Their children are Elias M., Isaac B., Gilbert H., Arthur G. and James W. Two of these are now in partnership with their father, and their skill and talent bid fair to lead to new discoveries. It deserves especial mention that Mr. Johnson has always evinced a deep interest in the welfare of his employes, and a well-furnished reading-room affords them means for mental culture, while a wellconducted Sunday-school has a tendency to elevate their moral nature.

The manufacture of gas and steam-fittings in this establishment has been brought to such a degree of perfection that their productions can be sent to foreign countries and sold at such prices as to defy competition-- a result which has been accomplished by improved methods of manufacture and without reduction of wages. Mr. Johnson is a member of the American Institute of Mining Engineers, and is deeply interested in all that pertains to scientific research.

westchester towx. by fordham morris.

From the Discovery to the Revolution. -- The most celebrated of American historians says, " To the enterprise of proprietailes New Netherlands was to owe its tenants," and he lays great stress upon the fact that the Dutch West India Company insisted that the Indian title should first be extinguished before any of the Dutch settlers could obtain permanent rights in the soil.* Though Henry Hudson was the first discoverer of Hudson's River and Spuyten Duyvil Creek in 1609 ; though Adrian Block, in his yacht, the " Onrest," in 1613-14, made the first white man's cruise to the east of the ancient township that has given its name to a county ; and though Christiansen had established his trading post on the site of the future Fort Orange or Albany about the same time, we have no record by government, republic or company of what was formerly known as, and still forms a part of, the town of Westchester for many years after the discovery of New Netherlands by the Dutch.