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(1816 To 1860) By Chas. H. Haswell Originally published 1896 |
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was given the exclusive privilege for thirty years of laying gas-pipes south of Grand Street. The first introduction of the gas in a house was in that of the President at 7 Cherry Street. I went to witness it.
A line of packets hence to London, sailing on the 1st of every month, was organized by John Griswold and Fish and Grinnell ; followed by a line to Liverpool, sailing on the 16th of every month. Passengers between this port and Europe were so scarce that the packet ships were fitted only for a few, and on one occasion, within my knowledge, a lady desiring to meet her husband in England, applying for passage in one of the old or Black Ball line of Liverpool packets, was refused, as, she being the only woman, her presence would be inconvenient to the male passengers. Persons who venture now to encounter the gales and seas of the Northern Atlantic. in steamers of ten or fifteen thousand tons' burthen, will probably be surprised to learn that the tonnage of the Liverpool and Havre packets did not reach four hundred. The Edward Quesnel was but 325, and the Queen Mab and Don Quixote were much less; I am of the conviction the tonnage was in both cases under 250.
In this year a stage ran from the Bull's Head, in the Bowery, to Manhattanville.
Samuel Woodworth founded the Weekly Mirror in 1822, and in this year joined George P. Morris and published the New York Mirror and Ladies' Literary Gazette at 163 William Street, removed in 1825 to No. 9 Nassau Street. Subsequently Woodworth retired, and Nathaniel P. Willis succeeded him.
F. Marquand, at No. 166 Broadway, opened the leading jewelry store in the city. There were reported in this year in the entire city, eighty-three churches, chapels, etc. ; at this time (1894) the number given in the City Directory is 522. This is not a favorable proportion of increase, the churches having increased little more than
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