Brooklyn Standard ­ Anniversary

And it was in 1863.
At the time the Brooklyn Daily Union was born, Brooklyn not only was at the
height of her prominence as the "city of churches" but basked in the glory
of recognition as the city of great churchmen; famous pulpit orators and
historical clergymen.

The Dutch Reformed Church
For 125 years the only religious denomination in Brooklyn represented by an
organized church was the Dutch Reformed Church which was established in
Flatbush by early Dutch settlers in 1654.  Its first pastor was the Rev.
Johannes Theodorus POLHEMUS.
That was 209 years before the ear in which the Brooklyn Daily Union first
saw the light of a journalistic day.
The Reformed Church on the Heights began some years prior to 1863 under the
imposing title of "Central Reformed Protestant Dutch Church" under the Rev.
C.C. VAN ARSDALE.  It got its present name when a new edifice was erected
after a peculiar accident in 1848.
The entire ceiling of the old building collapsed just a few minutes after
the congregation had left.
The Reformed Protestant (Dutch) Church of Bushwick at Humboldt and Conselyea
streets was under the guidance of the Rev. John BASSETT in 1863.
The Reformed Dutch Church of Greenpoint, better known as the Kent Street
Reformed, which was organized in May, 1848 and had for its pastor in '63 the
Rev. George H. PEEKE, who had just the year before succeeded the Rev. Goin TALMADGE.
After fire destroyed the South or Third Reformed Church, at that time
situated at Third Avenue and Thirty-second Street.  Reconstruction began
almost immediately, and late in 1863 the chapel was finished and there the
congregation held forth until the new structure was completed.
Among the other reformed churches of the time were the
-Reformed Protestant Church of the Town of New Lots, at New Lots Road and
Schenk Avenue; 
-the German Evangelical St. Peter's Church at Union Avenue and Scholes
Street; 
-the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of South Bushwick at Bushwick Avenue
and Himrod Street; 
-the North Reformed Church at Clermont Avenue, near Myrtle;
-the Herkimer Street German Reformed Church (New Church) at Herkimer Street
and Saratoga Avenue and the
-Twelfth Street Reformed Church at Twenty-first Street and Third Avenue.

The Protestant Episcopal Churches
Although the Protestant Episcopal Church did not establish a Long Island
Diocese until six years later, churches of this denomination were already
flourishing in goodly numbers in 1863.
The oldest parish was that which attended "The Episcopal Church of Brooklyn"
(later St. Ann's at Clinton and Livingston Streets).  Originally church was
a stone structure at Sands and Washington Streets.
The Rev. A.N. LITTLEJOHN was rector of the Church of the Holy Trinity at
Clinton and Montague streets. This structure was seventeen years old at the
time and had been completed only a few years before, in keeping with the
plans of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar J. BARTOW, its sole sponsors.
The Church of the Messiah had outgrown its first building in 1863 and was in
the midst of a completion of an unfinished edifice at Greene and Clermont
Avenues which was purchased from the Presbyterians.
The Rev. Jacob W. DILLER, who attracted many to St. Luke's Church, in
Clinton Avenue near Fulton Street was one of the prominent figures of the
clergy in the Brooklyn of the sixties.  He came to a tragic end in the
burning of the steamer Seawanhaka in Long Island Sound sixteen years later.
Fifteen other Protestant Episcopal churches were active in various parts of
the city, among them;
-Grace Church, on the Heights, Hicks Street and Grace Court;
-Christ Church, E.D., at Bedford and Division Avenues;
-St. John's at Washington and Johnson Streets, now at Seventh Avenue and St.
John's Place; 
-The Church of the Redeemer, its chapel finished and the work of building
the remainder of the structure going on at Fourth avenue and Pacific Street;
-St. Paul's, Carroll Street between Henry and Hicks;
-St. Peter's, under the rectorship of the Rev. John A. PADDOCK, at Atlantic
Avenue and Bond Street;
-Grace Church, E.E., at Conselyea near Lorimer street;
-St. Mark's then in building ante-dating the present structure, at DeKalb
and Portland Avenues;
-St. Matthew's at Throop Avenue and Pulaski Street; Ascension Church, which
later became Emmanuel, with services in a hall at Third Place and Smith
Street, and 
-Trinity Church, of East New York, on Wyckoff Avenue.

