■;^J2>- v^^;'^,^->.^^- ^^ ^> ^o ^^ ^^^ ^ S^-^ f ^1^^ <^.>:>-^^ LIBRARY OF CONGRESS. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 'Mm .'>^^mi 11 J > ■. >^'3) -^"S- "^-^^^^^ ^^- 5> •^>:-s: ^: .^'.3D^ ?4^>>;,Mi>,- '^5=>_Z^.. ^:^>55^t-^^^^'^'-^ ~ ^ > ^^^J> ^:JS)> 2>>^)> >;»3 ^mi> 3^> 3 1?)0 £> a > 3 ^^i^. :^^ j>:^ »>> :^^ y^^ V -:> >^ S > 5> J) THE PRACTICAL GUIDE TO l^Y.W YOEK CITY AND BROOKLYN PRICE, 10 CENTS. A. T. STEWART & CO., Importers, Iflanufacturcrs, Jobber, and Dealers in Silks, Velvets, Dress Goods, Woolens, Suits, Cloaks, Shawls, Millixery Articles, Laces, Trimmings, Hosiery, Underwear and Gloves, Boys', Children's and Misses' Ready Made Suits, Carpets, Upholstery, ^ Linens, Housekeeping Goods, PERFUMERY, FANCY ARTICLES, &c„ &e. WHOLESALE : Broadway, Chambers and Reads Streets. RETAIL: BROADWAY, 4th AVENUE, 9th AND 10th STS.^ N E 'W*- Y O B K . THE PRACTICAL GUIDE NEW YORK CITY AND BROOKLYN. BY HENRY MORFORD, Editor-Proprietor of the '' Short-Trii) Guides'" to Europe <& America. NEW YORK : /^^^^y^u'l^' THE UNION NEWS CO.; ((^^l^i)^Q ^^^^ ^^ 1877. -.o^> LEE, SHEPARD & DILLINGHAM^of wash^v*< LONDON : TRUBNER & CO. ADVERTISEMENT. The principal cause for the publication of this little "GUIDE," is also the cause for the peculiar name which it bears— "THE PEACTICAL." A considerable number of Hand-Books to the City of New York exist ; but for one cause or another they are generally impractical, consequently of limited use, or none. One is a hand- some picture-book, useful for a hbrary, but too large for the pocket ; another is cumbrous and inconvenient ; a third is a mere advertising medium, with everything else subordinated to the inter- ests of dealers, &c., &c., &c. Familiar with the publication of general Guide Books to the Old and New Worlds, which have the reputation of being exceptionally convenient and useful, while low- priced and unpretentious— the Editor has believed that he could tell the story of the City of New York, intelHgently, briefly, and to the purpose, making a little book very cheap and very useful ; and, abandoning the whole stereotype system, it is his intention to re- publish it every year, with material alterations as they may be demanded. The information as to Streets, Churches, Plates of Amusement, Railways, Hotels, &c., will be found clear and intel- ligible, while brief and concise ; and the feature has been added, of condensed dii-ections for making those Longer Excursions away from the City, which many travellers will desire, as well as the Shoi'ter ones necessary for every visitor. New York City, May, 1877. NEW YORK CITY AND BROOKLYN. Necessarily, the three or four pages immediately succeeding, are especially intended for those who reach New York by sea, from Europe or coastwise ; though many others may find the suggestions and remarks applicable, at any time when they have oc- casion to pass up or down the Lower or Upper Bays, on excursions or otherwise, APPROACH AND HARBOR. Two or three hours from Sandy Hook, for ships coming down the Long Island coast, and as a first sight for those crossing from the south, are made the Highlands of Navesink, fine bold headlands ap- proaching the sea, and forming one point of the eastern coast of New Jersey. These hills show to excellent advantage on a nearer approach, and are very imposing when the bar at Sandy Hook is being crossed ; two square-tower light-houses showing on the Highlands, behind the long, low point of wooded sand forming the Hook, on which are to be seen one light-house and two beacons, with a formidable line of government fortifications in progress, near the outer or northern end, very near to which the ship necessarily passes the channel. Passing the Bar and running up the Lower Bay, the New Jersey Highlands continue ahead and to 4 PRACTICAL GUIDE TO the left, sloping- away toward Long Branch a few miles southward ; on the right continues Lojig Istattd, with the still lower and sandier Coney Island adjoining it in front; still ahead and to the left rise the hills of Stat en Island, with an opening be- tween it and Long Island marking the Narrows, through which entrance is made from the Lower or Raritan Bay into the Upper or Bay of New York proper. Z'-hX the left, four or five miles below the Narrows, is passed (if there is no occasion to make its nearer acquaintance) the New York Quarantine ~x?i.x\^^% of low buildings on two artificial islands built within the last few 3'ears on a shoal known as the West Bank of Romer. Passing the Narrows, the fine fortification to the right, on Long Island, is Fort Ha7nilto7i, with the ruins of the once celebrated Fort Lafayette standing in the water at some distance below it — while to the left rises the corresponding bluff of Staten Island, crowned with a light-house and fortifications, with a strong new structure. Fort Richmond, standing below at near the water's edge. The view of New York Bay, after passing the Nar- rows, is considered one of the finest of its char- acter in the world, and should never be lost by the traveler enjoying the opportunity for the first time. On the right, passing up, will be observed the Long Island shore, handsomely shaded, and dotted with the residences of well-to-do citizens or subur- bans ; and on the left Staten Island presents much higher ground, landings and thriving villages near the shore, and the sides of the hills in like manner 'NEW YORK CITY AND BROOKLYN. 5 well shaded and dotted with tasteful residences. Some six miles above the Narrows, at the immediate right, the monuments of Gree?iwood Cemetery may be seen covering and crowning one of the Long Island hills near the shore ; still to the right, but ahead, the City of Brookly7i shows its many spires and wilderness ot buildings; immediately ahead rises Governor s Island, with its round fort. Castle William, and its long ranges of barracks and officers -quarters ; and as Governor's Island is passed, still directly ahead, the City of New York is seen, stretching right and left, from its lowest point at the Battery, up the East and North Rivers (Long Island Sound and the Hudson), each line showing a perfect forest of the masts of shipping, and the marked deficiency of commanding spires partially relieved by the nearness and grace of that of Trinity Church, and the height of many of the principal buildings. In the view Soundward (eastward), the commanding towers of the new Brooklyn Bridge form notable features. From this point, which best reveals the splendor of New York Harbor, Brooklyn lies a little behind, at the right; Staten Island has fallen away to a much greater distance behind and at the left; the Hudson River stretches northward, immediately ahead. Long Island Sound branching away eastward at an acute angle ; the other two islands of the har- bor, so far unnamed, Bedlce's and Ellis', lie at some distance to the left ; and behind them, to the left and ahead, on the west or New Jersey side of the river, may be prominently seen the towns of Jersey City and Hoboken, continual high lands rising up-river 6 PRACTICAL GUIDE TO from the latter, along the Hudson, towards Fort Lee and the Palisades. It is also at this point that the traveller visiting the New World for the first time from the Old, will find one of the most marked of sensations in observing not only the immense variety of shipping and the flags of all nations at the wharves and in the stream, but the many particulars in which the American river and ferry craft differ from those of any other nation — the prevailing color being white, and both strength and J^grace 'often sacrificed to speed and temporary convenience. NEW YORK CITY AND BROOKLYN, PROPER. Commercial capital of the New World, the City of New York lies at the junction of the North or Hud- son River and Long Island Sound (familiarly called the East River), having thus the best of opportuni- ties for cleanliness and health, which are by no means always embraced with due diligence and faithfulness — the city being always ineffectually cleaned, in comparison with the cost to the people, and often disgracefully dirty. In effect, Brooklyn, immediately opposite on the southeast, and con- nected with it by half-a-dozen or more well-managed steam-ferries, is a part of the same city, though lying in another county, and bearing a different name ; while nearly the same may be said of both Jersey City and Hoboken, on the New Jersey shore, and reached in the same manner by ferry. Before proceeding to explore the city or suburbs, it should be noted that carriage-service in New NEIV YORK CITY AND BROOKLYN. 7 York is very high and very bad ; cab-service better and improving, though by no means up to the European standard — so that the first should be ahiiost entirely avoided, and the latter much oftener foregone in favor of the public conveyances than they would be in any city of the Old World. The ferries should be used freely, not only for necessary crossings, but as an additional means of studying the topography of the harbor, and the excellence of the system. For most city travel the street horse- cars [see directions for those cars, different lines, very soon following] run regularly and well, and are comfortable, except at morning and evening hours, bringing too great crowds';'and the Elevated Railroad, from the Battery, and omnibuses from the Brooklyn Ferries, are available and respectable. NOTABLE STREETS. Of the Streets, the best worth noting is Broadway , which should be walked or driven in open car- riage, from its commencement at the Battery (harbor side), to its virtual termination at Madison Square, many of the best commercial buildings be- ing thus seen, and a succession of splendid business- erections observed, not equalled, perhaps, in any other city of either continent. Thence 7v/7/^ avenue should be taken, to the Central Park, a view being- thus caught of the finest fashionable street in America, and one of the handsomest in the world, though very irregular in architecture. Madison ave- nue is also admirably built and fashionable. Much of the leading fashion of the city may be found gathered 8 PRACTICAL GUIDE TO in the streets running out from Fifth avenue, from Fourteenth to Sixtieth street — notably on Twenty- third, TJiirty-foiirth, Forty-second streets, &c. The Boisjery may be noted as the people's or east-side Broadway. Greenwich street will be found filling a somewhat similar position on the west side ; Third, Sixth and Eighth avejiiies may be taken as fair types of prosperous commonalty and bustle ; West street (Hudson River side) will be found to supply a jam quite worthy of the Strand at its worst hours; and still further down town, IVall street, Broad ^ud New streets command attention as the centres of the moneyed interest. In Brooklyn, the most notable streets are Mo?itap-j{e and Clinton for fashion ; Fnl- ion and Court streets, Atlantic and Myrtle ave?ntes, &c., for business activity; Third street. Union street. Fourth avenue, &c., as drives ; Clinton, Washing- ton, Bedford, Grand and other avc?iues, for sub- urban beauty. WHARVES AND MARKETS. Or Wharves, New York has never had any de- serving the name, though a fine water-front is now presented at the Battery, and arrangements are in progress to supply well-built docks along both rivers. Of Markets, the Washington, foot of Vesey street, Hudson River side, and the Fulton, foot of Fulton street, East River side, will be found among the best supplied in the world, though the buildings are very old and badly kept. Newer and better NEIV YORK CITY AND BROOKLYN. 