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(1816 To 1860) By Chas. H. Haswell Originally published 1896 |
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Public feeling on the lottery question was made evident by an Act of the Legislature providing that new lotteries were not to be granted after the engagements of those then in existence had been fulfilled.
The North River Bank was chartered, with the condition that it gave Robert, John, and Samuel Swartwout assistance to develop their scheme, originating in 1819, to convert into arable land the meadows on the east side of the Hackensack River, north of Snake Hill, and it compromised with them for the sum of fifty thousand dollars. The Swartwouts prosecuted this enterprise with great diligence and persistence, employing in it all the capital they owned or could borrow. They constructed many miles of embankment and ditches, reclaiming about fifteen hundred acres, but the enterprise failed, and its projectors lost all. Other efforts of similar character have since proved to be unfruitful; notably an elaborate attempt made by Pike, the Cincinnati distiller, somewhere in the sixties.
The large double house, No. 39 Broadway, built in 1786 by General Alexander Macomb and occupied by Washington as President, was occupied in this year by Mr. C. Bunker as a hotel and known as the Mansion House.
The Bloomingdale Asylum, begun in 1818, was opened on May 7 in this year. The Deaf and Dumb Asylum, incorporated 1817, was located on Madison Avenue and Fiftieth Street, the present site of Columbia College (1895), first occupied by Columbia in 1857. It was the, first asylum for mutes in the United States.
Twelve lots of ground in Greenwich Street, at the Albany Basin, foot of Liberty Street, sold for $47,800.
In consequence of an issue between the Grocers and Auctioneers of the city, 234 of the former signed an agreement not to purchase any other than damaged or perishable goods at auction for a period of six months
from the Ist of January.
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