A tour around New York, and My summer acre; being the recreations of MrFelix Oldboy . RILEY S FIFTH WARD HOTEL curiosities were a two-headed calf eloquently stuffed,the pig that butted a man off the bridge, one of theHawaiian clubs that dashed out the brains of CaptainCook, Tecumsehs rifle, a pipe that General Jacksonhad smoked, and a large number of genuine relics of A TOUR AROUND NEW YORK 19. STATUE OF THE EARL OFCHATHAM the colonial days of New was a connoisseur in relics,and had good reason to congratu-late himself on his collection. Heliked to have appreciative visitors,and his
A tour around New York, and My summer acre; being the recreations of MrFelix Oldboy . RILEY S FIFTH WARD HOTEL curiosities were a two-headed calf eloquently stuffed,the pig that butted a man off the bridge, one of theHawaiian clubs that dashed out the brains of CaptainCook, Tecumsehs rifle, a pipe that General Jacksonhad smoked, and a large number of genuine relics of A TOUR AROUND NEW YORK 19. STATUE OF THE EARL OFCHATHAM the colonial days of New was a connoisseur in relics,and had good reason to congratu-late himself on his collection. Heliked to have appreciative visitors,and his hotel was a model of re-spectability. Outside of the basement dooron Franklin Street, surrounded bya little iron railing through whichsome grasses struggled feebly forexistence, stood a relic of the pastwhich I could never bear to passwithout reading the inscription onit once again. It had once beena marble statue of William Pitt,Earl of Chatham, placed by thegrateful people of New York on the steps of the RoyalExchange ten years before the war for independencebroke out, and dashed down and mutilated by theBritish soldiery in revenge for the destruction of thestatue of King George on the Bowling Green. Thehead and one arm of the statue were broken off at thetime, and the torso was wheeled away to the corpora-tion yard, where it lay for a quarter of a centuryamong the rubbish, until Mr.
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