Valentine's manual of old New York . ese old firmsare still in business but are now scattered throughout thecity. The recent erection of a building specially designedfor the paper trade indicates that its old time prestige iscoming back. REMINISCENCES OF THE FIFTH WARD Henry Theodore Lutz While reading Mr. Dunhams article on Bond Streetin the Manual, I happened to glance at the wall andsaw hanging there the key of old St. Johns Park. Mymind instantly reverted to my boyhood days and I couldsee myself learning to skate on my first little turned-uphollow skates, and the other pleasures that I enj
Valentine's manual of old New York . ese old firmsare still in business but are now scattered throughout thecity. The recent erection of a building specially designedfor the paper trade indicates that its old time prestige iscoming back. REMINISCENCES OF THE FIFTH WARD Henry Theodore Lutz While reading Mr. Dunhams article on Bond Streetin the Manual, I happened to glance at the wall andsaw hanging there the key of old St. Johns Park. Mymind instantly reverted to my boyhood days and I couldsee myself learning to skate on my first little turned-uphollow skates, and the other pleasures that I enjoyed inthe old park. I can well remember a little boy trying toget into the park, before father paid the yearly fee for thekey, and whose head went through between the iron rail-ing all right, but on seeing the keeper he could not gethis head out again on account of his ears. I can also re-call the switching I received not only from the keeperbut also from Daddy. [80] AUSTRALIAN C( L LIKE MELBOURNE. DIRECT. rrom l*i<r S last Kinr. GAME COCK One of the earliest and rarest colored advertising cards sent outby shippers to customers (1840). OF OLD NEW YORK I was born in the old two-story and attic building, 111Hudson Street, June 21, 1859; from there we moved toRose Street and in 1861 to 56 Lispenard Street; here myearliest memories are still fresh. The house was ownedand the lower part occupied by a French jeweler, Marchand. Next door was Moons stable, wherethe express wagons of Harndons express were kept, andnext to 58 was John Irelands chop house, occupying 60and 62. Mr. Irelands daughter and my sister were greatchums and on one occasion, while playing around theattic, went into one of the rooms and somehow becamelocked in. Not being able to make themselves heard theycrawled out of the dormer window and walked alongthe gutter to the next house, to the great consternation ofthe few passersby on the street. Nearer to Church Street at about No. 40 was OaksHotel. On the
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