The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1920-08-05

THE growth Of New York City Is
marked where the tides of Its
population have swept over an
Client villages that lay in its way.
Greenwich Village, Chelsea Village.
once isolated settlements, were sub
merged and lost their separate .iden-
titles in the old days, Now with all
the territory covered up to Yonkers.
the tide swings further and further OF
into the Bronx along the Sound, a"
II you want to see the latest village
within the city limits that Is due for
overlooking, take the Lexington Ave-
nue subway to Simpson Street and
then the Pelham Bay Park car that
runs on the surface out Westchester
Avenue under the almost completed
elevated -subway branch to the park,
This branch will bring the spreading
tide after September, the year when
the subway is expected to be In OPP
GRAFTON.
As Washington Heights was not so
long ago verdant hills and trees, 30
Westchester Village is now, and what
the Heights is to-day, apartment
houses thicker than blanks In a. lot-
terry, 40 Westchester will be soon. .f..
The magic city that has sprung ZIP
around Hunts Point With subway'set-
Vice to Simpson Street Is evidence af
what will happen to Westminster. ..
Michael A. Buckley, for twentystwoT
years real estate dealer in the heart
Of the village says: THE first hum
dred years are The hardest, but now,
Westchester has passed over that.
You can see thhs il an old historic
section, going way back 70 the Rev
olutionary days. .'
at the corner of r. Treriont Street
and WhliaGnsbridge Road right up
Westchester Square Ii the Village
Blacksmith, that Is 100 years old
II has passed through many changes
In Its day. Westohester children
who have looked in at It's fiHm-
ing forge now look in at It's gas
tank. With tho passing OF the
horse It turned into q service, station
for automobiles, The anvil is still In
tho back but its forge doesn't flame
any more.
THE old Ferris mansion up on Ed
ison Avenue and Dtiddletown Road Is
a famous relic. It's a typical colan
lal manor hO1lse with pillared por
tico. Standing on n hill It commands
view across tho marshland toward
the Bronx River. Lord Howe. COM,
nlander OF the British forces in the
Revolution, used this house as his
headquarters during tho White Plains
campaign. 1t rs now occupied by the
Cathedral Girls Club"
/ am Informed that the Bronx River.
h the only river thnt flows through
tire boundaries OF New York City and
that the British Navy. unaware OF it's
tiny dimensions, ordered It's fleet TO
sail up this stream to the battle Of
whte PLAINS. r."
Then there is the famous spy Oak
standing on westchester Avenue be-
hds the new subway branch above
Buhre," Mr.. Buckley continued Gen.
Washington used this tree on which
to hang Tories and traitors. An eff
nay OF the Kaiser was strung UP on
It during our war, This tree is dead
now and decaying. II Is an unpro-
tected historical relic and some or
ganizatIon ought TO preserve it. I'VE
have some great old estates up here.
Hundreds of acres still undeyeloped.
On the old Lyons estate the cele-
brated Keeiey Cure was started, but
We don't need that any more There
IL the Hunter estate. Daily estate, the
old Norris Park race track that was
sold ~ 1908 the Seabury place, the