U.S. POSTAGE BULK RATE PERMIT NO. 119 SALEM, OH 44460
July disaster: sinking of the c1oto•
I will p:iy a reward of Twenty-Five Dol lars for the recovery of each body belonging to East Liverpool, Ohio, lost on the Scioto, Tuesday Evening, July 4th, r 882. The bodies to be reported immediately, with a full discription.
NAMES OF THOSE MISSING: CARRIE BEARDMORE, An artist's rendering of the tragic sinking of the Scioto excursion boat in the Ohio River waters MARIA BOOTH, on July 4, 1882. LINCOLN BEARDMORE, WILSON PAUL, By Timothy R. Brookes (where visitors could tour the state pemtenharyJ EUGENE FARMER, the outing attracted numerous young people. Cho ~E FOURTH OF JULY, to 'many a family CUMMINGS THOMPSON, _ m Wellsville and East Liverpool will be in sen for the outing was the excursion steamer Scioto MICHlEL EMERLING AND WIFE, T under the command of captain Thaddeus Thomas. STEPHEN, KENT, the future, instead of a red-letter day, a day of mourning BENJAMIN STEBBINS, anci sadness. On the morning of the fourth, a Tuesday, the Sci DAVID FRIED, With these words, in the summer of 1882, a oto began loading its passengers at the East liver ALBERT SNOW, reporter for a Wellsville weekly summarized the pool wharf. Nearly 400 persons were reported to JOSEPH RHAMANN, have crowded aboard the craft, which was licensed WILL WOODS, worst river tragedy ever to occur on the Upper JOHN GROUNDS. Ohio. What began as a day's excursion trip on one to carry a total of 60. Stops at Wellsville, where the of the many steamboats plying local waters, ended band boarded, and at Steubenville, added another as a disaster that took the lives of one in every ten 100 or more passengers to the already dangerously passengers aboard. overloaded vessel. J. H. BURGESS, M~m. The excursion was due to the organizational The trip downriver was made without incident efforts of the Wellsville Comet Band. Advertised as East Liverpool, July 8, 1882. a 4ax-long _~jp_ ,t9__ Mpicnics, dancing _and, unaware of the impending collision. The Lomas Although the accounts of the interested .parties struck the portside of the Scioto, tearing a large if accounts were not later exaggerated, consider were contradictory, witnesses on shore stated that able consumption of alcohol. hole below the waterline. the John Lomas made her intentions clear in The Scioto sank almost immediately in sixteen The return upriver began shortly after 5 ~.m. adequate time and that the Scioto's response was feet of water. the Lomas, after discharging its pas Captain Thomas, concerned by the overloading, tardy. Keller's last minute order to reverse engines ordered reduced steam to lessen the danger of a sengers on the riverbank, returned to _he!p rescue came too late to avoid disaster. survivors. As is usually the case, parut mcreased boiler explosion. From most survivors' accounts, The vessels collided at speed, tumbling many of the passenger's merrymaking continued on board the dancers and musicians on the Scioto, who were Tum to- SCIOTO -~~. p~ge 4 with the ·band's best efforts fueling the dancers' energies. . At approximately 8 p.m. as the S~1oto nea:ed What a Pharmacy · Mingo Junction, another craft was noticed commg Was Meant To Be! downstream. According to accepted navigational A Restaurant In practices, the descending boat had the right to Store Hours 9:30-6 M-F, 9:30-1 Sat. Offering Free Delivery and . choose position when passing another craft. B. J. The Fullest Sense , Long, the pilot of the other steamboat, the John Fast Friendly Servic~ Lomas, blew one long blast on his steam whistle signifying his intention to hold his position near the Ohio shore. Gfimberlanes ofSaleot
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f?Jfilil Member-by l!l~itati_on. Nation"11 Selected Morti<.ians Su_bsc':'P_tl'!n !o '.[~-t.~rfJ.~~1:'~ .. the death toll as many passengers on the Scioto flung themselves into the water to avoid an ima gined outbreak of fire aboard the sinking craft. While some were trapped in cabins and thus lost their lives, most of the victims fell or jumped into the river and perished. Many of the survivors climbed to the upper portions of the Scioto, which remained above the surface. Several victims drowned while attempting to save fellow passengers. The death toll, which eventually totalled 57, might well have been higher if the Scioto had sunk in nearby waters which were allegedly forty feet deep. News of the disaster reached Wellsville by 10 p.m. and a special train was immediately sent to the site to bring back survivors. The search for bodies began in earnest the next morning and con tinued for several days. Fifty men from East Liver pool worked at grappling operations until Sunday, July 9, by which time most of the victims had been found. Business was suspended in both cities while residents awaited the findings of the search parties. The Wells ville Saturday Review reported: "Since that time East Liverpool and Wellsville have indeed been in sackcloth and ashes. A pall of almost Egyptian gloom has rested over all. Little or no business has been done. Nobody has the heart to work. Scarcely anything has been thought of or The Scioto shortly after it was raised from the river. spoken of but the calamity that came so suddenly upon us." take passage." Captain Thomas was similarly chas Captain Thomas, who was not in the pilot house tized by the press. at the time of the collision, lost a fifteen-year-old Most of the culpability was, however, placed on son and had to be restrained from suicide. the pilot of the Scioto, John Keller. He was. Many of the drowned were in their teens, includ described as "utterly unfit and incompetent" and ing two members of the Wellsville Cornet