The Brooklyn Daily Eagle from Brooklyn, New York • Page 57

BROOKLYN EAGLE, JUNE 9, 1946 A 15, tthe benefit of the wounded that was the talk of the decade. Then in April, 1865, a curious expedition organized by two Brooklyn men set sail for Southern ports' A "When Lilacs Last in the Door yard Bloomed" and "Oh, Captain, My Captain." The new Academy of Music was jammed with Brooklynltes for a memorial service for Abraham Lin ed on the Know-Nothing ticket after squelching a rumor that he was Irish-born a national origin frowned upon by the bigots of the day. In 1856 a thousand persons thronged to Reservoir Hill, now Prospect Park, to see the Nassau Water Works opened. Meanwhile, the fugitive slave famous Church of the Pilgrims land Plymouth Church, assisting. Whitman Lincoln' Pa Too soon the flags of Brooklyn flew at half-mast again.

A Brooklyn poet and former editor of the Brooklyn Eagle, Walti Whitman, mournlne the nasslngi i.From Early Town City and Now Greatest Borough ContlnoM From Fill 14A were the infamous Brooklyn wine. Jj Cried out the incorporators: It was in vain that "our Heights on the steamer Oceanus. At Charleston the party heard of Lee's surrender and it was at Fort Sumter when the historic flag was restored, the Rev. Dr. 3 coln.

In 1866 cholera swept the city again and the following Winter Continued on Ptfe ISA law had been passed and in of the wartime President and 1I86O the Wide Awakes marched R. S. Storrs and the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, ministers of the' Great Emancipator, wrote 5V riisnlav tVinir invlttnff rharmn tn 0 the man of wealth and taste if he finds in the village some disgusting circumstance to counterbalance these charms." The trustees did their best. They passed sanitary regulations.

They Issued fines for work on the Sabbath. They did "tt something about the streets, es- nclatltr Canla nnJ lTIlra Cta through Brooklyn streets with oilcloth capes and torches of sperm oil, calling for the election of Lincoln. They Answered Lincoln' Call Again Brooklynltes awaited the coming of war with mixed feelings and again they proved their patriotism beyond question. Brooklyn was a Democratic city and its leading newspaper and loudest spokesman, the Brooklyn Eagle, founded In 1841, was a Democratic organ at the outset. To obviate the slightest doubt of its loyalty, the Eagle changed editors.

The Mayor called for 75,000 volunteers the day Lincoln asked for men and the recruiting tents stood in City Hall, now Borough Hall, Park. The first regiment, 1,000 strong, went away only 200 came home again to a great demonstration. At Packer Institute, Southern girls boarding at the school which were main thoroughfares dm and in deplorable condition. Leaders Work for the Poor Doubtless It was these same public-spirited men who, aroused by the conditions of the poor in Uie unusually severe Winter of GALA DAY The Brooklyn Bridge, "Eighth Wonder of the World," is opened on May 24, 1883, in the presence of the President, the Governor and a host of other notables. For 300 Years Brooklyn Has Prospered Under Our American System of Private Enterprise, lefs Guard It Well for the Future For 25 yeors the Carpenter Container Corporation has grown from a tmall individual enterprise to a national industry.

Herbert L. Carpenter, its President, was the pioneer and inventor of the first cylindrical fibre drums. We have made progress during times of peace, and our Brooklyn plant received five Army-Navy Awards for its outstanding production of war materials. Let us all join as a team of labor, management and government to bring Brooklyn ond the country back to production and prosperity and unite in our fight against disastrous inflation. CARPENTER CONTAINER CORPORATION 147 Forty-firit Street, Brooklyn 32, New York Carpenter Container Plants at BROOKLYN BUFFALO PHILADILPHIA CHICAGO 1817, fotmed the Brooklyn mane Society.

