Decatur Democrat, Volume 48, Number 7, Decatur, Adams County, 21 April 1904 — Page 7

jfEW YORK STREETS. HOW SOME OF THE OLD ONES GAINED their names. Tr lnl<v Church Had More to Do With low Them Thon All Other luthoritlex Combined— The Reason Broadway Killed Hudson Street. The churchwardens of old Trinity church had more to do with naming the streets in the lower part of old New York than all other authorities combineti. To be sure, the quaint burgomasters, before the first Trinity church wa s built, after hearing the pros and cons of landowners, found names for many streets significant of certain established facts, for streets and byways below Maiden lane on the easterly side of the Heere straat, afterward changed to Great George street, in honor of King George, by the authorities of Trinity. Then our patriots ignored the name and called it Bloomingdale road and then the Broad way, simplified into Broadway. The present Trinity church, at the head of Wall street, is the third edifice of that name, the two preceding structures erected upon the same ground having been burned, but the first was one of the first churches erected in this city, and Trinity has always been the wealthiest corporation, patronized by the richest and most influential families for ages. The churchwardens of this church had their own way about naming the streets from the church to what is now Twenty-third street, west of Broadway, along the Hudson river front, because they owned that immense property. In the olden time Queen Anne of England owned what was known as the Queen's farm, which covered the land commencing at St. Paul's church and extending to what is now Twentythird street, bounded by Broadway on the east and the Hudson river on the west Vestry street was so styled by Trinity because the church had a vestry in that street between Hudson and Greenwich streets. Church street was so called because it bounded the west side of St. Paul's churchyard. Rector street was honored by the residence of the rector of Trinity. Barclay and Vesey streets were named after two clergymen of the church. Trinity’s officers determined that the main artery of the city should run through its land, and, grounded in their belief in their ability to carry out their Intention. Hudson street was laid out. St. John's park and many other improvements were offered as inducements to purchasers of land, and St. John s chapel was erected and finished in 1803, one of the handsomest pieces of church architecture in the city. Trinity counted without an expression of the majority of the people and failed in its endeavor. The arrogance of the church fretted the good people, and more to spite the churchwardens than because Broadway was nearer the center of the city Broadway acquired the preference, and the glory of Hudson street departed, never to return. It has been remarked that the streets laid out by Trinity on the farm are all perfectly straight, while many in the lower part of the city are wonderfully crooked. The explanation of this lies in the fact that scarcely a small hill existed on the farm, while below there crooked lanes and byways, to say nothing of cow paths, were turned into streets,- which ran in devious ways around hills, valleys and swamps. Many streets were named after the owners of property adjacent to or through which the ways were laid. Moore street was originally the line of the first wharf erected in the city. Colonel Moore was formerly a large owner of the lots when first built upon. John street was named after John Harpending, who resided in Broadway, and John street when first laid out passed through his garden. Cortlandt, Bey and Beekman streets were carried through the property of the men after whom they were named. Ann street was named after Ann Beekman. Vandewater, Roosevelt, Rutgers, Gouverneur, Harrison, Lispenard, Bayard, De Lancey, Rivington and Willett streets were so designated because they passed through the property of people bearing these names. Hester street was named after one of the Bayard family and Catharine after Catharine Rutgers. Henry street was named after a son of the Rutgers family, and Jacob street bounded the Jacob Leisler estate. Frankfort street was also a boundary of the same estate. Leisler was a native of Frankfurt. James street was named after a member of the De Lancey family, as was also Oliver street. Batavia lane was so called because the Roosevelt estate, through which this street was run, was called New Batavia.

Division street was originally the division line between the De Lancey and Rutgers farms. Leonard street was named after one of the Llspenards, and Orchard street was cut through the orchard of the De Lancey farm. Sheriff street was called after Sheriff Willett, through whose estate it was carried. Mangin and Goerek streets Were named after the two city surveyors who laid out the river line. The first mayor of New York after the Revolution, a true patriot, was James Duane, who was honored by ties naming of Duane street after him. Elm, Orange and Mulberry streets were laid out through public property in the vicinity of the Collect pond and owe their names to the peculiarities they suggest. Cherry street was originally run through “the road by the cherry trees" and named accordingly. —New York Herald. Rogues differ little. Each began as a disobedient son. —Chinese Proverb.

