of the street, stood a pump that was famous for its cold water. It was called the Quaker meeting pump, and the citizens would travel long distances to get water from that pump. There was one store on what was called the Quaker block, that Peter used to frequent of an evening. In the rear of the store was a room, where on one warm summer night, some Quaker friends had met. They had a pitcher of this very cold water, and they had a decanter of very excellent brandy. It was about eight o'clock. One of the Quaker clerks of Peter was present. They heard his step, and at once out with the lights thinking that as soon as he discovered that there were no lights, he would go away. Not so. He deliberately took his seat, and kept it until eleven o'clock, and not one of the party dared move. Whether he sus

pected what was going on or not, they never knew. John S. Crary was one of the most prominent men in the old Presbyterian Church in Wall street.

In one of my chapters I alluded to Henry Toland, who died in this city on the 23d of January, 1863. He was in business in this city for about twenty years as a stock broker. I think a son was his partner, under the firm of Henry Toland & Son. When he died the elder

Toland was 78 years of age. I mentioned him as having been in Philadelphia, and largely engaged in the East India trade. He commenced business in that city as the partner of Thomas C. Rockhill, under the firm of Toland & Rockhill. The house did a large and successful dry goods jobbing trade in Market street. The partnership was dissolved in 1820, and each of the partners continued business under his own name. The trade of Mr Toland to the Western country was very

large, and he soon added to it a large East India and Mexican business. He was a finely educated, well-bred man, speaking Spanish and French fluently, and was so much esteemed by the Philadelphians, that they placed him at the head of the popular branch of their City Councils.

The East India business was greatly overdone about 1828, and Mr. Toland was obliged to fail. He made an honorable settlement with his creditors on the basis of fifty per cent. A few years afterward he came on to this city. His partner, Thomas E. Rockhill, was one of the best dry good merchants that ever did business in Philadelphia. His father was a farmer in New Jersey. Young Rockhill went to Philadelphia a poor lad, and became a clerk in the auction store of good Silas E. Weir, where his assiduity soon recommended him to favor, and upon arriving at manhood he was selected by Mr. Toland, who had capital, as a partner. His His popularity with Western merchants was very great, and his off-hand, prompt manner of doing business gave him a very high standing. After he separated from Mr. Toland, he continued the Western trade, particularly with Kentucky, with marked success, and in a few years his paper was rated and quoted as gilt edged a reputation kept up until his death, which occurred in March, 1855. He was one of the founders and a first Director of the Girard Bank; and his intelligence and fairness in all of his transactions, and intercourse with men of business, made his service and advice sought after upon all occasions when keen sagacity and singleness of purpose were valuable. He left a respectable fortune to his family.

CHAPTER XI.

The Stout family descended from the two old ship captains, Jacob and John, were numerous; but at this day the race is nearly extinct.

Captain Jacob Stout had several children. In 1798 he lived at Amboy, where he had the yellow fever. He was so near death that his family felt justified in ordering his coffin.

Jacob, Jr., was a son by his first wife; so was John. Catherine, his daughter, married Asher Marx, Oct. 8, 1808. They were married by Rev. Doctor Beach. Mr. Marx was a very eminent merchant for years, under the firm of Marx & Linsley, at No. 74 Queen street, where he kept for over twenty years, or until he died, in his house, No. 673 Broadway, in 1824. He married a second time, I think, a Miss Carroll. She lived many years after his death, and left several children.

Asher Marx was no connection of the great firm of Jacob & Phillip Mark. They were largely in the Holland trade as early as 1785, and, perhaps, before that. This house was German. They had a brother abroad, named Frederick N. Mark, who used to send largely of foreign goods to the New York house. Fred had a son named Lewis Mark, who was born 1st April, 1788. Jacob & Phillip kept together until 1793, when they dissolved

Phillip went with Joseph Strelitz, under the firm of Mark & Strelitz, until 1806, when I think Phillip Mark died or went abroad. They were at No. 205 Pearl. Joseph Strelitz kept on business in the store for many years, or until about 1825. In 1830 he was out of business, and lived at No. 168 Walker street, where I think he died.

Jacob Mark, after he left Phillip in 1793, took into partnership John Speyer, and the firm was Jacob Mark & Co. They kept their store at the corner of Stone and William streets, now occupied by Westray, Gibbes & Hardcastle.

In 1799 Jacob Mark & Co. failed, and out of their failure grew an immense lawsuit, that occupied our lawyers many years. James J. Roosevelt and John R. Murray sued the assignees of Mark & Speyer. The suit was in the Court of Chancery for twenty years, and was not decided by the Court of Errors until the month of February, 1820. The two suits amounted to $300,000. The Court of Errors affirmed the decrees of the Chancellor in each case. The assignees gained. the cause. John Speyer went into business at 27 Wall street, in 1804, and kept there until 1813. Jacob Mark, his partner, moved to 64 Greenwich street, as early as 1830, and was there as late as 1821. His store was at 65 Washington street, in the rear. I suppose at that time he received his money from the lawsuit, and then he went to Germany, I presume, for I hear no more of him or the house in New York. When I get interested in a house so old, that has so many romantic matters connected with it, I feel as anxious to know more as many of my readers do; and should this article fall

under the eyes of any one who has additional information, I trust that they will send it to me.

In the days of their prosperity, 1789, Jacob and Phillip Mark had the brig "Eliza," in the trade between this city and Amsterdam. They dealt mostly in dry goods, and kept a very heavy stock of Flanders bedticks, chintzes and calicoes, buckrams of all colors; muslins, plain, striped and sprigged; Flemish thread and sewing-silk, Dutch lace, kid gloves, white and colored shawls of all kinds, handkerchiefs of linen and cotton, combs of ivory and horn, Piermont water; oilcloths, black, green and figured; fine table-cloths of all sizes.

Mr. Asher Mark was an Israelite, but in order to marry Miss Stout, he was obliged to become a Christian, and renounce the religion of his forefathers. At that time, there was a prejudice against Israelites intermarrying with Christian girls. The first Mrs. Mark did not live a year. She died in child-birth. He married a second time, and then it was Miss Carroll. The issue of the last marriage was Henry Carroll Marx and three daughters. They lived up at 673 Broadway until Henry died, in 1848 or 1849. The mother died the next year. Young Harry Marx was known in this town for many years, as Dandy Marx. This name was given him by a set of young fellows who were envious of his superior accomplishments in the dressing art. Dandy surpassed all the beaux of his day. He dressed the best. He was the originator of the waxed moustache. At one time he was the only one who wore it in the city. Dandy's was the style precisely as it is now worn by the Emperor Napoleon.

All the fashionable tailors of the city were anxious