Putnam patriot., 1930-10-09

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 Breuckelyn, BreukeIen, Brooklyn prooklyn is the namesake of the Duteh Breukelen. From this village m Utrecht ces.ie the people who set lied the American ''eity of churches, ? The Brooklyn of New York. Of com muniities of this name there are a number in the United States and se- ven in the Netherlands. The word signifies marsh" or 'morass, what was broken forth" Original Iv the name referred to a stream of water that breaks out. Brock" is the older form of Brook" The brookliine of the Quinebaug at Brook Iyn, Connecticut.
 Utrecht is and was very rich province, and is the only province .n Holland that bears a Latin name. Utrecht's name is but synonym for A river-crossing, like Bosphorus tBos meaning cattle and phorus crossing ] Hartford or Maastricht or the ford of the Maas, which the French call the Mouse. The Romans knew of the fords of the Rhine, each of which they called ''trajectumV or crossing. The Ultra or Distant Ford was where the city of Utrecht in the Province of Utrecht now stands, Ultra Ira jectum became Utrecht" Dude trecht that IS Old Ford.
 The Dutch in New Netherlands gave the name. Little Falls. to the place where the Mohawk waters break through the rocks and Great Falls to the large waterfall at Cohoes near the end of the valley. On Long Is- land they founded New Utrecht. The Romans were followed by the mis- sionaries to the banks of the Maas or Mouse and left their names. Our English ancestors fought many bat ties there with the Spaniards. The story of the siege of Maastricht of 1876 is interesting showing how his- tory repeats itself. The people had risen up against the Spanish garrison and driven them out of the city. Dur ing Bacon's Rebellion in Virginia, in 1876, the same strategem was used in the attack on Jamestown.
 The story of the white apron brig ade" is well known, however, here there was no massacre. Nathaniel Bacon, the patriotic young lawyer, was familiar with precedents. The triumph of the people was short. The Spaniards were reinforced and took a stand at the end of the bridge. To rush across it in the face of the ean- non mounted to defend the city made the Spanish courage waver. Seizing women, each soldier placed one before his own body and marched forward, leveling their muskets over the shoul- ders. they took their silent battery and began in Spanish fashion mas sacre.
 Had Clear Title
 The Dutch had clear title and pos session in the fertile valleys of the Connecticut. They fortified post on the banks of the river where the city of Hartford now stands. The Yan- kees Connecticut people) invaded these valleys and squat" themselves down at the fort. They pushed farth- CT up the river and founded the town of Piquag which became Wethers- field. infamous by reason of the witch es. So daring did these Connecticut men become that they extended those plantations of fragrant lilies, the on- ions for which that town was noted, right under the noses of the garrison SO that the honest Dutchmen could not look in that direction without tears in their eyes
 The onion is a pleasing flower
 That sheds aroma everywhere.
 They loved to grow it by the door
 And never did the smell abhor.
 The onion has been esteemed for it's culinary uses and as a medicine for centuries and figures in verse and prose. The vegetable is thought to be endowed with magic power and if hung in rooms where people congre- gate it draws to itself the diseases that otherwise might afflict them. The Egyptians used it as symbol of the universe-hell, earth and heaven were concentric, like it's layers. The onion IS sacred to St. Thomas, and at Christ mas becomes rival of the mistletoe.
 The fort was taken by strategem by the Yankees. Having learned the regular habits of the garrison. watch ed favorable opportunity, and silent ly entered the fort about noon on 8 sultry day, when the defenders had fallen asleep after a hearty dinner in a smoky atmosphere of nasal sounds.