 136 
 
 Thorne, Q. Maynard, litherage, N. Y 19 
 
 Thorne, Richard Van Wyck, Captain Co. G, I3tli Reg- 
 iment, Brooklyn 49 
 
 Three Bowling Green, steamship offices, N. Y 13 
 
 Three Engine Co. "Franklin," Brooklyn Volunteer Fire 
 
 Dept 37 
 
 Three Hose Co. "Alert," Brooklyn Volunteer Fire Dept. 40 
 
 Throggs Neck, L. I. Sound 123 
 
 Thumb, Tom, dwarf freak 32 
 
 Tiffany Store 1 14, 133 
 
 Tiffany, Young & Ellis, jewelers, N. Y 38, 59 
 
 Tiger Lily, steamboat on Harlem River 16 
 
 Tillary Street, Brooklyn 40 
 
 Tilden, Samuel J., N. Y in 
 
 Times Building, N. Y 23, 44, 133 
 
 Timpson, Jared A., N. Y. School Commissioner 35 
 
 Tin Pot Alley, N. Y 126 
 
 Titinius (Daniel) 154 
 
266 INDEX 
 
 Tiverton, horse 92 
 
 Toad Hill, Staten Island ii 
 
 Tobey & Booth, slaughterers and provisions, N. Y.... 11 
 
 Tombs, City Prison, N. Y 36, 45 
 
 Tom Wonder, horse 81 
 
 Tompkins Blues, Military Company, N. Y 63 
 
 Tompkins & Co., grain and provisions, N. Y 7 
 
 Tompkins' Market, N. Y 127 
 
 Tompkins' Park 122 
 
 Toodles, character, comedy 49 
 
 Topsy, character in "Uncle Tom's Cabin" 33 
 
 Topsy, mare 80 
 
 Toronto Chief, horse 81 
 
 Townsend, Doctor, 112, 115 
 
 Townsend, Doctor, sarsaparilla fame 136 
 
 Traveller, steamboat 15 
 
 Tredwell, John 112 
 
 Tredwell, Jarman & Slote, clothing, N. Y 56 
 
 Trinity Building, N. Y 31 
 
 Trinity Chapel, Episcopal, West 26th Street, N. Y 132 
 
 Trinity Church, Broadway and Rector Street, N. Y. 
 
 (Episcopal) 28, 29, 126, 131 
 
 Trinity Church Yard. Broadway and Rector Street, N. 
 
 Y 128 
 
 Trinity Place, N. Y 28, 125 
 
 Tripler Hall, N. Y loi 
 
 Trustees Brother, horse 81 
 
 Trustee, horse 66, 68 
 
 Tryon, Governor of New York (Colonial) 44 
 
 Tryon Row, N. Y 43, 44 
 
 Tunison, Mort, road house, Brooklyn 19 
 
 Tunnel, Broadway 52 
 
 Tunnel, Atlantic Street, Brooklyn 52 
 
 Turnbull, Wm., road rider, N. Y 80 
 
 Turner, Jim, track driver 81 
 
 Turner, James (Bill Poole fracas) 62 
 
 Twain, Mark, writer and lecturer 113 
 
INDEX 267 
 
 Tweed, Bill, politician, N. Y 36 
 
 Twelve Hose Company Fire Dept., Brooklyn Vohmteers 40 
 
 Tweed Ring 108 
 
 Twelfth of July, Battle of the Boyne, Ireland 122 
 
 Twelfth Street, East N. Y 55, 133 
 
 Twelfth Street, West N. Y 114 
 
 Twentieth Street, N. Y 44, 114, 125, 122, 132, 134, 136 
 
 Twenty-first Street, N. Y 
 
 36, 55, 56, 62, 108, 114, 115, 121, 122, 128, 132, 136 
 
 Twenty-second Street, N. Y .98, 104, 114, 115 133 
 
 Twenty-third Street N. Y 47, 64, no, 115, 121 
 
 Twenty-third Stage Line, N. Y 42 
 
 Twenty-third Street, West N. Y 
 
 28, 39, 42, 59, 64, 99, 105, 109, 115, 133 
 Twenty-third Regiment, N. Y. State Militia, Brooklyn 49 
 
