Garret Hobart, American politician mb-code AAMK001304 showing Fleet Ditch

showing Fleet Ditch

the first President of the United States

by a Society of Gardeners (1730)

Ludgate Circus

This was the year also of Jack the Ripper and the failure of the police to find the guilty man led to them being less than flattering coverage in the newspapers of the day

Garret Hobart, American politician mb-code AAMK001304 showing Fleet DitchGarret Hobart, American politician, 1898. Hobart (1844 1899) was the 24th Vice President of the United States, serving under President William McKinley from 1897 until his death. A print from Our Country in War and Relations with All Nations, by Murat Halstead, The United Subscription Book Publishers of America, 1898.