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the temperament of the ardent boy, and shortly after the Press was started, stone with its cheerful blazing fire. The in 1857, he applied for .a situation as copy- assembly was generally composed of holder on that journal, and was engaged in Protestants and Catholics, dissenters and that capacity by Mr. Mcliart, then foreman ! churchmen together. They were great men of the Press. Quick, intelligent and devoted to argue._ Calvinism and Armenianism, fto study, the bright lad soon left the compos¬ I Daniel O'Connell and repeal were generally ing room' for the reporter’s room, and went to the subjects of discussion. During these dis¬ work with his pencil. His talent quickly de- cussions the long day pipe was frequently jveloped itself and was-recognized by Colonel brought into play, and the meeting would j Forney, who advanced him to the editorial stall' generally adjourn on a glass of good hot Irish of the paper. In 1801 Mr. Young wentto Wash¬ whisky punch, oat cake, butter and sterling ington as war correspondent of the Press, and home-made cheese. Mr. Field has never for¬ ’vyhile there edited the Daily Chronicle. He gotten these evenings and discussions and the a}so accompanied the army to the field and impressions made upon his mind at the time gained much reputation by his descriptive ac- They Were carried on in the best of humor well sniced with «q1HoC wj£

JOHN WANAMAKER AS A BOY AND AT THE PRESENT DAY. counts of various battles. Early ln_ 1862. while iu his 22d year, he was recalled to Phil! i fi'ke Field family, consisting of father, : mother and eight children, five daughters and made ru,ariaghl- editor of the F) its. His career as a business man has been .three sons, all migrated to this country7 .even more brilliant than his achievements as | John, the oldest boy, was then 13 yoars of |ajournalist, blithe says that his succcsf fn | age. On the voyage out the father was sud- both is the result of hard work and study. I ficnly taken ill and died, leaving a widow Postmaster John Field was born at Tralev jwithaheavy charge in midocean. On ar¬ 111, Derry. Like most of his cou ntrymen riving she found herself helpless and home- he has intense love for the place of his na- Iless> but wi*b a courage and faith in God she tivity and since leaving has frequently vis¬ | soon found a home and friends. Five of the ited the old homestead, which stood upon the family still survive—two sisters reside in top of the hill embowered in a cluster of Pittsburg, Thomas is in business in trees the gable windows overlooking Lough Ivew Lork, William M. Field is president Neagh. Richard Field, his father, was a of the Central National Bank, of Wilming¬ stern Dissenter of the old school, with a ton, and also president of the Brandywine strong wiH, and, under strong provocation, Granite Company. Through the war he was xatliei fierce, and yet naturally kind and j connected with the Fifteenth Pennsylvania gentle. His Wife, Isabella, was a sweet j Cavalry. John, after his arrival in Philadel¬ quiet, patient woman, full of hope. Mr Field phia, secured employment with Mr. Armor Young, then doing business at No. 6 Bank inTikvTrnf Pleasure the lai'ge kitchen m I raley Hill house and the old fashioned street. He has been associated with this dresser, with its shelves filled with china and house almost continuously ever since—as the great pewter dishes well polished and errand boy, stock-keeper, salesman, book¬ keeper, buyer and member of the firm. diousFreJfT thf*® WaS the gl'eat c°mmo- “ 1 b fireplace with its old fashioned Alter an absence of twenty-five years he re¬ turned to Fraley Hill. Midway between Wivel" O?6 lin^~two kooks and a ’ On winter evenings not a few the railroad station and his old home stood )f the leading people of the j h the school house which he attended in boy¬ iood would gather around this hearth- hood. and, although change was written upon everything, yet to his great surprise he found, upon entering the old building, his old ABRAHAM BARKER AT THE PRESENT DAY AND AT 28. ' bornTm the Ninth ward,ron February 14,1850,; teacher, sitting upon the same old chair, be¬ and those who were intimate wi£h him at the hind the same old desk, imparting instruc¬ time affirm that he took an active interest in tion to the children and grandchildren of his former pupils. politics even during his infancy. received . his schooling at Whittle's-Academy, the Zane i No one of the city's seniors is held in more Street Grammar School and at a small acad-j affectionate regard by his fellow citizens than emy conducted by Miss Margaret Kobb^por*- Colonel William B. Mann, who has now filled ner of Twelfth and Filbert streets. Mr. War! the ofiloe of Prothonotary of the Court of wick is modest and makes ho pretense to Common Pleas siuce 1874. He was born in a having been a model youngster, but good or little log cabin at Pemberton. N. J., in 1816. bad, lie was anything but indifferent when it! but came to Philadelphia in 1821. His father, came to studying, for he worked like the pro¬ the Bey. William Mann, was widely known verbial horse and was ready to enter the High and respected in Philadelphia as a teacher School at an age when most boys arc still and a minister of the Gospel, and it was un¬ struggling with the fundamentals of arithme¬ der his tutelage that the colonel began his tic, etc. After leaving school he was em¬ studies. His father's school was situated ncai ployed as an entry clerk in a commercial Kensington, and his mother iearful that her house, and at the same time he fitted for col¬ son might get lost on his long daily trip lege. When he was about 13 he. became from their home to the school house enamored with the stage and ran away with sewed a piece of cloth bearing his name a traveling company. His thespian career and address on the seat ol his trou¬ came to a sudden end, however, at the expira¬ sers. At first his fellow-students made tion of a week and he returned to Philadel¬ fuu of his tag. but he resented their famil¬ phia to enter the office of E. Spencer Miller iarity with the same vigor which has charac¬ as a law student. He was admitted to the terized every action oi his life. Although he bar in 1872 and has made a reputation as a w-as fond of outdoor sports he was a great lawyer of unusual brilliancy and a politician student and before he was 15 had acquired ofjindoubted integrity. great proficiency in the classics and mathe¬ One cannot fail to see the resemblance be¬ matics. These were always his favorite tween the picture of Mr. Barker, the well- studies. From the time he was old enough known banker, taken when he was 28, and to have any aims for the future his mind was that which portrays him as he is to day. He set upon the law. He studied for the bar in was born in New York city on the 3d of the office of the Hon. Charles Naylor and was June, 1821. He was the son of Jacob Barker, admitted in 1838. In 1850 he received his the great financier, who took up the ten mill¬ first appointment to public offjcg as a^ls --p ion dollar loan to carry on the war of 1812. toWilham„T.yr:-s' t>0„a who^wxvho was then DistllCtq Mr. Barker was educated at the New Eng¬ Attorney, me n " 17 rrm is a fine land Yearly Meeting Boarding School, at Providence. R. I., and at Stephen F. Weld’s r school, at Jamaica Plain, near Boston. Young Barker was always set on becoming a banker, It would he difficult to find a brighter look- •and when he was 16 he went to New Orleans ini boy than was Charles F. Warwick.the Wnd entered the firm of Horace Bean & Co., City Solicitor, at the age ot twelve^ e ■ J jankers and brokers. They were the corres¬ pondents of Jacob Little, who bought up tho

V CHARLES F. WARWICK TO-DAY AND IN YOUTH. j claims of the United States Bank of this city ] Eighty-eighth Begiment, Pennsylvania Vol- j against, the wild-cat banks of the South and 1 untecrs. General Wagner was born at Gies¬ j sent them to Horace Bean & Co. for eollec- sen, Germany, on August 4, 1S3S. His father, : tion. Abraham Barker, then' a strapping Ludwig Wagner, figured in the revolution of j youth, rode a horse through Mississippi, Ala¬ 1848, and was forced to leave the country. bama. Tennessee and other Southern States Young Wagner had been a pupil in the pub¬ J j and collected the claims for his firm, enduring lic schools of his native town, and although great hardships and running all sorts of very young had made considerable progress risks. He came to this city in 1842 with his in his studies. On reaching Philadelphia ho brother Sigourney and established the bank¬ was placed in the Zane Street Grammar ing house of Barker Bros. Mr. Barker is School, but at the end of a year was forced by still in active life. In speaking of necessity to go to work. He was first employed

EDWIN S. STUART, SCHOOLBOY AND MAYOR OF

'found Hh';®;lrkor aIways ^ that~he kas ~ as an errand boy in a store on Second street, iu nrofifoWtIlere IS n0 real happiness except above Walnut. He recoived $1.25 per week in profitable occupation of body and mind for his services. A year later he entered the ‘ au appreciation of the rights of others. shoe store of his uncle in the same capacit: , The first picture of Louis Wagner was When he was 15 he was indentured to Mr. L. N. Rosenthal, a lithographic printer. He mnTasfi fr’ j"St before he weut the tiont as first heutenant of Company D, of the served faithfully during the period of his ap¬ prenticeship. and had so thoroughly mastered the trade that when he was 21 he started ift- business for himself. Mr. Wagner's war ree- I ord, together with the history of his If the war, is well kno the subject of discussion. (Tver 816,000,000 have been expended, and the people of Phila¬ From, delphia are anxious to know when the work ■will he finished. A brief history of the Pub¬ lic Buildings may prove of interest.

A LONG-FELT WAIT ■

Causes Which Red Up to tke City Hall

Scheme. The great inconveniences caused by the scattering of the various departments of the city government had grown to be a serious question and early in the sixties it became a SflHIT OF CITY Bill subject for consideration by the CityCoun-l f; |' - -*-1/ oils. It took several years to decide what should be done, hut on December 31, 1868,-an j 'The Great Pile on Which the Build- ordinance was approved appointing a commis-l sion, whose duty it should be to erect muuici-: \ing Commission is Enthroned. pal buildings on Independence Square. Reverent Philadelphians made strong ob¬ jections to having the historic building in which the Declaration of Independence was HISTORY OF A MAMMOTH STRUCTURE signed, the birthplace of American liberty,, overshadowed by no matter how stately a I building. But Councils had decided and the1 Twenty-Two Years of Labor and the work went on. The commission met a week J after its creation, and early in September Building Unfinished. plans and drawings were received from sev-i enteen different architects. John McArthur, f Jr., a Philadelphia architect, offered the, VICISSITUDES OF THE ENTERPRISE plans which met the approval of the commis- j sion, and with the first mouth of January, j 1870, contracts were awarded for the begin-) nirig of the work. A ■ Tale Which May Make Profitable During the year in which this work was Reading for a Newly-Arisen Genera¬ going on the feeling agaipst using Independ-! tion, Which Had Not Seen the Right epee Square increased. Public meetings were I held. Councils were petitioned, hut none of o'f Day When the Iron Railings Which this seemed to he doing any good. Finally | Enclosed the Poor Public Squares at the matter was taken to the Legislature by a,1 number of citizens, and in April, 1870, the Rroad and Market Streets Were Torn hill creating the present commission for the1 Down and Work Was Begun on the erection of the Public Buildings was passed! Structure on Which the People ot by both branches of the Legislature. and| Governor Geary approved it on August 5. Philadelphia Have Expended Over THE COMMISSION CHEATED. 816,000,000._ The act in full follows: A new generation has arisen in Philadel- Section 1. Beit exacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Common¬ phia since the first steps were taken looking wealth of Pennsylvania, in General Assembly to securing a building sufficiently large to ac-| met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority commodate all the offices of the municipal, of the same: That Theodore Cuyler, .John Rice, Samuel C. Perkins, John Price Wethe- government. On January 27, 1871, just ri 11, Lewis C. Cassidy, Henry M. Phillips,! twenty-two years ago, the first actual work William I,. Stokes, William Devine, the Mayor of the city of Philadelphia, and the! on the new, and, as yet unfinished, City Hall, Presidents of Select and Common Councils, was begun. It was the removal of the iron for the time being, are constituted commis¬ railings which iuclosed the four squares occu-l sioners for the erection of the Public Build¬ ings required to accommodate the courts, pyiug the four corners at Broad and Market and for all municipal purposes, in the city of streets, which had been set apart nearly two' Philadelphia, who shall organize within thirty, 'untunes before for just such a purpose by days, procure such plans for said buildings adapted to either of said sites hereinafter, William Penn, who thought that at some time named, as in their judgment may be need¬ his infant Commonwealth might be able to ful: appoint of their own number a presi¬ dent. and from other than their own boast of a city of such proportions as to make number a secretary, treasurer, solicitor, a such a site necessary. I competent architect and assistants, and other The need for municipal buildings had been employes ; fix the compensation of each per¬ son employed by them, and do all other acts felt by the city for many years, as the vari¬ necessary in their judgment to carry out the ous municipal departments were occupying intent of this act in relation to said Public offices in all parts of the city, for which the Buildings ; fill any vacancies which may! happen by death, resignation or otherwise,! municipality was paying big rents. The work and if in the judgment of said commissioni was started, hut the city is still paying rent they shall deem it advisable to increase their number they may, by a vote of a majority of I for some of its public offices. their whole number, increase said commis-1 Before the beginning of the work the mat¬ sion from time to time to any number not ex,-1 ter was thoroughly discussed in every way. eeeding thirteen. The said commissioners' are hereby authorized and directed to locate| Since the work began it has continued to be said buildings on either Washington Square! as may be determ Wl of PhHadelrt1i»IIy(^hal,fie‘1 voterR of 'he city Treasurer, and of ail otherV«?Ioners and City In Octobfer/Ml thon^fnri^* 1 ^lectioh and also the dutv of the Iv,0*^0?^8 °f the city, seventy, and ihe swiff?1 hundred and of Philadelphia to do andUDCi!K ot ‘he city proclamation, and the r?tv ,?swe hiR acts in aid atid promotfon n?etrn0,P 311 sucl> and other nrhnCommissioners purpose of this a"t of yssirn m!^ lnt®nfc a ad ! mission may from time as sald c°m- Provide all thm^s ffit°hat °, ,f lclhclty shall ilaws and parts nf i!!!!.!; ‘.nle require. All |to enable the votersfd i j he needful their choice of decide/by ballot. Buildings, and the retm^? ,/T -«aid Nubile g 8»criih^y fk: k ¥ Bat8aasa^s?*s» ae'' be abd the 1 SELECTING A SITE all needful contracts forii ?^°Sa 's and make said buildin-s as soon tn-fe instruction of The City Divided Between Washington found prac icaide ^£w£ereafter as may be and Penn Squares. valid and S u^S. contracts shall be ,JPon the contractors *1JT,S?°a tlle city and majority of the said «oeJ r?!!P™>'ed bF a -S tTil6e

ofrMayo?Foaxi0n W3S 6?fted by *be elS Woodward as secretof^r!' E'lgeilC G- ' Jceld&fK^^® f!4Sfn had died and Wi h2?‘L S 6Vine known. Henry W r , ®S Was not so^Lq^fe ;SU¥rov?jJ° may at anv "m 1 “aVa, vacated and renmvid ami n^ ely.sha!l be Pletion of the new buifehn ^tire corn- buildings on iDdenenclrmf/’ c tbe Present Independence Hall chan®! 0r»yorofphUadedpSTa shanqmfive«! whicb tbe ecute under the £?“ aad ex- i its centre there and that fhl 'iouId have I epuares^f^^rfl-^-l “ the four located at tl^inter’seetw?1 e%>Penn squares I “SSiSS? 8T& ket streets, in the ^tt of Pmf ?road and Marl | Square site were not kckinO ^d Washmgton down on the prelent m0pPbiladGiPhia, as laid meetings were hehl aud most of the each of the follo^StuHnP citJ- one to ®iy of Fine Arts 4,1 .“t,on8: The toad big gathering! booth! w/~°r O' At all Sciences, the Aaii’kUn Tnlf re?iy of Natural p..pi. ™. iw to"CS.*75S>S„*■“ adelphla Library f0r tho ®tU 11 te and the Phi], fheni to erect thereon* orn«nS?sf ?f allowing pesk SQUARE CHOSEN-. ^bl© buiiciinfr** fr\r> + u . snd cmif- the election, held Ocf,-.h»n n tipns. Thefogca«on fch1»ive ”2® plans thereof Kfi° kiiuh. bitiidins's and thp I Sneswould missione%e°aplp0intedP?,r,°Je(1 by the com- their successors in act, and inner!11® of erection, and^lii tnðer with r^at iuntn§r ‘hereto: Proiidider matters .bat all expenses connected however. '•fyances, plans and other info^itll sai<1 c°n- lte for tho said commi«,i information requi- kid by the institotton!r^P^'!6- «b*?be | location a clear majority^ iSSo*^* tbat went of the lespectively. rn the iquares as the site ™lsaidepCthPn of penn : difficiflties of the6 mattor1 the b®, said commission shaltP>!ollc Bllldin&s> the question of whetWVhlO t?ere,fas shill , buildings, cue on lach ofl 0 P°"ld be fo,lr or whether one building^ shelldbln fq,la‘'es- »»?s ssy gfe-iss -as the intersection of Broad and ir 0 placed at Jf ni?t be ot less width thnnaid blJHdings The difficulty attending aud Market streets, tt stall be the dutv of the°Maaundr«d subject was so great that t^1SI0T °U this ‘ tbe Mayor, the ci“s* -4a‘^s.ia % sss exffiss'of tEoTonr. the latter have an ex once broken for the separate buildings. The of-2,928 lineal feet of frontage ^ people argued this question as thoroughly as aether with a system of four distinct heating they had the question ot location, but unlike and ventilating apparatus, would, in :my the former question, they were unable to in¬ opinion, increase the cost from fifteen to struct the commissioners and could do noth- twenty-five per cent, over the single build- ing more than pour in petitions., resolutions inor THE WORK BEGUN; A large class of Philadelphians made a On November 1. 1870, it was decided to strong fight in favor ol the four buildings. have the one building, hut in .Tune 1., 1S<1. They wanted Broad street and Market street this action was rescinded and the architect, left opeih was directed to prepare plans for the four ’ The PXiEA FOE OPEN STREETS. buildings and on August 7 these plans were A numerously-signed petition was sent to approved and a week later President Rice, the commission, and was by it referred to a formally broke the ground. But in April of committee on plans. In this communication the following year the. original plan was re- j it was Stated that “to occupy the intersection verted to and the foundations already laid: would, therefore, he to disappoint the expecta¬ were used for the new building. The first tions of those by whom Penn Squares were stone, was laid on August 12, 1872, and afew selected as the site for Public Buildings, as well months la,ter, , November 19. the contrac®a as to inflict an irreparable wrong upon the the granite basement was awaruei architectural and business development of our $515,500. On October 7. 1873, the contra, city. The only opportunity for the eflective the marble work of the superstructure display of civic architecture possessed by awarded for $5,300,000. Philadelphia is on Broad and on Market streets; and the former, properly treated LAYING THE COMER-STONE - should become in the future the hnest street not only in America, but in the world, io A Noted Orator Defends the Bocattor strangle it at its centre by a pile of buildings, the Building. no matter how imposing in themselves, would therefore be a fatal error, obstructing travel, July 4, 1874, the corner-stone of the* ] destroying the noble vista which we structure was laid. An immense numb had always hoped to see when_ the street people had gathered in the square to wii should be lined'with stately buildings, and the ceremonies. Benjamin Harris Brev retarding, perhaps iorever. the development of that splendid avenue. * * * It would was the orator of the occasion. In his m seem iucredible that, i%hen so many othei orable address be gave a sketch of the bi great cities are submitting to large outlays m ing. On the subject of placing the builc the endeavor to widen and straighten their at the intersection of the streets, he said; principal avenues, Philadelphia should delib¬ ,The closing of the streets and placing erately proceed to spend millions m obstruct building in the centre of the plot was the s ing hers; that when the experience ot the in¬ jectof much discussion in the commiss. terior towns of this and otliei- States has itself. By some it was wished that the stre shown the inconvenience of public buildings shouldremain open, and the lour plots shoi 1 on the. intersections of their largest streets, each contain a structure; but. the final reso j so that several of them have, removed their tion of the commission was, and is, to place and keep it where it was intended by Penn court houses at the expense of erecting others that it should be put—in the centre of the in more suitable positions, we should be re¬ whole ten acres. And wjth this conclusion, I suscitating that obsolete blunder. believe, most men now concur. It is the only place where a building of suitable dignity can ARGUMENT FOR A SINGLE BUILDING. stand to display its parts in dll the beauty of Architect McArthur's opinion was asked, their architectural effect. It will adorn, anc not blemish, the highways at whose intersec and he replied: j tion it Is placed, and it will give ai “ That, in adopting four separate buildings air of majesty and grandeur to these Ion, in place of one. the architectural effect, ex-, and broad avenues. It is not put in a cornet hidden from view, but it stands out in bold an . pressive of the dignified character of so great high relief, commanding admiration. It is a city as Philadelphia, must necessarily be placed, as other and similar structures are, as the centre of human concourse from which sacrificed. all things radiateand to which all things con¬ “That great inconvenience to the public verge. It is surrounded by a grand avenue: will be the result, asT many of the offices, 135 feet wide, on the southern and eastern and being remote from each other, could only be western fronts, and 205 feet wide on the north-: ern front. Neither the view nor way is hin-' reached by crossing crowded streets, in all dered by it. The view is improved, the effect conditions of weather, without the interven¬ being magnified—and the way is widened into open spaces of unusual dimensions, but of tion of halls or corridors. 1 proportions that harmonize with the magni¬ That the courts having ample accorumo- tude of the building. * * * It is suited fol¬ dations in buildings of two stones, while ks purpose.it is of-sufficient size to answer those for the municipal government, and the future wants. It is admirable in its orna-i other city offices would require buildings ot ments, while the whole effect is one of massive! three or more stories, there must either be a i dignity, worthy of us and our posterity. want of harmony in the general designs ot DISTRIBUTION OF ROOMS. r the buildings or a large expenditure simply for architectural effect. I The offices which it was proposed to put int "That, the principal courts and other large the building and for the greater number o Tooms, having to front on the main stieets. which rent was being paid were: would he exposed to great annoyance from Number ofj the noises incident to the same, and, being City Council Chambers and their officers001^ without courtyards, would be insufficiently City Treasurer. lighted and ventilated. City Controller... ..’ " 4 I one even after this, and the feeling between Receiver of Taxes.5 ;the Cotin oils and the commission became Police and Fire-alarm Telegraph.!!!!! 2 j more hitter until, in 1891, it was decided by Guardians of the Poor. 8 Councils to appeal to the Legislature to abolish Port Wardens. 2 tne commission. City Commissioners. 8 Coroner. 4 A committee of Councils appealed to the Girard Estates. 2 legislative body to either repeal or modify the Board of Education. s | act creating the commission. A bill embodying Gas Office. x ’fi© ideas of the Councils was introduced by Park Commissioners. 1 J. Howard Morrison. Its provisions wero as Board of Revision...." 4 follows : Collector of Delinquent Taxes.." 3 Courts, 13 rooms, with accommodations The said Building Commission existing in for the Prothouotaries and Clerks, for the any city of the first class shall on the first day Law Library, witness and jury rooms, I ?! Domini one thousand eight and District Attorney. anr?J’de for !he erection of all the Boiler Inspectors, Health Office, Tax Office, II ub.ic Build ings req uired to accommodate the courts, and for all municipal purposes, in the Police Bureau, City Commissioners, Park ci„> of Philadelphia, and to require the appro- Commission, Board of Revision, Supreme i f1 ,by S'lid'city of Penn Square, at Broad Court, Recorder of Deeds, Register of Wills [and Market streets, to the Academy of Fine and the Court of Quarter Sessions, together [Arts, the Academy of Natural Sciences the with the District Attorney’s office. Franklin Institute and the Philadelphia Li- THE PRESENT COMMISSION. Lr;H-V LVbe event of said squares not bein°- thl PnhT,vy p V'?ti? of H>e PeoPle as the site for The present Commission and its officers are 11Jf !©. Buddings for said city,” approved the fifth day of August, Anno Domini one ■William Brice, Isaac S. C'assin, Mahlon H. thousand eight hundred and seventy, as s Dickinson, Thomas E.Gaskill, James R. Gates, president of Select Council, ex-officio: John asssrr-is L. Hill, Hiram Miller, Richard Peltz, Samuel tbei powers given him bv this act thar. Kp C. Perkins, president; Wencel Hartman, president of Common Council, ex-officio; councils in cities ot the first class shall hr- general ordinances nrovidp fm- ?SlSfia11 by William S. Stokley, Edwin S. Stuart, Mayor, and efficient, delivery and transfer oWh ex-officio: William H. Wright. Secretary, sYoTm M c°?tra©^ by the said commted William B. Land; treasurer, George D. Mc¬ 1 Director of Public Works. Creary ; solicitor, Samuel Peltz; architect, John Ord; superintendent of construction, William C. McPherson. Others who have been connected with the Th«i’Si h h ^ads as follows : “Provided commission aside from those who attended the first meeting are, ex-officio, Henry Huhu, gassjrirjssx1 William E. Littleton, Louis Wagner, A. Wil¬ son Henszey, Robert W. Downing, William ore° ^pubfi'c buildings^ W. Burnell, George A. Smith, Joseph L. Pffil'ai^elpSa^^ ^ in^Ilfe ^clty'*o| Caven. Samuel G. King. George W. Bumm, W7illiam B. Smith. William Henry Lex. jsssp^. Charles Lawrence, Edwin H. Fitter and Will¬ iam M. Smith. Others elected were. William VTd Xm- at>?r kmiIrnani1c eommittee made a Massey, R. J. C. Walker, Samuel W. Cattell nard fight, the bill was defeated. and Thomas J. Barger. ■ rlZlT-eSeat &^ is for the abolition of the A HARD FIGHTmT LIFE Ithfn thelasL11 18 mUCh “°re d©termiued

The Commission Has Been Taken Into I WHAT IT HAS ALL COST Court Many Times, | Sixteen Millions Spent and at Least Five Since the beginning the commission has More Required* been in trouble over the big building. Sev¬ eral times they have been taken into court, Oftheamount of money secured by the com¬ hut each time they came out victorious. mission by appropriation and mandamus since Early in its career Councils began to look the matter was first begun in 1869, every cent upon it as an extravagant body, which was RaZri^fw f oung women should have a professional

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THE OLD NORMAL SCHOOL—SARGEANT STREET

IN FORTY-FIVE YEARS Scnool lebruary 1, 1848, and theamiiversaw' day, February 1, 1893. Under the 0,.o*L • ' ! cinal Dr \ rr ~\\t wr • ^ -*Aist priii-1 TiiE STEADY GROWTH OF THE GIRLS’ cipal, Di. A 1. W. Wright, 100 pupils bc„,,, I at"0 ^ears course of study in mathematic, i • NORMAL SCHOOL 9

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il£l THE GIRLS’ NORMAL SCHOOL AT SEVENTEENTH AND SPRING GARDEN-OPENED 1376. history, grammar, reading, drawing, writing I he beautiful structure of grflgnstone ap¬ |aud music. To-day 1,850 scholars pursue a proached by an imposing flight of steps, is four years’ course, and. instead of six assist¬ . most familiar architectura ligatures ants. fifty-four are associated with Principal of Philadelphia. In glancing back'to the George W. Fetter, under whose efficient small antiquated brick building on Sergeant street it may be readily understood With charge the school has continued since 1865. what rejoicing the exodus was made to a new During the interval of forty-five years 5.772 home. -’oung women have graduated, 4,878 of whom lave taught in the public schools. 01 the past seventeen years since 1870, is In 1853, for the first time in the history of the Normal School, the Board of Controllers written a story telling of the fulfillment’of was called upon to consider the problem of prophesies in younger years. It repeats, also, proper accommodations. The success of the the same struggles of those earlier days, for newW school.. -had been-. immediate. Theim, thronguiuiug m 1891, and for the third time in its history, ot applicants clamoring for admission stead¬ the Normal School made an imperative and ily increased. To satisfy this demand a successful demand for a new school. lot oi ground on Sergeant street, between i progression lias been the law governing Ninth and Tenth, was purchased and a new the inner growth of the school since the building erected, to which the Normal School with its Model School was transferred. The days of Joseph Lancaster, improvement is Model School was discontinued soon after and likewise illustrated in the buildings which a School of Practice organized instead. In 1857 Philip A. Gregar became principal, times Slieltered the institution at various and in 1859 the School of Practice, in which i lie new building nowin process of erec¬ were vested the essential advantages to be tion on the old site of the Gas Office at Thir- derived from the training at the institute, teenth and Spring Garden streets, when corn- was abandoned. The Girls’ Normal School ) cted will be one of the finest school edifices then became the Girls’ High School. in the country, ike foundation is built of the stone Horn the Coushohocken quarries Tim trend of popular education, however, aue used as a trimming, with white granite for young minds, and in 1861 the name was the entrance steps and platform* The architectural beauty of the building is again changed to the Girls’ High and Normal emphasized by the arrangement of the main School, with a course so modified as to con¬ entrance in which the arch—the largest fine the professional training to the last year. ot any building in tho city—will rest It continued to he known by this title until on carved capitols of sandstone, supported 5868, when the word High was eliminated in by columns and half columns of polished favor of the Girts’ Normal School. Scotch granite. The general aspect of the In the days of ’54 the Sergeant street school exterior will be made still more effective seemed commodious enough to accommodate iLnt*i,USe ePnk^d c°PPe»‘ >« cornices many generations to come, but the new school about the root and on the outside of the clock brought new hopes, increased zeal and greater tower. Ike magic touch of the sunlight success. For a second time the demand for admission convinced the hoard that a larger iSsSi y"iU turn thB coppeit° building was necessary and the result was tho present Normal School, dedicated October 30, -Tho interior of the building has been ar¬ 1876. ranged with an attention to detail which carries forward still further the standard of

- • r. . 4 THE NEW NORMAL SCHOOL AT THIRTEENTH AND SPRING GARDEN. iladelphia school -afcKffecturc. 3Iosaic floors of harmonious- colors, a wainscoting of The building when completed will bear eloquent, testimony to the architectural skill tinted tile extending along hall and stairway, plastered walls painted in parti-colors and and good taste of Mr. Austin, who for te: white and yellow pine workwork will add to years past has perfected all the plans for the decorative, beauty of the. interior. Philadelphia school houses. Thy essentials of a well-built structure, Since tho announcement of the new struc¬ however, will not be allowed to suffer in the ture work has been carried on as expeditiously desire to bring forth a building pleasing to as possible under the direction of Inspector the eye and gratifying to the most {esthetic Derr, who remarked last week that he hoped taste. Metal ceilings throughout the stories, to see the building finished by September. iron stairways, the main one rising in the The Girls’ High School will then he accom¬ central part of the building, and three fire- modated at Seventeenth and Spring Garden escapes are good structural features. The streets and tho new building will be used as building will be heated by indirect heat, the a Normal School. The plan for the new fan system. Electric bells, speaking tubes Normal School was partly completed before and an elevator running from the first to tbe Superintendent Brooks entered upon the du¬ fourth floor- are other convenient appliances. ties of his office. Long experience as an active leader in normal school work enabled him to Considering each story separately, the first make such suggestions as would especially floor will be divided into thirteen classrooms, adapt it to the work of training teachers. teachers’ and reception rooms, a gymnasium, The Superintendent has also prepared two measuring 56 by 80 feet. By an admirable now courses for the schools, in which he lias thoughtfully considered the requirements arrangement of sliding doors six of the class peculiar to academic training and the signii rooms can he thrown into one largo apart¬ cant qualities of a pedagogical scheme, so that ment 144 feet long and 21.8 feet wide. Oil future women students may elect to pursue the second floor are seven class rooms, a the line of study following tho bent of their library, a lecture room 56 feet square and a natural inclinations. room for natural history. Tho physical and chemical laboratories' art*. - In accordance with tbe present plan tlmi on the third floor with six additional class scheme of study for tbe High School will em ¬ rooms. brace three distinct courses. First, a genera 1 The assembly room, a model auditorium, English course of four years; second, a class! extends from this floor to the roof, being crowned with a ceiling of tinted crinkled ieal course of four year to prepare young wo glass. In tho north and south sides galleries men for college; third, a business or com \ will be built, which increase the seating ca¬ mercial course preparing young women 1’ojJ pacity to 1,800. business pursuits.

te . first throe years of tnc English course I ^,\eQr®r,ema,ineld of estate a balance of Maryland they claiming to be lineal heirs ot Colonel Moore, and among THE MOORE HEIRS their evidence being a family Bible in which their lineage was shown as de¬ .—--■ scendants of a certain James Moore whose signature appeared upon the title .DistriSntiou of tie Estate Will Be Be- page. Counsel for the latter claimants were ex-Judge Gilmor, of Baltimore,and | ran Way, G. Heide Norris, of this city. As the evidence produced by the Maryland heirs was somewhat doubtful, Mr. x °nis threw himselt into the case witii A Romantic History Extending great energy and perseverance,and after ,niuch painstaking search, finally located Back to the Revolution. I in the collection of Simon Gratz, in this city, a letter dated 1784, written by Colonel Moore from Wyoming. How a Newspaper Article Set a | To his surprise and chagrin Mi-. Nor¬ Philadelphia Lawyer Upon the ris iound that the signature to the letter did not correspond with the signature Right Track in His Search for in the family Bible of the Maryiaud Colonel James Moore’s Descend¬ claimants, and the latter were, there¬ ants— Who the Heirs Are. fore, advised by their counsel to with¬ draw from the contest. They did so and the money was about to be dis¬ tributed to tbe Pennsylvania claimants, The last scene in a most extraordi¬ nary and remantic drama, dating back who had proven themselves the un¬ doubted collateral heirs of Colonel to Revolutionary times, will be enacted Moore.- in tha Orphans’ Court this mornin°% when tho auditor’s report will be filed I FOUND BY A NEWSPAPER ARTICLE. awarding to the descendants of Colonel | xhe distribution would have taken James Moore, ot Chester county, tho place and tbe matter settled had it not balance ol his estate arising out" of an been tor a most curios and unexpected assignment which he made for the bene¬ happening. On May 13, 1892; Mr. fit ot his creditors in the last year ©f the JNorri3 received a letter from Mrs eighteenth century. Catherine J. Crane, dated Independ- The case is an interesting one, not on jence, Texas, stating that she had account ot the amount' involved_which (read an account of the case origin" is but 5X5,759.17, to be distributed anion® ally printed in a Philadelphia news¬ fifty and odd people—but because of the paper, copied in a New Orleans efforts made to trace out the heirs of journal and forwarded to her by friends Colonel Moore, and the remarkable way in the latter city. Mrs. Crane claimed in which they were finally found. to be a granddaughter of Colonel James FLED TO VIRGINIA. Moore, and her letter contained inherent Colonel James Moore, who was a son- evidence that she was, indeed, a true in-law of Sharp Delaney, the first col¬ lmeal descendent of the old Chester lector of tbe port of Philadelphia, and j county soldier. The proposed distribu¬ who, from all accounts, appears to have tion to the collateral heirs was at once been a man to whom money was a mere stopped by legal proceedings, and by commodity to be gotten rid of as quickly dint of extraordinary efforts Mr. Norris as possible, failed iu business in Lan¬ succeeded in tracing and locating all caster a couple of times alter the close of tbe descendants of the elusive colonel, the Revolution. He then made a third and in discovering the tombstones of attempt in Philadelphia, but failed Colonel Moore and his wife at North¬ again in 1*9/, making an assignment in umberland House, Virginia. Sussex D. Davis was appointed audi¬ 1800. In that year he fled to Virginia, and all trace of him was soon after¬ tor ot the estate, and took the testimony wards lost by his Pennsylvania connec¬ ot a number of the Moore heirs, conclu¬ sively proving the claims of the living tions. Alter the payment of his creditors descendants. Those among whom the money is to be distributed are: ". Piedesf.jare recited for' the .delectation of Mrs. Mary A. TrfvMen, Mary the old timers, whose days of recitation, are ami J«lm Monle, Jr., James M. Towles, Robert H. Towles, Mrs. Hannah S. Wiley, past and gone; a bountiful dinner is' eaten, Mrs. Mary Evans, Irwin W. Durham, Sally' and if you ever saw a cheerful board this is) Towlop, John H. Ingram, administrator of' the one; and then the active Thespians go Margaret D. MoAdatn; Daniel F. Towles,} Mrs. Eliza B. Gilliam, Fleming Bates, Mrs. back to work; the retired ones have a topic j Flementine Rail, Robert (or Roger) .Bates, for conversation; the local papers all duti¬ Mi's. Catherine J.Crane, Mrs. Halite Delaney fully print screeds about the dear old cha r- Walker, Mrs. Joseph H. Denek, Julian Cl. Shepherd, A. Gordon Shepherd, Qharles M. ity, and then the Edwin Forrest home for Shepherd, James Foster Shepherd, Mary aged, infirm and indigent actors relapses for Ashly Sheplierd, Napoleon B. Hndnall,| another twelvemonth into oblivion, and Rebecca Sutton, J. Fletcher Sutton, Frame ■S. Sutton, Edward Blackwell, J. Bertram, Philadelphia forgets it until the 9th of March Hudnall, Mrs. Fannie Harding, Alice Coles, comes round again, and the programme has Mrs. Leila Ban)din, Mrs. Eliza B. Coles,' to be gone all over again. It is a great place Elijah Butler, Murray Butler, Mrs. Mary' Peirce, Aulbin Delaney Tapscott, Charles and a great .occasion. it. Kirk, Katherine E. Kirk, Mary A. Kirk, We all know how the great tragedian William T. Kirk, Aulbin D. Tapscott, Jr.; came to found this place, which should be—! John C. Tapscott, Mrs. Frances Moere, Rob¬ inson, Mrs. Martha G. Watts, Peter L. Hull if it is not—one of the show places of the I and John T. Parker, administrator of Mar¬ city by the Delaware. He had a fine town. garet E. Parker. house in Broad street which was filled to the! Mr. Norris has the money in his garret with treasures of plastic and plas¬ possession, and with the tiling of the matic and histrionic art. But his two old auditor’s report in the Orphans’ Court maiden sisters did not like town houses. t®-day will immediately begin to dis¬ Broad street was too ravishingly gay for tribute it among the heirs. ^ their quiet tastes and they longed for some quiet spot in the country. Forrest looked about him and he mado up his mind that Holmesburg took the quiet cake. Ha found! a place which was just exactly to his taste, or, rather, to that of his sisters, for he was not above enjoying the bustle of rollicking Philadelphia himself. It was on the Tron- j ton turnpike, historical country if there be, any such in America, just a comfortable fourteen miles out from the old 6tate house. | So Forrest bought it and fitted it up with lavish expenditure, for, like the generality of actors, he was generous to a fault. And here the old maids lived and here they died, EOEEEST E0ME leaving a rare old homestead without an oc¬ cupant and a famous brother without a near relation. WHERE A FAVORED /EW “HUSBAND Then it was that Forrest, who had no OUT LIFE’S TAPER AT THE CLOSE.” brother in the flesh, remembered his brothers of the sock and buskin. When fire came and scorched his treasures in the fine Broad street house,including one of the old Shakes¬ First .Established toy the Great Trage¬ peare folios which was a priceless token, but dian as a County Retreat for Himself which is now little more than cinders and and Two Maiden Sisters, Then Be¬ ashes shut up in a glass prison house, he had t queathed to the Profession. them shipped up to the Holmesburg mansion, and when he died and they came to look over his last will and testament they found New. York Herald. that ha had left the place in trust forever to1 Far from the madding crowd of Philadel¬ be a home for the aged and indigent of the phia—for I assure you that, in spite of profession. Ever since a little handful of quips and jokes, Philadelphia can them—would that it could he a bigger one— have the maddest kinds of crowds upon oc-. have found a refuge here in the days of their casion—there stands a big and a square and weakness. a yellow house whose mission it is to com¬ Spring Brook is the name of the estate fort the last days of aged actors. It stands whereon stands the Forrest Home. For on a glorious plot of ground, which is kept years the spring has been a famous one. It up as carefully as the estate of an English is said to be the rarest water which flows gentleman, and happy are they who find in Philadelphia county. Although it is four¬ shelter under its comely and hospitable roof. teen miles from the City hall, the place is Once a year, and the date falls on the 9th embraced within the spacious territory of of March, which is the birthday of Edwin Philadelphia and has its gas and water Forrest, Philadelphia awakens to the fact works, its firemen and police. It lies a mile that this house is a famous and interesting north of the Pennsylvania railroad. one. Then there is a gay time, I promise The house stands in the midst of giant you. Cards are sent out to the actors who trees of fir and cedar and other evergreens. may he playing in Forrest’s town and to It is square as a die, with a wing thrown certain scribes of the local press; there is a out on either hand, and as yellow as Phila¬ general pilgrimage to Holmesburg and holi¬ delphia butter. A large greenhouse flanks ! day is made in the yellow mansion accord¬ it on the west and there are numerous other ing to die terms of Forrest’s last will and buildings on the estate of 115 acres, includ- testament. ;n marked -with the elate oT 1851 ise now supplanted by the lest sh<_ attendant now I steam • herself op to standing water tower and the building. I the home -- the men who work upon the place. The grounds are framed in a hio-h pPrt,°Lher prfeut imnatss include Mrs. iron fence, and are neatly and tidily kept ° |B nDeBar. widow of a famous manager of It did not need a sign board to tell me I ;fet Louis and New Orleans; Mine. Arnelie was m an actor’s home. A thousand elo- feerges, a retired German actress, who was Thent tokens of the fact stared at me from thought a good deal of in Philadelphia ,,! wall and floor and tables. A hundred fan y4*M Vs' Jano EuSbsh. mother "of the pictures breathed the spirit and onetime ex¬ famous Western girls, Lucille and Helen x xormeriy or istence ofad win Forrest. The fine antique ton 2$ fc^Lf05^rl>'0f the Bos- rooms and halls bore testimony to the great ,fon and Tremont Street theaters Mrs tragedian, just as the rooms at Abbottsford Elizabeth Andrews is the latest arrival M ' bear witness to their occupation by Sir Wal- Eentlemen share with the seven iadms „Scot*- And strange it is that we go w tZZZ'Z °f the homo- we all reniem- 3 °00 miles to visit Abbottsford, yet never <- . Fred Chippendale, I am sure, who was think of riding eighty to see the relics of the playing first old man parts on the New York American actor who was second only to the stage not so very long ago.. Bluff Harry Bas- elder Booth. Distance lends enchantment eom, once a shining light of the Boston to the view, perhaps. It isn’t fashionable sheffh^ COmP.an-y’ was iaid on the dramatic to go prowling around places of interest so fif!* b ,0re hls tlme by the freezing Qf his near to home. eet, a disaster which was perforce followed by amputation. He stumps around bravely I do not think that Forrest was over- his ar tificial feet, and puts a sturdy face moc.est, for his counterfeit presentment upon his misfortune. But he feels the un- faced me at every turn. I sometimes doubt ] towaru .ate which called him off the boards if modesty and great genius go together in before he lost the power to please and this little world. Look where vou will in this quiet house, the face of the actor is iookmg at you. Ia the broad hallway a isRsjajajr* splendid marble statue,-which looks heroic m size, though it possibly is not, greets you Lee comes from Canada, and Richard J with imperious mien and gesture. From I Pemstan will be well remembered by the the walls old canvases and prints present ol&er generation of theater goers as anVtnr the man m his more celebrated impersona- of excellence and repute aCt°r tions, and every corner, seemingly, has some bronze statuette. There are other and see’but an excellent i outone, 8 and if jou cany° U get into their good famous faces here, as well, some of them giaces and start the reminiscent stream to world famous in their day but almost un¬ flowing a difficult thing, bv the f known to the younger generation of play¬ they are inclined to diffidence—vou ’may goers. Tragic faces, mournful faces, it seemed look for interesting experiences in the as if they looked reproachfully at me be¬ dramatic life of long ago. cause I did not know them. Alas I how soon we are forgetten when we are gone, they seemed to say in the language of Rip Van ] lukle. The reputation of an actor is writ From the surface for a time, and then the surface is smooth again. ^ero is a flood of pictures which fairly fill the walls. They are framed in the old- Os ■.(2^ fashioned frames of gilt, now somewhat

3tamed with time. In some of them the /•/ paint had cracked with age, and they have a Date m.Z£ queer, grandfatherly look. I noticed one or two—a striking picture of Napoleon: a RrnJn0n ?remen; VThe Children at the Brook, and a cruel picture of death in the irena entitled, “ A Christian Martyr. ” One IT WAS AUDUBON’S FARM night pass a profitable day studying the measures of those rooms. MILL GROVE, ON THE PERKIOMEN—A As I waited for Mr. Bascomb I saw Mrs HISTORIC ESTATE. ™te,iCam,°r taki?g ber constitutionai ipon the glass enclosed veranda. She rarched up and down as if she were recit- ig °ome soliloquy, looking quite pictur- WHERE THE NATURALIST LIVED —“?• w.lth a red bandanna wrapped about er head. Mrs. Cantor has been for ten ears m the Home. Next to Mrs Bur- The Boyhood of the Author of “The Birds ougns, who long years ago was a favorite ctiess on the boards of Barnum’s museum, of America”—His Boyish Love of Dress ere the Herald office now stands, and and His Personal Agility—His Marriage •ho has been an inmate fourteen years, she With Miss Blakewell. the oldest one of the guests. Poor Mrs umraghs! The years have told upon her ice strong intellect, and she has to he i Near Oaks Station, on the Perkiomen i Branch of the Reading Railroad, there stands i _ were accustomeuaccustomed tom builck■H unting, ing and drawing occupies my every mom . pic«.S«««»“ he writes, adding: “Cares I know not, -- many yeans the home ^ surrounding care nothing for them.” Kather naivjr he celebrated naturalis . Governor writes in his journal: I had no vices^ hut the bouse was to John was thoughtless, pensive and loving, fond of shooting, fishing and driving, and had a pas¬ JA0hf ?n “father of tJ naturalist, and subse- Audubon, father o d otters who sion for raising all sorts of fowls which quently to Stephen GhTard^and ^ ^ sources of interest and amusement fully occu¬ pied my time. It was one of my fam ms to be formed a company for ^ Audubon ridiculously foud of dress, to hunt in black mineral was found to the surface satin breeches, wear pumps when shooting ih», hut at ouch .s den h hoi « th.^ and dress in the finest ruffled shirts I could that the expense of mining ned In that the enterprise had to m3 the mineral land and There are excellent reasons for believing j that Audubon fully appreciated his youthful ] ■which was erected y , -d and have » graces, as he writes of himself: “ I measured were purchased!* ^WetSl tom. The five feet ten and a half inches, was of fair since been known‘ lead mining and mined mien and quite a handsome figure, large, dark and rather sunken eyes, light-colored , CSfSSS—*«. ■>»*“' eyebrows, aquiline nose and a fine set of I teeth ; hair, fine texture and luxuriant: di-, vided and passing down behind each ear in another portion of tk«la ’ s t New York several acres of this old farm to £ew luxuriant ringlets as far as the shoulders.

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so^who blessed of his life were passed ©»?»“» During the iHgtohis iather in St D^e ^ p0pulation memoiable uPrl®}“| Audubon miserably J. J. AUDUBON. perthedP^’ the ^est * From very early youth the naturalist had. great skill in stuffing and preserving animals of all sorts. He had also a trick of training dogs to perfection, of which art his famous i be Prid to'pennsyl- and during a visit whicnnp MiU dog Zephyr was a wonderful example. He. was fond of dancing, music and skating, and ^JTSS^S^ in CPP» attended all the balls and skating parties in Providence township- ,, adventure. the neighborhood. Ashe desired to strengthen Finally, after arirfe post in the his constitution by an abstemious diet he ate | he returned to France and n^ hi*son> John no meat, but lived chiefly on fruits, vegeta-1 marines. He was . i. errown to man- hies and fish. He had also a particular tond-, James, who was n i s 0fKapoleon and ness for cream, and many a time was the hood, should join the armies 01 i p Eagles. dairy of Mrs. Thomas, the tenant’s wife,! win fame byloHowing ^e^ disinclTned robbed of the cream intended to make butter Young Audnbon heing, ^ .q t’his reSpect, for the Philadelphia market. to follow his father s w after bis He was an expert swimmer and possessed ‘ was sent instead to Amenc^to m ^ York great activity and prodigious strength. It is father ^property. fever by walking to the recorded that he once swam across the. Schuylkill river with a man on his back. ke ^fAreenwtrstreek to cash his letters bank in G ue recovered from this His house at Mill Grove soon became a museum, as he festooned the walls with all "m^he wL gTven poJessionof his father’s sorts of birds’ eggs, carefully blown out and strung on a thread. The chimney piece in , snppiied the sitting room was covered with stuffed squirrels, raccoons and opossums, and the shelves around the rooms were likewise crowded with specimens, among which were fishes, snakes, frogs, lizards and other reptiles. ; ! Besides these stuffed specimens, many paint- . ings were arrayed upon the walls, chiefly of S333&&S birds. gigantic'llHpjjj^S^^HgyeVef ifMSfEaken by a single individual. Although determined it thVT°rk for his own gratification, Sil^r^1^^ after Audubou: ieit Mill Grove that the idea of giving hiscol- MmTvPrto6 rrld was brst^suggested to: 1® Cam“0’ son of Lucian Bona¬ parte, whom he met in Philadelphia in 1824 j^id it was not unjil two years after that date '

MILL GROVE, THE BOYHOOD RESIDENCE OF AUDUBON.

It was while at Mill Grove that he fell in ^sw~' that he issued bis prOspeCtUfTof tMe"*bBir3s of love with the. daughter of William Blakewell. America,” a work which when finished con¬ an English gentlemen who had purchased the sisted of four folio volumes of plates. One[ adjoining property. Mr. Blakewell lived at I thousand dollars was the price of each copy, Flatland Ford, within sight of Mill Grove, I and the entire cost of the work exceeded $100,000. but Audubon had avoided the family, as Eng¬ lish, and consequently objectionable to ono The quiet life led by Audubon at Mill who had been nurtured with a hatred toward Grove was interrupted by an incident which perfidious Albion. The very name of Eng¬ might have proved serious to ono of less lishman was odious to him and even after his energy than he possessed. Some time after neighbor had called upon him he was uncivil his son’s departure the elder Audubon had enough to postpone his advances in return. sent from France a man by the name of Da Mrs. Thomas, the tenant’s wife at Mill Grove, Costa, who was to join his son at Mill Grove, with a woman’s desire to see what the issue and be partner, tutor and monitor. It was might be, urged her young master to visit the not long after Da Costa’s arrival that he Blakewell family, but the more she urged the began to assume an authority over young more hardened his heart appeared to be Audubon, which the latter considered un¬ against the strangers. warranted. It was not. therefore, until he had encoun¬ An attempt was made to limit his finances, tered Mr. Blakewell by accident while on a and Da Costa even went further and objected to shooting trip that the young Frenchman's the proposed union with Lucy Blakewell. It prejudices were dissipated by the kind polite¬ i is but natural that a man possessing Audu¬ ness of the Englishman’s manner, as well as bon’s high spirit and sensitive nature should the discovery of kindred tastes. Mr. Blake¬ j resent such an interference. He consequently well made Audubon promise that he would demanded money from Da Costa to carry call upon him and his family. On the day him to France. The French adventurer sug- of his visit he was shown into a parlor where gested a voyage to India, but finally agreed only a young lady was sitting at work with to give Audubon a letter of credit upon an her back towards the fire. She arose on his agent named Kanman in New York. entrance and offered him a seat, assuring him Upon his arrival in New York Mr. Kan¬ at the same time the gratification her father, man frankly disclosed Da Costa’s treachery who was away from home, would feel when by hinting that it was intended that Audu¬ apprised on his return of the call. It was bon should be seized and shipped to China. Lucy Blakewell, who afterward became his wife. Furious at such treatment the naturalist pro¬ cured money from a friend and returned to The result of the family relationship estab¬ I ranee, explaining to his father the scandal¬ lished between the two households gave rise ous conduct of Da Costa. The young man , to a system of signals chalked on a board and I hung out of the windows. The two prop¬ was successful in having the traitor removed erties were only about a quarter of a mile j from the position m which he had been placed apart. Lucy Blakewell taught English to m such hasty confidence. 1 Audubon, and received drawing lessons in .return. Of course no one failed to predict j Audubon remained in France for a year that a love affair would be the result of such and after returning to America went into I close intimacy. the counting house of his fiancee’s uncle in Aew York. As a business man he was a com¬ It was at Mill Grove that Audubon first plete failure, however, and he determined to conceived the idea of his great work on Amer¬ go West, After a preliminary tour he chose ican ornithology, a work which, in its com- Mt«Snint’ Ky,V as na residence. He married Jpletc form, has been pronounced the most Miss Blakewell and sold Mill Grove in 1808 tLe dul not return to it until 1824.

' Stories of Audubon's exploits on the Per-i Flower, Charles Jones, Joseph kiomcn are still current. He was an expert Isaac Snowden, John Howard, Williai shot and while skatingat full speed could hit Hopkins and others. a cap tossed into the air. On one occasion lie The first castle or fish-house was was nearly drowned by skating into an air erected crvthe west Dank ot the Schuyl¬ hole at night, when he was carried under the kill, some distance above where the ice for some distance until he luckily came to Girard avenue bridge now stands.’ An another air hole through which he rose again. association of Welshmen, known as the In 1824, while again living in Philadelphia, Society of Fort St. David’s, was after¬ wards merged into this colony. Many attempting to live by his brush and at the distinguished men have been, at various same time complete his ornithological work, times, the guests of the Schuylkill Fish¬ Audubon visited Mill Grove again. Of this ing Company, and its membership has visit he wrote as follows : also been of the best. Reuben Haines, a generous friend, in¬ On the 21st day of July, 1825, General vited me to visit Mill Grove in his carriage and I was impatient until the day came. His Lafayette visited the castle and was duly wife, a beautiful woman, and her daughter elected a member of the State. In accompanied us. On the way my heart was April, 1844, the club was incorporated swelled with many thoughts of what my life under the name of the Schuylkill Fish¬ had been there, of the scenes I had passed ing Company. When the Schuylkill in through since and of my condition now. As we entered the avenues leading to Mill Grove the! neighborhood of the Falls, on ae-1 every step brought to my mind the memory count of the dams and locks along its of past years and I was bewildered by the coast, became,from a sportsman’s stand¬ recollections until we reached the door of the point, worthless, the fishing company, house which had once been the residence of my father as well as myself. moved down the stream to Rambo’s The cordial welcome of Mr. Wetherill, the Rock, near Gray’s Ferry. Here they re-i owner, was extremely agreeable. After rest¬ mined lor a few years, and then again I ing a few moments I abruptly took my hat noved their castle to the banks ot the, and ran wildly towards the woods to the Delaware on the Jersey shore, a few grotto where I first heard from my wife the acknowledgment that she was not indiffer¬ miles above the city. _ ent to me. It had been torn down and some •303 the members of the fishing a stones carried away, but raising my eyes to pany are required to take their turnfat heaven 1 repeated the promise we had mutu¬ ally made. preparing various dishes lor the disc ~ We dined at Mill Grove, and as I entered 3iou ef the members when the te$ the parlor, I stood motionless for a moment take place it is natural that the nj on the spot where my wife and myself were , interesting interior view of the forever joined. Everybody was kind to me and invited me to come to the Grove when¬ ing company’s club house siioultj ever I visited Pennsylvania, and I returned the kitchen, where the amateur full of delight. puzzle their brains devising new Audubon left Philadelphia a few days after or carefully preparing standard his visit to his old home and did not return for the club’s edification. to this city again until September, 1836, when Turning from the oldest to the young¬ he spent a few days. here visiting his old est of our clubs, the eye rests upon the friends and attending meetings at the Acad¬ new club house of the Athletic Club ot emy of Natural Sciences, of which he was a the Schuylkill Navy, on Arch street member. ' v " east of Seventeenth. It is one of the E. Lkslie Gilliams. most imposing structures in the city, and is at the same time an attractive feature upon that eminently respectable thoroughfare. Right down among the I homes’ of well-to-do citizens the new, club house has been erected, and during the course of its construction not a tew of the residents of Vrest Arch street watched its steady progress with a feel-1 ing that tIso tread of the invader was about working a transformation ot tho i neighborhood. But the new structure has been admired by thousands who daily look upon it in passing. Entering the stately portals of this clu'b it ia noticeable that the interior arrangements are complete. Upon the first floor are the coat room, secretary’s office and two large apartments, both ; fronting on Arch street. There are three bowling alleys and shuffle boards. Back of these are the Turkish bath and lounging room. A swimming pool nine ( feet in depth at one end and five feet p.t The oldest, and perhaps the most ex-' the other is reached from the apartments | elusive of our clubs is the old Scuhylkill1 last named. | - Fishing Company, commonly known The cafe is on tlio second floor and( as “The State in Schuylkill.” This communicates with the wine room. In club wa3 formed on May 1, 1732. In the same story, in the centre of the that year a cluo called the “Colony in building, is a ’well-appointed kitchen,! Schuylkill,” by way of jest, the mem¬ and not far away are the wardrobe, bers asserting that it was an indepen¬ dressing rooms, etc. Tho fencing room1 dent colony of North America, was joins the wardrobe. To the third and founded by Thomas Stretch, Enoch, fourth floors there'is but one ceiling and between the windows there is a balcony encircling the room, which is used as a track, represented to be one of the largest all tastefully and elegantly furnished. A indoor tracks to be met with anywhere. prominent feature of all of them is the On the fifth floor there is a racket large open fire-places and high antique court, at ono end of which a gallery has mantels finished in hard wood. The been provided for the spectators. Two parlor, besides its handsome furniture, suites of roonfs have been litted up tor .has a piano, and many costly aud valu- the use of the employes. A summer '■ lablo paintings hang upon the wails. pavilion has been provided upon the Tiiere are many attractive bits of ar¬ .gymnasium roof!__The club rooms are chitecture in the Art Club, on Broad

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diking koom,;a. street. ~ This institution, winch was in- | dining-room, The Art Club has always] corporated in 1887, was founded as long been very courteous in its treatment of ago as 1874. the wives and lady friends of its mein-j Tlie general public is, perhaps, more I hers, and from the first the ladies’! familiar with the interior appearance of I dining-room has been well patronized the Art Ciub than with any other of our and exceedingly popular. The architect! social organizations) as the club has; regards with especial favor the mantels; been very .liberal and generous in thol and fire-places in the dining-room and1 distribution of tickets to attend its vari¬ in the club room. ous exhibitions. Although exceedingly youthful ini In view of the fact that many of our years, the Manufacturers’ Club is an citizens and many visiting strangers institution possessed of more than I may desire to obtain access to the gal¬ ordinary influence. This club is the leries, and not know members of tlie outgrowth of‘the old Manufacturers’ club to whom to apply, it has been Association, which ]was formed about thought wise to allow a sale of tickets, at. ten years ago by the textile manufact¬ a nominal price at the door, to those so urers of Philadelphia for the purpose of situated, and thus to give facilities and prelecting, themselves against the access to all whose taste may induce Knights of Labor. thorn to visit the Art Club galleries. The design of the Manufacturers’! On the list of members are all the Club is unique. The arrangement of j prominent and well-known painters, the interior is the best that could have ! sculptors, architects and musicians of been devised under the circumstances, our city, and many from other locali¬ and is admirably suited to the require¬ ties. The venerable Peter F. Rother- ments of a social organization. The mel, far-famed as the painter of the ornamentation of the walls, the design “Battle of Gettysburg,” is an honorary and linish of the wood-work, the taste¬ member, while among the artists who fulness of the hangings, the richness are almost daily to be encountered in its and beauty of thej furniture and the] room are Thomas Hovenden, Clifford mechanical and culirjarj’’ departments c 1 P. Grayson, George Herzog, Peter Moran, the house deserve warm commendation.; Carl Newman, Milne Ramsey, Fred Entering the builjding from Walnut J. Waugh, Bernard Uhle, New bold H. street the first featuri that strikes the Trotter and J. Liberty Tadd. eye is the wainscotini of the vestibule, Among many improvements to the paneled from floor t ceiling. The ceil- hoiige to be especially noted are the en¬ ing itself is la> off in patterns, largement of the hall and the ladies’ while the floor is of mosaic marble laid IMF

KITCHEN, FISHING COMPANY’S CLUB HOUSE.

feeTnisVea^eJPrfSlnf UP two st*Ps and very eJaborate mantel piece, some: land from tet ro,o,non ?ainSC°6ed’ what similarin design to those seen in stairs and cafe arc S £"lain many French chateaus. .songer elevator starts f rom Pa’' fnnro fl’® Waln,ut street front of the The finish in this floor jaQ?.im h'9 fourth floor are located the private diu- tlio main stairway whir>hC • G1 !y' excsi>t ing-rooins, appropriately decorated and (-reception roo.^osW^ ? T' * Tbe finished in hard wood; and in the Mo¬ KSiindS0™ «°n.* Sun ravian street end is the club dinino-. •£? fifth th6 lear,0f tbe fairway on .he filth floor are located the servants’ rooms on* each Soor areYo ^11! *h° rear stairs, kitchen and steward’s room china, glass, silver closets, etc., the' ] kitchen being on the extreme rear of the | building. Imain ftairt0"^ th®^% Ascending the that The top or roof floor of the club is used as a cate. It is inclosed in glass, ancl in summer these windows are opened thus terming an ideal roof garden? ’ ■' lh® University Club on Walnut in ^ne rear is u'o Wlliarri? 10cl arches, in S3 cam ore. Tim ai<^ 1O0m, finished m'mo,r„eaSt°l,Juniper' is mother of h?L dGln SOO]al organizations which youn^mon” UP within the recollection of y ,r.nea; Pile membership of this Tim imration “f'VI a„ • WitJl the L*l e library is tim r. ancl ceilinir. uS‘tom»v of pmi'ed \° Kradua^s of the university of Pennsylvania. The roll of the membership of this club com iS-ia-Ja \»&sd™n«v» ' 1 iaweSmAdi?iaineS ?/ men eminent in ,‘hi’ , medicme and divinity, some of (room, with hook and^0 club assembly wmds. are 33 familiar as ’ household in butternut around P.a!:nph!et shelved room. toNmfkmn?imr fXpensG bare beon spared lQnth°™‘^Za%£‘^ ■n “ h? th® bomo of the University large t??f?ir?i'tr«CtlV<3’ and some of its archif Tim effects are exceedingly good. If0mrthembefS, regard with especial avor the mantels and fire places in,th dining room and in the club room. _ E. Lesuiis GiuniAars. I son of our own day,’and it was in this old I From, Spruce street dwelling that our mucli-loved comedian first saw the light, on February 20, 1S20, just sixty-four years ago to-morrow. The grandfather, the Jefferson of the older /.Z&s, generation, was just then nearing the end of what was probably the lougest career of un¬ broken popularity every enjoyed by an Date, OlZ&Lr,./ffS. American actor at one theatre, unless that of his nephew, the late William Warren, in Boston, surpassed it. He must be called an American actor, though he was of English birth, the son of the English actor, Thomas Jefferson, who was manager of the theatre atj Plymouth when Joseph was born there, in 1774; but the young man was only 31 when lie came over with Powell to the new theatre at Boston, and he never went back to Eng¬ land. He married in New York Euphemia Fortune, whose sister was married to the elder William Warren, and in 1803 they came to Philadelphia and joined the com-! pany at the old Chestnut, under Mrs. Wig- ncll and William B. Wood, one of the great¬ est dramatic organizations ever formed.

