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among the most desirable in the city, were
assessed at from $4,000 to $4,000. BY 1885
the values had risen only slightly. Inciden-
tally the old records showed that by some
chance none of these residents owned slaves.
Among the tax payers were such good old
New York names Rogers, Campbell,
Schermerhorn, Ryan and Prime. The city
directory of 1851 shows that business was
already crowding into the old exclusive resi-
Dental section, and in the last house on Bat
terp Place, at the corner of West Street, we
find among the residents one "Cornelus Van
derbilt, steamboats," The present owner Of
the block of old mansions is Edward F.
Searles. The old buildings are appraised at
only $25 ,000 but the lot itself at 100000
From early times Battery Park was in
sense the civic center Of the city. Pier "A
important point of departure and ar
rival and the position centrally located for
the population crowded about the Battery.
AS early as 1884 the Battery, by official
der, was kept clear of houses, and carriers
were restricted in their use of the park. One
of the early Governors formally received
here and publicly congratulated on his re-
turn in safety from voyage to Albany.
Directly opposite the mansions of the bal
cony stood the famous fagpole frequently
mentioned in the histories of old New York.
1t had been built in 1793,. with curious,
rounded base, and from 1905 on was used as
refreshment stand. Washington Irving,
who lived in a nearby street and frequented
the park, compared the flagstaff to a churn.
1t was afterward universally know as "The
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Bv EMM A BUGBEE
Illustration by Douglas Ryan

enough in the contemp latlon of and sun
and the serene pleasure Of Celia Thaxter's
1ower-filed drawing room. And to genera
ton wise in the ways of promoters and adver
Using it is not strange at all that the islands
are reverting to their prehistoric silence-a
silence broken only by the clanking of the old
fashioned bell in the chapel tower and the
sound of psalms in the summer twilight.
If you motoring up the New England
coast, along through Hampton and Rye
beaches, before you reach Portsmouth itself
there will come day clear and sparkling,
when the sky curves to meet the sea, bowl Of
turquoise without bemish, and the air is so
clear you will be sure you see to England
if you reach the next ridge before sunset. On
that day you will see the Isles of Shoals You
will perhaps jot it down in your mind that it
would be pleasant to explore their purple
heights, but the garage man will tell you that
the sparkling path to the east is rough and
not laid out for automobiles; so you 60 your
way without seeing what is one of the
most romantic spots in all the legend-laden
shore.
There is, we all admit, not much to see with
the modern eye-a cluster Of small rocky ISL
ands, covered with spare grasses and few
starved bushes, with the gaunt ugly outline of
the old Oceanic House rising abruptly from the
water Its barracks hide the lovely little stone
chapel on the height on Star Island, and the
monument beyond which records the fact that
Captain John Smith discovered the islands in
1914. Somewhere Appledore, which was
Celia Thaxter's island are few scrubby trees
and clump of loyal sumacs still stand guard
over her neglected Grave as if determined that
she who loved her island garden should at
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1ATI1ER TIME COUNTS TEN IN BATTERY PI4AC
By FRANCIS A. COLLINS
Drawing BY l.. M. Glackens

