March 29, 1856, New York Times, New-York City; Our Harbor Defenses,
Orders from Washington to have them looked after. THE LOWER BAY UNFORTIFIED. The Confidence Man in a Schoolhouse. Our Reporter Visits the Mormons. Our Reporter Goes to a Wine Sale. Telegraph Line to Newfoundland. Geographical Society. Burial of Young Dougherty. The Revenue Curter Dobbin. Senmen and Wages.....The work of fitting up and arming the principal seacoast fortifications, now going on under the instructions of the Secretary of War, invests this subject with more than ordinary interest. The labors of highly competent Boards of Engineers since 1810, have laid the foundation of a system of defences, allowed, with few exceptions, to be efficient and ad. mirable....A sale of choice and rare old wines, selected and imported for the late proprietor of the New-York Hotel, and amounting to nearly two thousand cases, took place ...
September 21, 1857, New York Times, Loss of the Central America; Additional Names of the of the Supposed Lost, CONDITION OF THE SURVIVORS Charges Against Ashby, the Engineer...His Defence. LIST OF THE SAVED. Thrilling Narratives by the Survivors. Arrival of the Empire City with Ninety-Two of the Rescued Passengers. One Hundred and Twenty-Four Known to be Saved. Lights Seen During the Night Near Where the Ship Went Down. HOPES OF THE SAFETY OF OTHERS
We are sorry to record a very dissimilar act on the part of the proprietors of the New-York Hotel. On arriving there the purser had an interview ...By the arrival at this port yesterday morning of The United States Mail steamship Empire City, Capt. McGOWAN, from Norfolk, on the 18th inst., bringing eighty-three of the rescued passengers and crew of the unfortunate Central America, we are placed in possession of many additional and important facts relative to the fearful catastrophe, which has brought desolation to so many hearths, and filled so many hearts with woe.
October 31, 1857, New York Times, LAW INTELLIGENCE.; SUPREME COURT. THE NEW-YORK HOTEL SCANDAL, Did the Act Prove Insanity ?--The Proceedings on the Habeas Corpus. UNITED STATES COMMISSIONERS COURT. UNITED STATES CIRCUIT COURT.--OCT. 28. SUPREME COURT - GENERAL TERM,- OCT 30. PRACTICE-FOREIGN ATTACHMENT--ORDER OF A JUDGE NEEDED IN ALL CASES. UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT. Before Hon. Justice Roosevelt. In the matter of the petition of Caroline Woodman.--Some time since there was published in the TIMES an account of a scandalous affair at the New-York Hotel. Mr. Woodman, a boarder there, returning suddenly to his room, one evening, discovered his wife and a Mr. Gardner Furniss, together under decidedly suspicious circumstances. Some time since there was published in the TIMES an account of a scandalous affair at the New-York Hotel. Mr. Woodman, a boarder there, returning suddenly ...
November 18, 1857, New York Times, The Woodman and Furness Affair--Letter from Mr. Woodman.
From the New-Orleans Delta, 10th. A CARD.--I have heretofore refrained from any notice of the numerous publications, false and libelous as some of them have been, respecting the unfortunate relation which has existed between Mrs. CAROLINE WOODMAN and Mr. GARDNER FURNESS, of New-York. That I adopted the only effectual course of this end the following statement a ill show: On the day after I had the conferred with Mr. F. and Mrs. W., at the New-York Hotel , ...
March 25, 1858, New York Times, New-York City; A Young Colored Girl Decoyed from the City --Attempt to Sell her as a Slave in Washington, Arrest of the Kidnappers. KIDNAPPING. Central Park Commissioners. Loin Montez on Gallantry. City Items. The Revival Meetings--A Suggestion. The Great Awakening. Hope Chapel, near New-York Hotel, 8 to 9 am Central M,. E. Church, Seventh-, near Fourteenth-, 4 to 5. Fourteenth. street Pres. Church, 8 to 81. A. AM. Seventh ...
May 22, 1858, New York Times, Theatrical Row--Charles Mathews Cowhided, Mr. CHARLES MATHEWS, the famous actor, and Mr. A. H. DAVENPORT (of Wallack's Theatre,) came in collision about 7 o'clock last evening, in front of the New-York Hotel, Broadway. The latter assailed the former with a cowhide, and a scuffle ensued, which was stopped by some citizens and the police.
August 2, 1859, New York Times, Died, In this City, at the New-York Hotel, on Monday, Aug. 1. at 7 o'clock am, ISAAC B. SMITH, in the 31st year of his age. His remains will be taken to Norwalk, Conn.,
April 7, 1860, New York Times, From Washington -- Private Bill Day in Congress; The New-York Hotel Fund,
Shall Mr. Schell be Committed for Contempt! Mr. Wells, of New-York, on the Slavery Question.
