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Tabors of the most noted Jesuits__ ; country, and there the first mass in the State was celebrated. The church dates

i--tdelphi _ cally by Jesuit missionaries from" Mai-y- i-Jand. then the headquarters of Catholicism (in tms country.The arrival of a large num¬ ber of emigrants from Ireland gave a great impetus to Catholicism in this city,and the membership increased so rapidly that an l/dl, the -ecclesiastical authorities of sent Rev. Joseph Greaton, S J-, to to establish a church rather Greaton.when he came to this city had a letter of introduction to a vervactive Catholic who resided on Walnut’ Street above Third,and that fact led to the estab¬ lishment of St. Joseph’s Church in its present -locality. That the popular feeling in Philadel¬ phia was opposed to Catholicism at that The Venerable Edifice Was time ,s shown by the fact that when Founded a Century and & * x a Half Ago. iSlfX 5i?Ap«1g' ; primitive looking church hnitdTf11 and srtsaj*i' bbV™« IT MET WITH OPPOSITION. frame chapel,and in February3 ^7JV1 e"®f0

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Which the Church Ci * r.nS'.siTs;. njte; thousand communicants. From the M Has Given Birth.

HE oldest, most !”aasfiSKra?tf£S historic Ro¬ man (Satholic Church in the State of Penn¬ sylvania i 3 * 11 was enlarged to 40x40 feet “Old St. Jos¬ eph.” This ‘tX, % Jrp?’' “urch remarkable home of the •PW. of great iSSSM Eff J ‘ Jesuits is bur¬ ied, so to speak, amid a «»da“Council o, J Jtl Pro' cluster o f Gordon informed the Council that hJ ?0? P r etenti ons business edi¬ fices within a stone’s throw Sflra^MS there h4 „ p Wat ,Kass was celebrated of Fourth and Walnut of.th? .corner H a stranger in Philadelnhinln^th-S °lty' visit “Old St JosenW-lfT . desires to !!he is at the cornerS FovrT'^ If Streets he must walk r^°Urtw and ^alnut to Willing’s Alley go eas["„n°Vh i !Veet 17d8, after the death of Governor Pm-L j acofSyhaUrDddt Penn famflSP0nd/nTCe passed between^be of a. I...S SUE sejftence-ld"It K as as £^*cssa& s-pSiSssS you must pass fhe mortals fnppearaiK:e. and tion of the scandal of the mass ” b beautiful interior whh ;+= to, ga??.,uPon wealth of stained gYass *ndPien,fhd altar-its different kinds and „*i.Works of art of iifSfSsss features. and other attractive . St. Joseph’s has been the scene of the a call purchased a large tract of land in IKBSS?

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INTERIOR OF ST. JOSEPH’S AS IT IS TO-DAY.

Berks County, and Father Greaton pur-; as up to this time many Thousands ot Irish chased a large tract for £51, and these two had arrived, it would seem that but a tracts became the residence and headquar¬ small proportion of them could have been ters of the Jesuits, and from there St. Jo¬ Roman Catholics, hut then a very large seph’s Church received many earnest: number of these immigrants went to the workers. interior of the State and settled there. A Swedish traveler named Kalin visited j It may be mentioned here as a little scrap of history that, although progress was Philadelphia in 1748, and, alluding to St. quite slow at St. Joseph’s Church about the > Joseph’s Church, he wrote: “The Boinan year 1755 and Roman Catholics did not Catholics have in the southwest Dart of the multiply very rapidly, still the few there town a great house, which is well adorned were created some alarm among the Protes¬ and has an organ.” St. Joseph’s Church tants and quiet Quakers. At that period continued to prosper slowly, despite the war existed between France and England; 1 existing prejudice against Catholicism, and and the Dews of Braddock’s defeat had : in April, 1757, Father Harding made a created considerable alarm. It was feared return to tne provincial authorities of the that the Protestants would be massacred number of Catholics under his charge. It is on record that the number of those under by the Catholics. A census had been the age of 12 who were full members of the ordered by Lord Louden, who was the com-j the church had received the sacrament were rr.ander of the British forces in America, seventy-two men and seventy-eight women. and the result showed that in and about It was further stated that the great ma¬ Philadelphia, in April, 1757, there was al jority of the communicants were Irish, but total of 403 Catholics above 12 years of age who received the sacraments, and that[) ST. JOSEPH’S ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO.

The large building to the right still stands, and adjoins the present church, and Is used as a Jesuit residence and college. The small building in the center is the first St. Joseph’s Church, and where the first Mass was celebrated. The building on the extreme left is the original parish

1253_ of these were Germans, and that the [victory at Yorktown, and that Congress, entire number in Pennsylvania was 1633. Washington and Lafayette were present. It was shown that besides the Catholics In commemoration of this supposed event who worshiped at St. Joseph’s Church in a Thanksgiving service took place at the Philadelphia there were others in Lancas I church on October 23, 1881, when the Rev. ter, Berks, Chester, Cumberland and York W. F. Clarke delivered an address. An in- Counties. So great was the fear of a Catho¬ ! vestigation shows, however, that Lafayette lic uprising that a law was passed prohib¬ was in Boston or on his way back to iting Soman Catholics from being mem¬ | France at that date. Mr. Martin L bers of militia companies, and they were I Griffin, the historian of old St. Joseph’s, prohibited from having in their possession made deep researches to establish the fact jany arms, military accoutrements, gun¬ that Washington at some time paid a visit powder or ammunition. I to St. Joseph’s, but was unable to do so. There are now records of the Board of l Health of this city that show the following In 17S3 Father Molyneaux opened a number of burials at St. Joseph’s Church, [school at St.Joseph’s, and the following and which give evidence of the progress of year Rev. John Carroll, afterward the I membership in the church: In 1749 there first American bishop,came to Philadelphia I were 18 burials; 1753, 21; 1756, 47; 1762, and administered confirmation at St. 50; and during a period of nine years there Joseph’s for the first time in this country. were 300 burials. From the building of The yellow fever raged with great violence i St. Joseph’s Church to the purchase of the in Philadelphia in 1797 and the pastors of iburial ground of St. Mary’s Roman Catholic St. Joseph’s were kept very busy affording Church there were about 700 deaths among the victims bodily relief and spiritual 'the Roman Catholics of Philadelphia. The consolation. A charity was organized by ground upon which the present St. Mary’s the St. Joseph’s congregation to take care Church is built was purchased by Father of all orphans. This became a permanent Harding, of St. Joseph’s, and the1 large charity under a plan of annual subscrip¬ graveyard in the rear of St. Mary’s formerly tions, and an act of incorporation was belonged to St. Joseph’s, and this explains passed in 1807. From this sprang the what is often a matter of wonder—that St. well-known St. Joseph’s Orphan Asylum, Joseph’s and St. Mary’s are erected so near , now located at the corner of Seventh and each other. The present St. Mary’s Church, Spruce Streets. on Fourth Street above Spruce, was built A running sketch of old St. Joseph’s from in 1763 by Father Harding with money left I the above date to the present time is as by Father Greaton, of St. Joseph’s, 'follows: In 1820 the Very Rev. Henry While old St. Joseph’s has its remin¬ Conwell, of Armagh, Ireland, was conse¬ iscences connectejlwith the Revolutionary crated bishop, and in 1821 he arrived at St. Joseph’s, and during the same year the War, there are no records to show thaCtlm church was visited by either Wash¬ church was enlarged. A notable event oc¬ ington, Lafayette or Franklin at the time curred at the church on February 13, 1824, they were in Philadelphia, although there when Bishop Conwell baptized Joseph is a sort of tradition that on November 4 Lucien Charles Napoleon Bonaparte, son 1781, a mass of Thanksgiving was cele¬ of Charles Lucien Bonaparte and his wife brated at the church in gratitude for the [Princess Zeniade Charlotte Julia, daughter of The King of Spain” The godmother “ eieties,anci at its conclusion an eloquent ad¬ was Letitia, mother of the Emperor Na¬ dress Was delivered by the celebrated Dr. poleon. In 1824 a still further enlargement Moriarty at the Chinese Museum, corner of of the church took place, and it was an¬ Ninth and Sansom, the present site of the nounced that “the chapel of St. Joseph’s ' Continental Hotel. is utterly disproportioned to the extensive It was in 1843 that the interior and ex¬ number of the congregation and in all re terior of St. Joseph’s were completely reu spects unsuited to the purposes of divine ovated and handsomely decorated, the worship.” In 1827, Rev. John Hughes, af¬ latter being done by the famous decorative terward the renowned Archbishop of artist, Signor Moniehesi. An event in the New York, who had been ordained at history of St. Joseph happened in 1844, 8t. Joseph’s and stationed at Bedford, when the noted Father Barbelin was elected Pa., was recalled and stationed at the pastor, and he held that position for St. Joseph’s. In June, 1830, the . cele¬ many years, and during the exciting period brated Bishop Kendrick came to Philadel¬ of the Native American riots. The Roman phia as coadjutor to Bishop Cornwall, Catholic Church burners, who were mas¬ and was stationed at St. Joseph’s, and on ters of the situation during those memorable April 1, 1832, Rev. John Hughes preached disturbances, did not attack or even his farewell sermon and went to St. John’s threaten the destruction of old St. Joseph’s Church,on Thirteenth Street above Chestnut, It was in 1847 that the very artistic and which he had erected. well-known statue of St. Joseph was placed In the year 1837 it was determined to in the church, at a cost of $450. build a new church, the old church being It may not be generally known, hut the about sixty feet in length, and entered popular and well-known St. Joseph’s Hos¬ from the west, and od Monday, May 7, pital, on West Girard Avenue, wa founded 1837, services were held in the old church by St. Joseph’s Church in 1848, and the for the last time, and on the following sisters of St. Joseph’s were the first ones in 4th of June the cornerstone of the present charge of the hospital. The hospital is an church was laid. A record was placed in offshoot of a society formed of mem¬ the corner stone which declared it to be bers of St. Joseph’s Church to re¬ “the first temple in which the hymn of lieve the wants of immigrants arriving thanksgiving was chanted to the God of in Philadelphia from Ireland. When the Armies, in the presence of Washington and movement began, in March, 1851, to erect his staff, and the representatives of France the Roman Catholic Cathedral, on Eigh¬ and the , for the blessings teenth Street, opposite Logan Square, St. bestowed on the infant Republic in the Joseph’s contributed $2000 collected, from struggle for right and liberty.” The con¬ members of the parish, and the parish is secration of the present church took place considered a poor one. Early in the year February 11, 1839, Rev. Felix Barbelin be¬ 1869 St. Joseph’s suffered a great loss in ing the pastor. On Sunday, September 27, the death of Father Barbelin, the pastor 1840, the 300th anniversary of the institu¬ for so many years, and after one or twoj tion of the Society of Jesus was celebrated successions, the present pastor, Rev. John at St. Joseph’s, and the ceremonies in this J. Scully, S.J., took charge. He is one of leading resort of the Jesuits were of a very the best known Jesuits in the United States, imposing character, many prominent Jes¬ and a man of deep learning. uits being present. On St. Patrick’s Day, In 1867 the announcement was made that 1841, the St. Joseph T. A.B. Society organ¬ a “new St. Joseph’s Church” would be ized and took a prominent part in a grand erected, and the site selected was a piece of ground at the corner of Seventeenth and temperance parade, which was the first cel-i Stiles Streets, a small street above Girard ebration, on a large scale, on temperance Avenue. Father Barbelin expected an principles that ever took place in the organization of the “Mater Admirabilis” United States. It was then resolved to for the collection of money to pay for the have another temperance demonstration on lot. A chapel was erected there called the 4th of July, which was done by St Jo¬ New St. Joseph’s aDd the name was seph’s, St.John’s, and St.Augustine’s So-| changed to the Holy Family, but as time -abv&p ijaflfffas (S . . . ■went on the present large ancT very impos¬ ing Church of the Jesu was erected, which, next to the Cathedral of 8t. Peter and St. I Paul, is the most spacious Catholic edifice in the city. The Catholic population of the parish of !01d St. Joseph’s is a large one, but is com¬ posed principally of people in moderate circumstances, and the parish is decreasing | from the fact that there have been many removals and so many dwellings hove been altered into stores and other kinds of business establishments. But St. Joseph’s is largely visited by members of other parishes. The church is visited at all hours, and the Jesuit fathers are always in attendance. I Among the art treasures in the interior | is a very valuable oil painting of the Crucifixion by Don Fedro Martinez, which I occupies a conspicuous place near the olished marble altar; an original painting y Rubens, thought to be the finest in this country: there is a beautiful painting of VERY REV. DANIEL I. M’DERMOTT. the Holy Family, after Murillo, and among other tine works of art are "The Father McDermott said in part: Nowhere Sacred Heart,’’ “Death of St. Joseph,’’ in the spiritual order are the power of God "Queen Esther Before King Assuerus.” a and the weakness, nay, the nothingness, of rare copy of “The Madonna’’ and a paint¬ man, the exalted character of the office and ing of “St. Aloysius Gouzaga.” There are the lowliness of him who fills it, more clearly other works of art belonging to the church manifested than in the ministry through in the adjoining residence and college, and which Christ’s doctrines are preached. His there may be found a painting of the Sacraments administered, and the Clean Ob¬ founder of the Society of Jesus, St. Igna¬ lation offered unto God. In the priesthood, tius, as well as a fine picture of St. Francis to-day, as when of old, it was composed of of Assisi, a very ancient copy of "Ecce illiterate, vascillating fishermen, God shows Homo,’’ and a painting of St. Theresa, tlie might of KIs arm in making the weak which was presented to St. Joseph’s Church things of the world overcome the strong, and by Charles Carroll, of Carrollton. One the foolish confound the wise. picture represents the return of the Holy How strikingly verified in the priesthood Family from Egypt, and another the angel are these words of St. Paul: “We have this trumpeting the judgment to St. Jerome. treasure in earthen vessels that the excel¬ lency may be of the power of God and not of I us. ’ ’ So entirely is this excellency of the power of God, so little does it depend upon the priest that his personal sanctity, however great, cannot increase the graces that flow through his hands to the people. Neither can his un- j worthiness diminish those graces. St. Angns- ! tine says: “Whelher it is Peter or Judas or John who baptizes, the baptism is the same, for it is Christ who baptizes through them.” “He,” sayTs Thomas A’Kempis, “is the principal author and invisible worker.” The excellency of this ministry is of the power of God and not of men. Paul may plant apple seeds, but God alone gives them increase. So little is this ministry even for the priest that he can ad¬ minister to himself but one sacrament, the BRATES HIS SILVER JUBILEE. I Holy Eucharist, and while this is an inestim¬ able privilege yet the priest cannot forget that it was accorded to the laity in time o! persecu¬ tion. The othc-r sacraments, even though he His Anniversary Sermon—A Sketch of His be Pope, the priest must penitently and ft Life—History of a Historic Edifice, Where reverently seek at the hands of another. the Te Deam Was Sung Before the Con¬ What is of less account than clay and spit¬ tinental Congress After Yorktown. tle? Yet, when made a paste, through Christ’s touch, they become a power even to restore sight to the blind without enhancing their in¬ Vcry Rev. Daniel I. McDermott, Pastor ot trinsic value. So the Priest, human clay St. Mary’s Roman Catholic Church, cele- though ho be, receives in virtue of ordination bra ted, at the High Mass yesterday morning a power in the spiritual order, lo restore sight liis silver jubilee, or the twenty-fifth anniver¬ to the blind, hearing to the deaf, health to the sary of his ordination to the Priesthood. Rev. sick and life to the dead, while he, himself, . Joseph C: Kelly was Deacon of the Mass, and remains the same slime of earth that he was 'Rev. James FJannigan, Sub-Deacon. The bclore. He knows that he has been conse¬ choir, under the direction of Joseph \ crated io a dread ministry not by reason of Michael, organist, rendered Gounod’s “Messo his own merits, but for the salvation of others, Solnelle, ” St. Cecilia,. Father McDermott that whilehis ministry may work miracles of ipreached on the “Priesthood.” taking his grace for others it may expose him only to |text from St. Paul, II Corinthians, chap, temptations that other men are saved from. tv, 5. 7. In the afternoon there was benediction and | the blessing of a new four-foot higli marble statue of St. Joseph and its altar. Both are the gilts of Mrs. A. Brennan. The statue was sculptured by Biais Aine at his studio in Paris, and it is a beautiful addition to the genius of the chisel in this city. A Sketch of Father McDermott. Daniel I. McDermott was born at Ennis¬ killen, Ireland, on the Fast of the Annun¬ ciation, 48 years ago. His parents came to America when he was yet an infant, and set¬ tled in Norristown, Pu., where at the schools and academies he received his early educa¬ tion. There being no Catholic school, his early preceptors were Protestant ministers. He entered St. Charles Seminary as Profes¬ TEE TABERNACLE / sor in Preparatory Mathematics, and in 1863 began his philosophy and theology. He was Ordained on Ascension Day, 1868. His first charge was at the Church of the Assumption, PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Spring Garden andTwelfth streets. Thence for a few years he was sent by his Bishop to help out wherever there was a priest wanted. In 1869, be took charge of Centralia Church. In 187.5, A Glimpse of the Beautiful West he assumed charge of the Pottsville Church. Remaining there a few years, he was sent to Philadelphia Edifice and build a new church at Chester. He remained there but a short while, when he went to Its Pastor. Omaha, Neb., as Vicar General under the Vicar Apostolic, Bishop O’Connor. After one year, in 1885, he was recalled to Philadelphia and made Pastor of St. Mary’s, where he has EMBLEMATIC STONE CARVINGS. remained ever since. During his pastorate over $50,001 has been spent upon the church, aud many more dollars will be required to preserve from decay this interesting land¬ The Fine Gothic Structure Which mark. St. Mary’s Church. Has Taken the Place of the St. Mary’s is the oldest Catholic church standing to-day in the State. It was built in Downtown Church, 1763 with Rev. Robert Harding as pastor. At that time St. Mary’s was regarded as a mis¬ and Its History. sion of St. Joseph’s, in Willing’s alley. On September 1st Father Harding died, and Rev. John Lewis succeeded to the charge, but he soon died, when Rev. Robert Molineaux be¬ Tabernacle Presbyterian Church, stand¬ came pastor, remaining until 1787. During his incumbency the Revolution was fought, ing on the southwest corner of Chestnut and after the battles Of Yorktown the Con¬ and Thirty-seventh Streets, is regarded by tinental Congress assembled in St. experts in architecture to be one of the Mary’s, attending solemn High Mass, at which the Te Deum was sung in thanksgiv¬ most beautiful and substantial specimens ing for the downfall of British supremacy in of tbe Gothic order to be found in this the colonies. At this service Lafayette’s chap¬ country. By those who have traveled lain delivered the sermon. There is a legend believed by many old people, but for which through the countries of the Old World and there appears to be little foundation, that once seen its famous churches, the Tabernacle upon a time Lafayette, with Washington as Church is said to rival the most noted of his guest, was present, and that these two heroes of different creeds crossed swords before English abbeys. From almost any point of the altar to their common God and swore to view on the east side, the church proper, fight for the liberty and independence of the with its fine tower, the chapel with its 13 States. cloistered porch and the adjoining manse Many old tombstones mark the burial spot form a picture of exquisite beauty. Nor is of historic persons, among them that of Com¬ the structure alone of interest. The church modore Barry. as an organization is one of the most his¬ In 1809 Pope Pius VII established the Epis¬ copal See of Philadelphia, and Rev. Michael toric in tbe city. Egan was appointed Us first Bishop. He marie The Tabernacle Presbyterian Church was St, Mary’s his cathedral. It remained the founded in 1804 as the First Independent cathedral until the building of St. John’s, on Church in an effort to establish English Thirteenth street, in 1831, when it was made independency, or Congregationalism, in the cathedra!. Philadelphia. It was made up of a small St. Mary’s is more closely identified with congregation of English Congregationalists, the early growth of the Catholic Church in or Independents,as they are known in Eng¬ Philadelphia than are all of the others. It land. They built a church on Kanstead has seen some troublous times, but it remains Street, between Fourth and Fifth Streets, to-day, so far as to its outward appearance, where the site for the Philadelphia Bourse viewing it from Fourth street, just the same is located. This structure was at that time as when it was built. Much of its inner beauty one of the finest church edifices in the city. and increased capacity is due to the energy This effort to establish Congregationalism of its present Pastor, Father McDermott. failed and the church was then re-organized as the Dutch Reformed Congregation. This effort, also, not succeeding, in 1809, the church organized as the Seventh Presby¬ terian Church. For many years the sessions ...

TABERNACLE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, of the General Assembly were held con¬ secutively in this original building and it j til 1870. In those scenes Albert Barnes, Rev. Drs. Beeman, Brainard, Plummer, rhnr?hPUTar& kn°Jn as the Assembly Church. In those days the assembly was Breckenridge, Boardman and many others not itinerating, going yearly from city of the most historic figures of Presbyterian¬ ism were personally concerned. this1 city8 D0W’ bUt WSS beld statedIy in The church continued on Ranstead Street THE^ SPLIT IN THE CHURCH. until 1848 when, under the pastorate of I historic building became the center Rev. Professor Willis Lord.it entered upon of the exciting dissenions preceding what is the classic edifice at Broad and Penn known as the Old and New School disrup¬ Square. Its central location after removal tion and within its walls oocurred the final made the Tabernacle Church the soene of scene of division which resulted in the first many of the most important historic and ecclesiastical meetings. Perhaps no other split into the Old and New School church edifice has been so closely associa¬ churches which was not finally, healed un- ted with religious movements in Philadel¬ phia, particularly those immediately con¬ cerning the Presbyterian Church. The Presbyterian Hospital was born and orig¬ inated in this building. Here, in 1872, the great Knox Ter-Centennary celebration oc¬ curred and out of which grew the world¬ wide organization known as the Pan-Pres- byterian Council. In 1861, during the exciting incidents im¬ mediately following the surrender of Fort Sumter the last General Assembly that included the Northern and Southern States was held here, and amidst intensest feeling the separation occurred which resulted in the Northern and Southern branches of the Church. The separation has not yet been healed and to-day the mother General As¬ sembly meets in Washington while its Southern daughter holds its sessions in Macon, Ga. Owing to the continued aggressions of business, the Penn Square building was sold in 1864 and several years later the con¬ gregation was transferred to West Philadel¬ phia, where, from the proceeds of the sale Rev. Henry C. McCook. principally, the handsome structure of to¬ day was erected. It was not completed, are ajl of' oak and prettily carved. The of iiwS,' however, until the Autumn and, church furnishings are also of oak. The was dedicated in May of the following year. | Nearly $215,000 were expended in com-i vestibule’at the Chestnut Street end of the church is very large and is separated from pleting the church and its chapel and manse j the body of. the church by a partition of adjoining. f cathedra] glass. The balcoiiy which ex¬ EMBLEMATIC CARVINGS. tends acros the church facing the pulpit The church is built of Potomac granite, extends half way round on the sides. It is a beautiful species of gray sienite varied divided into boxes, each containing four with pink and green. It is the only public comfortable arm chairs. edifice built of this stone in the city. The The chapel has a large cheerful lecture room toward Sansorn Street Its handsome window facings and ornamental parts are rose windows and oak covered ceilings to- i Indiana limestone which is artistically car¬ gether with the furnishings and pictures | ved both on the outside and within. Eev. make a very attractive room of ample Dr. Henry McCook, who is now and has dimensions. The ladies’ parlor is on thei been for nearly twenty-nine years the pas¬ right of this room on entering and is tor of the church, was given sole charge of divided from the lecture room by heavy the decorations and the carvings which curtains which are drawn back when a were for th^ most -part - modeled by him larger space is desired. and consist of examples of ecclesiastic her-1 On the lower floor, or basement, is the aldry, emblems,etc., of which he has been pastor’s study, tbe young men’s room, and for many years a special student. a supper room and kitchen. Each has its The carving over the tower gate when proper furnishings and is complete in closely examined is discovered to be par¬ every detail. ticularly fine and elaborate. On the upper The story of Tabernacle Church would; arch is the inscription carved in stone, not be complete without at least some ref { “Behold, I have set before you an open erence to the pastor, Eev. H. C. McCook, door.” Through this inscription run vines under whose guidance it has prospered for typical of the biblical history proper to more than a quarter of a century. the inscription. On the lower arch are Eev.Dr.McCook was called to the pastor¬ the words,“I stand at the door and knock, ate of the church in November, 1869, when and again the associated carvings repre¬ the congregation was still worshiping in sent biblical history; in fact a description the Penn Square Church. He was installed of the carvings alone would make an inter¬ on January 18, 1870. As a preacher, au¬ esting story. They all have a significance thor and scientist his renown is of morel whioh to every Bible student is full of than local celebrity. Pie has found time in) meaning. Over the eastern gate to the the midst of his clerical duties to write a chapel, looking toward the Orient, in number of books, some ecclesiastical in which the Bible scenes transpired, is a character, others profound in scientific risen sun, typifying the resurrection of research. His three-folio volume on the Saviour. And again, on the arch of “American Spiders and Their Spinning-1 the door leading from the chapel to the work” is a standard work on the subject. I church, is told in stone the story of the On the same line, his “Tenants of an Old humiliation of the Lord, from the serpents Farm” has been received with popular at the lower extremities of the arch to favor and has run through a number of the thorn-crowned cross surmounting the editions in this country and in England,' apex. . where several of his books have been re¬ The interior of the church reminds one published. “The Agricultural Ant of, of the major parish churches, or smaller Texas” is the subject of another volume of cathedrals of England. The lofty ceiling, scientific study. On subjects relating tof of light-colored wood, runs to a peak by his profession he has written "The Object graceful curves. Above the organ space and Outline Teacher,” for the use of Sun¬ in the south end of the churoh a rose win¬ day school superintendents and teachers dow in beautiful colors reflects the rays “Women Friends of Jesus,” “Teachers’ of the afternoon sun. The side windows Commentaries on the Life of Jesus,” in two are unusually large, and as yet, with one volumes; “The Gospel of Nature,” embrac-j exception, are of cathedral glass. The ing a series of popular lectures, and a1 exception is in the eastern chancel where a volume on “Ecclesiastical Emblems” of memorial window of stained glass has been which he has the most complete collection placed by Rev. McCook and his brother, in the country if not in the world. General Anson G. McCook, of Washington, Eev. Dr. McCook is personally one of the' in memory of their father and mother. most affable of men, meeting all with Near it stands the font, of caen-stone, the whom he comes in contact with an easy, gifts of William J. Latta, as a memorial grace of manner that has brought him many: to his his father and mother. friends in and out of his church. He is The rafters and beams of the ceiling plain and straightforward in his speech are exposed, the arches being notably fipe, and consistently practices what lie! and rest on oak hammer beams which preaches. He is chaplain of the First! are ornamented at the ends by carved Eegiment of the National Guard of Penn-1 angels forming a group of five on either syjyania and is as popular with the men as side and overhanging the balcony. with the members of his own congregation. INSIDE THE CHURCH. The windows are carved out of Indiana limestone and granite into which the glass has been set. The vast chancel arch, as high as an ordinary four-story house,is also of the same stone and is suitably carved and inscribed. The organ, which cost $8000, and which has a remarkably sweet tone, is placed directly behind the pulpit in the center of the northern SaL”. • The pulpit facing and the reredos whicn separate the ^pulpit from the organ space jnumber of philanthropic citizens of Phila- From, i^elphia instituted the charitable schools of 'that city. It was a hundred years before the Mays of tree schools; the boys and girls of ; Penn s province obtained the elements of education then at home, as was much the fashion among the Quakers, or in rate! KK*’ UT«y rk6pt by resPe°lable old Fate, ■fya^.J:^./ f?3, ladies or, if the family was of the richer ■ J jffl4l’Jhe cblldreD ffiisht have a tutor. In | 1749 there was a man in Philadelphia who A linden tree, eight feat mdiiameter, supposed to be at least 150 years o%>f imported from Eog- had migrated from Boston, in a very lan 1 by a resident of tjermantown, and believed humble way, nearly thirty years before no be the largest of its soecies in this eonntry, i&“‘» ?:;•»«>». h. »L ”*2irS was felled Thursday, on the old Wisterproperty, . Itean. He liked to think on his self-won Main street above Ohelten avenue, now known as Vernon Park. Many years ago its decaying limbs were held together by a large chain, but lately it commenced to crumble away at the ftrnnk-, and it was deemed wise to cut it down. tes’fasS.V.aSStfS

