The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-05-26
OF HISTORIC INTEREST.
new fork's Upper West Side the Scene
OF Many Stirring Events.

| From the New York Tribune.
IL anyone is skeptical about the pres
ent beauty and the future grandeur of
the upper West Side of the city. let
MN take stroll any morning or after
| noon in that section lying between Cen
tral park and Riverside drive. The air
is aromatic, healthful and invigorating.
the streets are bathed in sunshine and
the delicate green of grass and foliage
| outlined against sky of deepest blue
| combine to make a picture of exceed
Ing beauty. 1t will not matter into
what avenue or street he turns, for
there will be plenty to attract him.
The section is one of historic inter-
est. When Rendrick Hudson sailed up
| the river which bears his name on the
morning of September IA, 1909, he
looked on a heavily wooded land. Pre-
cipitous cliffs rose from the banks.
gradually increasing in height until the
waving treetops on the rocky bluffs
We're many feet above the sailors head
On the opposite side of the river solid
wall of rock lowered higher STILL 1t is
not unlikely that the voyagers dreamed
of some day building homes for them
selves and their families on these in
viting heights. but such a dream was
never to be realized by them. and two
centuries had passed before others be-
gan to realize it.
Just before the breaking out of the
revolution, Charles Ward Apthorpe
built his home at about what is now
the intersection of Columbus avenue
and Ninety-first street, and 1T was there
that Washington and Nathan Hale
planned the famous expedition made
by the latter; there where Washington
directed the retreat from new York.
and where Generals Clinton and Howe
rested while Aaron Burr was leading
the columns of refugees and soldiers
along the Bloomingdale-R Riverside cliffs
to the encampment on Harlem Heights,
now known as Fort Washington.
Judge Brockholtz Livingston bought
a part of the Apthorpe estate, and in
1900 built mansion at the corner of
Ninetieth street and Riverside drive,
which existed as a landmark until it
was torn down to make way for the
home of John Matthews, which is one
of the ornaments of the section to-day.
The Livingston house was occupied
for a number of years by Cyrus Clark
who has since built a fine home near
by. In 1892 a small estate near the
present site of Grants tomb was own
ed by Carlisle Pollock, the grave OF
whose little boy, with its headstone,
''To the memory of an amiable child
is still to be seen. The building now
known as Claremont was purchased
early in the century by DR.. Post, and in
1915 was occupied by Joseph Bonaparte,
the ex-king of Spain. 1t was near this
point that Colonel Knowlton climbed
the bank to attack General Leslie's
Highlanders in the skirmish which pre-
coded the battle of Harlem Heights.
After the Revolution and the war Of
1872, when the nation had time to set
tie down to the arts of peace, the
Bloomingdale estates were for time
neglected On the river bank silence,
unbroken except by the signing of the
wind, or the rustic of dead leaves in
autumn, took the place of the lowing
of cattle and the sound Of human voices.
But as the city grew it was inevitable
that this should again become region
for magnificent homes. The idea of
| converting the Riverside strip into a
park originated in 1866 and on April
"a, 1867. bill to that effect was passed
by the legislature. Five years later
the property for that purpose had been
acquired, and in a few years more the
mapping out of the Boulevard added
new interest to all this section of the
city.