A tour around New York, and My summer acre; being the recreations of MrFelix Oldboy . t St. Marks Church was known asBowery Village for the first quarter of the presentcentury, and even later. On an old map of this neighborhood I find the con-tinuation of Stuyvesant Street beyond the Bowery(now Fourth Avenue) set down as Art Street, and Iwonder if this was identical with Astor Place as indi-cated by some later maps. Upon Art Street, a littleeast of the Bowery, stood the stone house which wasonce the residence of Charlotte Temple. Her storyseems to have made an impression which ambitiousand gif
A tour around New York, and My summer acre; being the recreations of MrFelix Oldboy . t St. Marks Church was known asBowery Village for the first quarter of the presentcentury, and even later. On an old map of this neighborhood I find the con-tinuation of Stuyvesant Street beyond the Bowery(now Fourth Avenue) set down as Art Street, and Iwonder if this was identical with Astor Place as indi-cated by some later maps. Upon Art Street, a littleeast of the Bowery, stood the stone house which wasonce the residence of Charlotte Temple. Her storyseems to have made an impression which ambitiousand gifted men have failed to create. Her grave inTrinity church-yard excites more interest than those of 92 A TOUR AROUND NEW YORK Alexander Hamilton or gallant Captain Lawrence, ofthe Chesapeake. The other day, as I was passing theentrance of that church-yard, a quiet-voiced youngman, on whose arm a shy and pretty bride was leaning,asked me if I could point out the grave of CharlotteTemple, and they informed me confidentially that theywere on a tour from Philadelphia. As if a gray mus-. GRAVE OF CHARLOTTE TEMPLE tache like Felix Oldboy could not tell at a glancethat the two blushing innocents were taking theirfirst weeks journey in life together, all daisies andwhipped syllabub and sunshine, to which gold anddiamonds were but dross. A few moments after-wards I passed and saw them forming part of a group A TOUR AROUND NEW YORK 93 that were gazing sadly at the slab sunk in the turfthat told of a short life sadly ended, and, if I mistakenot, there was a tear hanging to the eyelids of thegentle bride. Not far from this neighborhood was another historicchurch, which is fated to go the way of its predeces-sors of the same creed in the down-town old Reformed Dutch Church, which has so longbeen a landmark in Lafayette Place, at Fourth Street,is now razed to the ground. It has been somewhatlonesome since the departure of St. BartholomewsChurch, on the opposite side, and a block
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