September 12, 1860, New York Times, Police Reports. - A Desperate Burglar at the New-York Hotel, The guests of the New-York Hotel were thrown into consternation after midnight, on Monday, by the pranks of a burglar who had concealed himself in the house.
October 4, 1860, New York Times, At the New-York Hotel, Contiguous to the New-York Hotel, the largest possible crowd of humanity was crammed into the smallest possible space, in the general anxiety to be near one ...
February 1, 1863, New York Times, Suicide of a Wealthy Banker at the St. Nicholas Hotel--The Coroner's Inquest; The Alleged Cause of the Act, Mr. JOHN FITZGERALD, son-in-law of Senator DOOLITTLE, of Wisconsin, and himself a wealthy banker o that State, committed suicide at the St. Nicholas hotel yesterday, by shooting himself through the head with a pistol....CHARLES M. PROCTOR, Esq., United States Consul at Vera Cruz, has arrived in town from Vera Cruz, and is stopping at the New-York Hotel. He proceeds to ...
November 4, 1864, New York Times, GENERAL NEWS. A meeting of the loyal of -York be held this evening at the Church of the Messiah, on Broadway, opposite the New-York .Hotel. Among the speakers expected ...
November 28, 1864, The Incendiaries and the New-York Hotel. NEW-YORK HOTEL, Sunday, NOV. 27, 1864. To the Editor of the New-York Times: SIR: In your issue of this morning I find the following query, headed ...
November 21, 1865 New York Times, LOCAL INTELLIGENCE. - HOTEL LIFE IN NEW-YORK. The Houses all Full--Habits of the People--Extravagance and Dress in Expenditure--Some Details,Take, for instance, the Astor House,New-York Hotel, Lafarge House, Metropolitan, St. James and Fifth-avenue Hotels. They are all first-class houses in every ...
December 10, 1869, New York Times, Suicide in the New-York Hotel--Singular Proceedings by a Deputy Coroner and a policeman.. JOHN KING, aged 35, committed suicide last night at the New-York Hotel, by shooting himself through the temple. He came to this City from Fort Smith, Ark,m and was a lawyer by profession. He was reported to have indulged considerably in strong drink.
April 19, 1876, New York Times, The New-York Hotel To Be Closed, It was reported losers. , Co., of the New-York Hotel, No. 751 3:, had failed, and that the lintel
May 18, 1876, New York Times, New-York Hotel, which was kept in by 3, Cranston, Hildreth, and Wrielsy, and which has been temporarily closed, is to let, furnished or ...
July 1, 1876, New York Times, Reopening of the New-York Hotel,
June 14, 1877, New York Times, A Popular Actor Robbed; A Servant Takes His Valuables. Daring and Skillful Thefts By a Chamber-Maid in the New-York Hotel, $8,000 WORTH OF MONEY AND JEWELRY STOLEN FROM GEORGE RIGNOLD, JOAQUIN MILLER, AND OTHER GUESTS.
A skillful robbery of property valued at about $8,000 was committed in the New-York Hotel on Sunday evening last. The thief was a young woman employed as a chamber-maid in the hotel, who has since evaded arrest, and two of her victims are the well-known actor Mr. George Rignold and his wife. The names of the other persons who were de-...
September 18, 1877, New York Times, Death of Hiram Cranston; An Eventful Career Ended,
Mr. Hiram Cranston, the well-known keeper of the New-York Hotel, died suddenly yesterday morning at 9 o'clock. Mr. Cranston was, perhaps, as well known as ...
September 20, 1877, New York Times, The Funeral of Hiram Cranston; Simple Ceremonies at the New-York Hotel, Funeral services were held in the New-York Hotel yesterday morning over the body of Mr. Hiram Cranston, the late proprietor of that house, who died on Monday ...
September 30, 1877, New York Times, New-York Hotel, J. Ht: Ctt., Proprietor. Thi9 well. and hotel will he conducted under the df J. Henry Cranston, who will be pleased to the old patrons of tho house, ...
March 21, 1878, New York Times, A Bold Female Thief Arrested; Minnie Watson, the New-York Hotel Thief Captured in Boston, Her Exploits in Different Parts of the Country,
BOSTON, March 20. One of the most skillful female thieves in this country was arrested in this city last evening, and this afternoon left via the shore Line for ...
November 28, 1878, New York Times, Staring Across the Table; A Social Misunderstanding in the New-York Hotel, Mr. Rogers and his wife have boarded in the New-York Hotel for the last four months, and the complaint against him was made by...
June 22, 1879, New York Times, NEW-YORK HOTEL-KEEPING; THE BUSINESS PAST AND ...
Forty years ago, and until the opening of the Astor House, the City Hotel, at that time situated near the old Trinity Buildingson Broadway, was the principal ...