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Children to private scloni? S~end ‘heir allow them to grow Un to achoolsmthe1' thaD Send them“> *han free8 ienjamin Franklin and the I A modest beginning. ranklin sought to remedy this evil hv Great Institution of Learn¬ founding an academy, where the you l of the province might study the English ing Whieh He [language, practical mathematics, nafural Wory, ancient and modern history and Founded. the pnncjpies Qf businpss_ He bad g*»<[ of publfcaff “y 13 ll45’ hut the oorfdituL attempt tf establish® fh°vin?e “ade ‘he )LD PENNSYLVANIA'S RECORD ,(terlikely to I had cornetPr^cher- Bhaken by The History of the University Pub¬ lished by the United States Gov¬ ernment-How Franklin’s Ideas on Education Have Influ¬ man could fill the new meeting house wPh enced the System of worshippers. Franklin Z, mtb ^ademy-Sh0eUre * buAldin* f°r his propped the Country. academy, he consulted with his friends and as he was a member of the board of tnistees who had built the meeting house “ and the University ““*■ f,,°" ■ [Of Pennsylvania,’’ is the title of a volume It was purchased, slightly altered for its Wn to be issued by the United States Hew purposes and reopened as the Phila¬ 'Government. It sketches the growth and delphia Academy. The reputation of the school grew rapidly. Dr. William Smith [Work of the institution from its foundation was chosen reetqr and a course of study, to the present day. The University of Penn¬ drawn up by him, was adopted. Franklin sylvania dates its birth from 1740, when a f aid not Jike the course because it provided **

THE MAIN COLLEGE BUILDING FROM THE SOUTHWEST,

tor instruction in Latin and Greek and The anademy was founded in trying] seemed to neglect the English language times._ The_ Penns gave _ it a charter **»iin and literature. As it was impossible to 1753, but they forgot to give it an endow¬ support the school without the ancient lan¬ ment. The discords preceding the Revolu¬ guages in the course,Franklin compromised tion divided its friends and its halls were for the sake of obtaining funds to support almost deserted. Meanwhile another in¬ »*■ - the school; but be recorded his objections and forty years later, a short time before stitution bad arisen with which Franxlin j was identified; “Ibomas and Richard his death, he wrote an elaborate paper, long celebrated for its argument, on “The Penn, true and absolute proprietaries oi the ." bad granted a Original Intentions of the Founders of the charter to the College of Philadelphia and Philadelphia Academy,” in which he ar¬ gued very ably that it was the original in¬ Franklin was named in the grant. tention to found an English school. This college had a brief and stormy his¬ tory : it suffered from friend and foe. It is FRANKLIN’S EDUCATIONAL IDEAS. true that the Lord High Chancellor of The arguments he adduced in support of England, by orders in Council permitted such a school have long been the common Dr. Smith to collect funds for it in England opinion of the majority of Americans that and he was aided by the Archbishop ct an English education is “best adapted to Canterbury. But the Provost returned to America, richer by some $26,000, only to such a country as burs.” He first drew the find the social discords graver and the po¬ indictment against the study of the Greek litical excitement more intense, the hour and Latin languages to the exclusion of of revolution had struck; the new college modern tongues and he asserted, what is was confused with party politics and the now generally admitted, that in a school a Assembly of Pennsylvania having looked choice of linguistic studies should be per¬ into the college” saw a point there to_be mitted and that Latin and Greek should gained for the popular cause. They dis¬ have no preference over English, French possessed the olu trustees in 1779 and or Spanish. If anyone will compare a cat- ■ ereoted a new corporation “conformably to alogue of Harvard, Yale, Pennsylvania, j the revolution” under the name of the Columbia or Princeton of to-day with their) University of tbe estate of Pennsylvania. catalogue of a century ago, or, even of: THE UNIVERSITY CHARTERED. thirty years ago, he will discover to what Ten years later, the Legislature restored extent American education has been influ¬ the old college, and united the charitable enced by Franklin’s ideas on the study ofi schools, the academy and the college unde the languages; the modern course is a Franklin course. the title bv which the corporation has ever since been known, “The University miiwiimmuiio

THE MEDICAL COLLEGE FROM THE WEST. of Pennsylvania;’’ this sensible action 13.000 courses by students from the South - making an epoch ih the educational history era States; 1000 by students from the five of America, was suggested and hastened States north of the Ohio; 876 by students forward by Franklin. Three years earlier from ; nearly 700 by students he had returned from his memorable mis¬ from Central and South America and the sion to France; had been welcomed by the West Indies: 400 from Great Britain and University and by the Commonwealth; to British Possessions in North America; 114 both greetings he bad replied, and to the from the continent of Europe, and the re¬ sound interests of noth he devoted the re¬ mainder of the great total of 66,747, from maining years of his life, as President of the Pacific Slope, Asia. Australasia and the Commonwealth, and as President of Africa. Probably no university in America the Board of Trustees of the University. (has a large aggregate of influence, espe¬ The University thus founded more than a cially through that part of the country south century and a half ago, rauks fourth in of New York, extending to the Gulf of age among American universities, and Mexico, through South America, Mexico, third at the present time in the number of Central America and the West Indies. students, but has a larger faculty, in the ratio of attendance, than any other univer¬ THE SIEDI CAL SCHOOLS. sity in the country. The order of times in The reason for this vast influence is I the founding of the four oldest schools in largely due to the Medical School of the the United States is Harvard, 1626; Wil¬ University. Medical lectures began under liam and Mary, 1693; Pennsylvania, 1740. Dr. Thomas Cadwalader in 1751, and soon Since the days of Franklin the university after, regular notices of lectures appear in has been attended by mem from 113 differ¬ ent States and countries and has given the . The Medical more than 66,000 annual courses. The enor- School of the University of Pennsylvania |mou3 influence of such an institution is is the oldest, the largest and the most hardly apparent from such a statement widely known school of its kind on this but it is clearer when that influence is lo¬ continent. It has more living graduates cated over this and other countries. Of than any other, and they are found in this' vast amount of instruction. 35,000 every State and territory, and indeed, in courses have been taken by students from every country. While Jefferson was Presi¬ the Middle States: New York, New Jer¬ dent he wrote to Dr. Caspar Wistar, the sey, Pennsylvania and Maryland; nearly eminent anatomist;-in whose memory Geu- ■ * "’istar bas.recentlv founded the 12 Wistar Institute 'of Anatomy and Biology that he considered the iMedical School in American history and institutions, poiiti- •Philadelphia the best in the world and i that he wished to matriculate his grand--' institutfons and the histo^ son, young Randolph, in it. The eminent! During the past ten years under i*ts nres physicians, surgeons and general practi-! Petner 7°tS|!p the 9721 in 1892-93,, edition of Blackstone, Miller, Michel’, 87 ’ 579! Morris, Bispham, Dallas, Patterson, all of buildings all MODEBN. whom are well known to the American Bar, There still remain in the University as practicing attorneys, and some of them as distinguished Federal Judges. past TI0US 7ldeno‘es of honorable The University has been the first to es¬ past Among the collections in the Uni- tablish other schools of the kind, and thus 100 ooo honra7’ TLich contains more than to shape the education of the country. 100 000 bound volumes and as many pam¬ Nearly all the medical schools of the phlets is the now almost useless library West and Southwest were founded by grad¬ presented by Louis XVI of France, incluZ uates of the University of Pennsylvania; ing a complete and rare set of the famous this is especially true of Southern Ohio, encyclopedia (written in part by Voltaire) I Kentucky, Tennessee, West Virginia, Mis¬ whose fearfui influence the French Govern- souri, Alabama, South Carolina, North Carlolina, Texas and Maryland. Frantr6? 7 VW? t0 8uPPress; a portion of ; So great has been the reputation of the W kllD ! electrical apparatus.and curious I medioal school, many have supposed that instruments made by the astronomer IUt the University consists of no other depart¬ If rf" f ments. On the contrary it consists of this ftor *1 TT * centhry. But a vis-1 and of sixteen other schools. ltor to the University, as he exam i oenr ’k thaD twenty magnifi-1 INFLUENCE ON EDUCATIONAL METHODS. cent buildings, equipped with the The College of Arts was the first in complex apparatus of modern edn I America to adopt the now familiar four canon, will scarcely suspect that he is at years’ course,introduced by Provost Smith. an ancient seat of learning, for none of its The Towne Scientific School, founded in present buildings used foV academfc work ! 8ie more than twenty vpHr« nlr? tt m i 1850 and reorganized twenty-five years for the institution, it was moved out of its! la tei^offers exhaustive courses of four and city^itVold sfteDhtbe CentraJ Portion of the! five years in general science, chemistry “ty’ t? oJd 81 te beipg now occupied by the) electrical, mechanical, civil engineering and new courses in chemical engineering So, too, the University has its School of Biology, founded in 1883, alreadv crowded With students; its School of Veterinary Medicine, thoroughly equipped with hos¬ pitals, founded in 1882; its Dental School servative and progressive; the smell of the rivaling its great medical colleague in eighteenth century is traceable here and fame, founded m 1878, and recently made b-e but barely traceable. The great more complete by adopting a four years’ school is as modern o? if i+ i j i e , course; the Wharton School of Finance founded within a decade! * bad beenl Ji .fo?”ded1881, the pioneer J he influence of Harvard ,„,i v 1 • school of Us kind in this country, based upon the idea that Franklin had repeatedly enunciated that the principles of business, a nfi°T81 a?d Political science, philosophy I Si yiESS l)CpS CiHlkiBenvn history and government are I suitable subjects for study in such a coun¬ try as ours.

TT°-Uld there be omitted a mention of the University Hospital, the first to be associated with a university in this coun- Mon/u’ hke Pemberton, Neill and) lZhthe • horatory of Hygiene, magnifi- McClellan; eminent scientists Ht-1 ently equipped for the exhaustive study of Leidy, perhaps America’s mn-f* naturalist, and Physic can S ° hea thr'' tbe School of Ameri- American surgery• Prankhn £at\er of! l«oi 7* 7 and Institutions, founded in ]J3’ closely after Franklin’s ideas in edu- grandson of Benjamin Bacbe. 3 cation, for its course of study consists of >n the annals of chemhtrv u e“TDt! Tilghman, Meredith

SEETCH OF EEV. DE. LIPPINGOTT.

Organized with Twenty-Five Mem¬ bers, It Increases to 600, and Erects a Structure Costing $260,000, Entirely Paid For.

One of the edifices that attract the atten¬ tion and elicit the admiration of strangers on Forth Broad Street is the handsome Arch Street Methodist Episcopal Church. While this congregation has built a church that is an ornament to the city, it has done much more than that; it has made itself a living fountain of good and benevo¬ lent deeds.. Rev. Josh ea Allan Lippincott, D. D. The organizers of this church numbered less than twenty-five persons. They met The parsonage'at 1T0 iNortn seventeenth first in a hall at the northeast corner oF Street was purchased in April, 1875. Tow¬ Arch and Broad Streets on Sunday morn¬ ard the latter part of 1875 the church was crowded every night, with overflow meet¬ ing, March 23. 1862, and the first sermon ings from the Evangelistic efforts of Moody was preached by Bev. Dr. John P. Durbin, and Sankey, who were holding nightly ser¬ at the morning service and in the evening vices at the depot. Thirteenth and Market Bev. Theodore Stevens delivered a dis¬ Strets, and during the Centennial Exhibi¬ course. tion in 1876, at almost every service, tbe On the next Sunday, March 30, Bev. aisles were filled with people who were not Dr. Aaron Bittenhouse, who had been able to secure seats and Bev. Dr. B. M. Hat¬ field, then pastor of the church, frequently assigned as pastor of the infant church, conducted three services on Sunday. came and preached his first sermon and During the pastorate of Bev. Dr. Otis H. formally organized the church by receiving Tiffany, in 1881-82, the balance of the twenty-two persons as members by certifi¬ i church’s indebtedness, amounting to about cate and two on probation. The Sunday school on that afternoon mustered twenty- $30,000, was wiped out. Then the church eight officers and teachers and fifty-six began to spread its mi ssion work, and in November, 1883, under the pastorate of scholars. Bev. Andrew L4ngacre, St. Luke’s M. E. BENEVOLENCE Of? ITS MEMBERS. Chnr-b, at Broad and Jackson Streets, was The benevolent contributions for the first organized as an offshoot and under the aus- year amounted to $1086.47, and the current Sices of Bev. Dr. J. A. M. Chapman, St. expenses of the church and Sunday school [atthew’s M. E. Church, at Fifty-third amounted to $2993.81. Before the church and Chestnut Streets was organized in tbe Fall of 1888, and both of these branches had been organized two years, in January, have been vigorous and prosperous. 1864, the lot at the southeast corner of THE PRESENT CONGREGATION. Arch and Broad Streets was purchased for $25,000, and in April of the same year the At the present time the united Sunday lot at the northeast corner of Broad and schools of the parent church and its two Cuthbert was purchased for $10,000. On branches count 825 pupils, and at the last June 11, 1864, the charter was adopted at conference, March, 1893, it reported a a meeting of the male members. About chuich membership of over 600 and an ag¬ tbis time work was begun on the chapel gregate of contributions to the general be¬ building, and on June 30, 1865, it was nevolences of the church in addition-fo the completed and opened for inspection, expenses of its own organization, of $5600. Bishop Matthew Simpson, D. D., and Bev. In every respept Arch Street Church is in Dr. John P. Durbin being present. On the a good and p^ispeorus condition, and is first Sunday in July, 1865, the chapel was doing valuable work for the denomination dedicated with appropriate ceremonies. and the community. On this occasion Bishop Simpson preached The church'has been fortunate in having at the morning service and Bev. Dr. Durbin had an eloquent and earnest ministry. in the evening. The ministers who have been in charge On April 8, 1867, at a meeting of the since the organization, in 1862 are as fol¬ male members, it was decided to build low: Bev. Dr. Aaron Bittenhouse. Bev. the main edifice. The building was soon Bobert J.Carson, Bev. James F.McClel- begun and was finished $nd dedicated in iand, Bev. Thomas M. Griffith, itev. Dr. November, 1870, having cost about $260,- Charles H. Payne. Bev. Dr. Henry W. War¬ 000. This was not all paid in, however, ren, Bev. Dr. Bobert M. Hatfield, Bev. Dr. and in 1872, under the pastorate of Bev. Otis H. Tiffany, Bev. Dr. Andrew Longacre, Dr.H. W. Warren, an earnest effort was Bev. Dr. J. A. M. Chapman, Bev. Dr. Henry made to extinguish the church debt, which Baker and Bev. Dr. Lippincott. at that time was a little over $70,000, and the effort was successful to a degree. 15

The present pastor,Rev. Dr. Joshua Allan Lippincott, was born in Burlington are found in New Jersey and Pennsyl¬ County, N. J., and is a descendent of vania. He graduated from Dickinson Col¬ Richard Lippincott.who left the old family lege in 1858 and was admitted to theWyom- home in Devonshire, England, in 1639, to mgConference, northeast Pennsylvania, in establish himself in the then New World 1865. and from whom a long lineof^ jescendents Since that time he has filled a number of important positions in the pulpit of the Methodist Episcopal Church and also in erect, in Independence Square, the Supreme the educational fielckHe was fpr nine years ■ Court having decided upon the society’s right professor of mathematics and astronomy to use the square as a site for that purpose, in Dickinson College and thence in 1883' will, considered in both an artistic and his¬ was called to the chancellorship of the torical sense, form a valuable and most ap¬ University of Kansas. In 1889 he resigned propriate addition to the objects of public in¬ the chancellorship to accept the pastorate terest in tills city. No more suitable locatioii of the First Methodist Episcopal Church, can well be imagined than that which the so¬ in Topeka, Kans., one of the largest and ciety has contended for in Independence most influential churches in the West I Square, where the noble equestrian statue of From the First Church of Topeka he was Washington might stand amidst associations called to the pastorate of Arch Street! ancient as the Society of the Cincinnati itself, Church. within the very shadows of Independence Hall.

1

Date, . 1 INDEPENDENCE SQUARE.

THAT IS V/HERE THE WASHINGTON MONUMENT IS TO GO.

THE SITE DECIDED UPON YESTERDAY

BY THE TRUSTEES AND COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. CAPTAIN WILLIAM WAYNE. The history of the monument is an old one, WORK TO BE BEGUN IMMEDIATELY and full of historic interest, As far back as July 4th, 1810, the Society of the Cincinnati, on a motion made by Charles Biddle, decided| to establish a memorial of its respect for the HISTORY OF TEE MONUMENT AND OF late Fatberof his Country by erecting a monu¬ ment to his memory, and a committee, con¬ THE ORGANIZATION. sisting of David Lenox, Richard Peters, Wil-, liam Jackson, Charles Biddle and Horace Binncy, was appointed to prepare apian tor The members of the Standing Committee raising the necessary funds. This was vir¬ and of the Trustees of the Washiuglon Monu¬ tually the first Board of Trustees of the Wash¬ ment Fund of the Society of the Cincinnati ington Monument Fund. Subscriptions were held a special meeting yesterday afternoon, started, but interest flagged in the project, at the Hotel Bellevue, and decided upon the and, as tire sum collected was insufficient to immediate erection of the Monument to Wash¬ erect a suitable monument, the funds were al¬ ington in Independence Square. lowed to lie for accumulation. * Captain William Wayne presided and those A Citizens’ Fund. J present were Richard Dale, Francis M. Cald¬ In 1821 a number of citizens of Philadelphia well, Harris E. Sproat, Grant Weidman, started a fund for a similar purpose. William Macpherson, Hornor, Dr. Charles P. They met at the Merchants’ Coffee House Turner, James Glentworth, George L. Mark- October 1, 1824. John Sergeant presided, and land, Colonel John Biddle Porter, Major Gen¬ Clement C. Biddle acted as secretary. The eral Galusha Penuypacker, U. S. A., and W. committee to carry the project into effect con¬ W. Porter. tained such distinguished names as Horace Messrs. Wayne. Dale, Weidman, Caldwell, Binney, Richard Dale, Stephen Girard,Philip and Turner, composing the Trustees of the A. Pliysick, General John Steele, Charles i Washington Monument Fund, together with Chauncey, General Thomas Cadwalader and Messrs. Hornor and Sproat, were appointed a Joseph R Ingersoll. Itwas designed, if pos¬ Building Committee to proceed at once with sible, to co-operate with the Society of the the erection of the monument in Independ¬ Cincinnati and to request General Lafayette to ence Square, in accordance with the directions lay the corner-stone. Elihu Chauncey was of the society. unpointed treasurer of this citizens’ fund, A minute was made expressing regret at the which accumulated in the hands of various loss of Charles H. Boude, of Baltimore, who gentlemen until it came into the custody of was killed recently by being thrown from his the Pennsylvania Trust Company. In 18S0, by carriage while driving. order of the Court of Common Pleas, this fund, The Washington Monument, which the So¬ theni amounting to f-50,000, was turned over to, ciety of the Cincinnati is now at liberty to the Society of the Cincinnati to be used in con¬ junction with the latter’s fund of $1.37,000 for the erection of a Washington monument. gyy' - t-

THE WASHINGTON MONUMENT

be placed in INDEPENDENCE SQUARE by SOCIETY OB TUB CINCINNATI

. . ,, TI'eQiTestion wETsIteTT™ ~ tlrne wiieG this was accomplished I delivered by Judge Mitchell, 'filial* deter- j mined that the site of the monument was a j nf0"!. ™ad<: ?n ordw' that the fflonn- Efnt’ constructed with the joint funds question for tire Society of the Cincinnati should be erected in Fairmount Park.’ a.one, and that no Court had power toindi- The quesiion of what site the monument Icute where the monument should be erected. should occupy was an important one. The K-ociety of the Cincinnati, afterexaminingand discussing the question exhaustively, decided upon Independence Square. The City Conn- oils passed an ordinance permitting the erec- tion ot the monument in that place, and I Mayor Stuart, after a hearing of the case ex- ipijssed lnsapproN-a! ofthe ordinance. Con- b.deiable opposition, however, among persons ) outsideo. the Society of the Cincinnati was

eS17es?ed 10 ths use of Inde¬ pendence Square lor such a purpose. The in¬ fluence ot the leading newspapers was en¬ listed on one side or the other and public In¬ terest Mas aroused. The Public Ledges throughout the contest, supported the right! or the Sqcu^of the Cincinnati, of which its I publisher, Mr. George W. CbildiTisTan horn 01 ary member, and advocated the use of Inde¬ pendence Square. As it now became necessary to modify the mfrnft TueT(1 in 1S80’ an application was made to the Court of Common Pleas No 1 to eliminate that portion of the decree which required the erection of the monument in Fan-mount Park. The Common Pleas Court deemed to allow the amendment of the de tree to be made, whereupon the Society of the r™Tn^ 0'f,(a“-appeal to tde Supreme RICHARD DALE. (ouit. The latter, in an opinion recently I' 'Hlf Ujlimiilii nji 5 ■" 18

