The New York City directory, for 1854-1855, Part 211

Author: Rode, Charles R., 1825-1865; Doggett, John, 1809-1852
Publication date: 1851
Publisher: New York : Doggett & Rode
Number of Pages: 1000

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New York Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor .- Organized 1843. Incorporated 1848. Office in Bible House, No. 39, third floor. Entrance on Eighth street. President,

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James Brown ; Vice Presidents, George Griswold, | Anne Innes, First Directress : Mrs. George Nixon, James Boorman, James Lenox, Horatio Allen, A. R. Wetmore ; Treasurer, Robert M. Minturn; Cor- responding Secretary and Agent, Robert M. Hart- ley ; Recording Secretary, Joseph B. Collins.

Second Directress : Mrs. A. T. Anderson, Trea. eurer : Mrs. S. Van Antwerp, Secretary : Mrs. S. M. Beckley, Register : Mrs. A. M. Gray, Matron ? Attendant Physician, Dr. James S. Cooper, (free of There is a supervisory council for each district of charge) : Dr. Childs, Consulting Physician. There the city. The particular business and objects of this association are the elevation of the physical and moral condition of the indigent, and so far as is compatible with these objects, the relief of their necessities. The following is an exhibit of the ag. gregate relief afforded by the society, and of its receipts, in the last year : Number of different families relieved from Nov. 1, 1852, to Nov. 1, 1853, 5,468, number of persons 24,606, number of visits, 25,203; receipts for the same period $31,359 16; disbursements $29,692 57 : excess of receipts over disbursements, $1,666 59. This association has been instrumental in promoting the establish- ment of the Demilt Dispensery, the Northwestern Dispensary, the Juvenile Asylum, and the Public Bath and Wash House. The association is sup- ported entirely by voluntary donations. were 88 inmates last year. The association is sup- ported by voluntary contributions. A yearly ave- rage of 83 out-door pensioners is relieved by the society. The whole amount of mortality within the asylum for the fifteen years that it has been oc- cupied, has averaged 8 deaths to 83 individuals. The particular record of the past year is 7 to 87. The ages of the deceased, in 1853, were respective- ly 94, 90, 85, 82, 78, 77, and 75. The nativity of the inmates is thus stated : Americans 48, English 21, Irish 12, Scotch 4, French 1, German 1. The so- ciety has in contemplation the erection of a new asylum on 78th and 79th sts. and 4th Av., capable of accommodating 150 inmates. The receipts of the association for the year ending Ist November, 1853, were $9,160 : the subscriptions were $1,229 : donations $859 : legacies $1,500. The auxiliary to this association, which has for thirty years past rendered most efficient and valuable assistance, by supplying materials and making up garments for the out-door pensioners, still continues its friendly operations, and its members would be very glad to be joined by other ladies, to assist in this charita- ble employment. They meet at the house of the First Directress, 144 Greene st., on every alternate Tuesday morning, from 10 to 2 o'clock.

