Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-11-22
HIDDEN omAvEyaRns

s" lily OF New York
mere are many half-forgotten prava-
yaros tucked away in the midst If
new 1ork's busiest quarters. SOM -
tnem are little more than fraon,on.s -
cemeteries, and have long been in dc
use, while others retain their or;or;-,.,,
size and 1nterments are still mad. :.
them occasionally. The verv ex;stenoa
OF some OF them is unknown to mo-.
New 1orkers, while those who b.,. :.
shadowy knowledge of the snh;e.t
would md it hard to locate them.
urn westward from Sixth avenue
INTO 1wenty-frst street and On 49,
south SIDE OF the street YOU will seq a
n1'y-1oot stretch of high brick wall
ory goods store shuts il, in on
Two Sides and tailor's store AanLs
IL on the other. In the middle of the
wall is a weather-stained door. secured
py lock full of rust flakes. and the
gate in the iron railing in front is f.s+
ened with another and equally .aod
lock. If you walk up the tailor's stems
and look over the high brick wall -,
will see that it is a graveyard n flls
the whole quadrangle, and is tbiclx1v
peopied with quiet tenants lying under
oiaos ana tombstones, the inscriptions
on which are in Hebrew.
This is what is left of the old Jewish
burylng ground which was established
years ago to hold the overflow from the
stun Older Gomez Home of Peace" in
New Bowery at Chatham square.
That graveyard can be located bv an
other stretch of brick wall and iron
railing very similar to, but shorter.
than the boundary on Twenty-first
street The remnant of the cemetery
Is only narrow strip of land with a
lew score graves Most of the stones
marking the graves remain, and it is
presumed that the inscriptions were in
Hebrew, but they have been rubbed out
by times effacing finger.
From Chatham square it is an easv
hail to st. Patrick's graveyard in Mott
street This, too, is tightly shut in by
a high brick wall
few blocks to the north a group of
three distinctly urban graveyards can
be found. There will not be much
trouble about finding one of them. the
New York City Marble cemetery. 1t oc-
cupies about third of the frontage
and half of the depth of the block in
Second street, between Fifth and Sec
ond avenues. The rest of the block is
covered with tenements, whose hun
dreds of back windows look out on the
trim alleys and grass plats of the
cemetery. The whole plot of the ceme-
terry is honeycombed with vaults, and
though some of them have been emptied
hundreds of them still contain the
ashes of members of old New York
families.
While this cemetery can not properly
be styled hidden, there is no doubt as
to the appropriateness of the adjective
when applied to the annex of the Marble
cemetery which lies in the heart of the
block in Second avenue, between Second
and Third streets. IN the middle of
the block ON the west side of Second
avenue is a gate hinged to two houses.
Look through the gate and you will
see narrow alley leading apparently
to court. Follow it and you will
come to what is perhaps the most desc
late spot in New York. The grass
grows rank, the few trees are untrim-
med, and there is an air of being lost
and abandoned about the whole place.
Still more hidden is the last of the
~burying-ground that once lay back of
the Olivet Memorial church in Second
avenue, very nearly opposite the Mar
BILE cemetery. It is nothing now but a
dull, dreary court used as a playground
by the boys of the adjoining school.
There are two other downtown bur-
ial grounds on the east side. that of
st. Marks, in the Bowery, and the cor
ner of Second avenue and Stuyvesant
street, which is still used, and is one of
the auietest of New York S quiet sports,
and the remains of what must have
been a very unpoetical place of inter
ment between Eleventh and Twelfth
streets and First avenue and Avenue A.
On the west side there are four of
these cemeteries. The largest is ST.
Johns cemetery. in Hudson street,
which is shortly be transformed into
park. 1t occupies the block bounded
by Hudson. Leroy, Clarkson and Wash
ington streets Notwithstanding the
incongruity of its surrounding it is
picturesque spot Its shade trees are
particularly fine.
The smallest of these west side grave
wards. and very small it is. is tiny
triangular plot in Eleventh street just
a few steps east from Sixth avenue.
The base of the triangle is short
length of brick wall on the street, In
which is a door about the size of
ship's port hole, and the two sides OF
the triangle are the walls of an apart
ment house and a factory. In the grave
ward. which could be covered 'by
Paisley shawl, is dwarf pyramid of
marble. but what was written on the
monument is not decipherable. 1t is
Jewish graveyard.
There is another old burying ground
on Hudson street, that of St Luke's
church. Christopher street. 1t bears a
resemblance tonthe Marble Cemetery,
being a cemetery of vaults
The fourth of the west side burying
grounds is found in Ninth avenue. In
1t the Chesea villagers were formerly
laid away.-N. Y. Sun.
An Old Chinese Water-Clock.
Tn another tower, reached by flight