The Story of the City of New York by Charles Burr Todd

Author:Charles Burr Todd [Todd, Charles Burr]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Geschichte
Publisher: Jazzybee Verlag
Published: 2019-05-23T22:00:00+00:00

" Quadrants, forestaffs, nocturnals, rectifiers, universal scales, gunters, sliding gunters, gauging rods, rulers, wood or brass box compasses for sea use, pocket compasses, surveying compasses, surveying chains, waterlevels, senecal quadrants, protractors, parallel rulers, trunk telescopes, walking-stick spy-glasses, universal or equinoctial ring or horizontal brass dials, steel or brass jointed compasses, drawing pens, three-legged stoves, shipwright's draught, bows, bevels, squares, walking sticks, and other small work."

Here, at the corner house at Old Slip (John Cruger's), we can secure passage on Mr. Silvanus Seaman's Staten Island " Passage Boat," which leaves here each Tuesday and Friday for the island, and at any other time if passage or freight presents." Here, " at the northwest corner of the Great Dock, next door to the Sign of the Leopard," Simon Franks, from London, has a little shop, " where he makes and sells all sorts of perukes, after the best and newest fashion, and cuts and dresses lady's wigs and towers after a manner performed much better than is pretended to be done by some others."

In Robert Crommelius' little shop " near the Meal Market in Wall Street," one may buy all sorts of " writing paper, superfine Post Paper, ready cut by the half ream, blank books, sail duck. Powder-blue, copper tea kettles and Pye-pans, Ivory combs, sewing and" darning needles, spectacles, all sorts of shot, small bar-lead, sash leads, wine glasses, wafel Irons," etc. At the corner of Beekman's Slip Abraham Bamper sells fine clocks, watches and ear-rings. Another out-of-the-way tradesman is Joseph Seddell, " Pewterer," at the sign of the Platter, at the lower end of Wall Street, near the Meal Market, " in the house where Mr. Joseph Sackett lately lived, where he sells Pewter ware of all sorts, cannons, — six and four pounders, and swivel guns, cannon shot, iron pots and kettles, cart and wagon boxes, backs for chimneys, Fuller plates, pig and bar iron, etc. He will pay you hard money for old bars and pewter." Most gruesome and picturesque of all is the undertaker. In 1740, people were not so finical, and little attempt was made by the tradesman to relieve the ghastliness of death. Coffins, some quite magnificent in silver and lace trimmings stood on end around his wareroom. On a bier in the rear were the Parish Palls, two of them, one of black velvet designed for general use, the other of cloth, with an edging of white silk a foot broad, which could only be used for unmarried men and maidens. Flannel shrouds with gloves, scarfs, hat bands, and other mourning paraphernalia filled shelves ranged around the sides of the room. On the counter, painted a funeral black, was a tray of lacquer-work, holding the shopman's cards, and samples of the " invitations to funerals " it was then customary to send to relatives of the deceased. By these cards the public was informed that the undertaker " hath a velvet pall, a good hears, mourning cloaks, and black hangings for rooms to be let at reasonable rates.

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