The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1906-08-09
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AIanhatfah. IsImd has displayed rey
Htde sysfsn IN mining IL e
Thev have names with reason
Wyifbont ds5 ana m most cases
where there have been reasons the
march az iaDrnVement and lapse OF
meraory have nearly buried them o
Of sight
Great Broadway. the arrest com
merciah thoroughfarc IN the world, has
GOOD reason Tor its name. though the
city now has BROADER why's but in the
early DAYS Of New Amsterdam it WI
the brodIest OF them an and the most
Important leading as It did through
the length Of the fslnnd and into the
ear INIT 0f.fhe north. Then Broad
street wnszqnite properly 80 called. for
It Is broader thdn Broadway, though.
quite insignificant In length. being
formed somewhat Ike the Dutcnmnn
WHIP laid It out
You may wen wonder why Beaver
street Is 50 cnHed, for there Is no evil
denes oE-fhe beaver there as there was
when It wa named It was once only
4 beaver path leading to a swamp now
covered by Exchange place And ES-
GAa4HG INaaE2 94AS2G[ 0AIAr -
on the bank OF that swamp the early
settlers met for barter, and aftsrward
N that site were erected houses for
exchange and safe Hhkeh have been
continued e this day.
50 It IS with Wau street. q 1.-THE fass
ther north. The wall erected for pro
lection In 1853 by the Dutch, who fear
ed a foray cf New E-nglanders, long
ago disappeared, but the name remains
not only to designate b street but to
describe matters financial.
Again, farther north, we hhd no reAs
son Tor Maiden lane. The mnidens who
made the path on their Journey hack
ard forth With laundry from the
stream that lowed where Gold street
now Is have long sSN been forgotten,
but EIeir memories have been preserv-
ID in tho hume of TIE street And Gold
streets There never was goa there.
but the street did Z along the foot OF
an elevation known as "Goldeh hul'
because OF the profusion OF yellow wild
flowers that crowned 1t In tue spring.
Then there Is Bowling Green. There
8 nothing present to suggest the name.
but there was a little Elo-e than 200
years ago, when Hans ana Fritz played
bowls there and calles1 it Bowling
GTEGu- GlUSG ~ Sa1NGAJa HA1NGs
with no Indication Of = battery or thir-
H-tXo Founders. excepting the open
nss yet remaining in the Aquarium.
Go on up to Canal street, and you viii
and no canal other than a huge se%er
under the street paving that marlls
where once was 3 canal that drained
Collect pond. ON The site OF b Tombs,
hrough a t-reacIcrous swamp into the
N5rth river
There was IL bit OF poetry aad scntl-
ment In the BIZ AM their asso-
Citations. Soon those were mostly G-op
ped. a little sentiment being preserved
IN streets named after individuals, sug-
gezted by Hudson. Astor. Roosevelt
Clark, FrcrLIin, Fulton, Clinton. Coop
er and so or Though Moore l1ght
Sc mistaken for a persons narle. It
was originally Moor. then a mooring
place.
Then came the entirely peosaic age
when streets we're numbered and let
tered, beginning In an arbitrary fash
ION. First street is not first aIy place.
excepting the first north of Houston
street, being a mile and a half from the
Battery, where it might have been
with some reason. So with First ave
nue. and Avenue Anew York Heraid