Markctfield Street, and the name chung to it
until well along in the Nineteenth century.
The street facing the Battery was a continual
ton Of street which originally extended east
Of Broadway, and a section of this which
faces the court of the Produce Exchange still
retains the old name. In the days of the
English occupation it was called Petticoat
Lane, because of being the favorite shopping
street of the old town.
The earliest picture of Battery Place and
the mansion of the balcony, so far is
known, was made in 1880. IT shows the pres
ent block Of houses facing the park between
Greenwich and Washington Streets as they
appear to-day. A high fence encloses Bat
terry Park. An elaborate iron gateway stood
directly opposite the mansion Of the balcony
The last block of private houses off Battery
Place, which is about to disappear,
built just previous to 1920. If the print IS
to be trusted, the block between Washington
and West Streets had not yet been built
The early records of the tax Office disclose
some interesting facts about early real estate
values. In 1923 these mansions, which were
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Churn,' and for many years was popular
place of meeting.
During the War of 1912 Battery Park was
once more used for military purposes. The
American troops drilled here before going to
the front, and the maneuvers and parades
were watched by crowds Battery Place. In
1872 the Southwest Battery as it was then
called, was built on ledge 100 yards beyond
the sea wall 1t was connected with the main
land by a long bridge. Later the fort
known as Castle Clinton, then as Castle Gar
den, and in our own day the Aquarium
For more than half century the streets
facing Battery Park were the home of wealth
and fashion and by far the most desirable
neighborhood of the city. The early chroni-
Giles are full Of it's praises. 1t was centrally
located being within five minutes walk of
Wall Street and the business sections. People
looked out over the harbor and enjoyed the
sunsets and the breezes from the bay. Bat
terry Park was then the city's promenade,
much as Fifth Avenue is to-day. Castle
Garden, the opera house of that period, where
the greatest musicians of the world were
heard, stood just the park.
The old mansions of the balcony on Battery
Place are type of the best architecture of
the period. Their simple but stately lines are
a vivid reminder of the best homes of their
day. 1t is likely that Richard Grant White
had these houses in mind when he wrote of
this ncighborhood: "The houses We're most of
them very simple in their exterior but they
had an air of large and elegant domestcity
which proved them the homes of people OF
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THE TWILIGHT OF GOSPORT

