A tour around New York, and My summer acre; being the recreations of MrFelix Oldboy . iticians in those days. It was the KingsArms Tavern, on the west side of Broadway, betweenwhat were then Crown Street and Little Prince, orCedar and Liberty streets of the present day. OldJohnny Battin has often told me of its glories andpointed out its locality, for he, like the rest of theBritish ofificers of his day, knew all about the myste-ries of its tap-room, and was full of traditions thatconnected Howe and Clinton and Cornwallis with itsjunketings. An antiquated gray-stone building whoselower windows
A tour around New York, and My summer acre; being the recreations of MrFelix Oldboy . iticians in those days. It was the KingsArms Tavern, on the west side of Broadway, betweenwhat were then Crown Street and Little Prince, orCedar and Liberty streets of the present day. OldJohnny Battin has often told me of its glories andpointed out its locality, for he, like the rest of theBritish ofificers of his day, knew all about the myste-ries of its tap-room, and was full of traditions thatconnected Howe and Clinton and Cornwallis with itsjunketings. An antiquated gray-stone building whoselower windows reached down to the broad piazza infront, it had no buildings intervening between it andthe Hudson, which then came nearly up to Green-wich Street. Flower-gardens filled the rear, while thefront was shaded by a row of magnificent top was a spacious cupola, which gave a fine viewfrom Lady Warrens country-seat at Greenwich toStaten Island, and from Paulus Hook to the Breuckelen Heights. ,. It was up the spacious entrance tothe Kings Arms that Lord Cornbury rode upon his. i A TOUR AROUND NEW YORK 257 well-trained horse, and astonished the landlord by de-manding a stirrup-cup in the saddle. A spacious bar-room furnished with little boxes screened by silkencurtains, a still more spacious dining-room furnishedwith that greater rarity of a century ago, a carpet, aspacious piazza on which the beaux of the periodlounged and ogled the pretty women that passed—this was the spot that cradled early meetings of theCommittee of Fifty, which set the ball of the Revolu-tion rolling in New York and began the successful re-bellion against crown and king. These pictures of the past came back to me oneafternoon as the cars of the elevated railway whirledme past our one statue of a modern merchant of NewYork, and set me thinking of King Georges brokencrown, and two staid old business men of Gothamwho had so far forgotten dollars and cents as to placetheir necks voluntarily in a halter
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