Identifier: talesofoldnewyor02ulma (find matches)
Title: Tales of old New York ..
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Ulmann, Albert, 1861- (from old catalog) Strachan, Grace Charlotte, joint author. (from old catalog)
Subjects: New York (N.Y.) -- History
Publisher: New York, London, D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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safe. The step-roofs made this investiga-tion easy. People who were careless were fined, andthe fines supplied the money to buy ladders, hooks andbuckets for the firemen. There were policemen in New Amsterdam at anearly date. They were known as the Ratel-Wachtbecause they carried rattles to sound an alarm. In1658, there was organized a force of six men whoseduty it was to patrol the streets after dark, to arrestthieves, to give warning in case of fire, and to call outthe hour of the night at the street corners. An interest-ing painting, showing the old-time policemen, adornsone of the walls of the Trial Room of Police Head-quarters at the corner of Center and Broome Streets. Stuyvesant, although he had but one leg, was themost active of all the Dutch governors. Through hisefforts, in 1658, a village was established at the upperend of the island, where there was good farming land.This was called New Harlem, after the city of Haarlemin Holland, a place famous for its beautiful gardens.
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Designed by Philip MartiniPeter StuyvesantChambers Street front of the Hall of Records 70 TALES OF OLD NEW YORK Stuyvesants idea was not only to encourage farmingbut to furnish more amusements to the people of thetown. As soon as possible, a road was laid out throughthe woods to the new village, and riding parties went

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