 Twenty-fourth Street, N. Y 42, 64, 105 
 
 Twenty-fifth Street, N. Y 116 
 
 Twenty-sixth Street, N. Y 42, 45, 116, 122, 132 
 
 Twenty-seventh Street, N. Y 9, 116 
 
 Twenty-eighth Street, N. Y 36, 59, 132, 137 
 
 Twenty-ninth Street, N. Y 115, 116 
 
 Two Engine Company "Neptune," Brooklyn Volunteer 
 
 Fire Dept 37 
 
 Two Hose Company "Mechanic," Brookyln Volunteer 
 
 Fire Dept 39> 40 
 
 Twenty Hose Company "Humane," New York Volunteer 
 
 Fire Dept 35 
 
 Two Hundred and Forty-seven, Broadway, N. Y 38 
 
 Twenty-two Engine Co. "Montauk," Brooklyn Volunteer 
 
 Fire Dept 37 
 
 Twenty-eight Hose Co. "Metamora," New York Vol- 
 unteer Fire Dept . . 3^ 
 
 Tyler, John, President United States 3 
 
 Tyng, Stephen H., Rev. Dr., N. Y 131 
 
268 IXDEX 
 
 U 
 
 Ubsdell, Pearson &: Lake, retail dry goods, N. Y 56 
 
 Uhlan, horse 95, 96 
 
 Ulman, Daniel, lawyer. X. Y 99 
 
 Ulster County, N. Y 11 
 
 Uncle Dave, horse 12 
 
 Uncle Tom, character in "Uncle Tom's Cabin" 33 
 
 "Uncle Tom's Cabin," drama 32 
 
 Underbill, Daniel, Oyster Bay, L. 1 81 
 
 Underbill & Fleet, livery stable, N. Y 109 
 
 "Under the Gas Light," drama loi, 106 
 
 Union Bank, X. Y 25 
 
 Union Club, N. Y 114 
 
 Union Course, race track, L. L. . 19, 66, 67, ^2, 79, 81, 82, 93 
 
 Union Course, race track, rules and regulations ~2 
 
 L'nion Dime Savings Institution, N. Y 56 
 
 Union Square, N. Y 107, 113. 114, 122, 133 
 
 Union Square Park, X. Y 114 
 
 L'nion Square Theatre, X. Y 107 
 
 Unitarian Church 58, 106, 134 
 
 L^nited States Government War Department 14 
 
 United States Frigate 28 
 
 United States Hotel, N. Y 34 
 
 United States Hotel, Long Branch, X\ J 123 
 
 L'nited States Treasury Building, X. Y 25. 27 
 
 United States of America 2, 6, 21, 30, 71, 88 
 
 United States Navy 3 
 
 University Place, N. Y 45, 54, 113, 133, 135, 136 
 
 University of the City of X\ Y 45 
 
 Utah, State loi 
 
 Utica, X. Y 79 
 
 V 
 
 Valiant 94 
 
 Valisneria 209 
 
INDEX 269 
 
 Van Anden, Isaac 125 
 
 Van Anden, William, Brooklyn 92 
 
 Van Courtland, Anne 29 
 
 Van Courtland, Stephanus 29 
 
 Vanderbilt, Cornelius, Commodore, N. Y...13, 80, 109, 136 
 
 Vanderbilt, horse 81 
 
 Vanderbilt, Jacob, Captain, Staten Island, N. Y 80 
 
 Vanderbilt Landing, Staten Island, N. Y n 
 
 Vanderbilt, William H., N. Y 80, 96, 118, 144 
 
 Vanderveer, William, Brooklyn 37 
 
 Varick Street, N. Y 42, 45> 5^, 122, 131, 133 
 
 Varian, Colonel, 8th Regiment, N. Y. State Militia... 129 
 
 Vauxhall Garden, N. Y 63 
 
 Venus 141, 142, I49> i?! 
 
