The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-01-01

Eighty years ago to-day The Sun
the annual Carriers Address. Il metri-
cal statement of world conditions at the
beginning of 1880.
ANDREW JACKSON was President OF
the United States then. The Twenty
third Congress was beginning its second
or short session: after listening to an
Grafton three hours long hy the Hon.
JouN QuINCY ADAMS on The character
of LAFAYETTE. dead since May. the Con
rrcSs took It's holiday recess by adj.
journing over one day. \ few days
later Mr. CALHOUN introduced In the
Senate resolution calling for a spe.
clal Investigation of the subject of
Executive abuse of the patronage.
WILLIAM LEARNED MARCY. reelected
for the second Of his three terms aS
Governor. was sworn in on that day at
Albany. CORNELIUS W. LAWRENCE. a
Quaker farmer boy from Long Island,
merchant, auctionccr and heavy specu-
lator in cotton, was Mayor Of this town.
the first Mayor elected by popular vote
under the then recent constitutional
amendment.
The towns population 10y the Latest
census was 2O2 .5S9, with l2.4O3 more
people across the East River in the
thriving village of Brooklyn. Canal
street was the centre of the uptown
retail trade de luxe There were steam.
boats in the Hudson and on the Sound,
nd "a.
both sides Of the river. Also daily
stages 10 Philadelphia and Boston:
and there was an hourly stage 10
Newark. Local traffic was accommD.
dated by omnlbuses, which ran fire.
qucntly every day except sunday from
Wall street as far north as Fourteenth
and several times day to IIuren.
with twenty-five cent fare for this
longer route, The cab tariff was Il
quarter Of dollar for rides not eX-
ceeding mile: scvcnty-fyc cents to the
new Aims House and back 4 semd.
phorc telegraph established on the
heights of Staten Island communicated
by signals with another on the splendid
marble Merchants Exchange, burned
down The following December
Among the principal hotels furthcst
uptown were the Washington, M 2S2
Broadway; the North American. at
Number ~ in the Bowcry. and Tam
many Han, in he building which TilE
SUN now occupies ana is soon 10 leave.
JOHN JNCOB AsroG was constructing n
new hotel Of Incredible size nnd mag.
niHccncr, destined, in the opinion Of its
near ncighbor l'mlIIP IloNT To stand
"for centuries rs monument of it,
wealthy proprlrlur," Besides the SOY
erai hotels of that Zine rhpre was clr-
CANT accommodation for HE suiourn u
in fashionable boarding houses; such.
fer instance. rs that which Mrs. MIS-
and Mrs I'RIrr kept at ~ Nassau
street where AN inmate might either
reside In privacy or associate with the
company, rs inclination dictates"
one clerk in the United States Pos
Ofirc distributed the great Southern
mills Apparently one clerk handled
all the malls; for not until 1876. II year
later, was II thought necessary 10 APP.
point zone or Two active and intelligent
young men 10 learn the business aud
thus relieve the present clerk"
To complete the view Of local condl-
tionS il should be added that on the New
Years Day in which we are trying 10
Interest the gentle reader the Stock EN.
change voted numerous aud liberal d..
nations 10 the various city charities
OF IHE Sun Itself We may now prop