A tour around New York, and My summer acre; being the recreations of MrFelix Oldboy . anctums werefully as dreary as the dens of the lawyers and businessmen of their day, he wielded a pen as keen as his was he who, when Minister to Algiers, persuadedthe Dey to make a most favorable treaty with theUnited States, on the ground that it was not a Chris-tian nation—which he proceeded to prove by referenceto the Constitution. The Dey was delighted to getahead of France and England, to w^hom he had prom-ised to sign no treaty with another Christian nation. But the tourist cannot linger longer
A tour around New York, and My summer acre; being the recreations of MrFelix Oldboy . anctums werefully as dreary as the dens of the lawyers and businessmen of their day, he wielded a pen as keen as his was he who, when Minister to Algiers, persuadedthe Dey to make a most favorable treaty with theUnited States, on the ground that it was not a Chris-tian nation—which he proceeded to prove by referenceto the Constitution. The Dey was delighted to getahead of France and England, to w^hom he had prom-ised to sign no treaty with another Christian nation. But the tourist cannot linger longer with the ghostsof the past, and so he passes on, with the expression of 54 A TOUR AROUND NEW YORK a hope that the time is not distant when the city willbuild monuments to commemorate its commercial he-roes, and rescue the names of Livingston and Lewisand Broome and their business peers from day the ghostly cadence of their footsteps willcease on our busy streets, when we, who are gray-hairedand learned about them when young, shall have fol-lowed also to their SEAL OF NEW YORK CITY A TOUR AROUND NEW YORK 55 CHAPTER VI BROADWAY IN SIMPLER DAYS—AMONG THE OLD-TIME THEATRES—MAYMEETINGS AT THE TABERNACLE—THE FIRST SEWING-MACHINE—BROADWAY GARDENS AND CHURCHES—A NIGHT WITH CHRISTYsMINSTRELS—THE RAVELS AT NIBLOS Do you know, I said to a friend, recently, as wedived into a crowded train on the elevated railroad, Ithink we take less exercise than we did a generationago, and are degenerating? In the matter of legs I amquite sure the decadence must be marked. The re-vived fashion of knee-breeches, now impending, willfind us unable to cope with the traditionary anatomiesof stalwart George Washington, who was a prodigiousjumper, and sturdy John Adams, whose lower limbswere solid as the granite hills that stood around hishome. The art of walking has gone out of fashionwith us, and it has operated to our physical loss. Do you know, calmly responded my friend,
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