October 27, 1879, New York Times, BOLD ROBBERY IN A HOTEL; OVER $4000 WORTH OF JEWELRY ... The rooms in the New-York Hotel of Mr. John W. Vanderkiefft, a wealthy gentleman doing business at No. 101 Wall-street, were entered by an ...
October 29, 1879, New York Times, The New-York Hotel Robbery; Arrest of the Supposed Thief, a Notorious Criminal, Vanderkieifft, in the New-York Hotel, and stole jewelry and mousy amounting in value to between ,000 and $5000. In Hiller's possession were a gold , with...
May 22, 1880, New York Times, New-York. Brooklyn. Long Island. Westchester County. New Jersey.
The suicide of George H. Fuller, the young man who took his life by swallowing a dose of morphine in an East New-York hotel, on Thursday, proves to have ...
March 27, 1882, New York Times, A Thief In the New-York Hotel. John Peterson, who is said to be a Pasliington sneak-thief, will be arraigned to- day in the Jefferson Market: Police Court on the of Mr. Henry Cranston, of the ...
December 16, 1882, New York Times, Smoke Than Fire; A Few Minutes of Apprehension at the New-York Hotel. A faint odor of smoke was perceptible on the parlor and ground floors of the New-York Hotel at 10 o'clock last night. Mr. hc Cranston and Detective Larkin ...
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June 20, 1883, New York Times, The Power of the Press; The Hon. Chauncey M. Depew Before the State Editors,
One hundred editors, with their wives, children, and sweethearts, are in the City in attendance upon the twenty-seventh annual meeting of the New-York Press Association and its accompanying enjoyments. A great many of them are quartered at the New-York Hotel, where a business meeting was held yesterday morning.
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March 4, 1883, New York Times, Masonry in Old New York; Organizations Which Existed Early in This Century, A favorite resort for the members of the Masonic bodies in this City during the period from 1800 to 1803 was the old City Hall, which stood on Broadway, near Trinity Church.
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October 28, 1883, New York Times, An Old New-York Merchant Dead, John A. Cone, formerly a well-known dry goods merchant of this City, died at his home at Great Barrington, Mass., on Friday evening,in the sixty-fifth year of his age. Mr. Cone was born in Colchester, Conn., but removed in...
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November 8, 1883, New York Times, Letter; Water Courses of Old New-York. by H.G. Schuyler,
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November 26, 1883, New York Times, Letter; Old New-York Officers,
To the Editor of the New York Times: In looking over the Army, I find that there was a register of the officers of the Continental Army in 1779-80. I have a list op ...
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April 6, 1884, New York Times, Homes Over Their Stores; How the Early New-Yorkers Lived, A Merchant Remembers When Brooklyn Had Less Than 4,000 People and There Was Ni Jersey City.
The recent proposal to move the Stock Exchange further up town has brought out many interesting reminiscences of old New-York and the men who laid the foundations of the great commercial interests of to-day. Merchants who began their business life when the century was in swaddling clothes recall the city of New-York as they saw it then and contrast it with the New-York of 1884.
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September 21, 1884, New York Times, Seabury Brewster Dead; The Story of an Eccentric New-York Capitalist, Refusing to Rent a Valuable Broadway Property For Fifteen Years--Economical But Charitable.
Elder William Brewster who landed from the Mayflower was the head of the Puritan church. In every picture of the Mayflower all who crossed the ocean on her are seen kneeling around Elder Brewster. Seabury Brewster died at the New-York Hotel at 6 o'clock yesterday morning. He was seventh in line of descent from Elder Brewster, and the son of Lieut. ...
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December 24, 1884, New York Times, An Old New-York Merchant,
Funeral services were held yesterday over Charles H. Mount, the Liberty-street real estate dealer, at St. Peter's Protestant Episcopal Church, on Twenty-sixth-street. Mr. Mount led a quiet life, but was well known among old business men. He was born on Chatham-street in 1819, when it was a desirable place to live.
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December 31, 1884, New York Times, A Lady of Old New-York; Mrs. Mason-Jones Introduces Her Great-Granddaughter Into Society, At the handsome residence of Mrs. Mason-Jones, No. 1 East Fifty-seventh-street, last evening, there was a small dance for young people, given by the hostess in honor of Miss Lena De Trobriand Post, her great-granddaughter.
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June 14, 1885, New York Times, A Relic of Washington; The Treasure Found in an Old New-York House, WASHINGTON'S AUTOGRAPH RECORD OF HIS EXPENSES AS COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF DURING THE REVOLUTION, Down among the tall, modern warehouses and factories that are gradually taking the places of the dingy tenements in the Fourth Ward is a solid three-story pile of brick at the corner of Rose and Duane streets that dates back to the colonial days of New-York.
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February 1, 1886, New York Times, Business Methods of Old New-York,
The property at No. 54 Wall-street, advertised to be sold at auction on the 3d of February, recalls a period in the history of Wall street in striking contrast with the ...