9 erections are the Mciropolitcm, foot of Thirty-fourth street, North River, and the Tompkins, Third ave- nue and Seventh street. MUSEUMS, LIBRARIES AND GALLERIES. Of Museums, the MeiropolitLm Museum of Art, Fourteenth street, near Sixth avenue ; one at Cen- tral Park ; and a small but unique one (naval) at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Of Libraries, the Astor, La- fayette Place ; the Mercaiitile, Astor Place ; the Society, University Place ; Law, Post Office Building ; Lenox, Fifth avenue ; American Lnstititte, Cooper Union^Building; Apprentices', 472 Broadway; His- torical, 170 Second Avenue ; Printers , 3 Chambers street ; Wo?na7i's, 38 Bleecker street, &c. Of Pub- lic Galleries, that of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (above named) ; the Lenox, Fifth avenue (in connec- tion with Library) ;,the somewhat extensive ones of the picture-dealers, Goupil {Knoedler, successor), Fifth avenue, Sckaus, Broadway, Somerville, Univer- sity Place, Snedecor, Fifth avenue, &c., with annual 'exhibitions of the Academy of Design (Twenty-third street and Fourth avenue) ; and the Private Galleries of some of the wealthy citizens are very creditable, and sometimes exhibited to the public. Large col- lections of national and celebrity portraits are to be seen in the great photograph galleries of Sarony, Kurtz, Fredricks, Mora, Roc kw cod, Bogardus, &c. The New York Aquarium, Broadway and Thirty-fifth street, will also command deserved attention. lo PRACTICAL GUIDE TO HOSPITALS. The principal Hospitals are the Neiv York, near Fifth avenue, between Fifteenth and Sixteenth sts. ; BcUevue, foot of Twent3^-sixth street, East River; St. Ltikes, Fifth avenue and Fift\^-fourth street ; St. Vin- cenfs, West Eleventh street (under charge of the Sisters of Charity) ; Ger7nan, Fourth avenue, cor. of Seventy-seventh street ; Mt. Si?iai, Lexington ave- nue, cor. East Sixty-sixth street ; Nursery mid Child's, Lexington avenue, cor. East Fifty-first street ; New York Opthalmic, Third avenue, cor. East Twelfth st. ; Woman s. East Fiftieth street and Fourth avenue ; Koosei>eIt, West Fifty-ninth street, near Ninth ave- nue ; Seamen's Friend ajid Retreat, 12 Old Slip (Hos- pital on Staten Island) ; &c., [see table, p. 43.] EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS. Of Educational Institutions and the structures connected, the following are most notable : Colum- bia College (an institution of moderate age but rep- utation and usefulness, and with Law and Mining Schools attached). East Forty-ninth street; New York University (collegiate, but making no pretence to fill the European use of the word), University Place, opposite Washington Square ; New York Col- lege (formerly the New York Free Academy), Twenty- third street and Lexington avenue ; College of Phy- sicia?is and Surgeons, East Twenty-third street and Fourth avenue ; U)iiversity Medical College, Worth street; Rutgers Female College, Fifth avenue; Unioft Theological Seminary, University Place ; Ne7v York Law Institute, Chambers street ; Protestant ^Episcopal NEIV YORK CITY AND BROOKLYN, ii Theological Seminary ; new Nor?nal College, &c., &c. In connection with educational facilities it should be added that the Common Schools of the City of New York are the best in the world, in handsome and commodious buildings, free to all, numerously attended, and worth observation by any visitor. MONUMENTS. Of Monuments, New York has as follows: In Central Park, Shakspeare (statue). Sir Walter Scott, Humboldt, Schiller, Webster, &c. In Union Square, equestrian statue of Washington, statues oi Lafayette and Liticoln. In Madison Square, monument obelisk to Gen. Worth, and statue of Secretary William H. Sezuard. In Trinity Churchyard, Martyrs' Memorial (handsome Gothic structure in honor of revolution- ary patriots who died on the prison-ships) ; monu- ment to Captain Lawrence, who fell on the Chesa- peake ; the horizontal slab over the remains of the heroine of the romance of the same name, Charlotte Temple. In St. Paul's Churchyard, shaft to Robert Enwiett, the Irish patriot ; monument to Gen. Mont- gomery ; one (back of church), to George Frederick Cooke, the actor. In Printing House Square, bronze statue oi Frafiklin. ANTIQUITIES. Of antiquities, the city may be said to have lit- erally none, the hand of "improvement" having lately been very busy with the few remaining. The two most interesting old buildings existing, are the Old Walton House, Pearl Street, most fashionable 12 PRACTICAL GUIDE TO residence of the past century, now deca5'ed ; 'and the Washington Hotel, Broadway and Battery Place, once the residence of Gen. Washington, of Sir Guy Carleton, &c. CHURCHES. Of Churches, few command any attention architec- turally, though there is no deficiency as to number. The two oldest were the No7-th Dutch, Fulton and William streets, not long since demolished, and the Middle Dutch, used as a prison by the British during the War of the Revolution, and late the City Post Office — Nassau, Liberty and Cedar streets. St. Paul's, Broadway (where the pew of General Washington, when President, still remains), and St. Johjis, Varick street, best deserve present notice, from age and unpretending grace ; and Trinity, Broad wa3^ as the most respectable finished Gothic erection on the Continent — though ^t. Pat- rick's Cathedral, Fifth avenue and Fiftieth street, will eventually dwarf it and all others. Those re- maining, best repaying visits of curiosity, are St. George's, Rutherford Place ; Grace Church, Broad- way ; St. Pauls and All Souls, Fourth avenue ; St. Thomas' , Fifth avenue ; Holy Trinity, Madison avenue ; St. Mark's (old), Stuyvesant street ; the Tabernacle, 'Sixth avenue ; St. Stephen's, Twenty- eighth street ; Dr. Chapin's, Fifth avenue. In Brooklyn (named, from their numbers, the "City of Churches"), the most notable are the Holy Trinity and St. Ann' s-on-t he-Heights, both on Clinton street; Dr. Eddy's, Pierrepont street; Church of NEW YORK CITY AND BROOKLYN. 13 the Pilgrims, Henry street; the Tabertiacle, Scher- nierhorn street; St. Charles Borrovieo (Catholic), Sidney Place. PUBLIC BUILDINGS. Of Public Buildings, the most interesting, from one cause or another, will be found the City Hall, City Hall Park (with a collection of civic and heroic portraits of some interest, in the " Governor's Room ") ; the New Court House (unfinished, but with many handsome rooms), same place ; the City Prison ("Tombs"), Centre street; the Custom House and Sub-Treasury, ^-ixW street; the Cooper Institute, junction of Third and Fourth avenues; the Bible House, opposite the preceding, above ; the Academy of Music, Fourteenth street ; the Acadony of , Design and Christian Association buildings, Fourth avenue and Twenty-third street ; Booth's Theatre, Twenty-third street; the Grand Opera House, Eighth avenue ; Tammany Hall, Fourteenth street; the Central Police Station, Mulberry street ; Hudson River Railroad Freight Depot, Hudson street (with colossal bronze, of much oddity and a certain merit, on the principal front, in honor of the late Cornelius Vanderbilt) ; new Grand Ce7itral De- pot, of the N. Y. Central, Harlem, and New Haven Railroads, Fourth avenue and Forty-second street; Post Office (new and magnificent), City Hall Park ; Methodist Book Concern, Broadway and Eleventh street: Masonic Hall (lately built), Twenty-third street and Sixth avenue; Stock Exchange (new). Broad street ; Produce Exchange, Whitehall street ; 14 PRACTICAL GUIDE TO New York Historical Society, University Place, near Twelfth street. In Brooklyn, the City Hall and County Court House, Court and Fulton streets ; Academy of Music, Montague street; Mercantile Li- brary, and Art Association Building, same street ; Atheneuni, Atlantic avenue, &c. COMMERCIAL BUILDINGS. New York has many Commercial Buildings of great cost and splendor — no other city in the world having more of what may be designated as " pal- aces," devoted to money or trade. The lead is taken among purely financial buildings, by the Park Bank, Broadway. No less than three structures, devoted to Life Assurance, command much atten- tion — those of the Equitable Society, at Broadway and Cedar street ; of the Mutual Coinpatiy, Broad- way and Liberty street; and of the Nezu York Com- pany, Broadway and Leonard street ; while the Western Union Telegraph building, Broadway and Dey street, the Drexel Banking House, Wall and Broad streets, the Bennett Building, Nassau, Ful- ton and Ann streets, and others, command attention. The most prominent among what are called the " business palaces," are those of A. T. Stewart & Co., Broadway and Chambers street, and Broadway and Ninth street ; of Lord & Taylor, Broadway and Twentieth street ; of Arnold &» Constable, Broad- wa}^ Fifth avenue and Nineteenth street ; of Johnson, Broadway, Fifth avenue and Twenty-second st. ; of Tiffany, \5n\on Square and Fifteenth street; of the Domestic Sewi?tg Machine Co., corner Broadway and NEPl^ YORK CITY AND BROOKLYN. 