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President Taft Will Be There If He Can Some Promi
nent GracbaaLtes of the Ohio Institution.
Oxford. Ohio. April 10.— Miami "Cnlverslty. one of
Ohio's three stars supported eol>ges, but the first
In ape. tradition and in the distinction of her
graduates, win be ere hur.dreJi fyears old In June.
Already ;.ian< are matured for aicentcmilai celebra
tion here that will attract natkip-wide attention. It
Is practically certain ihst ♦>*> President of t;»e
l":iite<i States will t>e among be guests.
Th- interest of the Preside »t in this old Oi.io i:-
Etitution is greater thin hi* interest in any other
American college sxeept hi-. ain:.-i mater. Vale, It
eruws out of the unusual association existing be
tween this sclux.l and M ;s. Tafis father. John
Williamson B«tnron. «f Cincinnati. Few Americans
have leeti more closely idr-:itine.l through life with
their old college Uian ha^ Mr. Kerrcn with Miami.
He was praOua^rd from, this college in IS4o. and
became a trustee in 153.. He has since served con
tinuously on th? beard. :md he has plven his time
and effort unsparingly t>< Miami f.r fifty years.
Jn :v«i he became president of the board of trus
tees, ar.u for iwenty-iilne consecative years he has
lie«^n the «>jnri;>l head, of the institution. Although
iso.v in 111 health and. "unable to share as actively in
the oollcpe's affairs as formerly. Mr. Herron »on
tinues to hold ibfri presidency of the board, and
tin-re is little dot^i that he will be continued In
ofhi c so long as lie. lives.
Therefore. :C M&mi cannot claim the President
as a she ear, at least claim him as a "son-in
law." as Mr I^.-1 humorously put It in his speech
at the Miami a'unmencemeut three years ago. The
J're^;J•f■lll has « twofold interest In Tlw? centennial
celebration. Ii will be n<-t only the 100 th anniver
sary "f the oldest institution in his native state.
I'Ut it will l>e- the fiftieth anniversary of his father
in-law's offyiai connection with the college. The
nrst lnviUU»an issued for tho affair was taken to
the Presi-ftsirt by a representative of the college.
ii!. Taft expressed a strong desire to accept, and
informed "Uje tommiitee that he would do so if
Ootiiiress*a<rJjourh«2 before June IC. the day <-f the
chief ex^rdseE. It is possible that the I'resi.iciit
may ha*-, a double errand in Ohio, fv.r should th«
jjresentadon of ahe medals voted io ti;e Wright
l>rotheas.- the Ohio aeronauts. Ire made at Dayttm
ua tlie <iay following th* 1 Miami centennial, a.s is
«.\;>ect#*l h.-re. the President would be a!>le to uik-»
Hart «ir^r»"ili ceremonies.
THE CHIEF SPEAKERS.
f Btl whether tlie Presi if :it "f the United State*
<1s pres- in "r absent. Lher*! will be n" lack «>f nota
bi'« vteitors. The chief speech of the celebration
tvirS be delivered on the morning <>f Wednesday.
•.rune l€, by Vv. Henry Mitchell MacCracken, Chan
|.:ell"r of Ntw York University, a member of the
X lass of '.'7. Another wcl! known New Yorker who
; i.« expected t» take jiart i:i the exercises is I<r. John
-Shaw Killii.c^. director «>f the New York Public Li
f:;ir>. who was alsoa member of the class of T>T.
The programme <>f speecli«s will be extensive.
(Jet'rte H. Wend lI tig. of Washington. <>f t!i*« class
of '♦..">. -ivii! deliver the address to ih* literary s<«
cieiics. The presidents of niaay colleges will be
rKard. President Albert 11. Hill of the UniversitS'
"f Missouri will sj>e«k for the colleges of ti;e West
and President F. W. Hinitt of Central" University
fvr the South.
Dr. Guy Potter Benton. president of Miami, will
preside, aTid all the living ex-presidtnts «'f Miami
are expected to be present. They include President
Etbelbert Dudley Warfield of l^afayette College,
Kaston, Perm.; President William Oxley Thom]i
(Ml Of the Ohio State University; Dr. Andrew
Pousa Hepburn, now retired, of Santa Monica.
