A tour around New York, and My summer acre; being the recreations of MrFelix Oldboy . and New York courteously yielded it. Thereis one other grave that should not be forgotten. Aplain white slab, which stands in the church-yard ofSt. Patricks Cathedral, bears this inscription : A lamemoire de Pierre Landais, ancien Contre-Amiral auservice des Etats-Unis, Qui Disparut Juin, 1818, age87 ans. There is a whole romance, and a bitter one, 14° A TOUR AROUND NEW YORK in this brief record. A lieutenant in the French Navy,Landais entered the service of the United States, dis-tinguished himself, and was
A tour around New York, and My summer acre; being the recreations of MrFelix Oldboy . and New York courteously yielded it. Thereis one other grave that should not be forgotten. Aplain white slab, which stands in the church-yard ofSt. Patricks Cathedral, bears this inscription : A lamemoire de Pierre Landais, ancien Contre-Amiral auservice des Etats-Unis, Qui Disparut Juin, 1818, age87 ans. There is a whole romance, and a bitter one, 14° A TOUR AROUND NEW YORK in this brief record. A lieutenant in the French Navy,Landais entered the service of the United States, dis-tinguished himself, and was given command of a frig-ate. In the battle between the Serapis and the BonHomme Richard, poor Landais, who executed his ma-noeuvres by his text-books, won the name of coward,and Paul Jones, in his disregard of all rules, became ahero. Cited before the Naval Committee of Congress,none of whom understood French or navigation, Lan-dais was heard and then discharged from the servicein disgrace. Again and again he sought another hear-ing, but in vain, and for forty years he walked the. TOMB OF CAPTAIN LAWRENCE A TOUR AROUND NEW YORK 14I streets in proud and solitary poverty, donning his oldContinental uniform on great occasions, and at last,forgotten and unnoticed, as his epitaph says, he dis-appeared from life. Although Trinity Cemetery is comparatively mod-ern, it is the burial-place of many old citizens of NewYork who were eminent in their various walks of life,and of many of our older families. Among the nota-ble graves which dot that beautiful sleeping-ground ofthe dead are those of Gen. John A. Dix, a hero of thewars of 1812 and 1861 ; Bishop Wainwright, WilliamB. Astor, Samuel B. Ruggles, Don Alonzo Cushman,John H. Contoit, Baker, the artist; Alexander B. Mc-Donald, Peter and Henry Erben, organ-builders of an-cient renown, and the Rev. Drs. Higbee and list of old families embraces the names of Aymar,Ward, Storm, Cisco, Palmer, Lewis, Mount, Dash,Voorhis, Guion, Fr
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