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AS TO WHO THAT BRIDE WAS
HER NAME MAY HAVE BEEN MARY.

According TO a statement printed few days
ago regarding the transfer Of the old relic of
this carly Connecticut settler, the bride was the
daughter OF Thomas Lee, but owing to his age
when he arrived in this country % hardly seems
possible that he could have had daughter Of
manageable age within six years Of setting foot
in the colony. One has the privilege Of "A guess.
Perhaps the bride was sister The historian Of
that region Frances Manwaring Caukns, was un-
able TO learn the brides family name. Her first
name, this writer believed. was Mary.
The name Of the brook is credited to the fact
that the marriage ceremony was performed IN
the open air, it's eastern bank, IN the dead OF
winter, the ground being covered with a blanket
Of snow The circumstances were these: The
date had been set for the ceremony. Ih' services
of magistrate from settlement up the Con
nccticut River had been engaged, there being n"
person IN the Saybrook settlement qualihed to
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-07-12

spot in the country that would be barren Of
building, and that if could only reach this place
might possibly be able to capture few pounds
Of tonic for the fast dying of plants that
had been thrust upon me by some unknown
brgand
Next morning, before New York began to
STIR | boarded Ninth Avenue "L," carrying
with empty suitcase and an ablebodied
kitchen spoon. At both ST. the conductor ear
nesty assured me that ! could not extract any
more distance from the company for the price
of nickel. so | alighted, crossed the Harlem
River and began TO cast big, sweeping glances
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-07-12

Started by time clock plays must be made on
a schedule as memorable the seven O'Clock
whistle; and the game under these conditions
has ceased to be a recreation and become an i'm
dustry. Perhaps that is we'll, if it makes demo
Gratis. Still there is attractive side TO the job
Of the old locktender at Number lift, or Of the
juvenile fisherman who pointed to a short cut
through the hedge, along Branchwood Park to the
nearest trolley car. and told us where the cop
was most likely to be avoided.
The rest OF the fifty cents went for an orgy at
Newark soda fountain and for the fare
nome, and We were back in New York after four
hours vacation it forty years?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-07-12
THE SEEKER AFTER DIRT Is REWARDED At
LAST-THE RETURN HOME

About noon | found a place densey populated
with rocks. and | rapidly mountain COATED to the
top. beyond the gaze Of the public With site
| prodded and felt into the crevices of the roc
until a soft loose feeling aroused my suspicion
I substituted my hand for the stick and pue
out ground-yes, real, genuine 18-carst earth
such as they use in the corn industry of Iowa
Half an hour later the crevce IN the rocks was
vacant and the sides of my suitcase bulged IN
a suggestive style.
4 suitcase full Of earth weighs with consider
able enthusiasm and it no easy matter to
escort it back to the 81" statlon-that Is, to ac-
complish the task in light, jaunty way and
eliminate the general suggestion of man carry
ing a hod full of bricks.
Much of the pride that | had amassed by my
victory took slump when my suitcase had
real estate hcmorrhage the depot platform. A
very pretty girl who had manifested quite little
interest in me suddenly had bad attack OF tail-
ing memory when she the black powder SIT
ing from the valise, and her last gaze included
as we'll my two dirt smeared hands that hung
from my sleeves like two mammoth coal scoops
Her attitude didn't worry me lot, for after you
have discovered gold in Alaska or found earth IN
the City of New York it takes some full-szed SET
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-07-12
IT'S AN AWFUL JOB STEALING A LITTLE DlRl
By GILBERT FLETCHER.

WINDING needles in haystacks. looking Tor
l. honest men with q lantern. or discovering
stray rivers in the forests Of Brazil. Oh
yes guess they are all good, clean games,
but :hcy are only in the light amusement class
when II comes 10 hunting up enough earth m the
City OF New York to support family OF dozen
psnsy plants. This isn't guess. It's the guar
anteed truth. reeking with enough proof 90 sup
ply the world with breakfast food for week. II
YOU happen TO be interested in the back-to-the-
farm movement. try it in the country. New York
isn't The place that is meant, and even IN its
broadest sense it doesn't refer to second story
agriculture in a flower box.
II the vegetable kingdom wasn't so particular
II paasy plants could only live on subway dig
Gines or could flower on a diet Of gravel, or
could be Burbanked into a state Of luxurious
bloorhood on meals composed Of coal ashes and
water, why. then. things would he vastly different
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-07-12
THE SMALL GRAIN OF TRUTH THAT MAKES
OUR STORY POSSIBLE.

