There are three principal hotels -- the Getty House, Yonkers Plotel, and Peab^dy House.

The city is lighted by gas. There are several very large factories. It has some handsome buildings, and seventeen churches -- three Protestant Episcopal, three Presb>-terian, one Reformed, two Baptist, two Methodist, two Roman Catholic, one Unitarian, one German, one African,

a Vauder Doack's >'. N., N. Y. Hist. Soc. p. Ser. i. 142.

630 HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER

Zion church, and one Messiah, Colored Baptist, and fivo Union Freeschools.

On the organization of the city, a City Court was estalv islied ; jurisdiction limited to $1000. Appeals taken to County or Suoreme Court, according to amounts involved.

The old Philips Manor house was purchased by the city on the ist of May, 1 868, for public purposes. As few alterations were made in it as possible. It became necessary to remove the beams and garret floor of the north end of the building, in order to construct a Common Council chamber, which has been done with great skill and taste. On the first floor, which was the kitchen and drawing room, is now held the City Court. The principal chamber is used as the office of the Board of Water Commissioners. The large chamber, in the western end of the building, is used for the Engineers of the Water Department. The old parlor is now used as the Mayor's and Clerk's Office. The room used as a sitting room or drasving room on the first floor of the old house is used as an office for the City Treasurer, Receiver of Taxes, and Board of Assessors. Yonkers has two Savings Banks, two Banks of Dei)osits, and St. John's Riverside Hospital.