15 Fourteenth st. ; of the Wheeler &^ Wilson Seguing Machitie Company, Union Square ; of Macy, Sixth avenue and Fourteenth st. ; of the Appletons, Broad- way ; oi Brooks Brothers , Broadway and Bond street; Brewsters, Broadway and Forty-seventh street; Harpers, Frankhn Square; Frank Leslies, Pearl street, i&c. CLUB-HOUSES. \ Of Club-houses (also Clubs), the most prominent are the Uttion, Fifth avenue ; the Union League, Madison avenue ; the Manhattan, Fifth avenue ; the New York, Broadway and Fifth avenue ; W\q Lotos, Fifth Avenue ; the Century, East Fifteenth street ;;the Travelers , Fifth avenue ; the K7iickerbocker, Fifth avenue. Several other Clubs, of- only less promi- nence, will be found located in their appropriate table. PRIVATE DWELLINGS. There are many private dwellings of great cost, splendor, and varying architectural taste, on Fifth avenue and the more fashionable streets on Murray Hill ; the first among them being the palace of the lately deceased A. T. Stewart, at Fifth avenue and Thirty-fourth street, of which the details, with- out and within, are of the most lavish magnifi- cence, while the picture collection is very rich and valuable. Those of Mr. George Opdyke, Fifth avenue and Forty-seventh street ; Mr. Wm. H. Vanderbilt, Fifth avenue and Fortieth street ; Messrs. Phelps, Dodge &^ Phelps, Madison avenue, Thirty-sixth and i6 PRACTICAL GUIDE TO Thirty-seventh streets ; Messrs. Astor, Fifth avenue, Thirtj'-third and Thirty-fourth streets; Mj's. Stevetis, Fifth avenue and Fifty-sixth st ; Mrs. Coles, Fifth avenue near Forty-ninth street ; Mrs. Jones, Fifth avenue and Fifty-eighth street ; Judge Hilton, Fifth avenue and Fiftieth street ; Mr. Lenox (of Lenox Library fame), Fifth avenue near Washington Square ; Miss Woolfy Madison avenue and Twenty-fourth st. ; D. P. Morgan, Fifth avenue near Fiftieth street, &c., deserve attention for costly elegance. HOTEL-BUILDINGS AND HOTELS. Of Hotel Buildings (also Hotels), New York has many of great size and fine architecture, prominent among them being the Windsor, Fifth avenue and Fort^^-seventh street ; Fifth Avenue, Fifth avenue, Broadway and Twenty -fourth street; Berkeley, Fifth avenue and Ninth street ; Delnwnico's, Fifth avenue. Twenty-sixth st,, and Broadwa)'^ ; Rossinore, Broadway and Forty-second street ; Buckingham, Fifth avenue and Fiftieth street ; Grand Central, Broadway, opposite Bond street ; Brevoort, Fifth avenue, near Washington Park ; Astor House, Broadway and Barclay street ; St. Nicholas, Broad- way and Spring street ; Metropolitan, Broadway and Prince street; Westminster, Irving Place and Six- teenth street ; Gratid Hotel, Broadway and Thirtieth street ; St. Cloud, Broadway and Forty-second street ; Gilsey, Broadway and Twenty-ninth street ; Sturtevant, Broadway and Twenty-eighth street St. James, Broadway and Twenty-sixth street ; Hoffman, Broadway and Twenty-fourth street; Cole- ^NEIV YORK CITY AND BROOKLYN. 17 mail, Broadway and Twenty-seventh street ; Everett, Union Square; Clarendon, Fourth avenue: West- moreland, Union Square ; New York, Broadway and Fourth street ; Earles, Canal street ; Merchants (mercantile), Cortlandt street, &c. In Brooklyn. the Pierrepont House, Montague street, and the Ma7ision House, Hicks street. NEWSPAPER OFFICES. Several Newspaper Offices of mark are to be noticed in New York, especially those oi W-\^ Evening Post, Broadway and Fulton st. ; the Tribune, Printing House Square ; the Herald, Broadway and Ann street ; the Tijnes and the Staats Zeitimg, Printing House Square. J THEATRES. The principal Theatres of New York City proper are Wallack's, Broadway and Thirteenth street ; the Olympic, Broadway near Bleecker street ; Nibld's, Broadway near Prince street ; Booth's, Twenty-third street and Sixth avenue ; the Grand Opera House, Eighth avenue and Twenty-third street ; Daly's Neiu Fifth Avenue, Twent3^-eighth street, near Broadway; the Lyceum, Fourteenth street ; Park, Broadway and Twenty-second street; New Broadway, Broadway and Thirtieth street ; Union Square Theatre, Union Square ; Twenty-third Street, street of that name ; Eagle, Broadway and Thirty-third street ; Germania, (German), Fourteenth St., near Third ave, ; and the I^owery, street of that name. Opera House, the Aca- demy of Music, Fourteenth st. Ethiopian Minstrel 1 8 PRACTICAL GUIDE TO Houses and Varieties, Tony Pastor s, the San Fran- cisco Minstrels, &c. Equestrian House, the Hippo- drome, Fourth avenue and Twenty-sixth street. Brooklyn ; the Academy of Mtisic, Montague street ; Brooklyn TJieatre, Washington street (burned, Dec. 5th, 1S76, with great loss of Hfe, but to be re-erected this season); Park Theatre, Fulton street; Hooleys Opera House, Court street; W\Q AtJieneum, Atlantic avenue, &c. CHURCHES (SERVICES.) Most popular Churches (for service) Trinity, Broadway (Episcopalian) ; Grace, Broadway and Tenth street (Epis.) ; the Taberiiacle, Sixth avenue and Thirty-fourth street (Cong.) ; Dr. CJiapins, Fifth avenue and Forty-fifth street (Univ.) ; St. Thomas' , Fifth avenue (Epis.) ; Dr. Tyng's, Rutherford Place (Epis.) ; Fifth Avenue, Fifth avenue and Nineteenth St. (Pres.) ; Dr. HepwortJis, Madison ave. cor. E. 45th St. [Cong.] ; St. Paul's, Fourth avenue and Twenty-second street (Methodist Episcopal) ; and in Brooklyn, Plymouth (Rev. Henry Ward Beech- er's), Orange street, (Cong.) ; St. Ajtn s-o?i-t/ie-Heights and the Holy Trinity (Epis.), both on Clinton street ; First Baptist, Nassau street ; Strong Place, (Bapt.), Strong Place ; Dr. Talmages Tabernacle, Schermerhorn street. Present Catholic Cathedral, in New York, St. Patric/c's, Mulberry and Houston streets; with other leading Catholic Churches — St. Stephens, Twent3''-eighth street, near Third avenue (noted for fine music), and St. Francis Xaviers, Sixteenth street, near Fifth avenue. N£JV YORK CITY AND BROOKLYN. 19 PUBLIC GROUNDS. Public Grounds — Cejitral Park, (see "Excur- sions," following) ; Washington, Madison and Union Squares, and Battejy and City Hall Parks, most of limited dimensions, but all assuming attractive shapes, and most of them being provided with music on certain evenings of the week, during the warm season ; and Jones'' Wood, lying on the east- ern side of the Island, on the river, opposite the lower end of the Central Park, for many years much frequented and famous as a place for great out- door gatherings, including the German and Irish festivals and the Scottish annual games ; Jerome Park, Westchester (also see " Excursions "); and in Brooklyn, Prospect Park, (also see " Excur- sions "), Prospect Park Fair Grounds, Lefferts Park, &c. FRRRIES. Principal Ferries : To Brooklyn, from foot Fulton street, foot Wall street, foot Catharine street, Peck Slip, foot Whitehall street ; to Jersey City (and Cun- ard Docks, and Pennsylvania Railroad), foot Cort- landt street, and foot Desbrosses street ; to Comniu- fiipaw (and New Jersey Central Railroad), foot Lib- erty street and foot Clarkson street ; to Hoboken (and Bremen and Hamburg steamers, and Morris and Essex Railroad), foot Barclay street and foot Christopher street ; to Pavonia (and passenger-depot of the Erie Railway), foot Chambers street and foot Twenty-third street ; to State?i Island, foot Whitehall street and foot Dey street ; to Hu7iters Point (and Long Island Railroad), James' Slip and foot Thirty- fourth street. 20 PRACTICAL GUIDE TO PRINCIPAL STREET (HORSE) RAILROADS. First and Second Avenue Line. — Cars leave Peck Slip (East River, near Fulton Ferry), run through South, Oliver, Bowery, Grand and Christie streets, and Second avenue, to One Hundred and Twentj-eighth street, Harlem. Branch running through First avenue. Branch from Broadway at Worth street to Boweiy, and thence same route. Branch from Broadway at Astor Place, to Astoria Ferry, foot Ninety-second street. East River. Third Avenue Line. — Cars leave Broadway, opposite Astor House, run through Park Row, Chatliam street. Bowery, Third avenue to One Hundred and Thirtieth street, Harlem. Fourth Avenue Line.— Cars leave Broadway, o^Dposite Astor House, run through Park Row, Centre and Grand streets. Bowery and Fourth avenue to Fort3'-second street (Grand Central Depot); thence Madison avenue to Eighty-sixth street. Branch to Thirty- fourth Street Feny, fi-om Foui-th avenue and Thirty-second sti-eet. Broadu-ay Line. — Cai-s leave Broadway, corner Barclay street, run through Barclay, Church and Greene streets, Clinton and University Places, Broadway and Seventh avenue, to Fifty-ninth street (Central Park.) Branch of this road, from Bi'oadway, at Broome street, through Broome street to Greene street, and as above. Si.dh Avenue Line. — Cars leave Broadway, corner Vesey street, run through Vesej', Church and Chambers streets. West Broad- way, Canal, Yarick and Carmine streets, and Sixth avenue, to Fifty-ninth street (Central Park). Seventh Avenue Line. — Cars leave Broadway, comer Barclay st., run through Barclaj^ Church, Canal, Sullivan and Macdougal streets, Clinton Place, Greenwich and Seventh avenues, to Fifty- ninth street (Central Park). EigJtth Ai-enue Line. — Cars leave Broadway, corner Vesey street, iTin through Yesej', Church and Chambers streets, West Broadway, Canal and Hudson streets, and Eighth avenue, to Fiftj'-ninth street (Central Park). Branch of this road, from Broadway at Canal street, through Canal to Hudson street, and as above, with continu ation to Manhattanville. Ninth Avenue Line. — Cars leave Broadway, corner Fulton street, run through Fulton and Greenwich streets and Ninth avenue to Fifty-fourth street . Lexington Avenue Line. — Cars leave Broadway, opposite Astor House, i-un througn Park Row, Chatham street. Bowery, Third 'NEIV YORK CITY AND BROOKLYN. 21 avenvie, Thirty -fifth street, Lexington avenue to Forty-second street and Fourth avenue (Grand Central Depot). Bleecker Street Line.