A tour around New York, and My summer acre; being the recreations of MrFelix Oldboy . al life shouldbe allowed to scratch this laurel on the rough bowlderthat marks his grave. My friend the school trustee was born in this city,on the eastern edge of what was then known as Green-wich Village. The house in which he was born stoodon a hill not far from the lower end of Sixth Avenue,and it had no neighbors in sight except on the roadthat led up to the little hamlet on the banks of theHudson, for which Admiral Sir Peter Warren hadborrowed a name from Englands home for veteransailors when he set up
A tour around New York, and My summer acre; being the recreations of MrFelix Oldboy . al life shouldbe allowed to scratch this laurel on the rough bowlderthat marks his grave. My friend the school trustee was born in this city,on the eastern edge of what was then known as Green-wich Village. The house in which he was born stoodon a hill not far from the lower end of Sixth Avenue,and it had no neighbors in sight except on the roadthat led up to the little hamlet on the banks of theHudson, for which Admiral Sir Peter Warren hadborrowed a name from Englands home for veteransailors when he set up his baronial mansion family had just moved from their old homesteadon Duane Street, near Chatham, and their friendsdeemed them crazy for going out into the wildernessto live. This house disappeared long since, but theframe dwelling to which my old friend brought hisbride sixty years ago, and which he had erected, stillstands in Jones Street, the oldest residence in theNinth Ward. The house cannot tell its story, but itis like a revelation to talk with the white-haired pa-. SIR PETER warrens HOUSE, GREENWICH VILLAGE triarch who built it. He has seen Fulton and AaronBurr, and talked with them; he remembers when thefriction match, anthracite coal, and gas were intro-duced in this city; when the first stage began to run,and the first steamboat ploughed its slow way up theHudson. He was a man of mature years at the timewhen the first locomotive ran out of New York, andthe telegraph and the sewing-machine were inventedand turned to practical use. When first he began to go to school he walked withhis sisters from their home in Greenwich Village tothe old Dutch Reformed school, then situated in Nas-sau Street, opposite to the old Middle Dutch Church,the site of the present Mutual Life Insurance Compa-nys building. Their long walk led them across Mi-netta Brook and down by Burrs Pond (on his Rich-mond Hill estate), into which the brook flowed, throughthe thick woods that extend
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