Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-05-11

were glad of a refuge. Then gold lace
on red coats danced in the sun on the
lawns of the Apthorpe estate between
Ninety-first and Ninety-second streets,
where Generals Howe, Clinton and
CORVALLIS at successive stages of the
British occupation made their head
quarters.
The line along which the Harlem
Heights engagement was fought was
selected as a site for a chain of forts to
defend the city from invasion in the
War of 1872. Maj. De Witt Clinton
headed committee of defense of 5000
citizens who built the forts. Delega-
tfons from Tammany Hall, the Masons
and Columbia college worked side by
side on barrier gates, blockhouses and
stone towers.
Home of Edgar Allan Poe.
In 1914 there came to New York
writing man who had lost good place
as editor of a Philadelphia magazine
and who was being tortured by the
desperate illness of his adored wife.
This was Edgar Allan Poe. He had
but little money and there was in him
the premonition of a great sorrow.
He lived for short time in frame
house near the river at Eighty-fOurth
street, and it is commonly believed by
his biographers that it was here that
he wrote 'The Raven" In his intro
dnction to "The Raven and Other
Poems," which was published in 1916,
Poe wrote: Events not to be controlled
have prevented me from making at
any time any serious effort in what,
under happier circumstances, would
have been the field of my choice" He
ton of "The Raven" and it was in
the little cottage there that his wife
died.
A lesser genius than Poe, but one to
whom the world was kinder, also wrote
a famous poem in this neighborhOod.
On the hill at Ninety-sixth street was
a tavern with an intriguing view of the
river. Behind the tavern were several
majestic trees, and towering above
them all, one mighty elm.
George Pope Morris, journalist and
poet, came upon man in the act of
cutting down the elm. He urged SEN
timental reasons for saving the tree,
but it was the timely arrival of a
friend of Morris with $40 that eventu-
ally rescued the elm. Based on this
incident, "Woodman, Spare That Tree, ~
was written in 1887.
Here Britain's Heir Was Feted.
In 1860 the prince of Wales came
overseas to flutter our dovecotes and
was entertained by Fernando Wood
then mayor of the city, at his home on
what is now Seventy-eighth street
The Wood estate extended far along
the river front and the fashionables OF
the town drove out to the entertain
ments given there.
! 1t is after the Civil war, when the
growing city begins to cast about fol
more room and to look northward with
envious eyes, that one in reading ovel
the history of the time feels the com
! ing of the change.
Then the shacks of the squatters be
| gan to spring UP on the fringes Of the
great estates by the river. By 1868 the
boulevard had been laid out and some
t trees along it planted by Boss Tweed
In the years that followed this pur
suit of the old families continued ever
more fiercely. With the coming of the
elevated railroad BlooR,ingdale was NJ
!, more and the day of the real estate
: man had arrived.
On those back lots where the boys o
generation ago snowballed one an
other with fiery zeal great apartment
' houses stand stolidly today. From
\ Grants tomb to Seventy-second stree
t a new race, strange in speech and man
ners to those who knew the West sidt
5 in its early days, now presents fuzz!
/ soft hat and trench bonnet to an aston
e ished sun. Only the river rolling dow1
7 to the sea as in the days when Vera
: zano first dropped anchor by it's banks
Y is the same.