The American metropolis, from Knickerbocker days to the present time; New York City life in all its various phases . NEW YoKK CITV \AFK Winslows Southing S\riij) was iiitiodurcd to a suf-fering baby-world, and lifted its i)ropritlor to aneminence of fame, philanthropy and wealth. Some-where in tlio interior of this block, in Colonel Kut-gers orchard, the patriot Xathan Ilale was through this region were the j^merican breast-works of 1770. Oliver, Catherine and DivisionStreets run out toward the east, and they presentstarthng pictures of the debased humanity that hasfilled this secti


The American metropolis, from Knickerbocker days to the present time; New York City life in all its various phases . NEW YoKK CITV \AFK Winslows Southing S\riij) was iiitiodurcd to a suf-fering baby-world, and lifted its i)ropritlor to aneminence of fame, philanthropy and wealth. Some-where in tlio interior of this block, in Colonel Kut-gers orchard, the patriot Xathan Ilale was through this region were the j^merican breast-works of 1770. Oliver, Catherine and DivisionStreets run out toward the east, and they presentstarthng pictures of the debased humanity that hasfilled this section which once was occupied by thechoicest of New Yorks citizenship. On the NewBowery, which runs south out of Chatham S<iuare,is a small remnant of the Jews burying-ground,the first land in the City of New York gi-anted tothat faith for burial purposes. The deed was madeby Noe Willey of London in 172!i, and the tractwas bounded by Chatham, Catherine and OliverStreets. The large building at the north end ofthe Square, now called the Kingston House, andpartly occupied by a big five cent saloon, oncecalled the


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