Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER in Other Trails of Yesterday—Janvier—Warner—Crawford —Mrs. Ban?—Admiral Porter. Leaving for a minute the men and women of Banner's story, the vicinity conjures up the people of Charles Dudley Warner's Golden House; the Brights, Bemans, Lauderdales, Balstons of Marion Crawford's novels of New York life; the hero of Thomas Janvier's At the Casa Napoleon, who day after day took his stand at the southwest corner of Broad and Wall Streets to study idly the great statue of Washington on the stone steps of the Sub- Treasury, and build fine day-dreams of the three thousand dollar clerkship that never seem to come true. Joris Van Heemskirk, of whom Mrs. Barr told us in The Bow of Orange Ribbon, was an important figure in the Wall Street of 1765. A two-storied house at the lower end of Pearl Street was the home of Jacob Cohen and his granddaughter Miriam. The Kalchook, or Ealch Hock, where Captain Hyde tXTtBISC. mi lt.r CANOM ill nil MONIY GaillINC PIBI and Neil Semple fought their duel, was a hill of considerable elevation, to the west of the present line of Broadway. Its southern boundary was about Warren Street, its northern boundary about Canal. The district lying at its base was a fever-breeding marsh until drained by Anthony Rutgers. Afterward it was known as Lispenard Meadows, from Rutgers's daughter, Mrs. Lispenard. The little lake or pond at its foot was called first Kalk-Hook, and afterward became known as the Collect Pond. The corner of Broadway and Franklin Street marks what was then the summit of the Kalchook Hill. The slope is still perceptible. The speculations that swept away all that was left of the once great Dolph family estate in the panic of 1873 were conducted in an office on William Street, near where the Cotton Exchange now stands. On Front Str...