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Show WALL STREET'S OLD CHURCH History of Rich Trinity Corporation Practically Is the History of the Country. At the head of Wall street, surrounded sur-rounded by a t entury-ohl cemetery, where, stooping peacefully in the very heart of the country's financial center, lie some of New York's most illustrious illus-trious dead, stands Trinity church, a monument to the memory of the days when the metropolis of America was a colcnial village and a reminder, amid the fever of trade, that "man i i cannot live by bread alone." Overtopped Over-topped by mammoth structures housing great banking firms, Trinity's spire, st ill points to cerulean heights, as it has pointed since before the United States had an existence, its walls barriers against the complete triumph of commerce. The most valuable val-uable real estate between the two oceans remains the possession of the deail founders of the city and of their living successors who worship their fathers' God. A few blocks farther up Broadway, within sight of Trinity, stands another ancient church, like Trinity surrounded by graves in soil now worth its weight in gold. This is St. Paul's chapel, where George Washington made his devotions, one of the ten churches of Trinity parish, the most richly endowed religious corporation cor-poration in America, for in addition to the golden sites on which its churches stand it possesses productive property prop-erty of a taxable value of over $13,-000.000, $13,-000.000, the whole income from which is devoted to religious, charitable anil educational purposes. Trinity corporation cor-poration is, in fact, one of the largest landowners in the country's commercial commer-cial and financial capital. A. W. Fer-rin, Fer-rin, in Moody's Magazine. |