Valentine's manual of old New York . later on soaps and pearline. Before the completion of the Sixth Avenue L we werecompelled to make long trips if we wanted to go skating,sometimes to the Capitoline grounds in Brooklyn orto the St. George cricket grounds in Hoboken, near theEysian field, or in the Sixth or Eighth Avenue horse carsto Central Park, or by stage to the open air rink on Madi-son Avenue just back of where the old Windsor Hotelwas afterward built. In both stages and cars the floorswere covered with straw. With the widening of Laurens Street and the comple-tion of the Sixth Avenue L
Valentine's manual of old New York . later on soaps and pearline. Before the completion of the Sixth Avenue L we werecompelled to make long trips if we wanted to go skating,sometimes to the Capitoline grounds in Brooklyn orto the St. George cricket grounds in Hoboken, near theEysian field, or in the Sixth or Eighth Avenue horse carsto Central Park, or by stage to the open air rink on Madi-son Avenue just back of where the old Windsor Hotelwas afterward built. In both stages and cars the floorswere covered with straw. With the widening of Laurens Street and the comple-tion of the Sixth Avenue L changes took place rapidlyand today most of the old landmarks are gone. Old Church still stands, but it is dilapidated and is asorry reminder of this once beautiful section. The corner of Hudson and Canal Streets at the presenttime looks very much as it did in 1870 when I stood onthis corner and bared my head as the body of AdmiralFarragut passed by, followed by Gen. U. S. Grant, BenButler and many other war heroes. [ 93 ]. THE CLIPPER SHIPS OF: .- OLD NEW YORK : : ^^s^HERE are still many men in New York who can^^^ recall the forest of masts in South Street thirtyand forty years ago. The long bowsprits withtheir grotesque figures, that stretched, clear across thestreet almost to the windows opposite; the fragrant odorof tar, Norway pine, spices and what not; the wheezydonkey engine, the creaking windlass and the strangeoaths of the stevedores and truckmen—all were charac-teristic of South Street in the reign of the Clipper. One by one these old Champions of the Seas disap-peared. The Young America was last seen lying offGibraltar as a coal hulk; and that superb old greyhoundof the ocean, the Flying Cloud suffered a similar ig-nominious ending. She was not even spared the humilia-tion of concealing her tragic end from the eyes of herformer envious rivals, but was condemned to end her daysas a New Haven scow towed up the Sound with a load ofbrick and concrete behind a
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