. How to know New York City : a serviceable and trustworthy guide, having its starting point at the Grand Union hotel, just across the street from the Grand Central depot. various processes of assaying. Castle Garden is at the extreme southern end of the city, in theBattery Park. It is now an aquarium. As it was the gateway ofAmerica to hundreds of thousands of immigrants, it has a deep in-terest for all citizens. Of the 10,000,000 foreigners who have landedin our country in the past century, the majority have passed throughthis portal. Irish and Briton and Dutch though we be,We are each all Y
. How to know New York City : a serviceable and trustworthy guide, having its starting point at the Grand Union hotel, just across the street from the Grand Central depot. various processes of assaying. Castle Garden is at the extreme southern end of the city, in theBattery Park. It is now an aquarium. As it was the gateway ofAmerica to hundreds of thousands of immigrants, it has a deep in-terest for all citizens. Of the 10,000,000 foreigners who have landedin our country in the past century, the majority have passed throughthis portal. Irish and Briton and Dutch though we be,We are each all Yank in our welcome by thee,Columbia. Entering the enclosure, we see the fine old brown-stone rampartsof Castle Clinton, with its walled-up embrasures. The National Gov-ernment built this fortress in 1807, and gave it to the city in 1823; andhere were held the great popular receptions to Andrew Jackson(1832), President Tyler (1843), and Lafayette (1824). In later days itbecame a fashionable opera-house, where the grand voices of Sontag,Mario Parodi, and Jenny Lind were heard. In 1855 the immigrantdepot was established here, for the reception of incomers from How to Know New York, It is a most interesting sight when a steamship load of Italian orGerman immigrants debark with their strange baggage and appurte-nances at the Barge Office. City Hall, in the City-hall Park, was erected in 1803, in what was;then the outskirts of the city. It is of white marble, built in theItalian style; the back being of brown-stone, as the authorities, eightyyears ago, fancied that the town would never grow beyond it. Thegovernors room contains the desk on which Washington wrote hisfirst message to Congress, the chair in which he was inaugurated,many historical portraits, and other objects of interest. A movementis now under way to build a new City Hall. County Court House is on Chambers Street, near Broadway. It isa white marble building, in the Corinthian style, chiefly interesting asbeing
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