Putnam patriot., 1930-10-09

the nape of the neck, escorted them 70 the gate of the fort, and dismissed them one by one with a kick. taking care to give two vigorous kicks to the commander as a mark of distinction. garrison of Connecticut pioneers immediately established themselves at the fort.
 The Hudson river flows from Cloud Clear Lake on Mount Marcy to the Atlantic: this Is the old Dutch America ia length. The best part Iiea between the Ad.rondacks and the Catskiils and in the valley of the Mohawk. Here is the land of kills" '" once pure, cold and crystal clear trout streams, where beavers made their houses and dams. (kills means creek or stream.) Here also are plenty of dams like Rotterdam and other Dutch placenames. Hooks and racks like kinderhook (the children's corner.) Sunnynooks, like Claverack felover- reach.) Catskill mountains were call ed hatsberge by the Dutch, from the number of wild cats found in them and the creek, which flows from the mountains, katerskill, tom cats creek.
 Came to Trade
 The Dutch came to America to trade for beaver skins. The beaver in those days covered mems heads. The h. dians called these. men with hats on. In their wampum, they pictur- ed in beads the warrior wearing a sealp-loek and the white trader with a beaver skin hat On the .arms" of the city of New York besides wind mill, sails and flour barrel Is the bea- yer. The first large Dutch settlement, where Albany now stands was named Beaverwijk, (which in Dutch is Be- verwijck.l The last syllable means town. It lay in country rich in numerous old beaver settlements. "The brute envied for it's fur may have taught the aboriginal man en- gineering. As dam and home build CT. employing knife-like teeth for cut ting down trees, webbed feet for mixing and building in water and a tfowei-iike tail for clustering and fin ishing' As an emblem of patience. and of that perseverance which con quers all, the beaver was printed on the money issued by the Continental Congress.
 Dutch America included the mid dle Atlantic States Of today, also parts of Connecticut and Rhode Island. Adrian Block gave the name Roode Eylandt, red island. to the small is land on which Newport stands from which comes the State Name. In common speech and geography there is an island known as Martha's Vine yard but Martin Wingard's Island was the name given by Skipper Block. the Albany Dutchman. but the people would English the name. Block Is land was named for it's discoverer. He must have seen the rhododendron maximum in bloom if he landed on the shore of the state and made a march inland. The glory of this noble plant appears to make it's most magnificent display in the swamps. lBreukelinl of Rhode Island tRoode Eylandt.) The supposition that Adrian Block named Rhode Island from it's display in July of these beautiful flowers is not without foundation in natural history. Edward Everett Hale has given us:
 Adrian Blocks Song
 Hard aportl Now close to shore
 sail
 starboard now, and drop your fore
 sail
 See, boys, what yon bay discloses, What yon open bay disclosesl Where the breeze so gently blows is Heavens own land of ruddy roses.
 Past the Cormorant We sail
 Past the ripping Beaver Tail, Green with summer, red with fowerss Green with summer, fresh with
 showers,
 Sweet with song and red with flowers, Is the new-found land of oursl
 Roses close above the sand,
 Roses on the trees on land, 1 shall take this land for my land, Rosy beach and rosy highland. And 1 name it Roses Island.
 From another authority it was named for the Island of Rhodes at the eastern end of the Mediterranean sea on which the Colossus Light House stood firmly on one foot, with the other as firmly on the mainland. In New York, in the early part of the last century, on occasion of pub lie execution by hanging, it was GUS tomary to have music. and one of the compositions always played was an air called "The Rose Tree"
 Red Rose"
 The song. "The Rose Tree" was very popular in the early nineteenth century and the air to which it was set Gan Irish tune called "Moreen o. Cullenan"), has long been favorite auiekstep in the British army.
 The first stanza of the song IS as follows
 A Rose Tree full in bearing
 Had sweet flowers fair to see;
 One rose, without comparing,
 For beauty attracted me.
 Tho eager once to win it,
 Lovely, blooming, fresh and gay,
 find a canker in it
 And now throw it far away.
 It will be seen that these words are not especially appropriate for the occasion of a public execution, but 1t is possibile that the lively air was played as a recessional after the criminal had been turned of" as xvas the custom in military executions