New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-04-14


The writer's OF later period attribute tho mortaii'y
of Eew-York 100 years ago 10 improper diet ana
mode OF living, rather than TO the tnsanbriS Oh INC
climate One OF them says: The churchyarus anu
vaults are also situate In the heart oil the town anu
crowded with the dead II they arc not preJuaio'~l
TO the health OF tho people, they ara al YEAST NorS
unsghtly exhibitions. One would think there was
scarcity OF land In America by seeing such large
pieces OF ground in OF the finest streets OF New
York occupied by the dead But, even IL no noNiOus
efuVla we're 20 arise land rather suspect there must
in the months Of July, August and Septemeer stu
the con tinual view OF such crowd OF White aud brown
tombstones and monuments which is exhibited In
broadway must at the slckly season OF the year
tend very much TO depress the spirits. They bury
their dead within twenty four hours, custom probably
Induced by the heat Of tho climate during the summer
months; but reason why IL should be EXTENDED
to tho winter months, which are cold enough 10 alo"
OF the dead being kept three or four days. Funerals
are attended by a large assemblage OF the hiends anu
acquantances o. the dead, who are Invited by ad-
yertjsements In the papers 10 attend their dead friend
10 the grave The people their ordinary dress, eH
ccpt those who are related 10 or particularly Intimate
with the dead The clergyman physician ana chief
nourpers wear white scarfs. which IL Is also the custom
to wear the following Sunday
Books selected by the Aexanders, tho Hamiltons
and the Smiths. could be obtained at tho society
Library probably ono OF tho oldest loan libraries In
America
The Nev-York Marine Society popular In
stitutIon Washington and Clinton being among Us
mcmbe;s On Aprll 10. 1850, the barge, which con-
veyed Washington from ElIzabethport TO Now-fork b
be inaugurated as tho hrst President was rowed by
thirteen captains members OF the society, with Captain
Randall acting as coXswsln'
The city directory OF 1889 gave only 1000 names
of the 30 600 estimated as the population. And hero
we find Mr. McAllistcrs mstahc-he needs 10 add
another cipher to his -Four Hundred. a map I'm this
old directory shows that the populated part OF the
city extended no higher than Roadc-st On the east
dwellings stretched along Divison-st as far As Auor
ney and on both sides Of The Bowery Lane 10
IIeser-st. Broadway had advanced, on paper only,
as far as BrOome-st; above the City Park II was
known as Great Gcorgest. There the Fresh Water
Pond with its enoIcling hills Of green, IN the vicinity
OF the present TOmbs; the lofty height OF Mount
Pleasant near Grand and Centre sts. and the broad
LIspcnard marshes, extending west Of Broadway from
the present Rcade.st. 10 CanaLst
The churches were the Garden Street Dutch Church.
the Middle Dutch Church, in Nassau-st; tho North
Dutch Church. In wilsmst. tho Lutheran, called the
Swami Church. az Frankfort and William sts. St.
Panl,s Chapel I'm Broadway St Georges, on Chapel
Hill: Trinity whose erection after the great fire was
begun in 1888 the French Church, In Plnesti the
Friends Church. IN Pearlst.; the Jewish Synagogue
In Mll.st tho Presbyterian Church, at Beekman and
Nassau SITS the Baptist, In GOld-st. the Moravlan
I'm the John street MethOdlSJ bhuTCn
Roman Catholic Church, In Bsrclay-st. The city's
clergy were the Rev william Liun, who had served
as chaplain in the Revolutionary army DIR. John ii.
Livingston the learned theolOgian; Dr. John Chris
topber Kunze celebrated for the benevolence Of his
character the Rev Samuel Provost, chaplain to the
United States Senate In 1880, and afterward the
Protestant Episcopal Bishop Of New-York; Dr. Ben
,amin Moore also IN after life a bishop and father
of Clement c. Moore, whose name is dear as the
atbor Of the famous ballad Twas the Night Before
Christmas; the Rev. Gershom Mendes Veixas, the
Rabbi: tho Rev. John Gano, chaplain in the brigade
OF General Clinton throughout the Revolutionary war;
and the Rev. william o'Brion
The most prominent physicians and surgeons were
DIR. John Charlton. who came to New-fofk with the
British Army and married Mary, daughter OF Treas
urer Abraham do Peyster; Dr. John Bard, who as
sisted Dr. Middleton in the first recorded dissection
in America: his son, DR.. Samuel Bard, Washingon's
pbystcian, and afterward a partner OF DR.. Hosack,
the eminent physician and author Dr. John Cockrane
sureeon- General Of the Revolutionary Army, who
had married a daughter Of General Schuyler; Dr.
Tbomas Jones, q politician and scholar as well rs
a physician DR.. Richard s. Nissan, the celebrated
lIthotomist: Dr. Mcknight, who married daughter
a, John Norm Scott and was particularly eminent
ne surgeon, and DR.. Richard Bayley, to whom New
yorI, &c Indebted for her quarantine laws. he himself
dying Of ship-fev"'
Tue social word was constantly being enlivened
nv arrivals from various parts OF the United states
"a t,om Europe In the sO-called circle were SEQ.
.,..v ana Mrs Jay, noted for their hospitality