Kovices at phi-X lanthropy and lacking the mod Classical Hall on Washington St. or the Brooklyn Lyceum nearby, at Washington and Concord Sts. Then, between Dec. 31, 1854, and Jan. 1, 1855, Brooklyn the city jail on Raymond St was laid.

Present-day opinion to the contrary, it was thought a masterpiece of modern penal architecture. In 1843 gas was introduced to the city and a public- Brooklyn today, founded a temperance society. Young Ladies Institute Founded On Hicks St. the Collegiate Institute for Young Ladies, predecessor of Packer, was founded. There was an Apprentice's Library, numerous ern understanding which recently made the venerable Brooklyn Bureau of Charities change its name to the Brooklyn Bureau cockily showed palmetto badges, spiruea urooKiymte enaoweanumpea overnignt irom seventn in retaliation tho TnrtViprn for Social Service, they dissolved the struggling Brooklyn City to third place among the cities girls wore red, white and blue.

Hospital and Brooklyn Institute. 'of the union, consolidating with The principal decreed no badges Chief event of that year was a the city of Williamsburg and the'chnnid hp shown anri a mnh an. the society the following year. a Hill Hezekiah Pierrepont was town of Bushwick. Loarpii mitsinV tim crhnni i manainff a rpaI estate "lssi.ruus nre wnicn Durnea Se churches, the post office disastrous fire which burned K' -v aDDr0Driate to lwo newspaper Duimings.

meir enoris, iney aeciaea. --r houses with beautiful gardens. Town meetings were being, A th. George Hall, who had been defeated for re-election as a temperance candidate In the first city of Brooklyn, again became a first mayor, this time of the consolidated cities of Brooklyn and Williamsburg. He waa elect- manding it to show its colors.

It did the Stars and For five bitter years the war dragged on. Brooklyn sons left, to return no more. Brooklyn women rolled bandages, raised money, held a sanitary fair fori In the 1850s, while Jenny Lind sang at Castle Garden and crowds gaped at the daring Lola Montez, Brooklynltes were going to Eames and Putnam's piano were the rage. The Brook held overtime, meanwhile, to protest storage of powder at Fort Greene and the perennial ferry grievance. When Fulton lyn Bank was established and the Long Island Insurance Com pany.

obtained hit franchise, it had And all the while there were been agreed that the barges and wav of diseagei choiera and horse boats were to remain withyelow fever Th VMT Uved lvvu i hovels. And in the small shops, ifcni u.mi3 wcic yciimncu and annrent ce ahored charge four cents. Then the over bench and forge by the light of a tallow candle. At this period, thanks to a fire which destroyed the Flat- jbush courthouse and jail, Brook lyn became the county seat, with Gabriel Furman (after company substituted a horse boat for one of the steam boats, kept the higher fare and added "Insult to injury by drwerting the boat frequently to pick up cotton, hides, cattle or horses, delaying passengers interminably, offending their nostrils and frequently forcing them to pay double fares. In addition, the Winter was so bad that floating Ice made for incessant delays.

whom Furman St. Is named) and John Dikeman its leading legal lights. The State Supreme Court began to hold semi-annual sessions at the Circuit Court on Cranberry St. and the village of It was while talking about the Brooklyn, feeling its oats, applied for a city charter in 1834 ferry and as with the weather, scorning the expected opposition doing very little about it that 3 4 uH CONFIDENCE Ub Tr ViT II 7K fl Ir fr3 A 5 SP of New York City which greed one day in 1825 and deliberated ily wanted to embrace Kings County within its limits. On April 8, 1834, the first city of Brooklyn was established consisting of nine wards.

Its having a supper of oysters at public expense. With notable self-restraint they decided it would not only be "Impolitic" but By 1834, the community of 4,000 whttss and slaves of 1816 was a village of 18,000 spread over a square mile of territory. first mayor was George Hall, a warm-hearted, civic-minded cit izen whose good name has come down to this day. He was brought up in Flatbush, studied at Erasmus Hall and followed i It was growing rich from the benefits of the new canal sys his father's trade of painter and glazier. One contemporary ac count describes him as stopping in at a poor home near the slip, finding the inhabitants felled tem and domestic commerce.

