(62) Page 329.—Messrs. John K. Beekman and John Jacob Astor were joint proprietors of the Park Theatre. The former, from his love of theatricals, was familiarly known as “Theatre Jack.”
(63) Page 329.—Isaac Jennings, was a well-known dealer in old clothes, and George Saunders was a fashionable wig-maker.
(64) Page 330.—The President, James Monroe, had a short time previously made a tour through the Middle and Eastern States.
(65) Page 330.—Henry Meigs, when a member of Congress, had advocated the admission of Missouri into the Union, on Southern terms.
(66) Page 331.—William Reynolds, the proprietor of a celebrated English ale-house in Thames Street, in the rear of the City Hotel. He pronounced Mr. Halleck the only gentleman that ever came into his house, “because he never interferes with my fire.”
(67) Page 333.—Mr. Byrne, a dancer from Paris, was performing at the Park Theatre.
(68) Page 333.—Mr. Turner and Mr. Magenis were public lecturers in the rooms of the City Hotel.
(69) Page 334.—James W. Wallack and Mrs. Bartley were great favorites with the theatre-goers of that day. The melologue referred to in the poem was written for Mrs. B. by Thomes Moore.
(70) Page 335.—Doctor Horne and Doctor Gideon de Angelis, well-known advertising physicians. The latter’s Four-herb Pills were announced as a panacea for all the diseases that flesh is heir to.
(71) Page 338.—Captain Ogden Creighton, an officer in the British service, and a brother of the late Rev. Dr. Creighton, of Tarrytown.
(72) Page 342.—John R. Livingston.—A wealthy gentleman, who dispensed liberal hospitalities both at his city residence and at his country-seat on the Hudson. Among the notabilities whom he entertained at the latter place was the Prince of Saxe–Weimar, who visited the United States in 1825–’26. Mr. Livingston was a brother of the Chancellor, and at one time a member of the New-York Assembly.
(73) Page 342.—Thomas A. Cooper.—The celebrated actor, and for a time manager of the Park Theatre. His daughter married a son of President Tyler, who gave him an appointment in the New-York Custom-House, which he held for several years.