The Methodist Episcopal Churches
There were twenty-one Methodist Episcopal churches in the City of Brooklyn
during this period.  In addition there were two German Methodist Episcopal,
one African Wesleyan Methodist Episcopal and two Methodist Protestant
Churches.
The oldest in point of history was the "First Methodist Episcopal Church on
Nassau Island" known in 1863 as Sands Street Memorial Church.  The
congregation was organized as early as 1794 on a piece of property on "New
Street" bought from Joshua and Comfort SANDS.
By the middle of the Civil War period the York Street and Washington Street
M.E. churches had sprung from the Sands street group, which in the meantime
had outgrown one building and had been burned out of another.  The final
building contemporary of 1863, a brick affair, was demolished to make room
for the extension of the Brooklyn Bridge and the congregation, now known as
the First M.E. Church, worships to-day at Clark and Henry Streets.
Janes M.E. now at Reid Avenue and Monroe Street, was at that time holding
meetings in a frame house at what is now Patchen Avenue and Madison Street,
and was planning the erection of the present edifice, which however, was not
begun until twenty years later.
Among the others were the
-New York Avenue M.E. at Clove Road, Nostrand Avenue, Butler and Douglass
Streets.
-Summerfield Church, later the pulpit of Dr. James M. BUCKLEY, at Greene and
Washington Avenues;
-Hanson Place Church, also Dr. BUCKLEY's church for many years, another
outgrowth of Sand Street Memorial, was organized as Dean Street M.E., and in
'63 was already located at Hanson Place and St. Felix street;
- Eighteenth Street Church on Fifth Avenue;
-Nostrand Avenue M.E. on Quincy Street;
-St John's M.E. was then at South Fifth street and Driggs Avenue;
-Johnson Street Church was at Johnson and Jay Streets, also a development
from the Sands Street congregation;
-Powers Street Church, earlier known as "the Second M.E. Church, of
Williamsburg, L.I.," was then at Ewen and Grand Streets;
-Simpson M.E. or "the Eighth M.E.," built from the remains of material from
old York Street Church and also known as Carlton Avenue Church, due to the
fact that the first building was erected at Carlton and Myrtle Avenues, but
by 1863 had already situated at Willoughby and Clermont Avenues;
-Warren Street M.E. at 307 Warren Street;
-Cook Street Church, at Cook and Bushwick Avenue;
-South Third Street M.E. at Hewes, South Third and Stagg Streets;
-Andrews Church at Union Place, Cypress Hill was under the pastorate of the
Rev. Stephen RUSHMORE;
-First M.E. Church of Greenpoint, at Manhattan Avenue and Java Street;
-South Second Street, (First M.E.) from which many other churches sprang
later, was at the old Jamaica and Williamsburg Turnpike, now near South
Second Street and Driggs Avenue;
-North Fifth Street M.E. at Bedford Avenue;
-Fleet Street Church at Fleet and Lafayette (Avenue) Street;
-First Place Church on Henry Street;
-the African Wesleyan M.E. at Bridge Street and Myrtle Avenue;
-First German M.E. at Lorimer and Stagg Streets;
-Wycoff Street (Second German M.E.) at Wyckoff and Hoyt Streets;
-Bedford Avenue Tabernacle (M.P.) at Bedford Avenue and South Third Street;
-Trinity M.P., then at Grand Street and Bedford Avenue and,
-the First Primitive Methodist Church at Bridge Street between Tillary and
Concord Streets.