GaL; Di-. RJ W. McKarland, rofired. of Oxford, and
Dr. Da\id Stanton Tapp&jj. a minister, of Circle^
\;ile. Oi:io. Governor .ludson Harmon of Ohio will
I><- among the speakers. Wnltelaw Reid, 'Tfi, our
Ambassador to Gr?at Kri'.ain, has aiso Wn in
vited.
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SECRETARY BALLJNGER'S VIEWS ON CITY GOVERNMENT
Prefers SrnaLll BoaLrds of
Commissioners Instead of
Mayors and Aldermen.
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"what ir.'thods did y.->>j l*!ivw in cleaning i.v ti.nt
cJty ""
"1 appointed Tbomas 11. l»ela:jey chief of j.olice
and enforced the law. tieatvle had betn a wide
open town. The rush to Aiaska. fur gold and the
returning Uoe of miners, gmnL-lers and swlndlt-rs
brought us & greet rnar.y rough characters, and
evil conditions followed naturally. We not only
ha^3 all the wild performances of life on the fron
tier, but border rurSar.ism, which is tl.e climax ct
crisse. suddenly cLm.ged a well ordered community
Into cse whore roblxry and violence became a reg
ular business. Persons engaged En legitimate trad«
said that a puritanical regulation of vice lnvar
e.b".y njeant a dull city or town. Men, they argued.
ehouM spend their money in such ways as they
pleas*' I son showed them, however, that i
larger and fuller dinner pail was. after all, the only
eeur.d snd lastlre foundation U<t growth that whs
actually j.rof.table sv.i for prosperity that was
really t^rnosc«£Lb
TO CELEBRATE HER FIRST CENTENNIAL
.•. !s felt lest lie
The centennial will be held .'.? a feature of the
annual commencement week, and according to
expectations there v.-!l be the largest gathering of
Miami men in the history ot the institution. It
is believed that at least twenty-five hundred grad
uates and former students will assemble at Oxford
from all parts of the country and the world.
Preparations have Seen made to lioufp the visitors
in the college dormitories and in ft village of tents
to he erected on O.e campus." If the weather is
p< . J the visitors will have a touch of camp life
atni.l academic surroundings.
ESTABLISHED IN 1809.
Miami University Is only s.'x years younger than
the State of Ohio. and. in fact, her beginning dates
beyond that of the ?uiif. When Congress, in iT:-J.
granted an enormous *tract <>( the wilderness lying
between the two Miami rivers, and tending as
far north as Dayton, to John dews Sj mmM, it
was provided in the srant thai a tract was to be
set aside for the purposes of education. This was
the real beginning of the university. In 19 the
Legislature of tlie new stato. which had come into
control <«f the Symmes purchase, amended the
grant, and passed an at t ertering one complete
township west of tlie Great Miami River for the
support of a college. In )Stt9 the act was finally
passed, entitled "An act to establish Miami fni
versity." li is from this act that the history of
the college dates.
The name of Oxford was given the village, which
was to be the seat of the new school in recogni
tion of the great parent university In England.
Hut Oxford almost missed becoming the home of
the institution that has been her chief glory. The
first trustees named by the state held their initial
meeting at Lebanon, and as some of them lived
there they decided to locate the college in that
town This plan, however, met with the disap
proval of tiie .-tate. and In the following year an
cthe'r board was chosen. This board met In Hamil
ton ;;iid located the college In Oxford. The entire
Oxford township became the property of the co!l<'s^
in pernetuo, ;uid :i!l land ovvners In the township
hold their lands in perpetual lease from the college,
paying :\ "college rent" in lien of ;« tax to the
state. This rental, supplemented by appropriations
from the state, constitutes the college's support.
li was IV. until ISI6 ih;<t tho iii.-t session was
hold, the erection of ihe three story brick building
having occupied a loiir time. The surrounding
country was still practically a wooded wilderness.
and at the start there was only an academy with
two teachers. They were both Presbyterian
preachers— John Ebenczer Annan, a graduate of
Dickinson College and Princeton, ami William
Sparrow, a graduate of Columbia College, Ni W
York.
The iliir.i to join this pioneer force, became one
of the most famous teachers America has known.
