New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-05-24

on unlimited enthusiasm. There are two inscrip-
tions, that around the rim the inside being
Drink deep and you will preserve the city and
encourage canals" A slightly different opinion
of the conditions precedent to preservation and
encouragement it is scarcely necessary to re-
mark, prevails in these degenerate times The
inscription just below the brim on the outside
is in gilt scrip, and is repeated in full so the
line extends entirely around 1t is, Presented
by Jacob Morton to the Corporation of the City
of New-York, July 4, 1872" Commercial and
patriotic devices the sides and a narrow
gilt band just below the brim are the only
namentatiOn.
The grandfather's clock of the Mayors
office is temporarily slowed away in the Gov
ernors Room This timepiece. about twelve feet
high, is nearly old the building. 1t prob
ably will be restored to the Mayors office when
the renovation of the building is completed.
A tall case in a corner contains flags used in
three wars. There is a stand of Revolutionary
cOlOrs the colors of the LIST New-York Regiment
used in the storming of Chapultepec in the
Mexican War, and a stand of colors used in the
Civil War.
Mrs Lyle the widow of General Lyle, who
died of WOUNDS received at Antiatam, is the
custodian of the Governors Room. She care
fully explains to visitors that the articles in her
mementos of the earliest days of the re-
public and of his official career in New Y ork
Many visitors to doubt the genuineness of
the collection, because article bears the arms
IF the Washington family do those treasured
at Mount Vernon
The body of Lincoln lay in state at the head of
the stairway in the rotunda directly in front of
the entrance to the Governors Room and the
bodies of Tilden, Greeley and Grant also were
viewed by thousands they lay in state in the
rotunda. The catafalques for Tilden and Grant,
however, were placed on the ground floor. Dur
Ing the War of the Rebellion the bodies of many
fallen heroes bound for New England and the
West were guarded overnight in the rotunda-
on the second floor of the rotunda in a glass
case IS a model of the City Hail. made of card
board by a girl related to of the mayors of
more than fifty years ago. Janitor Reese says
the history of this model has become involved in
such doubt that he knows of nobody who can
tell exactly when from whom it came but he
says it has certainly been there for forty years
and, from the best information he can secure
has probably graced the rotunda for more than
half century. One story attributes the origin
of the model to the administration of Mayor
Westervelt
In the Olden days the fire engines are said to
have beeen kept ir the basement where the
headquarters of the police were also situated
Among the famous men who have spoken
from the balcony steps of the City Hall was
Lincoln. Many evangests of greater or less
celebrity have preached from the steps, and I'M
I'll within recent years the balcony was a ia
Vorite reviewing stand for the mayors and their
guests.
Directly in front of the steps the stand from
which General Benjamin F. Butler vainly en-
deavored to address the people was situated He
was howled down by unfriendly mob, and
finally apple was thrown at his head He
caught pared and ate the missile but was
obliged, despite his coolness to desist.
The two coping stones bearing the names of
the members of the building committee and
others connected with the erection of the City
Han. which were found the other day by W. NJ
Aiken Borough President Cantor's consulting
architect, While he prowling around the
roof, will be moved down to the main corridor
OF the building and set up in the wall as a mural
tablet as possible
The City Hall has been a favorite resort