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Updated: June 30, 2025
"I'll try, at any rate." He ran across Dick in City-Hall Park. That young gentleman was engaged in pitching pennies with a brother professional. "I say, Dick, I want to speak to you a minute," said Frank. "All right! Go ahead!" "I've lost my place." Dick whistled. "Got sacked, have you?" he asked. "Yes; but I might have stayed." "Why didn't you?"
The keys that were to be made use of in this journey, to gain us a passage through many a tower, stair, and postern, were in the hands of the authorities, whose subordinates we never failed to coax into good humor. But a more important, and in one sense more fruitful, place for us, was the city-hall, named from the Romans. In its lower vault-like rooms we liked but too well to lose ourselves.
If each generation were allowed and expected to build its own houses, that single change, comparatively unimportant in itself, would imply almost every reform which society is now suffering for. I doubt whether even our public edifices our capitols, state-houses, court-houses, city-hall, and churches, ought to be built of such permanent materials as stone or brick.
There is gold enough in each one, to make the company rich. Now this way! Directly behind the city-hall lies the Zucker Canal. There live stiff-necked people, who dine off of silver every day. Notice the street!" Then he led him back to the square, and continued "The streets here all lead to the quay. Do you know it? Have you seen the warehouses? Filled to the very roof!
Consequently the recruiting parties which were raised, were in no mood to peril their lives in defence of the flag of England. Indeed it is said that one party of the recruits marched to the Battery and deliberately spiked several of the guns, opposite the City-hall. It was a most singular revolution of the wheel of fortune. Captain Manning had but fifty soldiers within the fort.
The fate of the city was sealed! and when he again crossed the great square and saw the city-hall with its proud, gable-crowned central building, and the shops in the lower floor crammed with wares, he laughed savagely. Hans Eitelfritz had seen him in the distance, and shouted: "A pretty little house, three stories high. And how the broad windows, between the pillars in the side wings, glitter!"
The conflagration spread with rapidity, house after house, street after street, taking fire. Nearly a thousand buildings, in the most splendid and wealthy quarter of the city, were soon in a blaze, and multitudes of human beings were burned with them. In the City-hall many were consumed, while others, leaped from the windows to renew the combat below.
"With more than thoughtless effrontery," says Doctor Francis, "they fanned the embers of discontent." Hamilton, Rufus King, and other speakers, occupied the balcony of the city-hall. The former, with sweet and persuasive tones, had uttered conciliatory words, and spoken in favor of adjournment, when the meeting became a good deal disturbed by conflicting sentiments and stormy passions.
The drums then beat, and proclamation went forth through the city that all burghers, without any distinction municipal guards and all were to repair forthwith to the city-hall, and deposit their arms.
The crowd was not great, because the entrances to the city-hall were well garrisoned; and I fortunately reached at once the iron balustrades above. Now the chief personages ascended past me, while their followers remained behind in the lower arched passages; and I could observe them on the thrice-broken stairs from all sides, and at last quite close. Finally both their majesties came up.
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