. The American metropolis, from Knickerbocker days to the present time;. k Van Clyff. 9. A shanty of Pieter Jansen. 10. A general store kept by the great man ofthe street, Jacob Jansen Moesman. Thirty-six years afterward the southeast cornerof Broad and Wall Streets (now Drexel, Morgan &Companys corner) was sold for one hundred andsixty-three pounds, which was considered to indicatea phenomenal rise in real estate values. One hun-dred and fifty years ago, this region of palaceswas filled with shanties and squat cottages. Hogsroamed the streets, andthe necessary houses,as they were called, had
. The American metropolis, from Knickerbocker days to the present time;. k Van Clyff. 9. A shanty of Pieter Jansen. 10. A general store kept by the great man ofthe street, Jacob Jansen Moesman. Thirty-six years afterward the southeast cornerof Broad and Wall Streets (now Drexel, Morgan &Companys corner) was sold for one hundred andsixty-three pounds, which was considered to indicatea phenomenal rise in real estate values. One hun-dred and fifty years ago, this region of palaceswas filled with shanties and squat cottages. Hogsroamed the streets, andthe necessary houses,as they were called, had underneath entrances from the roads for theuse of the swine (as thearrangement still is insome parts of the coun-try). The hogs were im-portant members of thecommunity then as now,and they had their destiny, operatingthrough various city-fatherboards, closed up the underground passages, restrictedthe liberties of our grunting relatives, pushed thembeyond the City lines, and finally transported themto Hunters Point (Long Island City), where they 85. THE AMERICAN METROPOLIS are all insanely clamoring for admission to GreaterNew York, and Death:—Death to the Hogs andDeath to their Illustrious Representative, who hasshown to the wondering world what an enterpris-ing Hog can do under the uplifting and broad-ening influences of our free institutions. That the Pig Reform in Wall Street did not suc-ceed without a mighty struggle may be seen fromthis plaintive wail, extracted from one of the news-papers of the transition period: August 27, the Publisher of the Weekly Post Boy. I am a poor widow, and have often set forththe deplorable state of my case to the Alderman ofthe ward; but he turns a deaf ear to all 1 cansay; I must, therefore, beg you will give this aplace in your paper, as an appeal to the publickfor the justness of my cause. My husband diedabout three years ago, left me with three smallchildren, a large score to pay off at tippling houses,for beer,
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