New York in fiction . ^.«>^.TniiiwniwiFriiMinniimiiiiinn wm\ MRS. LEROY S HOUSE, GKAMERCY PAKK.— F. HOPKINSONsmiths WEST. 142 WEW YORK IN FICTION It was in the drawing-room of this housethat Tristrem Varick drove the needle-. ROVAL WELDON S HOxME, GRAMEUCY PARK.—ED<iAR SALTUSS TRISTKEM VARICK. like Roman knife home to his hostsheart. The quarters occupied by Colonel Car- 143 NEW YORK IN FICTION ter of Cartersville cliimig that period ofhis life when he was in New York tryingto interest the agents of English syn-dicates in the railroad scheme, the con-summation of which would have g
New York in fiction . ^.«>^.TniiiwniwiFriiMinniimiiiiinn wm\ MRS. LEROY S HOUSE, GKAMERCY PAKK.— F. HOPKINSONsmiths WEST. 142 WEW YORK IN FICTION It was in the drawing-room of this housethat Tristrem Varick drove the needle-. ROVAL WELDON S HOxME, GRAMEUCY PARK.—ED<iAR SALTUSS TRISTKEM VARICK. like Roman knife home to his hostsheart. The quarters occupied by Colonel Car- 143 NEW YORK IN FICTION ter of Cartersville cliimig that period ofhis life when he was in New York tryingto interest the agents of English syn-dicates in the railroad scheme, the con-summation of which would have givenmany of the very first Virginian familieseasy access to the Atlantic Coast, weredescribed by F. Hopkinson Smith as be-ing in an old-fashioned, partly fur-nished, two-story house, nearly a centuryold, which crouched down behind thelarger and more modern dwelling front-ing on the street, designated in the bookas Bedford Place. The spot was withina stones throw of the tall clock tower ofthe Jefferson Market. The street en-trance to this curious abode was markedby a swinging wooden gate, opening intoa narrow tunnel, which dodged under thefront house. It was an uncanny sort ofpassageway, mouldy and wet from a longneglected le
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