Forgotten Tales of New York
Zimmer, Melanie / Hudson, Marshall
Few New Yorkers remember the night when firemen, in tuxedos and top hats, were dragged from a ball to extinguish at Waterloo blaze, or the typographical error that reported Theodore Roosevelt taking a 'bath' instead of his presidential 'oath.' Still fewer remember Cephas Bennett, a missionary from Utica and printer of the first Burmese Bible, or H.L. Mencken's humorous article on the history of the bathtub, still quoted today as factual althou...