The evening world. Newspaper, December 21, 1907, Page 8

t Letters from the People. hw Dia Oia he er 10, Noe. 83 to @ One Jert.csrsceseeres Jone month.... .NO. 16,823, yesant vault * Church, at Tenth ond avenue, whic the farm where Gov, Peter St treet is, located (on one-half centuries Robert Stuyvesant was oné of the few residents of this town who had the real title to’ be called “an old BS US yesant was bom in Holland only a century after Christopher Columbus discovered America. After serving in the Dutch Army he was appointed by the Dutch West India Company 2s the Governor of New Nether- Yands. He died two and one-quarter centuries ago. *~ Gov. Stuyvesant lived in the old Executive Mansion facing on Bowl- tog Green, where the Dutch fort was. He had been Governor eighteen foe the English, in 1664, sent a fleet and troops arfd captured At that tine New York had 2 population of 4,500. There were New England villages then which are but a little more populous now, while in the present day New York there are a score of tenement house ‘Blocks any one of which has more inhabitants than the whole of New ‘Amsterdam. when Col. Nicolls demanded its surrender. This ts the way this city came tobe called New York, because Col. Nicolls changed {ts name from the Dutch New Amsterdam to call it after the elghth Duke of York SSS When a treaty of peace was made between England and Holland New York became again New Amsterdam and Peter Stuyvesant returned. His farm, which extended from Great Jones. street to Fourteenth street, he called the “Bouweri” and the road"to it was the present Bowery. His countfy. house stood near where St. Mark's Church now is, and he was buried where St. Mark’s Church now stands. The monumenial stone which was placed on his grave is now built in the wall of the church. A population of more than a quarter of a million live to-day on the old Stuyvesant farm, and it-is doubtful whether of all these people more } than one, the venerable lady who lives in the old brick red and white house on the comer of Second avenue, Is descended on both sides from grand-| Parents who were born on Manhattan Island. - | 1 Of the four million people. of’ New York only one In sixteen has grandparents of American birth. Ninety-four per cent. are of recent foreign decent. The real old’ New York families Ike the Stuyvesants are perpetuated he Evening Wo vesant pastured his, cows two and New York family.” The first Stuy-| i got to him dcking. rl d eae BECAUSE WE NEED | THE DouGH a * % % & Cy on the female, not on the male, side, The possessioti of social prominence and the lack of necessity to struggle for a living seem to develop the women and to eliminate the men. The, daughters marry. and haye children. The men are more prone to habits which tend against perpetuating the family-name. ~~ | In the fashionable society of New York to-day how many people} are there who had great-grandparents living here? Of’the féw who had such great-grandparents how many are, there whose ancestors a hundred years ago had any wealth or social position? | And it is safe tg, predict thatrwhatever corresponds a century hence | to the patriarchs and|assembly dances, to the Newport set and the pres- ent fashionable sacietly of this city, its leaders will be more likely to have descended from the tdnements on the old Stuyvesant farm than"trom.the palaces which line the Fifth avenue side of Central Park. Conntry or Clty Boy, five seconds, and multiply by four. giv- dt * ae the desired rewalt | D. EB, Wit Another Walking R. Eyentne World HARRY 7) at Timing Ruflrond ‘Train railroad For More Care in tfosplinta, {oe World; mbps," for! turoplat to help? 1 LOOK DEAREST ! HE'S cot THE SILK YARN <I Dail He Gets ‘the Dou Ae. Dec = Net "We bell : CQDDODODOGQDODODHODODOHOGHGOISHDGVIDODODOHTGODSOBOGOOON POOQOHOMQODGDEA OOOOEAaacer “>The Newlyweds ~ The © 100000000000000000000000000000 000000000 COCO Un Toug 00 000000K BABY Pray Nice WRLE MAMMA 19 Busy! BABY qive MAMMA THE BLN! BABY TAKE Nice BALL} #urther. Adventures of ‘(Lhe Newly weda, WON'T see: yeu again till after Christmas," sald the Chorus Girl, “wo yeu can come ecrces with it now water, thinking it a merry h, very well, then, send it up to the fiat! ein Santa Claus up at the fiat eo hard that! we're getting headaches under the strain. Let us hope, else we know. as well. then, that ‘well filled stookings' en Christmas Day will be) ~/“'Of course, George, the wine agent;- who In Amy De Branscombe’s fance, scmething to us more than a mere matter of form Well will come across with a case of his brand rather! : | “Mike the Strike Breaker, Puss Montgomery's friend, in In Goldfield, but the day he jet Puss Montgomery wrote in the tuniness that would be xind of feminine interest in pushing their branda. him a letter wiching him @ merry Christmas and sent him| | lett an alarm clock as a gentle hint that she should wake up |and if he gives me something he'll have to give eomething to Puna and Amy | Jovous Yuletide or there'd be no wedding bells for him. ° ‘What do you think, kid? To show him her thoughts fe all fer him she wound & up