. When old New York was young . ying the spot that had been taken up inDutch times by a block-house and a halt- 1^7-J TOWN MARKETS moon battery. This was the place to whichin after years all the meal publicly sold wastaken. From this circumstance it came to becalled the Meal Market; but, even as such,it still continued the place where slaves stoodto be hired or sold. This Meal Market came to be looked uponas a public nuisance, as is shown by a petitionto the authorities, dated 1762, which reads: * It greatly obstructs the agreeable prospectof the East River, which those that live inWall Street
. When old New York was young . ying the spot that had been taken up inDutch times by a block-house and a halt- 1^7-J TOWN MARKETS moon battery. This was the place to whichin after years all the meal publicly sold wastaken. From this circumstance it came to becalled the Meal Market; but, even as such,it still continued the place where slaves stoodto be hired or sold. This Meal Market came to be looked uponas a public nuisance, as is shown by a petitionto the authorities, dated 1762, which reads: * It greatly obstructs the agreeable prospectof the East River, which those that live inWall Street would otherwise enjoy ; and, fur-thermore, occasions a dirty street, offensiveto the inhabitants on each side and disagree-able to those who pass to and from the coffee-house, a place of great resort. This was too serious an objection to be over-looked, so it was pulled down. Another mar-ket of great note was established about the year1735, in the Burghers Path, at the foot ofWilliam Street. It was rebuilt once or twice, [272]. TOWN MARKETS and during the first quarter of the nineteenthcentury, in the last years of its existence, itwas called Franklin Market, for then therewas a tendency to call all manner of thingsafter the noted Benjamin Franklin. From the time that the very first marketwas established, there were laws which com-pelled those who dealt in meats and vege-tables to sell in the public markets and no-where else. As the town grew larger andlarger, there was determined opposition tothis state of affairs, and the climax came in1841, when an ordinance was passed permit-ting the sale of meat and vegetables anywherein the city, in shops as well as in themarkets. Of course, the market people fought thepassage of the ordinance, but it was passedfor all that, and very soon a new institution,in the form of the corner green-grocers standand meat shop, came into existence. But [275J TOWN MARKETS although there had seemed to be a generaldemand for the doing-away with the mark
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