ISBN: 9780217005876

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1884 Excerpt: ... XXI. BY THE WAY. '' My Name is Mulldoon, I live in the Twenty-fourth Ward --Protective Duties and.the Fine Arts--The General Muster--A Message from Kansas City--American Cabmen--Alarming Notices in Hotels--The Chicago Fire Service--What a Fire Patrol can do in a few seconds--William Winter- Office Rules --The Reform Club and Politics--Enterprising Reporters--International Satire--How a Man of Simple and Regular Habits lives--Secretaries in Waiting--The Bisbee Murders-- Hunted Down --Outside Civilization--The Bazoo--The Story of a Failure--A Texan Tragedy---Shooting in a Theatre--Evolutions of Towns. I. yes, said Irving, I, too, have made a few notes of ''things to be remembered/ as we passed together some of the last proofs of these chronicles and impressions. For instance, here is a memorandum, '' Politicsand it refers to General Horace Porter''s anecdotical illustration of ward politics, and to Mr. Millett''s letter on art and tariffs. Let us take the story first, I suggested. We both remembered it; so, likewise, will several American friends of that excellent raconteur, Horace Porter, one of New York''s brightest post-prandial orators. Irving had been making inquiries about the city government of New York, and remarking upon the curious little wooden houses away up at the further end of New York city. Oh, said Porter, those places belong to the last of the Manhattan squatters. Most of them are occupied by families, who, as a rule, pay little or no rent at all. They are on the outskirts of progress. As the city extends into their district they disappear, seeking '' fresh woods and pastures new.'' Nevertheless some of them become quite firmly established there. They are included, for voting purposes, in the Twenty-fourth ward of the city. The h... Joseph Hatton, Books, Travel, Henry Irving's impressions of America Books>Travel, General Books LLC<

ISBN: 021700587X

ISBN: 021700587X

ISBN: 021700587X