A tour around New York, and My summer acre; being the recreations of MrFelix Oldboy . boys in a are those who still lament the disappearance ofthe good old race of school-masters. Who knew themin the flesh fail to join in the lamentation. On our way to and from Mr. Greenoughs modesttemple of literature we used to pass a structure thathad far more interest for us than the halls of Congress,or of the Montezumas either. It occupied the westcorner of West Broadway and Franklin Street, andwas widely known to fame as Rileys Fifth WardMuseum Hotel. Its interior was the prototype of themoder
A tour around New York, and My summer acre; being the recreations of MrFelix Oldboy . boys in a are those who still lament the disappearance ofthe good old race of school-masters. Who knew themin the flesh fail to join in the lamentation. On our way to and from Mr. Greenoughs modesttemple of literature we used to pass a structure thathad far more interest for us than the halls of Congress,or of the Montezumas either. It occupied the westcorner of West Broadway and Franklin Street, andwas widely known to fame as Rileys Fifth WardMuseum Hotel. Its interior was the prototype of themodern bric-a-brac saloon, with its paintings fromthe Paris Salon, except that there was nothing on thewalls or in the glass cases which stood on all sides ofthe main room, which was reached by an ample flightof stairs and were always open to inspection, that achild might not look at and inquire about. That was2. A TOUR AROUND NEW YORK a wonderful room indeed. It held original portraitsof great statesmen and warriors, and displayed theirswords and portions of their uniforms. Among its. RILEY S FIFTH WARD HOTEL curiosities were a two-headed calf eloquently stuffed,the pig that butted a man off the bridge, one of theHawaiian clubs that dashed out the brains of CaptainCook, Tecumsehs rifle, a pipe that General Jacksonhad smoked, and a large number of genuine relics of A TOUR AROUND NEW YORK 19
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