Here for nearly a generation Jefferson was (he leading low comedian and an actor of a wide range of parts, and here other mem¬ bers of the family in turn appeared. He had eight children, and all of whom—except the youngest, a girl who died at 17—went upon the stage. Thomas and John died early; Eu-

BIRTHPLACE OF JOE JEFFERSON. THE JEFFERSONS’ HOME

A FAMILY OF FAVORITE ACTORS IN OLD PHILADELPHIA. THE HOUSE AT SIXTH AND SPRUCE

Where the Present Joseph Jefferson Was Born Just 64 Years Ago, and Where His Father and Mother and His Half-Brother Lived—His Famous Grandfather’s Record at the Old Chestnut.

At the southwest corner of Sixth and Spruce streets, facing the quaint old German Roman Catholic Church of the Holy Trinity, is a three-story brick house whose lower floor is occupied as a store for the sale of “ Florentine stat uary ”—that is, of colored plaster casts of ounut AND JOE JEFFERSON. various subjects, sacred and profane. The phernia, who married William Anderson, and store, with its curious display of Tuscany art, was the mother of Mrs. Germon and the is plainly a modern alteration. The house cm ml mot her ol Ettic Germon, was a member was originally a dwelling, of a familiar and of the Chestnut Street company ; Hester and I very respectable Philadelphia type, and it Mary Ann both were actresses and married has an interest in local dramatic, history as to actors, and Elizabeth, successively Mrs. having been the residence of Joseph .Tetter- Chapman, Mrs. Richardson and Mrs Fisher son. the second of tlic name, the sou ol' “Old” was famous as an actress and a singer. ’1 Jefferson and the father of the Joseph .Jeffer¬ Joseph Jefferson was the second child. He was born here in 1804 and grew up in the the-l iT ehlld !l<: l llc Chestnut as YlVlL* UCgttU jt'iviv-iioiyuii 1,4 and studying there the art of Philadelphia. It was in the year of his iting, m which he was at least as I sue Eft o dCatb,tbat hc maniod Alias Lofkyer i'1 ?s *51 hls actln"- He never attained ?Tationaf TheatvJ •en1Sage™ent at Chanfrau’s the ,auk of others ot the family, though he aiionai I hcatie in blew York, where Charles jj a*fl,cd a e°otl reputation in old ‘ men’s narts Burke was a member of the company Later l> it he was always active in the theatre and after the ohlinan left the Chestnnt i,,, a„ foundationer f,hi'adelphia and here laid the Hie ror that long career that has made landd f"\-himvUC} bad theatres in Washington most f“ e 0f.tlie. third Joseph Jefferson thrf /.uid u hew York-the Franklin in Chatham most famous in his illustrious line. f I ( art,^m3835 t0 1837’ and later Niblo^ J rarden acting, managing and uaintino-

tion i,7thcfr tmUnging 0n the y°U,lger From, P . >1.^;:;^.,..••• 7 While this Joseph Jefferson was a yoim- was'" the favfavorite >1 PIrishTilia', bandScomedian.°me Toni His Burk wjf*e I ' .'

ss? “a? st Bishop Perry Continues His Ser¬ mons in Christ Church. Drury ” and he had observed tfe 1- OId Sfw ctss ’SSKf-r^ KOTES OF THE LAST CENTURY

Interesting Facts Bearing on Re¬ ligion in Olden Times.

CONWELL TALKS ON PARABLES

!,e ’ f t Performance in Yew York ; , both the parents nlaved ri,.,, i ,, lu, whleh Tlie Rector of Grace Baptist Temple

Preaches on the Practical ihessons

Taught by the Miracles Related in the

(^^±t&JrSS,X Bihle— Hoilona Memorial Sunday

Jmrgin l^^when the31 0CC“™ed atfiis- School Celebrates its Nineteenth An¬ theatre there the son was managing the niversary.

Bishop Perry, the Missionary Bishop of -lowa, preached the second of his series of his¬ torical sermons at Christ Church yesterday I ft W« SnSofSt” <££*%& morning. He preluded his discourse by a else «. r*- •briEh* “4 SA. few remarks explaining the selection of the whole fmidlv T w minisceuces- In 184:2 the Lenten season for the presentation of the boys hiVth?eeJsi»t?’SOnivraadT>*he two clever church history. Mackenzieand ^ bands of the tlie lius- The church authorities provide that at that season church history as well as church doc¬ trine shall be taught to the people; and in addition to this reason for, the timing of the vember 184^ pi,.. 11 gig and died, in lsTo~ sermons, the bishop’s other engagements till utter ?he%llTrtihadJ° be dosed make this the only time which he can devote | being chief mourners' ’ th® eUtlre comPauy to this purpose in Philadelphia. The bishop Uuldie/w0-^ ^Ued t0 Philadelphia also remarked that there are deep lessons Ronaldson’s Cemet^ amKWa-Sa b\,ried iB contained in the memory of those who have years later, was laid W S■be?lde her’ five i hone before, and that it is fitting occasionally |Burke, who had made his1 last^rf0*1’ Cbarles to glance over them. the Chestnut Street Thlatre at Tlie text was Psalms 80, 8-9, and the dis¬ |nIso made his first in Vi,, ’ "h_ere lie had course took up the history where it was left LMeamvhileyouuo- Toe TeflW Spnng of 1854- Wins father’ had oTne a Sm.V°n the deatk last Sunday—at the visit to Philadelphia of that followed Taya’s armytocompany the Itev. George Keith, the proselyte from I ™ M till .tie, the ,,,, ,iS aril™! Quaker doctrines. In a small quarto volume published in London in 1706 the experiences [of Keith in Philadelphia are set down by himself at considerable length. The, record begun, and in the same year a church charter was granted. of the times of his preaching in Christ Church, Dr. Evans having resigned the charge of in the church at Burlington and at other the church, and later having died, in 1724 neighboring places is thus preserved. the Bov. Kichard Welton, D. D., became its, In 1704 he preached his last, sermon in rector. Philadelphia, and following that note are He was charged with having received con-, extracts from letters from Dr Evans the secration from non-juring Bishops, and in rector of Christ Church, m which the ac 1726 Was recalled. At this point the Bishop) count of the prosperity of the church is com dropped the stoiy for another week. The tinued. There were many converts, and the morning offertory was for diocesan missions. | weekly congregation numbered about 500. The Quaker'records of the time a&o con-1 tain mention of Keith’s visit to Pmladel- phia ; and one ancient axithonty sets down with amusing acerbity that G. Keith lias been holding public disputes with himself m Philadelphia, which are edifying to tew be¬ side1 himself.” William Penn also caused to he distributed among the Friends books, re¬ futing the teachings of Keith. . From 1707 to 1709 Dr. Evans was in Eng¬ land, and on his return brought with him as a oresent from Queen Anne the set of com- munToif plate, which is still treasured as one of the most precious possessions of the church In 1712 the church service was enriched by a further gift of plate from Colonel Eobert Quary. In 1711 the church proved too small for tho congregation which worshipped there and an enlargement was made at a cost of £3o9 In 1715 Dr. Evans again visited England, and Oxford and Radnor were officially added to the cure of Christ Church. The records of the church begin with tho big parenment- hound volume dated 1709. .. , The earlier ones are lost. In the earliest volume are various interesting entries which cast light upon the early customs of the church Items of expenditure for bricks lor repairing the church belfry inclines many to tub belief that the early building was of brick rather than of frame, as is generally supposed. It is learned from tins source mat tlio church was in the habit of bestowing gener¬ ous alms upon the poop and the prisoner, and also from the entry of an expenditure of a certain sum to induce the clerk to clean the church better, that tho difficulty with sextons is not peculiar to the nineteenth .century. It appears that at that time the weekly col¬ lection was taken after the fashion prevalent in the Church of England, as the worshipers WILLIAM H. BROWN. entered tho Church. Later the custom of passing the contribution box was introduced, but, proved insufficient, so that a pa rtial return to the old method was decided upon. HIS WORKS WILL LAST From 1715 to 1717 there is a blank in the church records, they having been destroyed WILLIAM H. BROWN, THE PENNSYLVA- • by fire, it is said. When the story is taken up again the yestry meetings are noted as | NIA RAILROAD’S CHIEF ENGINEER, i having taken place in a public house, proba¬ bly one of the inns of the town. These meetings were democratic in the ex¬ A MOST HONORABLE CAREER treme and were the only occasions oh which the Lieutenant Governor and the humble The Record of the Man Who Was One of members of the colony, being both engaged lor Holy Church, might meet on an equality the Ablest of Thomas A. Scott’s Lieuten-

a&Th(^prosperity of the church waned later, ants in War Time and Who Has Con¬ and new measures were taken to increase its structed Some of the Great Structures of income. In 1718, and again in 1719, the Church of England was petitioned to appoint the Century. an American Bishop, in order that vacancies occurring here might be supplied without the A tall figure, moving without any ostenta¬ delay necessitated by an appointment from tion in and about the immense mass of walls, In 1720 tho movement for a new church to trusses and beams that mark the beginning Replace the old building of Christ Church was of the new Broad Street Station, is becoming familiar to many of the observing. It is that engineer of the Pennsylvania at this time leads like a pagdTfdm the record Company, William H. Brown, of romance. areer .is a remarkably interesting one. Another task was the construction of a lie was born in Little Britain township, military bridge over the Rappahannock river Lancaster county, Pa., on Pcbrnary 29, 183(1, near Culpeper, Va., in four days. Valuable services were also rendered by and although he is now close to 57 years old, him in rebuilding bvidges and relaying tracks ho has enjoyed only fourteen opportunities of after the flood which created such wide¬ celebrating his natal day. His early educa¬ spread destruction to Pennsylvania Railroad tion was received at the Central High School, property in May, 1889. Philadelphia, an institution which is the When the evil tidings reached Philadel¬ alma mater of many of the successful busi¬ phia Mr. Brown was one of the first officers to respond to the, call of duty, and although he ness men of to-day. After leaving school was at the time on his way to another part of Mr. Brown engaged in civil engineering, and the country, he promptly retraced his steps up to April, 1861, he had assisted in the sur¬ and pushed on to the flooded district without veys of a number of new lines of railroad, a moment’s preparation. and had also served with the City Surveyor That portion of the work which he se¬ of the Third district of Philadelphia. lected was surrounded with peculiar difficul- cies, since the section was cut off from men When Colonel Thomas A. Scott became jand supplies both east and west. The indefatigable engineer, however, ar¬ "1 Assistant Secretary of War, in charge of the rived, after many adventures by ‘‘field and ; ! transportation of troops and munitions of flood,” and with a small local force of work¬ 3 war, he cast about him for the brightest men at his command, cut the timber, erected j young men as aids in the. various depart- the long trestle of 420 feet, which is west of * ments. Mr. Brown had developed a fine Mapleton and the Manayunk bridge, on the Middle division, relaid the track and opened !> reputation in his profession add in October, that portion of the line in an incredibly ■ 1801, he was selected by Colonel Scott as engi- short space of time. ^ neer of the United States military railroads a in Northern Virginia, with an office at Alex- uiner wovks wnicn Dear witness J audria, and in this capacity he served with “ signal ability through the trying times of the Brown’s engineering ability are the mainte¬ Bull Bun battle and that of Fort Boyal. In nance of way shops, the car repair shops and November, 1862, he was assigned to assist in the new Juniata shops at Altoona; the re¬ . s the completion of the Pan Handle Road, as building of the Union Station and the recon¬ Kj assistant engineer in charge of the second di¬ struction of the yards at Pittsburg after the vision, and one year later was appointed prin- riots of 1877 ; the Broad Street Station, Phila¬ x cipal assistant engineer of the line. delphia.. and the Filbert Street Elevated Rail¬ In October, 1864, when the Pan Handle road ; three station houses at Jersey City and ■ Boad was about completed, Mr. Brown was the Jersey City Elevated Railroad train shed ! transferred to the Pittsburg division of the and station. ’ Pennsylvania Bail road. On March 17, 1805, Now his latest work is seen in the substan¬ fj he was appointed engineer of the Oil Creek tial skeleton of the new Broad Street Station. | Railroad, of which Frank Thomson was then With all these works of a special nature, superintendent. In July, 1865, he entered which would almost, seem sufficient to occupy the service of the Philadelphia and Erie Rail- the working time of an ordinary man, he has ,1 road as principal engineer, and in September, kept his eyes constantly on tho task of bet¬ 1867, was appointed engineer of road of the tering and improving the roadway and , same line. He held this important position bridges of the Pennsylvania Railroad. until March, 1869. when he was transferred Under his supervision the iron bridges of : to Altoona and placed in charge of the con¬ the line have been replaced with stone, curves struction of the new maintenance of way and have been eliminated and grades have been ■i car repair shops. changed or reduced. In January, 1870, Mr. Brown returned to The accomplishment of this wmrk alone has I practical railroad construction and was suc- served to place the Pennsylvania Railroad in I eessfully resident engineer of the middle divi- the front rank of Amercian railways. It j sion of the Pennsylvania Railroad, chief cn- scarcely need _ be said that with such work B gineer of the Sunbury and Lewistown Bail- and responsibilities Mr. Brown is a very busy r road, superintendent of the Lewistown divi- man, but being inured to labor by experience *( sion, superintendent of the Bedford division and habit and blessed with a vigorous consti¬ until August 1. 1874, when ho was promoted tution, he discharges his arduous duties with to his high post of chief engineer of the Penn¬ the utmost ease. sylvania Railroad Company.

During his long and varied career Mr. Brown has had the direction of some of the From,. ._ « most important engineering works of the I century, and has won an enviable reputation ' j in his special field. i His fine executive ability, his restless I ,. I energy and the facility with which he has al- | ways met and overcome the most serious ob- : stacles, have often led to his selection when ■ any difficult work was to be accomplished. These notable characteristics found manifest- - ation in his war experience. One of the most i remarkable instances of his prowess was the I building of three bridges four hundred and thirty feet long over the Shenandoah river at Fort Boyal, \irginia, in forty-eight hours land burning the last bridge after its comple- | jtion. His escape with a handful of his men Bishop Perry Continues His Series and in every way it was in the iront rank of of Historical Sermons. the colony. The Lieutenant Governor was a vestryman j of Christ Church; the prominent officials were regular attendants upon its services: its | A BETH ANT ANNIVERSARY) rector was no longer the “ hireling ” who had j been scorned by the Quakers, but one of the | most respected and influential men of the j town; the merchants, the well-to-do trades¬ Mr. Wanamaker Talks to His Bis men, the founders and fathers of the manu-i factories for which Philadelphia has always Bible Class. been noted, were attendants upon the wor-i ship at Christ Church.

The early part of the eighteenth.' century, BEAVER ON THE DUTIES OF MEN was a period of great extravagance in dress, | and the picture presented in the ancient, church on a Sunday morning must have been I I'lic Ex-Governor Delivers an Address strikingly gay and attractive. Even among at Grace Baptist Temple Pointing Out the Quakers it was then found necessary tol , the Relative Obligation of Employers I caution their women against the elaborate '

to Their Employes—Other Prominent dressing of the hair, with the cutting and pasting it upon the forehead in front, against Men Speak in Russell H. Conwell’s the immodest fashion of wearing of hoop1 Absence. _ _ skirts or of skirts more than was necessaryi for comfort, against unnecessary gatherings Eight Rev. Dr. Perry, the Bishop of Iowa, and plaitings ou gowns and bonnets, against gave yesterday morning, in Old Christ gayly colored shoes or shoes with red heels or Church, the third in his series of discourses buckles, and against the unnecessary use of j on the relation of Christ Church to ecclesi¬ fans. Parasols and umbrellas were unknown astical history in America. He took up the then, and the fan served the fine lady as a theme at the point where it was dropped last shield against sun aud wind, and was one of Sunday at the close of the ministry of the the richest points of her attire. When it was Eev. Dr. Evans. Letters written from the necessary to caution the staid Quaker women Pennsylvania colony at that time, and still against these gayeties, it is to be imagined preserved in London, show that it was a that among the ehurchwomen who enter¬ tained no prejudices against them, extrava¬ period of pronounced clashing between the gance, and display were the order of the time. : Quaker element in the colony and that ele¬ The dress of the men was no less gorgeous. ment which represented the union of church Delicately colored silk and satin coats, waist- and state. In some of these letters it is coats and trousers, lace ruffles, silver buckles, ialleged that the Lieutenant Governor of the. and powdered and perfumed wigs were part Province was the subject of ridicule among of the make-up of every gentleman of the day. the Quakers; that the King’s authority was Penn himself brought back from England deemed little worthy of note, and that piracy, the costume of a courtier and manorial lord, : smuggling and unlawful maritime transac¬ and it was his custom to wear a powdered H tions were winked at and allowed to continue. periwig. He drove his coach in state and was “ A strong effort to overthrow Penn’s power Yurrounaecf with servants, and it is not to bo arose, and even some of the Quaker leaders supposed that his coach was the only one in Philadelphia. The Sabbath procession to . concerted in an attempt to curtail his author¬ worship at Christ Church must have been ity. Penn in return attempted to overthrow one of great richness. Colonel Robert Quary, and applied to the Lieutenant Governor of the colony the epi¬ Toward the close of 1713. Francis Phillips’ thets of “knave” and “our enemy. He a priest who had served in Stratford, Conn., makes also the charge that the church and and then in New York, arrived in Philadel¬ state were at that time working in such close phia, and was appointed to the curacy of conjunction that none but churchmen might Christ Church. Tho appointeeof the London Lope, for justice at the hands of the law. The Church authorities to the same position ar¬ bad fortune in which the Quakers then found rived soon after, and claimed the position, ft themselves he attributed to the “ hypocncy The people refused to allow Phillips to depart of George Keith,” the proselyte to the church and it was arranged that the two should offi¬ from Quakerism. Penn, however, did not, ciate alternately. Phillips soon showed his true scorn to employ lobbyists at Whitehall in his| depravity by instigating riots, and was heard cause, and on occasion refers to his adversa-i to use blasphemous language. He resisted all vies as compounded of “vinegar and worm¬ attempts to depose him, and was at last chal- ■ wood.” longed to a duel by Peter Evans, the Sheriff In the end, however, Penn came out ahead of Philadelphia, and afterward the warden ' of Christ Church. He declined this warlike j in the struggle; and thereafter the Lieu¬ overture, and succeeded in enlisting even the! tenant Governors had a thorny road to travel, Lieutenant Governor on his side. Ho was atj being under the necessity of pleasing the length deposed, and nothing more is known crown, the proprietaries, the assemblies and of him. the church. None of them found this an Before the appointment of Eev. Archibald easy task, and various troubles arising pro-1 Cummings to Christ Church in 1.726. the Rev. I Richard Welton. D. D., was offered and ac-; claimed that most of them found it impossi- eepted the charge of the parish. Dr. Welton hie. In spite of the disturbances the province was charged with having received cousecra- j grew, and the church advanced until socially | tion from one of the non-juring Bishops, and ingland to escape persecution on tho He had came to America to enjoy the free life of the colonies, but yielded to the (from one settlement to another to secure solicitations to take charge of Christ Church. the services of a physician. Troublo quickly arose, and he and Dr. Tal¬ I, 18 “‘range that while Penn in a letter bot were deprived of their offices for alleged to a gentleman in England said, “I hear non-adherence to the Crown. There is some work for thT bUt a°ae »*««•»?m doubt as to whether or not the Dr. Talbot so wotk ior the doctors save tho sAitino- involved was the saintly rector of the church bones,» that Pennsylvania should^”. at Burlington. Christ Church had become entirely too small for its congregation, and in 1727 the corner-stone of the present edifice was laid on April 27. The Governor, the Mayor, the Recorder, with Mr. Cummings and all the chief men of the town., were present at the ceremony.

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Dr. Abraham Chovet.

kPOW-n as tb* of the medical profession m Aznerica and certain it is that no State in the Union has to diy snob strong claims for pre-eminence in the noble pursuit of improvement in medi cal science and literature. It is oalr from scanty materia] and with the aid of Development of the Profes¬ *hat tbe ongia and progress in sion from the Earliest Debe t/‘racedaoed S1^/and m0nas fJtherehe earlywas no£ettJers Jaw cantn prohibit the malpractice of pretenders Colonial Days to there were a« «oy charlatans and empe- first * renoLbf dlffieUit detel “ine wbo the Present. first reputable and learned physicians recorisanodf St°heeWraiJH!:i0nS are ffiad° in inferred tb Jh*l Colt0,nies ^at it can be interred that the settlers were blessed w;th they Mr* porous constitutions that LAST CENTURY'S DOCTORS. makers.^ * *tle °a l for tba services of pill.

dnetnt3!4116 Coloni,?8 grew the need of a Wil'iam Penn Found the Health of doif, was employed as “barber ” as snr the Colony So Good that There fa* *etT Was Little Need of Physio. monthly saiaryS of ten guild^InHt,3 thT A642- 1657> aod 1658 the records*state Some Famous Doctors tv andetrhJtH en^^esB and and Surgeons. two “barbers ^^“'ement boast of

,ssgfrv&n “v1 it wtl,l0 the other pinned his faith F ALL the various sciences of life there is none so important a* that which 13 SSULT “'•d '“k* styled tne healing the herb doctor's WORK art; that which brings joy and com¬ The health of^he settlement however fort to suffering bn- fo°r the Swi dU tbe haadS °f tb*s® withies, inanity. It ig i n ter- I * fbe Swedes were a superstitious people esting in these days and often preferred being attended by the old when doctors1 signs crones who, with their ineffectual simples are as plentiful as pgypt—to “oL 7tl'% of Sl«n«a to look back to the times when a dose of $ * physiio was worth its weigb weight in gold and wben our forefathers often bad to rjde rsLssxwiS10 1860 iiiiia,, a, te>d of th, ,o]oiijr» combined practice and preaching, one occasion word was brought to a known divine while in the pulpit that a negro woman had been suddenly seized by a fever. He paused in the middle of his sermon and wrote on the fly leaf of a wmn book : “Let the wench be bled freely and wait until I come.” The civil antbon- ties in mfcoy cases also pretended to be well versed in physics. The life of doctors in tha old days was by no means an easy one. They otten had to take long rides through , the country and endure all sorts of hardships and risks. Tbeir pay was Bmall and in many cases they had 4o give their services gratis, it

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Dr. Benjamin Basil at New Anstel, now New Castle, noticed in his correspondence the death of Petersen 1 and his rival, and that they bad been, succeeded by William TyDeman. who practiced successfully for several years. He waa suceesded by John Goodson, who caifee to Pennsylvania with the English colonists who immediately preceded^ the arrival of Penn. He was appointed cbi- rurgeon” to the Society of Free Traders in Dr. John Morgan. London, and was a man of considerable was not extraordinary for a physician tol teach school, “farm it” or *b\fith Penn there arrived three well edu¬ save that of grave digger in the settle¬ cated members of the profession, viz: ments. The following is a ^pyofan old Thomas Lloyd, Thomas Wynne and Grif¬ decter’s bill; the name of the practi¬ fith Owen, the latter mating the passage tioner, however, is withheld at tbo.request on the proprietor’s own ship. The first of bis great grandson, who resides id Phil - two, however. althoogD Oxford graduates adelphia, and possesses the original: and men who had made considerable pro¬ .-Silas Evans. gress in literature and science did am prac¬ To Dr.- Dr. tice in this country, but took ao active £. S. D. hand in State affairs, the former being July 6' To a dose of rhubarb for you.— 0 2 0 elected the first Deputy Governor of the Tulv 30 “ a visit to your mother...... o 2 6 State and the latter Speaker of the brat Aug. 19 “setting fractured thigh bone Provincial Assembly. Griffith Owen, how¬ for Dick.. n ever was tb® principal practicing pbysi- Aue. 22 “ a dose for Dick...... “ cian’in Philadelphia until 1717, when be Sept, 29 “ a vomit for your wife. « died. He was highly esteemed as a Nov 3 “ four ducks.••••••”• ^ preacher among the Friends and bis merits Dec. 1 1 “ A visit to wench, bleeding ^ and abilities raised him to several State and blistering...*'* A n Tnn 14 1772 A vomit for wench.. u offices of trust. H« performed the nrst sur¬ Jan. 22 “ attendance and bleediug gical operation in this city. Jt is spoken cattle of in the Journal of Tbcmas Story as fol- The bill is not receipted, and it is not ^01“Tn firing a salute in honor of the land¬ known whether the good dset®r was paid ing of Penn in 1699, a young man had bis for his vomits and ducks. T ■. arm shattered. Amputation was resolved Following Dr. Owen came Drs. John upen. But as the arm was cut off some Kearsiey and Thomas Graem. They were spirits in a basin happened to take fire and both learned men and occupied positions being overturned set firo tb tb© doctor u of trust. The former was the preceptor ot cletbes. and there being a great 'crowd of Zaebarv Bedman, Bard, and others who speetators some were in the way and in afterward shone in their professions. He •danger of being scalded as the surgeon also distinguished bimseif as an orator in bimseif was upon the face and hands; bait the Assembly. H® was a skilled architec , running into the street the fir® was and made tbs plans for Christ Church. quenched and so quick waa he that the At his death he appropriated by wil a WitienFlost not very much blood, although large part of his property to establish Christ Church Hospital, an institution for left in that open bleeding condition. Penn in one of bis letters,speaks of him the support of poor widows of the Episco¬ as “Tender Griffith Owen, who both sees pal Church. Dr Graem retired from practice on ac¬ and feels.” count of deafness, bat so highly was he es¬ PLEACHING AND BLEEDING. teemed by the Proprietaries that he was ap; The ministers in those days often pos sessed a smattering of medical lore and ---^Mt navaToificer of the port of adelphia. jcivily and engaged in conversation with the doctor, and as he afterward declared, OLD TIME POLITICS. was so charmed with bis pleasing manner The next doctor of note was John Kears- and address that be bad no resolution to ley. ® nephew of the above-named carry out his desperate intentions.Impelled, however, by the same glooxuy disposition | that actuated bins when he set out, he a ! few minutea after shot a well-known citi-

Dr. J. K. Mitchell gentleman. Although a successful doctor he was particularly unpopular on account of the part he took in polities. He became •o obnoxious to the Whig party that on one occasion ho was seized and badly wounded aS*SSa??'*fi“1' s $ at bis own d®or and paraded through the bo?k,C, the cut in Philadelphia in 1735% Hie 'early edu¬ of his cost a pair of Baron Steubn a mili¬ cation was received at Nottingham,. Chester tary-shaped boots, coming above the knee; his bat, flapping before and cocked up sharply behind, covering a full bottomed powdered wig in front of which might be seen an eagle-pointed nose, separating a pair of eagle-black eyes, bis lips exhibiting dow and tbea a quick motion as though at the moment he was endeavoring to extract the essence of a small quid. He was to he

Dr. Franklin Baclie.

County,Pa. He began the study of medi¬ cine under Dr. Rodman, and afterward I went through the Medical College of Phil-1 adeipbia. He also studied five years im Paris and London,and returned to America a Fellow of the Royal Society, Member of Belles-Lettres Society of Rome, and a I Licentiate of the Roiyal College of Physi¬ cians of London. Dr. Morgan confined himself strictly to Dr. P.obert Dunglison. the practice of medicine and refused all! surgical cases. He also had his drugs! seen daily, mounted on a short, fat, black mifed by an assistant, claiming that a I •witch-tailed horse, and riding for his physician had no right to be an apothecary. amusement and exercise at a brisk racing His charges were a pistole for the first visit1 canter about the streets and suburbs of the as a retaining fee,aad $1 for eaoh call after-1 city. ward. At 45 ho was acknowledged to be Two other doctors of the day were Dr. i the most learned man in the provinces, aDd! Adam Thompson, who wa3 considered an j is spoken of as such by Franklin, who was authority on yellow fever, and Dr. Wil¬ his patroa and-friend. He took an active liam Shippen. Jr,, who figured as the first part in tha foundation of the American lecturer on medicine in the State. He was Philosophical Society. On October 14 be born in Philadelphia and secured bis edu¬ was appointed Surgeon General of the cation at the Medicine- College of New American army by Congress. He was de¬ Jersey and the Medicine Colleges of Scot¬ voted to his work and sacrificed every pri¬ land. While a student be was distinguished vate interest for its accomplishment, but so for his oratorical powers, and was a splen¬ great were the obstaces in his way that it did Latin scholar. was impossible for him to give satisfaction. On bis return to Philadelphia he gave s So little money was subscribed by Con¬ series:of lectures on anatomy and dissection gress for the maintenance of the army hos¬ to ten pupils. It was rumored that he paid pitals that funds were lacking for the buy¬ men to rob the graveyards for subjects for ing of drugs and provisions for the bis dissecting tabie, and on several occas¬ wounded, and in spite of bis diligence and ions b» had to hide to escape the violence fidelity Dr. Morgan was dismissed from of the populace. Once be was shot at, aDd office. At bis trial a year later, however, his lecture room was broken into several be was honorably acquitted. Norris speaks times. He quieted the feeling against him of his life as follows:— by proving through the press that tha ‘‘The career of Morgan affords a bright! bodies he dissected were those of suicides example of acquirement, perseverance, and criminals. He was the first pbysican usefulness and noble love and devotion to to advocate the combining of midwifery the profession of his choice.” with medicine. DE. BENJAMIN RUSH. “FATHER OF AMERICAN MEDICINE.” A.tnougn Dorn on a plantation' fourteen The original of the picture given of Dr. miles north of Philadelphia, Dr. Benjamin John Morgan of revolutionary fame is in Rush always claimed to he a Philadelphian. the possession of hia relatives at Washing¬ Like Dr. Morgan he received the rudiments ton, Pa. But at the request of Dr. George of education at Nottingham, at the schoels W. Norris they allowed a copy to be made ef Rev. Samuel Findlay. He was a student from it, which now hangs in the gallery of at Princeton under President Davis and re¬ tha College of Physicians and Surgeons. ceived his degree of B. A. before he was 15. He is deservedly styled the father of Amer¬ He began tha study of medicine UBder ican medicine, and surpassed every physi¬ Redman and continued under him for six cian of the day in learning with the excep¬ years after which he went to Edinburgh, tion of Dr. Benjamin Rush. He was born j Scotland where he distinguished himself as a oreek and Lstin scholar. On his re- •iladelpbia he was elected *n,stry ia tfae college of th^ sSSSSJWT 5&*52«* , was made^p" fesw “ .,,Djye«ity he icsi'af *"*“«»*»r:s ypo.q tt , physics for fortv-tour theories, and hisISte ma^i^^as!-°W ™«'.1 fckJvi^fs,"v;5°.s

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and in 1793 V^tbeorlJi^6 °f blood-letting, t«st. It was the year to tb« was desolated by yellow fever Pjy]ad„68 met tb® ey« on

forced to ride about town in^' a?d be was riage, Duirnv ti,Q • ? ln- a olosed car- iii himself and onPI1f^1C be was tak«° urged to leave town £ V e.°°-Wy' was Dr. Charles D. Meigs. I reply was:— n by his tneads. His • physicians of Pbiladeinhio tt . at Burlington, S J in lenr; P1 fas *boro |pa|anWts]1to" the la°st extremity/'l6" 8Bd my study of inedicino'inB+1805T1Dd began the D i s pe n s a ry * h e Tddfhl Philadelphia sssS be imprisoned for life inflfIBade,'fr sil0uki death. r lu8tead of put to teaching: anatomy in i>3qi 0ri began to the board of fbe Phflir, was etected a foil Ql7AINT OLD DR. CHOVET. in .1834. In the Lm^arhf was pointed physician and chief If thl nlP,' \ dren s Hospital In ms hi * thf Chil- him is taken from an P f1 givea of Iprofessoj-ship of surgerf in .?ccerpt®d *be He was a native of Fn 1 7* jn’pressl°B. Medical College and served ^^h*L7fferson I tad the early part of h7 .7 *7 bad de*°‘ / lty until 19^4 u that capac- I of anatomy under the ahiA <0 tba study , o/aLtomy of The Europe. He first ,.r™*abb?e* teachers of resigned in 1864 after filling tor^L0-11; came to Philadelphto*'toV*1 JalDaica hut successive years thn *™Bg tof thjrty-six was a man of worth Jin ln ?Ia , y°utb. He chairs in the college. ° m°St lmporlant hy his fellow-oitfzeas nnTa“ bi’Rll]r *8tee“ed fessional abHity b« foA^'7 ,£°r bis P'<>‘ the Phiffldfflpbi^HoTtoTaT SBrffeon of manlinesss. The Lie l .character and 1EV safesraE?* &Z‘£I: SR.”'- fj: ?»&! ^ poshing*iBM«AL W8';i:8ici,B "U8 ,ala3a>*uost°st daily seenseei en mediciDe. AmongThnn*1 severaI works ! In . of his feeblenessfina kindofhe7 ln Bpite tise on Operative slrgerT” wM :A-Trea- rather, shuffle, bif^ead 1walk-or. c°u^dered an authority As ^bich 18 8ti11 hair bowed and banging 7 Bt,Qisht white J had few eouals TtJ" ^ Bur8eon he the oape of ja black old A«h>rWard beyond | sighted and, above ail tlId fearIess. far- 'mounted by a Zan Jl^°T coa‘. »nr- Plished some wonderful and1 accom- turn-id upward upon the or bat‘ ,closeiy tiobs with success HpdT8IDaIopera- and seemingly th» cause of p°-rown .behind, | mefbods of opeLcng^non ^UCed Dew ward movement. Ha _ bls aDxi°na for- his discoveries were nriart^0 ,, e, e>’es «nd character, fnl) of anecdote , aocentrio pean medicine JouL^ ,B 8J3 1ba E— and tradition says that he’ 2,Dd knowledge for repartee and sarcasm n 8 C0Jebrated ies wLeU.BacheatDu°nf ?"■ COD‘^po,ar- nounced Eoyalist, however Bs,wa" a pro, escaped heing mrarhH*’ a?d*. na»owly like Dr. Kearslcy. The wa7 im Prisoned of anatomical subjeots whtot h pr®Parationa ?*• «”4 r^irar. gsss preserved to day.” W*ich be made arc JEFFERSON’S FAMOTTS Following Dr. Chovet n <^LTY- Jones, James i.ogan and j)!£a D7 J°bu They were all able men but £ Bartra“- ’ at U Was not until company principally as a freigni station. This building was built of stone and wood and was destroyed in 1869 and rebuilt on the old foundations and used until torn down re¬ cently as a machine shop and round house. Two years before the destruction of the freight depot the company purchased the site of one of the many famous old taverns of Philadelphia, standing on what is now the northwest comer of Ninth and Green streets, and erected on the corner a buildihg used as a machine and repair shop. The only important change made to the depot on the northeast corner was made in 1864, when the old camber truss roof was re¬ moved, and a new roof of the gable pattern and much higher than the old one was con- ■ g£j’;Qct.6Ci« In the 45 years of its history the old Ger¬ mantown and Norristown Depot has passed through scenes which are familiar to every Philadelphian. During the war it was almost as active as the old Broad and Prime Streets Depot in the transportation of troops to and from the recruiting camp at Chestnut Hill. It has figured in the annals of Philadelphia as one of the most frequented portals of rail¬ way transit in the State at any one period of its history. At the time the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company took posses¬ Dr. -George W. Norris. sion of it under its lease, on December 1,1870, the statistics showed that an average of 14,- not only in this country, but in the ■whole world. They were all fellow-teachers with 000 persons passed through it daily. Dr. Pancoast at the Jefferson College and This number vastly increased with the ad¬ tbo pictures of them were taken on their dition of its New York traffic after the con¬ struction ot the Bound Brook Railroad, and election in 1840. although the traffic on the main line to Ger¬ mantown and Norristown decreased after competition was created by the Pennsylvania Railroad, there has really never been any se¬ rious diminution in the number of patrons who have passed through the old Ninth and Green streets depot.

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The Heading's Depot at Ninth and Green Will Soon ho Abandoned. The time is rapidly approaching for the complete abandonment ol' the passenger sta¬ Bate, fyl/oh/.i-( tion of the Philadelphia and Reading Rail¬ road Company at N inth and Green streets, and when the old structure is tom down to HiSTOmOrtNNER £31 make way for the big yard contemplated on he site of the depot and its immediate vi¬ cinity, as outlined in the Ledger of Monday last, one of the city’s landmarks will have Exhibited at a Camp Fire at Ash¬ disappeared. worth Post. For nearly half a century the old depot has weathered thestorms and sheltered thousands of travellers. When it was first built in 1817 At the regular monthly campfire, there was nothing but country where Is now one of the most thickly populated portions given to the citizens’ corps of Ooi. James of the city. The price paid for the ground Ashworth Fost, No. 334 Major R.tman upon which the depot was erected on May 15, displayed two handsome historical State 1846, was $5783. This valuation Is in striking flags of the Mexican war. Ihe flags contrast to the valuation on the property to¬ were made of silk, on which was worked day. It was the first covered railroad depot In some very fine needle embroidery repre¬ the city. The new depot was built of sub¬ senting the American eagle holdin the stantial stone walla, which stand to-day streamers, methe speaio,spears, and the—- with a camber roof of stout wooden beams branch; also, the insipia ot Mie 1st and and trusses. The offices of the company 2d Regiments Pennsylvania Aolunteers, faced Green street, and were on the upper floor above the waiting room. The station and JS Fluribus Unum. was considered a big improvement to the These banners were presented to ou city. The company took possession of it soldiers when they reached Mexico, v and trains began running in 1848. The old General Scott, Commander-in Chiet on depot of the company on the west side of Ninth street was continued in use by the the plaza in front of where the Halls o Montezuma stood before the siege oi| Cortez. ___ n tEe return of our armies after the war, in the fall of 1848, there was formec [walks, with borders of box bush, orna¬ what was then known as the Scott Le mental arbors and cosy seats surrounded gion Association. The Association had by fragrant woodbine, sweet brier and its rooms eorner6th and Chestnut streets [other sweet-smelling vines. in what was then known as ParkerY>- In pre-Revolutionary times the Jolly Saloon, second floor, where these memen I ost was a noted place. Its name was toes were deposited, of which Majo due to the fact that it was a post house, Ritman was appointed custodian. whererfelays of horses were kept for the These flags have been rehabilitate! : coaches on their way between Philadel¬ and neatly preserved at Horstman’s phia and New York. There was a good corner oth and Cherry streets, and are t road to the city and the young bloods of be presented by Major Ritman as trus that day drove their sweethearts out to tee and member of th; committee in be f rankford and spent the pleasant sum¬ half of the Association, to the Histories mer evenings amid the delightful walks Society of Pennsylvania, April 18t! ind old-fashioned arbors of the popular which is the anniversary of the battl Frankford hotel. of Cerro Gordo. The highway at the lower end of . This will be an event of some import I rank ford did not at that time pursue ance to those who are interested in th |the straight line which now marks its banners and their hist >ry. course, hut turned Westward at Adams It is the purpose of the Association i I street and passed in front of the Carpen have them encased and p aced in thei tier mansion (Worn rath’s), leaving the rooms as free exhibits, as valuable hi stone stable, aiterward occupied as dwell torical relics. These fligs original ing houses, and but recently removed, to 15 cost $500 each, aul are worthy of i the East, passing in front of the brick speclion. ^ mansion occupied more than a ceniury ago by Henry Drinker as a summer resi¬ dence (more recently Weisman’s Hotel), ./ and striking the present line of the ave¬ From, nue just below the Second National Bank. The highway was straightened when the ’ turnpike company was incorporated at 3 i3/,_ | the beginning of the present century. Above Sellers street the ground wt31 high on the West side as far as Allen Date, street. A home still standing below Orthodox street, and occupied by Joseph Whittington, was left with a flight of THE JOL T. stairs leading to the front door when the street was cut down. The Fulton house, on the corner of Orthodox street, An Ancient Hostelry Whose Glory also has a flight of stairs at the front has Departed. from the same cause. Old residents remember other houses, long since re¬ On the West side of Frankford avenue moved, with the same peculiarity. The a short distance above Orthodox street, old Col. Burns mansion stood on an ele¬ Frankford, stands an old stone house, vation, and the Jolly Post to-day shows known for over a century and a half as that it was built upon high ground above the Jolly Post Hotel,” It must not be the level of the highway. supposed that in the middle of the eigh¬ Just how long it has been occupied as F teenth century, when the hotel was a hotel cannot be positively stated, but probably in its youth, that the building the writer has before him a copy of the assumed the fair proportions familiar to Pennsylvania Chronicle,of March 14,1768, the eyes of the present generation. The which contains the following advertise- building then known as the “ Jolly iment: Post” was the Northern portion only, its' To be SOLD by the Subscriber, living size having been increased as the city on the premises, in Oxford township, in grew in population and the exigencies of the county of Philadelphia, THE NO¬ travel demanded greater accommoda¬ TED INN called the sign of the JOLLY tions. POST, about five miles from the city of The property extended Westward to Philadelphia, near Frankford; being a the line ofLeiper street, on the North commodious stand, and pleasant, lofty side of Smith’s lane, now Orthodox situation, Containing about twenty-five street, with a frontage on the Main acres of land, about eight of which are street or King’s Highway, now Frank¬ well timbered, a young thriving orchard, ford avenue, of several hundred feet with about two hundred apple trees, a In the rear of the hotel was a splendid convenient house, kitchen, stables, sheds garden of good size with an abundance and trough to feed horses in. a well of of lilacs and other shrubbery, numerous good water just before the door, a good garden with sundry arbors therein, very peasant in the summer season for any person rilling out to take iresTTair, as the hi 1851 became the property of Caroline, road is generally very good between the wile of Joseph H. Oomiy, and is now in premises aod the city. Any person in¬ the possession of her surviving children, clining to purchase the same, may know who are the great granehiidren of Gen¬ the terms by applying to me, eral Isaiah Worrell, of revoluti mary Joseph Thornhill. fame. The property was part of a tract of in the period prior to the Revolution¬ 750 acres deeded by William Perm in ary war the pair.otic spirit of the people 1680 to Henry Waddy, of Oxford ■i;v of Oxford Township, including Fruok- Township, and known as Waddy’s ford, which did not become a borough Grange. In i 694 by the will of Henry until 1800, was fully aroused, and the Waddy it passed into the hands of his ' barroom of the the old hotel was the daughter, who was the wife of Richard scene of frequent meetings and hot dis¬ Cooney, and a resident of the mother cussions. A record of these meetings country, Mrs. Cooney executed letters would be interesting reading for he of attorney to John Guodson and Joseph present generation. There were in this Paul (after whom Paul's lane, after¬ vicinity also many tories among the wards Paul street, was named) who sold early settlers who were averse to the the property to Robert Adams (after War of Independence and created a bad whom Adams street was named) in 1698. feeling in the community. Mr. Adams owned a large tract of land All through the war, as the fortunes Wt 8t of Leiper street, known as Adams’ of the colonists fluctuated ; when the r c . In the same year Robert Adams British army occupied the city; when sold the property to John Worrell, who Washington wintered not far away at devised that portion of it upon which Valley Forge; when the -battle of Ger¬ the Jolly Post stands, consisting of M mantown was fought, and many com acres and 26 perches, to his sou Isaiah . panics marched through the town on Worrell, in 1748 Joseph Thornhill, eir way to and fro, we can imagine the whose advertisement appears above, be¬ exciting discussions that took place came the owner of the Jolly Post prop - among the old men who met at the arty. He sold it to John Papley in 1787. ii AaHAKJaZt . r* I ex K i 1 & John Papley died, and his wife, Susan Then, when the General of the armies Papley, became the owner, who sold the of the infant republic, the immortal premises in 1795 to Dr. Enoch Edwards, Washington,on his way to or from New who resided in the old mansion still k York, stopped for rest and refreshment standing on Franklin street, between within its walls, it was a proud day for Pine and Ruau, running b ick to Edward the people ot Frank ford. street, which was named after the Doctor. In la er years an effort was made to In 1799 the property was purchased by change the name to “Washington’s George Webster who died in 1.808, and Head quarters,” but the old title was his executors, Esther Wi-bster, Thomas dear to the memory of the people and it I Fletcher and Abraham Duifieid, sold it is “ Jolly Post” to everybody to this day. in 1814 to Jaftob Coats. It passed from In 1807, when George Webster owned Jacob to his wife Elizabeth in 1836, and the place he gave consent to the location

4P engine house upon the corner of was struck by a spent balHn one of the -- property at Orthodox street and the | encounters which his company had with turnpike, where it remained until about the rioters. the year 1820. In 1817 the fire company * Upon its long piazza many eloquent voted to pay Jacob Coats, the owner and orators have held forth from time to ■ l landlord at that time, twenty-five cents a ( tune, upon all sorts of themes. Patriot- j year rent for the ground cn which the ism, politics, religion, temperance and f engine house stood. other subjects have had their advocates .From 1811 to 1814 Samuel Swift was who gathered their hearers at the Jolly landlord. Many ot the early meetings Post and their ringing sentences have '< of the fire company and other local or¬ been cheered to the echo by admiring • ganizations were held within its walls. listeners. The story has been handed down to us The glory of the Jolly Post has de¬ that on the 30th of January, 1815, Lieu¬ parted. Like the Gen. Pike and Cross - tenant Richard Smith shot Captain Keys, which long since gave way to the John Carson in a fit of jealousy tor al¬ march of improvement, it is in the leged attentions to his wife. The cou¬ “sere and yellow leaf” and must soon ple had been married in the parlor of the be removed and its site be occupied by hotel and their honeymoon ended in the 4 modern business bouses, but it has with¬ same place in strife and blood because ‘ stood the storms of nearly two centuries of the iusaue jealousy of the young hus¬ and has a history worthy to be remem¬ band. bered. / i We take pleasure in presenting- a In 1830 Hugh Edams was landlord. beautiful picture of the old hotel as it lThe stables laced the Main street, as stands to-day. It was engraved from a they do now, but the wagon sheds ran photograph taken expressly for us by all the way across to Orthodox street, Mr. George M. Taylor on Decoration and a hay scale was constructed at the Day, 1892, from which our artist has front about half way between the hotel produced the faithful representation we and the sireet, with several Lombardy give to our readers with this hastily poplars about it and a semi circular drive¬ written sketch of the famous old hostel ry> way with a steep grade at each end. A loaded hay wagon as it was driven down the hill at the Orthodox street end, one day ran over and killed a two-year-old child of the landlord. A daughter of Mr. Edams is still liv¬ ing at YVissinoming. Stephen C. Paul followed Mr. Edams, and was the landlord during the log csbin and hard cider campaign of 1810. A log cabin of good size was erected at the side of the entrance to the stables fronting the street, and the Jolly Post was the centre of all political meetings and processions ot that exciting cam¬ iFOUNDEDJY FRANKLIN paign. The well before the door of the Jolly THE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCI¬ Pott, according to the advertisement abo.’e, has furnished pure sweet water ETY’S APPROACHING ANNIVERSARY. to the thirsty passers-by of several gen¬ erations. It is altogether likely that it ' is two hundred years old, and its crystal A CENTURY AND A HALF OLD waters are still in great demand in the summer season. A Brief Sketch of the History ot the Oldest In the yard in front of the stables the old cavalry companies under Captains and Most Dignified of All Learned Socie¬ Bavingtou and Snyder, frequently met ties in America—Famous Men Who Have for drill, and tents for shows aud circuses, then quite modest in tneir proportions Been Members. in comparison with those of our day, were frequently pitched upon the same On Monday, May 2:2, and during the fol¬ spot. lowing week, the American Philosophical So¬ During the Native American riots of ciety will celebrate the one hundred and lif- 1814 the troop of which the landlord tieth anniversary of their foundation by a Stephen C. Paul, was Lieutenant, drilled series of reunions at the ball of the society. in front of the hotel and started from No. 10d South fifth street, at which papers there to assist in quelling the unlawful will be oifered by such members as may bo proceedings of the mob. Lieut., or as' present. Invitations requesting the partici¬ he was afterwards called Captain Paul pation. of distinguished people have been - issued by the society and the occasion prom- THE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SQCIETVig Kiiumuc ises to be a memorable dent, the subordinate offices being about having the matter in charge consists of J. equally divided among the members of the Sergeant Price, Richard Vans. Daniel (4. two institutions. The title of the new society Hrinton, William V. Keating, Frederick Fra¬ was "The American Philosophical Society, held at Philadelphia for promoting useful ley and Henry Phillips, Jr: knowledge,” and such the title remains to The American Philosophical Society is one the present moment. of the most < minent and ancient of Philadel¬ phia’s institutions, and the celebration of its From its inception hosts of distinguished one hundred and fiftieth anniversary will men have been connected with this society. attract attention the world over. When Ben¬ Besides Franklin there was Washington, jamin Franklin came to the city of Philadel¬ Thomas Jefferson, Robert Morris, Alexander phia in the year 1727 he formed the cele¬ Hamilton, Thomas Willing, David Ritten- brated Junto, which was its origin, and on house, who were all members before the close the 25th of May, 1743, he published a pros¬ of the eighteenth century, and since then the pectus for the establishment of an American society has been adorned by such men as Philosophical Society. It was formed, hut the Caspar Wistar, Robert M. Patterson, William period was too early for the establishment of Tilghman, Peter S. Duponeeau, Nathaniel an institution having such vast objects in Chapman, Franklin Bache, Alexander Dal- ■ view as the Philosophical Society, conse¬ las Bache, George B. Wood, Joseph Henry, quently the organization had but an inter¬ Marquis de Lafayette. Jared Ingersoll, Abbe ' Fontana, George Claymore, William T. mittent existence for many years. Franklin, Robert Edge Pine, Thaddeus Kos¬ In 1750 another Junto was established upon ciusko, Right Hon. Earl of Stanhope, Rev. the same principles as the ancient society of John Witherspoon, Edward Pennington, Ben¬ Franklin’s. It was composed of many of his jamin West, Benjamin Rush, Thomas Mifflin, friends, and for awhile it seemed to have been Clement Biddle and Charles Thompson. mistaken for the old Junto itself. About 1758 At the moment, aside from the resident membership the society has many members this club formed a society for the promotion in foreign countries, Egypt, India, Russia, ,of useful knowledge. Its membership em¬ Greece, Turkey, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, braced many of the distinguished men of the Germany, France, England, Scotland, Ire¬ city of Philadelphia. Hon. James Hamilton, land, Austria, Japan, Norway, Sweden, Bel¬ who was Governor of the Province of Penn¬ gium, Central America and the South Ameri- N can Republics all being represented. sylvania, was its president. The presidents of the society since its This society was what might he termed a formation have been Benjamin Franklin, rival institution to Franklin’s Junto and it David Rittenhouse, Thomas Jefferson, Caspar was soon found that there was not enough Wistar, Robert Patterson, William Tilghman, room for two such organizations in one city. Peter Stephen Duponeeau, Robert M. Patter¬ The authorities of each, therefore, met in son, Nathaniel Chapman, Franklin Bache, Alexander Balias Bache, John K. Kane, conference, and, after the adjustment of some George B. Wood, Frederick Fraley. difficulties, a new organization and union was effected in December of 17G8. On the 2d of With such a category of distinguished per¬ January, 1769, Franklin was elected presi- sonages on its roll of membership it is only 55

natural tUTit many jiisiiluuuus oi great use¬ fulness have been thought out and formu¬ When Jlr. Beale removed Jus museum to lated and brought into existence within the the Philosophical Society ho spent much time walls of the home of philosophy and philan¬ in adding to the value and interest of his col¬ thropy. The Pennsylvania Institution for, lect iou. Many of the portraits known as the the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb, the Beale collection were painted while he was in this building. General Washington himself Pennsylvania Institution for the Instruction sat here to him and simultaneously to Beale's I of the Blind, the House of Refuge, the Ap¬ brother and two sous. prentices’ Library and the Historical Society IJ hf Pennsylvania are but a few of many that It is also stated that Mr. Beale started a might he mentioned. At the close of the year 17S4, when plans zoological garden in the rear of the hall. for the improvement of Independence Square Here ho exhibited the American eagle in a were agitated by the Assembly of Pennsylva¬ .urge cage with tlio following inscription: nia, the Philosophical Society, which had pre¬ Feed me daily, 100 years.” This identical viously made application, renewed the same eagle stufied ere yet the hundred years for a lot upon which a commodious building, elapsed is now in the National Museum at In¬ suitable to meet in and deposit the curiosities dependence Hall. As Peale’s Museum was in nature and art embraced in their collec¬ constantly increasing the accommodations at tion might be erected. The application hav¬ the 1 hilosopliical Society at length proved in- ing been fa vora bly entertained a bill was pre¬ adequate for his stock of curiosities and he sented on the 23d of December, and, though made application to the Legislature for the it met with considerable opposition in the use or the State House. Accordingly in 1802 House, the Library Company putting in a the whole of the second floor, together with petition against discrimination, they also hav¬ Independence Chamber itself, was granted ing made application for a plot of ground, the to him tree of rent. At the request, however bill was finally passed and duly enacted on of the Supreme Court of the State he rellh-- March 28, 1783. quislied Independence Chamber to its use. The law itself, which is not reprinted in the Dimng Mr. Beale’s occupancy of the Philo¬ laws of Pennsylvania, is entitled “The act sophical Society he lived in the building, and for vesting in the Philosophical Society,” there Franklin Peale was born. In conse- etc., etc. quence he had the honor conferred upon him The lot granted was on Fifth street im¬ by the society of being named by it, this, ac- mediately in the rear of that allotted for the cordmg to the minutes of February 19, 1790: society s buildings. The grantees were Mr. Peale presented to the society a young strictly restrained from selling, transferring, ®on. °lhTnths and 4 days old. Being the or even leasing it, and the buildings to be first child born m Philosophical Hall, he re- erected thereon were to be applied exclu¬ qiiested that the society give him a name, on sively “to the accommodations of the said society unanimously agreed that society.” after the name of the chief founder and lat In the fall following the society presented president ot the society, he should be call' a petition to the Assembly, setting forth Franklin.” , “that the ground -#as found to be so high After vacation by Peale’s Museum, and the sand so deep a»to admit of the hav¬ lower balls of the Philosophical Society ing of a range of vaults with ajange of stores been occupied by tbo u«itoO, -s&b±^= ■ thereon under the buildings intendefTforThe the Athenreiun. the College of Physicians,' accommodation” of the sSdety! and there Water Department, and are now rented to an fore prayed lor power to lease the stores and insurance company. vaults when completed, and also such apart meats as might bear affinity with or tend to FT-om 1837 to 1S42 the society narrowly es¬ >'* promote the design of the institution. This caped being carried under by the memora¬ I7sc -was uot panted until March 17 ble financial troubles. The city wanted to poses“a1^hid aS ■ ^ l:estlicted to such pur¬ purchase the hall about that time. Con¬ poses as harl an 4'fhmty with the design of their institution and no other. = ditional arrangements were made, the society buying Dunn’s old Chinese Museum, on Ninth street, below Chestnut, and using all S£curine tlle lot no time was lost by the socnety, an appeal for aid being made to its funds to make the required payments. It its friends. In July a liberal subscription was was expected that these funds would be re¬ placed by the money to be paid by the city promptly made m order with “all practicable for the old hall. After a number of consulta¬ expedition to enable a committee, whSfa ap- tions the city declined to carryout the bar¬ poirued lor the purpose, to construct a neat gain and the society was plunged into the sufficient building on the ground aforesaid ”’ F depths of financial trouble and for a long I ranklm subscribed one hundred Bounds time was threatened with bankruptcy and and Samuel Vaughan fifty pounds Tther even ruin. To-day the society has a fund of subscribers were Bishop White Dr nnJh nearly $60,000, the income from which, in David Rittenbouse, William Bradford and addition to its rent, enables it to defray all many other pul lie-spirited citizens of the proper expenses and make liberal appropria¬ •lay (Hound wtis at once broken and the tions for its publications. abo"t 1787 of its finished In this slight historical sketch it may he lower floor of f appropriate to say something about the elec¬ tion of members, which, is made in secresy and copied liy CtaHe:f^^etVeCre T confidence. The theory is that no man has an aSW C°tiCed hfa A* the least idea that he is to he elected a mem¬ ber. He is proposed by two or more members in writing, the pominators setting forth briefly the claims he has to membership in the so¬ ciety. Four times a year a balloting takes natural history subjects' ^me‘Cn^of the place, equally 'onftdential and secret, requir¬ mammoth and a paddle fish „„ e V ing three-fourths of the votes cast to consti¬ lil'-'t start. These l-ere^Sdl^T^ LlS tute an election. Ifa candidate be unsuccess¬ ful the nomiuation papers and all the ballots conta. iningJiisfiarao are destroyed, and he isl They were the homes of wealthy aad supposed never to know that he had been a; , candidate. aristocratic inhabitants, and wVre furnished The society now hn« u. membership of about with all the luxuries wbicb wealth, at that five hundred, With between one hundred and early period, could procure. Tbe majority fifty to two hundred active members, who live within a radius of ten miles of Philadelphia. •f these dwellings have now long since been The officers elected at the annual meeting demolished to make room for more modern held January G, 1893, are as follows: Presi- i and pretentious, if not more comfortable,, dent, Frederick Fraley ; vice presidents, E. Otis Kendall. W. S. Euschenberger, J. P.! structures. It would be difficult to deter¬ Lesley ; secretaries, George F. Barker, Dan¬ mine exactly the causes which “have pre¬ iel G. Brinton. ■'Henry Phillips, .Tr., George H. vented the destruction of the house at Horn: curators, Patterson DuBois, .T. Ches-j Fourth and Locust, but whatever they are, i ton Morris, Rj Meade Bache ; treasurer, J. Sergeant Price ; councilors, William A. Ing¬ it is fortunate that they have eceurred, as ham. Thomas H. Dudley, Eobert Patterson, this old mansion has a history of more Charles S. Wurtz : councilor for two years, than usual interest, as it was beneath its in place of I. 0. Martindale, deceased. Henry roof that the long-famous Wistar parties were started, and for many years there-! after held. How large a part these parties hlled in the social life of old Philadelphia may bet gathered from the fact that every citizen of! distinction, if not an actual member, was} at least a frequent guest, and all strangers; of note were introduced into this circle of choice spirits. Tbe original Wistar Club; was composed of members of tbe Philosoph¬ ical Saciety, of which Dr. Wistar was the ; fourth president. In 1798, Dr, Wistar mar-1 riad Miss Mifflin. Very shortly after tbisi date, if not before, several of his .friends! were in the constant habit of meeting in bis bouse on Sunday evenings. At that I time be was professor of anatomy in the' University of Pennsylvania, and much ad¬ mired and respected for bis many estima¬ ble qualities. At first tbe gatherings were rather voluntary than invited. They were I History of a Famous Social composed almost exclusively of tbe mem¬ bers of fbe Philosophical Society, and they Institution of Old-Time were informal and gossiping in their nature. . Philadelphia. AN OLD-TIME INSTITUTION.

