OF ATEW  YORK  CITY.                     323
 

CHAPTER XXXVII.

So mai»y Importers of brandy, wines, and other choice
fluids, are now in existence, that it is hardly possible to
realize so far back as when the business was confined to
a very few persons.

Mr. Kennedy, of the firm of Barre & Kennedy, was
a nephew of Robert Lenox, and was named James Len¬
ox Kennedy. As before stated, he resided at Jalapa,
Mexico. An anecdote is told of him In connection with
the American army during the war with Mexico.
When it was approaching Jalapa, under General Scott,
with the evident design of capturing that ill-fated oity,
a deputation of the citizens was sent to Scott to beg off'.
At the head of the delegation was J. L. Kennedy.
Scott had known him from the time of boyhood. They
asked the great American commander to make a detour,
and pass Jalapa harmlessly. The General, probably
out of good feeling to an old New Yorker, as much as
from any other cause, granted their request.

When this determination became known in Jalapa,
the inhabitants loaded every animal they could find
with the most luscious fruits, and everything eatable or
drinkable, and dispatched the caravan to the troops.

Two of the principal importers, in the early part of
this century, were two Frenchmen.    One was named