Another resort of the same type was the _Cafe des Mille Colonnes_, kept by the Italian, Palmo, on the west side of Broadway, near Duane Street.

It was apparently on a scale lavish for those days.

Long mirrors on the walls reflected, in an endless vista, the gilded columns that supported the ceiling.

The fortune accumulated by Palmo in the restaurant was lost in an attempt to introduce Italian opera into the United States.

Palmo's Opera House, in Chamber Street, between Centre Street and Broadway, later became Burton's Theatre.
Until 1844, New York was guarded against crime by the old "Leather-heads." This force patrolled the city by night, or that part of it known as the lamp district.