Band, was also accused of keeping a saloon in Wheeling aged 13 and 15. William and Joseph Beardmore of from which he was reportedly taken and placed on East Liverpool each lost two children in the disas the Scioto for the excursion. ~(eller admitted to ter. In time, all the bodies were recovered. having consumed at least one drink that day and As might be expected; attempts to fix the blame was also accused of having permitted passengers were initiated before all the funerals had been con to enter .the pilot house. cluded. The organizers of the excursion were criti Both pilots were suspended after the accident cized for "employing so miserable a little craft for but were later re-instated. Public opinion in East such an occasion, and then allowing so many to . Liverpool and Wellsville was so strong that Keller was eventually convicted of drinking, failing to answer the Lomas' signal and having unathorized persons in the pilot house. He was sentenced to a prison term for his conduct. To ensure that such a tragedy did not re-occur, Tum to next page ~
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Poster owned by the East Lwerpool Historical Society The July 15, 1882 issue of the weekly national magazine, Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspap er, showed reproductions of sketches by G. F. !vfonroe of the collision of the steamers Scioto and John Lomas in the Ohio River. The story Survivor Miss Nellie Burgess who later This is the picnic basket Miss Nellie Burgess of the disaster is published inside. The maga clerked at Ogilvie's Department Store in East was said to use as an aid in swimming ashore zine is in the archives of the East· Livetpool Liverpool. Miss Burgess passed away.in 1952-. from the capsized .boat.. . . ' r • • ' Historical Society .... . : , ' ...... · c .. « · · Yest:ery_ears %orufa1JJ .1tpm 6,1992
the government changing the passing signals and revised the steamboat inspection laws. The Scioto was raised -and repaired after the sinking and continued in service under the name Regular until 1885 when she was scrapped. The John Lomas, unhurt in the collision, was trans ferred to the Kan;:i.wha River and remained in ser vice for many years. A contemporary reminder of the huma~ loss appeared in print som~ tim~ after the acc1d~nt, when the Saturday Review pnnted the followmg: "Anyone possessing a picture of the l~te Miss Sar ah Kiddy (ed. note: who was celebrating her 16th birthday on July 4) will confer a great favor on her mother by giving it to her, as she has none. Such a request should be promptly complied with."
John Wheeler was saved from the sinking David and Margaret Freed posed for tht's . steamer by climbing the SciotQ's flag pole and photograph. The Freeds were pass~ngers on the awaiting rescue. Scioto but were among the survivors. r--· ----=------, -~--·· --~----;, Penned as tribute to victims A contemporary poet, Forest Wilde, penned r Photos courtesy of the "The Sleepers" as a tribute to the victims of the Ohio River tragedy. The poem was published in The ill-fated Scioto sails the Ohio River as the Cleveland Leader on April 19, 1883. seen from the West Virginia shore in this con In part, it reads: temporary photograph. "Requiem bells so sadly tolling, Speak of youth and beauty fled, While the waters onward rolling, Yield again the silent dead. "Go thy way, 0 silent river, On whose waves His feet have trod, While the souls, bereaved and stricken, We must leave alone with God." Writer Glenn Waight drew from the poem in his 75th anniversary account of the tragedy which he wrote in 1957. Waight believed it was originally re-published in the East Liverpool Review in 1883. Hose company mascot could really hit punch In the early months of 1903, a little white bull dog began hanging around the patrol station. C.G. Oertell claimed ownership, and it soon became the mascot of the Deluge Hose Co. The dog was given the name "Queen." Firemen found it to be a highly intelligent ani mal, so they began teaching her various tri~~s. Chief among her accomplishments was the abihty to keep a punching bag in motion as efficiently as a boxer. Queen was delfghted when the firemen put a table unqer the punching bag in the ~ose room, put her on it, and then let her go at it. She would start the bag in motion by a light touch from her nose. Once the bag was under way, she had no trouble keeping it going, rapping it with her nose at regularly timed intervals, never missing a blow. Twenty-five-year-old Mike Emmerling, an Sade Emmerling, 25, is shown £n this formal One Sunday she performed before a large, East Liverpool resident and a victim of the photograph taken about the Ume of the Scioto enthusiastic crowd of admirers and spectators. It sinking, posed for this photo shortly before he excursion trip. Sade was drowned along with was an event of front-page news that brought peo drowned with his wife Sade. The original tin her husband, Mike. Both were East Liverpool ple to Salem from all over the area. The rest of type is inscribed with the words, "Saved ten." residents. Queen's history is not known. This rare photo is the oldest group setting of people who lived in the Salem area known to officials of the Salem. Historical Society. The picnickers who gathered at MacMillan's Grove on July 4; 1850·are (sorry we can't identify their position in the photogr~p~) O~iv~r Johnson, Corrine Cole, Mr. and Mrs. Joel MacMillan, Dr. Joseph Stanton, Mrs. Jacob Heaton, Mrs. Caleb Hunt, George Weaver, Lizzie Dickinson, Mrs. Reuben McMillan, Rachel Stratton Adams, Reuben McMillan, Maggie Horner, Anna Weaver Woodruff, Martin Gantz who taught a sel~ct school in 1850, William McCracken, Mrs. Charles