Luckily the church bell had
been obtained before the war!
In regard to the organ, the _Weekly Register_ of Baltimore has this to
say:
"A great business this for a ship of the line.... Now a
gentleman might suppose that this article would have passed
harmless."
St. John's Park, now obliterated and given over to the modernism of
the Hudson River Railroad Company, used, in the early fifties, to be
still fashionable. Old New Yorkers given to remembrance speak
regretfully of the quiet and peace and beauty of the Old Park--which
is no more. But St. John's is still with us, "sombre and unalterable,"
as one writer describes it, "a stately link between the present and
the past."
And doubtless nearly everyone who reads these pages knows of St.
John's famous "Dole"--the Leake Dole, which has been such a fruitful
topic for newspaper writers for decades back.
John Leake and John Watts, in the year 1792, founded the Leake and
Watts' Orphan House and John Leake, in so doing, added this curious
bequest:
"I hereby give and bequeathe unto the rector and inhabitants
of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the State of New York
one thousand pounds, put out at interest, to be laid out in
the annual income in sixpenny wheaten loaves of bread and
distributed on every Sabbath morning after divine service,
to such poor as shall appear most deserving.
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