The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-07-11


seen the following sign;-
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The Worlds Fair paguerreotype Gallery, up stairs
Price rs cents.
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Reaching the OF Forty third street and Sixth
avenue, We sawa large picture of Clarke Mills
bronze equestrian statue Of General Jackson The sign
stands thus the front end of the second story Of the
Sixth Avenue Railroad brick stables
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Picture Of the Statue,l 0
Clark Mills Bronze Statue.
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Clark Mills celebrated Bronze Equestrian Statue
OF General Jackson.
To the east Of Sixth avenue in Forty street.
found entrances to the Railroad Pavilion and the Pro-
mer ade Saloon and the north side the wreck of Town
sends wooden house, demolished by the late storm, in
which several men killed.
Returning down Sixth avenue to gain the west 'front.'
Of the Palace encountered at the of Forty
second street. extending south half block series
of contiguous cloth booths tents of various pretsn
sons with eaables and drinkabes of every variety at
the most reasonable prices. Passing south by whole
series of less imposing drinking ice and
confectionery saloons with imposing names, such the
sKremn," the "Crystal Palace Saloon Of Mass Co.,
finally brought up before the startling sign of live
crocodile in the Sixth avenue between Forty first and
FoIteh streets The imposing and highly colored sign
hung out in front would not do dscredt to the best
daubs in front of Barnum's Museum. 1t ran thus
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. The largest living crocodile captured.
[picture If huge crocodile, with his mouth wide
o open just ready to nab q naked negso, who is
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Nesr unto the cr0ccale the following eisa is hung
out
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Giganu, Caraars otscura q
The fine arts brought to close. n
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This will prove an interesting and neat Affair for all our
country cousins to gaze upon aud wonder at.
At the Of Foreth street and Sixth avenue over
refre,hment room, called the Tontne found the fol
lowing sign
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Orleans Pistol Gallery. . .
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At the southeast corner Of Forteth street and Sixth
avenue entered Corporal homp saloon az the
extreme end of which found twelve automaton bell
ringers in the form Of neat sgures of small gauaiy
draped girls about eight ten oli with small
boy in TIE CENTRE acting director Of music They
made by machinery, to knock OF Hail, Columbia"
very WELL In the the Corporal and his friends have
Start ed circus called the Washipgon Circus, where,
twice day the elegant equestrans, Msdames Louise and
Tourniare and clever olown with fair stock company
the country folks 1t promises tobe rival to the
Hippodrome, in the affections Of the masses
To the east of corporas and fronting the south side
Of the Palace we to and greater wonders We
first reached drinking house called the
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"Temple Of Refreshments." o
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In front and over entrance to covered pen
in the rear there loomed up two large signs The first
was ~ follows
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o Picture Of two immense Oxen. (panted in strong o
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The largest sheep in the world, nine feet girh and
fleece three feet long. o
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We invited to enter ard take look, which did
and really found the to be of mammoth size, and
the sheep the most wonderful we had ever seen.
Near the oxen were Llliputian and calf, full
grown and not much higher than a mans knee. In
adjoining pen splendid buffalo ball from the far of
praries In another pen hard by tremendous hog,
very fat that it made feel hotter than ooH
at him, he lay stretched like hopless Falsa his
bed of straw-a real Jersey pig, years old weighing
l407 pounds feet inches long, with grth of feet
inches.
Passing out went further east in Fortieh street.
Over the entrance the wooden building there
hung out sign Of an immense mule, thus
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The Largest Mule in the World. .
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We politely invited to examine the critter, and
must say that he the monarch Of his longeared
race, and was the largest saw, though very
limited number of all in the world had under
notice. He reared in Monroe county by Col. John
Howard, five years old, weighed 23O pounds, and
was l916 hands high
In apartment the mule were introduced to
Gen. Wade Hampton" the greatest physiological
rosity The Cen. is les person than
light chocolate cclored negro of full formed head
guar features and good lungs and fair digestive organs
with all his extremies nothing less than skeleton
covered with skin. He is apparently without any
spinal column; he has little of his skeleton
legs arms, and Of course only sit up and
like child when going forward its launches to reach
atoy.
The General was thirty-three years old, conversed
intelligenty, could sing well, aud appeared to be
in good health. He is native Of Columbia county
Georgia. He only weighed thirtyone pounds and it was
said that he had wife, and was she father OF two
children.
Leaving this point, brought up by at the fol-
lowing sign
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The Wild Men of the leland OF Borneo o
supposed to DO part human and part animal. o
This exhibition accompanied with music from
large hsn organ which the wild men we're said to Der.
form very we'll
Thence proceeded to view three immense New York
oxen in Thirty ninth street. just west Sixth avenue
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