New York Orphan Asylum .- Situated on the North River, at Bloomingdale, near 76th st., west of Av. 10, about five miles from the City Hall. Founded 1806. Mrs. Bethune, First Directress : Mrs. John Anthon, Second Directress : Mrs. Chas. J. Johnson, Treasurer : Mrs. F. M. Bleecker, Secre. tary : Trustees, Miss Bleecker, Mrs. J. P. Van Horne, Mrs. P. Perit, Miss Brinckerhoff, Miss Em- ma Seton, Miss Thurston, Miss Mary A. Strong, Miss M. J. Oothout, Mrs. Isaac Gibson, Mrs. Ham- ilton Hoppin : Physician, A. V. Williams, M. D. : Superintendents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles S. Pell : Teachers, Miss Hall, Miss McGregor, Miss Dem- ster. This institution was established by the "Or- phan Asylum Society in the City of New York," which was incorporated by an act of the Legisla- ture passed 7th April, 1807, in the preamble of which it was recited, that, " by a petition presented to the Legislature from a number of ladies in the city of New York, it was represented that they, together with their associates, had formed a soci- ety for the very humane, charitable, and laudable purpose of protecting, relieving and instructing orphan children in said city," and it was therefore enacted, that all such persons of the female sex as then were, or thereafter should become, annual subscribers, to the amount of not less than $1 50 per annum to the said association, should be, and thereby were, constituted a body corporate and politic, in fact and in name, by the name of the " Orphan Asylum Society in the City of New York." The property of the corporation was limited to $10,000. By a subsequent act of 10th February, 1809, the society was empowered to indenture out children in the usual manner ; and on the 30th of March, 1811, an act was passed giving the society $500 a year, out of the auction duties of the city. The asylum is favorably situated on the east bank of the Hudson River, in an elevated position. The grounds comprise nine acres. The asylum when first opened was located in Bank st. in the city. More than fifteen hundred destitute children have been sheltered and educated in this institution since its foundation. The total number in the asylum in 1854, at the last anniversary meeting in April, was 117 boys and 74 girls. The income of the society from April, 1853, to April, 1854, was $28,276 87. Of this sum $15,000 was a legacy from James P. Van Horne; $1,500 another from Samuel S. Howland; and a balance of $1,103 of another legacy from James Murray. The annual subscriptions to the society were only $1,114 70, and donations $408 10. The expenses of support- ing the asylum last year amounted to $12,223 20. Besides these sums, $1,095 95 was appropriated by the Board of Education towards defraying the ex- penses of teachers.

Protestant Half Orphan .- Male and Fe- male. Av, 6, between Tenth and Eleventh. Founded Dec. 16, 1835. Officers : Mrs. William A. Tomlin- son, First Directress ; Mrs. Jas. Boorman, Second Directress ; Mrs. E. Wainwright, Treasurer ; Mrs. George D. Phelps, Secretary ; Physician, Dr. F. B. Bowers ; Dr. Main, Dentist; Superintendent, Miss Jane J. Hunter. Any person contributing $3 an- nually to the funds of the society shall be a member thereof. All sums under $3 are received as dona- tions. Statistics for the year ending Ist Decem- bes, 1853 : 175 the present number; 172 average number, 269 whole number taught. The income of the institution for the year ending 19th Decem- ber, 1853, $6,343 35. The public school fund ap- propriated to salaries and board of teachers $1,336 55.

Roman Catholic Half Orphan .- (Female.) Eleventh st. near Av. 7. Under the charge of the Sisters of Charity. The officers are the same as the Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum in Prince st. The number of children is about 140.

Roman Catholic Orphan .- Prince corner of Mott. Incorporated April 13, 1852. The Asylum for Boys is located in 5th Av. E. corner of 5let st. President, Archbishop Hughes; First Vice Presi- dent, Very Rev. John Loughlin; Second Vice Pre- sident, Hugh Sweeny, M. D .; Treasurer, Denis Car- olin; Secretary, Michael J. O'Donnell; Assistant Secretary, Louis B. Binnse. The object of this society is to provide for destitute and unprotected Orphan and Ifalf Orphan children of both sexes, and to educate them in the Roman Catholic faith. The number of female children maintained and educated in this asylum in 1853, was 250. There were 370 in the boys' department, in 51st st. Chil- dren are not received under 4 nor over 9 years of age. The act of incorporation empowers this so- ciety to hold real estate up to the annual income of $30,000.

Sailors' Snug Harbor .- This institution is located on the north side of Staten Island, and can be visited by the Port Richmond Ferry, from the foot of Battery Place, North River. The institution was founded by Captain Richard Randall, a re- tired ship master, who died in 1801. He had es- tablished the asylum on his own property, which was situated in the vicinity of the Washington Parade Ground, in the upper part of the city. He left the property, by his will, to trustees, to main- tain the Asyluni. The trustees are the senior min- isters of the Presbyterian and Episcopal Churches

Old Ladies' Asylum .- Located in Twentieth st. between Av. 2 and 3. Founded in November, 1838, by the Association for the Relief of Respecta- ble Aged Indigent Females, established in New York on the 7th February, 1814. Officers : Mrs. in New York, the Mayor of the City, Recorder of

