Identifier: americasoldestda00glob (find matches)
Title: America's oldest daily newspaper. The New York Globe
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Globe and commercial advertiser, New York
Subjects: Globe and commercial advertiser New York (N.Y.)
Publisher: (New York)
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: The Durst Organization

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, cannon shot, cart and wagon boxes, and man.ythings besides. Among the other signs to be seen swinging in the windover shop doors were representations of a dolphin, two cupids, the roseand crown, spread-eagle, white swan, leopard, the Bible, and the sun.The Boston post, we are informed, puts up at the sign of the BlackHorse in Upper Queen (now Pearl) street. On the streets themselves were the greatest animation and bustle.From Wall street and the ground in front of Trinity Cemetery, which wasfor many years after the Revolution the fashionable parade, and was knownas the Church Walk and the Mall, to the heart of the shopping districtin William street, and the centre of auctioneering at the lower end of Wallstreet, there was much color and much noise. Auctioneers Like Coney Barkers, John Drayton has told of the auctioneers of that day, who acted on the main streets of New York as the barkers at Coney Island used to do. Besides having a flag, denoting it to be auction day, the vendue 35
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BROAD STREET AS IT APPEARED IN 1793. This view, lool<ing north, shows the block between Exchange Place and Wall Street. The building at the head of the street is Federal Hall, where Washington took the oath of office as first President of the United States. 36 masters (auctioneers) employ public criers, he wrote, for the expresspurpose of persuading people to attend the sale. They walk before thedoor of the auction room and strive by all the power of their eloquenceto catch the attention of the passing crowd. Seeing two of these streetorators, from opposite sides of the street, endeavoring to rally personsaround their respective colors, the contrast of person observable in theminduced me to stop for a moment and observe the effect which it pro-duced. The one appeared to be a cold, phlegmatic character, the other alively, good looking person. The first had a routine of language, which hedealt out mechanically and with much vociferation. The other, with abrisk, lively deportment, whi

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