Identifier: charcoalsofnewol00smith (find matches)
Title: Charcoals of new and old New York;
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Smith, Francis Hopkinson, 1838-1915
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Publisher: Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, Page & company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ens along the nearest bimdle of rags is brought to lifeby a tap on his shins with a night stick or he is jerked to his feet by thescruff of his neck should he grumble, and the girl is seated — but thisis not often. All these hideous vulgarities however fade and are forgotten whenone loiters through its mosaic of light and shade on one of our early springmornings and catches the shimmer of the new leaves bursting into song,all their little cups of green held up to the kind sk\- as if they were offeringa libation to the gods for being so good to them. On these morningsthe \Tstas under their branches are softened by the intermingling of athousand tones. Hard lines fade, the rectangular and the straight arebroken by wa\*ing branches giving you only glimpses here and there.Stanfords \\Tiites tower becomes a bit of old Spain seen above theorange grove in Seville and McKims temple with its pillars and pedi-ment a part of Athens. Over all is a skv unmatched in brilliancv the world over. 104
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GANSEVOORT MARKET XVIIGANSEVOORT MARKET WEST of its present site there once lay the little Indian villageof Sappokanican, where in 1609 Hendrick Hudson is said tohave stopped for provisions. Dried and fresh fish, no doubt,Indian corn ofT and on the cob, besides yams, venison and berries inexchange for beads and gewgaws: the same kind of bargaining thatwould go on to-day, the money standard abolished, and capons ex-changed for spring bonnets. Once a market always a market, is the record in most of the citiesI know. Generally it is found in the centre of the town, surroundedby scraggly trees, and bare of everything except a place for carts andbooths. As the town grows, the bald spot widens, and as the in-habitants become prosperous sheds are erected, and then bricks andmortar are laid. When their wealth increases steel and concrete arepiled up. The present market, by all the laws of logic, should have beennamed after the old village of Sappokanican. Doubtless it would havebeen had not a

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