The Quarterly Journal of the New York State Historical Association, Volume 2; Volume 19The Association, 1921 - New York (State) |
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Page 62 - ADAMS, director of the Roosevelt Wild Life Forest Experiment Station of the New York State College of Forestry at Syracuse, spent July, August and September in visiting the national forests and national parks of the southwest.
Page 40 - The poor houses throughout the State may be generally described as badly constructed, ill-arranged, ill-warmed, and illventilated. The rooms are crowded with inmates; and the air, particularly in the sleeping apartments, is very noxious, and to casual visitors, almost insufferable.
Page 162 - The soul of the sluggard desireth, and hath nothing : but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat.
Page 237 - That the vestrymen and church wardens have power to call a dissenting protestant minister, and that he is to be paid and maintained as the act directs.
Page 83 - we may expect very shortly a more formidable attack." He made a solid breastwork to defend his camp ; and as reinforcements arrived, set them at building a fort on a rising ground by the lake. It is true that just after the battle he was deficient in stores, and had not bateaux enough to move his whole force. It is true, also, that he was wounded, and that he was too jealous of...
Page 27 - Montgomery, a pond of moderate size in which we saw the bodies of several men who had been killed in the assault upon the fort. They were thrown into this pond, the preceding autumn, by the British, when probably the water was sufficiently deep to cover them. Some of them were covered at this time, but at a depth so small as to leave them distinctly visible. Others had an arm, a leg, and a part of the body above the surface. The clothes which they wore when they were killed were still on them, and...
Page 22 - I think, should by all means be fortified, as well for the annoyance of the enemy in their approach up the river, as for the protection of the works at Fort Montgomery. Indeed, this appears to me the most proper place I have seen on the river to be made the grand post; and, in my opinion, should be a regular strong work, capable of resisting every kind of attack, and of containing a grand magazine of all kinds of warlike stores. The whole would then command the passage of the river with so formidable...
Page 38 - The poor, when farmed out or sold, are frequently treated with barbarity and neglect by their keepers. More than one instance has stained our judicial records in which it appeared that the pauper had suffered such cruelty and torture from his keeper as to produce untimely dissolution. . . . " 3. The education and morals of the children of paupers (except in almshouses) are almost wholly neglected.
Page 204 - California from 1831 to 1846" printed in the Annual Publications of the Historical Society of Southern California for 1907-1908, VII, pp.