— Cars leave Fulton Ferry (East River), run through Fulton, William and Ann streets, Park Row, Centre, Elm, Howard, Crosby, Bleecker, Macdougal, West Fourth, AVest Thir- teenth, Hudson, West Fourteenth streets and Tenth avenue to Twenty-third street. Branch by Peck Slip, New Bowery and Canal street to same point. Belt Line. — (Eastern Division) : Cars leave South Ferry (Battery), rvm through Front street. Old Slip, South, Montgomery, South, Cor- laers, Grand, Goerck and East Houston streets. Avenue D, East Fourteenth street. Avenue A, East Twenty-third street. First avenue and East Fifty-ninth street to Fifth avenue at Central Park. (Western Division) : Cars leave South Ferry (Battery), run through Whitehall street and Battery Place, West street. Tenth avenue and West Fift3^-ninth street to Fifth avenue at Central Park — the two forming jjerfect connection round the city. Dry Dock Line.— Cars leave Broadway, opposite Astor House, run through Park Row, Chatham street, East Broadway, Grand and Columbia streets. Avenue D, East Eleventh street and Avenvie B, to foot East Fourteenth street. East Broadway Line. — Cars leave Broadway, corner Ann street, run through Park Row, Chatham street. East Broadway, Clinton street. Avenue B, East Fourteenth street, Avenue A, East Twenty- third street, First avenue, to Twenty-third Street Ferry. Grand and Cortlandt Line. — Cars leave Jersey City Ferry, foot Cortlandt street, run through Cortlandt, Gi-eenwich, Beach, Lispe- nard and Canal streets, East Broadway and Grand street to Grand Street Ferry (East River). Desbrosses and Grand Street Line. — Cars leave Desbrosses Street Ferry (North River), by Grand street, to Grand Street Ferry (East River). Crcss-Toum Line. — Cars leave West Forty-second street at Tenth avenue, run thi-ough Tenth avenue, Thirty-fourth street, Broadway, Twenty-third street. Fourth avenue, Foui'teenth street, and east side minor streets to foot of Grand street (East River). Avenue C Line. — Cars leave Erie Ferry, foot Chambers street, to Grand Central Depot ; also to Greenpoint Ferry, foot of Tenth street (East River). Church Street Line. — Cars leave Astor House (Vesey street), run through New Church street, Batterv Place and Whitehall street to South Ferry. 22 PRACTICAL GUIDE TO Christopher and Tenth Street Line. — Cars leave Christopher Street Ferry (North River), by Eighth street to Greenpoiiit Ferry, foot Tenth street (East River). Central Cross-Town Line. — Cars leave Christopher Street Ferry (North River), via Union Square, to Greenpoint Ferry, foot Twenty- tliird street (East River). Twenty-third Street Line. — Cars leave Erie Ferry, foot Twenty- third street (North River), by Madison Square, to Greenpoint Ferry, foot Twenty-third street (East River) ; also, by Second ave- nue, to Hunter's Point Ferry, foot Thirty-fourth street (East River) . Forty-second Street Line. — Cars leave Grand Street Ferry (East River), via Fifth Avejiue Hotel, to Weehawken Ferry, foot Forty- second street (North Biver). Elevated Railway. — (Steam) : Care leave station at the South Ferry, and second station at Morris street, every few minutes, through, or rather over, Greenwich street and Ninth avenue, to Central Park, with stopping places at very short intervals, and many extensions projected. It will be noted that generally the up-routes of these lines have been given, as most intelligible ; some of them make slight varia- tions in return or down-routes, but when so, only to small distance. Omnibuses, up Broadway to various i)oints, leave South, Wall Street and Fulton Ferries, conspicuously lettered as to destina- tion. VIEWS OVER THE CITY AND HARBOR. The most extensive practicable view over the City and Harbor of New York, the Bay, Rivers, &c., can be caught from Trinify Church Steeple, by any one disposed to make the somewhat tiresome ascent ; but one ahnost as extensive, and much easier secured, may be obtained b)'' appHcation at the otiice of the Equitable Life Assurance Company, in the colossal Eqintable Building, corner of Broad- way and Cedar street, all that ascent being made by elevator, always in readiness for passengers, from the basement or any higher floors. Very fine views A'EIV YORK CITY AND BOOOKLYN. 23 can also be caught from the higher stories of the Tribtme Builditig, the Western Union Telegraph Bill I ding, the Post-office, or the Eve7ii?ig Post Buildifig, nearly all of which have elevator facilities for as- cending. Of course the most extensive of all, for those who choose to run the hazard, and who can se- cure the privilege of making the ascent, may be had from the top of one of the towers of the BrooJdyn Bridge, elsewhere mentioned, and one of the world's curiosities in engineering. SPECIALTIES OF INTEREST. Every visitor to New York, during the present season, will naturally be attracted to the Brooklyn Bridge, above and elsewhere mentioned, spanning the East River from the New York side, at near foot of Roosevelt and Dover streets, to the Brooklyn side, adjoining Fulton Ferry. The operations connected with the completion of the bridge, in the way of cables, foot-bridges and other appliances for tempo- rary crossing, and for putting down the permanent bridge-way, must for a long time attract much atten- tion, and prove very instructive as well as interest- ing. The Ocean Steamships, at the various wharves of the great companies, must naturally be a matter of much curiosity with those not familiar with ocean- travel ; and, after Liverpool, no other port in the world has them in such numbers and splendor as New York. Among those most worthy of visiting (visits generally allowed, after arrived ships are " cleaned-up " — no smoking permitted on the 24 PRACTICAL GUIDE TO wharves or the vessels), are those of the Cunard Line, at Jersey City, near the ferries from Cortlandt and Deshrosses streets, North River ; the Anchor Line, foot of Dey street; the Pacific Mail, foot of Canal street. North River; the Inman Line, foot Charlton street. North River; the National Line, foot Charlton and foot West Houston streets, North River; the French Line, foot Morton street, North River ; the White Star Line, foot West Tenth street, North River; the Guion Line, foot of King street. North River; the Bremen and Hamburg Lines (Ger- man), Hoboken, near the ferries from Barclay and Christopher streets ; the Bermuda Line, foot Beach street. North River ; the Havana Line, (near) foot Cedar street, North River; the Brazil Line, foot Spring street, North River, &c. The River and Sound Steamers command only less of attention, from their great size and sumptuous ar- rangements. Principal among these are the steam- ers of the People's Line, to Albany, foot Deshrosses street, North River ; the Day Boats on the Hudson (to Albany, &c.), foot Vestry street, North River ; the Mary Poiuell, afternoon boat on the Hudson, also foot of Vestry street; and of Sound boats, those of the Fall River Line, foot of Murray street. North River ; the Stonington Line, foot Jay street. North River, and the Norwich Line, foot Watts street, North River. Many Coastwise Steamers also demand notice : among them the New Orleans Lines, Piers 19 and 36, North River; the Charleston Boats, Pier 29, North River ; the Savannah Boats, Pier 43, North NEIV YORK CITY AND BROOKLYN. 25 River, and Pier 16, East River; the Richmond and Norfolk Boats, Pier 37, North River; the Galveston (Texas) Boats, Pier 20, East River ; the Philadelphia Boats, Pier 33, East River ; tlie Portland (Maine) Boats, Pier 38, East River, &c. The Elevated Railway, on Greenwich street and Ninth avenue, from the South Ferry to Central Park (elsewhere mentioned), v/ill be found one of the most convenient of modes of locomotion, as well as one of the greatest novelties in the world of travel. The Great Newspaper Offices of the city are well worth examination, for their excellence of arrange- ment and iniTnensity of issue ; and those not familiar with printing-processes can find much amusement and instruction in witnessing the press-work of an edition of a morning paper, performed late at night, but admission to the press-room generally procur- able by application at the office. The Herald, World, Tribune, Tiuies, Sim and Express may be reck- oned the leading and most interesting in this detail, as in others. Other Pitblication Offices (not of dai- lies), as Harper's, Franklin Square ; Frank Leslie's, Pearl street, &c., are also worthy of attention, for extent of business and excellence of arrangement. Some of the Great Dry Goods Houses, as Stewart's, Arnold & Constable's, Lord & Taylor's, and others (see places, p. 14), should be visited by those who take interest in what may be called the '* fashion of tiade." So of the Leading Photograph Houses, as Kurtz's, Rockwood's, Sarony's, Fredricks', &c. So of the large Life Listirance Offices, particularly the three elsewhere named — the Mutual, Equitable and 26 PRACTICAL GUIDE TO New York, among the largest in the world, and the best appointed in all their surroundings and arrange- ments, each with a palatial building of great cost but equal necessity and convenience. So of the Dea/ers' Picture Galleries, Somerville, Knoedler, Schaus, Snedecor, &c., where much of artistic merit ma}- be found gathered and freely exhibited. The Go7'crnors Room, City Hall, has an interesting collection of National and Civic portraits, and other pictures, which may be seen on application to the Janitor. The Law Courts of the city command much interest and attention, from mau}^ visitors. The United States Courts \\\\\h^ found in the Post Office Building; the New York Supreme, Superior, Common Pleas and Sur- rogate' s\Vi the Court House Building, City Hall Park, where also will be found the offices of those courts, of the Comptroller, City Chamberlain, County Clerk, Sheriff, &c. The Marine Court is located in the "Brown-stone Building," Cit)^ Hall Park, and at 27 Chambers st., opposite. In the " Brown-stone Build- ing "are also located the principal Criminal Coitrts, those of General Sessions, held by the Recorder and City Judge. Of the Police Courts the most interest- ing will be found at the Tombs, Centre St., and Jeffer- son Market, Sixth avenue. Central Police Station, 300 Mulberry street. Other objects of interest to those making longer sojourn : Governor s Island, head-quarters ol the military department (reached by boat from South Ferry) ; the Navy Yard, Brooklyn (cars from Fulton Ferry) ; the Penal and Charitable Institutions on A'Ejr YORK CI TV AXD BROOKLYN. 