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(1816 To 1860) By Chas. H. Haswell Originally published 1896 |
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Jacob Barker and Samuel Hazard applied for a charter for the Exchange Bank, with a capital of one million dollars.
An ocean steamship company, with Cadwallader D. Colden, John Whettin, and Henry Eckford as trustees, was organized, with a capital of three hundred thousand dollars, with power to increase to five hundred thousand. In March of this year was built the steamer Savannah -of 380 tons, old measurement, said to have had folding water-wheels, which were taken out and laid on deck when not in use, presumably when she was under sail alone. She sailed to Savannah and thence to Liverpool, where she arrived on June 20, the first steam vessel to cross the Atlantic Ocean.
In July Rose Butler, a negro wench who had been convicted of arson (inasmuch as she had maliciously set fire to some combustible materials under a stairway, which was readily discovered and extinguished), was publicly hanged in Potter's Field, now the site of the Washington Parade Ground. A leading daily paper referred to her execution in a paragraph of five lines, without noticing any of the unnecessary and absurd details that are given at the present day in like cases; neither was her dying speech recorded, much less transmitted to other countries, as in the case of a recent execution in England.
In August a case of yellow fever occurred in the vicinity of Old Slip, and, soon after, the disease became epidemic, so much so as to render necessary the removal of contiguous inhabitants and the closing of the infected area by a fence.
October 22. Thomas Cooper, the celebrated tragedian, appeared here. During the temporary closing of the Park Theatre, the Anthony Street Theatre, newly fitted and renamed the Pavilion, was reopened. At this house William Leggett appeared, in July, for the first time
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