The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-12-21

ana nlled up with a strange variety of
wooden, stone and brick buildings, and
| full of hogs and mud.
Nevertheless, this atribilar critic, whose
bones had probably not yet ceased aching
/ from his long journey by boat and coach,
has the grace to acknowledge that the
| College, st. Pauls Church, the Hospital
and the Federal Hall, in Wall street
ARE elegant buildings
1t was not until the latter part of May,
1853, that Mrs. Washington joined her
husband in New York. Meanwhile, Sam
uel Fraunce had been installed as stew
ard of the household. Fraunce had al
ready become famous as the proprietor
Of Frances Tavern, still standing on
the southeast corner of Broad and Pearl
streets. Built in 100, from 1862 until now
the building has always been used as a
public house, with, however, varying de-
grees of excellence. and in later years
with none of its early distinction. Aside
from its ancient culinary fame 1t bears
historical memories. lie had been Wash
lDgton's headquarters in 1776 and in 1913
he had delivered there his farewell ad-
dress to his generals.
Fraunce was a Southern negro who had
known the President from boyhood. 1t
is even said that his daughter Phoebe
had during the war saved Washington's
life by the exposure of a plot to poison
him. He is described by Washington him
self as IAN excellent cook, knowing how
to provide genteel dinners and giving aid
in dressing them" But he was not so
great an economist as the President de-
sired Goaded by anti-federalist criti-
aic ,f- Jo-ra -
ton mounted his first establishment in
New York on very simple lines. Frances
occasional eXtravagances, notably the
purchase of an early shad at the Fly
Market, brought upon him stearn rebuke.
But onevery occasion BLACK Sam would
withdraw tearfully into an anteroom, de-
claring that at any cost he would con-
tinue the credit of the house by serving
His Excellency's table as it ought to be-
Judge Wingate describes the very frugal
feast given to welcome MIrs. Washing
tons arrival in New York, the chiefs
own share being limited to a slice of
plain boiled mutton.
But though the Presidents larder was
thus frugally supplied, Fraunce saw to it
that his wine cellar should be well stock
ed with choice MADEIRA, claret, cham
payne, sherry, arrack, spirits, brandy
cordials, porter, beer and cider. Never
theless, there does not seem to have been |
much indecorous intoxication in the |
homes of those days, though when the |
gentlemen got together alone at public |
banquets they gave themselves wider lat |
itude. There is still extant a bill pre- |
scented by Capes, the proprietor of the |
famous Province Tavern, to the Governor |
of New York for dinner given to Wash |
ington and his generals on Evacuation |
Day After portentious items for valiant |
rotations of champagne, claret, sherry |
and beer there comes a significant lit |
tie memorandum for sixty glasses |
broken"
Trinity Church had been destroyed by |
the fire of 1776. and on Washington's ar |
rival masons and carpenters were at |
work upon a new structure, the immedi-
ate predecessor of the present one. So
Washington and his family worshipped |
at first at st. Paurs, substantially the
same, save for the spire added in 1874,
that it is at present. The pew he oc-
cupied has been preserved, and still is
to be seen next the north wall, midway
between the chancel and the vestry. Di-
rectly opposite is the pew occupied at the
same period by General George Clinton.
Back of the chancel stands the monu
ment to Major General Richard Mont
gomery, who fell before Quebec in 1775,
crying:
Men Of New York, you will not fail to
follow where your general leads!'
The burial ground, like the burial
ground of Trinity, contains monuments
of men whose names are associated with
colonial Revolutionary and more modern
New York
When the new Trinity Church wasfn-
ished. canoDied pew was provided for
the President, which he occupied from
1871, abandoning St Pau1's for Trinity,
as in the same year he abandoned the
Franklin house for the McComb man
sion, at No. 80 BBroadway.
Vice President John Adams made his
home at the Richmond Hill mansion
where Varick street now crosses Charl-
ton in poverty-stricken fairness and Ug-
liness. This house was a centre of his
torical memories. Here Washington had
made his temporary headquarters in 1776
after the battle of Long Island. Here
wehen John Adams left, another Vice
President arrived. This was Aaron Burr
1t was from Richmond Hill that Burr
started to kill Alexander Hamilton. 1t
was from his country seat, the Grange
that Hamilton started to be killed. The
Grange is still standing near 145th street,
opposite the group Of thirteen gum trees
which he planted as a ssymbol of the
thirteen States
The most populous if not the Ilost pop
uiar, and by all odds the finest public
building in Mex York was the jail on the
Commons. which had become the Debt
or's Prison. During 17SS eleven hundred
and sixty persons one out Of every TWEEN
ty-fve citizens. were Jailed under THEM
iquitous debtors laws of the period One
of Washington's first acts of private
charity was to give fifty gIineas 10 the
Secretary Of the Relief m peloyetGc
Society for the Relief of Distressed Deb
tors. an act that won him a published
card Of thanks from the prisoners. The
jail survives to this day as the Hall Of
Records. near the City Hall, and is still
beautiful. as it has a right to be, for it
was modified copy Of the fame Of Diana
Of FShesus.
Originally the Bowery had been the
great New York thoroughfare. and Broad
way but subsidiary street 1t was the
British army of occupation enCamped
along the great thoroughfare that had
determined the fate of both the BOwery
and Broadway. Drinking shops and places
Of amusement sorang W 70 amuse the
leisure OF semi-idle soldiery and when
the army vanished it left its curse upon
the Bowery. Fashion had already set its
seal Of approval upon Broadway. Fash