That there is foundation Of truth for thi,
tale is demonstrated in deposition that Win.
throp made many years afterward. There was a
dispute regarding the boundary line between New
London and Lyme. He spoke of Bride Brook AS
being accepted in the early days of the settle
mcnt as the boundary line, and referred to this
incident which fell out tho first winter of our
settling there" evidence Of this fact
Tradition asserts that the issue was settled by
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-07-12

Forth from n lovely lake il came,
Sweet stream with an ungente name;
But now lce-bound snow wreathed and tame;
No longer sparkling, prattling, lcapng,-
The Naad Of the brook sleeping.
"To this fair stream two sledgy trains;
Grotesque and quaint Lapland wains,--
Rushed swiftly DER the dazzling plains;
Vast earth before, behind, all hoary,
Embosomed in Shroud Of glory.
How still is all the surrounding snow!
How dead but for this diamond glow!
The suns eXuberant overflow,
Filing the air with quivering gladness
Relieves earth's spectre Of its sadness
They meet:-here noble Winthrop stands:-
Come forth ye gladstone bridal bands.
le snov-capt hills, clap all your hands,
lie SPICY cedars green and towering,
Draw round them all your screens empowering
Her furry wrappngs cast aside
As rosy skies when clouds divide
Forth steps the conscious. bushing bride;
A trembling serious, fadeless beauty, =,
Commlngllng sweetness, love and duty -
she was dame of fair degree: 81
Her lover fearless, bold and free
Had suffered scaith by land and sea;
iheir hearts long pledged by word and token:
Now let the sacred rite be spoken.
Then hands were casped, and Winthrop prayed:
Inc lifelong covenant was made;
hIgh heaven a mute attention paid;
W mas, groves, and hills, with reverence lowly
Irembled around scene holy
Now Sunk--paug is Bridal Lake;
Flow, ever how,' thus Winthrop spake,-
Round hearts and homes thy Journey take:
Loves streamlet out of Bride Lake yelling:
Tod lead branch to every dwelling"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-07-12

back to make any impression.
What about the plants? Was the dirt in time
Did they grow and blossom? No; most sadly no
They weren't that kind of plants When / got
back to my room there a note from a farmer
way upstate which hoped in very profuse way
that had enjoyed the greens that he had sent
You know" the letter ended, they are the kim
that you used TO like so much"
EPILOGUE.
FOR SALE One suitcase full Of Harlem dirt.
Has never been used. Cost the owner three days
hard work and lot of carfare. Can be had dirt
cheap.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-07-12

ianitor assured me that dirt could be extracted
from the cellar, as the floor was very able
bodied piece of cement He went on to say that
there had been some talk OF tearing the building
down. and that if could wait for two or three
months it might be possible to get what wanted
then. After that, disappointments came so often
that all count was lost after the thousand mark
was passed.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-07-12
This Unhappy Man
Some Plants

oner's jury. composed Of all of the people IN the
building pronounced them most anything, and al
last al the suggestion Of the antor, they heartily
agreed that they couldn't be anything else in the
world but pansy plants For week they boarded
on a diet of floor Sweepings, coal ashes and lib
cral applications of city water by which time II
was quite plain that they would either have to re
turn 20 the country or have food Of more seri-
ous nature and hence the big dirt crusade Of 1914.
Disappointment number one occurred when the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-07-12

legally join couples in the estate Of matrimony.
But there falling out at that time great snow
according to the historian, "the paths oblit-
Grated. travel obstructed and nterconnunica-
tion with the interior interrupted, that the
magistrate who intended to go down thither was
hindered by the depth Of the snow"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-07-12
BY W. ". RICHARDSON.

