The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-02-28
Up BROADWAY IN 1850.
4 VIEW OF VIEW ToRH As IT WAS
UkLF 4 CENTURY 400


ueen Given over TO Busincss BrildinE..
During it, existence OF ESQ year, Broadway
has BAD only one commencement. but several
d!sIlaet terminals. In Its infancy It ended ct
the uid! n; stakes and trees erected to proven.
Indian incursions at what Is row know all
over tie business world as Wall street. Its
next practical terminal was at Chambers street
so named after q rector OF Trinity Church.
It's third terminal was Canal street. its fourth
Cn!on square. its 9th Madison Square. It's
.!1ih Thirty third street, where IL was tenn
~torariiT absorbed Into Bloomingdale road its
seventh A. It. intersection with Seventh ave-
r1e. rs eighth where now 10 Columbus ave
nue.. Although is continuation thence to It's
las, terminal a. the Harlem River has been
called the Boulevard. after the Paris fashion.
broadway Is preparing for yel other advances
that NAV reach to the birthplace of DR.. DeDew.
Dutch lounsers along the or. ginal Bead way
upon summer evenings inhaled fragrant pipe
smoke. smelled tile aroma Of honest Hollands
distilled from genuine juniper berries. and
looked upon quaint gabied houses showing
fronts Of perti-colorcd glazed bricks imported
from Antwerp. At eventide q few years late.
skttls players could be observed quitting
bowling Green and retiring 20 their homes In
Pearl or Beaver or stone streets. Their Broad.
way Rugged the Commons, where on holiday,
oIsn were roasted whole. or bornres were
lighted. add where In time . Bridewsll. an
slm,aorse. and . city hall appeared: at which
~iuneiure the democratic title OF Commons w.s
changed to the aristocraiic one OF park. Yet
another eroch came to Broadway when three
,,orisd houses built Of Hudson River brisk
appeared below Chambers. TO he occupied by
Rhln.iAader. Jay. DE Peyster. De Lancer.
and Nan Cortland. families. one hundred and
tuenty years ago Broadway heard the daily
tramp of redo dated British soldiers and felt
the wheels Of hostile moving cannon, and
Broadway AE Sir Henry Clinton and Lord
Howe sad Corn wallis and finally Washington
housed successfully at No. l. where had been
IN Dutch times tbs tavern OF Nrow Koch. Broad
way tAea saw the osweeo marke, at the head
OF what Is now called Liberty street: also a
pasture lot where st. Paul's Cha0el stands.
A.! The Rutgers orchard opposite TO where
Pearl street debouehes lnto the same Broad
way from whence Il started.
BROADWAY TO-DAY. between Union Square and
Bowling Green. bears 10 New York city the
business relation that Cheapside sus AIMS to
London. Aud the Rles de Paradis and Taitbout
u Paris, and Broadway. above Seventeenth
street. Is what Regent and Bond streets are to
Loadoaers, or the R1es De Rivol, and De IA PAX
10 the French capital. Broadway Was years
sSo described b II. Fssa!-who accompanied
Priaee Napoleon In his yseht voyage to this
e~oG.!rT-.n this wise; "Bruai waY is n bazaar
made - ot sAvagsry and civilization a mile
and , halt long" but . recent French writer
sIo7-ssed conserving Broadway his sur
prise a. the si<ht Of palaces so manS stcrie,
Z devoted 70 commerce when referring TO
It's lower section. Aad whsa referring 10 upper
broatvay. 10 calamity commented UPON les
fgS-es TTese 9. SrGeteuses. Ia dSnarrhe ,erere
e lore esltmz<s, lee Gilsres rircs De .oute Ia
population"
Bat the evolution OF Broadway can Be best
Illustrated BY a walk between B1wllns Green
aad Madison square half a century ago. l: {.
the year 1880 and AZ noon OF . bright February
eaT. As We sta-t We tara our backs upon the
Battery In all It's pristine slory o, verdrre and
landscape. On our left a: No. Is Jonas Bart
lett's Washington Hotel. On the opposite .!!e
are private residences Of the PLrr!1. Whit.
neJ. and Heck.her families ~ Nos. : and 5
we pass Anderson's AtlAati, Hotel. on either
side OF which are the stores % wholesale m.r-
Chants Opposite Is the fashionable boarding
hogss Of Mesdanes Nix and Trlp5. Thi, over.
looks The Atlantis Gardens. devoted 20 oys-sr,
and terrapin IN winter and ice cream IN sum
mar Next Is lie private residence Of Levin 6.
