. History and reminiscences of lower Wall Street and vicinity. ARTHUR BENSON, HATFIELD & RUFUS STORY, RUFUS STORY & CO.[From Painting in possession of Dwight P. Cruikshank, New York] A Restaurant Famous for Three Things 121 This old firm always had my admiration and they stillbelieve in doing business under the golden rule. NathanLanes stationery store at No. 68, above them being Gans,the tobacco broker. On the corner of Water and Wallstreets was the Tontine building, for many years one ofthe sights. Over each window and entrance, carved instone, was a grotesque head, while at the mai
. History and reminiscences of lower Wall Street and vicinity. ARTHUR BENSON, HATFIELD & RUFUS STORY, RUFUS STORY & CO.[From Painting in possession of Dwight P. Cruikshank, New York] A Restaurant Famous for Three Things 121 This old firm always had my admiration and they stillbelieve in doing business under the golden rule. NathanLanes stationery store at No. 68, above them being Gans,the tobacco broker. On the corner of Water and Wallstreets was the Tontine building, for many years one ofthe sights. Over each window and entrance, carved instone, was a grotesque head, while at the main door wasa very large head of Bacchus. It was said that no two ofthe heads were alike. In another chapter will be foundhistory of this building. There was a drug store in thebasement; also Binghams stationery store. The HazardPowder Company occupied the main offices. One of thecashiers in this office always wrote receipts backwards,much to the admiration of us office boys. Hugh R. Healy and Louis C. Naiswald, both in thesyrup and molasses business; the old coffee importinghouse of J. L.
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