164 STATEN ISLAND INSTITUTE OF ARFS AND SCIENCES 
@ol. Elist. 13: 391). TDhe paragraph on p. 208 relating to) the 
Waldenses includes this sentence: “ From 1652 to about 1750, their 
chief settlement, so tradition avers, was at Stony Brook,” which is 
unsupported by the known facts. The colony under Capt. Adriaen 
Post from 1650 to 1655 was not at Stony Brook but near the 
Watering Place (Proc. Staten Is. Assoc. 6: 30) and the names 
of the colonists are Dutch (Doc. Col. Hist. 13: 74-75) not Wal- 
denses. The entire volume is interesting reading with many pas- 
sages of brilliant composition, but so far as Staten Island is con- 
cerned does not disclose new facts. 
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Books IN THE RUNNING Forps oF RicHMonp, by Selma‘ Robin- 
son, in New York Tribune Sunday May 6, 1923. 
This is a newspaper article describing the automobile book 
wagon in which the St. George branch of the Public Library dis- 
tributes books to the most remote parts of Staten Island. Four 
times a week Miss Anita M. Allen or her assistant sets forth with 
packages of books for subbranches and shelves filled with books . 
from which individual patrons may make selection. The traveling 
book wagon is said to have originated in Hagerstown, Md., and ap- 
pears to have become an established institution on Staten Island. 
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