Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-06-26
aaron Burr's Death Cha mber.

loohnny DouVnet III new Ork Tribune.
A few months ago 1 took the ferryboa
!, to the north, or rather the northwes
shore of Staten Island, and landed at tn
village Immediately opposite Berger
Point, called Port Richmond, so named
because 1t is the water landing to the OLE
Richmond Court house, at the center O
the island. There is not more animated
spot IN the water scenery of New York
bay than this. 1t shows both the bav o.
New ! ork and Newark bay, the lattel
receiving the commerce of Newark city
and OF the Hackensack marshes, and Of
the Jersey lniets as far down as the Rari-
tan river. They all pass out between
Fort richmond and Bergen Point
through the Kill Won Kull, which is only
half mile wide. A sick man could sit
all day long at his window by this water,
watching tugs, propellers, pleasure
steamers, sIoops and schooners, oyster
craft, raft and barge lows; garbage fleets.
Yachts and excursion arks filed with mu-
SIC and dancing, go past like professions
in mirror
1t was to Port Richmond that Col Burr.
ex-senator and Vice President of the
United States, ex-Attorney General of
New York, ex-candidate for Governor of
New York, and for Minister to France.
and once almost President of the United
States, was brought one day in the early
part OF June, at about this present time
OF the year, upon a litter, to die. The
hotel, now called the Continental. stands
nearly as it did at that moment, right in
your face as you turn from the water at
Fort richmond and only few hundred
feet distant-a yellowish brown hotel
with gambrel roof, and six tall. spare.
thick, wooden columns rising to the
caves and lnclosing in their piazza three
stores. Ascending the steps to this piaz-
"a, broad door and hall are right opno-
site the middle of it, and broad fight
OF naked steps rises to the second floor
and similar hall there, and the room to
the left, as you look up from the ground
is the room where Aaron Burr died. Tn,
der it is the bar-room now. The chamber
is square room, with little carved bits of
carpentering about the chimney side and
1t is OF respectable size, quite a bed
room parlor. Mr.. Burr was borne to #
on litter from the steamboat. an old
helpless invalid, prosecuted by bodily
decay and creditors, and the fear of DIVING
in the street.
lie had lost the confidence of man. wo-
man and child. Politics had spewed him
out thirty years before. Family circles
had tried him too often. Women had
found that he would not only kiss. Init |
tell. Clients found that he would sell |
their confidence to the other side, And
yet 1orsaken, friendless, and unpitied |
such was the mystery of this miserable
little man that half the world said the
PRESIDENT of the United States. then RIM
1lng for the office before the people. was
he son Of Aaron Burr The reE1,ons
world remembered that the greatest
oglcian and theologian since Paul had
'een this outcast's grandfather The
knew that the founder of Prince
On College had been Aaron Burr's father
lawyers knew that his sisters husband
lad founded the first law school in the
lew World. Once his daughter had led
he fashion and beauty of WASHINGTON
ociety and married one of the richest
'lanters of the South. He was abont to
lie in sight of his birthplace at Newark
nd of his orphan home at Elizabeth
mere MS father and grandfather had !
mustered, and whence he had entered :
ne REVOLUTIONARY army. These two ;
owns OF New Jersey are in plain sight.
nd Elizabeth is only about a mile dis, y
mt. Fifty years before being brought T
Staten Island to die, young Burr. while =
Washlngton's staff, had proposed to y
le General to head an expedition to 3
taten Island, every lane and corner of h
hlch he knew, having made its hills his !,
ground from the fiat, mosquito y
dden plains of Elizabeth. 1t was per h
APPS his playmate's son, Judge Edwards y