The rural aspect of Brooklyn was changing, with warehouses arising along the shore and factories on Water and Front Sts. Balch-Prlce, furriers and women's specialists, founded in 1832, were doing a thriving business. Swains bought rings for their girls at William Wise Son, with cholera and falling to with a woman's tenderness to perform the functions of a nurse. Two of his successors distin guished themselves by flatly refusing to have their pictures jewelers, and by 1837 T. A.

and painted at public expense to be hung in the City Hall, declaring L. F. Newman were conducting their drvsroods store. 1 here were the practice wasteful. The painting Hall sat for hangs in Borough President Cashmore's office today, a thing of beauty and card, comb, sealskin, pocket- book, white lead, glassmaking and carpet factories and rope-walks and tanneries.

The navy yard lent a cosmopolitan air to Brooklyn. There was action about lighting streets, an oxcart source of pride to Brooklyn. Civic-mindedness flourished and so did morality. From 1786 to As Brooklyn approaches its 300th Anniversary as an organized community, it is fitting that we look back on its colorful history and outstanding progress over the centuries. Confidence has been the keynote in Brooklyn since the first handful of hardy souls made it their home and, to us, it is confidence that makes Brooklyn great From the time of the earliest grant of lands in Kings County, through Indian skirmishes, the Revolution, Civil and World Wars, Brooklyn hag stood firm, paying its own way withstanding losses and gracefully acknowledging gains confident of its rightful "place in the sun." Progress cannot fail where confidence lives; and our great community are countless signs of industrial, social and cultural accomplishments of which all Brooklynites may well be proud.

Our beautiful homes and churches, fine schools and stores, sound institutions, famous baseball team, busy waterfront, well-kept parka and buildings are distinct signs of Brooklyn's character. Kings County Trust Company is proud of the part it has played in cultivating the confidence of the fine people of Brooklyn for 57 years since 1889 when our doors were first opened. We take this opportunity to congratulate Brooklyn on this Tercentenary. 1843, only one man was hanged in the whole of Kings County. was hired to remove garbage and one A.

Van Sinderin, whose namesake is prominent in I'm Thejr Liked Raymond St Jail In 1836 the cornerstore for TRUSTEES OFFICERS- KERWIN H. FULTON JOHN V. JEWELL MICHAEL C. O'BRIEN THOMAS H. ROULSTON WILLIAM J.

WASON, JR. CHESTER A. ALLEN PHILIP A. BENSON ROBERT E. BLUM ARTHUR W.

CLEMENT ROBERT A. DRYSDALE, JR. WILLIAM J. WASON, Present CHESTER A. ALLEN, Vice President CARL J.

MEHLDAU, Vice President ALBERT I. TABOR, Secretary WILLIAM N. BOYLE, Asst. Secretary RICHARD C. CUMBERS, Asst.

Secretary LEONARD D. O'BRIEN, Asst. Secretary WILLIAM TUNIS, Comptroller an eld Btcc6yn ittUMu-lion, fiA cu UoA efafi in tk thfcy and faadifion of ch4 SclcupA, ups fed a tAonp ten4s of lo cMuysnA, fileSent and fufute, fyis pladty Join tAs 0BucAtyn $aps in cnminemolaitip Ms SOOlA ann4Uay As fatf foUnal pomlntnsn of (Ait gffte gtealpl gUly eft 'gBuxdeyn a goal utel uxnfA cu un-A'u'np yea HINRY J. DAVINPORT, Preside NELSON H. WRAY KINGS COUNTY TRUST COMPANY CAPITAL $500,000.00 SURPLUS $7,000,000.00 342 FULTON STREET (Near Borough Hall) BROOKLYN, N.

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