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Excerpt from Leslie's History of the Greater New York, Vol. 1: New York to the Consolidation Mass-meeting in Support of President Johnson - Successful Laying of Atlantic Cable - Trans-continental Railroads - Visits of an English and a Russian Prince Presidential Campaign of 1872 and Death of Horace Greeley - Career of Tweed The Tweed Ring and Its Overthrow - Two Black Fridays Orange Riots of 1870 and 1871 - Paid Fire Department Established - Creation of Board of Health - Deaths of Notable Journalists, Henry J. Raymond, James Gordon Bennett William Cullen Bryant - Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, and Society for the Suppression of ice - Sorosis - Notable Buildings - Churches Publio Schools - Normal College - Street Improvements. 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.