Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1893 — The Battery. [ARTICLE]

The Battery.

Harper's Weekly. When Hendrick Hudson came sailing into the mouth of the river that thenceforth was to be known by his name, on that September dav in the year 1609, almost the whole of what now is called “the Battery” was under water at high tide. And it is a sact —notwithstanding the thundering of guns which has gone on thereabouts and the blustering name that the locality has worn for more than two centuries —that not a single one of New York’s enemies ever would have been a whit worse had the tides continued until this very moment to cover the Battery twice a day. Actually, the entire record of this theoretically offensive institution, whereof the essential and menacing purpose, of course, was that somebody or something should be battered by it, has been an aggregation of gentle civilities which would have done credit to an exceptionally mild man.nered lamb.