Roman Catholic Churches
No mention of the Catholic Church of 1863 in Brooklyn is correctly begun
without a reference to one of the greatest churchmen of that time, the Rev.
Sylvester MALONE.  He was, contemporary with Dr. BEECHER, Dr. STORRS and Dr.
T. DeWitt TALMADGE, one of the famous orators and religious "doers" of the
period.
A man of excellent physique, he came to Brooklyn in 1844 at the age of
twenty-three and began work of a missionary type as an ordained priest in
Williamsburg.  The arduous work and the strain of his duties nearly spelled
his end in 1849, long before his greatest years, but a healthy constitution
fought off the ravages of disease and he came to be one of the greatest
figures of his church in its history in Brooklyn.
Barely over his illnesses, his home, library and all his household
possessions were destroyed by fire.
However, in ten years he had removed the debt from his old church, built a
new one, a parochial school and established a pastoral residence.  In
addition he established many literary organizations for his parishioners.
He first gained historical prominence during the time of the birth of the
Standard Union and when a baby boy named John L. BEDFORD was almost two
years old.  With much sympathy for the Confederacy rife in Brooklyn, he
nailed an American flag to the spire of his church and defied the whole town
to pull it down.  Father MALONE supplemented this action with almost
tireless enthusiasm for the work of helping get money for the families of
those who went to war and contributed no little of his own savings to the
cause.
He was the first of his churchmen to attract publicity by his forceful
sermons and his active interest in public life and there is a delicate touch
of religious import to the fact that his first church was established in a
stable, with the altar in a stall, in Grand Street, Williamsburg.
He became pastor of this church in 1848, when it was known as St. Mary's,
but shortly thereafter a new edifice was begun at Wythe Avenue and South
Second Street, to be known as SS. Peter and Paul.  It was here that he stood
embattled against the fanatics who at various times tried to burn down the
place and where he later flung the flag of his adopted country to the breeze
from the steeple.
STILES, in his history, tells us that he "has done much to destroy the
barriers which creed has too often thrust across the paths of social life.
He has in the course of nearly  half a century's work endeared himself to
all, Catholic and Protestant alike, who have witnessed or experienced the
effect of his ministrations."
St. James' Church, however, was the oldest Catholic church in Brooklyn in
1863, having been organized in 1822, following the offer of Cornelius HEENEY
of a plot of ground at Court and Congress streets for the church to build
on.  This location, it was decided was "too far out of town" and finally
land was purchased at Jay and Chapel Streets, where St. James' arose.
A few years later St. Paul's was erected on the first site offered by
HEENEY.
Among the other Catholic churches of 1863 were
-Most Holy Trinity (German) Montrose near Graham Avenues;
-St. Boniface, originally built for the Episcopalians but purchased in 1853
by the Catholics (German) at Duffield near Willoughby Street;
-St. Mary Star of the Sea, at Court and Luquer Streets;
-Church of the Assumption, at York and Jay Streets;
-St. Charles Borromeo, on Sidney Place;
-St. Peter's at Hicks and Warren Streets;
-St. Patrick's at Kent and Willoughby Avenues;
-St. Francis' at Putnam and Bedford Avenue, closed in 1861 and not reopened
until 1868;
-Church of St. John the Evangelist, at Fifth Avenue and Twenty-first Street;
-St. Anthony of Padua, on India Street;
-Our Lady of Mercy, in an abandoned factory on Debevoise Place;
-St. Michael's (German) on Jerome Street;
-Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary was being organized by the Rev.
John HAUPTMANN in 1863 at Havemeyer and North Fifth Streets (Havemeyer
street was then Seventh Street);
-St. Joseph's, at Pacific Street, near Vanderbilt Avenue;
-St. Vincent de Paul on North Sixth Street;
-St. Ann's at Gold and Front Streets;
-Immaculate Conception, at Leonard and Maujer Streets;
-St. Paul's mentioned before, and
-St. Malachi's on Van Siclen, near Atlantic Avenue.