Boone, lWrs. Esther Street, Mrs. Joe Thomas and Mr. Worrell. · · History is branded on rumps of livestock at Fort Worth, Texas Cattleman's Museum FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) - At the Cattle- children. It's as much a. part of their heritage as cattle in South Carolina andhad an iron.that was a ·man's Museum, visitors are greeted by a white-oak their last names," connected CH - apparently for their Cain Hoy •wall that bears hundreds and hundreds of burn- An intricate story is etched into some irons. For plantation near Charleston, S.C. · . ished imprints: cattle brands seared into the wood, example, cereal magnate C.W. Post's branding iron The most venerable iron is the ]Cross W brand charting a legacy of the old West. sports a "U" design. Post, who in 1907 founded the used by the James Taylor White Ranch. Dating The museum has the 26 Bar brand that John town of the same name southeast of Lubbock, was back to 1819, it's believed to be the oldest brand in Wayne used on his Herefords; the Bar J Bar that planning to establish a "utopian" community. Texas used continuously by one fal_llily. · · ·· ·President Lyndon Johnson's cattle bore; and the The foundation opened its 1,300-square-foot · · · .. · · ·half-circle H that marked the livestock owned by addition to the Cattleman's Museum to spotlight The most ornate are the Mexican and Spanish Randolph Hearst. But beyond the stamps of the the collection and the field inspectors who investi- brands with lots of curlicues and squigg1es, Benson famous, ·there are a host of other brands which gate livestock thefts for the Texas and Southwest- said. Among them is Stephen F. Austin's 'Spanis.h- made the indelible searing of cattle ownership - ern Cattle Raisers Association. style iron, one of only three known to exist.· . . and that tell stories with their compact symbols. The collection was donated by Leonard Stiles, 71, "They were very . artistic," Benson said. '<'It More than 100 of the Texas and Southwestern who worked as an association field inspector for 11 would take a lot of time to reproduce them/' ·Cattle Raisers Foundation's 1,03.5 branding irons years, and later as division manager at the King Benson said it took three days to. burn the are on permanent display at the Cattleman's Ranch. brands onto the museum's white oak wall. The Museum. It's said to be the largest collection of Irons the foundation added were from celebrity- wall lists all the Texas counties and under each branding irons in the United States, beginning with ranchers such as Texas Rangers pitching ace Nolan county the brands of cattle raised there, he said. the early Spanish and Mexican ranchers, and on to Ryan, former Dallas Cowboys linebacker Lee Roy today's ranchers. Jordan, all-pro Dallas Cowboys linebacker Chuck "It's just like something right out of the West!" 'What you're looking at are images, but they're Howley and actor Tommy Lee Jones. Benson says. 'When you look at the mystique of a.l so so 1;TIUC h more," . sa1"d B"llI Benson, t h e foun d a- McDonald's has its Golden Arches branding iron Texas, here's where it sits." tion's director. "Some people probably put more to mark the cattle it buys from the King Ra:nch. • The Cattleman's Museum is open from 8:30 a.m. , ~ffort -into (de~i.gi:iing a br~~d). ~ha11. na!Il~~g, ~ei~- .... 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Pyramid, two shafts stretch from the king's cham Associated Press Writer It's an extraordinary experience but can cause ber to the outside. Two others originate in the OW DO YOU GIVE THE Great Pyramid a claustrophobia, shortness of breath and a lot of queen's chamber but are thought to end before H breath of fresh air? That's the challenge fac perspiration. · reaching the outer wall. · ing experts trying to rid Egypt's largest pyramid of During summer, humidity inside reaches 95 per Hawass believes the vents weren't designed to thousands of years of stale air. cent. And tourists create salt in their sweat, which circulate air but to allow the pharaoh's soul an "This is a serious problem for us," said Zahi drips off them and can penetrate limestone and escape to the heavens. But he's going to try using Hawass, director-general of antiquities for the pyr granite. · them for air-cleaning. amids outside Cairo. "Nobody's done anything "They can't breathe, and the more tourists who Each of the two complete air shafts is about 165 about this air since Cheops' time, 4,500 years ago. come, the worse the air gets," Hawass said. feet long and 1 foot wide, and both are assumed And it's getting to be a real problem." clogged with grime and sand accumulated through A lot of stale air:. accumulates in 45 centuries. 1!1 April 19~4,_ 15 tm.~rists complained of eye irri- the ages. · . . . . Especially in something as big as the Great Pyra- tahon and diff1c?lty 1~ ?reathmg in the nearby In March, technicians will insert· a video camera mid, which rises 481 feet on a base that covers 13 Chephren pyramid. Officials ordered it closed for into the air shafts to allow experts a closeup view acres. two days_ to flush out the gas. Tests showed it was of what's clogging the air flow. The problem is the thousands of tourists who accumulated acid .from visitors who'd used the each winter trek through barely maneuverable pas- monument as a toilet. sageways between the burial chamber and so- In 1987-88, the Egyptian Antiquities Organiza- called queen's chamber. tion scrubbed away salt, soot and grease from _ . . inside Cheops' pyramid, the lone survivor of the ~eping up with tFU past? Before the Gulf War, Egypt welcomed 2 mllhon Seven Wonders of the Ahtienl:Workt c-; · . t?~°.:~~- ~~ye:r. _'!