us 1 5 5 91.58 Copyright, 1892, by Moses King CONTENTS. Copyright, 1892, by Movs Kug Index. An extensive detailed list of pictures and complete index to subjects, names, Historical. New York of the Past, from the Earliest Times to the Present, New York of the Present. A Comprehensive Outline Description of the Whole City Area, Population, Wealth, Statistics, etc,... The Water Ways.- The Harbor and Rivers - Piers and Shipping Fortifications and Quarantine - Exports and Imports - Oceanic and Coastwise Lines, etc., Transportation and Transit.— Railroads, Steam, Elevated, Cable, Horse and Thoroughfares and Adornments.- Streets, Avenues, Boulevards, Alleys, Ways, Parks, Squares, Drives, Monuments, Statues, Fountains, etc., Overhead and Underfoot.- Bridges, Tunnels, Sewers, Water, Aqueducts, Reser voirs, Lighting by Gas and Electricity, Telegraph, Telephone, etc., . Life in the Metropolis. Hotels, Inns, Cafés, Restaurants, Apartment-Houses, The General Culture.-Educational Institutions-Universities, Colleges, Academies, and Seminaries; and Public, Private and Parochial Schools and Kindergartens, The Higher Culture.- Art Museums and Galleries, Scientific, Literary, Musical and Kindred Institutions, Societies and Organizations, The Literary Culture.- Libraries, Public, Club, Society and Private, Shrines of Worship.-Cathedrals, Churches, Synagogues, and other Places of The Sanitary Organizations.- Board of Health and Health Statistics - Hospitals, Dispensaries, Morgue, Curative Institutions, Insane and other Asylums, Reformatories and Corrections.- The Police Courts, Prisons, House of Refuge. Penitentiaries, Work-House, House of Correction, etc., Final Resting-Places.- Cemeteries, Burial-Places, Crematories, Church Yards an. Defense and Protection.- Police Department, Military and Militia, Army and Per Sociability and Friendship.- Clubs and Social Associations, Secret and Friendship Amusement Places.-Play-Houses, Opera-Houses, Theatres, Public Halls, Mus Journalism and Publishing.- Newspapers and Periodicals, Book, Music and other Fire and Marine Insurance.- Offices and Companies for assuming losses by fire- and transit and Fire and Marine Underwriters' Associations, Life-Insurance.- Companies for protection of widows, orphans and others, and fo providing incomes in advanced age, etc., and Life-Insurance Associations, Miscellaneous Insurance.- Companies for providing against accidents, explosions, Financial Institutions.- United-States Treasury and Assay Office, Clearing House National and State Banks, Bankers, Brokers, etc., Fiduciary Institutions. - Trust and Investment Companies, Savings-Banks, Safe Financial and Commercial Associations.-The Custom House, Chamber of Con merce, the Stock, Produce, Cotton and other Exchanges, Board of Trade, Merca tile and other Agencies, Warehouses and Markets, Notable Retail Establishments. Interesting and prominent Retail Concerns, nearly all being unquestioned leading houses in their respective lines, . Notable Wholesale Establishments - Some gigantic Firms and Corporations, whose yearly transactions involve millions of dollars and extend over the carth, Notable Manufacturers.- An outline history of some preeminent industries car. Historical works, newspapers, special reports and hundreds of other sources of information, entirely too numerous to permit of specific acknowledgment, have been utilized. The illustrations are almost wholly from specially-made photographs, upwards of fifteen hundred negatives having been made by Arthur Chiar, who has shown most remarkable skill in photographing exceedingly difficult subjects. Some photographs were also made by Frank E. Parshley, John S. Johnston, C. C. Langill and others. The designs for the cover lining papers and the series of bird's-eye views were made by the New-York Photogravure Company, the President of which is Ernest Edwards. The outside cover design is by Ludwig S. Ipsen, of Boston. The entire mechanical work from cover to cover with slight exceptions, was done by The Matthews-Northrup Company, the famous ArtPrinters of Buffalo, whose establishment is one of the most complete of the kind in the world, and whose President, George E. Matthews, and Art-manager, Charles E. Sickels, are entitled to much of the credit for the artistic effect of this volume. If it were usual to dedicate a volume of this character, this one would