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March 26, 1886, New York Times, The Jay and Smith-Street Horse Car Company of Brooklyn,
Andrew C. Zabriskie will read a paper entitled, Reminiscences of Some Old New -York Die Sinkers, to-night at the rooms of the American ...
August 16, 1886, New York Times, The New-York Boy In the Country,
A little 10-year-old New-York boy is visiting in a prominent farmer's family in Huron, and there is scarcely a day, perhaps, that he does not do something that ...
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December 26, 1886, New York Times, Mr. Tooker on Religion; Some of the Old New-York Controversies; Father McGlynn Followed a Precedent of Bishop Hughes--Public and Parochial Schools;
As a steady diet of fun I don't care for practical jokes. Once in a while I relish them if they are harmless, and I have been known to indulge in them myself, but to no great extent. I was standing one pleasant day in Wall-street looking around the numerous changes that had taken place since my boyhood days when I was ...
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January 16, 1887, New York Times, The Nestor of Builders; A Prominent Figure of Old New-York Life Removed, James Webb, the Nestor of the building trade in this city, died Friday afternoon at his residence, No. 66 Morton-street. He was born March 5, 1800, on Warren-street, between Chapel-street (now College-place) and Church-street, and had never lived further than a mile front his birthplace.
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April 7, 1887, New York Times, Excited Underwriters; Insurance Men Still Working for Harmony; The Old New-York Tariff Association to Succeed the Disrupted Metropolitan, The commotion in fire insurance circles, paused the withdrawal of the Williamsburg City Fire Insurance Company from the Metropolitan Association of Fire ...
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March 26, 1888, New York Times, An Old New-York Claim; Rushed Through the Senate by Mr. Evarts; Willbur's Bill For Work on the Post Office Again in Congress,
WASHINGTON, March 25.--Senator Evarts appears to have been very diligent and persuasive in the Senate in getting through a bill that has been vainly pressed upon Congress since 1881--an "old soldier" of the most questionable ...
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March 26, 1888, New York Times, Obituary 2 -- No Title, On Friday, March 23, at the New-York Hotel, alter a long illness, 'LLEY dic , niece of the late Alexander
May 17, 1888, New York Times, Anxious to See His Wife; John Boyles Murray Found at the New-York Hotel, The feeble old gentleman and his sister are now occupying rooms at the New-York Hotel, on Broadway ...
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June 24, 1888, New York Times, The New-York Delegation; Treachery and Throat Cutting the Order of the Day, CHICAGO, June 23.--The New-Yorkers learned about 2 o'clock this morning that the field had combined sufficient strength to check the Harrison boom, the one boom of this convention that has had a natural and steady growth, and seemed to possess more permanence than all the others combined....So treachery and throat-cutting in a convention, and as for that matter, in a New-York delegation, has never--before been witnessed by old New-York politicians.
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August 26, 1888, New York Times, Old New-York Exposed; a Locality Around Which Great Historical Events Cluster, The electric light last week disclosed the old bridge at Canal-street and Broadway, and with it the cemented top of the tunnel that connected the open ditch which, crossed by mere planks west of Broadway, led to the name of Canal-street. The culvert so recently uncovered by excavations for pipe laying is closely related to the old water systems of this city.
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September 26, 1888, New York Times, Funeral of Henry Suydam; Attended By Representatives of Old New-York Families,
The funeral of Henry Suydam, one of New-York's oldest and most esteemed citizens, whose death occurred last Saturday at Newhamburg, NY, in his eighty-fifth ...
December 8, 1889, New York Times, Gen. Israel Dead. Attacked by a Hemorrhage at the New-York Hotel, Gen. Israel Vogdes, a retired officer of the United States Army, died quite suddenly yesterday afternoon in the New-York Hotel. ...
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February 5, 1893, New York Times, The New-York Hotel To Go; The Property Has Changed Hands and the House Will Come Down,
Another block of old brick and mortar, worthy of the name of one of the city's landmarks, although of a later foundation than some of the down-town buildings, is to be wiped out of existence before the advance of commercial business. Almost within another year the old New-York Hotel will be torn down and a big modern structure will take its place. The New-York Life Insurance and Trust ...
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April 9, 1893, New York Times, A Book On Old New-York; The Bradford Map. The City of New-York at the Time of the Granting of the Montgomerie Charter, A description thereof compiled by William Loring Andrews. New-York: Printed at the De Vinne Press. Mr. Andrews, in his beautifully-manufactured book, writes of a survey made by Lyne in the second quarter of the eighteenth century, and printed by Bradford, It exists apparently in two copies only, the better of which belongs to Mr. Andrews, but with some omissions and a date (1728) it has often been reprinted.
