392 HISTORY OF BROOKLYN.

the contagion was brought in the ship Concordia, Captain Coffin, on board of which vessel the first case and death occurred. But in the long and very able report of Dr. Rogers, the Health officer of the Board of Health of New York, which was published in December, after the subsidence of the disease, the epidemic in Brooklyn was clearly traced to purely local causes.1

1810. October 11, about 10 o’clock, P. M., a fire broke out in a building occupied by a Mr. Lacour, for the manufacture of crucibles, and extended to some stores belonging to Joshua Sands, between Old and New Ferries, which were filled with cotton and hides. A floating engine was brought into service at this fire.

Brooklyn, at this time, was well supplied with private schools. One Whitney kept school opposite the Post-office; there was also the Brooklyn Select Academy, taught by Mr. John Mabon, and having as trustees, Messrs. Joshua Sands, S. Sackett, and H.I. Feltus. Platt Kennedy’s scholars were advertised to hold an exhibition on Christmas Eve, at the Ina of Benjamin Smith, a large stone building on the east side of the road, opposite the old “Corporation House.”

Recreation and refreshments were provided for the public, by the proprietor of “Columbian Garden,” and Mr. Green at the “Military Garden.”2

The industrial interests of Brooklyn were at this time represented by I. Harmer’s Floor Cloth Manufactory, ChrictonÕs Cotton Good Manufactory, employing eight to ten looms, and three or four extensive ropewalks furnishing work to over one hundred persons.

he Long Island Star, of February 14th, 1811, contains a petition to the Legislature for the establishment of a Bank in Brooklyn. The great inconvenience of crossing the ferry in bad weather, on days when notes fall due, is particularly dwelt on by the petitioners. There was at this time only one dry goods store in town, which was kept by Abraham Remsen, on the corner of Old Ferry (now Fulton)

1 See Star, for Dec. 14 and 21st, 1809. Furman’s Hist., Notes in the first Brooklyn Directory, of 1822, gives the number who died in Brooklyn from the fever as “twentynine, between the 12th of July and the 10th of September.”

2 This Garden stood on the site now occupied by the Kings County Court House, at the junction of Joralemon and Fulton streets. It was pulled down in 1862.