New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-12-18
IN TWO STATES.
s,,t;o,,or;on Rambles an Ne7c-Jersey
and NezC- York.


and Neac- York.
Miib N on
yrstions from Drawings by John Rae ana II Ievi
aaS Phiiadelphis: ]. B. Lippincott Company
and landmarks. BY Rufus Rockwell Mi E6n-
With Many illustrations from Prints 5, an Edward
stratfon Holloway In Two soIu 9tscot, COM
pam psny w. ''
cooras of famous men and women move
through the pages of Mr. MISS book Oh soiiie
old houses of Observation-Disclosures, Fanny
rer,ble Mime Jun1el, John Jacob Astor, WASH
ineton Irving George Washington, General La
favette Joseph Ruonoparte and many others
Indeed such book this was NEEDED 1or
New-Jersey is particularly rich IN historic as
sociations Its Hudson River shore was seltleu
h, the Dutch in the earliest times Of their COM
ination and during the Revolutionary war
Rovalisfs and Loyalists wrestled backward anu
forward all over its soil. Mr. Mills has mace
ood ,,se of his material and IT has been printed
in an artistic form
Some fine specimens of Dutch and Colonial
.rcb;+ecture are still to be found among these
houses The Sip Manor on Jersey City Heights
is one of the best Though built in 1866, II looks
Young and cheerful-good for many centuries
vet But not all the survivors have fareo we'll
The fate of Prospect Hail. formerly the Jersey
CITY residence of Colonel Richard sarick' OF
Nashington's staff, is melancholy Inc rooIs
where formerly Lafayette was honored by the
proudest in the land are now thronseo py 1oi
eign laborers who never heard his story All
the anecdotes and traditions of these old houses
are carefully recorded here. and are tempting TO
c,ote hut we must content ourselves with this
little fragment about pretty Kitty De hlyn' OF
Bow Hill. who one of the flower girls at
washington's inauguration:
F1ittx was truly a kittenish schoolgirl in more
than name. for she soon grew tired Of her board
ing school and off with handSoihe youiIs
freshman whose fine eyes and nneloolous VIZ W.
had made a deep impression on her suScepupiie
heart Her elopement was almost as roiii 5r
an affair that of the famous Cna l -, +ba
pie The young people had mel M WIZ Gu -
Urls we're ont for a promenade with their teach-
ers and had fallen so in love with each o'L ne,
that after a few subsequent nleeuhse a. rs
Fatterv or on Broadway the maiden conseiiteu
to leave her by ladder at night, cilt II :
q garden wall with her lover, and hurry on INTO
the darkness to rouse SON. good parson u
make them man and wife
Desnotic old Barnt De Klyn. whose pet daugh-
fer thus eloped, roared with rage, AFTER lhe
@.e4,ion Of Tnrulv parents. but at the END OF a
,,ear his house echoed with the tones OF the
,oelodious Irishman, and very happy they all
We wonder by the way. who was the GOV
ernor Jacob Leslie" of New-York mentioned IN
the footnote on page 102 The author must
mean Jacob Leisler. who seized the Governor
shin in 1892 on the fall of King James, and was
executed for the usurpation by representatives
of King william
It was MI Wilson's intention. as he informs
MS in the preface to his Newly ork: oid anu
New to give us a book that without sacrlnce
Of color or Of picturesque detail would bring
the history of New-York City within reach OF
the busy reader of slender purse That AIM
surely. is worthy of approval. But this volume.
though we'll written and full of interesting mat
ter seems to us to present evidence of nasty
preparation. 1t is far from complete, and MI
Wilson'S intention Of preserving color ana
picturesque detail is not carried out Henry
Hudson is barely mentioned the Dutch period is
disposed of in sixty-six small pages. and the
entire history is compressed into the first vol
rlrre the second being devoted TO stories OF ol1-
ferert localities Mr.. Wilson follows some other
writer's in asserting that all the Indians slaugh-
tered by Underhilrs men in the mountains near
Stamford in the early part Of 1644 were war
riors That is not the case They were men,
women and children who were hemmed in by
the ring of white men and driven back into their
burning houses The Indians were awake and
on the alert when Underhil and his LOU nolio"-
ers surrounded them, and if they had been war
riors SO thin a line could not possibly have held
them in But nothing is left to guesswork here,
for Valentine gives us the testimony OF an eye
witness in regard to the matter Most OF
17,derbill,s victims were squaws. old and
nannooses and the massacre wrought among
them was coIdhlooded and hendish- This is one
of TOO many instances of superficiality IN MI
Wilson'S book We note curious lack of com
nleteness in the stories of Broadway, Wall-st
and the Bowery. Their early history is almost
sotally neglected