New York, the metropolis : its noted business and professional men. . ^ ^=-^_-^r^ CORNER OF BRC-^DWAY .AND MURRAY STREET, 1820. by Chancellor Robert New York to Albanyit took the ordinary packetto cover the distance. Thisand established steam navi-Long Island Sound fromin 1818, a third to Newfourth, consisting of theLine. The first steamervoyage was the Phoenix,vens, of Hoboken, whichPhiladelphia in 1807. ThisStevens opened a steamYork and Hoboken — the—in 1811, followed in 1812Brooklyn. The first steamtional Government at an ex-made a successful trip toSavannah, built in Newth
New York, the metropolis : its noted business and professional men. . ^ ^=-^_-^r^ CORNER OF BRC-^DWAY .AND MURRAY STREET, 1820. by Chancellor Robert New York to Albanyit took the ordinary packetto cover the distance. Thisand established steam navi-Long Island Sound fromin 1818, a third to Newfourth, consisting of theLine. The first steamervoyage was the Phoenix,vens, of Hoboken, whichPhiladelphia in 1807. ThisStevens opened a steamYork and Hoboken — the—in 1811, followed in 1812Brooklyn. The first steamtional Government at an ex-made a successful trip toSavannah, built in Newthis city and having become con-ed in a northerly direction,laid out by the City Com-gust of estate owners, whocessfully, to obstruct thetions. In this way the War-Baj-ard farms were invaded XVlll NEW YORK, THE JUNCTION OF BROADWAY AND BOWERY ROAD, i8 now. This canal brought into our docks the produceof the great West and took back our manufactures tothe farmers of Indiana, Michigan and Illinois beforerailroads were running, or even dreamed of in a prac-tical way. The originators of the scheme realizedits importance, and, in order that the people mostinterested and concerned might receive news of theopening as soon as possible, in times when telegraphywas almost unknown, it was announced by the firing ofcannon. The distance between Buffalo and SandyHook is 550 miles, and yet intelligence of the openingof the Erie Canal was transmitted in eighty-one was done b} sound, and cannon placed at intervals often miles between the two points was the mode ofconveying it, Governor Clinton, with a large party ofState officials and scientists, being at Sand}- Hook, wherehe emptied a keg of Lake Erie water into the ocean,which was symbolical of the imion of the two bodiesof water, one fresh, the
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