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Abbott, who had been the principal of the Spingler Institute on Union Square, conducted a school there. Then A.T. Stewart, the famous merchant, bought the site. He found brown-stone and left marble. "Sarsaparilla" Townsend's pride and folly was tumbled to the ground, carted away, and in its place there went up the Italian palace that is still a familiar memory to most New Yorkers.
Stretches of the Avenue Fourteenth to Madison Square From Brevoort to Spingler The Story of Sir Peter Warren The First City Hospital The Paternoster Row of New-York Former Homes and Birthplaces Lower Fifth Avenue Residents in the Fifties Blocks of Departed Glories The Centre of the Universe Madison Square in Colonial Days Franconi's Hippodrome The Opening of the Fifth Avenue Hotel A Thanksgiving Day of the Nineties Monuments of the Square The Garden, the Presbyterian Church, and the Metropolitan Tower The Face of the Clock.
"Good! good!" cried Captain Spingler, who desires the Irish vote for country clerk; "that's fus' rate." "You see what I'm drivin at, don't you, Cap?" I said. "Certainly." "Well," I ansered, "I'm very glad you do, becaus I don't." This made the Finians larf, and they said, "Walk up onto the speaker's platform sir."
After he died his widow continued to occupy the house until 1788, when the executors of Smith's estate, among whom was James Duane, Mayor of the city, sold the property for about four thousand seven hundred dollars to Henry Spingler. Spingler lived in the house until his death in 1813, and used the land, comprising about twenty-two acres, as a market garden farm. Spingler's granddaughter, Mrs.
When they are upon scientific subjects they may sometimes be illustrated by experiments, more or less imposing, according to the ingenuity of the teacher, the capacity of the older scholars to assist him in the preparations, or the means and facilities at his command. The engraving represents a room at the Spingler Institute at New York.
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