[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] the township, including the inmates of the prison, reaches ahout ten thousand. In consequence of the numerous and extensive fires, an account of which will he found in another place, as well as from the rapid transit afforded by the railroad, and many other causes, this village has made a good de-gree of progress, growth and improvement during the past third of a century. The writer took up his residence in this place as long ago as that, and has had a per-sonal knowledge of every change which this period of time has brought ahout. When he came to Sing Sing the entire amount of sidewalks, which consisted of little patches in a lew places, if aggregated, would not measure five hundred feet in all. We walked along Main Street on sidewalks of mud or ashes, and near where the Croton Aqueduct crosses this street were rude steps of hoards and pegs. The long and handsome line of stores and neat sidewalks now to be seen is in striking contrast with the wretched little shops and tenements which then made Up our Main Street. Ami everywhere' the improvement and growth has kept pace with this. Many streets and hundreds of pleasant cottages now occupy what were then the pasture fields for stray village; cows and migratory goats. Should the place continue to im-prove and grow at the same rate in the next third of a century as in the past, it will he a place of beauty and of much importance.