A tour around New York, and My summer acre; being the recreations of MrFelix Oldboy . nd thefloor on which a future King of England had danceda minuet with the fairest of New Yorks rebel daugh-ters ; but it was inexpressibly sad to witness the ad-vance of squalor, and I was not sorry Avhen the build-ing was torn down. The Rutgers homestead occupied,when I was a boy, the block bounded by Clinton, Rut-gers, Madison, and Cherry streets, a relic of the greatRutgers farm. Colonel Rutgers was a model had no coal strikes in his day, for they used nocoal then, but once in a while they had
A tour around New York, and My summer acre; being the recreations of MrFelix Oldboy . nd thefloor on which a future King of England had danceda minuet with the fairest of New Yorks rebel daugh-ters ; but it was inexpressibly sad to witness the ad-vance of squalor, and I was not sorry Avhen the build-ing was torn down. The Rutgers homestead occupied,when I was a boy, the block bounded by Clinton, Rut-gers, Madison, and Cherry streets, a relic of the greatRutgers farm. Colonel Rutgers was a model had no coal strikes in his day, for they used nocoal then, but once in a while they had a fuel , during the 20s, the city was ice-bound, and nowood could be brought in across the rivers, and thesuffering of the poor was terrible for a while. ColonelRutgers distributed his supply among his poor neigh-bors ; and when this was exhausted, even tore downhis fences and cut down his trees for their use. It wasfrom the limb of a tree in his orchard that Capt. Na-than Hale, the martyr spy of the Revolution, is be-lieved to have been hanged. But even here tradition. is at fault; for oneauthority stoutlymaintains that hewas hanged on Beek-man Hill, near theBeekman mansion,and another insiststhat the place of hisexecution was theCommons, the pres-ent City Hall weight of testi-mony favors the Rut-I gers orchard. At anyrate, he was sacrificedon our citys soil, andwe seem to have for-gotten it. Andre has his monument; Hale has I turn into the Bowery from Chatham Square Iam once more reminded of the sad story of Charlotte DOORWAY IN THE HALL OF THEWALTON HOUSE 128 A TOUR AROUND NEW YORK Temple. On the north side of Pell Street, just westof the Bowery, are two frame houses painted one of these the unfortunate girl, whose sorrowsset a whole generation weeping, ended her life—mur-dered by a British officer to whom she had trustinglygiven her heart. The stone house in Art Street inwhich she had lived was torn down long ago. Theframe house that
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