New-York tribune., 1868-06-13
TROW,S NEW CITY DIRECTORY.

The City Directory for 1SG3-69, being the SD
volume Is in press. In the advance sheets which have
been forwarded US. find much useful Information
About 100 have been engaged since the first Of May
last in compiling the .ser which goes TO make up this
directory Only those who have actually been engaged
work. who have attempted similar undertakings
have inkng OF the real toll and responsi-
bility that involves II Is easy 20 make invdous com
parisons with other drectories-that OF London for
ample. which is adapted to a wholly different civic popu-
comparatively It does not offer the O Information for
public benefit. When the whole Of Manhattan Island
habits OF the people snail have crystallized them.
selves into permanent conditions the TASK oi
For the present however the people OF New Ork are
like their tents, and settling
denccs and places Of business year. but they eject
complete changes in the characteristics Of localities aud
also causing infinite pcrpeNy and confusion, reineded
only by the Directory which keeps things IN order Tor the
generous public From this Directory we learn that 80
years ago the entire dry goods business was centeed IN
Pearl-st, Pne-st, and Maidenane but there now no
dry goods store Ia either Of those thOrOugiares Entire
streets, which 10 years ago were occupied by private
dwellings now filed with stores retired squares have
verted into theaers and heaer have undergone trans
formation into workshops. The whole city Is
Gates itself and forms new figure.
Where was a dingy edihce yesterday Will be found n
nences disappear and long Of highsOoped brown
stone fronts spring up in their places green meadows
Alladin's palaces Willow shaded lanes become paved
streets gasainps take the place OF outrageous trees,
and CrotOn hydrants substitutes for purng brook
The dry goods dealers, who constitute the largest bns'
ness interest Of New York appear to have permanently
settled in the district bounded by Broadway and West
Broadway, Park-p place aud Canast. This Is the great
OF the Wholesale 0bbers, aucOneers, and import
The great and small retailers OF course, follow the
tide OF population 10 extends up town. Thls whole
region has been built mp during the past twenty years
with massive and magnificent edces mostly OF marble,
granite, and iron, and OF an architectural beauty unlike
anything ever before devoted to the purposes OF com
merce There are other kinds OF business which appear
10 be settling down In certain localities with determa-
ton TO remain heretne oil dealers In Madenlane, the
tobacco dealers In Water-st., and so on The news
papers clustering around the Park, In the neigh
bOThoOd OF the City Hall, while the printers and book
publishers are finding themselves Just around the
neghborhoOd In Greene-st, where the CITY Directory
has been printed and published since 1860 We cannot
is capncious In locazng itself and 20 years hence
the petroleum dealers, who cling with tenacy TO
Maden-lane and Waer-st may be moving up into Mad
isOnave and the grocers may have deserted West and
Front-sts and gathered around Murray II IL Is only
years since the Bulls Head Tavern and the cattle
yards occupied the site which the BOwery Theater
now stands What will have had happened In 40 years
only the Directory OF 1901 may tell. The Dlrec-
tory for 1862 contains s75 names being an increase
OF 8434 the number contained In the Issue for
1878 The number OF Smiths we find to be
Brown, Jones' and Robinson families next In point
Of numbers. Full particulars as 10 the banks, the
churches the clubs the city railroads the ferries, &C.
may be found in the same volume. Churches number
324, and divided follows: Baptist, 81; Congrega
tlonalist 7; Dutch Reformed II; Friends, 3; Jewish
synagogues, az Lutheran, 10; Methodist 49, African
Reformed Presbyterian. s. Episcopal, ca Catholic, 49,
Unitarian Unversalist and Is miscellaneous. The
number OF public hospitals learn 10 be IL. Two hund
red and seven publications regularly issued In the
other useful matter Is also contained In the Directory
The Directory Is to be issued ON the 18th inst