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Show When Washington (were. "Did you ever know that Washing ton had one of the closest calls of his life within a stone's throw of Tlmei square?" remarked a New Yorker to an out-of town visitor. "There's the record of It an adventure that catne near changing the history of the roun try " The New Yorker pointed to a bronze tablet on the row of housea facing Tillies siiuare above Forty-third street It seems that In the revolution the redcoats were seising Manhattan and the Americana were getting out as fust as they rould. bag and baggage Tillies square waa open farm html then, and the fugltlvea came up itrisul way or Hloomlngilnlc road. (leu. I'm nam and hla men were nearly caught by the Hrllish, but got away and were coming up the road when Washington met them. "The Father of Ills Country let out s string of curses and tried to atoi them. The man who wrote historic hasn't the nerve to set down what he said, but he could swoar like a troopct v hen he got started. I'utiiani'a nu-r i. ere so scared, though, that they kept 011 running Washington was wild i' itli rage, and galloped away with hl staff across the fields. Where Ilryani park now Is. he ran Into GO redcoati and would have been taken If his coin panlons hadn't pulled him hack. What would have happened If Washington had been mndo a prisoner?" New York Times. |
