A tour around New York, and My summer acre; being the recreations of MrFelix Oldboy . barracksand stole up along the Hudson to Fort night a terrible fire broke out by the river-sidehere, and swept up Broadway, carrying away TrinityChurch and nearly every other building as far as It was a terrible conflagration, and lit upeverything almost as clear as day. The houses werenearly all of wood, and by daybreak more than a thirdof the city was in ashes. The brick houses on Broad-way, opposite the Bowling Green, were all that wereleft standing, and there Lord Howe made his h
A tour around New York, and My summer acre; being the recreations of MrFelix Oldboy . barracksand stole up along the Hudson to Fort night a terrible fire broke out by the river-sidehere, and swept up Broadway, carrying away TrinityChurch and nearly every other building as far as It was a terrible conflagration, and lit upeverything almost as clear as day. The houses werenearly all of wood, and by daybreak more than a thirdof the city was in ashes. The brick houses on Broad-way, opposite the Bowling Green, were all that wereleft standing, and there Lord Howe made his head-quarters. They are fine houses still, with marblemantel-pieces, and huge mirrors, and great mahogany A TOUR AROUND NEW YORK doors. If you go into the second one some time theywill show you the room that Andre occupied for hisoffice when he was adjutant-general, and you will seea slit in the door into which I used to slip his de-spatches. I was sorry for Andre, but he knew what hewas about, and took his chances. In the first housethey used to have grand balls, and Lord Howe and. TRINITY CHURCHThe first edifice. Destroyed in the fire of 1776 A TOUR AROUND NEW YORK 169 Lord Percy and the rest of the noblemen who werefighting against your forefathers, my boy, held a sortof colonial court there which seemed to bewitch theroyalist belles. Yes, and they were beautiful, verybeautiful—but all dust and ashes now, my boy. After the war was ended they swept away thebatteries—for there was more than one—and the bar-racks. Then they built a fine large mansion of brickwhere they had stood. It faced the Bowling Green,and looked up Broadway. The view from the windowswas superb, for the ground was rising, and a long, lowflight of steps led up to the main entrance. Washing-ton was here then as President, and this was called theGovernment House, and was intended as his the Capitol was removed to Philadelphia, and thento Washington, and Washington never occupied ourWhite Hou
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