The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-02
Spot Where
Poet Lived
Discovered
William Cullen Bryant
Once Occupied House
in New York.
BY HELEN WORDEN
lines Special Writer

NTEW YORK, N. Y, Aug. D.
~ Monroe Robinson's hobby i
DR.. Edward Cowle's Body and MinC
Clinic. My passion is New York.
L wish you'd come down and SEQ
the clinic again. Mr.. Robinson said
The doctor is doing some wonder
ful work"
I Will, If we can stop on the way
and ring doorbells in Stuyvesani
Square" I said. There are some
old houses on it that I'd like to look
into. You must know their history.
Mr.. Robinson's mother, the late
Mrs. Douglas Robinson, was sister
Of President Theodore Roosevelt
The family home was on w. 20th-st
Stuyvesant Square runs from 18th
and 15th-sts between 3rd and End
avs.
on our way to Stuyvesant Square
we stopped at Brown ano
Wheelocks OficeS-"My fathers Ole
real estate firm" explained Monroe
RObinson-to look at city maps.
L don't believe you'll find any OF
the original families on the square,
said Kenneth Douglas Robinson
Mr.. Robinson's cousin, of Brown
and Wheelock. But the Stuyvesants
still own quite a bit of property
there"
Stuyvesant Square and the streets
surrounding it were originally part
of Gov. Peter Stuyyesant's bowerie
Peterfeld Farm.
st. Georges Church and the
Friends Seminary loom large on
the chart of Stuyvesant Square.
The Friends School, a quaint old
pink brick building with white trim
mings, was built in 1860. St
Georges Church was opened for
services in 1848.
The Quaker school and the Epis-
cOpal church front on Rutherford
pl. named. 1 suppose, after Ruth
erfOrd Stuyvesant, who lived, ac-
cording to my New York directory
Of 1882, at 246 E. 15th-st.
Mr.. Stuyvesant'S up at 2 E. 18th
st now" Mr.. Robinson said. lin the
former Harry Sinclair place"
Encounter Coincidence
Corporal Rampone, husky,
-shouldered veteran of the
Seventy-Seventh division chauffeurs
Mr.. Robinson's car. He was in my
regiment during the war;" Monroe
Robinson said. Drive us down to
StuyveSant Square. corporal"
We chugged into E. 16th-st and
parked alongside st. George S
Church. Now there's a house that
must have story" Mr.. Robinson
said, pointing his malacca cane at
an ancient, black wrought iron
trimmed brownstone front at 206 E.
15th-st. A row of tall privet bushes
screened it. Two sprightly women
came scuttling down the steps as We
StrOlled toward the old house.
Il am Monroe Robinson and this
is Miss Helen Worden," said Mr.
Robinson to the two women. Gould
YOU tell us something about this
house. We're interested in the his
tory Of Stuyvesant Square"
Now this is coincidence" they
chorused Miss Maria Bost was
saying only yesterday she wished
some one would do a story about
this house. William Cullen Bryant
used to live here. She knows the
story"
Gould we see Miss Bost?" I in
ouired.
The pair dashed back in the
house. Wen call Miss BoSt," they
said.
I followed them into the old
fashioned high-cellinged hall. A
spiral mahogany staircase wound
upwards. A little slavey suddenly
appeared. You pull the ropes while
l call Miss Bost," one of the women
directed. Three bells for Miss
Bost"
A murmur of voices followed the
ringing of the bell The women
came bobbing back iown the stairs
We're terribly sorry" they apollo
gized. Miss BoSt says she's not
visible in the mornings. Perhaps you
could return later. There is 9
story in this house"
Hundreds Attend Clinic
The body and mind clinic is held
ir the Stuyvesant Casino, an ole
dance hall at 142 Secondary.
1t first met in Peter Stuyvesant'S
church, st. MarkS-in-the-B owerie
but because of a difference of opin-
ion between Bishop Manning anC
DR.. Guthrie, was moved to the Ca
SinO.
More than a hundred patients
were collected in the rooms. waiting
for DR.. CowleS when Mr.. Robinson
and I looked in. "Therell be 800
here before the day is over" said
Monroe Robinson.
DR.. Cowles says that IS per cent
of the persons in the hospitals il
the United States suffering from
physical ailments, have diseases
that originated in mental fixation
and brain disorders.
His work includes a knowledge
Of the mind as well as the body.
Mr.. Robinson said. Il tell you it's
the greatest thing that ever hap
pened to New York to have this
body and mind clinic"
A charity polo match will be given
for the clinic Aug. % at Sands Point
when Seymour Knox and his
=. Aurora team will meet JOCK Whit
\ney and the Greentree Mallet
wielders.
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