Arizona weekly citizen., 1896-08-15
ROSLYN.
Where the Poet Bryant Lived.

Wnere the Poet Bryant Lived
Twenty nine miles from New
York City, on the Long
Island Railroad, is RoslyD, made
OF mills and hollows il hich and Oh
which sway branches ct chestnut trees,
white walnut, black walnut and butter.
nut loaded with nuts which in autumn
are harvest for the country boys to
gather In spending money. In the
mldst OF the hills is Hampstead Harbor
from which rises three poLds one above
another and connected 10y dams and in
which are perch and sun and gold fish;
the harsor wa!er empties into Long Is
land Sound. Back OF the village is
Harbor Hill, 1853 feet high and the high
est ground on Long Island, here are
picnic grounds and q tower from which
can be seen the Brooklyn Suspension
Bridge, Rockaway and Long Beaches.
Macadamized roads are being made in
this locality which are nice to drive
over and cost over $1,000 mile. The
steamer Idlewild leaves Roslyn norn-
ings and returns evenings.
The village may be divided into tn rec
parts. The new, near the railroad sta
ton, where are mostly Irish people who
are day lsborers. The old, where there
are no sidewalks, but earth troddep
down by the tramp of feet upon it. The
streets are lighted with oil lamps, the
houses are frame, q number being over
100 years old. and painted white with
green shutters and OF the different colo
nial styles of building. We saw numer-
Gus apple trees full Of apples, q bird
house over so years old, of colonisl sty lie,
and several families Of old hens and
downy chicks crossing the road. Board
can be obtained there fer So or Sc q
week. The town clock Is memorial OF
Allen E. Ward. 1t is tower OF rough
gray granite and brown sandstone. On
each OF the four sides is q clock face.
The tower is also used for fire alarm.
A silk factory was here which has been
burned. 1t man ufactured dress, parasol
and handkerchief silks. Bryant Hall ie
a Two story frame structure painted light
brown with dark brown trimming and
was given by William Cullen Bryant and
lie also useu for library and reading
rooms. Gee lady here is florist and
raises flowers which she sends to and
sells in the city. The plants were Thrift
ty. The third part is where the Iesi-
demons are modern and expensive and
have more extensive grounds A stock
farm Is conducted by Mre. Willis, who
keeps horses, COWS, sheep aud pigs: also
carries on truck farming, sending vege-
tables to New York and Brooklyn; she
used TO send the milk there but now
first makes 1t into fine creamery butter:
the com man6er of the Bear who went
OF an Arctic expedition, hRs q home
here, also his brother.in- law, Lieuten-
ant Ware; one beautiful residence and
grounds which cost 100000 was sold by
the MORTGAGE for S27, 900.
The poet Bryant had farm OF 200
acres and the artistic nature of the ar
fist poet is seen in his artistic garden
ing. A row OF locust trees still stands
which was planted by him along the
roadside inside of the fence. The home
is three story drab frame structure of
fancy architecture, now occupied by bis
grandson. Harold Goodwin. 1t stands
by Hampstead Harbor, on that side 10 @
large weeping willow, in front are three
large trees, the trunk OF the centre one
is covered with vines; there are numer-
Gus bushes and we'll kept lawns, q stone
embankment on the edge OF which are
several century plants with green and
yellow striped leaves. Below the en-
bspkment are three trees with maroon
colored leaves; We saw one Of Bryant'e
great gran dchildren, little MISS of
about six in pink dress having dark
hair and the picture of health, running
on the lawn by the house after her dog.
On the farm is the beautiful home OF
Psrke Goodwin, Brysnt's son-in-lsw
Bryant was chief-editor in the New York
Evening Post, in 1929. be had q trifie
claim Of descent from the Pilgrims of
the Mayflower, he visited Europe sever
al times and travelled in different parts
of the United States, on leaving the
City of Mexico he said: 81 leave this
interesting city, where l have received
so much kindness, With sense of regret
that have not been able to study more
ut leisure it's politics and social pro-
blems;" be translated Ilisd and Odyssey
he was Ear from being narrow minded
and his verse is smooth and elegant;
rhanatophsis is considered his best
poem; he has left many beautiful and
thoughtful sthouRhts for posterity: in
his poem To sWater-fowl lie:
There is power whose care
Teaches thy wsy along that painless
coast"
and ITO FrlnRed Gentisn" begine:
"Thou blossom bright with autumn dew
And covered with heavens own blue"
10 "The Crowded Street." is the fol.
lowing stanzs:
Each when bis tasks on pleasure call,
They pass and heed each other not,
There is who heeds, who holds them all
In his large love and boundless
thought"
The poet is buried in Roslyn Gene
terry; his lot Is surrounded by cedar
hedge in which are trees, shrubs and
graes-plots; in the centre is gray gram
Ite pyramid on which is q beautiful in
scription to his wife Fanny Fairchlld
Bryant. San humble diciple OF Christ
exemplary in every relation of life, sffec-
tiouste, sympathetic, sincere and ever
occupied with the welfare of Others"
Bryant was lover of children and
the schoolchildren whom be had SO hos
pitbbly entertained on bis lawns in the
season of fruit and flowers, filled bis
grave with flowers and a selection of
of lines read from his own poems was q
part of the ceremony at the grave. Gen.
Abercromb bic had three Of his family
buried in this cemetery but later re-
moved them to Philadelphia. Each
year on Arbor Day tree lie planted by
the people Of Roslyn in memory Of Bry.
ant, end his son-ip-iaw, Psrke Goodwin,
usually makes q speech.
Roslyn is particularly pretty in au-
tumn when their leaves have changed
to their autumn tints and the sun shines
upon them. Mr.. Thorn who kindly
drove us through the country was par