27 BlackwelVs, Randall's and Ward's Islands (under con- trol of Commissioners of Charities and Correction — building-, Third avenue and Eleventh street) ; and a variety of Asylums for orphans and the afflicted. SUBURBS, DRIVES AND EXCURSIONS. Of Drives and Short Excursions (b)'- carriage), the first favorite is that to the Central Park, a large and admirable public ground, occupying nearly the centre of the Island, extending in width from Fifth to Eighth avenues, and in length from Fifty-ninth to One-Hundred and Tenth streets, handsomely laid out, shaded and orna- mented, with fine roads and costly bridges, and lacking only age to be equal to any public ground in Europe. It has a Lake, with boats (service) ; a Museum, with Zoological collection and many other curiosities ; a Casino, on the European plan ; Public Carriages, making the round of the Park at short intervals, for trifling fare ; Statues of Shakspeare, Humboldt, Schiller, Webster, Morse, Sir Walter Scott, &c. ; statuary groups of the " Hunter and his Dog," " Auld Lang Syne," " Seventh Regiment Sol- dier," "The Fowler," "Commerce," &c. ; and pre- sents the feature of Music by a fine band every Saturday afternoon during the warm season, attract- ing immense concourses of people. Visitors should especially visit the Mall ; the Long Walk leading to it ; the Ramble ; the Museum with its Gallery of Statuary and Art, and the Natural History Collections ; and in the season enjoy a sail on the Lake and a comprehen- sive ride around the whole Park in the Park carriages, 28 PRACTICAL GUIDE TO always in waiting at low fixed prices. The Central Park is open ever)^ day : Winter, 7 a. m. to 8 p. m. ; Fall, 6 a. m. to 9 p. m. ; Summer (July, August and Septem- ber), 5 a. m. to II p. m. In connection are also to be seen the Croton Receiving Reservoirs, alleged to be ot size enough, and to contain water enough, to float the navies of the world. [Central Park may also be reached by 3d, 4th, 6th 7th or 8th avenues, or Broad- way, horse-cars from the City Hall, or from most ot the ferries (Belt road along either river), by the Ele- vated Railroad, &c.| Beyond, the drive by carriage is often and profitably extended to the Harlem and Bloomingdale Roads, or to High Bridge, an aqueduct Bridge over the Harlem River, of great height and solidity ; or to Jerome Park, new and handsome trot- ting and racing ground of the American Jockey Club, beyond the Harlem River, in Westchester. Another scarcely less fashionable drive is to Prospect Park, the new but very handsome public ground of Brooklyn, which bids fair to rival if not to excel the Central ; has a Lake ; a Dairy Cot- tage and Barn ; ?\. fine stretch of natural forest; an elevated drive with commanding view, down to the coast at Coney Island (''Ocean Parkway") ; statue of President Lincoln (at entrance), busts of Washington Irving, John Howard Payne, &c. Music by a fine band, Saturday afternoons. [May also be reached from New York by Fulton ferry and by horse-cars of Flatbush avenue or Smith street line.] Near Prospect Park is to be visited Gree?iwood Cemetery, one of the largest and hand- somest Cities of the Dead on the globe, with lakes. jVEU^ YORK CITY AND BROOKLYN. 29 rising grounds, fine shade, costly monuments, and all the other melancholy attractions possible to be flung around places of burial. Among the leading features are the handsome sculptured Entrance Way ; the Firemen's, Pilots', Old Sea Captain's, Cauda, Scribner, J. G. Bennett and McDonald Clarke monu- ments ; the tombs of William E. Burton, the comed- ian, Lola Montez (" Eliza Gilbert "), Horace Greeley, Crawford Livingston, &c. ; the vaults of Stephen W^hitney, William Niblo, &c. Most beautiful point, that at and around " Sylvan Water ;" finest views, those from " Ocean Hill " and " Battle Hill." [May also be reached from New York by Fulton Ferry and horse-cars of the Greenwood or Fifth Avenue lines.] Service-carriages, for going through the cemetery, may always be found at the entrance. Beyond Green- wood and Prospect Park, the same drive may be profitably extended to Prospect Park Race Course, and by grand new Ocean Parkway, to Coney Island, fine sea-beach, with excellent bath- ing and great summer popularity as a resort. [Ma}' also be reached from New York by Fulton Ferry, and by Smith and Jay Street horse-cars ; or by either of the horse-car lines to Greenwood, thence by steam to the beach ; or by steamer from New York, several times daily during the season.] OTHER SHORT EXCURSIONS. Other Short Excursions will be those to the Brook- lyn Navy Yard, with extensive Dry Dock, Museum of Marine Curiosities, and much of general interest [horse-cars from Fulton Ferry, " Navy Yard "] ; to Fort Hamilton, at the Narrows, junction of the 30 PRACTICAL GUIDE TO Upper and Lower Baj's, with fortifications and very tine sea-view [drive, or may be reached by Fulton or Hamilton Ferry, and horse-cars] ; to Evergreen Cenie- tery, East New York, [drive, or Fulton Ferry and Fulton Avenue horse-cars] ; to Rockaway Beach and Far Rockaway, picturesque line of coast on the South side of Long Island, celebrated for sailing, fishing, and as a resort always cool even in the hottest weather, owing to the breezes caused b\' peninsular position, and once made famous b}'^ the song commencing . ■'On old Long Island's sea-girt shore, Many an hour I've whiled away, Listening to the breakers' roar, That washed the beach of Rockaway." [Feiry from James' Slip or Thirty-fourth street to Hunter's Point for Long Island Railroad ; or ferry from foot of Grand street, East River, for South- Side Railroad ; or horse-cars to East New York from Fulton or South Ferries, steam-cars to Canarsie and boat to beach ; or, daily excursion boat from New York] ; to Hoboken, great base-ball and cricket grounds, and favorite German resort, across the Hudson, in New Jersey [ferry from Barclay street or Christopher street] ; to Bergen Point [drive or horse-car from Jersey City, or train on New Jersey Central Railroad, from foot Liberty street] ; to Paf- erson and Passaic Falls [train on Erie Railroad, foot Chambers or Twenty-third street] ; to Newark, largest and most thriving city in New Jersey [train on Pennsylvania Railroad, foot of Cortlandt street ; JVEIV YORK CITY AXD BROOKLYN. 31 or Newark and New York Railroad, foot Liberty street] ; to Elizabeth, New Jersey [train on Pennsyl- vania Railroad, foot Cortlandt street, or New Jersey Central, foot Liberty street] ; to Stateji Island [New Brighton, Sailors' Snug Harbor, Port Richmond, Ehn Park, &c., by the North Shore boats, from the Batter)^ or De}^ street, every hour ; and Vander- bilt's, Quarantine, Tompkinsville, Clifton, &c., by the East Shore boats, from Battery, every hour]. LONGER EXCURSIONS. Longer excursions of interest, conveniently made from New York, are those to Long Branch, great sea-shore resort, on the New Jersey coast, with several miles of fine bluff, bold surf-bathing, admired sea-view, splendid drives and excursions, and an immense number of Sum- mer hotels, capable of accommodating fifteen to twenty thousand visitors (among the principal the Ocean Hotel, West End, Manswft House, United States, Brighton, Howla7id, Pavilion, &c.), and a present popularity making it the most generally sought and notable place on the American sea-coast. It supplied the summer residence of President Grant, and has many cottages of the wealthy. Near it are Eaton- tawji (with Monmouth ParJz Race Ground in the im- mediate neighborhood). Red Bank, Deal, and other villages of New Jersey. [Reached by boats of the New Jersey Southern Railroad, to Sandy Hook, (with government fortifications, and entrance to the Lower Bay) ; thence, by rail, by the Highlands of Navesink (fine elevation, with splendid sea-air and view, and 32 PRACTICAL GUIDE TO summer-boarding place of merit [and popularity — hotels, Tho7npspns, and Jenkinsons), Seabright, &c., [the whole distance within sight of the sea]. Or, by the new All-Rail Route from New York, from foot of Liberty St., by Central Railroad of New Jersey (Com- munipaw Ferr}^, and Rahway, to Perth Amboy, Keyport, Middletown, Red Bank, &c„ to Long Branch. [From Long Branch, railway connection to Freehold, and thence to Trenton and other cities of West New Jersey ; to Oceaji Grove, Squan, and other places along or near the coast; or train may be taken for Manchester, Toms River, and towns of New Jersey, further southward ; to Atla7ttic City, or Philadelphia.] To Lake Mahopac, pleasant and very popular minor watering-place, with handsome quiet wooded scenery, islands, line boating, sailing, fishing and other attrac- tions. Reached by Harlem Railroad, in a few hours, through the ver}^ fine scener)^ of that line, at the lower edge of the Hudson Highlands. Hotels, the Gregory House, Baldwin House, &c. To Schooley's Mountain (Heath House), mineral springs and popular summer-resort, with fine air and charming scener3^ in the minor mountains of New Jersey ; reached by the Morris and Essex Rail- road, from foot of Barclay street, b}'- Moin-istoiuji, one of the handsomest towns and most popular residen- ces in the State, to Hackettstowii, whence short ride by stage-coach. Also, Bttdd's [Lake, within a few miles of the preceding, and reached by same con- veyances — with many attractions of boating, fishing, &c. Also, Lake Hopatcong, with similar attractions i ^ NEW^ YORK CITY AND BROOKLYN. 