The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1914-07-31
4 hu1Ih Girls
Chlcs .
Being q Story Of New
Amsterdam

3 By}e. A. N1ifCftsi z
Anne de Heeee wa 4 lsssie, Of New
Amsterdam. nov the great city Of New
York. and lived on wall street. Anne.
whose father vas an FISHERMAN and
owned the lot on which he lived. never
dreamed that II she could return to life
after = couple Of centuries she would
see the struggling shanties about her
home replaced BY tall buildings and
the street full OF people. rushing hith:
er and tbither In such q hurry 40 was
never seen In the old Dutch town.
At the time Anne lived 10 Wall
street even the wall or palisnde from
which 1t was named had not yet been
built But there was q cattle guard
just north Of her humble abode com
posed Of the branches Of trees for the
purpose Of keeping the cows and the
pigs and other animals within bounds.
1t was no great walk For her to 20
down to the river IN the east or the
liver on the west.
Anne vas IRA wn In both directions.
having q lover. q young man owning
q small farm at the foot Of King
since the revolution Of the colonies
called Liberty-street. while near the
foot Of Wall street dwelt another
wooer, q sailmaker. Nicholas Oothout.
the farmer. was q Dutchman. while
Samuel Monk. the sailmaker. was an
Engiishman. Each man possessed GER
tain advantages over tho other. Monk
owned a plot Of ground near the foot
Of Wall street. or. 10 speak more o
rectly. what was afterward called Wall
street, and the town was growing In
that direction. But his sweetheart
spoke or understood very little English.
| and Oothout. being q Dutchman. could
pour love into her ear. while bis rival
must be content to look what be felt.
Both men were young, Of good habits
and equally attractive or u~nattractive.
| according to taste.
In those days stood q windmill to the
westward Of where Anne lived. near
the present corner Of Broadway and
Wall street. and on summer evenings
Anne used to meet her Dutch lover
there and. sitting under tts great
wings. listen t his tale Of love. North.
eastward OF her home was the Collect.
a pond. and ID other evenings she and
the Englishman would sit IN the bank
holding hands. while Monk looked at
her wistfully. The windmill and the
pond have both long since disa ppear.
ed las have the three persons to whom
this story relates,. but old prints Ut
them remain among the New York
Historical society's records.
Anne's father favored Monks suit
because the plot Of ground he own,
ed was increasing In value. while
Oothout's little farm on the North rtv-
or seemed destined to remain forever
q farm. There was then no use for
an avenue extending n0rthward. and
Broadway did not reach N far Ne
Wall street. The bank Of the Hudson
contained no buildings. while the
street on the Nast river was being
built upon, and the slips or docks con
tanning the shipping we're located
there. Had these people lived cen
turiss instead Of scores Of years Dot
bouts farm would have Won Old De
Hesrs's APPRECIATION to the owners
suit for the hand Of bis daughter. for
today the east side In New York 10 Ut
| little value compared With that far
Their west. They not only ltvad lives
too short to take In these changes. but
Anne was Of = Observation-Disclosures and
woul4 not remain -.
,WhtlsSit wasxk1aHn.tAat De%aser~
favorsd Monks suit no q knew
which Of her two lovers Anne pre-.
ferred. for one evening she would t,e
seen sitting under the wings " the,
windmill with Oothout. the next %
tie hank Of, the pond with Monk. One
day she would be out In a boat ON the
North river with the farmer on a trip
to Oommunipaw. on the Jersey shore,
the next skimming the East river In
the direction Of He'll Gate. Even her
father did not know which Que Ut the
two men she would accept. True. those
were days when parents did not AJAX
their children whom they preferred T.,
marry. choosing for them themselves
but Do Here knew that his daughter
rouid not be forced to MARRY agains,
ner will. he only feared that xhe was
~ In love with both that SHE could
not decide upon either and that sht
would remain u maid.
Indeed. this was Anne's weak point
She loved to listen to the-tO' any ont.
except q Holiander-jaw breaking pas
sages in which O0thout expressed his
tender feelings for her and tn e
Monks fine blue British eyes turned
upon her for y like purpose. 1t was
not that she did not in her heart pre-
fer one Of the two that she put I'd de-
Gliding between them. but that she did
not relish giving up the lovemaking Of
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