[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] J II. K color. The raised platform, prepared for six hundred persons, was reserved for the officers of the meeting, the city authorities, the guests and the reporters for the press. The representatives of families whose successive generations have resided here during a century or more were assigned a place of special honor, and inarched to the seats reserved for them, under the leadership of Mr. Augustus Van Cortlandt. THE MAVOIt"S ADDRESS. "Ladies and Gentlemen : — As president of this mats-mooting, it is solely my duty to maintain order and have the arranged programme carried out. It is a pleasure to mo that what is so obviously the proper thing to do is so sure to aecord with your inclination., " You are all anxious to hear how, from the erection of our Manor Hall, two hundred years ago, this territory has been developed; how> then the property of one family, the land has gradually come into the possession of many; how the Manor became the settlement, the settle-mem the village, the village the town and the town the city, the extent