Book/Printed Material New York in 1850 and in 1890. A political study. An address delivered before the New York historical society on its eighty-seventh anniversary, Tuesday, November 17, 1891, Copy 1
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Image 7 of Copy 1 New York in 18^0 and in i8go. A Political Study. 2ln 2lMJrcss DELIVERED BEFORE THE NeW York Historical Society EIGHTY-SE VEN TH ANNIVERSAR V, Tuesday, November 17, 1891, BY THE HON. SETH...- Contributor: New-York Historical Society - Low, Seth
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Image 9 of Copy 1 New York ix i8 jo and nv 1800. A Political Study. 2lu 2lt tiircs0 DELIVERED BEFORE THE New York Historical Society ON ITS EIGHTY-SEVEI^TH ANNIVERSARY, Tuesday, November 17, 1891, BY TH^^ HON....- Contributor: New-York Historical Society - Low, Seth
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Image 11 of Copy 1 Officers of the Society, 1892. PRESIDENT, JOHN ALSOP KING. FIRST VICE-PRESIDENT, JOHN A. WEEKES. SECOND VICE-PRESIDENT, JOHN S. KENNEDY. FOREIGN CORRESPONDING SECRETARY, JOHN BIGELOW. DOMESTIC CORRESPONDING SECRETARY, EDWARD F. DE LANCEY RECORDING...- Contributor: New-York Historical Society - Low, Seth
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Image 12 of Copy 1 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. FIRST CLASS FOR ONE YEAR, ENDING 1 893. JOHN A. VVEEKES, JOHN W. C. LEVERIDGE, J. PIERPONT MORGAN. SECOND CLASS FOR TWO YEARS, ENDING 1 894. EDWARD F. DE LANCEY,...- Contributor: New-York Historical Society - Low, Seth
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Image 13 of Copy 1 PROCEEDINGS. At a meeting of the New York Historical Society, held in its Hall, on Tuesday, November 17, 1891, to celebrate the Eighty- seventh Anniversary of the Founding of the Society The...- Contributor: New-York Historical Society - Low, Seth
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Image 15 of Copy 1 NEW YORK IN i85o AND IN i89o. A POLITICAL STUDY. Gentlemen of the New York Historical Society The subject to be dealt with scarcely needs expla- nation, but a few words as...- Contributor: New-York Historical Society - Low, Seth
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Image 16 of Copy 1 8 Neiv York in 1850 and in 1890. ters all our woes traced to universal suffrage and to the foreign immigration. Those who hold this view are of little value to the...- Contributor: New-York Historical Society - Low, Seth
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Image 17 of Copy 1 New York in 1850 and in 1890. 9 mental in character that Chancellor Kent was able to say of it, in 1836, that the charter of 1730 was the foundation upon which...- Contributor: New-York Historical Society - Low, Seth
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Image 18 of Copy 1 lo Neiv York in 1850 and in 1890. with an office by the General Government (Surveyor of the Port) when one Mr. Raddiffe was to receive the office of Mayor. This arrangement...- Contributor: New-York Historical Society - Low, Seth
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Image 19 of Copy 1 Nczv York in 1850 and in 1890. 11 the executive business of the corporation of New York shall hereafter be performed by distinct departments, which it shall be the duty of the...- Contributor: New-York Historical Society - Low, Seth
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Image 20 of Copy 1 12 Netv York in $0 and in 1890. use the city as a pawn in its own game of government. But it is singular that after the people of the city have...- Contributor: New-York Historical Society - Low, Seth
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Image 21 of Copy 1 Neiv York in i^^O and iji 1890. 13 In the earlier charters the subjects considered came in this order: the legislative, the judicial, the executive. By 1849, executive business claimed the second...- Contributor: New-York Historical Society - Low, Seth
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Image 22 of Copy 1 14 New York i?i \Z^o and in 1890. responsible to the Mayor, are appointed by him with- out even confirmation by the Common Council, and thus they form parts of a governmental...- Contributor: New-York Historical Society - Low, Seth
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Image 23 of Copy 1 New York in \^$o and in 1890. 15 state them, I presume there is no one who will not ad- mit that the city would be infinitely worse off if the charter...- Contributor: New-York Historical Society - Low, Seth
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Image 24 of Copy 1 1 6 Neiv York in 1850 and in 1890. the State. In 182 1, the city secured the right to choose its own officers. In 185 1, the city set up a...- Contributor: New-York Historical Society - Low, Seth
