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1874

By charter provision Samuel B. H. Vance, president ot the
board of aldermen, becomes mayor, following the death of Mayor
Havemeyer. He Is sworn into office and sends a message to the
boards ot aldermen and assistant aldermen announcing Mayor
Havemeyer's decease.—N. Y, Times, Dec. 1, 1874.

1878

This date is given in the Chronology tor the Introduction of the
bicycle in America. The author is Informed by the Westfield Mfg.
Co., ot Westfidd, Mass., successors to the Pope Mfg. Co., that the
Pope Mfg. Co. was organised in 1877. For a short time the company
imported and sold English bicycles, but about that time it placed
its first order for American-made bicycles with the Weed Sewing-
Machine Co. of Hartford. These were delivered to the Pope Mfg.
Co. in 1878. The author was a subscriber to this first output and
received one of the first sixty machines ddivered. The "Colum¬
bia" was the name given to tiiis pioneer hic3'de.

1888

The Plaza Hotd, when sold on this day to the N. Y. Life In¬
surance Co. (see Vol. V, p. 1996), was evidently an unfinished building,
for a newspaper account of the sale states: "It is proposed to finish
the hotel, and then either lease It or sell if any one is anxious to
purchase It."—N. Y, Times, S 19, 1888. On Nov. 24, It was an¬
nounced that the entire interior of the building would have to be
reconstructed and rearranged "to enable the property to be utilized
to advantage," and that this work was being "rapidly pushed fore-
ward " under the direction of Mc Kim, Meade & White, architects.
—Ibid., N 24, 1888. These references indicate that It was this same
building (and not a "second Plaza Hotel," as stated in Vol. V,
p. 1996), which was opened on Sept. 29, 1890.

1893

The work ot the Visiting Nurse Service and the Henry St.
Settlement began at this time with visits to the sick In tenement-
houses by Lillian Wald and Mary Brewster. Wherever possible,
the eighteen centres of the Service endeavor to correlate their activi¬
ties with those of other agencies In their communities.—N. Y.
Times, Je 24, 1928.

1896

The name ot E. R. L. Gould has been omitted, through inad-
vertance, from the general index, although It is found under the
title Tenement-houses, citing the above date. Dr. Gould was the
organiser and, until his death, the president of The City and
Suburban Homes Co. Perhaps no other man has had a more far-
reaching Infiuence in improving housing conditions In N. Y. City.

1909-19I9

The restoration of the governor's room in the city ball, which
was completed in 1909, at the expense of Mrs. Russell Sage, at a
cost of approximately 840,000, and Is described under that date in
the Chronology (VoL V,p.2073), was but the beginning of improve¬
ments in the city hall which were executed by Grosvenor Atterbury
In the following few years.

In 1912, also by the gift of Mrs. Sage, and under the supervision
of the Art Commission, Mr, Atterbury restored the rotunda and
adjacent portions of the building, at a cost of approximately
820,000. In this connection ho directed certain general repairs.
Including principally the restoration of the interior of the dome,
and the fitting up of the third floor for the use of the Art Com¬
mission, which had formerly used the small room on the second
floor in the east centre of the building between the rotunda and
the north elevation; these repairs being made under a city apprcn
priation secured by Borough President McAneny, at a cost
totalling approximately $30,000. Later In that year, at the city's
expense, and on appointment by Mr. McAneny, he restored the
Board of Estimate room and the Aldermanic committee room, at a
cost ot approximately 812,000.

In 1914, at the city's expense and under authorisation ot Mr.
McAneny, he restored the easterly end of the entrance floor, com¬
 

prising what was then the office of the president ot the borough;
and, at the westerly end, the mayor's reception-room, anterooms,
etc., the cost totalling approximately £45,000,

In 1915, at the city's expense, he lestored the mayor's private
offices at the west end, at a cost of approximately $26,000.

In 1918, at the city's expense, under authorisation by Borough
President Dowllng, he restored the cupola, which had heen injured
by fire, and at the same time reconstructed the entire central area of
the roof, all of this work being fireproof construction, including the
cupola, at a cost of approximately §50,000.

