1 m Jj 4 I It t 11 a 6 r h c- c Sow Oln By ELMO SCOTT WATSON L UE hE association of New Nev Im tin tin- Years Tears day duy with events eve n t s In American history goes gots goe back to Its very be- be beginning hep ginning In fact they the very name America JI carne came Into being t through h r au g b as as with an on even event I which M took place pince on January 1 1 In the the laller latter half ot of the Fifteenth century a named Americus Vespucci drifted 1 to Spain and md bearing hearing of the of at Christopher Columbus resolved eti to seek his fortunes In the New dew ew world So oo he ie visited Espanola t lIa Matt tl went 1 on a pearl warn the Spaniard Ojeda In HUn 1499 and anti fro fin January 1 I 1502 1502 he be discovered ered the Bay of Rio fila Janeiro In South America Sometime during hIs o voyage age he wrote a letter In which he called th the western lands Mundus Novus us In Instead stead of ot Asia and som some historians R as asten pert foert that Ve Vespucci before discovered the mainland thai that he was the first to realize that Mundus No- No Novas Novus vas was wholly distinct from Asia and was In fact fact a news new world and that therefore he has some claim to the title of discoverer of America But whether he be de deserved that honor or not the fact remains that the new continent was to be known as a America rather r than linn Columbus And this Is how bow It came about At SL Die In the theos lie os es there was at the time lime Vespucci was wo wu making his voyage a a little collegiate Institute which was a center of geo- geo geographical graphical gee eo- eo graphIcal learning Two of Its fa Cu If members rs mn man a Latin Latin-1st Latin 1st 1st and Martin p muller a 8 geo geo- geographer geographer to grapher were preparing n a new v edition of Ptolemy's Ptolemy Before it II 1 w was s hon thoe th l a little essay under the title of co Cos mo to which they the added the letter of Vespucci It was waIn In this essay that aft er describing the three continents of Europe Asia and Africa then gave e a an account of the o alp of Vespucci and closed by M saying ln The fourth part t of the world having been heen discovered by Americus It may he be called the land of Am Americus or America The suggestion su met with favor and although h at first the name was coo con fined Sned to South America It was wac later applied to both hoth western continents i And ADd thus thus whether rl rightly or not was the fame of Americus Vespucci per r on the mop mops maps of the world The next nett great epoch In American n history In which several se important events were linked with New Years Year's day was the American Revolution On January 1 1735 there was born borIn tn In Boston P-oston to a French goldsmith li named Apollos who however ve changed that to Paul Revere ere soon aft after Er his arrival In America and his mar to Deborah a son who ho was named after his father Young Paul toll followed owed his fathers father's trade tra Jand and became an expert e ert In It and In Inmany inmany many other things But although few Americans may know of Paul Revere In any of these roles few Indeed are they who do not know lenow of him as a 0 courier bearing a word word that shall echo forever fore m e morel I For It gas as his famous midnight hl rIde In April of 1775 which warned the patriots of ot the approach of the Brit Ish and rallied them to make their stand tand at Lexington and at Concord Where the shot heard round the world was tired fired On the day that Paul Revere cele- cele celebrated his tenth birthday there thre was as born on a furm farm In Chester county Pa P another boy who was destined to achieve even en greater fame tame In the great teat struggle le for liberty Anthony Wayne was hb hi name and when he grew to young manhood he became as ns well known as a surveyor ur I In Pennsylvania as Washington was In Virginia Virginia lie He attracted the attention of Franklin who had hall him appointed look ook after the Interests to of a number ot of Philadelphia business men who ho owned lands In Nova Scotia Upon Up his return horn f om this r her work In 1767 Jj 7 he married Polly the thc d daughter u ot of a e prominent Philadelphia merchant and they settled In Chester where young Wayne made mad a good county 11 lug ng as a farmer fanner I i tot fsr r t r Born orn w Ii rl J y yf f AI IZA AT Ar J In 1774 he was mode