be dedicated to Charles F. Clark, the President of The Bradstreet Company, to whom I am indebted for substantial aid, valuable suggestions, and hearty encouragement. And now, after more than a year's solid labor, and an expenditure of nearly Twenty-five Thousand Dollars, this first edition of "King's Handok of New-York City" is submitted to the public, with the hope that vill be found to be: "Good enough for any body, and that the appreciation of the public will necessitate many editions. MOSES KING, Editor and Publisher. BOSTON, Sept. 1, 1892. Corrections and suggestions for future editions are invited. N NOV 15 '892 LIBRARY PREFACE. Moses King EVER before has any one put forth an illustrated history and description of New-York City in a single volume at all comparable with "King's Handbook." This volume contains exactly 928 pages, more than 850 illustrations, thirty chapters, and an index of twenty pages with 60 columns, containing over 4.600 items and about 20,000 references. The text furnishes an elaborate but condensed history and description of the city itself, and also of every notable public institution and especially interesting feature. The illustrations give many reminders of the past, and furnish an extensive series of pictures of the present city, to an extent many times beyond that of any volume yet published. Every plate has been made expressly for this book, and so were nearly all of the original photographs. The whole has been carefully printed on an exceptionally fine quality of paper. Altogether, it is the handsomest, the most thorough, the largest, the most costly, and the most profusely illustrated book of its class ever issued for any city in the world. Moreover, at its retail price of One Dollar, it is the cheapest book of any class ever offered to the public. The text has been prepared with the utmost care, and is the result of the painstaking work of many individuals, chiefly of Moses Fost Sweetser, four chapters; Henri Péne du Bois, six chapters; Willi Henry Burbank, four chapters; Lyman Horace Weeks, seven chapters. Henry Edward Wallace, two chapters; John Collins Welch, two cha ters; and one chapter cach from Louis Berg and Charles Putnam. Tower. The manuscript has undergone a thorough revision at the hands of several thousand people, each of whom is an authority on the particular portion submitted to him, and the book thus becomes an authentic volume. The text has been amplified, rectified, and verified by Mr. Sweetser, the foremost American in this special field of liter Valuable general assistance has also been given by Mr. Towe ture. Ye carliest chronicler New York of the Past, from the Earliest HE HISTORY of the city of New York, in its Dutch, British, and American periods, abounds in episodes of deep interest, illustrating the development of a petty fur-trading post into the great cosmopolitan metropolis of the Western Hemisphere. Many ponderous volumes have been devoted to this worthy theme, with a wealth of illustration and much grace of literary style; and yet but a part of the wonderful story has been told. In this brief chapter an attempt is made to exhibit a few vignettes from the nearly three centuries of annals pertaining to the Empire City, and to give a few intimations of her lines of advance and of successful endeavor. Manhattan was the original place-name. Munnoh was an Indian word for "island"; in Abenaqui, Menatan; in Delaware, Menatey; in Chippewa, Minis. Thus Grand Menan, in the Bay of Fundy; and Manati, the ancient Indian name of Long Island; and Manisees, the old name of Block Island. Menatan was any small island; Menates or Manisees, the small island. The island on which New York stands was sometimes spoken of as "the island," Manate, or Manhatte; sometimes as "a small island," Manathan, Menatan, or Manhatan; and sometimes as "the small island," Manhaates, Manattes, and Manados. The same root appears in Manhanset, Montauk (Manati-auke), and other Indian place-names. Campanius speaks of "Manataanung, or Manaates, a place settled by the Dutch, who built there a clever little town, which went on increasing every day." The first recorded visitor to this jocund region was Verrazano, a Florentine navigator and traveller, who was serving at that time as a French corsair. He sailed from Brittany in the Dauphine, in 1524, and cruised up the American coast |