Identifier: historyofnewyork01loss (find matches)
Title: History of New York City : embracing an outline sketch of events from 1609 to 1830, and a full account of its development from 1830 to 1884
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Lossing, Benson John, 1813-1891
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Publisher: New York : Perine Engraving and Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: The Durst Organization

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hera dejected mood. He was a native of Massachusetts, was seeking em-ployment, and had called on Mr. Hale for advice how to obtain work.It was a season of great depression in all kinds of business. The youngman was rather delicate, even fragile in physical composition, yet heseemed to possess ambition and an energy of character that interestedMr. Hale. He inquired his name and his antecedents. His name wasWilliam F. Harnden, and his antecedents were satisfactory. In the course of a few days, when young Harnden made his usualmorning call and anxious inquiries, Hale suggested to him a new busi-ness, fitted, he supposed, to his physical strength. Nearly every dayHale was asked by bankers, brokers, and merchants if he knew of anyone going to Boston from Xew York in whose hands they might in-trust small packages. This want of a messenger was continually grow-ing. The postage on letters was then very heavy, and packages, evensmall ones, could only be sent as freight — a slow process. Hale
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FIRST DECADE. 1830-1840. 379 thought the matter over carefully, and one morning when youngHamden came in with anxious looks, he said to the youth in his pleas-ant manner : •• Hamden, I think I can put you in the way of employing yourselfin business. If you will travel between New York and Boston on thesteamboat, and do errands for business men in both places,charging afair remuneration for your services, it will pay. I will try it, said Hamden cheerily. How shall I get the busi-ness to do ? Ill help you, said Hale. And so he did, most effectually. To all inquirers about carriers, hedirected merchants, bankers, and brokers to young Hamden, who hungup a slate in Hales news-room for orders. In the course of a week hestarted on his new business, which, at the suggestion of his good friendand adviser, he called The Express, the term used for the fastestrailway trains, and which had been in use scores of years to designatethe character of a special messenger. Hamden started in his new b

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