33 to the place last named, reached by the same rail- road to Stanhope or Dover, thence carriage or boat to destination. To Delaware Water Gap (Kittatinny Hoitse), lying, as the name indicates, at one of the finest passes of the Upper Delaware, through and among the moun- tains dividing Pennsylvania and New Jersey, and with superb mountain and river scenery, pure and healthful air, and much popularity as a place of sum- mer resort. Has many features of especial woodland beauty, in Rebecca s Well, Venus Bath and Eureka Falls, views from Prospect Rock, Fox Hill, &c. [From the Water Gap, continuing by rail, may be reached Stroudsbu7'g and the Lackawanna Coal Regions of Pennsylvania; or southward, Easton, Philadel- phia,, &c.] To Greenport, Orient, Babylon, Fire Island, &c., minor watering-places at the east end of Long Island ; and to Jamaica and other places nearer. [Reached by Long Island Railroad — take boat from James Slip, or foot Thirty-fourth street. East River.] Also, to Gle7i Cove, and other near places on that island, bv oat on Long Island Sound. To West Point and the Hudson River Highlands, by rail, on Hudson River Railroad (Grand Central Depot) ; or, during all the warm season, by Day- Boat on the Hudson River (Daniel Drew or C. Vibbard), leaving foot of Vestry street, North River, at (about) 8.30 a.m. ; or Afternoon Boat (Mary Pow- ell), leaving foot of Vestry street, at 3.30 p.m. To The Catskill Mountains (fine mountain scenery and great summer-resort), by Day Boat, as to West PRACTICAL GUIDE. TO Point, or by rail on Hudson River Railroad (Grand Central Depot). To Albany (Capital of the State of New York,) atid Troy, \)y Day Boat, as to West Point ; rail, on Hud- son River Road ; or Night Boat, on the Hudson (St. John or Drew) leaving foot of Desbrosses street. North River, at 6 p.m. To Newburgh (N. Y.) by Day Boat, as for Albany ; Afternoon Boat, as for West Point ; or Hudson River Railroad. To POUGHKEEPSIE and Hudson (N. Y.), by Day Boat as for Albany ; or Hudson River Railroad. To Saratoga Springs (most fashionable watering- place and spa of America) by same route as to Al- bany ; thence Rensselaer and Saratoga Railway. To Niagara Falls (first natural wonder of the Con tinent), by Hudson River and New York Central Railway ; or \>j Erie Railway (foot Chambers street or foot Twenty-third street) ; or boat to Albany, thence New York Central R. R. To Bridgeport (Conn.), by New York. New Haven and Hartford Railroad (Grand Central Depot) ; or boat on the Sound, from Pier 35, East River. To New Haven (Conn., seat of Yale College, and called the " City of Elms," from its shaded beauty), by New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad ; or by Afternoon Boat on Long Island Sound, leaving Peck Slip, East River, at 3 p.m. To Hartford (Capital of Connecticut), by New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad ; or by Afternoon Boat on Long Island Sound, from Pier 24, near Peck Slip, East River. To A'EPV YORK CITY AND BROOKLYN. 35 Boston, by New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad (Grand Central Depot); or boat on Long Island Sound, at 5 p. m., of Norwich Line, Pier 40, North River ; Fall River Line, Pier 28, North River, or Stonington Line, Pier 33, North River. To Martha's Vineyard (Mass. — favorite health re- sort, and spot of great Methodist Camp-Meeting in August) by Fall River boat, as for Boston ; or, di- rect steamer for Portland, leaving Pier 38, East River, on Monda}'- and Wednesday afternoons. To Portland (capital of Maine), by rail, by Boston ; or b}^ direct steamer, as for Martha's Vineyard. To Providence (capital of Rhode Island), by Shore Line, on New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad (Grand Central depot) ; or Stonington boat on Long Island Sound, from Pier 33, North River, at 5 p.m. ; or Direct Steamer, from Pier 27, North River. To Newport, R. I. — favorite and fashionable sea- coast watering-place, — by Shore Line, as for Provi- dence, to Wickford, R, I., thence boat ; — or, Fall River boat, from Pier 28, North River. To New London, Conn. — by Shore Line, as for Providence ; or Norwich Line boat on Long Island Sound, from Pier 40, North River, at 5 p. m, To Philadelphia, by Pennsylvania Railroad, from foot Cortlandt street, or foot Desbrosses street ; or by New York and Philadelphia New Line of New Jersey Central Railroad, from foot of Liberty street, North River. To 36 PRACTICAL GUIDE TO Trenton — capital of NewTJersey, — b}'^ Pennsylva- nia Railroad, as for Philadelphia. To New Brunswick and Princeton — N. J., — by Pennsylvania Railroad, as for Philadelphia. To Cape May, N. J., — popular sea-coast [watering- place, at the mouth of the Delaware River, — by any route to Philadelphia, thence West Jersey Railroad, from Camden. To Atlantic City, N. J. — sea-coast watering-place, — by New Jersey Southern, boat and rail, foot of Rector street, North River. To The White Mountains, New Hampshire — splen- did mountain scenery and great hot-weather resort, — by Norwich boat, from Pier 40, North River, at 5 p.m., to New London, thence rail ; or by any route to Boston, thence rail. To The Adirondack Mountains, by any route to Albany; thence rail to Whitehall, and boat on Lake Champlain to Keeseville, N. Y. ; — thence land con- veyance. To Lake George, N. Y., — by route to Saratoga Springs, thence rail to Glen's Falls, and stage. To Lake Champlain — by route as to the Adiron- dacks. To. Trenton Falls, N. Y. — one of the handsomest waterfalls in the world, with fine scenery surround- ing, — by any route to Albany, thence New York Central Railroad to Utica, and Utica and Black River Railroad to Trenton Falls Station, To Watkins Glen, N. Y. — remarkable gorge, on Seneca Lake, — by Erie Railway to Elmira, thence NEW YORK CITY AND BROOKLYN. 37 Pennsylvania Northern Central Railroad to Wat- kins. To Harrisburgh, capital of Pennsylvania, — by Philadelphia. To Washington, National Capital,— by Philadel- phia and Baltimore. To Baltimore, Md., — by Philadelphia. To Pittsburgh — Pa., — by^Pennsylvania Railroad, by Philadelphia. To Cincinnati and Columbus, Ohio, as to [Pittsburgh, thence Pittsburgh, Cincinnati and St. Louis R. R. Chicago, by Pennsylvania Railroad to Pittsburgh, thence Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago Rail- way ; or by Erie Railway to Niagara or Buffalo, thence Grand Trunk or Lake Shore Railway ; or, by Hudson River and New York Central Railroad to Niagara or Buffalo, and thence same options. To St. Louis, by Pennsylvania Railroad and connec- tions ; or from Chicago. To Montreal and Quebec, by New York Central and Hudson River Railroad to Albany, and rail to Whitehall ; thence rail through Vermont, or boat on Champlain. Or, by].;^rail from New London— New London Northern ; or by rail from Boston. [Far- Western Excursions, those to Colorado, the Pacific Coast, &c., are usually made by Chicago or St. Louis ; South-Western and Southern by St. Louis, or by Baltimore and Washington.] ■^ PRACTICAL GUIDE TO A FEW USEFUL NEW- YORK-CITY TABLES. LEADING PLACES OF AMUSEMENT. Acaueniy of Music, East 14th street and Irving Place . Booth's Theati-e, West 23d street, corner Sixth avenue. Bower}' Theatre. 48 Bowery. Eagle Theatre, Broadway and Thirty-third street. Fifth Avenue Theatre, 28th street, near Broadway . Germania Theatre, 14th street, Tammany Hall. Grand Opera House, Eighth avenue, corner 23d street. Gilmore's Gai'den. (Hippodrome), Fourth avenue and 26th street. Lyceum Theatre, 107 West 14th street. New York Aquarium, Broadway and Thirty-fifth street. New Broadway Theatre, 1221 Bi'oadway. Niblo's Garden, 576 Broadway. Olympic Theatre, 624 Broadway. Park Theatre, 932 Broadway. San Francisco Minstrels, Broadway, corner 29th street. Stadt Theatre, 45 Bowery. Theatre Comique, 514 Broadway. Tony Pastor's Theatre, 587 Broadway. Union Square Theatre, 14th street, near Broadway. Wallack's Theatre, 844 Broadway. ART GALLERIES. Academy of Design, Fourth avenue, corner 23d street. Cooper In.stitute, Fourth avenue and Eighth street. Historical Society, corner Second avenue and Eleventh street. (By introduction. ) Knoedler, Fifth avenue. Kurtz, 6 E. 23d street. Metropolitan Museum of Art, 128 West 14th street. (.Mondays and Thursdays free.) Somerville, 14th street and Fifth avenue. Sarony & Co . , 680 Broadway . (Photographic— Free . ) Schaus, W., 749 Broadway. (Free.) Snedecor, W., 768 Broadway. (Free.) CLUBS. American Jockey, Madison avenue, corner East 27th. NEJV YORK CITY AND BROOKLYN, 39 Arion, 21 St. Mark's Place. Armj' and Navy, 16 Fifth Avenue. Aschenbroedel, 74 East Fourth street. Blossom, 129 Fifth avenue. Century, 109 East 15th street . German, 104 Fourth avenue. Gotham, Broadway, corner East 14th street. Knickerbocker, Fifth avenue, corner East 28th street. Liederkranz, 35 E.^4th street. Lotus, Fifth avenue and 21st street. Manhattan, 96 Fifth avenue. New York, 309 Fifth avenue. N. Y. Chess, University Building . N. Y. Caledonian, 118 Sullivan street. N. Y. Yacht (House at Staten Island), Madison avenue, corner East 22d street. Palette, 6 East 23d street, Madison Square. Travelers', 124 Fifth avenue. Union League, Madison avenue, coi-ner East 26th street. MAIL STATIONS. All the Stations, except ilf, are Money Order Offices, by which Orders are issued or paid. Open from 6.30 a.m. to 8 p.m. On Sundays from 8.00 to 9.30 a.m. ^4_595 Broadway. 3/— Tenth avenue, cor. 152d st. B—m) Grand street. Q— Manhattanville. C— 583 Hudson street. i2— 110th street and Boulevard. i)_4 Cooper Institute. Monisania. £J— 465 Eighth avenue. Tremont. i*'— 550 Third avenue. West Farms. G'— 935 Eighth avenue. Fordham. J?— 1009 Third avenue. Spuj-ten Duyvil. J— 73d street and Boulevard. King's Bridge. E:— 1531 Third avenue. Riversdale. L— 2237 Third avenue . Woodlawn. PRINCIPAL FOREIGN CONSULATES. (jreat Britain.— \" Broadway. I.E. M. Archibald, C.B. : J. Pierre pont Edwards, V. C.) Fi-ance.—A Bowhng Green (foot Broadway).] Oerinany.—2 Bowling Green (foot Broadway). (H. A. Schumaker C. G.) 40 PRACTICAL GUIDE TO Italy.— 7 Broadway, Room 14. Austria. — 33 Broadway. Room 25. (Theodore A. Havemeyer, C. G.) Hungary. — (As Austria.) Belgium. — 6S "Worth street. (Chas. 3Iah. » Denniarl: — 52 Broadway. Room 12. Siveden. — IS Exchange Place, Rooms 9 and Itt. Soru-ay. — (As Sweden, t Holland. — 15 Exchange Place. Spain. — 29 Broadway. Room 30. Su-itzerland. — 60 Wall street. Room 7. iV. C. -iS Wall street, i Russia. — 52 and 50 Exchange Place. i^Waldemar Bodisco, C. G. : H. Baltzer, V. C.) Portugal. — 148 Pearl street. (G. Amsinck. C. G. • Mexico. — 35 Broadway. (J. N. Xavarro. C. G. > Brazil. — 42 Broadway. Greece. — 56 Stone street. Japan. — 7 and 9 "Warren street. Chili. — 663^ Pine street. Egypt. — 76 South street. Peru. — 39 Broadway. Turkey. — 122 Front street. Room 17. HOTELS. V ALPHABETICAL. . Aberdeen Broadway and 21st street Albemarle Broadway and 24th street . Arlington 22 East 14th street . Ashland Fourth avenue and 24th street . Astor 221 Broadway. Astor Place 25 Third avenue . Belmont '. 