life and society in america
- Author: samuel phillips day
- Genre: Books
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER IV. HOTELS. If Brooklyn be, as it is somewhat affectedly termed, " the City of Churches," New York may not inappropriately be denominated " the City of Hotels." It possesses at least sixty rather pretentious places of public entertainment, some of which, if not the finest, are undeniably the largest edifices of the kind in the world. The leading establishments comprise the Clarendon, Breevort House, Metropolitan, St. Nicholas, Fifth Avenue, Astor House, La Farge, Everett House, New York, Prescott, and the St. James's. The Astor House, at the foot of Broadway, is the oldest, having been built in 1839, by John Jacob Astor, who had the reputation of being the richest man in the United States. It is a massive granite building, six stories high, the front of which occupies an entire block. Perhaps the most im- posing and luxuriously fitted-up hotels are the St. Nicholas and the Fifth Avenue. The former is built of white marble and brown freestone; the latter of white marble exclusively. Each building is six stories high, and affords accommodation to one thousand guests. The hotels at which travellers put up, or at which individuals permanently sojourn, give a clue to their callings, social positions, and, sometimes, political proclivities. Thus, the Clarendon and the Breevort are aristocratic, being generally frequented by eminent Englishmen and foreigners of rank. The Astor is purely commercial. The Metropolitan and Everett are partially financial and partially Democratic. The New York, kept by the estimable Mr. Hiram Cranston, acquired the reputation of being a "Secesh" house during the internecine war. The Prescott is mostly the resort of Western men. The St. Nicholas is the refugium for Californians. And, lastly, the Fifth Avenue is the temporary abode of ...
juvenile crime its causes character and cure
- Author: samuel phillips day
- Genre: Criminal Law
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tea its mystery and history
- Author: samuel phillips day
- Genre: United States
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. APPEECIATIOK OF THE LEAF. |HAT the worthy Thomas Garway, to whom reference is made in the preceding Chapter, gave rather undue license to his imagination in extolling the virtues of his cherished beverage is manifest. His handbill, however, is not only curious but interesting, if on no other account than that of illustrating the mode of advertising to which he resorted, in order to spread the fame of the precious leaf and dispose of his commodity. It is likewise noteworthy on account of the fame which " Garway's Tea " had acquired and maintained for two centuries. The original name " Garway" was changed or" restored " by his son to " Garraway," while the House which bore this appellation became renowned far and wide. Here it was that the numerous schemes which surrounded and accompanied the great Sonth Sea Bubble, had their centre. Appropriately enough also, " Garraway's" was the head-quarters of the remarkable Tea speculation of 1841-2, when prices fluctuated sixpence and eightpence per pound; and when people were suddenly smitten with the mania for dealing in Tea, just as at other times a rage obtained for speculating in railways, mines, foreign funds, or finance. Albeit Garway evidently prospered in his special branch of trade, yet it is probable that the rapid popularity which Tea had acquired was less indebted to the " learned and knowing " authorities he quoted in his handbill, than to royal patronage. It appears that Catherine of Braganza, queen of Charles II., who had tasted the beverage in Portugal, and grew enamoured with the same, brought it into fashion in this country. Her fondness for the soothing cup was extreme. Its subsequent popularity, however, may fairly be attributed to its innate valuable properties, which became the more underst...
Juvenile Crime: Its Causes, Character, and Cure
- Author: samuel phillips day
- Genre: Criminal Law
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Monastic Institutions: Their Origin, Progress, Nature, and Tendency ...
- Author: samuel phillips day
- Genre: Social Sciences
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Juvenile Crime: Its Causes, Character, and Cure
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- Genre: Criminal Law
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