A tour around New York, and My summer acre; being the recreations of MrFelix Oldboy . nd whosemusic is one of the recollections of my boyhood—re-calling days when I played hookey from school inorder to witness a launch, and the clangor of the bellwas a sort of brazen conscience that took the edge offmy enjoyment—still stands and keeps up its warningof the flight of time, close by the East River, at thefoot of Fourth Street. The old shot-tower yet loomsup hard by the foot of Fifty-third Street, and peoplewho wish to speak of the neighborhood begin as ofyore with the preface : You know where the
A tour around New York, and My summer acre; being the recreations of MrFelix Oldboy . nd whosemusic is one of the recollections of my boyhood—re-calling days when I played hookey from school inorder to witness a launch, and the clangor of the bellwas a sort of brazen conscience that took the edge offmy enjoyment—still stands and keeps up its warningof the flight of time, close by the East River, at thefoot of Fourth Street. The old shot-tower yet loomsup hard by the foot of Fifty-third Street, and peoplewho wish to speak of the neighborhood begin as ofyore with the preface : You know where the old shot-tower is, as if everybody had known it from rocky height known as Dead Mans Rock, thatused to mark the beginning of Joness Wood half acentury ago, and that still has the same name, is thereyet, but has become ignoble as the boundary of BattleRow, all too well known in police annals. And atHorns Hook, opposite Halletts Point, a group ofgreat elms still sway in the breeze as they did in thedays when Halleck and Paulding and Irving walkedbeneath their THE WALTER FRANKLIN HOUSE The East River was by nature so much more pict-uresque than the Hudson, that the wealth and fashionof the little City of New York fixed upon it in theearly part of the last century as a choice spot forcountry-seats. Pearl Street had become noted in thecolony for its stately mansions, with gardens stretch-ing to the water-side. Then came the cluster of aris-tocratic dwellings at Franklin Square, the estate ofRutgers, the farms of the Bayards and De Lanceys,the seat of Marinus Willett at Corlears Hook, theboweries of Peter Gerard Stuyvesant and his brotherNicholas Stuyvesant, and beyond these, for four milesup the river, the early part of this century witnessedthe erection of a large number of elegant villas—likethe Coster mansion near Thirtieth Street, on the river-bank, a stately edifice in the Grecian style of archi-tecture, which, in my boyhood, was the country resi-denc
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