The Presbyterian Churches
The Rev. Charles S. ROBINSON in 1863 was preaching from the pulpit of the
First Presbyterian Church at Henry Street, near Clark, which was at that
time already forty-one years old and had moved its headquarters from the
original site at Cranberry, between Hicks and Henry Streets.
The Brooklyn Tabernacle, famous six years after the first issue of the
Brooklyn Union when the Rev. T . DeWitt TALMADGE was installed by the
Presbytery, was being presided over by the Rev. J. Edson ROCKWELL in 1863 in
a structure at State and Nevins streets.
A controversy arose in 1868 which threatened the dissolution of the
Tabernacle and TALMADGE was called from Philadelphia where he had been since
1862, bringing that church one of the most fiery preachers and reformers of
the time.
The Tabernacle grew out of the Bruce Street Mission in 1834, which later
became the Central Presbyterian Church, part of which still remains as a
furniture store at Pearl and Willoughby streets.
The formation of the Park Presbyterian Church, later the Lafayette Avenue
Presbyterian, at Carlton Avenue and DeKalb, brought to Brooklyn in 1863 a
figure who gained world wide fame and who may be enumerated with the other
great churchmen of the time.
In April, 1860, the Rev. Theodore L. CUYLER was installed as pastor and in
1862 a new church building was completed at Lafayette Avenue and South
Oxford Street at which time the new church changed from the Park
Presbyterian to the Lafayette Avenue.
Dr. CUYLER was 38 years old when he came to Brooklyn after an intensive
cultural development in Princeton, several smaller posts in the nearby
country and a tour of Europe.
The new church achieved almost instant success with this comparatively young
preacher at the helm and a definite example of the esteem in which he was
held is indicated in the fact that he was presented, in 1890, upon his
resignation from active work in the pulpit, with a gift of $30,000 by his
flock.
Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian rose to eminence under his guidance and in
thirty years of ministrations he "received 4,226 persons into the church; he
preached more than 3,000 sermons, delivered nearly 2,000 addresses, and
wrote between 3,000 and 4,000 articles for newspapers and magazines."
He wrote many books which were translated into Swedish, Dutch and German and
numbered among his friends William E. GLADSTONE, Thomas CARLYLE, John
Greenleaf WHITTIER and many other famous men.
Washington IRVING, it is related, after hearing one of Dr. CUYLER's sermons,
and known to be a rigid Episcopalian, went up to the pastor and asked to be
made a member of his church.
Like Father MALONE, CUYLER came out during the Civil War as a staunch
protagonist of the Union cause and flew the American flag at the church peak
until LEE's surrender at Appomattox.
Other churches of the Presbyterian faith which were active in 1863 were
-Ainslie Street Church with the Rev. James MC DOUGALL just bringing that
organization out of financial difficulties;
-Second Presbyterian, at Clinton, near Fulton Streets;
-the Wallabout Presbyterian Church of Brooklyn, later the Franklin Avenue
Church;
-Westminster, at Clinton Street and First Place in a wooden structure
antedating the stone building standing today;
-South Third Street, earlier known as the Presbyterian Church of
Williamsburg, at South Third and Fifth Streets, from which members left and
formed the Ainslie Street, Throop Avenue and Ross Street churches;
-Throop Avenue at Bartlett Street;
-Troop Avenue Mission from which grew three churches, the Hopkins Street,
Throop Avenue and Mt. Olivet;
-First German at 15 Maujer Street;
-Silvan (colored) in Prince Street;
-Reformed Presbyterian in Duffield Street, near Myrtle Avenue;
-First United Presbyterian in South First and Eighth Streets and
-the Second United which in 1863 opened a new church building at Atlantic
Avenue and Bond Street.

The Baptist Churches
The Baptist Church in Brooklyn was celebrating its fortieth anniversary in
1863.  There were approximately a dozen churches in Brooklyn, Bushwick and
the Eastern District of this denomination with several missions formed under
the guidance of existing churches which soon became substantial
congregations of their own.
The first church of this communion to be formed in Brooklyn had its origin
in a small group which met in school houses and private homes back in 1882.
In 1823 Eliakim RAYMOND, Elijah LEWIS, John BROWN, Richard POLAND and
Charles JACOBS founded the First Baptist Church at Adams and Concord streets
with the Rev. William HAWLEY as pastor.  In the same year land was purchased
and a frame church was erected at Concord and Nassau Streets.
From this church sprang practically all the Brooklyn Baptist churches and
chiefly the Pierrepont Street Baptist, which ten years after the time of
which we read, merged with the early church to form the First Baptist Church
in Pierrepont Street, which today is embodied in the Baptist Temple, at
Schermerhorn Street and Third Avenue
The two prominent pastors of 1863 were the Revs. D.J. YERKES, in the First
Baptist, and John S. HOLME at the Pierrepont, when Brooklyn was in the
throes of the Civil War draft.
By this time the first church was in a new building at Nassau and Liberty
Streets.
-Central Baptist, at Lawrence and Tillary Streets;
-Washington Avenue Baptist, at Gates Avenue and
-Hanson Place Baptist, at Portland Avenue
were three important congregations which were formed by members of the
original church.
Among the others already formed by this time were:
-Strong Place Baptist, in Degraw Street;
-Bedford Avenue Baptist, near Willoughby Avenue, under the Ref. Hiram
HUTCHINS;
-Concord Street Baptist (colored), under the Rev. William T. DIXON;
-First Church E.D., first known as Bethel Baptist;
-Greene Avenue Church, formed first as the First Baptist Church of Bushwick,
now at Greene Avenue, near Lewis Avenue, but at that time in Bushwick
Avenue;
-First Baptist in Greenpoint, under the Rev. William REID, who in 1863,
concluded the building of the church at Manhattan Avenue and Noble Street;
-Greenwood Church, at that time just occupying for a few months a new chapel
at Fourth Avenue and Fifteenth Street;
-Second Baptist Church E.D., at Ainslie Street and Graham Avenue;
-Tabernacle Church, at Clinton Street and Third Place and
-the First German S.D., at Montrose and Union Avenues.

