The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-01-03
News Of The Day On
 The Great White Way

Twelve years after the founding of the city, Peter Minuit reached New chase Manhattan Island of the na- tives for SPA worth of hatchets, knives, beads and trinkets. In the same year
 the town had it's first bad fire, and work was commenced on Fort Am sterdarn, which occupied the site or the Custom House of today. Bowling < Green was then the heart of the town, and was used for bowling matches,
 and as "a market and playground for the Dutch syoun gsters. The pal1saoe built by the Dutch to protect them selves against threatened attack or
 New Englanders gave the name 10 Wall street. The streets were 4a1o out in a aaphazard snlanner, and of E ten followed cowp tfs.8 The first maln street falloWed HheE line of the present Pearl and Stone streets. while lower Broadway wassthe second na1n road. Few of the early settlers E brought their wives with the m, and 1t was not until 1925 that the first known white child, Sarah Rapel1e,= Was4born4 in New Netherland. BrooR- lyn was first settled in 1925 by company of Walloons, brought over as farmers who established them selves near the site of the present na-4 wy yard. They called the settle ment Waalbogt, from which the pres-l ent name WaI1about is derived. Sub-s sequently the Dutch christened the place Breukelen, after a village in Holland.
 Augustus Thomas, the playwright. who will pass his fifty eighth mi1e- stone next week, is a graduate of the newspaper game, The author of Arizona.a ssIn sMizzoura,,' and numer- ot1s other dramas is a native of St Louis, and began his literary career as police court reporter in the Mis- sotiri metropolis. He didn't make any great hit with the city editors, and much of his "copy,' was unmerciful- Iy slashed Beforel and after that experience he had entertained varied ambitions. He studied law two years, was a page in Congress, ard spent six years working in the freight depart ments Of various railways. He was also editor and proprietor of the Kan sas City Mirror Later he drifted to New York, and became reader of plays for A, M. Palmer, then a lead- ing producer. Reading the dramas written by others aroused in him the ambition to become a playwright His chance came when a play by a.swell known dramatist proved an utter fail- ure, and a new production was need ed to fill the gap. Thomas suggest ed that one of his own efforts be usei. and Palmer reluctantly consente.l. The play was ssAIabama-'' It was a DIE s1l1t, e1l1O IL 4le1S sOSCA 4OA4OW Ce- Fly
 many others equally successful.
 Babylon. the Long Island village which is the home of many New r ork commuters, boasts of having the worlds oldest twins in William and Samuel Muncy. So far as known, the nearest rivals of the Muncy brothers are the TunstaH Twins, of Scranton Pa, who will be ninety-one ne7st week, The Muncy brothers were born near their present homes in Babylon on ChrIstmas. ISIS, and they have lived through an age of progress that has brought about the develop nnent of the railroad, the telegraph. the aeroplane, the telephone, the great daily newspapers, the wireless and Hundreds of other imp modern inventions. Unlike many ear-centenarians the Muncy broth CTS have never used liquor or tobacco, and the same is true of the PennsyI- yania twins. A movement has been started to send the twins to Washing ton this month or next to visit Presi- sient Wilson. The Muncy brothers can still walk two or three miles i without fatigue, and often walk to church. Ill preference to riding.