[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] which were not satisfactory to those who afterwards moved in. He set up a bone-factory, which tainted the air. He manufactured sulphur, which was not agreeable. He opened a distillery for the production of cheap spirits, which was detrimental in several ways. And yet, after all, it was to him very largely that the new life and activity were due. A little later there came upon the scene a gentle-man of fortune, Mr. Anthony Constant, who owned much of the land upon which the village was after-•wards built. He was a resident during the time ■when the Croton Aqueduct and the Hudson River Railroad were in process of construction. Mr. Con-stant is remembered as a man of agreeable manners, with a charming domestic circle about him, and as [having had a residence in the city as well as a country-seat on the Hudson. Owing to large ex-penses, it is said, he was induced to dispose of some • of his real estate, and he accordingly laid out the village, and sold his land in small lots. One of the principal streets running north and south through the heart of the village is Constant Street, which was located upon his own property, and hence took its name from him. The village, in fact, then as-