MUSEUM BULLETIN 



OP THE 



i>taiim Jslattfl Assnriatum of Arts txnb Bmnas 



EDITED FOR THE PUBLICATION COMMITTEE 



BY ARTHUR HOLLICK, CURATOR-IN-CHIEF 



No. 68. Published Monthly at New Brighton, N. Y. MARCH, 1914 



THE NEXT MEETING OF THE ASSOCIATION, 

 will be held in the assembly hall of the museum, 154 Stuyvesant Place, St. 

 George, on Saturday evening, March 21, 1914, at 8.15 o'clock. Mr. Alanson 

 Skinner will deliver a lecture on ''Habits and Customs of the Forest Indians," 



illustrated by lantern slides. 



ARTHUR HOLLICK, 



Secretary. 



An effort has been made to render the general appearance of the 

 museum more attractive by the hanging of framed subjects of local interest 

 on the wall space of the stairway leading from the first to the second floor. 

 Photographs of the Billopp House taken in 1902 and 1886, and an old woodcut 

 representing it as it appeared in 1844, show the gradual deterioration of the 

 historic old house, and the necessity for immediate action if it is to be saved 

 as an historical relic. Two old lithographs, one representing St. George, which 

 accompanied a prospectus of the St- George Improvement Co., issued about 

 1872, and one representing New Brighton, as viewed from Constable Hook, 

 N. J., issued by the New Brighton Association in 1836, show the vast difference 

 in the appearance of our shore front at those dates as compared with to-day. 

 There are also photographs of the Austin house at Clifton, the Latourette home- 

 stead at Richmond, and the Bedell homestead, the latter no longer in existence. 

 Other pictures show Tompkinsville and New Brighton from Pavilion Hill, as 

 they looked in 1875, and Fort Hill from the upper end of Fort Place, also pho- 

 tographed in 1875. One of the most stirring events in our local history is 

 recalled by a picture of the quarantine grounds and buildings at Tompkins- 

 ville as they appeared in 1858, and a poster, dated September 2, 1858, calling a 

 meeting of the citizens of Richmond County to celebrate the burning of the 

 hospital and other buildings in the grounds on the previous evening, "and to 

 transact such other business as may come before the meeting." Panoramic 

 views, one taken from the top of Todt Hill and one from the Fox Hill golf 

 links in 1898, show the characteristic topographic features of those regions, 

 and two views of the Narrows from the old British Fort at the upper end of 

 Fort Place, one taken in 1850, the other in 1875, show many changes in the 

 residences and other buildings between those dates. 



It is interesting to note that one of the old posters relating to the 

 burning of the Quarantine, and other historical data connected with that event 

 in the possession of the Association, were made the basis of an illustrated 

 article in the New York Herald, Sunday, March 8, 1914. 



Accessions were received during February from the following persons : 

 Howard R. Bayne, W. W. Grant, Arthur Hollick, Charles Kipper, Albert W. 

 Lum, Albert Wornell. 



Entered as 2d-class matter in the P.O. at New Brighton, N.T., under Act of Congress, July 16, 1904 



