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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THE BANK OF NEW YORKS HOME IN 1797. The B^nk of New York was the only bank in the city when the American Minerva first was pubiished. It moved into the above building at 48 Wail Street in 1797. 28 established a menagerie on a vacant lot on the corner of Pearl street andthe Battery. One of the early amusement places was a Vauxhall, namedafter the famous resort in London. A Mrs. Amory opened it in GreatGeorge street in 1793, and illuminated it in the Chinese style with 500glass lamps. There was no stock exchange in 1793, but an agreement had beeneffected among stock brokers in 1792. From 1792 to 1S17 the dealings ofthe members were conducted in various places, the trading out of doorsbeing usually done near a buttonwood tree which stood in front of thedividing line between 68 and 70 Wall street. After the completion of theTontine Coffee House in 1793, at the northwest comer of Wall and Waterstreets, the brokers for a time met there. To what extent the life of New York was centred in the

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