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the City, the President and Vice President of the | of the religious order of the "Sisters of Charity." Marine Society. The property was, at the time of Established in 1849. The number of children ave- rage about 400. Officers, the same as the Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum in Prince st. the bequest, of the value of about 825,000. The increase in value has been so great as to raise the income now to $50,000 a year. There are about 250 inmates in the asylum. All seamen who have sailed five years under the United States flag are eligible for admission, when incapacitated by old age or accident from the practice of their profes- sion. The arrangements of the asylum are of the most superior order, and the comfort of the in- mates is carefully studied. There are spacious grounds attached to the asylum for the exercise and recreation of the pensioners. Agent, Mr. Greenleaf, 62 Wall.

St. Patrick's Male Orphan Asylum and School. R. C .- On Av. 5, c. 51st st. Under charge

Seamens' Fand and Retreat .- Founded 1831. Located on Staten Island, near the Quaran- tine. Office in New York. at 8 Old Ship. Pelatiah Perit, President ; F. Perkins, Secretary ; J. R. Boardman, Resident Physician ; James Bailey, Su- perintendent ; James Hart, Steward. The institu- tion is supported by a State hospital tax. The ob- ject is, the care of sick and disabled seamen. The tax is 81 on each ship master for each voyage, home or foreign, and 50 cents on each seaman, The average receipts amount to $3,500 per month. The institution can accommodate 500 persons, the average is generally 200.

BENEVOLENT AND PROVIDENT INSTITUTIONS.

Five Points House and School of Indus- try, and Industrial Temperance Home .- 1 to 6 Little Water st. Formed August, 1850. Pre- sident, H. R. Remseu ; W. C. Conant and Charles Healey, Treasurers ; Rev. L. M. Pease, Superin- tendent. This institution is supported by a volun- tary Association. It has received a charter in the last session. It affords refuge to the destitute of every class. There are about 335 inmates at pre- sent, who have work procured them, and the sur- plus of their earnings, over 12 shillings a week, is preserved for them. There are three schools at tached for children. The society partially sup- ports the children attending the schools. From the zealous exertions of the Superintendent and Managers much good has been effected in the dis- trict in which the institution is located. Treasurer's Report not yet published.

House and School of Industry .- 100 West Sixteenth street. Officers : Mrs. Nicholas Fish, President, 21 Stuyvesant street : Mrs. Wm. H. Le- Roy, Vice President, 36 East 13th street : Mrs. W. Lowrie, Treasurer, 129 Twelfth street : Mise Mor- ris, Recording Secretary, 237 Tenth street : Miss K. Hone, Financial Secretary, 24 West 19th street : Miss Kennedy, Secretary of the Visiting Commit- tee, 5th Av. & 11th st. : Mrs. R. Gracie, Correspond- ing Secretary, 125 Bleecker street. The design of the Institution is to afford to infirm and destitute females employment in needlework, at a rate of remuneration to support them. Employment is given, according to circumstances, either at the residences of the applicants or at the House of Industry, where, also, instruction in sewing is given to such as need it. Aid to such as may find more suitable employment at service is studi. ously avoided. A Sewing School for the young, also, is maintained at the establishment-open on Wed- nesdays, from 3 in the afternoon until dark, and on Saturdays, from 9 until 12. The charity extends over the entire city, to those of every religious de- nomination. The receipts of the society for the yearending 12th Nov., 1853, amounted to $9,007 17. The Institution holds an invested permanent fund of $20,946 41, producing an annual interest of $2,- 285 99. The number of women employed since April 8th, 1852, (exclusive of the Ordered Work Department,) 423; articles made, 6,035; articles cut, 6,138 ; articles sold, 6,719; paid for labor, $2,907 93. Ordered work : Women employed, 77; (25 Americans, 39 Irish, 8 English, 2 Scotch, 3 Ger- man,) articles made, 3,794 , paid for labor, $2,087 92. There is a children's school of 110 girls attached to the Institution.

