Valentine's manual of old New York . r which thegallant Seventh and Sixty-ninth marched and Lincolnsbody passed in 1865 are still in use in the old FifthWard ? Go down some day to the St. Johns Freight Sta-tion and you will find them there used for the sidewalks. Church Street during the war was lined with woodenshanties and each was supposedly a cigar store; at WorthStreet extending down to West Broadway and south toDuane Street were many wooden houses occupied bynegroes, who later moved to Thompson Street. The oldNew York Hospital, fronting on Broadway, was directlyopposite this block, which
Valentine's manual of old New York . r which thegallant Seventh and Sixty-ninth marched and Lincolnsbody passed in 1865 are still in use in the old FifthWard ? Go down some day to the St. Johns Freight Sta-tion and you will find them there used for the sidewalks. Church Street during the war was lined with woodenshanties and each was supposedly a cigar store; at WorthStreet extending down to West Broadway and south toDuane Street were many wooden houses occupied bynegroes, who later moved to Thompson Street. The oldNew York Hospital, fronting on Broadway, was directlyopposite this block, which is now occupied by the buildingof H. B. Claflin & Co. As children we went to a Sunday School corner ofFranklin Street, conducted by a Mr. Austin and for sev-eral years, on May day, we all marched down CenterStreet to the old church on William Street, between Annand Fulton Streets, where after service each child waspresented with a bag of fruit, candy, nuts, etc. was employed by Bechstein & Co., pork butchers, [82]. -si IS | ~ X O OF OLD NEW YORK on Hudson Street, between Franklin and Leonard Streetsand later became missionary to Alaska. In 1865 we moved to 131 Hudson Street, a two-storyand attic brick building, next door to an old ramshacklewooden house, corner Beach Street. Diagonally oppo-site was the pride of the Fifth Ward—St. Johns Park—the picnic ground of Trinity parish. Many times have Iwatched the children playing there with battledore andshuttlecock, the girls wearing frilled pantalettes and someof the boys in boots with red label, with a golden eagleat the top and copper toes. All around the park were neat brick buildings withhigh stoops and all had the same violet panes of glass inthe windows. When the Hudson River Railroad took the lease forninety-nine years on the park property the best familiesmoved farther up-town; John Ericsson, the designer ofthe Monitor, stayed in Beach Street until his death. Hisapparatus, in his rear yard, for generating powe
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