. .Iriiir— ( providing it was not taken beyond the city of Pniladelphia, thus overruling the Court of Common Pleas, and permitting the erection of the monument in Independence Square. ; The parties appearing in the recent litiga-j tion as opposed tJ the use of Independence Square for such a purpose were the First City Troop and W. Henry Shively, but it was gen-1 erally understood that the chief instigators were certain ladies of the Colonial Dames, one of the most outspoken of whom was Mrs. E. D. Gillespie. In this case the society was ably represented by the Hon. George W. Biddle| and William W. Porter, Esq., with whom Grant Weidman, Esq., of Lebanon, and Wil¬ liam Macpherson Horner, Esq., of this city, were associated, although the two latter gen-' tlemen were unable to be present at the oral argument at the bar of the Court. The Monument. The area which the monument covers will not take up more than one-thirty-seventh of| the open square, although oneef the objections offered to the site by those opposed to it was that the square was too small for such a pur¬ pose,and that it would overshadow Independ¬ ence Hall. It will not, as was pointed out in GRANT WEIDMAN. the editorial columns of the Pubt.ic Ledgek at the time of the discussion, be within 209 ary of our city parks. Professor Rudolph feet or more of that edifice, the entire height I Siemering, the artist whose design was chosen, j being 44 feet. From an oblong platform, six is a celebrated sculptor of Berlin. When in feet six inches high, of Swedish granite, and position the monument will have cost over 9250,000. reached on four sides by 13 steps, symbolical of the 13 original States, rises a pedestal It is now in this country, being stored in bearing an equestrian statue in bronze parts at the Pennsylvania Storage Company of General Washington. The father of bis and in Fairmount Park. The equestian statue country is represented in the colonial arrived in Philadelphia in October, 1887, and uniform of the American army, a large mili- now stands under cover at the right side of the tavy cloak being thrown artistically around Green street entrance of the Park. his commanding figure. While dignified, the The Scions of Patriots. whole conception is lull of animation. In his The Society of the Cincinnati, to the Penn¬ left hand Washington holds the reins of his sylvania Branch of which the city of Phila¬ hoikb, one of the animal’s fore feet being delphia will he indebted for the beautiful raised in the act of moving. At the four cor¬ monument which may now be erected in In¬ ners of the platform are fountains, served by 1 dependence Square, is an unique organization allegorical figures of American Indians, repre¬ whieli originalcd among the officers of the senting four rivers, the , Hudson, American Revolutionary Army in 1783. It Potomac and Mississippi. On the sides each contains on its roll of members the most dis¬ of these fountains is guarded by typical Amer- tinguished names in American history. icau animals, eight in all. At the front and While taking its vise in the struggles for back of the pedestal are two allegorical republican principles, it is essentially of an groups. That on the front represents Amer¬ exclusive and aristocratic character, admis¬ ica, seated, and holding in one hand a cornu¬ sion being jealously guarded by rigid rules,1 copia, in the other a trident, and having at which restrict the right of membership to the her feet chains just cast off. She is in the act eldest male in descent from the original mem¬ of receiving from her victorious sons the bers. The direct line of descent becoming I trophies of their conquest. Below this group extinct, the eldest male of the next collateral is an eagle supporting the arms of the United branch is then eligible to membership. States. The group in the hack represents The Society’s Institution. America arousing her sons to a sense of their The “Institution” of the society set forth slavery. Below are the arms of Pennsyl¬ that: “It having pleased the Supreme Gov¬ vania. On the sides of the pedestal are two ernor of the Universe, in the disposition of has reliefs, one representing the march of the human affairs, to cause the separation of the American army,_the other a Western-bound Colonies of North America from theDomin-j emigrant train. On one side the pedestal ion of Great Britain,and after a bloody conflict bears the inscriptions, “Sic Semper Tyran- of eight years to establish them free and inde¬ nus,’’and “Per Aspera ad Astra;” on the pendent sovereign States, connected by al¬ other, “Westward the Star of Empire takes liances founded on reciprocal advantage with its Way. ” Surrounding the upper portion of j some of the great Princes and Powers of the the pedestal is the legend, “Erected by t lie j earth: State Society of the Cincinnati of Pennsyl¬ “l’o perpetuate, therefore, as well the Rc- j vania.” membrance of this Vast Event as the mutual; The equestrian statue, the figures and the Friendships which have been formed under has relief, as well as the numerous other or¬ the Pressure of common Danger,and in many namentations are of bronze, while the plat¬ Instances cemented by the Blood of the Part- j form, pedestal, etc., arc of Swedish granite, i ies, the Officers of the American Army do! The entire height of the monument, as stated1 hereby in the most Solemn Manner associate, | above, is about 41 feet. The ground plan of: constitute and combine themselves Into one the platform is 61 by 74 feet, and the pedestal Society of Friends, to endure as long as they!, 17 by 30 feet. The monument as a whole, shall endure or any of their Eldest Male Pos¬ judging by the picture of it, will present a terity, and in failure thereof the Collateral most pleasing and elegant appearance, and| Branches, who may be judged worthy of be¬ will be not only an embellishment to the his¬ coming its supporters and members. toric ground where it may soon stand, but ‘ ‘The officers of the American Army, having ! also a valuable addition to the artistic statn- generally been taken from the citizens of Ame- Mil ■ ■ ■■ . Kochambeau and the Generals and Colonels of his army, with the announcement that the rica, possess high veneration for the charac- society did itself the honor to consider them terof thatillustrious ltoman, Lucius Q,uintms members. Cincinuatus, and being resolved to follow his example bv returning to their citizenship, they Washington Elected President. think that they may, with propriety, dcnom- At a meeting of the general officers and gen¬ jinate themselves The Society of the Cinctn- tlemen delegated by the various regiments as a convention for establishing the Society of ! nati.” The principles on which the society was the Cincinnati, presided over by Major Gen¬ based included tire preservation of the exalted eral Baron de Steuben, there were present rights and liberties of human nature, for Major General Howe, Major General Knox, which the founders had fought and bled; the Brigadier Generals Patterson, Hand, Hunt¬ i promotion of union and national honor be¬ ington and Putnam, Colonel Webb, Lieutenant tween the respective States, so essentially ne¬ ICoionel Huntington, Major Pettingill, Lieu¬ cessary to their happiness and the future dig¬ tenant Whiting, Colonel H. Jackson, Captain nity of the American Empire, and to perpet¬ Shaw, Lieutenant Hull, Lieutenant Colonel uate the cordial affection then subsisting Maxwell and Colonel Cortlandt. At this among the officers of the Americau Army. imeeting Commander-in-Chief General George It was provided that the general society Washington was ciiosen to officiate as Presi¬ should be divided into. State societies, and dent General of the Society until the first gen¬ these again into such districts as the State eral meeting, and Major Generals McDougall societies should direct. The latter were to meet and Knox were chosen Treasurer General and annually on July 4th, or oftener,if expedient. Secretary General respectively. The general society was to convene in May, The State Society. | annually, if convenient, otherwise triennially. The Pennsylvania branch of the Society of the The Order ot the Cincinnati, Cincinnati was organized in accordance with j The society was to have an Order in the the provisions made by the General Society, I form of a medal, to distinguish its members. on October 4, 1783, when a meeting was held I The principal figure was to be Cincinnatus, at the City Tavern, in Philadelphia, and tlie three Senators presenting him with a sword following officers chosen: The Honorable and other military ensigns; on a field in the Major General St. Clair, President; the Hon¬ background, his wife standing at the door ot orable Brigadier General Wayne, Vice Presi¬ their cottage, near it a plough and instruments dent; the Honorable Brigadier General Irvine, I of husbandry; around the whole, Omnia reli- Treasurer; Colonel Johnston, Assistant Treas¬ quit servara Itempublicam. On the reverse, urer. the sun rising, a city with open gates, vessels On July 0,1774, the following gentlemen were • entering the port; Fame crowning Cincinna¬ elected to serve on the Standing Committee: tus with a wreath inscribed Virtulus Prae- Messrs. John Dickinson, Richard Humpton, mium. Below, hands joined, supporting a. Lewis Nicola, Thomas B. Bowen, William heart, with motto, JSsto Perpetua. Hound the Macpherson, Thomas L. Moore and Matthew whole, Socielas Cincinnatorum, instituta A. V. McConnell. \l7S3. Thirteen gentlemen have had the honor of holding the office of President of the Society of the Cincinnati, of Pennsylvania, after General St. Ciair. These, with the dates of their election are : Thomas Mifflin, 1789; Ed¬ ward Hand, 1799: William Irvine, 3801; Stephen Moylan. 1S05; David Lenox, 1807; Caleb North, 1828: Callender Irvine, 1841; Alexander W. Johnston, 1842; John R. Lati¬ mer, 1855; Thomas McEwen, 1885; George W. Harris, 1873; William A. Irvine, 1881; Wil¬ liam Wayne, 1887. The present officers of the State Society, be¬ sides Captain William Wayne, who is Presi¬ dent, are Richard Dale, Vice President; Francis M. Caldwell, Secretary, Harris E. Sproat, of Westtown, Chester county, Pa., Assistant Secretary; Grant Weidman, Esq., of Lebanon, Pa., Treasurer; William Mac- pherson Horner, Esq., Assistant Treasurer; Charles P. Turner, M. D., Surgeon. Standing Committee — James Glentworth, George L. Markland, W. W. Porter, Colonel John Biddle Porter, Samuel McCqskry Stan¬ ton, of New York, and Brevet Major General Galusha Pennypacker, U. S'. A. Honorary Members. A provision in the “Institution” stated that, as there were and always would be men in the respective States eminent for their abil¬ This medal was to be suspended by a blue ities and patriotism, whose views might be ribbon edged with white, descriptive of the directed toward the same laudable objects union of America witli France. At the sug¬ with those of the Cincinnati, it should be a gestion of Major L’Enfant the medal was placed upon the breast of an American eagle, rule to admit such eminent characters as as that bird was peculiar to this continent.and honorary members ot the society, for their gave to the design a more distinctively Ameri¬ won only lives. can character. The first members thus admitted to the Cin¬ cinnati of Pennsylvania were: “His Excel¬ Honoring Distinguished Foreigners. lency, John Dickinson, President of the A provision wasjtlso made in the Institu¬ State;’ ’ ‘ ‘the Plonorable Robert Morris,Super¬ tion for transmitting a medal containing the intendent of Finance of the United States, ” Order of the Society to Chevalier de la Luzerne, “the Honorable Thomas McKean, Chief Jus¬ 1 Minister Plenipotentiary from France; the tice of the Stata,” and “the Honorable Wil¬ Sieur Gerard, late Minister Plenipotentiary, liam. Moore, late President of this State.” ,Count D’Estaing, Count de Grasse, Count de These were elected at a meeting held in Pliila- Barras, the Chevalier de Touches, Count de delphia at the City Tavern, Wednesday, Oeto-j ber 15, 1783. Since that time the list of hon¬ orary members has included the distinguished names of Charles Biddle, Dr. Benjamin Franklin, Richard Peters, Commodore Wil¬ liam Bain bridge, Major General , Brigadier General Thomas Cadwallader, Captain Charles Stewart, U. S. N., John Ser¬ geant, Esq., Brigadier General George Cad- walader, Major General Robert Patterson, Major General George G. Meade, U. S. A. ,and the late Right Rev. William Bacon Stevens, D. D., Bishop of Pennsylvania, The present honorary members of the society are Eon. George W. Biddle, elected in 1882; George W. Childs, LL. D., elected in 1SS7; ex- President Benjamin Harrison, elected in 1SS0; Brevet Major General Galusha Pehnypaeker, U. S. A., elected in 1889, and Dr. Charles Cad wallader, elected in 1890. Captain William Wayne. Captain William Wayne, of “Waynesbor- ough, ’ ’ the present President of the State So¬ ciety, is a great-grandson of General Wayne, of Revolutionary renown, who for his prowess received the sobriquet of “Mad Anthony COLONEL JOHN BIDDLE PORTER. Wayne.” Although originally a Yorkshire family, the Waynes came directly to this is a serious matter to decide unon a site for a country from County Wicklow, Ireland, monument of this kind. I have been told where, in 16S0, , grandfather that such monuments are not put up in rural of the Rcvolutionaiy General, took part in the parks. memorable Battle of the Boyne. In 1722 he Mr. Richard Dale. emigrated to America and bought an exten¬ Mr. Richard Dale, Vice President of the so¬ sive estate in Pennsylvania, including the ciety and President of the Board of Trustees of lands on which “Waynesborough, ” a mile or the Washington Monument Fund, became a so from Paoli, in Chester county, now stands’ member of the Cincinnati in 1SG7 on the dealli and part of which has ever since been owned of his lather, Edward C. Dale, who, although and occupied by his descendants. Gen¬ entitled to membership,never availed himself1 eral Anthony Wayne, grandson of ot that privilege. Mr. Richard Dale is a e-rand- j the emigrant of the same name, was the son of the distinguished naval commander of1 first Vice President of the Society of the Cin¬ that name, who was First Lieutenant to Paul cinnati of Pennsylvania, and the second Jones, and especially distinguished himself in1 President of Cincinnati of Georgia. He was j tlie great naval fight off the coast ot .Scotland 1 succeeded as a member of the. society of this | between the Bon Homme Richard and the State by his son. Isaac, in 1797, and by his I English frigate Serapis. Iu 1791 this distin¬ great-grandson, Captain William Wayne, the guished naval officer was selected by Presi¬ present President of the society, in 1855. The dent Washington to be one of the six Captains i latter was born in 182S, inEasttown township, Ot the Naval Establishment, being the fourth > Chester county, Pa., and was graduated at j in point of rank. He was succeeded as a mem¬ the University of Pennsylvania in the class of ber of the Society of the Cincinnati by his son I ’1G. During the late war he entered thcservicc John Montgomery Dale, in 1827, who cvenl I as Captain of Company K, Ninety-seventh tuaily was succeeded by his nephew, the pres- * Regiment. Since (lien lie served as a mem¬ cut Vice President of the society. ber of the Legislature during the sessions of • 1Vjo\Uich,a,'d Lule w»s born in Philadelphia, 1881, ’88 and ’83. in 1831, aud graduated at the University of Tha President's Views. Pennsylvania. Through his father, who was Speaking of the location of Independence .President of the Philadelphia, Wilmington Square for the Washington monument, Cap¬ and B.iltimoie Railroad, lie became interested tain Wayne said: m the Adams Express Company, then in its ‘ ‘I altogether approve of the site. There can ncipieney and, after a connection of 17 years be no desecration in using the square for such with tiiat great concern, retired from busi¬ a purpose. The Society of the Cincinnati lias ness Mr. Dale lias made three trips to Eu- some associations with Independence Hall not for information and pleasure, and lias generally known. In 177S, when the Constitu¬ near,, always enjoyed perfect health. tional Convention met in Philadelphia, it was Personally,” said Mr. Dale, “while tlic desired to have Washington preside over it. , question was open for discussion, I was; The triennial meeting of the General Society! against the site in Independence Square. I of the Cincinnati was called to meet on the preferred Fairmount Park, because I didn’t! first Monday of May in the same year. Wash¬ think the square was large enough; but now ington was then President General ol the.So¬ that tlie Supreme Court has decided the ques¬ ciety, continuing to hold that office until his] tion, I’11 work tooth and nail for the monu¬ death, and, in order that he might with con¬ ment. As a loyal member of the Society of! venience preside over both the Constitutional the Cincinnati J could do nothing else. Convention and the General Society of the Francis M. Caldwell. Cincinnati, the latter postponed its meeting c..*iaoCiS ^Iarinus Caldwell, Secretary of the until the second Tuesday of the month. When State Society, and one of the Trustees of the! the General Society met in Independence Hall Washington Monument Fund, has been a! it was found, as the members of the Constitu¬ member of the Cincinnati since 1873, when1 tional Convention began to arrive, that the lat¬ he succeeded his elder brother, William G. i ter would be a more numerous body, so in their Caldwell, who had inherited his title from! favor the Society of the Cincinnati vacated the James St, Clair Caldwell. The latter was a! hall and adjourned to Carpenters’ Hall, where son of Surgeon Andrew Caldwell, who at the they held their second Triennial Convention. age of 19 or 20 held a captain’s commission in “I was pleased with the recent decision of the Revolutionary Army, and who later be¬ the Supreme Court, which ends all trouble. It | came a surgeon. The Caldwells are descended lrom a Scotch-Irish family which emigrated lo America in 1731. Mr. Francis SI. Caldwell [ educated in Philadelphia, and at Ihe College was horn in this city and educated at the of New Jersey. At the age of 13 lie was ap- Philadelphia High School, since which time | pointed a cadet in the British army, and at IS he has been engaged in mercantile pursuits. lie held, by purchase, a commission-as lieu¬ “I did not at first prefer the square as a tenant in the 16th British Regiment. site,” said Mr. Caldwell, ‘‘because I thought General William MaePherson served as a monument of this kind should be j aide-de-camp to General Lafayette and to in some open square or at the head of some Geneial St. Clair, and held many offices great avenue. But since the society said to thereafter under the Government. He was put, the monument-in the square I shall do my an original member of the Society of !he Cin¬ best as a Trustee to get it there in good cinnati. shape.” William Macpherson Hornor, son of Lieu¬ Grant Weidman, Esq. tenant Colonel Caleb W. Hornor and great- | Grant Weidman, Esq., Treasurer of the grandson of General Macpherson, was born in I society and one of the Trustees of the Wash- Philadelphia, in i860, and educated at the j ington Monument Fund, became a member Episcopal Academy and the University of ■in 1884, inheriting his right lrom his great- Pennsylvania, having been graduated from I grandfather. Lieutenant. John Weidman, who the Department, of Arts, in 1882, and from the I was a distinguished officer in the Revolu- Law School in 1884. He is a member of the tionary army. Mr. Weidman is a prominent Loyal Legion, the Historical Society of Penn¬ lawyer of Lebanon and served as a Major in sylvania, the Board of Managers of the Sons the Federal army during the late war. of the Revolution, Treasurer of the Society of William Macpherson Humor, Esq. Colonial Wars, and Assistant Treasurer of the William Macpherson Hornor, Esq., who is Society of the Cincinnati. I Assistant Treasurer, represents in the Society Mr. Hornor thoroughly approves of the site I of the Cincinnati his maternal great-grand- in Independence Square. i father. General William Macphersgn, of the ‘ 'People are apt to forget, ’ ’ said Mr. Hornor, Continental line.' General Macpherson was ‘‘what Washington did for his country, and horn in Philadelphia Jn.1756, and died Novem¬ this monument, erected in Independence ber oth, 1813, at his residence “Souton,” so Square, will serve perpetually to recall his [named after his wife. Miss Margaret Stout, a achievements to the populace. ’ ’ daughter of Lieutenant Joseph Stout, of the Charles P. Turner, St D. Royal Navy. ‘ 'Souton’’ is now known as Dr. Charles P. Turner, Surgeon of the So¬ ‘‘Macpherson Park,” in the Twenty-fifth ciety, one of the Trustees of the Washington Ward of the cily of Philadelphia. General Monument Fund, is a well-known Philadel¬ Macpherson was the second son of phia. physician, who inherits his right to membership in the Society of Cincinnati lrom his grandfather, Zaccheus Peaslee, of Burling¬ ton, Vi., who had the rank of lieutenant dur¬ ing the Revolutionary war, and served on the staff of his uncle, Major General Hazen, who guarded the Canadian frontier. Lieuten¬ ant Peasloe was succeeded in 1805 by his son, the late Charles S. Peaslee, who came here early in life from New England, and was a member of the firm of David S. Brown & Co., wholesale commission merchants of this cily. Charles. S. Peaslee left no children never having married. His only sister had wedded Win. W. Turner, Pb. D., formally years principal of the Institution for Deaf and Dumb, at Hartford, Connecticut, and the father of Dr. Charles Peaslee Turner, of this city, who became a member of the Society of the Cincinnati in 1839. Dr. Turner was born in Hartford, Con., and after his graduation at Yale studied for his pro.ession at Jefferson .Medical College in this city, where he was one of the chiefs in charge c.f clinic, and of the hospital for throe yearn. He has practiced medicine in this city success¬ fully for over 30 years, standing among the | foremost of his profession. Dr. Turner has [been one of the most active and iDflueutU members of the Society of the Cincinnati, and I has several times been one of the Slate dele¬ gates at the triennial meetings of the genera! society. G, 1702, and o' Margaret Rodgers, a sister ot Robert Adams—The Senior Member. |Rev. John Rodgers, D. IX, both of London¬ Mr. Robert Adams’s membership in the derry, Ireland, Captain John Macpherson Society ot the Cincinnati is of longer standing acquired a large fortune as commander of his than that of anyone now living, having inherit¬ Majesty’s ship-of-war Britannia, a vessel of ed his right in 1853 from his grandfather, Lieu¬ 20 guns, in the French and Spanish wars, and tenant James Morris Jones, who fought, in the built, on the hanks of the Schuylkill the man¬ lie volution. Mr. Adams was born in this city' sion now standing in Fail-mount Park, which in 1815, and was a well-known and successful he at first called ‘‘Clunle, ” the name of merchant until 1855, when he retired from the seat of (be chief of theclan in the High¬ business, fie 1 was Treasurer of the So¬ lands of Scotland to which he belonged, after¬ ciety of tiie Cincinnati of Pennsylvania™ wards changing it to • ‘Mount Pleasant. ” For from 1801 to 1866, and also served as Trustee Ills gallantry he was made burgess and guild and Chairman of the Washington Monument brother of the city of Edinburgh, July 0, 1764. Fund. He is the father of Senator Robert General William Macpherson, son of Cap- Adams, Jr. lain John Macpherson. of Edinburgh, was Colonel John Biddle Porter. Colonel John Biddle Poiter, who became a city May 5. 1856, at 023 Walnut street in the member in 1883,'and is one of the Standing) room which he now uses as his private office Committee, was born in Paris, France, in 1858. Ho received his education at Paris and in the practice of (he law. He is the son of tho ate Hon. William A. Porter, who held many ileidclburg. and studied law under the Hon. prominent offices in this city, and who sat George W. Kiddie, He served in the First upon the Supreme Bench of the State, and City Troop from 1878 to 18SG, when ho was pro¬ was a member of the First Court of Alabama] moted Major of the Second infantry, and in Claims at Washington. William A. Porter! 1890, Lieutenant Colonel. was the son of David R. Porter, Governor of j Colonel Porter is 1 lie son of Geheral Andrew Pennsylvania for fwo terms. The latter was Porter, U. S. A., who was the son of Hon. the son of General Andrew Porter, who was Geo. 11. Porter, of Lancaster, Pa., afterwards upon the st itl of General Washington during Governor of Michigan. The latter was a the Revolutionary war. It is through this; brother of Governor Porter, of Pennsylvania, descent that Wil.iam Wagoner Porter holds] and of Judge James Madison Porter, of his title to membership in ihe Society of the Easton, Pa., at one time Secretary of War. i Cincinnati. General Andrew Porter was a George 15. Porter was the son of General An¬ member of the society at its organization. drew Porter, Colonel oi the Fourth, or Penn¬ The right lay dormant during the lives of sylvania. Regiment of Artillery in the Governor Porter and Judge Porter. William Revolutionary war, by his second wife, W. Porter only claimed the right since the Elizabeth Parker, whose brother. Major Rob¬ death of bis father, Judge Porter, some seven ert Parker, was unoriginal member ot the years ago. Mr. Porter is a nephew of Gene¬ Society of the Cincinnati. Major Robert] ral , of New York. Parker adopted his nephew, John Ewing Por¬ William Wagener Porter was graduated ter, who succeeded him in tlie Society of the from the Academic department of the Uni¬ Cincinnati, and after whose death the title to versity of Pennsylvania, in 1875, and studied membership lay dormant until" revived ia 1 law in his father’s office. He was admitted to favor ot Colonel John Biddle Porter in 1SS3. j the bar in June, 1877, and has since 'enjoyed a The Porter family is originally Scotch-Irish. targe and active practice. He is the author of In 1630 the head of one of the septs ol a number of pamphlets, and of the only com¬ the Clan McGregor left his native land with plete work ou the law on bills of lading in his entire following, crossed to Ireland and America. assumed the name of William Porter. He' Speaking of the site of the monument, Mr. obtained a grant of land in Burt, and named Porter said that to his mind there was no1 bis estate “Carrowan.” His descendants re¬ ground too sacred for the site of a monument main there to Ibis day. From this William I to General Washington. If Independence Porter' was descended Robert Porter, who | Square was the holy of holies, that fact made came to America in 1720, and who was the it pre-eminently the proper place for such a father of General Andrew Porter, an original monument. It was matter for regret, hoi member of the Cincinnati, and mentioned thought, that in a community like that of above as the great grandfather of Colonel John Philadelphia there should have been opposi-1 Biddle Porter. lion or criticism in connection with tbe be-l Speaking of the Washington Monument, I stowal of a gift ot such magnitude and Colonel Porter said, • recently: “My view is value. It was to be hoped, he said, that all that monuments of that kind should not be difficulties were now at an end. placed in such parks as Fairmount, which Hon. George W. Biddle. should depend more upon nature than art for their attractiveness. Monuments erected Hon. George W. Biddle, who became an to the memory of heroes should be placed honorary member of the society in 1882, and where the greatest number ot the people can who was the senior counsel for the society in see them, and, therefore, near the centre of the recent, litigation, was born in Philadel¬ activity in a city. In the city of Philadelphia phia, January 11, 1818. He was graduated I know of no better place than Independence from St, Mary’s College, Md.,and on January, Square. ’ ’ 11, 1830, .was admitted to the bar, of which he is now recognized as one of the fore¬ most members. He has served as I School Director, Common Councilman I and a Trustee of the Gas Works. | In the Constitutional Convention of 1872-73, he represented the First Senatorial District, Mr. Bi idle is a member of one of the most distinguished families in this country. He is a son of the late Col. Clement Corn well Bid¬ dle, President of tho Philadelphia Savings Fund, and commanded tne State Fencibles. Brevet Major General Galusha Penny- packer, U. S. A. General Pennypacker was born in Chester county, Pa. In 186i he entered the army as a Captain, and, after promotion through all grades in the volunteers to the rank of Major General, was appointed in the regular army as Colonel of the Sixteenth Regiment of Infantry and as Brevet. Major General at the close of the war. General Pennypacker was in all the campaigns of the Armies of the Po¬ tomac and James,and received many wounds. GENERAL GALUSHA, PENNYPACKER, U. S: A. I He took an active part in the siege of Charles¬ ton and the campaigns in Virginia and North Win. W. Porter, Esq Carolina, signally distinguishing himself as William WagencrPorter. Esq., who, with one of the captors of Fort Fisher, He was re¬ the Hon. George W. Biddle, was the active tired in !SS3. In 1891 Congress awarded him a counsel in the recent litigation over the site of medal of honor for his gallantry at the taking the Washington monument, is one of the ol Fort Fisher. leading members of the Society of the Cincin¬ Other Distinguished Members. nati,of Pennsylvania. He was born in this Other members, whose names have not been [THE OLD carpenter Estate bought BY A SYNDICATE

SUBURBAN VILLAS PLANNED

The Familiar Mansion on Germantown Road and Its Cariosities—The Mnseum’s Col¬ lections Presented to the Academy of Natural Sciences—Furniture to be Sold.

