New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-05-26

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yesr they had granted lcensee TO nearly eli Who cane
ard fault was found with the Board. Therefore, he
believed they should net grant any III. year. bat
should refuse all sPplostions a. wa solely meter
wihn the discretion Of the Board.
TIE Board tnen adjourned TO "Wednesday afternoon
at o'clock, for the purpose of granting he'rses."
MARKET PLACES, PAST Sta AND PRESENT IN
From Col. DtvoEs paper upon the early history Of
New.York, hpt read before the Historical Society,
and sgain before large audience Of men and womse
at the Union on Monday evening, We learn EoSd
many facts about the market places that have bsea
established since the found alton Of the city and ssce
we have that any great credit 60 uS and
come that q positive dssrsce which ought to b
absted as public nusahces, let Ne bring forward some
ef Col. De voc remniscepoes VI what has been.
II appears from this historian Of our city markets
that We have had over ~ established, and that we
have n,w in use, such o. they are, eleven, e. Wash
Tss0p Fult1c Cs,hsCs Ch ISIo, Center. Es'
The fret market place in the city was On opea
space near Fort Amsterdam, from which A1ket-
field street takes it's name. There was an importatioa
Of small domestic animals previous to los, but the
first horned cattle and horses appear TO have arrived 10
that year. and first landed upon Nut leland nov
called Governors Island bat as that afforded insuf
fcent pastursge for the lv3 head the stock wss
moved 70 Mani attain Iasnd, which the Dutch had
purchased Of the indiana for <5 which Ices than
ore cent Shortly ster ttis importation Of
tie End fresn beef quoted at Eve stvers no cenfs)
spouLd.
lshtd for the sale If cattle ss well as game meats.
After the first introduction OF Dutch cattle II seems
better cass of stock introduced by the English.
In l64s Gov. Stuwessrt established regular msrks.
days-Mobdsy of e,ch wsek--in MaIketfeld street.
good deal Of the business Of buying and selling sesmso
have been done be strand. the boats oriogng tho
moot OF the produce. In 1850 there was complain;
tried against MOI Gay as q market day. when i Wa
changed to SATURDAY and 6xed upon the strand where
Pearl street now from the Battery 10 Broad street
proclamation WAS sent oat to the people that the
new city had established q regular and free market
for cattle. Complaints were made about l660 against
selling fsh &c, on Sunday In los the Custom
House bridge srket was established, and lew yess
later shed built near the foot Of Broadway.
In those early days cattle were killed by sworn butch
err one Of whom refused to kill swine, o. he wss
jew. In 1915 public slaughter house Was ordered
built at Smiths fly just outside the WALL over he
water. This is ct the foot Of Wall street.. 5etween
1890 and 1890 second meat market was built st Old
In 1915 there was q market place on the Hadscn
River The market place At Old slip up to l!oi, Wa
under some large shade trees, when the people were
sllo wed the privilege Of building amsrket at therosE
cost Coenes Market s noticed Is established in 1921.
at the house Of Long Mary" where market house
wa, built in 1870. The Broad street Market was built
in 1922 but after l7i0 there is no account OF IT, Fly
Market was established in l699 and the market house
cted in l7C6 and in 1876 it contained six outchers
stands The msrket place answered also for slave
market. Long Island farmers brought their produce
in wsgcrs to the ferry and scroes in eosss, ana tho
hester produce sll came in boats.
In III an addition was made TO Fly Market when
appears to have been the place Of sale OF nearly Az
butchers meat also appears that there was Of tne
early day Bulls Head tavern in Bowery lane. 10
i7SS another addition was made to Fly Market, 70!
feb ard country produce. Henry Aston, brother Of
John jacob wss one Of the Fly Market butchsrs. He
used to buy his cattle in Bowery lane, and wheel hic
money enough to assist John Jacob, when he came
from Europe to get start in business that laid the
foundation of his great fortune. 10 lI96 smother i'd
dition having been made to the Fly Market building,
the me at stands fourteen in number sold at auc-
| tion and the rights acquired by the butchers then
furnished the basis Of noted lawsuit when they were
| tran.kr red to Fulton Market which was built in
1891 when the pnmber Of butchers stands hsd ip'
| creased to about seventy.
In 1884 the lower part Of 1.-THE Exchange In Bfoed
street was appropriated 40 market, and there very
previous TO this various other msrketpaces, one OF
which stood for twenty years at the o OF John street
At Peck clip there was . market-plscs that va
established In 1863. 10 l77l Bear Market was e.
tAbirbed in the vicinity Of the present site Of WISH
pRtop Market which was built in 1873, and ct the
time thought to be very fine structurei and In is2
an addition made 10 II, called the C0uotfy Mx-
ket and really intended for the use of producers. IL
is of little use to them now Another market IN the
same vicinity was built in l79s that took the name o.
Buttermlk Market; it was located IN Vessy street.
Cstharibe Market, which used 70 take the lead 10
the fish trade az Fulton Market does now, was estab
lihed in 1886, At that time shark ashlns from the
were caught that weighed 40 pounds each.
Tie market at the west end Of Spring street vas es-
tabished in 1906, and the large frame building on the
south eide of Canal street was erected for country
market, but the country people have been long since
turned ont OF that.
The most important market location ever msds IN
this city by the Commissioners Who lsid out the
upper part of the island into streets in 1917 va
a block three or four times large - Tompkins
.auare including that on the Corlesr meadows, the
design being to open canal for market ooss up %
the hard land, and u'inE the made groeSc upon sscn
to accommodate producers instead OF forestalisr.
Unfortunately the psn was not approved and IN iess
thar fifty years after, Lowber jobs and Washington
Market swindles folio we'd, attended with corruption
that would disgrace the officials Of the worst bnbe-
Grsnd.s,re.t Market stood from 1914 TO 1884,, aud
Essex Market was located in 1918, and the present
substantial building erected 10 1874.
Center Market was established 10 1917, and the
pre,ett edifce erected in 1885, quite much for the
military as for market and that alec to be the esse
with Ton pkins Market, In the course OF erection
dalton OF the mi itsry heroes othe city who have woes
and il fuence, ard desire bulldog free OF rept.
Tompkins Market fret built 10 1880 And >, Heron
in 1882, ard several othe's between 1917 ana ioio'
that have ne out Of use One OF these was 81 Hs-
em on One. undred sLd.twenty frs. street, used low
for a ttOrebOuse.
In 1881, while the American army was at Dosbss
Feny, Washington established . market there ~
procanstiop upon the very principle that al markets
were originally Intended TO be established upon-thst
IT, as place VII. re producers could come and meet
the and furnish their wants without the aid
of 90 betweens suca have entirely crowded out 81
OF those who produce the food from the privilege OF
selling it in our market places which the city mali
ers at enormous cost to the tax payers oas
iota Of benefit to them. The waole msrke, system,
as well Is the market houses, Is dsgra'e TO- u
civilized con muDity, and If it cannJt be greatly in
proved, should be utterly abolished.
SLvEs STORES AND MILL DEsTRoYED.-The
people DsreD Conn, were thrown into 81 se OF
ors alarm on FRIDAY piQnt by the discovery tla