. The greatest highway in the world; historical, industrial and descriptive information of the towns, cities and country passed through between New York and Chicago via the New York Central Lines .. . lofty tower, the home of Helen Gould Sheppard, the philan-thropist, a daughter of Jay Gould, is passed on the right justbefore reaching Tarrytown. 24y2 M. TARRYTOWN, Pop. 5,807. (Train 51 passes9:08; No. 3, 9:27; No. 41, 1:41; No. 25, 3:23; No. 19, 6: No. 6 passes 8:40; No. 26, 9:00; No. 16, 3:18; , 4:43.) Situated on a sloping hill that rises to a consider-able height above the
. The greatest highway in the world; historical, industrial and descriptive information of the towns, cities and country passed through between New York and Chicago via the New York Central Lines .. . lofty tower, the home of Helen Gould Sheppard, the philan-thropist, a daughter of Jay Gould, is passed on the right justbefore reaching Tarrytown. 24y2 M. TARRYTOWN, Pop. 5,807. (Train 51 passes9:08; No. 3, 9:27; No. 41, 1:41; No. 25, 3:23; No. 19, 6: No. 6 passes 8:40; No. 26, 9:00; No. 16, 3:18; , 4:43.) Situated on a sloping hill that rises to a consider-able height above the Tappan Zee, historic Tarrytown standson the site of an Indian village, Alipoonk (place of elms),burned by the Dutch in 1644. Irving explains that the house-wives of the countrvside gave the town its name because their 20 THE GREATEST HIGHWAY IN THE WORLD husbands were inclined to linger at the village tavern, butliteral minded historians think it was more likely that thename came from Tarwen dorp or Tarwetown, wheat were perhaps a dozen Dutch families here in 1680 whenFrederick Philipse acquired title to Philipse Manor, severalthousand acres, in what is now Westchester county. Just. Washington IrvingWashington Irving (1783-1859) was intended for a legal profession, but althoughcalled to the bar preferred to amuse himself with literary ventures. The first ofthese, with the exception of the satirical miscellany, Salmagundi, was the de-lightful Knickerbocker History of New York, wherein the pedantry of loralantiquaries is laughed at, and the solidDutch burgher established as a definitecomedy type. When the commercial house established by his father and run by his brother began to ,go under in 1815, Irving went to England to look into theaffairs of the Liverpool house, and as it was soon necessary to declare bankn ptcy,his misfortune forced him to write for his living. Returning to America in !832after 17 years absence, he found his name a household word. The only inter
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