New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-09-15

100 feet wide this part and the distance between
II and the Aqueduct S perhaps $50 feet. furtner-
more the last Legislature authorized the PARK De
partment 10 take the land between the od aqueduct
and the Driveway for park uses. and a commission
Is now laying out this pleasure ground The loss OF
these two strips will take from the Lynch estate all
the land upon the hill Edgecombe Road which
skirts the heights below OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
- will next be laid out just below the old aqueduct
as already provided the map, and VIII thence run
north along the edge OF the heights, passing cas-
of the Jumel house which stands just north OF the
Lynch estate.
Close I'D against the old aqueduct. 100 feet or so
north Of Northumberland fifty -ffth-st. and i'm
mediatey behind a row Of fine residences III g.
Nichoas-ave is a long low building. one-story
frame affair stretching out 100 feet against the
aaueduct and some thirty feet deep This belongs
10 the Lynch estate And thereby hangs a tale
which OH residents Of Washington Heights narrate
with much gusto
lanes j Coogan the furniture man. who ran for
Mayor and got 10000 votes. married the only daugh-
ter of William Lynch since whose death Mr. Coo
gan has been manager of the estate. under the i'm
mediate direction OF Mrs Sarah Lynch. 10 wnom
the property was willed and who is still an active
woman between nifty and sixty years of age. ap-
parentlv After the elevated road was extended up
Eghth-ave to tins point. some ten years or so ago
the people o. Washington Heights petitioned the
Manhattan officials to build wooden bridge from
structure w ID the helSnls, TOT the NhHip was
a fearful one The company was not favorable to
the idaa but according Lawson y. Fuller. Josiah
VI Fisk one Of the directors. drew his personal
check 10 Mr. Fuler's order for $4,000 and Il got the
bridge built" says Mr.. Fuller.
Then according % some. Mr.. Coogan began efforts
10 have the bridge torn down the ground that.
being IN Ons-hundred- and fifty fthst. it was an
5ncumbrance OF the street Mr.. Fuller went 10 his
Vernon, farm. He STAYED week ana returned ,ee.
he was the bridge being torn down and Coogan
standing there and haooing In triumph al r me.
lie Works. 10 order the job done got even win
Coogan when he ran for Mayor to;d nm mat
his 1900 showed the peoples estimate OF MS
qualities"
A ROADHOUsE WHICH WAS NEVER OPENED.
Mr. Coogan and his friends say that he had moth
ing 10 do with the matter Others stand stoutly by
Mr. Fuller 1t not long. however. before the
long low wooden frame building was erected. The
plan was 10 make 1t roadhouse. Washington
Heights residents assert that Mr.. Coogan erected L
just for spite because they attacked him for his
action respecting the bridge. M Coogan and his
friends insist that worthy woman perfectly re-
spectacle" who now keeps a place" IN One-hun-
, Observation-Disclosures. near Amster9am,aVe wanted
hfth-st. and that Mr. Coogan saw no reason why
she should not be accommodated so he built the
just north OF the buiding
before the Excise Board and made such protest
that the could get no license The building
I
worse FOR tho weather i was never even painted
Now that the land which it stands is 70 be taken
b. the Park Department. this old eyesore will not
much longer be- visible from the viaduct and one
hundred-and- fifty -hfth-st
The great viaduct itself which cost $4,000 lies In
or above fifty hfth-st. and It's
northern half - upon over the old Lynch estate
/ Its construction has Of course caused
hancement in the value Of the estate upward
/ impetus which the Driveway has also heightened
I The vttduct leads from Washington Heights the
! river and 20 the fine Central bridge which has
taken the place OF the old McComb's Dam wooden
tfr4 of of IFS heip
ing hand In enabling roadsters to make Jerome-ave
and because Of associations with the old hosiery
its southern end. Besides It recalls "Gabe'
Cases and Judge" Smiths. and spins up Seventh
from Central Park Who can tell what favora-
be effect the destruction OF the $4,000 wooden bridge
leading to Washington Heights had In fastening
the erection Of great viaduct which Is glory
to the metropolis
This splendid elevated road Of iron and granite Is
al it, best Of clear afternoon There IL an
endless procession of carriages passing over IL on
their way from Central Park Jerome-ave to
Washington Heights There Is no better view OF
the Harlem River with High Bridge and Washing
ton Bridge In the distance than from the vleduct
Were Lynch looking upon his old estate to-day
or upon Its original dimensions while he might
regret the chopping up OF the property. he could
not but reflect that history would associate his
with one OF the most interesting and heterogeneous
spots within the citys limits