New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-11-15

..0ut OF town in those fast days!
Well named fair Greenwich by the poet IS
this part Of New-York. which. with the exception
Of the vicinity Of the Battery. is said 10 nave
been the Oldest habitation of white men on the
island. Historians vary in opinion as 10 Us
origin. but most Of them grant 70 SIR Peter
Warren. X. s.. the honor Of founding It. Il the
term may be- used However. in q land convey
ance of 1721. tventy-three years before the al
vent Of Sir Peter. the name Greenwich - uS74
as an alias. originated by whom the writer can
not say.
Sir Peter Warren was some pumpkins IN
New-York in 1T44. He lad then returned rom
Martinique where he had captured many rsich
and Spanish prizes with his squadron OF sixteen
sailing craft. These were sold for him by Ste
phen De Lancey & Co. and netted MN d Gun
siderable fortune. and IL is said he bought MS
Greenwich farm Of three hundred acres Win
part Of the money. At any rate. the rise OF
Greenwich is attributed 10 the willy Sir Peter
who married the daughter OF his sales agent
susannah De Iancey Abingdon Square. Win
its little mark IS a rnemeutO Of the Warren
farm. the Oldest Of Sir Peters three daughters
having married the Earl Of Abingdon. for whom
the square IS named Abijah Hammond became
the owner Of the farm after the death OF the
vtce-admiraI. and in 1919 MI Van Ness pur-
chased from him the mansion. with the square
bounded BY Fourth. Blocker, Perry and Charies
s+e :, 1861 the house was torn down, and most
Of the present houses were erected on its site
M more bev-fIdering confusion Of street forma-
+ion exists anywhere than in this section OF the
city. where was once old Greenwich An exam
ME fs F-ourth-st which crosses Tenth. Eleventh
and Twelfth SIS. at very nearly right angles
Other streets start all right, run Tor d DOCK OF
TWO with regularity and then take uAreasOila--
BILE turns. or else bring one up before a orlcA
wall. This condition may be attributed 20 the
fantastic ideas Of the owners Of land in that
section IN the early period OF the clty CROWN
When a short cut from one place 70 another was
desired they cut a lane. and perhaps another 70
some part Of the farm land. leaving. with what
fnoproved. conditions the city has made in street
making there. a tangled network Of the old and
the new that will not assimilate-
Greenwich Road followed the line OF the pres
ant crAenv-ich-st and led to Greenwich Village
While in dry weather most OF the route was
good ground. in wet weather, especially IN the
region OF the Iispenard salt meadows. which
then Law north and south OF the present Canal
Ct. and OF the marshy valley OF Manetta Creek
(about Charlton-st). II was difficult OF access
An inland road was therefore approved in 1'oo
from the Post Road Ghe present Bowery) 20
what is now Astor Place. then TO Waverley Place
than n Greenwich-ave. Two sections OF this
road exist to-day. Aston Place and Greenwich
ave between Eighth and Fourteenth SITS The
rest is obliteratet-
The omen space al Astor Place IS q part OF the
road to Greenwich known as Monument Lane
or road to the ObeIisk." because at It's northern
extremity. or where Is now Eighth-ave. and FL
+.s,+b-sr a memorial was erected 70 General
17-7z aVr
@ro7, the Bowerv TO washington Square, turned
northwest and skirted Greenwich FA4@se- Al
Jefferson Market. where Greenwich-ave- joins
e,,-n-s,-a the reader will find the last section
OF the inland road
continent musician told the writer & short
+i-,a 400 that no more heaIthfuI location exists
~ N-a7--vor- than what was once the site or
e., ,-tr1aga This was also true in the old days.
CO.. tho eDfdernfcs Of virulent diseases that at
+.cl,ad the old city found no Judgement IN Green
,i,1-fndaed they assisted in her development
This baalthfulness is due TO the fact that the
underlying soil OF the district TO depth OF al
least Aftv feet is a pure sand, and provides ex-
celIent natural drainage
Bank-st is reminiscent OF the yellow Fever
endemic Of 1875 in that the Bank OF NeW-f OK
and a branch Of the Bank OF the United states
--,,asad two plots Of eight city lots each
in Greenwich village-far away from the city
r,r,-e- RI which they could remove in case OF
tatr- ,rarad in danger OF quarantine In 1873
two houses were erected on them and IN Sep
ternber OF the same year the banks were re-
moved to the village, and gave the name 20 me
present street, which was then lane. me year
1922 saw another influx Of population 70 Treen-
y-ich Village because Of its healthfulness- Inc
town sairIy exploded and went flying beyond us
borders as though the pestIence had been
b,,-rfr, mine. The city presented the appear
auce OF a town besieged- From dayoreak III
night one line Of carts. containing boxes mer-
obo,disa and effects, were seen moving tow
cd r.raanvvich Village and the upper parts
= .ta ct+v Carriages and hacks. wagons
ar7 borsar,en. we're securing the streets and
e1,,-.- the roads Temporary stores and
offices were erecting Even on 9~"-3S
carts were in motion. and the saw and hammer
busfIv at work. Within a few days thereafter
1Septenber) the Custom House. the Postofhce
the bank the insurance offices and the printers
of newspapers located themselves in the village
or in the upper part Of Broadway, where they
were free from the impending danger. and these
places almost instantaneously became the sea-
OF the immense business usually carried on ir
the great metropolis" This epidemic caused
the building up OF many streets with numerous
wooden buildings. for the uses Of the merchants
banks, offices. etc" An old authority says "thai
HI saw growing on the present corner o.
Hammond West Eleventh. and Fourth SITS or
a Saturday morning. and the following Mon
day Sykes & Ntblo had house erected capabI'
of accommodating three hundred boarders- Ever
the Brooklyn ferrybOats ran UP here daily"
Three remnants OF the town when the Green
witch region for the most part was open eOun
try. says another authority. are the two old
frame dwellings. removed from their formel
site. "A few feet away 70 their present one. a.
the southeast corner OF EIeventh-st- and sixth