Show TOM PAINES OLD FARM What Thoughts Will Be Awakened By Its Transformation New York Dec 24Tom Paines old farm is to be turned into a cemetery which will rival in beauty and importance impor-tance New Yorks celebrated necropolis necropo-lis The property is near New Rochelle and has just been sold to a syndicate of New York millionaires who propose to so enhance its beauty as to make it one of the most romantic graveyards in the world It was sold to the syndicate syn-dicate by John H Tracy of New Ro chel Its 300 acres brought the sum of 200000 In the bosom of this land repose the mortal remains of the author au-thor of The Age of Reason and of The Rights of Man Above his dust stands a monument much more humble than many that have been erected to men of far less renown This land was the spot on which the Huguenots settled when they landed in America |