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(1816 To 1860) By Chas. H. Haswell Originally published 1896 |
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ferry to Hoboken. On November 29 the Staten Island Ferry was improved by employment of a steamboat, the Nautilus, making four trips a day ; fare twenty-five cents. Captain Cornelius Vanderbilt (afterward the "Commodore "), as owner and master of the rowing and sailing ferry-boat Dread, took from the ship Neptune, stranded at Sandy Hook, four hundred and six thousand dollars in specie. Attached to the Fire Department was a floating fire-engine, the machinery of which some years after was transferred over a well in what was then the Corporation Yard, now the site of the Tombs, and designated Supply Engine No. 1.
The Custom House occupied the new building at the
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