The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-06-06

at p. M" from which it will DO inferred that
Sunday labor was more lborslly treated than in
City for Philadelphia via Elizabethtowu every
morning. except Saturday and Sunday, or Phil
rf MSfiase 70 ae a + lately member of Congress.
the New York Morning Post as visiting, with
his bride, his father-in-1aw, James Thompson, In
Heights 'i Is advertised as bounded by the two
rivers, and the Inducements arc onerGd OF
odIn1'iv Of 4, fash s sna oSSs ass b%e ans spff' PTosp lsTsss
Doubtless only a few thousands was the price
and the land to-day would be worth millions.
Burr, attorney and counsellor at. law.
at, his IoS NsiS %.t agent f gol t6s sst Of lots Of alo 5hs
Bowery lane are also on the market. A tailor;
lately from London" is Offering suits of
clothes for gsntiemsn.t tn GO goat x to haze Ave i la5P 1ees
arms. Tho city tax levy for the ensuing year is
SSs onaed deb st to s% be $40 !. 600 oo' The Dog and Duck
Tavern in the Bowery lane at the two-mile
History in fashion is repeating itself 80 Jar Is
heavy, head gear for ladies is concerned. for In
a arg4 Large a nadS w TsTe w wSfn more sne eSmSross th h
skirt hoop. A city rhymstcr of that period had
left Of newspaper record this ode:
To ladies over nifty.
To thee they owe the ]sprishtly step.
TO thee they owe the + room they have
And are secure with eI6ow room
To ward OF every beau.
From winds both great and small;
Then " the petticoats are soiied
The hoop doth cover all.
Capital punishment for burglary or grand lar
ceny was still in vogue as in England, but for
petit larceny lashes at the public whipping post
behind the Bridewel, just west of the City, Hall
was allowed, but the pleader was branded.
st. Peters, Church. still standing at Barclay
and its architecture was much admired. twenty
pipes of choice Fayal wine, tMadeira) were on
sale by an importer. which is probably sS!,o more T9n;o in
Another firm had for sale several butts 900 gal
Ions eachl Of Holland gin. which was the ardent
Jamaica are in vogue. Men OF wealth-and any
rich and subjectedto envy-ere opening country
seats along the Bloomingdale road tnow the
a hSHlsy the East ar "1 rlRsr ' about Mo siasie,h h s,rsst a6 Hf
opposite the island occupied by the Henry 3;
Blackwell family, who in due time will
SEES. Mineral springs at B~allston-predo-
cessor Of saratogaLare attracting the atten,
dyspeptic or Observation-Disclosures patients. Column
bia College students have cricket matches on
recently opened between Roosevelt and Grand
streets, and passenger traffic is IN sl9ops to ana
1TSm SeT But hA in winter G1 A'G sime e tho f Red finn Of
stages upon runners would ply on the frozen
Hudson River TO Albany.
a village opposite New YORK, and little CLAIMS
from Rockaway Beach were great dclicacics.
public floors and even on a court room floor.
New Workers were talking of a, probable naval
t MGd T repor rs1 from f Ireland of an appreehended in.
surrectton Of its patriots. yet ignorant that whom
this mi should uiminate in I39si 1t would ND
Emmet family. The name OF Tammany was
yet unknown. although q few anti-Federalists
act the influence of the alleged aristocratic Gin
Ginnati Society. while the newly inapgura!ed
the idol of men who in a few years would insti-
tute a democratic party and fight the Puritan
ism Of President John Adams-men whose head.
William Morrison, at the corner OF Nassau and
John. which, was the resort Of all gastronomers
who there best enjoyed the newly-discoyered
soft shell crabs instituted by the culinary skill
OF the Widow Martense who had a modest inn
Hail Columbia was not as yet written. but
its m"s of was %ss Ia%Sfe n3igMas a4r Rl""ye At P Far RO the
s s%ay had in]s s;siGtsnttlSS b been on started 5 ! a GnS;mi nn race ss.
purses Of ten and twenty pounds were offered in
behalf Of what he called in his modest bills
maintained in Hanover square, at tho corner Of
Old slip AN extensive book store, where he issued
and collected in it the titles Of 5000. which he
engaged to import. and ho especially recon-
% gSsl sa1 : new p wSIk ! sS t by f HsW d EnElsGd .PET TfS,;
Vision. OF Columbus" He had "a rival, in John
such novels as "Caroline Of LitchtGld' in three
Anthony Varnish,' Emily Herbert" and
ERRORS OF Innocence" all in two volumes each.
Both places announced for sale tho DIiiv -Ad-
%rertiser. which was printed by Francis Childs at
ls9 Water street, the New York Morning Post.
belonging to William Morton, n few blocks he.
low, and on the same thoroughfnre tho New
York Journal or Weekly Register, and tho
Packet, and the Gazetteer. or Country Journal,
all semi-weekly.
The principal society of the city was the Me.
chnnics' and Tradesmen's Society-still in 1897
maintaining o century OF grand traditions with
the oldest library, reading room, and lecture
course in tho Empire State. Tho ancient order
and fraternity OF Free and Accepted Masons.
with several local lodges, was also u widely
recognized and valued body, exerting great
social and benevolent influence upon tho New
York Of n hundred years ago.
Already New York-the city of l797-was bn
ginning TO excite the envy and jcalousies of
Boston. Philadelphie. BALTIMORE, and Charles.
ton, much as lately Greater New York has met
the envy and jealousy OF Chicago.
uEn..o. H,.ts..a 0au ra.-ls