"When the city was incorporated," says Allison, tk it had no asphalt avenues and streets, no waterworks to supply water for domestic use, for power, and for extinguishing fires, no system of sewers, no firebells, no electric fire-alarm, and no electric lights. There were no steam cars running to Getty Square, no street cars." Prom the 1 Mayors of the City of Yonkers to the present time: 1872-74, James C. Courter; 1874-76, Joseph Masten; 1876-78, William A. Gibson; 1878-80, Joseph Masten; 1s,nii-nl'. Norton P. Otis; 1882 S4,

Samuel Swift: 1884-86. William G. Stahlnecker; 1S86-90, J. Harvey Bell; 1890-92. James Millward: 1892-94. James II. Weller; 1896-98. John G. Peene; 1S9S-1900, Leslie Sutherland.

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first the seat of the city government was the Philipse Manor House, which in 18G8 had been purchased by the village from its owner, Judge William W. Wood worth. The presidential campaign of 1872 is ever memorable as the one in which Horace Greeley, the great editor of the New York Tribune, ran against General Grant. Mr. Greeley was for some twenty years a citizen of Westchester County. He was one of the early incomers from New York City after the opening of the railways. In the summer of 1850 he lived with his family on the Todd Bailey estate in the Town of North Salem.1 We have seen that during the same year he took a very prominent part in the steps which led to the settlement of Mount Vernon. In 1851 he purchased a farm of seventy-five acres at Chappaqua in the Town of New Castle. Unlike most other prominent New Yorkers who came to Westchester County to live, Mr. Greeley sought a strictly rural abode without any of the accessories of aristocratic pretension. He wished to be a plain farmer, and to prosecute agricultural pursuits in a perfectly serious way.