New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-04-11

1900 - his versatility bv speaking OF his early
work IN this line. Il was Interested IN pho'oslap"y
and similar processes at the very bir,h Oh inc ART
he said. II engaged in developing sucn pio'
esses fifteen years. and have always peeh inter
acted In them | worked at this for fifteen years
after ls4l. and you know it was In 1883 that Da-
g1ierre made his discovery. so that may say was
interested I'm daguerrotypng and photography from
the outset"
Then Mr. Harrison began to talk about his liter
AIRY labors and spoke of his history of the actors
in Greenwood There are l@5 of them there he
said "and I knew personally eighty-two OF them'
and acted on the stage with about forty OF mem;
Here f. picture you might be interested 20 see,
he went on taking from his mantel portrait OF
Edgar Allan Poe. 1t was q picture ne had painteu
tonatcy of his dead friend. and then referred 70
the often-repoated story that the poet was drunk
ard a., ,, i,f.,rous elanders
ever uttered" he said, in "A tone OF indlEnauuom
all the time ] knew him ! never saw MN uruhh
used TO walk with him from the Battery out ~, ~
Union Square of an afternoon talkinE ,f neyr
with him on poetry ana similar iopC o and never
did he make reference 10 liquor. ahu ieNer
d see him drink or he sr OF q MS e h% Wedding
ring and Poes. melted into one. She was d io'eiy
"But you want to know something about old
BROOKLYN Wen, remember whel farms W.T. ho az
/ used to come over 10 Brooklyn with some Of my
chums-young Jim" Brady aferward famous as
Munier sfterward Mayor Of Chicago and state
Senator; Robert Y. Hoyae. also senator II ditsI
beautiful. sandy beach. II is row the end OF At,
lantic-avc and where the old beach was there Is
ferry house. and the troiley-cars come changing
down the fine old hill We used to play IN the sand
there and roll in the water and swim Near thcrs
was an old mill gone TO ruins with its od-fdsnioned
arms sticking out We used TO go to the Old miIi
which appealed. as. ruin. 10 our young magma
lions and used 10 get up little dramas ana pay
robbcr ana have all sorts Of fun.
81 remember when the highway ROAD commenced
where the CITY Hall now is. 1t was simply a coun-
try road without cOb.lcstoncS any Other paving.
on ib srSt of ground now occupied by the County
} Court house and the other public buildings was
Dunon's old Military Garden. II took up the whole
OF the block bounded by Joralemon, Court and liv-
ing=ton SITS. and Bocrum Plicc. used 10 visit II
with Brady and my other NcW-f ork cnufns' II was
a long frame building. three stories high. without
any ornameniaton, and through the centre was a
broad hallway TO the garden ,
Then Mr. Harrison began 10 tax ABOUT the ola
militia of Ncw-York and Brooklyn. lie was a MEM
Der OF the 18th Regiment in 49, and ls@ and served
regiments visit to Philadelphia. which made plenty
OF talk in both towns at thu time. All Philadel-
phia he said 'iurncd ont 10 sec us, and We could
hardly get through Chestnut-s:. for the crowd:
We stayed in Philadelphia for three days and
were treated handsomely. We had the free
and they east a French piece for each OF us,
which badges for a long time. In those
DAYS, to turn out 900 muskets, as we ala 10 go TO
| Phiade Thia. great thing The 18th was then
| the crack regiment OF Brooklyn. Before that had
served several years In the Independence Guards OF
New-York a n indcpendeI; company which had sep
| arated from the It'll Regiment. That was in 1888.
| You should have seen New-Nork In those dayS-nO
water no gas lamps, little oil lamps In the streets,
| and Watchmen going along and shouting Past ?
that the city has changed so much in one mans
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