In 1919, at the expense of the city, and under the authorisation
ot the president of the borough, the entire exterior marble work ot
the building was repaired and treated by the Caffale process, at a
cost of approximately $12,000.

1928

In this year, the One Hundred Year Club ot New York Business
Organizations was formed, largely through the initiative of Mr,
Isaac Liberman, president ot Arnold Constable & Co. Mr. Liber-
man states that a survey recently made by him develops the fact
that neatiy 100 commercial, industrial, and financial institutions in
this city are eligible for membership. Among the organisations
represented at the meeting at which the club was foimed were;
Arnold Constable & Co.; Black, Starr & Frost; Chatham Phenii
National Bank; Farmers' Loan Sc Trust Co.; Schieffelln & Co,;
R. C. Williams & Co. Inc.; Bank ot New York and Trust Co,;
Journal of Commerce; Dodge Sc Olcott & Co.; The Mailory Hat
Co.; Joseph Dixon Crucible Co.; The Chemical National Bank ot
New York; Browning, King and Co.; Bank ot America; American
Type Founders Co.; R.Hoe&Co.; Grans ton Print Works; Chick¬
erlng & Sons; Cowperthwalt Furniture Co.; The Bronx Co,;
Cruikshank Co,; Jackson Mantle Grate Works; McKesson &
Robbins; Devoe Sc Raynolds; Louis K. Liggett Co.; North
American Review; Hartford Fire Insurance Co.; Seth Thomas
Clock Co.; National City Bank of New York; Bank of the Man¬
hattan Co.; New York Evening Post; Bank for Savings In N. Y,;
Henry W,T. Mails: Co.; Colgate & Company; R, Simpson & Co,
Inc.; Odrlchs & Co.; J. L. Mott Iron Works; Johnson & Faulk¬
ner; Holt & Co.; Appleton & Co.—From Information supplied by
Mr. Liberman,

A splendid collection of portraits by American artists ot the
seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries, is owned by Mr.
Thomas B. Clarke, and Is now (June, 1928) on exhibition in the
Philadelphia Museum ot Art. Some of the portraits In this collec¬
tion have been shown in previous exhibitions, at the Union League
Club and the Century Association In New York. This remarkable
assemblage of portraits represents 164 subjects and 77 artists.
Perhaps the most notable one Is the oldest—that of Oloff Stevense
Van Cortiandt (1610-1684), by Henri Couturier; It shows, with
astonishing fineness, the high intelligence and sturdy character ot
this Dutch burgher of New Netheriand. His son, Stepbanus (1643-
1700), the first native American mayor of New York, whose coun¬
try-house still stands at Croton-on-Hudson, Is represented by a
portrait from life by the first Evert Duyckinck. James de Lancey
(1703-1760), the chief-justice and lieutenant-governor. Is shown
by one from the brush of Gerardus Duyckinck. The portrait of
Stephen de Lancey (16&3-1741), the original owner ot the residence
which became Fraunces Tavern, was painted by John Smibert; that
of Adrian van der Donck (1618-1655), by Jacobus Gerritsen Stry-
cker; Sir Peter Warren (1703-1732), by John Watson, and Lady
Warren, by Smibert. And so on, throughout the years, to recent
times. The first portrait of Washington by Rembrandt Peale, and
the first by Stuart, are in this collection; also the Edw. Savage
group of the Washington family, and the Allston group of Gilbert
Stuart's family. Among the other subjects associated with New
York City are portraits of Frederick Phllipse (by Couturier), Gov.
Wm. Shirley of Mass., Capt. Archibald Kennedy, Lewis Morris,
Stephen van Rensselaer, Philip van Cortiandt, Jonathan Belcher,
Robt. Monckton, Peter R. Livingston, Alexander Hamilton, Alex¬
ander Anderson, John Stevens, Andrew Jackson, Henry Clay, Jas.
Lawrence, Franklin Pierce, John Howard Payne, Stephen Foster,
Geo. P, Morris, Clara Barton, Edwin Forrest, and Chas, Fenno
Hoffman.—See Catalogue of the exhibition, which contains an in¬
troduction by Mr. Clarke and notes by him on the various artists
and their subjects.