COLLECTIVE NAMES. Old Eisulish Terms For Groupa of Persons and Animals. In a book on British sports, written in the eighteenth century. Joseph Strutt gives the old English terms for groups of various beasts as follows: “When beasts went together in companies there was said to be a pride of lions, a Jepe of leopards, a herd of harts, of bucks and of all sorts of deer; a bevy of roes, a sloth of boars, a sownder of wild swine, a drift of tame ewine, a route of wolves, a harras of horses, a rag of colts, a stud of mares, a pace of asses, a baren of mules, a team of oxen, a drove of kine, a Hock of sheep, a tribe of goats, a skulk of foxes, a cote of badgers, a richness of martins, a fesynes of ferrets, a huske or a down of hares, a nest of rabbits, a clowder of cats and a kyndall of young cats, a shrewdness of apes and a labor of moles.”

Similar terms were applied to gatherings of human beings. Strutt gives them as follows: “A state of princes, a skulk of thieves, an observance of hermits, a lying of pardoners, a subtiltie of sergeants, an untruth of sornpners, a multiplying of husbands, a safeguard of porters, a stalk of foresters. a blast of hunters, a draft of butlers, a temperance of cooks, a melody of harpers, a poverty of pipers, a drunkenship of cobblers, a disguising of taylors, a wandering of tinkers, a malpertness of pedlars, a fighting of beggars, a rayful—that is, a netful—of knaves, a blush of boys, a bevy of ladies, a nonpatience of wives, a gagle of women, a gagle of geese.” In the old days the word "leash” was applied to three greyhounds, while two were "a brace,” On the other hand, two spaniels or harriers were called “a couple.” A number of hounds went under the term of "a mute of hounds,” while it was correct to speak of “a kennel of raches. a litter of whelps and a cowardice of curs.” WHY THEY ARE POOR. Their ideas are larger than their purses. They are easy dupes of schemersand promoters. They reverse the maxim, "Duty before pleasure.” They have too many and too expensive amusements. They do not think it worth while to save nickels and dimes. They have risked a competence in trying to get rich quickly. They allow friends to impose upon their good nature and generosity. They try to do what others expect of them, not what they can afford. They prefer to incur debt rather than to do work which they consider beneath them. They think it will be time enough to begin to save for a rainy day when the rainy day comes. They risk all their eggs in one basket when they are not in a position to watch or control it.—Success. Helping Him Ont. Mrs. Hoyt, wife of Charles Hoyt, the playwright, added much to the enjoyment of a Lambs’ club banquet in Chicago by her sharp and witty tongue, always ready for a home thrust. Mr. Hoyt was second on the list of speakers and was badly frightened. He concluded that he would plunge quickly into his speech when called upon, and, with this idea, be arose briskly when announced and started in: "Ladies and gentlemen, I feel honored, I’m sure, by this request of the toastmaster, but it is so unexpected I really had no time to prepare—a —l really’ had no time to prepare_a ”_ And he stopped. Every one felt sorry for him, but Mrs. Hoyt seemed in no way disturbed. When she noticed his predicament she turned toward him suddenly and called out, “Why. Charley, you did it perfectly this morning!” Reading and Thinking. The things one merely reads about never stick. Those on which one thinks become permanent acquisitions; hence the man who is not afraid of thinking and who does not dread “that cursed hour in the dark is at a distinct advantage on every ground. He passes the time without being bored, and he strengthens his mtnd. To say this may no doubt sound slightly priggish, but it is none the less true. The man who can enjoy and make use of his own thoughts has a heritage which can never be alienated. Even blindness for him loses some of its terrors. — London Spectator. An Eye For an Eye. “My cook, an old darky, informed me one morning: ‘Miss Annie, I's goln’ to be married tonight. Is you got a present for me?’ “‘But, Maria,’ I said, ‘you've got a husband alive and haven't been divorced. It would be bigamy!’ “ ‘Well, Miss Annie, I don’t care; fee’s done blgotted fust’ ’’—Lippincott’s Magazine. Getting Oat of Debt. “What was it your husband wanted to see me about?” inquired Mrs. Newliwed’s papa. “I think he wanted to borrow a couple of hundred dollars from you,” she said. “He’s so anxious to get out of debt.”— Philadelphia Ledger. Not Needed Below. “This is a funny ship.” “How so?” “They have no clock in the cabin.” "Oh no! But they always keep a watch on the deck.”-Stray Stories. Cutting Him. “It's cruel of you to snub him. He’s a good sort, if be is a rough diamond.” “That’s the reason he needs cutting. —Judge.

