Old Merchants of New York City - 5 Volumes, 1,500 pages

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The Old Merchants of
New York City
Volumes 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5
By Walter Barrett
1863
1,500+ pages, indexed
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New York
literary history presents few examples of a book that can compare in human interest with Walter Barrett's "Old Merchants of New York." In 1863 Mr. Barrett contributed several articles on this subject to the columns of the
New York Leader, going back to the old merchants of the 1830s, and these articles so stirred the interest of the public that he decided to put them into book form.
Of course he enlarged and amplified the subject, so that we have a very complete and certainly a most informative account of these old traders and founders of our commercial greatness.
What gives those narratives such an intense interest is that we are shown the many sidedness of these old merchants: sometimes humorous, sometimes pathetic, sometimes downright selfish, but al-ways true to human nature, and the story is told in such a bright and breezy fashion as to make the book more than usually interesting.
Sample, from Vol 1, CHAPTER VII
.
I have alluded on several occasions when writing about old merchants to the vast number that have come to this city from the six New England States. The immigration has been going on ever since the Revolution.
At that time, or about eighty or ninety years ago,
Boston
,
Salem
and several other along-shore places did a heavy business in navigation. A great part of the tonnage of the
United States
was owned East.
These ambitious young men could stay at home.
Not so in after years, when
New York city
, like a fast race-horse, took the bit in her mouth, and went ahead with terrific commercial speed. Every city has been distanced in this mercantile race.
Philadelphia
,
Boston
,
Baltimore
, and all other Atlantic ports are nowhere when mentioned in contrast with
New York
. So soon as this last city fairly started ahead, the talent, enterprise, genius and smartness of the entire Union began to pour into New York, so that now, if a pestilence was to break out in this city tomorrow, there is not a house however lofty, nor a cottage so humble, but would be affected by the sad news. All are represented or connected in some way with the
Empire
City
.
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