The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-10-30
TEARING DoWy Az ON HOUSE.
Workmen Find n Copy of "The Sun" and
Tell a Weird Story OF a Tunnel.

Several hundred men. women and children
gathered yesterday at tho corner OF Evergreen
avenue and Madison street. BROOKLYN and
scrambled for relics from the old Suydam
homestead which is being demolished 20 ma o
room for the erection OF a church. The crowd
got away with enough bricks to load n truck
The house was built over two hundred years
ago. The first story was OF cobblestones and
hand made bricks.
Only the walls OF the old house now remain
and tho contractor said yesterday that these
would be pulled down within few days. The
worImen found the rusty blade OF Ii sword in
the collar together with a box OF old papers
There was "a copy of THE Sun bearing tho
date Aug. IA. 1893. and the workmen be-
came interested in it's contents One Of tho
advertisements reads as follows
$40 Reward Especially to Carriers and
observation-disclosures. my wife Elizabeth Fran
ces Tower left her residence in the rear OF lS
James street on or about the 18th Of February
last and has not been since discovered,
although diligent search has boon made for
her Her height is not more than 3 feet q
inches. her complexion light. eyes grey. eye
brows sandy. face and nose peculiarly sharp,
feet and hands unusually small wears wig
diHerlnR from her hair and eyebrows On
leaving her residence she wore n dark calico
frock was generally dressed in heavy black
mourning. an open Tuscan straw bonnet.
wears rich and long pair of filagres drops set
with whit" stones: she carried away with her
two trunks. feather bed. &c. and a bandbOX
during last summer she kept house in Broad
way next doorto Armelli's confectionery fac
ing the hospital. Cartmen and truckmen are
particularly directed to this advertisements
who may recollect the leng entry leading to the
HOUSE opposlte the first pump, and give by let
ter addressed to the undersigned in tn. rear OF
IL James street the required information and
in the meant me the public are cautioned
against harboring or trusting her on my ac-
count. RICHARD STEERING,
sam, rear Of IL James street"
That was probably an eloremsnt. " remarked
one OF the workmen. But the latest dis
corery we have made is the finding Of an
underground tunnel that seems to extend
street. The mouth of this underground
passageway is reached through n trap door
beneath the rear stairway of the old house
IL has no connection whatever with the cellar
but is wi hin a few feet OF the entrance to tho
cellar The old trap door showed evidences
OF not having been opened in wears.
When we opened it we found hole Just big
After getting down there we found the tunnel
wide enough for two men to stand there side
by side. the roof of it being ak feet from tho
floor. Two OF the men with lanterns explored
i TO n distance OF hundred feet Old Adrian
Suydam who lived in the house for many
years. rroba ply did not know Of the existence
of this underground passage. bur people
the house was occupied by British soldiers in
revolutionary days believe that the tunnel
was used IA n prison. They believe that inter-
estinR discoveries will he made when the Old
passagewny is fully explored. This will be
done In a day or two"