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April 17, 1893, New York Times, Church of the Sea and Land; The Old Market Street Edifice To Be Sold, Founded in the Midst of Vice, Then Surrounded by Wealth and Luxury, It Has Gradually Decayed with the Northward Growth of the City -- Old New-Yorkers Who Made Up Its Congregation --The Pastors Who Have Occupied Its Pulpit. This church has a history which may be called remarkable even among those of other old New-York. It was planted in a hotbed of vice, grow strong in an ...
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June 7, 1893, New York Times, A Rare Old New-York Relic, Mayor Gilroy has had an opportunity to buy for the city a rare curiosity in the shape of a note issued by the New-York Water Works in 1776, and because he has ...
January 26, 1894, New York Times, New-York AP vs. Western AP; A Concession by the Latter's Counsel, Gen. Swayne, Agreed to Recognize the Correctness of Figures Sprung by Lawyer Dyett in the Suit of the Old New-York Association to Recover Many Thousands of Dollars -- Interesting Inside History of the Transactions Between Brother John of the West and Brother James of the East. When the old New-York Associated Press was gathered in by its more aggressive neighbor, the United Press, but before it agreed to quit the business of news ...
February 6, 1894, New York Times, The United Press, James Gordon Bennett, For The New-York Herald. Whitelaw Reid, For The New-York Tribune. Charles A. Dana, For The New York Sun. Charles R. Miller, George F. Spinney, For The New-York Times.... good will, and business which it derived from its predecessor, the old New- York Associated Press. These papers are engaged in the business of collecting the ...
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September 1, 1894, New York Times, Mr. Janvier's 'Old New-York,' In Old New-York. by Thomas A. Janvier, Illustrated 12mo. New-York: Harper & Brothers. $1.75.
Mr. Janvier writes not of the whole theme which old New-York supplies, out of certain striking phases of it. For Greenwich Village, he has positive affection, and his writing plainly discloses his love. For another chapter he chooses the meadows of Lispenard; for another, the Battery, innocent for all past time of bellicose acts against any enemy;) for another, the ancient pleasure gardens, or Love Lane, or the prison of the debtors.
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September 15, 1894, New York Times, To Buy the Old New-York Hotel Site; Chicago Syndicate Said to Have an Option for $1,200,000, A syndicate has been formed, so the story says, to purchase the property on which the old New-York Hotel formerly stood. It occupies an entire block, bounded by Waverley Place, Washington Place, Mercer Street, and Broadway.
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December 11, 1894, New York Times, Mr. Harrigan's New Play; A Warm Reception Last Night But It Lacks Novelty, The Old Material Worked Over Again -- Some Really Comic Scenes, but Nothing New... had to stop the play to make his customary speech, acknowledging the applause and expressing his happiness at being back in " dear old New-York.
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June 7, 1895, New York Times, In True German Style; New-York Turn Verein's Forty-fifth Anniversary Celebrated, Toasts Drunk to the Founders; All United in Singing "The Star Spangled Banner--Gen. Franz Sigel Is Detained by Illness... put their shoulders to the wheel and promote the interests of the old New-York Turn Vereiu. He praised the turners who bore the burdens and pointed them out ...
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July 5, 1895, New York Times, Death of an Old New-York Merchant,
John Whilley Graydon, eighty-two years old, a retired merchant of 26 West Forty- eighth Street, New York, died suddenly of pulmonary hemorrhage to-day, at the of ...
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September 2, 1895, New York Times, The New-England Railroad Company; The Old New-York and New-England Has Ceased to Exist, At 12 o"clock midnight, Aug. 31, the New-York and New-England Railroad, the bone of so many corporation contests, became a thing of the past, and rose from ...
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September 25, 1895, New York Times, The Excise Question An Old One; One of the Old New-York Colonial Ordinances Unearthed,
Apropos of the discussion over the excise question, the following, Z which was unearthed by ex-Attorney General Simon Rosendale, will be of interest.
December 9, 1895, New York Times, Is Sixty-Nine Years Old; New York City Mission and Tract Society and Its Work for the Poor,
The sixty-ninth annual meeting of the New-York City Mission and Tract Society was held yesterday afternoon in the Brick Presbyterian Church, Thirty-seventh ...
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December 15, 1895, New York Times, Curious New-York Laws; Some Interesting ones Which Were . in Force Way Back in 1738, Condition of Streets Considered; Owners Compelled to Keep the Highways in Front of Their Property Well Paved -- Littering the Streets Prohibited,
Old New-York is always interesting. It is full of amusing and instructive incidents, but, while a great deal is heard from time to time about the peculiar manners of its early inhabitants, the social customs, old houses, taverns, methods of travel, and other features of municipal life, very little is heard about its early laws.
