A tour around New York, and My summer acre; being the recreations of MrFelix Oldboy . ed theskeleton of a mastodon, at whose feet stood the tinyskeleton of a mouse. Opposite the museum, on ParkRow, the famous Park Theatre was located. I stoodin the City Hall Park one night and watched its roof-tree fall into the flames that devoured the engine dashing along the sidewalk of Broadwayhad nearly run over me as I came. We all ran to firesin those days, and the engines took the sidewalk orthe street, just as suited their convenience. I neverwas inside the Park Theatre, but how have I enj
A tour around New York, and My summer acre; being the recreations of MrFelix Oldboy . ed theskeleton of a mastodon, at whose feet stood the tinyskeleton of a mouse. Opposite the museum, on ParkRow, the famous Park Theatre was located. I stoodin the City Hall Park one night and watched its roof-tree fall into the flames that devoured the engine dashing along the sidewalk of Broadwayhad nearly run over me as I came. We all ran to firesin those days, and the engines took the sidewalk orthe street, just as suited their convenience. I neverwas inside the Park Theatre, but how have I enjoyedAminidab Sleek and Captain Cuttle at Burtons Thea-tre in Chambers Street. At one corner of Chambers Street the StewartBuilding is a modern innovation. It displaced, amongother structures, famous Washington Hall, the polit-ical foe of Tammany Hall, built by the Federalists,and occupied as their fighting headquarters for manyyears. The building on the opposite corner of Cham-bers Street and Broadway was once the Irving House,a fashionable hostlery, but it has an older memory for.
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