Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-18

romances that that gallant adventurer.
Captain John Smith. concoctsd when he
was NO longer governor of Virginia and
admiral of New England. But jamestown
is now only town of the past. Man has
almost deserted her, and the James river
has gone far toward washing her away.
Next after jamestown in seniority comes
Albany, very different kind of place. As
early as 1909 Bendrick Hudson, in his IA
nous yacht Half Moon, went to anchor at
the head of tide water of the beautiful
river which bears his name The exact
point where this yacht rode at anchor is
now in what is known as Broadway. Dur
ing the next few years Dutch navagators
visited the point several times, and in 1914,
1873 and i62S forts were built, and from the
construction OF the first of these there was
settlement in what is now the capital
city of the Empire State. II was first called
New Orange, and this name continued I'M
til the English occupation, in 1904, when
the name was changed to Albany, in honor
of the duke of York and Albany, afterward
James II. The city was incorporated in
1856, Peter Schuyler being the first mayor.
In 1854 there assembled in Albany, at the
iustigation OF Benjamin Franklin, the first
convention for the union Of the colonies.
New York city is also among the oldest
towns in America. The first settlement
was made in 1923, and the next year a gov
ernor was installed. Fort Amsterdam, nov
the peaceful Battery which faces the bay,
WAS built, and IN the same year that mas
ter hand at trading, Peter Minuit, director
general, paid the munifcent sum of twen-
ty-four dollars in cash for the whole OF
Manhattan island. l have heard it said
that if this sum, small though it seems,
had been drawing interest at 9 per cent.
and compounded semiannually that it
would have grown TO an amount equal to
the present value of the land comprised in
old Peter Minuit's purchase. When Charles
II usurped the Dutch possessions in Amer
lea he gave them away TO his brother, the
duke OF York and Albany, and the name
WAS changed, as was that of Albany.
The prosperous city OF Newark, in New
Jersey, is also old es We reckon time in
America. 1t WAS settled by parties from
Guiifori and Brsnford in Connecticut, in
1906. These are among the oldest English
and Dutch settlements, though Philadel-
phia is not far behind, as William Penn,
with his grants from Charles II, arrived in
1862, and he brought colonists in such mum
bers and so rapidly that be soon had city
outstripping all others in America. Balti-
more's first settler, a Quaker, arrived in
1862, and in 1852 he had neighbor, one
David Jones, but it was not till 1870 that
town was laid out.
The spot where Detroit now is was visited
by the French as early as 1910, but it was
a hundred years later that Antoine de Ia
Mothe Cadillac built Fort Pontcharurain
and effected permanent settlement. The
settlement of New Orleans was even more
recent. Compared with towns OF Spanish
origin the settlements l have spoken of
seem very new. When the Speniards first
visited Santa Fe in New Mexico in 1912,
they found there large and thriving vii
lage of half civilized Indians. How old it
was is not known, but evidently OF great
antiquity Exactly when the Spaniards
also settled there is not known, but since
1910 it has been the capital city of New
Mexico. In the old records it has the i'm
posing title of '-Ssnte He de San Francisco
de Asis."