 But many of us can .remember when the face of Buffalo was rather rough, and parts of the year too dirty with mire for washing to do any good. Main Street was as broad as Mr. Ellicott laid it out, but its mud was said to have no bottom. I have seen teams...  Thomas' Buffalo City Directory for ... - Page 111864Full view - About this book
 | Buffalo Historical Society (Buffalo, N.Y.) - Buffalo (N.Y.) - 1879 - 474 pages
...lines of light stretching off into the surrounding darkness. This Square did not become the center of the city, because the State reserved a mile strip...too soft. Gradually our fine pavements for street and sidewalk have been extended — the best I know anywhere, — and now we have fifty-two miles of... | |
 | Buffalo Historical Society (Buffalo, N.Y.) - Buffalo (N.Y.) - 1880 - 480 pages
...of the year too dirty with mire for washing to do any good. Main Street was as broad as Mr. EHicott laid it out, but its mud was said to have no bottom....too soft. Gradually our fine pavements for street and sidewalk have been extended — the best I know anywhere, — and now we have fifty-two miles of... | |
 | George Washington Hosmer - 1882 - 392 pages
...unrivalled. There is enough irregularity to prevent tiresome monotony, and not enough to create confusion. Mr. Ellicott, I suppose, intended Niagara Square should...too soft. Gradually our fine pavements for street and sidewalk have been extended, the best I know anywhere, and now we have fifty-two miles of paved... | |
 | George Washington Hosmer - 1882 - 388 pages
...rescue the sinkers. I saw a young lady, one day, sloughed in the middle of Pearl Street, near Tuppcr, so that she could not step without leaving behind...the whole foot apparel; and there she stood, with a patieiicc peculiar to those clays, until 1 got boards and made a way for her poor feet. It was found,... | |
 | Josephus Nelson Larned - Buffalo (N.Y.) - 1911 - 370 pages
...from, he describes conditions of the streets that he had seen after that time. "Many of us," he wrote, "can remember when the face of Buffalo was rather...until I got boards and made a way for her poor feet." The first evidence of paving that the present writer has found appears in the Street Records for 1836,... | |
 | Charles Arthur Conant - Buffalo (N.Y.) - 1913 - 384 pages
...from, he describes conditions of the streets that he had seen after that time. "Many of us," he wrote, "can remember when the face of Buffalo was rather...until I got boards and made a way for her poor feet." The first evidence of paving that the present writer has found appears in the Street Records for 1836,... | |
 | Henry Wayland Hill - Buffalo (N.Y.) - 1923 - 586 pages
...state of the streets of Buffalo as he found them in 1836, when he first came into the city. He wrote : "Many of us can remember when the face of Buffalo...until I got boards and made a way for her poor feet." The first evidence of paving that appears in the city records was, it seems, in 1836, when assessment... | |
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