A REMARKABLE ECHO WONDERFUL SOUND EFFECTS IN A NEW YORK MONUMENT. Tile Famous Baptistery at Pisa Out i done by the Soldiers’ Shaft on Riv- I erside Drive, Where Sound Roll. About Like a Hull. A big French motor car occupied by two men and two very pretty women whirred up Riverside drive late Sunday evening and at Ninetieth street drew up and stopped at the approach to the Soldiers and Sailors' monument. It was long past the hour when the crowd of fashionable promenaders leaves the drive as the party of four stepped out of the big, vibrating machine and climbed the steps to the monument. One of the men was a millionaire well known in the financial district. Tlie other was a great tenor. With them were the millionaire’s wife and a woman known in half a dozen European capitals as one of the greatest operatic coaches living—a woman who is a constant attendant upon operatic stars and a sharer in no small degree in their musical triumphs. If it laid been made during a Sunday or a weekday afternoon, a crowd of fashionable folk would undoubtedly have had their curiosity piqued by the peculiar visit of four such well known people. The whole affair was so bizarre and the sounds which soon issued from the narrow entrance to the glistening white monument were so strange that at any but a late night hour a crowd must have quickly filled the plaza around the marble shaft. A desire to escape any such annoying incidents probably led the visitors to choose the nighttime for their visit. “The average American is a consummate ass,” said the New Yorker as he guided the small party up the moonlit steps to the monument. “He travels to the utmost parts of the world, spends barrels of money and generally writes a book or two describing the marvelous things he sees, when by remaining right at home he could have seen sights of a similar kind which would have knocked the spots off the things on which lie has wasted his patrimony and paragraphs of superlatives.” “But echoes, signor.” replied the ten or as he grasped the Wall street man’s arm. “Echoes such as we have in the baptistery! Never—except in the old cathedrals of Italy!” “That’s just what Americans say,” retorted the New York man. “They go into ecstatic raptures over European mediocrity without knowing that they live among the greatest collection of marvels in the world. Listen to this.” The party had reached the door leading to the interior of the monument. A solid cylindrical wall of marble and granite surrounded a slender room empty’ save for a half dozen dried wreaths lying on one corner of the stone floor. When the whole party had wormed its way into the monument, tlie Wall street man bade them be very still and with upturned face intoned a low note. An echo was heard which rivaled those marvelous reverberations which have drawn travelers to distant parts of the world and have been the subjects of brilliant descriptions in the daily press and between covers. The note seemed instantly transformed into a movine ball of sound. Its journey to the distant stone ceiling could be distinctly tinted. It seemed to be wafted upwaid like a ring of smoke or a cottony’ dandelion seed. The sound decreased until the note seemed to strike the sn ail, high ceiling, where it lingered a moment before commencing its downward trip. Gradually increasing in loudness, it came back to the floor of the monument, apparently’ as loud and as intact as when it was uttered. The whole wonderful incident occupied only a few seconds, but every stage of the sound's trip to the top of the monument and back was as pronounced afid as easily traced as though it had been a butterfly or a toy balloon. “Magnificent!” exclaimed tlie tenor in tones of rapture and surprise. "1 never dreamed such a marvelous echo existed outside the baptistery at Pisa.”

His voice made a perfect riot of sound within the narrow shaft. Countless tones going aud coming in rapid succession produced an effect almost painful upon the ears of the listeners. At the request of one of the women the tenor sang very slowly and softly a few phrases of “La Donna e Mobile.” The effect was peculiarly beautiful. Two men seemed to be s.nging, one a half beat behind the other. As in the Wail street man’s experiment, each note could be heard distinctly soaring aloft to the ceiling and back. At the return ot each note in its original vigor and fullness the effect of a second singer was produced. The union of the bell-like tones of the beautiful voice, tlie wonderful echo and the peculiar strangeness of the whole situation brought cries of delight from the two women. “I believe it is as fine as the one in Pisa,” said the woman who coaches prima donnas, “and to think that we never even heard of it before!’ “Peculiar fact,” said the New Yorker, striking a match and illuminating the dark, cold interior. “New Yorkers never know anything about New York. You can’t sit down in a hotel lobby or in a club and speak of echoes but a dozen men will commence to dilate on some reverberations they have heard in some backwoods German or Italian town. But none of them knows of anything remarkable in his own town, the greatest city on earth.”—New York Commercial Advertiser, No Chance For Him. „ “Come on; have a game of poker!’ “I don’t believe in games of chance. -That need maUe no difference. Come on and play.”-Houston lost

