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Show j AS IN WASHINGTON'S DAY . f f prauQce's Tavern Restored to Its Old- J I Time Aspect & W WASHINGTON tS might recognlzo JhZm tho oxtorior of WfflWsS? FraunceB' Tavern VSTPilS should ho rldo X KT down Broad street, S"1 olaW t Now York ,n fSST ff thoso days, but if CnjB Jy? onco h-Bldo thcro jift&fi nniP would bo a num-iM'yMfcw num-iM'yMfcw bor of details tfjCfifc which would bo JptJWl! novel to him. As jmTUTSWp)ffl5 '10 entered tho ESfSHB "Colonial" hall ho v?isjitri5i3Wy- would seo waiters in modern bob-tailed bob-tailed evening conts flitting about earning honest tips. Instead of being permitted to climb tho Btnlrs to the "Long Itoom," whoro ho bado farowoll to his ofllccrs after tho closo of tho rovolutlon, ho might bo Invited to go up in an elevator. Passing tho "tup room" on his way to tho olovntor, pos-Blbly pos-Blbly ho would bo urged to try a cigar, "best Virginia loaf." His eyes, accustomed ac-customed to guttering candles, would bo nstonlshcd at tho steady clow of electric lights, and, doubtless, ho would wnnt to know moro about tho way In which Franklin's lightning could bo secured on n clear day for iiso In lighting. Ills quick enr would detect tho click of tho typowrltcr ns ho stopped through tho passago toward tho "Long Itoom," although ho might not recognlzo tho origin of tho peculiar noise, and ho would bo mystl-fled mystl-fled at tho spcctaclo of a man talking Into a tclephono receiver. Frnunccs' Tavern, "tho oldest landmark" land-mark" In Now York city, comes into the public oyo now moro bocnuso on December 4, 1907, tho 124th anniversary anniver-sary of Washington's farowoll to his ofllccrs in tho big dining room of tho old Inn, tho restored building wns formally for-mally turned over by tho commlttco having tho restoration In chnrgo to tho owners, tho Sons of tho Hovolu-tion, Hovolu-tion, and two tnblots wcro unveiled. Tho recoptlon to tho guests was hold In tho hall of tho Chnmbr nt Com-morco Com-morco after tho tablots woro unveiled. Ono of tho tablots was attached to tho wall of tho famous "Long Itoom," In which Washington's historic nnd touching fnrowell to his comrades nnd assistants occurred, and tho othor afllxcd to tho exterior. Tho history of tho building 1b concisely con-cisely told on tho tablot placed in tho ''Long Itoom." It reads: "Frauncos'- Tavern, orcctcd 1710; Queen's Head Tavern, 17C2; Chnmbcr of Commorco founded horo, 17G8; headquarters of Commlttco of Correspondence Cor-respondence of 51, 1774; UUb room tho sccno of tho farowell of Gen. Washington Wash-ington to his ofllccrs, Decenbor 4, 1783; Sons of tho Revolution reorganized reor-ganized hero December 4, 1883; tho property purchased by tho Sons of tho Revolution In tho stnto of Now York, 1904; formal occupntlon taken by tho Sons of tho Rovolutlon, December Decem-ber 4, 1907." W. H. Morscrcnu, tho architect who mado tho restoration, after much Investigation In-vestigation of all tho ovldonco drow tho design which has been realized In tho building as It stands to day. It Is now supposod to look as It appeared whon Washington visited It, and all of tho bricks nnd tlmbors remaining of the building which was known ns Fraunces' Tavorn aro still in tho places thoy then occupied. All of tho "improvements" of after years, including in-cluding tho "glnmlll" of recent times, havo beon removed. Tho restoration Is based on an advertisement ad-vertisement printed In 1775 In which Fraunces offered his Inn for salo and described It as "throostorles high with a tllo and lend roof, has 14 flro places, a most excellent largo kitchen, flno dry collars, with good and convenient con-venient ofllces, etc." Tho earliest pic-turo pic-turo of It Is dated 1854. This showed the building ns it appeared after its recovery from tho damngo caused by tho "grent flro" of 1835. In tho Bame year It was again visited by flro. Thin tlmo tho "I,iong Room" was burned out, and the wnll on tho Pearl street sldo nbovo tho socond story foil outward. out-ward. When tho building wns restored this tlmo It was mado flvo stories high with a flat roof, and, barring tho saloon sa-loon on tho ground floor, looked ns It did until tho recent restoration. Fifteen Fif-teen years ago tho building was shored up and, with tho oxceptlon of tho corner piers, tho walls of tho first story woro roplaccd with plato glass. When tho building wns dismantled for restoration tho lines of tho old in i J Fraunces' Tavern, Restored. roof indicating tho top of tho walh and tho slopo and height of tho roof woro found In tho walls. Tho d Iff or-enco or-enco In tho bricks In the wnlls also helped to dotormlno whnt portion waB old and what modorn. It will bo observed ob-served thnt tho wall fronting on Broad streot Is of thin yollow bricks. Theso nro tho snmo kind ob nro found in tho old Dutch church In Tarrytown. In ordor to Becuro nn additional supply to fill up tho oponing on tho tlrst floor thoy had to bo mado to ordor In n yard In Holland whoro bricks of tho samo stzo and kind nro still mado. Tho bricks on tho Pearl streot sldo aro rod. As thoy aro an inch longor and somewhat some-what thlnnor than tho bricks mado to-day it was only by searching through many yards, tapo moasuro In hand, nnd picking up abnormal bricks that enough could bo secured to "plcco out" tho original wall. By such moans tho old building was put back Into a shnpo that would probably bo rocog-nlzod rocog-nlzod by "Blnck Sam" Fraunces If ho should appear to-day. Tho proporty, which 1b now used ns tho hcadqunrtors of tho Sons of tho Rovolutlon in Now York, represents nn oxpomllture of nearly $150,000, tho restoration alono having cost nearly $00,000. It 1b looked upon as a mo-morlnl mo-morlnl of Frederick S. Tallmadgo, who was tho prosldont of tho socloty, and bequeathed to It a sum sufficient to pay tho cost of restoration. Tho tab-lot tab-lot on tho outsldo of tho building commomoratcs his namo and contains his portrait, as well as a history of tho building. Fraunces' Tavern as It Appeared In Washington's Time Acron the Street Are Shown the Rulnt ofthe Fire of 1778. |