Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1914-09-25
A Dutch Girls.
Choice
Being a Story Gi Nev
Amsterdam
By r. A mitchell


AnnS - Hsors was q laasis q New
AmtsHda3 now the great city Of New
YOrk. ana lived on Wan street Anna,
whose father was an oystorman and
owned ne lot On which be lived, never
dreamed that n shs could return to life
aftor a eOupas Of centuries she wouid
. the Struggling shaRties about her
homo replaced By tai buildings ana
the strOst full Of people ruohing hith-
q and thitheF IN such q hurry as was
never Seen In the old Dutch town.
AZ the time Anne lived IN wan
street oven the wan o. palisadS from
which q WHs named had not yet been
b1nt But thoro was 4 eattto guard
31st north q her humble abode com
posed q EAs bEancbes Of tEVes for tho
purpose q keeping the vows and the
pigs and other animals within bOUndA
Il Wa 10 great wan for her b 60
down to the river on the east o. The
river on TIE west
Anne was drawn IN both direct1onA
having a love-. q young man owning
. small farm at the foot Of King
Stnco the revolution Of the colonies
called Nberty-streeG while near the
foot Of Wall street dwelt another
wooer, q sailmAker. Nicholas Oothout
the farmer. was q Dutchman, while
samuel Monk. the BailmakeR. was an
BngllShmAn zach man possessed cor
tain advantages over the other. Monk
owned a plot Of ground near the foot
Of wan street OF, 20 speak more cor
reetiy. what was afteFward called Wan
street. and the town was growing In
that direction But his sweetheart
spoke or Understood very littio English.
and OothOut. being q Dutchman. could
pour love into her en-, while his rival
must Be content 10 look what he felt
Both men were young. Of good habits
and eQnalfy attractive O. mattractvO.
according 10 taste.
In thOs8 days stood q windmill 10 the
westward Of where Anne lived, near
he present coGnee Of Broadway and
Wan street and On summer evenings
AnEs used % meet her Dutch lover
there and, sitting under tn great
WingA listen TO his tale Of Iowa North
eastward OF her home was the Collect,
q pond, and on other evenings she and
the Englishman would sit on the bank
holding hands, while Monk looked at
her w~istfully. Tns windmill and the
pond have both long since disappear
cd las have the three persons TO whom
this story relates), but old prints Of
them remain among the New York
Historical society's records.
Annss fAth0r favored Monks suit
because the plot of ground be OWL
ed vas Increasing In value. while
OOthouts little farm on the North nv
e. seemed destined to remain forever
q farm There was then no use for
an avenue extending nOrthward. and
Broadway did not reach az far as
Wall street The bank Of the Hudson
contained 10 buildings. while the
street on the East river was being
built upon. and the slips or docks con
tanning the shipping wer located
therA Had these people lived cen
turtles instead Of Bcores OF years Got
bouts farm would have WOn old De
Hesre'S appreciation to the owners
suit for the hand Of his daughter. for
today the east Sde In New York II Of
little value compared with that far
ther west They not only lived lives
too short 10 take In thess changes, but
Anna was Of a manageable age and
would not remain 20.
While II wa known that De Here
favored Monks suit no one knew
which Of her two lowers Anne pre-
fsFred, for n evening she would be
sen sitting under the wings q the
windmill with OothOut the next on
the bank OF the pond with Monk One
day she would be out In a boat on the
North river with the farmer on q trip
% COmmunipaW. on the Jersey shore
the next shmming the East river IN
the direction Of Hell Gaia Even heI
father did not know which one Of the
two men Sho would accept True, those
were days when parents did not ask
their ehihdIW whom they preferred 10
marry, eoOi ing for them themselves,
but Do HeeEe knew that his daughter
could not b forced to marry against
her VIII. He only feared that she wal
20 in love with both that she could
not decide upon either and that she
would remain a maid.
Indeed. this was Ann0's weak point
She loved 10 listen 10 the-to any one
except a Hollander-jaW breaking pas
sages IN which OothOut expressed his
tender feelings for her and to SCI
Monks me blue British eyes turned
upon her for a IKE purpose. It wal
not that she did not In her heart pre-
fer me Of the two that she put OF de
Gliding between them. but that she dit
not relish giving up the IOvemAking o.
either.
But what was fun for her was bar
rowing to the rivals. In those days tn
Dutch and English peoples were in n
good humor with each other. and I
was not 10 bo expected that a Dutch
man and an Englishman could long b
rivals for the hand Of a girl without I
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