_'he :m!1:1ber 'is ~:xpect~d to hif 5 . The· royal architects o( Cheops and Chephren ·· Catch our next 'issue. ·million yeaflyby '19~-: ~lffitrs1"a1t vts1t·th'E!-1'Jta"·"-15uilf "t1leiYpyr~mid~~wi1:h" 'airvehts:···Ifi··the'·Gtcctf····-w~~~~;;i;;;;;;;~~-~------;;;;;;lJ' • awbone of ancient ape discovered In By the Associated Press the journal Nature. occurred between 10 million and 5 million y~ars The fossil was found in Namibia, showing that ago. CIENTISTS HAVE REPORTED the discov such "Miocene hominoids" ranged much farther ery of a 13 million-year-old piece of jaw Conroy is a professor of anatomy and anthropol S south in Africa than previously known from fossil ogy at the Washington University Medical School bone from a previously unknown, ape-like forerun finds in Kenya and Uganda, researchers said. in St. Louis. He reported the discovery with Martin ner of gorillas, chimpanzees and humans. Pickford of the Paleontology Institute of the The discovery "opens up a whole new geogra The creature apparently lived before hominoids evolved into two branches, Conroy said. One National Museum of Natural History in Paris, who IPhical area for exploration into pre-human ance- found the fossil, and other scientists. 1stry," said Glenn Conroy of Manhattan, one of the branch led to humans and the other to chimpan zees and gorillas. The split is thought to have The fossil is the right side of the lower jaw, !researchers reporting the find in today's issue of including some teeth. Conroy said the size of t."1e teeth suggests the creature was about the size of a small chimpanzee, weighing around 35 pounds. r l l 1C ar,c came to Salem by accident A wisdom tooth had appeared, showing the cre ature was an adult, perhaps about 10 years old, By Dale E. Shaffer once began making arrangements to have a large when it died, Conroy said in a telephone interview. : WILLIAM H. CLARK WAS one of Salem's building erected on Depot Street (South Ellsworth That age is considered mature because of the crea • old manufacturers. · His plant, called the A venue below Mullins Street). It became known as ture's rate of development, in much the same way Sheet Metal Stamping Co., was the nucleus of the the Kitridge-Clark Co. Sheet metal stamping, dogs become adults at younger ages than humans W. H. Mullins Co. including the making of cornice work and metal do. Born in Canadaigua, N.Y. on Oct. 5, 1820, he gutters for houses, was its main business. The tooth shapes show it ate soft plants, probab spent his childhood there and then moved to Penn Mr. Clark, after finding out that his message had ly including lots of fruit, he said. Its environment Yan, N.Y. at the age of 20. There he married Mary been taken wrong, was too much of a man to back must have been more humid and forested than the . A. Boileau. The couple soon moved to Dayton, out. He came to Salem and spent the rest of his life very dry surroundings that exist there now, Con Ohio, where he went into the business of making here. roy said. railroad chairs. His partner was William Green, In 1875 the Kitridge-Clark Co. received a con The scientists named the creature Otavipithecus whose son lived in Salem in the early 1900s. tract for the sheet metal work, to be completed the namibiensis, because it was found in the Otavi reg Mr. Clark was the first man in the U.S. to suc following year, at the Centennial Exposition build ion of northern Namibia. cessfully cast a large steel bell. His bells were the ing in Philadelphia. It was then that the company Conroy said the finding was a surprise. type used on farms for calling men to their meals. built a larger plant on Depot Street. Two years Researchers had been seeking more recent crea It was only by accident that Mr. Clark ended up later, Clark resigned from the company, taking his tures that appeared on the human-bound branch of in Salem. He was a good friend of Anson 0. Kit son W. J. Clark with him to form the W. J. Clark the hominoid evolutionary split, such as australo ridge, and in 1872 received an invitation from him Co. pithecines or early members of th~ Homo group, to come to Salem and build a plant. Being in Cin William H. Clark was 95 when he died at his he said. cinnati at the time, Mr. Clark did not think he home on South Lincoln Avenue on May 13, 1916. Brenda Benefit, an· assistant professor of anthro could come to Salem, so he sent a telegram to Mr. At that time he was one of our city's oldest and pology at Southern Illinois University at Carbon Kitridge reading: ~'Can't locate in Salem." But the most respected citizens and manufacturers. For 82 dale, said scientists had suspected such creatures telegraph operator, fn copying the message, left the years he had been a member of the First Baptist lived in southern Africa, partly because australo "t" off can't. Church, and for many years an elder. His life was pithecines had been .found there. 