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Then that card Is a mere JOKE ?"
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Coed morning, thea, my dear"
Good bye. II you had red hair you'd
DO. " A burst OF laug ghtsrl
Cottage Place Is one II the few regions
Ia New York where the inhabitants have
time for practical jokes and nsikhboTEOod
gossip. IL lies u tie west aud south OF
sixth avenue, not many minutes walk
from wsaG were once the suburban VII
lazes Of Chelsea aud Greenwich. Every
house ia Cottage Place has what the ing
lish call garden aud what In America II
termed fr0ntyard. Every house, also,
has a two story porch. and as the houses
are built In solid blocks on either side Of
the street the effects IS not unlike that Of
those old English inns with balconies aud
eogFtyar,is, where TWO hundred years ago
strolliug PLAYERS acted for the pleasure OF
noble and peasant
When Washington took the oath OF Office
a. frsI President down at the corner Of
Nassau and Wall streets OH an April
morning one hundred years ago, New York
had less than 81, 600 inhabitants, and the
region about Cottage Place was far out of
town. Since then most OF tho city has
been rebuilt two or three times, and little
remains Of the town. that greeted the eyes
OF Washington when he became chief
magistrate Some OF the tombs ia Trinity
churchyard were old aud weather stained
even ON that April morning; aud here and
there Dutch gable or quaint doorway
prociaims itself as old as the Republic,
but these are few. Far mp on the bluffs
that overlook the East River, near Sixty
third street, stand two or three old shingl ed
houses that perhaps sheltered trembling
patriots, when Washington made his IA
nous lighting retreat from the city, and
further north on the western side OF the
island several pre-revolutionary mansions
still stand.
Few strangers, and indeed few New
Workers know aught Of the quaint works
that survive in spite Of the new city's mer-
ciless warfare upon the past. Not one
New Yorker in = thousand could find
Commerce street unaided. Three or four
blocks below the French quarter OF
Bieecker street Commerce street opens
into the former thorouehfare. Ii runs
southwark two or three hundred yards,
and then turns suddenly at right angles
and running eastward about two hundred
feet opens into Barrow street. Seen from
the Elbow" the corner OF Commerce
and Barrow streets looks like a bit of old
Loudon in one OF Hogartte's pictures. On
the left is an ancient gabled structure
two and half stories high. Adjoining is
a still larger house, its steep roof adorned
with dormer window such as went out
OF favor with architects fifty years ago. A
tiny, wooden stoop with steps at the side
10 tue sctOuu anu Ociitabh, n
wooden door admits To the basement. IL
needs but a ragged hawker and a slat-
ternly no-man TO complete a cartoon Of
eighteenth century London
None OF New York's hustle reaches Com
merce street The elevated railway trains,
less than half mile on either side, are in
audible. Nothing in all New York is more
picturesque than Canal street As seen from
the corner of Sullivan. At first sight the
eye takes In confusion OF roofs and
gables apparently thrown together az hap
hazard. Ii seems like AN assemblage OF
architectural odds and ends. To the left
is a one-story building with facade 10 the
street. To the right rises tall, narrow
house with steep pent-rOof, and doorway
turned at an odd angle TO the street.
Above aud below are other roofs, and DOM
mating all X a high clock tower with
gilded dial IL might be bit from any
one OF half a dozen foreign cities The
spot Is only a chance survival Of earlier
times, for westward rise tall modern busi-
ness buildings, and half a block eastward
thunder the elevated trains.
The west side Is rich in pillared door
ways and intricate old iron work. so are
other streets on the far east side well down
town The things belong to the period
when Washington Square was newly laid
out aud fashion had not yet passed
Bleecker street. DAVID WECHsLER.