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(1816 To 1860) By Chas. H. Haswell Originally published 1896 |
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shrouding. This was not only the largest merchantman that had ever been built in the United States, but the first one in which chain rigging was introduced. In consequence of her great size and novel rigging she was very generally visited by residents and strangers, who with common accord pronounced her a failure, as a business experiment on account of her size, and nautically on account of her lower rigging; and she was colloquially termed "Bully Hall's failure."
April 26. The cleaning of the streets, piers, etc., for the current year, with possession of the sweepings, was offered at public auction, and the lowest price to be received by the contractor was five thousand dollars!
The sweeping of the streets was so different from that in operation at the final period of these reminiscences that it is worthy of reference. Thus, all house and store holders were required to clear the gutters and sweep the pavement in front of their buildings out to the centre of the street, from whence it was the duty of the department of street-cleaning to remove the dirt; but alike to many other public duties, the neglect of it was more apparent than the observance; and, as a result, not only were the newspapers and individuals loud in their many complaints, but frequently parties, suffering from the neglect by the accumulation of filth in the streets, would pile it up in a great mass and then label it "Corporation Pudding," and, in later years, "Bloodgood Pies," etc. ; Bloodgood being the head of the department.
Passengers from Philadelphia via steamboat to Bordentown, thence by stage to New Brunswick, thence by steamboat, reached the city in eleven hours and fifteen minutes, and the occasion was deemed worthy of public notice.
May 2. The Bull's Head and the attendant tavern} were removed from the Bowery and Bayard Street to Third Avenue and Twenty-sixth Street. remaining the
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