The Unitarian Church
There were two Unitarian churches in Brooklyn in 1863, the first one being
the present Church of the Saviour, which began in Classical Hall, in
Washington Street, on August 17, 1833.  T he Rev. David H. BARLOW was its
first minister and seven years later a number of families, according to the
Brooklyn History, left and formed the Second Society, only to have both
groups reunite in 1842.
By 1863, the edifice at Monroe Place and Pierrepont Street was already
nineteen years old and was in charge of the Rev. Dr. Frederick A. FARLEY,
who retired that same year, to be succeeded by the Rev. Dr. A.P. PUTNAM,
Among its preachers this church numbers the Rev. Samuel A. ELIOT, son of Dr.
Charles W. ELIOT, whose famous five foot shelf of literature has become
known the world over.  Dr. ELIOT, however did not come to this church until
1892.
The Second Unitarian Church, at Clinton and Congress Streets, was the only
other church of this denomination in existence in the Brooklyn of sixty-five
years ago.  Unity Church was established four years later and Willow Place
Chapel followed thirteen years after The Union was born.

Lutheran and German Evangelical Churches
Brooklyn had a considerable German population in 1863, and although there
were German churches of nearly every denomination the greatest number of
persons of this nationality or descent worshipped in Lutheran or Lutheran
Evangelical churches.
There were seven churches active at the time and of these a goodly number
were in the Eastern District, in old "Dutchtown."
The German Evangelical Lutheran Church of Brooklyn was in its twenty-third
year of existence and for twenty-one years had occupied a house of worship
at Schermerhorn and Court Streets.  His church gave equal privileges to the
Lutheran and Reformed adherents, being known as a United church.
In the Eastern District was St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Congregation at
the corner of South First and Ninth Streets, and known as the "Mother of the
Evangelical Lutheran churches of the Eastern District."
Zion Church was struggling along with about six parishioners in 1863, in the
Concert Hall in Henry Street.
Among the others were
-St. John's, at Liberty and New Jersey Avenues;
-St. Johanne's, at Graham Avenue and Maujer Street;
-St. Matthew's "English" Lutheran, at Atlantic Avenue and State Street, then
meeting in a hall, and
-St. Mark's at Bushwick Avenue and Jefferson Street.