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March 29, 1896, New York Times, Old New York Fortress; Some of the Strange Scenes Its Walls Looked Down Upon, Pride of Gov. Stuyvesant -- Folks of New-Amsterdam Were Afraid that He Would Not Be a Father to Them -- How English Society in New-York Had Its Beginning -- Lady Mary Andros Was Charming and Accomplished; One of the first things which the Dutchmen did after they settled on Manhattan Island was to build a fort near the Battery. At first this was merely an earthwork, but after a time palisades were erected, and in 1653 a palisade wall twelve feet high was built. One angle of this wall extended from William Street to Broadway on Wall Street.
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April 5, 1896, New York Times, Old New-York Fortress; How Gov. Cornbury Astonished the People, He Was in the Habit of Walking on the Wall of the Fort in Woman's Attire and Carrying a Fan -- How the Aristocrats Put Jacob Leisler and His Son-in-Law to Death -- He Was Unpopular with the Home Government.
II. So soon as Jacob Leisler was well settled in command as temporary Governor, chosen by the people of New-York to hold power till the new King, William of Orange, should make his pleasure known the stern puritan, his Lieutenant, Jacob Milborne, went, with fifty men in three sloops, to take Albany, then still held by the aristocratic officers of James, though three-fourths of the people were for Leisler.
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April 19, 1896, New York Times, Old New-York Fortress; Promptly Torn Down After the Revolution, All Alarm of a French War Caused a Renewal of Fortifications, the Timbers of Which Were Sacrificed in a Fuel Famine -- Then Came an Alarm of War with England, and Very Substantial Defensive Works Were the Result,
III. Gov. Dongan's report on the State of the Province of New-York has this to say about the fort: " At New-York there is a fortification of four bastions, built formerly ...
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November 28, 1896, New York Times, In Old New-York; Some Half-Forgotten Bits of Early Local History, One of the things that "the oldest inhabitant" will not be able to recall without referring to his notes, is that Nassau Street was originally laid out as a wagon road ...
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November 29, 1896, New York Times, New-York Police Courts; An Old Reporter Visits One of Them After Many Years; Extraordinary Changes for the Better in the Methods of Conducting Business -- Judges No Longer Buffoons -- Fair Treatment for All, by William Drysdale, To return after an absence of twenty years is to come back to a new city built on the site of old New-York; and no always-present New-Yorker can see the ...
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February 23, 1897, New York Times, News of the Railroads; Concession for Nicaragua's New Road Was Made Not to an English Company, but to New York Men, Valuable Privileges Granted; The Completion of the Line Will Put This City Within Five or Six Days of Managua and Will Change the Business of Nicaragua.
MANAGUA, Nicaragua, Dec. 20, 1896. -- An article was recently published in many of the leading newspapers of the United States to the effect that an English company had secured a concession from the Nicaraguan Government to construct and operate a railroad from Lake Nicaragua to the Atlantic coast. Davis comes of an old .New York family, and as a boy received his railroad education by being with the New York Central Road. lie came to Nicaragua. as an ...
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June 4, 1897, New York Times, Mail Contract For Starin; New Service Instituted in New York Harbor to be Performed for $29,740; Mrs. J. W. Beekman Dead; She Was a Notable Figure in New York Society--Death Caused by Pneumonia,
WASHINGTON, June 3. -- The Postmaster General has awarded to the Starin Transportation Line of New York the contract for performing the newly instituted New York harbor mail service. This provides for a vessel to carry the mails from Quarantine station to the Government pier near the Battery, to the Pennsylvania Railroad station at Jersey City, and to a point adjacent to the Grand Central Station in New York City....has home was always a brilliant social centre, and a gathering place for old New York notables, the De Peysters, and others. The host was known as graceful ...
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June 13, 1897, New York Times, Life in Old New York; Interesting Pictures from Local Newspapers Printed at the Beginning of the Century; The Lottery Was Then Legal; Human Slavery Also Existed Here -- People Traveled in Stage Coaches -- Far Rockaway as a Summer Resort -- What Advertisements Tell of that Day. To the New Yorker, accustomed to the rush and bustle of these marvelous end-of -the-century times, fecund with wonderful inventions, when men must strain ...
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July 21, 1897, New York Times, New Jersey Naval Militia; They Will Man the Old Sloop-of-War Portsmouth for a Two Weeks' Cruise,
The Battalion of the East of the New Jersey Naval Militia, under the command of Washington Irving, will start for a two weeks' cruise on the old sloop-of-war Portsmouth, from the foot of Fourteenth Street, Hoboken. The battalion comprises three divisions of about sixty men each, one division of Jersey City and Orange young men; another of Stevens Institute graduates and students, and another of Newark young men....
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July 21, 1897, New York Times, Funeral of R. B. Withers, Died in Paris and Was Buried Here in the Marble Cemetery,....burial, a rare occurrence in these days for the place, occurred yesterday in the quaint old New York City Marble Cemetery in Second Street, between First and ...
