Valentine's city of New York; a guide book, with six maps and one hundred and sixty full page pictures . is business wasintroduced by Morris Robinson, a Scotchman from Can-ada. A few doors below the insurance company oncestood the house in which Captain Kidd resided for sometime. Just before Pearl is the Seamans Bank for Sav-ings. Beyond Pearl Street is the Tontine Building,which recalls the Tontine Coffee House, a famous meet-ing place of the merchants of Old New York and wherethe Stock Exchange originated. The first meeting placeof the latter was under a now famous buttonwood treein front of
Valentine's city of New York; a guide book, with six maps and one hundred and sixty full page pictures . is business wasintroduced by Morris Robinson, a Scotchman from Can-ada. A few doors below the insurance company oncestood the house in which Captain Kidd resided for sometime. Just before Pearl is the Seamans Bank for Sav-ings. Beyond Pearl Street is the Tontine Building,which recalls the Tontine Coffee House, a famous meet-ing place of the merchants of Old New York and wherethe Stock Exchange originated. The first meeting placeof the latter was under a now famous buttonwood treein front of No. 70. A few exporters still occupy theremaining buildings of the street, but these are of nohistorical importance, beyond the fact that they facewhat was at one time a slave market, as the extra widthof the street at this point will serve to indicate. The East River and South Street are just in frontof us and across the river can be seen Brooklyn Heights,at one time a very fashionable residential section, butnow largely abandoned by its old families and givenover to hotels and boarding houses. 96. _ Crossing to the South side of Wall Street and retrac-ing our steps to Broadway, we eome upon the offices ^ofthe American Sugar Refining Company. Office buildingsof the great coffee and sugar interests now succeed eachereT^*? ° =/™=- ^ P^^^l Street, where a ^^^^ \^°^^ ^^« St-eet Patriotic Associationma ks the location of another famous pre-Revolutionarybmldmg-the old Merchants Coffee House. Many fa-rnous conferences were held here by the patriots before«e breaking out of actual hostilities, and plans perfectedwinch had important results. Hamilton organized theBank of Aew York here Murrays Wharf came up to Wn hi /f. , ^^y^ ^-J it ^^» e that^\ashington landed when he came from Mt. Vernon tobe inaugurated. The tablet gives a full history of theCoftee House which was a remarkably important build-ing historically. A painting of it has fortunately been SocietT ^• ^^ **
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