The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1891-04-23
AMERICANISMS.
Fancfful Names of Leading
Cities of the Union, aud the
Principal Geographical
Nicknames of the
United States.
written for the Gazette by L. Ellsworth
Carey).

written for the Gazette by l.. Ellsworth
Carey).
Academic City " is name often
applied to Worcester, Massachusetts,,
in allusion to the number and high
standing of its scholastic institu-
tons; another name applied to this
city is Heart of the Common
wealth f" for the reason that it 10
nearly in the center of the State, and
is influential in social and political
matters.
Achilles of Rivers is q name
applied to the Columbia River, the
largest American stream that enters
the Pacific. Like the ancient hero,
its vulnerable part is at its heel, for
the bar at its mouth is sometimes
dangerous to vessels. Sharon
Springs, a fashionable resort about
sixty miles from Albany, N. Y, is
termed the American Baden
Baden;" it has several medicinal
springs, and near is Howe's Cave,
which is one of the most remarkable
caverns known.
Hudson River is the American
Rhine," and stands unrivalled
among American rivers for pictur-
esque and magnificent scenery"
Anthony's Nose" is a popular
name for the extremity of hill
called the Klips, meaning rock or
cliff, on the right bank of the SSio-
hawk River in New York. The name
is also applied to a jutting rocky
headlard, projecting from the south
side of Breakneck Hill, on the east
bank of the Hudson, at the norther-
~ entrance to the Highlands, about
fifty seven miles from New York.
Boston has several nicknames, the
most appropriate being the Athens
of America" this name being g,iven
because the city is celebrated as a
center of literature and learning.
The appellation, Hub of the Uni
verse;" applied to Boston, originated
with DR.. o. w. Holmes in "The Au-
tocrat of the Breakfast Table," the
expression occurring as follows:
Boston State-house is the hu, Of
the solar system. You couldn't pry
that out of Boston man If you had
the tire of all creation slaughtered
out for crow bar" This city is
also known as the "City of Notion 8, |"
large amounts of small articles of all
descriptions being manufactm ed
there, and as the puritan City, a
name referring to it's founders, aud
supposed characteristics OF its med
ern inhabitants.
Banded Peak" is another mamie
for Mount Hesperus, peak OF tile
San Juan Mountains in Southern
Colorado. It is composed OF layers
Of volcanic rocks, and at distance
the mountain side looks banded Gu
streaked. A rock near Newport, Ii,
l., is known as Berkeley's Seat,
being a favorite resort OF Bishol:
Berkeley of colonial times.
Bleeding Kansas" Kansas wal
so called because much of the San
culinary encounters of the anti
slavery agitation preceding the Re
bellion took place within its borders
Hannibal, Missouri, being built on
rising ground on the bank OF the
Mississippi, is known as the Bluff
City"
Oakland, CAL, is sometimes re-
ferred to as the Brooklyn OF Sar
Francisco, it being, like its Eastern
namesake, city of homes.
Brooklyn, N. Y, has been called
the bed Chamber Of New York;
also the "City of Churches" be
cause of the many churches it con
tains in proportion to its size art
population. although other cities
contain a larger proportion o.
churches.
Philadelphia is sometimes called
the City of Brotherly Love-" OF
account of the meaning OF the nam'
in Greek; it is also called tb'
Quaker City," because of it
Quaker origin, and the "City o
Homes" because of the large mum
Der of private dwellings and the al
most total absence of tenemen
houses. Many of the streets Of New
Haven, Conn, are shaded by hand
some elm trees, which gave rise u
the names Elm City" or City o
Elms," SO often used in connection
, with this city. The "City of Mag
nifcent Distances is Washington
d. c.; the plan of this cit,
was designed by an architec
named L'Enfant, who anticipated
great metropolis; its area is nearl
eleven square miles, and the streets
crossing at right angles, are OF an
pie width. Nashville, Tenn, on az
count of the quarries of fine lime
stone in the vicinity, and who
g furnish materials for many OF i,
buildings, is denominated the Cit
of Rocks"
Ito be Contlnued.)