A tour around New York, and My summer acre; being the recreations of MrFelix Oldboy . onthe corner of One Hundred and Forty-first Street. The Hamilton treesstill remain, across the avenue, near One Hundred and Forty-thirdStreet. They are strongly fenced in from casual injury. At a recentsale Mr. O. B. Potter bought the ground upon which the trees stand,avowedly to prevent their destruction. Some correspondence thereuponensuing in the Times newspaper cast a doubt upon the belief that theywere planted by Hamilton, but the weight of evidence seems to supportthe statement of the text. A TOUR AROUN
A tour around New York, and My summer acre; being the recreations of MrFelix Oldboy . onthe corner of One Hundred and Forty-first Street. The Hamilton treesstill remain, across the avenue, near One Hundred and Forty-thirdStreet. They are strongly fenced in from casual injury. At a recentsale Mr. O. B. Potter bought the ground upon which the trees stand,avowedly to prevent their destruction. Some correspondence thereuponensuing in the Times newspaper cast a doubt upon the belief that theywere planted by Hamilton, but the weight of evidence seems to supportthe statement of the text. A TOUR AROUND NEW YORK 331 at Third Avenue and Thirteenth Street, a patriarchwhose years numbered ten score, has gone the way ofall good fruit-trees, but the grove that Alexander Ham-ilton planted to commemorate these United Statesyet stands in its strength. What shall we do with it ?I like to make a patriotic pilgrimage on all of ourpublic holidays, and I have a companion who is al-ways ready to join me—my little son, who, fifty yearshence, I hope, will take up these chronicles again, and. HOUSE OF NICHOLAS WILLIAM STUYVESANT write the story of the city as he sees it to-day. Re-cently we laid out our tour to the defences thatguarded Manhattanville in the two wars with Great 332 A TOUR AROUND NEW YORK Britain, in which the spades of the old Continentalswere supplemented by British sappers and miners,and the men of 1812 came in after-years to completethe line of protection for the growing city. We stoodwithin the crumbling stone walls of Block-house , as it was known in the last war with Great Britain,on One Hundred and Twenty-third Street, betweenNinth and Tenth avenues, and looked eastward to thebusy city that covers the rough plain of a generation ^?*^
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