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There, conditioning, television and neon lighting were legend has it, he picked up a few souvenirs that introduced at World's fairs. would eventually become part of his 8,000-plus "The souvenirs," McGovern adds, "are tangible object collection of world's fair memorabilia. symbols that the visitors participated in an impor Zim, an interior designer who acknowledged tant event." that world's fairs influenced his career, died in According to Richard Friz, author of The Official 1987. His remarkable collection was bequeathed in Guide to World's Fair Memorabilia, ''World's fair 1989 to the Smithsonian Institution, which is now memorbilia as a genre is a departure from other exploring the modernizing forces of world's fairs types of art and collectibles categories in that in in an exhibition organized by the Smithsonian that it was deliberately designed to commemorate Institution Libraries on view at the National an event or anniversary." Museum of American History in Washington, D.C. The 1893 World's Columbian Exposition, for Objects from the Zim collection, along with objects example, celebrated (one year late) the 400th from another Smithsonian collection of world's fair anniversary of Christopher Columbus' voyages. memorabiliai are displayed with publications from Some 27 million people visited the World's the Libraries' holdings. Columbian--a number equivalent to more than In the days before radio, television and other one-third the U.S. population that year. "The 1893 mass media, world's fairs showcased the newest fair ushered in the Electrical Age," Friz writes, inventions of the day, entertaining and educating "with President Grover Cleveland pressing the key hundreds of millions of people. Since the first to start the engines in Machinery ·Hall, an act international exposition more than 140 years ago, . which enabled the fair to be bathed in light by countless souvenirs--useful and useless--have been thousands of incandescent bulbs." George Westing sold or given away to visitors eager to preserve Smithsonian News Service Photo courtesy house demonstrated his air brake, and Thomas of ~~he National Museum ot American History their fair memories. Edison displayed his kinetoscope with "pictures No doubt the Larry Zims of today will be out in that actually moved." This poster from the 1893 World's Columbian force at this summer's Expo '92 in Seville, Spain. Geor~ Ferris' 264-lfoot wheel ride was intro Exposition in Chicago belonged to Larry Zim, Like previous world's fairs, Expo '92 has a theme: duced at that fair, as were the hookless fastener an internationally known collector of world's "The Age of Discovery," commemorating the 500th Oater known as the zipper) and the Pledge of Alle fair memorabilia. Zim's collection was anniversary of Columbus' voyages to the new_ giance. Today, collectibles include commemorative bequeathed to the Smithsonian Institution in world. But souvenir seekers will have a long way stamps and coins, a mechanical bank of an Indian 1989. to go to match the large, diverse and international greeting Columbus and large textiles with vignet ly known Zim collection, says Jon Zachman, a tes of Columbus and a bird's-eye view of the museum specialist in the National Museum of exposition grounds. · · . Mullins' metal boats American History's Division of Community Life. The 1939 New York World's Fair commemorated "The souvenirs and archival material range from the 150th anniversary of George. Washington's were worldwide sellers the first international exposition--the 1851 Crystal inauguration. Its theme was "Building a World for Palace Exhibition in London-to the 1986 World Tommorow," and exhibits featured such futuristic In 1896 when W.H. Mullins began manufactur Exposition in Vancouver," Zachman says. "Zim sites as highway cloverleafs and space rockets. ing metal boats and skiffs, skeptics looked on and collected everything--from salt and pepper shakers "The 1939 fair, it seems certain, produced a greater laughed. Six years later, he was selling all the boats and ashtrays to bronze commemorative medals number and variety of memorabilia than any he could build,. which was proof that the metal and Wedgwood plates." other," Zim once wrote. "Many of the 1,500 exhibi boat was fast replacing the wooden craft. Mullins Collectors of world's fair memorbilia no doubt tors either sold or gave away mornentos, 50 booths turned out boats ih large numbers - metal boats, a were pleased when, in November 1968, four enthu sold souvenirs to 45 million visitors, and major canoe, a sailboat, and one in sections capable of siastics formed the World's Fair Collecting Society. deparhnent stores set up branches at the site." being stored in small places. · The founders included Zim; Edward Orth, a Los Angeles city planner; Michael R. Pender, an official It also featured what are perhaps the most memorable of all world's fair symbols--the needle These boats were sold throughout the U.S., and with the 1964 New York World's Fair Commission; · to every land on the globe. In August of 1911 the and Peter Warner, a researcher for a New York like, 700-foot Trylon tower and the circular, 200-foot Perisphere. Rutgers University cultural company sent four boats to St. Petersburg, Russia. architectural firm. Three more were sent to Madras, India. "We have about 500 members right now," Pen historian Warren I. Sussman has been quoted say ing the Tryl~n and Perisphere emble~ ~~ ':as der, president of the Sarasota, Fla.-based World's In September of 1910 the company received an Fair Collecting Society, reports. "Most people spe important an icon for study as the cruc1f1x. Z1m reportedly has a tattoo of the Trylon and Peri order from H.H. Wilson in Reick, Fashoda district, cialize in collecting items from one fair. I'd say the Soudan, Egypt. The boat was packed and shipped most popular souvenirs are a toss up between the sphere on his arm. Those ubiquitous images appeared on countless a distance of over 7;500 miles. Sent by land and 1893 Chicago World's Columbian and the '39 New water, the boat was also carried by pack mules. It York World's Fair." souvenirs--in all price ranges--including Remington typewriters, posters, pins, bracelets, thermometers, arrived in perfect condition. Following Orth's death, the Smithsonian in 1990 Tiffany plates, napkins, scarves, Bissell carpet acquired his collection, which focuses on documen sweepers, bookends and RCA Victor radios. At the tum of the