He was William H. McGuffey, author of the series
<.f Vead.rs that millions <>f American boys have
used i:i their early school days. Di McGuffey was
a graduate of old Washingtpn College, In Pennsyl
vania, and closed his career as a teacher in the
University of Virginia. One of his daughters mar
ried Dr. A. D. Hepburn, who became president
of the university in IST!.
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"Representatives of the moral element in the city
asked me to l-<* a candidate for Mayor. I had a
go.;<] law practice and was unwilling asain to hold
office. Assured that I should be independent of fac
tion, party or Influence, I pave niy consent and
was nominated and elected. Inside of six months
all of the gambling places were closed. Under the
lr<w. I couldn't stop the sale of liquor, but loggers
and other workingraen who came to Bcattl<» with
money in their pocket? were no longer drugged
and robbed. Disreputable houses wr>ro centralized
and controlled. In short, the cltv was made whole
some and respectable! ..... both hard
am! exceedingly disagreeable. [ was tnld almost
d;iiiy that I w -tnild .'><■■ killed ; such fool Information,
however, gave mo no concern. Bui on« term. I
thought, v.as enough, and I refused another f«l«»c
tlon."
GOVERNMENT BY COMMISSION.
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"We lived on a farm .-it Xilwood. Ii!. My father
bough! f-heep, at.d I herded them on the prairie,
following :h. :n ;il! day with ;i dog us they fed upon
the wild sras.s. I^j I.^1 .^ in the afternoon I drove them
home. I was seven >ears old. However, the low
price of wool soon caused my father to go out of
the f=Ju-er. business and to move to the village of
Virden, where he afterward became postmaster by
the appoint mc-nt of President Cram, under whom
he fought fit the siege of Vicksburg. He also had
a newsstand In a corner of the .... care
of which largely fell to myself. Flaeh day on the
arrival of the trains from St. Louis and Chicago I
s<.M papers in the streets. 1 went to school now
:\ud t!:t-n, but during most ofMhe tinii- we lived at
Virden I had to work.
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"Xext v.c went to live in Kansas, settling on a
soldier's homestead, twa miles from the spot which
ir.ter became the site of the town of Lamed. My
father bought cattle, and I passed three years on
horrcback In watching them. In reading the poems
of Robert Burns, many of which I committed to
memory, and in trying to study Greek ami Latin.
I recited in Latin to a hospital steward at Fort
Lamed. several miles ay.-ay, an<i in Greek to a
clergyman who livej in the vicinity. After four
years on the farm, the T*x.us fever having d<
stroyed pearly all of our cattle, we moved into the.
village of I^ari:fd, where my father again became
an editor by the purchase of a weekly publication
known us The direiuiaoop*-'
NEW-YORK DAILY TRIBUNE. SUNDAY. AHgL H. 19W.
It is doubtful if any American college ever turned
"out a larger proportion of men who became distin
guished, including one President of the United
Stales, General Benjamin Harrison. Although the
college has only 1.806 graduates, she has sent the
following numbers into places of prominence:
I'rf-slJent <if the United stales s
Csm ernors t,f states •>
I.U tnenant governors Ij
i a bluet officers ■ i{
Fni.-i^n ambassadors • ■ " ■ J
United States consul _
rnlt»,l States Senators 23
rn!t<-il Ftatet: Congressmen 80
ftat« Senato:* 71
Stat- Representatives ..
t-ni^' S la?e^ U o d fe: mlI ofcapiain \ \ \ 1 «
siii nker <-f House i-f Representatives ■
College presidents 3U
David Sw-ing. the eminent Chicago preacher, was
a Miami man. and for twelve years was the prin
cipal of her preparatory school. Senator Calvin S.
Brief, of Ohio and New York, was her most Pa
mous' capitalist. Stanley Matthews, once a Justice
of the United States Supreme Court, was her fore
most jurist. In almost every career Miami men
have won success and fame for their alma mater.
Dr. Guy Potter Benton left tlie Upper University
of lowa to become president of Miami seven years
:i go and u:idvr his administration it has grown
rapidly. The group .-f buildings has Increased to
nine and a new library and normal college build
ing are now being erected. Rapid progress is being
made in athletics, also. Thus Miami enters on her
second century, not only with a great past, but
with a future full of promise.