 Verity, John, Long Island bayman 140, 171, I73 
 
 Verity, Obadiah, Long Island bayman 171, 172, 173 
 
 Veritus Creek, Long Island 140 
 
 Vermont Black Hawk, horse 66 
 
 Vernon, Ida, actress io7 
 
 Vernon, Mrs. Jane, actress 59' ^04 
 
 Vesta, steamship ^3 
 
 Vesta, yacht 22 
 
 Vesey Street, N. Y 4h 42, 59, 127, 131 
 
 Victoria, packet-ship 9 
 
 Vice-Presidency 5° 
 
 Victor & Duckwitz, importers, N. Y 8 
 
 Vincent, Ned, Captain Light Guards, N. Y 63 
 
 Vinton, Rev. Dr., Rector St. Mark's on the Bowery. . . 131 
 
 Vinton, Francis, Rev. Dr 132 
 
 Virginia (state) 5 ^ 
 
 Volunteer Firemen, Brooklyn 34, 37? 39 
 
 Volunter Firemen, New York 34 
 
 Von Hoffman & Co., L 25 
 
 Vosburg, Colonel 71st Regiment, N. Y 129 
 
 Vyses, Hunts Point, N. Y 123 
 
270 INDEX 
 
 W 
 
 W. T. Coleman, clipper ship 8 
 
 Wainwright, Rev., D. D., Bishop, N. Y 133 
 
 Wainwright Memorial Church, N. Y., Episcopal 132 
 
 Walcott, C, M., actor 59, 103 
 
 Waldo, Horace, N. Y 12 
 
 Walker Street, N. Y 53, 56 
 
 Walker, track driver 12 
 
 Wall Street, N. Y 
 
 8, 13, 16, 20, 21, 23, 24, 25, 27, 55, 121, 124, 126. 130, 131 
 
 Wall Street Ferry, N. Y 9, 41 
 
 Wall Street Ferry, Brooklyn 39 
 
 Wallace & Wickes, flour and provision merchants, N. 
 
