Excerpt from Fifty Years in Brooklyn: 1853-1903 T a dinner held in the Union League Club, Brooklyn, November 33d, i903, a number of gentlemen, familiar with the Brooklyn of 185) to 1862. Were requested to indicate in a sentence or two their most vivid impres sions of the Brooklyn of that period. The following is the record of their observations. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.