PLEASES GERMANY.
Much satisfaction is manifested In Germany, es
pecially In educational and scientific circles, at the
selection b y juiumnii University of Benjamin Id*
BENJAMIN IDE WHEELER.
President of the University of California, who is
going to fill at the Berlin University the chair
of Roosevelt professor for a time.
RICHARD ACHILLES BALLINGER.
President Taft's Secretary of the Interior.
right ■ • »•. Washington )
"1 c'.f-rkfii for two years In the (Bees of the
County <"lvrk and Treasurer. A former Treasurer
had embezzled money belonging to the public. I
discovered the crime and reported it to the proper
officers, but nothing was done. As deputy clerk it
was my duty to lecelve the skins of Jack rabbits.
on which thfre was a bounty of I cents apiece, to
swear the owners of the same that the rabbits
weie killed In Pawnee County and to write ■ em
orders on the treasury. The job was a singular
mixture of the magisterial function and of bank
ing, but it smelled like a tannery.
"Although my education had been much ne?lect
<-ii. I had planned all along to be a lawyer. I lived
in Kansas for eight years, during tive of which I
ha<l no schooling whatever. With ihe money I
earned as a clerk 1 spent three years at the State
University, In Lawrence, and at Washington Col
lejr*'. In T< jnka. While in Topeka I came of age
an.l voted for James A. Garfleld.
"My ambition from the first was to rmnjilf tn my
education at some Eastern college. Through his
son. who was ;>• student In Topeka, I formed the
acquaintance of John J. Infills, the Senator in
Congress from Kansas. On writing to him for ad
vice in the matter, ha replied that he had been
graduated from Williams, and that he. could rec
ommend it as being distinctively a poor boys' col
lege. I had very little money when I arrived at
Wllliamstown, but my varied experiences In the
West had taught me to be resourceful ami self
reliant.
"I kept boarders for ■ tim?, and then at the re
quest of the president of the college 1 helped to
manag-1 the students' restaurant. I also pumped
th»- college organ for two terms, and during one
vacation was juniior of i h<» Congregational church.
Notwithstanding my want of preparation, I was
graduated ;>t the age of twenty-six well up in iii.v
class, but 1 had worked very hard. In my Junior
year 1 became acquainted with Miss Julia a Brad
iey. h. -■ . ■:• : t Si WeJlesiey College and the sister
of one of ii. j classmates, Dr. W. P. Bradley, now
CAMPUS AND MAIN BUILDINGS OF MIAMI UNIVERSITY.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT AT MIAMI UNI
VERSITY.
The picture shows the President (at the extreme
right), when he was Secretary of War, attend
ing the unveiling of a portrait of his father
in-law. John W. Herron, for fifty years a trus
tee of this institution of lesrning.
jraph by Coburn, Hamilton, Ohio.)
■R"heeler to fl!! at tho Berlin University the chair
of Roosevelt professor, founded and endowed by
James Speyer. of New York. Professor Wheeler.
who for the last ten years has been pres'.il^nt cf
th« University of California, spent a number of
years at the leading German universi
ties, notably .-it those of Berlin, Leipsio and Jena,
receiving at the close of hi? studies the highest
honors, namely, the dr-sree «.f Ph. D. summa cv.m
la'ide. from the University of Heidelberg.
Mary of the leading professors in Hermany are
old fellov student* of hi 3, and :ih i < % tuts always
kept up his friendly intercourse with thr-m they
are pieasc-.l at the idea him again. It is
not only, however, as a ai ident, a scholar and a
linguist that the people of Germany ar.-> looking
forward to the sojourn of Professor Wheeler in
Berlin, but more especially as the exponent of tne
i>< <;t forma of American college life ami of Ameri
can ethics generally. 1 lessor, who is a New
:• irth and a palifornian by adop
ti ■!!. has always I i for bis active rola in
:• ior at Harvard and at
Cornell, as well as since he became president of
the University of California, has always Identified
himself in a marked degree with college sports, so
much bo, that he was Invited to become one of the
Judges of the Olympian primes at Athens.