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Image 25 of Copy 1 New York in \Z^o and in 1890. 17 The term of office of the Mayors who make these appointments is two years. Among other things it is clear, therefore, that the Mayor...- Contributor: New-York Historical Society - Low, Seth
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Image 26 of Copy 1 1 8 Nezv York in \^^o and in 1890, will continue to suffer to a considerable extent from in- efficient administration, due to the fact that the differ- ent departments of the...- Contributor: New-York Historical Society - Low, Seth
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Image 27 of Copy 1 New York in \%^Q and in 1890. 19 and the wounding- of thirty others, has passed through the trying times of later years without bloodshed. After all deductions have been made, the...- Contributor: New-York Historical Society - Low, Seth
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Image 28 of Copy 1 20 Neiv York in ^o and in 1890. terogeneous population on the face of the globe. And this order is self-maintained, for almost the whole po- lice force is on dtity at...- Contributor: New-York Historical Society - Low, Seth
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Image 29 of Copy 1 Nezv York in \%^o arid in 1890. 21 the same night. The attempt to follow the engines in case of alarm to the scene of the fire is futile. Stran- gers are...- Contributor: New-York Historical Society - Low, Seth
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Image 30 of Copy 1 22 New York in 1850 and in 1890. length of the city, without a diversion to the right hand or the left, or of the northern half of the compact part of...- Contributor: New-York Historical Society - Low, Seth
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Image 31 of Copy 1 New York in I ^^O and in 1890. 23 for short distances is much chminished. To obviate this inconvenience an elevated railway has been pro- posed, but the opposition of some of...- Contributor: New-York Historical Society - Low, Seth
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Image 32 of Copy 1 24 Neiu York in xZ^o and in 1890. demands of the greatest manufacturinQ:- centre in the Union. The river front has been developed, only af- ter a fashion it is true, but...- Contributor: New-York Historical Society - Low, Seth
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Image 33 of Copy 1 Neiv York in 1850 and in 1890. 25 not to remain so, for, by a law passed In 1887, the city authorities have the right to expend $1,000,000 a year for the...- Contributor: New-York Historical Society - Low, Seth
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Image 34 of Copy 1 26 Nezv York in i%$o and in 1890. itself with a system of large parks that reveals a quality of foresight greatly creditable to the community. The Central Park is an enduring...- Contributor: New-York Historical Society - Low, Seth
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Image 35 of Copy 1 Ne%v York i)i I ^^o and in 189O. 27 powerful only while he touched the land. A narrow strip of water like the English Channel brought him completely to bay. It may...- Contributor: New-York Historical Society - Low, Seth
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Image 36 of Copy 1 28 New York ill \%^o and in 1890, to a single corporation a monopoly of the business for a term of years, secured for itself the advantages which under our system have...- Contributor: New-York Historical Society - Low, Seth
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Image 37 of Copy 1 Nezv York in i%^o and in 1890. 29 found itself with an incomplete right which could only be perfected by securing the consent of the city and the consent of the property...- Contributor: New-York Historical Society - Low, Seth
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Image 38 of Copy 1 30 New York in 1850 and in 1890. taken for granted that any man is competent to conduct the affairs of a city in any position to which he may be called....- Contributor: New-York Historical Society - Low, Seth
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Image 39 of Copy 1 Neiv York in \%^o and in 1890. 31 is more easy to make this plain than elsewhere, be- cause it chances that the control is in the hands of a society whose...- Contributor: New-York Historical Society - Low, Seth
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Image 40 of Copy 1 32 Neiv York in I ^^O and in 1890. Tammany extends to the voters of New York is the privilege of ratifying or defeating the nominees whom this committee are pleased to...- Contributor: New-York Historical Society - Low, Seth
- Date: 1892