. American lands and letters. is them that Philip Hone,* one-time (1836)Mayor of New York, who in 1822 purchased afine house (for $25,000) on Broadway, oppositethat end of the city park where the great Post-office now cumbers the ground ; but where treesand grass grew then, with a tall wooden palingabout them, over which the Mayor and his guests(of whom he had always abundance) saw the freshsplendor of the marble City Hall. Dr. llosackf too, at his elegant ChambersStreet home, vied in that day with the last-namedgentleman in the entertainment of strangers ofdistinction; and his fa
. American lands and letters. is them that Philip Hone,* one-time (1836)Mayor of New York, who in 1822 purchased afine house (for $25,000) on Broadway, oppositethat end of the city park where the great Post-office now cumbers the ground ; but where treesand grass grew then, with a tall wooden palingabout them, over which the Mayor and his guests(of whom he had always abundance) saw the freshsplendor of the marble City Hall. Dr. llosackf too, at his elegant ChambersStreet home, vied in that day with the last-namedgentleman in the entertainment of strangers ofdistinction; and his famous Saturday eveningparties were known far and wide. Between 1820 and 1830, before yet the railway * Philip Hone, b. 1781 ; d. 1851. His Journal, etc., editedby Bayard Tuckerman, New York, 1889, 2 vols. 8vo, hasin it very much of lively interest. f David Ilosack, b. 1769; d. 1835. In addition to profes-sional works of repute he published Memoirs of De WiltClinton and Jlortus Elginensis, v. valued account of hisgarden o JOHN SANDERSON. 9 was a great helper of travel, the swiftest mail-carrier between Philadeljihia and New York wouldreckon upon some twelve hours as the measure ofhis speed; and it was counted quite a wonderfulevent when Cooper, the actor, who had a finehouse upon the banks of the Schuylkill, under-took to play on alternate nights in such far-apartplaces as Philadelphia and New York ! The savors of the Portfolio,* made famous bythe loyalist Joaeph Dennie, had left a lingeringfragrance in the Quaker City. Eobert Walsh, Jr.,a trenchant journalist, long known afterward asour Consul at Paris, was at work there ; so was thebiographer f of the Signers of the Declaration, whogave later such attractive liveliness to his Ameri-can in Paris, of which a brother wit said, withclever mensuration— twas the only book oftravels he knew which was, at once, too broad,and not long enough. * Finally given up in 1827. In its later years it had manyfunny examples of art, on
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