OF OLD NEW YORK

A Beautiful Tribute to the American Soldier

Capt. Daniel Couve, Chaplain in the S9th Division of French
Infantry, who came to New York on a social errand, related
the following simple and touching incident:

"I stood in a Paris street to see your troops go by on the
Fourth of July, and I cheered with the rest, but a little old
woman beside me touched me on the arm. 'You don't cheer
loud enough,' she said. These are our saviors.' And that is
the way France feels."

An Appreciation

As we drove along country roads weak old women would come
out and hold flowers to us.

Why should they hold flowers up to strangers from across the
Atlantic? Only because they believed that we were the mes¬
sengers of friendship and of hope, and those flowers were their
humble offerings of gratitude that friends from so great a
distance should have brought them so great a hope..—President
Wilson.

John Galsworthy on Americans and English

I do not think that you Americans and we English are any
longer strikingly alike in physical type or general characteristics,
no more than I think there is much resemblance between your¬
selves and the Australians. Our link is now but community of
language—and the infinity which this connotes.

James Duane Complains to Gov. Clinton of the
High Cost of Living in 1779

Philad. 27th April 1779.

The extravagance of living here is beyond description and
the burden of public business, intollerable. I am for my own
part worn down and stand in great need of Relaxation. . . .
I must beg your Excellency's Indulgence the more so as I am
here without Summer Clothes, and can not reconcile it to my
feelings to purchase at the immoderate prices which are current.

His Excellency Governor Clinton.                  James Duane.

The Jury That Tried John Peter Zenger in the

City Hall, Wall Street, 1735

Thomas  Hunt, Foreman

Samuel Weaver                            Harmanus Rutgers

Stanly Holmes                              Benjamin  Hildreth

John Bell                                      Edward Man

Egbert Van Borsom                     Andries Marschalk

John Goelet                                  Abraham Keteltas
Hercules Wendover

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