Show WAS ONCE WASTE LAND present site of great bank in now maw york city so described in kings grant in the office of george F baker in the first national bank of new york city there hangs on the wall the original patent from james II 11 king of 0 england dated february 4 1685 tor for the land on which the first national bank now stands therein designated as a waste land outside the city gate ot of new york it was issued to one thom thornas dougan lite late governor and now admirall 0 of new york there Is attached a small sketch of the property showing wall street with its fence and the city gate through which leads broad way when one considers that this waste land now represents one of t the be mot most valuable spots in the world one realizes hat changes a little morp corp than two centuries have wrought in bew ew york tork city what would thomas dougan have aid if he had been told that on this waste land would one day stand a blinking banking institution returning its stockholders over 80 per par cent a year wall street journal |