The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-03-14

wealth. his head turned by financial
success. he reappeared in Long Island
Sound one day. landed on Gardeners
Island n there buried a quantity Of
gold, silver. Jewels and other precious
stones. as we'll as fffty-seven bags of
sugar forty-one bales Of merchandise.
seventeen pieces Of canvas. n large
loadstone and other articles too
numerous to mention. All this treasure
was buried in the presence of John
Gardiner. He knew enough, did the
sharp pirate. not to trust himself or
his goods to Wall Street.
Anyhow Capt. Kidd buried his DOT
on GARDENERS Island and without even
stopping in own long enough to
glance at ticker quotations he de-
parted for Boston. where he hoped to
sell his ship N live ever after the
life of a sober. quiet, useful citizen
respected by the entire community.
But as fate would have it some plain
clothes man of the time spotted him
and probably hoping for a reward
placed him under arrest. Later Capt.
Kidd vas taken to England. where
he was tried, convicted and hanged
in chains at Execution Dock. May IL.
1701. His wife and daughter lived for
some time afterward here IN New
York, residing In seclusion down on
the lower East Side. Such in brief
is one important lesson in the mora!
law to be drawn from Mr.. Wakeman's
book; and there are many others to be
found in its pages, which. while re-
telling history more or les familiar.
hav at this momen particular bear
ing on current events OF national in
terest.
For example. take President VIII
sons recent veto of the literacy test
for immigrants. This may he the lat
est evidence of a problem which long
has troubled many a thoughtful soul.
bu 1t is by no means the first time
it has come to the surface. Some per-
IONS believe that the country's wealth
would be increased by admitting to
the United States every able bodied
man OF normal mentality who wants
to come here provided he is free from
criminal tendency. For a generation
or more others. however, have been
nightly disturbed by the oncom!ng of
"A multitude OF immigrants. fearing
they could not be absorbed n as
simulated in such numbers.
The early Dutch residents Of Man.
haitian Island, on the other hand. tool
a calm and businesslike view of the
immigration question so far as 1t con-
cern.d them personally. For a while
they had kept informed as to the rapid
growth and prosperity of the New
England colonies and finally the more
thoughtful decide that New England
was getting ahead of them because
Old England stood back of New Eng
land, while they of New Amsterdam
were getting a raw deal principally
because of neglect from their own
home Government; they were being
left TO shift for themselves, in other
words. At least they accounted In
his manner for the speedy way in
which riches and power spread
through New England. And when
Capt. Nicolls appeared, in 1864. po-
litely requesting the Dutch to surren-
der Manhattan Island In the name Of
the Duke OF York they mad none but
q wordy resistance. Canny old fell
lows those Dutchman were, II seems.
OF course they had to resist in some
way In order to save their faces and
their regulations. So while they did
not commit the folly OF armed resist
ance, which might have meant serious
danger in addition to the discomfort OF
drilling, marching, fighting. staying
out o. nights in cold, uncomfortable
darkness, they spoke their protest:
they talked. argued. discussed. in the
warmth and cOsiness OF their easy
chairs. 1t may be inferred, putting their
long pipes, slipping their schnapps and
all the time inwardly praying That
Capt Nicolls wouldn't grow discour-
aged and leave them to their former
fate. And he didn't. He took pos
session of the city and renamed 1t New
York In honor Of the Duke, to the APP
parent satisfaction Of nearly every
body.
One there was, however. who had no
use for the incoming English, perhaps
for one reason because their coming
would mean his outgoing. speaking
politically. Peter Stuyvesant. the
Governor. was In favor Of giving bat