The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-04-02
INDIAN NAMES In POLITICS
DEMOCRATIC PARTIALLY FOR
THEM
stronger Now Than Ever Before in
New York,

The use of Indian names in the des-
gnation of democratic clubs and or
CARNATIONS in New York county (for it
is a form of Partially which does not
extend to other sections of the Greater
New York;, has it's origin, of course, in
the name Tammany, but it's continued
popularity cannot be wholly explained
on this ground, for other sections Of
New York territory to which the influ-
ence of Tammany Hall has been eX-
( tended do not make use of Indian
names, the Bedford club, the Bushwick
| club the Columbia, the Andrew jack
son, the Constitution, the Empire, the
Montaui, the Seymour, the Thomas
Jefferson and the Washington in Brook
Ign, and the Jefferson, the Shinnecock,
the Whitestone, and the Sunswick in
| Queens.
! In Manhattan, however, the original
Indian names, the significance of
which has in many cases been entirely
lost, are still preserved, and Indian
tribal names, localities, titles of chiefs
or of battles mark nearly every Tam
many Hall political organization in
town, says the New York Sun. The
fifth assembly district club is the Iro-
qouis; the sixth, the Metamora, the sew
enth. the Cherokee; the ninth, the Pc
quod; the seventeenth, the Narragan-
sett; the eighteenth the Anawanda; the
nineteenth, the Pontias the twenty
first the Nameoki; the tWenty-second,
the Mohican; the twenty-fourth, the
Wyandotte; the tWenty-fifth, the Sen
eca; the tWenty-siXth, the Delaware; the
tWenty-ninth, the Chickasaw; the thir-
tleth the Algonquin; the ,th1rty-first,
the Carondelet; the thirty-third, the Po-
casser, and the thirty-fifth, the Ollaga-
wala:.
Where such Indian names are not
adopted those of an early American"
origin seem to be preferred as the Hick-
DRY club in the first district, the An
drew jackson in the twelfth, the
Thomas Jefferson in the eleventh, and
>the William L. Marcy in the twenty
third. 1t has been popularity supposed
that the use Of Indian names for club
designations in New York is wholly
political but the fact is that many of
the old fire companies had Indian
names, which they tenaciously adhered
to, Thus fire engine No. under the
volunteer department, with headquar-
tiers on Hudson street, and we'll known
to all Ninth warders. was Metamora,
Niagara, engine 16 on North Moore
street, Mohawk engine As in Yorkville,
Aurora, engine on Great Jones street,
was engine 40 in Fourth avenue near
One Hundred and Twenty
street, the Pocahontas, engine so was
Michigan, hose company As was Red
Jacket, hook and ladder company 10, on
East Eighty-seventh street, was Nara
gansett
In the disbandment of the volunteer
fire companies in 1865, many of the for
mer organizations retained their mem
bership and became social bodies and
the leaders OF them active factors in the
field of municipal politics. To this fact
is in part due the popularity of Indian
names, for the measure of the efficacy
of a fire company was the efficiency
OF its members in reaching the scene of
conflagration, and not in extinguishing
the flames after arrival. 1t was an ear
ly tradition of the colonial inhabitants
were meet runners and the use OF an