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(1816 To 1860) By Chas. H. Haswell Originally published 1896 |
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THE city's expenditure for the year amounted to
$1,179,634.65; the receipts to $1,149,631.39; and the debt
remained at $1,483,800. In the three city watch districts there were 468 men, 6 captains, and 12 assistants.
Washington Square was opened, great part of which had been occupied as the Potter's Field, the remainder, about 312 acres, being purchased for $78,000. As bearing on the value of city real estate at this time I quote the following passage from a letter with which Mr. Edmund Hendricks has obliged me. Mr. Hendricks writes : " I find an entry on the Ledger of my Grandfather, Mr. Harmon Hendricks, under date of June 4, 1827, 'Paid J. C. Hamilton, McEvers and S. Ward, Executors of Estate of J. C. Vandenheuvel for 66 full lots, and a number of strips adjoining my farm up to the centre of 79th Street, and half the front on 11th Avenue, $8,361.15.'" At a later date, in or about 1833, Burnham removed his noted hostelry from Broadway and Seventieth Street to this Vandenheuvel mansion at Seventy-eighth Street, becoming the tenant of Mr. Harmon Hendricks at a rent of $600 per annum. I cannot now give the period when Burnham first opened his hostelry, but it was anterior to 1825.
It was now seriously urged by many that the city could be supplied with sufficient pure and wholesome water from the Bronx River, since it was computed that it would furnish above four million gallons per diem; and by the lowering of Rye Pond and the aid of dams, etc., nearly nine million gallons could he obtained
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