before she sent it-off and even If It's only something out of stock and a little shopworn they senda, -atill mess of dynamite and fixings, and then beats {t over [the hille and far away. E We sot out our address book and sent greetings and salutations :to every- and we have a hunch that rivals In rellaw Top, just to show George that the wine trade will send us Pink Seal and others are Interested in us and any time he and Amy have a tiff there's others “Old Man Moneyton Is reasonably sure t make good because he Ukcx me; and Mamma De Branscombe. ‘Loute Zinshetmer end Able Wd¥lebaim have goot hearts, for ws. and [it ten't the Intrinsic value af the thing. it's the feeling that they know you 4 ir 13 BABY'S MANMA WORKING HARD 2 DOING A DOILIE. FOR AUNT JANE! WELL, AUNT JANE WON'T GET ANY PRES ENT—IT’/5 Too LATE Now! HE'S HAD IT THREE HOURS Now, OEAR AND HE WoN'T qive Their baby,’ see i ember 2:1 Soe By 8 Baby Y George McManus: EEE OE CELHLTES SC HEESLOOHOD © The Story of the Operas By Albert Payson Terhune. | NO, 6.—FLOTOW’S ‘‘MARTHA.’? Earl of Duer'yy, unjustly banished from the Engilah court, Bes are om I arrying his infant son Lionel in his arms. Reaching ting or Plunkett, the Earl lived only long cnough to consign child to the farmer's hozpltable care and to give Plunkett a signet ring, with instructions that should Lionel eer be In danger the ring must be bent to Queem: Ar Line: and the fatmer‘a son grex to mantood together and in time Inherited Toxetie: they went one day, to Richmond Falr to hire servants. Bay tolis engaged was obliged to work fot her employer an entize ws ottracted the young men's notice. These girls wore the . and her maid, Nancy, who for a whim, had éig» yants and attended the fair under the escort of Lor@ a olderly cousie ‘and suitor. The girls though ‘ants to the two younk.men. Too late theg, In splice of Tristan‘s efforts they wert cape” red of vy Pky nd Lionel to the frm, Henrietta had told Lionel her navee had take) the allas of Betsy. ‘Arrived at tho farm (he wwe. to work: Birt their employers were amaxed to find thas d servants Understood anything about their new’ duties im the Crsn. j.uw any serve Prostan AUCk ‘ta find joke to sign ¢ learned the contracts were binding girls Weee at on | neither of thy sc , kitchen and dairy jetta contrived to wir itonel's heatt, while Nancy made almost as deep an lem {jrestion on Plunkett. ‘Theat nigh{ after the farmers had gone to bed Tristem | Tept.into the houso and helped the two scared girls to escape. * ° ° - Plunkett “wan furious at the frick pinyed on him, but Lionel had fallen tow. deeply In love with Henrietta fo feel any emotion save a longing to see again. Wandering in che ‘forest noon afterward he and Plynkétt came upom 4 Rroup of courtiers taking part/in a royal stag hunt. They recognized Henrieta and Nancy in Wie gay throng and hurried forward to“claim them aa rung servants. The girls dared not confess the part they had played. So Henri Shough her own hea en to Idonel, permitted the bade Plunkett carry hig. acted as Plunkett's mest senger to hor sovereign. ‘The ring was delivered and !ionel's identity mace kn He was restored vo his rank and titles and the hand of Henrietta bestowed him by Queen Anne. * * © But the young lover’a trials were not yet at an end. He was heartbroken Henrletta’a crue! treatment of hith on the day of the hunt. The later offer her hand could not atone for this, and he repulsed her in contempt. She ha@ scorned the ewnple farmer and ho tought she was now vdiling lo macy hia (only because he waa the Earl of lerby, The unhappy man fell into x eae ‘ugly wilich threatened to end in Geath. ¢ * ¢ }- Plunk |; We-sbugit and obtained-the help ef Nancy, to whom he had mean t! come %etratjied. The park of Lady Henrietta’r sstate was fittec up ne wound and crowded with villagers ions] was lured thither, and unexpect brought face to fuce with Henrietta, who had- once more put on the peasant die sulse she had worn when masquerading as Martha. Tho sight of his mweetheury (Bo In the gorgeous costume of her rank, but wearing the servant's drewe f° ; hh fe had first loved and qooed her, brought Lionel to his senses. The tt, after seeking fn yain to roiine his friend from this apathy, hit én Dee ft ir was resumed at the point where Henrietta’s former wapywardness ha@ roken tt off c Sanaa t The story of “Rigaletto” will be published Tuesday. ot ( Nature Makes Lamps of Fish. N yea water there are bacteria and on land there are fungi which posseen power of turning cold-blomted creatures Into what one might call natu lamps. The flesh of fish and other antmals of the sea becomes more or leas luminous a or two after death, says a writer in the Sctentiflc American, but sometimes the luminoalty Le to be found In life. ‘These bacteria and fungi have no effect upon human, beings. They cannot “live in a temperature above 76 dogreen Fahrenheit and the temperature of the human body tw 98 degrees. From the Baltle the Russkin phystologtst obtained these bacteria and with them n= coulnged from, An the bacteria multiplied in'the blood they caused the whole body