Manhattan Historic And Artistic a Six Day Tour of New York City

ike wood, in which a cunningly wrought nail-hole deceives the most practised eye. The glint of brass surrounding the lock, the sheen of the mother-of-pearl on the stock of the old gun, and the metal and old cracked bone in the hilt of the sword, decoy nearly every one into emphatic assertions that the work is inlaid and not painted. The drawing in this picture is exceptionally fine. A battle scene in the Franco-Prussian war, and "The Quarrel," by Meissonier, are in the collection of paintings here exhibited. Although these pictures are in a saloon, ladies are frequent visitors between the hours of eight and eleven A.M. The Staats Zeitung Building, over the portals of which stand life-size bronze statues of Franklin and Gutenberg, is across the park, at the junction of Park Row and Centre Street. This, in the old days, was the starting point of the Boston Road. Chatham Street.?From the Staats Zei- tung Building to Chatham Square, Park Row, formerly called Chatham Street, has long been inhabited by Jews who deal in cheap clothing. The Newsboys' Lodging-house is east of Park Row, in the first street which crosses it. From one room in a private house in this vicinity the first post-office distributed mail to the city. At the right, in Madison Street, near Pearl Street, the first public school opened in 1805, with forty pupils, De Witt Clinton and the Society of Friends having been instrumental in projecting a work which is now expanded until it comprises three h... --This text refers to the Paperback edition.