The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-08-22

cleared SS90,0O0 by the transaction in salts
faction of bis claim, are matters Of compare
lively recent history.
AUDUBoN's HOME.
Crossing over to the Boulevard past row
of houses John Kelley is building on st.
Nicholas avenue Audubon Park is reached,
opposite Trinity Cemetery. Though It's
handsome shrubbery 8 glimpse is caught of
the nsturalist's home, where ne lived and
wrote his great book on the birds. of
America. TIE farm-now the park"
passed from the hands of the widow
in her lifetime. Aububon's dsugh-
ter's live on the Boulevard beyond
Trinity. The cemetery lies between them
and their past. Their lives are devoted to
teaching. Here and there the military road
can be discerned yet that led to the upper
forts whittier our bay gelding is taking US
now at spanking pace. The road skirts
on the left lofty, folestclsd ridge that dips
abruptly into the Hudson. On its summit,
where tie thOre juts into the river in
sharp point, are $50 feet above it, the rem
nants Of earth-works that oncs were Fort
Washington. Near the Juvenile Asylum u
lane turns westward, snd, crossing deep
railroad cut, leads to the point
Through briars and brush, along q cow
path that skirts rocky sleeps where goat
could find no fOothold, the fort is reached in
dense clumr OF woods where few feet
stray. Our steps frighten away woodcock
and its mate that are feeding on the de-
serted rsmparts. -obliterated by the
wear of century and hidden among the
trees, they are yet quite easily made out.
The siience and solitude beft the scsne
HeIe 1t wss that Colonel Msgaw surrender
cd with $500 men TO the English. The
wonder is the fort could hold SO many but
tradition has it that they we're but poorly
Ccommodated.
Some unique scraps of local historical in
+, rmstion are picked up heresbouts. At
Fort George, whittier we next turn our
steps, two bright children, who are st play
in the breastworks, volunteer the statement
that it was there Washington was shot, :"
snd stoutly adhere TO the belief. Papa
said 60. Papa turns out 10 be slow-going
farm laborer, who knows that Washington
was "a man who fout the British" in which
fact he seems to find some personal satisfac-
tlcn. Fort George lies on commanding
hill on the other side of the island, overlook
ing the harlem River. Tenth avenue loads
directly up to it. AS strategic position it
must have been OF great value. The earth
walls are quite well defined vet. With the
surrounding fields they serve as pasture for
cattle. The sun is sinking in the wet as
the eDinence is gained, and through the
Spuyten Duyvil gap the Hudson is seen as a
broad sheet of FURNISHED gold. The eye
wanders over forest and fields and broad
acres of farm land yet within the city. To
the east q smiling landscape; to the west the
frowning palisades; below the placid Il srlem
River. Country houses and villss cluster
along the Winchester shore. Yonder is
Fordham, and the home of Edgar Allen
Poe; there Inwood, the Tubbyhook of old
that would have remained hook but for the
pride Of the wealthy residents who objected
TO being called Tubby hookers; behind us,
eleven miles TO the southwark, the busy life
that buktles about Printing House Square.
Full four miles up the river the city stretches
yet its corporate territory, with homes for q
million when Forts Washington and George
shall be but forgotten sites, long since laid
out in prosy streets and avenues.