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Showing posts with label Michael F Lyons. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Michael F Lyons. Show all posts
Sunday, May 4, 2014
"Baron" Charles Baker de Bowery – Funeral Service – St. Leo’s Mortuary Chapel NYC – 16 January 1904
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“The Baron” of the Bowery Charles Baker – Irish Huguenot – Dead – Mourned by Friends - 11 Jan 1904
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The factory
at Catherine and Grinnell streets was Mr. Hirsch’s largest cigar factory in Key
West. The cigar industry experienced a number of prolonged labor strikes in the
early 1890s that were encouraged by Spanish agents from Cuba in an effort to
disrupt cigar production and donations by Cuban émigré cigar makers to support
Jose Marti’s revolutionary plans. These devastating strikes and disruptions in
production convinced Mr. Hirsch and two Key West manufacturers, Celestino
Palacio and Charles Baker, to consolidate, establishing the Celestino Palacio
Trust. It allowed them to collectively purchase bulk tobacco at a lower price
while consolidating shipping and distribution of cigars. Unfortunately, Mr.
Hirsch died in 1901 and the Trust was dissolved.
Indiana Digital Historic Newspaper Program
The
Indianapolis journal, Volume 54, Number 17, 17 January 1904 https://newspapers.library.in.gov/cgi-bin/indiana?a=d&d=IJ19040117.1.23#
“I have but one friend left. He is Michael F. Lyons.”
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Saturday, May 3, 2014
Famous Bowery Restaurant Man “Mike Lyons” Is Dead At 78 – Dec 14 1921 Obit
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| Traditional Corned Beef and Cabbage Platter |
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by Google)
The
following item we clipped from the Times Star of December 14 1921:
FAMOUS
BOWERY RESTAURANT MAN IS DEAD AT 78.
“Mike” Lyons
Place Noted for Generous Portions.
New York - Michael F Lyons 78 died in his Brooklyn home. Those who knew lower Manhattan
between 1872 and 1903 will become reminiscent over the announcement.
“Mike” Lyons
made it a matter of principle never to serve a customer a potato smaller than
Mike's fist and Lyons was equipped with a hand that the ordinary platter couldn’t
hide He used to provide his clients with breaded veal cutlets and one of those
Goliathic potatoes for 20 cents and he grew passing rich doing it.
His
restaurant was at 259 Bowery. It was back in 1885 that it saw its greatest
popularity and it was in that era that it boasted its most famous patronage.
Henry Ward Beecher was there so often that he was missed if two or three days
lapsed between his visits. Chester A. Arthur not only was one of Mike's steady
customers but was wont to take with him his political train to talk over coming
campaigns surrounded by Mike Lyons wondrous corned beef and cabbage. Richard
Croker and Jacob Patterson were as familiar to the place as Mike Lyons himself.
Theodore
Tilton helped make it famous with his verse and Tom Nast, Homer Davenport and
equally renowned cartoonists drew for Mike's restaurant better cartoons than
any of their newspaper employers ever bought. Theodore Roosevelt when police
commissioner became a regular.
Lyons
restaurant languished in its latter years but in its heyday it was celebrated
as the Delmonico's of the Bowery. It was a great establishment a quarter of a
pie for a nickel and for 25 cents you got as much corned beef and cabbage as
anyone could eat.
NEW YEAR'S DAY DINNER [held by] M.F.LYONS DINING ROOM [at]
"259 BOWERY, NEW YORK" (REST;) (1906)
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