. The American metropolis, from Knickerbocker days to the present time;. timepicturesqueness has departed. Now there are splen-did buildings on each side of the street, and itswidth and its gradual sweep and rise to the nc ligive a magnificent view of the Treasury buildingand the structures which surround it. But ourthoughts go back with pleasure to the time whenit was unpaved, and the creek ran through it, re-ceiving its little tributary, the Beaver Gracht, andwhen the sheep grazed upon the slopes. Where theStock Exchange stands, the sheep used to congre-gate, and at appropriate times they we
. The American metropolis, from Knickerbocker days to the present time;. timepicturesqueness has departed. Now there are splen-did buildings on each side of the street, and itswidth and its gradual sweep and rise to the nc ligive a magnificent view of the Treasury buildingand the structures which surround it. But ourthoughts go back with pleasure to the time whenit was unpaved, and the creek ran through it, re-ceiving its little tributary, the Beaver Gracht, andwhen the sheep grazed upon the slopes. Where theStock Exchange stands, the sheep used to congre-gate, and at appropriate times they were sheared,just about where the outside public now is allowedto peep from the gallery at the mysteries. Anotherfavorite place for the sheep to meet was on the 83 NEW YORK CITY LIFE east side of the street, about where Henry Clewspermits the amiable populace to stimulate its curi-osity by watching- the quotations on his black-boards. From that point it is said that the sheepwere often driven to slaughter; for even in thosedays the flesh of rams, ewes and lambs was held. Dutch Cottages at Broad and Garden Streets, 1800. in high favor. The bleating of lambs, and the odor ofbroiling chops, has never departed from Broad original owner of the sheep pasture wasDominie I^risius, whose land bounded on Jan Jan-sen Dams farm, which ran northward from first improvements on the sheep pasture werethe cottages which were built in 1600 at the north-east corner of Exchange Place and Broad Street, 83 THE AMEEICAN METROPOLIS now occupied by tlie Mills building. The sheeppasture was included within Wall, Beaver, Newand William Streets. Cornelius Groesens occupiedthe land west of New Street fronting on was killed by the Indians in 1655, and with-
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