The evening world., 1893-11-25


Jerome Buck, chairman of the Tn
yelling Committee thanked those who
had given it on behalf of the Society of
Sons of the Revolution. In the couis
of his address he said:
This memorial tablet could not be
placed on more fitting site, conseeihted
by memorable associations with Wash
ington, Greene, Clinton and Knox end
saiG. the site of the old Kennedy House,
before 1t was the house of the Mar
queses of Ailsa and Earls of Caster, the
headquarters of Washington, and after
the clearinghouse of Prune X King and
Ward, which still exists under tne rame
of James J. King & Sons.
Here and on the two adjoining sites
were the barracks of the British troops
after the disastrous battle of Long Island.
From that green-Bowling Green--was
torn by patriotic hands the statue Of
George Ill, the original, as heavy and
as stolid as the lead from which 1t was
made, and moulded into bullets that went
hissing into the hearts of the British foe
Of young Alexander Hamilton fired the
hearts oil the people to liberty and coun-
try;
the very gateway of the, city, in the
bright rays of that splendid symbol of
liberty, whose flaming torch lights the
pathway Of the oppressed and down
-
from this tablet and its hallowed as
sociations the lesson. belonging TO all,
whether native or. foreign born, that
American liberty is not license, that
American freedom is not anarchy, but
that liberty, restrained and lightened by
laws, commands the willing obedience
and devoted loyalty of all
was composed of Jerome Buck, Chair
man, and A. b. Valentine, f. +. Under
hill. Maturin Delafield and Edward L..
Short.
At Golden HILL" John and William
streets. Chairman James II. Morgan and
Committeeman John J. SillGock, John
ii. Townsend, William A. Tucker and
Henry r. browne, disclosed to the as
sembied citizens tablet inscribed:
Here June IS, l77O the fight took place
: between the Sons of Liberty and the Brit
ish regulars tsixteenth Toop. First blood
shed in the war of the Revolution.
At the southeast corner of Washing
ton and Laight streets, many people
gathered to see Chairman Henry p
Butler and Citizens Frederick l.. Haight
Charles II. Murray, Walter b. Tufts anC
S. Victor Constant unveil this bronze
memorial
To commemorate the landing OF Gen. I:
George Washington at the foot OF Laght
street, North River, accompanied by the /:
troop OF Philadelphia city Horse, Sun /:
| day, July g. l775, on his way 20 take I:
command Of the American Army at Cam
bridge. Mass.
| Another tablet was unveiled in "Lonf
| Acre" at Broadway and Forty-thirC
street, by committee composed o.
| Frederick II. Belts, Philip Rhinelander
| Frank Roosevelt, Robert II. Walbridgt
and John Z. Wainwright. 1t read:
| Near this spot. Sept Is. 1776. the day be-
| fore the battle of Harlem, Gen George
| Washington and Gen. Israel Putnam met and
consulted during the movement OF the Amer
| lean Army.
The fifth OF those memorial tablets
was unvel d at Eleventh avenue ant
One Hundred and Fifty-third street. l
is Inscribed as follows:
| To commemorate the Battle Of Har-
F.: lem, on Sept. l6, l776. Here Col.
! Thomas Knowton and Major Letch were
4: SO badly wounded that death soon closed
| their patriotic services 10 their country.
But the chief event of the day was Sc