Show OLD NEW YORK CITY how te tt c great american amerlean Mtr metropolis apolis has a been built up to and fiffi fiftieth th anniversary soon to cc be celebrated points to bo be re m nen hen the to hundred and fit bieth anniversary of new borks municipal I 1 irth Is celebrated in lit 1663 population bears ears later 1800 60 pol illation in 1903 3 2 WO OUO in there were patha paths trails and a few poor roads on ue ae island now there are allos of streets of 0 which miles arc are dived in place of at the little school near where the new custom bouse house hlll stand there are hundreds cf of aduca lional and the city gov has voted for public aduca tion for the year more than 20 OO 00 nhen the fitt mayor took loftice the little colnul with ith few exceptions was poor today to day the taxable tiou in new lork ork is 1 and the personal estates are valued at there Is 1 also in new york perty valt ert ed at over which Is exempt froma taxation there were eo public conveyances in the first mayor a day while the net earnings of the transportation lines of today to day in the borough ot of man alan hattan aro are about a year these lines carried last year ibs passengers the various lines in Brook brooken ln ai I 1 long ung island carried about passengers it I 1 the Bugged suggett loDS lors of R fulton cut ting are carrid carri d out there will be a celebration in new lok ok o k in a short under that nam ram on beb feb 2 IC 5 hen nhen the amsterdam chamber of the indies indle company decided that the inhabitants be allowed to select thel own magistrates the place was at that time known as a new Amsted amate dam sm but out of the datch settlement vt hleb had been thus revar rewarded ded for its reas ress grew the city of new york and the act of 0 feb reb 2 1663 1653 nas aa really the first step tn in its independent municipal life peter who nas as governor at the time thought the measure too liberal and gave e that he be would make all municipal appointments alp ai ointments ard that ht h i 0 0 exil at vz 0 fa 1 41 M A irita Q r bal r X r ar PF broadway near city hall would not allow his authority to curtailed curtal ltd the dutch rule in new amsterdam was cut short in september 1664 when gov stuyvesant and his bolow ere surrendered to richard the representative of the duke ot of york ind and governor ot of the province the tig wa was raised over the fort which r rl tved ved the name of for fort james and the name ot of new amster dam wag as replaced by new york on the sunday following the chaplain of the english forca forces read the english episcopal service at the usual morn in worship the first native born mayor of new york was stephen van cortlandt who was appointed to the office in 1677 lie waa as thirtyfour thirty tour four years old when he became mayor and with his wife who was the beautiful gertrude schuyler of albany lived in grand stylo style in a one house louse at pearl and dread streets at cherry street and franklin V P q aj FIX I 1 DIVA r 4 M W 0 41 S 4 1 14 A lk A it grace church time which will interest all the lation but especial 7 1 so 10 the citizens whose ancestors were among the early settlers ett lers of manhattan island the plan is 1 to murk mark with appropriate ceremony the anniversary ut of the municipal grovern ment of the city of new now york now tork york aid dad not r ally rally square which 1 Is sow now under ane brook lyn bridge stood the houze house which tri i occupied when he wit vai its inaugurated atel as the fleet first president b 61 the republic and where the new custom house ie is now being erected too fort ami aate dem ich wai was later the Will roid dence denee of at gov Cil clinton nolL sew york tribute |