 Y 7 
 
 Wallack, James W., actor 60, 103 
 
 Wallack, Lester, actor 59, 60, 103, 104, 105 
 
 Wallack Burial Plot, Greenwood Cemetery 103 
 
 Wallack's Company, actors 59 
 
 Wallack's Theatre, N. Y 59, 103 
 
 Waller, John, dry goods, N. Y 20 
 
 Walter, Elwood, president Ins. Co., N. Y 24 
 
 Walton, Dun, track driver 91 
 
 Walworth, school teacher, Jerusalem, South L. 1 168 
 
 Wambold, minstrel 61 
 
 Wanderer, yacht 22 
 
 Wanzas Flats 143, 162, 174 
 
 War Department, U. S., N. Y 14 
 
 Ward Line, New Orleans steamers 16 
 
 Warren, Lavinia, dwarf at museum 32 
 
 Warren Street, N. Y 16, 44, 52 
 
 Warwick, N. Y 99 
 
 Watch Hill, L. I. Sound 123 
 
 Washington, D. C 48, 50, 51, 100 
 
 Washington Course, Long Island 67 
 
 Washington Engine Co., No. i, Brooklyn Fire Dept., 
 
 Volunteers 37 
 
INDEX 271 
 
 Washington Fire Department 5^ 
 
 Washington, General 3^ 
 
 Washington Gray Troop 129 
 
 Washington, horse 66 
 
 Washington Hotel 18 
 
 Washington Market, N. Y 63, 127 
 
 Washington Market Butchers, N. Y 23 
 
 Washington Monument, Equestrian, N. Y 114 
 
 Washington Nurse 32 
 
 Washington Park. N. Y 45. 122 
 
 Washington Place, N. Y 109, 136 
 
 Washington Place, West N. Y I33 
 
 Washington Square, N. Y 45. 136, I37 
 
 Washington Square Methodist Church, 4th St., N. Y.. 133 
 
 Washington Street, Brooklyn ii3, 107, 134 
 
 Washington Street, Hempstead, L. 1 12 
 
 Washington Street, N. Y 10, 23 
 
 Water Gate, Castle Garden, N. Y 61 
 
 Water Street, N. Y 8, 9, 18, 19, 21, 59 
 
 Watermire, Mr., N. Y 80 
 
 Watson, James, N .Y 81 
 
 Watson, Robert, N. Y 20 
 
 Watson & Co., William, dry goods, N. Y 20 
 
 Watson, William, Jr., N. Y 20 
 
 Watsons, Hunts Point, N. Y 123 
 
 Waverly Place, N. Y.. .43. 55- 80, 106, 109, 122, 126, 132, 134 
 
 "Way Down South in Dixie," song 48, 58 
 
 Weathersby, Eliza, actress 107 
 
 Weaver, James, Brooklyn 9^ 
 
 Weaver, James, Jr., Brooklyn 9^ 
 
 Weber, Albert, piano manufacturer, N. Y 36, 55 
 
 Webb, James Watson, editor, N. Y 124 
 
 Webster Statue, N. Y 114 
 
 Weed, Thurlow, politician, N. Y 22 
 
 Weehawken, N. J 1/2 
 
 Weehawken Street, N. Y 125 
 
 Weeks, Cale, road house, Jamaica, L. 1 67, 119 
 
■Z-/Z 
 
 INDEX 
 
 Weeks, Charles, N. Y 80 
 
 Weeks & Douglass, flour dealers, N. Y 7 
 
 Weeks, Mrs., restaurant, N. Y 21 
 
 Weeks, Wm. Jones, Yaphank, L. 1 85 
 
 Weeksville, L. 1 121 
 
 Welch, jeweler, N. Y 59 
 
 Wellington Nose 142 
 
 Wells, Mary, actress 109 
 
 Wenman, James F 36 
 
 Westchester House, hotel, N. Y 56 
 
 Westchester Avenue 138 
 
 Western Celebrity 58 
 
 Western Hotel, N. Y 31 
 
 Western, Helen, actress 102 
 
 Western, Lucille, actress 53 
 
 West Broadway, N. Y 42, 43, 45, 51, 54, 127 
 
 West Farms, N. Y 138 
 
 Westchester County, N. Y 3, 115 
 
 West Hills, L. 1 112 
 
 West Point, N. Y 123 
 
 West Street, N. Y 6, 125, 126, 127 
 
 West Neck, Long Island 169, 171 
 
 Wetmore, Cryder & Co., exporters, N. Y 8 
 
 "What Is It?" negro freak, museum 32, 35 
 
 Whackford Squeers, character, Dickens, drama 69 
 
 Wheatley, Wiilliam S., actor 59, 107 
 
 Whelan, William, track driver 91 
 
 Whelans, Bill, road house, L. 1 9, 1 19 
 
 Whelpley, James, track driver, L. 1 91, 94 
 
 "When This Cruel War is Over," song 48 
 
 "White Fawn," comic opera, spectacular 61 
 
