What to see in America . ty yearsof age, in a duel in November, 1801, just where the greatstatesman himself was killed a few years later. The quarrelgrew out of a Fourth of July speech by Eacker in praise ofBurr and reflecting on Alexander Hamilton. Near by is the Equitable Building, the largest office build-ing in the world. On its forty floors are 2300 offices, whichare the business home of 15,000 people. The EquitableBuilding that preceded this one on the same site was de-stroyed by a great fire in January, 1912. Washington Irving was born at 131 William Street, in atwo-story house between
What to see in America . ty yearsof age, in a duel in November, 1801, just where the greatstatesman himself was killed a few years later. The quarrelgrew out of a Fourth of July speech by Eacker in praise ofBurr and reflecting on Alexander Hamilton. Near by is the Equitable Building, the largest office build-ing in the world. On its forty floors are 2300 offices, whichare the business home of 15,000 people. The EquitableBuilding that preceded this one on the same site was de-stroyed by a great fire in January, 1912. Washington Irving was born at 131 William Street, in atwo-story house between John and Fulton streets in 1783. Hewas the youngest of eleven children. One of New Yorks really handsome older buildings isthe City Hall, begun in 1803, and completed nine years the site was chosen, a person would have been con-sidered a wild dreamer who expected the city to spreadfarther than that uptown. It therefore faced the city lyingbelow it, and the back toward the open country was con- New York City 69. WASHiNGroN Arch at Lower End ofFifth Avenue structed of sandstone, in-stead of marble like therest, and left plain andunornamented. In 1890this sandstone was paintedwhite. When the Stamp Actwas to go into operationon November 1, 1765, asecret association knownas the Sons of Liberty assembled that evening with torchlights on the Common, as City Hall Park was then called, and hung on a gallows two stuffed figures, one of the devil and the other of the British official who had the stamps in his charge. The next June they erected a flagpole on the Common. This and several successive poles were cut down by the soldiers, and finally, in Jan-uary, 1770, when the pole was not only cut down but sawed into pieces, a bloody fight ensued between the people and the redcoats on a hill where now is John Street. That same year the Stamp Act was repealed, and the New Yorkers showed their gratitude by erecting in Bowling Green a leaden statue of King George on horseback. July 9
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