This superb building will be devoted to retail purposes, | | where every description of dry-goods, from the necessary and | | convenient to the most elegant and fashionable, will attract | | a multitudinous throng, and add even a new attraction to the | | brilliancy of Broadway in the most delightful part of the | | thoroughfare.

" Ford was determined to "do the honors," and he led them down Broadway to the Battery before he started "up town;" and he had something to say about a great many of the buildings.

He had the nerve to come up to us girls and want us to beat it up and down Broadway with signs boosting the show on our backs.

The Target Society were out on a street parade, and the policemen marched before them to clear Broadway of all vehicles and foot-passengers, and to stop short, for the time, the business of a great city, in order that these twenty spindle-legged and melancholy little cobblers might have a proper opportunity of showing their utter ignorance of all rules of marching, and the management of firearms.

Often as I have seen it, Broadway at night is still a fascinating place to me, with its blazing signs, its changing crowds, its clanging street traffic, its bright shop-windows.

With shouts and yells of triumph the body of one thousand men were marching down Broadway for that purpose.

Writing home the day after his arrival he says: "I have obtained a place to board at friend Coolidge's at two dollars and twenty-five cents a week, and have taken for my studio a fine room in Broadway opposite Trinity Churchyard, for which I am to pay six dollars and fifty cents a week, being fifty cents less than I expected to pay.

"'She told me in the hospital today, and with every appearance of truth, that she had met Arenas in the subway at the station on Seventy-second Street and Broadway on Friday night and that she had asked him when she could come and get her clothes.

" Terrible years, years of bulletins, years of want, hard times, years when all the future was at stake, until finally that day in New York when she saw the remnant returning, marching up Broadway between the black crowds and the bunting, the drums beating, the fifes playing, "Returning, with thinned ranks, young, yet very old, worn, marching, noticing nothing.

Broadway from Fourth to Cortlandt Streets was one tossing mass of flags overhead; one mad surge of humanity below.

Something of the spirit of adventure that had been my curse quickened in my heart as I walked through crowded Broadway past Trinity Church to a bank and drew the balance remaining on my letter of credit.

Take it from me, I had rather be a shine on Broadway than a glare anywhere else.

Then have the van down near the corner of Broadway below the club, driving slowly along about the time the theatre crowd is out.

As the orphaned Payson, ensconced in lonely state in one of the funeral hacks, was carried at a fast trot down Broadway towards the offices of Tutt & Tutt, he consoled himself for his loss with the reflection that this was, probably, the last time he would ever have to see any of his relatives.

About a year later Washington removed to a larger house on the west side of Broadway near Bowling Green.