As years rolled cn, however, the Wistar i party became a regular institution, and in 1S11 tbe meeting nigbt of the association HOW THEY WERE FOUNDED. was cbaDged from Sunday to Saturday. It is very likely that Mrs. Wislar bad a hand in this change, as in those early days all Dr. Wistar’s Famous Assemblies of well-regulated housekeepers were inclined to look with disfavor on Sunday entertain- Distinguished Men—Some Prom¬ meets, it was more a feast of reason and inent Foreigners Who Were a flow of soul than aa association gathered for tbe discussion of generous fare. Thus, | There—What the Duke during the period of tbe Sunday nigbt en-’ tertainmects, only cakes and wine werel of Saxe-Weimar offered to tbe guGsts and stable was seldom spread. Wrote. The number of guests varied from ten to I fifty, but usually included between fifteen' and twenty-five persons. Tbe parties wei-pj begun ia October and continued until - At tha southwest corner of Fourth 8Dd 1 March or April. Many were tbe invita¬ tions that Dr. Wistar issued to bis friends! Locust Streets there stands an old-fash-1 and colleagues to meet distinguished ioned three-story hipped roofed dwelling. strangers at these parties. Thus, in 1804,1 It has been somewhat altered and modern-1 tbe Doctor invited bis friend? t» nreetl ized in reoent years, and is now rented out Baron von Humboldt, tbe great naturalist, ' j and bis young friend, tbe botanist. Bon-| and used for business offices, but it is yet pland. These two gentlemen stopped in sufficiently antique in appearance to indi¬ Philadelphia on their retura from a scien- j cate. at a glanoe, an age beyond four ■tifie expedition through Mexico and the I West Indies. Jt was at the of bouse all score and ten. It is an excellent specimen Fourth and Prune also that tbe WiBlariaBsj of the character of dwellings that were first met Captain Eiley, who was long a common in this city, partieuJarly in the prisoner among ihe Arabs. Also the learned I neighborhood in which it stands, 100 years aad eccentric Dr. Mitchell, first Burgeon General of .New York, who was later cen- ago. THE OLD WISTAR MANSION. PpraltzScI by Balleok and Drake in the “Croakers.” among Dr. Wistar’s guests, was Dr. Ben¬ We lia.ll thee, Monmouth of the Slate; jamin Bush, physician, philanthropist and Steam Frigate on the wavss of physic, statesman. Dr. Adam Kuhn was also a Equal in practice or debate Wistarian. 1 ben there were the two Dr, To cure the Nation or the phthisic! Sbippens, fat er and son, both practicing Ltr. Hesaek, of New York.wbo was pres, at the same time and both so emiaent that eot at tbe fatal duel between Hamilton and they have been frequently confused by tbe bistorian. Burr, was another guest at the Wistar Another kiDdly medical face which shone upon the merry company was that of Dr. Samnel Powell Griffiths. Among the mem¬ bers of Ihe legal profession who were to be met at Dr.Wistar’s parties were William Bawle, wbe was always as ready to dis- cnss theology as law; William Tiighman, of Maryland, late Chief Justice of Penn¬ sylvania; George Claymore, signer ef tbe Declaration, statesman and patriot; Peter S. Du Ponceau, a Frenchman, but an ardent admirer of America and particularly of old Quaker Philadelphia. A curious character at these gatherings wss old John Beckewelder, the Moravian missionary. Another member «f tbe clergy who attended was John Vaughan, the Uni¬ tarian philanthropist. All told it was a goodly company, one which Philadelphians can look back and be proud of. it is to L® regretted that such' brilliant Dr. Caspar Wistar. writers as Mr.Vanghan, Mr.Duponceau or parties. It is not strange that Philadel¬ Dr. Bush failed to leave us some gossipy phians were glad to take the guests of the reminiscences of the doings at these Wistar city to these galberings, as tbev were sure Clubs. They would surely have been of to bring together the best that our New intense interest and afford tbe greatest World civilization could preduce whether amount of amnsement to tbe descendants of talent and learning er of csurtiv grace of tbe participants. Tbe Wistar parties and good breeding. were kept up at the old Fourth Street house until 1818, wbeD the good old Doctor SOME OTHER GUESTS. died. Not long after this event the little Thus, in tbe early days there was intro- circle, which he had drawn together, re¬ duced at these parties the learned and solved to commemorate the pleasant meet¬ wiMr Abbe Correa De Serra, Portugese ings at the old house and to keep fresh bis Munster to the United States, and Dr memory, by forming an organization called John W. Francis, of New York, whose wit the Wistar Parties. Tbe gentlemen enter¬ and social qualities were said to resemble ing upon tbe agreement were William Tiighman. Bober* M. Patterson, Peter S. . those of tbe much loved Lamb. Later came Duponceau, John Vaugbau, Becben K.bert Waisb and Joseph Hamilton, both Haines. Robert Waisb, Jr., Zaccneus Col¬ distinguished for their flow 0f wi, lins and Thomas C. James, Nicholas Bjddle, tbe far-famed author of There were only eight to begin with and tb* odet° “ Bogle, the colorle,s col.r man.” the number increased but slowly as by 1821 while Dr. Nathaniel Chapman was sure to they had ba sixteen members, and at 1828 bring to tbsi party ^s latest and freshest but twenty-f®ur. rlwo essantial laws of the bon mot. Another prominent membsr ef organization were: First, that no one was the medical fraternity, who was numbered eligible t« membership who was not a member of tbe American Philosophical So- oiety, and second, that be must fie tbe imacMPraJjid*T>rogless. fook^hi* unanimous choice of the erganizatieD. degree of Doctor of Physics, and dedicated Numerous regulations were added. bis inaugural dissertation to Dr. Franklin The number ef Philadelphians who could of bis own country, and Dr.Cullen, one be invited>t one period was twenty and of the higbst medical authorities of Scot¬ tbese were always picked citizens, seleoted land. 'J'be next year he returned to Phil¬ ratber for their attainments and attributes adelphia, when be was at once appainted tbsn for thbir social connections. With re¬ ta a position iD the Philadelphia Dis¬ gard to the number of strangers invited,no pensary, and was elected one of the limit wassfet. fellows in the College of Physicians, Punctuality as to the hour of 8 o’clock For maity vears he was pri-fesior of was enffctreed upon the members and they anatomy at the uriversity. and during that were pledged to attend the meetings and time bis intercourse with the students procure tne attendance of strangers. was characterized by patience and painstak ing and assiduity that would not have NO SPLENDID FAKE. been greater bad they been bis sons or his An adherence to the frugal simplicity yousger brothers. It was a habit of the which Dr. Wistar observed in regard to the students, at the close of bis lectures to ap¬ entertainments held at bis house was more proach the platform wberean be was wont to stand and ply him with questions UDtil or less strictly enforced. No tea, coffee, the last moment tbat he could remain George B. Wood once stated, “I always re¬ without neglectiDg other duties. garded the Wistar Club not merely as an Although a physician by profession, bis ornamental feature of Philadelphia society, mind frequently discoursed upon other but as a very useful institution, bringing, studies; this may be seen by bis connec¬ as it <;id,persons together with various pur¬ tion witn the Philesephieal Society; and suits, who would not otherwise perhap have although be taught anatomy specially, yet met, thus removing prejudices and con¬ he became quite familiar with other ciliating friendly feeling and by a regula¬ branches of sciencs, such as miner¬ tion regarding strangers wbiob gave each alogy, chemistry, botany and Datura! his¬ member the right io introduce one or more tory. He was twine married, first to Miss to the meetings facilitating their inter¬ Marshal! and then to Miss Elizabeth. course with citizens, and contributing to c Mifflin. Probably the death of no citizen of^ the reputation of our city for hospitality. Philadelphia was evsr more generally and Before corupleliug this sketch of the Wis¬ sincerely lamented than bis, which occurred I. tar parties some slight biographical notice January 18, 1818. must be given of their founder. It is really ------y~gt > delightful to consider the career of this cakes or wine wa^ served before supper, ram, so gifted was be in the characteristics and the callation usually consisted of one that make a man an ornament and a bless¬ course, so prepared as'to, dispense with tbe|| ing to the community wherein be resides. Dr. Wistar was born in this city in 1751, use of knives.at table. Ic^ cream was not and as bis name indicates be was of Ger¬ i allowed. man extraction. Be received his academia * In 1835 a very interesting event oocurred, education at*the Friends’ Academy then as in that year Job B. Tyson bought Dr. an Fourth Street below Chestnut. After * Caspar Wisiar’s old house at Fourth aDd finishing bis course he studied medicine Prune Streets, and once more opened its under Dr. John Kedmond. He then be¬ ! doors to the learned members of the associ¬ came a student at. the university, taking ation. In 1840 the number of citizens who his decree i ft 1782. Bike his illustrious could bo invited «as raised to forty. It is ratber a remarkable fact tbat of the many distinguished persons who were entertained at the Wistar parties, but few compara¬ tively made a record of the event which ( has come down to es. In 1825 the Duke of Saxe-Weimar, while oa a visit to Philadelphia, made the fol¬ lowing entry in bis journal: “At Mr. Walsh’s I found a numerous assembly composed mostly of scientific and literary i gentlemen. This assembly is called the Wistar Party. The conversation generally relates to literary and scientific topics. I. unexpectedly met Mr. E. Livingstone in this assembly. I was also introduced toL?*l the Mayor of the city, Mr. Watson, as wellfc ( as to most of the gentlemen present, whose rj interesting conversation afforded me much T entertainment.” Another Wistar party, which the _Duke describes, was held at the house of , Coionei Biddle. On ibis occasion John Quincy Adams, then President of the United States, wes a guest. Of the Presi- j dent the Duke writes: “Be is about 60 ‘S years old, of ratber short stature, 3 with a bald head, and of a very plain and worthy appearance. He speaks but little, ‘ but what he does szy ia to the purpose. I ' must confess that I seldom in my life felt so true and sincere a reverence as at the moment when this honorable gentleman, Stairway in the Old Wistar House. whom 11,000,000 of people have thought worthy to elect ae their chief magistrate, predecessors, ba theD went abroad and sbeok bands with me.” attended leotures at Edinburgh, where he Chief Justice Tilgbam records a Wistar JW | Par at bis boiise, at wbicb were ,ob citizens as Robert Vaux, COLLECTIONS OF NOTE present su Mathew arey, the Irish Protectionist, and.,i>. bis Jon,« Henry C. Carey, political economist and writer; Joseph Hopfeinsen, TREASURES. WHIGS IIAYE BEEl the Eider Peale, Hr. Frederick Beasley, and ruaDy more. There was also a sprink- AMASSED BY PHILADELPHIANS. liog of foreigners among them : Mr. Peder¬ son Minister from Denmark to the United States- the Prince De Canino, who was an entbus’iasito ornithologist, and Colonel JE Beckwith, who left one leg upon the field of Waterloo. All told, the company num¬ bered about one hundred An Uneqnalod Collection of Franklin Im¬ They were regaled with chicken salad, oysters, ices, wines, punch and the like prints and Early German Books—Mr. at the moderate expense of 124.80, and this, we are told, included the whisky for Grata’s Famous Autograph Collection. the puDcb, the caudles, tbe oil for the His Set of Autographs of tho Signers. lamp, and an extra fire in one room. Up to 1835 written invitations were used for tbe parties, but in that year the first Judge Samuel TV. Pennypacker, of the printed invitation was sent out. This bore Court of Common Picas, No’. ;>, is perhaps the tbe qnaint queued head of Dr. Wistar. A few years after this invitation was first most indefatigable among the collectors of this issued, printed lists appeared naming tbe city. For years Judge Pennypacker has been a hosts of tbe season and giving the dates of close student ot local and Pennsylvania his¬ the eivil entertainments. tory. particularly of early German publica¬ WHEN THACKERAY WAS THERE. tions. Judge Pennypacker is himself of Wbe» Thackeray came to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania German origin and has written ■be was entertained at tbe Wistar Parties, several books and sketches upon tho early and in a letter written to William B.Reed, German settlements and the men who were from Washington in 1853, he thus refers to foremost in their organization. them, having jnst beard of the death of He has a very large collection of hooks bis friend, William Peter, British Censul printed on Benjamin Franklin’s press, per¬ to Philadelphia: “Salurday I was to have haps about forty, and although this is not by dined with him, and Mrs. Peter wrote say¬ ing ho was ill with influeaza. He was in any means a complete set of Franklin Im¬ bed with bis last illness and there were to prints, it is a very large percentage of them. be no more Whister Parties for him. Among these books may be mentioned Frank¬ l Will Whister himself, hospitable, pis-tailed lin's first piece of printing, a small volume is¬ ! shade welcome him to Hades? and will they sued from liis brother’s printing office in Bos¬ ' sit down—no, stand up—to a ghostly sup- I per, devouring oysters and all ssrts of ton in 1722, at the time his brother was in birds?” . jail and Franklin was left in charge of the es¬ By 1842 only two of the original msmbero tablishment. of tbe Wistar Party remained. Dr. B.M. the first book that Franklin printed in Patterson and Robert Walsb ; bnt.altbougb Philadelphia was ‘‘Soule's History of the death bad sadly tkinDed tbe rank* of tbe original membership.tbe number ®f bonsred Quakers,” published in 1729. Franklin men¬ names that filled tbe ranks was a goodly tions this volume in his autobiography, muk- one. Among them Horace Binney, iug the statement that a friend secured the William Meredith, John Sergeant, Joshua typographical work and the printing of forty Francis Fisber. Judge Kane, Langdoc« sheets. The rest of the book was printed by Wbeves, Thomas Isaac Wharton, Dr. Isaac Hayes, Dr.Charles D.Meigs, Dr. Frank Kearney, and it bears his imprint. It is a lin^Baohe,’ n nnrlsnd "MnrtAllMoncure VCi "RRobinson. fVt Y» Q folio upon pro patria paper, in pica type, with Dr. Isaac Lea was dean of the association heavy notes in the smallest type. Franklin which position he held until tbe stirrini states that he composed a sheet a day, and events of 1860 and 1861, which brake u; that his partner, Meredith, put it to the press. tbe Wists* parties, and scattered its mem It was frequently 11 o’clock at night and bers, who were not again to unite unti JS86, at which date Dr.Lea was again ap sometimes later befoi-c the young printer fin¬ pointed dean, wbicb position he held bu: ished his distribution for the next day’s task, a few months, bis death occurring. B but he was determined to compose a sheet a was succeeded in this position by bis son day One evening, when the form was im¬ Henry C. Lea, who stilt retains the pssi posed and the day’s work was finally at an end, an accident broke the form and deranged tion.tv U t In wtijiMJgf «^i»~WistMt’8 parties DrM two iolio pages, whereupon Franklin imme¬ diately distributed the type and composed them anew before he went to bed.

Another bit of curious Franklin printing in Judge Pennypacker’s collection is a copy of l\ ollaston’s Religion of Nature,” Lon¬ don, 1724. Upon this hook Franklin worked as a compositor. This fact is well an then ti- cated by his autobiography, in which he says : "At Palmer’s I was employed in com¬ posing for the second edition of Wollaston’s Religion of Nature, some of the reasoning not appearing to me well-founded. I wrote a dtUs metaphysical piece, in which 1 made akgnaiM&fni. it ires entitled •* a Dis¬ library, are p:u,^„,ar; sertation eti Liberty, Necessity, Pleasure and and valuable. A really unique feat Pain.” collection is the large gathering of A complete file of Franklin's newspaper, hooks, covering a period from the mmaie < the Penusytvanta, Gazette, first published in tho last century up to about forty or fifty | 1729, is possessed by Judge Pennypackcr.' This paper is remarkably scarce and it would ve|rs ago. It would be impossible to dupli¬ cate this gathering, as children’s hooks of tli be impossible to make up another set. | Judge Pbhnypacker also has ” Poor Kich- last century and the early park of this are ard’s Almanac” from 1750"tot 1771, complete, ‘he rarest of Americana. Books given co children are destroyed by them in niin¬ and thence on to 1789. A complete set of: cases out of ten, thus out of a large edition this Almanac. I believe, is unknown, and j very tew copies are preserved. there are few if any better sets of it than the Another shelf of the Judge’s library is one owned by Judge Pennypaeker. laden with books relating to David Bitten- liouse, the astronomer. The Judge lias a large It is of his German books, however, that collection of early inland publications issued Judge Pennypackcr delights to talk. He at Lancaster, Carlisle and many other towns takes great pleasure in showing the first u\ J.h.c mtenor of the State in the early part piece of German printing ever done in this of this century and the latter part of the last country. It was executed in 1738 by Chris¬ Many of these books were published at vil¬ topher Sower, in Germantown, and is a broad¬ lages which for the last fifty years, have not side. Only two copies of it are known to repeated such a daring experiment. It would be a herculean task to attempt a thorough de¬ exist. scription ot the many hundred volumes in The Judge also has a very complete file of Judge Pennypacker’s library, but all told it the Germantown newspaper from 1743 on is a magnificent gathering of books relating to down. This paper was printed and issued by local history. Sower, and glancing over its pages it appears to have been a compromise between a re¬ Foremost among autograph collectors must f ligious organ and a daily newspaper. be mentioned Simon Gratz, who is frequently! The Judge also possesses a file of the rare called upon to pass judgment on rare auto¬ Sower Magazine, the first religious magazine published in America. It was issued in 1764. graphs, and who is regarded, the world over, hi umber twelve of this magazine is remark¬ as a most reliable expert in the-matter of ably interesting, as it was printed from the autographic material. Mr. Gratz has next to first type made in America. The copy of the finest collection of autographs in America Conrad Beisel’s “ Zionitischer Weyrauchs Dr. Thomas Emmett, of New York, being Huegel,” printed for the Ephrata Commu¬ the exception. Mr. Gratz has spent many nity, of which Beisel was the head man, owned by Judge Pennypaeker, is unique, as years °t his life in autograph gathering, as he in the end are bound about forty pages of began to amass his valuable collectioiins T iCfty manuscript hymns by Beisel. ago as 1856. He was then but a mere strip- The Judge has a copy of each of the three ! lmg, about 17 years of age, yet at that early editions of the Sower Bibles, all in an ex¬ period he was imbued with the idea while ac- cellent state of preservation. In fact, his k,i; cidently searching among a number of old collection of Sower imprints is the finest in TV family papers. the world, and is of considerable value and His collection is so vast that no comprehen- great interest. Slve description of it could be given in a news¬ The collection of Ephrata imprints in Judge paper article. Mention must, however, be Pennypacker’s library is also especially com-1 made ot his complete set of the signers of the ;plete, as he has in the neighborhood of one Declaration of Independence, as the great hundred and ten volumes. Some of these majority of our autograph collectors seem to books are among the most curious and rare of regard with delight and consider of para¬ Americana. They were all issued in limited mount interest, to most all other autographs editions of perhaps thirty or forty copies, the possession of such a set. which were distributed solely among the . ^r- Gratz’s letters are in. quarto and folio Ephrata community. The Ephrata prayer size, fifty-two of them being full autograph and hymn-books, some of which contain man¬ letters signed, and they arc all of great inter- uscript scores of music, in this collection are , est historically. It is said that his collection very interesting. excels Dr. Emmett's best set in interest and Apart from the gathering of German books in tiie number of letters of 1776, twenty- Judge Pennypaeker has spent much time in 11oi them having been written during the collection of the imprints of Bobert Bell, Icveutful year, and one of them, that of a scholarly Scotchman and the best of out- | ivilson’s, was written on the memorable early Philadelphia printers, the typography kourth of July.) while his Hancock letter is of his works being much superior to the | dated Jnly 5, 1776. This contains a copy of efforts of his contemporary, Franklin. It is ztne Declaration’ to one of the States. The said that Bell had a desire to improve the two signatures in the collection which are not printer’s art_ in this country, and, work in" ’4 •wmobed to autograph letters arc Morton’s, a with that object in view, he cared more to | loiio document signed, and Lynch’s, a cut issue a handsomely-printed book than he did signature. to make money out of its sale. His imprints ^ratz lias greatly enhanced the ini nter-i are now remarkably scarce and most difficult cst oi liis. collection, of the “Signers” to procure. The Judge has between fifty and copiously illustrating it with portraits anri sixty, and although not a complete set is what i lews. \\ ith tin, exception of the rare Lyn might be called a very full one. signature lie lias a second set of the " Sign¬ ers complete. He once possessed a dupli¬ A shelf-load of books in the Pennypaeker cate ot tin- signature of Thomas Lynch, Jr.. library relate to Washington, and there are . but spared it tli> a fellow collector to round many scarce and curious volumes among out ins set. It is questionable if a genuine • Lynch autograph letter signed is in existence, f them. The Judge considers that he has the a Dr. Emmett, however, claimed to own one, I first piece of printing which accords Wash¬ « which cost him. lie estimated, about $700. ington the title of father of his country, an old almanac printed in the neighborhood of 41

vT • congress is veiy inter ic mein ties, of course, the mem' ongicssot 17/4, and the signer* •• era I ion of 177S. Mr. Grata has we .set. almost entirely composed K;ttcrs, many written during ion, of the signatures of the gen¬ ie revolution. Besides these possesses a general collection of From s %cifwnd. Qve^ns’ musicians, oculptois. divines, astrono- mus, novelists, etc. emhrL^°

he honorable Treasury, „ifh beadquarlerG m Ne. Sharp Delaney, dignified, self as¬ inasmuch Sfi.feiZ^^teS sertive, verbose and patriotic, if we are to jud^e him by bis episto¬ —. -- “^nucijiiua 10 1 lary legacies to 3B&stms8i&and discourage evil -disposednersoes—i „ the general gov¬ mugglers—from transgressing the Jaws" o ernment,was Col¬ StaSVSh^r tUrther t0 mmeLe th, lector of tho Port ^rncacy ef the customs serviee in this dis of Philadelphia duriDg the years Jhe character of the request does not in. T , 1789-97. inesa of ezaited conception of the bus¬ In the latter part of the former year the iness of this port at that time. The frag¬ Hon. Sharp Delaney addressed 3 letter to mentary records of that post-BevoIutionafy Alexander Hamilton, then Secretary of K

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LOOKING THE WHAEVES FROM CHESTNUT STREET. number. The statistics which would have century Tied falleiTupen fEe“Tafeft Tecords shown the value o£ their carsoes were de¬ of tbe office be once filled, be would bave stroyed as so touch waste paper long years read tbe registry entry of tbe two greatest, ago’by order of some criminally careless fastest, most superbly appointed ships the Treasury official. One thing, however, is world has ever seen, credited to Philadel¬ a matter of departmental history, the West phia and authorized by act of Congress to Indian financier then at the bead of the fly the flag of tbe great Republic. Treasury paid no attention to the prudent THEN AND NOIV. recommendations of the Honorable _ Sharp. One more leaf from tbe past for the pur¬ 8Dd therein Is presented the first instance of discrimination against the port of Phila¬ pose of cemparison, and tbe Henorable delphia. Sharp Delaney will be permitted to rejoin 100 YEARS LATEK. the great company of official has-beeDS Just 100 years later a distinguished whose patriotism and one-time prominence scholar and statistician writing almost cannot save them from frequent lapses into within the shadow of the Custom House a growing oblivion. In his official report said : — to Alexander Hamilton, Collector Delaney, “The steel and iron steamships of the under date of 1789,referred with much feel¬ Delaware River shipyard plow every sea ing to the fact that bis chief and only whera our flag is known, and unless we weigher had taken vigorous exception to incorrectly inte pret the genius of the bis compensation. For tbe six months period in which vre live, the past ship preceding feia complaint the compensation building achievements of Pennslyvania in fees of the weigher, the predecessor of afford but a feeble index of what will be the gentleman who to-day draws a matter seen id the future.” of $1100 per annum from a beneficent gov¬ Precisely 100 years after the appeal of ernment for a similar service, had been Sharp Delaney for row boats to assist in just $25.50. promoting the interests of the port the es¬ The amount of collections during the timate of the arrivals of vessels coastwise third quarter of tha year in question was and domestic alone,of all classes.at the port $252,432.52, figures that are reached and of Philadelphia made by the United States frequently exceeded in a few day*’ col¬ Engineer’s office shows a splendid total of lections at this port in these closing years j 32,413. of the nineteenth century. Had the collector of 1789 been gifted In view of tbe generally discussed alleged! with prescient eye and looking through decadence of the commerce of Philadelphia the growing brightness of a coming cen¬ a few years ago—and there is a recent tury he would have seen instead of the gratifying diminution both of pessemistio barge with sails and the bumble rowboats talk ami literature on the subject—it is for which be asked, a perfectly equipped worth while to trace the growth of Phila¬ revenue service, the flags of all nations in delphia’s commerce during tbe years of its our harbors and a magnificent flotilla of infancy, its prince, and ,dow—in some steam tugs of all classes, to the number of respects, conditions considered—its supre¬ 150, moving over the waters of the wide macy. jiveT. His glance would bavo rested ou wharves and quays piled high with the mer¬ Statistics regarding our commerce pre¬ vious to tbe beginning of the present chandise of ether lauds, millions of wealth from the bolds of steamers and sailing century, and, in fact, for the first quarter *f this century, are, like a good many craft, while beyond all, if tbe pbopbetic vision of tbis be-wigged and powdered pa- American pedigrees, pretty bard to trace, triaf of the_c)osing years of the eighteenth ihe universal disregard for their preserva¬ tion during the Colonial period extended well ioto the new official life of the repub¬ lic, and only as necessity demanded, or IM m

A GREAT SUGAR EEFBEEY ON THE;iDELAWARE. circumstances permitted them to exist7 were statistical does meats and records pre¬ in the value of our exports is shown in the served. For this reason only fragmentary year 1808. when, frem a lota] of $16,864 - figures are obtainable previous to 1800. til in 1S07, the figures drop to $4,013 330 Prior to 1791 there are no records in exist¬ ip Sue year following. From this od. during ence of the value of imports and exports the eleven ensuing years, there is noted a Duriag the War of 1812 there was a re¬ gradual decline, fluctuating between the markable falling off in onr foreign exports. temporary spurt of $10,993,398 in 1810 and In 1811 the foreign exports were $3,865,670: the low water mark of $3,577,117 in 1813. ,1812. $1,313,293; 1813. $327,494. Jbe second war with Great Britain in The recent alleged decadence ef the com¬ 1812, and us disastrous effects upon Ameri¬ merce of this port, concerning which so can shipping can properly be urged as a much has been said and written in the past cause for the above presentment. But the four years.bas numerous parallels d thing the Geeline began f®ur years before the deckra- century. Jn some instances the most lion of war, and lasted for a period of balf startling and persistent decline in the mntuZiarr7 63 r * subsequently. It was not amount of exports, extending over a period until 1866, sixty-hve years later, that the of years, is noted. The appended table export commerce of Philadelphia reached presents one case in point:— the bigb water mark of $17,000,000. One reason for Ibis seems to be apparent . Total Exports Total Exports 1 Year. from Pbilada. Tear. from Pbilada. when it is considered that in the early 1806.$17,674,702 . $3,577,117 11807. 16,864.744 years of the Republic all shipments of 1814. 4,693.919 specie were put down in the column of ex¬ 1808. 4,013,330 1815. 7,196,246 3 809. 9.049.241 1816.. 8,735.592 ports, In one year alone, shortly after the 1810 . 10,993,398 1817 . 8,759.402 beginning of the century, clipper shins 1811 . 9,560,117 1818 . 6,293,788 1812 . 5,973,760 1819 . 5,743,649 earned over $3,000,000 of A merman cofn to Northern Asia alone, to say nothing of SOME REMABKABLE FIGURES. e<3!^y ?ueaTy to Soothers Asia In the above the most remarkable decline Northern and Sontbern Europe. Still another feason7~alkri)e?baps the

JWO WHARVES OF TRANSATLANTIC STEAMSHIP LINES. principal one, is found'in lb7^1iar’ opportunity for European trade offered cadencereae'hed the aV824-3Dd 1836 tlle de' NeaGv In*th tlme' ArDe,ican shippers! 80 odd per cen, t® l P™B°'«ion of hnndl f Ath6 C2",]Dfi t,s971,5o5» Dnrinff ships, by the exigencies of the war were uo» kept out of Continental ports ’ water mark of lmPorls- The low was reached iTKT' du,,Dgf tbe centurv total was 554V*be ryear 1843' wl)P the from Philadelfiniafor0Europe tnfni %s-.aO-a.y-J8. Compared vrjth the large total, had been alreadv br™Jh+S.thf year iZ IT Philadelphia during he tmJM* ItelS not™.™’ $f2’845'7^. the decadence is ticLna a,8 S(?roe Pe*"imistic statis- indicated. 5y tli« prGpor7kT^7~7r ticians wouldTT* make it appear. rsilfonh Whe“ the totalagain rises! the vesr rSt?*♦Bb°W». tbat- be«inaiDS with r>mwTT- 1 8? ’ tbere has been a continuous growth m the exports from Philadelphia, — Vov-MX*

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breakwater ship STATION AT THE MOUTH OF THE DELAWARE. | with marked^eidllnes in certain years, but not at all to be compared to the decadence, The actuar~decJine“cannot nroperly be most remarkable in its showing, in some said to have commenced until* 1885, when! former years. the total exports had reached a figure! While, as observed, the low water mark somewhat in excess of that of the year 1875 was reaohed is 1S43, in a total of $2,354,- which figure, if the phenomenal und tem-| 948, the high water mark was teucbed in' porary advance of 1876 be excluded, was! 1876, in the admirable showing of $59,539.- the highest reached in the history of the 450. The table of exports and imports for past. The table shows, therefor®, a decline! the years from 1861 to 1876 inclusive is from 1885 to 1889, at which time the re-| worthy of reproduction. vival begins and is still in progress. There are numerous difficulties in tbei Year. Total Total Exports. Imports. way of accounting, to the complete satis-1 1861. $8,004,161 faction of an impartial historian, for the! 1862. 8,327.976 abnormal declines and revivals at times) 1*63. 6,269,530 1S64. 9,135,685 during the past ceDtury in the voluifle of 1865. 5,645.755 Philadelphia's commerce. Why iD onel 1866. 7,331,261 year, as in 1840,the exports were $6,820,1451 1867. 14,071,765 1868. 14.218,365 in value, and two years later, in 1842. they 3 869. . 15.872.249 16,414,535 bad declined to $3,770,727; or in 1825. they 1870. 14,952,371 amounted to $11,269,981. when inside of! 1871. 20.820.374 1872. 26.824,333 two years they bad fallen to $7,575,833. In 3 873. 29,186,925 the same years the imports, usually a 1874. 25.004,785 standard of propriety, were, for 1840 ! 187fi. ...24,011,014 1876. 21 000,000 $8,464,882; a»d, 1842, $7,385,858, a dispro-i , portioDste failing off when the decline of, THE DECADENCE OF OTJR COMMERCE. exports is considered. The “alleged decadence” of the commerce SOME OTHER ARGUMENTS. of Philadelphia, as the secretary and stat¬ It would be unfair to confine the subject istician of the Philadelphia Board of of Philadelphia’s importance to a coosid Trade, >ir. William B. Tncker, puts it, eration of the gross amrtial amount of ber| began, if the showing of the previous year exports and imports. The tonnage of ves¬ is to be regarded as something more than sels registered and licensed from the port, an abnormal increase, in 1877, when the exports declined to $37,823,356. The year the arrivals and departures of all classes ofj of the greatest decline Bince was 1888, when craft and the amount of grain, petroleum, the official record exhibits $28,012,879. The and other shipments to foreign and domes¬ figure* i«r the fifteen years are here tic ports must be considered. given Philadelphia .was the birthplace and Total Total early home of steam navigation. It was Year. Exports. Imports. here that Pitch triumphed at first and mis¬ 1877 £37,823,356 $20,126,032 1878 48.362,116 21.048,197 erably failed in the end. The first ocean 1S79 50,686,838 27.224.549 voyage by steam was made from New York 3880 46,689,584 38.9331832 to this place. From figures comjiled by 1881 41,162,957 29,764,278 1882 34,529,459 37,666.489 the department of Internal Affairs the 1883 38.662,434 32,811.045 growth of steam navigation at this port in 1884 36,891,605 31,990,309 J : - -■ 37,281,739 33.365,242 the tonnage of steam vessels registered Rnd 1880 33.607,386 37^997.005 licensed from 1829 to 1890 is given as fol¬ 1887 33,813,024 3 ,570,687 lows :— i o 28,012.879 45,020.132 1889. 29,183,408 60,996,802 Years. ToDnage. Years. Tonnage. 3 890 36.478.554 56,057,013 1829 . 3,598 1860 . 25.472 42.845,724 62,438.219 1830 . 2,730 1861 . 29.262 60,315.880 63.277,781 3831. 2.555 1862 . 45.049! 1832.,... 2,405 1863 . 57.072 THE CITY QUARANTINE STATION...... 2:660 1884. 31,960 2S<}5. 38.826 a sub-eommittae, and the latter after a ]86«. 38.953 great deal of labor made a report in April. 1836. 4.727 183/. 5.350 IS”!. 33,250 18J0, which set forth very clearly and 1H;;H. 4,825 Jg}!,8. 39,682 . 51,112 at length tbe cause of the decadence and 1830. 5.377 . 50.489 the measures undertaken for relief and 1841 .. 4,578 improvement. Tbe basis of the investiga¬ 1842 . 5,263 tion was as follows:— 1843 . 7.809 . 72.206 1844 . 0,355 . 78,937 First, a steady decline in foreign ex¬ i°/5. 83,501 ports ; second, a steady increase in foreign 18«. 10.024 18l6. 80,619 1S46. 11.444 imports; third, a decline in the number 1847 . 13.019 igil. 76,531 1848 . 13.631 of steamships arriving coupled with tbe 1849 . 15,475 tact that a large percentage of transient 1859. 19.665 3881. 75,268 ■ steamships arriving with inward cargoes, were compelled to leave Philadelphia in 1553. 25,629 1884 . 77 4]o bal.ast to load outward cargoes at competing lg?4. 28,732 1855. 19,052 1885 . 74*S37 P9r.ls> fourth, the grain export trade of 18?8. 23.559 3 8|6. 77!070 1 biJadelphia in 1888 was reduced 1,809,215 bushels, or only 3.4 per cent, of the whole 1869. 25.3S8 . 85,154 export of tbe seven leading ports on 1890.103,594 the Atlantic seaboard; fifth, tbe export of Judged by the standard of entrances and Pe3joleum via Philadelphia in 1888 was th« W*? °f Vesselsvs‘eam and sail during 2,567,743 barrels, or 26.5 ef the whole ex¬ t.en ys?rs- t!»e decadence of port, a decline cempared with 1887, when t.roe business is not apparent beyond the it reached its highest peint. 3,227,442. usual fluctuations. The striking feature in barrels, 30.3 per cent, of the total export. the subjoined statement is the steady in J he remainder of this essentially Pennsyl¬ crease in the number of steam vessels L ” vania product exported was almost ex¬ ing to and clearing from this port:_ clusively refined at and exported through Entrances. New Aork. Years. Clearances. Steam. Sail’#. Sail’g The report of tbe committee was to the 1860., , 200 1881.. 1.177 131 837 effect that so far as the grain export trade . 165 1,063 115 1882.. . 359 662 was concerned railroad discrimination 1883.. 824 90 508 . 186 642 115 against Philadelphia and in favor espe¬ 1884.. . 234 497 1885.. 637 168 487 cially of Baltimore, was the cause of the . 317 902 3g86.431 217 679 divergence of this traffic from this port to . 431 713 232 , 476 543 646 204 521 the latter city. Western buyers of grain, 439 601 289 1889. 5984d9 435 representing Philadelphia receivers, were 1890, 708 427 647 832 628 660 unable on account of conditions then affect¬ .1891. 758 483 636 564 580 ing tbe foreign trade via Philadelphia to ‘J1® t0t?1 entrances of vessels of offer as high prices as were offered under ad elasses from foreign and domestic ports similar conditions by buyers in the interest of receivers at Baltimore and rival ports. was 1374. In 1892 the total was 1618 an Notwithstanding these higher prices paid increase of 244. Tbe clearances in ’91 wese 1102, and in- ’99 1430 by Baltimore buyers in the West, their ex¬ a gain of 328. The total nomber ’of- * porters also paid equal or better ocean riving in 1891 immigrants ar- was 28,163; in 1892, 29,334. freight rates, and sold their grain cargoes AN in European markets for sixpence to Dine- OFFICIAL INVESTIGATION, pence Jess per quarter than was possible It was immediately after tbe year of from Philadelphia. 1SS88 tbT 1D ‘be t0t81 °f 0ur «Porta, CAUSED BY DISCRIMINATION. It was shown conclusivsly that allow¬ most closely allied ToThe ances were made upon export and import ®.card of ^rade. Commercial Exchange and traffic by way of Baltimore, which bad a Mantime Exchange, appointed a committee tendency to largely divert te that city trade to investigate the subject. The csmmU- which would otherwise naturally have tee to facilitate the investigation appointed sought shipment from this port. Out of this came the discrimination which ■a A-. if continued would ultimately have barrels per day, which will be ope»ed next|j Summer.will.it is believed, bring this* brought about the decay of the ex¬ port trade of this city. Late in February, city’s share of sugar receipts oa tDe Atlan- 1890, assurances were received from the tic Coast to fully 40 per cent, officials of the Pennsylvania Railroad that EXIT DECADENCE COMMITTEES. the discrimination complained of had With the report of the Decadence Com¬ ceased and that an equitable condition of mittee to the Philadelphia Maritime Ex¬ affairs would continue for the future. change in 1890. the work of that committee With reference to the decline in the annarently cessed ; at least no further re-1 amount ot petroleum exported, the com¬ ports from it have appeared. A similar mittee held the Standard Oil Company committee was appointed from the Board . responsible in view of its absorption of of Trade. In the last report of the board ; rival refineries and pipe lines in the the following appears with reference to vicinity of this city. The report closed a that committee: — year previous to the opening of the new “The permanent sub-committee oa the tidewater pipe line, the first run being made in February, 1891. The ex¬ alleged decadence of the commerce of the port of petroleum has increased as fol¬ rPresenting the Commercial and lows:— Maritime Ezcbangss and ibis board, has Per cent, Yeor Barrels. of whole, not ite work. Its labors, however, have 1885 . 2.968,119 29.8 has 1886 2.933,245 28.8 as yet been officially concluded nor 1887 " 3.227,442 30.3 a final report of its operations been pre 1888 . . 2,657,743 26.5 26.6 sented. . . 1889 . . . 3,168,745 future 1890 . 3,185.924 25.8 “Should a necessity arise tor {onV. 3,940,258 34.6 to the 38.4 joint actioa on the subject relating 1892:. 4.910.739 work" -til the'sob-committee _L. hasiDtfl >nIT) band,Da bo The shipment of corn and wheat shows a time will be lost in resuming aohw *»**• gratifying increase, the great demand Tt was formerly the boast of Pittsburg for our cereals in 1890 causing the ship¬ statisticians that the freight topnage ment of 16.735,521 bushels of corn with a total, including wheat, of 17,353,347. don ViaTheeaexplaua°on was that the vast The exports for 1891 were:Wheat, 6,840.503; touBage if her adjacent cosl fields made corn. 2,608,677; total, 9,449,180, as com¬ up the grand total. In the case of Pkila pared with a total shipment in 18o8 ot delobia the anthracite coni tonnage has 1 809 215. The year 1892 was one of helped to swell the aggregate of her coasP pheRomeual grain crops. The figures showing total exports of cereals tor this period arc as follows: Wheal, 10,020.417 jgk- crr-ras bushels; corn, 19,399,891 bushels; total 29,- 420,308. This beyond doubt is a most re¬ markable showing. , During the pant nine years the importa¬ diminished ite importance as a tion of sugar has shown a steady increase. £f»t to an appreciable decree.. In iS80tjt« The receipts are given by years as fol- low:- Tous So^rd'a"S. ma .104.500 great coax* traffic* 1834., .110.503 1885., The beginntngLpf Philadelphia’s import-l 1888., .112.927 .133,397 1887.. ..21(1.104 1888. .243.7

It is worth while noting in this connec¬ tion that the shipping men of this pert maintain a close watch on the sugar imports coal shipping of the • wbarve» at as weli as petroleum and grain exports, with creased t® such a point that the * the determination that no discrimination Port Richmond maik one of the J - shall deprive Philadelphia of her proper share of trade. Thus far this year there baa L points of been a falling off in her sugar percentage, in the world. The traos although the receipts are larger ;as compared Company alone empl 7^ t0 Coi with New York, Boston and Baltimore. portatioa of its c a g fifteen This is accounted for by the ice blockade ^ of tbs port. The new Mtfahas /efifiery ^ which will have a capacit nually of'about 500,000 tons.-

That Philadelphia is rapidly regaining whatever it may have lost in the way of much disadvantage now, sine® to a modern commercial advantage attracted to rival steamer it means only an additional hslf ports is very generally recognized, and has day’s steaming, and the old difficulty about moreover for its convincing argument a the ice seems to have disappeared in very formidable array of statistical facts, recent years. Fifthly, the improvements I some of which bavo been presented above. in helps to the navigation of the river leave been undertaken in a more aative spirit in a report to.the Department of Internal then ever before in. the case ®f the removal I Affairs on the commerce and navigation of of the islands oppbsite the city now in | the Delaware, Professor Cbeyaey, the able progress. statistician whose impartial adherence to “An improved breakwater, a full number 1 matters of record gives his productions on of range lights and other beacons, the I the subject a decidedly pessimistic tinge i channel widened and deepened in a fsw I at times, says:— bad places, an open river in front ef the WHY OUF. COMMERCE IS GF.OWJNG. I city, and extended wharf lines, will soon “A more permanent indication of in¬ make our harbor one of comparative ex¬ creased activity in foreign trade is to be cellence,and leave very little in the way of found in the rapid increase of regular lines natural obstacles to increase commerce?. of steamers running between Philadelphia A sixth point to be noted is the increased and foreign ports. It iB noticeable that activity of the commercial organizations within the last three years four new lines of the city, especially in the one most bavo been started.and within one year lines closely connected with commerce, the previously running have added additional Philadelphia Maritime Exchange. There¬ service to new ports in three other cases. fore, if it is true that a combination of It is to be presumed that these costly invest¬ causes brought about the decadence of ments are not made without investigation; Philadelphia commerce, it is possible to therefore, as one group of vessels after find at the present time a combination of another is placed in service, each gives a indications of its revival and extension in new evidenoe that competent end interested the immedate future.” judges at least believe Philadelphia com¬ PRESIDENT EAENSHAW TALKS. merce i3 destined to increase. A third in¬ From tbe lips of a gentleman wb® has dication is to be found in the improved long been intimately identified with the terminal facilities acquired on the river commercial Interaata of this port,and whose front recently by the great transportation interest has been recognized in bis selec¬ companies, with the object of having in¬ tion as president of tbe Maritime Ex¬ creased business in shipments by water. change, Mr. George E.Earnsbaw, come tbe “Still a fouryi reason why commerce following interesting observations upon may be expected to increase is that some tbis subject.: — of the old imperfections #f Philadelphia as a pert are losing tbeir importance. The “There are seme marked advantages pos¬ lack oi canal faeilities in the access to sessed by Philadelphia over rival ports, the interior of the continent, t® the great which do not seem to he generally recog¬ i lakes and the greater West is no langer a nized,” said President Earnshaw. “One disadvantage when freight is almost all of these, speaxing of the great coal ship¬ taken by railroad, not by canal. The dis¬ ments from tbis port, is the fact that at the tance ua the ri7er from the sea is net of Greenwich piers we can load tbiee steamers

. if k> : 1 large steamer arrived in New York wish coal at once, while in Baltimore it is 1.500 bales of rags from Bremen. She was _ possible to load only one at a. time. Still held for two hours at quarantine. After another advantage over Baltimore is that unloading she proceeded to this port and Philadelphia is on the main line of railway shipped a cargo. The health authorities sup ply, and for that reason is a quick point were not aware of the fact, or I presume .0 f loading for coal. Coal destined for other tbe vessel would bare been detained and p orts can be cut off while in transit and her owners subjected to great inconvenience shipped from here. and psrhaps loss, the same as one of our “It is worthy of notice, too that within vessels a few years ago, which was quaran¬ the past five years the average size of iron tined five days at Norfolk, after having ore cargoes have increased 50 per cent. In discharged a cargo at Philadelphia, be¬ 1888, Mediterruneau cargoes averaged about cause she had been in tbe West Indies, 20C0 tons; m.w they are 3000. This js at¬ where there was no sickness at the time, tributable to the increased size of the ships, or for thirty days previous. as vessels wilb bulk cargoes are always “The removal of the islands in the Dela- i loaded to their full capacity. The ware,” said President Earnsbaw, in conclu¬ Earn Line steamship Priroats’s first sion, “will be an important factor in tbe cargo of iron ore from Cuba to Philadel¬ increase of anr commerce. With but one phia in 1885 was 2380 tons. The steam¬ or two exceptions, we haven’t a wharf along ship Helen, of the same freight line, od tbe Delaware where the largest ships can its last trip from Cuba, carried 4226Tods of lay in safety to discharge their cargo. The ore. The smallest ship of that line now- removal of the islands will permit of the carries 2750 ions. extension of wharfs and the result will “Tbers is a general and gratifying ten¬ be that steamships can lie at a berth with-' dency toward increased size and greater out one-qeiarter of their length project¬ speed in freight steamers. Eight years ing beyond the end of the wharf, to tbe ago the average was 2000 tons, oud eight imminent danger of the vessel herself as knots speed. To-day tlia most modern type well as other craft.” is 8000 tons and twelve knots speed. "An increase in our commerce at this pert depends largely upon the attitude of the railroads. Ships cannot carry cargoes unless tlse railroads rupply them. There is every indication that the lines which act as feeders to the port of Philadelphia will continue to maintain a system of rair treatmsnt, and exhibit a due appreciation of the city’s interests by not discriminat¬ ing against ber in favor of some rival. If our importance as a port is to be main¬ tained and recognized, all railropd dis¬ crimination must bs done away with.” BETTER HEALTH LAWS NEEDED. “What improvements, or reforms, in the laws of the port can be suggested?” “A number, but principally a reform in the administration of our health laws is de¬ manded. The present system is obsolete. The present health laws of the port are those of 1818. Last year the steamships Kate Fawcett and Lochetive arrived here with a few bales of rags on beard. They were halted at the capes by the Govern¬ ment quarantine officers. At tbaendof a fortnight they were still in quarantine and then 1 beaded a deputation to Mayor Stuart and the city health otSeers.in an en¬ deavor to discover what they,as well os the Government quarantine officials, proposed doing. It was agrsed that if the rags Were removed from the vessels on to lighters the city authorities weuld agree to let the two vessels come up to the city. That at least was a start. Then the Board of Health telegraphed the authorities at Wash¬ ington and they instructed the surgeon of the Marine Hospital Service at Dela¬ ware Breakwater to remove the rags, and from the time the Kate Faw¬ cett reached the Breakwater uutil she passed out again it was just forty-nine From,. days. If we hadn’t gone with our appeal Atsgju. to the authorities there is no telling how long those vessels would have been hald.at great expanse, at tbo Breakwater. . "-4 "The contrast to this stats of affairs was ... — - ■ shewn 1b New York, where vessels with much larger cargoes of rags were detained only a few days at most at quarantine and i Bate, 'j/l'aJt/r f\ then permitted to proceed. Two weeks ago a | eracncatod all snch notions of tbe obiect and scope of hospitals, except among a cer- toin ciasa who always form tbe rear guard in march of civilization end progress, ’his City Famous for Its In. j , A GOOD CITY TO GET 8ICK IN. In do city in the world can a stranger stitutions for Healing jdrop uneonecicus to tbe sidewalk with quite as complete a souse of security in bis the Sick. being properly cared for as in Philadel¬ phia. He may have thousands of dollars i in bis packets, or be may be without a cent. It is all tbe same, for tbe treatment NTERESTING STATISTICS, would net be modified in tbe slightest by reason of his appearance or tbe amount of money found upon bis person. There are a dozen large hospitals, aad he Romance of Stephen Girard as neerlv two doz n smaller one*, ready and,' willing to receive the strioken stranger and : Discovered in the Pennsylvania are for him. Jf a man or woman falls un- \ Hospital—Oldest School for nnon iauo i „ l_l _ /» .1 Training Nurses in America.

incarceration"... ,, .-witbin whitewashed, walls, 1 with tbe sound ef dying moans forever n| 1 the ears of tbe sufferers, by any means, 1 Abundant light and ventilation,’ cbeerfwj ' surroundings, constant core of trained a& W ^e cam i*ndant3 ana competent physicians, msl _ Taign of th< . the routine of life in a ward a perfect ely. L Feninoula, oi • slum to those of tbe poster classes, wbese * I » te the battle1 . homes are hovels, while to others it re- Ids of tbe Southwest rang with the pa .fsoives itself into a period of rest where etic war-song music:— nature has quite as much to do as medi- Into a ward of whitewashed walls. c*nts with complete restoration of health; Where the dead and the dying lay. Up io wilbiD tbe past quarter of a cen- Wounded by bayonets, shells and balls jtury_ a very general prefudio- against bos- jPJtaiS existed among tbe masses of tbe mid- idle classes. A combination of conflicting , views wds responsible for Ibis. Hospitals1 were regarded only as institutions of char¬ ity, while persons with means to pay for attendance aDd treatment, laying aside ell of attendance has made for Philadelphia prejudice, seemed merely to consign hospitals 11 name tbe world over. THE OLDEST IN THE LAND. In tbe fireproof vault in tbe office of the IFenus ylvania Hospital there is preserved jin a carved oaken frame a yellow piece »f 50

PENNSYLVANIA, THE OLDEST HOSPITAL IN THE UNITED STATES. _ Philadelphia alone sboBTtf near toe ox¬ paper. It is torn in one or two places and en#*. Here was where Benjamin Frank- the creases have alnsost obliterated the fiin’s great sagacity was manifested. quaint characters«/!.«» o vici d in gomev of tfc® writing."h* t is dated J3nn£»y,1750.and ie tVre original BEN FEANKLTN’S SHEEWDNESS. )etitisn, drafted by Benjamin Franklin, He told tbe objecting members, on hi# .directed to the Proviccial Assembly, set¬ own responsibility, that two thousand ting forth the urgent necessity for a hospi¬ pounds could be rsissd for the hospital in tal in Philadelphia, and presented to that the city. They refused to believe tbi#, for body on January 23. 1761. This was the two thousand ponnds in those days was a origin of Philadelphia’s oldest hospital—the great eum in tbe eyes of tbe people. Then oldest hogpital in the country. Franklin suggested that they make • grant Dr. Thomas Bond was the leading of two thousand pounds, conditional upon physician in Philadelphia 160 years ago. the citizens raising two thousand ponDda The need of a hospital'for the treatment additional. The bait took and tbe bill was of special oases and the care of those unable passed. The conditional character of tbe to pay for med'oal attendance was, quite grant stimulated the benevolence of tbe cit¬ early, impressed upon his mind. Others izens, and the amount required was speed¬ doubtless bad considered the same subject, ily raised. Franklin confesses,in his mem¬ bat Dr. Bond, with the aid of Benjamin oirs, that he was a “little indirect” in bis Franklin, was the first to draw public statements concerning tbe subscription, but attention to the subject. as a political maneuver nothing ever gave It was apparent from the beginning tbat him quite to rsucb pleasure. the movement must be of & public charac¬ Then tbe shrewd old promoters of those ter, as iadividual effort could not hope to distant days concocted another scheme to encompass such a work as was tbsn con¬ boom tb# capital.The charter provided tbat P templated. Accordingly the Assembly was all who bad contributed or might thereafter petitioned for aid, a«d, after csnsiderable contribute ten pouads or more to tbe hos¬ oppositien from some ef the country mem¬ pital should meet on tbe first Monday of bers, on February 7 following, a bill was May yearly forever to elect twelve man¬ passed unasimously incorporating “the agers and a treasurer out of tbeir own contributors to tba Pennsylvania Hospj- number to wake rules for the government ml ” and appropriating £2000 toward the of tie institution. The first annual meet¬ erection and furnishing of a building, to b* ing was held in May, 1751, and the board paid when id equal amount should be of managers elected was: Joshua Crosby, subscribed ify indiyiduals to a permanent Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Bond, Sam¬ fund. . . , . uel "Hazard, Bicbard Peters, Israel Pem¬ There is a bit of piivate bistory connected berton, Jr..Samuel Rbosds, Hugh Roberts, with Ibis action of the Assembly. Bes- Joseph Morris, John Bmitb, Evas Morgan, jamin Franklin was the schemer in this in¬ Charles Norris; treasurer, John Reyiiell. stance. Dec of the objections made by the A house, the residence of Judge Kinsey, opponents «f the bill was tbat the cost of in Marhit Street, was rented ns a hospital, medical attendance alone would be suffi¬ and on the 2d cf February, 1752, the first cient to consume all the meney that con.d patients were admitted. Th« first attending he raised. This was promptly met by an physicians to the institution wore Drs, offer on the part of Dr.Lloyd Zachary, Llovd Zachary, Ttore;as slid Pbinoa# Bond. and the brethers, Drs.Thomas and Fbmeas Drs. Graoih*, Cadw’al&'der, Mecre, and Bond.fo attend the patients gratuitously for Redman were appointed consulting physi¬ three years. Then the country members, cians. 9 thinking that it wes for the benefit of the But tbe proprietors, Thomas and William city folk, concluded that ^tbe ci.izene of Penn, bad dono nothing for the new b ADMINISTRATION BUILDING OF THE PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL. pital, arid *e a petition was forwarder! to 1 decided to pnrcbBsa a piece of ground Rnglond askiDg them to docale 8 lot for which incloses the wbols square on wbian the building. The managers suppested with the hospital now stands, with tbe excep¬ a great deal of modesty : “A vacant part tion of a depth of sixty feat on Spruce of (he square belveen Fifitb r.nd Tenth Street. Tbe price paid was £500. 3 he Streets from Delaware. on tbe south side of corner stone of the first part of the present Mulberry Street; the lots in that part of building was laid od tbe 28th of May, tbe city not baring advanced in value lor 1755. It bore tbe following inscription, several years past, and not likely to be written by Dr. Franklin 1 good settled.” Tbe Penns tbeugbt differently, and so L_-——o In toe year of Christ tbe deseesdar.ts of tbe immortal William MDCCLV procerded to piace a mails of selfishness George the Second, happily retgniDg. land cupidity on the name, 'they aent (For be sought tbe happiness of his People), Philadelphia Flourishing. bark an elaborate d arter for the institution (For its Inhabitants were public spirited). land magnanimously donated “a part of a This Building, square” lying on tbe north aide of Sassafras By the bouDty of the Government* and of many private persona. Sirpet between Sisih aDd Seventh Street*, Was piously founded. i which' was then little bettor than a frog For the relief of the Sick and Miserable; pond, pdjacsnt te brick yard* and other May tbe God of Mercies, Bless the undertaking. frog ponds. With commes' able prompti¬ tude tbe managers rejected both the charter and the frog pond site, and left it t© the There are-some interesting side light* «n legal reDresentatives of tbe Penns to try the early history of the Pennsylvania Hos¬ and explain the actions of the sons. pital. Dr. John Fothergill of London, After careful learsh the manager sent a donation of eighteen different views of anatomical structure ia cravon and framed. They were invoiced at, £350. The far beyond the gates of tbe great institu¬ manager hung them in a Drivafe room *Dd tion yon so nobly championed. Forty- charged visitor* a dollar! Medieal students two years to come! and tbe hospital for w«r« charged erne pistole a view. Dr. tbe insane will have been compelled like Sbippen volunteered to attend tbe room on ©very other Saturday at 5 P.M. to explain the Indian to move farther toward the set¬ ting sun, away from the swirl and sweep tbe paintings to those who could day a dollar to hear him. of tbe city’o life. "Franklis, np to the time of his death Sine© the foundation of tbe hospital, m was a staunch supporter of tbe hospital! 1751, there have been admitted 127 748 He wrote for it, solicited for it and rallied patients, of when) 61.166 were poor per- in its interest*. He was its first secretary Boas, supported at the expense of the insti¬ and second president of tbe Board of Man- tution. Of there 127.748 patients there users. have been cuied, 82,452; relieved er im¬ The hospital prospered. Purchases of proved. 21.624; left the hospital without ground were made from time to time with materia! improvement, 8931; women safely advantage. Its treasury was increased bv delivered, 1360; infaDts born, 1270; died, tbe deposit of jury fines, disputed sums of 11.917; remaining, 185. money, and the wages of the signers of tbe The average cost per patient per week is paper money of the Province. In 1776 it $9.35. During the past year 2009 patients i* estimated that tbe property valuation were admitted. Of tbe patients discharged was $56,000 and tbe income $3500 annually the proportion cured was 72 69 per cent.; rBai ‘ber® were dark days in store! relieved, 16.70 per cent.; removed without hour of its Tory managers were banished materia] improvement, 2.15 per cent.; to Western Virginia wilds, and tbe British died, 8.46 per cent. army invaded the city aad took possession PtduotiBg fifty-one who died within l . They appropriated the bedding, medicines, instruments twenty-four hours after entering tbs hos-j pita], makes the percentage of deaths 5.94, everything to their uses, Debtors of the institution took advantages the law enfor- As showing the remarkable system which cing tbe receipt ef paper money to pav prevails so this hospital, on tbe night of their debts in a depreciating currency, the Central Theatre fire eighiy-five men and boys were put to bed with their wounds the hospital became crippled; it had dressed within sixty minutes. Three am¬ do means of doing good and at last It sunk to tbe necessity of begging a little specie bulances were kept running last Summer, when eigbtv-fivo beat cases were treated. to prevent its operatiens from being At tbe last meeting the one hundred wholly suspended. Tbe Legislature made a grant of £10,000 to tbe hospital, Dut tbe and forty-firat annual gathering, the fol- value of this grant in specie was a trifle lowing managers were ©looted: Benjamin over £163. < H. Shoemaker, Alexander Biddle, Joseph With tbe end of tbe revolution came tbe B. Townsend, Joseph C. Turnpenny, 7.1 VVistar brown, Charles Hartshorn©, James! dawn ef a new era. It is not possible to trace the history of this splendid instita. T. Shinn, John B. Garrett,John W. Biddle j “oI)n T.-Lewis, Jr., John S. Jenks, Joseph article ^llmi,S °f ® l,in8ie UCWBPaPe1, E. Gillingham. Treasurer, Henry Haines. I At tbe first meeting of the manager* the STEPHEN GIKABD’S KOMANCE. board unanimously elected Benjamin H. It Is not generally known that the wife Shoemaker president and Jam»s 3’. Shinn of Stephen Girard, whose name is insepar¬ secretary. ably attached to great testameatary in¬ THE PP.OTKSTANT EPISCOPAL HOSPITAL. terests in this city, was for a long time on Tbirty-one years ago the United States inmate of the insane department of this Government made a demand for the oocu- hospital And it is still Jess general!y ystion of a eet of buildings o# Lehigh Av-! known that a child was born to him with eane, at tbe corner of Front Street. They in its precincts in May, 1701. bv the death „ were impressive structures in external ap¬ of which tbe orphans of Philadelphia be¬ came bis heirs. pearance then, as (bey are now, and al- Tbe City Troop of Philadelphia is of though the interior was in a highly unsat¬ interest in this conception. The troep isfactory condition, they were promptly! appropriated their pay for services in the stmeedered to the Federal authorities. Revolution te tbe establishment of s fonnd- Thera are thousands of men, veterans of! ling hospital, but they were prevailed upon tbe late war. its all parts of the Union to-1 to donate it to this hospital, aDd for many day,who have a kind feeling in tbeir hearts year* it was tbe income for tbs support of a lying-in ward iD the institution. for Philadelphia, They have not fergot-! As paily as 1836 the Question of separate ten the unshaken loyalty of thi* city at a buildings for tbe insane was agitated. Thai time when alien New York was engaged1 result was (he purchase of giound and the ' in its attempts to strangle the admmistra-! erection of buildings, which were ocened tior of law by riots and arson; they will January 1 1811. Dr. Wood writing on never forget the lunch rooms aad sanitary I this subject in 1851 says:— coEnmissiens and hospitals. They will! .. “J4,18 *?srd!y necesssry for me to sar never forget the Protertant Episcopal Hos- that the site selected was a farm extend- pital. those who were fortunate enough to frcro ‘he Baverford to the West be assigned to it, ev6B in its unfinished Chester Bead, about two mile* west of condition. the city, containing something more than It was in 1862 that tbe Government de-l 100 acres. Tbe pcsitisn was, I think inanded the use of the buildings, and even I happily selected with reference to health- tbe parlors, corridors and dining rooms fillness, convenience and future availabil¬ were thrown open to the Union soldiers, ity. A century hence it is probable that until 320 wounded were cared for. our growing town wiil hare reached these That was the consecration of this insti- ^ suburban grounds, eto.” tntion, tbe bleed of Union soldiers. Its A century hence. Dear Doctor Wood? first impulse came through a sermon from Forty-two yeais have scarce passed and tbe lips of the late Bishop Stevens. Im¬ ‘oar growing town” has stretched its arms pelled by a desire to do something for the glory of God and the benefit of humanity. I tbe daughters of Francis Leasey gave tha mexobial bctldisg EPISCOPAL hospital

ISfrrtSJWs.'?'"?' ?isssa: delegates. The chapel, the center building |™.... fig- “• tart*' and the west wing were in course of com¬ pletion when the Government called for (7°«ed .under treatment varies bat little, a fair 24th. I860, the corner-stone » 31W average of ail the years making it about 34. the preaence of the whole d?6 Wfl* ^*Jd i* The dispensary connected with the hos¬ sylvania. « "presented ^X^/Ld^; pital does a great work among the poorer classes in the csrtbeastern part of toe city. The hospital is surrounded by ml];,. factories and workshops, wbilo there are a also that n®bcmm®pafbic'6r YcIecBc cumber of railroad way lines in its viein- sician, as they call tbemsslves. shall ily. The tola! number Of visits made by anything to do with the management patients to the dispensary daring the year charge of said hospital, or with the treat were 61.812. meDt of any patient or patients therein.” The hospital is tinder the control of the This was a hard, round, solitl sbet at the Protestant Episcopal Church, with Right newer schools of medicine, and it show* Reverend O. W, Whitaker, D.D., bishop of likewise bow set in bis opinions W88 the the diocese of Pennsylvania, president^ ex- Sooteh-Iriab founder. , offieio. The members of the board are:— “The reason for bis making it obligatory Term of servioe expiring 1894.—Rev. B, ddod physicians in charge to have received! Watson,D. D. ,Rev. J. Blake Falkner, D.D., the degree of A.B. from some reputable Rev. James H. Stone, D. D.. B. G. Go frey, institution,” said one of the officers of the John C. Browne.Charles C. Harrison,Oliver hospital, “was his experience with the Laadretb, Israel W. Morris. class of physicians more numerous half a Term of service expiring 18P5.—Rev. J. century age than now, wbo drifted from N. Blanchard, George Bight, Ryaesr Wil¬ the plow into a medical school and three liams, Jr., Jobe W. Brock, John Asbburst, years later were turned loose with M. D Jr.. M.D., Charles D. Clark, Clement B. to tbeir names to prey upon »««rr*ng Newbold. Tern) of service expiring 1896.—Rev. 3. "Toe” Method* Episcopal Hospital is D. McConnell, I>. D.% R»v. W. Neilson Mo- located on South Broad Street, near Wolte, Vickar.I). D.. Bav. Joseph D. Newlin. D. D., and witnin sight of League Island Navy Alexander Brows, William Platt Pepper, Yard. It has a large f.ni impowng edihc J. Vaughan Merrick, James L. Fisher, which has only been occupied for 'the Pa ‘ Wharton Sinkler, M.D.; treapurer, W. W. two years, and it is as a result the newest Frazier; secretary, Rev. Winfisld S. Baer, of the large hospitals in the city. 1102 Walnut Street. At the annua! conference ot the Metho¬ dist Episcopal Church in Pbliadlepbia m PHILADELPHIA HOSPITAL. 1882, Bishop Simpson called uP““.^e ° t* The Philadelphia Hospital, or Blockley, ference to take some action upon as the opponents of public spinion would t»r and the bequest with its c®n^nons. call it, is the City Hospital, and as such accented. But this did not eud the suDject receives and treats a greater number of by any means. A misconception ■e«BB to esses than sny other institution in the have existed as to what was meant by the Slate. An extended history of this admir¬ provisions of the will. It was ^“CLght able hospital, of which the eminent Dr. that the selection of a site the e,e0,110,“ D.E.Hughes is ibe chief resident physi¬ a paviliion for patients and a general call cian, would be a history of tb® develop¬ for*donations from the Methodist Episco¬ ment of the institution of which it is a pal Churches of Philadelphia would fall the part. Some statistics will furnish a com¬ demands «£ the testament and toe funds prehensive and exceptionally clear idea of would be bended over to a committee ap¬ the work done. pointed by the conference. The question Tbs total number of patients treated was taken before Judge Penrose on Janu¬ during the year embraced in tbo last ary 11. 1886. on a call for audit of the ac¬ annual report was 7909, of which number count of the trust company having the 3314 were discharged cured, 2515 were fund in hand. Judge Penrose said-— relieved, 1306 (chronic oases) not improved, “Everything remaias absolutely indefi¬ and 875 died. The mort-iity was 11.06 per nite and without fixed plan; the location cent. . , and cost of tbe lot; tbs amount to > e ex¬ This hospital was the first to introduce pended upon the erection of the necessary an ambulance eervioe in the city, and buildings; tbe charocier ana expense of during the year 839 calls weTe responded to j their equipment wben erected. . by this department. During the year 724 “Tbe auditing Judge is of the opinion, eases of acute alcoholism were admitted, of therefore, that the estate cannot yet be which twenty-two died. .... takes from tbe accountant and placed be¬ One of the most interesting flstisireal yond tbe reach of the heirs and next of kin reports in connection with the Philadel¬ of the testator. Two years, however, re- phia Hospital is the steady increase in the main before it can be asserted that tbe number cl persons afflicted with nervous impracticability of tbe Proposed hospital diseases. In 1887 there were 154; 1888, 170; shall have been demonstrated. 1889, 190; 1890, 194; 1891, 221. 8TAKTING THE HOSPITAL. THEY MUST BE B.A’S. This was a decided setback for tb* There is a peculiarl y in the management friends ef the hospital, but they went to of the Methodist Episcopal Hospital which work to recover themselves. A finsncial prevails nowhere else at a similar institu¬ agent was appointed, the conference was tion in Philadelphia. Slcott Stewart. M. interested over the fc-ar of Josiag tb« *201,- 000 and in March. 1888. the agent. Rev. 1)., an aged member of St. Paul’s Church, ; Jsmes Neill,reported subscriptions of 5<4,- who died at Ocean Grove in June, 1881.1 254 and (be treasurer. Peler Lamb, .re¬ was the founder. The clause in his will , pelled $42,191 actually paid in. hieb provided for the establishment of ib* ! In the meantime the l»t on South Broad hospital says:— _ • „ Street bad been purchased and plans for a “In trust to pay over the balance * 3 t building adopted, and on February 8, 1888, to the trustees of a hospital to be founded [ Judge Penrose ordered the surrender ot or established within five years after the | the Stewart residuary estat; to tbe pewns decease of my survivin g sister, in that designated to receive it on behalf of toe part of tbs city of Philadelphia south of church. The heirs objected, but the Court South Street, and to be under (he auspices in bane sustained tbe ruling of Judge 1 eu¬ of the Methodist Episcopal Church; pro¬ ros* and tbe Methodist Episcopal Hospital vided said hospital shall be under the! became a fact. The qase was subsequently charge and care only of regularly educated carried to the Pennsylvania Supreme physicians of the old school, who shall Court and the decision ®f the Philadelphia have received the degree of A. B. from , court sustained. some university or college and provided I The first building erected was a P»vu- 55

