. Rides and rambles on Staten island . t givesattention to breathing room more than economy of space ; the ceilings are high andthe windows reach from there to the floor ; wide corridors run through the housefrom the four sides, crossing in the centre. Opening into this the airy chambers arefinely ventilated. Some antique furniture and doors of solid mahogany are seen m thesehotels, showing what the nabobs of other days demanded 111 their summer all this old-time surrounding the modern conveniences are there also, and ele-vators are put in to save the carpets on the stairs, and gra
. Rides and rambles on Staten island . t givesattention to breathing room more than economy of space ; the ceilings are high andthe windows reach from there to the floor ; wide corridors run through the housefrom the four sides, crossing in the centre. Opening into this the airy chambers arefinely ventilated. Some antique furniture and doors of solid mahogany are seen m thesehotels, showing what the nabobs of other days demanded 111 their summer all this old-time surrounding the modern conveniences are there also, and ele-vators are put in to save the carpets on the stairs, and grandfather s clocks that didnot stop when the old man died keep time at the turn of the stairs as well as they VeTheCprettv little station of the Rapid Transit road is on Richmond Terrace, themain street of the village, within a minutes walk of the hotels and boarding placesand the twenty-minute trains bring the place conveniently near the city. Ihe piettyresidences on shaded streets extend along the water front ami back ovei the hills,. RIDES ANB U.\ VBLES making an ideal summer town where a season maybe passed quietly and restfullyami yet it is within easy business call. BaILOKS1 S\i G II ai;i:i>i; is down the road a mile From New Brighton the Bnuggest of snug harbors, where theweather beaten and battered old salt, who has sailed five yean before the mast inany service under the American flag, may find a home without money and withoutprice, where be need take no thought of the morrow as to what be shall eal r what heshall drink, or wherewithal shall lie he clothed as any disablement in the serviceentitles him to :i bed, three meals a day, and a blue uniform with gilt buttons. The institution is supported by :i private endowment, and is no expense to thestate or national government. In the year one of this century, Robert RichardRandall, of most happy memory, concluded to make his will, and acting on theadvice of Alexander Hamilton, gave the Randall farm on Manhattan Island t
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