Lights and Shadows of New York Life: or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great CityMcCabe, James Dabney
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Lights and Shadows of New York Life: or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City
McCabe, James Dabney
New York (N.Y.) -- Description and travel; New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century
The Cemetery of the Evergreens is situated about three miles and a half
to the eastward of Williamsburg. It lies on the western end of a range
of hills, and is one of the largest and most picturesque of all the
cemeteries of New York. It is being steadily improved, and is growing in
favor with the people of the great cities at its feet.
Another burial ground once used by the people of New York, but now
abandoned by them, is the New York Bay Cemetery, situated on the shore of
the bay in the State of New Jersey, about two and a half miles from the
Courtlandt Street Ferry. It comprises about fifty acres of ground, and
contains 50,000 graves.
No burials are now permitted on Manhattan Island, except in the Cemetery
of Trinity Church, which lies at the intersection of Tenth avenue and
One-hundred-and-fifty-fifth street. From Tenth avenue the grounds extend
to the river. The new public drive passes through the cemetery, and has
greatly injured it. The grounds comprise an area of thirty-six acres,
are beautifully laid off, and are shaded by fine trees. Among the
persons buried here are Philip Livingston, a signer of the Declaration of
Independence, Bishops Wainright and Onderdonk, Madame Jumel, the last
wife of Aaron Burr, Audubon, and John Jacob Astor. President Monroe was
buried here, but his remains were removed to Richmond, Virginia, in 1859.
XXVI. THE CLUBS.
With respect to the number and attractiveness of its clubs, New York bids
fair to rival London. They embrace associations for almost every
purpose, and are more or less successful according to their means and the
object in view. Those for social enjoyment and intercourse are the most
popular, and the best known. They are composed principally of men of
fashion and wealth, and occupy some of the most elegant mansions in the
city.
The best known are the Century, No. 109 East Fifteenth street; Manhattan,
corner of Fifth avenue and Fifteenth street; Union League, corner of
Madison avenue and Twenty-sixth street; Union, corner of Twenty-first
street and Fifth avenue; Travellers', No. 222 Fifth avenue; Eclectic,
corner of Twenty-sixth street and Fifth avenue; City, No. 31 East
Seventeenth street; Harmonie, Forty-second street, west of Fifth avenue;
Allemania, No. 18 East Sixteenth street; American Jockey Club, corner of
Madison avenue and Twenty-seventh street; and New York Yacht Club,
club-house on Staten Island.
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