Few country homes in the vicinity of Phil¬ adelphia are as widely known as Phil-Ellena, the residence for many years of George W. Carpenter. Quite recently Mr. Carpenter’s estate, about one hundred acres, was pur¬ chased by a syndicate represented by A. J. Drexel, John Lowber Welsh and others. The syndicate contemplates erecting on this prop¬ erty, which runs from Franklin to Carpenter and from Main to Green streets, in Mount mentioned above, but who, although"™in¬ I Airy, Germantown, between one hundred tentionally given here last, are therefore by and fifty and two hundred large-sized dwell¬ j)io means least In importance, are Messrs ings this summer. Operations will be com¬ Pe.eg HaH, Major (Jeneral Win, B, Franklin! menced within a few weeks, when scores of J of Hartford Conn.; George L. Markland, old buildings will be razed on several of the hrank P. Muhlenburg, of Michigan; Robert Coltman, M. D., Arizona; Capiain streets running through this extensive tract j Will,am S. Robinson, R. Somers of land, and in their places will rise hand- Hays, Mw fork; Benjamin Bartholo- | some residences. It will be some two or three mew, Tilghman Johnston, Charles B years before this proposed fashionable settle¬ j Alexander, Wm. Mifflin, Edmund H. MC1 ment, which will be known as Carpenterville, Cullongh, David R. Smith, Maryland; Ray¬ mond M. Stevenson, Colorado; Francis Buck will be completed, as there is an enormous McDowell, M. D., First Lieutenant Wm. A. amount of work to be done, tearing down j Nichols U. S. A. ; John Beatty, Doylestowm : houses, opening new streets and erecting jia. ; Charles Nicholson, New Geneva Fav- j new dwellings. jette county, Pa.; W. P. Magaw, Pennsylva¬ Lincoln drive, now being constructed, lead- nia; Mm. W. Bruner, Sunbury, Pa. ; James C. Barclay, New York; Henry Baeder Wood- j ing fromRittenhouse street to theWissahickon, Hastings-on-Hudson, N. Y, ; William L which will extend all the way to Chestnut Burney, Henry Willliams Biddle, of “Rich- Hill, will pass through Carpenterville. The olacli,” I’aoli, Chester co., Pa. ; Chas.J. Pugh present plan carries the drive over McCallum I \\ illiam Beniamin Jackson, Boston* Law¬ street, lying west of Carpenterville. It is rence Lewis Butter, St, Louis, Mo.’; John proposed by the syndicate to make a connec¬ Morton Davis, Chester Co., Pa.'; James B Campbell, Cleveland, O. ; Sanderson Reed tion with Lincoln drive at McCallum street Portland, Oregon; Thomas Mitchell, hosAn’. i and run the private road through the fash¬ gclcs, Cal. ; Jssac Craig, Allegheny City; Ed¬ ionable settlement, and join the latter after¬ ward Nieoil Dickerson, New York, and J B wards with Lincoln drive somewhere above Livingston, California. Carpenter Station on the Pennsylvania Rail¬ . Su

The grounds on which the mansion and Date, ..: . ^ r other buildings of Phil-Ellena are erected contain about thirty-six acres. The house fronts on the main street of Germantown, and is approached through a handsome gate¬ rPHllELLEM IS SOLD way and then along a well-laid drive, which is cut through an attractive lawn ornamented with fine forest trees and interspersed with evergreens and shrubbery. The mansion is situated about two hundred feet from the four columns each. In the ikon ing are niches containing statues of Minerv front fence. It is of the Grecian order of i and of Eloquence, by William Rush, the : architecture, being over one hundred and ous American wood carver. Apart from these sixty-five feet in length, with a large portico figures there is a very large'collection of Mr. front and back, supported by Ionic columns Bush’s wood carving scattered over the Car¬ with capitals copied from the Temple of penter place. Some of these figures are excel¬ Minerva Palos, at Athens. It consists of a lent and in striking contrast to the crudeness main building and two wings. The wing on and inartistic lines of several bits of statuary the south side was originally used as a con-; by others carvers on the same grounds. servatory, and that on the north as a kitchen The inside of the museum is finished with a gallery and opening in the centre, which with a conservatory front. is reached by a staircase from the rear. Upon Visitors viewing the Carpenter mansion for i the first time cannot but be impressed by its ! entering the building, during Mr. Carpenter’s, massiveness and great extent. In the main lifetime, the first objects which attracted at-: hall all the surroundings are suggestive of tention were a large wild turkey and a gor¬ old times. The ceilings, supported by Scag- geous peacock, mounted in realistic positions liola columns, are high, the rooms are airy in the centre of the room. All around the! wall, and extending up to the gallery, were and the furniture is old-fashioned. The stair¬ huge glass-enclosed cases containing the! case, which commences at the centre of the birds and animals of the collection. These! hall, is of elliptical form, with a continued, were all skilfully mounted in characteristic) railing to the attic story, the banisters are positions, the birds on branches of trees set] richly carved and surrnou ntsd with mahogany railings. The parlors and reception rooms in the cases. On the back of each case was! painted a scene representing the haunts of faithfully represent the taste of ante-bellum the various birds or animals in the cases. An days, great cut-glass chandeliers, rose wood Eastern city, with minarets rising in the dis¬ marble-topped furniture, embroidered otto¬ tance, a forest-embosomed lake with wild mans and so forth, recalliug the magnificence fowl rising from its surface, and a South or! of the period when Madam Bush was queen Central American jungle, were some of the) regnant in Philadelphia. Among the many various scenes represented in these remark¬ curiosities is a table, the top of which is made able paintings. The work, while it was aj up of several hundred blocks of polished marble, all from different parts of the world. nine day’s wonder in its time, now seemsi There are several very old-fashioned devices grotesque, almost to absurdity. The birds; and animals were, however, remarkably well] of shell work, flowers, fruit, ancient temples, etc. mounted, as a rule. All the rooms on the first floor communi¬ From either end of the gallery hung a bald cate by sliding doors, so that when these are eagle, mounted as if in flight, and all about j thrown open an unbroken connection is the floor stuffed lapdogs were scattered in] formed with all the apartments. One of the playful attitudes. Cases containing minerals, Indian relics and shells found places around rooms is now used as a picture gallery, the walls of which are covered with numerous the wall, and suspended in one of these two paintings by both American and European human skeletons grinned across the room at artists. Several of those paintings are from some Indian scalps on the other side. the collection gathered by Joseph Bonaparte, The particularly noticeable “find” among: at his home in Bordentown, N. J., and were secured by Mr. Carpenter at the sale of the the collection was a male Labrador duck in j effects of the Count de Survilliers. Several perfect plumage. This bird, extinct since j pieces of the statuary are also from the Bona¬ 1850, is far rarer than the famous great auk, ] parte collection, among them a very excellent specimens of which command almost fabulous j bust of Napoleon. There is also a fine full- prices. Altogether there were about twelve j length portrait of Napoleon unsigned, but evidently the work of a master. There are hundred birds in the collection, half of also some excellent examples of Sully’s por¬ which were North American. Some of the traits, in his best style. more valuable were a fine female ostrich, sev¬ eral birds of paradise, a beautiful pair of In the centre of the rcof of the main build¬ Argis pheasants and a roseate spoonbill. The ing is erected an octagonal observatory sup¬ series of North American water fowl was one ported by eight Grecian columns with an¬ of the finest in the country. A fine series of tique / caps. From this observatory doors topazes, amethysts and other gems forms one j open on to a balcony which forms a walk of the chief attractions among the thousands i four feet wide, which is enclosed by a Chi¬ of minerals in the collection. Indian para¬ nese railing. It is on an elevation of more phernalia of all sorts, from scalps to musical I than five hundred feet above the level of instruments, was included in the collection. Philadelphia, and from this observatory ves¬ The shells, too, were a feature of the collec-1 sels may be seen plying on the Delaware, as tion, as a series of casts of fossils was one of j well as the various public buildings and the “ finds.” churches of the city, besides many of the After the Labrador ducks, however, per¬ suburban districts, such as Boxborough and haps the most valuable object in the collec-1 Chestnut Hill. From the observatory, also, tion was an injected human body. This was j an excellent view of the Carpenter grounds an exquisite specimen of the anatomist’s art; I can be obtained; the various buildings, with the preservation extending even to the inter-; their elevated spires ; the squares of winding nal organs, which are preserved by an injec¬ drives, the beautiful lawn, sub-divided in tion of plaster. A collection of 100 manikins J neat and fanciful beds ; the capacious gravel of Japanese and Mexican make was another | walks, the elaborate landscape gardening and feature. the extensive garden enclosed in a richly or¬ Over the western portico of the museum a namented Chinese open wood fence. Two small room was fitted up for bees and so con¬ lakes, fed by sub-marine aqueducts and laid structed that the bees might be seen at work out by Mr. Carpenter at great expense, are from the inside of the building by means of also a very prominent feature of the place. glass partitions. The Carpenter Museum, To the southeast is seen the museum, an which was visited by Audubon, Nuttall, Pro¬ oblong building in the Grecian temple style, fessor Silliman and other scientific friends of with porticos front and back supported by pi1! iiii pfeswaEaa&flli j^^CIZ7 cggimifil'l! ■ ■ ' Mr. Carpenter, bas, wrcnin the "last few weeks, been closed forever, as the valuable collection just described, which Mr. Carpen¬ ter commenced gathering when he was 16 years of age and constantly added to until) the time of his death, was quite recently pre¬ sented by Mrs. Carpenter to the Academy of I Natural Sciences.

Turning from the museum and facing the j northwest, an octagonal summer house, sur¬ mounted by a spire forty feet high, with an image of Mercury as a vane, carved by Rush, rises through a group of trees. Still beyond the summer house is a neat cottage of stone, two stories in height, which has always been occupied as the tenant’s or gardener’s house. The clock tower, three stories in height, and representing the Chinese Pagoda, is quite a unique feature of the Carpenter place. The greenhouses are also very prominent. They - once contained a large collection of rare plants, chiefly from Australia, China and Joseph Bonaparte’s Residence India, adapted to cool greenhouse culture and blooming chiefly in the winter season, many in Philadelphia and the of them of priceless value. But they have House Which He recently been stripped of their contents, the whole collection having been given by Mrs. Occupied. Carpenter to Horticultural Hall in Fairmount Park. George W. Carpenter, the founder and orignal owner of this property, and a man widely known for his attainments and WAS MAGNIFICENTLY FITTED kindly disposition, was a scientific druggist. He was born in this city in 1802, and was initiated in the mysteries of the drug busi¬ ness in the establishment of Christopher The Exiled King’s Luxurious Life Marshall, Jr., where he accumulated a small sum of money and a large capital of knowl¬ Here and His Retirement to Bor- edge. Forming the acquaintance and win¬ dentown—Popularity of His ning the friendship of Thomas Nuttal, he' developed that taste for natural history Daughters in Society. which was the foundation of his scientific attainments. While yet in Marshall’s store he was elected as associate of the Academy of Natural Sciences. His favorite study was UMBER 260 South mineralogy, and he collected a valuable cabi¬ Ninth'Street is a net, of which Professor Silliman availed tall, 3-story dwel¬ himself when preparing his journal of ling with mansard science and art. Mr. Carpenter contributed roof. It is built various papers to the American Journal of of brick, covered Science, then edited by Dr. Nathaniel Chap¬ with plaster and man, while “Carpenter’s Essays on Materia painted a dark Medica ” is a recognized text book. gray. The en¬ In 1828 Mr. Carpenter began business for trance is at the himself and his success was extraordinary. side and not di¬ In eight years he accumulated enough money rectly on the street to purchase a farm in the upper part of Ger¬ but through an mantown. upon which he laid out Phil- iron gateway, and Ellena, his country place. This was about thence along a the first of the show places around Philadel¬ brick walk and up a steep flight of steps. phia and was extensively visited by strangers Many persons in passing stop fora moment to our city. to glance at this old residence, so different In 1842 W. C. Ilenszey became a partner is it in appearance from the surrounding and after Mr. Carpenter’s deatlj in 1860 suc¬ modern, commonplace, three-storv brick ceeded to the business, whichlie carried fin houses, for although, from neglect, it is up to a very short time ago. I fast going to decay, it still shows unmis¬ takable evidence of having been once a very handsome and attractive mansion. Few, indeed, among the pedestrians, who glance curiously at this pretentious old dwelling are aware of its history or that it was once a royal residence, the home of Jo- Beph Bonaparte, ex-Iving of Spain and Na¬ ples, and elder brother of the great Napo¬ leon. After the battle of Waterloo, that shat¬ tered every remaining hope of the House! of Bonaparte to the throne of France, it was easy to persuade the ex-King of Spain that he would be safer away from his ua- 27

THB OLD BONAPARTE HOUSE, 260 SOUTH NINTH STREET. tive land. But before he sailed he went to name Count de SurviIIiers, lrom a village • take leave of Napoleon, whom he found situated upon his estate of Montefontaine. | sick both in body and mind. Joseph then He made his first public appearance in I ottered to take his brother’s place and tore- New York where he appeared on the after¬ | main in his room, feigning illness, for sev¬ noon of September 1. This is to be learned eral days by which time Napoleon would he from the newsppaers of that period, as the tvell out to sea. The Emperor refused, say- next day they announced that Joseph Bona¬ ing he could not take flight and desert his parte had succeeded in cheating the vigil¬ raithtul ofbcers. He, however, urged upon ance of the English crusiers and in reach¬ ims brother to leave the country, advising ing the United States. Joseph Bonaparte him to reside in the United States some- remained in the metropolis foi a few days I where between the cities of New York and and then journeyed to Philadelphia. Philadelphia, in order to be within easv Shortly after his arrival here Poulson’s I reach of news. I Ad vertiser announced that he had brought JOSEPH IN AMERICA. with him a great fortune and vaguely 1 Joseph Bonaparte sailed for the United added that he had immediately bought vast estates in this new country. This, States on the American Brig Commerce, however, was incorrect, the greater part fiom the little port of Boyan, near Bor¬ of his money being invested in a collec¬ deaux, on July 25,1815, landing in America tion of objects of art and valuable pre¬ on August 20, the very day on which cious stones, by the sale of which he pur¬ the British man-of-war Northumberland chased his property in the United States,■ passed the Canary Islands bearing Napo¬ which included his farm known as Point leon to his dreary exile., St. Helena. Breeze on the banks of the Delaware | Arriving in this country Joseph took the Eiver, near Bordentown, N J. I The house in which he resided on Ninth 28

GATEWAY AND ENTRANCE OF THE BONAPARTE HOUSE. Street was built about 1S00 by a wealthy F country, he was obliged to purchase his Irishman named Joseph Meeny, who property in Bordentown in the name of a owned all the property between Locust third person. Soon after acquiring this P- Street and the alley, which runs to the property, however, the State of New Jer¬ south of the house. When the dwelling sey passed an act enabling the ex-king to was erected it was supposed to be on Spruce hold real estate in that State. Street, but when Spruce Street was sur¬ As Mr. Price was attached to the man¬ veyed the line was run 100 feet further sion, and, like the majority of his fellow-; south. Chandler Price, a great shipping citizens, under the impression that Bona¬ merchant in his day, purchased the Ninth parte was extremely wealthy, he was not Street house shortly after it was erected. inclined to lease his property for a song, INVESTMENTS IN REAL ESTATE. but after some dickering he finally rented i the house for a handsome consideration to When Joseph Bonaparte arrived in the Count De Survilliers. Philadelphia this house was considered one Bonaparte resided in this dwelling but a i of the few residences of this city that was comparatively short while, as in the Sum¬ palatial enough for the residence of even mer or Pall of 1816 he gave up housekeeping ! an exiled ex-king. Mr. Price was ap¬ in Philadelphia and took up his residence at proached by Maillard, Bonaparte’s pri¬ Bordentown. There is a rumor to the effect that the discovery and consequent vate secretary, and asked as what figure abrupt termination of a love affair with, he would rent the dwelling. As at that the daughter of a Frenchman in humble time Joseph Bonaparte could not own, at circumstances, residing in this city, was least in his own name, property in this| the principal cause for the noble exile’s

J Charles Stiewart (grandfather of the late | Mr. Parnell), Richard Stockton, General [ Ihomas Cadwalader, beside many others four especially, viz: Joseph Hopkinson! Dr Nathaniel Chapman, William Short and Charles J. Ingersoll, The ex-monarch had tbe rare good fortune, well merited in I his case, to meet with unbounded devotion in his friends, THE EX-KING’S DAUGHTERS. I The ex-Queen of Spain did not follow her husband to this country, as she was in mortal terror of the sea, but there was no estrangement between the two, and letters were continually exchanged between them. His two daughters, Zenaide, with her hus¬ band, Prince Charles, and Charlotte, the younger of the two girls,both followed their father into exile. They mingled to an ex¬ tent in Philadelphia society and were very popular. Zenaide, the elder sister, was stout and fair, thoroughly sympathetic and in society charming. Charlotte, tbe younger daughter, was slight and dark, with deep-set, thoughtful eyes. She was quite accomplished, being I able to draw exceedingly well. Some of Joseph Bcmaparte. her paintings in oil are really remarkable lighted in tbe country. He loved the trees as the production of an amateur. She was land the flowers, and a quiet, peaceful sprightly and fascinating and became, in life, far away from noise, politics and- time, one of the leading belles cf Philadel¬ Igreat cities. And moreover in selecting phia. One of the young men who greatly jBordentown as his home he was only admired her beauty was Nicholas Biddle, following out his brother’s instructions to himself possessed of all the charm of man¬ ! reside between Philadelphia and New ner that goes to make social success. York. Charlotte, like her sister, married a first Like most exiles Joseph Bonaparte did cousin, the eldest son of Louis, King of his best to make his Ninth Street home Holland and father of the late Emperor in Philadelphia as much like his resi¬ Napoleon III. dence in his native land as possible, sur¬ The present owner of the old Bonaparte rounding himself with all that would house on Ninth Street is Mr. Henry G. recall memories and associations of the Potter,he has resided there for many years, past. To accomplish this purpose he his father having purchased it from Chand¬ jinade use of objects of art as his principal ler Price, who rented it to Bonaparte. means of producing and fostering such illusions. Many valuable pictures by old i masters were hung upon the walls, while I solid, heavy furniture of massive outline, From, 3 made of ponderous mahogany, solemnly fulfilled the requirements of daily life. SOM® OF HIS FURNISHINGS. ,.Pa To-day, in the spacious diningroom of the old Ninth Street house, is a mahogany sideboard with marble top. It was once the property of Joseph Bonaparte, while on the walk are frescoes in two colors in the style of the First Empire, representing the loves of Venus. On Ninth Street, close by the garden wall is to be seen half buried in the earth, an old bronze cannon, which was put there by Joseph Bonaparte AND ITS VENERABLE BEAD. to save the wall from hia carriage wheels. This was a custom, at one time, very com¬ mon in Europe. Joseph Bonaparte was very exclusive in Sketch of Rev. Burchard Villiger | regard to his associates during his resi¬ and His Great Parish. dence in this city, yet at the same time he formed many enduriDg friendships, both with eminent Americans and among the numerous titled foreign immigrants, who, |ST. JOSEPH’S COLLEGE ANNEXED. at that time, found a refuge in the New World. Among those who visited him on ! Ninth Street and occupied the position of friends and not of mere acquaintances, the Founded as a Chapel, It Has Become ; names of , and are prominent, as are the Largest Church in the City. the names of Livingstone, Admiral The Testimonial Organ Re¬ cently Presented. • z1

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THE CHURCH OS’ THE GESU. One of the handsomest places of worship It has the largest congregation of a in Philadelphia is the Church of the Gesu, church in the city. Each Sunday through¬ at Eighteenth and Stiles Streets. It is also out the year the average attendance at all one of the most conspicuous edifices in the the services is 7000,and although thechurch city, though in cramped quarters and it has a seating capacity of 1200 the building stands in bold relief against the skv on a is filled at all the masses and at vespers. clear day. It can be seen for miles because The parish limits of the Church of the of its position on a hilltop. Pesu take in a wide area. The limits are from Fifteenth to Twentieth Streets, and from Columbia to Fairmount Avenues. DESCRIPTION OF THE CHURCH. I On November 20, 1806, when the Jesuit The style of architecture of the Church fathers purchased the church property of the Gesu is Roman. The tall towers which is bounded by Seventeenth, Eigh¬ that surmount the church have not yet teen th, Thompson and Stiles Streets, the been completed. There is a chime of five northern portion of the parish, that is,that bells in the steeple which ring for all the part above Girard Avenue, was in the services. There is one large bell weighing (country. The erection of the chapel, which four tons that is rung at 10 o’clock on Sundays only. There is a feature in the church that can hardly be duplicated in the city. It is the span of the roof which is the largest of any church of its size in this country, or ing Europe. The span is seyenty-sis feet in the clear and remark¬ able as it may appear it is made of wood, the lines of the church are bold and strong and while the interior appointments are plain they are substantial. The church is 280 feet long by 120 wide at the transepts; 100 feet 4 inches from the floor to the highest point of the vaulted ceiling. There are eight chapels, each con- a]tar and five other altars within the sanctuary. V^hen the new church was finished and services opened there St. Joseph’s College was moved to and now occupies the chapel In September, 1851, St. Joseph’s College was opened at 317 Willing’s Alley, under the direction of Rev. Father Villiger Sub¬ sequently it was moved to Filbert and Juniper Streets, and transferred again to St. Joseph s Church. Though a permanent site was purchased for the college in 1866 it was ten years before it was found pos¬ sible to open a preparatory Latin class at Seventeenth and Stiles Streets in the base- fnVsao prrSDt ®ch°o1 building. From Eev. Burchard Villiger. ib/b to 1889 a few students were admitted to instruction m the ancient languages. is now used as the college, helped to build Several of them are now priests or are up that section of the town, and soon the preparing to enter the service of the green fields and low hills gave way to Churcn Upon the completion of the brick houses and paved streets. new church work was begun in transfer-' THE CORNER-STONE LAID. ring the old chapel into class roomsj ine work was easy as arrangements wera On the morning of June 24, 1868. at 9 made for necessary changes when th# o’clock, the corner-stone of the chapel was chapel was erected. Seven large and well' laid and blessed by Rev. B. Villiger, the lighted rooms were obtained by the build-? present rector. The crowds that gathered ing of dividing walls. The ordinary line jto-seethe ceremonies are remembered by ,°onCr0iieiv‘^e sw d-y corresponding with the some of the older residents of the neighbor¬ course at the University is in vogue here. hood, and the occasion was made one of THE COLLEGE OPENED. the greatest religious demonstrations seen In September, 1889, the college was in that section up to that time. The chapel was completed and ready for divine service thrown open to all comers free, provided ■ on December 6 of the same year, and it they could bring good references, and pass was blessed on that day by the late Arch¬ j a satisfactory preliminary examination. bishop Wood, assisted by Rev. Father Vil¬ At present there is room for 210 students, liger. Gradually the surrounding districts if all the seats in all the classes were occu- | grew in population and in the number of pied. It is intended, as means allow to houses. Persons from the neighboring sec¬ cc-yer the remaining two sides of the lot tions crowded to the new church in such hidings for the college so as to numbers that repeated services could af°rd. ample facilities for a thorough [scarcely satisfy all who wished to attend Christian and literary education for all them. The congregation grew in size and applicants who can satisfy requirements in soon the little chapel was inadequate. Plans conduct and in studies. Rev. Father were made for the erection of a new JJDoiey who is considered one of the church, as the demands of the parishioners brightest Jesuits in this country, is at the necessitated larger quarters. Accordingly .head of the college. the foundation of the present church was The part of the lot not occupied by the laid on October 5, 1879. enurch and college is used as a playground After the erection of the stone courses, by the boys, and they have a base ball nine ,jv„ork was suspended for "sSffcral years, owning to certain difficulties that could not “cm pbTical11!;.4116" ga“eS tbat develop then be surmounted. Later the work was Several societies are connected with the taken up again, and in 1888 the church Chuich of the Gesu. The League of the completed. bacred Heart, which was organized at this The first great service in the church was church has 30,000_members. It is the lar¬ the, celebration of Rev. Father Villiger’s gest individual society in the world and the goHen jubilee mass on October 4, 1888. members belong to .every parrish in the ifhe church was not opened Dermanently city. ot. Vincent de Paul Society, which for divine worship until December 2 of the is very large, loous after the poor of the same year when it \^,s solemnly blessed parish The Bon Mors Association meets by Archbishop Ryan. - ’*-v^ I—v ■■ . — 'Or - - . every month ana prays a nappy death for gratitude for the long years spent in minis¬ its members. There are 150 members in tering to their spiritual needs, determined the Young Men’s Sodality and they meet to furnish him with the means of conclud¬ once a week. ing his work by presenting him the sum, The Sodality of the Blessed Virgin, com¬ of $10,000 to complete the crowning work posed of men and women, lias a member¬ of his life. This was done at the Academy ship of 800. The pupils of St. Joseph’s of Music a few weeks ago. It is thought that College are organized into a cadet corps of the new organ will be in place by Christ¬ four companies. The Parochial School mas Day. has 75 pupils. The boys are taught by the There are eighteen members of the so¬ Sisters of the Immaculate Heait and the ciety of Jesus connected with the Cure of| girls by the Sisters of Notre Dame. Gesu. Seven are professors in the St. THE VENERABLE RECTOR. Joseph’s College, and the others do the parish work. The priests are Rector Rev. Burchard Villiger, rector of the Rev.Burchard Villiger, Minister or Stew-, Church of the Gesu, was born in the Can¬ ard Father McNamara, Father Blenkinsop, ton of Argau, Switzerland, May 14, 1819. Father Brice, Father Cicaterri, Father He began his collegiate studies at the Ben¬ Daly, Father Jansen and Father Renaud. edictine Monastery of Muri. He remained The college faculty are Father Dooley,who there three years. In the year 1842 he en¬ is in charge under Father Villiger, Father tered the University of Freiburg, house of Emerick, Father Galligan, Father Goeding,| studies of the Jesuit Fathers. In the year Father Gregory, Father Mattson, and; 1838 he was admitted as*a candidate for the Father Stanton. Jesuit order together with the late General Fr. Anderledy. On the breaking out of the Swiss Revolution in 1848 he was forced to fly from his native land, and with great difficulty he made his way into France and Belgium. In the same#year he set sail for the United States. He completed his theological course at Georgetown, D. C., was ordained priest in 1850 and had as his first charge the Prefect- ship of Schools in St. Joseph’s College,Sep¬ tember, 1851. In 1852 be went to Frederick, Md., for the final year of his religious training, pre¬ paratory to his profession in the religious life. He was made vice-president of TWENTY-FIVE YEaM A PRIEST Georgetown College in 1853, and after a year was placed in charge of St. John’s College, Frederick, Md. In May, 1856, he CELEBRATION OF FATHER HILTERMANN’S was appointed president of Gonzaga, Wash¬ ington, D. C., and after two years at this SILVER JUBILEE. post he became provincial of the jirovince of Maryland. ON THE PACIFIC SLOPE. Tlie School Children of Old Trinity Roman At the end of his term of three years he Catliolic Parish Give a Reception to was sent out to California to take charge Their Uelovcil Pastor. of the mission there. Among other works he erected Santa Clara College, one of the best educati onal institutions on the Pacific Probably no more pleasing feature of the! Slope. After six years he was called back celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of to the East and was given a temporary mis¬ the ordination to the priesthood of the Rev. sion at Conewago, Pa. In March, 1868, he Ernesto. Hiltermann, the faithful Rector of was intrusted with charge of the new par¬ old Holy Trinity Roman Catholic Church,! ish of the Gesu, where he has remained Sixth and Spruce streets, which properly be-j ever since. gins to-day, will take place during its pro-j In July of last year Father Villiger was gress than the commemoration of the event chosen at an assembly of the Jesuit fathers yesterday at Musical Fund Hall by the chil¬ in New York to represent them at the elec¬ dren of the parochial schools attached to the tion of a general of the order. He sailed church, under the care of four of the Sisters of for Europe on August 6, 1892, and joined Notre Dame. The hall was well filled with other representatives at Loyola, in Spain, the pupils, ihcir parents and friends, and the where by the advice of Pope Leo XIII, various exorcises were witnessed with keen they assembled for the election. interest and unmistakable delight. Father When the work for which he was chosen Hiltermann occupied the seat of honor on the was accomplished, he was asked to accom¬ floor in front of the stage, in company with pany Father Galwev to the Holy Land and the Rev. George Michel, formerly of this city assist him by his knowledge of the topo¬ but now of St. Paul’s Catholic Church, ■ graphy of the holy places in preparing an Reading, and surrounding and back of them important work on the life of Christ. In were rows of bright and well-dressed children) the early part of December both set out for awaiting their turn to take part in the exer¬ Palestine. Meantime, his parishoners at cises. home bethought themselves of bidding him These began with the introductory chorus, I such a welcome as would express their “‘Jubilate, ” by all the children, which was feelings of gratitude for a quarter of a followed by a congratulatory address in century of toil in their midst. English by Miss Lena Heer, and the appear-j In one respect there was something to be ance of 16 boys in Indian costume, who gave! desired, his work was incomplete. There! a club drill and sang a Columbian medley, en-: was not an organ suitable to the needs of titled “Greeting for the Nation.” Next fol¬ the church which he had erected. lowed the ceremony of “Blumenspende, ” in Accordingly, the congregation,as a mark which 16 girls, dressed in blue and pink, laid of their respect for the man, as a token of offerings of flowers at the feet of their hon¬ ored Pastor, and presented him with th os 33