least hear the rustling Of leaves as long as
wood and sap had power to resist storms. Her
peoples and sweetpeas and pansles have long
since vanished, and the sturdiest of the 'es-
capped from gardens" varieties persisted in the
fire which destroyed her cottage and the hotel
over which she ruled many years ago.
The wife Of one of the lfe-saving crew can
show the chance pilgrim only coffee pot which
was rescued from the charred cellar.
The only survivor of the era of Celia
Thaxter is "Uncle Oscar" Leighton, brother
Of the poetess, who acts as host to the island
and personal conductor to the spots she loved.
He was one of the Leighton brothers who
built the hotel and son of that obstinate and
PICTURESQUE old lighthouse keeper whose volun-
tary exile from Portsmouth begins the ro-
nance of Celia Thaxter.
Father Leighton, SO the story runs-doubt-
less they have many of the details wrong
in order to escape jury duty got himself ap-
pointed keeper of the lighthouse, and there
he and his family lived for many years, while
the child Celia grew up, loving with the pas
sion of loneliness the winged creatures who
fed on the beach and the frail flowers that
marked the coming of spring among the salt
grasses. She grew up, as lighthouse keepers
daughters have since romance was invented,
shy and mpressionabe, so that when the
handsome young school teacher came to Star
Island she gave him at once all the love of
a budding heart For many years after her
marriage she lived in Cambridge and other
mainland towns where his profession called
him, but it the plant of her homesick-
ness for her islands, expressed in Land
locked which began her career as a poetess,
and it the pain of that inconsistencies
which brought her back to the islands to live
the declining years of her life.
1t is she to whom we arc chiefly indebted
for reclaiming the story Of the islands 4 Her
little old red volume, published in &i873,
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it comes as a surprise to many to know that
Castle Garden was the home Of opera for
years. Here were heard, among others, such
stars as Mario and Grsi, the greatest tenor
and soprano of their day. The seating capac-
ity Of the Metropolitan Opera House is scarce
ly more than half that of the old Castle
Garden. Battery Park ceased to be the
musical center of New York in 1854, when
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round tables and movable chairs, where ices
served between the acts
Few New Workers of to-day realize the ex-
cellence of these entertainments or the size of
the audiences they attracted. The Garden
seated from 5000 to 5000 people, and it was
frequently filled to overfowng Every one
knows of the concerts given by Jenny Lind in
1850 under the direction of P. T. Barnum, but
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among the Isles of Shoals is not only a
guidebook to the islands history, but treas
ure house of fantasies and ghost stories, of
Captain Kidd and magic disappearing spade
that marks hidden treasure, and eere mourn
full maidens who wall for sailor lovers
She it is, too who really introduces US to
Capn Joe.
1t would take many weeks of sailing with
this taciturn old salt to unearth the extraordi-
nary fact that he who helps US into our boat
so steadily is the last living islander"
that he is, moreover descended from that
Samuel Haley who was the pillar of society
in the days of the hustlng fishing town.
Capn Joe Haley has lived all his life on
the islands, and if it not for the ridicu-
lous notions of his children he would be living
there yet, for all his sixty-odd years, per-
fectly contented in his snug cottage all
winter long, with no other living being on
storm-swept Star.
my daughter lives down south Of Boston,"
he says with his wistful smile. ''It's only
sixty miles to Providence, though, and l can
get down there once in a while in the winter
to take look at the ocean"
He has not the sweep of language to tell of
his love of these islands, but Celia Ihaxter
felt it, too, and bore witness in these words
"No other place is able to furnish the in
habitants of the Shoals with sufficient air for
their capacious lungs; there IS never scope
enough elsewhere there is no horizon; they
must have sea room. On shore it is to them
if all the trees and houses crowded against
the windows to suffocation.'
Old Samuel Haley lived to be elgnty-four,
enterprising and independent old squire,
who built with treasure from the wreck of
Spanish ship, Sagunto) a sea-wal which stin
connects the two smaller islands, Smutty- nose
and Malaga, and provided, as his epitaph has
recorded, an Enclosure which gave safe harbor
to ''many poor distressed seaman and fisher
man in distress of weather"
The proper pilgrim travels to Smutty- nose
with Captain Joe, and sitting on the site Of
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berry bushes, and the little stone chapel built
on the windswept rock.
For ten months of the year the islands are
deserted From Gosport, in the days before
the Revolution, the latest news from the
Colonies was picked up by English sailing YES
sells. to appear later in the London papers.
But to-day no news ever comes out of the
islands save occasional storm warnings from
the lonely wireless station OF the United
States Navy, whose staff compose the only
ycar-round inhabitants.
Cosport is long since swallowed up in the
musty records of the historical societies. The
Isles of Shoals, however, are still glorlhed IN
tho memories of an earlier generation as
the home of Celia ThaXter and the haunt OF
her little group of New England intcl4ectuals,
Whittier Lowell and Oliver Wendell Holmes.
Those were the days when two great hotels
loomcd above the msts, reckoning lovers of
the sea and admirers Of the poetess from
all over the country Every pious New Eng
lander used to quote "Thou, little sandplpcr,
and l." and the other day young man from
Salt Lake City gave testimony that he had
mcmorized the same lines in his third year
reader Perhaps the reason for Celia
Thaxter's fame in those days was that she
sang not only to New England, which loved
the sea for its own, but to the pioneer gen.
Grafton which had turned it's back upon the
sea, farng into the Far w cst, but still cherish
ing in It's hearts the love Of wind and wave,
and fog swept marshes.
70 restless generation which demands
long, level roads, motion picture theatcrs and
crowded boardwaks there is something
strange about the little colony the rocks,
twenty five, fifty years ago, who were happy
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taste and charac-
ter
In 1922, when
the Federal gov
eminent took pos
session of Cover
nor's Island, the
Battery was coded
to the city. Later
c a S t | 9 Clinton
passed by lease
into private hands,
and was converted
into a public as
sembly room, when
it was renamed
Castle Garden. The
old fort became a
fashionable resort.
1t was furnished
with rows Of wood
en- benches, which
w re thronged
with the quality Of
the town. The pit
of the house was
furnished at this
period with many
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the opera moved uptown to Fourteenth Street.
The sea wall Of the Battery continued to be
the popular promenade of the city for more
than half century. The old mansions on
Battery Place enjoyed an unobstructed view of
this parade, which was on a line with their
windows. New York was famous for the
Continued on page t1celve)
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n 70 OTHER balcony in New York has
~ looked down upon so much of the
citys history in the making. 1t
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Bisbee daily review., 1921-03-17
ROBBERS UNDER FIRE LE|SuRELY BLOW UP VAULT
Take $3O,O0O From Kansas Bank; Send Telephone
 Operator Back To Bed