Industrial School Association for the Fourth Ward .- Established in 1853. Office at the Children's Aid Society, No. 20 New Bible House. First Directress, Mrs. Elisha Peck, 722 Broadway : Second Directress, Mrs. E. D. Morgan, 35 Lafayette Place : Third Directress, Mrs. Moses H- Grinnell, 1 East 14th st. : Secretary, Mrs. R. S. Bullus, 10 Beach st. : Treasurer, Mrs. Dr. Willard Parker, 195 Twelfth st .: C. L. Brace, Secretary, (Children's Aid Society.) "The members of this as- sociation seek to improve the condition of the poor and vagrant girls of the city. In the different wards of the city thousands of these little creatures were growing up in ignorance and vice. They lived by begging or pilfering, or gathering the re- fuse of the streets." The society has established a school in Av. D, and one in the basement of the Mariners' Chapel in Roosevelt st. The main part of the labor of the school is borne by voluntary teachers, who come from distant parts of the city for this purpose. The expenses of the school with a hundred scholars, are estimated at 8800; the sal- ary of the Matron being @300, and the meals amounting to about two cents a day for each scholar. Contributions of plain articles of food and of clothing are solicited, and can be sent eitner to No. 20 New Bible House, or to the school, in the basement of the Mariners' Chapel, Roosevelt street.

Sailors' Home .- 190 Cherry. This very ex- cellent Institution was opened on the 1st of May, 1842. It was erected by the "American Seaman's Friend Society,"at an expense of $45,000, which was raised by the Society expressly as a Building Fund. It is managed under the control of the Society, by Captain D. Tracey as Superintendent. The Insti- tution can accomodate 250 men. The terms for boarding are only $4 per week There had been from the opening up to the 1st of May, 1853, an ag- gregate of 36,596 boarders in the establishment. The Institution also affords gratuitous board and re- sidence to all deserving, distressed men. The es- tablishment is frequented by officers and men alike. There is a good Library and Reading Room in the Institution with a large Museum of Natural Curi- osities, contributed by the residents from time to time. Lectures ou Nautical subjects are occasion- ally delivered. There is a Temperance meeting held every week, and there is morning and evening family worship, attended voluntarily at the option of the boarders. Captain D. Tracey, Superin- tendent.

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COLLEGES, LIBRARIES, LITERARY INSTITUTIONS, &C.

American Institute of the City of New York .- 351 Broadway. Chartered May 2d, 1829. President, --- ; Vice Presidents, Robt. Lovett, Robert L. Pell, and George Bacon ; Recording Se- cretary, Henry Meigs; Corresponding Secretary and Agent, - -; Treasurer, Edward T. Back- house. Object : "To encourage and promote do- mestic industry in this State and the United States, in agriculture, commerce, manufactures, and the arts." Annual election of officers, second Thurs- day in May : stated monthly meetings, first Thurs- dan in each month. The institute has established an excellent practical library (see libraries,) and publishes its transactions in an annual volume. The rooms of the institute are open to inventors and designers to deposit models and plans, and of- fer a good medium of publicity. The institute holds an annual exhibition or fair, in the month of October, and distributes premiums in the several departments of art and science, including an agri- cultural and horticultural department. The total premiums awarded at the October fair, 1853, were: Gold medals 25, silver medals 184, silver cups 127, diplomas 321, books (vols.) 139. Cash premiums- Van Schaick premium, §20 and 3 bronze medals ; cattle premiums, $80).

