. The American metropolis, from Knickerbocker days to the present time;. Street we see St. PetersChurch, the first Roman Catholic church in NewYork. This building was erected in 1836, but the 215 THE AMERICAN METROPOLIS original building on the same site was built in cornerstone was laid by the Spanish embassador,and Charles III. contributed to the cost of the edi-fice. The City Hospital was on the west side ofBroadway and faced south, overlooking the negrograveyard in the neighborhood of Chambers Streetand the public graveyard below it. The first reg-. City Hospital. ular night polic
. The American metropolis, from Knickerbocker days to the present time;. Street we see St. PetersChurch, the first Roman Catholic church in NewYork. This building was erected in 1836, but the 215 THE AMERICAN METROPOLIS original building on the same site was built in cornerstone was laid by the Spanish embassador,and Charles III. contributed to the cost of the edi-fice. The City Hospital was on the west side ofBroadway and faced south, overlooking the negrograveyard in the neighborhood of Chambers Streetand the public graveyard below it. The first reg-. City Hospital. ular night policemen in the City patroled the neigh-borhood of this graveyard, for the purpose, as itnow appears, of protecting the graves from medicalstudents. It was at this hospital that the famousDoctors Riot had its origin, in the thoughtlessact of a student who shook an arm that he wasdissecting, at some boys in the street. The simple 216
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