Arizona republican., 1908-01-19
TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY
 YEARS TRANSPORTATION
New York Has Taken That Time to Advance From First Paved Street to First Tunnel-The City's For gotten Name.

New York. Jan. 13.-(Special Cor respondence of The Republican, )-The opening of the first tunnel under the East river last week. the latest --Rd- vance in CIV Yorks transportation problem which marks the inaugura- tion of subaqueous travel, comes cu- riOusly enough at the end of two and one-half centuries which have marked the growth of local transit from it's earliest beginnings. Just 250 years ago Manhattan attained its first paved street. known then as Dehoogh street but now on Stone. That was in 1857 and the successive stages of advance which have eliminated in the opening of the East river tunnel form an in- teresting review. After the coming of the first paved street in 1857 no ad- vance of note was made until 1897. the year which marked the first lighting of streets at night by means of lan- terms. In 1755 the first ferryboat- a sailboat-began operations between New York and Staten Island. More than half a century later. that is in 1872. came the first steam ferry boat between this city and New Jersey.
 T first horse car line not only in New York but in the world, which ran through part of the Bowery. In 1896 came the first steam railroad. running from Brooklyn to Jamaica, in Long Island. The year 1851 saw the opening of the first elevated line, a single track affair for which the mo- tive power was furnished by cable. It operated between the Battery and Thirtieth street. then an outlying su- burb. In 1883 came the opening of the Brooklyn bridge and three years the Brooklyn bridge and three years later the first cable car line. The first electric trolley lines began oper- ations in Brooklyn In 1892. while the subway was opened in 1904. The lat est advance is the opening of the first tunnel under the East river in 1908 or 250 years after the city saw its first paved street. To advance from taken Father Kickerbocker nearly the whole period of American history.
 The fact, long since forgotten, that New York was once known as the Towne of Mannados, is an interesting discovery recently brought to light through a copy of an extremely an- cient and valuable map now in the possession of the old Guard of the city of New York. itself the oldest military organization composed en- tirely of veterans in the city. and one rich in historic memories and honors. While the metropolis today is vari- ously referred to as New York, Man haitian and Gotham, and was formerly known as New Amsterdam, it is safe to assert that not one person in ten thousand ever knew of its still more ancient appellation-Mannados The map through which this new old name was brought to light is entitled "A Description of the Towne of Mannados of New Amsterdam as 1t was in the year 1884" and was discovered during the compilation of material relating to the city's early history for a local his- torical society. It was named by its discoverer the Dukes Plan" The original is in the British Museum, but the copy in the possession of the Old Guard has been certified as to it's cor rectness in every detail, and forms an interesting relic of New York as it was nearly 250 years ago with its for gotten name of Mannados. Many his torical relics of great value. belonging to the old Guard were destroyed when its armory was burned in 1893. 9th CTS which were saved however, still form a valuable and interesting col i lection in keeping with the name of the most famous and honored military organization of the city whose annual ! ball held every January, together with |, the yearly parade on the anniversary of the date on which the English evac-