A tour around New York, and My summer acre; being the recreations of MrFelix Oldboy . ll was acity Alderman in 1832, and was one of a committeeappointed during the prevalence of the cholera tovisit Quarantine and report. Within a fortnight allof his colleagues had died, and Alderman Hall at-tributed his escape to the salubrity of his countryresidence at Harlem. His house still stands on aknoll just west of Fifth Avenue, a spacious edifice,but much dilapidated. That is the minor key running through most of thedescriptions of old haunts of history in our city—stately, spacious, but dilapidated!
A tour around New York, and My summer acre; being the recreations of MrFelix Oldboy . ll was acity Alderman in 1832, and was one of a committeeappointed during the prevalence of the cholera tovisit Quarantine and report. Within a fortnight allof his colleagues had died, and Alderman Hall at-tributed his escape to the salubrity of his countryresidence at Harlem. His house still stands on aknoll just west of Fifth Avenue, a spacious edifice,but much dilapidated. That is the minor key running through most of thedescriptions of old haunts of history in our city—stately, spacious, but dilapidated! I used to think ofthis years ago when I looked at the shabby ruin ofthe superb old Beekman mansion which used to standjust west of First Avenue, between Fifty-first and Fifty-second windows lookedout on Turtle Bay;its garden, green-house, and lawnswere models of per-fection in their prime;its interior was ele-gant and left nothingto be desired. HereBaroness Riedeselhad her home after her husband was captured at Sara-toga. In one of its rooms Andr6, the spy, spent his. THE BEEKMAN HOUSE A TOUR AROUND NEW YORK 241 last night in New York before going out to meet dis-honor. Here Lord Howe passed sentence of deathon Nathan Hale, the martyr spy of the Revolution,in whose honor New York has not erected the monu-ment he deserves. Yet with all these associationsI was not sorry to find the Beekman house torndown, for I had felt that the ghosts of its former oc-cupants, if they were permitted to return to earth,would annihilate themselves with grief over its decay.
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