-O THE dwelcr in the big city or d So
jouraer within her gates the vaca-
ton problem is an imminent one. 1t
is easy to settle It by following the
ciowds 20 Coney Island the Berkshires as
ones tastes or means dictate, but either trip
involves a certain amount Of formality and
neither brings the sort of reaction that real
vacation should be remembered for. So why not
try taking this summers outing on the plan
herein set forth and see what thrills one can get
near to natures heart as IL beats. but half
nour from New York:
Description Of big red apple is quite in
ADEQUATE: How can English the glow and
clossiness Of its polished skin, its delicious favor
and crispness, or the suggested beauty OF the
orchard in which it grew? One must, in sense,
experience the apple TO get its reality quite as
truly as he must experience the vacation for
its delightful verties. This is real vacation
story told for those who doubtless will not see
the things we saw, but who, with finer vision,
ray see better ones in the summer-land that
surrounds the city.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-07-12

and one could even do intensive farming in the
window lodges Of Wall st. and engineer a four
crop rotation with perfect ease. But when 1t
comes 10 finding choice cut of porterhouse earth
in the City Of New York it's easier 20 discover a
west pole.
The trouble all started morning, when the
postman left small box containing some sort OF
green vegetation with the roots attached. A cor
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-07-12
THE DEMOCRACY or GOLF As EXPLAINED

The next player balances no less scientifically
o-cr ms ball, pats and paws the air space above
30 quite 81 carefully, and swats with quite
p"tccptblc an impact but the ball sizzlcs angrily
Of 1T an angle Of fory-Gyc TO the left Of It's
carefully couhdcrcd course. crashes down lot
o. me foliage and comes 20 earth some thirty
yurds away Then he swcars like the truck
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-07-12

moment was persuading the two-cyllnder motor
into more picturesque position on the land
scape. The animals having ears to hear, paid MN
the fine courtesy of obedience, but their driver,
with less appreciation of humanity, could not un-
derstand why "fuh goodness sake you gen'men
wants to walk 10 Newark"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-07-12

at the landscape, most of which semed 10 Oe
composed of mammoth rocks. Here ana '"eie
were evidences Of dirt but, as fortune wouId nave
it, watchful human beings occupied all OF "e'e
spots As the morning wore on the people DC
came more numerous, and became aware ina.
they were deeply suspicious of the man that stoou
for almost an hour at time wistfully regarding
some little pile of black earth. If they had only
alone it would have been so easy, but honestly
you can't go around in perfectly respectable
community grabbing up little pieces of the
scenery and chucking them into a suitcase with
out losing lot of prestige, or, perhaps, be
pickle! up as possible future resident Of Black
Wells Island.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-07-12

NO girl IS so ugly but that you can make her
oel''Ye abe eNcels. in some respects the Venus Of
PraXiteles.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-07-12
THE TWO OF THEM-ONE IS An ALREADY
RISEN YOUNG Dominic.

The two Of us-the other is rising, or already
risen Young dominic said "Bloomfeld, New Jer-
sew" 20 the ticket seller at an Erie window Pass
ing out the pasteboards he quite as laconcaly
responded. Thirty cents Presently we were
.crambling down the railroad bank IN that pretty
suburban town and plunging into our adventure
IN Gods great out-of-doOrs, with other care or
impedimen;a than walking stick, and with no
less appealing way ahead than six miles Of TO-
path o. the Morris Canal And j. was 50 very
beautiful
The FIRST delightful experiences Of our outing
came only a few minutes after We had our faces
turned again 20 the metropolis. A temptngly
composed group, that didn't ask 20 have It's pct-
ure taken. on the after cabin housing Of the deck
o. 81. {. 30. 7ls, lured the Grahex into action,
when soft voice was heard 20 say, Jim, its
enc camera ne has isn't it,"
Jim looked and agreed, and the owner Of the
camera acknowledged the compliment TO his tools,
- any good sport should. The captains wife in
dicsted little black box the cabin and said
me picked up a good many pictures along the
canal. for IL was lawfully pretty between here
and the next lock"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-07-12

The secret Of Russia feathers delicious smell is
known to only one man, the Russian whose family
has made il for generations
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-07-12
THE BOYS IN SWIMMIN-THE EASY SWING
BACK TO THE PAST.

