[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] try roads and chiseled on the building grounds. The work in a short time was stopped for want of funds, and up to this date has never been resumed. Great expectations from certain persons failed to be realized, and the laudable, though perhaps rather am-bitious, enterprise has been doomed to a humiliating and still uncertain postponement.1 The North Sixg Sing Methodist Episcopal Church was established largely through the wisdom and liberality of the late Henry Yc :ng, Esq., a wealthy citizen who resided in Claremont, a little community in the northeastern vicinity of Sing Sing. Seeing the necessity of a church in North Sing Sing, and believing that it would be most congenial to its citizens to have it under the charge of the Method-ists, though a Presbyterian himself, he generously ottered to bear one-fourth of the expense of purchas-ing a suitable lot and of erecting a proper church edifice, providing the remainder should be subscribed by the people. The church is a neat and commodi-ous wooden structure, with tile roof and plain stained-glass windows. It was completed and dedicated De-cember 27, 1870. Bishop E. S. Janes conducted the services in the morning and the Rev. Cyrus D. Foss in the evening. The entire cost of the church and