American Institute Library, in the rooms of the Institute, 351 Broadway. This Library was organized in 1833. The Institute appropriated in that year $500, and again in 1834, $500 towards es- tablishing a Library. It was first opened in Liberty street near Broadway. In 1834 it was removed to No. 41 Cortlandt st. ; in 1836, to 187 Broadway ; in 1839 to the City Hall; in 1843 the Corporation gave a free lease of the rooms in the City Hall to the In- stitute for ten years. In 1848 the institute moved to the corner of Broadway and Anthony st. In 1849, the Institute having accumulated about $17,000, purchased the present building in Broadway. The Library room is 80 feet long by 25 wide, and well titted up. The reading room is supplied with all the city papers and the current periodicals ; also, with one newspaper from each of the principal cities in the United States. Up to the 11th April, 1850, the Institute contributed to the library $2,478 25: from shareholders, in money and books $2,494 29 : donations inade by members and others, valued at $1, 270 : further by institute $948 03 : in all $7,190 47. The Institute appropriated, on 5th March, Is51, $500 a year for five years to the library. The library has now 5,860 volumes. The members and shareholders have the privilege of taking books home from the library. The rooms are open daily, except Sundays and public holi- days, from 8 o'clock A. M. to 7} P. M., and until 10 o'clock during certain months. The works are on theology, arts. science. belles-lettres, geography, voyages and travels, history, biography, learned transactions, and selections of current literature. The library is, however, of a general practical character, and the Institute offers high inducements for public support. The terms of subscription are $5 admission fee, $2 annually, and $30 for life members.

Apprentices' Free Library .- 472} Broad- way. This Library was established by the "Gen- eral Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen." Open from 6 A. M. to 9 P. M., all through the year. It is managed by the Library Committee of the So- ciety. Ira Hutchinson, Chairman : Isaac Fryer, Treas .: Jantes Ward, Sec. : John C. Swan, Libra- rian. This library contains 18,637 vols. The read- ing rooms are very commodious, and tastefully ar- ranged. It is a very well ordered institution. The daily papers and periodicals are supplied to the Reading Rooms. There is an average of 1600 readers all through the year. $1 per annum is charged for privilege of taking home books. Mr. Demilt left a sum of $5,000 to this Library. The

Astor Free Library .- Lafayette place, near Astor place, between Broadway and Bowery. Opened to the public in 1853. Officers : President of the Board of Management, Washington Irving. Members of Board: William B. Astor, Daniel Lord, Joseph G. Cogswell, Samuel B. Ruggles, Charles Astor Bristed, John A. Dix, Rev. Thomas House Taylor, D. D., James Carson Brevoort, Dr. Abraham V. Williams, M. D .: and the Mayor of the city, ex-officio. This highly valuable and truly admirable institution was founded by the will of JOHN JACOB ASTOR, dated 22d of August, 1839, by which he bequeathed Four Hundred Thousand Dollars to establish and maintain it. This sum was to be payable in four annual instalments, dating from his death, which took place on the 29th March, 1848. The will named ten trustees, and empowered them to fill vacancies as they might arise. Mr Astor was a native of Germany. The legislature incorporated the trustees, by an act passed January 18th, 1849. The legislature re- quired the trustees not to exceed $75,000 in erect- ing the Library Building, and $120,000 in purchas- ing books and furniture; and to invest the residue, $20,500, as a fund for paying the value of the site of the building, maintaining and gradually increas- ing the library. The library edifice is of plain brick, raised upon a lower story of Ashler brown stone. The style is Byzantine. The front is im- pressive, from its deeply recessed arched doors and windows, mouldings, mullions, bold project- ing cornice corbels and entablature. all exquisitely wrought in rich brown stone. Opening the main entrance door, the Visitor ascends a beautiful flight of thirty-six broad marble steps, leading be- tween straight walls of solid mason work, to the second floor, the library proper. This room is one hundred feet in length, by sixty-four in width, and tifty in height. It is lighted by eighteen windows and a spacious sky-light. The number of vols. is now nearly eighty-thousand, classified on the plan of Brunet in his " Manuel de Libraire." The collec- tion may be enumerated nearly as follows :- Theology, 3,752 vols .: Jurisprudence, 3,107: Medi- cal Science, 1,751 : Natural Sciences, 4,249 : Chem- istry, Physics and Polytechnics, 500: Mathemat- ical Sciences, 5000 : Fine Arts, 2,500: (on 50 of these vols. $2,475 were expended,) Belles Lettres, 2,100 : Greek and Latin Literature, 3,100 : Spanish and Portuguese, 673; Italian, 1,761 : French, 3,101 : German, 1,400: Dutch, 166: Scandinavian, 809: Hungarian and Slavonic, 41 : General English Lit- erature, 3,400. The Historical Department is fuller than any other. It constitutes at least a fourth part of the whole Library. There is a large collec. tion in Geography, Maps and Miscellaneous works, amongst them a complete collection of English Parliamentary Journals, Debates and Reports, ex- ceeding 2000 vols. The hours of access to the Li- brary, are, during the winter, from 10 A. M., to 5 P. M., in summer from 10 A. M., to 6} P. M. It is in contemplation to devote the large room intended: as a lecture room, to a Mechanical Library, to be open in the evening and supplied with models, drawing materials, and all the requisite scientific apparatus. The cost of Books purchased up to 31st Dec. last, amounted to $91,513 83. Mr. Cogswell has presented the Library a donation of 5000 vols., embracing the whole department of Biblography. Mr. William B. Astor has also placed 2,500 pounds sterling to the pecuniary means of the Library, to be at the disposal of Mr. Cogswell, the Librarian, to purchase works embracing every branch of practical Industry and Mechanic arts. There has been also a considerable number of donations from various places, Paris, London, Vienna, Smithsonian Institute, &c. The Trustees expect to increase the Collection to 100,000 vols.

