Washington and Waverly places were very aristocratic indeed." Waverly Place, by the bye, got its name through a petition of select booklovers who lived thereabouts and adored Sir.

Walter Scott.

It speaks well for the good taste of the aristocratic quarter, even though the tribute came a bit late,--about twenty years after "Waverley" was published! The celebrated north side of the Square was called, by the society people, "The Row," and was, of course, the last word in social prestige.

But, for all its lofty place in the veneration of the world and his wife, its ways were enchantingly simple, if we may trust the tales we hear.

In the Square stood the "Pump With The Long Handle," and thence was every bucketful of washing water drawn by the gilt-edged servants of the gilt-edged "Row"! The water was, it is said, particularly soft,--rain, doubtless,--and day by day the pails were carried to the main pump to be filled! When next you look at the motor stages gliding past the Arch, try, just for a moment, to visualise the old stages which ran on Fifth Avenue from Fulton Ferry uptown.