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(1816 To 1860) By Chas. H. Haswell Originally published 1896 |
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the Square was named in honor of a very eminent printer.
It was in this year that the Legislature authorized the construction of the Erie Canal, from Albany to Buffalo, approved by the Council of Revision; a distance of 363 miles, with a width at surface of 40 feet, at bottom 28 feet, and a depth of 4 feet, locks go feet in length and 15 feet in width. The first shovelful of earth was raised on July 4 of this year at Rome, and the work was finished in 1825.
In Canal Street on the west side, near to Broadway, there was on Saturday afternoons a horse-market at which the street venders of fish, oysters, clams, etc., supplied themselves; the prices varying from dollars to cents. It has been told that on one occasion one of a family of children, who had been indulged with a ride on one of her father's horses, was so pleased with the amusement that she solicited her mother to aid her father with another shilling, to enable him to buy a " bully one."
At this date, or just before, there was a notorious character called " Potpie " Palmer, who was said to have entered a kitchen during the War of the Revolution and run off with a potpie. He is here mentioned because his name was a by-word among the boys of the time, coupled with the declaration,
M. Paff, known as "Old Paff," formerly at 20 Wall Street, now kept a variety or bric-a-brac store at 221 Broadway, on a part site of the present Astor House. He also bought and sold paintings, and some marvellous
He was also the "bugbear," or croque-mitaine, held up by mothers and nurses to frighten unruly children into submission.Potpie Palmer was a jolly old soul,
With a three-cornered hat and the pie he stole."
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