The Brooklyn And Long Island Fair For The Benefit Of The United States Sanitary Commission February 22d 1864

Author : UNKNOWN. AUTHOR
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781332056453
Total Pages : 200 pages
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Download or read book History of the Brooklyn and Long Island Fair, February 22, 1864 (Classic Reprint) written by UNKNOWN. AUTHOR and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-28 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from History of the Brooklyn and Long Island Fair, February 22, 1864 Nevertheless, Brooklyn was but a suburb, overshadowed by her mighty neighbor. Travellers, foreign and native, in vast numbers, visited the chief commercial city of our country on errands of business or pleasure; but if not called to Brooklyn through personal claims of kindred or friendship, rarely sought it except to visit the great. Navy Yard of the nation, or the most beautiful Cemetery in the world; severally so placed, on what was once her northern and what is still her southern boundary, that either could be reached while the City itself was practically ignored. The visitor came and went, having seen little or nothing of it except its unattractive outskirts, and with no longing awakened to see more. Meanwhile she had gathered to herself Public Schools, which had grown to rank among the best of the kind in the land; private or corporate institutions of education for either sex, which in their entire equipment, management, and efficiency would do honor to any community; a body of clergy, as a whole, and for their numbers not surpassed in character and gifts by those of any of our cities; great institutions of charity, too largely dependent, however, on annual contributions rather than permanent endowments; courses of lectures, delivered by the ablest men of the country, or by savans from abroad, travelling or resident in America; a well appointed Philharmonic Society, amply patronised and appreciated; an Academy of Music, the beauty and value of which the Fair has made to be more widely and palpably known; a Mercantile Library, which for seven years has met, in a measure, which we could wish vastly greater, an inevitable want of every progressive community: and an Historical Society, recently formed for the City and Island, which has started on its course with remarkable vigor. And vet withal, Brooklyn, till the Fair, had no status before the country beyond that of a remarkably quiet suburban town, where, after a hard day's labor, weary men found comfortable lodging places till the next day's work began. An account of the inception, prospects, and results of the Great Fair just closed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.