whence,after some years he was transferred to what in popular parlance is known in Ger¬ many as the “Gymnasium,” corresponding more or less to our High School. From the (Gymnasium he graduated in 1804, and entered (the Seminary of Munster, in Westphalia ■where he completed his philosophical and theological studies, and was ordained on June Cth, 1868, together with his class-fellow Rev. Francis J. Murtersteck, Rector of the 1 Church of the Assumption, MaDayunk, whose silver jubilee is also being celebrated at this time. Before ordination, Father Hiltermann Jiad been received into the diocese of Phila¬ delphia by the late Archbishop Wood, on his return from Rome, whither, in 1867, he had gone to attend the eighteenth centenary of the martyrdom of Saints Peter and Paul. |After ordination he embarked with Father Martersteck for tlie United States, where he landed September ISth, 1868. His first appointment in the New World was as assistant at St. Paul’s Church, Reading Whence, on June Gib, 1869, he was transferred as 1 asior to Allentown, which then comprised REV. E. O. HILTEBMANN. a territory now administered by seven priests and comprising five distinct parishes. large flora! pieces—a cross, anchor and harp, Jn 1874 Archbishop Wood appointed him emblematic of Faith, Hope and Charity, and Pastor of St. Bonifaeins’s Chnrch, Front and a large floral cornucopia. Each of these Diamond streets, this city, whence, after two pieces contained 25 silver dollars, represent¬ y ears, he was again sent to Allentown. There ing the number of years of his Priesthood. A he remained in charge until February 16th May drill followed, in which 18 young 3883, when lie was appointed Rector of Holy misses, kept time in dancing around the May¬ Trinity by the late Archbishop Wood. At pole to the music of the polka, with piano ac¬ Holy Trinity he still remains, as gentle un¬ companiment. Five young ladies dressed in assuming and beloved by his people as’he is ■white, with silver embroidery and silver learned and xeaious for all things pertaining coronets, next recited a congratulatory poem to the glory of God. s entitled “Twenty-five Years a Priest,” iA Holy Trinity Church. Which each gave a recital of five years of ■ Few churches cf this city have had a more Father Hiltermnnn’s labors at Holy Trinity interesting or checkered history than Holv Their delivery was natural and easy, and Trinity With that fellow-feeling common their gestures and courtesies graceful and to people of all nationalities, and strength¬ Winning. ened by the bonds of a common language °the The exercises concluded with the presenta¬ | German Catholics of Philadelphia, from their tion by twenty-five girls, with white and col¬ earliest settlement, have always been a unit ored dresses, studded with silver stars, and Jn things religious and patriotic. According each representing a star or year in Father •to the statistics of 17.57, there were in tin's city Hiltermann’s ministry, of a blue silk ban¬ In that year just “230 German Catholics ” ner, bearing the inscription *‘Souvenir to Whose spiritual needs were administered Rev. E. O. Hiltermann, from the grateful children of Holy Trinity Parish.” The who w, R7' VieoAoro Schneider, lad f0!;,ndo'l thR mission of presentation address was made in German by ^o^henhoppen, Ecrks county, pa in 1741 one of the girls, who was loudly applauded Mev, Ferdinand Farmer reached old St J<> after which the school sang in chorus ‘■Das ist der Tag den Herr Gemacht. ” w!!h’f,7\Wn7ns’S al!ey’in W41,and relieved Father bclmeider of his periodica] “station” Father Hilterma nn made an affecting response ot lo city, attending to the German element. to the sentiments of the address, in which Originally amalgamated with the congre-ra- Jhe thanked the children for their tribute of c; Salary’s, on Fourth street, liefoV , affection, commended their studiousness in Walnut, about 1787 they had become so n,h school and their devotion to their faith, and niorous uiat, by unanimous consent, they de- exhorted them lo strive to become patriotic and faithful men and women. He then in¬ a Gcrman Parish, and,3this vited the children to share the flowers l2r2teriTOf , • ,17S8,’*A^ AdamaS't ,Poemir,pOWOntoa in ’the °“ name Pebru of- amongst themselves, an invitation which was m. country men and co-religionists, and with gladly accepted, and soon every boy and girl money generously supplied by them was the happy possessor of a rose, violet or bought from j!le Supreme Executive Court Borne other flower, worn proudly in button¬ of Pennsylvania the lots now form- hole or corsage. "i>e nortuwest corner of Sixth and The celebration proper of Father Hilter- stieeks, with a frontage of mann’s silver jubilee will begin this mornin-- 398 . feet on Spniee street. The congregation With a Solemn High Mass at Holy Trinity at thus formed was incorporated by act of the Which a large number of Catholic clergymen i-grisla uro on October 14 of the same year will assist, to be followed by a reception of miner the cue of “The Trustees of the Ger- his parishioners in the school hall, on Spruce Street, in the evening. Kac!oty of Roman Catholics K y of P‘,p -’r Trinity in thA Sketch of Father Hiltermann. bit} of Punadflphia. Work was at once Father Hiltermann was bom February 23d, ItfneZl ending, the architecture 1842, in the city of Osnabrueek, in the old being .designed to conform rather to use than Kingdom of Hanover. His mother was a Protestant, but became a convert to the Catho¬ lic Church when her son was but two years old. Young Hiltermann’s education was be- |gun in the Cathedral schools of his native city. eb Helbrou as the first pastor of Holy srity/^FaUier Helbron’s'deatti was tragic. Wording to the Catholic historian, John Gilmary Shea, he was guillotined by the rev¬ From, olutionists while collecting money for the struggling Church in France. He was suc¬ ceeded by Itev. Peter Helbron, probably his brother, who came orr in 1792 irom the Ger-| . man Mission of Goshenhoppen, and who in 1793 had for his assistant the Rev. Lawrence Phelan, who “spoke in English on Sunday afternoons. ’ ’ In 1796 Bishop John Carroll, of Baltimore, then the only diocese in America, appointed Rev. John N. Goetz to take the place of Father Helbron, and Rev. William Elling in the place of Father Phelan, Father Elling continuing as Rector until his death in April, 1811. . . The first Catholic Orphan Asylum in this city was founded by the congregation of Holy Trinity, close to the church, ‘ ‘for the orphans of Catholics who died of the yellow fever in 1798, ’ ’ and the first Sisters of Charity sent out from the mother house of Emmittsburg, Md., by Mother Seton, were sent to take Philadelphia Has Scarcely a I charge of the orphanage. This orphanage, which was incorporated in 1807, is now located Rival for Beautiful Church at the southwest corner of Seventh and Spruce str6?tf** Rev.’Adam Britt was Rector of Holy Trinity Memorials. in 1810, Rev. Francis Roloff in 1826, the latter being succeeded by Rev. Father Carroll, and in 1831 by Rev. J. Vanderback. In 1833, Rev. Francis Guth, being then Rector, founded St. ST. STEPHEN’S RICH IN THEM. Vincent’s Orphan Asylum, which is now lo¬ cated in Tacony. In 1834 an assistant of the church was Rev. Henry Lemke, truly a mem¬ ber of the Church militant, inasmuch as, be¬ Particularly Handsome Memorials j fore taking holy orders, he had fought under the flag of his native land against the troops to the Burd Family—A Font j of Napoleon. He died in 1882at the Benedictine Monastery of Carroiltown, Cambria county, Dating from the Twelfth aged SS years. On July 29, 1834, Solemn High Mass was Century—Brasses and sung in Holy Trinity for the repose of the soul _ of General Lafayette. From that time the Marbles. Rectors have been: In 1830, Rev. Father Stahlschmidt; in 1842, Rev. Otto H. Burges; in 1845, Rev. Andrew Skopes; in 1847, Rev. N few, if any of the Nicholas Perrine; in 1854, Rev. P. M. Corbon, cities of America ( who remained in charge until his deatu, m are there so many ; XS71, when he was succeeded by Rev. Father churches where i Schick. Father Schick remained until 1883, costly and hand- i when the present much-beloved Rector, Rev. some memorials are E. O. Hilterman, was appointed by the late ki be seen as in Archbishop Wbod. Philadelphia. Some On October 7, 1883, the bi-eentenary nnmv of these memorials j ersary of the arrival of the German pioneer are justly celebrated founders of Germantown was celebrated, with the world over. St. imposing ceremony, in Holy Trinity, and in Stephen's Church,on Tenth Street, north of , 1889 the centenary anniversary of the founda¬ Ohestnut, is particularly rich in its collec-; tion of the church was observed. It may not ion of memorials. The latest of these is a be known that Stephen Girard was bnned in leautiful reredos, erected to the memory of the graveyard of Holy Trinity, his body being Tvlrs. James McKee/ The central feature of transferred thence to the Mausoleum on the this work of art is a salviati glass mosaic | completion of . Butin all its picture, representing the Lord’s Supper. : eventful career no such disaster ever be af’er a drawing by Holiday, of London. fell Holy Triniiy as the fire which com The modeling of the figures and the pure | pletely destroyed its beautiful interior^ and delicate gradations of color in this mo¬ shortly after the congregation had gore home from High Mass on Christmas Day,, saic are especially noticeable. 1891 the church having just beenj For some time previous to the erection of renovated at a cost of 810,000. However, under the reredos, the rector and vestry of St. tbe zealous care of Father Hilterman and Stephen’s had been discussing the construc¬ the efficient aid of the congregation, the old tion of such a work of art. The style which | church has arisen pheenix-like from its they adopted is a rich, decorated Gothic of ashes, and stands to-day where it stood a a modern type. The reredos is twenty-six hundred years ago, not an epitome of aspiring feet in length, the highest points or the architecture, but one of Philadelphia’s most crosses surmounting the aDgle buttresses,. treasured relics and the monumentofa thrifty, being twenty feet from the floor. _ The pic¬ God-fearing people. The present trustees of ture is eleven feet five inches in length, theebnrch, who were appointed byArchbishop and five feet four inches high. It is set | Ryan on Trinity Sunday last, are Messrs. in the rear of the church and surrounded | by modelings and paneling, and sustained; Jacob Michel, Sr., Jacob Haubrick, Joseph Obermann, August Trauwen, Frank Bel- and flanked by small buttresses. Below the woar, .Henry F. Michel, John W. Speechmanj picture and over tbe altar are panels' and Sebastian Hail. ^ j 35

THE BUM) MEMORIAL. carved in ban relief with clouds^ FErougH" which are half seen cherubs’ j By a system of concealed reflectors the wings, floating and looking heavenward. ; rays of these lamps are thrown upon the picture from right to left and vice versa LIGHTING THE EEEEDOS. while from the center lamp the ravs art j 0ne of the most difficult problems has thrown downward in the shape of a fan to Ibeen to light the picture properly, and at the lower corners of the mosaic. All glit¬ the same time to do so without annoying ter is thus avoided, and a soft, even light the worshipers with a glare of light. Glass diffused. The same lamps also effectually (mosaic is entirely dependent upon artificial light the chancel, so that the tall standards lighting to bring out its color, and great of gas lights can be removed. care must be exercised to prevent a g’itter The handsomest of the Burd memorials ;on any portion of the surface, due to an at St. Stephen’s is in the chapel, directly jimpertect distribution of the rays Thf» over the tomb of the Burd family. The /experiment to accomplish this result ex- memorial, which is of marble, pictures the tended over several months, and finally the Angel of the Resurrection. It was erected perfected arrangements consisted of three by Mrs. Burd, about 1864, to the memory of pendants or sanctuary lamps of ornamental ber three daughters, the inscription upon it gilt metal glooular in form ana fifteen being as follows: “In the crypt beneath inches in diameter, hung at a distance of this chapel repose the remains of Eliza (four feet from the picture and slightly Burd, born November 6, 1813, died July above it. The lamps, closed toward the 25, 1840; of Maria Coxe Burd, born Sep¬ (body of the church, contain each an Edi¬ tember 2, 1819. died April 27, 1844, and of son electric bulb of one hundred candle ipower. vuuuie Wooddrop Sims Burd_ born May 2, 1822, |died May 11, 1837. The statuary is com-

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MEMORIAL TO EDWARD SHIPPEN BURD ST. STEPHEN’S. posed of four female figures, (he faces of tended them; a.lfhouSh idealized, were in- evening sun. It illustrates a portion of the “Te Deum”:— ters.ters Thp^lie marble 'f',13 was°f Mrsexecuted- Burd bv’8 dnugh-Stein- hauser, and was done in Rome. 4e same To Thee all angels cry aloud. The heavens and all the powers therein; artist, a few years previous to the erection To Thee cherubim and seraphim or the above memorial, also executed a Continually do cry memorial to Edward Shippen Burd, which Holy! Holy! Holy! Lord God of Sabaoth. stanas at the western end of the north aisle. ; A knight in armor, in the left section, THE SUBJECT OF THE MEMORIAL. typifies the church militant; a female figure in the right, the church triumphant. The Mr. Burdwas a lawyer by profession, upper opening has a figure of Christ, as il- and came of quite a well-known family,his father, Colonel* James Burd, having come to this country Jfrom Scotland before the War of the Rei^ilution. His grandmother was a sister, and his mother a daughter of Chief Justice Edward Shippen. Both Mr. and Mrs. Burd were devout communicants of St.Stephen’s Church, Mr. Burd beiDg one of the founders, aDd a member of the vestry until his death, and in his will he I made a handsome bequest to the parish. He died September 17, 1849. The baptismal font was also erected in St. Stephen’s by Mrs. Burd as a memorial. Ibe bowl of this font came from the south I of France, where it was found in an old cemetery. It is supposed to date from the twelfth century. Its interior is very curi¬ ously carved. The pedestal unon which it rests was executed at the order of Mrs Burd by Stdnhauser. Among the other memorial tablets which have been erected in St. Stephen’s, the fol¬ lowing may be mentioned: To the mem¬ ory of Rev.Henry Ducachet, second rector- to the memory of William Rudder, who was for sixteen years rector of the church, and to the memory of Rev. James Mont¬ gomery, first rector. In St. James’ Protestant Episcopal Church was recently unveiled a very beau-1 Tahiet to Mary Andrews. tiful memorial window, erected by George ^ W. Childs, as a tribute to the noble life lustrating the line: "Thou art the Kin and faithful services of the rector of that tl!jl°ryJ °’ ,Rhrlst-" Ia tbe left circle ai church, Rev.Henry Jackson Morton, D. unto ,,lD,asrm,oh as ye have done i D., who, for over half a century minis¬ unto one of the least of these my brethren tered to the spiritual needs of that congre¬ ye have done it unto me.” In the circl gation. The window is known as the great west window. Its color is exceedingly rich die hfthf T* 'd “fBless®d are the dead win and it shows best when lighted by the i faborsho„ ”hTthehJe°; i djscnptmn’ f0-'' *-they running rest f,om along thei th< base reads: “To the glory of God. and ii loving memory of Henry Jackson Morton tv Vixevi°r °f tflis for more than in his eigh^-fourth yearN Th“be- h lfi90' I logian and philosopher. I'he monument is dedicatea by his friend, GeoJge Vchflds!?’ I in a tablet form of two varieties of marble, the. prevailing tint being orange. It was OTHER NOTABLE MEMORIALS denned by Eobert D. Andrews, of Boston. 1 here are several very handsome me¬ s,9 V"’r , —*k morial windows in St. Mark’s Protestant r„ t Kj-s'r ’ Episcopal Church. Foremost amongst them is the Wilraer Memorial Window, erected to .““njllrt 4re o,/» * aS; the memory of the first rector of St. - Mark s, on the north side of the chancel in March, 1892. In July of the same year,' .£emory of her mother- ^ Ss made In the Carter Memorial Window was placed in I “ Heyr’ cbndre3rS'the f0lJ°winfr inscription : the north side of the church, next to the ! ,, cn idren rise up and call her bWH west front. This window completed the set KliJi J°ilns0? Middle, wife of Eobert M ’ of memorial windows on the north side of the enurch. In 1880 the font and baptistry rfNortMtfyJ U'Sr were erected and placed in position as a memorial of Mr. Samuel S. Moon by hii j“!Si.5“ ,lfe M"<* «, 189C,^November 20," widow. I In .dfta. south clerestory Mrs. Frederick Goff has placed, in memory of her hus¬ band, a fine window by Holiday, of Loi^ don. Its symbolism represents the ajra jdispensation as fore-shadowing the neiw In Old Christ Church, Second Street, near Market, quite a number of old-

Growth and Development of the Charities That Soothe and Heal and Bless.

Hie Good Work Which They Do in Al¬ leviating Sickness and Suffering.

Benjamin Franklin’s Share in the Founding of the Pennsylvania The Dorr Tablet Hospital What Has Been Accom¬ plished by Private Benevolence fashioned memorials are to be seen upon the walls. About the oldest amongst them and Public Spirit. was erected to the memory of Mrs Mary Andrews, who died Maroh 29. 1761, aged 78 years. _ A comparatively modern marble memonal tablet of elaborate design was erected to the memory of Captain William White, who was killed in action at Spotsyl¬ vania May 10. 1864. On the south wall of the church the memorial tablets are quite close together; the three most noticeable among them were erected respectively to be, without interest. ithe memory of Ann Tallman Da Costa; to i -he memory of Eev. John Waller James, dozen large ^ospEal™ and^about^two one of the early rectors of Christ Church and to the memory of Edward Lyon Clark In the First Unitarian Cirirob, Chestnut Tn fapf • or Citizen and care for hiim Street above Twenty-first, there was IJ.n t&ct, in not ono citv in erected several years ago by subscriptions to Sth?nS-7 °n native ^r op ^unconscious from Unitarians in all parts of the country to the sidewalk with quite as comnW a memorial monument to the memory of Joseph Priestley, the distinguished theo- | caredS6for &£&%££ ^Iy .accident befall him in the heart of the city an ambulance from the Pennsylva¬ THE IVUXSf ^ nia or Jefferson Hospital will have Another noble old' institution and ex- him within its walls inside of ten min¬ cel lent charity of this city, which is also utes. If he falls unconscious in Ken¬ at the moment contemplating extensive' sington, the Protestant Episcopal Hos¬ alterations, is the' Wills Eye Hospital,] pital is within easy reach; if downtown on Race street, near Nineteenth. This; the Methodist Episcopal, or St. Agnes’ institution owes its foundation to the; opens its doors; if in West Philadel¬ benevolence of James Wills, a grocer,t phia the Presbyterian or University who died in 1823, and by his last will ambulances are within a few minutes’ bequeathed to the city a sum of money I call. for the erection of this hospital. When Philadelphia can also make the proud the building was completed, this fund boast that the oldest hospital in the had increased to $132,548. United States is located within her pre¬ Several other legacies have since been cincts. It was founded as long ago as added to the fund, which is under the J750, principally through the efforts of control of the Board of City Trusts. Benjamin Franklin, aided by Dr. The corner-stone of the building was Thomas Bond, one of the leading physi¬ laid April 2, 1832, and the hospital cians of Philadelphia at that period. opened March 3. 1S34. The pavilions GROWTH OF A GREAT HOSPITAL. were dedicated October 11, 1875. All As the undertaking which Dr. Bond the beds of the hospital are free. and Franklin contemplated was beyond The hospital was originally intended the scope of private enterprise at that for the relief of the indigent blind and lame, but it has gradually become the date, it was evident, from the first, that most extensive hospital in the State of the movement must be of a private Pennsylvania for the treatment of dis¬ character. Accordingly, Franklin pre¬ eases of the eye. Its steady growth is pared the public mind through the news-1 apparent from the fact that in 1835 papers, and thus succeeded in increasing only 66 patients were treated, while last the number and amount of subscriptions! year there were 766 patients treated in to the hospital. After all the subscrip-1 the wards and 11,753 at the clinics, a tions possible had been secured, legisla¬ tive aid was then asked, and after con¬ total of 12,513. siderable opposition from some of the country members, obtained. A char¬ Turning to uptown institutions the ter was granted, and a temporary hos¬ eye rests upon the Episcopal Hospital, pital opened in February, 1752, in Ihe decided upon at a meeting of Episcopal . mansion of Judge Kinsey, on the south clergy and laity convened by Bishop side of Market, west of Fifth street. Potter on March 14, 1851. This building was used until December, Shortly after this, and being moved byj ! 1756, when the hospital at Eighth and a sermon preached by Dr. William Ba-[ Pine streets was opened for the recep¬ con Stevens, in St. Andrew’s Church, tion of patients. Mrs. E. H. L. Stout and Miss Amy : From the first the Pennsylvania Hos¬ Leamy, daughters of Mrs. Elizabeth pital proved a success, and as soon as Lee, gave to the hospital about 500 acres this was recognized, subscriptions poured of ground near Front street and Lehigh in for its support, both fr:>m this coun¬ avenue, with the family mansion there- f try and Europe. Of course, like all in¬ on. The hospital was opened in that stitutions of a similar character, it ex¬ house on December 11, 1852. Strange- y perienced dark days and stormy times, I ly enough, the first patients were re- ;* yet it passed through these periods i ceived on Christmas eve of that year—‘I a father and throe children, the mother safely and unscarred. | Since the doors were opened up to the having died with fever. Additional present time, according to the last re¬ ground was shortly afterwards pur-j port of the managers, about 12S,000 chased, giving the hospital the entire! ■ patients have been admitted, 1X1,000 of block. whom were poor persons, supported at The corner-stone of the present build-j the expense of the institution; 82,000' ing was laid on May 20, 1860, and the of these patients were discharged hospital was opened on July 31, 1S62, cured, and 21,000 others relieved and to receive 100 sick and wounded Union benefited. The Pennsylvania was about soldiers. Altogether 500 Union soldiers] the first hospital to adopt the present were admitted as patients before the enlightened treatmnt of the insane, and Government hospitals were prepared to to Dr. Thomas S. Ivirkbride. who pre¬ meet the emergency. About 1874 the ® sided over this department of the insti¬ eastern wing was erected, thus com¬ tution from 1841'to his death, in 18S3, pleting the hospital after its original plan. a tribute of honor is due. Although under the auspices of the It seems to be the fate of many in¬ stitutions that when they have passed Protestant Episcopal Church this hos¬ the century mark an age of mild de- pital, like'all the other charitable in-; cav overtakes them, and then their use¬ stitutions of the city, is thoroughly un¬ fulness is over. But not so with the denominational, as is evidenced by the) . At the present ! number of patients healed last year, moment improvements are being carried 492 being Episcopalians, 743 Catholics, out by this old institution which will 265 Lutherans, 164 Presbyterians, 161 cost not less than $500,000. They in¬ Methodists, 59 Baptists, 12 Hebrews, clude a new nurses’ home and out-pa¬ 8 Friends, three Unitarians, and JJ tient department, the cost of which will unrecorded. be about $50,000 each, while the mem¬ CARING FOR THE ORPHANS. orial ward, which is being erected on Spruce street, will cost not less than On the long list of charitable associa¬ $275,000. The widow and daughters of tions one of the most satisfactory in re¬ the late Wistar Morris have contributed sults is the Burd Orphan Asylum. In1® $150,000 toward the cost of this ward, home was founded by Mrs. Elizabeth and the remainder, it is expected, will Burd, a member of St. Stepnen’s Church be raised without diflSculty. of this city. Mrs.Bird was a woman pos¬ Other improvements include the entire sessed of considerable means, which she reconstruction of the interior of the desired to devote to the good of her present buildings, and the construction fellow beings. Accordingly, in 1856, she of a new boiler house, costing about began the nucleus of the future Burd A cjvlnrn in two hnnsps nn Stonsom Str6Gt, I Commonwealth of Pcnnsylv P5EH90nVSj. ; .[reels, and admitted 12 little L »'ork she deveteil her tlrae.L £ ;ii,d means. It was "a pleasurer 1 QQ6 _ Q' I ,ts; the children's clothes, aui]l lira-made under her own eyej ru id.® of the asylum was for the' of poor children of both hit unidoally her ideas chanced g. i f erperiencc, nnd assumed n f «hape in. regard to her bene- m riuully she resolved to estnb- > institution for the od non cion nnd :: of orphan girls of the better f.r vrhoui there was no suitable on iii homes and asylums, r Mrs. Hurd’s death the asylum tanted to its present building, I in l.SOl-63, on Market street tiitr third. The grounds are cx- tind the building quite nttructivo, ale of architecture being early i Gothic. The asylum is liberally rl, M. Stephen’s Church being

OLVG GOOD QUIETLY,

»ih of Arch is located a little Eihinucd building, which, for well ■a century, lias been known ns the |k of Industry. This institution, mg its many years of experience, has luejilily adding to the treasury of ,iscop&] ffiTufcs faithfully performed by its [Be i epor- in that spirit of true pehnee which hides from the left B the alms deeds of the rlght. M mission of the association is not 1 the tftildcen, the little ones, but

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' 7—Grounds of the Penn hospital ^__f£Dct-trqtlffr*Tnd Spruce Sts. From* photograph- tnonHie day ground broken tor the memorial Word.

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3 thp aged and infirm. From such hfc'e the association gathers together ittle company at the House of In- try nnd there, on bleak winter days. Mi 'he snow is drifting and the cold Ruling its way through the stoutest uing, the aged women beneficiaries in the warmtli iind shelter of a large,

red means winter bread and fuel, ik is ulways supplied to tboso uu- jto leave their homes. S the first floor of the institution is Bed n small store where n part of ■Nothing made by the old women listened of to chnnee purchasers. B'tliue* ns high as fiO women are »yed in quilting and making nil ■tirx of garments, hemming sheets, ■ns and towels; working tnittnn- ■ sewing on buttons nnd similar ^■

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Bate, / f'fi*?., FIRST BAPTIST CBDRCE [ NEARLY 200 YEARS OLD.

Something Abont the Historic Con¬ gregation and Its Pastor.

