. The American metropolis, from Knickerbocker days to the present time;. y wereWilliam Dyer (1680), near Pine Street; GabrielleMinville (1684), below Morris Street; and PhilipFrench (1714), below Wall Street. The Colonial Gov-ernor Clarke lived just south of Exchange Place.]We pay so little attention to the history of ourown Citj that it is not likely that one of the ten-ants who occupy the beautiful Columbia building onthe northwest corner of Morris Street and Broad-way has the faintest idea that the building standsin the middle of a graveyard, and that to give it 136 NEW YORK CITY LIFE accom
. The American metropolis, from Knickerbocker days to the present time;. y wereWilliam Dyer (1680), near Pine Street; GabrielleMinville (1684), below Morris Street; and PhilipFrench (1714), below Wall Street. The Colonial Gov-ernor Clarke lived just south of Exchange Place.]We pay so little attention to the history of ourown Citj that it is not likely that one of the ten-ants who occupy the beautiful Columbia building onthe northwest corner of Morris Street and Broad-way has the faintest idea that the building standsin the middle of a graveyard, and that to give it 136 NEW YORK CITY LIFE accommodation the pioneers of civilization on Man-hattan Island were turned out of their graves. Thetransformation was begun way back in 1677, whenthe hogs were rooting up the old graves, and itwas resolved that, Ye old graveyard or late bury-ing place in ye Broadway be layed out in fourelots twenty-five feet front and sold to the highestbidder. In 1850 the memory of this graveyardhad passed away; for when skulls were found byworkmen engaged in excavating for building, the. !ii;(h||im::> people generally were horrified, supposing that therelics were evidences of murders committed by theEnglish garrison during the Revolutionary War. Onthe opposite side of Broadway were once the sim-ple residences of the old settlers, and then later thehomes of men prominent in the early life of theCity; but now there is the Produce Exchange, thecenter of a vast traffic in the grain and otherproducts of our Western States. There is a greatcontrast between the sohd, towered, red building 137 THE AMERICAN METROPOLIS now used by our produce merchants, which costthem over three miUion dollars, and the little shedunder which the merchants first met at the bridgecrossing on the Broad Street Canal. The elevatorsof this great building carry an average of 28,000passengers a day; and the business of the exchangeaverages over $15,000,000 a day. Next to the beautiful Wells building on the nextblock is the home
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