The Emperor h;is expressed his opinion, which Is
professor of chemistry at Wesleyan College. We
were married afte: I was admitted to the bar."
"Were you financially prepared for such an Im
portant undertaking?" I inquired.
••I had nothing," Judge H:il!lnger replied, "but lota
of nerve, plenty of energy and a decidedly hopeful
View of the future. Oettting married, however, was
tin 1 best thing that could have happened to me, and
I gladly say .that the assistance and companionship
of Mrs. BaUinger have contributed more to my ad
vancement in life than all I have rior.r- for myself."
"Where did you go after leaving Williams Col
lege?"
"I entered the .office of S. Corning Judd, in Chi
cago, as a student of law. Practically I was penni
less, I read proof for The Live Stock Journal.' set
a little type, wrote a few articles on cattle and
elieip and did some collecting."
"What was your first case as a lawyer?" I
asked.
"My rather was publishing a paper at Kanknkee,
111., and after being admitted to the bar I went
there to practice. My first client, a meek-looking
man. was charged with bigamy. When 1 appeared
In court to try the case I was amazed to find
three of his wives as witnesses against him. I
got him off with a sentence of two years in the
penitentiary. Just before his term expired ha
wrote to inquire if it would be safe. in my Judg
ment, for him to come out. I guess he made his
escape. Anyway, I never heard from him again.
MOVES TO PACIFIC COAST.
"Why did you remove to New Decatur, Ala ""
"The brother of my wife and Beveral of his
friends had Interests at the South, and I became
their business and legal representative. The yellow
fever, however, drove me out of Alabama. I bad
been thinking of a better field for myself and a
more healthful climate for my family, and had de
cided to go to OJympia. the capital of the new
State of Washington. My household now consist
ed of my wife, an Infant son and my father and
mother. Olympla was not satisfactory, and l went
straight north to Port Townsend, at the entrance
to Pugei Sound. I had left my family in Alabama.
"On reaching my new home. In January, lgju, I
had $4»j. but no other property, either there or
elsewhere. i at once formed ■ law partnership
with John N. Scott, the brother-in-law of President
Harrison. In three months i sent for my family,
and in a little while i paid several hundred dollars
to friends in Alabama who had become stockhold
ers at my suggestion in a manufacturing concern,
whf<ih later went Into bankruptcy.
"My practice, all things considered, was entirely
satisfactory, but when, at the end of three years,
I was nominated for Judge of the Superior Court
of the county i accepted the unsolicited honor and
was elected. While on the bench I wrote the law
book known as 'BaUinger on Community Property,'
und later, with the assistance of ray father, com
plied and published 'Balltnger's Codes and Statutes
of Washington.' In ISyT, after a service of four
years on the bench, 1 went to Seattle and orguulzed
the law firm of BalUnger, Ronal & Battle."
"When did you meet President Taft?"
"We became acu.v iinted while ha was Secretary
of War and l was Commissioner of the Genera]
Land Office. I was i-h&'.rman. of the Washington
delegation to the convention which nominated him
for President and a member of the sub-committee
which wrote the Republican platform. During the
campaign that followed I served on the advisory
committee."
"How do you spend the time when you aie not
at work?"
"At home 1 run an automobile H»r» I ride horse
back. I have bought Colonel Roosevelt's famous
hurdle Jumper and 'cross country runner, and ex
pect to get plenty Of physical exercise."
<Oasgrrtgnt, iv.<*. by Jamas U. Morrow.)
DR. ANDREW D. HEPBURN.
Ex -president of the university. Now
dean of trie College of Liberal
Arts.
known to he shared in tha highest educational
circles ir. Germany, that the advantage of tbeae
Roosevelt professorships lies not alone in their
scientific discourses bin likewise in the knowledge
:hey impart there with regard to American
Ideas, ethics, modes of thought and life: v
of the highest form of Americanism. Until now
all the Roosevelt professors have hailed from seats
of learning on the Atlantic seaboard or in the
Eastern states. Professor Wheeler, as president
of the University of California, win be welcomed
by the Kaiser and by the educational authorities in
Germany with even more Interest than his prede
cessors, since h-? will be in a position to enlighten
people at Berlin about a part of America which Is
less familiar to them than any other, and yet which
has been of late a great deal in the public eye. in
connection with public sentiment on the Pacific
Coast concerning Japan.
