. The standard guide . t Ofiice stands on the siteof the old Governors house, and another extended from St. George street east tothe Cathedral, and then to Charlotte street, where in Spanish times stood the ouardhouse. Facing the Plaza on the west (St. George street) is the Post Ofiice; the eastend IS open to the bay. On the south rises the spire of Trinity Church; and on thenorth St. Josephs Cathedral. The edifice was completed in 1791, burned in 1887and rebuilt and enlarged in 1887-88. One of the original bells bears the inscriptionSancte • Joseph • Ora ? Pro • Nobis • D - It has been
. The standard guide . t Ofiice stands on the siteof the old Governors house, and another extended from St. George street east tothe Cathedral, and then to Charlotte street, where in Spanish times stood the ouardhouse. Facing the Plaza on the west (St. George street) is the Post Ofiice; the eastend IS open to the bay. On the south rises the spire of Trinity Church; and on thenorth St. Josephs Cathedral. The edifice was completed in 1791, burned in 1887and rebuilt and enlarged in 1887-88. One of the original bells bears the inscriptionSancte • Joseph • Ora ? Pro • Nobis • D - It has been claimed tha^this bell IS the oldest on the continent; it may be the most ancient within the limitsof the Lnited States; it antedates by three years the famous bell in the Dutch churchat farrytown, N. \., which bears the date 1685. The Cathedral is not old whencompared with numerous other church edifices in this countrv; it is, for examplenearly a hundred years more modern than the Tarrvtown church referred to. THE OLU CATIIEUKAL.
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