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December 7, 1897, New York Times, Old New York's Funeral; Mayor Strong Suggests that It Be Held on the Last Night of the Year, Proposes a Watch Service; Calls a Conference of Prominent Citizens for Thursday Night to Devise Plans for an Appropriate Ceremony. If Mayor Strong's ideas are carried into execution, the passing out of existence of the old City of New York will be signalized by a solemn service in the ...
December 11, 1897, New York Times, Adieu To the Old Cities; Programme for New York May Be Outlined To-day-- Brooklyn's Celebration Plans, The committee of seven who will have charge of the preliminaries for the demonstration in honor of old New York on the last day of the year will meet to-day at
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December 19, 1897, New York Times, Old Tokens and Medals; Unique Collection of Metallic Store Cards Used in New York Early in This Century, Many of the rarest coins in Mr. Betts's collection once served to advertise public houses and places of amusement in old New York. One of the oldest of the silver
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January 1, 1898, New York Times, Damp Day For Old New York; Father Knickerbocker's Last Day as a Bachelor Was Spent Under an Umbrella, Old Father Knickerbocker spent his last day of single blessedness trudging around under an umbrella, bedraggled and dispirited, for it looked as though the ...
January 2, 1898, New York Times, Golf Clubs in New York; Twelve First-Class Links in the Greater City for Lovers of the Game, Where and What They Are; Manhattan Borough the Only One Not Possessing Golf Grounds -- Staten Island and Her Picturesque Links -- Quiet Season for Tournaments.... opened last Spring on the club s new quarters, near Dongan Hills, and can truthfully be called the most picturesque golf course in the vicinity of old New York.
August 28, 1898, New York Times, Illustrated Magazine Supplement, One of New York's Queer Institutions, by Cromwell Childe,
GOD by rod the metropolis has crept almost up to the quaint sylvan retreats of King's Bridge. Crabbing nowadays in the placid and shallow waters of the Upper Harlem, you are very nearly in the roar of the great city itself. A few of nature's own hills and dells remain, nevertheless -- the last of old New York.
A few of nature's own hills and dells remain, nevertheless -- the last of old New York. Here, though the builder ts abroad and there are signs of his progress and...
September 21, 1898, New York Times, Illustrated Magazine Supplement, New Organizations Will Be Disbanded and Old New York National Guard Commands Reformed, "The New York volunteer regiments, which were raised in the National Guard and which have returned to their home cities, and received furloughs, will resume ...
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October 22, 1898, New York Times, Saturday Review of Books and Art, A Belle of Old New York,
The craze for the formation of historical and genealogical societies in America, first started in New York by Mr. John Austin Stevens, who founded the Society of ..
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January 26, 1899, New York Times, Saturday Review of Books and Art, Pensions for Old New York Soldiers, Ir. Redington of New York has introduced a bill providing for a pension of not exceeding $600 a year to every soldier who has been in the State's employ for ten ...
July 13, 1899, New York Times, Saturday Review of Books and Art, New York in the Thirties, by Abraham Barker, I was very much interested in reading in your paper of June 25, 1899, the article, "An Old New York Fireman, Jimmie Mackey," who used to run with No. 5 Engine ...
July 30, 1899, New York Times, Illustrated Magazine Supplement, New York In Former Days, Crimmins, the City Trust has a unique distinction nil along "the Street" through its gallery of old New York views. .%r, Crimmins has become an authority on the ...
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August 6, 1899, New York Times Illustrated Magazine Supplement, Glimpse of Old New-York; John H. Welsh, Who Has Lived Here Seventy-five Years, Reminiscent, Race Between Rival Firemen; How No. 5 Won by a Trick from No. 14--About the Helen Jewett Murder--City's Oldest House.
John H. Welsh, who is seventy-five years old and has lived in New York City since the day he was born, was keenly interested in the story of an old New York ...
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March 21, 1890, New York Times, A Blaze at the New-York Hotel,
Exciting and dangerous fires occurred yesterday in the Hotel Bristol, kept by Mrs. Florence A. Case, at 13 to 17 East Eleventh-street, and in the New-York Hotel.
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May 20, 1890, New York Times, Death of Samuel H. Crook; A Veteran New-York Hotel Proprietor Commits Suicide,
Samuel H. Crook, one of the oldest and best-known hotel keepers in this city, committed suicide yesterday morning by shooting himself through the head in his dressing room at his hotel, 114 to 118 Park Row. He was about to reopen the old hotel, the proprietorship of which he had relinquished to Samuel H. Everett eight years ago.
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October 19, 1890, New York Times, Still Not Enough Hotels; A Dozen More at Least Will Soon Be Built in New-York, Landlords Find It Difficult To Keep Up With a Big City's Growth--A Hotel Boom Is With Us. Perhaps everybody does not know that there are 128 hotels in this great and growing town. The Official Hotel Directory for 1890 gives the names of that number of New-York hotels, and next year ten or twelve more names will have to be added to the list. The hotel industry in this particular locality is growing at a remarkable rate. ... the shops and the theatre, which they can do by taking rooms at a hotel. There is still another element that helps to keep the New-York hotel men above want...
