The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-05-27

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then h~ ANN and started 4 theatre On what
was known ~ thsoid Arcada BATHS In Cham.
hers street. When h. falled Burton bought
the theatre and oeeppd nurton'a Theatre.
u don't know what they drank here In
the cafes In thoae days They didn't have
whlskey 20 tho et,ent they do now. People
drank wine. but thpy didn't ~ 10 bars a.
they do now they drank at tables.
brandy was the principal foreign drink,
and then we drank French wines and Amer.
lean cider, ~ they called Il. We lived Just
about the same ~ We do now, chops and
steaks for breakfast. OF fsh; and for dinner,
and At 9o'clock, we would have poultry,
mutton boef, and for supper We generally
had cake and preserves and cold meats
and things Of that kind at 7 O'Clock,
Most New Workers. went home TO their
dinners at 0 o'clock In those days: there
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first Delmonioo's. was In existence at hat
time, where II IL now. at the corner Of Beaver
and william streets, and wa the same then
as now. That old porch at Delmonioo's
came from Italy: 1t was dug out Of the
ruins Of Herculaneum and Delmonico
Oc s!FhSre It s IA l R%s q o. IN an s's fiH IN ;hoss day.
n sleighing; II would last for weeks a at
time. We generally went up the Blooming
dale road, as we called II; upper Broadway
at that time vas all called Bloomingdale
road from Union Square up.
broadway was closed at one time by an
act Of the Legislature above Union Square.
That was done because they proposed 10
lay out the city in square blocks, and Broad
way interfered with the squares, but after
ward the people who owned land along
Broadway protested and the act was re-
pealed through their influence.
There were roadhouses all along the
Bloomlngdale road where you could go in
and get supper and hot drinks in Che winter
when you were out sleigh riding.
We had no sewers. In the lower part of
the city we never had sewers until Croton
water was introduced. Nobody had baths
here then; that Is the reason they had the
old Arcade Baths the City Baths they called
1t, although 1t didn't belong to the city, but
was owned by a private individual. A man
Arcade Baths were at 80, Al and IS Chambers
street, -afterward altered into Palmo's
Opera House. Water was supplied from
Reservoir.
we didn't have running water; we had
the old Manhattan waterworks, owned by
the Manhattan Banking Company. The
Northumberland was then In Chambers
street, adjoining our property and toward
street. That il the one that Aaron
Burr, the founder of the Manhattan Banking
Company, built. He used to live in the
rear In Reade street at one time.
His time was Il little ahead Of mine,
but saw him as IN old man. He didn't
die. until 1885. ! was ten years old then,
and he was pointed out to me with There is
Aaron Burr-he is a great man and was
yice-rresident Of the United States at one
@In those days the New Workers. spent
their summers much as they do now; they
would g. from the city to Long Island,
Island and up the Hudson River.
They didn't go far away, because the steam
boats didn't run very fast, and we had no
railroads. Generally they only took q
month as q vacation.
THE courts adjourned for one month
only, August, and the schools kept open
down to the end Of July and commenced
again IN September, and everybody came
back to New York then naturally to start
their children. Idon't remember how many
students there we're in Columbia when I
was there; about $50 | guess.
HCbarle6 Anthem was Our prOfeRsOr ~ |
and Latin, and then we had Prof.
Nathaniel Moore was president
when / graduated. President Duer pre-
,eded him, but he was in such III health
ne resigned. We had no hazing then; that
has all been gotten up since that time
THE only mode OF conveyance we had
n the city then was the Broadway stages, !
If which there were several lines. Kipp
stage ran up to Canal street,
ION to Greenwich village. The Third avenue
inc ran up the Bowery; and the Broadway
Inc, Brower's line OF stages, ran up TO
Niblo's Garden, Prince street and Broad
gay, where afterward the Metropolitan
Hotel was. These stages started from
Wall and Nassau street.
1Eiblo's got its nam Q from Bill Niblo.
1e started a theatre there in back OF the
iotel. Billy Niblo was u great man there,
md had q theatre and a roadhouse at that
ime away uptown. He had the Ravels
here, pantomlmists they WERE, and the
in this country; they were quite notori.
Jus here; they were tight rope dancers.
sMost of the folks went to church at
trace, Trinity, st. Paul's and st. Johns
st. Paul's was nothing but a |.
OF Trinity, and st. Johns, over by
It. Johns Park where the Central now has
he old freight depot.
Negro slavery ended here in New York
n 1927. There were a great many who
ad beer slaves. but they conducted them
elves very well and in general lived with
he families as they had before. We hadn't
tnything but negro servants who had been
laves at that time. Our family nurse had
zen a slave of my grandfather, born
While her mother was a slave also. She
ways lived In our family n was buried
n our plot, Greenwood Cemetery Daniel
'ompkins was Governor of the State and
10 managed to have a time limit set for
In New York. They are now talk
ng Of erecting d statue to him In City Hall
lark.
Il don't recall when the Academy Of
fusio was opened. 1t was too far uptown
or me TO take much interest in 1t; l was liv-
~ downtown when it was built. ! lived
t 81 Chambers street until 1845, and then
re moved to the lower part Of Fifth avenue,
here we stayed for ten years, and then
up to Twenty-second street.
1There were more persons ruined by
REGULATION in real estate in New York city
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