■^8 Staten Island Association of Arts and Sciences 



with the object of "booming" the locaHty. The illustrations in- 

 clude pictures of a large number of private residences, the most 

 important industrial plants, some of the business buildings, a few 

 views of general interest, and less than the usual number of " rep- 

 resentative citizens." The museum building of the Staten Island 

 Association of Arts and Sciences is one of the subjects of illus- 

 tration, although it is not included among " the points of interest 

 at St. George," which are stated to be " the Borough Hall . . ., 

 the Carnegie Library, the Staten Island Club, the Curtis High 

 School, and the Staten Island Academy." 



The illustrations are unusually good, and these features of the 

 publication will cause it to have an historical value in the future. 

 In the meantime we may assume that it has a certain commercial 

 value, as otherwise it would not have been issued under the aus- 

 pices of the institution responsible for its publication. 



A. H. 



A Pamphlet on Staten Island Twenty-five Years Ago^ 



This is a pamphlet of forty-six pages and sixteen full-page 

 woodcuts. It was prepared and issued at the time when Erastus 

 Wiman was developing various transportation, real estate and 

 amusement enterprises, and it is essentially an advertisement for 

 these, with historical references incidentally included. To the 

 rising generation the description of the casino, baseball grounds 

 and electric fountain at St. George, will sound strange : " Three 

 stories in height, over 300 feet long and 50 wide, this immense 

 Casino cost $35,000.00 to build. . . . Beneath these galleries . . . 

 is located a handsomely fitted up dining room . . . besides other 



* Picturesque | Staten Island | the | Gateway to New York Harbor | in 

 Pen and Pencil | Price Ten Cents | Published by | The Staten Island 

 Amusement Co. | Copyright, 1886, by the Staten Island Amusement Co. | 

 The H. Bartlett Novelty Co., N. Y. | The Litho. Eng. & Ptg. Co. 34 & 3^ 

 North Moore St. N. Y. 



[Not the little booklet issued in 1889 by Frank M. Harrington under the 

 same title " Picturesque Staten Island." i2mo, pp. 64. 12 plates and 

 maps. — Ed.] 



