f Cape Finisterre, capturing the ship of the French Commodore, "La
Joncquiere." Then came his recall to England, where, on account of his
vast wealth and famous achievements, he was a conspicuous figure. One of
his daughters, Charlotte, married Willoughby, Earl of Abingdon. Another,
Ann, became the wife of Charles Fitzroy, Baron Southampton. The
youngest, Susanna, after her mother, was wedded to Colonel Skinner. New
York's affection and esteem for Sir Peter Warren extended to his
daughters and through them to their husbands. The old name of
Christopher Street was Skinner Road. There was a Fitzroy Road that ran
northward from Fourteenth Street. Then, still existing, is Abingdon
Square, and Abingdon Road, better known as "Love Lane," was somewhere in
the neighbourhood of the present Twenty-first Street. It is to the past
rather than the present that the student of the Avenue turns in
contemplating the stretch between Fourteenth and Twenty-second Streets.
Here and there an historical point may be indicated. On Sixteenth
Street, a few yards to the west, is the New York Hospital, the oldest
in the city. It received its charter from George the Third some years
before the first gun was fired in the War of the Revolution. It was not
regularly opened until 1791, but the building, then at Broadway and
Duane Street, served as a place for anatomical experiments. In 1788, the
story is, a medical student threatened a group of prying boys with a
dissected human arm. Soldiers were needed to quell the resulting riot.
The reddish brick hospital of today dates from 1877. A chapter in the
story of the New York Hospital as an institution concerns the
Bloomingdale Lunatic Asylum, for which the land was purchased in 1816,
and the building completed in 1821.

Respectively at 150 and 156 Fifth Avenue are the building of the New
York Society of the Methodist Church and the Presbyterian Building. The
latter houses the Methodist Book Concern and a collection of relics
belonging to the Historical Society. A few years ago the stretch was
sometimes called the Paternoster Row of New York on account of the
number of publishing houses that lined it. Also it was long the home of
many of the churches that were erected in the middle of the last
century, among them the South Dutch Reformed Church, built in 1850, at
the southwest corner of Twenty-first Street, and the Fifth Avenue
Presbyterian Church at Nineteenth Street. In Nineteenth Street, just
east of t