Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 February 1920 — REMINDERS OF EARLY DAYS [ARTICLE]

REMINDERS OF EARLY DAYS

New York Historical Society Has Unearthed Cave and Fi repl ace That Were Used by the Indians. In and around the city of New York there is going on a modest kind of archeological research that few Americans have heard of, but that adds now and then tangible evidence of what went on there when the Indians had their dwellings and paid no rent at all in this now expensive part of the world. The work, one learns from an article in the New York Times Magazine, has been going on only a year, but the field committee of the New York Historical society has discovered a cave and fireplace used by the aborigines and dating back, in ill probability, to a toe before Columbus thought of sailing west from Europe. A committee oi three gentlemen, in pursuit of recreation as well as rel!es, devote theft spare time and holidays to the pursuit, being at once directors, explorers and laborers of what one might call the historical society expedition for recovering buried treasure in and around New York. The plan might be carried out in other large cities with pleasure to the explorers and profit to the sum total of historical collections. '—* ————