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demanded was a pulpit. The venerable merchant thought 

 for a few moments, and then recalling the contents of his 

 garret, called to his son: "Thomas, thee will find Parson 

 Wilkins's old pulpit behind the chimney in the garret." It 

 seems that when St. Peter's had been renovated, Friend 

 Bowne had bought the old pulpit. His store building has been 

 rejuvenated almost beyond recognition. 



Of the more modern structures, there are the district court- 

 house and the Collis P. Huntington free library and reading- 

 room, a comfortable red brick building. Mr. Huntington, 

 who owned an extensive estate at Throgg's Neck, gave the 

 building to the town. It contains a fine portrait of the giver, 

 painted in oils by William E. Marshall, in 1893. On the road, 

 connecting Westchester and West Farms, Walker Avenue, 

 is the handsome stone Roman Catholic church of St. 

 Raymond with its two fine towers. Attached to it are an old 

 graveyard, a rectory, and a parochial school-house. 



Situated on Walker Avenue and the Unionport Road at 

 Van Nest are the buildings of the New York Catholic Pro- 

 tectory. This organization was incorporated on April 14, 

 1863, under the name of the "Society for the Protection of 

 Destitute Children." It grew out of the solicitude of r he 

 clergy and members of the Catholic Church for the welfare 

 of the gamins of the city streets, and from the fact that thou- 

 sands of Catholic children were yearly lost to the faith through 

 the non-religious workings of charitable institutions, both 

 public and private; and that many of these children grew up 

 to indolent or vicious lives through parental neglect, or through 

 lack of authority to compel them to employ cheir time in 

 useful occupations. The charter of the society provides for 

 the care of children under fourteen years of age over whom 

 their parents have no control, or who are idle, truant, vicious, 



