The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-12-30
In the 'NM,

To rHE EDITOR or TIM STS SIR. The
soldiers barracks we're standing in the
battery, which Was then enclosed in a tall
iron spiked fence i,h gate openings From
state street and Whitehall 10 the Staten
Island ferry all kinds Of refreshments were
sold from stands backed up sRains, tho
fenc. and oW ned mostly by old Irish omen
who smoked their dudeens in perfect com
posture before the passing crowds. The
confederate prisoners were a feature that
mas impressed itself on my memory They
wars there in ~. I helieye, in great mum
hers. probably on their way south The
barracks were hung in mourning after
Lincoln was shot. and saw his dead body
as its funeral carriage hor. u along Battery
plac. around the Rowling Green and up
broadway {" the 'tty Hall. wh-r. IL lay
in state
IN" Battery thcn had a littl. beach that
>lop"d gently int" tn" water about "A
hundred feet ar NOR. beyond tho beach
was - l'dg" Of rocks. Nh.r. the granite.
wall now stands II ha- all been filed IN
since except the ha~In vh.r~ the rowhoa,s
Ntiil are Their" w-r- - number OF trees ia
IN" park Of which III" weeping willows
stand out conspicuous IN memory Their.
""r" baseball grounds and - crack team.
known A. IA" Mohavk> ". NJ m. old
FIRST ~ard were very proud of them
fellow named raar- wa- their pitcher
'ld Hot Peach MAS then the crack rover
OF IN" world "" beat ","ryIhing m sight
and out or sight "" Opened oysters then.
as ~" in"- now. and AT intervals grapped
for tie. drowned
DO any "f Your reader, rcmsm her the
primary school on sion. street lust east %,
Whitehall street; ! graduated from IT IN
1857 and entered -. ON Greenwich stree,
Just above Rector street, While wn, there
IN - ar 80 the first elevated road was
erected Mr.. Duny. a tail. Iank man With
long red beard. was principal y a..
Duny taught the highest class
AZ the old Post once building AZ , adar
and Nassau streets there MAS n tower from
which a bell rang fire alarms indicating nv
the number Of lis strokes the location Of th,.
IRE W" kids III winter used Ia coast down
Exchange place from Broadway TO Broad
street AZ tn" peril of or lives | saw the.
Fast River when III" ice foe- w.r. packed
so tight that people walked across IN safety
{" BROOKLYN ! saw gang OF Italians with
picks and ave. "hopping -olid bloc - of dirty
t'" ont Of broadway below Fulton street ~
night | remember the old mamme- and
their mu..cal call Hot corn Hot corn" l.
Na- delicious too
The city was vid" open then chatham
street vas an nhomnatIon - was luw"H
Grr"nvi'h street Poic, shops wsr" all
over IN" tlr-t "ard even the children knew
OF them and what thr, meant Politics va
red hot Blood-hri even murder Wa not
an un' omroa o,,urTen'" HE CIV. COM
plratiN"lr. - nov garden of the Lord
tbout that 'rW" tHo boys distinguished
th"m-.lNr~ NJ N" "N?iO- on OF III" Ms-rii..d
a staten Island terry boat. that blew ~ on.
SUNDAY ia Juit IT, " was about to !raNr The.
-lp. They w"r" " haTi rHi- and ere named
Rat Connrr- and Red lack Barry The,
-a, 49, - number Of lives and the new -papsrs
OF the dav were full ct thotr prat-" sno'hrr
Barry 81 the old Fir-t ward and q ,ourrn-
porary of Red lack ha- Jared hotter than
has na'n"-ak" "" i uow MaIor-,,encraI
Of tn" I nit"d States Army and IN charge of
West Point wondsr 4 he remembers vel
'ow Jack O'k"rf-. Who went TO Annapolis
and Wa- nrc'' BATTERY BOY
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