Valentine's manual of old New York

(New York :  Valentine's Manual Inc.,  1920.)

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OF OLD NEW YORK

we have been obliged to read during the last year or so,
it is refreshing to recall the days of clean fights, of
manly combats and of that ancient chivalry which seems
inseparable from fighters of the sea. The achievements
of the Anglo-Saxon sailors have made many a brilliant
page in naval history from the days of Drake to Far-
ragut.

Let us hope that this glorious record will be kept un¬
sullied in the stormy days that are to come. Let us
hope that no matter what the provocation, the American
ideal of manliness, of squareness, of self-respect will
never be lowered. Let those who will, adopt the meth¬
ods of the Barbary pirate and the Chinese junk; but let
the Yankee sailor lad be always as he has been—a credit
to the men who go down to the sea in ships and a glory
to the service.
 

Half a Century Ago

Arthur Winthrop Earle

The Velocipede

In 1869 the craze was for velocipedes—the fore-runner
of the bicycle. All over town there were academies and
rinks for teaching and practicing the art of riding. Be¬
tween Grace Church and Tenth Street there was a four-
story building—afterward occupied by the Vienna
Bakery—the top floor of which was used as a Velocipede
Riding Academy, patronized by hundreds of young peo¬
ple who crowded it nightly and in the daytime too.
Fancy riding was a feature in the rinks and also on the
stage in variety shows.

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