Identifier: valentinesmanual15brow (find matches)
Title: Valentine's manual of old New York
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Brown, Henry Collins, 1862-1961
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Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Valentine's Manual Inc.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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nant idea should be that of seagoing commerce, the founders of India Houses builded better than they knew. They had a robust faith in the revival of the American Merchant Marine, and it was quickly demonstrated that theirfaith was, in sober truth, the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. It must be said that it was by feeling, rather than by sight, that they were assured of the coming of the new day. The re-crudescence of the old spirit of maritime adventure was felt like a stirring in the blood; a quickening of the pulse of enterprise; a new capacity to respond to the influences that had gone to the making of a glorious past, and whichhad only to reassert themselves to be contributory to amore glorious future. In India House the scene was set in preparation for the approaching event; in India House was spoken the prologue to the swelling act; from the great organization domiciled in India House emanated the wise counsel and sympathetic co-operation which re- ( 270 )
Page XIII The Clipper ship Fidelio of the Black Ball Line in color page 272.
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page 272 - Fidelio 1B48
Another of the great Black Ball lines famous fliers. The opening of the Erie Canal in 1825 gave great impetus to the packet ships and several lines were started, to compete with the Black Ball—the Red Cross, the Collins, the State, the Swallow Tail, the Dramatic.
Blow high, blow low, one of the Black Ball liners sailed from New York to Liverpool the first and sixteenth of every month. These dates for years were known as steamer days throughout the whole country.—Collection of Mrs. C. H. Marshall.
OF OLD NEW YORK moved some serious perils from the coming to life of ournew merchant fleet. And so, when the shipyards of the United States became resonant with the din of preparation for a new mercantile marine, the men who had longed and labored for just such a consummation, were prone to rub their eyes and wonder if it was not too good to be true. Nowhere is it realized more clearly than in India House that there will be something of the miraculous in the apparition of the myriad hulls

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