The sun., 1894-10-21
HIDDEN NEW, York oRIrEYARDS.
They Are Half Fergotte-, s.d Pew Hurials
Are Made In Them Now.

Are MADE IN Them NOvRs
There are many half-forgotten n-aveyards
tucked away In the midst Of New York's busiest
quarters. Some of them are little mo1e than
fragments Of cemeteries. and have long been in
disuse. while others retain their original size
and interments are still made in them occa-
sionally. The very existence of some Of the N 10
unknown to many New Workers. while Oh ose
who have shadowy knowledge Of the subj, ot
would find It hard to locate them.
Turn westward from Sixth avenue into Twen =
ty-rst street and the south eide of the street.
you will see a fifty foot stretch Of high brick
wall. A dry goods store shuts 1t in on two sides
and a tailors store Hanks It on the other In
the middle Of the wall Is weather stained door
secured by lock full Of rust fakes, and the
gate In the iron railing in front is fastened with
another and equally aged lock. Il yon walk up
the whole quadrangle. and Il thicfiyy peopied
stones the Inscriptions on which are IN Hebrew.
Thisis yhHt is left OF ths old Jewish buryl9g
The overflow from the still older Gomez Home
Of Peace" In New Bowery at Chatham square.
Of SrsE wall and dir IRON railing very Similar TO- but
shorter, than the boundary on Twenty first street.
strip Of iand With ae few seers rra~es MoSc q"
the stones marking the graves remain. and II is
but they have been rubbed out by times eta c.
, From chatham square Il 10 an easy bail to ST.
tightly shut In by = high brick wall.
"A few blocks to the north group Of three.
one OF them, the New York City Marble Gene
sna q tRSs aspsS Il Ssees
street, between First and Second avenues. The
whose hupdreds OF back windows look out on
the trim alleys and grass piats Of the cemetery:
with vaults and though SONS Of them have been
smptied hundreds OF q them hen stflI stflI contain the
While this cemetery cannot properly be styled
hidden. there is no doubt as TO the appropriate
o Mssbs 6emstsry ~heR lies tSs hssr
OF the block In second avenue between Second
on ont the w West % side OF Second avenue is IS" a gate gate
hinged TO two houses. Look through the gate
sHS to court Fow Il and son ~
af Is the s rsss seS ;g
ing lost and abandoned about the whole plsoe.
still more hidden is the last Ef the burning
The Marble Csmstsry., it is Rethins now but =
Ioys Sf III adionnS SG Gses School o' the
There arc two other down. town burial grounds
Bowsry, at the corner OF second avenue e. and md
stuyvesant street. which Is still used, and
and the remains Of what must have been a very
Avenue A.
On the west side there are four of these ceme-
teries. The largest is st. Johns Cemetery, in
Hudson street, which Is shortly TO be trans
formed into a park. 1t occupies the block
6ounded by Hudson. Leroy, Clarkson, and
Washington streets. Notwithstanding the in
congruity OF its surroundings II Is q picturesque
spot. Its shade trees are particularly fine.
The smallest OF these west side lgrayeyards.
and very small II 10, Is tiny triangular plot In
Eleventh street just few steps east from Sixth
avenue. The base OF the triangle 10 a short
length of brick wall on the street. in which is .
door about the size of ships porthole, and the
TWO sides Of the triangle are the walls OF an
yard. which could be covered by Paisley shawl.
Is dwarf pyramid OF marble, but what was
written on the monument Is not decipherable IL
10 Jewish graveyard.
There Is another old burrying ground on Hud-
son street, that of ST. Luke's Church, near
Christopher street. IL bears resemblance 10 the
Marble Cemetery, being cemetery of vaults.
The fourth OF the west side burying grounds is
found In Ninth avenue. In IL the Chelsea VIII
layers were formerly laid away