[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] clined the invitations. I found, however, that the host and his house were well known, and that scarce a traveller stopt there w ithout having Borne difficulty with the ignorant booby who pretends to keep a hotel. Indeed, many travellers go four or five miles out of the way to avoid ■topping at this house. I have related these circumstances for the benefit Of your numerous subscribers in this state, and those who may chance to pa«s through this place, and hear the name of Smith of the Tarry-town hotel." — letter* nhnut th? tfuoann, ]>p. ito — 32. The Martin Smith house is now rented and used as the office and headquarters of Brown, Howard & Co., contractors to build an important section of the new Croton Aqueduct. The long iron bars, the kerosene barrels, the fragments of machinery and the great four-horse wagons that are seen around the premises, to say nothing of the ragged and dirty Italian labor-ers standing by the doors, are anything but attrac-tive to the passer-by. But these can be excused as a transient necessity which will soon be past. After being in the Smith family for over sixty years, the house, with two and three-fourths acres of land, was sold under order of John H. Baxter, ref-