Norris, who prefers the old trees o. Bowling
Green 10 the young ones OF Few Union square.
Re has an artstocratic neishbor ., Nc. l. IN
we granite nAnsion, guarded at is portal. BY
Two aax- c-stiron Lions, OF Gordol ". Bu-n.
IAN. Fhose memory survives IN ,as WEBSTER
statue 70 Central Park, which was ~ z!r.
Tiss OF height was then REGARDED as looming m.
Haere ne Cunard Conoany IA. is once.
a asr. a; y S.s;ns a d. Goods di.s-ic:. with u.
sar. Woodbury.. Hope q Graydoa; Green.
.EaI Bros 4 Tr.ey Moultoa 4 PiyEpton
dam; A te~ doors OF Is the exore., Srfc. OF
nnrnaea. whose priEitiye wagon can be seen
naaas Comoany: raere Is an once bgilding
et modest proportions vhsre the Arcade build
re.d iIs Is; aaa aDSnx tts .ia once sign, We
Se.ts. Ate Collector OF the Port, md s. 81.
hgxEle,; also the thereafter magic name OF Cor
.ad :. the door lake OF ksts to nBaiH "Ros oH %s,a..
80. Ard Gen. Dix. who nave last quilted
We Sc ca the corners OF wall street iowdy
cd Unrestricted brick hon es-larrIy r.,i.
comes eeS.. i ,Es 20. Used Tr a, VS,sy oaaee.; Ihsn
%, Eds.rd sa9dfotd.. Who three years later
coiIiss.a 70 .. dEorned BY the sinking of the
'@dr W oas: the DRY good. Offices OF Tert
cone upon Rathbun's Hotel. and are re-
PP.scea that Us proprietor was the notorious.
Wa living down , terri in State prison 70
rnIea ns wa. sentenced fop issuing toruei
- ahA AAEl
Sssr G.lsey, yet q modest cigar seller. b
sssyinec 70 become millionaire. Alderman. and
Sunasr OF a great hotel 10 bear his nam.. We
Ssss Ihe qua store OF OriSon Blunt, destined a
ssssns I.ler 70 become Supervisor and re-
~ OF nuni,ipal ~poIl,ic.: It the corner
~ .osa street We End the dAguerrotype eal-
!, Q. G1rn-y-for the word photograph had
10y JET materialirsi. Here. too. are the book
IS.ss OF spa.dInz 4 shepard and jonathan
hhTsssyit,, and also the drug .,oie Of Charles N.
49, son 70 be an. Eighth ward Alderman,
.ssI a cooling combination and originate Tie
r,raa, hIns as applied TO a syndicate of po-
.heA. sso..stnen. or a John street corner are
EVER cnrces, where We reid the nnme, Of
Ian I. Doyle. shortly to become a CaliYornI,
GAr.stsr OF reno IN. and or Charlie, G. SOFT.
cIsfIIse u 10 -hist Justice OF the Court OF
Ss.1ssanc George W. Mics. iust sentenced 20
sASe prison FOR Matchmaking By process OF
- an old merchant who fell victim % tie
EuS y OF an adventures. Passing tee Astor
49, ~ como upon more dry goods hrms,
R.nrts oo9k stores. and where the Broadway
49, SaltdiL< stands the famous daguerrotype
x-.ssy o. VI. !. Brady. who recently died from
ntstat ne refusal Of the national GcyeFnment
~oVy - views ~ the civil war.
Vs. We pass along We pause a mom-u, TO
tAs iark and City Hall. There Is an un-
cio.L,ucItd View down 70 the lltt.- triangle