Columbia College .- At the foot of Park Pl ..

No. of vols. loaned to apprentices during the past near Broadway. Chartered 31st October, 1754, Rev. Dr. Knox, Chairman of the Board of Trus-

year was 37,814.

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tees : Wm. Betts, LL. D., Clerk of the Board : G. the Academy, consist of 232 Instruments. In the G. Van Wagenen, Treasurer. Commencement, the day after the fourth Wednesday in July. Va- cation from August 1 to first Monday in October. Charles King, LL. D, President : Rev. John McVickar, S. T. D., Professor of Philosophy, Poli- tical Economy, Rhetoric and Belles Lettres : Chas. Anthon, LL. D., Greek and Latin Languages and Literature, and Rector of the Grammar School : Richard McCulloh, Natural and Experimental Phi- losophy and Chemistry : Rev. Chas. W. Hackley, S. T. D., Mathematics and Astronomy : Henry Drieler, Jr. A. M., Adjunct Professor of the Greek and Latin Languages : Rev. H. I. Schmidt, A. M. German Language and Literature : Mariano Ve- lasquez de la Cadena, LL. B., Professor of the Spanish Language and Literature, Rev. Samuel H. Turner, D. D., Professor of the Hebrew Lan- guage : E. Felix Foresti, LL. B, Professor of the Italian Language and Literature : Felix G. Berteau, LL. B., French Language and Literature : John W. S. Hows, Elocution : Win. Betts, LL. D., Law ; W. A. Jones, Librarian ; S. R. Weeks, Assistant Librarian.

College of St. Francis Xavier .- 39 West Fifteenth st. Founded 1850. This institution is conducted by the religious society of the Je- suits. In the plan of the edifice every attention has been paid to comfort, cleanliness and ventila- tion. An enclosed court yard is reserved for re- creation. The course of instruction is classical and commercial. The classical embraces the Greek, Latin, English, French, and German lan- guages, poetry, rhetoric, history, mythology, ge- ography, arithmetic, mathematics, moral and natu- ral philosophy. The commercial comprises Eng- lish, French and German, poetry, rhetoric, history, mythology, geography, book-keeping, mathema- matics, moral and natural philosophy. There are, besides, two preparatory classes for beginners, in spelling, reading, writing, grammar, geography, French and arithmetic. The religious and moral education of the students is the leading object of the instructors. The academical year begins on the first Monday of September, and ends about the middle of July. It is divided into quarters of eleven weeks each. The terms for students over nine years of age, are $12 50 per quarter-for those under that age $7 50.

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The New York City directory, for 1854-1855, Part 211

Author: Rode, Charles R., 1825-1865; Doggett, John, 1809-1852 Publication date: 1851 Publisher: New York : Doggett & Rode Number of Pages: 1000

Author: Rode, Charles R., 1825-1865; Doggett, John, 1809-1852
Publication date: 1851
Publisher: New York : Doggett & Rode
Number of Pages: 1000