Two weeks vacation in New York, the nation's best summer resort . .Municipal Building we come to TrinityChurch, the oldest Kpis-copal church in NewYork. Organized in1697, it received a grantof land from the Crownthat makes the TrinityCorporation to-day avery wealthy body. Thechurch stands in one ofthe few graveyards re-maining in ManhattanIsland. This graveyardmust not be passed bythe visitor. It containsthe traditions of the bestthat have made NewYork what it is. Theright to be buried in Trinity churchyard exists for few to-day but theright is a patent of American nobility. Trinity Church sta
Two weeks vacation in New York, the nation's best summer resort . .Municipal Building we come to TrinityChurch, the oldest Kpis-copal church in NewYork. Organized in1697, it received a grantof land from the Crownthat makes the TrinityCorporation to-day avery wealthy body. Thechurch stands in one ofthe few graveyards re-maining in ManhattanIsland. This graveyardmust not be passed bythe visitor. It containsthe traditions of the bestthat have made NewYork what it is. Theright to be buried in Trinity churchyard exists for few to-day but theright is a patent of American nobility. Trinity Church stands at the head of what isprobably the Nations best known street,-—WallStreet, known the world over as our financial cen-ter, but, curiously enough, called Wall Streetfrom the wall that the early New York settlers builtto keep away the Indians. The New York StockExchange, the Sub-Treasury, the banking house ofJ. P. Morgan & Co. are all clustered about thecorners of Wall and Broad Streets, which is ablock away. Resuming our Broadway ramble, we note diago-n
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