EARLY MORNING CUP OF TEA.
Mischief May Ensue from Drinking It Before
Breakfast.
If is often asked whether the early morning cup
of tea is permissible, having regard lo the chemical
qualities and physiological effects of that beverage,
especially under the particular conditions of the
human organism after a night's rest. The early
morning cup of tea is ■ source of comfort and re
freshment to a good many persons when the men
tal and physical faculties are In a more or less
lethargic state. To them a cup of tea is helpful
in giving, so to speak, a species of courage to face
once, again the demands and tasks of the day, and,
that being so. it Is superfluous for physiology and
chemistry to preach that the practice may be beset
with troubles connected more or less with the gas
tric machine.
It can hardly be supposed that people »hn hab-.t
ually enj<.-> their early morning tea suffer from any
unpleasant symptoms or effects or they -woulii dis
card the luxury, but, on the other hand, it is con
e:ivable that !n some cases mischief in the lonsj
r;in niay ensue. It appears to he generally admit
ted that when tea is harmful at all (and we
that it t? a. delicately infused and not long bo.ied
preparation that is chosen) It is when it Is taken
without food— that is to say, when the stomach is
empty. That !s a period when obviously the as
tr!nK p !'t substances of the tea may act more ef
fectively as irritants to the mucous lining of the
stomach and therefore excite a condition of chronic
gastric catarrh. Happily, however. It Is the ■>■
torn of most persons to take milk with then* tea,
which, unless • \\* tf-a Is exceptionally strong, neu
tralizes the tnnnin substance* and thus preel id*"3
their acting as irritants.
The most cogent argument against th» early
rr.ornlng cup >>f te.i ;>-. that as. !;* many cases at
all events, the te.i Is swallowed before ti;>- mouth
and teeth :<rt> ( leansed. t';e septic potentialities ac
cumulated In the mouth overnight are washe.l Into
the stomach and a poisoning process in th-=
might thus easily be begun This is D
hly a source of gastric catarrh In some IMB'
who drink their early morning tea before thej I'M' *
their beds The mouth, ••' course, shi
before food, and especially rm drink Is
induced in. 'i'-.-.r-.*- is, perhaps, another leason
«hy ibe Insl morning tea Is
popular, ..::■! mai not s physiological one its
preparation Implies ti.-- stirring ■•
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GOATS THAT FEED ON 'DOPE.
That his herd of very valuable goats and mala
source of Income will either die exhausted from
dancing or starve to death from not being abe
to rea -h down and eat gra.«s is the fear of Jul'o
Maldonado, of the State of Guanajuato, who a*
sarted. in company of some friends recently, th .<
his flock of (oats has acquired the marihuana
vice and contlnue^cn one long debauch by chewing
the weed.
"Some time u5..." he said, "I acquired a il«-o
of land adjoinlns my ranch, near Cetsj i. upon
which the former owners bad been raising Mexi
can Indian bemn for illicit traffic. Th. I.- business
had been stopr>ed by the law, and i was able to
leas»j the land cheap.
"Some days after turning my goals into lie new
pasture I noticed that they had begun to act
queeriy. Their eyes assumed an unnatural, vacant
btare, and their lerpstchorean antics across t;i»
level ground would last for hours on a stretch.
My shepherd began to report to me that the goat*
had ceased to lie down to rest even at night and
would stalk around th« pasture on their hind feet,
like the satyrs in «;re.-w mythology. It was lmr-c«
mble for them to feed In this position, for the
pasture contain* litt:.- ihrubbcry or lon tree*, ins
vegetation being entirely grass, with scraggy bits
of marihuana weed. I have tried to drive the
(oats back into their old pasture, but they won t
DR. GUY POTTER BENTON.
President of Miami.
go. and a doctor tells ma that It rr.!sr v * kill tSera
to stop their marihuana feed too suddenly. How
In th« world I shall ever save my goats 1« »
problem beyond my solving;."— El Paso Morales;
Times.
FOLK BILLION .NOW
Value of Manhattan Island in 1620
Was $24.
