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THE ICONOGRAPHY OF MANHATTAN ISLAND
 

the Battery," is presented to the common council, asking that
she be "continued in her station, and offering, it required, an
annual rent of $200 for the privilege." The petition is rderred
to the finance committee.—M. C. C. (1784-1831), V: 87. See
also Ibid; IV; 675; V: 77. On May 16, the common council
granted the request, on condition that she pay $225 per annum,
quarterly, tor one year troro May i.—Ibid; V:  127.  See Ag 8.

Under the heading "Removal" (meaning bis removal from hia
"London Hotd," which, in 1807, he renamed the "Washington
Hold"—see Ja 29, 1806; JI 3, 1807), Robt. Dyde announces
"that he will in a short tirae open tor Public entertainment,"
under the narae of "Mount Vernon Hotel," the "noble, spacious
elegant and healthy situated Houae on the Banks of the Eaat
River, near tbe 5 mile stone, on the Harlera Road, built by CoL
Smith, and now the residence of Mr. Robertson."—Am. Cit.,
Ap II, 1808.

On June 27, Dyde advertised that the house was opened for
guests. He made a feature ot dinner parties, "Not exceeding
three hundred, can be accommodated." "Gentieraen who wiah
lo Board out of the dty during the suramer will find thia a raost
delightful rituation; there ia fine fiahiog, shooting, salt water
.bathing, eiceUent stabling, and grass tor their horaes.

"The distance by water is not more than four milea. The docks
are opposite the centre ot BlackweU's island; boats can he easily
procured at Fly-raarket, or New Ferry stairs. . . . Mr. Dyde
is determined ... to make use of no extortion, he earnestly
entreats the pubbc to give bira encouragement .  .  .

"A quantity ot fine Green Turtle of aU sizes constantiy on
hand, fatting in a Crawl made for that purpose in the Eaat River
.   .  . Turtle Soup, every day during the season.

"Gentlemen arriving at this port for the benefit of their hedth
are invited to a view of this beautiful situation."—Pub. Adv.,
Je 27; Am. Cil; Je 28, 1808.  See, turtiier, S 13.

Trinity vestry orders "that a proper Deed be executed, ceding
the Portion ot Cand Street" bdonglng to Trinity to the city, on
condition tbat the church will not be assessed for any further
ground needed for the street, or for the removal of any buUdings
or obstructions therein.—Trin. Mln. (MS.).

The Northwest Reformed Dutch Church on Sugar Loaf (Frank¬
lin) St. near West Broadway Is dedicated.—J(^. Y. Gaz. & Gen.
AdV; Ap 13, 1S08. It reraained there until 1854, when the con¬
gregation reraoved to 23d St, between 6th and 7th Avea.—Cor¬
win's Manud, 1004. On May 23, 1870, the corner-stone of a new
church was laid at the nortb-eaat corner of Madison Ave. and
57th St. This churcb was dedicated on Oct. 22, 1S71.—Exercises
al Laying of Corner-Slone, 1870; Program of Dedication, 1871.
See also L. M. R. K., Ill: 936.

The comraon council orders a schoolraaster appointed for the
almshouse.—M. C. C. (1784-1831), V: 99. No record of auch
appointment has been found, and no payments to an almshouse
schoolmaster appear in the minutes. The arrangements made by
the city wltii the Free School Society (see Ja 18, F 8, Ag 8, 1808,
and D 11, 1809) probably obviated the necessity ot the appoint¬
raent. Interest in the spiritual needs of the inmates ot the alms¬
house is manifest at this sarae time. Rev. John Stanford, a dergy¬
man ot the Baptist persuasion who never presided over a parish
in the city, preaches tor the first tirae at the almshouse by inviia-
tion.—Sommers, Memoir of John Stanford (1835), 111. In June,
1813 (q.v.), he became chaplain of the city's humane and charitable
institutions, and for nearly two decades thereafter served those
institutions most advantageously.

The common council orders the comptroller to "prepare a
grant to the State ot New York of tbe soil under water in tront
of the ground bdonging to tbe State Prison."—.W. C. C. {1784-
1831), V: 99.

"M"". [Edward] Savage, proprietor of the Muaeura, we under¬
stand, is fitting up at a considerable eipence the large buUding
at the corner of Warren-street and Broadway, originally built
tor a Military Academy; where he intends to exhibit Philosophical,
Astronomical, and Optical Experiments. It is probable he wiU
remove the Museura to tbe same building. . . ."—Merc Adv.,
Ap 20, 1808. The building was named tiie "Lyceum."—J6/(/.,
My 14 and 19, 180S,   See dao My 26.

