CHRONOLOGY : POLITICAL AND SOCIAL CHANGE : 1865-1876
 

1875 Harlem River, thence by River St., Eighth Ave, 110th St., Nintb
Sept. Ave., 53d St., Siith Ave., Amity St., South Fifth Ave., West Broad-
3 way. College Place, Murray St., Cburch St., and New Church St.
to Morris St., and thence through private property and Bowling
Green to Beaver St., thence by Beaver and Pearl Sts., the New
Bowery, Division St., Allen St., First Ave., 23d St., Second Ave,
and River St. to the first-named line at the corner ot River St. and
Eighth Ave.; also a connecting line dong Chambera St. and
Chatham St. and a branch on Slith Ave. from 53d to 59th Sts.
The commission also remedied the vitd detect in the Gilbert Co.'s
charter by wbich it was committed to an Impracticable mode ot
construction.

To the N. Y. Elevated Co. it confirmed the Ninth Ave. route,
which the company had acquired by purchase from the Weat Side
and Yonkera Railway Co., and also conferred upon it the route from
Battery Place to Soutli Ferry, and from South Ferry hy way ot
Pearl St., the Bowery, and Third Ave., to the Hariem River, with
hranchca to all the railroad depots and terries.

The work ot constructing the roads was soon afterwards begun,
but it was much hampered by the opposition of property owners
and surface railroad companies.—J?fp. of theN. Y. C. Comrs. of
Rapid Transit, S 3, 1875; Rep. ofthe Special Cam. on R. J?., Ap¬
pointed . . . to Investigate Alleged Abuses In the Management
ofR. R. (Albany, 1880); Statutes and Docs. Affedlng the Elevated
Railways in the Cily ofN. Y. (1866-1882). See 1876, and Mr 13,
1876.
Oct.         The Eagle Theatre at Siith Ave. and 33d St. is opened.—

18   'Btoiin,Hist. ofthe N.Y. Stage,!!!: 225dseq. SeeF20,i878.
24         The evangelistic work ot Moody and Sankey in the U. S. is be¬

gun, in Brooklyn at the skating rink on Clarmont Ave. The
meetings closed on Nov. 19, after which tbe evangeliata visited
Philaddphia. The first meeting in New York was held on Feb.
7, 1876 (j. !■.).—Chapman, Life and Work of D. L. Moody,
■58-63-
Nov.         In this raonth, Chickering Hall, on the north-west corner of

— Fifth Ave, and 18th St., was opened,—Brown, II: 591-92; L. M.
R. K,, III: 983. G. B. Poat and F. C. Murray were the architects.
—Rep; Dept. ot Bldgs., In City Record, UI: 679, 1105, 1629;
IV; 107. It was altered for busineas purposes in 1S93, and demol¬
ished in 1902.—L, M. R. K., Ill; 983.
10         The Manhattan Railway Co. is organized, with a capital stock

ot $2,000,000. With the consent ot the rapid transit commission,
it adopted aubatantiaily the routes occupied by the N. Y. Elevated
and the Gilbert Elevated Cos., ita object being to meet the public
aae either, or both, of these failed to complete ita
 

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system,—"The Story of the Manhattan Railway," by Russdl   Nov.
Sage, in Railroad ,Men, XVI, No. 4; Statutes and Docs. Affedlng    10
the Elevated Railways In the City ofN. Y. (1866-1882).    In 1879
(q. V; S 30), the Manhattan Co. leased the lines of the other two
devated companies.

Vice-Pres. Henry Wilson dies at Washington ot apoplexy.— 22
N. Y. Times, N 23 and 24, 1875. On Nov. 26, the funeral .cortege
left Washington tor Baltiraore, and, after making stops there and at
Philaddphia, arrived at the Cortlandt St. ferry landing on the
dternoon of Nov. 27. While church bells tolled, the hearse was
escorted, by civil authorities and military organizations, to the
Grand Centrd Depot, where the body was placed on a train bound
for Boston. The Une ot march was crowded with people, and build¬
ings were decorated with mourning and with flags at hdf mast. The
vice-president was buried in DeU Park Cemetery (Natick, Maaa.)
on Dec. i.—lbid, N 25-D 2, 1875. See dso iUus. and account In
Harper's Weekly,XIX.   IO20.

Wra. B. Astor dies at his residence, No. 372 Fifth Ave. He was   24
buried on Nov. 27 in the family vault in Trinity Cemetery, after
funeral services at Trinity Chapel, No. 15. W. 25th St.—JV. Y.
Times, N 25, 27, and 28, 1875.

Wm. M. Tweed escapes from Ludlow St. jail.-JV. Y. Tribune,    Dec.
D 6, 1875. In 1876, he was arrested at Vigo, Spain, and returned to     4
New York.—J6i^., S 9, 1876; Harper's Weekly, XX: 821. He died
in this jail on April 12, 1878 (q.v.).

Tbe board ot aldermen adopts the foUowing resolutions:             27

"Resolved, That In commemoration of the Important event in
the history of our country, and aa an appropriate inauguration of
the centennid year, the Commissioner of PuhUc Works cause the
nationd standard to be displayed from sunrise to sunset on every
public building in this City on Jan. 1, 1876; that the owners and
occupants ot private buildings, the proprietors ot hotels, places of
and other public placea controlled by Individuala, and
nasters ot vessels in the harbor, be and they are hereby
to display tbeir flags on that day; and be it further

"Resolved, In order, if possible, that this commemoration may
be generd in every portion of this eitended country from the
Atlantic to the Pacific and from the St. Lawrence to the Rio Grande,
it ia hereby respectfully auggeated and most earnestly recommended
that the newspaper press of this City cauae this recommendation to
be published in or tdegraphed to all parts ot the country, in the hope
that our patriotic people may enter Into the spirit ot the occasion,
and thereby, while honoring our national emblem. Inaugurate, in
the most appropriate manner, the centennid year of the Dedara¬
tion of American Independence."—JV. Y. Times, D 28, 1875.