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(1816 To 1860) By Chas. H. Haswell Originally published 1896 |
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six-fold, for a population fifteen times as great. No doubt, however, the modern churches may be somewhat larger than those of that period. Christ Church (Episcopal), in Anthony Street near Broadway, was completed and consecrated in this year.
March 28 occurred a great gale, from the severity of which fifty-four vessels were stranded on the shores of Staten Island between the Kills and South Amboy. On the 30th, David Dunham, a prominent merchant and resident of this city, in company with Alderman Philip Brasher, was knocked overboard by the jibing of the boom of a sloop in which they were passengers on their way from Albany; the latter was rescued, but the former was drowned.
April 28, the steamboat James Kent of the North River Steamboat Co., destined for the route to Albany, was launched, and it was confidently announced that she would make the passage hence to Albany between sunrise and sunset.
A company was organized to recover the treasure sunk in the Hussar frigate above Hell Gate, and so confident were its officers that I have seen, at the home of one of the company, a number of the small cotton-cloth bags that were made to put the treasure in.
In consequence of the question of deciding upon some method by which the city could be furnished with an ample supply of pure water, the Manhattan Co. was called upon to report its capacity, which was officially notified as amounting to 691,200 gallons of water per day, involving a period of sixteen hours' pumping. The pumping power was given as that of two engines of eighteen horses each. The capacity of the reservoir was 132,696 gallons, connected with twenty-five miles of log pipes.
May 27, the great challenge horse-race, made the year preceding, between Mr. Van Ranst's famous horse
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