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Title: The greatest street in the world : the story of Broadway, old and new, from the Bowling Green to Albany
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Jenkins, Stephen, 1857-1913
Subjects: Streets--New York (State)--New York. Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.)
Publisher: New York London : G. P. Putnam's Sons
Contributing Library: Rutgers University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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oms, of Wappings creek. . . .Then the Van Grolls, of Anthonys Nose. . . . Then theGardeniers, of Hudson and thereabouts. . . . Then the VanHoesens, of Sing Sing. . . . Then the Couenhovens, of SleepyHollow. . . . Then the Van Kortlandts, who lived on the wildbanks of the Croton. . , . ThentheVanBunschotens,of Nyackand Kakiat. . . . Then the Van Winkles, of Haerlem. . . .Lastly came the knickerbockers, of the great town ofScaghticoke. . . . These derive their name, as some say, fromKnicker, to shake, and Beker, a goblet, indicating therebythat they were sturdy toss-pots of yore; but in truth, it wasderived from Knicker, to nod, and Boeken, books; plainlymeaning that they were great nodders or dozers over books—from them descends the writer of this history. Such was the legion of sturdy bush-beaters that poured inat the grand gate of New Amsterdam; the Stuyvesant manu-script indeed speaks of many more, whose names I omit tomention, seeing it behooves me to hasten to matters of greater
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8i 82 The Worlds Greatest Street moment. Nothing could surpass the joy and martial prideof the lion-hearted Peter as he reviewed this mighty host ofwarriors, and he determined no longer to defer the gratificationof his much-wished-for revenge upon the scoundrel Swedes ofFort Casimir.* Among the parades which have taken place since 1800,we may mention the Hudson bi-centenary in 1809, thereception to Lafayette in 1824, that in honor of the revo-lution in France in 1830, the admission of Croton water in1842, the reception to the Hungarian patriot Kossuth in 1851, the processions in honor of Alfred Edward, Prince ofWales (the late Edward VI.) and of the first Japaneseembassy in 1861, the German parade in 1872 at the con-clusion of the war between Prussia and France, the Wash-ington centenary of 1889, and the Columbus parade of 1892in commemoration of the four hundredth anniversary ofthe discovery of America. Among the funerals, someof them actual and some commemorative, have been thoseof

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