Fulton's stearaboat (see N 20, 1807) leaves New York for
Albany. "Since the last season, this boat has been lengthened
20 feet, her machinery renewed, and strengthened  and ber accom¬
 

modations made not only degant, but extremely comfortable.
. . . this boat as she now stands, has cost the proprietors 80,000
dollars."-iV. Y. Gaz. iS Gen. Adv; Ap 26, 1808. (Society Lib.)
Richard Varick De Witt, in 1858, thus described the dtered vessd:

"The old North River, as it was familiarly called, was an en¬
largement and reconstruction ot the Clerraont, the experiraental
vessd first built by Mr. Fulton.

"The huU must have been about 150 feet long and 18 wide
and ahout 8 teet deep trora the bow for 126 feet. Thence for 24
feet the stern was elevated above the main deck about three teet
forraing a quarter deck which covered the Ladies Cabin and the
lobby between that cabin and the main or dining cabin. Tbe
descent into this lobby was by 3 or 4 steps in the centre ot the
vessel. The starboard corner ot the lobby forraed the captain's
office, the larboard corner the passage Into the dining cabin. In
front of the Engine Roora which occupied the waist of the Vessel,
was a smdl tront cabin, and between that and the bow a tore-
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pantry and bar.

"The boat was rigged with a smaU raast passing up through
the quarter deck carrying a boora and gaff main sail and a larger
raast and top mast forward of the engine, carrying a fore-guard
and square sail, over which was set a flying lop sail. On a fire
stay eitending to a short bow-sprit, was a jib, and studding sails
were at tiraes carried trora the yard, having booms projecting
frora tbe gunwale of tbe boat. The foremast was fitted between
upright standards which rose from the keel to 6 feet above the
deck, and the mast was pivoted between thera so aa to be lowered
down upon the bowsprit during head winds.

"A pair of yawls, for the landing of passengers were hung on
iron cranes on each side of the main deck aft, and the space where
the whed guards finish aft into the hull were shaped into stepa,
to facilitate the passage Into and from the boats when in the water.

"The boUer waa between the engine and raain cabin, ita lop
being covered with a sUghtly elevated deck. [Machinery described.]

"The steering was done by a whed placed between the gaUows
frame and the smoke pipe .   ,   .

"In the Clermont the fly wheds were hung outside of tbe huU
and just in front ot the water wheds . . ,"—Sutdiffe, Robert
Fulton and the 'Clermont,' 342-45, citing original in N. Y. H. S.
See alsoN. Y. Eve Past, Jl 2, 1808.

Tbe raayor laya before the common council a communication
from a M. Du Buc de MarentUle "on the aubject of protecting
this barbour on principlea entirdy new, and which are applicable
to the defence of any other port or harbour, for the disclosure of
which be demands a compensation of $60,000 In case hia plan
should be adopted, otherwise no conaideration to be paid." This
ia rderred to the committee of defence.—M. C. C. (1784-1831),
V: 102. See alao Man. Com. Coun. (1860), 589. For the com¬
mittee's report, aee My 16.

A committee of the common council reports that, from Jan. 15
to April 16, the sum of $5,701 bas been eipended tor improve¬
ments at the CoUect.—M. C. C. (1784-1831), V: 94, 103. See
Je6.

Because ot the "want of a suffident Basin at the Corporation
Dock, on the Hudaon river," the common council orders that a
pier be sunk from Richard Varick's wharf opposite Partition St.,
236 feet into the river, "which, with an L. running northerly, as
portrayed on the Map herewith presented, will make a spacious
and deskeable accoramodation tor Vessds using the trade ot the
Hudson."—M. C. C. (1784-1831), V:  104-5.

John TrurabuU writes to Mayor Clinton that he "has finished
and placed in the room formerly the Library in the [old] City hall,
the pictures which He was directed to paint, ot Governor Lewis,
k Governor Tomklns [jic|, (whole lengths at $500 each), & Gov.
Stuyvesant and the late Mayor, (heads at $100 each) amounting
to 61200.—of which Sum He rec'^ on account in January last
[see Ja 18] $600." He asks that the balance of $600 "be paid to
hira at this tirae."—Frora the original letter in metal file No. 33,
city derk's record-roora. A warrant for S600 Is accordingly issued.
—Af. C. C. (1784-1831), V: 102. The portraits are now in the
present city haU.—Cat. of Works of Art Belonging lo the Cily, 6-8.

The dty establishes a public pound adjoining the corner of
the Bowery and Gerard St., near the two-mile stone, which is
endosed by a fence.—M. C. C. (1784-1831), V:  101-3.