Chapter XIV: Road Houses 445

Prejudice Against Dancing--Balls--Debates and Lectures--The
City Hotel--Niblo's Garden--Road Houses--Trotting
Matches--Upper Third Avenue--Suburban Drives and
Taverns--Lafayette's Visit--Clubs--End of City Hotel--Era
of Hotels

INDEX 481

Illustrations

Page

"Beer Was the Dutchman's Drink" 5

The City Tavern from the Justin Dancker's View, 1650 15

The White Horse Tavern 18

The Damen House 19

Water Gate, Foot of Wall Street 24

"They Had Discovered the Toothsome Terrapin" 31

"The Man of the Knight of St. George" 38

The Earl of Bellomont 56

"As Genuine Pirates as Ever Sailed the Sea" 57

Captain Tew 59

The Bayard Punch Bowl 74

Viscount Cornbury 78

Old Tankard 80

The Black Horse Tavern 90

Rip Van Dam 93

Governor Cosby 94

Lewis Morris 95

Fac-Simile News Item from the New York Weekly Journal, November
5, 1733 99

Andrew Hamilton 102

The Ball at the Black Horse 107

"Which Were All Drank in Bumpers" 109

"The Violin and Flute, by 'Private Hands'" 111

House at 122 William Street 117

The Royal Exchange 136

Sir Danvers Osborne, Governor of New York 139

"The Drumbeat Was Constantly Heard in the Streets" 145

Sir Charles Hardy, Governor of New York 147

Colonel Peter Schuyler 150

The Press Gang 153

The Bull's Head Tavern 157

The Roger Morris House 160

The Blue Bell Tavern 161

The Old Time Landlord 169

"Hard Drinking Prevailed" 171

Good Old Madeira 173

A Racing Trophy 180

Bull Baiting, From an Old Advertisement 184

The Bowling Green, From Lyne's Map 186

William Alexander, Earl of Stirling 192

House Built by Cornelis Steenwyck 197

The De Lancey House 201

Liberty Boys 214

At Ranelagh 220

Corner of Broadway and Murray Street, 1816 235

Captain A. McDougall 241

Merchants' Coffee House and Coffee House Slip 254

Marinus Willett Stopping the Transfer of Arms 274

Baroness De Riedesel 298

In the Coffee House 318

"Gambling With Cards Was Pretty General" 339

Simmons' Tavern 342

Fac-Simile Receipt of Sam Fraunces, as Washington's Steward 343

The Bowery Theatre 348

Tontine Coffee House 356

Old Sleigh 365

The City Hotel 373

Martling's Tavern 376

Belvedere Club House 382

Fac-Simile Bill of the City Hotel, 1807 384

Anthelme Brillât-Savarin 387

White Conduit House 398

Robert R. Livingston 404

Washington Hall 409

Tammany Hall 411

Fraunces' Tavern About 1830 412

The Great Naval Dinner at the City Hotel, December 29, 1812 416

Commodore Stephen Decatur 418

Commodore Isaac Hull 420

Captain James Lawrence 421

The Shakespeare Tavern 429

"As Choice Spirits as Ever Supped at the Turk's Head" 431

De Witt Clinton 438

Contoit's Garden 454

Niblo's Garden 457

Reynolds' Beer House 459

Cato's House 461

The Old Hazzard House 462

Burnham's Mansion House 464

Fitz-Greene Halleck 470

J. Fenimore Cooper 472

Bunker's Mansion House 477