UNIONTOWN, Kan, March 16. - While residents fired occasional shots at them. bandits dynamited the vault of the State Bank today, packed prac- tically all of the currency and securi- ties into sacks and escaped in mo- tor car. The loot is estimated at be- tween $3O.O00 and S40,0OO.
 Mrs. Ofee Thompson, night tele- phone operator. heard the bandits out side the telephone building. where they were cutting the wires. She ask ed what was going on.
 ~Go back to bed or we'll blow up the building" one replied. Were going to rob the bank"
 Mrs. Thompson says she took their advice.
 After footing the wrecked bank vault. the robbers stood on the cor ner several minutes. according to res idents. Then they walked to a motor car and drove away. Bank officials said today the loss was covered by insurance.
Bisbee daily review., 1921-03-17

You cant imagine a merchant or manufac- turer advertising a lot of articles that are poor Tn quality, poor ill make, and that will not give reasonable wear. Such goods cant stand the s t raj n of advertising. The business can't stand the strain of public condemnation.
 w h en a merchant signs his name to a state ment he is careful of what he says. When the whole reputation of his business is at stake. he is doublv careful. When that statement is being sent out to all the people,
Bisbee daily review., 1921-03-17
Millions or German Money Held
 Ln US., Whose Banks Allies May
 Use As Depositary For Indemnity

WASHINGTON, March 16. = (By the Associated Press)-Inclusion by the allied reparations commission of the American federal reserve banks as an optional depositary for German indemnity payments, brought from treasury officials tonight the state ment that the commission possibly had two purposes in view
 To enable Germany to call upon vast credits" which it is said to hold through private agents in the United States.
 To employ in favor of the allied governments the tremendous differ ence in exchange rates.-
 Money in Individuals Names
 Information gathered by the reserve banks was said to show that Since the armistice Germany had been amassing credits in United States na- tional banks, holding the funds in the names of individuals.
 Officials said that the. amount would run into many millions. This money. it was said, was presumed to be for use in Germany's future trade much of which would center in the United States.
 There had been no intimation given the United States that its banking system might be employed as the rep arationS note forwarded to Berlin to- day suggested, officials stated. The mere fact that this governments banks would serve as practically neu- tral territory. so far as reparations were concerned, was not accepted as the full reason for the commissions proposal. although the reserve banks have acted as depositaries for several foreign governments.
 Means PIacino Further Credits
 Some $50 100000 is held for foreign governments. the weekly statement of the federal reserve board shows. and tn receive denosit from Germany. al. though technical enemv.,would mean only the placing of that additional credit tn the nations desfgnated by the commission.
 Tn some quarters it was believed that allied iutelligence agents had discovered the existence Of the Ger man funds here and that the commits sion had acted on the feeling Germany would use the. money in indemnity
Bisbee daily review., 1921-03-17
Comiskey Fires AM Players k
 Baseball Scandal
American League President Cancels Contracts Of
 Seven White Sox

CHICAGO, March 16. - Charles
 Comiskey, president of the Chicago American league baseball club. today severed all relations with seven White Sox players connected with the 1919 world series scandal. fn a commun- ication addressed to the players. Com. lskey notified them that as a result or the gambling probe all contracts between them and the club are to he considered null and void. [
 The players, formerly under sus. pension, have now had their connec. tions with the club permanently elim- mated. Those to whom the notice was directed are: Charles Risbers. Fred McMullin, Joe Jackson, Oscar Felsch. George Weaver, c. P. Will Hams and E. V. Cicotte. The com from Comiskey said:
 investigation of conditions sur rounding your connection with organ. 1zed baseball has induced the confes- sion that the undersigned does not desire any further contractual or oth. CT business relations with you. or either of you, and consequently here by notifies you. and each of you. of the undersigned's election to termin. ate any and all existing contracts be- tween you and each of you and the and the undersigned hereby notifies you of your discharge rom any and all employment and of the undersigned's election to termin. ate all It's liabilities and obligations under any and all contracts now or existing between you. and each of you, and the undersigned"
Bisbee daily review., 1921-03-17
"PRE ESIDENT,.OF REPUBLIC" SAYS IRISH READY TO DIE FUR CAUSE
Asserts Defense Against Lloyd Georges Murder
 Horde" Will Continue

