The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-04-23

United States conducted still under the
same family name with which IL made
its beginning. Is about to remove
from the historic Franklin Square;
from tie locality where its plant was
established a hundred ear ago. lack
ing a bare twelvemonth. So soon Us
adequate quarters can be obtained the
transfer will be made. It's new home
Will probably be somewhere in the
Thirtics, between Fourth avenue and
Eighth avenue. the district which
seems now to nave become the entire
of the publishing business. But It is
probable that before the removal takes
place the house of Harper will have
fully rounded out It's fun century of
life and business in the same spot.
Long before the Harper brothers
established themselves on Franklin
Square the locality was famous both
In this country and across the ocean.
William Walton, n merchant. erected
at what is now $50 Fearl street. then
known as Queen street, his home, In
1852. As "A structure It was the finest
the city had ever known. and so rich
were its furnishings and y splendid
the entertainments with which is
master RECALLED his fellow townsmen
that their fame spread to London.
They were cited AS a proof that Amer
ican colonists were wealthy. and when
the colonies protested against the
Stamp act. the Walton house. its
splendor and the magnifcencc OF its
owner were pointed TO as c~o,futinr
the argument that the colonies could
reasonably resist the tax on the score
OF financial inability, The mansion
stood as late as 1881, having by that
time become "A chcap tenement, but
still retaining traces Of its former
grandeur.
Just across the square from the Har-
p,r building is Cherry Hill. once
famous first, for its picturesque beauty
ana its rare fruit trees. liter as the
centre of the city's wealth and fashion,
and still later for tho sordid contrast
with what II once was. Al the foot of
this hill. where lis gentle slope met the
Est River. one Richard Sacket. an
EnyIishman and "A maltstcr. built "A
large. house for himself and covered
the incline with rows on rows of
cherry trees.
They We're among the first 10 be
planted in this country. and +, was
thought by many tha, they could not,
flourish. or even live. in tho foreign
Innate. Bur they did both. and their
beauty and rarity Trough, 50 many
sigh ,seers IN wbai VAS ,l,en a country
distric, that the mals,er gave IN his
business and turned hi. house mi
h into a nI,ce ~ entertainment,
for tho CITY fnlk caiIiry II Cberrv Gar
80 L,,ri,, &c. - ~ o., .
c;tv ana sin i,,er w,s cov.r.d b, "
bo,,s.. ~, On, v,o,, % 10 which ,o,o
MACE NJ las, IN ,epenepts
For long wears, after the middle OF
the last century the Cherry Hill neigh
borhood was distinctly an Irish quarter
Of the CITY. filled with the frs, and SOC
ond generations Of people from the
Emerald Isle. II was there and there-
about tina; Ned Harrigan OF Uarriran
and Hart. himself a prodlc, Of a sim
liar ~neichDorhooi in WILLIAMSBURG.
found and idcalizc1 as DicEons dtd Ms
London characters. tho living neonla
with whom he filled Ills songs and his
pIays .padlv DuYv's carr" ..Tbo
Mul,ip,n Guards" and ris o,b,r .o,r,
eynressea brt familiar cvcr,d,. iif. .,
th,.s. neonIc who livc1 ,ho,, 10 49,.
sam, ,bo,n
rhen cnn,c tho c,i, a,ys uLar
made ,h.. ul,co o,n,os, os u,.,r. a.
the stranger .s TN. Five p,l,.s .,,r
was. when ,huys lay ip uai, ,,- ~.
sa ilors coming from ar po.rp T., -bo,r
hoa rdlrc bo,s., g. ,licL ,ho,o -,
sbouIlc- ,och other ON yva,er unvcr
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