The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1917-06-08


RESIDENCE or Cha
- INCE the squatter days it has
been called Mount Tom-that
pile OF rocks on Riverside drive
- at Eighty-fourth street, New
York, from the slippery summit OF
which there Ia q free sweep OF the
river below. Riverside park was
once named, and appropriately,
Bloomingdale-a region OF great
farms and nower-hung lanes. Here
old Knickerbocker families settled
down to dreamy contemplation Of the
Hudson. Until 1703 there was no road
from the city to this loveliest OF
suburbs, and communication was by
water. The Bloomingdale road, which
ran approximately along the line OF
Broadway, was later trampled by the
feet OF Washington's retreating army
fleeing northward In the fall Of 1770.
An interesting group Of French ref
ugees from the Reign Of Terror made
their headquarters in the region
around Seventy-second street. In the
chalet Of Nine. D'Auliffe, one-time lady
In waiting to Marie Antoinette, aristo-
cratic heads we're laid together plan
ming return to their beloved France.
Here came Louis Philippe wearied by
his long exile. The man who one day
was to. wear the crown Of France was
at that time teaching in Dutch home
on the river at what Is now Seventy
fifth street. Joseph Bonaparte was
also a visitor at Nine. D'Auliffe's dur
ing his stay in this country, and the
great Talleyrand walked among the
trees that ran down to the rivers edge
Stephen Jumel used to drive down
from his home on the heights.
Old Landmark on the Drive.
Where the residence of Charles M
Echwab now fronts the Hudson, be-
| tween Seventy third and Seventy
fourth streets the Bloomingdale Or
phan asylum was once a. landmark
Among the dlrectresses Of the institu'
ton appears the name OF Mrs. Alexan
der Hamilton, daughter of Gen. PhiliI
Schuyler.
Barnard college girls are hurryinf
to recitations across the famous buck
wheat field where the hot little out
post engagement that historians dig
nifty by the name Of the battle o.
Harlem Heights was fought on Sep
TENDER 18, 1776.
Washington had snatched his raw
militiamen from under the guns O.
Howe's victorious army In Brooklyn
and marched them through the cit.
and on through Bloomingdale and TIL
quaint Dutch village Of Harlem above
Howe, stung by realization Of the op
pOrtunity he had lost, was pressing
close behind. Then came the episod
at the Murray home, the delay Their
Of the hot and weary British officer
beside the alluring Murray Maderi
and the chance that Washington ha'
been praying for-the chance for
breathing space and reorganization.
Washington sent out Gen. Thoma
Knowlton, who had smelled powder q
Bunker Hill, at the head Of compan
OF rangers to make a reconnaissance
In the neighborhood Of Horns Hool
now dominated by Grants toni
Knowlton's lean deer stalkers cam
upon a company of Hessians In tn
buckwheat and the fight that followe
ragged all the way from the Hudson t
the Manhattan Hollow Way. Know
ton was killed, but his rangers she
true and the brisk skirmish ended wit
ITO British dead and loss to tn
Americans Of but 80.
Victory chssrsd Washington.
Harlem Heights was a silver linin
In the dark cloud that hung owe
Washington. He wrote Of the Ell
counter that 1t cheered his men pr
digiously." 1.-THE success Of the ba
tle," says one historian, put ne
courage into the army and exerted
wide influence over subsequel
events"
When the last Of Washington
army had drawn sullenly away fro
the city, loyalists from all parts Of Il
state poured into New York. The
! had not been happy, these Tories, d
spised OF their neighbors, and tnt
, were glad Of a refuge. Then gold La
on red coats danced In the sun on II
lawns of the Apthorpe estate betwe'
Ninety first and Ninety-second street
; where Generals Howe, Clinton al
. CORVALLIS at successive stages of Il
British occupation made their hea
, quarters.
The line along which the Harle
[ Heights engagement was fought W
selected as site for chain of forts
defend the city from invasion In t
War OF 1912. Maj. De Witt Clint
! headed committee Of defense of 80