New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-12-03

iI,- which the patriots were taking a crack at
in this fashion. Another says tnat nee Tog s
clares that the tops were knocked oft for use
as cannon balls. At any rate, they We're knocked
off in the Revolution. and there was. somethlng
about them offensive to the Americans.
Two and one-haf minutes walk down Broad
St from the Sub Treasury, at the northwest cor
Ier of BeaVer-st. is a tablet WIlCh TldIhS ne
spot where, on June %, ITO, Marinus W1Iett,
a man VINO afterward became Mayor OF the
city by the simple act of turning morse
head and jumping to the seat Of the driver
saved a lot of British arms for the future uSs
| Of the Americans little further down Broad
St on the opposite side. two minutes, walk, IS
the famous Frances Tavern, the oldest land
| mark in the city. Visiting the Long Room,
| where General Washington babe his officers
| farewell, Is not altogether a pleasant expert
| ence for it is reached only by passing barroom
| signs It reeks with fumes from the saloon on
| the ground floor. The building, which STANDS
at Broad and Pearl-sts., is still used hotel.
| Going UP Pearl-st. nearly to Hanover Square,
i the old Printing House Square and shopping dis
| trict where women used to go in their sedan
chairs a walk of one minute from the tavern
| and five and one-half from the Sub-Treasury.
| brings one to No. IS Pearl-st. the site of the
| first CITY. Hall. A tablet the third story of
The building now occupying it tells all about it
| to those who crane their necks from the other
side of the street and have good eyesight
If one expects to find the odd jackkntfe
building, at the northwest corner of Gold and
Platt SITS. just east of William-st, about four
and one-half minutes from the Sub Treasury
and six from the Postofice structure extend
ing around two sides of square like a knife
/ half oDen. he will be greatly mistaken. 1t is
only the big blade The building is about twelve
/ feet wide at one end and the width of narrow
staircase at the other Its upper stories
entered by climbing outside stairway. It is
four stories high and is the side of tavern
which was shaved off in 1884 TO make way for
Walking east along FuIton-st. to William-st
and turning south TO No 122, stands in front
of a dingy three story and attic building more
than hundred years old. In its prime it was
the Golden Hill Inn but the buzz of steam saw
has replaced the buzz of tavern habitues. The
pleasant odor of pine sawdust greets the nostrils
as one steps inside to look out into the little
ward in the where the first blood in the
J Revolution was she'd January IS, 1870. This
may be the building down whose chimney Wash
,ogton Irving when a boy amused himself by
dropping stones. Irving was born in a house
which stood across the way at No. 13l. and
spent his boyhood in house AT No. 128, two
doors above. And this is five minutes walk
from the Postoffice. where the liberty pole stood
over whose destruction by the Tories the Golden
Hill battle fought
The old Methodist Episcopal Church between
Nassau and William sts- on the south side of
John-st which stands on the site of the first
Methodist Church in America, only four and
one half minutes Journey on foot from the Post
office contains several tablets OF interest to
eyoo5 NTetbodists One Of them tells the story
Of Francis Asbury. the pioneer Methodist bishop
tn America, who entered the ministry the
III ~ a-,a,+aan nreached his first sermon here
on November IS, 1771, ordained over 5000 min
fsters and filled several barrels with sermons,
the total number of discourses being 1900
Going down through the odorferous leather
district to the anchorage of the Brooklyn Bridge
where the house occupied by President Wash
irp+on stood, and tramping on down Cherry
w5ieh begins here, to No 81. the house is
reached where 1t is said. the first American flag
of the present style was made in 1913, by the
Wifa of samuel G. Reid. the hero of Fayal.
This once fashionable street is eight minutes
walk from the Postoffice
reIic OF the first coming OF Jews to this
| country $50 years ago is TO be found by walking
! I'm park Row TO Chatham Square and turning
| down the New Bowery d few Feet rms is
nine minutes jaunt across the site of the old
aixissing bridge at Baxter-st Here is the hrst
place of Rest" or Jewish cemetery Strings
| of clothes swing across the broken stones In