[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] Sons Carpet Co. Our object now is to retain for his-tory's sake the fact that the grist-milling and saw-milling are the oldest industries of Youkers. The saw-milling started when the place was a forest, and the grist-milling is as old as the needs of the inhabit-ants for the bread used by civilized people. The site of John Copcutt's saw-mill is also indicated on our map of 1847. This mill was built in 1845, on the foundation of a pre-occupying grist-mill, which had been burned. The said grist-mill may have been the very original mill of Van Der Donck. But more probably it was a larger one built before 1700, by Frederick Philipse. The present " Yonkers Flour-Mill," standing on the site of the former Hutchinson & Mitchell's factory, was built in 1851 or 1852, not long after that factory had been burned. It is devoted to grist work and the general grinding of grains. It has been successively run by F. S. Miles, Miles & Peek, Peek & Wolf, Peter F. Peek and Cornelius \V. Peek, who is its proprietor now. The Hat Industry. — The making of bodies for silk hats began in Yonkers as early as 1 828. Its general his-