137 Fulton street . Belvldere Irving Place and 15th street . Berkeley Fifth avenue and Ninth street . Brandreth Broadway and Canal street . Brevoort 11 Fifth avenue . Broadway Broadway and 42d street . Buckingham Fifth avenue and 50th street Clarendon 64 Union Square . Clifford 26th street and Broadway. Coleman Broadway and 27th street. Continental 904 Broadway Cosmopolitan ^ Chambers street and "West Broadway . Crittenden Broadwav and 26th street . NEJV YORK CITY AND BROOKLYN. 41 Crook's 84 Chatham street. Delmonico's Fifth avenue, 28th street and Broadway . Earle's Canal and Centi-e streets . Eastern Corner Wliitehall and South streets Everett Fourth avenue and 17th street . Fifth Avenue Fifth avenue and 23d street . Frankfort Frankfort and William streets . French's 1 Chatham street . Fulton Ferrj- House Coi-ner Fulton and South streets. Gilsey Broadvvay and 29th street . Glenham 155 Fifth avenue . Gramercy Park Gramercy Park, East 21st street . Grand ^ Bi-oadway and 31st street . Grand Central 671 Broadway. Grand Union Fourth avenue and 41st street . Grosvenor 37 Fifth avenue . Hoffman 1111 Broadway. Hoyt 759 Broadway . Hotel Branting Madison avenue and 58th sti'eet . " Brunswick 225 Fifth avenue . " Espanola 21 East Fourth street . " Monico 23 East 17th street . " Royal Sixth avenue and 40th street . ■ ' St. Germain Fifth avenue and 22d street . International 17 and 19 Park Row . Irving 49 East 12th street. Leggett's 48 Chatham street. Libby 386 Fourth avenue . Marlborough Sixth avenue and 38th street . Merchants' 39 Cortlandt street. Metropolitan - 586 Broadway. Monument 6 Union Square . National 5 Cortlandt street. New England Bowery and Bayard street . New York 721 Broadway. Occidental. Broome street and Boweiy . Pacific 172 Greenwich street . Parker Broadway and 34th street . Park Beekman and Nassau streets . Prescott Broadway and Spring street. Putnam Fourth avenue, near 27th straet. Revere 606 Broadway . 42 PRACTICAL GUIDE TO Rossmore Broadway a nd 42d street . Saint Charles 648 Broadway . Saint Cloud Broadway and 42d street . Saint Denis Broadway and 11th street . Saint James 1133 Broadway . Saint Julien 4 Washington Place . Saint Germain 1 East 22d street . Saint Nicholas 515 Broadway . Saint Omer Sixth avenue and 23d street . Sinclair 754 Broadway . Sixth Avenue 777' and T<'9 Sixth avenue . Smith & McNeirs V.fi Washiugt.ni and 198 Greenwich streets. Southern t)~9 Broadway . Spingler 5 Union Square . Stacy 760 Broadway . Steele's Greenwich and Duane sti'eets . Stevens 23 Broadway . St. Stephen's. 11th street, near Broadway. Sturtevant 1186 Broadw^ay . Sweeney's Chambers and Chatham streets. Torrilhon 344 Sixth avenue . Tremont 665 Broadway. Tyler Broadway and 12th street . Union 465 Fourth avenue . Union Place Broadway and 14th sti-eet . Union Square 16 Union Square United States Fulton and Pearl streets. University 27 Waverley Place. Van Dj'ke's Chatham and South streets . Van Dj'ke House Bowery and Bayard street . Washington " 1 Broadway. Webb 42d street and Fifth avenue. West End Washington Heights . West Side Sixth avenue and 15th street . Westminster Irving Place and 16th street . Winchester Broad%vay and 31st street . Windsor Fifth avenue and 46th street LEADING CITY OFFICIALS— 1877. J/aelphi and twilight, all staunch and sea-worthy Steamers, having on board eveiy day Conterno's Celebrated 23d Rcg't. Band, Madrigal and Glee Clubs, and Otlier Musical Attractions. Time Table of Boats leaving Twenty-Fourth St., North River, 8:30, 9:30, and 10 A. M., 1:30, 2:30, and 3 P.M. Pier No. 2, North River, 8:45, 9:45, and 10:15 A. M., 1:15, 2:45, 3:15 P. M. Fulton Ferry, Brooklyn, 9:00, 10:00, 10:30 A. M., S:CO, 3:00, 3:30, P. M. Returning, leave Rockaway 11:00 A. M., 12:00 M„ and 12:30, 4:00, 5:00, and 7:00 P. M. Fare, to Rockaway, 85 cts. ; Excursion Tickets for Round Trip, 50 cts. Return Tickets of one boat are good on any other boat of this line. Look at advertisements in New York and Brooklyn Daily Papers, to get the latest authentic time-table. ANNOUNCEMENTS. m H O H M fa M i © m m O > Q c o o c ^ O o o C/) jC Q 4 4 © I © ^ i Leaves, every day, pier foot of 22d street, N. R., at 10 A. M., and pier 2, N.R., (adjoining tlie Battery,) at 10:30 A. M. Remains at Rockaway Beach about three hours, affording ample time for Luncheon and Surf -Bathing. Reaches the city, on return, at about 6 P. M. FAR£, 50 CENTS, HOUND TRIP. Marine Band, Mozart Glee Club, Madrigal Boys, Church Chimet. ANNO UNCEMENTS. C ^ L I F o n ]sri ^ . THE CHICAGO & NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY Embraces under one management the Great Trunk Railway Lines of the WEST AND NORTH-WEST. Its OMAHA AND CALIFORNIA LINE Is the shortest and best Route for all points in Northern Illinois, Iowa, Dakota, Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Nevada, Cali- fornia, Oregon, China, Japan and Australia. Its CHICAGO, ST. PAUL. AND MINNEAPOLIS LINE Is the short line for Northern Wisconsin and Minnesota, and for Madison. St. Paul. Minneapolis, Duluth and all points in the great Northwest. Its CHICAGO AND MILWAUKEE LINE Is the old Lake Shore Route, and is the only one passing through EvANSTON, Lake Forest, Highland Park, Waukegan, Racine, Ke- nosha to Milwaukee. Pullman Palace Sleeping Cars are run on all through trains of tliis road. This is the ONLY LINE iiinning these ears between Chicago and St. Paul, Chicago and Milwaukee, or Chicago and Winona.; UNRIVALLED ! PULLMAN PALATIAL DRATl^ING-ROOM HOTEL C ^ R S. These celebrated Cars are run over the Chicago dt North-Westem Railway, ALONE, betiveen Chicago and Omaha. No other road runs tliis or any otlier form of Hotel Car betvi^een Cliicasro and Oiiialia. This Line of Hotel Cars was built expressly for the Chicago & North-Western Railway's CALIFORNIA LINE, and runs over it daily each way between CHICAGO AND OMAHA. No expense has been spared in the construction of these Cars, the Co-mpany being determined to excel all former p)roductions, and pre- sent to the Traveling Public a line of Hotels on Wheels, that will em- brace all the Magnificence, Comfort and Luxury of the best Hotels in the country. Through Tickets via this Route can be procured at all Ticket Offices in the United States and Canadas. New York Office, No. 415 Broadway ; Boston Office, No. 5 State Street ; San Francisco Office, No . 4, New Montgomery Street ; Chi- cago Ticket Offices. For rates or information not attainable from your home ticket agents, apply to W. H. Stennett, Marvin Hughitt, Gea. Pass. Ag't, Chicago. Gen. Man'g., Chicago. ANNO UNCEMENTS. BROWN BROTHERS & CO. 59 Wall Street, New York, Issue, asrainst cash deposited, or satisfactoiy guarantee of repay- ment, Circular Credits for travelers, in Dollars for use in the United States and adjacent countries, and ki Pounds Sterling for use in any part of the world . These credits bearing the signature of the holder, afford a ready means of identification, and the amounts for which they are issued can be availed of from time to time, and wherever he may be, in sums to meet the requirements of the traveler. Applications for credits may be made to the above house direct, or through any first-class bank or banker in this country. They also issue Commercial Credits, make Cable Transfers of Money between this countrv and England, and draw Bills of Ex- change on Great Britain and Ireland. BROWN. SHIPLEY dt CO., Founder's Court, Lothburi/, London. BROWN, SHIPLEY <& CO., Chapel Street, Liverpool. JOHN MUNROE & COMPANY, BANKERS, iVb. 8 Wall Street, New York, and No. 4 Post Office Square Boston, ISSUE Circular Notes ais^d Circular Letters OF Credit for Travelers, ON THE CONSOLIDATED BANK, LONDON, AND ON MUNROE & COMPANY, PARIS. EXCHANGE O^ LONDOIS^ AND PARIS, Money Transferred, and Credits Opened by Cable. ANNO UNCEMENTS. THE EQUITABLE LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY OF THE UNITED STATES, No. 120 Broadway, New York. o Ci i> CD GO T— 1 T-1 . '^ o CO 00 ?^ o ' •■Si (TV) 1 f^ -4-3 m m "^ ^ CO 00 o Co C/2 CO All Cash. Purely Mutual. "or o CO 00 Annual Dividends. NeAv Business among the largest of any Company in America or Europe. Average Annual Growth gi-eater than any other leading Company. Percentage of Losses to Policies in force, less than any other. Percentage of Expenses to Income, less than the average of other New York Companies. OFFICERS: HENRY B. HYDE, Jh-esident. JAMES W. ALEXANDER, Vice-President. SAM'L BORROWE, Sea-etary. WILLIAM ALEXANDER, Ass't Secretary. GEO. W. PHILLIPS, I Actuaries J. G. VAN CISE, \ -^ctwa?-t«s. EDWARD W. LAMBERT, M. D., * ,r ^- i itu, • -^ EDWARD CURTIS. M . D. \ ^^<^'<^<^^ Examiners . ANNOUNCEMENTS. STEVENS HOUSE, On the European Plan, 17 to 27 Broadway, N. Y. (Cor. Morris St. Station of the N. Y. Elevated R. R). CHAS. G. CORNELL, WM. BRODHEAD, Proprietor. Manager. :o: But a few minutes walk from the Stock, Produce, Cotton and Tobacco Exchanges, and the Principal Offices and Landings of the European and Southern Steamship and Eastern Steamboat Lines Easy access to all parts of the City by Omnibus and Street Cars. Suites for Families. Rooms for single Persons, $1.00 per day. :o: ^^ RESTAURANT XJlVEXCELiIiED IN AMERICA. INCORPORATED 1858. ]i^II^EJVlEJN^^ ]^UND |n^. ^0. OF NEW YORK. CASH C APITAIL, $1 50,000.00. SURPLUS, 65,000,00, ASSETS, $21 0,000,00, 167 ^TOCLdwcLi/y JSTevi^ Jtior^k, AND 85 Broadway, Brooklyn, E. D. This old established Company offers to the Public safe and re- liable indemnity against Loss and Damage by Fire. W. R. WADSWORTH, CHAS. E. APPLEBY, Secretary. President. ANNO UNCEMENTS. WINDSOR HOTEL, Fifth Avenue, FORTY-SIXTH and FORTY-S F VEN'TH STREETS, New York City. One of the most elegant, costly and perfect Hotels in America. HAWK, WAITE & WETHERBEE, Proprietors. BREVOORT HOUSE, FIFTH AVENUE, Near WASHINGTON SQUARE, NEW YORK. A quiet Hotel, with a Restaurant of peculiar excel- lence. Its patrons are of the best families of this country and Europe. C. C. WAITE, Resident Proprietor » MOORE'S HOTEL. TRENTON FALLS, ^ 'New York. This first-class hotel is located immediately in the neigh- borhood of these, the handsomest Falls in America, and among the finest in the World ; and from it every facility is to be obtained for viewing them to advantage. M. MOORE, Proprietor. ANNO UNCEMEN TS. International Hotel NIAGARA FALLS. s r r » • J. ' •' 'lUlllNIII: J. T. FULTON, Jr., Proprietor. This magnificent Hotel is the largest and most pleas- antly situated of any at Niagara. Being the nearest to che Falls, and the only one containing all modern im- provements, it offers inducements to the travelling public which are unexcelled. A splendid addition, extending OVER loo FEET INTO THE RAPIDS, has just been completed, adding a large number of Magnificent Rooms directly Overlooking the River. Also, Three Elegant Parlors, which in point of beauty, and the splendid views of the Rapids and Falls they afford, cannot be surpassed. Guests may rely upon receiving every comfort and attention. Omnibuses and Porters at all Trains. Railroad, Steamboat and Telegraph Offices in the Hotel. ANNO UNCEMENTS. RossiN House Hotel, TORONTO, CANADA. G. P. SHEARS, Proprietor. This commodious and admirably located Hotel is finished and fur- nished with every regard to comfort and luxury ; has hot and cold water, with Baths and Closets on each floor. The Parlors and Bed Rooms are large and well-ventilated, and arranged for private parties and families. Is the coolest summer house in Canada, and thoroughly heated by steam in winter. Accommodation for 500 guests. Pa- tronized by all the nobility and gentry who have visited Canada. CHARGES. First Flat, - .