century, Mullins shipped one tation and memorabilia--induding several thou Ed Orth's world's fair collection is heavy on of the best and most costly power boats ever sand magazines, books and photographs, and hun ophemera. "Ephemeral materials include such turned out at the plant. It was ordered by Alexan dreds of ceramics, glassware,textiles, toys and things as maps of the fair grounds, passes to der Barker, from Lockport, La. The shell of this other artifacts-from the 1939 and 1940 New York events, programs, brochures, straw wrappers and boat was constructed of monel metal, and was fin fairs. the like," the Smithsonian's Zachman explains. ished in hardwood with upholstered revolving The Zim and Orth collections are important "These ephemeral items were intended for one chairs. Its appearance was dazzling because of the additions to the Smithsonian's holdings that relate time use. Everyone was issued a ticket stub, but monel metal, which resembled nickel. to world's fairs and international expositions. The how many people kept them?" rnemorbilia are helpful to historians who study the Such item5 are valuable to researchers, Zachman This power boat, a 26-footer and carrying a 30 fairs and their importance as cultural events. adds, "because they document information that's h.p. marine engine, was the one which attracte~ so "World's fairs used to occupy a different status otherwise lost or unavailable." Menus, for exam much attention at the Motor Boat Show at Madison than they do now," says Charles McGovern, a cur ple, are ephemeral. Along with their interesting Square Garden in New York the previous winter. It ator in the American History Museum's Division of was the most expensive boat made by the Mullins Community Life. . . Turn to next page ~== firm. "Many of the fairs in the last 30 years of so have D.S. newest inventions of the day, entertaining and educating hundreds of millions of people. -These modernizing forces are explored in a new exhibi tion, "World's Fairs," organized by the Smithso- nian Institutional Libraries. The exhibition, on view through Aug. 26 at the aphics, they are indicators of diners' tastes and National Museum of American History, features eal costs. A visitor to the 1939 New York fair, for items from International expositions held from xample, could "Meet and Eat at the Rondevoo" 1851 to 1940. More than. 50 publications and nd spend $1.35 for a filet mignon dinner.. souvenirs--including sheet music, recipes, photo For any collector of world's fair memorabilia, graphs, posters, and post cards--are displayed. xperts say it's a good idea to pick an area of pecialization--stamps, glassware or textiles, for ~ The exhibit also explains the need for -preserva rstance. Nearly 1,000 postcards were issued at the tion of important library and archival materials ~939 and 1940 New York fairs. Collecting all of that are deteriorating and in danger of being lost. !hem could become a lifelong project. Indeed, the idea for the exhibition grew from a I Where can someone find these collectibles? Zirn preservation project begun in 1985. Since then, [elt that the best sources from recent American nearly 1,700 books, pamphlets and journals drawn tairs were the closets of relatives and friends who from Smithsonian Libraries' holdings have been Hsited them. After checking those, he suggested preserved on 35mm microfilm. CTea markets and garage sales. Other collectors recommend buying and trading with fellow collec "In the era of the Victorian world's fairs, most :ors. Endless opportunities abound at the fairs publications were printed on highly acidic paper ihemselves. that has since become extremely fragile," says Nan World's Fair Collecting Society president cy E. Gwinn, the Libraries' assistant director of col ~ichael Pender has some tips for collectors. Those lections management. "Consequently, many gov- mticipating the fair of the millennium-the world's , emment reports, scholarly proceedings, visitors' :air in Hanover, Germany in the year 2000 (cele guides, illustrated newspapers, art works, photo >rating the theme "Man, Nature and Technolo graph albums and other papers produced during &y")--are advised to be discriminating. "Look for the expositions, are fast disappearing, literally Larry Zim, the internationally known collec :he better-made items or items made in limited crumbling into dust. It was evident that without a luantities," he advises. If your wallet prohibits preservation effort, much of the collection would tor of world's fair memorabilia, is shown ;uch purchases, Pender says guide books, post be lost." with some of his treasures in this photo taken :ards and stamps are always safe. at the 1970 world's fair in Osaka, Japan. Printed materials are significant both in terms of Shown are an Eiffel Tower clock, a Trylon and He acknowledges that souvenirs are usually their research value and, in many cases, graphic :hcrished and treasured by the one who buys Perisphere ashtray (lower right hand corner) beauty and visual interest, Gwinn explains. Exposi and a poster from the 1889 International Uni :hem. But, don't count on a fast return on your tion publications and visitors' guides were often nvestment. As a rule of thumb, it could take up to heavily illustrated with technical drawings and versal Exposition in Paris. )0 years for other collectors to look on them as depictions of the best in fine and decorative arts. :ondly. r~ries, which contains an annotated bibliography of ·Preserving Th.e Paper Work Of The World's Fairs The American Library Association has published the Libraries' holdings and serves as a guide to the ...!:. Since the lirstinterria:ti6rial ~xposition in Lon:. The Books of the Fairs: Materials About World's microfilm collection. For more information, call the lon in 1851, world's fairs have showcased the Fairs, 1834-1916, in the Smithsonian Institution Lib- publisher at 1-800-545-2433. 