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(1816 To 1860) By Chas. H. Haswell Originally published 1896 |
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its style was so different from that to which we were accustomed in this country as to cause a furor to see her. The novelty of her manner of dancing and the character of her dress were not only the theme of talk and discussion for a long while, but they led to a very general discussion in the newspapers. In fact, if she had appeared as some female characters do now (as early as 1880), the scene that was exhibited at the Drury Lane Theatre, London, a century ago, upon the first appearance of " The Beggars' Opera" would in all probability have been enacted here. The theatre at this date opened at half-past six.
March 5 an Arcade, which had been in course • of construction for some months, was opened from Maiden Lane to John Street, in the block about one hundred feet east of Broadway; it had not the success that had been anticipated and survived but a few years.
March 12 Jacob Barker was tried for libel, and convicted on the loth of the following month.
Andrew Colvin, who had operated a stage from Wall Street to the upper part of Broadway, was constrained to abandon the enterprise.
March i8 the "Greek Committee," as it was termed, that is, the association of citizens who were selected to solicit and receive donations for the benefit of the Greeks in their resistance to the Turks, despatched the ship Chancellor to Greece with provisions, etc.
March 23 the steamboat Oliver Ellsworth, from Saybrook, Conn., to this city, collapsed a flue of her boiler and scalded several persons. When the boiler was repaired, her owner had a piece of the copper plate of which the furnaces were constructed heated and doubled, and displayed it in the captain's office as a sample of the copper of her boiler, leading to the natural inference with laymen that it was of the exceptional thickness shown, and consequently comparatively safe.
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