VIEW OF THE EPISCOPAL HOSPITAL FROM THE SOUTH. lion, at a eoit of $61,000. one of six con¬ entering Dr.Chambers' enuren, south of templated in tbe plans, the corner-stone us, or the Roman Catholic Church on tbe of which was laid June 21, 1888. In the square just east. following year it was decided to erect an “However that may bo. our strangers adminiitratioa building, the Sundav listened to the proceedings fora little while Schools of the Conference pledging their and then grew somewhat restless. I eat support in the rost. The cost of this build¬ near them and observed all their actions. ing was $51,000. Bev.W.Swindells, D.D., Presently they exchanged thoughts in low was elected superintendent iu 1888, and a whispers; then tbe man put his band into peculiarity of his 'dministration was tbe his pocket end fumbled about. He rose appearance, tb« following yesr, of a large end advanced toward tde desk. In the and smiling portrait cj, bite self as a frontis¬ . mpnnti an tha woman had risen god re- piece to tbe aDBua) report, labeled “Y@urs m&ined standing. Dr. Musgrore paused Fraternally.” A cut of tbe proposed hos- iD his speaking and tbe man laid down a pilal appeared in the rear cover of tbe silver coin on tbe desk before biro, made a 'pamphlet. little bow, tbe woman at tbe same time Tbe first year of the Hospital proper he- dropping an old-fashioned courtesy, and gan with its opening on April 21, 1892. On the two marched out of the room without Norember 5, 1892, tee Charles E.Coulstou further ceremony. Memorial Building, to provide a separate “The coin was a 60 cent piece, and that operating room was formally dedicated. was tbe first contribution to the Presbyter¬ ROMANCE OF THE PRESBYTEBIAN. ian Hospital. The Dame of tbe giver has never been known. Perhaps we shall There is a delightful bit of romance con¬ know it some day when we have passed to nected with tbe magnificent Presbyterian the good realm where hospitals are not Hospital over in West Philadelphia, oa needed.” Tbirty-nistb Street above Market. It is ITS FINANCIAL HISTORY. best told in the language of Rev. H.C. Mc¬ The Presbyterian Hospital began its Cook.JX D., in whose church the first steps career twenty-two years ago, its predecessor were taken looking toward this great de¬ being o modest little hospital in a private nominational charity. house, knowD as Charity Hospital. Then “The first public meeting in the interests • of the proposed hospital,” says Dr. Mo- the Presbyterian denomination took np the Cook, “was called in the lecture room of work started by Dr. McCook. The ground the church of which I am pasior. whose of the institutien was donated by tbe ven¬ building then stood at Broad and Penn erable Dr. Saunders, whose institute occu¬ Square. It was a small but earnest meet¬ pied the original site. The first great gift ing. Dnrilig tbe discussions, a iran and was that of Jsbn A. Brown of $300,000 for woman, apparently husband and wife, en¬ tered tb® teem sad occupied tbe very front endowment. Since then gifts of money, seat, just beneath the speaker’s desk. buildings, and valuable accessions _ have They were plain people, having the ap¬ been numerous. Oee of tbe noted gifts is pearance of Old Country folk,perhaps from tbe administration buildiDg, presented by the North of Ireland. I at once observed Mr. John H. Cos verse, secretary of the that they had made a mistake. Tbi» was Boanl of Managers. Lady Martha Richard¬ nothing new, for frequently on Sunday, son Kortrigbt, a Pbilad Ipbian by birth, built and presented to the carporstien a and sometimes on other occasions, persons were in the habit of dropping into our woman’s surgical ward; while Mrs.John plaee of worship, thinking that they were | ffanaznaker’e girt is a beautiful equipped ;-.c

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Ig|',,r TH® GERMAN HOSPITAL, GIRARD AVENGE. children’s-i ward. "Fifty-two nij'iwu freeliee bedsore(feus are —- Wood being preseEi, maintained ; while by the payment of $300 and an immense cs anuajiy fouifeen more beds are main¬ course of people. tained. The ground plan of this great institution The total number of patients treated comprises a group of buildings during the year ending December 31, 1891, with a central main building 50 feet in was 888. Of this Dumber 466 were cured,' width by 70 feet in length, leading to a 196 improved, 34 not improved, 6 eloped’ rotunda or grand staircase from whicb| 8 were iraaftfeired, 7 were wert discharged diverge the rear buildings, giving it for misconduct, while 74, or 9.3G per cent, depth of 190 feet east and west; while on died. Id the cui-patieut department 3674 the north it connects with a wing bnil(L cases were treated, white 9070 prescriptions ing, 60 by 100, which is intersseted by a were compounded is alt departments. cross wing 44 feet wide by 88 feet iD Outside of medical services the cost of length. When the south wing is added maintaining the out-pHieist department the entire hospital frontage will be 360 W8s $482.95; cash received for prescriptions, feet, A basement 12 feet in height runs $252.90, leaving a balance of $230.05 less under the entire structure, and the to the hospital. The ambulance service first, secesd and third stories are each 17 brought 489 patients to the hospital. The feet in the clear. total operating expenses for the year were The main front central entrance is ex- $60,744. The total receipt*. $6R452.. The teraally constructed of cut Eastern white trustees are; President, Rev.Charles A. granite, an imposing portico, having a Dickey.D.D. ; treasurer.Frank K. Hippie; double flight of steps, ascending to a secretary, John H.Converse. wide platform. Above is a pediment gable Fur One Year—Rev. J, Hervev Reale, supported by pilasters, with polished James F. Magee. Edward H. Wiliams, granite baluster*. Above the roof of the Rev. S. W. Dane, D.D., George S. Graham, portico is the statue ef St. Agnes, 8 feet J. Rodman Paul, Rev, John Hemphill, high, execute^ in Italian marble. On the D. D.. Panaucl B.Huey, Rev. Louis F. Ben¬ walls of the vestibule are four memorial son, John H.Watt. tablets of red granite and gilded insorip- For Two Years—Charles A.Dickey. D tions dedicated to the las* Mr. and Mrs. D Frank K. Hippie. Rev.E. C. McCook, h. C. Drexel, Dr. Andrew Nebin- O.D., ( narlss H.ilathevr*. Jobs Wana- ^er.-.J Dr- Robert Nobinger, Mr. James mjsher. Rev. George D. B*ker. D. D., JobD McMinn, and Mr*. Schaeffer, all of Guest, Andrew Blair, Charles F. Hnsel- whom were generous benefactor* of this tine, William A.Patton. chanty. The reception rooms and doctors' ../or Years— Rev. William Ham- offices aro located on this vestibule, and ilton IvhiJer, J). D., Robert C. Ogden above are rooms for the bishops and vjsi Rev. Loyal Y. Graham, D D., B.K. Jam¬ ing guests, finished in oiled cypress and ison John B.Sbedwiok, Rev. Jphn S.Mac¬ frescoed. intosh, D. D., John D.Mot'ord, John H. The hospital has accommodations for 225 onvorse George Stevenson, Rev. William patients, and when the south wing is com¬ Greenough. pleted will accommodate fully 500, It is „ st.agnes hospital. °rB q!T ,be si3ler* of tb» third order of vrr&acis.ar*e. ot bt. Agnes Hospital, on South Broad The last report issued by the sistsrs in .net, ceaf McKean Street, is the largest charge shows that 2243 patients were treated and most influential hospital under the in to# medical ur«rti, aud in all wards, P' •'•&- .direction of the Roman Catholic Church 3445. The expenditures for the year -were in Ibis city. The let on which it stands $18,098.47 and the receipt* and has a Broad Street frontage of 400 feet and $18,296.70. a depth ©f 396. Ground was broken by the ST. JOSEPH’S HOSPITAL. architect, Edwin F. Durang, on Augnst 23. St. Joseph’s Hospital, at Sixteenth i 1881, and the cornerstone was laid October Girard Avenue, has been ia existence ferty-fiva years. Tbe Jest published to l8?2’ by tle® v«*y J^ev, Maurice A. < aHh, V. G., LL. D., the late Arohbisbopi port. January 1, 1892. gives the number cases treated in tbe hospital a* 1267 increase o f 2S2 over that of 1890, Of t >t in (be medical ami 405 >1 departments, 943 patients - • « jslitution cured, against 771 Within the hospital grounds are the curing tne preceding year. Mary J.Drexel Home for Aged Men and The unmber of patients treated fn the women, and there still remains sufficient out department was 4368. to all of whom room for such other additions as time and medicine was furnished either gratuitously future enddw merits may provide. or at cost price. Meals were also supplied The last published report of this institu. to those who were too poor to provide Hon (1891) shows a total of 1568 cases treated during tbe yesr ct a cost of $44,707 Tha themselves with proper nourishment, the officers of tbe hospital are: PresidenLJobn suuioer of meals thus given oeiog 1825. D. Laokeiau: vice-president, M.Richards hnIHf£>.'ar?Jisty'fonr Pfivatt> rooms in'this Muokie; secretary, William N. Mencfee- hospital, the oocupaats of which are per¬ mitted to select their own physician The 52%rz£2Z,&!"~~> »“*»: number of charity eases was a fraction less than 50 per cent, of »he whole or pSrpT,TL‘SLh"dS^5!,>!rvi 635 out of 1267. Of this number 575 were Sunday Pkess. natives .f tbo United States. The total ?.et. 3ssiets pf . - - ~ . l.j nor Nicholes J.Cantwell. V.G.; treasure? Colonel jjfranoig J. Crilly; secretary, Reberi B. Cruice. M. D. ; managers, Edward J. Bemy.Coekcrof tThomss, Alfred C.Gibson. THE GEBMAN HOSPITAL. Up at the corner of G hard and CcriB- ANH(M0R ABLE-CAREER, |tbian Avenues stands an array of buildings devoted to.the help of humanity. They are known as the German Hospital, one of |CENTENNIAL OF THE HOUSE OF FRANCIS the largest and finest institutions in the JORDAN & SONS. city. It began very modestly to do a nee- ful work for tbe large and growing German pooulEtioB of this city, but it has long Founded in 1778, by Godfrey Haga, it since established for itself a piece among Passed in 1793 Into tbe Hands of His our general hospitals, as it is open without Nephew, John Jordan, and Has Been distinction or Bationaiity. creed cr color, to Successfully Continued by the Fatter and all who come to it tor medics! and surgical care. Tbe hospital was first projected in His Descendants Up to the Present Time 1860, anil ten years later the Legislature Interesting Reminiscences. granted it a charter. Its first Joeation was at Twentieth and Norris Streets, where shortly after the breaking out of the War The firm of Francis Jordan & Sons yester¬ of tbe Rebellion it was transferred into a day celebrated the 100th anniversary of the Government hospital for she care of sick succession of John Jordan to the wholesale and wounded soldiers, and was sot re¬ giocery business founded by his uncle. God- turned to its owners until Julv, 1866. In ®-a»a’ ln L78. The affair, which was November of that year its useful career entirely lntorma!, took place at the firm’s commenced. place of business, 111 North Front street, and In 1872 John D. Lankenau generously was attended by a large number of business presented tbe hospital with tbe plot of men, representing firms whose date of estab¬ grousd bounded by C.rinthian Avenae and lishment ran back many years, some to a Twenty-second Street and Poplar Street century or more ago, a nd ot hers for shorter and Girard Avenue, containing more than periods, forty, fifty and sixty years, but still two acres, an which the old hospital build¬ ° to take pride in their successful ing was erected. This is a magnificent weathering of the business storms that had oc¬ location, being hounded by Girard Colleg* curred during their eventful existence, a c a tte Bcrtb, the Coirntbian water reser- pleasant episode of the occasion was the ex- »cir on tbe south, and wide streets, afferd- mbition by the firm of many old Colonial Thg a beautiful view, being high, hearth! ana Revolutionary relics, comprising books and pleasant surrounding on all sides. * and papers referring to business communi¬ Some years ago Mr. Lankeuau, out of hii cations addressed to the firm by the first own private means, built new and extern becietary of State and the first Secretary ot sive additions and remodelled the old build¬ “!?. Treas,ury> old ledgers and Insurance ing to correspond with the enlarged plan policies, letters of Baron Steuben, Tench 'He also furnished the interior of the build¬ rrancis and other worthies of the Revolu¬ ing with the most modern appliances and tionary period, copies of the charters of the comforts for tbe inmates iu the way of Bank ot North America and the Bank of closets, elevators and the latest improved e „ 01 khem Liberties, of the latter of which cooking utensils for tbe kitchen. All this e founder of the firm was one of the incor- must have cost considerably more than porators, stockholders and depositors, tbe $150,000, but as Mr. Lsnkeoau has never house retaining its interests in the bank to made public »Dy estimate of what tbe cost this day, and specimens of colonial money was, it can only be conjectured bv tbe and the notes issued by Dr. Dyott’s ‘ ‘Mutual reader. On Thanksgiving Day 1884 be Benefit Bank, ’ ’ at Second and Race streets, at generously presented all these expensive' a .ater period. Tnese were all scanned with buildings and improvements to the comor much interest, awakening recollections of ation, and the gift was gratefully accepted events with which all were familiar from reading or by actual experience or family tradition. the business of the new firm was lnterrn At the lunch which followed the reunion, for two months. John Jordan, who, during addresses were made by Mr. Frank Jordan, this period, had retired to his country seat, at Jr., who welcomed the guests; L. Hassell the corner of Second street and Nicetown Lapp, President of the Drug Exchange, who lane, states in his diary that when he re¬ congratulated the firm on its long and suc- turned to the city Third and Race streets cessful career; Wm.Gallager, Secretary of the was boarded up to prevent intercourse with ' Drug Exchange, who followed in a similar Front street, which had been one of the sec¬ strain; M. Richards Muckld, of the P(JBI,IC tions of the city in which the fever raged— Ledger, who, as a boy, collected bills from that the streets were overgrown with grass ■ the firm; Mahlon N. Kline, ex-President of and the houses closed, their inmates largely the Drug Exchange; Francis B. Reeves, of having fled that seotion of the city. During the Grocers and Importers’ Exchange apd the epidemic of 1798 the members of the firm President of the Belt Line , Railroad Com¬ remained at their post of business. pany; C. G. Sower, a descendant of Christo-i In 1802 Mr. Boiler died, but his interest was 1 pher Sauer, of Germantown, who printed continued in behalf of his widow until 1809, the first Bible in Pennsylvania, and Burnet When the firm of John Jordan &Co. was or- i Landreth, President of the Association of ganized, with Samuel Wonrian as junior Centenary Firms and Corporations of the partner. After the death of Mr. Worman, in United States, and for fifty-five years a de- j 1813, the business was conducted by John positor of the Bank of North America. Jordan alone until 1828. On February 21st of Old Centennial Firms. that year William Henry Jordan, eldest son Mr. Landreth said that there were less than of John Jordan, having attained nis major¬ 40 centennial firms in the United States, 17 of ity, the firm became John Jordan & Son. Which were located in Pennsylvania alone, On the 1st of July, 1832, John Jordan re¬ and of these six were in Lancaster county, tired, after nearly fifty years of active busi-i showing the consez-vative and steady influ¬ ness life. He had married a daughter of ence of the Quaker and Gewnan element. Judge William Henry and granddaughter of Among these Anns he mentioned the Fran¬ Hon. William Henry, of Lancaster, who had cis Perot’s Sons Malting Company, James been Armorer of Braddock’s and Forbes’s M. Willcox Paper Company, Christopher expeditions in Colonial days, and Armorer Sower Publishing Company, William Lea & and Assistant Commissary General of Penn¬ Sons Company (Brandywine Flour Mills), sylvania, and member of the Continental Millbourne Flour Mills, Washington Congress during the war lor Independence. Butcher’s Sons, George M. Steinman & Co. Upon the retirement of the elder Jordan, a (hardware), Lancaster;. H, C. Demuth (snuff younger son, Edward, was admitted to the and cigars), Lancaster; George W. Bush & firm, and under the title of William H. & Ed¬ Sons (coal shippers and lumbermen), Wil¬ ward Jordan the third generation entered mington, Del. ; Whitney Glass Works, Glass- upon its career. This association was inter¬ boro, N. J. ; Francis Jordan & Sons (Import- rupted in 1835 by the death of William H., ers of chemicals),. Philadelphia; Charles A. when another brother, Francis, was called Helnitsch (druggist), Lancaster; W. E. Gar¬ upon to fill the void, and the title became rett & Sons, snuff manufacturers; David Jordan & Brother. After the death, of Ed¬ Landreth & Sons, seedsmen; Henry Carey ward Jordan, in 1842, John Jordan, Jr., was Baird & Co., publishers,-booksellers and im¬ invited to join his brother Francis. porters; Lea Brothers & Co., publishers; Job T. Pugh, augers and bits; Wetherill & Bro¬ A Change of Business. ther, drugs, paints and chemicals; Nathan At this date the house became interested in Trotter & Co., tin merchants, and Harrison the Importation of chemicals, to which in re¬ Bros. & Co., white lead, paints and colors. cent years it has strictly confined its opera¬ Incidentally Mr. Landreth mentioned that tions. In 1854 John Jordan, Jr., retired to the type-foundry firm of MacKellar, Smiths accept the presidency of the Manufacturers’

j. . |Stronghan, Preston Lee, Myer Busch, Ed¬ Keiruer and David Harry, in 1730, and is the ward Maughsr, Edward Prag, S. H. Steven¬ second Welsh hook ever printed in America. son, Joseph R. Wainwrig’nt, Jbseph Moore, The first was “Annerch i’r Cymru, &e.,” by Jr., JohnRapson, Lemuel C.Simon. Francis Ellis Pugh, of Gwynedd, a famous Quaker Jordan, Jr. preacher. It was printed in Philadelphia by Andrew Bradford in 1721. An English copy 1 was printed in 1727, and Mr. Jones secured a copy at the last Brinley sale in New York. From,.v'.y/'J Mr. Morgan's work is a concordance of the Holy Scriptures. Mrs. Pugh’s is a salutation to the Welsh. The one which Mr. .Tones prizes most highly is “ Gweledigaethan Bardd .Q^jZ&La. Cwsg,” or "The Visions of the Sleeping Bard,” by Ellis Wynn. The first edition was printed in 1703 and was translated into Date, $&<&& /.Z3- English in 1760 by Borrow. Another valuable work is a History of the Baptists, by Joshua Thomas, and also a His¬ tory of the Baptist Association in Wales, from 1650 to 1790. His other Welsh books comprise RICH IN WpHMES" many published in Wales, such as “The Bed Dragon,” full of valuable historical papers ; “The Cambrian,” a Welsh-English magazine THE LIBRARY OF THE LATE HORATIO printed at Eemsen, New York; “The Seven Gomel-,” Y Beread, and many other maga¬ GATES JONES DESCRIBED. zines. They comprise about one hundred and fifty volumes, which he intended to pre¬ sent to the Welsh Society of Philadelphia, of which he was vice president and president MOST INTERESTING COLLECTIONS for thirty-one years. The Baptist Library is, no doubt, the largest | An Account of the Treasures of the Deceased private library of Baptist hooks, except that ' j Collector Prepared From Material Sup¬ of the late Rev. Dr. William R. Williams, o! New York, in America. The first Baptist plied by Himself Only a Few Days Before book printed in America was a catechism by His Recent Death. Rev. John Watts, pastor of the Pennepek Baptist Church, printed in 1709. The second was a work on baptism by John Hammett, ol A few weeks previous to. his death the late Rhode Island, entitled “The Baptism of Horatio Gates. J ones, who was well known as Water Plainly Proved to Be a Command of an enthusiastic bibliophile and book col¬ Jesus Christ,” which was answered by Will¬ lector, provided the material fox the following iam Wilkinson, a celebrated Quaker preacher. account of liis valuable library. No catalogue To this, in 1719, Joseph Jenks, of Providence, of this library has ever been prepared, and R. I., replied in a small volume of seventy - | one pages. He was a prominent Baptist and Mr. Jones’ own account of his books should most highly connected and the copy in Mr. prove of considerable interest. Jones’library is believed to be one of three Senator Jones early acquired a taste for copies known to be in existence. antiquarian research through the acquaint¬ The next book is by John Bulkley, A. M., ance with John Fanning Watson, the author about a debate on baptism with Rev. Valen¬ of the Annals. tine Wightman at Lyme, Conn., published in 1729. In 1731, a certain Daniel White had While still a youth Mr. Jones began the printed by Andrew Bradford, “A Short Con¬ collection of hooks relating to the history of fession of Faith,” similar to the famous “ Cen¬ j Pennsylvania and to the Welsh and German tury Confession ” by the Baptists of London. settlers. His German books consist chiefly of i The only copy known to be in America is I those published by citizens of Germantown, | now in Mr. Jones’ library. the first of which in his library are the Saur In 1742 the Philadelphia Baptist Association adopted their Confession of Faith, and in one Bible of 1776, and the Chronican Ephratense year six editions were printed, but the earliest printed by the early German Baptists at now known is the sixth, which was printed Ephrata in the year 1786, a translation of in 1743, by Benjamin Franklin, and is now which has been made hv Rev. Max Hark, D. in Mr. Jones’ library, as also all the editions D.. published at Lancaster, Pennsylvania, in printed from 1773 to 1831. In 1747 and in 1889. His German imprints relate chiefly to 1750 Rev. Abel Morgan, of Middletown, New Jersey, printed two volumes against the Rev. Germantown, whose titles as collected by Samuel Finley, president of Princeton Col¬ him amount to nearly three hundred, and lege, New Jersey. These are also in the are chiefly those of Christopher Saur, the Jones collection. Billmeyers and the Leiberts. Rev. Morgan Edwards, A. M., was quite a voluminous writer, his first book being “The Mr. Jones’ Welsh books form quite a library. , Customs of Primitive Churches,” of which The oldest is " Llyfr Gweddi Gyffredin,” or only three copies are known. His historical the Welsh Common Prayer Book, printed in I hooks about the Baptists, beginning with 1770, are exceedingly valuable. All of the London, in 1664. It is in the old black letter. printed and several of the manuscript ones, The next oldest is the “ Cyd Gordiad Egwyd- being highly prized by Mr. Jones, are in his dorawl o’r Scrythurau, &c.,” by his ances¬ library. tor, Rev. Abel Morgan, once pastor of the Baptist Church of Pennepek and Philadel¬ Mr. Edwards’ two works on the “ Memor- phia, printed in Philadelphia., by Samuel iam and Last Novelties” are also scarce, and so is his sermon of 1763 at the ordination of if. Samuel1, Jones, A. M. ffEe Rev. Isaac Ydrk.lVp: Backus’. “History of the Baptists of New emor C'ooliJ, of Rhode Island; letters c England}” three volumes, from 1777 to 1804, eral Wayne to Mr. Jones’ grandfather, with an. abridgement, are accounted as very j David Jones,with replies from Rev. D. J( during the. Indian war of 1795-6, and mai valuable. But the most important book re¬ other interesting and rare autographs, lating to Baptist history and persecution in collection of letters of Baptist ministers num¬ New England is that by Rev. John Clark, M. bers several thousands and begins at an early IX, of Rhode Island, first printed in London date. in 1652 and afterwards reprinted in America. Mr. Jones gathered much material for illus¬ Its title is “Ill Newes From New England, or| trating the Jubilee Volume of the American a Narrative of New England’s Persecution, Baptist Missionary Union, and possessed Etc.” There was no printer in America who, hundreds of autographs and autograph letters dared at that time to print the book and! of the- mi «ionarics of that body, as well as of hence Dr. Clark had it done in London. the founders. He had also on hand the Another scarce pamphlet is John Russell’s same material for the centennial volume of narrative of the organization of the First Brown University, and Dr. Catheart’s Baptist Baptist Church of Boston, printed in London, Encyclopedia, but bis best illustrated books ih 1080, pp. 15, for which Mr. Jones paid a arc ‘‘Thu Portraits of the Moderators andj large price at Brinley’s last sale. He also has Clerks of the Philadelphia, BajtLsJ Associa¬ Thomas Crosby’s History of the Baptists. tion,” of which he hgs been president fori 1738 to 1740, four volumes, in which are many many years. This As unique.v,fJTis other! references to the Baptists of America, and completely illustrated book is “Annals of the! Joseph Ivemy’s History of the Baptists, four American Baptist Pulpit,” by Rev. William volumes, 1811-1840. The Christian Bevieic. the B. Sprague, D. D. This volume was pub¬ Baptist Quarterly and the Baptist Quarterly lished. in 1800. Originally in eight volumes, Be deal are full of valuable papers. or 800 pages, it is now divided iuto two vol-l John Ashland, “a Sweed,” begau in 1790j umes and mounted on folio manilla paper. an anunual register of the Baptist denomina- ! _ In illustrating it Mr. Jones secured a fac¬ tion in North America. His first volume was; simile of the order of the Court banishing, published in 1791 and his last in 1794. Roger Williams from the colony of Massachu¬ Mr. Jones’ library also contains several setts Bay, and also a fac-simile of the order of hundred volumes of sermons by Baptist miu- the Couri directing the doors of the meeting; -ifcters, histories of churches and minutes of house of the First Baptist Church of Boston associations, the mostimportaut of which rc- to be boarded up, so that the members could lCr to the Philadelphia Baptist Association, j not enter to worship. oiganized in 1,07, ot which he has the printed By Mr. Jones’ will, probated within the1 minutes from the year 1709 to 1889. He also the last few days, the Welsh Society received! has Dr. Rippou’s Annual Register from 1790 all of his Welsh books, excepting two copies | to 1892 and Dr. Robert B. Scenple's History of Rev. Abel Morgan’s “Cyd GordiaA Egyd-I ol the Virginia Baptists, 1810, and the Bap¬ dorawl Or’Scrythurgu,” One of these vol¬ tist Memorial. 1841, and David Thomas' Vir¬ umes was bequeathed to the Crojrer Theologi-! ginian Baptist. 1774. cal Seminary, and the other to the Historical Mr. Jones had also many of the early Society of Pennsylvania. The other books,' treatises on Baptism by the early English relating to the history of Manayunk, as well Baptists, viz.: Anti-Piedobaptism. by John; as his local clippings, and books relating to combes, 1054: a Treatise by Henry D’Anvers, the history of Philadelphia, are given to the 1674 ; also a Tract on Laying on Hands, etc., I Pennsylvania Historical Society, while all -iOi4; also a Treatise on Baptism, 1075; the books on theology are given to the Crozer also the history of Christianity among the Theological Seminary, and his law library is Ancient Britons, 1675; also a Reply to Mr. bequeathed to Harry Albertson of the Phila¬ ’ Will’s answer to D’Anvers’ Treatise on Ban-, delphia bar. * nsm. 1075; also a Second Reply in deference! E. Leslie Gilliams. A ol the said Treatise and m reiilv to Richard Barter, 1675; also a Rejoinder to Mr. Wills' v indicia1, etc., 1675 ; also a Third Reply to Mr. Laxter. 16/6; also the Baptists’ answer to Mr Ohed Wills, by Hanserd Knollys. William From,. Limn, Thomas De Launc, etc., 1075. The MSS. in his library are very numerous and some are rare and exceedingly valuable. One lie prized beyond all price, as it wax’ written in Welsh by his distinguished wnia- tive, Abel. Morgan, the author of Cyd •wlor- 5*!a,b It is dated a few months after Mr. Morgan s arrival at Philadelphia, and de¬ scribes his voyage and the state of the coun¬ try, prices of cereal products and also the churches. It may he seen in the Pennsvl- Magazine of History and Biography, published by the Historical Society of Penn¬ RONALDSON’S CEMETERY sylvania, volume 0, page 304. Many consist ot some of the most eminent men and his¬ torians. He sets great store by one—that of the A SPOT OF MANY ASSOCIATIONS BUT celebrated Ebenezey ICeniiorsley, the American electrician. Another is by Rev. Morgan Ed¬ LITTLE KNOWN. wards. A. M., the projector of Rhode Island College, now Brown University, to Charles Thomson, the.Secretary of Continental Con¬ QUIET REIGNS THERE EVER gress. w'Jio were then engaged in translating the New Testament. It is dated Pencader, November 12, 1792, and is full of interest. The Streets of the Southern Portion of On the back is a copy of the reply which Mr. 1 mimson wrote to Mr. Edwards. the City Enclose it and the Course of There is a Wasjiinoton letter dated New _tiie Streams of Travel is Away From it. j old-fashioned Philadelphia. mfgbt be rung, the keeper cal help procured. aroused and inedi- ■eceels U. there is onePjt ofT° thete1 '’most Xinth inter- and ■ Public- burying grounds of this city. ; One of Mr. Ronalc&on's most intimate dames Eonaldson, who w-is cm, • • , friends was Adam Ra.nage, the invent™ £ owner and projector of this buryL* Snd ; 1 PMutll>S Press which bears his name Mr was a native of Edinhoiv.l, „.i • ■vew1837 h3S !m amfeur poet' and in the >eai 1837 he composed and published the fol lowing verses on the cemetery: In youthful days, when we resolved Our native land to leave 1 p.afe^”atr .. ac- W it.lia firm faith in Providence " e crossed the Atlantic Wave’.

N,?.better name a ship should have S&^sgass -a b that which brought us here ;\!“lP';ov1dcnco has fov^redL ’ -• •’*' ^biousliout our long’ career. restricted to new holder ° CJlUrches, was And when our varied race is run (the time of death,or membersonSf'-v at And each has done his best ’ land m the few cemeteries that ! aro,hes’ AWherewneie botherDotn ol usyou may furnished rest. have the public the charge of breS 6 °pea to beyond the means*of ™reakmg ground was Poetry was not at a high level then pm was small. people whose income adeiphni, but Mr. HonMdsc^kSo^S

laid out in lots with Chilly ! gravel walks the wi, 1 + ™ain ayenue and I flowers and shrabhSf i ® be‘autified with [moderate menus couM Wberein People of mother earth N'ow theCf0nsifn then' dead to type foundry °f Lis «h>PPcu. now looked a beautifni ° sticct, over¬ post-rail fence, iu whkh Tri’ se“*Iosed with a and autumn, the child™™ ,,!. punw summer borhood found the gatheriii^nf‘theneigh- and the chasing of butterflies buttercups Voices! soureesVpleSre^68 am°ng lbe»'

that £ meadow wls in Riding tor his cemetery, and lie nn^el ^ ®*tuation ei-ty from Joseph Parker H,-rch.ascd the prop- •Tohn Bleakly^ceS n"" exccu(

TVPOGRAPHICAU SOCIETY’S LOT. verses in a kindly letter, and both the lion, and cemneteryaUd hl3 lWend now reP°se iu tire old cause it would be an tol0llncls aud be- of^the^founde^of^tlie'^emeterv^8 It'sim^Th records that he died March 29. [•^ts. Asitwassup«nf“0» cb’»cb . consecrated many cler^ml 1 be proPerIy lciating at funerals in h!“ f,eoted to of. oume of time, howeve cemetery. In ^ On the 8th of ZTigfT0? CeaSed‘ ocorporated tlie lot-hm,i!b tbe Legislature bia Cemetery Comn? ■* *S the Philadel- J. hc original lot-holders of Ronaldson Cem loyamensinf *5? township of ^ rePresentatives of every profosl A^rZ^l mod, tiade and call ng. The lots, which rojector of the cenicfl . l? to !hc PIa» of the »■ the keeper /S a dwelling house were aid out eight by ten feet, ranged in « side of the was erected on .*? .$30. For a long time the Eg number ofP? burials nit a house uniform’with tn *fbo other was aggregated about four fger's. The bui^t^t of the graX; hundred per year. At present burials are ith a stove, couch etc ,„a r?°.m Provided not permitted at llonaldson except in the case oi families who have been lot-liolders me d?'1 tnefl sudd’enly'’mfehthh? ^fons lor years back. me days before burial thJ<- be 3aid for lt !I1 «J*ii- bands so thaUf Aton* a bell y.motion of returning f^ould ^ ^ ben the burial ground, which formed • the alarm Jbeil part ot Franklin Square was removed the wm

VIEW ALONG THE MAIN WALK OF CEMETERY. This TIoSSsol'sevcraTBevbmtioraaa-y soldiers were the fourthday following the woundi 0. disinterred and carried to the Ronuldson verse is engraved on his monument. •.Cemetery, whore they were reburied. Among He fell not in the battle’s_ strife, He gave not to death his breath. them was the body of General William Irvine, ’Twas from the coward ruffian s knife who was born in Philadelphia on the 3d of ■H)! blameless youth received his death, November. 1741, and died in this city July The remains of- Captain• JohnT 1_ Paecall.Dnonnll TSTaIwell °9 1804. Colonel Richard Anderson, an remembered as the proprietor of thc ol d Lel^ officer in the Maryland lino in the Revolu¬ tionary army.' born June 10, 1750, died Juno 39. 1835, is also buried in Ronaldson. January, 1830, in the 73d year ol his age. Amoilg the donations of lots to needy so¬ cieties bv Ronaldson. soon after the cemetery Ronaldson Cemetery has always been a was established, was a plot of ground to the favoritf cemetery for the burial of members Philadelphia '-Typographical Society. the fjixiicii Thistle Society early purchased a lot of the theatrical profession, and the lomams in which to bury strangers and the bodies of of several actors well known in their day re¬ members whoso families were too poor to de¬ pose there. Among them may he mentioned fray their luneral espouses. . Mrs. Wood, wife of William B. W ood; Charles One of the most noticeable monuments in Burke, who died of consumption in 1854 , the. cemetery was erected by the Democratic Association of Locust ward over the remains Cornelia F. Jefferson, the mother of Joseph of William Perry, aged 23 years, 1he m- Jefferson, and Mr. and Mrs. Jones, long con¬ seviption informs us that he was stabbed on nected with the Philadelphia theatres. the election ground of Locust ward on the A broken column marks the grave of the eventful 3d of October, 1834, by some un¬ actress Louise Missouri. Tlie column umn- known assassin, and died on the morning'

ENTRANCE TO RONALDSON’S _ -j-~ Follows : "Sacred to the memory of Louise. Missouri, daughter of Heurv Miller tation, and the Record who died m New York June 16, lS5sf aged if of Its Work. 'l he drama mourned when her sweet votary died. The loss of one that ne’er might be supplied: Crowds of admiring friends with tears con¬ fessed, BUT FEW MINOR INSTITUTIONS To only Thee, oh God, the grief is known, Ol those who reared this monumental stone. The mother, sister, who with bosoms torn, J he best, of daughters and of sisters mourn. Brothers beloved To whom a while was given What Jefferson Has Done, and Its ”? u sister, now removed to Heaven. Of all the Public, Social, Private woe Remarkable Statistical Show¬ Here lies the cause—Missouri sleeps below. Two other members of the theatrical pro¬ ing-Work of Other Great fession who were buried in Ronaldson Ceme¬ tery were Samuel Chapman and H. H. Row¬ Hospitals. botham. Mr. Chapman came to this country in tho year 18:27, and played in this city at the Chestnut Street Theatre under the man¬ agement of Y\ emyss &. Warren. He afterwards IE University Hospi¬ became manager of the Walnut Street Thea¬ tal is oae of the great¬ tre. and so continued until his death inlS30. est of Philadelphia’s The cause of Mr. Chapman’s mortal illness many institutions of is somewhat interesting. It appears that a tbs bind. It is sit¬ lew days before his death lie visited with his uated ou the South artist Turner’s Lane preparatory to the pro¬ side of Sprue# Street duction of a drama entitled “ The Mail Rob¬ between Thirty.fourth bers,” founded on the robberies of the United and Thirty-sixth States mail, by Porter and Wilson. While in¬ Streets. The year 1871 marked the begin- specting the neighborhood of Turner’s Lane nine ef the tsovemient for the establish¬ ho contracted a violent cold which terminated ment «f this hospital. At that time it be- his existence. By a singular fatality his last ' come clearly evident to tbe beard of trus¬ appearance on the stage was in the character tees and medical faculty of the University intended to represent Porter, who was after¬ of Pennsylvania that an actual need ex¬ wards hanged. isted for a great general hospital. Carefully prepared statistics showed at It is said of Chapman that had lie been that time that Philadelphia possessed . but spared he would have produced an entire one fourth of tbe number of hospital beds that its population justified, and it seemed revolution in tho minor drama of America. proper that the University of Pennsylvania, Mr. Rowbotham, in connection with Robert tbe largest educational institution ia the Maywood, familiarly called ‘‘Old Bobby Commonwealth,should identilfy itself with Maywood.'' bad the management of the Chest¬ a Movement for tbe supplying of this want. nut and Walnut Street Theatres and also the Committees were appointed by the Alumpi Arch Street Theatre for a time, between the Association of tbs University and the faculty with the result that th« trustees years 1831 and 1S38. It was during that agreed to appiopriate a portion of their period (1832) that Miss Fanny Kemble and ground in West Philadelphia for tbe ercc- her father made their first appearance in tien of the Hospital Building. Then tbe Philadelphia, and W. E. Burton was added public wera appealed to, #n executive com¬ to. the. stock company ,by importation from mittee of influential citizens was appointed Europe. Mr. Rowbotham died on the 4th of which soon enlarged^into a finance com¬ February 1837, in the 42d year of his age. mittee, and by it all subsequent movements He was buried iu his own family vault, in were directed. which the remains of his widow are also in¬ From the standpoiat of an educational terred. (necessity alone, the appeal commended itself to the mind of enlightened people

> with great force; and when to this was added the argument that the hospital was From, to be in itself a charity of tbe highest C^i^L j grade, it is not surprising that contributions of $126,000 were Dromptly made, li was ( estimated that $760,000 would be need:d for a hospital with a complement of 250 beds. The Legislature apprspriated $100,- 000 OD condition that $250,000 additional was raised by the University. > Date, f/fr' > ’ ^ On tbe 16ib of November, 1872.subscrip-

; tions to the hospital to the amount of $250.- 000 having been secured, application was made to the State Treasurer and the amount appropriated ($100,000) was paid. A MATTER OF $25,000,000. As the work of obtaining subscriptions progrosssd.it was found that a much largsr OF PliiLlDELFill hospital could be erected than was at first deemed possible, and as tbe sounds of tbe — University in West Philadelphia wera not large enough for the contemplated expan¬ The University’s Great Repu¬ sion, application was made in May,1872, to City Councils for the grant of a lot of lg round as a building site. This request was THE UNIVER ITY THE EAST WING COMPLETED.

enforced by the arguments used \a the pacity of sixty- two beds in its aix warcH memorial to tbe Legislature,and by tbe ad¬ The total capacity of the main building.I ditional considerations that tbe future pros¬ with tbe two wings, is 186 patients, which I perity of tbe medical department of tba could easily be increased to 200 by placing! University of Pennsylvania, which had di- tbe beds in closer proximity to each otber.| rsctjy brought to Philadelphia during tbe A bill is now before the Legislature ask¬ past sixty years over $25.(100,000 (through ing for an appropriation to ereet the east I the expenditures of its students) was im¬ wing—shown in the illustration of tbe mediately dependent upon the success of completed building—which was included! the movement; that the charity would be iu the original plan, thus increasing the| judicious atid liberal, because the hospital capacity to at least 280 bed*. would be so closely connected with the THBEE-FOUKTHS FKKE PATIENTS. medical school that tb® reputation of the latter would largely depend upon the model Since 1874 there has been expended at I character of tbe former, and that the erec¬ tbe University Hcspital for tbe mainte-| tion of the hospital would secure the im- banco of patients, $735,235.26, of which | mediate expenditure of $20,000 annually. amount no less thaD $450)000 Has been M-l By an ordinance pf May 18. 1872, tbe city pended for free patients. The total number conveyed to tbe trustees the ground upon of patients treated in tbe wards of the bos-l wbioh the hospital buildings hap since pital up to and including 1892 is 17,64-1.1 been erected,four aBd one-half acres in ell, Of this nurhber, 12,000 were free patients.! wile tbe proviso that tbe buildings would Ne less than 130.000 patients have been| be erected and completed within four.years treated ia the dispensaries. Taking tbe from that time, and that the trustees would year 1892 as an example of tbe recent wo*£| forever maintain not less than fifty-three ®f tbe hospital there were treated in i bed* for the use of the poor. wards 1348 patients, of whom 515 THE HOSPITAL TO-DAY. free patients. Of this _ entnoer 790 Th# University Hospital of to-day is from outside of tbe city of composed of a central or administration and 512 were received from various ties of Pennsylvania, ameng which building, which contains, on tbe basement were distributed more or less evenly.e floor, a small lecture room, capable of seat¬ expenses for the maintenance of patjet ing 150 students, with adjoining waiting during 1892 amounted to $78,663, Of tbi|, j and private rooms. The amphitheatre, or came from the endowment fund, SSfhrri main lecture room, is circular in form,sixty 096.62, and from paying patients,, gifti feet in diameter and forty-five feet high, etc... $40,620.36, leaving a deficit ■ with seats concentrically arranged, capable $7056.65. of accommodating 600 students. Jn addition Sinee it* foundation it baa incurred an-| there are numerous rooms for private pa¬ nual deficits amounting in the aggregate tients. Tbe western pavilion is given up to to $67,609.55, which bave been made npl surgical and medical cases, and tbo wards from time to time, in whole or in part by| are designed to contain each thirty-two private contributions, particularly by the beds. The large, aivy corridors are so ar¬ managers of tbe hospital. There rcruains| ranged that.in ease of emergency,aa in times upon it, however, a funded debt *f $21,000. of great epidemics,when great demands are Tbe daily average cost of each patjent basl Jhade- npi>i> bevpitula, that they may he been $1.33. The hospital is unsectarianr convertecf into wards, thus increasing the and is open to peeple of every station, age I capacity of tbe hospital by at least 30 per and color. Tbe enormous numher of casesl cent. To the westward an additional wing at tbe hospital aud dispeasaries requite! has been constructed by tbe runnificencs of eighty-two physicians aud instructors, I Henry C.Gibson, which is known as the many of whom possess international repu- I Gibson wing, and which is devoted to the taliona and each sf whom renders his valu-| -relief of chronic diseases. and has a ea- able services without recompense. In ad¬ dition to this, 850 msdicaJ students are ^gjeeiying instruction at its clinics.

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_ E mbdico-chirurgioal ™ hospital buildings. The repuTafien of the University HosT pitaJ, which has extended throughout the Although tfeeTuTIdlngTFliot on «na off entire State, is understood when the great the main tbcroogfafares.and.tberefore.is not reputation of the professors that have as familiar to the eitizeas of Philadelphia* served the Institute n is recalled. Such naraea as Agnew, Pepper. Wood. White. as othar institutiosa more prominently A ab burst and Goodell have in themselves situated, the work that is carried on jvithin attracted sunserous patients, and when 1® its walls is extraordinary. Over S50 cases ibis is added the esmbined influence ef the are treated here daily in the out-patient large classes of medical students, its popu¬ department and there are .140 beds in the larity is at once understood. hospital which are constantly filled, mak¬ Foilswing are tfca present oSeers: Presi- ing a total of nearly 600 cases who receive de»t, Richard Wood; vice-president. Wil- medical advice each day of tb® year with mm F Norris 11 D; secretary, George the exeeptisa of Sundays, 1 ales Baker. M. D. : managers, the pro¬ During last year 1163 accident cases were vost fex-officio), William Pepper, M.D treated and this cumber will he greatly in¬ I/h. I). ; the director of the hospital (ex[ creased durisg the ensuing year because of officio). John 8. Billings, M. D.. LL.D- tno es.abhshment of an ambulance service. 5arnuel Asbburst, 11. D. ; Thomas Dolan,' The number of the patients treated1 in the John Wanatnaker. William F. Nerus M. wards during the last year was 2189, and D.; George Falee Baker. M. B. • R. M is tbs out patient department 11.914 new Elliot, William Barton Hopkins ’ M.’ D ’• cases received treatment. Jn the fifteen John Sailer, Be Forest Willard, M.D*’ years of its existeace the Jefferson Hospital Richard Wood, William Hunt, M. D • has treated 148,130 individual patients in i?w“ne Bvf^rn^-LL-D-: John Sims’ its out patient department sad 19.548 no- J WilhamWhite.M.D.; Barton Cooke Hirst, tients id the wards; in all, 577,56C visits JM.D. : James Tyson, M. D.; Horace Y. hava been paid to the institution in ibis E7“’4*oMJfD-= A. Cleernsna, MT~ time, and up to October, 1892, over 92'0 D. , S.». Stryker. M.D. ; Mrs., Charles C operations had been performed before the Harrison, Mrs. W. A. Lambertou, Mrs oiass, and more than this number in the Tower J?Ma<)Veagb- Mrs- Charlemagne private operating room. SEEKING MOKE ROOM. JEFFERSON COLLEGE HOSPITAL. While the upper floors of the Jefferson The hospital of the Jefferson Medical Hospital contain wards which are large and College was founded in 1873. It is situated airy,which are equal to the beet in the city, on SaDsom Street near Tenth. No other the enormous cumber of patients have nsiitution of its Kind in the United States forced the Board of Trustees to tbtain a treats an equal number of patie2ls, aad so larger property, where more light and air f.r as is known Guy’s Hospital, London could be obtained for the patients and on is the only other institution of a simila^ which a building suited to the treatment of character wbioh surpasses it in this direc¬ such a large number of people could be tion. erected. They have jin consequence obtained the THE HAHNEMANN HOSPITAL. lot of ground running from Christian to patTsati who present themselves for treat¬ Catharine Street, and 93 feet north of ment after having failed to obtain relief Catharine.whiob has a depth of 150 feet, for in the country districts, SDd scarcely a day the erection of a new hospital, college and passes that a number of such persons do laboratory building. The hospital will be not present themselves for admission to 95 feet wide and 150 feet deep, will bavej the hospital, with letters from practitioners accommodations for 180 patients, and its of wedicine through the State of Pennsyl¬ ground floor will hs so arranged that the vania, asking that their clients be admitted^ eut patient departments will have ample to the wards, where they may obtain accommodation for even a larger number of advanced professional skill of the staff, patients than are at present applyiag to WOEK OF THE ORTHOPEDIC. the,hospital for relief. The Orthopedic Hospital, at the corm KNOWN FAR AND NEAR. of Seventeenth and Summer Streeti.for tbvl With many of the large hospitals ®f Phila- treament of bodily deformities and diseases' of the nervous system, is an institution with an admirable record of twenty five years. It is to be regretted that this hos¬ pital is not as yet en a self-sustaining basis. Owing to deficiencies in the income account the trustees have been forced to _appeal for legislative aid. -- A WABD IN THE POLYCLINIC. Jbe total ntitnEiFoT sorgicaTcaars treated- during tbe past year was 1*71; 136 opera- Shoemaker; William id, Panceast, T. c ions were perf0rmed,243 nervous cases were oleli^ageu, S. H.Gnilford,D. T.Pratt Dr treated in the hospital, while a total of 2°93 W- Easterly Ashton, H. I, Dorr, Jamie k' cases were treated at tbe nervous clinics. Gamtson, Ernest Laplace. W. F Baehn- len General J. P. S. Gobin and Samuel |JJ\T£ e exp,nses f0r ,he "ere b. Howell, M. D., D. D. S. 134,101 ^gO^an average cost per capita per diem of $1.42. The daily cost of food for THE MATERNITY HOSPITAL. «acb person was $. 351. One of the many deserving institutions During tbe past year the management is the Maternity Hespital, at 734 South Tenth Street. It occupies very eligibly 300 ChThii “w a‘e, John Story sums, and thejotal amount received from 3enas. Managers appointed by tbe Com¬ all was only $635.75. 'Taking tbe aveTi^ monwealth of Pennsylvania: Bichard M daily cost of maintenance for each patient _adwalader, James B. Nicholson. There “f a basis of calculation, this sumPwon]d VI* SVu b°8f when tbe hospital was l.tree^ east of Eighteenth, bss entered 'wm? eoiuff. in 1884, 333 cases cf confinement were treated with a death KS, KVS&S£-U- »*•« rate ef 1 per cent. In the dispensary de¬ President, Coionel J. p. Nicholson- duct ha 2457 • j8sf8 received treatment *nf. tb -oenod mentioned. The total J^'esirinnres111,1*” ^ ^erelary! James M. Andres treasurer, Dr. John V. awr fw fifteea montbs • %>

_ be Pbiladeliffiia Lying-in _■ -5 day la|t year, 104 cases w Charity was incorporated, although St bad treated. eighty-ejglU of which came ft, been instituted four years previous. Its tbe Children’s Hospital and the remaim bospitai is located at Eleventh and Cherry from tbe dispensary and tbe orthopedic. Street and it is sustained by gifts from the . Tbe cost of maintaining a child, ’per charitable. This institution bears the proud distinction of being the oldest training day. in the aoSpital was 991-50 cents- in scbodJ for nurses in America, and only one 1891 it was 1.00 3-20. The total cost of in Europe antedates it. TweDty-four beds maintenance for 1S92 was $24,027.17 Tbe are maintained for the free use of worthy total number of admissions to the institu- women, although the gratuitous services of tion since 1855 is 5847. Jn addition to the the charity ore not withheld frem any poor hospital treatment 4525 out patients we*e woman seeking them. Nurses and physi¬ treated, t* whom 13.826 visits were paid by cians are sent to the homes of women when the medical aDd surgical staff. required. The total receipts for the year ending May 1. 1892, wers $21,899. and (he Tbe most regrettable fact jB tbe payments $20,736.93. The total number ef recent bistory of this institution waa tbe I troEPH admitted for the year ending closing of the croup ward by tbe Board of< April 30, 1892, was 311. There were 2S2 Health on complaint cf a person residing I births, and twenty-one patients left before near tbe hospital. Tbe report of the AJed- their time. Only one d aib is recorded. icsl Committee stowed conclusively that! The officers of the institution are as fol¬ 35? a forty years net a dozen cases of low : dipbiberia bad occurred in tbe hospital. 1 President, Thomas, L. Gillespie; vice- Since tPis order went forth nine little chil-1 presidents. James C. Wilson,M. D., Charles dren have been brought to the institution H. Howell: treasurer, John Little; secre¬ for treatment, which was refused. Seven tary, John T.Ward; solicitor. Hood Gilpin, 5. this number perished miserably within Esq. a tew hours sue dyiog on its way borne, THE HAHNEMANN HOSPITAL. fo-day, m all this city of hospitals there; is not enc department cempletety and ade¬ The hospital connected with the Hahne quately fitted up for tbe reception of croup¬ mann Medical College is «ne of the finest ous and diptberitic patieDts. and most handsomely appointed structures Expenses for tbe maintenance of both of the kind ia the city. branches of the hospital and tbe dispen- For thirty-seven years previous to the oc¬ *8;y lttS‘ $24,927.17. The income cupancy of the present imposing quarters of the hospital,mcludiy ; subscriptions and the Hahnemann College and Hospital occu¬ contributions, is only $19,000. and as a I result there is an annual deficit. pied buildings on Filbert Street. In 1874 a committee was appointed to discuss ways WEST PHILADELPHIA WOMAN’S. and means for the erection of new build- The West Philadelphia Hospital for ings When the present site. Fifteenth Women, Forty-first and Parrish Streets, | Street, above Race, was fixed upon, there cared far 102 new patients last year,treated was not a dollar in the treasury, although tbe contract for tbe purchase of the prop¬ 1087 at tho dispensary, while its staff of erty required that $1000 should be paid physicians paid 1726 visits to patients at down. The money, however, was forth- their homes. The number of patients coming, together' with $20,000, to be paid treated in tbe bospitai is just double tbat . befere be transfer ptspers were banded over. of two years ago; The receipts from all Tbe corner stone of (be college building sources during the year were $13,454,46, was laid in 1884 and tbe structure com¬ and the expenditures $12,514.27. pleted in 1886. In tbe Spring of the same year tbe hospital buildings were com¬ The officers are: President, Dr.Elizabeth menced and the first waB finished in Sep¬ H. Comly-Howell; first vice president, tember, 1887. The other three buildings Miss F B. Peirce; second vice-president, were begun in 1888,and completed and fur- Miss Mila F. Smith ; treasurer. Dr. Anna P.Sbarpless; secretary, Miss M.Sellers. nisbed in 1890. The Building Committee spared no pains itTiiake tbe hospital, in WOKK OP THE WOMEN. sanitary and other ways, one of the best in The women of Philadelphia are nobly the city. The ground cost $103,666, the represented in every charity worthy of the college building $90,000 and tba hospital name. One of the most conspicuous and buildings, including furnishing, $203,000, ably-managed institutions conducted ex or a total of nearly $400,000. The . Ladies’ olusively by tbe sex is tbe W’oman’s Has Aid Association raised $57,724, which ore- *te • «r,h’ tbalmologist, Amy S.Barton.M Das4V ant ophthalmologist, ElizabethfWe*' ,M. D.; laryngologist, Emma E.Mu«„n’ M.jD.; pathologist. Marie K. Fo“%% hospital was $17 7n? oa JB®1ntaining the i permanent fund ’ of siO HDf/T-ri® sp®ciai I During the year 1892 824 ia way of legaotaa jSsK reCelved 0rer6t-°2 M ®MheDdisp*a- THE JEWISH HOSPITAL. H„°"' .tfae maiiJ entrance to the Jewish £?**! ffa5?s 57 per cent, were free Datl>n?s Hospual appears the following inscrip. The receipts of the hospital for iV setr were^ $30,992.93 anil the expenses 428,-

the polyclinic. THIS HO.SPTTa r At Lombard and Eighteenth Streets is was erected ^ oontrihu- coated the Philadelphia Polyclinic and College for Graduates in Medicine, estab- lisbed ten years ago. Its handsome COLOR building is one of the striking architectural features of this portion of the city. The iSF^ compo3ed following concise statement of the trustees JEWIbH hosphal association. tells the story of its work:_ During the year 1892 the work of the Poljelinic almost exactly doubled in every 5-a« «f >L department, 'Ihere were treated in the its iwenty.elghfh yea,It,V' ia wares 068 patients, of which number 18 follow: P^sident^Wij/iam0^6^ 88 remained over from the preceding year. J total number of cases in the disuen- sary was 41,930, of which 9985 were caw A.Hieju;- comspoDdit, 'eicmik S’r°n cases. Six teen thousand six hundred and man Jonas; directors ®* ,eA*ry> Der- fifty-four prescriptions were compounded Abrabam Wolf,Solomon^anV *feuJ#e/ser in the pharmacy. One hundred and ten len.Lucien Moss ti ■ •Aaron Lich practitioners of medicine from 26 States, 2 Fleisher, Simon’l Kobn ’ Si“'°D B' from Canada, and 1 from Australia .mentbal, Edward Wolf* uLTl'81" received courses of instruction from the Arnold Kobe;Ephraim ^ediTdSene faculty in the college department. The total cost ef maintaining tbs hos¬ pital add dispensary during the year was - $22,589.59. Six thousand dollars still re¬ foTthe same Siofwe^^ main. unpaid on the building contracts, were treated in the ho* Fbere and, in spite of rigid economy, the trus¬ period 522 patients and .dun“S that tees have been compelled to assume a fioat- pensary. 3'he total cosl ^ George Washington, Benjamin Frank¬ Ontario Street, is about the youngest hos¬ lin, Robert Morris and many other men pital in the city. It was founded I y Rus¬ sell H.Conwell, D.D., and. dedicated Jan¬ and women noted in their day. uary 30, 1892. The building has fourteen The old tree was growing lustily be¬ room*, and duriDg the past six months of fore Walnut street was laid out, and its career it treated eigbty-seven patients in when that part of the city was almost a tbe medical and surgical wards. primeval forest. Before Mr. Jainos 6T. TIMOTHY’S HOSPITAL. Dundas, who had a decided taste for I horticultural pursuits, purchased the One of tbe youngest hospitals in tbe city properly, the old elm was one of the I is St.Timothy’s Memorial Hospital of Rox- greatest attractions of the celebrated borcngb. It is now in its third year of Vauxhall Gardens, which were located! usefulness, end tbe demand upon its wards for many years at Broad and Walnut. is greater than it can supply. I*J*as1!or®' On September 8, 1819, this place was sot erly opened June 20, 1890, with Mrs. Kath¬ on fire by a mob who were incensed at I erine A.Taylor os superintendent the failure of an aeronaut to make a bal-l 'Ibe hospital building is a fine old man- loon ascension from the garden as ad-1 sion in the midst of spacious grounds at tbe ; vertised. 71

i* _ _TL. - • -westward, of Thirteenth, all was open ooun- 'try. A big farm house stood at Broad and Vine, | From, and the children from flie little Thirteenth street house, the first detachment of the city houses which were soon to enter in and pos¬ sess the land, were wont to depend upon the .(Sk<.L I superabundant yield of the cherry trees in the farm house yard for a portion of their supply Date, of the good things of life. When Little Mary W...^ r/fc? f T r Dudgeon was nearly 7 she played around the new house' her father was building, and the memory of the new wood odor and of the de¬ lightfully entertaining blocks left by the car¬ penters in their fitting and sawing stays with WEDDED SEVENTY YEARS her still as a part of the mind furnishing gathered in childhood. “ It was a great deal harder work to build a house in those days MR. AND MRS. ROBERT HAYS’ LONG than it is now,” Mrs. Hays remarks. “Every¬ thing had to be done by hand; even the MARRIED LIFE. floors had to be planed by hand after they were laid.” When she was between 12 and 13 little R LOVE STORY FROM FACTS Miss Dudgeon joined herself to the company of worshipers who met regularly in the Old Nazareth Methodist Episcopal Church, then Seventy-Five Years a Member of One located in what is now called Juniper street. As Mrs. Hays describes it, it was at that time Church—T3ie Little House in Thirteenth a small frame building, modeled after the plan of the average country school house. As Street — Recollections of Philadelphia the congregation grew, a larger church be¬ Eighty Years Ago. came necessary, and old Nazareth took up the station it held for so many years in Thirteenth street, below Vine'. All the world loves a lover.” as everybody love’s beginnings. knows, and even the sour and cynical indi¬ A young man, Robert Hays, came into the vidual bored by the expressions of affection neighborhood, called by his business, that of proceeding from the slaves of the tender pas¬ a carpenter, Mary Dudgeon’s aunt knew sion can find it in his heart to retire to a him, wished him to form wholesome friendly quiet nook and there give himself up to the and church relations, innocently took him to fascination of a love story of the thorough¬ the home of the Dudgeons and the young going, old-fashioned sort. In a quaint little man himself did the rest. He followed the frame house on North Thirteenth street, wishes of his patroness, became very much a love Race, just at the corner of a small interested in the church and in Mary Dud¬ street called Winslow, the closing chapters of geon at the same time. As Mrs. Hays says as pretty a love story as could be imagined now, “We loved very hard or else it wouldn’t are being lived out in very truth by an aged have turned out so well,” hut the marriage C0Up f',naracd ^ays- For over seventy-one that soon followed the acquaintance has yc^rs e serial has been running, and one of proved all their fancy painted it. tbe most astonishing features is that its Mr. Hays was a carpenter and builder, and fell in immediately with the boom which the scenes have been always laid within two or neighborhood was experiencing. More than three blocks of the house in which, from a few of the houses still standing in the present appearances, it seems likely to close blocks of that district were erected by him. On January 7, 1823, Robert Hays, then a He would build a house, live in it for a time, young man of a little over twenty, was mar¬ sell it and begin the building process again. ried to Mary Dudgeon, a girl who had but The movings were in that way rather fre¬ quent, but never took the little family more shortly passed her sixteenth birthday. The than a couple of blocks from the Thirteenth most beautiful commentary that could he street house, Mrs. Hays’ early home. At last, made on the seventy years and more of mar¬ their children all grown and away from home, ried life which Mr. and Mrs. Hays have passed Mr. and Mrs. Hays came back to live in the since then might take the form of Mrs. Hays’ little house which had been built when Mrs. •Hayes was a child. Some of his family own words, when she says: “I have never wished Mr. Hays to tear down the old house regretted it. I was very young, but nothing and put a more modern one in its place. nas ever occurred to make me think the step “No,” was the response, “ this old house is an unwise one.” very dear to me, and I want to preserve it afi it is. ’ ’ The one story back buildings were, OLD-TIME RECOLLECTIONS. however, replaced by a substantial brick The house in which Mr. and Mrs. Hays are structure, and the frame house which shows iving was built eighty years ago, when Mrs. from the front is now the smaller portion of Hays was a small child, and, curiously enough the property. was built by her own father. The neighbor! THE TIIIRTEETH STREET HOUSE. ood of Thirteenth and Race was then a part The house as it stands to-day attracts at¬ of the suburban district. Mrs. Hays well tention by its quaintness and brightness. It recoHects when pasture lots lay between is in excellent repair, and the old-fashioned twelfth and Thirteenth, and when the city weather-boarding glistens with fresh paint. residents who were owners of cows sent the The front of the house is but a stpry and a bovines out into that rural neighborhood to half in height, and the small upper windows seek their living. In the other direction, look out from beneath the eaves with an air piw .. . . , upon their more mod^ mgs. H’he silver door plate and haud!e skine with a polish that one Sl(‘°J'i !,ee* ln these degenerate days; tiie ' icon plants and the bird cage showing at ic windows give the house an air of cheery ; imtoi-t, and even without knowing its his¬ tory , t,he passerby would be inclined to gare twice upon the little domicile. Inside every- | thing, is just as bright, and the master and | the mistress of the house are of a piece with it. ITS RESIDENTS. Mrs. Hays is a sweet-faced little old lady with bright eyes and a pleasant voice. In spite, of her 86 years and more she is active and interested in the affairs of life around her. She still retains her church member¬ ship. and is a regular attendant upon the church services. About five years ago Old hazareJi M. E. Church and the Central M Jb. Church on Tine street, concluded to ioin foxces The property of the Central Church v as sold, and is to-day used as a storehouse The united congregations worship in the re¬ modeled Nazareth Church, now known as the Thirteenth Street M. E. Church. Curiously ROBERT HAYS. !“'™” i )0tb0fthe churches thus joined wore originally missions from old St Gcortre’s te the anti-slavery movement many of his" mends considered him rash in taking up so nwmh % J&8' ^ is the' oldesthvin" member of the Thirteenth Street Church in" enthusiastically with what was then the un¬ popular side. He tells in particular of a re¬ h?**1 branches of its congregation— monstrance received from a wealthy friend ? ?idest,,,m p?lnt of membership, though not the oldest in years. For seventv-fnnr who resided in Spruce street. Said this man • 1 would consider it just as honorable to the church r“f.haS be6n uninteiTupt^dly on take a peck of oats into a field to entice away a man’s horse as to help his slave to run rhTinM,memcelj °1 the Thirteenth Street Church are.fond of saying of her that ‘'foi away.” Mr. Hays replied : “ We don’t erage she is the youngest member we have ’ compare human beings with horses. As the great Mr. Seward says, there is a higher law ^ a class in the Sabbath school and is still actively engaged in the charitabh than slave law, and although you may not know it I believe you are a ‘ higher law ’ fidn^^ettin^u rch'‘‘When ordinary resource! man yourself.” tb inl r Vu ™ missionary bos ” or any The charge was hastily refuted, but Mr. in hand ^ HayS takes the “atte: Hays continued : “ If a runaway slave should needed materials. ^ t0 S6Care thf dash by here this minute and his master, in hot pursuit, should call to you to stop and ivifIr'-H+m’ ®0tne flve years older than hh wife, is still strong and comparatively active hold.him, would you do it?” The remon- strating friend considered, and finally said: though unfortunate in having lost his sight ' ’ ell. I think there ought to be men appointed hefinf Partially. The loss of specially to do things like that.” It was only ;sl^nt is laigc]y attributable to unskilful treatment of his eyes at the time when his sight began to fail from natural causes Cheerful, m spite of his afflictions, the old !■ -cntleman. loves to sit and talk with some

