New-York tribune., 1907-07-07
DUPLICATE NAMES.
Especial Foadaess for Repeating
Those Which Haze Become Familiar.

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Tie extent 10 which the names OF places are du-
picatod. 10 which Ambassador Bryce recentI,- Al
rected attention, is especially confusing to rba
foIeiEht! n lA-S 'o''' tie referred especially to
the confusion Cause lie fac; that +b,o =,
London IN Canada. W. D. is immediately, tnou,l,.
OF in the delivery OF dispatches sen. in that COLONY
and without the name of the country after ,bat
of the city There is large place in This
named after The chief city in the world but several
towns ana Nl!Iaees IN various parts of the country
bear the name London. New London in Copr7oc
ticut IS the largest place in this nevy country Da,od
for l1e metropolis Of the Old 1t is curious fact
that both are on rivers Of the same name M
one in Connecticut named for the one in E-,er,-,5
but while the latter is pronounced Tel,2z the Va
kee stream is spoken spelled and is known
10 the owellers on its banks as Thames
Probably the most popular of the MANY 5,,,1i
Gated names in th.s country IS that of WaeI,fng
ton. bestowed on the national garitaI a ceft,,r,
ago ana later given 10 the twcnty-nnth state OF
the Jnion-a fact which causes frequent commission
There are 10 less than thirty other states each of
which has q MashinStOn County. and scores
o. small towns bear the name besides yVash-
irctoEviNe. IN Orange County. I'm This state
Mount washington. tie southWas-ernr7ost Town
of Berkshire County. Mass. and Mount Wash
ingt-n peak, the loftiest % the elevations Of
the White Mounts ms. Among the Others
are WashinEtonboro. Washington Centre Washing
toa Court House. Washington Depot Washington
Grove. Washington Guch. Washington Harbor
Washington Hollow. Washington Mills. Washing
ION li.SS.ls Washington College. Washington
Prairie and Washington Heights The name Wash
!rEton is applied % towns in England Greeul9nd
ana The Marquesas IslanGs
The name New York. bestowed on state CITY
and county. in honor Of the Duke ~ York has
not been duplicated 10 any great extent in OLE
parts az This country. but in its own vicinity there
are East New York North New York and West
New York To designate outlying suburbs The pro
no'eF 81 last New York, now only a locality name
J. me lS'T"LE2 oi Brooklyn. had the ambitious
project in mind OF creating 3 commercial rival "a
New 1ork itself, utilizing the waterfront in Ia
Haica BAY as l-!e site Tor wha-Yes and warehouses
70 accommodate tho commerce Of the world Gho,,ld
Ms vision ever m3teriali=e II would now be os
part Of the New York which he hoped might be
outcome; nut the lapse az three-quarters of a cen
tury little If any progress in the direction he
dreamed. although the scheme IS by no means pro-
no-iced ehlmerscal by those who have looked into
H. DuIlications Of the name New York may he
FOUND n Iowa and Texas and there IS a New
1oA A'lis N this state and another in Minnesota.
Use OF THE PREFIX NEW"
Ire Use Of the word New to 1esicnate {be civ
At The mouth OF the Hudson River began with the
tTst Dutch settlers. they named their beginning
IN building up a city on Manhattan Island. and
called their whole colony New Netherlands. for
their home country, just as the first settlers in
what are now the Eastern States named their new
country Ne'" England for tie old beyond the sea.
ana New England. New York and New Jersey
VI! keep the designation OF newness despite all
lapse Of time New Hampshire IS the only other
state and New Mexico the only territory with the
prefix. No state IS officially designated as Old al
though dwelers in West Virginia speak Of the
Cd state referring Virginia. ard North Caro-
Ina is called The Old North State"
TIE name OF Chicago. that Of the second city
~-s sItat eA'eh'. Inree towns, respectively in
Kentucky, Ohio and Texas bear f. There are also
Chicago Ridge and Chicago Heights near the III
nois metropolis; Chicago Junction in Ohio. Chicago
Lakes in Wisconsin and Chicago Park in Califor-
MA Whether. the original name belonged n the
river on which Fort Dearborn was constructed
was first bestowed on the settlement which grew
Up around II is THooted question The accepted
origin Of the name is that il comes from the IL
dian CA-kang-ong letters being clided and the
French annexation being used. The first record Of
the Use Of the name is credited to Colonel Samuel
=. 9la'Fo". 70 |ho, N VII "Llllng 70 IeneFaI JACOB
l5ro|n n $50 said: The river chicago COR IN
English. the WIG Onion River Schoolcraft, the
historian IN 1890 Of the river that fits banks
produced abunGantly wild species Of leeks. This
derivation IS given by Bishop Baraga: From
Chicag or SikaE. skunk a kind Of wildcat" An
other authority gives the Indian for skunk
gal-ga winnie Among the Miami Indians who
dxeIt in that region mo word for Skunk was .se-
kaw-kwaT." Il IS not regarded at all likely that
TIE derivation OF the name has anything TO DO
with the lack Of use OF it outside the city It des-
ignates.
The name Of Philadelphia. city Of Brotherly
Love, vas taken by its founder, William Penn.
from the Bible. where i designated city in Asia
-4-2oT' 10" known as Ala-Shehr, and USED 10 eN-
press the central principle Of the Quaker doctrine.
L seems strange 70 speak az Philadelphia, y. Y.
but This place exists in Jefferson County. There
half dozen other Philadelphas in different
parts Of the country. Newark, y. J.. is widely
known hut the sole distinction # Newark, y y
Is that the Fox sisters. the founders of modern
spiTituasm threescOre years ago were born and
nved there. The individual existence Of Brooklyn,
X. Y, city merged into that OF greater
New York nearly n decade ago, although IL re-
tans !ts individuality federal postoiFice. but
there BroOklyns IN Connecticut, California,
Alabama. Florida. Kentucky, Illinois Indiana,
Iowa Kentucky, Maryland. Minnesota Mississippi.
Missouri, New jersey. Oho, PENNSYLVANIA, Vir
gtnia- Wisconsin and two IN West Virginia. This
record is beaten by Nova Scotia. which has no
fewer than three BrookIyns, while neighboring
Newfoundland has one There are also Brooklyn
Centre in Minnesota and Brooklyn Village I'm Ohio.
Three states have Brooklincs and four have Brook
Ens while las a Brookline Centre
The name Of Paris IS repeated tyventy-one times
IN this country, the best known place bearing II
being IN Kentuckv. Berlin IS used tWenty-nine
times, Vienna nineteen, Dublin seventeen and War
fourteen times. s.. Petersburg appears only