TWO MISSIONS SUPPORTED. x>uaruuiBD, U. JJ. _ an ancient record. There is an old record of marriages, Rev. Dr. George Dana Boardman, which was started in 1744 as an account book of the poor widows’ fund, which is Who Has Filled the Pulpit for now in the possession of the pastor, that Thirty Years, and His is a great curiosity in itself. The writing of 150 years ago is as plain in it as if it Incessant Activity. had been written but yesterday. This book has been put in evidence manv times in court, in the settlement of estates and especially with regard to the estate of In 189S the First Baptist Church of Phil¬ soldiers who died in the war. It contains adelphia will be 200 years old. The pres¬ the name of every couple that was ever ent place of worship of this congregation married by the clergymen of the church. The accounts of the widows’ fund which at Broad and Arch Streets is comparatively i were kept in this book are in pounds, shill¬ new , but the organization was formed | ings and pence, for that was long before nearly a hundred years before this country there were any coins stamped with the legend, “E Pluribus Unum." obtained its independence. This old church Rev. Mr. Jones,the first regular pastor, was is of great historic interest. There are few born in Lfandydoch, Pembrokeshire, churches in the country around which miles, and came to America in 1710. He there cluster so many interesting associa¬ was called to the ministiy of the Pennapek tions. Among its clergymen and members and Philadelphia Churches in 172b. At there have been men of great renown. his death, in 1760, he was succeeded by The present church building was dedi-j Rev. Morgan Edwards, who was also a Welshman, having been born in Wales cated in 1856. The organization was formed) May . 9, 1722. He was practically the n 1698. About the first Baptist to settle ; founder of Brown Universitv. He was a in Pennsylvania was John Holme, who Tory and throughout the Revolution he came in 1686. Subsequently a few others adhered to the British side. of the same faith came, and on the second ?<^l;Tar<^8 ^i8d in 1795, and was suc¬ Sunday of December, 1698, nine people met ceeded by.Bev. Dr. William Rogers, who was horn in Rhode Island, July 22, 1751. at a house at the northwest corner of Sec¬ During the Revolution he was a brigade ond and Chestnut Streets,and, in the words chaplain in the Continental Army. He of Kev. Morgan Edwards, “did coalesce was appointed professor of oratory and into a*church for the communion of saints, belles-lettres in the University of Penn¬ having Bev. John Watts to their assist¬ sylvania. In 1824 he died and his succes- ance.” These nine persons were John sor was Pev. Elhauan Wineheder, The Holme, John Farmer and his wife, Joseph next minister was Rev. Thomas Ustick, Todd, Rebecca Woosenoroft, William who seems to have made no particular Silverstone, Wiliam Elton, and his mark. Then came Rev. Dr. William wife and Mary Shepherd. This olaughton, who was pastor from 1805 to church was an offsb oot of the Pennepek,1 1811, leaving to become president of or Lower Dublin Church, and the two were College, D.C., and afterward under one organization until May 15, 1746, of Georgetown College, Kentucky. the pastor of the Philadelphia church act¬ ing for both. The two congregations sepa¬ OTHERS WHO HELPED THE WORK, rated in 1746 and Rev. Jenkin Jones, who In 1812 Rev. Dr. Henry Hallcombe was had been the joint pastor, resolved to de-j called to the First Church and remained as vote his services to the Philadelphia its pastor until 1824, when he died. He church, and he continued to be the pastor was in the Continental Army, though of the First Baptist Church until he died always an advocate of peace principles. in July, 1760. Since then the pastors have been Rev. Dr. Brantly Rev. Dr. Ide, Rev. Dr. Cut bert and the present venerable pastor, R JSIJKST BAPTIST i CHURCH, BROAD AND ARCH STREETS. cajied grave indTavS WlllCil Dear ^is Other’s later in Tavay. When a born three years embarked for America 6a^"f °f lle three mission b ranches. entire distance alonT df JaYel?d the Since Dr. Boardman became pastor of died, Mrs. Boardrmn Jrls ^ather haying the church it has grown both in numbers to Rev. Dr. Judson tl™ farned 1834 and influence. The church has a member¬ missionary. Dr Boardm™ faiD

Descendants of Bartram. Descendants of James Bartram—M. E. Grim HONORING BARTRAM Manley and Charles Grimm,West Chester; W. Yoight Frame, ; William L. Frame, Philadelphia ; Mattie W. Gibson Frame, Philadelphia; Lettie G. Sheneman, Reunion of the Many Descendants of Louis Boy Sheneman, Jennie Bartram Wil¬ son, Nathan G. Frame, Edgar L. Frame, S. the Noted Botanist. Lizzie Levis Frame. Philadelphia; E.St. John Lewis, Mary D. Lewis, Philadelphia, Pa. Descendants of Isaac—Bartram W. Griffiths, Mariam Griffiths, May A. Bartram, Saliie E. THEY GATHER IN THE OLD GARDEN Griffiths. Philadelphia; Anna M. Hurvey, Ward, Delaware county, Pa.; Ellis Marshall Harvey, Ward, Delaware county; Mrs.Thomas \ Historical Paper ley Mrs. William D. Kelley Shipley Bartram, Rio Grande, N. J. .

•^,e. referred to^ the histone ground upon descendants of Moses—Sally Ann Kaighn, which they stooo, and expressed gratification Anna Mary Kaighn, Moorestown, N. J.; Lucy that it would be perpetuated by the city as a Gardiner Hathaway, Maria B. Hathaway, public park. He then referred to the achieve¬ Georgiana Bartratu Hathaway, Hiram ments of descendants of the botanist, and said Hathaway, Jr., Anne Bulan Gray Hathaway, | that no doubt much of the success of the late Wm. Hathaway, Chester, Pa.; Walter S. Judge William D. Kelley, the “Father of the Richards, Anna G. Richards, Edna G. House,” was due to his wife, one of John Richards, Philadelphia; Geo. H. Bartram, Bartram’s descendants. She had written a •Rachel D. B. Love, Rachel Elsie Love, Phila¬ sketch of the botanist, which would be read delphia ; Amos E. Kaighn, Lucy E. Kaighn, by her son, Albert Bartram Kelley Joseph Kaighn, Elizabeth E. Kaighn, Moores¬ I Before the latter began to speak William town, N. J.; Hamilton Haines, Rebecca K. Bertram stepped forward, and in the name |Haines, Joseph K. Haines, Bertha P. Haines, of the descendants of John Bartram. sou of Wilbur H. Haines, Mount Ephraim, N. J.; the botanist, presented to the chairman a Wm. T. Zook, Abbie E. Zook, Edwin Zook, Gertrude K. Zook, Malvern, Pa.; John Evans, handsom boxwood gavel “through you to T. Klwood Bartram. Although absent, he is Marlton, N. J.; Emma Kaighn, San Antonio, not forgotten.” Tex.; Wm. J. Evans, Eliz. P. Evans, Rachel B. Evans, Susan Evans, Jr., Rachel K. Evans, n.^jert Bartram Kelley was then intro- i Marlton, N. J.; Alzira Bartram Souder, Roy- emced and read the paper written by ins ersford, Pa.; Airs. R. E. Hannum, Mattie F. mother. This reviewed the career cf the jllannum, Philadelphia, Pa.; Mrs. Sue H. ootanist and of his descendants at length, it Jones, Bessie D. Jones, Chester, Pu.; Edna P. was stated that "John Bartram, eldest son of Bailey, Holmes, Pa.; Albert Bonsai Han- William and Elizabeth Bartram, inherited a Inum, Philadelphia, Pa.; Pocahontas B. Han- farm near Darby, which was left to him by lium, Chester, Pi. is uncle Isaac. It cannot be supposed that Descendants of Mary—Annie W. Kimball, e could derive great advantages lroin school William Henry Kennedy, Annie C. Ken¬ ipnriTnnSn°* ,lteratufein acolonT so recently nedy, Philadelphia; Margaret M. Bonsall, settled, but ne availed himself of every op¬ Seymour W. Bonsall, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Caro¬ portunity that came in his way, studied such line Bartram Newbold, Grace Bartram New- or batin and Greek grammars and classics as bold, H. Stuart P. Newbold, Philadelphia; s means enab.ed him to purchase, and lie Lizzie G. Winall, Springfield, Delaware sou“ht *be society of iearned and county. Pa.; S. E. Whitelock, Bartram White- virtuous men. His taste for the study of lock, Thomas Whitelock, Mrs. J. 0. Madara, medieine and surgery leu him to acquire so I Mrs. William W. Hires, Mrs. H. H. Burling, much knowledge as to be very useful to his Miss Maggie Whitelock, Miss Lizzie White- poor neighbors who were unable to em¬ lock, Camden, N. J.; M. M. Newbold, Pa. ploy physicians from the city. * * * Descendahis of Elizabeth—C. W. McCurdy, th?-^P1?iyed mu-ch of his tim« in travelling Devuult, Chester county. Pa.; James Chand¬ haS the P^^ces of North America, at ler, Victoria Chandler, Ida Chandler, Lora that time subject to England. Neither dan- Chandler, Ethel Chandler, Germantown. mseirnhpi1^011 tleK-"npe’ Mrs' West’ and «nSoS now Delaware county). They were married in September, 1729, and had nine children Anna Bartram survived her husband upwards of six years, having died on the 29th of Janu¬ ary, 1784, aged eiglity-seveu. It appeals by From, the records of tlie American Philosophical (society, of which John Bartram was one of the original members, his name standing second to that of Dr. Benjamin Franklin who Headed the list, that he died on the 22d jT) of September, 1777, aged seventy-eight years and six months.” Mrs. Kelley devoted some space to a con¬ Date, ..,/./ 1 templation of John Bartram’s'character, She referred to the wife and mother as a remarka¬ ble woman. She listened to her husband when he unfolded his new scheme, as she called it, but did not approve of it, and ad¬ MYlMMBfr vised him to continue to cultivate his farm But finning his determination fixed, she gave in to him, and was afterward of the greatest TWENTY-THREE YEARS, assistance to him. She alluded at length to the sons and their families and what they ac¬ complished, and described the friendship be¬ tween John Bartram and Franklin. She also Offspring of a Noble Parent, St. wrote of the garden and the interest felt in it t l« ear. y <*,**?• In conclusion she stated John’s Lutheran Church. tha he has left us an example of industry faithfulness and conscientious adherence to the precept which be had adopted in early life as his guide.” This was, “Do justice, love mercy and walk humbly before God ” ITS FOUFDEE IS YET ITS PAS TOE. i John Bunting was next introduced as one who was born and raised almost within the shadow of these trees. Mr. Bunting recited Rev. Dr. Joseph A. Seiss’ Half Cen¬ Garden.”1 P°Cm entitIed’ “At imam's The chairman next read a letter of regret at tury in the Ministry—Wonder¬ his inability to be presentand congratulations over the event from Wiiliam D. Kelley, Jr ful Growth of a Representa¬ at Chattanooga, Penn. The descendants were requested to go to the other side of the house tive Congregation. and have their pictures taken, and then tr proceed to the orchard for lunch. On mo non or Major Bonsnll, of Camden, a vote of thanks was given to Mrs. Kelley for her in- Less than twenty-five years ago, in the ( teiesting paper and to her son for his reading Fall of 1870, the congregation of St. John’s- Mrs. Oscar F. West had charge of the relics ^f„John -Bartram in the house, loaned by Lutheran Church, then the most infiu-j different descendants and took pleasure in ential in the city, felt, the increasing) explaining them. She was Caroline Bartram growth, that division of the church and j and is a direct descendant of the botanist. She the formation of a new congregation drawn states that he !elt the garden to his son John in 1775, two years before his death. John from the old was necessary and desirable.) haa three children-James, Ann and Marv-~ The matter was agitated and meetings were( and he devised the garden to Mary. Mary held. Before the new year arrived a new married Nathan Jones and left no issue-Ai n married Robert Carr and left no issue’ She church, an offspring of the old one, was j Was the hist of the family in the garden as it determined upon, and the “Church of the* Holy Communion” became a fact. pSrchdasedEiklW1Ch’ fr°m Wh°Ee estate thec:ty Since then “Holy Communion” has grown James Bartram left one son, who was j named John Bartram, and Mrs. Caroline steadily. Now it is one of the most in¬ Wes tan d her brother, William M. Bartram fluential and widely known churches in the1 were his only children. Mrs. West was mar city, with a handsome home at Broad and ried on the 16th of October, 1875. Arch Streets. Among the relics shown were the botanists’ Rev. J. A.Seiss, the present pastor, and) William M.Heyl, were virtually the found- EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH OF THE mry mu a, . ^sjs&gr"™ AS IT trustees of St. John’s, the pZlnt^T Upon* the^ jrpassagecv'3' “ot; ui.of this(/ins resolution many on the third Thursday in October, 1870* persons who before did not feel authorized resolutions were passed at their instance ’ to agitate the matter at once began an eai nest effort to establish the new congre¬ fST tha7aS the man*fest interests gation. Three vacant lots at the south¬ of the Lutheran Church of St. John de- west corner of Broad and Arch Streets were & mand that an effort be made to establish offered to the congregation and were pur¬ a new church in the western part of chased. A building befitting the promi¬ | the city, the board would raise no objec- nent location was contracted for. Work tion to an undertaking of the kind but on the structure was rapidly pushed and effort/’ a y aPPr°Ve 8nd favor su^ an on the 28th day of November, 1871, the corner-stone was laid with impressive ceremonies. When the Autumn of 1873 set years he remained pastor there, and then, in 1858 he came to this city. His charge here, was the St. John’s Church on Race Street below Sixth, succeeding Dr. Mayer. After sixteen years of the growth of St. John’s division of that church was made and Dr. Seiss accepted his present charge. Dr. Seiss’ sphere of usefulness has been quite extended. For a term he was pres¬ ident of the Synod in East Pennsylvania. He was president of the Ministerium of Pennsylvania and adjunct States for many years, and when the General Council of the Lutheran Churches of North America convened he was chosen presiding officer. Dr. Seiss’ reputation rests, not alone on! his learning in theology, for he has achieved fame as an archaeologist by the publication of “A Miracle in Stone,” a work in which it was demonstrated that! the great pyramid at Gizeh was built to foreshadow history yet to come. Proofs, were adduced that the advent of the Chris-' tian religion and the birth and resurrec¬ tion of Christ were there foretold. The Rev. Joseph A. Seiss, D. T)., JSh. D. book was the result of Dr. Seiss’ personal in the church was inclosed and on Christ investigations. Another work, widely knswn, was his “Children of Silence,” a mas Day, 1873, the Sunday school room study relative to deaf mutes. was dedicated. Pending the completion o; On May 3, 1892, the congregation of the church proper services were conducted Holy Communion celebrated Dr. Seiss’; by Dr. Seiss in the Sunday School room. fiftieth anuievrsary of his entrance into the' On February 17, 1875, the building was ministry. Many prominent divines paid dedicated. One hundred and fifty-nine tribute to bis oratory and learning, and members enrolled themselves at the dedi¬ clergymen were present from many cities. cation and on February 20 they were con- stitued a congregation by the church. Dr. Joseph A. Seiss then left St.John’s to be¬ *■ „ come pastor of the Holy Communion and George Fryer,Paul P. Keller.E,. W. Greiner, From, Frank Muhlenberg, Fraklin Byerly, Wil¬ liam H. Staake and H. Earnest Goodman 13 were eleated deacons. . Ia the years following the congregation increased. Now it numbers about 350 persons. Connected with the church is an aid so-| Date, _':

The Contemplated New Building of the North- East Branch of the Y. M. C. A. I ^ „ __. _ with the royal arm??. Two Irish pennies issued under the authority of the Irish Parliament in 1781; and 1783, were also tound. These relics will be carefully pre¬ served by the Y. M. C. A. 7 P The old house was built about the year 1750 by Dr. Richard Farmer, of PliiJndel phia, son of Samuel Farmer, a younger son of George, Earl of Pontefract, prob¬ 4 RELIC OF COLONIAL DATS. ably in anticipation of his marriage to Miss Sarah Carmack, daughter of a prom¬ inent Philadelphia merchant of those The 01y Marie Tilton. She occupied it until her death, in 1886, when the mansion and its C* A- DOrth of Girard Avenue. It will cost over $3O,fl00, toward which very greatly circumscribed site was pur¬ j$15,000 has been obtained. chased for the Northeast Y. M. C. A. Watson in his Annals says of the Bowers Local antiquarians are discussing one or Mansion that it was the only one of the two finds made by the workmen who took old Colonial houses which had the gable down the old structure. From their point pointed toward tbe road. It was a two-story of view the most important is the discovery brick bouse, very substantially built. The of a cast-iron plate, on the front of which materials were imported. The entrance are the royal arms of England. Dr Rad¬ was by a, massive door which swung back ford, a local antiquarian, thinks that the into a wide hallway brilliant from floor to original owners of the old mansion,possessed celling with plate-glass mirrors. The rooms on the first fisor opened into the hallway the privilege of using armorial bearings on each side. They were wainscoted from and that mere are traces^ of these qua tered floor to ceiling. One was also panelled most artistically, in tins room a "massive Too few Londoners know this secluded spot iron safe was built in the wall, and it is and its rich historical associations. But look said that Pastor Bowers stowed away in at the names in the visitors’ book at the old this safe valuable silver ornamentations meeting house. The word shrine sounds which he had removed from the walls. oddly in association with the Friends, but you The place was heated by large open fire¬ will see that Jordans has really become a places. shrine, to which pilgrimages- are made from Dr. Radford possesses a genealogy of the over sea. Naturally, the pilgrims are most Farmer family, which shows that they numerous from Pennsylvania, where .it is said were very well-to-do yoemen in the days many of the old Buckinghamshire Quakers of Henry VII of England. Their home was were left by William Penn. Somerton, in the county of Oxford. On the One of the recent entries in the book is that female side they made politic marriages. of Elizabeth Penington Baird, Philadelphia, Ann Farmer married Sir Wiliam Brown, who proudly adds to her autograph that she Lord Mayor of London, in 1552. Thomas is • ‘sixth in descent from Isaac and Mary Pen¬ Farmer was created Earl of Pontefraote ington. ” Here in the green enclosure, bor¬ in 1725. He was afterward created a K. dered and shaded with flourishing lime trees, C. B., and he received the appointment of are the graves of Mary Penington and her Ranger ot'St. James and Hyde Parks. A husband Isaac. But one green mound sepa¬ younger branch of the family, at the head rates Mary’s grave from that of Penn’s, and of which was Jasper Farmer, gave its under that mound lies her daughter by a for¬ sympathy to the Parliamentarians, and as mer marriage—Penn’s first wife, the beautiful a consequence was subjected to persecution Gulielina Springett. toward the latter part of the reign of Here c-ome in rich literary associations, for Charles II. Jasper Farmer embarked for this “Guli” Springett, daughter of one of, Philadelphia to escape this persecution, Cromwell’s captains, is said to have sung and and died just as the vessel came to anchor. played to John Milton, in the cottage at the| The new Y. M. C. A. hall will be four other Chalfont—Chalfont St. Giles—in the I stories in height. It will be brick built days when, in retreat from the plague, he with stone dressings and ornamentations. peacefully went on with his great poem, On the basement floor there will be “Paradise Lost.” Even if this were a bit of: gymnasium 60 by 30 feet, a double bowl unfounded fancy, the fair Gull’s memory con¬ nects itself with Milton’s in another way, and ing alley and a swimming pool. Orithefir! * floar will be located the Kensington Fri through this burial ground, too, for here also Library to be established by the Boa: lies Thomas Ellwood, who was tutor in the of Education. This library is expected Penington family, and was believed to be start with at least 1500 volumes. The: her admirer before Penn came, and saw, and will also be a parlor and other rooms o conquered; and does anyone need to be re¬ the first floor. The second-story will b< minded of Thomas Ellwood’s question to largely taken up by a big meeting room" Milton, “Friend, thou bast written much of in the rear of ' the building. The re Paradise lost; what hast thou to sav of mainder of the second floor will he taken disc found?” On this hint Milton wrote up by boys’ rooms and accommodations again and answered his friend with “Paradise needed by the Ladies’ Auxiliary. On the Regained. ’ ’ Some who went to the Friends’ third and fourth floors the educational meeting vesterday passed on their way the work of the branch will be carried on. The cottage where Milton spoke with Ell wood, corner-stone will be laid at an early date, and afterwards made their pilgrimage to Ell- which has not yet been fixed. wood’ s grave. There are hundreds of Quakers’ graves in this secluded corner of Buckinghamshire, which an American helps us to find by sign¬ posts and directions put up at his expense; From, but there are not a score of head-stones, and -—X these the plainest and the tiniest of tablets, not rising much higher than the mounds they mark. The demand for some indication of such graves as these has at length overborne the Quaker revolt against the vanity of head¬ stones, hut there is a studied severity in the Date, . concession. It seems that accuracy in the names and dates has not received an equal amount of study, and the Society of Friends is aware that there are one or two errors io ILLIAM PENN’S TOMB. co rj’CC It has been supposed that William Pennwasf married in the meeting-house adjoining the! burial-ground of the Friends, but-this house! “THE FRIENDS” AT HIS BURIAL was not erected till 1688, and Mr. Summers,! PLACE IN CHALFONT ST. PETER. the Congregational minister at Beaconsfieid, l who is making himself the modern authority j on William Penn’s Buckinghamshire history. ’ The Secluded Spot in Buckinghamshire, has got at the truth about the marriage witl Guli Springett. It was celebrated at Chorle; England, Where Rest the Remains of the Wood. 4 Founder of Pennsylvania. The meeting-house is to-day pretty muct- what it was in 16S8—a red brick building, pan¬ eled within half way up its walls with unpol¬ [From the London Telegraph. ] ished timber, then whitewashed to and. over Yesterday there was some small stir in the the ceiling. The ancient latches and hinges leafy lanes of Buckinghamshire, in the neigh¬ are all carefully preserved. Whatever the age borhood of Chalfont St. Peter. It was the day of the windows, they are not modern. The of the annual service of tne Society of Friends small, diamond-shaped panes, framed in lead, in the homely meeting-house at Jordans, by gives force to the Apostolic metaphor as tc- the side of the green God’s acre, where the seeing through a glass darkly; the lead frame.- founder of Pennsylvania, his two wives and are in a sense new, but they are of the oiigi- many of his family have lain in peace for part *■ two centuries. nnl lead remelted and carefully restored. The building has now a high red-tiled roof. One end of it has now become the caretaker’s FEW COLONIAL ONES LEFT house, which can be thrown open, and was thrown open yesterday, both upstairs and down, so as still to accommodate an overflow¬ There Are Some Very Graceful Examples ing congrega tion. It is curious to see the par¬ Still Remaining, However, and Some of titions town back, disclosing a part of the congregation sitting on the bed-room chairs, the Newer Houses Can Show Iron Work and even on the bed, in the upper apart¬ ment. That Merits Attention. At one side the foundations of the building descend into a dell, and so room is found underneath the meeting-house for excellent If the founders of this city and the race of stabling, in which the Friends put up their build era that came after them had followed horses. It is a natural, but probably mis¬ out William Penn’s ideas everyone of our taken fancy, that it was in this dell that the dwellings to-day would be approached through Quakers of Penn’s time worshiped, and that a gateway, thence along a flower-bordered this accounts for the meetings at Jordans walk. For when Penn laid oat the city, generally escaping the rude disturbance to which other gatherings of the kind were in about 1683, he is said to have designed it after these days subjected. But Russell’s farm, ancient Babylon and expressed a desire that afterwards Vanderwall’s, was really the meet¬ Philadelphia should be a green country town, ing place before the house was built in 1688. which would nevor be burned up, and always A mauuscript journal kept by one Rebecca wholesome. The founder had an evident Butterfield, who lived at the adjoining farm partiality for pure air, green fields and loved of Stone Dean, lias recently been disclosed to Mr. Summers. The records it contains of fune¬ a garden. According to his model the houses rals at Jordans fill up a hiatus in the docu¬ were not to be built directly on the street, but ments of the Society of Friends, giving he intended that they should stand hack evidence that William Penn’s son John, for¬ some little distance from the footway, and be merly supposed to have been buried at Stoke surrounded by gardens, laid out attractively Pogis, really lies at Jordans. There are few Quakers left in Buckingham¬ with trees, shrubbery and flowers. shire now, as may be assumed from the fact At a very early period, however, Penn’s that there is but one Sunday service in the idea in regard to the appearance of his year; but the congregation yesterday included “Dream City” must have been abandoned, one man who has Deen a regular attendant for as some of the earliest dwellings of Philadel¬ 10 years. Silent meetings at such intervals phia were built directly on the street. The are presumably rare, and yesterday’s were rather remarkable for fluency of speech in the primitive Philadelphians followed out their style of the Methodist Evangelical address. own ideas largely in regard to this matter, The “thee” and “thou” form of address is | and while the majority of the most preten¬ more obsolete than the silent meeting, and the tious mansions, one hundred and fifty years dresses yesterday were mostly village cos¬ ago, were set some little distance back from tumes in which color was abundant and floral the street and were surrounded by very at¬ millinery conspicuous. tractive gardens, the smaller dwellings were Mr. W. H. Cranstone, of Hemel Hemp¬ erected on a line with the sidewalk. stead, who is evidently the heart and soul of these.now almost purely commemorative ser¬ The home of Isaac Norris was on the south vices, took charge of the day’s arrangements. side of Chestnut street, taking up the square Mr, Green, of Chenies, whoso great-grand- between Fourth and Fifth and backwards to ifather, Joseph Green, lies under one of the little headstones, and Mr. Summers, before Library. On the Chestnut street front was a mentioned, were visitors. Mr. George Grubb, very attractive gateway through which could k>f Cork, delivered addresses at both services. be seen a line of catalpa trees bordering the [The most impressive appeal to the feelings of gravel walk. Besides Norris’ there were the Ithe morning congregation was that of a lady— gardens of William Logan, Israel Pemberton, ^iofc a -Quakeress, but a Cburehwoman, Mrs. Poiin Taylor—who came "with her husband James Hamilton and William Plumstead. from Rickmanswerih, once the residence of The last named gentleman had a finely culti¬ William Penn. ; vated garden which was reached through an ornate gateway. A pedestrian, at that time, leaving Plumstead’s, which was situated at Front and Union streets, and passing up From, Front street to Dock creek, would come to 'J... the house and garden of Redmond Conyng- ham, a very prominent merchant of the period. His mansion was at No. 56 Front ' street, and stood well back from the high¬ way facing the river, on a terraced elevation with a stone stairway leading from Dock creek. Date, It was not until after the Revolutionary period that country seats became at all popu¬ lar, or, in fact, necessary, but from the time Philadelphians began to have country as well as city homes there was a gradual decline in attention bestowed upon gardens within THROUGH IRON PORTALS municipal limits, and holders of large and valuable properties in the heart of the city sold off their land, which was soon built upon. (ORNAMENTAL GATEWAYS NOT FRE- Thus by the middle of this century few gar¬ dens or gateways were to he found in the city I UUENT IN THIS CITY. proper, and to-day, if you search the city -r- wlra®

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over, it is doubtful if more than one or two Sometime after Bonaparte/s departure from old-fashioned houses can he discovered with the Ninth street mansion it was sold to the | the entrance hack from the street and the father of the present owner, Henry G. Pot¬ approach through an ornamental gateway. ter. The gateway is probably about the first ornamental iron gateway erected in this city, j Although not by any means antique, one of As there are really no very antique gate¬ the best examples of an old-fashioned gate¬ ways as entrances to private houses left in j this city, it is necessary, therefore, if we way still existing guards the entrance to the old Bonaparte residence, No. 260 South Ninth street. The approach to this house is at the side through an iron gateway, and thence along a brick walk and up a steep flight of steps. The house was built about 1800, and, although it is now rapidly going to decay, it still shows evidence of former beauty. It was, in fact, at the time of its erection, and for many years afterwards, one of the hand¬ somest homes in Philadelphia. It was built by Joseph Meeuy, an Irishman, who owned all the property between Locust street and the alley which runs to the south of the house. When the dwelling was erected it was supposed to be on Spruce street, but when Spruce street was surveyed the line was run one hundred feet further south. Shortly after the house was built it was purchased by Chandler Price, a great shipping merchant in CHAS. J. HARRAH'S WHITE MARBLE GATEWAY., his day. When Joseph Bonaparte arrived in want to gain an idea of what the very old- Philadelphia his secretary had some difficulty fashioned gateway was like, to turn to some in finding a residence which was suitable for of those guarding the entrances of our the ex-King ; his glance at last rested upon churches and public institutions. Three of the Ninth street property, a lease upon which the most prominent of these gateways aro he secured at a very high rate after consider¬ the gateway to old St. Peter’s Church, at able dickering with Mr. Price. Bonaparte the corner of Third and Pino streets, tho lived in the house for scarcely a year when gateway to Old Christ Church, on Second he moved to a farm which he had purchased street, and the gateway to the Pennsylvania u the banks of the Delaware, near Borden- Hospital, on Pine street above Eighth. These j wn. t,. 51

r-al excellent examples of tlie ideas of our qld-time architects in this par¬ .been quite a revival in gateway architecture, ticular branch Of their business. [and the entrances to many of our handsom¬ - The gateway of St. Peter’s is composed of est modern dwellings are thus protected. To two high brick; pillars surmounted and orna¬ be sure, the great majority of these gateways mented by marble globes on pedestals. The ; are purely ornamental and not to be viewed gateway propel is of ornamental iron work, but this probably belongs to a later period. from the standpoint of utility. However, It, however, is very attractive and adds to there are exceptions to this rule, as there are the effect of the entrance. The Pennsylvania several modern gateways in the heart of the | Hospital gateway is also composed of two city, through which the only means of ad¬ brick pillars, much more massive in design, mission can be had to fine residences stand¬ however, than those of St. Peter’s. The pil¬ ing some distance back from the street. lars are capped by heavy marble slabs, which Two in particular which are called to mind are without ornamentation, but an orna¬ are the gateway to Mrs. David Jayne’s prop¬ mental open iron work gateway separates erty at the southeast corner of Nineteenth the hospital ground from the street. A and Chestnut streets, and the gateway to Mrs. glimpse through this gateway, just at this J. Edgar Thompson’s mansion, northeast cor¬ time of the year, of the attractive garden sur¬ ner of Eighteenth and Spruce streets. Mrs. rounding the hospital, showing many old Jayne’s gateway is on Nineteenth street. It shade trees, shrubbery and flowers, is most is a massive marble affair, composed of two .picturesque and very suggestive of one of the old-fashioned gardens that we read about, i such as Plumstead’s or Logan’s. I Christ Church gateways are also very old- fashioned and pretty. The gates are sup¬ ported by square marble posts, ornamented | with small globes on pedestals, something similar to those of St. Peter’s gateway, but not as large. The iron scroll-work of the gateways, although comparatively modem, is i very artistic and well harmonizes with its [antique surroundings. One of the gateways leads up to the church, along past the tombs, and the other shows the way to the sacred edifice, along a brick paved avenue, lined on either side by tall lilac hushes. A low brick fence, surmounted by an ornamental iron spiked railing, runs along on either side of the gateways and encloses the church prop¬ erty.

