The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-03-13
UP BROADWAY In 1850
A view or NEW York As IT VAS
H4LF Il CENTURY 400.

Studded This Famous Thoroughfare
and the Persons who Inhabited Them.
(From the New York SUM-
During it's existence of $50 years
Broadway has had only one commence
ment, but several distinct terminals,
In it's infancy it ended at the wal of
stakes and trees erected to prevent In
dian incursions in what is now known
all over the business world as Wall
street. It's next practical terminal was
at Chambers street-so named after
rector of Trinity church. Its third ter
minal was Canal street, its fourth Union
square, its fifth Madison square, its
sixth Thirty third street, where it was
absorbed into Bloomlngdale
road; it's seventh at the intersection
with Seventh avenue, its eighth where
now is Columbus avenue, Although its
continuation thence to it's last terminal
at the Harlem river has been called the
Boulevard, after the Paris fashion,
Broadway is preparing for yet other adj
vances that may reach to the birthplace
of DR.. Depew.
Dutch loungers along the original
Broadway upon summer evenings in
hailed fragrant pipe smoke, smeled the
aroma of honest Hollands distilled from
genuine juniper berries, and looked up
on quaint gabled houses showing fronts
of parti-colored glazed bricks imported
from Antwerp. At eventide few years
later skittle players could be observed
quitting Bowling Green and retiring to
their homes in Pearl or Beaver or Stone
streets, Their Broadway Rugged the
Commons, where on holidays oxen were
roasted whole, or bonfires were lighted,
and where in time q Bridewell, an aims
house and a city hall appeared; at
which juncture the democratic title Of
Commons was changed to the aristo-
cratic one of Park. Yet another epoch
came to Broadway when three-storied
houses built Of Hudson river brick ap-
peared below Chambers, to be occupied
by Rhinelander, Jay, De Peyster De
Lancey, and Van Cortland families.
One hundred and twenty years ago
Broadway heard the daily tramp of
relocated British soldiers and felt the
wheels of hostile moving cannon, and
Broadway saw Sir Henry Clinton and
Lord Howe and CORVALLIS and finally
Washington housed successfully at No.
l, where had been in Dutch times the
tavern of VroW Koch Broadway then
saw the Oswego market at the head of
what is now called Liberty street; also
pasture lot where st. Pauls chapel
stands. and the Rutgers orchard oppo-
site to where Pearl street debouches in
to the same Broadway from whence it
started. ,.
Broadway to-day, between Union
square and Bowling Green, bears to
New York city the business relation
that Cheapside sustains to London, and
the Rues de Paradis and Taitbout to
Paris; and Broadway above Seven
teenth street is what Regent and Bond
streets are to Londoners or the Rules de
Rivoli and De la Paix to the French
capital Broadway was years ago de-
scribed by M. Pisani, who accompanied
Prince Napoleon in his yacht voyage to
this country, in this wise: Broadway
| is bazaar made up of savagery and
civilization a mile and a half long," but
recent French writer expressed con-
corning Broadway his surprise at the
sight of palaces so many stories high
devoted to commerce. when referring
to its lower section, and when REFERRING
to upper Broadway he CALAMITY COM
| mented upon lies figures fines ct gra-
cieuses, la demarche legere ct libre DIES
/ femmes, les allures wives de toute la
| population"
| But the evolution of Broadway can
| be best illustrated by walk between
Bowling Green and Madison square hall
a century ago. 1t Is the year 1850 and
| at noon of a bright February day. As
we start we turn our backs upon the
Battery in all its pristine glory of YER
dure and landscape. On our left at No
] is Jonas Bartlett's Washington hotel
On the opposite are private residences
of the Phoenix, Whitney and Heckshel
families At Nos. and we pass An
derson's Atlantic hotel, on either side Of
which are the stores of wholesale mer
chants. Opposite is the fashionable
boarding house of Mesdames Mix ant
Trip. This overlooks the Atlantic gar
dens, devoted to oysters and terrapin II
winter and ice cream in summer. Mex
is the private residence of Lewis s
Morris, who prefers the old trees o
Bowling Green to the young ones o
new Union square. He has an aristo
cratic neighbor at No. IL in the granite
mansion, guarded at its portals by tw,
huge cast-iron lions Of Gordon w
| Burnham, whose memory survives il
the Webster statue in Central Park
| which was his gift. An office buiIdin.
looms in sight for six stories of heigh
was then regarded as looming up
where the Cunard company has its of
flee. Here at 80 begins a dry goods dis
trict, with the stores of Perkins, War
rem & Co, Stone & Starr, Woodbury.
Hope & Graydon, GreenaWay Bros. &
Tracy, Moulton & Plympton (whose to-
loft gives room to FIlller's gymnasium
a few doors off is the express office o
Harnden, whose primitive wagon cal
be seen pictured in the offices of hi
successor, the Adams company. Their
is an office building of modest proper
tons where the Arcade building now is
and among its tin office signs we reat
the names of Morris Ketchum, Edwar
Curtis. late collector of the port. and s
B. Ruggles, also the thereafter magi
name of Cornelius Vanderbilt. We pas
Trinity church, and at the door take OF
hats to Bishop Wainwright and Genera
Dix, who have just quilted noontid
see on the corners of Wall street dowd