Our new offices;

              28 HASKINS & SELLS April
Our New Offices
THE firm announces that on May 1 its
executive offices and the New York
Broad Street practice office will be re­moved
to the new Equitable Trust
Building, 15 Broad Street.
The new building is in the heart of the
financial district, opposite the New York
Stock Exchange and adjoining the low and
massive building of the banking firm of
J. P. Morgan & Company. A wing of the
building extends through to Wall Street
on the east side of the Morgan building,
so that there are entrances on Broad
Street, Wall Street and Exchange Place.
The site is unique from a historical point
of view. It was included in the area pro­tected
from savage raids from the north
by the wooden stockade or wall built in
the year 1653 by Peter Stuyvesant, which
gave Wall Street its name. Later, in 1692,
it became the site of the Dutch Reformed
Church, the first church in Garden Street,
as Exchange Place was then called. The
"first church in Garden Street" survived
the bombardments of the Revolution and
the great fire of September 21, 1776, which
destroyed Trinity Church and the buildings
of the southern part of the city. Its reli-