The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1891-07-20
SUNBEAMS.

They have notion up In winnipeg tnat Dn
Chauncey u. Dspsw for that city and thsy
are talking about giving him big reception.
George Q. Curry has arrived at Vancouver from
Alaska in dueout It said that he is the only
white who made shat journey In such craft
Ono of tho lovslsst spota Manhattan Island 70,
elevation for purity of air and for beauty Of Landscape
10 Fort George on the Harlem River at lssth street
Did you ever know how It came 70 b called Fort
GsorRsf During the Revolutionary war the American
coousss erected fort there to command the approach
to New York city from Westchsstsr county and called
It Fairvisw After the battle Of White Plains on Oct
20 I77a It evacuated and whom taken BY the Ems.
lish soldiers called By them Fort 0sofgA after
George Ill OF England II served an English head
quarters during the Revolutionary war and after the
cd over and all traces of the rsdoubts which surround
cd 1t were destroyed Butt il still called For 0soEs<
and the varvew has passed almost from the -.
memhrancs Of most New YsrkerN
Capt Sir Baldwin Walker Of the British manofvss
Emerald. who gained Aotorietv II not fame b. hS
against the British sstsrs on the French
shore" Of Newfoundland, IL . man Of - connected
curiousy with the Inflated British var ship Captal,
This was turrst ship designed BY Capt Covper Coles h
n; II had removable bulwarks that were to be lowered
in action 70 allow free play for the heavy EunA ssda
the turrsts on her decks. she was spared ~ fun
rugged ship. and was notoriously crank On Sept
1870 in tho Bay of Bscsy. squsu caught the captsn
with bulwarks down and ports open' and the ship vsn
down with o23 officers and men, amonS thsm Caut
Coles who was = passenger. Only seventeen persons
escaped Among those lost were Charles Walker 2
Lieutenant, . brother of Sir Baldwin walker, and
Capt Hugh Burgoyne, commanding the vessel vhovAe
. brotherin-law of Sir Baldwin Seven years lAta3
Sir Baldwin who had Just succeeded 70 the title ms.
ried Fanny Coles the Oldest daughter Of Capt Coles
whose ship had brought so much sorrow into tas
Walker family.
There u nothing which surely stimulates the 40
nf n N
which he 10 be reelected or to be chosen
In his place. 1t s In these that there mas
been sudden display Of energy the part OF Alder
man Abraham Mead OF tho Ninth district, VINO WitnA
few days has tackled all at once tho maRnates OF ths
baseball grounds the directors OF tho Eighth aVehus
surface cara and tho whole elevated railroad to ny
nothing Of Lawson " Fuller tho stsntortan stAlwart
who Il IL much easier tackle than TO overthrow hs
In n sort of nm de spc> John Foley. Mr. heads grtev'
auco with the magnates was that they had no
roof over tho beaching boards" At the Foo g'ouhaA
and an Aldsrm anic ordinance haA been pAaseo MAKING
The erection OF . roof mandatory AFTER July ~.
Against tho Eighth avenue railroad MT. heAas
grievance was that they kept relays OF horses
on the east side Of Abingdon square That crying Aou's
has also been done Away with and now tho road keeps
its foaming and swift steeds on the west a
jackson square, little further up tho street AomS.o
square 10 in the Ninth district: Jackson square w
Seventh district and is represented IN tho bosa VI
Aldermen by John Morris, tho JEFFERSON nArAe' 49,
Mr. Msads grievance with tho elevated rs'foAa eon
pany ia that ono of its represen taves has as no ASs
| aspersed his character aud impuEnsd his motive. ="
favorng return to stages such as used 70 DO III"
, Broadway snd Canal street 10 Greenwich 'hAxn "
Mead IA dead. Town the whole elevated ra,Ho"as
| tenn and he is also q candidate for rst'ecN'h
Alderman but without much prospect OF rehoh'hA'o
ue In a short TIL ok set man. with black hair baekee.
| . stubby moustache. and very aen'a' anu p''A'-'
manner personally.