purtfcuhirlv ofGol thener stiiTino-tf S-Cenes pvpn+s lon" past and ensPiif^ sonal reminiscences that is a nevi: ? ?®r' source of entertainment to his friends aillDg anti-slavery days recalled One of the most carefully treasured relics HnvA A 0 h°USe is a Jetter written to Mr -te feath y ST 1hittier Shortly before h[s aeath. The handwriting is delicate \W clearly transcribed, and the words speak the good Quaker poet’s tender romom!? ' Philadeiphia friends, itnS® collection of certain thrilling PLiwi i i.■ experiences. He refers to tb PklladelPhia Pennsylvania Hall, inwhthhi*T*S °f located, and he pauses te Jte “ls ,0.®.Re was MRS. ROBERT HAYS. fulness that the ‘ ‘ Snal blS thank' flesh has become a thing of tbf^ m human a few evenitfes later that while the Hays . At the time Mr. Hays bt*™ P.as?- AgS-pecame inter,in family was at, supper a knock came at their .the city~~C^agn^ecl by his defeat the or ~'TEo man_fevealed wlienTEe cloor was Southerner^visited Tobey’s Quaker emplo onened was a {negro, whose appearance told at and offered to sell the slave, cheap. J- once that he was not a Philadelphia negro. knows it is against my principles to tra ‘'Are you a runaway slave ?” was the ques¬ human flesh,” was the only reply ho received tion “Yes, sah,’’ came the answer, as the to his business overtures. He urged tu- -- man handed a note to Mr. Hays. The note ter, explaining that his funds were exhausted was signed by none other than the remon¬ and that he had no means of returning • strating friend who had indignantly denied The shrewd Quaker considered and nnany , the charge of being a “ higher law man, made answer: “I cannot buy a human being,^ and who was thereafter one of the active but if thee will come to the State House to workers in the “Underground Railway plan, j. morrow and sign a paper that^I will nave The slave who brought the note was passed there for thee I will give thee mrty dollars, on and reached freedom in safety. which will he sufficient to pay thy expenses Before he left the Hays house one of the home.” The plan was accepted and lobey little sbns of Mr. Hays slipped from the was never afterward molested. He remaine< table, opened the child’s “bank,” which held in Philadelphia, a sober and mdustrious cm his small savings, wrapped the pennies m a zen, married, and wdwked for Mr. Hays paper and forced them upon the bewildered many years. negro. “My dear, you needn’t have done OTHER FUGITIVES. that,”’ said Mrs. Hays afterward. “ I know, mother,” the small abolitionist replied, but In the midst of the anti-slavery agitation I’m like father. I pity these poor black there arrived in Philadelphia a couple w o people so and I must do all I can to help were ostensibly a young Southern planter them.” and his colored servant. The planter carried THE “ UNDERGROUND RAILROAD.” his arm in a sling, and was supposed to be Ur. Hays was present at the arrival, by seeking medical advice. His clothing was in express, of a Virginia slave, who was after the latest fashion, and it was reported that ward known as “Box Brown.” The mans his wealth was fabulous, indeed his servant had longed so for freedom that at last some confirmed the report. In reality the couple friends volunteered to undertake the desper- were man and wife, escaping from slavery a-bo expedient of sending him North nailed in and seeking aid from the “Underground a box, if he were willing to undertake the Railway” friends in Philadelphia. The journey in that way. It was the only alter¬ clever wife, very light in color, bad con¬ native to slavery, and the choice was quickly cocted the scheme and succeeded m carrying it through. Unattended negroes were re¬ made. Henry Brown was nailed in a big box, fused passage on Southern railroads , out to furnished with such food as could be put in “Mr. Johnson and servant nothing could with him, perforations were made in the box to admit fresh air, and he started on his jour¬ be‘“Theedslave owners themselves were fre¬ ney North. At Philadelphia he was released, quently abolitionists at heart.” Mr. Hays de¬ so exhausted that he had to be lifted from the clares, and cites many instances to prove.the box, and from there conveyed by the ‘Un¬ point. One of these is that of a couple of bright derground” in a more natural manner. young slave women owned by a It was a curious fact that the negro’s foes family. Two strange gentlemen wisited the in the North were they of his own race. An plantation with a view to purchasing theM escaped slave was comparatively safe in Phil¬ two young women. The ladies of the , adelphia if he kept away from those of his. hold determined that it should not be planned own color; but as soon as he made him¬ an escape for the two girls, stf self known to them he was almost sure to be their journey with most minute ‘Erections as betrayed for the sake of the reward to be ob¬ to their course and conduct, and arranged the tained. “Our greatest binderers were the flight ^ith such skill that the fugitives preachers,” says Mr. Hays. “ Many of them reached Philadelphia without being sus¬ didn’t believe in slavery, yet they considered pected. Such measures were necessary tor it wrong to help a slave to escape. ’ even slave owners, because in many ,-tate THE STORY OF “TOBEY.” the law forbade the manumission of slaves, “Tobey” was another escaped slave who THE HAYS GOLDEN WEDDING. had a somewhat romantic history. “Tobey Twenty years ago, at the fiftieth anniver-.i had stopped in Philadelphia and was work¬ sary of the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Hays, ing for a Quaker Abolitionist who was build¬ their children celebrated tbeir “golden we - ing some houses for Mr. Hays. Tobey s mas¬ dino-.” Both Mr. and Mrs. Hays protested, ter learned his whereabouts and arrived in but'they were hurried out of the house on Philadelphia in pursuit. The negro was some pretext and on their return found the seized in the street and was about to be hur¬ ried off to the South without, further cere¬ celebration in full operation. “ There was mony, as nothing but seizure was necessary even a hand,” laughs Mrs. Hays, though to as the law then stood. Tobev’s Quaker em¬ be sure the house was so full that they ployer had a long head and a warm heart, had to stay out in the street in front.” Of and traveled off to see one of the Phila¬ their six children Mr. and Mrs. Hays have delphia Judges about the case. _ The result three still living. The family is somewhat of the conference was that a writ was issued scattered, hut still closely united in sentiment commanding that Tobey be held in Philadel¬ and affection. A dwarf palm tree stands in phia for a few days, The matter was then the front room of the little Thirteenth street turned over to the Guardians of the Poor, house, and the story of how it came there who brought charges against Tobey for cer¬ makes it an especial interesting plant. It tain misdemeanors which caused him to be was a gift to Mrs. Hays from her yonngest lodged in the City Prison, then located at l son, whose words as he presented it to her Broad and Arch. were: “Mother, I was wondering what 1 The Southern owner was nonplused and re¬ could give you that you would care tor v, hca tired to his inn, the Bull’s Head, in Market one morning I read m my Bible the ri^htei street, near Eleventh, to await further devel¬ ous shall flourish like the palm tree, and opments. None came, and it was evident thought at once that a palm woul?bej that none would come so long as ho remained the thing for you. ’ ’ f A LONG AND HAPPY LIFE spits or upon jacks which dogs had to tilth. ] Mrs. Hays was born on January sor-jfu/, A good example of the antique fireplace is and Mr. Hays on May 1, 1802. \j^rfever to be seen in the famous old house of John wished for a long life,” Mrs. Hays remarked. Bartram, on the banks of the Schuylkill, “ But since I have lived so long I hope I may near Gray’s Ferry. Bartram’s house was be spared to care for my husband to the last. erected as long ago as 1731. The fireplace is As I have seen so many die before me. I have a huge affair, extending almost the entire often wondered why I should be left; but length of the side of the room, before which the now I see the reason. My life has been a botanist and his wife were accustomed to sit happy one, too. My greatest troubles have- on cold winter evenings, so as to enjoy the been seeing the sorrows of my friends. The ruddy glow of the blazing logs which were Lord has cared for me through everything, piled high on the antique andirons. A slight and I have learned to fully trust His kind¬ mantel-shelf of wood is the only ornamenta- ness and wisdom.” I tion to be seen. Although many of the Friends have often suggested to the aged 'fireplaces in the houses of Philadelphia couple^the appropriateness of a family “re¬ erected in the early part of the eighteenth union.” Besides the three living children there are fourteen grandchildren and four¬ century, were much smaller than Bartram’s, teen great-grandchildren. But, while all' yet they were all rude and massive and quite the members of the family are frequent and similar in construction. The chimneys and welcome visitors, Mr. and Mrs. Hays con¬ end walls of these early fireplaces were gen¬ sider that their “party days ” are over. erally built of stone, cemented with rubble They live quietly with their one maid, and and mortar, composed of shell, lime, sand visitors are entertained in a home-like fash¬ ion that prevents any from being strangers. and gravel, and flakes of broken slate pounded “Mr. McClure’s paper?” queried Mr. Hays; fine. “ Oh yes, I remember very well when that was started. I was one of the first subscrib- | Although rough and without pretensions ers. He gave a map to every one to architectural style, these fireplaces have a' that took it. and I have that map picturesqueness of their own to any one in¬ yet.” Mr. Hays coutinued to be a sub¬ terested in colonial architecture, and they scriber to The Times until within the last might well be studied as true exponents of two years. Being unable now to read for himself he has more and more dropped con¬ our first attempts in fireplace architecture, nection with the outside world, and is con¬ and incidentally of interior architecture in cerned mainly with his home affairs and with general. They show in every line, if not the fruitful memories of his long and busy beauty, at least goad, common sense, as well life. The peace and good-will to men which as the practical use of material, according to make up the atmosphere of the little home the best ability and knowledge possessed by in Thirteenth street seem like a benediction on the neighborhood, and the tale of the the artisans who erected them. years that have been told there is sweeter By a close study of these early fireplaces we and wholesomer far than the average modern can picture the men who built them; a raco love story with its doubts and tremors and all of builders, who wrought by main strength, its psychological speculations. The hope of useful dwellings out of crude material, and. the readers of the long serial cannot but be I with but slender mechanical appliances; that its closing chapters may run along in men, who in their ideas, were fully up to and quiet harmony for many years to come. even ahead of their times, and who aimed to M. do their best. They were artists in their way, who, a few years later, developed an artistic and attractive school of colonial ar¬ chitecture. One of the most interesting points about our very early fireplaces, in fact their sole S adornment, was the old iron fire backs. These back plates, as they were called, are among our earliest specimens of early iron manu- , facture. They were laid in the back of the j fireplaces to protect the walls from the great I heat of the huge logs, and were about two feet square, bearing the royal arms, with the name of the iron founder,__ There are several of these old fire backs in THE earliest fireplaces in the houses of existence which differ from the majority. One Philadelphia were of the plainest pos¬ is in the fireplace of the mansion of Governor sible construction, without the slight¬ Keith, near Hatboro, Pennsylvania. This est ornamentation of wood carving or old back plate bears Keith’s motto : “ Ke- raember thy end,” and his coat of arms. brick tile. There seems but one way to explain this spe¬ They were simply huge holes in the wall cial plate of Keith’s, and that is that he was faced with rough-hewn stones, which were the proprietor of an iron foundry, so Keith, • set without the slightest regard to artistic the iron founder, must have cast his own principles or effect, simply to protect the sur¬ back plate, a practice, it is to bo presumed, rounding walls from the fire. One of their which few. if any, of our early colonists imitated. A good example of the original chief recommendations was that they were back plate is to be seen in the fireplace of the enormously capacious. They had great iron kitchen at Cliveden, the Chew House, Ger¬ dogs in them, to which, in winter time, the mantown. back log was often dragged by a yoke of oxen with a log chain. Cranes and hooks, It was, perhaps, about 1750 that our archi¬ suspended in these fireplaces, held pots for tects first endeavored to design artistic man¬ the boiling, and the roasting was done on telpieces in our colonial dwellings. They AN ART CLUB HEARTH,

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-JH. ts\ w have been thoroughly in earnest in I away from, many old iu dacesf by relic- their desire to improve the.academic English I hunters to Be tre;istlf fed Iasi ■ , -T-,-jjjosities of a by¬ system in which they had been trained. They gone period. The decoraflop of fireplaces endeavored to infuse into each separate fire¬ W’ith tiles has, however, largely come lip place and mantel which they erected a beauty again in recent years. Much more variety and individuality bf its own. Of course, the of course, in the matter of the tiles is now-in¬ dulged m, but it is questionable if any of tho wealth and prosperity which had befallen tiles of-our day are more attractive or pictur¬ some of our merchants by that time had much esque in design than the old'blue and white to do towards the improvement of our do¬ Dutch affairs in which our ancestors de¬ mestic architecture. lighted. There are still, in existence some excellent specimens of these middle colonial carefully After the imported tiles had gone out of constructed and artistically useful fireplaces. use slabs of wfliite or variegated marble wore Take, for instance, the mantels in the ohj introduced to take their place. This marble Wistar house, in Germantown. The wood craze was quite extensive and many of the carving on them is carefully and finely exe¬ very old fireplaces w-ere thus adorned. Later cuted and very artistic in design. Beading, a facing of brick -work was sometimes em¬ wreaths of flowers, Cupids, animals a-ad ployed to set off, like a mat a picture, the loosely draped female figures are artistically, woodwork of the mantel and sides of the fire¬ place. if conventionally, grouped and arranged in them. Another example of the 1750-1769 period of fireplace architecture is to be seen in the old I Somewhat before the introduction of the Powcl House, on Third street, below Walnut extensive frame of wood-carving which was The fireplace, unfortunately, has been filled built around our early fireplaces, imported m, thus naught remains but the woodwork decoration, and this has been greatly abused ! blue and white Dutch tiles, with Scriptural I by successive generations of tenants, but devices upon them, were introduced as a enough remains to show that, in its day, it decorative border to early fireplaces; they I must have been one of the handsomest fire- ■ j were set around with brass borders. Nowa¬ places in Philadelphia. The middle carving days these tiles have almost entirely disap¬ represents a hunting scene, while in the peared, having been picked out and carried left-hand corner is the coat-of-arms of the Powcl family. 1 f 1

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FIREPLACE IN HOUSE OF MR. HARRISON K. CANER. we understand the matter to-dayT In front Another very attractive old-time mantel, 1 it was open like a fireplace, but the sides andl very simple and chaste in design, is to be seen back were inclosed irf iron made in onel in. one of the rooms of the Philosophical So-' piece, having but a small aperture for the I ciety, the apartment which was occupied 'tor chimney. It was erected well over the hearth | many years by Charles Wilson 1 cale. and out into the room, the improvement over l So long as wood was the only fuel in use, the fireplace was the popular mode of heating the original fireplace being that the heat, in-l dwellings, although Benjamin Franklin in¬ stead of escaping up the chimney, was caught| veigled the Quakers into the use of that sim¬ up and thrown out into the room. ulacrum of an open fireplace called the Frank¬ The Germans early imported the great por¬ lin stove, invented by the philosophic Doctor celain stoves which they were familiar with I himself, and it is on record that he presented at home and which they used until Christo-1 Friend Bartram with one of these stoves, and pher Saur, the German printer, invented thel that it was erected in the quaint old fire¬ ten plate stove, for which lovers of the beau- [ place. Another of the old time Franklins is tiful will scarcely know how to forgive him. I to be seen in the fireplace of James Logan’s As the country was built up and forests] house at Stenton. It is not really a stove as disappeared wood in the neighborhood of thb | FIREPLACE AT MANHEIM, GERMANTOWN CRICKET CLUB.

arge cities became exceedingly scarce and were few houses comparatively thus supplied. expensive as fuel, and the inhabitants were In some dwellings mantels were built, but they • ' . -t -r'* compelled to turn to some other and less had about as much meaning as the sword belt costly material for household heating. It was buttons on a man’s coat to-day. Good archi¬ not difficult to find, as an almost inexhausti¬ tects soon found this out, and in a few of the ble supply of coal was at hand. It was soon most artistic dwellings erected in the middle found, however, that it could not satisfac¬ of this century mantelpieces were entirely torily be burned in the open fire place, and thus ignored, or when they were erected they this quaint institution gradually went out of were put in out-of-the-way corners and were use, until in the middle of this century there. so unostentatious as not to be noticeable. The practical abolishment of the fireplace

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\ AN ART CLUB HEARTH. wrouvb^ of wood as fuel in city"“fiouses ' century the old-fashioned fireplaces were still in use, and strangers in our city in passing customh

A cry which old Philadelphians probably remember better than any other was “ Sweep, oh! sweep, oh!” as it was frequently heard in the streets of our city fifty or sixty years ago, when wood was the only fuel consumed. In those days chimneys, although capacious, frequently filled with soot, which, if it was not quickly removed, was apt to take fire. , In very early days, when the fireplace was the only means of heating and wTood the o: fuel, a law was passed imposing a fine of f( shillings on the provincial housekeepers the chimneys took fire in consequence of t! neglecting to have them swept once a mon but if a fire occurred in the chimney witlfin that time then the master sweep was respon- _ FRANKLIN’S STOVE. sible and fined for neglect of duty. The sweeps were very important personages in those days and their business was a lucrative one. 81 V- - The chimney sweeping proper was gener¬ in design, is to be seen in the house of Harri¬ ally done by diminutive negro boys, whose son K. CaneT, 1707 Walnut street, and there dusky faces were not rendered unrecognizable are some exceedingly attractive, as well as * by the dirt of their calling. When the fire¬ original, fireplaces in William P. Ellison’s place went out of date and anthracite coal house, 1528 Walnut street. They are largely became a popular fuel, the business of the of marble, brick and tilc-work,with compara¬ chimney sweep was practically over, as the tively little wood employed. coal smoke being comparatively without dirf The fireplace in the parlor of the house of ana soot did not clog the chimneys, conse¬ James W. Paul, Jr., 3809 Locust street, is quently the sweeps, one by one, deserted a very elaborate affair, showing to what an their business as unprofitable. To-day there extent modern fireplace decoration has been is but one family in the city that makes the carried. The facing of the supports on either business of chimney sweeping their occupa¬ side of the mantel proper is of massive mar¬ tion, and their efforts in that direction are ble. The mantel proper is of carved wood, sufficient to meet the demands of the Phila¬ and upon it rests a dark -wood frame extend¬ delphia housekeepers. ing to the ceiling, in which has been set a Within the last few months the head of handsome French mirror. this family, John Davis, who was one of the Unquestionably, it has been conclusively best known characters in the city and cele¬ proved recently that the fireplace can be brated as last of the chimney sweeps, died at made an artistic adornment to a handsome the advanced age of 85 years. Davis went apartment, but it is a very different affair in about the city with two small colored boys, these days from what it was in John Bart- | and when a job was received one of the boys | ram’s time. To show this, it is only neces- would be lowered down the chimney with a I sary to say that, while the old-time fireplace, rope. Davis worked at chimney sweeping properly speaking, was the beginning and until he became blind, when his son took his end of the matter, the fireplace of to-day has j place. become a matter of most secondary considera¬ I Years ago the old cry of ‘‘sweep, oh! ” was tion, and dwarfed out of all proportion to the abandoned. The Davis family now announce surrounding decoration. In other words, it their coming by the singing of some gospel has long since outlived its usefulness as a melody. necessity. Whether it will take a place as In passing he would probably cry in sten¬ an adornment of smaller houses is a question torian tones “split wood, spli-t wood,” and which architects have not yet settled to their I thereby reveal his business.' The wood saw- satisfaction. I yer divided the logs and long sticks into bil¬ One thing is very certain, and that is that lets, while it was the “split wood” man’s the wood-burning fireplace can never again business to cut them in half. become more than an adornment, as Its use¬ fulness as applied to the heating of houses has Of recent years the fireplace, after a period forever passed away. of thirty or forty years of practical non-ex¬ To be sure the majority of the fireplaces, as istence, has again been introduced in all its constructed to-day, are built for the use of glory and with considerable more ornamenta¬ coal, but even these affairs are much more tion than ever before in the dwellings of our ornamental than useful, as in the same man¬ ner as the fireplaces built for the consumption j wealthy class. In fact, while some architects of wood, the heat from the fire appears to I have undoubtedly taken great pains in the ascend up the chimney instead of diffusing in ; design and ornamentation of the modern the apartment, and thus it is not uncommon doorways, many of them have exerted all to find houses, which have open fireplaces, in their energies in devising unique and pic¬ which coal is burned in all the apartments, also fitted out with registers or steam heat, turesque fireplaces and mantels. These mod¬ upon which the tenants depend for their coma ern mantels are almost all called “Colonial,” fort on cold winter days. but as a matter of fact no especial school seems to have been followed, and many of them display a bewildering combination of antique and modern architecture. For in¬ stance, many mantels of cherry wood are to be seen carved in imitation of colonial de¬ signs. The effect, although curious, is not unattractive. It will be remembered that j the real colonial mantel was never of cherry, but generally of pine painted white. , The high double-decked mantel shelves, (backed with French plate-glass mirrors, with small fireplaces or grates beneath, are one class of mantels which may be termed en¬ tirely modern. In bordering the fireplaces | tiles are now extensively used, as well as brick ! and plaster and rubble work and stone carv¬ ings. Even stucco work is quite often added. There are some very attractive mantels after the colonial style to be seen in the Art Club. In one of its fireplaces a combination of small tile work inlaid in plaster, with a border of colonial wood carving,, has been em¬ ployed with good offect. Another of the Art Club fireplaces is entirely of brick work, with only a small wooden mantel shelf held up by a rather attractive border of stone carving.

In the billiard room at Manheim there is a fine specimen of modern brickwork as ap¬ plied in combination with colonial wood¬ carving as a fireplace decoration. A very originally carved marble mantel, quite unique ecclesiastical institutions. You have most wisely, said Br. Agnew, in building a beautiful and most substantial temple to extend the knowledge of the true God. God has bestowed on you a wonderful degree of success. Solomon was a good political economist. Men are dependent and interdependent. Solomon exercised a paternal care and au¬ thority over his people. He gave all his in¬ tellectual strength to the improvement of his people. He improved the cities, and directed all the military movements of the army. Upon foreigners who lived in his dominion he levied a special tribute as a quid pro quo. God prospered his government, enriched his people, and made the ground productive. ANNIVERSARY EXERCISES OF BETHLE¬ After Solomon grew rich and strong, he lived for pleasure, and then his danger became HEM PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.. very great. He knew not whether he was spiritually dead or alive. Although what

■ you have done in twenty years cannot be Rev. Dr. B, L. Agnew, the Pastor, Re¬ compared with the work accomplished by views the History and Successful Work Solomon, yet God has most graciously of the Church. blessed your efforts. You have toiled hard and long to build the Church up, but have you not been remunerated. Your time and The twentieth anniversary of the Bethle¬ money have been most wisely spent. hem Presbyterian Church, corner of Broad At the offertory was sung ‘ ‘Eye Hath Not and Diamond streets, was celebrated yester¬ Seen,” from Gaul’s cantata. ‘‘The Holy day, large congregations being in attendance City,” and after the sermon, Spohr’s ‘‘How at all the services. The pulpit platform was Lovely are Thy Dwellings. ’ ’ very handsomely decorated with palms, A Brief History. Easter and ca 11a lilies, red and white azaleas, Bethlehem Church was organized April 10. roses, hydrangeas, acacias, daisies and other 1873, in Betbune Hall. Twelfth street and flowers. The morning service commenced Montgomery avenue, with 50 members, the with Back’s.To Deum, by the quartette, con¬ Rev. Matthew Newkirk, D. D., as Pastor;! sisting of Miss A. H. Bender, soprano; Mrs. Mr. Alfred T. Stauffer, Elder. The frame S. Fi Osbourne, alto; L. K. Ewing, tenor, chapel on the site of the present building and'F. Crittenden, basso, under the di¬ was dedicated June 22, 1873. The Sabbath rection of Mr. Clarence Shank. school was organized June 29, 1873, with 20 The anniversary sermon was preached by officers and teachers, 86 scholars. On Nov. 22, 1 the Pastor, the Rev. B. L. Agnew, D. D., 1873, a petition was signed for a charter in the from the text, ‘ ‘And it came to pass at the name of ‘ ‘Broad and Diamond Presbyterian end of twenty years, wherein Solomon had Church. ’ ’ The Sabbath school room was oc- i built the house of the Lord, and his own cupied April 9, 1876, and the annex was! house, that the cities which Husam had re¬ opened for church services October 8th of that stored to Solomon, Solomon built them and year. On January 24, 1877, the name was; caused the children of Israel to dwell there, changed to ‘ ‘Bethlehem, ” and on May 12, and Solomon went to Hamatb-Zobah and 1884, the second and present Pastor, the Rev. prevailed against it, and he built Tadmor in B. L. Agnew, was installed. The present church the Wilderness, and all the stone cities which building was dedicated May 5, 1889. The he built m Hamath. Also he built Beth- total cost of the grounds and buildings was Horah the* upper, and Beth-Horah the $149, GOO, and of this amount the congregation nether, fenced cities with walls, gates and has raised $93,500; in addition there was bars, and all the chariot cities and the cities raised for congregational purposes $142,- of the horsemen; all that Solomon desired 900; outside contributions. $18,235: a total of he built in Jerusalem and in Lebanon and more than $154,000. When Dr. Agnew as¬ throughout all the land of his dominion. ” sumed charge, in 1884, there were 268 enrolled 2 Chronicles, viii, 1-G. members, a number of whom did not attend j The Secret of Success. chttrcli; during his pastorate there were 830, It is Just twenty years ago to-day said Dr. accessions, and the membership is now 771. ; Agnew since the organized work was com¬ im.l884the Sunday-school membership was menced of building Bethlehem Church. As 065; not/ it is 1203. The conception of the in¬ King Solomon was the wisest man of the terior of the new church was Dr. Agnew’s world, we may as well sit at his feet, and idea. In 1884 the revenue from pew rents was learn the secret of his success. The first $4000; now it is over $10,000. great duty of man is to build up the Church The Sunday-school services yesterday of the Living God. Solomon’s work cost afternoon, conducted by the Superintendent, l millions upon millions, but who can esti¬ W1. L. Yerkes, consisted of a service of song mate its value! Prior to the erection of the and addresses by early friends of the i Temple, how little did the Church of God in¬ school. Those who spoke were Robert W. i fluence surrounding nations. Proud Greece Patrick, J. Howard Seal, Edward P. Hippie, 1 could only show superstitious veneration of L. W. Elder and I. P. Black, all of whom Minerva. Egypt with all her boasted learn¬ were superintendents of the school for vary¬ ing was still barbarous enough, and Rome ing periods, from 1874 to 1883. Last evening bad not yet commenced her brilliant military there was a praise service, with addresses by career. Prior to the building of the Temple, Rev. Dr. Thomas A. Hoyt and Mr. Robert C. the masses were either atheists or polyth¬ Ogden. This evening Dr. Agnew will give his eists, but the Temple enforced attention to illustrated lecture on ‘‘The Wonderful the moral law. The Epicurean system was West. ’ ’ __ a conglomeration of lazy gods. The Church of God is meant to teach men Heavenly wisdom. Solomon did most wisely when he spent the first twenty years in strengthening j legislature of New Jersey, the same year he founded a company with a capital of $3t)0 and built and launched a steamboat on the Delaware, which

(Shipbuilding on the Delaware made some progress, notwithstanding | Fiver. the fact that its boiler leaked liberally, and a number of other fatal defects. In iv 1787 he constructed a steamboat 45 1 |the growth of the feet long which made a successful trip up and down the river. I . ~~ ’ In 1788 a new vessel with an im¬ Industry—Tha Millions Invested in the Great proved engine was built, and ran as far as Burlington, where the boiler burst. Shipyards of Penns,Ivania-The Slory In 1790 this boat made regular trips, of the Rise and Fall of Wooden every other day, between Pniladelphia and Trenton, and one season a pleas¬ Shipbuilding. ure trip was made to Chester and I return During the same month Fitch’s (Written for the Sentinel.) Company was also at work building a Shipbuilding in Pennsylvania, if no4 second steamboat for use in Virginia, jin America, began coincidently with but before it reached completion a storm the settlements under William Penn. arose, drove it from its moorings, and In fact that shrewd and benovelent it was wrecked in the mud of Petty Quaker issued an order that in clearing This was more than the men and Fitch the land all good oak timber should be of the steamship company could stand preserved for shipping. In 1685, a and steamboat navigation came to an number of vessels were built. Before end on the Delaware. 1700 rope-walks, sail and block makers For twenty years after the failure of !shop, timber yards and other accom¬ Fitch’s company there were no steam paniments of shipbuilding sprung up. boats on the Delawate river. In 1809, Tne few existing statistics show that however, steamboat navigation began (from 1722 to 1771, there were built 101 its continuous existence. There was a j sailing vessels. ferry run to Camden on a pleasure trip, As far as America is concerned, Phil¬ and its success was almost simultaneous adelphia is the birth place of steam and they were substituted for the sailing navigation- The story of Fitch, hi* vessels on the rivar, especially those struggles, his temporary success and which took passengers over. The Phce his failure, which might easily have j nix b iler by Stevens was prevented been a permanent success ig a very from running into New York by the J familiar one. monopoly given to Fulton and Living¬ , In 1785 John Fitch placed his first stone in 1787. In 1813 two more j boat in a little stream running into the steamboats were put on and run to New Delaware River. In 1786 he applied York by way of Baltimore. In 1815 for and obtained a patent from the another steamer formed a line between ’.Philadelphia and Camden, and two reg- hanna for the American Army arlinesran from Philadelphia to Bal- i,he war he wont with a shipbuilder at nore. Baltimore, and then with a firm m The history of ship-building in Penn¬ Philadelphia In 1789 he bought a sylvania can be divided into two epochs, wharf property in Ken-ington, b* came a member of the Master Shipbuilders the earlier being the wooden ship Society and entered into *-hip building building age,' and the other the iron On his own account. In 2/90 he- built ship-building. a ship and engine for a well-known In the period between the Revolu¬ firm, receiving for the first $29-10 b7 tionary War and the War of 1812, and for ihe latter $1288.66. Mr. Bowers achieved many triumphs Pennsylvania led the other States in of shipbuilding, such as completion of shipbuilding. The oaks and others »n engine 200 tons in six weeks, in ad¬ along the Delaware was good in qual¬ dition to the iuvit+tion from the Span¬ ity and obtained in quantities, and ish Goverment before mentioned, and shipping yards at Philad*-lpbiastmtched several commissions and boilers from along the nver front at Kensington and our own Groverment. In 1822 he Southwark, as many as twelve or fifteen ceased building, and in 1830 disposed being in operation at one time and all of hie ship yards and retir- d from bust bu^y. Many of the foreign governments ness. The record of his yard for 33 came to Delaware to secure their build years of work was 59 vessels built, and ers for their own navies. ,324 repaired Samuel Bowers, a Kensington ship¬ After the war of 1812 ship building builder, was solicited in 1S00 by the on the Delaware remained active and Spanish Government to become its continued to be progressive. The chief naval constructor, and Stmuel East India trade required large ships, Humphries was invited by the Russian and the packet lines of Europe called Government to take a similar position for vessels which Philadelphia builde-s under the most flattering terms furnished, in scarcely less perfection In these days the vessels were built than any of these beautiful modle* at the risk of * the builder or the one which attracted the admiration of speculating, the work to fill being suf¬ Europe. . ficient to occupy the builder. When a The following picture is of the ship prominent shipbuilder received an Arctic, made famous by Dr Kane’s order for a vessel, the size was agreed expedition, and which was built in on, the kind of work expected to be Pniladelpnia. done, expense of building, or he him¬ The period from 1847 to 1857 was self may- put not only his but invent an an active time for American ship build¬ aesthetic into the work; he ing, and of this ship building there was 1 makes the whole model, leaving little ' is a partial response in Philadelphia one save the mechanical operation to the firm buildmg 108 steamboats, with an 'Journeyman shipbuilder. Buch work aggregate tonnage of 21,018. They are in a community, led to help as follows: In 1846 began the great Philadelphia men to take a Area m of European emigration to . prominent part in naval architecture, America. In 1849 came the discovery for instance, a Philadelphian built the of gold in California, and this called ship Rebecca Sims, as early as 1807 left f r a. great number of vessels to take Philadelphia with all sails set and from the Eastern States, not only the iached Liverpool docks in fourteen vast number of people, but also the - lys, without having once lowered a supplies necessary for their ,il. This ship with her component, maintenance while there. In 1854 the! ■i oodrop Sims, a vessel that was built Crimean War diverted a great many! n 1801, greatest weight was 5e0 tons, vessels from their ordinary uses to gov-1 vas pierced for 18 guns for protection, eminent services amd this gave an op-1 jo-t some$'5,000, and was the greatest portunity for American vessels to carry ship in America’s Merchant Marine. The lines of trade. In 1857 the re action Rebecca Sims was bought by the gov¬ came, the steamship lines began tol ernment, and was sunk off the Charles absorb the trade, and the ship ii ton Harbor in 1862. The cost of build dustry never recovered. A severe w<*r ing vessels at this time varied from $20 came on with high wages taxes and to $36 per ton. other expenses. The value of land in | Samuel Bowers may be taken as a large cities made wood shipbuilding ex¬ type of the early shipbuilders of Penn¬ pensive. Of the 16,141 wooden Sailing! sylvania. He was born in Southwark vessels in the Merchant Marine of ti-e in 1760, and during the Revolution U 8. in 1884, 110 have been built inf helped to build boats on the Susque¬ 87

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IN THE DRY DOCK AT CRAMP’s YARD. Philadelphia, of the steam vessels in¬ m 184U Neafie and Levy; and Hat Ian cluding wooden and iron the propor¬ and Hollingsworth began building in n tion built in Philadelphia was 441 out vessels regularly. The William Cramp A, [ of a total of 6686. Sons Ship and Engine Building Co,i Harlan and Hollingsworth of Wil- which has long been famous, and inf 1 mington claim to have built the first recent years has become of national in ] iron steamboats in 1834. The early terest for building the greater part of out iron vessels were built in rolling mills new navies used in the development of one of Philadelphia’s old iron shi| yards, was founded in 1880 by Wil iiam Cramp. Mr Cramp was horn in Kensington, educated iu the public schools, and ap-: pfentict d to Samuel Grice. He worked as a journeyman ship carpenter until 1830, when he se cured a property fronting on the Delaware river and began building wooden sailing vessels From 1830 to 1860 over 100 vessels were built in hi yards The Samson, the first tugboat built ia America, came from his yard. When the contract of the new navy was resolved in a few years, although tads were called for, the Ciamps proved (o be the most successful < ompetitor*| and the work as far as completed, has attained high success and won great praise. During this period of rapid growth ground has been acquired b$ the firm and the development of the theoretical side of shipbuilding has gone on constantly under the development of marine engines, This country! A $TiAf'lE/* dY C€£■<■/$'/Q//* was for some time in advance of {lO *s * f £&/*£/>) England in the in¬ troduction of the not in the ship yards. It is only in th* compound marine case of the Cramps, that a woodei engine, the steam¬ shipbuilding establishment has changed ship George \V. jand become an iron buiiding establish- Clyde, being built lutnt. t>y Cr«mp

As this yard rep esents more than tocr of Other Boys Were Almost Fright¬ any other the growth and development ened to Death Near the Old MifBiu of thipbuilding, we select their method House at the Falls of Schnylhlll. and practice as the basis of this article on shipbuilding. In building a ship the first step is its On the summit of a small hillock which ex “scheme.” If for passenger traffic the tends back from Ridge load, below Jamei street, at the Falls of Schuylkill, stands tin rrquirements would be speed, safety old Mifflin mansion. It is a three-story stons and comfort. In this case the “scheme” building in the colonial style. Although would be a long, sharp ship with ' fine built previous to the revolutionary war, it is lines and elaborate fittings, provided still substantial, showing hut few signs of its with high-powered machinery, and for age and remaining, in outward appearance at freight the “scheme” would involve a least, as it was in colonial days. This famous maximum of storage aud carrying ca— mansion was erected by and was the resi¬ dence of Governor Thomas Mifflin, who was born in Philadelphia in 1744. On several oe- was a guest at the old ('thunder-storm broke in great foWwSFthe irris, Benjamin Franklin hSlr 3t thundered and the light- of the revolution used to |inn„ nearly blinded me, it was so vivid and breakfast, and such men as ImVl ‘ X, wa®wet to the skin before I had is, Clement Biddle, Andrew »one three hundred yards. M’hile I was , Samuel Meredith and Timothy walking up the old pike with my head down and pressing forward against the beating S used to attend the historic dinners given there. uii1°’aLwfrd a n01S\that funded like drag® ?‘n= a heavy iron chain over a barn floor. I And now this interesting and historical was directly in front of the entrance to the colonial mansion has been sold to a well- Mifflm mansion, and glancing towards the Jknown bulkier for $35,000, and will be torn stone steps, I saw what I’ll always believe | ^“^ destroyed and no effort made to was the devil himself. ‘lk tbesitfi- “ Things won’t seem natural “ XXe"'as. hilly twelve feet high, and wore lure 1 an old-fashioned red cloak. any more when the mansion’s gone ’’ I v. bad.a head like a hull, with a short afn.

girlsgfrls Wfl°e6yelledn ‘ murder!’he aTeaoe andlike madthen- whilefainted the i-lie thing s tail looked like a fnn nnri Baiker was standing on the noreb nr t • ^emed to spread wide enough to cTver a tavern and ran in and seized^ double3 meeting. As the monster gradm the caps snTppedd ^ t0 Sb°0t the spook’ feut

dozen frightened men chasing her Thev took good care, however, to keep from o-ettiim inrder ” °y.S,-C/Ie.d Murder! bloody •e took tn «at llfe lnto us and the way broimh I ' he?ls and out up the hill °Ui knars and everything else wns aed us. t0 frigMen the tLiag that friglit- gar ss?i!a »Mjs-^2Egs around this Corner OfU see a ghost turn tenrlori k Lornel . Of course, she pre- There was another night that I’ll never haddnot^eben7py much. surprised and said she 'rget. I was returning home from a visit to resd of ti c aPPant,on She joined the 7 best girl on Indian Queen lane. I stayed whsf tw n S°wd and with them wondered yflat they had seen, but the snapping of the tfl’the® m v ff1 kno* d was so late caps was a lucky accident for her.” — ltil the old English clock struck twelve. hen I got up, made an apology for keeping e young lady up so late, and left. It was the summer and I hadn't gone far before a ‘ HEM*-*

White Marsh "Valley beckons one at every opening, the pictures ot Chestnut v * ... Sand'attract.1 i.tmotiveivoonough enough to rivet tim eye and teefTTEeTUn y

b°A thousand pleasing suggestions may be gained in a drive about ” t he IH1U

•. in the general composition “ pictures, the fall of light and shadow, the originality and versatility etc * trasting architectural effects, end at^the same time the recurrence ot the stmiI and iamiliar torms most pleasing.to the eye. St. Paul’s Church, rectory and chapel make one of these agreeable in¬ terludes, being quite an ideal group, perfectlv adapted to the neighborhood, , vet at the same time having such dis¬ tinct ecclesiastical ioatures that its beauty is quite distinct iroin that oi the pleasant precincts round about. Chestnut Hill, in fact, is singularly fortunate in its expression of itself, both in general effects and in detail, enjoy¬ ing as it does, an elevation of some tour Someljp Mont Ptii’sflelBiiia’s Most or'five hundred feet above Philadelphia. It has always been a cool, sequestered Bsautifni Mori). nook for our citizens to flee to from town for summer coolness. All roads from Chestnut HilUead, as they should lead, to the Wissahickon, which gathers its The Highest Point of Land in fountains together from the lar-oft hills and from the springs close at hand, an the Corporate Limits. almost voiceless but many-pictured stream,now and then ioaming in rapids, but ottener lying in sea-green and nut- Some of the Residences That Crown brown pools. The Wissahickon is one of the lew the Hill Which Slopes to the small water courses which the growth of Classic Wissahiclton—Many Styles town and village has not helped to dry up. It has, on the contrary, gained vol¬ of Architecture. ume since the opening ot streets, and drives on every hand have brought snrings to the surlace, F all our suburbs, welling up" irom their hidden res¬ north, south, east or ervoirs to add their clear trickle to west, Chestnut Hill, the river’s flow. So many point? ot the northern limit view does the scenery ol the Wissa¬ of Philadelphia, is hickon offer to the lover of the pictur¬ perhaps the most at¬ esque that one hardly knows where to tractive. The site is dwell upon—the more weird and mystei- extremely well loca¬ ious aspects it takes in some of its lar ted, hotii with a view reaches, or those of a lighter and more to its internal re¬ varying mood. _ sources and to its Not far away irom Mr. Benson s becoming tire su¬ dwelling and commanding a very ex¬ burb of a popular tensive expanse of country, is a city. It is a high mediaeval castle, or at least a modern lying plateau, with imitation of one, fronting on the Barren a sheer descent to Hill road, its rear is built upon the slope the White Marsh Valley on the north, of a steep hill, aud from its situation a but on the southward side sloping more hio-b wail ot stone is required to support gently towards the city. Its elevation, it.D 1 own this wall a gran ltd the purity of its air and the conveni¬ stairway leads. At first ence of access from the central part of would imagine that this entrance was the city, all combine to make it a most wholly unguarded, but a closer glance desirable place for winter or summer reveals a chain which adds to the strong residence. effect produced by the great graniW A magnificent view ot this vast amphi¬ house perched so high by the hillside. theatre between the hills may be gained! A view from the high turrets must he through the arches of the great porte. superb, lor high as the visitor appeared cochere of the house of Mr. Edwin >'< from the surrounding country, the Benson, one of the most oeautiful nr] house is still higher and dominates the vate residences which ornament country at its ieet. This beautdui resi Hill,” as it is familiarly termed by u dence is the summer home of George p. inhabitants. Thomas, well-known by bis connection Mr. Benson’s house is built of warm, ■ with Drexel’s banking firm. gray stone: the style of architecture is Another very attractive bouse an American adaptation of the old Eng- I Chestnut-Hill is the residence.ofWx lish country house. Although the view] M. Stewart. It also stands onjMg| In’s piazza of the smiling| ’

THE MANSION OF HON. WILLIAM POTTER. commanding a line view of the'broad, slow nsfi of the valley towards the liills and is permitted to show itself from many points of view, each of which dis¬ closes new features. it is the lightest and an lest of Queen Anne houses, its led roof breaking into every striking irregularity which turret and gable can make. It rests on a base of castle-like

massiveness. A high chimney of gray^ stone, its whole length vissibie, is in itself a line feature of the structure. A stately arch adds to the rich effect, which cmTy^ an arch can give, and deepens the impression off great massiveness, run¬ ning counted to the delicate modern prettiness of conception. The Queen }Aune house seems partic- ularlv well fitted for the slopes of Chest¬ nut Hill, an dip wo examples of it Which show off to’ great advantage are the EXAMPLE OF A CHESTNUT HILL DRIVEWAY. homes ot Charles Potter and his brother, * ~ ' . THE RESIDENCE OF WILMER BIDDLE, “.... I gressman Richard Yaux, surrounded i Willi am Potter. Both houses agjjfec- with beautiful grounds, well-cut hedges I ■iceedinglydin spy picturesque in lorm.xyuu< asi-well U'onMand finef’mo oldnlrl trees.trnna This placenUlPA standsStllll (If? USas 1 !? agreeable. ‘i - in color. ItTt ici notvint. ntfcpnoften ’ a good example of the hundred and one | v'that a prevalent fashion of architecture CL * ....- country places which existed at Chest- 1 ■ c^Ki be. equally_ i i_1 well 1 handled amongsto O* T.rOP.S roes nut Hill before modern architects com- | fandjaiul among rows ol houses, hut the le naissance of Queen Anne or free classic , menced the production of the beautiful ' A has proved a happy event for Chestnut / palatial residences which have so greatly jTj.mii where not only are there admirable , euhancgd the natural beauties of the ’.sites, but neither architect nor builder ■'subiiMjs ot Philadelphia as to Hiaiie ^eyreg any cheapening of effects,—_ J them celebrated the world over._ TTaffords not only the greatest variety ■fgMfart from the many handsome ipod* of extended iorms to the architect, but Sfefh_residences at Chestnut Hiil, - allows him as well individual and poetic Jffiiare numerous old-time dwellings theie expression from his own taste, and is so 1 which have been standing for pme years, comfortable and roomy and _plian t to tbe~hands of a master tha affording most vlelightlul homes. 1 hero ' is the residence, for instance, ot ex-Com

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HOQjSE FOR EDWIN N. BENSON, ESQ., CHESTNUT HILL. _ pnsedTbut'"in-fact may expect almost most widely different elemerSsseemih every modification of form which senti¬ ly lar and even antagonistic may be ments, circumstances and individual1 merged into it with the happiest eiiect.1 It has had a tendency to change the set taste may suggest. school at architecture to the extent that A quaint residence on Chestnut ave-. to-day there exists no fixed architectural nue, in the heart of the village ot Chest¬ laws, and we are, therefore, not sur-| nut Hill, is the house occupied by WU-, 93

mer Biddle. In architecture the style is tree colonial. Mr. Biddle’s house well o,,ol°nhrVate3 V’f leadlnR idea of this ...a , V • . ^ 18 not to treat the essential de¬ nag, defied the ton im? 6 American tail of building too meagerlv, but to ened to shoot th« « C.t0r and thrPat' e .ve peetry to a doer or to a window, to uuilortook to raze the dweE^ Wh° (ermcii the fireplace, and not only to jlend charm to the little nooks and cor-

them“hemZluf Uselul. aitTtdWelli is a stylerP,’ blltat once makesim¬ ple and intricate, permitting much plainness, and yet It may be carried out (with costly details which endear it to tb \Stew;h0 tV(T domestic magnificence. I At VVissainckon Station, on the Penn ¥=,-^r°ad’ uis tlle far-famed and fine? Inn’ a beautifully situated land finely appointed structure in the nea??r An“*f Style of architecture, and jnear it aie the grounds of the Philadei- phia Cricket Club. This is the oldest of \^n»e7rt0lUb» devotect to cricket in 1 hiladelphia. Both Chestnut Hill and | the three brothers. Germantown have become justly cele- Lthathd JorPossessing within tlieii^midst A^Tbe.b,r®*"bers who have stood shoulder the homes ol the best amateur cricketers to shohider in the defense of their nroiv n America, -At Chestnut Hill the The fenchaC°b’ William and Michael. muchm £at.terson family reside, and much of their practice work has been dwellings were placardeEf witl?“broad jcione on the grounds of the Pliiladelph] Cricket Club.

house “o? w1i|kn?alry deClared- and the moved Was Prepared to be moved back fourteen feet. A flao- v.-a- From, hoisted over this dwelling, and as i others refused to allow it to bo taken down the house was moved back with -C^ZaLdL../. the colors stih flying. WItn

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TUe m aaf T!icir Ttee M Efellini, jOae Building Was Formerly a "WILLIAM MATSINGER’S HOME. The dwelling of Michael has been en- Half-way House. tireiy demolished. The families ol the three brothers are now all housed to¬ gether under the roof ol the old mansion, which they will occupy jointly until William’s Home Was Moved Back their new quarters are readv for use With the American Flag Still fine mansion will eventually " be razed Flying, Michael’s Has Been Razed but by agreement it will not' be touched until it can be vacated without incon¬ and Jacob’s Will Soon Ee De¬ veniencing the occupants. stroyed. Talnh ''°'1nestea'ji’ proper, is known as Jacob Matzinger’s place. It is perhans 1 The efforts of the Matsinger brothers the oidest. house in wiiat was at one time j to protect their old homestead from de¬ Dm , r mamMaylarldviUe' a,,d stood on molition have attracted the attention of the roadside as a sort of haif-wav house the public lor the past fortnight. The when the old Darby stage used to patrol premises were needed to straighten Forty- the road. The wideningof Forty-second second street, near Darby road, and they .tieet is one of the improvements of the W’ere lormally condemned in the usual fi wen tv-seventh ward and will add legal manner, ami viewed by a jury materially to the neighborhood of which fixed a compensation to be al¬ Theater avenue. lowed to the owners. The compensa¬ tion was not sufficient to remunerate Thirty-third ward, awarded owner of the ground, John Meighan, $75,000, thus securing another of the many small, parks which have been projected by Councils in various parts of the city. Macpherson Square is in a place where a breathing spot, such as it is intended to make it, will be ex-1 ceedingly useful in years to come. It is to bo presumed^ that the new square, which is now in a rather torn up and chaotic condi- j tion, will be taken in hand, the walks laid, and grass and flowers planted, so that by the j summer months it will be ready for the en-1 joyment of and use of the neighbors. The square was authorized to be placed' upon the city plan by an ordinance of No-1 vember 29, 1890. It has an area of 5,739 acres, and is bounded by Clearfield street, Indiana avenue, “E.” and “F” streets. MICHAEL MATZINGEK’S DWELLING. Like Bartram’s Garden, Stenton Park and the Penn Treaty Park, and several other of the small parks recently placed upon the city plan, Macpherson Square has its histone in¬ terest. The property was originally the home of General William Macpherson, of the Penn¬ sylvania line in the Revolutionary war, and aide-de-camp to De Lafayette and to General St. Claire. General Macpherson erected the quaint old- fashioned' mansion, which is still standing unchanged in appearance, in Macpherson Square, some years before the Revolution, and it was there he took his bride, Margaret Stout. She was the daughter of Joseph Stout, of the Royal navy, and in her houor the old place in Frankford was named Stouton, and THE OLD HOMESTEAD. as such has always been known ‘ until re- l named Macpherson Square. Mrs. Macpher- . For years plans for straightening out son died some years before the revolution, as £ Forty-second street have been unaer early as 1767, so it is presumed that sho did | ,vay, and building operations have been not enjoy for many years the pleasures of « lampered because they were not exe- life at Stouton farm. From the original grant :uted. The further progress of the until almost the present day, the property of ; itreet is blocked by Woodlands Cerrie- Stouton and the adjoining estate remained k ei-y, which, however, at this point is without a break in the hands of the Mac- J >ut little used. pherson family; in fact, a large proportion of J. the property is still owned by Mrs. Horner, S wife of Dr. C. W. Horner, of this city, who k is the granddaughter of General William m From, Macpherson. During the Revolutionary war several % skirmishes took place about the old Stouton I mansion, as is plainly evidenced by the plow- • , .1 ing up of many bullets in recent years in the s surrounding fields. After the revolution Gen- Lfl eral Macpherson took up his residence per-H manently at Stouton, and there in the old! Date, house he entertained Washington, Wayne andY; many other distinguished officers of the Rev- j olutionary army, who deemed it an honor to enjoy General Macpherson’s generous hospi- 1 STOUTON IM ft PARK tality. The founder of the Macpherson family in i THE OLD MACPHERSON PROPERTY AC-1 Pennsylvania was Captain John Macpherson, who was born in Edinburgh in 1726, and died El QUIRED BY THE CITY. in this city, September 6, 1792. He married b Margaret Rogers, of New York. Old Captain Macpherson, who obtained his title by service I THE STORY OF AN OLD HOUSE in the Colonial wars against the French, was , an oddity. He invented curious machines. RC Macpherson Square Will Contain the Man¬ lectured on astronomy, was a ship broker, editor of a price current, and publisher of the I sion of the Well-Remembered General of first directory in Philadelphia, probably I. the most literal book ever published, for, H the Revolutionary War—Its Memories whatever answer the captain’s canvassers I ; got at the houses where they called, that I j Are Many. __ answer the captain put down, and thus re¬ corded no end of members of the “ I-won’t-1 . The other day the jury on the condemna¬ tion of the property for Macpherson Square STOUTON WHILE IN POSSESSION OF THE MACPHERSON FAMILY.

I tell-you " family among his I’s, and “ What- plan of the city, is incorrectly 'kp TTe'd. beTng | you-please ” among his W’s, to say nothin-* Irish in form and not Scotch, as it should be. of cross women under the C’s and empty In 1779 the captain sold Mount Pleasant to ’ wliere no answer could be got, under Benedict Arnold, who deeded it in an ante¬ “eE s- In 1785 the captain advertised him- nuptial settlement to Miss Peggy Shippen, selt as the inventor of '' an elegant cot, which soon afterwards his wife. General William I v Penance to everything but omnipotence ; Macpherson was the second son of the cap¬ no bed-bugs, mosquitoes or flys can possibly tain. He was born in this city in 1756, and molest persons who sleep in it.” died on the 18th of November, 1813. As a Captain Macpherson, having made a com- a young man he was Adjutant in the Six¬ | fortable fortune, built as his home the man¬ teenth British Infantry. When the Revolu¬ sion now known as Mount Pleasant, in Fair- tionary war broke out he offered to resign his j mount Park. He first called it ‘‘ Clunie,” Commission, but it was not accepted, and he I after his clan in the highlands of Scotland^ was ordered with his regiment to this eou n- In connection with Macpherson \s Scotch an- try. Arriving in New York in 1779, he icestry^it may be mentjaged here that the Bought General Clinton and declared to him name McPherson, ”

PRESENT CONDITION OF STOUTON. FROM THE REAR. resignation. Clinton ac-| , not allow him to sell his dch -he had paid a good! round sum.

Leaving the British lines he hastened to Philadelphia, where he tendered his services to the Board of- War and the Supremo Execu¬ tive Council, He was at once commissioned a major in Pennsylvania line and rose to be brigadier general. His brother, Captain John Macpherson, Jr., was on the patriot side from the first. He went to the front and was a volunteer in the expedition to Canada and fell by Montgomery’s side in the attack upon Quebec, the first Philadelphian of conse¬ quence killed during the war. The night before his death he wrote a letter to his father saying that should he fall, “I wish Sny brother did not continue in the service of my country’s enemies.” For some time after the war General Will¬ iam Macpherson lived quietly at Stouten, but in 1794, when the “Whisky insurrec¬ tion” of Western Pennsylvania occurred, he organized a company of militia known as the Macpherson Blues. At the time they were organized they surpassed all former volunteer military organizations of this city, both as re¬ gards the number of men enlisted and their high social respectability. After the whisky trouble was over they re¬ turned home, but continued to muster and display and to grow in numbers until “ The Affair of the Chesapeake” gave a new im¬ pulse and a new accession of strength to their ranks. They did not believe that Commo¬ dore Barron was bound to encounter such unequal odds with his unprepared armament and were willing to avenge the national af¬ front themselves. They forthwith offered their lives to their country. The corps by RESERVE DANIEL KENDIG. that time had been formed into an entire regiment of infantry, one or two compan¬ ies of grenadiers, one of artillery and ( ( a corps of cavalry. For array, discipline and military exercise they were the lions of OLD DAN’S’’GOOD WORK that day. The uniform of the Macpherson Blues was of navy blue cloth, pantaloons edged with white and tight-bound jacket THIRTY-ONE YEARS ON THE CITY’S RE-| edged in the same manner, with red lappels, cuffs and collar, the collar standing two SERVE POLICE FORCE. inches high, having two bright buttons and worked button-holes thereon. The hat was turned up on the left, with a fan-tail fastened HIS MANY NARROW ESCAPES by a white button and looped, decorated with a black cockade, out of which arose a white plume. The crown was covered with bear¬ Daniel Kendlg, 8a Years Old, Sllll Does skin. Active Service as a Guard for the May¬

After General Macphcrson’s death Stouton or’s Office—Encounters With Rough was occupied by members of his family, but Characters Which Nearly Cost Hlr of late years the old house has not been ten¬ His Life Several Times—He Is His Of anted and the property has remained uncared for and been allowed to run down. The first Tailor and Wants to Reach His lOothl move of the city towards the restoration of Birthday. the place should be the repair of the old homestead, which ought not, on account of Everyone who has had business at thej its historic memories, be destroyed. Mayor s Office during the last four years! knows the big Reserve policeman, “No. 19,”I who guards the corridor on the second floor! leading from the east Market street entrance! to the City Hall. Beserve Daniel Kendig, orl hs he is better known, “Old Dan,” enjoys the distinction of having served the city of Philadelphia as a policeman for thirty-one years, the anniversary of his appointment having occurred yesterday. He enjoys the further distinction of being the oldest mem-| ber of the force. Born in Lancaster April 9,| 1811, Beserve Kendig has passed the allotted jterm of three score years and' ten by a dozen years, being now in his 83d year. Strong, I berg were of the .gang- hud were noted'as ibealtby and vigorous as the ordinary man at criminals and gamblers of the first water so, the old Reserve is perfectly satisfied with They did as they pleased and the police were abeut as much afraid of them as were re¬ is station in life, and has but one consuming spectable citizens. • “ rc ambition, and'that is, to equal the age of his When Dan took his position at Ninth and Chestnut streets, the hours of duty extending h‘d ^ ctsfiaffij."* “ter *• to midnight he told the gang they would have K*XeS2n -”S °arreer as a policeman on April to stop insulting women or he would “null ” WhP1n6th»d«rrng jlIayorfIenry’s second term, the hrst man he saw doing it. John Burns when the police force was small, and he was was the first culprit, and Dan seized him to wbat is n°w and was then the Re- serve lorce. rn KS thAeif1lgnalfor assault by the rest of .A1though terribly beaten and cut he does his own sewing. ln„™e neck, Kendig landed his man. pan lives with a married daughter on Ja- I,./h?_gang then threatened to have Dan’s coby street, but has little use since the death iltG +v f ^,ok twenty years. For eleven months he kept them under subjection, but of his wife many years ago for feminine as¬ one night they caught him and attacked him sistance in the cares of this life further than on Tenth street below Chestnut, and gave the preparation of his meals. Precise and him a terrible beating with blackjacks and methodical in his life and methods, Dan cares bludgeons. So badly was he injured that it was fourteen days before Dr. Atlee could get for himself. From the day he first went on de^ (^es after hie had been given up for duty it has ,been his pride to be tidy and neat, keen btn^Bife?S DOt to dopcnd on others to BULLETS FIRED AT HIM. keep himself in presentable shape. Ao tailor has yet succeeded in making a About six months after this while standing on his beat in Iront of the Continental Hotel anl ofmc.Tt to Dan’s high stand- Xltfl A dufit' henever he secures a a carriage drove down Chestnut street and new outfit he alters' it, adds to its conveni- Pete Burns and Ahrenberg jumped out. The butt°ns’ Puts in new pockets former dealt Dan a terrific blow with a black¬ and generally brings it to a snug fit and most jack, breaking his jaw. In the fight which presentaWe appearance. In fact he doe A aU ensued Dan got Ahrenberg down in the gutter Dan’s is ^ot$ermiia eccentricity of JJan s is that he has kept every hat worn bv and was giving him a good thrashing while him.during his thirty-one years of”ice Burns stood over him using the blackjack. hpecllliar abou t other articles Finally another policeman and citizens in- , S, jfPP3,1®1 and has always failed to find a ^feredand Dan was taken into the hotel to- \ haberdasher who could exactly suit him in wash off the blood, when to bis surprise his ?e,ft,cje. of neckties, therefore Dan manu brother officer placed him under arrest and theoll8 Ret °WD' In t-be matter of suspenders allowed his assailants to go in peace. old Reserve requires something beyond As a result of this encounter Dan spent the ordinary and is therefore compelled to tnree months in the hospital with jaw broken make them himself. This hedoef l/ and his skull crushed. lamp-wick as the basis of construction rpobjb’ tbe -Adonis of sporting men of recor^f D,1Cal ^as,he always been that the that day, did his best to carry out the threat bp hlc f th P0ll5e bureau do not show that °*‘he gan?' Dai1 liad a warrant for his ar¬ rest one time and while trying to serve it in pritleiridfthar that ertheth^ 1Soldmd man a roll relates-ca11’ apd in these« is withdays a,)a -T ToblnPlaced a large navy revolver fInseesqUthaH1PP° IC<3 trialS’ f0r 1111 solts of of- ° P+i? s breast- Just then a citizen cried out. bas never°nce been “brought eTT? pusb?d up tbe Pisto1 as it ex¬ m 5ince then his duties have consisted mainly andTPfollc+e,even!in the past generation m keeping crowds of curious small boys from and a half together with a complete record of all snow-storms. violently invading the Mayor’s. Office with their complaints of policemen who will not While his experience as a policeman W allow them to play hall in the streets. S interesting r> • ,*Jsderday before }ie left his post Director seem in thirty-one years of service Reserve Jjeitler called him into the lieutenants’ room Kendighas never “pulled” a box f of a fire ' where, before Superintendent Linden and . , discharge ot his duty Dan has been many other city employes, he congratulated as deatb’s door as is possible for the old man on his length of service and ex¬ my man and to recover. Knowing no fear pressed the hope that there may be many “ffckdDle>fraC;rdina7 strength and fuli more such anniversaries. it pluck, Dan has always landed his prisoner loPK after he was put on the force hat Mayor Henry selected him as the one nan to break up a gang of thieves, burglars md gamblers which practically oWncu the "iftS* Cirsstnut £&% iu that time it was the rule ather_ than the exception for members of this ■ang to insult respectable women with in .unity and without fear. Such men /s JoZ' obm, Sam Torrence, “Bob” Tice niltb, John and Pete Burns and Pete Ahren-’ chapel being selected as the most httiug apartment for the purpose. Stephen Girard died in December, 1831, and his furniture and other household effects were in a quite dilapidated condition when Mr. Michner took the matter up. It is sur¬ prising, however, how much has been left after such a lengthy period of neglect. The array of sofas, chairs and tables is quite start- ling, almost enough to furnish a house over again to-day.

