The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-03-31
THE MAGAZINES.
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"HARPER's."
The April number of Hdrper's Magazine,
which has been sent us by Claxton, kemsen
q Hafelfnger contains the following arti-
cles:-
"The American Baron," chapters XXI,
nv the anthor of 'tThe Dodge Club" 1.-THE
Crvntooram. etc., with six illustrations;
tsTbe Pitcairn Islanders, by A. H. Guernsey,
with thirteen illustrations; ''Bowery, Saturday
Niobt." by w. o. Stoddard, with thirteen
Illustrations; Frederick the Great, XVII,
The Close of the Seven Rears' War, and the
Partition of Poland, with five illustrations;
"Jobn Eastmans Compensation" by Miss
Emma i. Cobb; "The Gulf Stream aud the
Trade winds, their Origin and Law of Move
ment," by William L. Walkers Cruising" by
Carl Spencer; "Along the Florida Reef" (third
pnper), 10y DIR. J. B. Holder, with ten illustra-
tions "Anna Vallayer- Coster," by Benson j.
Losing, with portrait; "My Hero" by
Annie Thomas Dominic and the Inquisi-
ton" by Eugene Lawrence "The Num-
my's Foot" from the French of Theophile
Gautier, by Mrs. II. S. Conant; "Our
French Allies" by Benson J. LOSING; "Eh
What Is it ?" by J. H. Connelly; "Editors
Easy Chair" editors Literary Record"
''Editor's Scientific Record" editors His
torical Record" editors Drawer"
From "Bowery, Saturday Night" by w.
] VI
the Bowery in olden times
Let no unlettered rustic win derision to
himself by calling this great thoroughfare
Bowery street, for it is "The Bowery" and
nothing more. In the good old days when
the memory of Hendrick Hudson and due
reverence for ''their High Mightinesses" of
| Amsterdam had not yet departed from Man
a-hatta, stout-hearted and hard-headed old
Governor Peter Stuyvesant had his Bonperte,
or country seat, out this way, and the high
! way thereto, out of proper respect, derived
its imperishable name therefrom.
In some of the earlier maps, to be sure,
prepared by presumptuous Yankees or usurp-
| ing Englishnen, the Governors drive is de-
graded to ''the high-road to Boston" as if
! New Workers cared what settlements bordered
on their highway after it had departed from
the incompatible island. In the maps of 1866
better spirit is manifested by the super
scription ''Bowery Lane;" and in 1906 it was
noted as the 'Bowery Road, connecting near
what is now Union Square with the "Bloom-
ingdale Road, and continuing it's career
higher up as the ''road to Boston" On most
of the later maps there is no attempt to add
useless appendages to the simple and sufficient
cognomen.
In those ancient and excellent days of pas
toral simplicity on the left, as you went north
from Chatham Square, lay the estate of the
LIE Lanceys, and above them the broad lands
of Dyckman and Brevoort, while on the right
the old records give us tie historic names of
Rutgers Bayard, Minthorne, Van Cortlandt,
and others; and beyond and exceeding these
were the Bouwerie and other possessions of
the Stuyvesants, who have left more traces of
their ownership and occupancy than all others
put together-partly because the family yet
retain much of the property, but more because
of the bad temper of the old Governor, and
the preposterously long life of the ''Stuyve-
SAINT pear-tree, at the corner of Thirteenth
street.
There can be little room for doubt in the
mind OF any devout antiquarian but that the
spirits of the sturdy old burgomasters of
Nieuw Amsterdam continue to tuteize their
old haunts, and have exercised material in
fuence in determining the character and
nationality of their successors; nor would il
be altogether difficult at the present day to
find, on some pleasant summer evening, sit
ting with his ''vrauw" or gossip in front OF
some Bowery halle or gdrten, the modern
repre- sentative of Hard Koppig Peter" anG
his bellicose neighbors. Solid and sturdy
men were they-sturdy and solid men are
these good and honest citizens, and as eager
for news of fatherland and the stirring deeds
of "unser Fritz" as were their prototypes fol
the slow-coming tales of the prowess of Var
Tromp and De Ruyter. Not even the new
by telegraph and the street railways can den,
to the properly constituted mind the privi
lege of recognizing the flavor of the olC
times in what we assume to be the new.