This same idea was followed out some years j ago in the fencing of the Pennsylvania Hos- pital grounds, hut St. Peter’s still adheres to | tho old-fashioned brick wall, which joins the gateway on either side, and has always pro- I tected the church property from the street. I There are several old-fashioned gateways marking the portals of some our quaint, old churches and institutions, but it is dou btful if auy of them are so attractive as the ones men¬ tioned, although the gateway to old St. Joseph’s is very quaint and picturesque. St. Joseph’s gateway is particularly inter¬ ga.eway, residence r. t. hazzard. . esting, from the fact that it stands in a quar¬ ter of the city from which all other old land¬ marks have disappeared. The Friends’ high marble pillars surmounted by a marble [Almshouse, with its little thatch-roofed cot- slab arched over the gateway, while the en¬ (tages, has been torn down to make room for trance is protected by an ornamental iron rows of neat brick offices, while the grass- railing. grown graveyard where the Gabriel of Long¬ Mrs. Thompson’s gateway is composed en¬ fellow’s “Evangeline” was buried, has been tirely of iron-work, wrought in a conven¬ replaced by well-kept flower beds. Passing tional design and supported by two orna¬ down Willing’s alley, between the tall build¬ mental iron posts about five feet high. The ings of the two great railroad companies, the gateway is erected on a marble curbing up wayfarer comes to an iron gate, which one step from the street. It faces the front mightbe supppsed to he part of one of them door which is reached through the gateway were it not for the cross which adorns it. and thence along a black and white inlaid It . opens into an archway, not unlike those marble walk. Altogether, Mrs. Jayne’s and adjoining old-fashioned inns, beyond which is Mrs. Thompson’s gateways are very good, in a large, square, paved courtyard. At the fact, representative examples of a half dozen lower end, directly opposite the gateway, is or so modern gateways to be found guarding the church, a modest brick building, with long- the large properties in the heart of the old pointed white windows, ivyless and vineless city. and destitute of decoration, unless a marble bust of Father Parhelia and a tablet to his But if yon desire to study the very modem memory can be so called. ( gateway par excellence the one thoroughfare on which you can do it most successfully is But though the “ Colonial ” gateway is not North Broad street. Take a bus and as you to be discovered nowadays in the old sections of the city, within recent years there has jog and rattle along keep your eyes open, and | you are sure to discover what you are after. \me oi me Tu-st sanmays xo De observed, mental gateways. Alosig Pine street, be- north of Market street, is that marking the tween Eighth and Ninth, on the south si ' entrance to the property of Mr. Charles J. of the way, is a row of tali, brown-stp: Harrah. 856 North Broad street. The posts houses, every one of which is separated by of Mr. Harrah’s gateway are composed of largo yard to tho side. The front fence does marble, curiously carved and very suggestive not come directly on a line with the street. of Egyptian workmanship. The gateway it¬ There is an intervening space of,perhaps, Aye or six feet, which is laid out in grass plots, self is not conspicuous, being of a conven¬ tho property line of the pavement being tional open iron work design, but the view marked by a low iron railing. Passing through it of green grass, flowers and trees of through a gateway in this railing and along Mr. Harrah’s property is very pleasing. a flag-stone walk, the yard gateway is reached The gateway to William L. Elkins’ palatial and a glimpse through the open work iron mansion is a very expensive and ornate affair. door of the garden and flowers is to be ob¬ It is purely ornamental, as it is not located in tained. front of the stairways leading to the house, but between them. It is composed of thin One of the prettiest of the gateways to this and delicate iron-work of intricate design. On either side of the gateway are two tall row of houses along Pine street is that at¬ iron posts, surmounted by highly ornamented tached to the property belonging to B. T. lamps. Hazzard, No. 814, as, apart from the ornamen¬ A gateway of striking appearance indicates tal architecture of the gateway itself, it is the entrance to Mrs. Catharine Singerly’s partially covered with running vines which mansion, 1500 North Broad street. The gate¬ add very much to the picturesquesness of its way proper is composed of iron spikes joined effect. together by iron bands, and supported by twowo, tall carved marble posts, surmounted by. _ Most every house in, Philadelphia has a small marble globes on pedestals. Mr. Williani back gateway and rear entrance, generally L. Elkins also has an attractive open-work situated on some side street or alley where iron gateway directly in front of the spacious they are but little seen. Consequently, as a stairway which winds gracefully up to the rule, no effort has been made to beautify front door of his mansion. Mr. Elkins’ gate¬ these gateways, and they are usually plain, way is quite airy in design, but is most orna¬ wooden affairs of most ordinary construction. mental and adds very much to the effect and The back gateway to Mr. Stevenson’s house, beauty of his mansion. southwest corner of Nineteenth and Cherry In several sections of the city there are streets, is. however. such a notable exception rows of handsome houses having to the side to this rule that it is worthy of mention. It extensive yards leading down to the street^ is on Cherry street. 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which hasbeendemolishedto makeroomfor wm ally: terest toKenslngtoniansand readersgener¬ ford, M.D.,andwilldoubtless proveofin¬ data furnishedtheLedger by T.L.Brad¬ Christian Association,was prepared from of Colonialdays, uponFrankfordroad. be s%rS.'i'ed.h'earoronanymuchtraveled tern jpcajfeiiHeirbackgatewayshappento prospective .hotfsebuildersmighttakepat¬ Passers uponthat thoroughfarewillremem' appearance, andamodelfromwhichmany Date, Make BoomfortlieHandsomeHallofthe Northeast BranchoftheY.M.C.A, The followingsketchoftheoldBowerMan The housewas the lastofoldmansions SIONS ONFRANKFORDROAD, GATEWAY, MRS.JAYNE’SHOUSE. —- her thequaintoldstructurestandingsomedis¬ tance backfromthestreet,withitssharp and whichforseveralyearshasbeenthehome1; of theNortheastBranchYoungMen’s! roof, inwhichwerethreedormerwindows, men arebusyexcavatingforthenew'build-1 Christian Association.Ithasgone,andwork¬ Ing thatissoontobeplacedonthespot,andj lower portionofthewallswere18inchesin slow anddifficult.Thetimberstakenfromit was theoldhousethatitsdestruction June 6th.andsostoutlymassivelybuiltj which wasfullydescribedintheLedgerof were asfreshonthedayitwasbuilt.The October 1,1891. were allsplitbyhandandrongh,thenails thickness, thelathswereofoakandash, average brickofthepresentday,andmor¬ were importedfromEnglandandstill tar waslikecement. fresh andsolidgreatlysuperiortothe were handwrought,thebrickscomposingit Farmer wasthegrandsonofMajorJasper built byDr.RichardFarmerabout1750. thence bythetroubloustimestoembarkfor; Farmer, ofthetimeCharlesII,wholived son, Samuel,thefatherofDr.Farmer.The Philadelphia. MajorJasper’sfatherwas America. Hediedjustashisshiparrivedin George Farmer,EarlofPorofret.Helefta for manyyearsinIreland,andwasdriven and inthetimeofHenryYIItheyheldtheir family namewasoriginallyRicards,alias seat atSomerton,Oxfordcounty,England,1 where theyhadlargepossessions. liam Bower,whothusobtainedtheproperty.; ladelphia, PeterCarmack.Theyhadone the daughterofaneminentmerchantPhi¬ sold tothepresentowners.RichardF.Bower siou ofhimselfandhiswidowuntil scendcd, andremainedInposses-! To RichardBowerthehousede-i hood ipthishouse.ShemarriedMajorWll-I daughter, Sarah,bornin1753,alllikeli¬ United SocietiesofKensingtononJanuary1, was ordainedadeaconintheWesleyan her death,in1880,whenthepropertywas Fermor orFarmer,fromthefemalebranch, ties. Whenheacquiredauthorityintheold the ChurchofGod,’onFebruary4,1S27.He; 1827, andwasmadeapresbyter,‘‘anElderin\ had previouslybeenPresidentofthesesocle-; too gay,andthemirrorswereremoved,the! odism, hethought,theornamentsweremuch house, beingverystrictinhistenetsofMeth¬ very beautifulstream,toTrenton andNew present Frankfordroadwas knownasthe the westsideofRichmondstreet,justbelow is saidthattheonlyportraitofMr.BowerIs ret nevertoseethelightagainexceptasplay¬ the eleganthangingsandcurtainsweretaken1 silver hingesreplacedbylessexpensiveones, York. AnthonyPalmerhad laidoutland moved. in thepossessionofhisonlylivingson,Mr. down andhiddenawayincheststhegar¬ estate thenembraced alargetractoflandin christened itKensington in1730.TheFarmer; Highway road and Hanoverstreet,had! bridge overtheCohocbsink creek,thena from Philadelphiabymeans ofthestone Shackamaxon street,andithaslongbeenre¬ Methodist campmeetingeverheldinNew Joseph TaylorBower,ofBoonton,N.J. things forthegrandchildrehofhouse.It Jersey atMillville.Thechurchwhichthe bounded byGunner’srun,the Delaware,the Wesleyans metinthosedayswassituatedon “King’s Highway,”andwas theonlyroad The processofdemolitioncommencedon So farascanbeascertained,tbishousewas Dr. FarmermarriedMissSarahCarmack, When thishousewasbuilt,about1750,the: It issaidthatMr.Bowerconductedthefirst “The King’sHighway.” t liff Liberty Plantations. There was no house I This garden was prodigally stocked with between it and the Delaware. Even as late as I fruit trees of every description, arbors of fine 1777 Kensington only consisted of a few houses jgrapes and a perfect bower of fragrant shrubs. near the river, where now is Richmond and jThe walk from the front gate to the house Marlborough streets. jwas bordered with high box hedge, and grass and flowers and foliage were to be found in all It was an important mansion that the great profusion. grandson of the Earl of Pomfret built in the new country. The bricks were brought from Between two gigantic Bergamot pear trees England and much of the interior ornamenta¬ there was an immense swing, that was the tion. It was of two stories, the side facing delight of the whole neighborhood. There the highway, as was the custom; a massive was a smaller swing for the delectation of the door was placed in the middle, opening into a smaller fry. This grand old garden was well ball, and on either hand was a room, wains¬ known to every resident of Kensington, and coted and having a large open fireplace. In this description will doubtless recall its beau- the room at the north in a cupboard there te nraa.nv & white-haired I was an iron safe set in the wall, on the iron door of which was a huge I lock. The room was handsomely panelled from floor to ceiling. At the rear of the hall was a kitchen with one of the old-time Eng¬ lish fireplaces, within which a seat could be I placed. There were two corresponding rooms on the second story, and over the kitchen was still another and smaller room. The roof was gabled, rising sharply to a point, and in the front side, overlooking the high¬ Bate, way and grounds, were three gabled win¬ dows set In if. There was a garret room to each window. Over these rooms was an exten- jsivc loft running the length of the building. ! At the northern end, high up under the gable, there was a small window about a foot square framed in wood, its use being a loophole ! through which to observe strange comers, or, if need be, through which to fire upon in¬ truders. In the lower hall large mirrors of English plate glass were set in the sides and stairway. The knobs and hinges of the doors were silvered. At the windows hung rich cur¬ tains of fine old lace and brocade. There was A Philadelphia Merchant Gives ornamentation of mahogany in the cornices of the front rooms. His Experience Way Back In t he floors of the fireplaces were set square red bricks, reaching out into the room, and in in Sixty-nine, the-north front room the fireplace was set around with colored marbles. During the demolition of the house the royal hhen Five-DoIIar Oil Made Business Hum j coat of arms of England was found set as a back of the fireplace in the north front room. and Men Flush It is of iron and is about three feet square. On the quartering of the shield, in the centre, 13 what is supposed to be the arms of the Ponte- Cutting a Road on a Mountain Side, frect, or Pomfret, family, whose descendant, as has been stated, built the bouse. This Learning to Run an Engine and north room was the favorite study of Mr. Bunking With Sixteen in a Room. Bower. In it he transacted his business and wrote his sermons. Roughing It in Western Pennsyl¬ The Bower Estate Forty Tears Ago. vania. Forty years ago this Bower estate was still very extensive. The farm extended from the imP°rtant incidents in old grave yard that now lies dismantled and our past history are crowded out bv the fenceless on the west side of Frankford road, activit.y of modern business above Vienna street, to Norris street, and “•. How many little accidents which from Frankford road to Front street, embrac¬ trivial and6 °f-haPPeUin"’ Were deemed ing that square, containing six acres of ummP°rtant have since the ground. A line of stately Lombardy poplars 7 P.roven tf!at they were the extended the length of the property on Frank¬ urning points in our life’s journev. It ford road. The first encroachment was from tbis or that thing had not happened the present New York Railroad, which was this or that word had not been said, this laid through the Bower property without the don«at CiUr1 0r klnd work ljad not been consent of the proprietor, and was to him a done, what a difference it would have matter of much mortification an-d grief. Later, as his children married, to each was made and how many interests othlr given a front lot from the old farm. These fteted. S °Wn Would Lave been af- lots, according to the present numbering of Frankford road, were as follows: Richard, loJkW thOUghts w#re suggested by Nos, 184b. 1S50; John, 1852—the old house num¬ lvhthST , *,n old diary of mine, bered from No. 1852 to 1858; Emma Bower rnbl?k 1 faithfully kept in’68 and ’09. Holloway, No. 1860; Eliza Bower Hough, No. " n e£uHr part of 1869 I was studying 1862; Joseph Bower, 1864-66; Clara Bower Stein- metz, No. 186S; Edwin Bower, No. 1870; Mary lMass lass. IR had9Th beenngd thirteen7KOOds years in Bo in» tonthe, Ann Bower, No. 1872. Robert Bower had the fry goods business and was heartsick corner of Frankford road and Norris streets. jot its wornments and trials and anxious But, despite this fatherly division, a vast gar¬ P° get out of it. My spirit rebeUed den still remained back of via C old mansion. 'Hinst standing behind a counter space crowd, the hurry and the rush, I ro-j of three ieet and from morning till coived the laconic answer, “five-dollar night answering questions for a never- off.” This was more pregnant with ending procession of feminine shoppers, meaning than I could comprehend atj the greater number of whom asked lor that time. And, alas! many and many “samples” and then passed on su¬ there are in the romantic mountains of: premely indifferent as to whether I Northwestern Pennsylvania who know j thought the exercise of cutting and full well what that meant. They know) handing over little strips ot dross ma¬ that it meant luxury, high living, charn-! terials was an ennobling or healthy ex¬ pagno, costly presents, profligate char-: ercise or not. And as the policy oi the ity (a la Coal Oil Johnnie), races, gatn-l firm I was clerking for would not per¬ bling, reckless enterprises. Then, when) mit salesmen to attempt t® influence “five-dollar oil” became a thing of the sales by argument the position was past it meant a dream, as it were, of the devoid of excitement and wearying to night, and in its place came the various the utmost. I need not say that in time shadings and gradings in price down to the firm failed, and one ot the reasons the “half-dollar mark,” each drop being: given lor the failure was that a very punctuated by some luckless operator’s large proportion of the merchandise failure. Some burst oil town being oft'ered~had been cut up and carried off deported with big lists of Sheriff’s sales, I as samples without any attempt being some more ruined homes, abandoned made to effect sales other than by tbo oil fields and blasted hopes. There were heard in the land execrations against i silent potency of the samples them¬ that giant monopoly, the Standard Oil selves, which in this case proved not Company, loud and bitter, tor this ruth-! strong enough to enable the firm to less company kept on sucking, squeez¬ meet its big expenses and survive. ing the life-blood out of the rich terri- j the bicycle craze. tory, as if it were a great orange, the! Now, at this time the bicycle was juice of which is now nearly allab-) 1 eing introduced in various halls aud sorbed, leaving nothing but the skin, lar^e empty stores, more as an exhibi¬ the rind, a fitting emblem of exhausted tion novelty than anything else, and vitality, ruin and decay. machines were rented out to ambitious 'The busy scenes in Oil City tempted riders to risk their necks on at the me to try my fortune there, and having modest charge ol 25 cents an hour. The hunted up and been introduced to the i excitement and lun of the exhibition most successful operator at that time in consisted in watching the novices tum¬ the town—the late John S. Rich—I asked ble and pitch off the wheels, and then him for work. “What can you do?” ! in seeing how you could do it yourself. said the kindly John. “I can do any¬ The craze struck the city of Boston thing that any other man can do,” 11 something like the roller-skating mania confidently asserted. “Well,” he said,) of a few vears since. Money was being “can you dress tools”—he referred to oil! literally -coined by the proprietors of tools—“bits and reamers?” “No, sir,” I these bicvcling halls. An acquaintance was forced to admit. “Can you drill?” asked ms to unite the few dollars i pos¬ “No, sir.” “Can you run an engine?” sessed with his and start a bicycle school “No, sir; but I can learn to do any of out West somewhere, and I readily [ these things.” “My good man, I am’not iumped at the chance it offered oi break¬ hiring learners,” Mr. Rich replied. But! ing away from the distasteful dry goods lie finally told me to go up to Charley) environments, and so off L started for Run, some two miles over the mountain Pittsburg, leaving my partner in the —recommending me for board and lodg-l enterprise to buy the machines, which Ing to a boarding house kept by a Mrs. | in those days were crude affairs, devoid Carrier. He promised to go up the next of beauty or iinish and which for the day and see what he could do for me. poorest ot them a big price was asked. SIXTEEN BEDS IN A BOOM. He was to forward them while I was to Arriving at the “Run,” I found the engage a hall and get out the necessary boarding house a great sbanty with two' advertising. rooms in it, a lower and an upper room. I found hails in Pittsburg as plenty as I asked the good woman it I could “Mint sites” in Philadelphia are now, have a room all to myself, and she told and I soon picked out a good location at mo I could and at once showed me into' a moderate rent, and then waited for the a room with sixteen beds in it. I re-; arrival of the “silent steeds;” but they minded her that she had promised me al never came. My partner’s courage room “all to myself.” “Well,” she said, weakened, liis faith gave way to doubts, “this is all to yourself, and you can have and I soon was fretting for the return any bed you like in it.” I soon lound of iny “wo bit of inon©y» wbicli finally that she was a practical joker, as the arrived, and after settling up my ex¬ beds were all required before the night penses and paying the owner ot the was over to accommodate the pumpers hall for his rent, kind fate turned my and drillers who came off' “tower” lootsteps toward Canada, which was (duty) at 12 and 1 o’clock in the morn-, then smarting under the effects of the ing. There was no need of candles or abolition of the reciprocity treaty with lamps, the great volume of oil gas which) the United States. A friend asked was being wasted and burned at all the me to use a pass good for a portion ot wells making the place as light as day. the journey, by way ot Off Oity. Fa. i Whoa Mr, Rich arrived he gave arrived in Oil City on March 24, 1869, me a pick, shovel, “mattock” and where I found everything full ot bustling ax and ordered me to cut out a road in life and excitement. theside oi the mountain between two FIVE-DOLLAB OIL. wells of the Union Oil Company (Wells No. 1 and No. 2). I went to work with To my question, asked of a bystander a will, digging, grubbing, chopping and at the depot, as to the cause ol the (shoveling the roots, stones and earth, pendence should be held in grateful ie- building a trestle and making a typical membrauce by the residents of Phila¬ Western Pennsylvania road. Soon the delphia. Out in Frankford there is a skin was off my hands and they were quaint old summerhouse, which is held in very sore and painlul, hut I pluckily the hightest veneration by the residents of stayed by the work,so that at the expira¬ that part of the city, who fondly term it “tho tion of a week I was congratulating my¬ original Cradle of Independence,” from tlio self on having completed the job in fact that tradition, well authenticated,stamps '“good shape,” hut the “boss,” wkiio com- it as the place in which Thomas Jefferson 'pllmenting the rapidity with which the ! with his colleagues made a rough draft of tho work was done, very dryly said that he Declaration of Independence prior to the pre- wauted the road made wide enough for isentation of that document in Independence two double teams to pass. This meant Hall. At that time the summerhouse was the digging out of three feet more from, located on the Womrath estate, situated on a the side of the mountain, and, of course, rising knoll in the rear of the old mansion, adding it to the other side of the road. about 200 feet distant. On either side were J At the end of the second week the prettily arranged walks, with ancient shade road was done, and as I had been study¬ trees, while a tall hedge of box bush, with, ing up the stationary engine at night, a towering oak and elm trees, formed an avenue ikindiy foreman showing me how to that led from the mansion to the cosy summer retreat. take it to pieces, how to start it, how to '“blow oft” and how to manage the When occupied by Enoch Edwards, a cen¬ tury ago, the most noted men of the age met boiler, how to regulate tho steam around the hospitable board of the old man¬ I pumps and other things about the sion and spent the warm summer afternoons I well. Mr. Rich finally said he would in the summer house. During those days [install me as engineer of No. 1 well at a Thomas Jefferson was a frequent visitor, and I salary of 53 a day, Sundays included, Washington himself enjoyed this hospitality I which I was overjoyed to accept, be¬ of tlie Edwards family. Lafayette, in his lieving myself one of the most lortunate triumphal passage through the town on his men in existence. way to New York, made a brief stop at the A LIFT'! TO BE ENVIED. Edwards home. I “shantiod,” or hoarded mysolf, car¬ ried my groceries and otiier necessaries | from Oil City* two miles over the moun- ! tains, did my own cooking, built a music stand with a gas jet in front of it, practiced my “scales”—sang—laughed ’and gamboled about the mountains |(when oft “tower”) like a 10-year-oid boy, for the air was buoyant and ex¬ hilarating (by reason of the quantities of gas floating in it). The trine was [spring, when all nature is joyous,“the scenery was enchanting, the work com¬ paratively light, my wants were simple land few, my appetite voracious, my sleep profound. I was happy, and, as that is the ultima tliule of all mortals, I I was to be envied. And that is how the bicycle (or the velocipede as it was called in those daj^s) and I got mixed jup ’way back in ’09. the old summer house. Tnos. Maetindale, In the history of the old Frankford Presby¬ terian Church the fact is gleaned that on the day the Declaration of Independence was signed the signers repaired to the summer From,.. house and quaffed foaming bumpers to the success of the glorious cause of Independence. When the estate tell into the hands of the . Womrath’s, over half a century ago, especial care was exercised to preserve the memento. Henrietta, widow of George F. Womrath, who died in the old mansion six years ago at tho Date, age of 80 years, took an especial pride in tho little building and guarded It with jealous care. During the Centennial Exhibition a committee of gentlemen waited on Mrs. Wom¬ CRADLE OF INDEPENDENCE rath and used every argument to induce her to allow the summer house to be placed on ex¬ hibition, but she positively refused. Every Fourth of July the old lady would A HISTORIC OLD SUMMER HOUSE AT gather her intimate friends around her in the old mansion and have a merry time. In iater FRANKFORD. years her son, Frederick K. Womratn, who was a member of Councils from Frankford, introduced a regular programme of exercises In It Thomas Jefferson and His Co’« for Independence Day. I leagues Are Said to Have Dratted the Rev. Dr. Thomas Murphy, the venerable Declaration of Independence. Pastor of the Frankford Presbyterian Church, generally presided over the exercises, offering prayer and making a patriotic address. This It is not strange that anything which was was followed by vocal and instrumental se¬ connected with the birth of American inde¬ lections, concluding with the reading of tho _2______Declaration of Independence. At the'close of The subject of this sketch who was the entertainment to the public, the invited born at Berlin, Pa., on thenthday of guests were escorted to the house, where a November, 1812, and is therefore collation was served. In the evening tbero would be a display of fireworks. almost eighty-one years old, \vas the The death of Mrs. Womrath and the tragic, ending of Frederick K. Womrath, who'was; eighth and is the only surviving son of killed in a crossing accident, led, to ( General Robert Philson, who in connec- the Vacation ‘ of the estate, which has: f tion with his cousin, John Fletcher, en¬ since been divided into building lots. Wil¬ liam Yelland purchased the ‘ tract of ground gaged in the mercantile business in Ber¬ on which the summer house was , located. lin in 17S5. An effort Was made by some members of the local School Board, who were acquainted Fletcher was one of the first commis- with Its historical 'Worth, to have it located on 5ioners of Somerset county and both of the plot of ground adjoining the Alexander Henry Grammar Sfehop!, on Paul street, but .hem were members of the legislature the plan failed. Mr. James France, proprie¬ Vom this county in 1795 and 1796. In tor of the North Philadelphia Gazette, having learned that negotiations were being made by 1800 Robert Philson was commissioned a party in Virginia to secure the house and in Associate Judge and served in that remove it there, purchased it from Mr. Yel- Capacity until 1820, when, having been land. Through his paper a public subscrip¬ tion was raised and the famous old house dected to Congress, he resigned the Was removed to a place of safety. ■udgeship and served in the sessions of Mr. France intends to open a subscription to have the house repaired and placed in the Jbongress in 1821 and 1822, during Park at Frankford. ground for which has vhich time he became disabled by a fall been condemned by the city at a point, be¬ tween Frankford avenue and Green street. rom a horse- He died on July 25, 1831. j _ The citizens had intended to hold a demon¬ Samuel Philson attended subscription stration in the historic building to-day, but it was decided to wait until it was placed in chools at Somerset under the tutorship gobd repair. ____ , _ jf Robt. Peittee, Robert Whiteside, A. B. Fleming and Sam’l G. Bailey from 1818 to From, c:/..aA 1821 and finished his education inasub-ji y scription school taught by Patrick Don-| nelly in 1826. His only school-matesj .(2k\sj.- now living are James Parson and Mrs.

