Valdez daily prospector., 1913-12-06
EARLY NEW YORK.
lts Name In the Year 1864 Was the
 Towne of Mannados.

While many persons are aware ot the fact that New York has not al- ways been so called, having for a time at least been known as New Amsterdam, probably not one ill 10000 is aware of the fact that ill .arly days it possessed still another and now forgotten name - the Towne of Mannados. That this was the case, however, is shown be- yond the shadow of doubt by d map which hangs in the armory of the Old Guard of the city of New York among its collection of early Americana, the authenticity of which is certified to by the manu- script department of the British museum, in whose possession is the original from which the copy in the possession of the Old Guard was made
 I As quaint representation of early geographical ideas of what is now Greater New York the map ill question is interesting. It is one of the very few on which the name of Townc of Mannados is given pri- ority over that of New Amsterdam.
 The facsimile which hangs in the Old Guard armory, certified as be- ing correct copy in every par ticular, is entitled "A Description of the Towne of Mannados, or New Amsterdam, as It Was In Septem- Der, 1864" If, however, the "towne' at that time existed in the shape indicated by the plan, ex- trcmely violent earthquakes must have occurred since. The map, a curious illustration of early ideas of geography, shows New York, or, rather, the Towne of Mannados, as q peninsula, jutting into an inclosed bay formed by "IIudson river" on one side and an unnamed stream on the other, probably regarded as it's continuation. To the west lies an uncxplored territory designated as the ''mainc land" and to the east "Longe lsIcland."
 What is probably Staten Island is depicted as lying due west of what is today Wall street, and the only outlet from the inclosed bay into which the Towne of Mannados 1 juts is a single extremely marrow pass between the "maine land" and 'Longe Isleland," which almost meet at a point in the vicinity of what is now Sandy Hook. On either side of this passage is the descrip- tive title ''Ilcads."
 That, in brief, was the idea of the Towne of Mannados in 1864. The plan also shows a spot marked "Watcr Mill'' at the mouth of a stream which is probably the 1lar- lem river, while "Ye Governour's House" is located at the extreme southeastern part of the island. The territory, which was even vaguely mapped, hardly extends above what is now Twenty-third street. Beyond that on the ''plan'' l there lies a vague territory much used by early gcographers.
 Senate and Lords.
 The British house of lords is a survival of the ancient aristocracy of the kingdom, which for d long time was supreme in all national matters. When the democratic sentiment won a place for itself in the shape of the house of commons the natural and apparently inde- structible conservatism of the Brit ish people held on to the house of lords as check upon the commons and a perpetual reminder of the an- l cient institution. The senate of the !, United States was the result of the compromise struck between the Ma tionalists and State Rights parties in the convention that formed the constitution: Some were for merg- ing the representatives in d single body, while others insisted upon the second chamber (the senate) as d recognition of the political equality of the states.