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January 20, 1891, New York Times, ALL FOR THE UNION NOW; BANQUET OF THE CONFEDERATE VETERANS' CAMP. A NOTABLE EVENT AT THE NEW-YORK HOTEL -- Ex-confederate soldiers cheer lee and grant with equal heartiness.... Union sentiment were the controlling elements of an enthusiastic banquet given in the New-York Hotel last night by the Veteran Confederate Camp of this city.
November 24, 1891, New York Times, Henry Cranston's Troubles; The Landlord of the New-York Hotel Financially Embarrassed, Henry Cranston, the popular landlord of the New-York Hotel, is apparently in a financial condition not the most pleasing to him and his numerous friends.
January 31, 1892, New York Times, Voorhis Opposes the Forming of an Anti-Tammany League. The conference committees of the various so-called anti-Tammany organizations met at the New-York Hotel Saturday night, a week ago, and it was then ...
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April 12, 1892, New York Times, The New-York Hotel; John W. Stokes, The New Manager, Has Introduced Radical Changes, The old New-York Hotel, 721 Broadway, was placed by its owners in the hands of a receiver, E.L. Winthrop, a week ago yesterday. This famous old house, which in its palmy days sheltered some of the most noted men and women of the time, and which is even now the headquarters of most of the Southern people visiting New-York, is said to have been not very profitable of late years.
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April 12, 1892, New York Times, The New Custom House Site,
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February 5, 1893, New York Times, The New-York Hotel To Go; The Property Has Changed Hands and the House Will Come Down, Almost within another year the old New-York Hotel will be torn down and a big modern structure will take its place. The New-York Life Insurance and Trust ...
Who New-York Hotel Site -- Brokers and Auctioneers' Sales, A friendly suit in partition has been begun by Commissioner Randolph Guggenheimer against the representatives of the Clausen estate, in which ...
September 15, 1894, New York Times, To Buy the Old New-York Hotel Site; Chicago Syndicate Said to Have an Option for $1,200,000, A syndicate has been formed, so the story says, to purchase the property on which the old New-York Hotel formerly stood. It occupies an entire block, bounded ...
September 17, 1894, New York Times, Driven Mad By Headaches; A Cleveland Broker Found Dead At the New-York Hotel, He Had Fired a Bullet Into His Brain -- His Kinsfolk Can Only Say that He Was Subject to Severe Periodic Headaches, and Was Just Recovering from One -- His Family Relations Were Happy and His Finances Were Not Causing Him Worry. M. A. Bell of the brokerage firm of Bell Davis, Cleveland, Ohio, committed suicide some time Saturday night, in the New-York Hotel, Broadway, opposite Bond Street, by shooting himself behind the right ear with a revolver.
September 18, 1894, New York Times, In the Real Estate Field; The New-York Hotel Property -- Sol Sayles's Purchase on Sixth Avenue,
Commissioner Randolph Guggenheimer said yesterday that there was absolutely no truth in the story of a Chicago syndicate acquiring the New-York Hotel property. To begin with, he said, the price mentioned -- $1.200,000 -- was absurd. Its cost up to date has been about $1,500,000, and it has never been offered at less than $1,700,000.
October 14, 1894, New York Times, Twelve-Story Buildings to be Put on the New-York Hotel Site,
Upon the site occupied for so many years by the New-York Hotel, at Broadway, Mercer Street, and Waverley and Washington Places, will be built great structures devoted to business. These are shown in the accompanying illustration, which, however, fails to give the variations in color that will serve to aid the division lines in making the buildings distinct.
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October 26, 1894, New York Times, Marquis De Crosisic Arrested, Charged with Perjury Regarding the Hotel De Logerot Failure,
The case grows out of the New-York Hotel De Logerot collapse, since which the Marquis has. been living here quietly with his wife. De Logrerot has already ...
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January 8, 1896, New York Times, Mrs. Kissam's Countercharge; She Says Her Husband Deserted Her and is an Inebriate -- Her Father Her Counsel,
On leaving the institute, Kissam went to live with his wife in a New-York hotel, and there abandoned her. Mr. Brown told Judge Gaynor he paid 110 board owed ...
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July 5, 1896, New York Times, Changes In Broadway; Big Buildings From the Battery to Forty-Second Street, Where Once Were Small, Low-Browed Brick and Frame Buildings Now Stand the Lofty Walls of the Modern Business Structure -- The Washington Building, Erected by Cyrus Field in 1884, the Pioneer of the "Sky Scrapers."
On the site of the old New-York Hotel, between Washington and Waverley Places, is the new and costly New-York Commercial Building, which has started on a ...
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