CHAPTER Z£I.
 

(1794-17&5.)
 

Ori^ of Street Namea—Fint Sidewalks Laid—Houses Numbered—^''Battle
Off Sandy Hook*'—City Kefuge of French Emigres-
Christ Churoh Bnilt—^Firat Dispensary.

Of the thousands of persons engaged In the hunt for fame and for¬
tune In New York, not a stock broker's commlslson of them know the origin
of the names of tbe streets they travel through six days In the week.
When a presumably knowing person la asked whence auch a atreet derlvea Its
name, he wrinkles his brow and answora: "D'ye know, it never struck me to
find out." That be may know, here are a few the writer haa unearthed for
him:

Allen street perpetuates the name and fame ol Captain William Allen,
one of the heroes of the War of iSl2. He was but twenty-nine years of age
when he died, but left behind him a brilliant record.

Ann street—The Christian name of a Dutch burgher'a wife, Ann Vleltje*

Barclay—From the Rev. Henry Barclay, second rector of Trinity.

Battery Place—From a place where a battery waa erected In 1533.

Bayard street owes its name to Richard Bayard, nephew of Peter
Stuyvesant, who filled the position of Mayor and occupied other ofSclal
posts In the early history of New York. Tbe Bayard farm was situated be¬
tween Canal and Bleecker streets snd between Macdougal street and the
Bowery.

Beach atreet. a corruption of Bacbe, waa named in honor of Paul
Boche, a aon-in-law of Anthony LIspenard,

Beaver—From the beaver; originally the fur dlatrlct. The animal
was an important factor In the fur business in the old days.

Beekman—From William Beekman. owner of a farm which extended
north and south of the present sireet and from Nassau street to the East
River,

Bethune atreet honors the name of the Bethune family, noteworthy
philanthropists, whose work was of special algnidcance In connection with
tbe improvement of the "Five Points."

Bleecker atreet ia named in honor of Anthony Bleecker, who for
many yeara waa prominent in the literary world.

Bowery (Dutch) means a farm. From Peter Stuyveaant's "Bowerie,"
In the neighborhood of Third avenue and Thirteenth atreet, to the city there
waa a path, naturally called fiowery lane; this waa afterward named Bow*
ery road, and flnally the Bowery.