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OF hotels there were at this period the City Hotel, opened in 1805 by John Lovett on the site of the present Boreel Building in Broadway ; the Franklin House, corner of Broadway and Dey Street; the Park Place Hotel, corner of Broadway and Park Place; Congress Hall, Broadway near John Street; Washington Hall, on the site of the Stewart Building ; the Northern Hotel, foot of Cortlandt Street; the Bull's Head, on site of the Bowery, now the Thalia Theatre; the Steamboat Hotel, Beekman Street, and Hankin's steamboat bar-room at foot of Catharine Street. On the east side of Broadway, between Twenty-first and Twenty-second streets, there was an old and well-known hostelry, known as the Buck's Horn; which name was conspicuously painted under a representation of a buck's head and horns, elevated on a post which was set in a line with the present curb, the dwelling being set back for many feet, on ground rising fully ten feet above the present grade of Broadway (see p. 247). This scant array of hotels in New York, at a time within the memory of living men, may almost more sharply than any thing else reveal to the New-Yorkers of to-clay the difference between the town then and now, when it is so filled with these houses that even an expert, taking time and pains, will scarcely succeed in numbering the hotels even of the higher grade-many of them veritable palaces.

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