[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] ried away several buildings, shops, pig-pens, etc, as well as the " Westchester Bridge," the road bridge and also the railroad bridge at the dock. The dam-age amounted to several thousands of dollars. The third and most destructive flood of all occurred on Wednesday night and Thursday morning, Scplcin-ber 4 and it, 1878. The damage was estimated at not less than fifteen thousand dollars. A boy, standing I at the time on " Westchester Bridge," was swept OSSINING. 337 Stway by the torrent and drowned, in consequence of a portion of this brick structure having been under-mined by the current. Facilities for Traveling. — The New York Central and Hudson River Railroad is the chief route by which the people of the town of Ossining go out to the world, and by which the world comes into the town. Regular commuters are taken to or from New York City for the small sum of twenty-five cents; while the casual traveler is required to pay sixty cents. The total number of tickets to and from New York City which were sold at our station during the past year, from May 1, 1884, to April SO, 1885, was 711,295. These do not include the books of com-muters, nor the tickets from New York to Sing Sing, which were sold at the Grand Central Depot, during the same time. Besides the above, many thousands of tickets are sold annually at our station for places along the whole line of the road, and elsewhere.