Girard’s furniture was of very expensive workmanship. Most of it is Chippendale or of similar pattern. It is said that when GIRARD REMEMBERED Girard first came to Philadelphia he rented a ■; little house on Water street, which at first ►< was very plainly and inexpensively furnished, THE MEMORIAL ROOM JUST OPENED but as the mariner and merchant, as he de- , AT THE COLLEGE. lighted to call himself, grew richer, the ‘ Water street house became more comfortable, and if he did not rebuild it he must have al¬ HIS FURNITURE EXHIBITED tered it thoroughly. He sent to the Isle of France for the ebony out of which his parlor furniture was made. He imported handsome ' Turkey carpets. The French windows opened The Relics of the Girard Mansion Are Col¬ to the floor. lected After Years’ of Neglect and Are The kitchen was paved with marble, and the water brought in by pipes. In his store Found to Be of Great Numbers—Beauti¬ room everything was in abundance, sacks of coffee, boxes of tea, apples, hams, chocolate ful China and Silver. and West India preserves, so that the table I was fully furnished and most elaborately set I with much solid silverware, cut glass and f Through the efforts of John H. Michner Canton china. Girard himself ate no meat j the Girard Memorial Boom in Girard College for years, but it was regularly on his table. has within the last few days been thrown Among his friends was Jerome Bonaparte g open to the public. The room is situated on and one day Bonaparte presented Girard with 3 the first floor of the main building of the Col¬ an automatic flute, secretary and musical 1 dock combined, made by Kauffman, Dresden.., I lege, and in it the relics and household effects This curious instrument, the music of which 1 of the founder of that institution have been sounds not unlike that rendered by the piano t gathered together, repaired and renovated organs of to-day, Mr. ^lichner has had care- I with much care, trouble and. considerable ex¬ fully restored and repaired and put in perfect I pense, with the result that they present a re¬ order, like the furniture and other relics, at *1 markably striking appearance, not only be- much expense. No one could he found in " Philadelphia who would undertake the task . -cause Oftheir antiquity, b»,t also of repairing it, but a quaint old German, re- 1 as an illustration of the house¬ siding in New York, was discovered who was I hold furniture of a merchant willing to attempt it and his work has proved * prince of the last century. The quite satisfactory. relics have been closely massed in the centre of the room and are Girard’s counting room was under the same f enclosed by a high ornamental j roof as his house, as was the custom in those ■■ brass railing. days and is still in many European cities, w According to the will of Stephen and in his dwelling lived his young nieces, * Girard, one room in the college the daughters of his brother Jean. Girard. was to be set apart for the ex¬ was one of the class of moneyed men who! hibition of some of his personal was in love with work and saw no use in any -household effects. This clause sort of amusement. His nieces had, conse- was never carried out in more quently, to be on the watch to secure their than a perfunctory manner until girlish pleasures, and there is a tradition that now. For years there was a room when the master went out the young clerks, -■ on the third floor of the main on some errand, or other, would hurry into building of the college which the parlor, when the young girls would wind was known as the museum. In up this old automatic flute and to its music it a few relics, furniture and Gi¬ a hurried dance would be indulged in, when JA the clerks were supposed by Girard to be rard’s old gig, were stored, but busy over their books. little care, however, was taken Accustomed as we are in these days to of the apartment, and it was prodigality in table decoration, the array of , s seldom visited. silverware which once graced the table of (3 Some few mohths ago, while Girard, now displayed in the huge case in the inspecting several unused rooms memorial room, is startling in its magnifi¬ ,of the college, Mr. Michner cence and strikingly suggestive of Girard’s came across many of Girard’s riches. It includes almost every imaginable efl'ects stowed away here and design in silverware, from huge branching there in odd corners and places, candelabra to diminutive coffee spoons, all of j and some of them in risk of de¬ the most elaborate pattern and expensive traction. After gaining per- workmanship. The chinaware, the finest real ->ion of the directors he set old Canton to be imagined, imported by Gir¬ ■'tly to work to have a me- ard in his own vessels, is quite as extensive | -om put in shape, the old TKe Chingi anfyT'fve**. Wi

fs.tije silverware.-"There are dinner setsTtea* sets and breakrast sets, as well as fruit add oughly renovated and repaired and looks as dessert and side dishes. spick and span as a new vehicle. On the Girard s bedstead, an old-fashioned four- panels are small portraits of Girard, while at |poster with the same yalsnce, the same cov- the rear is an early view of the college. These [erlets and the same canopy that it had in pictures milst have been added some time ; Girard s day, as well as bis wardrobe, orna- after Girard’s death, but so long ago that the mented with gilded trimmings, a most beau¬ day has been forgotten. tiful piece of old-fashioned furniture manu- Hture. are now for the first time placed on Apart from his automatic flute, with its six tunes, Girard had two music boxes, curious, curiosityn Wd 1 haVe pr0Vcd great obJects of clumsy, wheezy, old-fashioned wooden af¬ _ His old gig, Which he was accustomed to fairs, which must have been among the first ride to his fajin every day, has been thor- of this character of instruments brought to • ' A; ’ ia, and probably imported by some _ _ ^ * the'collecfr&n, fn Girard’s1 time, was quite a valuable one, and at this n-d’s sea captains as great curiosities. day, no doubt, many of the coins it contaiued Ir. Michner, being a bank president, takes would be of extreme rarity. a great interest in Girard’s old safe. ‘‘It was about tkil first, asbestos safe made,” said ke, The arrangement of the objects in the and Girard and his contemporaries doubtless memorial room is in every way artistic, j thought it a wonderful contrivance, but to¬ They have been portioned oif in little corners, [ day, for the purposes to which a safe is put, it so to speak, and one side may be said to be is worth hardly more than a half inch wooden the dining room, the table of which is set box.” Many of the visitors to the memorial room with much china ware, while the sideboard is have been puzzled as to the use of a huge pile also graced with glass and china, and even a of oblong wooden boxes, upon which are; dish of waxen fruit, pears, grapes and apri- • painted in large letters various dates from cots, are in their accustomed place, which the beginning of this century and running they occupied when the sideboard was in use up until nearly the time of Girard’s death. in Girard’s old home on Water street. Next “These boxes,” explained Mr. Michner, to tho dining room comes the parlor, and “ contain papers relating to Girard’s various then Girard’s bed room. vessels.” There are many things about the Not by any means the least interesting relics memorial room that suggest Girard’s constant in this exhibition are the quaint old pictures connection and trade with the Orient, promi¬ and engravings suspended from the walls, nent among them being several magnifi¬ which once adorned the apartments of Gi¬ cent tea chests, finely carved _ and elabo¬ rard’s dwelling. There is a portrait of his rately ornamented. Two old wine bottles, housekeeper, but none of his wife. There tightly corked and filled with some are also several curious water color paintings liquid are objects of considerable specu¬ picturing the features of Chinese and Japa¬ lation. One is labeled “ From the nese gentlemen, in all the gorgeousness and: River Jordan,” and the other “From the brilliancy of full Oriental costume. These Pool of Shiloh.” They probably contain holy are said to be not mere fancy sketches, but water religiously brought home by some pil¬ likenesses of prominent merchants in the grim to the East, but how came they among Orient with whom Girard had dealings. the effects of Stephen Girard? For although Then there is Girard’s certificate of mem¬ he provided pews in church for his family bership in the Society for the Relief of Dis¬ and expected them to occupy them, he was tressed Masters of Ships. This shows Girard himself a free thinker, an admirer of the in a different light from the hard money' school of Voltaire and Rosseau. Girard’s grinding atmosphere in which he is generally only amusement, so far as the relics in the pictured. memorial room indicate, was the collection of In the collection there are several old en¬ coins of different countries. gravings, one “The Defeat of Edward Pakeu- ham, at New Orleans, by Major General An¬ drew Jackson,” and another “The British Surrendering their arms to General Washing¬ ton, after the Defeat at Yorktown, Virginia, October, 1781.” The early plans of Girard College are also shown.

The Astounding Career of the Last of the Pirates Who Was Born in Phil¬ GIRARD’S BED.

Two curious little cabinets with many adelphia. drawers, in which are indentations for the placing of coins, are to be seen. These cabi¬ nets were discovered by Mr. Michner quite accidentally, but when he came to look for BILLY RAY’S LIFE OF CRIME. the coins they were nowhere tb be found, and there is, unfortunately, no record or way of determining what has become of them. It A Murderous Ruffian Who Com- landed the Malek Adel and was the hurryfto get oiraiicf hfihkTu,. ,,, * After a Thousand Atrocities (Ray and two others were left behind to their subsequent satisfaction for lulu*1 Cied in His Bed in the rest were pillagin'* the PrT h ^ bile fast sailing cmTser got within a ? ■ a mile of the Swiftsin» J, „„n ,about a fignt, and took twenty-eivhtr. ■ desperate IFTY years ago a .were a few wpp!-c .,<*' ei«ht prisoners who walk along the the Moro Castle at*'Havana'* R-n0nt of Delaware wharves present and always spoke o/ g & ly was and inter course [joke on the others. of it as a good with waterside peo¬ ple was almost as Spanish'firm enlaged^n “thi 'jought b7 a good as a trip ac- and renamed the frllp” au . lave t!'ade. eross the ocean. dian Frenchman naSd Trent A Cana: -LPere were quiet, captain and Billy r',v im ,nV‘ras made unpretentious men nmte. Trant was a hugefoUot wh “S $?* who could tell you Spanish like a native and bid h ho .spoke ithat were appalling r;■ ,sefl 'Adventures sJave trade forTeveraJ ii* be.en 1,1 ihe I Malay pirates off iY.,, i ffbtmg for life with heavy beard, which did not^h’o ’ 06 Wore a ceal a great scar flint nowever, con- lone reef in the Ponitin2V& 1ca?t ,?w,tawa3 on some facp and made it hideous St divided his I many There kad been the lot of y«i‘bS.sSriht\“ii,,orreT«™ shipped on board of a South^e ,as ,S™s, Sidney, New South Walel^ Thl ttrader at of sailors in those days wT hi ftj;e?tffient | men had se-ved in Iff1?! lns.tances these extreme and made them ln tke and Captain McAlFstpr Te and lawless, witnessed and pOTtmipatec^in^rf8^ and «>a.n, was known fir ’i?brawn3: Scotah- [which humanity shuddered T1 ,feeds.,at cjuickly fell out !A-T°Qr. kls severity. He knew and has tnlberi •ii1 -Ihe writer these men and can Ten n lth a luiml>er of assistance of l?d with the gave him a terrible fW’s sailor desperado type of the old Solomon Island? rm tV S lin8 near the tralia, and came to anebof8’*4 Coast of Am? respectable’^ 'philShfo f°ld Td h^hly dwd yards from shorl 1 ab°Ut four hu»- name he had the grace to tW3’’ lho.se Jn the middle watch’ th„ armed himself with flip P ^anadian sailor going aft, killed the * axe’ ™d [faction of his relation? til l 9atls- blow,and then went f0?fblnBe?s.on> with a prosecution for smh ,?T by es?aPin8' a |ened out of his sleen hM a^,U- A"’ak- Street. He deserted f? “ Tn m Plum out of the state room armefw hh ter Cfme some South American row ^ vesseI «* heard of until I82fi wilp? and was not and gave Simons a t°rrib?p ? a cutlass face and was then cut down'across fhe Norfolk w fth so m o’ fifteen otheT ftHed at I “^ce, cost hi^^dhri iif?'3^ward’s piracy and mi^h +1 °,.ners. open I icfused to join in the Jlre‘ , t ne crew (Shipmasters, acquitte^willf8^1^30*]011 of 1 putting arms and ■ y and Simons I associates. The reslllJ f!l five, of bis sculled himselifash?re ^ ^ 8.1I0W, or to,, a. got under weio-bweigh andnr,u sailed for Sidneyat onceT •Rut TJI'D.iE THE BLACK FLAG. £88 fgi&tsz I disappeared. Allthe Hfond mutine?1, Lad but iiono capture was 6imadei>lli? ds8 Fw_w^then^fe.re 'dsited, i2 years in every sea mT If t e next (foil description of the murderer J°/ld r‘ languages was posted and lino a doz.eu JSL* B*‘T" - his apprehension. Tim rmvU-]°®ere^ j Chinese waters, and Ray ThfflV11 t,le war are the police of the set”^ l fd ““ 0 lax in their efforts ti l T ’ aud never re- i °.ld, went with her as boatswain l> years christened the Swiftsure and ,1 ' ST? was The Malek Adel heayflv^v1'8 u the coast of Africa In J SaJle(i f-»' to sail. A Yankee named L ?S a c]iPp«' Caiabar River In and aacljo'ed in Old captain. He «'af 9„1 Swain was her I school, ar.din InlwS' °f the did cargo of 600 slaves she vS3’ wifcl1 a About one hundred miles offThl f°r FU,ba- I crew shot the man dead T^r°n® ,of his sawum English sloon If l the ?oast they loffie °f th,e. hands mutinied, kWec^fu ,tfie them. Unhke most of th?*?W** after ‘ officers, threw them overbol d g-' the black flag, and made wai nn ’rh Sted chantmen of every nation in ? the mer' their way. y 011 that came in used to escape. Part oTtii ^amei‘ were L This was a success until the Vn-i; i thrown overboard and th * !1-slales were boat got after them, and ra7ii!£ h»un but the cruiser o-ained Alp ]igbtcned the Eastern Seas. They safled fm-Vew'^ Trant was a desperate n«' °V°r !)and- Indies, and, after several w n tho West any aliocity. SudcEnh f, f ?aPa,de of ion the west coast of r\7h,,Cpl es> ran in mainsail, came up in tv,A oac:iad his Kay, the crew buried their'r,lAc^°rdiag to down the flag P “ the Wlnd, and hauled poo,m at this phace, each 3 mg his own location. He deposit] and haHedSliSfcyn ”fosf ZX?00- yiwds tnmk of a hollow palm $12 000 fn 1m? th? m the water when the \LiSti a boat Efe bank n°tes that he’had ^fed^ and in her broadside A tril‘ IelS A,del Poured Suddenly ? vessel came in sight evident! '!«"» the cruiser’s mdSf tS bWf,K,?t t trader, hying the French flag. JfJSt l«ie foretop ,„„„nd'iSX’ for a treasure mint on tn'e west - Hs sails the slaver ran across the Cuba. The two sailed for Cienfuegos^ usiiman’s how and swept her decks followed the coast north, but in m two more discharges, and then bore years the face of the country had ,pay, leaving her enemy' a complete wreck changed that it was impossible to find rthe water. ', In due time the craft reached the west ola location, hut it was Ray s story that they got 1200 English guineas—about $0000 coast of Cuba anil discharged her cargo, —aiid one night Rodgers decamped with and refitted for another voyage—painting the money, leaving his partner penniless the hull and altering the rigging of the and almost the last words that the old schooner as much as possible. All on ruffian uttered was a regret that he uiea hoard knew that they sailed with a haltei without getting his hands on dodgers around their necks, but they were a des¬ Ther0»is no man so bad but that some perate set and took the risk for the protn,. women will aid and cling to him. Ray Their vessel reached the coast of Atnca died in 18S5 in a hovel on Bwanson street, safely and came to her old anchorage. tended and cared for by one whom he had Trant was in a hurry to get ms cargo and ill-treated for years. He was said to be 90 start before the cruisers found him out. years old and seems to have had not one and he started up the river to visit a slave redeeming quality save personal courage. barracoon at what is down on the maps a*. After the war there were some halt a Duketown, the headquarters of a Portugese dozen men along the wharves who had slave dealer named Mendez. Returning, been in blockade runners and their remin¬ and in sight, of the mouth “bf the river, tuo iscences were strange and interesting, but man o’ war boats shot out of the mangrove not one is now living. The average sailor thickets on either side and hailed him. of to-day follows a calling almost as com- He wounded two of his captors with pistol monplace as that of a car conductoi. and shots, but was knocked senseless by a the glory and romance of the sea service is stretcher. Billy Ray, left in command of wholly in the past as well as the crime. the Malek Adel, was at once warned by a signal from, shore that something was ^ wrong. ,, . Suddenly one of those storms so sudden on the coast sprang up with a terrific land | breeze. The vessel dragged her anchor, From which was at once let go, sail made, anci the slaver fiew south with the cruisers firing after her. Night came on. Her course changed and by morning there was nothing in sight. There was $40,000 on hoard and on the second day a delegation from the crew came aft and demanded tnau Date. the money should be divided, tne blac.t flag raised, and that they cruise for prizes. Ray at once cut down the spokesman, and| then with the officers and such of the men as were faithful retreated into the cabin. A bloody 3ght followed, until half the| crew were slain and»a truce effected, ihe dead and wounded alike were thrown over¬ board and the voyage continued, but thei fighting was renewed, and by the time the Gulf was reached only twenty men weie| lertr.-iina tmc Add was run ashore; on the Mexican Coast near Tampico. There the money was divided, and Ray, with three others, took the long boat and sailed for the Texan Coast. The vessel was seized by the Mexican Government and a cruiser made of her, and two years later a bloody mutiny took place on board in which all the officers and many of the crew perished. In the words of Ray, "Enough gold had been made and blood shed on hoard of her to sink her to the gunwales.” i TKAKT PUNISHED. Trant, was taken to Sidney, and, fifteen I years after the murder of McAllister and his -sjato and steward,was condemned and hungj for the crime. Several of the slavers were taken by the Mexican authorities, deliv¬ THE LIBERTY BELL. ered to the English and no doubt punished., The description of her first mate, known as Jackson and wanted for piracy and mur¬ der, was undoubtedly that of Ray: "About INDEPENDENCE RELICS 5 feet 5 inches in height; broad shouldered and strongly built; very dark from sun¬ burn ; smali gray eyes, close together, and TO GO AS PART OF OUR EXHIBIT AT right ear cut off.” Ray always wore his hair long, no doubt CHICAGO. to conceal this mutilation. He remained j about Galveston and during the war was engaged in blockade running, but came to Philadelphia in 1870 and induced an Eng¬ THE WILLIAM PENN P0RTRAI lishman named Rodgers, who had a small grocery down town, to advance the money j before MayofStokley of the swords to the A Valuable Painting That Heads the List. I city. The name o£> the original possessor of the The Washington Relics—The Sword of silver lamp Aused in Philadelphia during Anthony Wayne and the Memorial Chair. the Revolution ” is not given. The lamp is of quaint design and quite handsome and /The Liberty Bell in the Collection. likely once had a wealthy owner. It is shaped like an antique Grecian urn, quite delicate in J - outline, with handles on each side composed The revised list of relics to he sent from old of thin strips of silver. Independence Hall to the World’s Fair has Thousands of women visitors to the World’s just been completed. Altogether the selec¬ Fair will, no doubt, much admire and mi¬ nutely examine the costly and exquisitely- tion may he considered a fairly good and rep¬ wrought old-fashioned lace scarf worn by resentative one, as the majority of the relics Mrs. John Adams when she sat for her por¬ aTe of general interest and are among the trait to StuaTt. This scarf, which is about most valuable items in the collection of the two and a half yards long, is wrhat women State House Museum. term “ real lace ” and must have cost a pretty It is doubtful whether any of these relics is penny. Hanging close beside it is a light buff waist¬ of more intrinsic valpe than the portrait of coat dotted with gorgeous red flowers. This William Penn, which heads the list. This waistcoat, so it says on the list, was worn at portrait was taken when the founder of Penn¬ the “ Republican Court.” The phrase might sylvania wras in the full maturity of his' be a little ambiguous to some wild Western powers. The existence of such a painting, folks, but supposedly the “Republican though mentioned in a rare country history Court” existed in the receptions, which were more or less stately afl'airs.held by General and of Durham, England, seems to have been en¬ Mrs. Washington after the inaugration of our tirely unknown to any Pennsylvanian until first President. Their time was one in which Samuel L. Smedley, accidentally hearing of a great variety of styles of dress existed, and its existence, procured from the original a men, as well as women, on state occasions small photograph. The chairman of the were accustomed ’to array themselves in rai¬ committee on restoration of Independence ment of the most brilliant colors. Hall, after seeing this photograph, made re¬ I The silver-plated fork and spoon which go peated efforts, by letter and otherwise, to se¬ to the World’s Fair as relics of Valley Forge cure a copy of the painting. His epistles are certainly, in more ways than one, most were disregarded, but through the interven¬ significant reminders of that camp on the tion of a friend, who was asked to call in banks of the Schuylkill. There were times, person and make the request on behalf of the no doubt, when a fork and spoon at Valley citizens of Pennsylvania, the present careful Forge were more ornamental than useful, copy was finally procured and placed beside find doubtless if this fork and spoon were em- West’s painting of “ The Treaty.” The orig¬ I -ployed during that dismal winter in the man¬ inal picture was painted by Francis Place, ner for which they were intended they served and the portrait was said to have been from life Jonly to recall the fact to the user’s mind that —taken shortly after Penn’s second marriage, the next time their services would be required in 1696. at the aged of 42. The copy was made (was shrouded in the dim uncertainty of the by Henry J. Wright. Its companion picture, .future and was probably a long way off. which also goes to the Fair, is a copy by the The watch, vest and stockings which were same hand from the original portrait oi Mrs. once worn by Charles Carroll of Carrollton are of particular interest from the fact that Penn (Hannah Callowhill), painted by Place. Carroll was the last surviving STgfierof the Of the Washington relics perhaps the most Declaration of Independence. He lived well interesting is the punch bond. It is of an¬ on into this century. His watch is an old- tique blue and white Canton china. According fashioned open-face silver affair upon the to the inscription upon it Washington and, bull’s-eye order, which has loug ceased to be of use as a recorder of the time of day, hut it his staff and many other officers and soldiers has a long career vet before it as a museum of the Kevolutionary army were frequently relic. regaled with punch out of this bowl. For The Old hymn hook, which goes to the Fair more than a century it remained in the family as a specimen of early Pennsylvania German of its depositor, Mrs. M. A. Cox, and it was printing, was published in Germantown in 1772 by Christopher Sauer, one of the best of placed in the State House Museum as a “me¬ our early printers. Patrons of the flowing mento of the times that tried men's souls, howl will doubtless take much interest in Philadelphia, July, 1875.” The portrait of John Paul Jones’ big pewter quart ale mug, Washington, which is to be taken, was which history tells us the heroic captain painted by James Peale during the time that could drain at a gulp. This mug was pre- Washington was commander-in-chief of the sented to the Museum at Independence Hall American forces. by Michael Curby, and the attendants say that it has proved a most fascinating relic to The sword which once belonged to Anthony many visitors. Wayne is a Quakerly plain, old-fashioned It was a wise move of City Councils’ World’s cavalry sabre, that looks as if it were built Fair committee to determine to add to their with an eye to practical usefulness in warfare list of relics from Independence Hjall Benja¬ min West’s famous old painting representing and not for full dress purposes. This sword Penn’s Treaty with the Indians, as this can¬ was, according to the will of Ex-Medical Di¬ vas, although it pictures an event which some rector William King, bequeathed to the city historians claim to ho mythical, at the same of Philadelphia, together with the sword of time represents Penn in a character which Ex-Judge Edward King, worn by the latter was by no means foreign to him. and it also recalls a story, or legend you may have it, in ;i in the war of 1812. In September. 1888, Ed- jward Haugh made the formal presentation - S' J#

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the famous annalist of Philadelphia, •chair is composed of sections of wood fro) | many historic buildings in this city and coni [try. hut what would make it more approprial than anything else for exhibition at th | World’s Fair is the fact that it had a piece c i wood in its frame from the house of Colun bus. As a specimen of antique old fashione American furniture making this chair is alon | interesting, and it seems a great pity that: . was struck off the list of exhibits. There : i some talk of its yet being taken. It, by a J means, should go. Since the announcement has been mad regard to Pennsylvania history which is ner- that the old Liberty Bell, as well as mail haps betterlknown the world over than any other relics, is to be taken from Imh other incident in our early annals. Thus this pendence Hall to the World’s Fair, the cui picture, will be recognized and appreciated at todians of the museum report a large inereas the Fair by visitors from far distant lands. in the attendance of visitors, who are draw there out of curiosity, not only to take a las On the first list of the relics to he exhibited glimpse of the bell for some months to conn at the World's Fair compiled was the beauti¬ hut also to see the other relics which are t ful old memorial chair, bearing the proud go to Chicago. To give an idea of how th legend, “Liberty and Equity,” which was relics will be viewed in the Windy City glance at the degrees of attention that th made under the direction of John F. Watson, unique articles in the old museum attracte ■cstin^ Tf1 of visitors yesterday ..esting. It was noticeable that the ■'throng was thickest at the glass case | Chase and great-grandniece of John Hau- ! cock. Frame made from the desk of Johrf Hancock. Ancient Damascus blade, lent by Mr. George E. Chase, great-grandnepbew of John Hancock. Two swords captured by Commodore Stewart from the commanders of psS-ssM the British ships Cyane and Levant at the time of the destruction of the vessels by the and early deeds bpi?;68^116'1 • documents frigate Constitution. Property of Mrs. Delia William Penat 1 ™? th® signature of Stewart Parnell, daughter of Commodore took but small stock in Tlle sma11 boy Stewart. Masonic certificate of George A. he concentrated bW? Redresses and deeds; Baker. Old-fashioned waistcoat and antique Anthony Wayne the k^1011 ?U th,C sworf «f taken ftomtbe’ toil h*y°aet snd flintlock wine glasses, the property of Mrs. Crandell formerly of Philadelphia, now of Chicago. drums. sw“rd blad4ganfl Au“' aud the Certificate of incorporation of Pennsylvania which were dis^lfth^C" ^ Prison Society, founded 1781. firs* society of the kind incorporated in the world. Bishop The complete list of the relics follows : VV hite, first president. Property of Mr. Caleb J. Milne, president. Certificate of incorpora¬ tion ot the Society for the Abolition of Slavery, first of the kind organized in the world. 11 roperty of the society, Passmore Williamson, | president.

painted ivlieu ho was Commandor’in Ch°«f tPSSSMKLsr* From,. -VLxu,/ -- I Of PHMethto'“raoA sSr7 rw“-*» .../ ,\Lv (u.:v j the residence of Jo^nh M*?+-s?sh officer .at the time of *1?’ Germant°wn. Date, «£at A Locomotive That Steamed Away SSgSf1r,SS!,y® Down Below Wilmington Before the “Bull” Ran Over the before^th*1?® to^esettlementof the Swedes Old Amboy Road. graph oAhemec°ffPenn; Mammoth photo ‘• T il TV C Centennial of 1876 Mosaic executed Eemains of St. Mark” Oliviere b T d ’ h® propertyot Mr. Achille Special Correspondence or The Press. Easton, April 22.—A favorite resort for Guiaccim° Guiaccio- the old-timers in Easton, especially those wUh, The Festival ot the Brides at Venice ” who were wont long ago to push Durham -he property 0f Mr. AchiUe Oliviere Oil boats on the Delaware and trade between tointmg by^Charies H. Weisgerber, “The Philadelphia and points in the Delaware Birth of tjie Nation’s Flag.” Dress sword of Valley, is the shop on Front Street of B. fohn Hancock, lent by his greatT™,,a M. Youells, a veteran waterman and the ^PordW> fThT°marS ChaSC' °f «%hia: word of Lieutenant Thomas G. Chase 'harbor master of this port. It is a curi- jandnephew of John Hancock, used in the I juos shop and it is filled with much that would delight curio hunters, while as for tot °C cl2' l0a nm by h'S widow> Mrs- Har- [scrap books and collections of data upon 7 ti?'£hnS°' ° d W°0d cut’ framed (1761) f the house and grounds of John Hancock’ events and incidents of half a century ago resident of First American Congress on’ lit is not equalled by any other spot here-i cisite Boston Common, the property of labouts. Mr. Youells is a veritable walk J - A L A- Bush,_ daughter of Thomas G. ing encyclopedia and is filled to overflowing I just now with incidents recalled by the starting of the John Bull train for CJii/ i cago. hanna River, opposite Havre de Grace; a Among his daily visitors who especially third company built a road from Philadel¬ enjoys his discourses on early railroading1 phia to Wilmington. Matthew Newkirk is William Huston, who is now in his| was its president. Before this last road was built steamboats carried passengers 83d year and who reflects with pleasure between Philadelphia and Wilmington, that he drew the first train out of Philadel¬ where they took the cars. Just about the phia that carried through passengers to, time the road was finished, hut before there Baltimore. These two old friends were had been any traffic over it to aiiy extent, the steamboat broke down. I happened talking over the trip of the John Bull then to be running a train on the Wilming- train when The Press correspondent, ton-Susquehanna road, and brought my found them this morning. They had a train into Wilmington. I was told to go clipping from The Sunday Press of the on to Philadelphia and get passengers for 16th and were discussing the article with Baltimore and Washington who could not much satisfaction, especially that portion get away from Philadelphia because the steamboat was laid up. So I went up with detailing the early history of the old en¬ my train. It was the first to run into gine. Philadelphia from Wilmington. After FROM STEVENSON’S SHOP. turning the engine round we made up the “You must know,” said Mr. Huston, train and started back. This was in the “that way hack in the thirties there were Summer of 1837, and it was the first train mighty few railroads in this country. AI out of Philadelphia that carried passen¬ steamboat was a great novelty, and an en¬ gers to Baltimore. We had six cars and about sixty in each car. It was a big thing gine to draw a passenger train was almost I can tell you, and crowds of people were unknown. In 1832 I was a machinist, i seen at all points watching the train. We working at Wilmington, Del. Just before made about twenty miles an hour. The that there had been opened the sixteen rails were laid on long wooden stringers miles of railroad between New Castle, which rested on stone piers. Del., and Frenchtown. That was fully AN ODD EQUIPAGE. sixty-two years ago. Something got wrong “We had no whistle on the engine. The' with the engine, and as they had no shops front brakeman stood on the front plat¬ in New Castle to do repairing, I was sent form ; when I wanted to stop I would motion for to come and put the machine in ordey. to him. He would put on his brake and The engine was No. 13, and it came from Stevenson’s shop in England in 1832. It at the same time ring a handbell at the was bought for the Philadelphia & Ger¬ side of the car to notify the other brake- mantown Railroad for about $8000, but, men to put on their brake. As to signals when it arrived that company could not with other trains, we had none. We had a pay for it and a director, who was also a schedule and we had plenty of time to director in the New Castle road, bought it reach passing, points. If a train was not for that line. It was given in charge of there in a reasonable time we would start! Matthew Baldwin, of Philadelphia, to be out and if we found it along the track one I put together, but it took him nine months train or the other would back up to a before he got it to working. He had siding. When we came to a curve we would lever seen a locomotive before. He took run slow and if there was any danger of t for his model in making other engines, the other train meeting ns on the curve, we and that was the way he started in the would send a man ahead to warn us. locomotive building business. “After I went to New £astle we made “I never had a whistle till I got to he locomotives there. In those days the ma¬ an engineer on the Reading Road at Phila- chinists, as they are called nowadays, were fielphia. I made the first regular whistle known as ‘engineers,’ if they made en¬ |sed for a steamboat and I put one oni gines, and they were of more account in my engine. Another engineer had one on the community than were the drivers of Ms. We made our own signals. For the engine. It was considered that anyone ilistanee, when I wanted the brakes put on could drive an engine if he had any gump¬ I would blow two sharp blasts. The other tion. The New Castle road was the first to engineer would only blow one long blast. carry passengers in this country, by steam. Each crew understood the signals of each I know that to be a fact. The same year engineer. It was not until some years after¬ that I was asked to go to New Castle to ward that a regular system was adopted repair the engine, I went to New York. and controlled by the company.” This was before I moved to New Castle. A VETERAN ENGINEER. I went in a steamboat, the New Philadel¬ Mr. Huston is believed to be the oldest phia, to Philadelphia, and then crossed the engineer in point of service living to-day. i river to Camden. From there I took the He first ran a locomotive in 1832 on the railroad to Amboy. It was a horse rail¬ road. The John Bull was at that time on New Castle road. His health is good, his a side track awaiting the completion of ar¬ speech clear and distinct, and his con¬ rangements to introduce steam power. I stitution animated. He is a good walkcj remember seeing the John Bull. Of course and will cover a mile or two with easq it was attracting a great deal of attention despite his 83 years. His hearing is pool at that time. Now bear in mind that at and his eyesight such that he refrains from that time No. 13 was running on the New reading. He lives on Front Street, this Castle road, city, with his son-in-law, George Danby, THE OLD LINE TO BALTIMORE. secretary and treasurer of the American 'tween 1833 and 1837, three different Sheet Iron Company. «*. j les built railroads which subse- became the line of the Philadel- mington & Baltimore Railroad. One t constructed the road from Havre to Baltimore; another 1 ad a line ningtnn to a point on the Susque¬ JS* 107

| Protestant Episcopal church erected in Philadelphia, was at last compelled to resort to the expedient of becoming a mission chapel, so that its existence might be continued. Its history dates back to 1758-59, when the Rev. Dr. Jeuney, rector of Christ jChurch, required an additional assistant minister, and the Rev. William Mc- Clenachan, who had been sent out as a Date, cs. i missionary by the London Society, was elected. The Bishop of London refused to license him upon the ground that he had been appointed to take charge of a ne Hour in.... church in Virginia, and requested Christ Church to give him no encour¬ agement. Some of the members at¬ tached themselves to Mr. McClenachan, s nevertheless, and, very curiously, eighteen Presbyterian ministers, assem¬ bled in synod in Philadelphia, sent a letter to Archbishop Seeker in his be¬ half from Its History, Its Present His followers and friends decided to Interior and Graveyard. build a church, and St. Paul’s was, as a result, erected in its present location. It was completod and opened for the first service on Sunday, December 20, 1761. The building was the largest in the Of the dozens of business men who Province, and in a few days 1000 sittings drop in at the noon-day Lenten ser¬ had been taken in it, as it was located in vices now being held in Old St. Paul’s the centre of the fashionable quarter. Church, Third street opposite Willing’s The society people from Walnut, Third, alley, possibly not one in a hundred Fourth and Spruce streets thronged its ever gives a thought to the edifice itself, pews. The Rev. Mr. McClenachan re¬ or is aware of the historic memories signed the rectorship in 1765, and soon which are clustered around it aiterwards died on the eastern % Many of the most influential clorgy- shore of Maryland. After Mr. Mc¬ Clenachan resigned, the Rev. Hugh t men in the Episcopal Church have been Neill, missionary at Oxford and > iin times past included among its rectors, Whitemavsh', assisted the vacant parish and many of the most earnest and prom- somewhat by gratuitous services, and ,1 no lit 'pi the laity of this city have they presented him with a “very hand¬ fbeen members of the parish. It was some piece of plate” as a testimonial. In Cl centre of doctrinal preach¬ "?nc0 1767 Mr. Neill writes that the people of ing, and its inlluence extended far St. Paul’s had built “a church and en¬ § beyond the parish limits. It was dowed it with a handsome revenue.” Li once almost jibe most influential The vestry were anxious to secure a ■ church iu the country, and the eflects clergyman from England, and they ertra*- ' [of its teachings and influence! are still sequently wrote to the Bishop of Lon- c'jielt in the church , with which it was I don, asking him to send a clergyman, identified, but years have wrought land at the same time they assured him many changes in the old edifice, and its I of their adherence to the faith, prinei- influence is no longer what it was. - I pies and practices of the Church of Eng¬ There are numerous causes for this, but land. gf,. the principal one is that its influential In 1768 the Rev. William Stringer ar¬ rnembers have removed to other and rived with a letter of introduction from more fashionable parts of the city, and X’ the Rev. George Whitfield. He had been lcit the sacred edifice to fall into decay. •MB# ordained in London by a man who pro¬ | As St.Paul’s stands now,there is ample fessed to be a bishop of the Greek [ evidence to show that in a very few Church. While hero lie became con¬ [years the old church will be converted vinced that the Greek Church Bishop i^into a place of business, as the space it was an impostor. PIo consequently re¬ occupies is too valuable to be devoted to turned to London with letters froth St. missionary work in this practical age. Paul’s vestry and was duly ordained by [The course of time has left the church | the Bishop of London, after which lie high and dry, and the neighborhood has was elected rector of St. Paul’s Church, long since ceased to support a rector A* and continued in charge until the and vestry, the parish having changed breaking out of the Revolutionary war. from a thickly settled residential dis- In 1781 the' Rev. Samuel Magaw, D. jtncttoa business locality, alive with activity during week days, but deserted D.. became the rector, and ho took an at nightfall and on Sundays. active part in organizing the American Protestant Episcopal Church. Since Dr. As a last resort to save old St. Paul’s Magaw’s day. the Rev. Dr. Joseph Pil- from destruction, in the latter part of linore, who was first Dr. Magaw’s as¬ 1889 the old church was leased to St, sistant; Rev. Benjamin Allen, Bov. James’ Church, Twenty-third and Wal¬ Stephen H. Tyng, D. D., Rev. Samuel A. nut streets, the idea being simply that a McCoskry (afterwards Bishop of Michi¬ rich and powerful church like St. gan, and who was consecrated in St. James’might give backing to a church Paul’s Church on July 7, 1836), Rev. like St. Paul’s, from which business ag¬ James May, D. D., Itcv. Dr. Richard gression had driven the people. Thus Newton, Rav. Dr. Kingston Goddard, St. Paul’s Church, which was the third ULU ST. l'AUL’S. Rov. T;. Helior "isTeu-ton fson of ' T),- 'Richard Now ton), Rev. Messrs. Roc Trector is the Kev. Horaeo F. Fuller. P It in Koncially acknowledged that its, “'ro/'T1' ,'ave beeu among th® rectors >t- Paul’s parish, while the n™Mnt three most succossiul and prominent! rectors were Rev. Dr. Tyng, Dr. Richard! 109

| Newton and Rev. I)r. Joseph FIR no re. own and modernized. The organ? It is rather curious that the first two of which once s tood in the gallery in thef these clergymen, as successively named, rear of the c lurch was, last fall, moved’ were called from Old St. Paul’s to the down into the body of the rectorship of tho Epiphany, Fifteenth church to the right of the chancel. t [and Chestnut streets. T>r. Newton was On either side of the chancei, noted as the prince of preachers to chil- inlaid in thp wall, are two memorial Jjdren. and during his rectorship,tho Sun¬ tablets to the deceased rectors of St. day seiiool work of St, Paul’s was ear- Paul’s. The vestry room, to the rear of Iried on most successfully. He was tiio the chancel, has been but little altered originator of Sunday school anniver¬ since the early days and is quite quaint saries, witli emblems, music and offer¬ and antique in appearance. On the ings, and ho also originated a -Sunday walls hang several old portraits, one of alternoou service once a nionVh lor Bishop White and another of Parson Pilmore. children, which we termed “Children’s The old graveyard of St. Paul’s is one Church.” tr of the most interesting in tho city. A During the rectorship of Ids son, Rev. simple inscription, among a number of Hther Newton, the eminent New others, upon The stone covering the Yor!c nivine, he proposed to the vestry a vault of the Forrest family, leads: “Ed¬ plan tor orecting a row of buildings win Forrest, born March S, 1806, died for buu ness purposes on Third street, December 12, 1872.” Thus the resting and electing a now church and parish place of tho great tragedian is marked. y building in the rear. This would have Another interesting tomb is that of the secured an ahnual revenue equal to an Brown family, whore father, mother for the support ofthT and three children are interred in one Hlimr ?Utfc£’Jrut tIle vestry were unwil- grave, the simple headstone com¬ hngtotah^upwith the idea, one rest- memorating a sad incident of the latter ll the fo m u T3* **67 disliked to disturb part of tiio eighteenth century. Andrew & nnlJfn ^LVaUltS D-v the side of the Brown, a graduate of Trinity College, jpiesent bunding. Dublin, came to America as an officer r Piiy tiaat some sucb idea in the British army, in 1773. He soon I i coula not have been carried out, as it after retired from tho English service, , appears to lie really the only way of per- and when the Revolution broke out en¬ | manently endowing tiie church Lnd tered the American ranks. In 1788 he began the publication of the , Newton--: i'•"I'uoouproposed to10 sellsen Federal Gazelle and exhibited much en¬ should be worth at least from eighty to ' terprise in his work, printing the first one hundred thousand dollars, and^the V i* regular reports of the Congressional de¬ interest on this money, ir properly in bates. His residence was in Ofibstnut vested, would have been* --- sufficient- — ■ ' *•> 1,1to street, east of Second. In January, 1797, iiavo made the church forever inde. his house took fire and ins entire family, pendent, * with the exception of one son, perished. In oxteriqr appearance old St. Paul’s Tho father.? inafle strenuous efforts to' •Jlisj^uch^hasameto^ay_ 6 to-day as it wwasa„ whenu_ rescue' his loved ones, but failed, and Mi erected in 1761,T61, but the interioTo—interioroFthe was himself so badly burnoil that ho Thpr!it faS,ibei!'!i considerably alt died a low daS’s alter in terrible agony. The old fashioned high back m®. i. In St. Paui’ls churchyard is also buried been replaced by modern sittings uud an eccentric bibliomaniac named James the double-decked pulpit has been Z Cox, who wps" famous in his day as.a fashion ablojdn&vhig master, and whos^ hobby was fchefflollection of books, whic he piled away In unused closets ing less than what he should most, mind, and rooms of his dwelling. The Philadelpbil despiseth the inquiry into his own being, its Llibrarv, alter long bargaining, succeeded origin, duty and end; choosiug rather to in obtaining 5000 of his volumes, uponi dedicate his days (the steps he should make giving him an annuity of o400. Eacii-j to blessednes-) to gratify the pride, avarice book transferred boro his name on thej and luxury of his heart; as if he had been ;1 v-leaf. Ho died in 1834. bom for himself, or rather given himself -'fho oldest tombstone discovered }n being, and as not subject to tbe reckoning the old graveyard was erected to the and judgment of a superior power. * * * * memory of Neonila, O’Neaill, wife of Come, reader, harken to tno a while; I Daniel O’Neaill, died September 1/, 17o9, seek thy salvation, that’s my plot. Christ’s and Anna, daughter of Daniel O’Neaill, cross is Christ’s way to Christ’s crown.” died November 18, 1764. The first chapter treals of the necessity of; the cross and of the degeneracy of Christians. Inthesecond chapter the author points to' the lapse of all Christendom and then shows the way to regain a lost condition. The third j From,.. chapter explains what is meant by the cross of Christ as applied to our every-day life. The great work of the cross, he says, is self- j .. denial. The twelfth chapter trea.ts of pride. In this he say: “A proud man is a sort of glutton upon himself, for he is never satisfied / , with loving and admiring himself; whilst nothing else with him is worthy either of Date, .‘Z.s?...., love or care. If good enough to be the servant of his will, ’ 1 is as much as lie can find in his heart to allow, as if he had been only made for himself, or rather that he had made him¬ self, For as he despiseth man, because he OLD BOOK. can not abide an equal, so be does not love God, because he would not have a superior. He can not bear to owe his being to another Written by William Penn in Prison lest he should thereby' acknowledge one above himself. lie is one thnt Is mighty 200 Years Ago. big with the honor of his ancestors, but not with the virtue that brought these to it.” There is one chapter ou avarice and also NOW IN A NEWARKER’S POSSESSION. one on luxury. In tbe latter the author ex¬ horts all Christians to plain living and says : “For therefore was it that immortality and The Owner of the Have and Precious eternal life were brought to light, that all pleasures of mortal life, in which tbe world Volume is Another William Penn, a lives, might be foregone and relinquished.” Pineal Descendant of the Founder of The last half of tlie book is given to a dis¬ cussion of the great heathen writers and Pennsylvania—The "Work Religious in warriors who have stood out prominently'as Character—Extracts from It. examples of virtue and temperance. Among t hese he cites such men as Adrian, Alex- -ancier, Antigonus, Xenophon, Cato and William Penn, of 80 Thirteenth avenue, is , Cyrus. a direct descendent oi Wllliam Penn, founder At tlie close of the volume is a letter writ¬ of Pennsylvania, and he has in his possession ten by Penn’s father to him. It is a guide for a remarkable book, which was written by life and is in character like the book, tbe famous old Quaker while be was impris¬ religious. Iu the letter the father lays down two rules for the founder of Pennsylvania. oned in the Tower of London. The book was He says: Firstly, “Let nothing in this world brought to this country by William Penn tempt you to act against. yonr conscience ;” himself and has been handed down from one secondly, “ What you design to do no justly generation to another until it has come into and reasonably, and be not troubled with its present possessor’s hands. disappointments.” The book was printed at Worminghust, It was Mr. Penn’s intention to send the Sussex, June 1, 1682, and is consequently 211 book to the World’s Fair, but, lie has now decided that he will not. He does not wish years old. For a volume of this age it is in a to run the risk of its being damage! or lost. remarkable state of preservation. The pages It is the only' book of the kind in existence, are all securely fastened and they can be read he says, and he prizes it very highly. He has without any difficulty, as soon as onebe-j refused £S00 for it. comes accustomed to the old-style form of Mr. Penn’s mother, who lives iu Elizabeth, some of the letters. It is not a large book, has in her possession a diary that was kept being only four by six inches. There are in by W illiam Penn after he came to America. She has also the first letter that he wrote to it 590 pages, printed with the wooden type of England and a number of coins which be the time. It is entitled “No Cross, No Crown,” carried in his pockets. Bnt.it is impossible and contains, besides a preface, twenty-two to see them, Mr. Penn says. His mother is chapters. The covers are of heavy calfskin. very old and lias locked them up in a box, The subject matter of the book is entirely which she bolds sacred, and will not permit religious and is intended as a rebuke to tbe loose way that Christians were living at that time. A portion of the preface is as follows : “ The great business of man’s life is to answer the end for which he lives ; and that is to glorify God, and save his own soul. This Is the decree of heaven, as old as the world. Butso it is that man miudeth noth¬ Ill

I judgment ceased to vibrate, the whisper of 1 mercy was heard. Over the gates of the Gar¬ den of Eden, where sin had blasted its beauti¬ ful bowers, and ‘from which man had been driven in sorrow and shame, God inscribed the word ‘Mercy.’ Amid the ruins of the flood God wrote on the door of the ark that floated on the awful waves ol'judginet t— ‘Mercy !’ ’ ’ The speaker then told how the history of our race and of individuals is filled with mercy and judgment, and mentioned many instances, dwelling on those of Job, David and the story of the prodigal son. He said: “O, what a beautifully woven web does every Christian’s secret history represent! Hoy (good, bow wholesome, and how kindly is this blessed intermingling of both !’ ’ In speaking of his own history Dr. Levy began: “I have also a song to sing. With the Psalmist, Twill sing of mercy and judg- ,ment; unto the Lord will I sing.’ And if I speak of myself at all, it will be to magnify i the goodness of Godin permitting me to live so long and to preach for so many years the Gospel of His Son.” He then spoke of his honored parents, both of whom were mem- . bers of the Presbyterian Church, of his own I conversion to that Church and his early edu¬ cation. Early In the spring of 1813, Dr. Levy said, his Pastor. Dr. Chambers, was' suddenly called out of town and he was called on to fill the pulpit. It was his first sermon and was kindly received and was in reality his trial sermon, for he immediately afterwards received his license, and during the summer preached in Bridesburg,Sunbury and Strouds¬ burg. Owing to his poor health, however, he was not allowed to attend the Theological Seminary, which was a great disappointment to him. He was offered the use of a fine li¬ brary by the Rev. Alfred Barnes and received much valuable help from this gentleman, who took a great interest in him. At this time Dr. Levy had charge of a Pres¬ byterian Mission in Francisville, acting as DR. LEVY'S FIFTY YEARS OF SERVICE sexton, Sunday-school Superintendent, IN THE MINISTRY. teacher of an adult Bible class and preacher. He also assisted in forming the first Young Men’s Temperance Society, holdiug the posi¬ tion of its first President. Soon after this, by his own conviction, he SERMON IN BEREAN BAPTIST CHURCfl ( was baptized, and was immediately given a license to preach in the Baptist Church. Dr. Ide introduced him to the brethren of the Con¬ » A Review of His Long and Useful Cared ference, which was at that time held in the in tlie Ministry—Congratulations from sitting room of Mr. Loxley, on Sixth street, Brother Clergymen and Others. near Arch. He was elected a member of the Conference, and directed to read a sermon be¬ fore them at their next meeting, which he did, and it was severely criticised by Dr. Burrows. Rev. Edgar M. Levy, D. D., celebrated h** But Dr. Webb, of the Third Baptist Church, semi-centennial in the ministry yesterday came to his defence, and the spring following by appropriate services in the Berean Baptist he was asked to fill Dr. Ide’s pulpit during Church, of which, till a fetfyears ago, lie was the latter’s absence from the city. Pastor. The services were opened by tho In September. 1844, he was called to the singing of an anthem, a prayer by Rsv. T. R. little church in West Philadelphia, at Thirty- Howlett, a former Pastor of the church, and eighth and Chestnut streets, then called Mar- a congratulatory address was made by Rev. garetta street. Soon after this he was or¬ Frederick B. Greul, the present Pastor. dained, that he might be able to give com¬ Dr. Levy preached a sermon from the text, munion'and that he would not have to de¬ “1 will sing of mercy and judgment: untc pend on other Pastors to take his place. Thee, O Lord, will I sing. ’ ’ He said that the Dr. Levy, in speaking of West Philadelphia Song of David was peculiar to earth, as they when he first went- there, said; “Hamilton- do not sing of judgment in heaven, for there ville, as West Philadelphia was then called, is no sin there. Nor do they sing of mercy in was a village of three or four thousand souls, ! hell, as there is no salvation. There was a and was one of the most beautiful places that time, however, when this song was not heard you cau conceive of. The houses were few,and ion earth, for in paradise man walked with the gardens spacious and filled with vegetables, I God in innocence, and there was no mercy fruit, trees and flowers. Tho only mode of ! then for there was no misery. Nor was there conveyance to and from the city was an om¬ •judgment when there was no guilt. nibus owned by a Mr. Boon, who lived near | Dr. Levy then spoke of the fall of man, and Market street bridge. In the morning, at 3 i with this the advent of judgment into the o’clock, he would drive through the village, world. He said, “but ere the thunder o( blowing liis horn, to take the merchant or were in their infancy yet, regular steam com- the clerk to the city, and would return nr thal munication with Europe had not been estab¬ evening with his passengers.'” Dr. Levy described Ills labors during the lished, most of Ihe men now prominent in the cholera scourges of 1819 and 1851, and also United States were boys or not then horn. Ola Hickory was the dominant political force. Van mentioned the enormous revivals that took place during that time. In 1S53 he preached Buren was nearing his highest period of suc¬ very often in the First Baptist Church, and cess. Calhoun, Clay and Webster were ill during the same year he preached day and their splendor. Evartswas a junior at Yale. night in the Baptist Church at Salem, N. J. Hugh McCullough was Cashier of the-Indiana In 1858 he went to the South Church at New¬ Bank. . Uncle Dick Thompson was practicing ark. law at Bedford. Grant was a b

years "next? p'reviotis to" the application shall have been in the United porated. The incorporators" were" Jamea States.” Tire number of the inmates‘‘shall I'Oakc-s; James Lawson, Daniel Dougherty, never exceed the annual net rent and revenue 4 [John W. Forney, .Tunes II. Castle, John H of the institution, and after the number of in- ; then MaJ'or of PWtodel- mates therein shall exceed twelve, others to be phia (William S. Stokley), admitted shall be such only as shall receive J It was nearly threeyears after that time be- the approval of the majority of the Inmates, f ! “re ■the first actor retired to this retreat, taking ns well as of the managers. ’ ’ |advantage of Forrest’s bounty. The home' j James Rees, in his ‘ ‘Life of Porr- st, ’ ’ states was never formally opened, but the first entry that in 1869 the tragedian read to him part of a 2 on the visitors’ book is dated October 2d, 1876. will, which differed in many respects from Tns exact date of opening appears to be an un¬ the one made., three years before, certainty. Owing to the immense amount of gays Rees, ‘-there was no allusion 1 money the trustees were compelled to pay to ! ‘fajjn’ or ilabr#,-’# -'Bees .discussed th^JRtat Forrest’s divorced wife, nearly $100,000 the - ter with Forrest' frequently, and says he^s resources were considerably crippled. During jsatisfied that Springbrook was not the locale1” ibis Ufe the actor had refused to pay the a!i- '~k he had then in view. In 1870 the tragedian “ony a»owed by the Court, and he left in¬ wanted to get rid of the property, if Rees can structions in his will to fight the claim, but be believed, saying be was so anxious to sell legai battles are expensive, and the trustees-i St that he was willing to make a sacrifice of get tied with her. 820,000 on it, which amount he had expended The home is very pleasantly located and the • on the property in erecting hot-honses for the grounds are nicely laid out, for Forrest left 1 cultivation oi grapes. At that time, it is detailed instructions, even.to the height of gaul, he had a purchaser for it, but the se¬ the fence surrounding the place, the number curities offered in part payment were not of entrances and walks. It, is about three- Batisractory. In 1871 Rees and the agent for quarters of a mile from Holmcsburg June ion the property were requested to find a pur¬ on the Pennsylvania Railroad. The gate is chaser for the property. Soon the agent, usually open, inviting a stroii through the ! Thomas Shal lcross. found a person who was grounds. Passing along the gravel path willing to give $95,003 for the place. How¬ Ihrongh’beautiful overhanging trees, a veri¬ ever, the sale was not concluded, beceuse, it table Forest of Arden, the visitor is impressed was explained, Forrest could not give Jim with the big, comfortable, old-fashioned a clear title to the property while his divorced house, and second with two wonderfully wife had a claim to it. beautiful and graceful statues, which are Forrest died suddenly at his town house at pieced at the head of the path. •Broad and Master streets on December 12, ■ These statues, which are painted a drab 1 872, anfl the outline of the new will was never color, represent the muse of Tragedy and the regularly made out, consequently the one of comic muse. At first sight one. would hardly i 1866 remained in force. By it he bequeathed credit Die statement that they are of wood. his estate to James Oakes, Esq., of Boston; Yet they aie, having been carved by William James Lawson. Esq., of New York; Daniel Kush, who was one of the earliest, if not t.iio .Dougherty, Esq., of this city, as executors, first. American who could properly be called and directed them to establish the home. On a r-u’ tor. These two graceful figures of the December 12, 1S73, a year io the day after the muses stood in niches in Ihe fece.de of the old great actor’s death, the institution was incor¬ Chestnut street Theatre, ami when that glori- . Otis eld playhouse haifon't'lived Us usefulness, was the book of ail and whs sold in IS.*/., Forrest purchased these others' which he two • picces-of sen I ptuVe.-a rs <3 had them removed loved most, and to-the garden of his town house. Later they, which he gave orders were taken out to “Sprijigbrook, ” wliere they was to be saved if now remain as testimonials of the genius and' everything elsein hisj artistic ability of Hush, who, strange'to re¬ mansion was ce-l late. never carved in marble. stroyed by fire, but Rush began as. a. carver of figure-heads for in theconflagration, j vessel's, and the figure of “The Indian tragedy. after his death, It J Trader. ’’ which he cut for the ship William was rescued too late Penn, excited so much admiration in Lons to be of any real service. Opposite don that artists sk tchcd it and had casts to it is Forrest’s cheval glass, and hang- of it made. He was born in this city on July ing to it still is... a bundle of shaving paper 4, 1730. served in the Revolution, was in Coun¬ in faded blue plush covers, ready for use. j cils for more than a quarter of a century and On this floor is Mrs. English’s room, and in it died in his native city on January 17, 18:33. is a great, four-posted canopied bed, which These two examples of his work are quite as was Forrest’s. beautiful as anything in marble, which was a Each of the veterans has a room to himself material Rush never employed. or herself, and each apartment is hung with The interior of the house is home-like and pictures and filled with other treasures once pleasant. There is nothing* that'suggests ah owned by Forrest. They appear to be a very Institution. You would rather believe it was happy and contented family, and more than | the residence of some gentleman with pleased with the new superintendent, Mr. a fondness for the drama—and for Forrest— Andreas Hartel, and his family. They-usually j for at every turn you are confronted with a come in to see a play at least once a week, and portrait in a frame or in marble of the great would go ofttener if the home was only more tragedian. The hall on the firdt floor con¬ conveniently situated. They never lose their f tains marble busts of Forrest, and at the toot love of the stage nor their veneration of For¬ of =The stairway stands Ball’s magnificent rest. It is a most expensive charity, and one, statue of the great actor as Coriolanus, which only surpassed, perhaps, by Hampton Court was presented to Forrest by many of his ad¬ Palace, in England, where the unfortunate mirers. On the walls are playbills, one of nobility are permitted to end their days. The them of the G9th night of Forrest’s engage¬ Forrest Home costs more per capita, it is said, ment in New York, in 1852. “Damon and than any other charitable Institut'on in the Pythias” was the play. Near them is a pho¬ United States, and probably twice as much tograph of the old Chestnut Street Theatre, as any oilier, for the old actors are well taken care of. which shows Rush’s beautiful statues in place. To the right of the entrance is the There are at present thirteen members in the .nicrlor. which is filled with paintings, as are “family, ” as the old actors assembled there all the rooms and stairways of the house. are collectively called, but there are accom- I Only a few of them have been identified modations for another, Here is the personnel though, owing to the catalogue which con¬ of the company now in the home: Mrs. M. E. tained the information being destroyed in the Burroughs is now the veteran of the home, | fire at the Broad street house, not long after having been there for sixteen years. She bears Forrest’s death. the happy distinction of being the first lady1 Beyond this is the library, two snug little admitted. She was born in New York in 1813,1 apartments, the farthest one lighted by a and sang in chorus and played soubreite parts stained glass window, on each side of which in her youth, and later took old women char- is a case of stage weapons and arras used by acters, playing ail over the United States. Forrest. One of these, a Roman sword has Mrs. Jane English entered the home in 1881. engraved on the scabbard “Talma, ” having She was born in this city in 1820, and played once belonged to the celebrated French trage¬ generally sonbrettes during her long career on dian. Richard Penistan, one of the members the stage. Her second husband, William B. of the goodly old company of retired players English, was a well-known theatrical mana-t assembled at the home, is the librarian and gcr and editor. She is, perhaps, best known! has devised a system during his leisure hours to this generation as the mother of Lucille and which is worth the study of other librarians Helen Western, whose remarkable talents in' His catalogue is a certain parts are so well known. beautiful piece of chi- Mrs. Rachel Cantor is the oldest member of rography.and the ar¬ the family, having been born in London in rangement is handy 1810. She made her American debut in 1838 at and remarkably the Chatham Theatre. New York, and has complete. played tragic parts in nearly every city in the Walking up the country. In 1883 she entered the home. winding stairs past Miss Jane Parker was admitted in 1884 She the seemingly innu¬ was bom in Athens, N. Y., in 1820, and was merable oil paint¬ engaged in playing many lines of parts while ings, many of them on the stage, u being said she has assumed really excellent, they ev ery kind of feminine r61e known to the will show yon—for jjhe c°nnected for yearn with the j the members of the rremont btreefc Theatre, Boston. ‘ ‘company,’ ’ here are J. Alford Smith entered the same year. Re most obliging in dis¬ ™*|born in thiscity,June, 1313.iVIr.Smi!hspent playing the treas¬ £frt.eR ’* h^frical life ln Boston as a member: ures—a charred mass with' wnf11 J«‘seum Company.playing theref of paper sealed in a 7hl ?Vlrren for 27 -yeare- and was glass case. This is ^ Cms to Forrest’s RiclieUeu the first one of the most inter¬ character gleat tra"edian appeared in that, esting relics in the house, forit isall that Richard Penistan, who entered in February i remains of Forrest's 188/ was born in England in 1829, and camel

copy of the excessive¬ inJ 4 GO’tinh’y about 40 years ago. after hav-1 ly rare first folio edi¬ „ acted throughout the provinces in Great. tions of Shakes¬ Britain and also in London. He ployed heavy peare’s works. This 117

ed at the Walnut Street Theatre in this City. His feet be- came frozen so badly that they had to be » .‘I&g amputated, and, con¬ sequently, he was compelled to retire from the boards before COMEDY.- he intended. " Harriet Do Bar, who was admitted in 1889, is the widow of the well-known manager. She was born in Philadelphia, of French par- entage, in 1828, and was one of the Vallee Sis- ters, who were once famous, dancers in the halcyon days of the - Id Chestnut Street The- atic. She Was also a favorite in St. Louis, and at the St. Char.es Theatre, New Orleans, which her husband, Ben De Bar, managed. G. Slmcoe Lee, who for years played light comedy and general leadingrdles in Wallaek’s company, entered the home four years ago. He was born iu London, Ontario, December 1, 1828, and his leaving the stage was due to lameness. In May of last year, Frederick Chippendale, a son of the great English actor of that name, and brother to Mrs. William Flemming, came

, FORREST AS CORIOLANUS. parts successfully, and in America was seen in New York and in the South principally. Mrs. Amelia Serges will be remembered by [those who attended the German Theatre in JCallowhiU street, some years ago. She was [born in Berlin and is 72 years old. She mode 'her first appearance on the stage in Vienna In 1852 she came to America, and always played leading “busi¬ ness” in German drama. Her debut in this country was made A CORNER OF THE LIBRARY. at the A- tor Place Op- !era House, in New to the home. He waswith Frohman’s com¬ York, where she ap¬ pany a little over a year ago, but increasing peared in the “Maid deafness led him to abandon his profession of Orleans.” She be¬ and retire to this actors’ retreat. He was born came a member of the at Ayr, Scotland, October 23, 1828, and gener¬ I fam ily In 1888, after ally played leading old men. His Sir Peter haying played in Teazle was considered one of the best. For nearly every part of seven years ho was with James A. Heme, the Union. playing old men. Henry L. Bascomb Miss Elizabeth Andrews, a sister of Mary came to the home six Carr, who was much esteemed in her day, is years ago. He was English by birth, having been born in Lou¬ born in Boston in 1833, don, January 21, 1821, and was comparatively and made his first ap¬ well known on the American stage, playing pearance at the Bos¬ matrons generally. She came to the home in ton Museum in 1853. the autumn of last year. j'For a long while, The latest addition is George Parkes. who under Mrs. Garrett- was admitted on Friday last. He was born in son’sand later under n, .Mass., 60 years ago, and spent!!) John S. Clarke’s re stage. His lasFappearauce was management, he play- ^ with Daly’s Company in 1830. Qsher actors and actresses who have shared in Forrest’s charity were George G. Spear, who was the first person to receive the great . * • tragedian's bounty, having entered the home on November 7, 1876, and died there July 8, 1887; Jacob W. Tiioraan, JohnJJline, Thomas Owens, a brother of the late John E. Owens; Henry Corri, Mrs. Rose Wood, Mrs. Sophia La Forrest, Mme. Ivan C. Michels, Miss Dora Shaw, Frank Lawlor, James Ward O’Brien, William B. Lomis, Southey L. Savage and Nelson W. Decker, all of whom are dead. I From,. There have been recently some changes made in the officers and Board of Managers of the institution. The corrected list comprises Joseph Moore, Jr., President; Charles E. Warburton, Vice President; Samuel S. Sharp, Treasurer; H. E. Garsed, Secretary; Joseph Moore, Jr., J. Fred Zimmerman, Adam Everlv, Charles E. Warburton, Henry Whe- Date, len, Jr., L. Clarke Davis and Mayor Stuart (b.v reason of his office)._,T. .T

WHERE THE VETERAN SAILORS WHO HAVE MANNED OUR SHIPS; LIVE IN THEIR DECLINING YEARS.

