north of it was killed by the blighting heat. The fire
was stopped before it reached the arbors and the merry-
go-round. The buildings on both blocks were owned by
Schultheis who placed his loss at $300,000, part of which
included the bowling-alley and from fifteen to twenty
thousand dollars worth of Rhine and other wines, and
30 valuable rifles owned by the New York Scheutzen
Corps. Only a small amount of insurance was carried.
The above story is taken from the account published in
the Times of May 17th 1894 which added that "60
years previously the Jones place was famous for its
orchard which produced a little red apple, the flavor
of which lingers in the reflective palate of many staid
citizens who in the 'fifties thought a predatory excursion
there worth all the risk that was run. The Provoost
family vault lies under the ruins of yesterday's fire."

Schultheis then took the Casino on Ft. George Hill and
there again the demon of fire followed him.

No vestige of the Wood now remains and so passes
into history a region hallowed in memory for its early
charm and its later identification with the amusement of
former generations of pleasure-seeking New Yorkers.

Jan Cornelis Van Den Heuvel"^ and his Residences in

Lower Broadway and at Bloomingdale

By Hopper Striker Mott

In 1790 there came to New York Jan Cornelius Van
den Heuvel, a Hollander, to whose name some writers
have prefixed the title Baron. A refugee from the ravages
of yellow fever at Demerara, he decided not to return
and settled here.

It is asserted that he had acted as governor of that
Dutch colony. If so he served his country in the same
capacity as did Stuyvesant at Curacoa over a century
previously. Demerara is now known as Georgetown,
on the Demerara River, in British Guiana. Curacoa, by
the way, lies off the coast of Venezuela about 850 miles

* This seems to be the only family of the name which came to New
Netherland. A cable, dated Feb. 15, 1915, to the New York Sun, stated
that ex-Minister Vandenheuvel had been appointed Belgian Envoy to the
Vatican—evidence that the name still exists in Belgium.

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