DUBLIN, March 16 (By the Asso- Ii".eu rress. )-- Eamonn de Valera ieauer Of the republicans and .'presi- ueht or the Irish republic" gave n personal interview today 10 The As. soclated Press correspondent. This IS the flrst interview he has accord. ea any newspaper representatiy since hls return from the United States to Ireland.
 IT Siny proof of the extraordinary precautions taken by his. followers to insure his protection were needed fl was afforded by the care taken in escortlng the correspondent to and rom his presence For an hour afr. CT leaving. the correspondent was un- der the closest surveillance not only rom hls escort, but. as it seemed. rom everybody in Dublin.
 In the conversation which lasted three-ouarters of an hour de Valera told Of the impressions he had brought back from America and re- marked
 Not Religious Wrangle.
 The saddest thing there 10 me was to see the Irish queAion treat ed by so many peofle as if it were a religious wrangle. It is not re. llgious question, even insofar as the difference here between the north and south are concerned"
 He spoke bitterly of the English governments lack of principle and craftsmanship"
 "England,.' he said. is trying 10 win by playing on human weakness. As a matter of fact. though it does not realize it. England is playing not on the weakest but theN sfrorr--st quality Of the Irish people her spiritual quality. The young .,n of ireland are saying to themsel $: At best, the span of life is oniy I7 wears We must all die: so why not now in like these. Never perhaps. as by dyins in such cauaa as lreland's could we do so much for the world
 Ensland may try to contend that men like those executed in Mount Joy were murderers. She wiH find it much harder than she imap'1es to get the world to accept that view"
 Excellent Health
 The Irish leader is in excellent health, but his friends in America would hardly recognize hsm. for he Is on the run and naturally does not reveal himself unnecessarily. He looks extremely fit and conveys the impression of being free from any sense of personal dangers.
 The volunteer who conducted the to de Valera's resi- fence. said that despite the protests lf his friends. de Valera persisted n working from a. m to II ID. m. The intensity of his concentration
 CONTINUED ON PAGE FIyE)
Bisbee daily review., 1921-03-17
Unemployment
 Continues To
 Spread h us.
One Per Cent Fewer Held Jobs In February Than
 In Preceding Month

WASHINGTON, March Is - The number of persons employed in tbe
 Onlted States continued 10 decrea se during February. the department =, laoor s emcloyment service announc cd tonight in it's monthly survey. The decrease as compared with January was estimated at l per cent. .
 The employment services fipures shoed that 1423 firms. located in the sixty-five principal industrial centers, had in their employ Febru- ary 2S. 1.626.95S workers. as com. "7red with tf43.2h3 January 31. This was a net decrease of 16.995
 Reports to the service showed i'm creases in the number employed in mannf9cture Of automobiles and land vehicles. textiles, and leather products. amounting to 1SS and 77 per cent. respectively. These in. creases. however. were offset hv da- creases of 7.3 per cent in the ;roo and steel industries. 66 per cent in 'ai'r"ad repair shOns: per cent in chemical plants and 5.7 per cent in producers of liquor and beverages
 Denver, Colo. with decrease of z4.S per cent on the basis of the ser wees report. led the 3G cities in which the number of emnloyed was less 3f the end Of February than ot ne close of the preceding month. UT the same percentage basis. Youngstown. Ohio Indianarolis. San Francisco and Grand Rapids follow ed in the order named.
 Recovery In Detroit
 The percentage Of employed show ed the greatest increase in Chatta- 1ooga. Tenn. amounting to 67.6 Ter 'ent over January. Detroit also vas shown to he recovering from the 1 general labor depression the uercen- age of increased employed there | 'mountine to 34.7 per ceRt over the md of January. C
 The renorts from New York City. , Boston ard St. Louis showed an in 'rease in the nercentage of emnloved while figures for Chicago, Baltimore. Cleveland. Philadelphia. Los An ,eles and Pittsburgh gave a decrease n the number Of workers able to a hold on their jobs.
 New England reports showed i'm generally in business aud ahor conditions. unemployment and | 'art time employment being most i ,revalent in the textile. sho-.-. ma hinrry metal and building trade in- rStries.
 The northwestern central district. of Minnesota. Iowa. Mis- our'. Nebraska. Kansas and the Da- ictas, also reported an improvement ,ublic works and building activities living employment to many of those in other activities.
 Prospect Of Improvement
 Prospects for a bettering of con- litions were reported from the noun .