Show Las of President Monrcos Residence I How easy it Is to forget hIstory remarked the man who keeps posted on the events of early New York days as well as upon the things of the present pres-ent Probably not 0115 In a thousand citizens vecognJjsed in the recent sale of the house at 62 Prince street the old residence of President Monroe when He retired from the White House after Ills eight years of service KH President He died there on July 1 1531 The house Is Just a block east of Broadway I and looks much the same OM It did when It WHS the residence of President Monroe Mon-roe only more dilapidated One still l sees the colonial columns and fluted arch over the doorway looking now lilcesoiled bIts of castoff liner Part of the house Is tho headquarters of a further and I am told that a few years ago it VTOM a billiard table factory hail later a Viennese and then a Hungarian restaurant The house lies suffered badly through Its onanges and before another year has closed every vestige of it will be gone U Is somewhat pathetic J pa-thetic to think of the last years of I President Monroe as being spent practically prac-tically upon the bounty of his friends his fortune having gone at Uio end ot his active political life lie lived In the Prince street house with his daugli ter Mrs Samuel L Gouverneur whoso husband a man of wealth and high standing in the social life of the city was postmaster when Monroe came to live with thvm President Monroe was burled In time old cemetery on Second street but in lioS his body was removed lo the Hollywood cemetery in Richmond Rich-mond VnM NVw York |