 White Eagle, horse 70 
 
 White & Co., Charles, slaughterers, N. Y 11 
 
 Whitehall, N. Y., street 9, 30 
 
 Whitaker, Bliss, Hempstead, L. 1 88 
 
 White Mansion, N. Y. (Whitehall) 9 
 
 White Plains, N. Y 2>'^, 95 
 
INDEX 
 
 273 
 
 White Street, N. Y 45, 54, 56 
 
 White Whale, Museum 32 
 
 Whitney, Stephen, N. Y -.13, 21, 136 
 
 White's Hat Store, N. Y 34 
 
 Whitestone, L. 1 24 
 
 Wickham, Wm. H., Mayor, N. Y 36 
 
 Wilde, John, minstrel 58 
 
 Wilder, W. H., actor 107 
 
 Wiley, General, N. Y 42 
 
 Wilkes Heart, horse 29 
 
 Wilkins & Co., P. R., real estate auctioneers, N. Y. . . . 28 
 
 Wilkins, Stage Proprietor, N. Y 42 
 
 Wilkins, Marie, actress 107 
 
 Willard's Hotel, Washington, D. C 51 
 
 Willets, Dan, Brooklyn .92, 93 
 
 Willets, Isaac, Hempstead, L. 1 85, 86 
 
 Willets, Piatt, Hempstead, L. 1 85 
 
 Willets, Samuel, Bellport, L. 1 85 
 
 Willets, Samuel, N. Y 136 
 
 William Street, N. Y 20, 24, 25, 26, 28, 35, 115, 133 
 
 William and Mary, King and Queen 174 
 
 Williams, Barney, actor 60, 103, 104 
 
 Williams, Colonel, U. S. Army 138 
 
 Williams, Mrs. Maria Kathleen, actress 60 
 
 Williams, William, Brooklyn 39 
 
 Williams, George G., bank president, N. Y 52 
 
 Williams, Stevens & Williams, picture store, N. Y 53 
 
 Williamsburg, Brooklyn, E. D 49 
 
 Wilmerding, auctioneer, N. Y 21 
 
 Wilmerding & Mount, auctioneers, N. Y 28 
 
 Wilson, Mr., character in "Uncle Tom's Cabin" 33 
 
 Wilson, Mr 160, 162 
 
 Wilson, Woodrow, historian 32 
 
 Willoughby Street, Brooklyn 83 
 
 Wind Shield it6 
 
 Windusts, restaurant, N. Y 21, 22 
 
 Winslow, Lanier & Co., bankers, N. Y 25 
 
 20 
 
274 INDEX ■ 
 
 Wisconsin, State 5, 6i, 117 
 
 Wolfe, John D 136 
 
 Wood, Alfred M., Colonel 14th Regiment, Brooklyn... 49 
 
 Wood, Benjamin, newspaper proprietor, N. Y 64 
 
 Wood, Fernando, Mayor, N. Y 22, 47, 57, 60, 64 
 
 Wood, Henry, theatrical manager, N. Y 57 
 
 Wood, Martin, hotel, Brooklyn 83 
 
 Wood, Mrs. John, actress 61, loi, 102 
 
 Wood & Hughes, silversmiths, N. Y 59 
 
 Wood & Marsh Combination, children actors 58 
 
 Wood's Gymnasium 137 
 
 Woodruff, Hiram, track driver, L. I.. .9, 69, 80, 82, 91, 94 
 
 Woodruff, Isaac, track driver, L. 1 91 
 
 Woodruff & Robinsons, salt and fish dealers, N. Y. ... 11 
 
 Woodpecker, horse 12, 81 
 
 Woodward, W. R 34 
 
 Woolly Horse, museum freak 32 
 
 Woolleys 1 23 
 
 Work, Frank, stock broker, N. Y 20, 81, 116, 118 
 
 Work & Rossitor, provisions, N. Y 9 
 
 World Building, N. Y 44, 133 
 
 Worrell Sisters, actresses 106 
 
 Worth, General 53 
 
 Worth Street, N. Y 34, 53, 54, 126 
 
 Wotherspoon, Kingsford & Co., cotton brokers, N. Y. . 25 
 
 "Yankee Doodle," song 48 
 
 Yankee Sullivan, pugilist 112 
 
 Yeamans, Annie, actress 106 
 
 Yellow Bird, stage line, N. Y 42 
 
 Yiddish Language 46 
 
 Yonkers 10 
 
 York 83, 143, 152 
 
 York Street 126 
 
 Yorkers 161 
 
INDEX 275 
 
 Yorkshire, packet-ship 8 
 
 Yorkshiremen 22 
 
 Yorkville Stage Line, N. Y 42 
 
 Youles No. 3 162 
 
 Young, Brigham, Mormon loi 
 
 Young Dove, mare 3 
 
 Young Dutchman, horse 79 
 
 Youngs & Co., shipping and importers, N. Y 8 
 
 Zerega ^^3 
 
 Zouaves 5^ 
 
 Zoe 102 
 
 Zoph 142 
 
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 
 
 014 108 643 1 «