- - Second Flat, Third and Fourth Flats, - Rooms with Baths attached, extra. 13.00 per day. 2.50 and $3.00 per day. 2.00 and 2.50 *• J5^* Special arrangements made with families and private parties desirous of remaining for a time. NOTE. — Toronto is the Capital of the Province of Ontario, and has the best Colleges and Schools, and finest Public Buildings, in Canada. Telegraphic communication and R.R. Ticket Office in Main Corridor of Hotel. ANNO UNCEMENTS. Hammondsport, N. Y., STILL AND SPARKLING WINES, Agency, 88 Chambers Street, NE^V ITORK CITY. *^€l:-OX^D^ SEAL '^ &: ^^ IMPMIilAri? 9% Our two Leading Brands of Sparkling Champagnes, equal- ing Imported Wines. SWEET AND DRY CATAWBA; also. Port Wine, a superior article for sacramental pur- poses, absolutely pure, and delicious . No alien chemical elements whatever are employed, being en- tirely the result of the natural fermentation, aided by the highest skill and most patient diligence in the various stages of this process. Orders by mail, or personallj^ deUvered, will be attended to with the utmost fidelity and despatch, and are respectfully solicited . DAN B. HOPKINS, Agent. OFFICERS OF THE COMPANY : D. M. HILDRETH, President. H. H. COOK, Treasurer. CLARK BELL, Vice Pre^dent . A. SMEDBERG. Secretary. •A. J. SWITZER, Gen. Sup't. ANNO UNCTMENTS. NEW YORK BUREAU FOR MINING INFORMATION, No. 60 BROADWAY, {Over AmeHcan Mining and Stock Exchange.) New York, This Bureau has been established to supply a daily increasing want of the Mining Interest of America. It has reliable Corres- pondents in all the Mining localities, and, while encouraging these great interests, will fearlessly expose all attempts to deceive the public with worthless investments in this class of property. Tlxe JSdlTitrLg RecoTcl^ NEW YORK BUREAU FOR MINING INFORMATION, i Price $3.00 per Annmn., in advance, will be the ofificial mouthpiece of the Bureau, and will be published every Thursday. Subscribers to The Mining Record will be en- titled to all the privileges of the Bureau. Reliable Assays of all kinds of Ore will be made when ordered, and Experts will be pro- vided to examine Mines and Mining Property. All communications will meet with prompt response. For fur- ther particulars, address AliEX. KOBT. CHISOIiM, Manager. N. B. — Liberal arrangements made with reliable Cor- respondents and Experts. ANNO UNCEMENTS. THE HIGHEST HONORS AT THE CENTENNIAL EXHIBITION. The Judges unanimously recommended the MENDELSSOHN PIANOS DIPLOMA OF HONOR AND MEDAL OF MERIT, Placing them in the Frorti Rank without a Superior. PftlCES BELO^Y COMPETITION, FOR STRICTLY FIRST-CLASS INSTRUMENTS. $600 for $250. $650 for $275. $700 for $300. $750 for $325. S800 for S350. $900 for $400. $1,000 for $450. NO COMMISSIONS TO AGENTS. NO DISCOUNTS TO TEACHERS. NO DEVIATION IN PRICE. THE MENDELSSOHN GRAND, SQUARE AND UPRIGHT PIANOS contain valuable patents and improvements never before introduced • Mathushek's New Patent Duplex Overstrung Scale is the greatest advance in the history of Piano making, producing the most astonishing power, richness and depth of tone, and a sus- taining singing quality never before attained, being a " Grand Piano IN A Square Case." THE MENDELSSOHN UPRIGHTS are the finest in America. They are pronounced the "Pianos of the Future." Manufactory and Warerooms : Nos. 490, 492, 494, 496 and 498 West Fifty-seventh St., Nos. 858, 860, 862, 864, 868 and 870 Tenth Avenue . PIANOS SENT ON TRIAL. Illustrated and Descriptive Catalogue mailed fi'ee. iriENDELSSOHN PIANO CO., Business Office, No. 56 BROADWAY, N. Y. ANNO UNCEMENTS. A. CAI?IPBEIiIi, President. A. F. BROWN, JNO. R. CAMPBELL, J. L. BROWER. Treasurer. Secretary. Asst. Sec'y Campbell Printing Press AND MANUFACTURING COMPANY. OFFICE, JVo. 39 Beekman Street, New York. FACTORY, Wythe Avenue, Hemes and Penn Streets, Brooklyn, E. D., N. T. MANUFACTURERS OF Rotary Perrecting Printing & Folding Machines. ALSO Cylinder P^resses FOR Book, Nenrspaper, Job, Color & TTood-Cut Printing, The Campbell Presses are Endorsed by the Leading Printers and Publishers in the United States. Highest Award at the Philadelphia Centennial. SEND FOR IIiIiUSTRAT£D CATALOGUE. ANNO UNCEMENTS. Tredwell, Jarman & Slote, CUSTOM AND MANUFACTURING CLOTHIERS, BROADWAY, COR. CHAMBERS STREET, (Opposite Stewart's Wholesale House), Messrs. Tredwell, Jarman & Slote, on removal from Fulton Street, where they have conducted business for many years past, beg to announce that in transferring then- operations to Broadway, they are merely seeking the CONVENIENCE OF THEIR CIJSTOITIERS, and do not intend to abandon their well-known rule of [supplying Reliable Goods and Honest Workmanship AT PRICES FAR BELOW THE USUAL BROADWAY SCALE. Additional space and added facilities, enable Messrs. Tredwell, Jarman & Slote to Fill Custom Orders with Great -Expedition^ and at the same time to keep on hand CUSTOM GOODS IN GREAT VARIETY, AND R.EADT-OTADE CLiOTHING IN FUI.Ii ASSORTMENT All below ruling Prices. men's furnishing goods, In Large Assortment, and at Wide Range oj Prices. ANNO UNCEMENTS, Editorial and Business Office, 52 Broadway, N, Y, MORFORD'S SHORT-TRIP GUIDE TO EUROPE. Most perfect Guide for Americans in the Old World. Neat, compact, of the right size for the pocket. Everj'thing fresh and new. Handsome 16mo, flexible covers, with map, Price $1.50. LEE, SHEPARD k DILLINGHAM, Publishers, 678 BROADWAY NEW YORK, MORFORD'S SHORT-TRIP GUIDE AMERICA. Complete Guide over all New World Routes, including California. With a special Tour in Virginia. Handsome 16mo, flexible covers, with map, Price $1.00. LEE, SHEPARD &. DILLINGHAM, Publishers, 678 BROADWAY, NEW YORK. ANNO UNCEMENTS. FRANCIS & LOUTREL. i5 Maiden Lans, Hew York< IVIanufacturers of PATENT SPRING-BACK ACCOUNT BOOKS. Writing Papers, Fancy and Staple Stationery, Df every description for Business, Professional, or Private use, at Low Prices. DIARIES AND DAILY JOURNALS. Gold Pens, Chessmen, Pocket Cutlery, Drawing Materials and Paper, Mourning Paper and Envelopes, Cards, Portfolios, Writing-Desks, Expense Books. Time-Books, Wash Books. Ink Trays, Copying and Seal Presses. COPY YOUR L.ETTERS, Use our Improved Manifold Letter- Writer— Letters and Copies are written at the same time . Patent Copyable Printing Ink, Indispensable for Bankers, Merchants, Transportation Companies, and others, Blanks lyrinted ivith this Ink will copy in an ordinary Copying Press. Patent Safety Checks, Cannot be altered by cliemical or mechanical means without instant detection . Patent Composition for Printers' Inlying Rollers, Does not Harden, Shrink, or Crack. P.O. INDELIBLE STAMPING INK, BLACK. BLUE AND RED. DUPLICATING ORDER BOOKS AND INK SHEETS. REPORTERS' MANIFOLDS. ORDERS SOLICITED. FRANCIS & LOUTREL., 45^ Maiden Lane, N. Y. DO NOT MISTAKE THE COMPANY. TO TRA.VELEI18. Cash Assets, over $4,000,000. THE TRAVELERS INSURANCE COMPANY OF HARTFORD, CONN., grants everything desirable in ACCIDENT DEPARTMENT. Foreign Travel. — Policies insuring against death by any form of accident, at home or abroad. RATE PER $1000. One Month. Two Months. Three Months. One Year. $a.90. $3-3S- $3-8o. $5.00, American Travel- Policies insuring against death by accident, and cor- ering Indemnity for disabling injuries, at rate of $5.00 per week with each $1,000 insured. RATE PER $1000. One Month. Two Months. Three Months. One Year. $1.50. $2.15. $3.00. $5.00. Daily average of Losses paid, $900 00 (during twelve years.) LIFE DEPARTMENT. In its Life Department, the Travelers grants full Life and Endowmeht Policies, embracing the best features of the best companies, as to non-forfeitute, terms of payment, etc., but without any of the complications or uncertainties '•? she note system All policies non-forfeitable. Its five, ten, fifteen and twenty year policies c^a be converted into endowments, at the option of the insurant. This feature \t original with this Company. R. DENNIS, Secretary. J. G. BATTERSON, President. N«w York Orrici, TRiBtTKE Building. R. M. JOHNSON, Manager CLYDE'S COASTWISE, WEST INDIA & PACIFIC STEAM LINES BETWEEN NEW YORK Havana, Cuba; Hayti and St. Domingo; Galveston, Texas; Charleston, S. C. ; Wilmington, N. C. ; Philadelphia, Pa. PHILADELPHIA AND Boston and Providence; Charleston, S. C. ; Norfolk and Rich- mond, Va. ; Alexandria; and Washington, D. C. Ntnv Orleans, La.; Cedar Keys & Key fVeu, F/a.; & Ha-vana, Cuba, NEW YORK AND CALIFORNIA LINE, Via Isthmus of Panama, Connecting vi^ith Lines on the Pacific Coast for Japan, China, Australia, New Zealand, British Columbia, Central America and South Pacific Ports. WM. P. CLYDE & CO., Nq. 6 Botuling Grttn, N. T li SM,tk ^karv0t, Ebila,, Pa, ) 3 3> 31>>1> I^J^^ '5:^ ji>>^^^^ BH^ ^^^P Jkbe^IKJE^^E^ ^^^i^:>.? >.xx):\;^ s Wd ■^L^2> .^^a^ o :>:i5 ^>>^ > .3,^*> Oim> ^^^: ;> > ^>>^> yj C>^s>~^»'^ >- ^[:m^^-- 55s>-^^a: ^^ IL^