The Congregational Churches
"In a certain sense," says STILES in his History of Brooklyn,
"Congregationalism may be regarded as the parent of American Independence,
for it resulted in the founding of New England, where the first forcible
resistance was made against European despotism."
In the Brooklyn of 1863, Congregationalism was probably the outstanding
proponent of active resistance to Slavery, Secession and anti-Americanism.
Two great preachers, in churches almost within earshot of each other, were,
during the turbulent days of the Civil War, winning laurels of world-wide
fame.
Henry Ward BEECHER, who needs little introduction to people of any nation or
denomination, was, in1863, touring England, where his tireless battle
against slavery probably did more to win England away from out and out
sympathy with the Confederacy than any other agency of the time.
His church, Plymouth, was probably the third or fourth organization of this
creed in Brooklyn.  It has been an historic figure in Brooklyn almost as
prominent as the community itself.
It was first founded in 1846.  It was moved to where it now stands when John
Trasker HOWARD, one of the original members of the Church of the Pilgrims;
David HALE, Henry C. BOWEN and Seth B. HUNT, completed the purchase of
property running from Cranberry to Orange Streets, near Orange, for $20,000.
That was in 1847.
BEECHER, then pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church in Indianapolis, was
in New York to address the Home Missionary Society and was invited to preach
the opening sermon in the new edifice.
In October, 1847, he accepted the call, disregarding a flattering offer from
the Park Street Church in Boston.
Wendell PHILLIPS, famous Abolitionist, was leading his crusade in the North
before the war and the business folk of New York and Brooklyn had little use
for him.  He was ruining business in the Port of New York," the editorials
of the day said, because a great deal of shipping was handled here which
came from or went to Southern ports.
BEECHER, whose slave auctions in Plymouth were the talk of the entire
civilized world, offered to give PHILLIPS an opportunity to speak in this
section when all other meeting halls were closed to him.  Newspaper
editorials warned him, and some went so far as to threaten him with bodily
injury if he, BEECHER, persisted in his attempt to have PHILLIPS speak in
Plymouth Church.
The speech was made and BEECHER survived without a scratch.
In 1863 Plymouth was patriotically active in the Union cause although her
shepherd was in foreign lands and even after his return Plymouth was graced
with the illustrious glamour of famous personages who attended or spoke
within its walls.
Charles DICKENS later read some of his works from the rostrum and even
Abraham LINCOLN, on Sunday morning, followed the advice of the slogan,
"cross the river and follow the crowd."
No less prominent, if not so fiery as his neighbor, was the Rev. Richard
Salter STORRS, pastor of the Church of the Pilgrims, at Henry and Remsen
Streets, during 1863.
This church, in reality the first Congregationalist Church in Brooklyn, was
a descendant of an earlier attempt to found this denomination in Brooklyn.
The "Independents" tried as early as 1785 to foster Congregationalism but
dissension broke up the first group and finally, in 1844, the Church of the
Pilgrims was founded with seventy-one members.
Dr. STORRS, "the Chrysostom of Brooklyn" came from a family of religiously
inclined men, one of whom was a chaplain in the Revolutionary Army while his
own father was a pastor in Braintree, Mass.
He was a quiet personality which seemed only to brim when he assumed the
pulpit, when his eloquence flowed like magic, winning him no end of fame.
He was in a way, a sedative to those of his creed who felt they needed a
quietus after the sensationalism of BEECHER.
By no means, however, a shrinking violet, he won his people more through
what he said rather than what he did.
He is known for his untiring work on behalfs of the Long Island Historical
Society and at the time of which this is written was being elected, among
many other posts, to trusteeship of Amherst.
-Clinton Avenue Congregational Church, at Clinton and Lafayette Avenues,
built at a cost of $60,000 was being presided over, at the time, by the
Rev.W. Ives BUDDINGTON;
-South Church, at Court and President Streets, an offshoot of the Plymouth
congregation was under the pastorage of the Rev. William H. MARSH, who was
followed by Dr. STORRS.
-New England Church was in South Ninth Street;
-Central, which began in humble quarters in Ormonde Place in 1853, was ten
years later at Hancock Street, near Franklin Avenue, as the result of a
combined drive by members of Plymouth and Pilgrims to put it on its
financial feet.
The Rev. Adolphus J.F. BEHRENDS came to Central twenty years later to become
one of the well known orators of Brooklyn's pulpits.  In 1863 he was serving
in an Ohio regiment.

Swedenborgian Church
The Brooklyn Society of the New Church was organized four years before with
the Rev. James T. MILLS in charge and in 1863 was holding fourth in various
meeting halls.  Years later this sect bought the property of the First
Universalists, at Monroe Place and Clark Street.

Society of Friends
The Hicksite Friends were meeting in a little brick edifice in Schermerhorn
Street, near Boerum Place after having occupied various houses at Henry and
Cranberry  and Henry and Clark Streets.

Jewish Synagogues
Synagogues were just beginning to establish themselves in Brooklyn in 1863.
Beth Elohim was in State Street near Hoyt.  It had been active about a year
and a half at this time.
Ahavath Achim, organized in 1862 was in Johnson Avenue at Ewen Street, and
Baith Israel was at Boerum Place, near State Street.

Moravian Church
The First Moravian Church of Brooklyn was nine years old in 1863 and was
being presided over by the Rev. Edward RONDTHALER who was its first pastor.
It was organized by members who belonged to the New York church of that sect
and who more than likely tired of commuting to New York by ferry every
Sunday morning to attend services.  The congregation met in a small edifice
in Jay Street, near Myrtle Avenue, which was destroyed by fire five years later.

Transcriber :Mimi Stevens
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