| Show j t I When hen Uncle Sam Goes Hospital Hunting He He I Picks the Best Fort Tyron I Is s Historic J V Place e 1 I i t I C d C I II L V I W IS I- I A W rN S S tt 4 z o i L f I 7 S S S p c alL 7 5 i 5 IS' IS S i S Above Lakewood Above Lakewood Hotell Rotell Auditorium Already a a. Hospital Ward Tryon Billings Mansion Given United States by John D. D Rockefeller Jr for Hospital Insert Insert J John Insert John ohn D. D Rockefeller Jr New York City Feb 23 3 Special Special When hen Uncle Sam goes hunting hospitals the best Is none too good Hes He's hunting huntIng hunt- hunt Ing Ing- them no now Over Oer In New Jersey he hehns has hns taken one of or the tho biggest hotels In Inthe Inthe inthe the state and remodeled It Into a hos hos- pital Up on tho the Hudson he lie has taken tho the Billings Billings' mansion and that Is being remodeled nohen now no When hen our soldiers start coming back wounded from Crom the little affair of ot ad ad- ad on Berlin the they'll ll have the boat best places obtainable In which to recuperate ate and get back their strength The New Jerse Jersey hotel which Is now nowa a hospital is nt at Lakewood and was formerly formerly for for- merly the Lakewood hotel Alterations are alread already p completed and It will accommodate accommodate ac accommodate ac- ac three to four thousand sol aol diers diets Neat eat white cots have been placed In the rooms and halls and the auditorium auditorium auditorium has been converted Into a huge ward ard the stage being left lett Intact for tor entertainments for tor tho the convalescents 1 The photo above shows hows a section of or the I auditorium The building Is of ot brick and Is fireproof Other hotels have been taken over by bythe bythe bythe I the government for tor hospitals and still others othor will be The mansion on In the Hudson which will bo housing housing- convalescents con was bought a a. year ear a ago o by John D. D Rocke Rocke- feller teller Jr from C. C K G. G Billings s. s The oil 1 kings Icings son had planned to give Ive the property with adjacent holdings acQuired acquired ac acquired ac- ac at tho the same samo time to the city for park purposes but when war was de declared de- de dared he gave It to Uncle Sam for tor fora tora a hospital OLD OID ASSOCIATIONS MAKE IC IT nO PIlAI Billings called it Tryon Tron Hall Halt It had originally original been Fort Tryon Tron and wI will vill be bea bea a particularly appropriate place pIneo for tor the soldiers to win back health because of ot its associations and history One of or the most spirited battles In the defense of or New York In the earl early part of oC tho the revolution occurred there and er e every foot toot of ot the ground bround became historic by bv the valor with which a small Am American force defended It al almost almost almost al- al most to the last extremity against at atta attack attack at- at ta tack k on all sides Bides b by an enem enemy more than five fl times as numerous and In Infinitely infinitely In- In finitely better bettor equipped Contracts let by the tho war department call for remodeling remodeling- of ot the sumptuous French chateau which Billings built there and for tor the construction of or frame structures around the estate for tor hospital hospital hos boa pital uses The crest rises riseR feet above abOe sea level and Is one of or the highest highest high high- est eat In tho city It commands a view of or tho the Hudson for Cor twenty miles northward northward northward north north- ward of ot the Palisades on the opposite bank and of or the river and of ot scenes of ot Important revolutionary re activity I eastward and southward Fort Tryon Is 18 a name given to It after atter Its capture b by tho the British In honor of ot the last colonial governor Up to the time of or orthe the battle that gave ga it chief distinction It had been known for years ears as Forest JIll Hill 1 Rockefeller still Intends that ultimately ultimately ulti ulti- the property shall be become become- como a park It was with that understanding that Billings sold It to him for only The remodelling It Is estimated estimated esti esti- mated will m cost Some detail of or the reason wh why tho the sito is one ono of ot patriotic inspiration Is furnished b by Dr Edward Hagaman Hall HaJJ secretary of the American Scenic and Historic Preservation society In Inthe Inthe inthe the society's twenty second annual re report report re- re port which has Just been Issued and gives forty five pages to the stor story of ot Fort Iron Tryon nd the b other by L TAS ilEnE 1 X I- I In n nGY l. nu ij The story recalls ret Jt Corb Corbin the brayer c one o or 1 of inca of ot the revolution perhaps Incited the WhO hol I valor aler Pitcher heroine t ot of the mouth later on batti c i The American redOubt on lIlli or Forest o Fe as 1 It ie Dr flail 11 We writes so 60 a t I part November In the i liiS dou to have ha been a a. work t On the ot any Plan the v. v battery of two redoUbt ii I. t. t lacked ed In strength gun But 1 mn made e up In th the of ot mon men who ho defended It Honed here were Th Tb tr c the r riflemen Moses under F n an and men Und under r a few tew a a. a command Among Amont the latter was as ot or named John Corbin a ca who ho was or of York TOrk co caret or accompanied Margery by his American Fort I ir ton and al all heights alt all numbered r I only about And ii officers while the Jill forces numbered The Tho about assault O On h heights l was mado the On all fOur scene presented in hI the Idt batHo must have been heIt cl to the stout hearts or of the fended the hill bill A Ib from the p west est front from the t Peart howitzers m which Colonel Rail on Cock lull inn o on the fler north an the tho guns Cuns covering the theon II on the coast filled the i lit air it dorous derous roar and shell dealt d death ath among th ors era and Virginians VirginIa lr AMERICANS nn S nICA ra c. I TOR OR TWO For two hours the Arnu i i stood this terrible onslaught i rl s men aiming with Ing off ort their men mea with cod tion to tem stern the tide i iThe If it W e. The Tho little two gun b Amra a AI L of u u the tho small complement of ot soon depleted b by h It C en emergency ergen cy Margaret t ta i mans man's part and assisted In r o loading her husbands husband's car cae nan t. t at length John Corbin fell at atwith tr kr wi with th a II Hessian bullet build In hit bli h b hez UI took hl his place and loaded gun herself herselt until three gri struck her and wounded her I is s manner It is generally ce cc that Rawlings and his little ti Forest lUll Hill made the best beet the da day When lien Colonel Maan dered Fort Washington the Fotes o force torce had to capitulate On November 12 11 1713 SIr Gr Cy leton notified Washington thu would withdraw from 1 McGown's Pass Pas on November o U. U L I 1 deduce from contemporary reco J these points were practically ran ns o- oed ed cd b before ore November 21 Il l ard and ai eai date even n the nominal control aT r Tryon Tron and Its environs pau fo enemy four tour days das before the city cUrro pic was evacuated |
