48 Timehri. 
As building operations extended eastwards, the district became incorporated 
Irom time to time, piecemeal, so to speak, under various names—North and 
South Freeburg, North and South Newburg, and Wortmanville,—an outside 
suburban section farthest to the east, being known as Lodge Village ; all the sub- 
divisions within the limits of the city are however embraced within the Werk- 
en-Rust Ward. 
The main thoroughfare east of Water Street, and through which the Tramway 
runs, is known as Cornhill and Lombard street; why I don’t know, except by 
way of sarcasm, as they do not form the centre of any great commercial or bank- 
ing business like their great prototypes in the city of London. 
The short sections of streets between Water street and Lombard street are 
named De Rooy, Schoemaacher and Bugle, after the merchants who lived, or 
had their business premises, in close proximity. Mr. Michael Bugle, a coun- 
tryman of my own, was Mayor of Georgetown in 1872, when cable communica- 
tion was first established between this colony and England ; and he very pro- 
perly sent a congratulatory message from ‘* Bugle, Mayor of Georgetown, to 
the Lord Mayor of London”: the story goes that the reply returned was— 
“You be blowed !” 
The other streets in the district embrace the following :— 
Harel street—after Louis Harel—an old French resident of many years, 
living at the corner who claimed direct descent from the great Napoleon. He 
owned a large cooperage on the land now occupied by the Town Hall. 
Leopold street (also irreverently known as Grog street) was named after 
Leopold I, King of the Belgians, favourite uncle and mentor of Queen Victoria. 
Devonish street—after Mr. John C. Devonish, who resided at the corner. 
He arrived from Barbados about the year 1820, and kept the first private school 
opened in the colony. He was the grandfather of the present acting Town 
Clerk. 
Breda street—after a historic town in Holland, where a peace congress was 
held and a treaty signed 1667, restoring to England the West Indian islands of 
St. Kitts, Montserrat and Antigua. 
Smyth street—after Major General Sir James Carmichael Smyth, Governor 
1833-1838. During his regime the Mayor and Town Council of Georgetown 
and the British Guiana Bank were incorporated 1837. 
Henry street—(sometimes known as Centipede Alley) after Jabez Henry, 
first President of the Court of Justice. 
George street—after King George ITI. 
John street—in view of the apparent predilection of the day in naming streets 
after prominent leaders in the French Wars, this street was probably named 
after John, Archduke of Austria, one of the allied commanders in the Napoleonic 
Wars: died 1859. 
Bishop street—after Bishop Austin, first Bishop of Guiana from 1842-1892 ; 
he died shortly after celebrating the jubilee of his Episcopate. 
Lime street—a Botanic name, a continuation of Orange Walk in Bourda, 