Al every favored nook where there were the
approved conditions for quick stripping, good
bottom and fine diving the elements that are
known so intuitvely by small boys there was
crowd in the water There is nothing that car
lics man back over the years more gracefully
than the sight of boys "in swimmin." My own
aquatic education was acquired in canal and
with just such gang as splotched the Morris the
other day. We had little duffer in our crowd,
too, Runt McGowan, who wore his scapular and
fought and won respect for its peaceful place
around his neck, and there was with US always
when we event i'm" the boob" who mudded
when half dressed and sent blubbering back into
the water again.
Boy nature hasn't changed very much for the
worse IN all these years; what delicious mo-
ments were conjured up by the rhythmic chorus
Of "chickie chckie, chaw beef, chaw beef, chaw
beef" precptated by one Of Goat Altemus's
running knots in convenient shirt sleeve, What
a pull at ones heart these splashing, daring,
quarrelling youngsters make!
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-07-12
CAPTAIN JIM, or THE CHUNKER, WHO IS
FORTUNATE AMONG MEN.

Imagine the poetry Of life Morris Canal
cnunker, % tons, with two mules and colored
chauffeur actuating the speedometer up to 40
or nIes an hour with the dyersions Of the
gay pors Of Paterson Or newark % look for
ward % a. the end Of me voyage. Well, poetry
~ more than reading. after al. Il is living and
Captain jim b. fortunate among men that the
mother u HE three children b. dreamer Of
pretty pictUres'
II may be that jim is q merchant prince IA
disguise. who III supposed - be spending the sum-
fner ~ Bar Harbor wondered f be- penetrated
The ineognito Of uy friend 300 the shiftwaiat,
who're numbering eIooucncc and aoothing logic
royl1 spellbiud greet audience, but Who OF that
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-07-12
JOHN WINTHROP, MAGISTRATE, PERFORMS
THE CEREMONY.

OF course. it would never do to put off the
wedding, so, tho being less deep along the
shore a request was sent to John Winthrop, the
Younger. magistrate in Nam-e-aug, the settlement
10 the eastward, which was afterward named
New London. His response that, his au
thority came from the Massachusetts colony and
his jurisdiction did not extend beyond the stream,
which was about to receive its present name, he
could not go beyond that point to perform such
n rite. He suggested that the wedding party
come to the stream, where he would meet it and
the nuptials could be celebrated. The story OF
the strange wedding has been told in prose and
verse by Miss Caulkins in the following Lam
guagc:
"Thc annals OF history furnish but few in
cidents more striking than the Bride Brook mar
riage. All accessories Of the scene pict-
uresque and impressive. The little company stood
in the midst of dreary waste of snow far from
any human habitation, except the huts OF
ages ancient forests and immense solitudes
around them, beyond which in shadowy magnif-
cence. vast and indefinite, lay that unexplored
world on whose brink they stood. We might per-
chance add to these features the stalwart forms
Of natives, "A tribe of whom dwelt not far from
the place. darting among the trees or looking on
Al "A distance. what sublime scenery for we'd
dingl There is no marriage upon record that has
..,t,tV tfr
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-07-12
EVEN IN THOSE DAYS THERE WERE FEAR
FIL AND WONDERFUL POETS.

"A strcamct. Nam-c-aug's western bound,
4 path by craggy hillsidcs found,
Wandering To the distant Sound;
\ slender stream, but clear aud glowing,
Down through outrageous valies flowing.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-07-12
He GHOST or YOUTH TAXES THE TRAIL
An ANCIENT ARGUMENT.

