Chapter XI
Two Famous Meeting-Places

LOOKING backward to the days
before the Civil War is to bring
into review a host of men who then
walked through the city in which
time has wrought so many changes,
and to bring to the mind's eye famil¬
iar streets, but so altered that they
seem like unknown highways.

There was the Battery, with its
old-time appearance, when the green
grass of summer was not cast into
deep and continual shade by an over¬
hanging device of modern travel, and
when its broad walk was a prom¬
enade, the like and popularity of
which was not to be found elsewhere.
There stood squat Castle Garden,
half in the water and half on the
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