to malate Ught. The luminescence, which was greatest in the soft pirta, (continued for three cr four days FALAALASALADALSAAAASAAAALABBALAAAAAAD SSAAAAASAPALSAGAAA ALAA LAS AAA A RR Rr eee enc Ric re pe ie fe fe pe ie ie fe fe pe ie pe pe ge ere The Chorus Girl and Dopey McKnight Get Headaches Believing in Santa Claus : FAALAAAAAALASAAAAIAAADBSDAAADAAADAAS FHSAA A AA SMH SKK HH OME TE OF Et ot OS KAASAAA FAAS SABA AACA sad : “We hears from third parties that he dropa It with a scream in a bucket of; n reclate any little remembrance and that they better send something worth In parties no more. br Mr. Burlap, the coffee broker, except that (here , unfortunate, that he got In Dutch on the marked ing able to pay bis alimony, has had a cillation with his wife, the cautious ependthrift, wi dus each a bioomen Miver belt buckles or, maybe, that box of cheap Cende ast year { they need: | “We ain't His awful nd nt him “We try to keep pay hearta, but when me think of the crue! annual dee } eppoin nts dn- thix ural other directions we sometifies wish there yae@@ poy beleves tn Santa lone hisself two years axo But Met is firmly, but that’s becaume he worked a@ or the Ealvation Army : ight is getting that independent that a lot of pees & him movit say, Dopey tuinks ‘ 5 “He's been Invited to join the Lamba’ Club, tut that was an easy dare bes i never be able to pay no {nidations even if they wae People 1s petting him too much, He's been, ast to. pl ¢ pitino as a Kuest, which meana he won't be paid fort, at the T. eee, nner, Jan, 13, end the Booster Club Inner, Jan, 2. So, from January ) to January Ekidoo Dopey will be ne in bis drens guilt, and-as be Masel, he's in 20 much demand socially Unis winter that hie pbirt wil 1 dirty, beer foc throw Charley Ross and Pete Dojley and Wilte is hend, because hos been dropping hints that @= xt to have his made to order with his monogram and hts family mark qn them, ike Wilile Collier has : ‘I don't dellove in any of them-heredity dear, tut I remember anct that O® | Mon Moneyton, who 4s willy on that horakiry fax, told me de nad looked Lt ue j#nd that the trade-mark of Done) MoKnight's family was w soat “All I know tn that when the Sherlf took all of Dopey McKnight's property | they must have got Dopey’a gcat as well, Bomebody got it. Kid, and in the long ago. trad: ‘Another thing thut's got Dopey all swelled up is that he hear that the ¥ Sunday law doasn't crab pluno-plnying In the theatres; while animal actey 4s trained elephants and the Intoxicated dog, cannot leully be considere@ ) But Willie’ Hammerstein told me that he seen no reason why a mancer aot with a high school horse couldn't go on bocatise that comes tinder the ‘eduves tlonal clause’ in Alderman Doull's ordinance, But T guess he'll have to consul) Danny O'Reilly, or {t may he a horne on him. : “Well, I'M be gind when It's all settled, because I do my einging act In osm. fand maybe, {f 1 was doing Sunday concert work; Uttls old New-York would } some town again me, “Wish you merry Christmas, kid!** R. L. Stevenson’s Conversation... | PA eeh Crane. t E used to stand on the hearthrug in the amoking-room, says Walter Crane in his “An Artiat's Remlalsconces"” of Robert Louls Stevensow, the centre’ of an admiring clrole, and discourse very inuch Jn the: same style ns that In which he wrote. It gave one the tmpression e@ artifioiality rather--I meon his manner of +petking and choice of iworda, as if cnrefully selected and cultivated. If a remark was offered by oma | Of the company he would perhaps accept it, and turn ft" about much 46 a come 'yurer does when he borrows handkerchlef or a hat from some one In hie |audience, or perhaps he would work it Into his next sentence, returning it to mie’ Interlocutor ‘mproveé—wrapped in silver paper, metaphorically speaking, Ie | personal appearance waa quite as unusual as hia speech. A long, pale, cpl |fmce and lank hair, quick and penetrating eyes, and a rather sardonic " | Whe world In_ general, cxpectally 11) cluoland, wore white shirta and collare ag\\ | buy Stévenson sported black oncs, The Emotions of Bitds. — By Dr. Clinton G. Abbott. a PLACED a stuffed owl In a tree near the nest of a catbird, and thew waited until morning to see vhe expression on the dird’s faco-at sigh@ I of antictration, surprise, supplication and atteAtion before the Ameri: can Orinthotogiats’ Congress, ‘In the inorning the cathird came out, looked quizatcally at the owl, come | pletoly surpriaed: at the presenco of a possible enemy, He then made att kingy - [of noise with hia wings and mouth to scare the owl away, I got photographe | of thin éffec. After each effort et scaring there was a jook of attention om te {nce of the cathird, ¢ ( pylal “The next day I took the owl away, Then I discovered that she had twa | young Ones ins neot. They were permitted to com out on the Ii of the t1 jand I got in another ploture the look ef sel{-satietaotion that sat won Vcatbird’s tase,’ = ‘ E ~ of the stranger,” said Dr. Clinton G, Abbott” discussing the emotions. ~ ~ ¢ Despite thetr nivkwardcess at spinning, cooking, &c.. Henete - | i 2