PATRIOTISM OF ANTS. The Inueeta Always Willing to Die For Their Coiniutuie. Many times and in many "ways the devotion of ants to their commune has been tested. The rule is weii nigh invariable of instant and absolute self abnegation and surrender of personal ease anil appetite, life and limb to the public welfare. The posting of senti nels at gateways is customary, and they are apt to know first tlie approach of danger. With heads and quivering antennae protruded from the opening, these city’ watchmen not only dispatch within news of threatening peril, but rush out with utter abandon to face the foe. With ants patriotism is not “second nature;” it is instinctive, inborn, seemingly as strong in the callow antling as in the veteran brave. It must be confessed, however, that it is rigidly exclusive. Racial catholicity is not an emmetorian virtue. Ants are without that elastic hospitality which embraces and assimilates all foreigners. Even the slave makers hold their domestic auxiliaries strictly distinct. It may be dne to overmastering patriotism that one fails to discover individual benevolence in ants. Friendships and personal affection in the limited and specialized sense familiar among domestic animals are as yet unknown. And thus it is with other social insects. —H. C. McCook in Harper’s Magazine. SALTS IN THE SEA. The Four Varieties Thnt Are Washed Out of the Kurth. Why should the sea be salt when the lakes and rivers are fresh? This is a question that comparatively few people stop to think about. They recognize the fact, but do not take the trouble to reason about it. There are four salts in sea water—sodium chloride (common salt), magnesium, potassium and calcium. These are minerals and are washed out of the rocks of the earth by the streams and carried to the sea in a state of solution. The water of the sea is being constantly evaporated, and it comes to the land as rain, snow, hall or sleet. But this evaporation leaves the salt in the sea, and as the streams are all the time carrying more salt there the quantity is constantly increasing, but so gradually that it is not noticed in the water. It has been estimated that if all the salt were obtained out of tlie waters of the sea there would be enougli to cover the continent of North America to a depth of half a mile. In some parts of the world the salt used by the people is all obtained from sea water, but not where there are salt mines or salt springs, for the quality of that obtained from them is much superior to that yielded by sea water. RoaMinK Cats* bn a Sacrifice. The eat, says Mr. Miii in his “History of the Crusades,” was a very important personage in the religious festivals of the times which he describes. At Aix, in Provence, on the festival of Corpus Christi, the finest tomcat in the canton, wrapped like a child in swaddling clothes, was exhibited in a magnificent shrine to public admiration. Every knee was bent, and every band strewed flowers or poured incense, and grimalkin was treated in all respects as the god of tlie day. But on tiie festival of St. John, June 24, poor Tom’s fate was reversed. A number of cats were put into a wicker basket and thrown alive into the midst of a large fire kindled in the public square by the bishop and his clergy. Hymns and anthems were sung, and processions were made by tlie priests and people in honor of the sacrifice. Sources of Genius. The proportion of distinguished men and women contributed from among tlie families of the clergy can only be described as enormous. In mere number the clergy can seldom have equaled the butchers or bakers in their parishes, yet out of 1,030 eases of genius only two butchers and four bakers are definitely ascertained to have produced eminent children as against 139 parsons. The eminent children of the clergy outnumbered those of lawyers, doctors and army officers put together. Un the other hand, such is the eccen- [ tricity of genius that the clerical profession produces more idiots than any other class. — From Havelock Ellis’ “Study of British Genius.” Flowers and Twilight. As twilight approaches a garden filled with brilliant flowers the red flowers will first lose their gorgeous color as the light diminishes, and then the grass and leaves will appear grayish. The last flowers to part with their distinctive color, white flowers being left out of the account, will be the blue or violet ones. This fact is useful to such insects as, in order to avoid their enemies, visit wild flowers in the twilight. No Mischief. “Willie, are you and Ben in any mischief out there?” “Oh, no,” replied the boy. “We’re all right, We’re jest playin’ bail with some eggs tlie grocer left to see how many times we can catch one before it breaks.”—Chicago Post. Danfferous. “Some scientists,” began Mr. Gay significantly, “consider kissing dangerous. Do you?" “Well.” replied Miss Smart, “I think it would lie for you. My big brother is within call.”—Exchange. Failure is to be untrue to the best you know, and the best you know is to i stay where you are and do what you can as well as you can.—Maltbie D. Babcock.

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Clover Leaf Excursions. Very low rates to the Pacific coast every day till April 30, 1904. via the Clover Leaf route. Write for full information to George H. Roes, Gen’l Traffic Mgr., Toledo, Ohio. Lebanon, Ind. State Convention Mieeionarv Society of the churches of Christ in Indiana. May 18-20, 1904 One fare for the round trip from etatons in Indiana. Tickets on sale Muy 17-18, 1904. San Francisco,, Cal. National Association of Retail Grocers of the United States, May 3 8, 1904. Tickets on sale April 22-30, 1904, See nearest agent, Clover Leaf Route, for full particulars, or address C. D. Whitney General Traffic Manager Toledo, Ohio Lost —A large, red coon hound; finder will return to Howard Davis and receive reward.

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