New-York tribune., 1896-01-29
FEAT HIM AS SENATOf

still stands rs a monument 10 mark the old site.
and gnarled old fruit trees. horse-chestnut trees.
naples and camberng vines stIll indicate the
spot where Ncw-York's oldest living ex-Mayor
passed more than half century OF his life.
OLD LANDMARKS THAT MAY BE SEEN.
Nearly east Of the old homestead site is the old
time yellow frame house occupied until his death
last winter by Peter Cooper Tiemann. the eldest
son 0s the cx-Mayor 50 named from the fact that
the elder Mr.. Ticmlnns wife Is n niece OF the
great philanthropist. Daniel +. Tcmann. jr. oc-
cupics another frame house. one OF the old land
marks. in Manhattan-st.. down at the foot OF the
hlll while the old color works erected here in
1888 and gradually extended. are scattered along
all the way to Rversidc-ave. ana to One-hundred-
and-tweniy-ninth-st Until within a haf-dozen
years the old cow-pasture OF the Ticmann estate
occupied the low ground between One-hundred-
and-twcnty-nNh and One-hundred- d-and-twenty-
seventh SITS and the Boulevard and what is now
Clarcmont-avc To-day the old fence is torn
down. and boys use the area for ball games
When the old homestead gave way TO the Board
II street Opening and Improvement some hve
years ago Daniel +. Tiemann. who had defeated
Fernando Wood for Mayor in 1874 and who mad
carried on resolute ana successful business bat
tlo for more than fifty years, was compelled 10
seek 4 home elsewhere And 81 ne moved up 70
Audubon Park. at ne-hundred-and-ffty-ht
AMI the Hudson River. There the other day. in
the fine old mansion. half Of which was occupied
by the famous ornithooglst from whom the park
takes It's name. Mr. Tiemann received a reporter
OF The Tribune II is a glorious spot where Mr..
Ticmann lives. The oaks and elms surrounding
the house are notably the talest and most beauti-
rhny tnUa ivb
above the unusually high old mansion. which has
been doubled in size since Audubon lived In IT, and
their number and far-spreadine branches afford
shade cooling and refreshing even In the sutry
days Of August. making OF this an ideal home for
ideal old age.
HOW THE EX-MAYOR PASSES HIS TIME.
Mr. Tiemann hal lain down for an afternoons
rest. but he got nimbly up and Insisted that MS
visitor should right in. take seat at the ex-
Mayors left side the one on which he hears best.
and ask ali the questions the newspaper man
might desire TO- whether on Mr.. Temann's public
or private life as he kindly put IT, for that life has
been as an open book When one considers that
the Mayor will be. should he live. ninety-one
years old January next. his activity is remarka-
Bile Every week lay he goes down to business at
the color works In One-hundred-and-twenty
ninth-st.. remaining there from ? a. nl untl noon
and giving his attention 10 his business as OF OLD.
In the afternoon he takes II easy at his Audu-
hon Park home. Although he uses an audiphone.
he hard Of hearing" even in the days OF MS
contest with Fernando Wood. lie carries cane
but gets around easily. That he comes OF long
lived stock Of great endurance is plain from his
statement that his mothers grandmother lived 10
be- one hundred and five years old. while his
ipb p1
nm a pair of socks vixen he was elected Mayor in
1851. His father. who was born in Carlshafen,
Germany died at eighty-four because of injuries
received in still acting the boy by jumping on
streetcar while 1t was IN motion Mr. Tenants
mother was born in Cambridge. Mass.
Speaking first of the old homestead at One-huD
dred-and-twenty V -seventh-st., Mr. Tiemann pro.
duccd "A map showing how and where the ten
acres lay and then he proceeded In his own chat
tv way To speak OF many Interesting occurrences
In his life. as follows:
The ten acres were bought In 1892. when our
old color works were in Twenty-third-st. between
Lexington and Fifth aves. Fourth-ave. went
through the grounds put up two-and-a-half-
story frame house at the Twenty-third-st. corner,
where the Young Mems Christian Association
Building now stands. and father ana mother
lived and died there. II was all leased ground
and belonged to John Watt, who had large
farm there. lived in Twenty-thrd-st. until Sep
tember. 1899, when ] moved to Manhattanvlle.
Down there represented the Sixteenth Ward in
the Common Council for two years. We then had
spring elections. and the Council met in May to
organize was elected In the spring OF 1889. and
although moved In September. kept up my In.
terest in politics
when was thirteen years old my father took