Document: Petition to City of Hoboken re floating bath for Hoboken, Sept. 5th, 1855.

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Name/Title

Document: Petition to City of Hoboken re floating bath for Hoboken, Sept. 5th, 1855.

Entry/Object ID

2010.010.0078

Scope and Content

Petition of sundry residents of N.Y. City & Hoboken for aid in procuring privilege to attach floating bath to Hoboken. Sept. 5th, 1855. Presented to Mayor [C.V. Clickener] and City Council. Four page holographic document. Text is in notes. The state of Hoboken's water supply and public facilities made this floating bath (also for recreational swimming) desirable. There was such a bath later in the century. Note that the addresses for Hoboken residents are old street numbers.

Acquisition

Accession

2010.010

Source or Donor

Maier, Robert

Acquisition Method

Gift

Credit Line

Gift of Robert Maier.

Archive Details

Date(s) of Creation

1855 - 1855

Archive Notes

Date(s) Created: 1855 Date(s): 1855-1855

Condition

Overall Condition

Good

General Notes

Note

Notes: Archives 2010.010.0078 Petition of sundry residents of N.Y.City & Hoboken for aid in procuring privilege to attach floating bath, to Hoboken - ____________________ Presented Sept. 5th, 1855. Committee on Wharves & Ferries To the [Con'f], the Mayor, Alderman, and Commonally of the City of Hoboken. Gentlemen, The undersigned respectfully, and earnestly solicit Your [hon'b] body, for their influence with the "Hoboken Improvement Company", for the use of from 12 to 18 feet of space on the shore, near the City, for the purpose of erecting thereon an Entrance to a Floating Bath, which your petitioners are desiring of having built, for the enjoyment of their families & other Citizens, as well as Strangers visiting Hoboken for recreation. At present there is no suit- able establishment at Hoboken, or at a convenient point of New York where families may be accommodated, and have the privilege of learning the useful art of Swimming, [as] also the enjoying one of the most healthful luxuries of life. And your petitioners believe that a suitable Bathing Establishment properly conducted will - while contributing to the health and enjoyment of the Community add an attraction of no ordinary kind to the place; should the object and purposes of your petitioners meet with your approval, they humbly, but most earnestly solicit the aid of your honorable body in that behalf; and as in duty bound will ever pray. Hoboken Sept. 5th 1855 William Koblanz Washington [ ] John McGavisk Hudson St. Thomas Mickens Washington St. GN Hickox New York Rbt. Rupsill Franklin Terrace John Ireland No. 5 Hudson Place William Robinson 134 Pearl St. New York T. Bruce Hudson Street, Hoboken Edward [SpierGasser] 145 Washington St. P.W. Schmidt(?) 90 First St. [ ] Consmiller 140 Washington St. J. Selemann(?) 117 Washington Street Robert Levine 99 Washington St James L. Davis 85 & 87 Cedar St. New York [Clatch ] Michaels Trinity Building N Y T. L. Gans 17 Irving Place Hoboken Elias Thomas West 20th St. New York William C. Arthur Hoboken Edward N. Mead 604 Washington St. N.Y. John A. Martin (Washington House) Hoboken Status: OK Status By: dw Status Date: 2010-04-05