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SALEM'S GIRL SCOUT organization which_ wi~l observe its 10th anniversary March 11 was insti gated by Roy West, for many years superintendent of the Methodist Church Sunday school. RE-ELECTED AS OFFICERS of the Quota Club are Laura Conrad; president; Hazel Linn,. first vic.e president; Helen Brumbaugh, second vice presi dent; Mona McArtor, secretary; and Elenor McMurray, treasurer. SPECIALS AT THE G.C. MURPHY CO.: 1-pound fruit and nut eggs, 98 cents; stuffed toys, 79 cents to $2.98; little girls Easter frocks, $1.98; and white cotton gloves, $1. The 1926 Daimler 45HP "Royal" displayed at the Retrom_obile Ex_hibition Paris recen~ly. BOB PAGER named on the All-Ohio second in team, may or ~ay not b~ the highest man in total Ordered in 1926 by Gulab Singh, Rewa's Maharajah, the silver Daimler ~vas used.for himtw.g points tor a Salem High season, tournament royal tiger. The car is now owned by the Blac_khawk Museum of San Francisco. The Jump seat at included. Malcolm Rush in 1927 scored 313 in 25 the right rear is where the hunter would ride. (AP Photo) scholastic games, but records in the Salem-Lisb'?n game in the middle of that seaso~ are not s~own in . STAGING A TERRIFIC third quarter spurt that singles division of the Salem Women's Bowling the News files. Pager's average is 16.9 p011:1-ts per netted them enough of a lead to win by, the Salem Association Tournament at the Masonic Alleys. game. He scored 226 in the 1945-46 season, includ AMVETS recorded their third straight victory in ing tournaments. the Sebring All-Ohio basketball tournament by MILDRED KLINE completed her bowling in the defeating the Canton O'Hara's 48-46 in the Beloit Salem Women's Bowling Association Tournament ARCHIE DALTON of Lisbon, executive secret gym. The hot shooting of confident Kiby Laughlin, on the Masonic lanes arid· wound rip with an all.:. ary of the Columbiana County Public Health Amos Dunlap and Walt Brian paced the AMVETS. time all-events high of 1,697. League, has severed relations with that group ~o F.M. CAMPBELL, Gale Daugherty and CW. accept a position with the National Tuberculosis AGNES SKORUPSKI rolled a 510 series, with a Harris were chosen trustess of the Presbyterian Association in New York City. 90 pin handicap to move into second place in the Church. Cathy Hale's quest led her to the Grail inovetnent By Sonja Barisic To women in the Grail movement, the grail is "a conference center outside New York and a drug Associated Press Writer symbol of a search in our life work which involves treatment center in the south Bronx. transformation - transformation of the person and Hale said the Grail tries to give women a sense QUEST FOR PEOPLE who shared feminist, spiritual values led Cathy Hale to the transformation of society," Sorrento said. of community, to let them know they aren't alone A Five Dutch university students began the Grail in their daily struggles. Grail. . as a movement for Roman Catholic women outside The Grail is an international women's movement Grailville offers a variety of classes. Students can the clergy. Over the years, the Grail has lost its ties that began in the Netherlands in 1921. In the learn to write poetry, quilt, make felt, examine rac to organized religion; it now embraces women ism, meditate in the Zen .Buddhist fashion, do United States~ it is based at Grailville, a 300-acre farm in Loveland 20 miles northeast of Cincinnati. from a variety of spiritual backgrounds. calligraphy. . A couple of years ago when Hale n:oved to Cin Two Dutch women brought the Grail to th_e Tuition varies depending upon course !ength United States in .the 1940s, first settling in Chicago, and materials. A 16-week residential program on cinnati, she saw a newspaper advertI_se1:Tlent for a then moving to southwest Ohio in 1944 at the invi ·feminist educational program at Gra1lv1lle. women and ecology that began in January costs tation of the archbishop of Cincinnati. $2,400, including room and board. "I was really feeling a longing to be part of a Groups coming to Grailville for conferences and community that shared my values, so I called The 12 women taking that course attend lectures individuals seeking rest and relaxation can walk and discussion sessions by visiting scholars in about the program," said Hale, who grew up in a through a pine grove, alongside a pond or past small town near Nashville, Tenn. fields such as women's studies, agriculture, litera rows of organically grown crops, such as soybeans. ture, and anthropology. They also work in gardens "The program was full,, whic~ made _me eve~ There also are nature trails. and volunteer with Cincinnati-area environmental more excited. I thought, Theres real life here. The main house, a Victorian mansion called Joy, And so I came to do volunteer work." and women's groups. is surrounded by several farm buildings renovated Grailville, which is operated by 22 full- and part , The Grail's objective is to change the.wo_rld into to accommod.ate overnight lodgers. A dairy barn a universal society based on peace, JUStice and time staffers, is supported mainly by donations. has been converted into a chapel for pray~r and · 1ove. 