A Nation’s Harbor for the Brave Seamen Who Have Carried the Flag to the Uttermost Ends of the Earth—Distinguished Naval Commanders Who Have Watched Over the Institution.

cent.” The fruit borne is found no,w in Paul Hamilton, when he was Secre¬ the naval pension and naval hospital tary of the Navy, more than eighty funds, the Naval Academy and the Na¬ years ago, performed one act that should j val Home. perpetuate his memory.--1"^ 7FE how few, Of the last, little has heretofore ap¬ coairarauvraj,—cYCft here in Philadel¬ peared in newspaper print, save from phia, know of the existence of the prod¬ time to time upon the death of some old uct of his thought—of the Naval Home inmate, such as George Adams and Jack Smith, who in the battle of Lake out on Gray’s Ferry road, where the vet¬ Erie pulled one the bow and the other erans of our men-of-war find shelter and the stroke oar in Perry’s boat when they comfort in their declining years, much left the St. Lawrence; or Thomas less of the historic memories which hang Johnson, who was with John Paul about the site upon which it is located Jones when he took the Serapis or the manner in which it is conducted; with the Bon Homme Richard, or other of the famous officers who have com¬ pensioners who were in the victories manded there or of the old sailors who under Hull and Stewart,Bainbndge and to-day ramble about its grounds without, Biddle, Jones and Warrington and Law¬ or, with pipe in mouth, rest and read iu rence, or later on under Farragut and peaceful quiet within. Porter and other celebrated commanders Hamilton wrote to the Chairman of of the Union in the civil war. Scarcely the Naval Committee of Congress in a hundred people in Philadelphia, per¬ February of 1810, in the suggestion of haps, who have just been reading of the the establishment of such institution, grand naval review in New York harbor, that “to me it appears very clear that under the direction of Rear Admiral! the effects, under proper regulations, Gherardi, have known that as a commo-l would bo happy indeed. The wrecked dore, less than eight years ago, he was sailor, covered with wounds received iu the governor of this naval refuge from the service of his country, might be the storms of the world; or that Rear saved the debasing employment of beg-i Admirals Mullany and Roe, Rhind and gary; the woman widowed, the child or-| Fairfax, Rowan, Paulding and Lardner phaned m the gallant achievement of were among his predecessors in the same[ the husband and father might he res-! position. cued from wretchedness, probably dis-| grace; a body of men devoted from grat-| THE LOCATION OF THE HOME. itude to the service of their country! Three histories only of the institution! j would here be raised up; the benefits of have ever been prepared, one by Charles education would be extended; a competi¬ H. Stockton, Lieutenant Commander of tion to be admitted into the public ser-j * the United States Navy, by direction of vice would be excited, and the brave! ) Commodore David B. Harmony; another would be encouraged and stimulated,1 by Lieutenant Commander Edward) .without costing the public one single Hooker, upaer direction of Rear Ad-j named Pemberton, the estate being known as the Plantation. The estate enmo down from John Kinzey ; nd Tnomas Masters, the latter obtainin'' 1 ^°mT>-m,Pc:nuns,in 1735- According t° Dr. Biddle, the house, though unpre- trading, was of a substantial character roomy and respectable, quite remote' from the built-up portion of the city, and close to the banks of “the beautiful .Schuylkill, then unfettered and un¬ damned.” It was considered entirely as a country residence for the summer. The house was built of brick, the kitchen and offices being in a basement, which had large windows opening upon an area. A fine hall ran through fhe main floor, with two handsome rooms on each side. Above were corresponding' rooms under a sloping roof, with large dormer windows, the apex being crown¬ ed by a balcony. REMINISCENCES OF THE REVOLUTION. When Philadelphia was occupied by COMMODORE OSCAR F. STANTON. the British forces under Lord Howe, in November, 1777, there was quite a miral Mullany, and a tbird7 preceding struggle among them as to who should both of these, by Medical Director Ship- occupy such snug quarters as the Plan- pen, back in 1S77, from which latter Bombertnn tllis time’ tlle owner, James many of the facts contained in both of i cm Pei ton, was among the snsneete,-l the former were drawn. The story these Friends who were involun- compilations tell, coupled with a tour -T cojourmn;, m Virginia, the three through the buildings, is an interesting ot!ei-erfi11 bl'°the^ ^ving, with manv one. The property upon which the [ «, ^narrest d and sent to that Home stands comprises in its present Pemberfirn i m011ths, previous. .Tames form an irregular plot of about 23 acres, woS ’ howuver, left behind him a bounded by Gray’s Ferry road. Bain- comb ned°P1'eS?!>atiTe in a woman, who bridge street, Sutherland avenue, run- 1, sPlrit and firmness with ladj-hke demeanor and charity to her ihV™*>*£££&*% nation he V S tue,Period of the oeeu- tioi Thi frequently mentions Planta- EverJp® 8peakf, of the plundering of «• S u11;104® Pemberton pFace were hnn-handa^TnS’ for which some

laud cabbaged Sntl^n.1116 P°tat°es | Iiotectmn for the place and redress SiestionVofChs !nflicted’ as well as the the subicctVnf « ' as, a restdence, were between pLfiSev^ral,notes aild letters Fnrnf^ V^ioebe Pemberton and the

3t°“tSr«WS n,,o„ which it “

CAPTAIN JAMES M. FORSYTH.

'Pin parallel with the Schuylkill River, I jo urneysio a^d'throughW^11 'and a wall on the southeast side from Sutherland avenue to Gray’s Ferry road. . There have been some changes in the lines and areas of the propertv since it was first purchased by the Govern¬ ment. At that time Shippen street, now Bainbridge. was not opened westward of Gray’s Ferry Road, or the road lead¬ !8g %'s£p* SSMSfe IS: ing to Gray’s Ferry, as it was then use at the Vn TrWury, a hospital in ' called, although intended to be so and the mansion' 7ai’?.was abandoned opened, and in the original deed it is instead for thn t 011 thls Property used styled “Shippen street continued.” It instead tor that purpose. For a nerio,l was called the Abbot lot and included 7 seven years it continued to beP used the site of a handsome country house and aemonIaL 10SPei-tal for the stations, built previous to the Revolutionary war, maivi Patients were numbered many^jiaval and marine officers at supplied with broad covered ?--- tllaimiffiS' ana afterwards famous in' das on each of the ewo main floors, a— tlie history of the country. are not, in keeping with the architecture COMMODOUE BAINBRIDGP.’s HOPE. of the central structure. 1 here is a, fine attic over the whole building, and the! Various acts of Congress had from latter is in everv part most substantially! time to time been passed providing for and thoroughly built, the marble stair-' the pensioning of invalids of the navy ■wavs of the interior being particularly and private service, and their widows noticeable, both because of their ingeni¬ and orphans, and for the medical care ous construction and economy of space. of sick and disabled seamen of the All the ceilings of the basement and merchant service, aid eventually it,was first floor are vaulted in solid masonry decided by the Commissioners to erect and on the main floor is a remarkably an asylum here. The corner-stone of fine domed apartment, which is used the building was laid on the 3d of April, as a muster room and chapel. 1827, and “Niles’ Register” of three The most faulty part of the whole days later gave this account of the structure lias been the basement, which event: “In the vicinity of Philadelphia is very low and ar times damp, the on Tuesday last, "he corner-stone of edifice for some unaccountable reason the Naval Asylum was laid with due having been built without proper cel¬ ceremony in presence of the Navy Com¬ lars, except under the kitchen and din¬ missioners and a number of citizens. ing room, and the first floor being upon After the stone had been properly se¬ cured, Commodore Bainbridge, presi¬ a level with the giound,. while the low dent of the board, delivered the ad¬ space underneath was without adequate dress.” In his speech the latter por¬ drainage. In late years, however, this trayed the future in these words: space has been dug out as deep as th^ A home will thus be established for foundations would permit, and thus a the faithful tar, who has been either set of low cellars formed, in which fur¬ worn out or maimed in fighting the bat¬ naces for heating the building have oeen tles of his country. A comfortable har¬ placed, together with an improved sys¬ bor will be secured, where he may safely tem of drainage. : Jibe basement has moor and ride out the ebb of life, free been correspondingly improved, and is from the cares and storms by which much less unhealtly than in former he has been previously surrounded. Tie years. It contains cMing room, kitchen, will here cheerfully and proudly live laundry, pantries, store rooms, etc. In with his own messmates, with the com¬ the dormitories above are about 200 panions of his former sports, toils and rooms. There are parlors and reading dangers, and where they will animate rooms in the front part of- the interior, each other by recounting the pleasures while the chapel, 56 feet square, is in the which they enjoyed, the perils which rear and presents a handsome appeal- they escaped and the battles which they ance. The entire building is regarded as fought. A picture of happiness wiil in every respect completely fire-proof. thus be exhibited, not less gratifying to The grounds about the structure were the patriot than it will be useful; and originally full of trees, but the winter stimulating the intrepid youth of our of 1836-7 was a very cold one and wood country to enlist under the naval banner was scarce. Commodore Barron there¬ that they also may secure similar honors fore ordered nil the trees cut down and and comforts for a “green old age.” converted into fuel. But this led . to There was much delay in the progress the planting of the nobler ones, which of the work of construction, being alto¬ now add to the picturesqueness of the gether suspended for a time, but even¬ surroundings. These were mostly placed tually it was under roof in 1832-33, and in the ground by Commodore Biddle occupied (near the close of the latter after he took charge as Governor in the year), at a cost for the land of $17,000, autumn of ’38, although for want of and for the building of $195,600, sums funds the work was not completed until which were subsequently increased by ten years later. Now they are in many improvements to a total in 1S39 of instances as of fine growth as are those | $276,000. Daniel Ixleiss was tl^e first man to become a beneficiary, or pen¬ in the city squares. A museum was at sioner, as they were then termed. By one time proposed in connection with the a letter from Secretary Woodbury to home, and several boxes of articles Commodore Barron, dated November brought to this country by the Wilkes’ 22, 1831, it appears that he was admitted Exploring Expedition were sent to it, as an inmate of' the asylum on his own hut they were afterward removed to ' application. He was furnished with Annapolis, and the idea given up, quarters in the Pemberton House. Will- “though why,” as Lieutenant Comman¬ Ham Williams was the second, and two der Hooker says, “one should not be ■others joined them at the time of the formed is hard to tell. It would be ap¬ -| occupation of the new building, making preciated by the old men and would ■ four in all as regular inmates. To-day receive many contributions from, the 8 there are over 200. men as well as the officers of cruising ships, and it might probably be a help j THE BUILDING WITHIN AND WITHOUT. toward attracting more attention to the The building as it now appears, stand¬ institution and lead a still better class ing well back' in the grounds, facing to look forward to it as a snug harbor southeast as viewed from Gray’s Ferry when their cruising days areover.”

L road, presents a pleasing appearance. SOME OLD MEMENTOS. Silt is of grayish white marble, -with a vifigranite basement. It is, 350 feet in There are some mementos and curi¬ ■ length and consists of a centre osities there now, however. The granite high, broad flight of marble steps and balls standing upon the abutments of imposing abutments, a marble colonnade the building were brought from the Dar¬ l; and -'pediment in the bastard classic danelles by Commodore Elliott. As is !• style, which was all the fashion at the inscribed upon them they were landed .period of its erection, with wings ex¬ at Norfolk, Va., in 1838, and sent ty tending on each end. These wings are ';«• he had never said Itlie pulpit. heaid his equal in |tUo homo lie-re the following year IAiouihI them are grouped a few speci¬ k'A’Jfi h lof ’ aud susceptible'^ of infifw7 beanti- front oJfhUil1oVOAr.^-'el7eTT1)ounders novv' in |°f expression, and of i!?buit:e variety [up with a smile of f tlm?a lighted luess,-; and Lord Brouvb?Passd?^ sweet- | lat bi's motions resembled S+iid of bim u.ueu aunng Governor Ritner’s ori,,,,-,, blooded race horse hn \hose of a .lstration, or in tie enviv L a(muu" Porter’s ,eaV-V palt of Governor be had more power 18 doubtful if „i a Colonel Pleasanton, then act-' than had Wilberforce°VewhlliS .bearers pigmy body with n ho, bad a shrill voice ” t weak and painfully »saws- srvv'»'S!“ »< tbat Boswell wrJ e 8 °4 Wilberforce »« Or a allot float SftnJJ" amt seemed to me a mere I -saw what ^Pon the table, bi“ as f1’!^ m°unt Wnoffteg's.rt?1S/m,anl lri ’.f?that tmannero * dragged to pew and grew untilth i1 .hstened he Atest Chester, where it was renovated t .whale.’’ Bm-ke wPh B^imp beeame was worfn?^ °? the- chase' oi?“me,' jgait and gesture bio ; us awkwai’d Tn i ooV bJ dragging on the ground strong brogue- dlmfb barsh voice and Pliilallel’nhh!16^ Gener7al Lafayette visited and striking figm-e n°bl Tth til? at tbat PiGCe> and superb tones; Richard^ ^ features and m.General dismounted from the iWith his dwarfish bo i Lawlor Shell • I aa<1 Passed along the line liis attention was called to it. He placed his Kce; O’Connell ^^ith iL^ Peking a d X: e!U1)e and recoS it fud a voice whie n lTSSife body I als?, leeognlaed the other. Some fee finest ever heard b'u s‘?-id was the^oftef'--rd’ duria='. 1837 or 1S38, PVendell Phillips with hi? Pa/bament; ! amf to^the United States fcnd matchless*3 tones -!n?i perfec(' ffrace : teenry Ward Beecher wihe^nciatio11 (1§m a? abo.v.e stated. °f *0? H.0spftaI body, ruddy faep with his sturdy I war of lS12°nwas A to be lold short and slender- r„C'am H- Sew- ! fAill. erect, haughty fcr osco® Conkling , the11 officer!0 of 0fthe ^ IWith sturdy abSclyy’aJdfiy^ - Gradf liH .nsyssr s&ag^^OTs- eyes; George William Curbing black- form and feature „ Gurl'?’ elegant in and gesture—all these 2 “ spefch . ’heavy dre were ^S?i0Ii< Pbee s’ under a tbe orator does not com? to iP- °Ve- that black-and-white smith ^ag John Mingle- § endowed by nature wPh 1 -IlI!3 mission Lieutenant Smith ,5;,Jn*ce dead> a“d These nieces if V ?lu»»ist, since dead, me>lt of Physical assort- on carriages ’wi,mifebnsbtd and mounted requisition ’on the ^Yar oiSalned hy a - would be the mn=t „ 'v ai • department, MrathBrmvnl4°,!I. ls Tour neigh- j the salute of Uie^hundredt!ftG ftT firiuS I suppose. I haranT K‘ !nS ,wgI1 enough, of our independence The1rh anniyersary to lor six weeks ” <. ber to speak jhereafter should be on tif proper place - J1 hougilt you were on^I of the Capitol at Harrich6 patb ip front ' terms.” Mrs. Brow,?^- r ,,Wost fGemlly ^ ln lade' jbe; but we’ve exchanged1’ seraS-to pieces. A ^wreath S° smm?DS on tbe c-

29, 1844. They did not remain there sn„si siL §■/«.-• 4»f long, however, being removed the follow¬ are 11!) yeSrs old Goorge K- and ' ing year to Woodlands, where they now old-fashioned way with I con f",1 in thef out. ^ "ua a coi j, and reamed | repose. _ Commodore Jesse D. Elliott, who died _ while in command of the ioiIade plla bfeivy Yard, December 18, 184-j, was the first officer buried in the new grounds. Two beneficiaries, John InS^oTZ mSeUeS8 ^er Ward, 2d, and Henry Bell, had preceded him, and many burials of both officers and men took place there in ensuing peuse” upon it, inclosing^ letter 5 years. . ' •surmounted by a cross ’ and In the spring of ’46 the bodies of those who had died in the hospital or had been sent from the Navy Yard or the ships for interment in the old grounds, fronth0of"0t'’nJ abutmin9tsTareUtwo about 100 in all. including a number of officers, were disinterred and trans¬ !W ferred to the new cemetery, and the THE FRONT OF THE NATAL HOME AS VIEWED FROM GRAYS FERRY ROAD. J Kri_,_,_I, old graves were given up to weeds andT the purpose of establishing the Home, desolation until sold. But it seemed as and this fund now amounts to the enor¬ though dead men’s bones were not to mous sum of eighteen millions of rest here, as they were again raised dollars. For some years the Treasury when the new hospital was erected and allowed six; per cent, interest, but the were transferred to a lot purchased by late General Benjamin F. Butler, the Government in 1865, in Mt. Moriah while in Congress, had the rate re¬ b Cemetery, Commodore Elliott’s being duced to 2% per cent., which nets removed with the others. In this latter $450,000, out of which $70,000 is neces¬ spot all interments are now made, sary to carry on the institution, while nearly 400 bodies having already been the balance is used for the payment of placed therein. Navy service pensions. While benefi¬ During ' the long existence of the ciaries, if they have pensions, the Home Home there has been much to note in collects what is due the men through its history. In the first place it is in the Governor, and the amount is' de¬ no wise a charity, being supported from posited with the United States Treas¬ a fund in the National Treasury which urer to the credit of the Naval Hospi¬ has accumulated since the Revolution tal Fund. in this manner. One-half the prize Every person who has served 20 money of that struggle was retained years or upward in the navy is enti¬ and deposited to the credit of the Sec¬ tled to the benefits of the Home. Each retary^ of the Navy or Treasurer for man has his own room, in which there in a single iron bedstead with a thirty- pound mattress and all the necessary bed clothes. Some of the old, men have saved money before they come to the Home, and frequently "fit up their quarters with much taste. Twc of these rooms were _ specially attractive when “The Inquirer” representative visited them. They were those of John Murphy and Joe Brown—-the former an old salt, who first saw ser¬ vice in the Brandywine, was subse¬ quently in the St. Lgwrence and the Merrimac, before she was in the Con¬ federate service, and was last in the Wabash. _ He has been in the Home since 1873. The privacy given by these small rooms is highly prized by the men and the additional independence and dignity given is of great value in fostering the sense of honorable re¬ tirement, because these veterans of the THE CHAPEL AND LECTURE ROOM- seas are sensitive in their old age, one notable instance of complaint being - -—-- 1 T *L ' 12 _ ._j- + _ found in the records with reference to Almshouse, to be paupers, who are better) a time when there was friction over lodged than we are now. We want to1 live the short time we are-in the world - the space to be occupied by diverse in quiet and in peace, hut if our prayer |branches. It. was while Commodore is not granted we have made up our James Barron, a well-known figure in minds not to stay here. the naval history of the United States and who had formerly supervision of the HOW THE VETERANS LIVE, | Home as commandant of the Navy The petition was effective. This with Yard, relieved Commodore Biddle as some other grievances were soon re¬ Governor. The building was then used dressed. To-day there is no cause for for three purposes, the asylum for the jcomplaint, because there are now' uearly disabled, etc.; the general naval hos¬ 250 rooms in the home and the hospital, pital and the naval school, instituted the latter being a separate building {for the instruction of midshipmen. The erected in another portion of the 'Navy Department had given orders to grounds. The rooms, which the sailors divide the building into two portions keep clean themselves, are inspected |by a partition of lath and plaster, the every morning by the Second Line offi¬ I northern half to be divided to the asy¬ cer, as is the food at all meals, and there lum and the naval school and the is no limit as to the amount of cloth¬ (southern wing to the hospital. This ing a beneficiary can put in the laundry was done under the direction of the ar- each week. No restraint is put upon their jchitect, Mr. William Strickland, and liberty during reasonable hours so long then forty-three of the pensioners sent as they behave themselves, but there are an “humble petition to the honorable restricted lists of different degrees, and Secretary of the Navy,” in which, those upon them are only permitted to [among other things, they said: go out at stated times or on special per¬ I It is because we have faithfully served mits. Many who are not past ail ser¬ our country that we have been admitted vice after coming to the house and es-i here to this place, which we hear was tablishing themselves obtain special built out of the twenty cents a mouth we have all had deducted from our wages leave of absence, generally for a few by the pursers. We all looked ahead when months or a year, though sometimes for I we should grow old to be entitled to moor a longer period, and ship during the our shattered hulks in this snug harbor summer months on coasting or other I to be ready to answer the last signal from merchant vessels, or enlist for duty on I Him who commands the world. The gal- board the receiving ships, and occa¬ llant Commodore Biddle was our first Gov¬ ernor; a brave man like him knew what sionally, though not often, on board | old sailors w'anted. He indulged the good cruising ships, and by renewing then- I men and brought the bad men into good leaves when they expire sometimes order, and when he left us we all, to a spend many years away before .taking man, wished he had been left alone, as we up their final abode with the institu¬ were happy under his regulations. The tion. proper rooms were allotted by him to us, There are some who also often find and all the officers treated us like men. employment, either in workshops out¬ When he went away Commodore Barrow came, who commanded us as an old Com¬ side, where they work at trades learned modore ought to command old seamen like in their youth, or at making fancy work himself. He was ready to listen to us —mats, hammocks, etc., w'ithin thclJuild- aud to see our wants supplied, and may ing, and all money earned by them is God bless him and Biddle, too, for both their own, for any purpose they may the old sailors’ friends, which we put in the newspapers which you have read, w'ish to put it to. A. number of the [when Commodore Barrow' left us he left pensioners are also engaged at the in¬ Lieutenant Foote to < ommand. He has stitution by the Government as quarter¬ done us a great deal of good in making us masters, watchmen in the hall, gate¬ all sober men. We never thought that old keepers and laundry men. for w'liich they i sailors could do without grog. Now there are paid at regular established I'ates of I is not a man in the house that draw s his wrages. Twice a month entertainments "ro" and we feel like human beings, and hate the sin of being drunk. We now are given for the amusement of the in¬ i understand the word of God as it is mates, employing different classes of I wrote in the Bible with which we are performers. There is a fine library of supplied, and hope our latter days will 5000 or 0000 volumes, which is added be better than our past lives have been. to each year, care being taken to select I As old men, we wanted and had peace books that will most interest the vet¬ and quiet of mind and repose of body; jbut all this is put a stop to. The house erans. There are also six sitting rooms, is divided into two. wherein cards, backgammon and other We the petitioners, a large number, art 'games are furnished, and wdiere they iputj’nto the other side, up a high stain^ are at liberty to smoke as much as they three stories from the ground—upward of [desire. Most all of the Philadelphia 100 people stored on one side of the papers and many of the New York [building. Some are lame from wounds; ' dailies are there, besides many weeklies- ■ some are lame and weak from sickness, [There is a liberal allowance of clothing {such as rheumatism, and some of us are . [and pocket money, the latter each obliged to get the others to help us get up the steps. The little rooms which we month, and plenty of tobacco is pro¬ fitted as w'e liked with our grog money, vided for the happy old tars. [which we stopped, are taken away, and as THE EFFORTS TO REMOVE IT. [there are not enough rooms, as many as four of us have to sleep in one of the Of the past government of the in¬ jrooms at the eud. It is large enough for stitution the list of names of governors I beds, but we are not quite we used to is a most brilliant one. Prom the time be, and have lost our prideyin being pri¬ of the creation of the retired list of the vate by ourselTes. It is for this cause navy up to 1S73 the position had been | we petition your Honor, and humbly pray filled by retired officers, it being consid¬ that you, as the worn-out sailors’ pro¬ ered a peculiarly suitable place for an tector, will have our rights respected; and that you will give orders to let us each officer of high rank on that list. But have’our small cell iu the second story the subsequent legislation about that again. Most of us must go to the Philadelphia r, was iciianged in tno Approprii- ,.for the support of the Navy ft, it of United States Marine Heme, in deference to rhe desiib of the bene¬ ficiaries. The officers under whom it is now managed include Commcdcre Oscar h\ Stanton, the governor; Commander James M. Forsyth, as executive officer; Lieutenant Commander Henry N. Man- ney, second line officer; Paymaster A. D. Baehe; medical director in charge of I hospital, A. C. Gorgas, U. S. N.; sur- igeou, D M. Gniterrs; passed assistant! surgeons, P. H. Bryant and T. P.j Bailey. Commodore Stanton is of New! York, and became attached to the in¬ stitution in July of 2S91, to remain threel years. At the expiration of his term1 he goes upon the retired list, after a THE HOUSE Off THE GOVERNOR. splendid record of 43 years in the naval time forbade the employment of such service. He was appointed a midship¬ officers on active duty, and since then man from his State in December, 1S49. those on the active list have alone filled and was on board the U. S. steam frig¬ ate Susquehanna in the East Indies, the place. In 1S74 the question of the the Chinese Seas and Japanese waters. removal of the institution, which had frequently been discussed, again came He was witii the Constitution in the up, the proposition being in favor of Mediterranean Squadron from 1855 to 1S58, and- went with the Memphis in Annapolis.1 A resolution passed by the the Paraguay Expedition, October, 1858, House of ‘ Representatives called upon to June, 1859. There he was attached the Secretary of the Navy for his opin¬ to the steamship Supply and the sloops- ion, and in answer Hon. George M. of-war Portsmouth and Maidor on the Robeson, then in President Grant’s west coast of Africa, September, 1859, Cabinet, opposed the project, and in¬ to October, 1860. closed adverse communications from both the late General Beale and Rear Following this hq served on the war¬ Admiral Worden, the latter then Super¬ ship St. Mary’s, in the Pacific Squadron, intendent of the Naval Academy. from December, 1860, to March, 1862; In March, 1876, Rear Admiral Mul- with the steamer Tioga, of the .Tames lany assumed the governorship, remain¬ River and Potomac flotilla, and the ing at the Home three years. Under West India Flying Squadron, in 1862 to his administration an excellent code of 186.3; the gunboat Pinola, of the West internal rules and regulations was Gulf Blockading Fleet, and the frigate adapted, the customs and traditions of Powhatan. From 1S65 to 1867 he was the institution being thus codified. Va- stationed at the Naval Academy, and served in the Gulf of Mexico, and on vious other improvements were also the West Coast of Africa from July, made, and a small guard of marines 1868, to May, 1869. Later on he was was sent to the station to do general with the Monocacy in China and Japan police duty., and to act especially as a Seas; the Yantic in the same direction; fire police/,1 Strong arguments have since next the Norfolk Navy Yard; the frigate been urged 'from time to time in favor Constitutioii; Naval Asylum, from No¬ of removal by* various chiefs of the vember, 1S81, to October, 1889; in more! Biireau of Yards and Docks, under recent years with the Tennessee; Train¬ ***fcnKe direction it exists; by various ing Station at Newport, which he left governors of the Home, as well as by in 1891, to return to the Naval Home. tjfe Navy Yard Commission constituted by the act of Congress in 18S2, the He was promoted to passed midship¬ arguments in favor being based upon man in June, 1855; to master in line of the fact that the grounds have become, promotion, September of the same year; by the course of time in the midst of a lieutenant, in April of 1856; lieutenant large city, practically without water commander, July, 1862; commander, in I front, removed from the sight of salt December, 1S67; to captain, in 1S79, water, the inmates cut off from the and was commissioned commander in natural recreations of a suburban or May, 1891. Of a little below the me¬ country place, and exposed to the dium stature, with grizzled beard and! temptations of a large city. Newport, bronzed features, he has a sharp but) It. I.; New London, Conn.; Staten Is¬ kindly eye, and is spoken of in high! land, N. Y,; Chester, Pa., and Hampton terms by those who are inmates of the Roads, Va., have all been suggested. home. In 1884, Rear Admiral Roe, then gov¬ THE EXECUTIVE OFFICER’S RECORD. ernor, submitted a memorandum of (Captain Forsyth, the executive officer, reasons in favor of its retention here. is one of those big, jolly seamen that are He set forth the great advantage of a often read of, but much less seen. When site in or near a large city, with mild he walked out Catharine street as a boy, climate, and considered the desire of not long from the Bahamas, where he the men to be near or in sight of the was born January 1, 1842, he never ocean as mythical. He urged very earn¬ dreamed that he would finally be sta¬ estly the advantages that have accrued tioned at the Schuylkill end of it as ex¬ by years at. this city, the proximity of ecutive officer of the Naval Home. a large hospital, and the beauty and size James McQueen Forsyth is his full of the grounds. name and he came to Philadelphia when COMMODORE STANTON, PRESENT GOVERNOR 11 years old. He studied in the public schools and went to sea in the merchant Three years ago the title of the insti¬ service, when only 15. Before he was tution, which had all along been that of [20 he entered the navy as a volunteer I closing with Saratoga. The oldest man [under Commodore Stillwager, who ap¬ in the Home is believ^ to be William pointed him second-class pilot for the Turner, who has been one of tlje bene* Hatteras expedition, and who favorably jfieiaries for the past 32 years nhd who1 mentioned him in his report of the cap¬ is'*past the 90 period. It is difficult to ture of Forts Clark and Hatteras. In tell the ages of the old fellow-s,because September, ’61, he was made acting some of them qan’t tell themselves—but | master mate, and served in various they are living in peace and quiet, free from the danger of penury, these once grades through the war in the North hardy sailers, who manned our ships and South Atlantic and West Gulf Land carried our flag to the uttermost squadrons. He was with Farragut from leads of the ea'rth, and who, in content¬ Forts Jackson and Philip to Vicks¬ ment and happiness, are waiting the call burg; in the fight at Grand Gulf and for their last watch. T. F. L. the engagement with the Confederate ram Arkansas. For good service in these actions he was made acting en¬ sign in September, ’62, and was then attached to the Water Witch at Pawnee and the monitor Nantucket, of the South Atlantic squadron. He took part in the expedition up the St. Johns River and in various engagements with Sumter, Moultrie and the works at Charleston. He was promoted to - acting master August 1, 1864, and was one of the officers detailed to bring north the cap¬ tured ram Columbia in 1865. From the latter year until 1S68 he served as navigator and executive officer of the Nyack, of the Pacific squadron. A NEW PORTRAIT I He was commissioned as master in the regular, navy in March of ’68; as lieutenant in December of the same OF BEN FRANKLIN, year and subsequently, became the navi¬ gator and executive officer of the iron¬ clad Saugus, of the North Atlantic It Is Now in This City and Was squadron, and executive officer of the j ironclad Ajax. He was stationed at the navy yard here from May of ’71 to Only Recently Discovered in December, ’72, and was promoted after further service at sea to be lieutenant1 Germany. commander in May, 1878. In 1889 he was promoted to be commander and was 1 later on ordered to the command of the DS, SNYDEK’S LUCKY FIND. school ship Saratoga, but this was re- I yoked at his own request, and he was [detailed to the command of the Talla- Ipoosa, of the Brazil squadron, remain- The Picture is Undoubtedly a Gen¬ [ ing there, until the early spring of 1892, [since which time he has been executive uine Duplessis, and is One of |officer at the Naval Home. Tall and I stoutly built, he is a fine specimen of the Best Portraits of Frank¬ manhood,, combining with, his magnifi¬ cent physique the most pleasing disposi- lin in Existence. tion.

SOME OF THE OLDEST INMATES, At the present time there are 174 A rare historical and artistic treasure is beneficiaries in the Home and above now on exhibition at the Academy of Fine 30 others absent on leave. Many Arts, in this city. It is a portrait of Ben-, of the inmates are very old, but they are still able to spin their sailor yarns jamin Franklin by Duplessis, which was in the style characteristic of the jolly only recently discovered in Berlin by Dr. C. ’Jack Tar. William Smith is one of F. Snyder, a young American doctor who the old fellows, somewhere near 90 years. He was first in the Vincennes has been practising in the German capital and his last cruise was with the Poto¬ for two years. mac. He tells the story of having been The prize, which is undoubtedly an or¬ on the Columbus with Judge Biddle, whom he says was a midshipman during iginal portrait of Franklin, by Joseph I the war. William Mackafee was ad- Silfride Duplessis, the court painter of jmitted in 1874 and is put down as also France, during the former's visit there, approaching fourscore and ten. His first service was in the Delaware and was obtained by Dr. Snyder, on a chance his last in the Water Witch. He had trip to Dresden. Purely by accident the been on the Pennsylvania and the young American met with a certain W. United States and Ohio, all old Krankling, whose father, a native of Cur- timers. Charles Danielson also figures land, had once been a director of the His¬ somewhere under 90 years. His first love was the Independence, and his last torical Museum of Dresden. The son, who i the Iroquois, but he had been on board was in reduced circumstances, spoke of a ■ the famous Cumberland. James Marion picture of Franklin which he had inherited is another of the veterans, starting from his father, and intimated that he with the Saranac and Minnesota and duringtn^evcbrutumi^rrahce, in which would sell it at a mere nominal price. m it is well known Duplessis lost everything, his works of art included, this picture was - - taken to this Russian province. The pic¬ ture was painted during Frankliu’s resi¬ dence in Paris,1776-1783, and represents him in a red-brown coat with fur collar, etc., and as ho appeared at the French court.” Then follow some remarks on the paint-1 ing and the characteristics of the shading and coloring. The paper also states thati since it was brought from Russia, over eighty years ago, the painting has neverj been out of their hands. To the whole areE affixed the notary’s seal and signature. Not satisfied with this proof. Dr. Snyder! called to his aid several artists and art ' critics whose experience and knowledge could furnish valuable testimony as to the genuineness of the portrait. Professor Hertel, of Berlin and Professor Graef, late president of the Berlin Academy of Art, both competent judges in such a case, viewed the painting and united in pro¬ nouncing it unquestionably the work of Duplessis and done from life. Other artists in Berlin agreed in this opinion and con¬ gratulated the young American on his happy purchase. Herr M. von Krajewski.the Polish artist, who is familiar with Duplessis’s work, THE DUPLESSIS PORTRAIT. ’says of Dr. Snyder’s portrait:— “After having looked closely at your Dr. Snyder, without much idea of purchas¬ picture I am of the conviction that it must ing nevertheless, went to see the picture. jbe an original from life, Duplessis painted The result was that he was so impressed several portraits of Franklin. Which is with its beauty and the fact that it was an considered to be the first one painted, one undoubted Duplessis that he bought it cannot tell unless one has all of them at once. before him. But, this is of no consequence. It has later turned out to be the same The principal thing is if this is an origi¬ portrait which Mr. Joseph T. Mason, Con¬ nal. It is my opinion that this picture is sul at Dresden in 1883, came across and an original one because many technical spoke so highly of to Hon. Robert C. Win- peculiarities seem to prove it." The pic¬ throp. The latter gentleman, realizing the ture is in a very good condition.so I advise value of such a work of art, strongly ad¬ you not to have it cleaned or varnished vised its purchase in a speech before the and on no account have it put on other can¬ Massachusetts Historical Asso nation. Peo¬ vas. The canvas is perfectly well preserved ple doubte l its genuineness and the pur¬ and strong enough to last many. years. chase was never made. It was, for¬ “Allow me to heartily congratulate vo tunately for Dr. Snyer, reserved for him to upon the possession of this valuable paint be sharp enough to appreciate its merits at ing.” once and close the sale. AN EXPERT OPINION. The picture, which deserves a front rank M. Lalande, director of the Museum at among the paintings of Benjamin Frank¬ Avignon, France, did not see the portrait, lin, life sized and !»>•«<" then tne hut on the receipt of a photograph of it Boston Duplessis, whose genuineness, by replied as follows :• the way, has never been satisfactorily proved. The coat and waistcoat are red- “I was most happy to hear that you have brown, the coat edged with a heavy fur succeeded in clearing the matter up, and collar such as Franklin was always par¬ I thank you very much for having told tial to. The hair is iron gray, and the me of your success. clean shaven face, delicately shaded, is “You ask me to give you my opinion very charracteristic. The style of paint¬ on the matter. To do this properly I ing, coloring, etc., corresponds exactly ought to see your paintings. Anyway, the with that shown in the Duplessis portraits in the Louvre and in the painting of Louis photograph you send me bids me think XYI. in the galleries of Versailles. that you have a portrait by Duplessis. Now, as to the authenticity—that is the PROOFS OF AUTHENTICITY. question. After the explanation you give As for the proofs that the portrait is me concerning its history, etc., I am original, they are numerous. With the] bound to think that you possess the original painting a paper was presented to the ; picture painted by Duplessis himself after purchaser duly signed and verified by aj his first portrait, and which was exhibited State notary of Saxony. By a rough in 1801. The affair is clear, and I am very translation it runs as follows:— glad that you arrived at this fine conclu¬ “This wonderful picture, painted by sion of your investigations. Without doubt Joseph Siefred Duplessis, and which for if I stood before your picture, I should more than a 100 years still retains its have exactly the same opinion about it as beautiful fresh color, was obtained over you. eighty years ago by my father.R. C. Krank- “Accept my best congratulations, etc.” ling, who is a Curlander, in Curland, and The authorities agree without exception until his death director of the Historical that it is an original Duplessis. The, Museum of Dresden. My father, a young minor point, as to the date at which it; man brought the picture with some others was painted has not been so satisfactory to Strechlen, Dresden. It is possible that settled. Franklfn went to France as Minister .Plenipotentiary from America in 1778 1 Duplessis was then court painter to his Majesty Louis XVI, and, impressed by the From,. C&J&'.CZ'U physiognomy of the famous philosopher, ne painted his portrait several times. Two of these were exhibited in France, one ini /9 during Franklin’s visit and the other in .6^. 16°1 several years after the American's| oeath. Another is now in the possession of the Galene Pamard, in Avignon. Howl many more he painted is a Question, but! Date, ^ //£tf3. history'1"66 111176 received*the stamp of • Portrait in Dr. Snyder’s possession' A “DOUBLE” SILVER JUBILEE is considered by W. Krankling to be in all probability the one exhibited in’79. In1 the revolution which shortly afterward visited France Duplessis lost all his per- ST. JOHANNIS’S EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN sonal effects, and this picture, by the vicis¬ situdes of fortune, was taken to the Pvus-! CHURCH. siaD province of Curland, where Kranklin^’a! father obtained it. ' Ar^TiSij0ry does EOt aSree with that of Historical Sketch of til© Organization— "• Daland,e> who advances the opinion Henovations and Improvements —. Tlie ,.Picture is the one which was ex- l’irst and Only Pastor, Kev. I>r. Spaeth ibited in the Paris Salon in 1801, which1 'uplessis probably kept for himself until reed to part with it for pecuniary rea¬ ps. Whichever of these two theories is For tran? weeks the members of (he Ger¬ trrect is a matter of little importance. It man Lutheran Congregation of St. Johannis, I Fifteenth, below Poplar, have been worship¬ ) almost impossible to trace the exact (ate of any old painting, especially as ping in the lecture rooms on the first floor of rhen. in this case there were several the church building. Meanwhile hadical repetitions of the same subject. So long changes and improvements were being made ap it is acknowledged to come from the in the large assembly room or church proper hand of the master, such a minor point is upstairs, and next Sunday, May 7th, will see dly worth the following up. the dedication of the new chancel and the re¬ opening of the church in connection with its OTHER DUPLESSIS PORTRAITS twenty-fifth anniversary, to be celebrated at if the Franklin pictures by Duplessis that time. t Shis country there is a well authenti- History of the Church. ” ed one in the Corcoran Art Gallery in St. Johan ms’s is on© of the many sister churches sprung from the old mother church ,try- VSince he has come into the possession of ing '^vouid be necessary to accommodate the >t Duplessis, Dr. Snyder has made a study ever-increasing number of thrifty German Franklin portraits. No-m of the numer-; emigrants. On May 16th, 1768, the corner¬ u; cuts and photographs he has obtained! stone of Zion Church was laid, and on (jproach the beauty and finish of his. Hei June 23d, three years later, the L i already received two offers abroad at new church was dedicated as “the largest and finest church in America.’’ On *> high- o prices, -in -A fact muiljmany timesCJ LUVU theUIU .a he gave, but he does not care to part account of its size and other natural advan¬ Jh it yet. Several people in Philadelphia tageous building was frequently made use . anxioustrn nil C to acquireOhmiiro -i+it. The picture TTT^llwill of for largo public gatherings of a patriotic jiain for only a few days. . , character. It was in this church that the fu- —-.- \ neral ceremonies for George Washington were held in December, 1799, the funeral procession moving from the Legislative hall to the church, which stood on the southeast comer of Fourth and Cherry. General Lee delivered the oration from tne puipit. Zion’s Church had a seating capacity of nearly 3000, and was regularly used by the German Lutherans of this city till 1870, when the property at Fourth and Cherrv was sold and the new Zion’s was built on Frauklin square. The rapid increase of the German element in the northwestern part of the city made it — - necessary to build a church in that gua: ovations and Improver early as 1840 St. Paul’s Church had been estab¬ At a congregational, meeting held lished in what was then known as the “North¬ it was decided to renovate the entire; ern Liberties” (Brown, between Second aud! for the occasion of its twenty-fifth l Third). Some 20 years later St. James’s was versary, May 10th, 1893. The Young Peo built at Third and Columbia avenue. In 1801 Society has already finished the renovation the Church Council of old Zion’s granted the in the lecture rooms, while the upper or mat: sum of $100 for the purpose of establishing a part of the church is now being completed branch Sunday school in the northwestern The whole church has been refrc-scoed, a! section of the city. This was the beginning of the pews repainted and furnished with book St. Johannis’s Church. For awhile Sunday racks. Two large reflectors, having 80 ga school was held in a hall on the corner of jets, with electrical lighting apparatus, wi Broad and Ridge avenue. Soon after a parish take the place of the old sky-light arrange school was opened at Thirteenth and Coates ment. The organ has been partly rebuil (Fairmount avenue). It was then decided to and furnished with water motor. To thes take steps at once for the purchase of grounds improvements will be added new carpetin suitable for the erection of a large church and furniture in the school rooms, and othe building,and the property on Fifteenth street, minor matters. But the most radical chang running from Ogden to Lex, was secured by will be the new chancel and its recess, whic the congregation for this purpose. The cor¬ is being built by the young people confirme ner-stone of the new church, to be known as in St. Johannis’. The contract for this wor St. Johannis’s German Lutheran Church, was is in the hands of the firm of Lamb & Com laid in the fall of 1865, and in the spring of the pany.-of New York. following year the lower portion of the build Pastor and Assistant. ing, consisting of the school and the lecture The Rev. A. Spaeth, D. D., has been Pasto rooms, was consecrated. Dr. Krot.el, of New o£St. Johannis’s ever since its organization i: York, preached in English, and Dr. Spaeth, 1865. Since 1892 he has had as assistant th at that time Assistant Pastor in the old mother Rev. George C. Eisenhardt. church, in German. Dr. Spaeth was born in 1839, in Ess'.ingen Choice of Pastor. Wurtemberg, Germany. He attended th The election for a pastor to take charge of Latin School in his native city, and in 1858 en the new church resulted In the unanimous terecl the primary theological seminary a choice of the Rev. A. Spaeth, who had been Blaubeuren. In 1861 he graduated from th called from Germany in the summer of 1881 to University of Tubingen and was ordained t assist the Rev. Dr. Mann in the pastoral work the Lutheran ministry. For one year he actei at the old congregation. Mr. Spaeth had, as vicar in Bittenfeld, and the following lw from the very beginning, taken the greatest- years he spent as tutor, partly in Italy an< interest in the newly established congregation partly in Scotland, in the house of the Duke o and had prepared for it its constitution. The Argyle. In July, 1864, he accepted a cajl t cull was accepted, much to the regret of the Zion’s German Lutheran Church of Phii; old church aud of the young pastor’s senior phia, and for three years acted together and colleague, Dr, Mann. May 10, 1888, the the late Dr. W. J. Mann as Pastor of tb upper portion of the new church was conse¬ gregjation. He was iustal ed as Pastor < crated. Previous to this the congregation had Jqi-Sthnis on October 10, 1839. Six years latei worshipped in the lecture room below. The lie was elected to a professorship in the Theo¬ summer of the same year saw the introduction logical Seminary. From 18S0-1888 he of the three large bells Into the steeple. They President of the General Council of were made In Philadelphia and have theran! Church in America, and lasLj an aggregate weight of nearly 3000 was elected President of the Ministe pounds. The mother cl u 'ch had con¬ Pennsylvania and adjacent States, - ^ tributed $10, COO to the new congregation. - 1late Pr. Mann’s resignation from the Faculty Characteristics of St. JTohannis. ‘of the Theological Seminary Dr. Spaeth’s du Under the energetic leadership ot its Pastor, ties have been considerably incri " St. Johanuis began to develop very rapidly . ttaking charge of the- greater j._ and soon outstripped the older congregations Marin’s lectures at the Seminary, in one of the most important branches of earnest desire of the Board of Directors Church culture, viz: Church music. Dr. Jlm roove to Mount 'ALrF i] Spaeth himself is an ardent admirer of the old mightmifTht. devote his-whoie...I. energy_ and truly classical style of Church music of sor s chair. At a meeting of his and prior to the time of the Reformation. last summer it was unanimously \ But most of the Germans had forgotten how an assistant to the pastoral to sing their grand old chorals and it became! church, and the Rev - George C. necessary to resuscitate them from the oblivion was elected. into which they had fallen. The singing in Mr, Eisenhardt was born in the German churches of this city, some 30 October 15, 1865. He attended, years ago, was a rather dreary affair and it schools of the cl ty, and, after gra was no wonder that the young people, espe¬ . the Central High School, entera colleg cially, found the more secular, but at the same department of the Univereity time decidedly more melodious, music of •' wS-’ fr°m which ^e graduated the churches about them much more at¬ 1886. He then -entered the L. tractive. In 1878 the new Church logical Seminary in this city u book of the General Council was intro¬ studied-theology for four years duced to supercede the old, unmusical and spending also some time in Italy, unchurohly Wollenweber. This book (“Das turned to Philadelphia in the fai Kircbenbuch”), as musically interpreted by was ordained to' he Lutheran ministry Endlich’s choral book, has been in constant .meeting oPthe ■st Conference of the Ministe-I use at St. Johannis’s over since, and many of Irium in Sprin; City, Pa. From September, her sister churches have been led back to the 1891, to April S2, he was in charge of , due appreciation of the great liturgical treas¬ Johahnis’s during Dr. Spaeth’s abser ures of their fathers by her example. tilen heted as assistant The greatest festival ever celebrated by the |J£r- Beader, of fjt Michael’s, t Lutherans in this city, the Luther Jubilee In ,1892, when he entered oii his du the Academy of Music in 1883, was based on ant Pastor at St. Johannis’s. * '•/ the plan of the yearly .Sunday school festivals as held in St. Johannis’s, Dr. Spaeth being the chairman of the Programme Committee. [Germania Orchestra, and at the close of the (services Mendelssohn’s War March, from “Athalia,” the organ being effectively used in both marches. Mrs. Mary Bnrrichtcr sus¬ tained the soprano solo part brilliantly during the singing of the Offertory, and Miss Mary Devlin sang the soprano solos effectively throughout the Mass. The other sopranos , were Misses Lillie Duff. Taggart, McArdle and Cobbiir. Altos: Miss K. McGuckin, Miss S.F.r- I ris, Miss Devine and Mrs. Robert MeCrystal. j Date, f TenorsyMessrs. John O’Neil, John Farren.Geo. McDermott, Robert MeCrystal, Edward Dun- ton, Daniel Strain. Basses: Messrs. H. R. ST. PAUL’S GOLDEN JUBILEE." Role n, John Motley, Wm. Walsh, Win. Cal¬ laghan, John Callaghan and Gerald ©’Farrell. The Sermon. 51E JOYFUL EVENT CELEBRATED WITH Rev. Hugh T. Henry, of St. Charles’s Semi¬ SPECIAL SERVICES. nary, Ovcrbroolc, preached the sermon, tak¬ ing his text from the third chapter of St. Paul to the Philippians: “Brethren, I do not count myself to ha%re apprehended, but one thing I ^xchbisliop Kyan and Bishop McGovern, of do, forgetting the things that are behind, and Earrisburgr, Participate — The Sermon stretching forth myself to those that are be¬ Preached by Kev. Hugh T. Henry, of St. fore, I press towards the mark, to the prize of Charles's Seminary, Overbrook. the supernal vocation of God, in Christ Jesus.” They were celebrating, Father Henry said, a festival, golden in the sight of men and angels, and sacred in the sight, of The congregation of St. Paul’s Roman Catho¬ the Father of Lie lit. It was an occasion filled lic Church celebrated its golden jubilee with with inspiration, appealing to each individual splendid and solemn services yesterday. Roth In a special manner, for the last fifty years, without and within the sacred edifice was which had been Wilting the history of their handsomely decorated. Over the three front church, had also been writing the history of entrances.the Papal colors and those of the She individual lives of its people. He referred Kiars ana Stripes were gracefully arranged. more especially to their spiritual lives, for to I Above the side doors were the dates “1843” record a history of the ministrations of grace and “1803” in immortelles. Inside the church was also to write the life of a man. The j presented a beautiful appearance. On all sides memo.ies awakened by the day were not I yellow and white bunting hung in festoons, those which related to the visibletempie only, between which American flags were sus¬ but also to the invisible temples in their hearts. pended. Large American flags also adorned Father Henry made an eloquent reference the gallery. Above the main aitar the words to the old, familiar faces and voices that would “Laus Deo” shone in gold letters beneath a be seen and heard no more in that sacred edi¬ j shield bearing the papal emblems of the triple fice, and to the memories awakened by the crown and keys, surrounded by small Ameri- occasion. Who, he asked, should speak iheir j can nags. Over the • ‘Sacred Heart”altar was significance? Therefore, he would cull atten¬ j the date “1843,” and over the Virgin’s altar tion, he said, to but one thought, namely, the the date “1803” in yellow immortelles. grand lesson of that Christian zeal which first Early in the morning the Pastor, Rev. Hu gli raised an altar there, and which had ever Mc-Gllr.n, celebrated Mass and administered since perpetuated a love for God’s house and First Communion to several hundred children, the beauty of His temple, and would draw a the procession being led by Edward Kelly, lesson from that undaunted messenger whose ■William Flannery, William Pollock and Ed¬ zeal knew no difference between Jew and Gen¬ ward Rodgers, who had won prizes in the tile, the magoificent patron of all missions Sunday school examii&tions. and the patron of that Chnreh. However At 10.30 A. M. Right Reverend Thomas Mc¬ much St. Paul did for Christ, he forget it all in Govern, D. D., Bishop of Harrisburg, cele¬ stretching forward lo do more,all his achieve¬ brated Pontifical High Mass in the presence of ments being regarded by him as stops Archbishop Ryan, who was attended in the towards his goal. They were celebrating sanctuary by Itev. John E. Fiizmaurice, Rec- an occasion which must bring home to each j tor of St. Charles’s Seminary, Overbrook, as one this grand lesson of Christian zeal. The . ! Assistant Priest, and Rev. Edmond F. Pr> n- words of the text had a nearer meaning for dergast, Rector of St. Mnlachi’s, and Rev. P. them because they recalled the last half cen¬ J. Garvey, D. D., Rector of St. James’s, as Dea¬ tury of their labors for God. The narrative of cons of Honor. Rev. Richard F. Hanagan their past 50 years was filled with the deepest and Rev. Walter P. Gough officiated respec¬ meaning. The retrospect must be made by tively as Deacon and Sub-deacon. The follow¬ each one, and from their own hearts, present¬ ing students from St. Charles’s Seminary, ing a difl'ereat vista for each; but while this Overbrook, participated in the ceremonies: vista would he peculiar to each one, in all of Mr. John Maguire, Masterof Ceremonies; Mr. them was the ever-present fact of Christian Frank Bradley and Mr. James Kane, Acolytes; zeal. In a worldly and spiritual sense the Mr. Henry Conner, Candle Bearer; William pie had labored side by side with their J. Barrington, Cross Bearer. William Gorm- tors, and had been helped by their spiritual ley, of St. Paul’s parish, acted as Incense guides. The urgent necessities of a mission¬ Bearer. ary country urged upon the Church’s spiritual The music, which was unusually fine, was builders many worldly duties, and ere God rendered by St. Paul’s ehoir, augmented, could be worshiped in His holy temple under the direction of Miss Lizzie J. Roken, they must first build up a material church, organist, accompanied by the Germania Or¬ stone by stone. To recall the self-sacrificing chestra, with Henry Fehling as conductor. spirit of their spiritual guides was not to bo Haydn’s Third Mass, in D, was admirably generous, but to be just. Father Hen.-;, re¬ sung, with Hummell’s “Alma Virgo” for an ferred to the duties, the labors, the trials of a ofiVrtcry piece. Preceding the Mass Meyer¬ priest, and paid a passing tribute, to the beer’s Coronation March was played by the memory of the two Rectors who had preceded ST. PAUL’S CHURCH. m- J'aflier Moaflan at St. Paul’s. 'BpcaKlrg of BMBjI then- meaningless-character; the stumbling •1’athcr Sheridan, lie, sjijji ft-basly ■ retrospect i-fllticcks of men-1 became- -theL’-- stepping' stones of ■ M ould bring to mind the patriarchal form of pngels reaching to lieaven. By the light of jifciTO who first built an altar to the Lord God feith the scientific historian wove from such I In that church. He likened him to a second material a-web, planned by the heavenly De¬ Jacob, both in his outward appearance and signer, a web of dark and bright strands, in a higher, inward sense. Like:Jacob,Father germing designs of heavenly beauty. Thus Bherldan, too, was the prophet of a1 higher fet*too- should be read, rather than ia isolated •destiny for\his people. .There was need for Kh&pters. Father Henry spoke of life as a lls zeal;'for the then scatterectt^pulaUpni jOfcfeia Comedia, in which sin was Holi, sor- gave promise of>.raiMto- labor before Up.shnuid tew, Purgatory, and spiritual peace and Bee t.)bright bRlbituout of, hSiWifflWWlKjKter JrnrRy, Paradise. While the last half cen ‘rnyislg^n-. t^ibnffoto f fairy bad been writing a history for them of Vicar General Walsh, the -second Rector-of endeavor, it had also been writing a et- Paul’s; Father Henry spoke In eulogy of of the glory of God. The day pre¬ the present Pastor, Rev. Hugh McGiinn, jar them a lesson of past zeal and a. concerning whom, he said, no words were glowi ng prophecy of human success. In con¬ aicrtled to show bis manifest zeal, of clusion, he urged, his hearers to press forward ■Which, both without and within, old like St. Paul towards the mark, to the prize •Et.Paui’s could testify with a silent eloquence. o! supernal vocation of God in Christ Jesus. Tile history of the congregation repeated the Towards the close of the .--eiwiee Archbishop fcistory of the Patriarch Jacob, for its people Ryan addressed the congregation, making a {belonged to a race which, though forced to flee touching reference to the dead pastors and ffmn the home of its fathers, built an altar to members of the congregation. He spoke of ’tluj living God every where it wandered be- the graces which had been received during jnc&th the broad dome of heaven. They, too, the past 50 years by the parish, which he liad h birthright—the heritage of Catholic compared to a family united under the care Paiih. The wilderness was not too barren for of then- spiritual father and pastor. 'them io build a ladder in, the base of which Clergymen Present. •rr- ted upon earth, but reached to heaven. Among the priests present were Rev.Thomas Father Henry next praised the various par- Barry, Rector of the Church of t he Visitation; fish organizations, which, he said, had a wide Rev. James F. Sinnott, of St. Charles’s; Rev. jrejpuCation. To a human sense the history of John Scui!y,of St. Joseph’s; Very Rev. Father ithe congregation during the past fifty years Fitzsimmons, of Camden, N. J. ; Rev. John ianiast seem a rude bundle of facts—theaseary- D. Hcspolein, C. SS. R.; Rev. James T. Hig¬ •record of some exiles journeying through a gins, of St. Charles’s; Rev. Jamas J. Fitz- Wilderness—a record ol births, marriages, rnaurice, of St. Michael’s; Rev. Philip Mc¬ ifieaths. These were as a senseless pile of Enroe, of Bethlehem, Pa.; Rev. Charles Mc- frocks and stones in this world’s wilder¬ Fadden. of St. Agatha’s; Rev. Lawrence J. ness. But, viewed with the eye of Wall, Holmesburg; Rev. Simon J. Carr, of feitb, these rocks and stones lost the Annunciation; Rev. Gerald P. Co; •)ur Lady of Mercy; Rev. James I Nash, of the Epiphany: Rev. A. A. Galla-j » igher, of the Cathedral; Rev. p. F. McNulty,-' a I of St. John’s; Rev. Peter Molloy, of ^.Paul’s;" ’ jRev. James H. Gavin, of St. Charles’s Thco- ! ilogical Seminary, Overbrook; Rev. N. J. f Murphy, 0. S. A., of St. Augustine’s; Rev. I John Joseph Fedigan, 0. S. A., of Atlantic SCit.yf Very Rev. J. D. Waldron, 0. S. A., 1 Provincial of the Order of Hermits of St. Au- Igusime; Rev.LukeV.McCa.be, of St. Charles’s Seminary, Overbrook; Rev. James A. Mul- lin, of St. Agatha’s; Rev. Antonio Isoleri, of Santa Maria Maddalena di Pazzi; Rev. T. F. J Shannon, of Norristown; Rev. J. A. Bre- /bony, of St. John the Baptist, of Manayunk; / rRev. B. ICorves, of St. Ludwig’s; Rev. John |J. Elcock, of the Cathedral; Rev. John Con- ; I nell, of St. Patrick’s; Very Rev. Hugh Lane, of St. Theresa’s; Rev. O. P. McManus, of St. Theresa’s; Rev. Michael C. McEnroe, of the Holy Family, Manayunk; Rev. T. F. Quinn, of St. Charles’s; Rev. M. J. Gleason land Rev. Frank L. Carr, of the Church of St. ■Francis Xavier; Rev. James Smith, of St, REV. HUGH M’GLINN. 6’hiiip’s; Rev. D. P. Eagan, of St. Ann’s; Rev. Hugh Lane, who was present at the *tev. J. J. Ward, of the Church of the Sacred services yesterday, was present at the laying rHeart; Rev. John J.McCourt, of St. Charles's of the corner-stone of St, Paul’s Church 50 lSeminary; Rev. P. J. Dailey, of the Church years ago. He was then a student in the [of the Annunciation; John J. Rogers, <>f the Diocesan Seminary. \lCathedra!; Rev. B. F. Gallagher, of St. An elegant banquet was served in the con¬ (kaiaehi’s; Rev. James Timmins, of Chester; vent, opposite St. Paul’s Church yesterday Rev. P. W. Power, C. S. P., Superior of afternoon, at which Archbishop Ryan, Bishop ,ili*o1y Ghost Fathers; Rev. Francis J. Quinn, McGovern and the priests who took partln ■Joi" the Church of the Nativity; Rev. Michael the jubilee service were present. • fcr. Ivavenay. of Ballagiiadcreen, Ireland; J Rev. Nevin F. Fisher, of the Catholic High B School; Rev. Thomas J. McGlynn, Chester. H Last, evening Bishop McGovern celebrated I Solemn Pontifical Vespers, assisted by Rev. I P. F. McNulty, of St. John’s Church, as Dea- I con. and Rev. Walter P. Gough as Sub-Dea- From, ■ con. Rev. J. T. Higgins, of St, Charles’s 1 Church, and Mr. George Barrington, of St. M Charles’s Seminary, Overbrook, acted as First . U and Second Masters of Ceremonies. Rev. ■ jas. F. Loughlin, D. D., preached on “The Blessed Sacram jut. ’ ’ ■ At both the late Mass and Solemn Vespers 1 the church was thronged to the very doors. Church and Pastor. Tho Old Relic Saved. * I The corner-stone of St. Paul’s Church was The old historian! summer-house re¬ I laid May 7t,h, 1843, by Rt, Rev. Francis Pat- cently purchased by The Gazette and JJ rick Kendrick, then Bishop of Philadelphia, two other gentlemen, which for so many I and afterwards Archbishop of Baltimore. Trie account of that event, which appeared in years stood on the Womrath estate, and the Public Ledgbb of May 9th, 1843, was as in Revolutionary days, when this country follows: like a “Little Band of Spartans” .was j - “Consecration.-The new Catholic Church struggling for its independence, sheltered p of St, Paul’s, on Christian street, near Tenth, many of the promulgators of the “Declar- » i was consecrated on Sunday afternoon, with ation,” this week has been removed to its j appropriate ceremon es, by Bishop Kendrick. temporary quarters on the vacant lot on | 1 After the consecration a collection was taken the south side of the Gas Office. A few . up, and about $400 was realized. ’ ’ weeks ago we opened a subscription list Rev. P. F. Sheridan, who built the church, for the removal of this Revolutionary ! died July 9th, 1879, and was succeeded by the relic, which was met by a number of j late Very Rev. Maurice A. Walsh, who died generous responses, for which we return INov. 22, 1S88. Rev. Hugh McGlinn, the pres¬ our many thanks. Within the past few ent Rector, succeeded to that office Feb. 9th days, however, some of the members of 1389. - _. “The Suburban Club” have expressed a Father McGlinn was horn in County Tyrone, desire to take hold of the project and !Ireland, May 10, 1838, and came tothiscoun- carry out the intentions of the promoters I try with his parents when very young. He by preserving and locating it permanently was educated at St. Ann s Farocliial School on a suitable plot of ground, probably that i until his 17th year, when he returned to Ire¬ section at the Junction of Frankford and land and entered Carlow College, where he Kensington avenues, which has already remained till his graduation in 1864. He was been set aside by the City for a park. | ordained a priest in the Philadelphia Cathe¬ dral by the late Archbishop Wood June 22, 1865. Before becoming Rector of St. Paul’s Church be held appointments at St. Ann’s, Port Richmond; St. Michael’s, Chester; St. Philip’s, PhiladelphiapSt. Bernard’s,Easton, Pa.; st. Mark’s, Bristol, Pa. ' V

