New-York tribune., 1901-04-07
4 GREAT NEW-T0RK ANNTrERS4Ry
From LesIie's Weekly.

FROM LesLe's Weekly.
n Fhe et TS%I%Tk ;S% Tribune the other day speak
ton. remarked that New York is ready to heIn
It's, own" = " 10 hurry TO nave a world $ fair of
Possibly New-York may be constrained to have
Wlthin short time. a very great anniversary for
,%+ oak ana the entire United States will come
dredth anniversary Of one of the most Important
on September H. 1863. the English H. navigator
Henry Hudson then In the service of Holland en-
his eighty-ton Half Noon smaller than most of
the yachts of the present day. and sailed up the
for short cut 10 Asia by water. and ina gined he
had found IT. 9nti he got up near the head of
Verrazzano. Florentine in the service of Francis
as 1924 Is believed TO have entered New-Yorll Bay
Hudson. however, was the first white who
ever entered that harbor and told anything about
It. Moreover, his entrance had immediate and last
ing consequences. 1t gave Holland tho claim which
and the Delaware. led to her colonization Of that
territory: which she called New-Netherland fur
element Of solidty and stability to the polyglot
dam the chief city Of NewSetherand and Of the
present United States. that dash of cosmopolitan
given it a distinctive place among American COM
The year 1863 saw still another occurrence in the
limits OF the present State of New-Yolk which had
mighty beore On me ndson a0d 0 s bs TfW %
samuel de- Champiain (who gave his name TO the
lake discovered BY him that year) head Of the
French colony in Canada. leading the Algonquins
against the Iroquois Chen the Five Nations later
the Six Nations). defeated a party of the Mohawks
of that confederation at the spot since known
Ticonderoga.
That battle had a momentous influence On the
history of the Western hemisphere. 1t started the
bloody feud between the French and the Iroquols
the Romans of the West" the most formidable
warriors of the New World; arrayed them first on
the side of the Dutch. the earliest settlers Of New
York and then the side of the English who
took the Dutch possessions; threw a living wall
across the path of the French advance TO the
southwark from Canada; guarded the English set
Elements in days of their feebleness permitted
the Thirteen Colonies TO gain the strength which
gave them twenty times the inhabitants that the
French had in Canada at the time the final phase
in the Anglo French struggle for supremacy came
I'm 1756- 63 and thus led to the expulsion Of France
from the American continent, and prepared the
wav for the creation OF the United States.
The year 1903 is great date-mark In the history
of the English speaking race particularly in that
OF its American branch. Its three-hundredth ami
versary deserves national, internat tonal recog-
milton The only sort of recognition which would
seem to be adequate the occasion would take the
form Of a demonstration like that which Chicago
had in 1888 and like that which St Louis is to have
in 1903.
Possibly New-York may find It necessary have
a worlds fair in 1909 Nothing OF the sort is
thought of now. This is because the mighty events
OF which that year will be centurial anniversary
not in the popular mind.