Merry youths Of another age chaGed US as they
lightly padded through the shadows Of willows
and poplars; optimists Of still an older generation
chatted hopefully of their contemplated catch:
indeed. the whole atmosphere Of a tramp along
the canal is one Of buoyancy and uplift and
beauty. Certainly there were better and brighter
things TO think Of than the work we had lef;
behind.
Somewhere in the sub-celar Of our conscious
ness was stored the hazy details Of an animated
argument, pursued night with extraordinary
yigor By golf enthusiast to prove the democracy
Of that sport And here before and below at
"A turn n the path, where "out" ends and ain"
begins, the whole thing is vsualized on the green
turf Of the Forest Hill Golf Club.
One man takes beautiful shot and his ball
scars away, away up against the blue Of perfect
SKY through the corridor Of oaks and chcstnuts,
striking the turf again, whence he hole
~ another. He is an aristocrat; any one
see that as he leans gracefully upon his stick,
with very much Of the self-oatisfacton, imagine,
an early ancestor must have displayed while
watching some squirming Saracen whom he had
helped into paradise By the meat axe route.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-03-27
MUST BE WELL.
 10 BE GOOD,
 SAYS DR. BAKER
Many Children Unable to Do. Good Work Because of Paul. ty N Nutrition-D Dr. Matthews Address.

1 At the South church last evening Dean Smaller Matthews of the Chicago University, who has been delivering a series of lectures on Christian Funda-
 nentaIss, under the auspices Of the Pastors Association. had as his sub Ject, The Doctrine of the Atone i rnent.
 The ground covered in his preceding
 lectures were first summed up briefly by his saving that the God of the Christian is first of all a God of Salva-3 ton and secondly a God of law and love.
 He told how religion teaches that a reconciliation with God is necessary and that different peoples had brought about this in different ways. The two chief ways employed were the giving of something to God either as a sort of a bribe or a. bargain, or the holding of a complimentary banquet at which l God whom they were worshipping was the guest of honor
 .sThe man who thinks himself to be about as good as Heaven is fit to re- l cesve is not likely to be much con- ce-+7ed about getting into Heaven, he said. speaking of the theories about itf1e requirements for admission to l Hea4 He told that it seemed to be l a part of mans nature to worship i some sort of a God, adding, It was easier fo find a God in Athens than to find ; man
 The feada1 theory of the atonement, Dean Matthews explained. was that of 1 fulfilled. r onorF on the part of God He 1 owed the world a certain amount of 1 punishment and gave His Son to meet
 the obligation.
 There are problems to meet in the religious universe just difficult as i those we meet in the physical uni l verse Our religion is a religion of l salvation, and~ there are things from i which we need to be saved. i God is still saving men and wo- men, he concluded.
 The last lecture of the series will 1 be delivered by Dean Matthews to- l morrow noon. His subject will be 1 ssThe Christian Doctrine of Salvation 7 Dr. Josephine Baker, director of
 Child Hygiene in New York city, gave i splendid address She followed 1 Dean Matthews. Mrs. William T. l Hincks of the Bridgeport Equal Fran 1 chise League, introduced the speaker.
 Health legislation pr. Baker I said .sis a new thing. Fifty or sixty l years ago, there were no health laws. A policy of let well enough alone 1 prevailed. Conditions were infinitely T worse than they are today.
 Il She told of records which she had Fl recently examined, from which. she Ii had learned that in 1880 conditions
 were so bad in some parts of the East
 Side that as many as POO families
 could be found living in one block
 which was an average of six people te every 10 by 12 foot room. Today we are in the educationa era of health administration. We ar
 teaching people how to prevent dis
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-03-27
FATHER HUGHES WILL PREACH AT ST PETERS
 ON INDIAN MISSIONS

Rev. William Hughes of WashinH- ton, D. C.. who has spent many years in the work of the Negro and Indian Missions of the Catholic church. will preach at St. Peters church. in ffoW- ard avenue, Sunday night at 1-70-
 Father Hughes will tell the people of St Peters about the prosre1s or the Christian faith among che rod skins and the blacks. aEtifu1ariy pf the work of the missionary prlezl1 among the Indians.
 The eloquent priest is not a stranger to Bridgeport. Many who have heard .flin ro doubt win avail tlemselges of the opportunity again to enjoy his in- teresting stories of mission work