V HIS SOLE HEIR. William Penn’s sol® heir now is Colonel William Stuart, of Temptsford Hall, Snndyi Bedfordshire, England. It is in¬ teresting to see how the whole remnant of Penn’s estate became finally vested in this one person after having ueen owned by many since Penn’s death. .Penn’s Biog¬ raphy tells us the history of his American possessions, how through intrigues of Date ^Zl£.Z, § shrewder or more influential men be was despoiled of much of his Province of Penn; how, while in a debtor’s prison, he lost more of it through careless man¬ agement of his agents, and how, because i BOW PENNSYLVANIA of straightened circumstances he gave his! steward a deed of sale in absolute form for i all Pennsylvania, taking a lease thereon' WAS APPORTION!?! from the steward, and finally, how he got into debt to the steward and was im¬ prisoned for it till some Friends made terms with the steward. Even after this What Is Left to the Sole Surviving experience Penn got deeper into the finan-| cial mire, his debts became so heavy and Heir of William Penn. unmanagable that he put a blanket mortg¬ age on Pennsylvania,and when he died hisJ estate was in a terribly tangled condition! and very much reduced from its original) THE FOUNDER'S DESCENDANTS. size and value. It is from this point, as a sequel, that it is interesting to follow the • iescgnt of the remnant of Penn’s American province to the present owner. Colonel William Stuart, of Bedford¬ Penn willed his English and Irish estates' to his son William, who was a “bad lot,” shire,. Englaud, the Possessor of md died a drunkard in France in 1720. leaving three children, a daughter, a son,' _^.What Is Left of the Original Springett, who died youDg and unmarried, in 1731, and another son, William Penn Grant. third, who was twice married and died in 1746. These estates passed through the latter’s only daughter and heir to the Gas- kill family, of Philadelphia, who now en¬ ( Thousands have lately passed through joy them, one of the representatives being the court yard of the new City Hall and Colonel Peter Penn Gaskill Hail, United looked with wonder, if not admiration states Army, of No. 912 Spruce Street, upon the great statue of William Penn, Philadelphia. the founder of this city. How many of GOVERNMENT OF PENNSYLVANIA. them are familiar with Penn’s biograpy and the history of his American promi¬ By will Penn devised the “government” of the Province of Pennsylvania in trust to nence since his death and what became of the Earls of Oxford, Mortimer and Paulet his personal interests in his American man¬ to “dispose thereof to the Queen or any ors. other person” and devised the American Friend William Penn’s experience as a lands and properties to bis wife, then liv-1 land speculator and financier, as told by his biographers reads like a romance, so ing, and to others, to sell and pay bis “just! novel and exciting were the straits he was debts,” after which to convey to each of 1 put to to keep his head above water, but the three children of his son, William, and the story of the descent of his “Province their heirs 10,000 acres of Pennsylvania1 of Pennsylvania” to the present heir is land to be selected by trustees and to his also relnarkable and is a fitting sequel. daughter, Mrs. Aubrey, 10,000 acres of We can learn from his life how William Pennsylvania and all the rest of his lands, Penn acquired the territory in America etc., in his Province of Pennsylvania and which he named Pennsylvania, its size and its territories (now Delaware) to trustees :disposition upon his decease, but not the for his children by his second wife, in such history of his interest in it. Do any of portions as she should think fit. She was now own any of the mil¬ appointed sole executrix of the will and lions of acres in America? is a natural “Governor of the Province of Pennsyl¬ ■ question. Little, I am told. About three vania.” dozen ground rents in what was the manor The three following questions came up of Springettsburg, adjoining Philadelphia upon this devise: “Was it valid as against on the north; some reversionary interests Penn’s heir-at-law? Whether the objecti ests ' in property granted by Penn for of the trust had not already been effected public purposes; some reserved mineral by a contract already entered into by rights in different parts of Pennsylvania; Penn wifh (he Quggu to sgII to tbo Govern- about 1500 acres of Sunbury manor, in ment? Whether his interests in Pennsyl¬ Luzerne County, Pa.; several small tracts vania were not already converted and the in _ Salem Township, same county, from property of bis widow?” which no income is derived and one irre¬ . ^ i>e trustees refused to act and suit was deemable ground rent on improved property instituted by parties interested. A decree on Race Street, near Twenty-first, in‘ the established Penn’s will as against the heir- eity of Philadelphia. This is all that is at-law, and the dispute was compromised left to the present heir of William Penn, and the widow distributed by deed. “The the founder of his American estate of a Province of Penna, and its territories,” as hundred manors after 200 years to his Amer¬ follows:— ican estates. One-half to John Penn, in fee. One-half to Thomas, Richard and Dennis Penn, in ?iTe7 ay joint tenants. Shortly ard’s son, John, for life and to his first and Dennis Penn died unmarried, and a new other sons entail male, and remainder tp distribution was made as follows:— his heirs entail general.” Under the pro¬ One-half to John Penn, in fee. visions of these instruments,after theMeath One-half to Richard and Thomas Penn, of John Penn, son of the f< u ider, his one- as joint tenants, in fee, subject to some liflif share in Pennsylvania became vested I charges and annuities, payable to the for life in his brother, Thomas,_ who was founder’s daughter, Margaret, and his also entitled to a life interest in one-half widow. of Pennsylvania in his own right. Upon When Penn’s widow died in 1726, her !the death of said Thomas in 1775 his three- surviving children agreed that one-half of fourths share of Pennsylvania became vested “Penna. and its territories” should he con¬ jin his eldest son “John the younger,’’enta l veyed to John Penn, in fee simple, and male. The other one-fourth share of Penn¬ the remaining one-lialf to Thomas and sylvania, held by Richard Penn, in fee, Richard Penn, in fee, as tenants in com¬ passed after his death to his son “John the mon, and all annuities and incumbrances elder,” for life, with remainders as above. were discharged. In 1729-30 the “blanket Thomas Penn’s issue was “John the mortgage,” before referred to, was cancelled [younger,” Grenville, Mrs.Juliana Baker and the whole estate was released to Johu, | and Mrs Sophia Stuart, wife of Rev Dr. Richard and Thomas Penn in the following ! William Stuart, Archbishop of Armagh proportions:— and Primate of Ireland in 1796. One-half share to John Penn, in fee. John the younger, on his father’s death, One-quarter share to Thomas Penn, in became tenant entail male of three-fourths ! fee. of Pennsylvania. He died without issue in I One-quarter share to John and Thomas 1834. His brother, Grenville Penn, then Penn, in J'ee, in trust for Richard Penn. succeeded as tenant entail male to liis SHILLING OXJT THEIR SHARES. three-fourths of Pennsylvania. Grenville In 1732 Peiyi’s descendants, by bis first died in 1841,and was succeeded,as his heir, wife, releasecKall their claims (the 20,OCO to three-fourths or Pennsylvania,by his son acres) iii the Province of Penna. to Grenville John Penn, who died without i John, Thomas and Richard Penn, in the issue in 1857,ant was succeeded by his only 'same proportions. brother, Rev. Thomas Gordon Penn, the ! In 1735 the sole remaining trustee under last heir of the founder to bear the surname Penn’s will, granted and released the Penn, who died without issue in I860. | “Province of Penna. and its territo¬ Previous to this all the other children of ries,” to John, Thomas and Richard Penn, Grenville Penn died without issue and so I in the same proportions as did the mort¬ the issue male of Thomas Penn, son of the gagees. In 1742 the Earl of Paulet, the founder, was extinct. _ As above, John Penn’s (frW—-fotmtTP? s' survivor of the devisees of the Govern¬ son) share in Pennsylvania went over to ment of the Province of Penna. under I heirs general of bra brother Thomas, whose Penn’s will, surrendered said government eldest daughter, Mrs. Baker, died, leaving 'to John, Thomas and Richard Penn, in the only one child, who died without issue, jsame proportions of power as the mort¬ hence the share of Thomas went over en¬ gagees and trustees had the soil of the estate. tail to the line of Mrs. Stuart, his youngest It was thus the whole right and title of daughter, who, dying in 1847, left issue, I the Government and estates of Penna. Colonel William Stuart, who became thus became wholly vested in 1742-43 in John(one- tenant entail of John Penn’s share of Penn¬ half share); Thomas (one-quarter share); sylvania. Richard Penn’s three-quarter and Richard Penn (one-quarter share); ' share in one-fourth of Pennsylvania de- sons of the founder by his second wife. j scended similarly to the above and became These entered into an agreement with each I finally, also vested entail in Colonel Wil- other that each of them would upon his i liam Stuart. death devise his share in Penna. to Richard Penn, son of the founder, left his eldest son in tail male, with the re¬ | issue,” John the elder,” Richard and Mrs. mainder to the other sons in like manner, Clayton, and under the provisions of .his and if any should die without male Dsue wili his son John took an estate in his ibis share to go to the survivors and their one-fourth share of Pennsylvania for life. heirs as appointed. So ends the first This son, known as “John the elder,” died descent of Pennslyvania. without issue in 1795, and his brother JOHN PENN’S PORTION. Richard then inherited the estate for life. John Penn died without issue in 1746. He died in 1811, leaving two sons, Wil¬ He devised his one-half of Pennsylvania liam, who died without issue in 1845, and to his brother Thomas, for life, remainder Richard, who also died without issue in to the first and other sons of Thomas,neces- 1863—both of them were succeeded by isarily in tail male; the remainder to his tenants entail male of Richard Penn’s one- brother Richard for life, and Richard’s fourth share of Pennsylvania. ThnSit sons, alwavs in tail male. Richard Penn was the heirs male of Richard Penn became died in 1771. He devised his one-quarter extinct in 1863, and his one-four(.h of j share of Penna. tcy his son John for Pennsylvania passed to Colonel Stewart. life, remainder to John’s sons,in tail male; It was thus that it came to pass ; that reniainder to testator’s sons, Richard and Colonel William Stuart became seized in William and their sons; remainder to 1890 of an estate in fee, which consisted of the whole of what remains of the territory testator’s brother Thomas for life, then to |His sons in tail male remainder to testator’s in America that was granted originally to j daughter, Hannah, for life; remainder to William Penn. heirs of her body; remainder to testator’s -brother Thomas, in tail male general. I Thomas Penn, last surviving son of the founder, died in 1775. He “limited over” his j one-quarter share of Pennsylvania by the provisions of his marriage settlement: “To himself for life, remainder to his sons successively entail male; remainder to his brother Richard ; remainder to Rich¬ Pennsylvania; about 1500 acres of Sun-; bury manor, in Luzerne county ; sev¬ jFrom, eral small tracts in Salem township,

■same county, from which no. income is i .(2z/> derived and one irredeemable ground rent on improved property on Race- Date, street near Twenty—first, in the city of Thiladelphia. This is all that is left to the present heir of William Penn, the founder of his American estate of a WILLIAM PENN hundred manors after 200 years to his American estates. HIS SOLE HEIR, What Is Left of the Estate is William Penn’s sole heir now is Col Only onel William Stuart, of Temptsford Hall, Sandy, Bedfordshire, England. It j is interesting to see how the whole rem¬ nant of Penn’s estate becawo finally A LITTLE PIECE IN ccated in this one person after baring been owned by many since Penn’s death. Penn’s Biography tells us the history of his American possessions, Luzerne- How Iha Estate of the Steal Quaker how through intrigues of shrewder or Faded Away Into Nothingnoss. more influential men he was despoiled of much of his Province of Pennsylva nia, while in a debtor’s prison, he lost Few readers of the Sentinel know more of it through careless manage how William Penn’s estate ever came ment of his agents, and how, because to be disposed of and the following wili of straitened circumstances, he gave no doubt be of interest. his steward a deed of sale in absolute Friend William Penn’s experience as form for all Pennsylvania, taking a lease thereon from the steward, and a land speculater and financier, as told finally how he got into debt to the by bis biographers reads like a romance steward and was imprisoned for it till so novel and exciting were the straits some friends made terms with the stew¬ he was put to keep bis bead above ard. Even after this experience Penn got deeper into the financial mire, water, but the story of the descent of his debts became so heavy ami unman¬ his “Province of Pennsylvania” to the ageable that he put a blanket mortgage present heir is also remarkable and is a on Pennsylvania, and when he died his fitting sequel estate was in a terribly tangled condi¬ tion, and very much reduced from its We can learn from bis life how hej original size and value. It is from this acquired the territory in America point, as a sequel, that it is interesting which he named Pennsylvania, iis size to follow the descent of the remnant of and disposition upon his decease, bui Penn’s American province to the pres¬ ent owner. not the history of his interest in it Do any of bis descendants now own any of Penn willed his Ea’ish and Irish es¬ tates to his son William, who was a the millions of acres in America? Lit “badlot,” and died a drunkard in tie I am told. About three dozen France in 1720, leaving three children ground rents in what was the manor a daughter, a son, Springett, who died of Springettsburg, adjoining Pbiladel young and unmarried, in 1731, and another son, William Penn third, who pbia on the north; some reversionary was twice married and died in, ,1746 interests in property granted by Penn These estates passes through the latter’s ror public purposes; some reserved only daughter and heir to the Gaskill mineral rights in different parts of family, of Philadelphia, who now en¬ joy them, one of the representatives! leing Colonel Peter""Penn Ga skill Hall, ceiled and the whole estate was released Jnited State Army, of 912 Spruce co John, Richard and Thomas Penn in treet, Philadelphia. the following proportions:— One-half share to John Penn in fee. GOVERNMENT OP PENNSYLVANIA. One quarter share to Thomas Penn, By will Penn devised the “govern- in fee. nent” of the Province of Pennsylvania One-quarter share to John and n trust to the Earls of Oxford, Mortimer , Thomas Penn, in fee, in trust for md Paulet, to “dispose thereof to the Richard Penn. Jaeen or any other person” and de- rised the American lands and proper- SELLING OUT THEIR SHARES. ies to his wife, then living and no In 1732 Penn’s descendants, by his ithers, to sell and pay his “just debts,’ first wife, released all their claims (the if ter which to convey to each of the 20,i 00 acres-) in the Proviuce of Penna. ,hree children of his son, William, and for John, Thomas and Richard Penn, iheir eeirs 10,000 acres of Pennsylvania in the same proportions. and to be selected by trustees and to In 1735 the sole remaining trustee iiis daughter, Mrs. Aubrey, 10,000 und< r Penn’s will, granted aud released icres of Pennsylvania and all the rest the “Province of Penn aud its territo¬ lands, etc., in his Province of Pennsyl¬ ries,” to John, Tnomas and Richard vania and its territories (now Delaware) Pena, in the same proportions i.s did io trusteec for his childreu by his second the mortgages. In 1742 the E^rl of wife, in such portions as she should Paulet, the survivor of the devisees of think fit. She was appointee sole ex¬ the Government of the Province of ecutrix of the will and “Governor of Penn, under Penn’s will, surrendered the Province of Pennsylvania.” said government to John, Thomas and The three following questions came Richard Penn, in the same proportions up upon this devise: “Was it valid as of power as the mortgagees and trustees against Penn’s heir-at-law? Whether had the soil of the estate. the object of the trust had not already It was thus the whole right fcnd t’t’e been effected by a contract already en. of the Government and estates of Pent), tered into by Penn with the Queen to became wholly vested in 1742 43 in sell to the Governmam? Whether his John one-haif share: Thomas one- interests in Pennsylvania were not al¬ quarter share; and Richard Penn one- ready converted and the property of his quarter share: sons of the founder by widow?” his second wife. These entered into an k The- trustees refused to-act and -suit agreement with each othe'- that each of I was instituted by parties interested. A them would upon his death devise his L decree established Penn’s will as against share in Penn, io his eldest son tail l‘ the heir, at-law, and the dispute was male with the remainder .to the other t compromised and the widow distributed sods in a like manner, and if any f jay deed. “The Province of Penna,and should die without male issue his share I its territories,” as follows:— to go to the survivors and their hturs One-half to John Penn, in fee. as appointed. So ends the first descent- 1 One-half to Thomas, Richard and of Pennsylvania. i Dennis Penn,, in fee, as joint tenants, JOHN PENN’S PORTION. j Shortly Dennis Penn died unmarried, John Penn died without issue in and a new distribution was made as fol- 1746. He devised his one-half of ' lows:—• Pennsylvania, to his brother One-half to John Penn, in tee. fur life, remainder to the first and other One-half to Richard and Thomas sons of Thoma&, necessarily in tail male j Penn, as joint tenants in fee, subject to the remainder to his brother Richard some changes and annuities, payable to for life, and Richard’s sons, always the founder’s daughter, Margaret, and in tail male. Richard Penn l his widow. died in 1771. He devise! his one- When Penn’s widow died in 1726, quarter share of Penna to his son John I her surviving childrt-n agreed that one- 'fur life, remainder to John’s sons, in haif of “Penna. and its territories'’ tail male, remainder to tesiator’s so s, should be conveyed to John Penn, in Piichard and William and their sons; fee simple, and the remaini g one- remainder to testator’s brother Thomas half to Thomas and Richard Penn, in for life, then to his sons in tail male; fee, as tenants in common,'and all an¬ remainder to testator’s daughter, Han- nuities and incumbrances were dis oah, for life; remainder to heirs of he- charged. In 1729 30 the “blanket body; remainder to testator’s brother mortgage,” before referred to, was cai - Thomas, in tail male general. Penn, last'surviving son of Jnel William Stuart. __ founder, died in 1775. He “limited Richard Pem^son of the founder, over” his one-quarter share of Penn¬ left 888UO. “John the elder,”:Richard, sylvania by the provisions of his mar a;.d Mrs. Olay t6u, and under the pro¬ riage settlement: ‘‘To himself for life, visions of his will his son John took aa remainder ..to his sons successively en¬ eEtalc in lus ons-fourth share of Fcnnt tail male; remainder to his brother sylvania for life. This son, known a® RioHard; remainder to Richard’s son, “John the elder,” died without issue in John for life and to his first and other 1795, and his brother Richard then sons entail male, and remainder to his inherited the estato for life. He died heirs entail general.” Under the pro¬ in 1811, leaving two sons, William, who visions of these instruments, after the died without issue in 1845, and Rich death of John Penn, son of the founder ard, who also died without issue in 1863 his one half share in Pennsylvania be¬ —both of them were succeeded by ten¬ came vested for life in his brother, ants entail male of Richard Penn’s one- Thomas, who was also entitled to a lite fourth share of Pennsylvania. Thus it intere>-t in one-half of Pennsylvania in was the heirs male of Richard Penn be¬ bis own right Upon the death of said came extinct in 1863, and his one- i’homas in 1775 his three-fourths share fourth of Pennsylvania passed to Colo¬ of Pennsylvania became vested in his nel Stuart. eldest son “John the younger,” entail It was thus that it came to pass that male. The other one-fourth share of Colonel William Stuart became seized Pennsylvania, held by Richard Penn, in 1890 of an estate in fee, which con- in fee, passed after his death to his son Msteii of tee whole of what remains of “John the eider,” for life, with re¬ the territory in America that was gran mainders as above. Thomas Penn’s ea criminally to William Penn. issue was “John ttie younger,” l-ben- "vHTe, Mrs. Juliana Baker and M s, Sophia Stuart, wife of Rev. Dr Wm Stuart, Archbishop of Armagh and Pri¬ From,. mate of Ireland in 1796. John the youDg r, on his father’s . death, became tenant entail male of three-fourths of Pennsylvania. He died without issue in 1834. Hia brother, Bate Grenville Penn then succeeded as ten¬ ant entail male to his three-fourths of Pennsylvania. Grenville died in 1841, and was succeeded, as his heir to three- fourihl of Pennsylvania, by his son Grenville John Penn, who die! without issue in 1857, and was succeeded by his only brother, Rev. Thomas Gordon Pet n, the last heir of the founder to bear the surname Penn, who died with¬ Where Betsy Boss Gave Yfash- out issue in 1860. Previous to this all the other children of Grenyillo ington His Country’s diodwifhnnt so the issue male of Tnctnas Penn, son of the founder, Guiding Star. was extinct, As above, John Penn’s (the founder’s son) share in Pennsylvania went over The Dwelling Where the Star-Spangled to heirs general of his brother Thomas, whose eldest daughter, M-s Baker, Banner First Gleamed. died leaviag only one child, who died without issue, hence the share of It Should Be Owned by a People Thomas went over entail to the line of •’i Who Treasure Their Birthrigh Mrs. Stewart, his youngest daughter, and Hold Such Sacred Relics who, dying in 1847, left issue, Colonel William Stuart, tvhu became thus tenant the Bell, the State House an entail’of John Ppun’n share of Penn- Penn's House as Sj-mbols lor Fu¬ jvylvania. Richard Penn’s three-quarter ture Ages. - amiiiir share in one-fourth of Pennsylvania descended similarly to the above and. The two-story brick dwelling, 239 A: became finally also vested entaiHuCcI- street, where the first American MRS. BETSY ROSS, WHO MADE THE FIRST FT AG. was made by Betsy itoss, Is in danger steacTof Betsy floss and the first flag? of destruction every day. Every time There, in the cozy sitting room, this the fire bells are heard at night, the Quaker mother softly worked, and as proprietress, Mrs. A. Mund, expects her scissors clipped and clipped the that the little property will be swept Stars and Stripes, and as her needle away. The falling of the walls of the stitched and stitched, swords on high buildings on either side would the field were clipping, clipping; ; crush the old structure to dust and bullets and bayonets were stitch¬ j splinters. ing, stitching. The banner's waves The historic associations of the dwell¬ that swelled the American hero’s valor, ing make its safety a subject of anxiety its folds that were his shroud, first fell in every quarter of the United States, across the lap of Betsy Ross, about her oust in'proportion that the people who chair and over her smooth, bare, board treasure their birthright steadfastly floor. It felt the touches of American I cherish the sources of their inheritance. motherhood, and was sanctified in the As a man traces his very blood to its I humble home before it floated from the iancestral spring: as he traces the! capitols and mountains. ‘mighty rivers of liis land to .their inoun- WHAT THE HOUSE LOOKS LIKE. :tain rivulets; as the very flowers and For such a small house the size of the fruits of earth fall back in sacrifice to rooms surprises the visitor. The queer, nourish their own roots; as the makers square window panes, the crooked, nar¬ of American Constitutions taught it row stairways, the arrangement of store is well frequently to revert to the first rooms, cupboards and doors, everything, inrineinles”—so American citizenship ol in fact, from the whole house to its the present and future will hold fast the smallest detail, excites curiosity. memories and mementoes of its own There is one room on the first floor mist' the Children of Independence will which is nearly square, and has four save the State House, the bell, Penn s doors to it, the doors being nearly as house; now shall they save, the home; wide as a side of the room. As William SonrT supervised the construction of the iduse in 1(582. this queer room, with hm wavs to get in and out of, if it was n his original plans, would seem to sug¬ gest more devious ways than the aver- ige Quaker family would consider

°Over the old-fashioned fireplace there s a line of tile pieces bearing pictures ld castles and dwellings. Iliey are ,aid to have been there originally, ihe fid white paneling in different places is'

OLD-FASHIONED CORNER CUPBOARD. there is always much space up at the ; peak, no matter how many floors are built up in that direction. The attic room itself is a very comfortable size. | Above this is still another place, the entrance to which is only a square hole. : It was there for purposes of storing odd household goods. It is commonly called a “coobyhole.” Children from time im¬ memorial have imagined that all sorts of bogies darkly dwell up there. It is their infant'' ne conception of a “bad place” where bad children are likely said to be exactly like that of l^ash-j to have to go. It suggests a good hid¬ ington’s house at Mount Vernon. The ing place for a fugitive patriot who walls of the home are substantially might there make a hair-breadth escape built after the fashion of houses erected from the Red Coats. Perhaps that very in those days. The foundation walls| hole was used for such a purpose. are as thick as many a modern building FOUND PAPERS IN THE LOFT. of three times the size. One of the If Mrs. Mund is now aware of the strange features of the building is the historical value of everything connected ends of the joists sticking through the with the old mansion it was not always walls so they appear on the outside of so. A good many years ago her sou the house. climbed up through the odd little square ODD NOOKS AND CORNERS. hole into the loft, and fetched out an In the cellar there is a square beam old hair satchel. It was found to be fully a foot each way. During the time filled with papers, some of them dated that jhe bar-room was located in the back to 1600. They were mistaken for house the liquors or water leaking rubbish and burned up. Mrs. Mund through the fls>or rotted this immense heaves a sigh and looks as sad as a beam off and but half of it now re¬ lost opportunity when she tells of this mains. The floor boards are very wide. irrevocable blunder. (The closets are roomy and in the funni- Travelers from nearly every quarter >est nooks. Nothing less enduring than of the world, and certainly from every the long, right-angle hinges could have State in the Union, have gone carefully held up the doors these two centuries. over the Birthplace of the Stars and The wood of the house is generally in a Stripes, peeped into all its quaint cor¬ remarkably good state of preservation, ners and cupboards and old fireplace, excepting the windows^ which bear tile fondled the curious old door latches, greatest evidence of the storms of time. patted the window sill where Betsy The house has been papered one time Ross’ thimble must have stood, studied or another and this is about the only the solid foundations, the strong hinges and the hand-made nails, and begged feature of it that can be called modern, for a splinter of the old cedar water-pipe except some gas pipes and the like. for a keepsake. Down in the cellar is an okl-fashioned They sit down before the fireplace fireplace, where it is believed that all and think they are sitting just where the cooking was done in those early Washington and Franklin and Betsy days. The construction of the attic Ross consulted about the design of the windows, the bannisters and stairways, mantel, would be interesting for flag which the Father of his Country had drawn on paper. They recall how comparative study in the habitations of Betsy showed him a trick worth two men. of his, both in point of needlework and One of the queer things about the A heraldry, for she showed him that the roof houses of this old style is that ] six pointed stars which he had drawn I I were 'British, ana nrac iSe proper thing in the first dress’ for t:h" Baby Goddess of Liberty would be a five-pointed star. She folded a piece of paper and showed Washington ho\v to cut a five-pointed star at one cut. Whether it was Betsy s

Then fold the part marked 12 3 back,, so that the figure will appear like the I hist one, except that 1 2 3 is out of view, r Then put the line 14 on the line Hi. ana? fold. The result will be a figure like this: I V

Make Betsy Boss clip on the line 3 4 toward the fold that was last made and then unfold the American star that she unfolded for Washington, Mor¬ ris, Franklin and the first American

it the cut is made right the star will not only fall out of 2 3 4, hut will leave a 5-pointcd star hole in the re-. maining part of the paper, ,4 3 1. Ihet,^ 1 sweet smile of modest . self-assurance j closer the point 4 is brought to. the pq'“ lor the antagonism to the British star; 2 the longer the points of-the star f lor the cleverness of her clip, her star ] be- It will be foundlounti 1.0to ‘.KMWBrequire nolI : captured Washington and the Congres- small amount of>f imental philosophy tot Jsional Committee in a twinkling. see just how thatlat 1' one clip cuts the 10| Mrs. Mund, who yesterday showed ■ sides of a 5-pointecJ. star. ian “Inquirer” reporter the way to do • this, was electrified when the reporter f-oMETiiiao about* Betsy’s family. I suggested that the American school Betsy Boss’ maidefi name was G " children should be taught how to do it. coni. She married^! oh n Boss. She had 'The fact is there is a study in geometry lived as a widow in the old house for a; in it Perhaps the Board of Education, long while before ;tlie Bevolution^ eon-f if moved by patriotic, considerations of ducting a dress making and millinery' I the important lessons in such little establishment. It appears from,, author¬ 1 things, would direct this to be taught m itative sources that she had earned the title of being the finest iwodlc-work.-y I the schools. ■ \ THE BETSY BOSS STAR. ei- in America., It GdtpOTUlj Washington’s acduaihtanco with her,, , The way that Betsy Boss showed that led. the comufittee on a'flag to don-] George Washington how to cut the stars suit her, land tojMay, 1777, Congress was this. Take a square piece of paper w made anCordOr onf the Treasury to pay and fold it once in the middle. I he her £14 l2s fdr flags for the fleet r* I result will be a parallelogram twice ■ the Delaware. Shi r.eceitred the cont' las long as wide, like this: for making all the ©OTRjnnhsnt it .... She was married three times, her tlur husband being John Claypole, a Inn ~ descendant of Oliver Cromwell, f; She has a great granddaughter | Clarissa Wilson, living on Wc j avenue. Becently a cultured lai gentleman from 'Massachusetts •I' the old Homestead of the Jgja„, j before leaving the lady suggested that, the proprietress keep a visitors’ book. She presented a book and signed her own name first. The name was Emma G-Dcom Smith, and she was doscenneev Trom the same family ns Betsy Boss, Then put the corner marked 2 at '' whose grandfather, the lady saul, once the point marked 1 and fold. The re¬ owned nearly all the land from the Del¬ sult will be a figure like the following: I aware BBer and around the neighbor¬ hood of The first flag house, which was

|BMrs. Boss*kept her dressmaking estab- llishment there from^before theBt t olu; Since Youth.

He Tells of His Career in the Pulpit and oil the Circuit—Kuown to Many hy Wirt’s Description Found inj School Books.

I was riding recently on the train to Chicago and noticed at the other end of' the car a remarkably handsome old gen-| tleman, who wore a skull cap that drew his hair back from his forehead so as to , disclose evidences of unusual brain power. I only noticed him casnaliy MR.". A. SrtJND, THE PRESENT OWNER. until dinner time, when he was seated opposite me in the dining car, along¬ ti°n a long while afterward. WaSEmFl side of a handsome man who somewhat ton had known her before. She l ad resembled James G. Blaine, whose lace carried the title of the finest needle was very lamiliar, but whom I could not woman in the land before she was'mir- at the moment place. In a short time I ”“L* S an age when it was the greatest recognized the. pair as Chaplain Mil- part of a lady s education and when if burn, ot the Senate, and Congressman was a more important road to the pa- William M. Springer, chairman oi' the fH£Sfffr.T contentment and industry of Committee on Ways and Means of the mnST0^?11 ?shin,g is t0 states-' last House, and who will probably have affn" *^he made the magnificent the same position in the one that will E& 1?0SC-?S K0f. Washington’s shirts ■nlnch, besides being monuments to her meet this Jall. I had seen Dr. Milburn skill, are to this day a thing which often in Washington, but had never would make the bosom of a patriot! met him, and it was with pleasure thati at sight, and put the modern I sought an introduction to him and biled shirt front to shame I was invited into his compartment and Mrs Mund states that she has pro-' spent two hours most delightlully. posed to the Colonial Dames that they, A REjVTAnKABLE MAN. should make use of the house where Dr. Milburn is one of the most re¬ the first flag was made to present fla^s markable men ol the age. He was born to the school children in celebration Sf in Philadelphia soventy years ago, and the acceptance of Betsy Ross’ design at thn •irjw-'CTTo years was accidentally by Congress in June, 1777. Her grand struck in the eye with a piece of glass. hope, however, is that Philadelphia will take the old dwelling just as it is and For two years he was confined to a dark set up every brick and board in its room subjected to the treatment of that original position out in the Park beside period, which was far less scientific l enn s house. Mrs. Mund is a good- than at present. When lie came into looking German woman and full of the light the sight ot one eye was eu- patriotism._ She formerly kept a saloon tirely gone and the other was impaired. but gave it up, because she says she It is probable that these two years in . never had any success while slie was darkness, at- that very early age, had a m it, and her children, like herself, were wonderful effect upon his after life and nnrwv=ed to it.” gave him that self-command that has dis¬ tinguished a long and useful life. For twenty years ho pursued his studios' under the greatest difficulties and pro-1 From fiared lor the ministry, as his sight be¬ came worse and worse, until he lias been! totally blind for over forty years. 'SX.r. Q3&Z. ELECTED CHAPLAIN. In 1843 he became a circuit rider in Illinois, where he had removed with his parents, and was under Presiding Elder Peter Cartwright, the famous Methodist divine. In 1815, when but 22 years of age, he was elected chaplain of the House of Representatives under very peculiar circumstances. The average Western Congressman of that day was'a typical frontiersman, who eschewed the -customs of good society and often vio¬ lated good morals. On an Ohio River steamboat there were a large number of Congressmen making their wav to Washington, and one Sunday ‘they Br. Milourn and His Bemarkable' shocked young Milburn, who was on hoard, hy their profanity and intemper¬ Career of Seventy Years, ance. Being invited to preach, the yorni<* man went directly at tho point and tulkedTb the Congressmen in a way that was the caiiho of many people seeking most men would hesitate at. The re¬ an introduction iphtri6, as it wasTipopuI buke administered was so appreciated lar selection in the school readers ot the by these Congressmen that they took past generation.'''' '■ : tho matter up at Washington and elected IN THE READERS. _ fjj him chaplain when barely twenty-two, I in point ofyouth unsurpassed in our I told him that one of the strongest 1 history. For several' years he preached impressions of niy,youtli was reading in in the South and was tried once lor McGuftoy’s Fifth Reader tho descrip¬ heresy. In 1S53 he was again elected tion by Wirt, and that I had always jchaplain of the House, and lor the wanted to see him. on that account. This next thirty years was engaged in | carried me back to the year alter th# preaching and lecturing all over the war, when I was living in Kentucky United States and England and gained with my parents and attending school great tame as the “blind preacher” for I at a struggling academy, which . was his eloquence. Since 1885 he lias been ,really the district school, thnt-'bfls since chaplain of tho House, holding over become a flourishing college. In those [during the Republican Congress, and days there wore no classes of any regu¬ I was elected last March to be chaplain larity. Each one ciphered his wav of the Senate. through Ray’s Third Part AriUimp- t:e, answered all the questions A FRIEND OF CARLYLE. in Mitchell’s' Geography and found In the conversation referred to lie dis¬ ail the places on tlio map at his own played the highest social powers. He discretion,-rociting to tho teacher sep- lias a voice like the tones of an organ [aratsly, except in reading, which was and Ills face is in constant motion so performed in sections, when wo were 1 that it is impossible to think of him as instructed in the lirst principles of ora¬ ' being blind.’ He gave a very graphic tory. How well I remember the long (account of his experiences on the fron¬ hue of gaunt young men and women as tier as a circuit rider in the days when well as boys scarcely out of skirts, 'Abraham Lincoln, Stephen A. Douglas standing along the side of the log scliool- and General James Shields were still iicur.o, books in hand, to take the read¬ I young men and his neighbors, but what ing lesson. I was in a class with mon interested me most of ail was his remi¬ olu onough to bo my father, for educa¬ niscences of Thomas Carlyle, whom lie tion in tho South was rather backward knew probably more intimately than in those days, and one of my clearest I any other American. Asking for some recollections is the description of Dr. linore definite information as to his per¬ Milburn by Wirt, which we used to sonality he said: read a verse at a time and separately, “J. will give you a better idea if I re¬ then all together read the whole chap¬ peat a conversation with him. My af¬ ter through as a sort of final chorus. Wo fliction lias made my memory exceed¬ murdered all the rules for reading set ingly keen, and I can imitate him so | down in the first part of the book, which closeiv that many of his friends could none of us understood, but we got at the not tell the difference when they could I foot of the matter and we were terribly not see who was talking. It was his in earnest, which is more than I can custom, as with all Scotchmen when say for the average scholar at the pres¬ they get to talking about their earlier ent day, with the improved school vears, to relapse into the nasal books and new-fangled notions of teach¬ sing-song-lik^ tone that has charac¬ ing. What particularly impressed me terized the race for centuries. was that I was in a log school house in I was talking to Carlyle once the nackwoous just as described by about liis youtb, and he was telling me Wirt. about the plans of bis parents that lie AT THE FAIR. I should enter the ministry, and how lie On the first day of May I stood on the linallv gave it up and left the school in World’s Fair grounds at Chicago near Scotland for London, and this is what Dr. Milburn and beard him oiler prayer j ho said and tho manner of saying it.” at the exercises on the opening of the I wish it were possible for me to re¬ World’s Fair. As he raised his sightless produce either his words or any idea of eyes to heaven and poured l or til a fer¬ (the manner in which ho said them. For vent prayer to tho Almighty again I the first time in my life I got a vivid was thrilled and again my mind went impression of the rareWild Scotchman— back to the school-room scene when tile iso vivid that I shall never think of him description of him had thrilled my iagain witiiout calling up that scene in a youthful imagination. I could not get Pullman car. As iie repeated the con¬ him out ot my mind, and when I came versation I could see that tho doctor was home I got bold of a McGufiey’s reader back in England for the moment, and with great difficulty, as the edition is that lie was Carlyle himself to all intents long out of print, hut I found it and land purposes. So that I felt that I was looked eagerly lor the article to see in the presence of the old Scotchman. whether the opinion formed in my In this talk Carlyle toils of his early youth of its literary merits would bo I struggles, of his comradeship with Ed- supported by my maturer judgment. I |ward Irving, to whom lie paid the high¬ found that it had, and I reprint a por¬ est tribute, and of the latter’s later re- tion of it here: Imarkable history. Then coming down “As I traveled through the county of 1 to modern time and scene Dr. Milburn Orange (Inch), mv eye was caught by a chatted pleasantly on a variety of topics, cluster of horses tied near a ruinous old showing a remarkable insight into mat- wooden house in the forest, not far from iters political, social and ecclesiastic. I tho roadside. Having frequently seen as)tecl him it'ho remembered the descrip¬ such objects before,in traveling through tion ol' himself written by Wirt many these States, I bad no difficulty in un- years ago, and he said he did and that it derstanding that this was a place of re- from Koussoatu: ‘Socrates died like a- Unions worship. f I philosopher, but Jesus Christ like a “Devotion alone should likve stopped God!’ 1 despair of giving you any idea me to join in the duties of the'congrega¬ of the effect produced by this short sen‘ tion, but I must confess that curiosity to tence, unless you could perfectly con¬ hear the preacher of such a wilderness ceive the whole manner of the man, as was not the least of my motives. On well as the peculiar crisis in the dis¬ entering 1 was struck with his pre¬ course. Never before did I completely ternatural appearance. He was a understand what Demosthenes meant by tall and very spare old man; his laying such stress on delivory. head, which was covered with “You are to bring before you tjop vener¬ a white linen cap, his shriveled hands, able figure of thp preacher; his blindness, and his voice, were all shaking under constantly recalling to your recollection the influence of a palsy, and a lew mo¬ old Homer, Ossinn and Milton, and as¬ ments ascertained to me that he was sociating with his performance the mel¬ perfectly blind. ancholy grandeur of their geniuses; you “The first emotions that touched tnyi are to imagine that you hear his slow, breast were those of mingled pity and | solemn, well-accented enunciation and veneration. But liow soon wave all my | Ids voice of afleeting, trembling melody; feelings changed? 'Die lips of Plato were voh are to remember the pitch of pas-i never more worthy of a prognostic sion and enthusiasm to which the con¬ swarm of bees than were the lips of gregation were raised; and then, the few this holy man! It was the day of the moments of portentous, death-like I administration of the sacrament, and silence which reigned throughout the his subject was, of course, the Passion ol house; tiie preacher, removing his white our Saviour. I had heard the subject handkerchief from his aged face (even handled a thousand times; I had yet wot from the recent torrent of his I thought it exhausted long ago. Little tears), and slowly stretching forth i did I suppose that in the wild woods oi the palsied hand which held it, begins! America I was to meet with a man the * sentence, ‘Socrates died a philoso-' jX-bpse eloquence would give to this topic pher—’ then, pausing, raising his other amI rn o rtrsv.'oii £ho^pathos than I hand, pressing them both clasped to¬ joccui.er |Jefore witnessed. gether with warmth and energy to his he descended from the pulpit to breast, lifting his ‘sightless balls’ to distribute the mystic symbols there was heaven and pouring his whole soul into' a peculiar, a more than human his tremulous voice—‘but Jesus Christ, solemnity in his air and manners,which like a God!’ made my blood run cold and my whole “This man has been belore my imagina¬ frame shiver. He then drew a picture tion almost ever since. A "thousand of the sutterings of our Saviour, his trial times as I rode along I dropped the before Pilate, his ascent up Calvary, his reins of my bridle, stretched forth my crucifixion. I knew the whole history, hand and tried to imitate his quotation but never until then had 1 heard the from Rousseau; a thousand times 11 circumstances so selected, so arranged, abandoned the attempt in despair, and so colored. It was all new, and I seemed felt persuaded that his peculiar manner to have heard it ior the tirst time in my and power arose from an energy of soul life. His enunciation was so deliberate which nature could give, but which no that his voice trembled on every syl¬ human being could justly copy. As I lable, and every heart in the assembly recall at this moment several of his trembled in unison. awfully striking attitudes, the chilling “His peculiar phrases had that force of tide with which my blood begins to pour description that'lhe original scene ap¬ along my arteries reminds me of the peared to be at that moment acting be¬ emotions produced by the tirst sight of fore our eyes. Gray’s introductory picture ofhis Bard.” [ “But when he came to touch on the While this is an admirable picture of patience, the forgiving meekness Dr. Milburn in most respects, the of our Saviour the voice of the writer rather exaggerated his ago, as at preacher, which had all along faltered, that time lie was not over 45, but he grew fainter, until, his utterance being probably appeared much older. He is entirely obstructed by the force of his now a halo, handsome old gentleman, feelings, ho raised his handkerchief to looking like an apostle with streaming Ills eyes and burst into a loud and irre¬ white board and illuminated counten¬ pressible flood of grieti The effect was ance. He has v.rritten many books and inconceivable. The whole house re¬ has traveled extensively and is one ot sounded with the mingled groans and tiio best known men in thecountry. To sobs and shrieks of the congregation. moot him was a pleasure I shall not' “It was some time before the tumult soon forget. j. m. k. • had subsided so lar as to permit him to proceed. Indeed, judging by the usual but fallacious standard of my own weak¬ ness, I began to be very uneasy for the | situation of the preacher, for I could not conceive liow he would be able to let his audience down from the height to which he had wound them without im¬ pairing the solemnity and dignity of the subject or, perhaps, shocking them by the abruptness of his fall. But, no. The descent was as beautiful and sublime as the elevation had been rapid and enthusiastic. “The tirst sentence with which he broke the awful silence was a quotation lice Marshall, the last great legal exponent of the Constitution. It seemed as if the bell said to itself: 1 ‘There is nothing more for me to do. My work is over. ’•’ And it cracked, and has been silent ever since. An Ovation in Every City. I have never seen fervor like that manifest- jed upon the journey of the bell between here and Chicago. In every city of the State it re¬ ceived an ovation. The school children had been taught about it; now they met it at the railroad stations and saw it, perhaps, for the I first time, and perhaps for the last time. For it has left the State House but three times. The first, time was wheu the British army en¬ tered Philadelphia. Then patriotic citizens -:- hauled the bell to Allentown and hid it there in the cellar of the Lutheran church. Its sec¬ HIS ADDRESS BEFORE THE FRIENDS’ ond journey was to the New Orleans Exposi¬ SOCIAL LYCEUM. tion, and now it is at the greatest Exposition the world has ever seen. It is not likely to be permitted again to leave its place within the lifetime of this generation. An Entertaining Historical Sketch of the It received an ovation, too, in the West. Liberty Hell—How It Was Greeted on We have sometimes called the West “wild the Tour West—Philadelphia at Chicago. and woolly.” I think it would more properly be called “loyal and patriotic. ” Something like 20,000 children gathered at Indianapolis „ Mayor Stuart spoke, last evening, before the to do the bell honor. Among them were the regular meeting of the Friends’ Social Ly- inmates of the Blind Asylum, who had rend ! ceum, in the old meeting house at Seven¬ of the bell in their peculiar way with their teenth street and Girard avenue. His subject fingers, and had now coiRe to touch it and to was “Philadelphia and Chicago,’’ and he feel the fracture. It was pathetic to see touched upon the journey of the Liberty Bell them. between the two cities. In Chicago the welcome was most hearty. The meeting was called to order by the Upon the day of its arrival there came to the President, Homer Dalby, and Miss Elizabeth city two eminent men—one the descendant of C. Storey gave a short, bright dissertation Columbus and the other the Chief Magistrate upon “Irish Bulls and Our Comical Blun¬ of this country. Yet the bell,' as it came from ders.” A recess followed. Then the Presi¬ the depot, received a greater ovation than dent introduced Mayor Stuart. either. Philadelphia’s Homes. The Mayor began his address with the re¬ Mayor Stuart, then spoke of Philadelphia, mark that, though short talks were perhaps which, he said, was pleasant because it was in his line, he formd himself in a peculiar posi¬ literally the city of Brotherly Love. The tion upon that occasion. He had accepted a I people here were contented. There is in the polite invitation from his friend, Mr. Seither, Pennsylvania building at Chicago another ex- to attend the Lyceum. Subsequently meet¬ ihibit beside the bell, of which I am proud. It. ing a friend lie had teen surprised to hear that is a little building erected by the women of he was to deliver an address, and afterwards 'Philadelphia. It is a real workingman’s he had read in a newspaper that be was to home, such as we see everywhere. Above the Speak upon Philadelphia and Chicago. door are the words, “We have over 172,000 of Now I like to talk about nothing so much as these in Philadelphia.” about Philadelphia, said Mayor Stuart, and That’s what makes Philadelphia a law- therefore I thank you for this invitation, labiding cily, and in law-abiding cities people while I apologize for inflicting upon you what | are happy. may be a prosy talk. Talking about Philadelphia I must, neces¬ A History of the Liberty Bell. sarily, be a little personal. Philadelphia is a He theu proceeded with a history of the city of progress. We are improving many Liberty Bell. Having built the State House, things, but there are many things that require the General Assembly desired a bell to hang improving. A city is like a corporation ir. it, and they .sent to London to have one wherein all the inhabitants represent stock- last. It was cast, and upon it was the famous 1 holders, and as in a corporation everv stock¬ sentiment, ‘ ‘ Proclaim liberty throughout the holder may state his grievances. land and to all the inhabitants thereof” the The Mayor and the officers of the city sentiment that was prophetic, for not till hold position only by suffrage of the stock¬ thirty years afterward did the bell ring it out holders. It is the duty of all men to make 0 the world. complaints, if they have them, to the Execu¬ The bell was cast and sent here and hung in tive. And it isthe duty ofall who hold office he State House, and the very first time it was to see that the abuses, complained of are recti¬ •ling it cracked. As ex-President Harrison fied. !aid the other day, it seemed to want to be This year we are to improve many tilings. Americanized. It was recast in this city and We are to do more paving than has been done )y Philadelphia workmen and hungm Inde¬ in the previous five years. In the old city, in pendence Hall. There it rang out, not only '‘hose districts wherein the streets are narrow he news of the Declaration of Independence nd unclean, we are going to tear up the old ipon the 8th day of July, 1776, but also every avements and put in new, smooth ones, and victory of the Continental army. After [ -a are going to place a hydrant at each end of lie war was over it announced the very street,so that the streets may be flushed Mineral of every signer of the Decla¬ nd the whole district, and the people who ration of Independence. It rang for ve there, too, perhaps, may be purified. oafayette, when he came as an honored The speaker dwelt upon the great industries juest to the nation that he had helped to f the city, and especially upon the fact that :reate, and it tolled for his funeral when he , was Philadelphia which had accomplished lied a few years later in France: and at last ic passage of the act which brought about tame the death in Philadelphia of Chiet Jus- ! the building of two great American Tice of older countries, it began by being steamships. Those steamships, he pointed characteristically German, and it willj out, are now being constructed upon the Del¬ take many generations yet to efface en¬ aware by Philadelphia workmen. tirely the old German traditions and Mayor Stuart closed his remarks with a landmarks which still abound there, witty but warm exhortation to everyone lo and merge its picturesque individuality go to Chicago, and to have no fear-of bsingj into the prettiness of the modern sub¬ “robbed.” Prices in Chicago, he asserted, urb. Nevertheless, several sections of were not unduly high. Germantown have become, within the last few years, strikingly modern and English in their features. Starting far down Germantown ave¬ From,. nue one may experience an almost ro¬ mantic pleasure in riding leisurely along and noting the dwellings which have known all the epochs of the town’s gradual rise. They are very queer and quaint, with their pent roofs and many pane windows, their solid masonry or rough stuccoed sides. The spell of his¬ tory survives in Germantown and will continue to survive so long as the his¬ toric did Chew house and other man¬ sions of antique interest remain. ENGLISH FEATURES, TBETTf HOMES AT Some little distance on out the Ger¬ mantown road, past the Chew house, one cannot help being impressed with the fact that at least sections of Ger¬ mantown have changed, that a new place lias arisen, not on the ruins of the old, but as a part of it, and as the har¬ monious developments of its rigid rules A Place That Is Full of Cherished of truth into the lines of beauty. All at once one gains a glimpse of a quiet Memories of a Historic and English looking lawn, full of bloom and verdure, slumbrous with lights and Revolutionary Past. shadows, sleeping beneath the tall oaks, maples and magnolias. A minute more and you are in the heart of tJpsal, the Changes That Have Been Made in It by | newest and by many people considered the most attractive portion of German¬ iplcs of Modern Architecture. town. Many handsome houses, sur-

Descriptive Sketches of the Resi¬ dences of Men of Business—How Nature and Art Have Succeeded in Making Harmonious and Beauti¬ ful Combinations.

Although Philadelphia may have be¬ come rich in 'suburbs within recent years, it began with only one neighbor¬ ing community, to whose interest and purposes it was allied and gave, as it were, the keynote. The. situation of this old suburb was in every way at¬ tractive, combining the advantages of both city and country, and now-a-davs THE COUNTRY PLACE OP WJ I/IAM R. PUGH. Germantown offers conveniences beyortS any other of our more modern suburbs, rounded by spacious grounds, line, T psa street from the Pennsylvania Railroa* and at the same time presents scenery station to Germantown avenue. Tm which makes one. realize with vividness location of this part of Germantown the charm and the mystery of nature. u high and noted for its healthfulness It _ was a delightful caprice of nature to give to this fertile, region the beauti¬ Its popularity is well attested by tin great rapidity with which the majority ful Yvissahickon, with its banks, cov¬ of the houses have sprung up and tld ered with the richest vegetation, rising into lofty and solemn ridges that tower suburb been improved. above the deeply shadowed gorges where SOME ATTRACTIVE HOMES. the river sleeps in deep green pools, One of the most attractive resid^^eM widens into long and tranquil reaches, at Upsa! is the homq^of Jesse A. Tilge or ripples over rocky shallows. The It is built of gray stone, in architect landscape of the region within the cir- tore Queen Anne, with here and there cuit of an afternoon’s drive offers such a suggestion of Gothic and Colonlouial; widely varying features that one may thus, the roof, supported by cararved meet with almost every impression. wooden pillars resting on a stone RICH IN HISTORY. is Colonial in design, while the ist bale of stone suggests Gothic ideas. In Germantown itself is a quaint, pic¬ any description of the general effect turesque old place, full of suggestions JAMES G. LINDSAMS MANSION. of Mr. Tnge"s-pi!;ce, me velvety turt, piazza, followed out in a free Colonial the shrubberies and the splendid trees, style, surrounds the house on three to which the slopes and inequalities of sides. At one end of the house a Nor¬ (the ground give a fine effect; the luxu¬ man tower, three stories in height, juts riant creepers climbing up the walls out. This takes the place of, in fact, and fences; the ivy, which the climate forms a series of bay windows. The allows to grow almost in perfection, roof line of the dwelling is greatly [must not be forgotten. broken up by many quaint turns and The home of Mrs. C. H. Craig is an¬ (angles. other particularly attractive TJps'al man¬ Standing some distance back from sion. It is built of -tough east stone, the roadside and surrounded by a spa- but is in effect very different from Mr. joious lawn is the home of James Steele. Tilge's mansion. A graceful and airy lit is approached by a winding drive i THE HANDSOME HOME OE CORNELIUS N. WEYGANDT.

which leads under a very attractive por- me piazza, which is after the Colonial style. The casement windows, set off by snowy white lace curtains, add very much to the picturesqueness of Mr. Lirdsay’s home, while the quaintly gabled roof completes a charming pic¬ ture. The majority of the houses at Upsal are raised some feet above the level of the pavement, thus adding very much to the strikingness of their effect. Low, rough cast gray stone walls separate the various properties from the sidewalk, and at the same time enhance the beauty of the suburb, as many quaint designs around the entrances have been followed out ‘n these walls, no two being alike. The landscape gardener has done -ASS

ft THE HOME OF JAMES STEELE.

i^etfchere. Mr. Steele’s house more nearly than the- majority of the other dwell¬ ings at Upsal follows out true Gothic architecture. HARMONIOUS COMBINATIONS. The handsome and extensive home of Cornelius N. Weygandt is one of the most pretentious of the XJpsal dwell¬ ings. Like the majority of the houses in this suburb it is built of rough, gray stone, the Queen Anne style of architec¬ ture having been followed out as nearly as possible in its construction. In the country home of William R. Pugh is to be seen a combination of THE RESIDENCE OF MRS. rough gray stone with red brick, the effect being really quite attractive. The much toward adding to the attractive¬ foundation and the first story are of ness of Upsal, and fortunately the early stone, while the upper story is' of brick settlers of Germantown were never foes set off by a brightly painted and many to’nature, and invaded ns little as possi¬ gabled roof. No particular school of ble her ancient solitudes with ax oi architecture has been followed out in brand. Thus many grand old trees hav< the construction of this house, which gone on lifting their stately tops mgl may be described as thoroughly modern in the air, renewing their strength anr in design, but at the same time most ^ beauty year by year, undisturbed by th pleasing in effect. ichanges going on at their feet In man, The residence of .Tames G. Lindsay of the park-like grounds of T.Tpsal, dui is still anothe* very picturesque and ing these spring days, one comes upoi pleasing VJpsal home, pure Queen Anne clusters of blue-wood violets and nnd: in architecture, with the exception of tufts of anemones at the roots Ou tin great oaks and chestnuts. -1) purple cassocks and tills" remainder Tecrcas^ socks covered with white lace surplice. Father Brtnnan took his place on the Gospel side, kneeling on a priedieu between toJI. A Hand, of the Assumption Church, and Rev. William Kievan, D.D., Rectpr oi St.Patrick s

fUrC.h/.... ' The Music. The music throughout the services was un¬ usually good. The Mass was Gounod’s Messe l So’onelle, ” sung by an augmented chou un¬ der the direction of Mr. A. J.Seegcr. organist of the church, and accompanied by bignor s>e- i tara, harpist, and a number of instrumental- ists of the Germania Orchestra, under the di- [^'PASTOR’S SILVER JUBILEE rection of Prof. John A. Meyer. The ^elec¬ tions included Lange’s “Graduate,” by.the —i—i- orchestra; R. Distch’s “Veni, Sancte fopir- DANIEL A. BRENNAN’S TWENTY- itus,’’ and Diabelli’s “Gaudeamus.” m. I The solo parts- were sung by Mrs. Jos. FIFTH ANNIVERSARY. Quinn, soprano; Miss M. Veitrup, alto; Mi. Joseph Fox, tenor; Mr. William G.Rmgeisen, bass- Mr. E. Gastel, baritone. The choruses were sung by the following: Sopranos Mrs. L. Jolemii High Mass Celebrated by Rev. Jo¬ Kerns, Miss G. Gardissier, Miss E. Michael, seph H. O’Neill—Rev. Dr. William Kie¬ Miss Hickey, Miss J. Moore; altos. Miss M. van's Sermon—Father Brennan’s Address. Veitrup, Mrs. William .T. Ringelscn, Miss b. Mathieson, Miss S. Haessler and Miss C. Moore; tenors, Messrs. Joseph Fox, George The celebrations iti honor of the silver ju- Courtney, E. Callahan, William Earley, Jos- Ibilee of t ie Rev. Daniel A. Brennan’s ordina¬ eph Murphy, Jo.seph Quinn and .Joseph Friei; tion to the Priesthood were begun yesterday bassos, Messrs. John Haessler, John . Moore, morning by the Priests and parishioners of the M. F. Muhin, S. V. J. Mathieson and J. Mathieson. The Sermon. Rev. Wru. Kieran, D. P., preached the sermon, taking for his text the Gospel of Pen¬ tecost Sunday, John, xiv chaDter, 13th to AM verses, wherein Is narrated the descent ot the Holy Ghost upon the Apostles and Mary, the mother of Jesus, when assembled in prayer in an upper chamber of a house in Jei usalem. . The Holy Spirit-, Dr. Kieran said, mani¬ fested His'abiding with men, by peculiar ways. In the Church the Holy Spirit s presence was indicated by Ihe power of teach¬ ing truth, and in her children by the power ol being taught truth. This was the first won¬ derful mark of Pentecost. The people m Jerusalem believed Peter, recognizing the Holy Spirit. They knew it was not the voice Df man, but of God. Infallibility of truth was not the infallibility of the voice that- pro¬ claimed alone, but infallibility on the part of the one who received also, so that those tv ho so received the truth were willing to give up their life for It. Dr. Kieran said that the three first indications of the Holy Spirit’s presence in men’s hearts were Faith, Hope and Charity. Speaking of the latter, he said that the spirit of God was love. Men might have light to know the truth and hope to aspire after it, but if they had not charity they had not the temple of At half-past- 10 o’clock Solemn High Mass the Holy Ghost in their hearts. Charily ■was celebrated by the Rev. Joseph H.O’Neill, brought that peace to the heart- which sur¬ Hector of the Church of St. Francis de Sales, passed all understanding and made Chris¬ with Rev. John J. Hickey, of the Assumption tians exclaim : “Thou alone, O Lord, art my Church, as Deacon,and Rev. Jos. A.Osborn, of Inheritance and my portion. ’ ’ St. Charles Borromeo Seminary, Overbrook. _ The Grace of the Priesthood. as Sub-deacon. Mr. James Daffy, of Over¬ Dr Kieran next spoke of special gifts brook Seminary, officiated as Master of Cere¬ which the Holy Spirit brought, to some men, monies, assisted by Mr. Thomas Harper, of separating them in a manner from their the Assumption parish. The Acolytes were brethi en, so that they were enabled to enter the Joseph Whitney and Ferdinand Barsuglia; sanctuary, and. ascending the steps of the Thuriler, William Haubert; Incense Bearer, altar, offer up there a holy oblation. Allud¬ Joseph Masson. ing to Father Brennan, Dr. Kieran said that The sanctuary was beautifully adorned with to-day they were celebrating a special Pente- tail bouquets of cut flowers and rows of potted I cost anniversary, which had begun 25 years palms and other plants. Strings of smilax 'before, when the Holy Spirit was poured out were t wined gracefully around the tabernacle to one within that sanctuary rail. Not only for land along the gothic spire above the main himself, but for many, had he then received altar. The long procession of 45 choir boys, the power of the priesthood, by which he had I preceding the priests, entered the church to ministered during a quarter of a century to the music of Wagner’s “Tannh censer March. ” many still living and to many who were dead. The first 12 were clad in long white robes, with scarlet capes and girdles: the next eight wore They extended him, therefore, their congratu¬ lations. Dr. Kieran spoke feelingly of the cares, hardships and duties of a priest. lFSr<,i BaanM-nrUorman, John I itzer, E Hoi.and, Patrick McNulty, James' Tt was a great grace, he said, if a priest, CampbeH, Marti* McDevitt, Patrick A. Walsh, ’ after 25 years of oblation^.: had his hands still John Rogers, .James P. Friel, James Foley, 1 clean and his heart stilt pnroi tjfeeir Pastor Timothy J. Cfjlen,Frank Hughes, Edw. Gun-j stood before Iris people to-day as a true priest, tbpr, Joseph F. Ilemery, Dennis J. O’Brian, i of God, who had not betrayed his trust, aiid Alphozysus Ijoiick, Wm. Brolley, George I he concluded by expressing the hope ibat he Dougherty, Wm. Earley, F. W. E. Stedam might continue his works, of love In theiF Joseph Kennedy, R. H. Phillips, Wm.Halla-1 midst for many days to come. han, Edw. MeGrossin and Joseph Haley. Father Brennan’s Address. A Sketch of Rev. Daniel-A. Brennan’s Fife.; Before the conclusion of the Mass Father Rev. Daniel A.. Brennan was born May 14, Breunan advanced to the sanctuary rail and 1815, at Carbondaie, then in Duzerne, now Enid: Lackawanna county, Pennsylvania. In 1862 “Twenty-five years, ago to-day, my dear he entered, the preparatory seminary at Glen people, I received a commission which made Riddle, Delaware county, which was then the me a priest forever, according to the Order of petit seminaite of the diocese, and after two Melcliisadech, and this morning jou join years of study was admitted to the Theologi¬ with me in giving thanks to Almighty God cal Seminary at Eighteenth and Race. On for having lived beyond the average life of a May 21, 1868, father Brennan was ordained to I priest, and to celebrate my silver jubilee in the holy priesthood by the late Archbishop, His Sanctuary. There is great joy in my W ood, then Bishop of the Diocese of Philadel¬ heart this morning as I listen to the music phia, and was appointed assistant priest at ! and assist at the solemn ceremonial in com¬ the Cathedral, where he remained for 17 years, memoration of my ordination. But the re- witli the exception of a brief period, when he I Joieing is not unalloyed. Thoughts crowd took charge of St Bernard’s, Easton, Pa., upon me which have their places in during the absence of the Pastor in! this celebration, and when I deal Europe. In 1877, after the death of with them, looking into my own lather McConeniy, Father Brennan was made conscience, face to face with my Master, to Chancellorof the Archdiocese and Secretary to whom I plighted myself 25 years ago, I am Archbishop Woad, which positions he re-f affrighted at my own short-eomings. Twenty- tained until the latter’s death in 1883. On the five years in the sanctuary! To the eyes of arrival of Archbishop Ryan as Metropolitan I the world I may seem to have filled my duty of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, Father1 at least in a negative sense, but, thinking Brennan was retained as Chancellor and Sec¬ of the eye of God, I see all the things I have retary. In September, 188-5, Father Brennan done which X should not have done and all was appointed Pastor of the Church of the As-1 the things I have left undone which should sumption. In 1836, the old buildings having I have been done, and, thinking of these become insufficient, lie began the erection of! things, feel that the proper place for the present handsome parochial school build¬ me to-day is in retreat.” But sun¬ ings, which were finished in Sep-j shine, Father Brennan went on to say, tember of the foliowiug year at a broke through into his thoughts, and cost of 830,000. During his pastorate he felt touched at the sincere manifestations the entire interior of the Church of the As-1 of joy which he saw around him. Those who sumption has been renovated and beautified, j extended them knew that a priest had the The parish numbers nearly 4000 parishioners, same weak human nature as themselves, and with about 503 boys and girls in the parochial! needed the Divine assistance; therefore, he school, taught by Brothers of the Christian asked them to pray for him. God had com¬ schools, and Sisters of the Holy Child Jesus. | manded the celebration of jubilees, and that There are flourishing temperance, St, Vincent on such occasions the slaves should be set free, de Paul and other societies in connection with and he asked them to pray that all fetters the church. Rev. Matthew A. Hand is first! which had hitherto bound him might be assistant priest, and Rev. John J.Hickey see-! Stricken from him and that he might remain ond assistant. faithful to the end. The Assumption Church. AX the conclusion of the services the entire The Church of the Assumption was organ-i congregation arose while the choir, accom¬ ized in 1818, by Rev. Charles J. H. Carter, a panied by the full orchestra, sang Dam bib- convert. The present handsome brownstone lotte’s Te Denm. The procession then filed Gothic structure on Spring Garden street, be¬ from the sanctuary, in the manner it had low Twelfth, was finished in 1819, at a cost of entered, to the music of the march from upwards of $100,000, under the Pastorate of Meyerbeer’s ‘ ’Prophet. ’ ’ Father Carter, and consecrated 10 years later, In the afternoon vespers were sung by Rev. all indebtedness having been paid off. For! John J. Hickey, followed by Solemn Bene¬ more than 20 years, under the late Bishops! diction of the Most Blessed Sacrament, with Neumann and Wood, Father Carter was- Rev. D. A. Brennan as Celebrant, Rev. Jos. Vicar General of the diocese. Parish school! A. Osborn as Deacon, and Rev. J. J. Hickey buildings and a convent were erected by him as Sub-cleacon, for the Assumption Parish. His charities This evening a testimonial concert, in honor extended far and wide. Archbishop Wood| of Father Brennan, will be given by the As¬ acknowledge'] having received $33,090 from sumption parish, when a purse of 82500 will be him for various church purposes, and it is presented to him, together with a solid silver said that he gave away fully $85,000 to various plate, framed1 in ebony, and bearing an ap- charities, dying a comparatively poor man. ! ' propriate inscription commemorative of Among his effects there was not a suit of Father Brennan’s silver jubilee. To-morrow clothes decent enough to bury him in. He the hoys and girls of the parish schools will was of a very outspoken, independent char¬ hold entertainments in honor of Father acter. and had the reputation of being some¬ Brennan, when they will present him with what eccentric. When he died in 1878 he was purses. succeeded by Rev. A. D. Fiian, who bad The Executive Committee having charge of been -assistant priest at the Assumption Father Brennan’s jubilee celebrations in¬ Church. The latter, in 18S5, was succeeded cludes the following gentlemen: Chairman, by the present Pastor, Rev. Father Bren¬ Mr. John I. Green; Treasurer, Rev. M. A. nan. Hand; Secretary, Mr. Wm.H. Barrett; Mem-

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