. The greatest highway in the world; historical, industrial and descriptive information of the towns, cities and country passed through between New York and Chicago via the New York Central Lines .. . Jacob Astor and then passedinto the hands of Stephen Jumel,a French merchant, who, withhis wife Eliza, added new fameto the old house. They enter-tained here Lafayette, Louis Na-poleon, Joseph Bonaparte andJerome Bonaparte. Aaron Burr(1756-1836) in his old age, ap-peared at the mansion with aclergyman, and married , then a widow. She di-vorced him shortly afterward,and he died in poverty
. The greatest highway in the world; historical, industrial and descriptive information of the towns, cities and country passed through between New York and Chicago via the New York Central Lines .. . Jacob Astor and then passedinto the hands of Stephen Jumel,a French merchant, who, withhis wife Eliza, added new fameto the old house. They enter-tained here Lafayette, Louis Na-poleon, Joseph Bonaparte andJerome Bonaparte. Aaron Burr(1756-1836) in his old age, ap-peared at the mansion with aclergyman, and married , then a widow. She di-vorced him shortly afterward,and he died in poverty on StatenIsland, 1836. Alexander Ham-ilton, whom Burr killed in thefamous duel at Weehawken,N. J. (July 11, 1804) owned acountry place in the neighbor-hood, Hamilton Grange, whichnow stands at 140th St. and Con-vent Ave. Leaving Manhattan, thatextraordinary island whichPeter Minuit, director-gen-eral of New Netherlands,bought in 1626 from the In-dians for sixty guildersworth of goods (about $24),we cross the Harlem Riverto the Borough of the Bronx,named for Jonas Bronck, thefirst white settler, who madehis home in 1639 near theBronx Kills (where the Har-lem River flows into LongIsland Sound).. Peter Stuyvesant and the CobblerPeter Stuyvesant, Dutch Governor ofX. V. from 1647 to 1664 and a valiantmember of the Reformed Church, had anintense prejudice against all other Flushing a Baptist cobbler, WilliamWickendam, ventured to preach and evenwent with the people into the river anddipped them. He was fined 12,500guilders ($5,000) and ordered to be ban-ished. As he was a poor man the debtwas remitted, but he was obliged to leavethe province. The original price paid for the Bronx—or a large share of it- 10 THE GREATEST HIGHWAY IN THE WORLD was 2 gunns, 2 kettles, 2 coats, 2 shirts, 2 adzes, 1 barrel of cider,and 6 bitts of money. The assessed value of Manhattan today is$5,116,000,000 and that of the Bronx $732,000,000 (realty). The Hudson River Division of the New York Ce
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