made one of the provincial pro d deputies and he was Vas also alsia Ii a member of the Pennsylvania COD en lion held at Philadelphia to discus discuss the Impending trouble between the colonies mid and tile the lie mother country But Anthony Wamie ne was a II man ninn of action not merely n I man of words and New v Years Year's diy day ol of found him at al hi his home Wayne borough impatiently Impatient I awaiting word from froia frum Philadelphia where th the committee of safety was about to choose choMe the colI col for tile the four battalions which were vere to he sent enl to the aid of General Washington and his Continentals before before be- be before fore Boston Roston Bo ton Unable to restrain hi his Impatience Va Wayne ne two days later bade bude his Polly and their children u a a hasty good good-by and set sel out for hila there to learn that he had been heen appointed colonel of the first hat tallon So the military career of ot Anthon Anthony Wayne begun began and how brilliant that liat car career r Wll was Is told In one of the most Interesting biographies of recent Thomas months Thomas Boyds Boyd's Ma Mad An Anthony thony thollY Wayne published by Charles Charles harlE Scribners Sons No better charne- charne of Wayne can be tie given I en than thanIn thanin thanIn In the scene stene no at Boyd Bord describes It which took piare pare after the long lone hit tilt ter winter at Valley alley Forge when summoned his generals to toa a council to deride whether or not nol to allow the British who twin ho were preparing to leave lea Philadelphia for New ew York to pass across New V jer ey Jersey unmolested d Gen Charles Lee Iee spoke lon longest est and ond loudest and his hI advice was wa to let leI the British intone ninne Then Anthon Anthony Wayne Wayn had eat at apart hold hoF Ing a 11 book beyond which he h had looked with eye f r eyed d l acorn scorn as aa ten of ot hiI hie hi fellow ers omers had agreed with wll Charles Charle Lee lie III raised hl hiI hie head Well ell general asked his Excel lency tency what do you propose to 10 Wayne answered quickly Fight FIgh air Cut thai that reply ply r ply could scarcely have ba surprised the he commander chief or c any of the others othera For when hadn hadn't the he leader of or the Pennsylvania voted In favor of ot attack At Al Brandy Brandy- Brandywine Brandywine wine Al At At Al White WhiteMarsh Marsh h last November Never At- At Attack Attack tack attack It was the only word he knew And those two words attack and fight ht were we're the k keynotes notes of his w hole hoie career both hoth In III the thc Be and dur dui Ing the Indian n war afterwards It II would have hate been heen appropriate If he could have ha died on the field of battle Instead he was stricken by Illness In December of 1796 at the fort or at i Presque Isle on the shores of Lak La I Erie and there after great suffering the end came on Dec December I 15 The third member of or the trilogy y ot of Revolutionary notables who had New ew Years Year's day as their birthday WitS was U woman Born Borra on January 1 I 1752 Elizabeth Griscom of ot Philadelphia was married to John Ross nosS a phia merchant wino who was also an nn up up- Ills most able oble assistant was his its wife who hind had become whitely known for tor her excellent materials and the unusual skill with which she shaped them theta Among her tier patrons were the tore fore foremost most citizens of and sh she numbered among her friends such menas men menas as Washington Franklin Adams and Rittenhouse So perhaps It was oat nat natural ural that when the Continental con con- congress co gress gross on June 14 1777 1711 Resolved that the flag Hag of the thirteen l States be thirteen stripes alternate red nod anel white that tile the Union be he thirteen stars white on a blue Held represent tog Ing ng a new constellation the Hie commit committee t tee which wad waa appointed to carry out this tints Tl n should go to the r ow Ross noss to have hu her make muke It for fm i them Whether or not Betsy Belay Russ Ross lit de designed signed the first Stars und and Stripes 0 on whether that honor belongs belon s to 10 Iran n cis els of New ew Jersey ev Is 18 a mat matte te matter ter for dispute among historians A Ar Arany any rate Betsy Bety Hoss seems to ha have t been connected In to some way with tI 1 early history of our national banner fr and