New-York tribune., 1903-07-12

since the high license, 15 cents pint for beerl
From the following regulation passed by the
Council in 1875 trace the present law CT
property condemnation for the purpose OF i'm
proving the city: Ordered. that the land in
| this city convenient 10 build on, II the parties
who own the same do not speedily build there
on. their land may be valued and sold to those
who are willing to build" Streets were 20 be
cleaned every Saturday, oftener, and cartmen
/ forfeited their licenses If the dirt not car
| ried away. A public slaughter house was or
dered built outside the gate of the city. 1t Is
only lately that the whooper-up for little old
New-York' prohibited slaughter houses within
| her gates.
The first auctioneer in the city was Adolphe
Peterson. who ordered to sell four lots
containing twenty-five feet each in front. Eng
\ lish measure, at a vendue or outcry. And Peter
sons tribe increased-vide the business direc-
! tory
In 1916 the first street paving was done. The
Heeren Gracht, Broad-st.. filed up and
levelled. There asphalt companies
| then. With an eye to the protection of home
Industries the Governor, in consequence of
representation that wheat was lower in New
York than In the neighboring colonies, fixed its
price at shillings a bushel for winter yield and
As Cd for summer
Here is tip for Senator Raines: The Council
ordered that it is not lawful to sell liquor to
Indians. and IL they found drunk in the
street without knowing at what house they OBJ
tanned the drink (and who knows when the last
stage is reached D. the whole street is liable to
fine" Ye gods! Tanners and curriers' to be
selected by the Aldermen and approved. and no
others allowed. No butchers allowed to be cur
riers or tanners or shoemakers, and vice versa"
In 1877 Stephanus Van Courtlandt became
Mayor. and the first tax rate for defraying and
discharging city debts, incurred for building
docks bridges, etc. levied 3S4 houses
and forty vacant lots, and at the same meeting
the Council queried Whether attorneys are
thought useful TO plead in courts not?" An
swer: 1T is thought not" Whereupon, resolved
and ordered, that pleading attorneys be no
longer allowed to practise in the government,
excepting in the depending cases." This was
dated May 10.
Here is something interesting to the people of
New Rochelle: When the Huguenots first set
tied there the only place of worship they had
was in New-Yorl1 City. They had taken land on
terms which required the utmost exertiors of
men, women and children to clear. They worked
hard till Saturday night, spent the night in
trudging down foot to the city, attended
worship twice the next day and walked home
the same night, to be ready for work on Mon
day morning. They wrote to France of the
great privileges they enjoyed. There was no
Easter parade then, no fine musical attraction,
Thomas Delaval was Mayor in 1878 and Fran
els Rombolt in 1879. Forty-eight shillngs was
received from sixteen persons who were Ii
censed to sell wines. No speak-easies are men
toned and no handouts from the side doors. A
negro was valued this year at t42 lbs.
William Beekman deputy Mayor until
1851 when the Duke Of Yorks charter was
granted and Governor Dongan arrived in 16S2.
Mr.. Stenwick made Mayor, and the follow
ing year the first House of Representatives con-
vened. The first Recorder, James Graham, was
appointed at the request Of the Corporation and
took his place on the bench on the right hand
of the Mayor The style was altered to Mayor,
Recorder and Aldermen.
On what slender threads hung the hopes ana
fears of our ancestors; in 1853! On March
they noted a serious rival in trade on the oppo-
site shores of the Hudson, and the Mayor of the
city petitioned the government and crown to
have East Jersey (Which heretofore had been
claimed as attached to the colony of New-York,
but had been separately "reannexed to this
province, as trade and revenue had sunered by
the Acknowledgement, and fears were entertained
in consequence that NeW-YorkS would be sup
planted by the diversion of trade" At this time
New-York had the exclusive privilege, by law,
of boiling and packing flour and meal, and this
was the sole support of at least two-thirds OF
its citizens and complained OF by the coun-
try people as a grievance. In 1854 New-st. and
Beayer-st were ordered to be paved, and the
first watch was appointed consisting of eight
persons at twelvepence night. No record Is
made of their having been caught with the
goods them.