The Coconino sun., 1901-01-05
Historic Spots in New York Pre-
 served from Vandals.
Praiseworthy Efforts of . Society Or ganixed for That Purpose-SOme Notable Places Pros
 tected.

lects refers in its report to the New York legislature for 1900 to the efforts for the preservation of the Palisades This noble work of creation (the Paisades), famous throughout the world, has of late years been the ob- iect of commercial vandalism so ex- tensiye.as to threaten its serious i'm pairment if permitted to continue" the report says. 'The offenders have been the quarrymen. who have found these cliffs a profitable source from which to obtain material for paving and crushed stone for roadmaking."
 The report recites the appointment of the state commissions in New York and New Jersey to prepare the way for the establishment of an Inter- state Palisades park, and the work of the commissions with its promise of ultimate success when a park shall extend from the beginning of the Pal isdes at Fort Lee to their termina- tiCn 1872 miles up the Hudson river at Piermont, \. Y. The legislative bills in the two states, resulting from the commissions work, the report says, taken together form the first definite and effective steps thus far jointly taken by the adjoining states fer the conservation of one of the most beautiful and impressive scenic features of the Hudson," reports the New York Sun.
 The society in its capacity of pub- lie trustee is now in custody of the state reservation of the battlefield of Stony Point, and it has in hand i'm portant plans for the rehabilitation of the battlefield The society hopes to have committed to its care simi- larly the battlefield of Lake George. The Stony Point reservation is now placardpd with signs of warning to trCspassers. the work of the society, which employs watchman to protect the states property there.
 The propQsed reservation of Wat kins Glen, the report says. can be made to yield an income of 2R per cent. on the purchase price within two years. and the society is per suaded that within five years the in- come could be raised to five per cent from hotel and other privileges.
 The society is anxious that steps be taken. and has already done what it could to that end, for the preserva- tion of the Philipse manor hall at Yonkers. The report says: Ut is built of brick imported from Holland and is at the same time one of the states most ancient buildings and one of its best preserved specimens of Dutch colonial architecture. It stands almost alone in representing in this country the feudal system, which dominated all Europe in the middle Gges and which had temporary tenure in the new world after the set history of New York state there were but three great manors having the peculiar feudal rights which centered in the lord of the manor the legis- lative. executive and judicial author ity and converted the occupants of the land into his servants. These were the Philipse. Van COrtlandt and Van Rensselaer, manOrs."
 The society has lent it's influence in New York city for the preserva- tion of Fraunce's tavern, the Poe cot tage and the Jumel mansion particu- larly. and has sought to prevent fur ther loss of street names of historical interest in this city through the re- curing efforts of the thoughtless to rename old thoroughfares here. as in the substitution of Park row for Chatham street. It has also sought to overcome the sentiment of similar character which every little while r'akes itself felt in villages and seeks to have their historic names changed. Anong other matters to which the sO-