Show EARLY DAYS ON THE BATTER Tf men great in history have visited new yorks york mt most famous point overlooking sea superb was the view from the battery in the old days and glorious are the wraiths who still haunt its ita paved and shaded places talleyrand self exiled from france a hundred odd years ago often paced slowly along where thousands now move who perhaps never heard beard of 0 him after talleyrand came louis phil cipe and jerome bonaparte both of whom knew and admired the battery lafayette walked its sea wall anet an gazed out on the hay bay and here sauntered that audacious traitor benedict arnold ruined by an ung ungovernable governable over temper and a tory wife here in the same strenuous days came cam clinton and cornwallis and here through the vista of halt half a century we witness the new worlds loud voiced welcome to kossuth nor Is the fact to be forgotten that in ancient castle garden transformed from a fort into an opera house jenny lind one autumn night in 1850 began the triumphal progress which made the name of that richly dowered cowered queen of song a household word in every nook and corner of america rufus R wilsons Wll Wil sons rambles in colo ni nial al byways I 1 |