Valentine's manual of old New York . nant idea should be that of seagoing commerce, the found-ers of India Houses builded better than they knew. Theyhad a robust faith in the revival of the American Mer-chant Marine, and it was quickly demonstrated that theirfaith was, in sober truth, the substance of things hopedfor, the evidence of things not seen. It must be saidthat it was by feeling, rather than by sight, that theywere assured of the coming of the new day. The re-crudescence of the old spirit of maritime adventure wasfelt like a stirring in the blood; a quickening of the pulseof enterpris
Valentine's manual of old New York . nant idea should be that of seagoing commerce, the found-ers of India Houses builded better than they knew. Theyhad a robust faith in the revival of the American Mer-chant Marine, and it was quickly demonstrated that theirfaith was, in sober truth, the substance of things hopedfor, the evidence of things not seen. It must be saidthat it was by feeling, rather than by sight, that theywere assured of the coming of the new day. The re-crudescence of the old spirit of maritime adventure wasfelt like a stirring in the blood; a quickening of the pulseof enterprise; a new capacity to respond to the influencesthat had gone to the making of a glorious past, and whichhad only to reassert themselves to be contributory to amore glorious future. In India House the scene was setin preparation for the approaching event; in India Housewas spoken the prologue to the swelling act; from thegreat organization domiciled in India House emanatedthe wise counsel and sympathetic co-operation which re- [ 270 ]. Melto 1B48 Another of the great Black Balllines famous fliers. The opening ofthe Erie Canal in 1825 gave great im-petus to the packet ships and severallines were started, to compete withthe Black Ball—the Red Cross, theCollins, the State, the Swallow Tail,the Dramatic. Blow high, blow low, one of theBlack Ball liners sailed from NewYork to Liverpool the first and six-teenth of every month. These datesfor years were known as steamerdays throughout the whole country.—Collection of Mrs. C. H. Marshall. OF OLD NEW YORK moved some serious perils from the coming to life of ournew merchant fleet. And so, when the shipyards of theUnited States became resonant with the din of prepara-tion for a new mercantile marine, the men who had longedand labored for just such a consummation, were proneto rub their eyes and wonder if it was not too good to betrue. Nowhere is it realized more clearly than in India Housethat there will be something of the miraculous i
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