There was hunt '■■■ Controller Metz's offlcs last
week a reproduction of the original memoraaduai
concerning the transfer of the Island of Manhattan
to the Dutch. Alongside the reproduction Is ti»
translation, together with interesting and sug
gestive data prepared by the statisticians In th«
! Department of Finance referring: to ttta ""a* l
In realty values in the last SSI yenrs. Here fel
low a fac-simile reproduction of the letter "■ •
translation of the same:
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3 TRANSLATION. 7
I November ts2( '
, High Mighty Sirs: . _-j'i|
I Here arrived yesterday the f»nip '••:,
i 1i 1 Arms of Amsterdam which sailed Irmn
i 1 Netherland out of th- Mauritius Hut hi,
i[ September 23; they repo-t t^:lt our pW I
1 , there are of k<>o<l courag-. and lir* P**Jj*] i]
S Ably. Their women. als<». ha\e !r>rne cni.- :
; 1 dr»i thore. they have bought **»• 18 ' a r^;i
i | Manbattea from the wild men for *"»)
i, value (ft six) guilders, is 11.000 nn-rpen-. £ ,
( , extent. They sowed all their C*™"'"^
Ji middle of May. and harvested it the irtsaai*
lot August. Thereof being samples ot w™^ ,
/ mer grain, such as wheat, ryf. barley. «i» ,
i! buckwheat, canary se*-d. small beans ana ,
'i iUix. The cargo of the af.'re^ai.i ship !: I
|i 71M6 boaver 3kir..-=. ITS'- otter skm>. »»»i
Jotter skin«. 4S minis skins. 36 *^*"r*! ]
I 1I 1 (lynx) skins. 33 rv.inUs. ::4 ra: sk:n?. ii - lrl -] >
< logs of oak an.l nutwood. Herewith^ *•
c High Mighty Sirs commended 1 ". '„.,;', '
c miphty*9 prat-f. In Amsterdam. Noverni ■ >
* 5. Ao. 1826 »
LYour Hish Mlsht's SCHAGHEIVIJ
Here follow also tl-.e data of ths »t«ttsrtcb»»*
ready referred u>:
-
Irvlinns. 1; » v « u.Mre-w t«» thr .%»»«»M5 * r SEL|
Which »1^ ira'l> the bu»ftl Oi .!i:-t :« « »"
lmii.'* Company. v ■'
IVter Jans dcbagtMa «»« «S>« r ' nr '* ' r!;i '"" i»>»:i »>»:
rrlcslaml. It «v hm Juty to h«- •• • <''" * t: . lt '*J \iS
)i.f.rn;r.! *» ia tii«. prorrrtUmai ..? xht A!t ' nl "\;",^<*-
Wlifii thr »h>;> Arms «-f .\::i-'-:.-!> arrived •" •> tk#
•». ICW. Shnichrn arh)rrs*«J a ■■'■" ;m " B! ''',""«J>i I :'Ji
«t«»t«"« general annonnrlßS llw purchax" <*
'?Tt»* prlra paM «a« CO *ji!.>r». cv>a» «f'A^tW'
r>f our vurtmcy. Tb« mca ■>? Maowitian i».-»- M *
lima »o» about CM)O acres. _ xtj-iai' l * 3
Th» asst>Bc<! valuation «>f r»a! »»:»•■*
for tSON w** ft.SM.S3d.4SI.
Th« fo'.!owinc brief tab> i« lnt<—-ti.T<:
Value of Un't <>:> Stentmttan . . vtiCl l *
Island »-»<■» »*.**•>»*
I*rivrnt«g.> of KlcnM i»MC2.»" „.«
A \ •rage price r*r acr* *' ' y **i, r i (*'■
1.an.1 ori(rtn*!l> mM »t thr '«:* «•: '"'1,., Xt»»»' J
V • rr-enr Ml* o' „- pic t» ■■ < »■?**%*• _
,•-». « the rr! » qwKad **•« IVi» »•» *•>,■„• on» ''"^
In tP.*> Jt ...v. |3n»+ P*r r*tf mo- «•> " , j:t3 i
of property than « c c»t In l«» to 6uy IM ww^