Forgotten Tales of New York

by Melanie Zimmer

Book Overview

Few New Yorkers remember the night when firemen, in tuxedos and top hats, were dragged from a ball to extinguish a Waterloo blaze, or the typographical error that reported Theodore Roosevelt taking a bath? instead of his presidential oath.? Still fewer remember Cephas Bennett, a missionary from Utica and printer of the first Burmese Bible, or H.L. Mencken's humorous article on the history of the bathtub, still quoted today as factual although entirely...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 159629678X
• ISBN13: 9781596296787
• Release Date: August 2009
• Publisher: History Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 4.9" x 6.9"