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

A
~ been called Mount Tom-that
pile of rocks on Riverside drive
at Eighty-fourth street, New
York, from the slippery summit of
which there is free sweep of the
river below. Riverside park was
once named, and appropriately,
Bloomingdale-a region of great
farms and flower-hung lanes. Here
old Knickerbocker families settled
down to dreamy contemplation of the
Hudson. Until 1903 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
heeing northward in the fall of 1776.
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 were 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 a Dutch home
on the river at what is now Seventy
fifth street. Joseph Bonaparte was
also a visitor at Nine. D'Auliffe's dur
in hic cs@o ;o
great Talleyrand walked among the
trees that ran down to the-river's edge.
Old Landmark on the Drive.
Where the residence of Charles M.
tween Seventy-third and Seventy
fourth streets, the Bloomingdale Or
phan asylum was once a landmark.
Among the directresses of the institu-
ton appears the name Of Mrs. Alexan-
der Hamilton, daughter of Gen. Philip
Schuyler.
Barnard college girls are hurrying
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 of
Harlem Heights was fought on Sep
tember 49, 1776.
| Washington had snatched his raw
| militiamen from under the guns OF
Howe's victorious army in Brooklyn
and marched them through the city
and on through Bloomingdale and the
quaint Dutch village of Rarlem above
| a op
portunity he had lost, was pressing
close behind. Then came the episode
at the Murray home, the delay there
Of the hot and weary British officer:
beside the alluring Murray Maderis
and the chance that Washington hat
been praying for-the chance for :
breathing space and reorganization.
Washington sent out Gen. Thoma!
knowlton, who had smelled powder a
Bunker Hill, at the head of compan,
of rangers to make q reconnaissance
in the neighborhood of Horns Hook
now dominated by Grants tomb
KnOWlton's lean deer stalkers cam,
upon a company Of Hessians in tn,
buckwheat and the fight that followed
ragged all the way from the Hudson t.
the Manhattan Hollow Way. Kn0wl
ton was killed, but his rangers sho
true and the brisk skirmish ended witt
40 British dead and a loss to tn,
Americans of but 80.
Victory Cheered Washington.
Harlem Heights was a silver linin!
la the dark cloud that hung owe
Washington. He wrote of the en-
counter that it cheered his men ''pro
digiously." "The success of the bat
tle,'' says one historian, put nev
courage into the army and exerted
wide influence over subsequen
events"
When the last of Washington
army had drawn sullenly away fron
the city, loyalists from all parts of tn
state poured into New York. The,
had not been happy, these Tories, dc
spised of their neighbors, and the