'We just squeak through every year," said Mary meditation. A bookstore has a collection of material Lu Lageman, who tends to the gardens and ·. "As a women's movement, it's not focused on by and about women. . women themselves," said Audrey Sorrento, who farmlands. The Grail has about.2,000 members in 20 coun ·· works with programming at Grail ville. _ Lageman said nuns at a Catholic high school she tries, including 225 members in the United :States. attended in Columbus told the students about "It's how women can be free, how women can Some 35 women belong in the Cincinnati area. use their skills and their talents and their influ Grailville. She's now been involved with Grailville Members tend to be college-educated, middle to for 25 years. ,ences, their lives, to make a difference in the world upper-middle class and white. But Sor~ento said toward peace and justice," Sorrento said. . . more women of other races and social classes have Sorrento first visited Grailville in 1947 with some In Christian tradition, the search for the gratl '- been joining. women from Brooklyn, N.Y., who had been to the the cup from which Jesus Christ drank at the Last farm before. Supper - was supposed to transform people's In the United States, the Grail also has a~ center "I've been coming hack and forth ever since," lives. in a Hispani~ neighborhood in San Jose, Calif., a she said. Probably the first man to teach languages in publication. Salem was a Frenchman named Monsieur Erson, Born in Salem, Miss Smith graduated from SHS who arrived here in 1850. Iri addition to French, and the University of Chicago, specializing in sci German and Italian, he taught drawing, painting ences. Many Salemites remember having her as a and drafting. teacher, and how she inspired student interest in Speaking of After the city began operating its public school the subject of biology. , system, the private schools gradually dwindled. Several editions of her popular book, "Exploring the past... Salem's first public school was located on the Biology," are now on display at the museum. It northwest corner of East Second (Green) Street and was used in many U.S. schools:, and in five foreign North Broadway (Chestnut) Avenue. The building countries. Ella Thea Smith Cox died of a heart By Dale Shaffer was later used as the Central Clinic. attack in 1972 at the age of 75 in Cave Creek, Ariz. In 1859, there was a lot of debate by townspeo Fourth Street School's auditorium .;:.,.~.):,/'._,,...~A/\../..../'\.'/":_;.,._;.._,,...,,.._.;..,, .1•c.r. A ' ple as to where a new public school should be ~~~~~~-~)~~~~~~?--~-~:-~~~=~~::--;g:·~,,-~~::.~ ·. built. They originally voted to construct it on Haw Just 12 years after Fourth Street School was built, ley property, the present site of the junior high state inspectors declared that the auditorium on Salem early schools were private the second floor could no longer be used as an Before the union school system came on the school. assembly room. scene in 1853, most schools were private ones. That lot turned out to be too small for a play ground, so another vote was taken. This time the A Jaw prohibited the use of halls for auditorium Sale~' s pioneer school was operated in the Quaker purposes, except on the first floor. meetmghouse. voters chose Waterworth land on East Fourth Street. The discontinuance of this auditorium deprived The first real schoolhouse was a small log cabin Salem of a handsome and much-patronized located on East State Street, where the MacMillan That is where the new school was built. It stood for less than 40 years, and was replaced by Fourth assembly hall. It was widely used for lectures, Book Store later stood. James Tolerton and Joseph entertainment and innumerable meetings of a Shreve were two who taught there. Street School in 1897. This beautiful structure - social and formal nature. the most artistic one ever constructed in Salem - • But most schools at this point in history were The Lecture Course Association, for example, private ones. During the 1840s, James and Henriet was razed in 1974, long before its time. had to find another place to hold its popular ta Marshall operated "a selected school for young Many Salemites disagreed with the School Board programs. ladies" on West Pershing (Dry) Street. members on their decision to destroy this sturdy Another discrepancy with Fourth Street School It was located in a frame building just west of and memorable building. was that it had been built without fire escapes. the northwest comer of South Ellsworth Avenue. Ella Thea Smith's first. textbook Inspectors visiting the building on July 8, 1908, The owners were proud of its 150-volume library. On Aug. 31, 1932, the Superintendent of Salem ordered that fire escapes be erected on all Salem Coon's Academy was another popular school in Schools Earl S. Kerr announced that a textbook and school buildings in such a way that each school the 1840s. It stood on the eastside of Penn Avenue, laboratory manual, written by Miss Ella Thea room had an exit dear to the ground to eliminate the second house south of Columbia Street. Smith, member of the SHS faculty, would be used pupils swarming into the main hallways. The Rev. Jacob Coon came to Salem in 1844 and that year in biology classes. Even rooms on the first floor, whose windows The book was typewritten and mimeographed built his two-story frame academy behind his were more than six feet above the grade li~e, had South Lincoln A venue home. This area became for use by pupils, replacing texts formerly used. to have a door level with the floor and opening known as Science Hill because of his school. He This was the first time in SHS history that a book outward into balconies with stairs reaching the was the first to offer Latin. written by a local teacher was used in classrooms ground. Adam Kirk· had an early subscription school, here. charging $3 to $6 per quarter. 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