Ostensibly he plied a coastwise trade mostly between New York and New Orleans.

But the same chronicler to whom we owe the significant expression: "In those days a man was looked upon as highly unfortunate if he had not a vessel which he could put to profitable use," summed the matter up when he said: "The Captain went wherever the Spanish flag covered the largest amount of gold." At the northeast corner of Washington Square and Fifth Avenue is the James Boorman house, now, I believe, the residence of Mr.Eugene Delano.

Helen W.Henderson, in "A Loiterer in New York," alludes to certain letters about old New York written by Mr.Boorman's niece.
"She writes," says Miss Henderson, "of her sister having been sent to boarding school at Miss Green's, No.

1 Fifth Avenue, and of how she used to comfort herself, in her home-sickness for the family, at Scarborough-on-the-Hudson, by looking out of the side windows of her prison at her uncle, 'walking in his flower-garden in the rear of his house on Washington Square!'" When James Boorman built his house, it was all open country behind it.

Mr.Boorman built also the houses Nos.