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Title: History of New York City : embracing an outline sketch of events from 1609 to 1830, and a full account of its development from 1830 to 1884
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Lossing, Benson John, 1813-1891
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Publisher: New York : Perine Engraving and Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: The Durst Organization

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where he and his brothers, with their sons and nephews, accumulatedfortunes. Delmonicos to-day is the most extensive, magnificent,and expensive cafe on this continent. Delmonicos rival at first was Francis Guerin, a Frenchman, whoopened a cafe on Broadway, opposite the City Hotel. His shop-windowwas a most inviting temptation to the palate. There was pastry of allkinds, French confectionery in handsome boxes, bottles of cordials,and all kinds of fruit in their season. Inside, on along table, were dis-played tarts and confections in abundance. Sandwiches, sardines, andthe sweet things just mentioned were the staple offerings of the estab-lishment to its customers. It was never a real cafe, though a littlecoffee and chocolate Avere furnished in a small room at the rear of thestore ; and there, in summer, ice-cream might be procured. It wasnever entered by ladies, and it finally degenerated into a cosmopolitandrinking-saloon. As such it became very popular, and Guerin soonmade a fortune.
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FIRST DECADE, 1830-1840. 99 Delmonico was a generous, enterprising Italian, who started on afixed plan, and adhered to it; a sound, intelligent man, who aimed toplease both the eye and palate, and lived to find his fame establishedall over the United States, and even in Europe. Guerin was a penuri-ous Frenchman, without personal ambition, who accumulated an im-mense estate, but left no record of how he lived or how he died. It was at near the close of the Knickerbocker era in New York thatthe convenient omnibus was first introduced into the city by a shrewdConnecticut man (Humphrey Phelps), who afterward became quite anextensive map publisher in the metropolis. lie was the driver of hisown vehicle. The hint was instantly acted upon, and when the sys-tem was fairly inaugurated there were three rival lines, and Phelps leftthe field to his competitors. Before the advent of these vehicles citizenswho could not afford to own a coach depended on their own naturalpowers of locomotion. The fi

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