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taken possession of a room at the "Prescott House/ ' 

 agreeing to pay three dollars and a half a day for room 

 and board. Among my first visits was one to Harris New- 

 mark at his office on Broadway, and to Leopold Werthei- 

 mer and Meyer Newmark; and I received an invitation to 

 supper at Israel Fleischman's. A pouring rain accom- 

 panied me home. 



Friday, the eighth, I visited some friends of Lembcke's 

 to whom I wrote a long letter later. The evening found 

 me at the hospitable home of Harris Newmark, whose in- 

 vitation to dinner was an honor as well as a pleasure to 

 me. 



Saturday, the ninth, and the Sunday following, were 

 spent sight-seeing in New York and Brooklyn. The har- 

 bor-scenes, of course, do not differ from others except that 

 their view is more imposing, but the different fortifica- 

 tions, such as the Governors', Ellis' and Bedloe's Islands, 

 and those of Forts Richmond and Tompkins on Staten 

 Island, and Fort Hamilton at Long Island, attracted my 

 attention to no small degree. There is a danger-spot close 

 by, called "Hell-gate," a rock which the sailors fear, but 

 Americans will probably find a way to render it harmless 

 in time.* 



New York is said to have a population of over nine- 

 hundred thousand inhabitants. Places of amusements 

 are plentiful and in such varieties, as one can only find in 

 Sea-Ports, where care is taken to suit all nationalities and 

 their manifold tastes. As in most American cities the 

 rule seems to prevail in New York for all tradesmen to 

 congregate in certain quarters, thus tailors, hatters, shoe- 

 makers, tin-smiths, etc., are to be found, each in one cer- 

 tain neighborhood; and what is true of them is also true 

 of the different nationalities. While the Germans and 

 Americans in an overwhelming majority are everywhere, 

 the Italians, the French and others are more clannish and 

 seldom move out of their quarters. Two localities are 



*They did so, by disrupting it by means of dynamite, a few 

 years later. — Tr. 



