The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-02-27

foundation OF st, Johns chapel, whore tho
rural. residents OF Trinity parish were to, wor;
ship. At tho north end OF this crossing place !
ago Of Greenwich: passing through partly
fenced fields mostly under. cultivation and re'
mote, from any dwelling house, except Rich.
mond Hill, tho country scat OF Aaron Burr I'm
what Is now Charlton street between varick and
Macdougall~s street, ! continued along this main
eastward, south Of Minetta water, where l took
Q. branch path through the country, farm OF ex,
only passed three dwellings,. which, were two.
story frame. houses. and ono OF which. was that
in which Tom Paine lived and dicd. Our
work was greatly impeded all over the island
by land owners, who arrested us for trespass.
ing, until a legislative rider act prevented. We
pals at Knapp's spring. near the west end OF
greenwich avenue. At tho bend OF broadway
BY Tenth ,nhIc street %I, vas ,b the sI residence ,nmS OF oro Gsp5' i ha bo
aftorward bequoathed to maintain Sailors Snug
Iarhor. between IL and Love Lano Twenty.
first street, along Broadway were only half a
dozen frame dwelling houses.
The Bowery wGs the principal road leading
Boston and Albany. Al the corner of North
street !now Houst9nl we began MAPPING streets rs
thorn hedge fences, now grown into saplings
that were impass able without the aid Of the AK.
Bowery road and the beginning of the Bloom
irgdale road an acute, angle intcrsccted by
streets left SO awkwsrd an aren for building
because OF these interfering unions OF thorough
fares we named II Union square. We 80 ar.
twenty of them constituted n mile. We made
as an average eight lots to every block trout
many quarters irony pyy"Ia1n and st sarS HspS The men
who built the rear Of the City Hall Of red stone
because, back of 1t were only suburbs laughed
al the idea OF The city's ever extending TO tho
ed their plan; 4 Thirteenth avenue and i5oth
Similarly when Henry G. Murphy. as Corpora:
1 1sInn SoT nns S 99 n1iG9kl Would P5od ans as that se c9nSs
When the, island Of Manhattan was thus
mapped into lots, naturally speculation in them
ineroa sssen nortS&;ar sno with FSi'afBhis Bishop t BerReieyy
the course OF the star OF empire was westward,
p neee aSr ihe It sS Was %nor,hp sefan oel St the rivers
The census Of 1914 showed $4,000 inhabi.
tants for New York and Brooklyn. 1000 Of
whom were slavcs.a published fact which set
on foot the movement, soon successful, of making
Now York n free State.
Seventy. eight years ago only 500 residents
estate ranging in value between $4,000 and
Philip and John Hone. Herman Hendricks.
and Peter Schermcrhorn. Then the Henry A..
Coster estate paid on 100000 John N; Aspin-
VIII on $4,000 = John j B, &c g; o6 Gos hah on $20o: 600;
stephen Whitney on 100000. New Works
only millionaire was John Jacob Aston. And
that was a day when assessments were laid by
ward elected, officers who were honestly anX.
ious to reach the full amounts. There are a
dozen millionaires in This city to day each OF
whom, ENJOYS wealth greater than possessed by
all who paid personal tax in 1890. In 1890
Peter Goelet,s personal wealth was officially es'
tinated at $50. 900. None of the three Hamers.
ley brothers had personal property assessed at
more than SIS. 900; none of the Howlands at
more than $25 900; only one Of the ten Jones's
reached $50: 1000; only one Of the twelve Law
rences tWilliaml attained $4,000; only one
Robert E. Of the eight Livingstons reached
Arson G.. Phelps reached only So, 600; William
Rhinelandcr only $4,000; only one Roosevelt
had $4,000; Recorder Van Wyck was figured
at $4,000, and not a Vanderbilt was named.