the Betsy Ross n 8 legend le If legend It be seems to dc he firmly fixed In our ur national tradition of the origin of our ou ur r flag hag There Is one event connected with wl 1 ra 1 tw t w- w wr wa r a S n Z 2 Boar Jan f the flag which took place on January ThatIs I 1 however huwe which Is II undisputed That Is the fact that on January 1 I 1776 GEn George Washington lon raised ed over his camp at al Cambridge e Mass a flag nug which although It had the tine Union Jack JackIn Jackin In the canton canlon had th tine the thirteen alter alter- alternate alternate nate representIng red and ond white stripes stripes- s represent lug Ing the thirteen colonies This ling flag was referred to In the correspondence of the day as ns tine the American Amerun colors and may safely he be regarded as tn tb the first American flag Since the thirteen n I colonIes represented In the thirteen stripes although h fighting for theIr theli rights had not yet broken entirely I awny from the mother country the British Union Jack was retained to show how their connection with England En land toI I Six months later inter however er vever the ties tIcs which bound them were severed se by the of Independence and then I the need for a a new banner suited resulted In Inthe inthe the doln doing away with the lie Union I Then conic camp the lie hl historic of I June 14 I 1777 1 tile the lie stars were pinged In the canton and the flag nf ot the Unit Unit- United I fn ed t d States became the me Stars biars and en Stripes s On January 1 I 1800 there was born bornat bornat at Wallingford Conn a man who was is destined to become an nn Important fin S- S ure In American journalism and to In in- in introduce a- a an Innovation Inno was to he the forerunner of one olle of the mos most Important factors In our modern mod rn news news- newspapers new papers For It was wins Mosea oges Yule Yale Beach Benc wino who conceived the Idea of transmission of new news which re 1 ultimately In the lie of Hie Ilse As As- As Associated Ai Ires Ire's Pre s the greatest s ne news gath- gath gathering ath rt- rt ering or organization In the world A maker er Inventor alII amid paper paper- r- r mill owner In his youth the turning point In Beachs Beach's career carter came cuine In 18 1 Vh when n lie Ill married a 0 sister lstEr of or u uDay Day founder of the lie New York Sui Suu In 18 1835 he purchased d an as Interest Ie ft I that paper and Inter became Its pm- pm Beach brought hl to the Sun Su orl original methods for securing the III fi first firs t t tidings of Important events e l I S trains were run uen lu various arlou points at ul his expense and anil before th the telegraph was Vas Invented he used ear r- r rier pl pigeons to bring earl early European news from Incoming steamers as os we well us IlS from political gJ gatherings rare race trucks tracks etc During Durin the lie wa war r finding the means menns of transmitting news so 0 slow Blow he lie established n pony ex ex- ex express x- x press s system stem of couriers which r ref the time by one third Laying the matter before his hi hl fellow ers a form of a co operative alliance was worked out which was a forerun forerun- forerunner ner of the modern AS Associated r Press The War of 1812 1312 saw another rant tant event taking place on New ew rear Years Year's day duy For It was on 1 1 I 1815 1515 that the British made malle their fir first t at at- at attack it tack lack on New Orleans and a week In ter ler occurred the decisive e engagement nt In inn n a which hick Old Hickory Jackson S so 1 i ely decisively defeated P Pakenham's kenham's vet eran Un On January 1 I 1 1822 the tine first Amr Amer AmerIcan Ame T- T Ican lean settlers arrived In Texas Texus un an t event EDI which forecast the struggle fi for fora a second war wor of Independence In North Norl America and the tine the u addition of tine tl In Great Southwest to 10 the United Stites Stud Ou On January I 1 1811 1831 William lIam Lloyd Garrison the Abolitionist publish pj the first Issue of the thu tho tl paper which was to have hn so great ul rt an i influence In the slavery tr dispute clI ute Ai Ant what Garrison started on I 1 i 1811 was finished by hy Abraham t LI In colli 32 leans ears later On Oin January 1 his hits historic pro roe wont went Into effect and the rhe tl death blow to slavery shivery f rv lu la g the United I I States was struck r 7 r