. America's oldest daily newspaper. The New York Globe. sentHartford Courant, a daily publication begun on Aug. 29, 1837. Possibly the nearest rival to The Globe in age in daily publication isThe Baltimore American, a direct descendant from a weekly newspaper,The Maryland Journal and Baltimore Advertiser, established on Aug. 20,1773. It became a tri-weekly on Nov. 1, 1793, and a daily a year later, orone year after The Globe had been in existence as a daily newspaper. OnMay 14, 1799, its name was changed to The Baltimore American and DailyAdvertiser. Save for a few days suspension in 1814 this
. America's oldest daily newspaper. The New York Globe. sentHartford Courant, a daily publication begun on Aug. 29, 1837. Possibly the nearest rival to The Globe in age in daily publication isThe Baltimore American, a direct descendant from a weekly newspaper,The Maryland Journal and Baltimore Advertiser, established on Aug. 20,1773. It became a tri-weekly on Nov. 1, 1793, and a daily a year later, orone year after The Globe had been in existence as a daily newspaper. OnMay 14, 1799, its name was changed to The Baltimore American and DailyAdvertiser. Save for a few days suspension in 1814 this newspaper hashad continuous publication in the same place. In New York City the near-est rival to The Globe in the matter of age and continuous publicationas a daily is The New York Evening Post, established on Nov. 16, 1801,by William Coleman. It is a rather remarkable coincidence that back ofboth Websters paper and Colemans paper may be seen the guiding handof Alexander Hamilton, whose friends helped to raise the funds to startthese two dailies. 19. ^^ m^jM^tr^ NEW YORK CITY IN 1793, FROM THE NORTH RIVER. 20 NEW YORK ONLY A LITTLEBRICK VILLAGE IN 1793 Wall Street Then the Centre of Fashion and Grand Street Was Far Out of Town—Important Buildings of the Day— Streets Mostly Unpaved and Crooked — Many CofiFee Houses—One Bank and One Theatre. Were a mighty hand to sweep Manhattan Island from end to end, re-moving every skyscraper, every building of whatever sort, and replacethem with a little brick village, a few church steeples rising amidst itsroofs of the southern tip of the island, leaving wooded hills, marsh land,and ponds from Grand street north, the picture would be that of NewYork City in 1793, the year in which The American Minerva was firstpublished. It was then that Wall street was the centre of fashion, William streetabounded in dry goods shops, open fields stretched away north of St. PaulsChapel at Vesey street, Greenwich Village was two miles outside cityli
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