Jane Carson Postlethwaite. I Date, • ••: C. /A /:'l In 1S29 Mr. Philson entered the i store of Platt & Case at Berlin as a clerk OUR PORTRAIT GALLERY. and remained in the employment of that: firm for five years, when, in 1834, he be- came a partner of the lamented James Piatt, who died Nov. 16. 1835. Mr. Faces Familiar to Somerset Platt’s widow taking the interest of her husband the firm of S. Philson & Co. was County People. established in 1839. Mr. Philson was connected with this firm until 1875. In 1846 he commenced operating the Buffalo farms and has continued in the successful management of same to the present time with improved choice stock. In iSs7 Mr. Philson engaged in the lumber business at what is now Philson s| station, and he pursued this business with much success for twenty-five years. Lat¬ er he operated a flouring mill, which he j only recently sold to Charles Renspach ofj

Northampton township. In 1866, in connection with C. A. M. ; Krissinger, he established the banking- -J

house of S. Philson & Co., which is still conducted by himself and his sons, Robert

and Horace Bunn. In 1869 Mr. Philson, in connection i with James S. Black, established the banking firm of Philson, Black & Co. ati • Meversdale. This partnership continued | .. 1 woman* and child in Washington. unul 18827 when the bank's name was Sixty-fiour years ago, when 28 years of I age, she was brought a slave from ichanged to Citizen’s Bank, and it has near Baltimore, Maryland, to Washing¬ since been conducted by Mr. Philson and ton county, by Joseph McCloskey. It his second son, S. B. Philson. About i was for the purpose of hunting up this the time when the construction of the living reminder of ante-bellum days I that a reporter visited the flourishing Pittsburg and Connellsville railroad was 1 and somewhat aristocratic county seat completed he, with the assistance of John last Saturday. Weller, assemblyman, obtained a char- gj Down a narrow alley and to the rear ter for what is now the Berlin Branch of of the court house, the reporter had been directed that the object of his the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, the 'search could be found. Stopping at (track of which was laid and operations the door of a little cottage, and within icommenced in 1874. About this time his hearing of the voice of an attorney who was pouring forth his eloquence i eldest son learned the art of telegraphy to a sleepy jury, in a rear room was and an office for the transaction of tele¬ found, seated In a chair, busily weav¬ graphic commercial business was estab¬ ing doormats or rugs from rags, in lished in their banking-house at Berlin Which were blended all the colors of the rainbow. ‘where it is still conducted, Att-er inviting him to he seated,• j the year 1836 Mr. Philson was mar- the object of the search spoke of her jried to Miss Elizabeth M. McGowan, crippled condition and almost in¬ ability to gelt around. In reply to a who died in August, 1837, leaving one request for a story of her early life, daughter. This daughter died last week she said, in the broad negro dilect 'and was buried at Carlisle, Pa., on Mon¬ peculiar to the Southern States, “I was day of this week. born in Hartford county, Maryland, I near Baltimore, 92 years' ago. My In 1839 Mr. Philson was married to I mot her was a negro, but my father, Miss Anne Brubaker, who is still living, David McCloskey, who was also my being the mother of three sons and three master, was a white man. When- 28 daughters. The sons are able and active years old, my master sold me to his brother, Joseph McCloskey, and he business men of unblemished character. brought me to Washington county. At In addition to their own children Mr. that time a young slave woman was and Mrs. Philson became the foster-pa¬ worth $500, and a young man $1,000. rents of three boys and three girls, who The story, as the old negress related it, was truly pathetic and occasionally, lhave filled respectable positions in life as her memory went back over the and enjoyed the respect and confidence wide stretch of years, her sunken eyes iof the entire community. filled with tears, as she related some Although he has passed the age of four act of cruelty that had been inflicted by her inhuman master and mistress. score years, Mr. Philson enjoys the best Several years before she had been sold of health and still gives careful attention to Joseph McCloskey, she had married to his farms and other business interests, a slave named Clark and had a daugh¬ ter by him before coming to this State. and displays a deep interest in the suc¬ Her former master, when he sold her, cess of enterprises of every description retained her husband, mother and 1 tending to the improvement and advance¬ child, the latter only two years old, ment of his native town. and she never heard from any of them after the forced separation. 7?- Her former mistress, she said, never V/7 could tolerate her for the reason that From,.C.'LL.. !she was related to her white children She relates that at one time in a nt s2r /y " 0 Iof rage, her mistress threw her_dowtr .4?7&7-r~ a flight of stairs, injuring her spine; at another time, while in a violent pas¬ sion, she struck her for some trivial Date -offense, with a shovel and dislocated her hip. From the last named injury she never fully recovered, and to this ONCE A SLAVE. \> day is bent over and must hobble with The Story of Anij^/cfark, of Washing- £L Stclff. Her sale and subsequent separation (ton—A Belie of Ante-Bellum Days. from her mother, husband and child, she stated, was to gratify the hatred Washington, Pa., has for a resident, 1 that her mistress had for her. Her no doubt, the oldest living representa¬ 'master, she says, was disposed to treat tive of slavery days, in this State, in iher kindly, caused, no doubt, from the I the person of Anne Clark, “Aunt 'fact that he was her father, but he I Anne,” as she is known to every man, 1 -s ry r " ’ lUVV'-'-V / L \ VU avv

'Aunt” Anne Clark. ■weis addicted to drink and when fntoxi carted his wife could goad him to the made “heifInaFk," or rather marks, for extremist acts of oruelty. instead of the customary cross there When she was turned over to her are three irregular perpendicular marks’ new miasteir, Joseph McOloskey, they The following is a full text of the "in¬ started from Baltimore for Pennsyl¬ denture” as taken from the original- vania, making the entire trip in a big, This indenture, made and executed road wagon, to which was attached ■this 30th day of November A. D. 1830 four horses. As will be seen by a deed between Anne Wilson, a yellow girl, of of manumission, darted November 30, one paint, and Joseph McCloskey, of 1S30, (a copy of which was taken from the county of Washington, of the other the original document still in exist¬ part. Whereas, David McCloskey of ence) they arrived in Washington on Harford county, Maryland, by bill of the previous evening and on the morn¬ ®aie d^ed the 15th day of November, ing of the date mentioned went to At¬ 1830, did grant, bargain and sell unto1 torney Thomas Buchanan’s office, the said Joseph, the said Anne, who where the instrument changing her wa.s a slave for life, with a view of condition from that of slavery to ser¬ having her condition of slavery chang¬ vitude for years, was executed and ed into that of servitude, according to signed. The chapter that follows in the laws of Pennsylvania, and where¬ this old negro woman’s life of sorrow as, the said Joseph has, by deed bear¬ and hardship shows what crimes were ing even date herewith, in considera¬ committed against these ignorant crea¬ tion of an indenture of servitude for, tures possessed of an intellect little years to be executed by the said Anne above brute instinct. from the state of slavery aforesaid. On the morning of November 30, be¬ how this indenture witnesselh that fore going to the attorney’s office, Mc¬ the said Anne Wilson, for and in con- Closkey had instructed her that all she °f.,the desd of manumission would have to do would be to say "yes.” aforesaid setting her entirely free from She little thought in obeying his in¬ the state of slavery aforesaid, and for structions that she would be binding, and m consideration of the sum of one herself for seven years of servitude, dollar to her in hand paid before the which was simply another name for I ensealing and delivery of these pres¬ slavery, with a limitation under the ents, the receipt whereof is hereby ac- laws then existing in this State. knoy/iedged, hath put and bound her- After the reading of the document,,1 . . ° ;e said Joseph McCloskey, his she was asked if she could write, when neh's, executors, administrators and McCloskey spoke up, and she states, j assigns as a servant for seven years; rid gruffly: "No; did you ever know Sec Tda,te of thIs indenture; him,; nigger that could write?” The penf Si,®1 Joseph, his heirs, executors,! was then placed in her hand and she i tr,^°rs Qr asslS'rLS' during that time, to obey and serve faithfully and — - r«®Pect acctffSlnf to the laws e“rv^tsSf'1Van'lla’ made in Nation to fTwmjf 3vears- and the saW Joseph his hei,rs- executors, ad- rmmstrators arid assigns, doth cove- 5nffiVan? a“rf6 t0 flnd the saW A,nne Sufficient meat, drink, wearing apparel EJ”* „af w** dwin* «,fSd term, and in all respects to treat her •as servants for years ought to -be treated by the law? ° 06 wealth 1 f th cornim'°n- In testimony whereof,^the said Anne | Wilson and Joseph McCloskey have hereunto set their hands and seal, the wmmmmE lenceTf **** ^ "riitten- In pres' I f John Marshall. her the APPRENTICES’ TO SEEK NEW j (Signed.) Anne | | ( Wilson, marks QUARTERS. Joseph MoCIoskey. As a slave, she was known by the name of Wilson, but after gaining her ITS IMPORTANCE GROWING freedom, she adopted the name of her husband, Clark, from whom she had I -— Established in 1820 It Has Had Many Noted ?oew;lTara,ted W'he” soid and brought Ito Washington county. Her new mas- Men Am on " Its Directors—It Was Orig¬ ter treated her with more kindness than inally Opened in Chestnut Street Above '!+et£ai\ T in the habilt of receiving at the hands of her own father. She Third—The Present Bnilding. wrna’Ways ,had a lingering desire to learn, to read, but _when a slave that privilege was denied, her and it was It was announced the other day that the (managers of the Apprentices’ Library have U?hl aflter she was? 40 years old, , that she was taught how, and then the decided to vacate the small building at the knowledge was acquired in three southwest corner of Arch and Fifth streets months’ schooling all told. The only and will in the near future, erect a large two copy books she ever had, she still hall and library in a more desirable locality. preserves with great care and took WiU includ6 rooms effi¬ (great pride in showing them. cientlySenTY large +to lng accommodate not only a cir¬ | She takes great comfort in reading culating and reference libraries and a very ( the new Testament and can recite arge reading room, but also a commodious 7,u°m.,,mam°ry’ dozens of chapters from lecture hall, where eminent speakers will the blessed book,” as she reverently rom time to time discourse upon topics of the called it. 3lhe . kind-hearted ■ women of the Yibraiy1 ^ benefit °f th® patrons of the Christian Church built and furnished ThepresMent, Charles Eoberts, is confident the little house she occupies, which that the new and. improved facilities that stands on a rear corner of the church 'Ydd to th ! DeW building must fast lot. . The few necessaries of life are dd, to the importance and value of the Ad- provided by those who are charitably prentmes’ Library, which has long been one inclined and in justice to them it can the most successful institutions of the be said that she does not stand in need kind m the city. of any of the comforts that her humble The Apprentices’ Library was established life demands. It is gratifying to know that the old negress, whose birth dates back to the very beginning of the cen¬ tury, will, if permitted to live to see the fin de sieele, be tenderly cared for by the Christian women of Washing¬ ton. Whan asked what'she did with the rugs she was making, she laughed and replied: “I gives dem to de little children for their play houses; dey’s mighty good to dis ole coon.” Pointing to the cooking stove that stood near pi entices without charge for the use of the by, she said more an 40 little girls had Ayiear laterthe company was incoi? [helped buy that for her.

Horace Binney, Eoberts Yanx, Daniel T? Slth, James Cresson, Clement C. Biddle’ rw ' ■ -.

round piece of kid or chamois skin under I each tuft to prevent the stitches from pulling | out. Interior of the Apprentices Library A moderately thick cotton puff should al- j ways be placed on top of the mattress to give Lloyd. Mifflin, Samuel Sellers' and"William Price were among the first officers under the necessary elasticity before putting on the charter. sheet. Don’t be induced to use a feather mat¬ The library was originally opened in a sec¬ tress or a feather pillow in the cradle during ond-story room on the south side of Chestnut the summer unless it is small—to please anj street, above Third, and contained about fif¬ of your numerous friends. Simply because ] teen hundred volumes. It was - afterwards, removed to the second story of Carpenters’ our ancesters smothered themselves in feath- J Hall, then on Jayne street, below Seventh, ers both winter and summer it is not neces¬ and from there to the original Mint building, sary for us in this enlightened age to follow on Seventh street, above Market, and finally their example. Besides, it is a cruel kindness to the southwest corner of Fifth and Arch to the little one; for, as everyone knows who streets, where the trustees of “The Society of has slept en feathers during the summer, Free Quakers” gave the company the use of the upper and lower rooms of their meeting fluffy bed which puffs about one’s lower bod house, free of rent, for many years. and head tortures them almost beyond endu ance, when the the^ffmmeter stands in tbj From the first the library was a success, and eighties. W hat must Ijjjkjthe misery of a tin* in 1841 the managers were induced to com¬ morsel of humanity whejeannothelp himself^ mence a separate library for girls, which has A rubber cradle slidet is of the greatejj also proved a valuable institution. As early value and mostfcagttect effectually prevents the mat as 1868 the necessity of more and better ac- tress from getti:in% soisoiled or damp. It short? cammodations induced the managers gf the be placed under3r the sheet, and not on top as! library to apply to “The Society of Free some nurses universally use it. It is also well Quakers” for greater privileges. This re¬ to remember that a rubber sheet requires sulted in a lease of the entire property at the cleaning as well as the other bed furnishings. southwest corner of Fifth and Arch streets Sponge in clear, warm—not hot—water daily, for twenty-five years for $300 per annum, wipe dry and expose to the fresh air in the with the liberty to make such alterations in Under this autnomy we comimftee ot mana¬ the interior of the building as were necessary gers made an effort to obtain from the com¬ for the company’s purposes, and also to build munity of Philadelphia aid sufficient to pur¬ on the south side of the lot. chase the building without encroaching on It will be remembered that in 1879 the the general fund, the income of which wasj Philadelphia Library Company determined indispensable in meeting the regular expenses: to vacate their building on South Fifth street. of the company. Several gentlemen of this city, prompted by Considerable interest was taken in the pro-' a desire to retain that edifice for a use similar ject by a number of gentlemen, who offered; to that to which so many historic associations liberal contributions, but after protracted ef-r were attached, called the attention of the forts the committee reluctantly came to the!*. managers of tire Apprentices’ Library to the conclusion that they could not obtain sufii-ijy opportunity of obtaining by purchase a build¬ cient subscriptions to justify them in pur- ' ing well adapted to their purposes. As the chasing the building, and the attempt was result of this call a special meeting of the so¬ abandoned. From that time to this the man¬ ciety was held in October, 1879, and resolu¬ agers of the institution have always enter¬ tions were adopted authorizing the Board of tained the hope that they would be able to Managers to purchase the Philadelphia Li¬ secure more commodious quarters for the en¬ brary building at a fair price, providing the largement of the scope of their enterprise, means to meet the payment could be secured. and, as matters look now, their hopes are about to be realized. Until about ten years ago the library was divided into two entirely distinct sections, one for boys and the other for girls. This maintenance of two separate library rooms rendered necessary the purchase of a large number of duplicate volumes, and caused many other inconveniences. To remedy this 1 unsatisfactory feature in the conduct of the library the Board of Managers finally recom¬ mended that the two sections be consolidated. ' and that a single room he utilized by both I males and females. This recommendation I was carried out in 1882, the library being ] closed early in June of that year and re- | opened on the 2d of December. The reading room was also moved from the basement to a PHILADELPHIA AND THE AMERICAN light and airy room in the second story, for¬ merly occupied by the boys’ library. INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTURE. ^ With one exception, the Apprentices’ Li- jbrarv can be, properly denominated as the only strictly free library in Philadelphia of History of and Comparison witli Other jany considerable size. No charges what- Organizations—The Annual Convention ; ever are exacted of those who are thebene In Chicago To-day. jfieiarias of the institution, except in the [way of fines for hooks outover time. In order ito obtain a book the applicant is required to | “No chapter in the history of national Iconform to the following rule: “Applicant manners would illustrate so well, if duly exe¬ I must procure a certificate of guarantee for the use and the return of the-books, signed Dy a cuted, Uie progress of social progress as that good surey, and witnessed by a person au¬ dedicated to domestic architecture. ” thorized by the board, or by the deposit of The above words of Dallam might well be one dollar with the librarian they may become followed by a paragraph to the cfiect that a their own guarantors.” chapter on architecture might be supple- . The Apprentices’ Library was instituted mented by one devoted to the lessons which by the Society of Friends, and is still almost the architects of our own time might learn entirely controlled by parties belonging to from the struggles of the architects of the that society, consequently the management . past, thus showing liow this “progress of of the institution has ever been a conserva- Eocial progress’ ’ has been achieved. Many of ; tive one. From the first its aim has been to Ibe older architects who thus left their im¬ j supply a class of hooks to its beneficiaries press upon the world’s history practiced their I which would instruct rather than afford idle profession under the inspiration of high ideals. amusement. An unfavorable eye has con- The edifices which they erected, and which j sequently ever been cast upon exciting still remain to us, evidence, in the changing [fiction and sensational literature, and not a character of their designs, the gradual advance [volume has found its way to the shelves in national culture, business enterprise and ! without first being carefully examined by the the development of the natural and financial I book committee and then receiving the ap¬ resources of our country. proval of the whole board. The field thus outlined is a wide one, too ex- % At the present time there are between tensive to be covered by a single study in a 20,000 and 30,000 bound volumes upon the journal where so many o:lier interests claim shelves of the library. consideration. It will, however, I believe, - i The plain, old-fashioned brick building oc- prove ofinterest to Philadelphians if I attempt [cupied by the Apprentices’ Library was to gather together somepflhe threads woven erected shortly after the revolutionary war, by early Philadeipbiajrrchitects in the web of las may be determined by a tablet erected at architectural associations in the United States, the north end of the house, which bears the particularly as in the founding of such organ¬ following inscription: ization Philadelphians bore so prominent and useful a part. By the general subscriptions of the Free Quakers. It may be said with truth that in this city Erected A. D. 1783' the corner-stone of archiiectural unity and Of the Empire 8. comradeship was laid,and itis but just to ren¬ der a tardy recognition to the founders of The use of the word empire in this inscrip¬ modern architectural practice as developed tion has often been spoken of as curious and and fostered by the national organization— /extraordinary, but it was not so in 1783. as the American Institute of Architects. (the word empire was a common one at that Organization of the Institute. time when used in reference to this country. "December 6, 1S3C, is a memorable date in the annals of American architecture. On that day eleven architects met at the Astor House, New York, to form an “association for the advancement of archiiectural science in the United States. ’ ’ Of those pioneers in the or¬ ganization of what lias since become a great ■national body not. one remains to us. The meeting was a representative one in the best and widest sense, and the names of the at¬ tendant architects have become household words, not only as the organizers of archi¬ tectural unity, but tor their professional at¬ tainments and personal character. Alexan¬ der J. Davis, architect of the University of the City of New York and of many of the more prominent buildings of that day, with numerous honorary and corresponding presided. Thomas U. AY alter, of lhiladel-; ixnembers. phia; architect of Girard College and later From the first inception of the institution, j the designer of the dome and extensionsof the; 1836, Philadelphia architects were towers of Capitol at Washington ; the second President, strength to the profession, struggling to ce¬ of the reorganized Institute of Architects, and ment an organization of American architects rthe first architect to receive as such the de-; into a society that shouic^elevate the position greeofLL. D. from Harvard University, was of its individual members as skillful designers Ithe Secretary of the meeting and issued the and well-instructed practitioners. Not only call which brought its members together on in their local chapter, but in the broader coun¬ That day. Philadelphia also sent William cils of the institute their influence was ex¬ [Strickland, Architect of the United States erted and with the best results. -'Custom House, the Mint, the Exchange Build- The Philadelphia Chapter. ,1ng on Dock street, and later of the Capitol of The Philadelphia Chapter was organized Tennessee, at Nashville. With them came and chartered under the laws of the Institute John Haviland, another Philadelphia and of the State of Pennsylvania, November architect, an Englishman by birth, and 11, 1869. It is a curious fact, that as the a pupil of James Elmos, the blind American Institute grew out of the old insti¬ architect, and author of a delightful ,-woik, the “Life and Times of Sir Christopher tution of 1836 the Philadelphia^ Chapter was1 the legitimate heir of the Pennsylvania Insti¬ Wren. ’ ’ Haviland had already made a high tute of Architects, a body chartered March. [reputation for himself, and was the first ^architect toapply the radiating system in the 4, 1861, as an entirely independent organiza¬ construction of prisons, which he put in prac- tion. The list of charter members of the Pennsylvania Institute included such well- tice in his designs for the prisons at. Pitts¬ known and honored names as John Notman, burg and at Cherry Hill, in Philadelphia. Napoleon Le Brun, John McArthur, Jr., .John C. Trautwine, also of Philadelphia, architect and engineer, whose name in con¬ Samuel Sloan, Edward T. Potter, James C. nection with scientific research and calcula¬ Sidney and Samuel D. Button, the last tions is known all over tlie world, was unable named being at present the oldest prac¬ to be present, but sent a letter endorsing the ticing architect in the United States. [project. An organization was formed the fol¬ The constitution of thePeunsylvanih Institute lowing day, William Strickland presiding. set forth an elaborate explanation of the [This organization was formally ratified under raison d’etre of the association. “To perfect rthe title. The American Institution of Archi¬ the knowledge and elaborate the art of achi- tects, at a convention held in the old Penn¬ tecture and the sciences in connection with it. sylvania Academy of Fine Arts, on Cbest- To elevate the standing of its professors, by inut street, Philadelphia, May 2d, 1837, with a affording facilities fora free interchange of membership of twenty-three professional, two thought and a mutual agreement on the laws associate and twenty-five honorary members. and rules necessary to be observed in its prac¬ A comparison of dates of similar organiza¬ tice.’’ Thus, before the Philadelphia Chap¬ tions with that of the Institution will be inter¬ ter was organized, the Pennsylvania Institute esting. The Institute of British Architects might have been said to be in its limited field was chartered January 11th, 1837, and, by a a rival of the American Institute of Archi¬ supplemental charter, dated March 28th, of tects, the constitution of which sets forth that the same year, had the word ‘^Royal’’ pre¬ itsobjects are, “to unite in fellowship the fixed to its title. There had been some in- architects of this continent, and to combine iformal meetings in London as far back as 1834, their efforts so as to promote the artistic, but 1837 is really the dale of commencement of scientific and practical efficiency of the pro¬ tthe Royal Institute of British Architects. The fession. ’ ’ Architectural Association (London) was not The Pennsylvania Institute was shortlived founded until 1812, so that, among English- and exerted but little influence; partly from speaking peoples, the organization of the Its want of scope as a parent body and partly American Institution of Architects was well Ihrough the troubled condition of the coun¬ iabreast of its foreign prototype. try, then in all the turmoil and excitement, of Unfortunately, however, tire institution the civil war. Some of its strongest members could not be made successful under its orig¬ left its councils and removed to other States, inal plan. There could be but little cohesion while others, seeing that two bottles’ could not In a body with a membership ofonly 25 arch¬ well occupy the same field, urged that all in¬ itects scattered all over the United States. fluences should be exerted to strengthen the There could be but little opportunity for meet¬ national body. Thus in due time, out ot the ings or mutual encouragement. The institu¬ general reorganization of 1S67, the Philadel¬ tion practically slumbered for 20 years, and phia Chapter came into existence. rwas then revived and chartered under the Sentiment of the Founders. title ol the American Institute of Architects. This reorganization was effected in tiie city of This Chapter, although in unison with and Hew York in the year 1857, with Richard Up¬ organized under the requirements of the john, of New York, the architect of Trinity parent institute, was founded upon a Church and many other noted edifices, as its broader and more comprehensive plan first President. The old institution was never as to its internal administration, than disbanded, its officers held over until their any of its successors. From the report successors were appointed, and we may thus of its first secretary, Henry A. Sii^s, to the truthfully claim May 2, 1837, as the date, and National Convention of 1870, held in the the city of Philadelphia as the place of its na- Athoeneum Library Building, Philadelphia, \ivity. I quote as follows: “It was the desire of those The Chaptci- System Adopted. founding the Chapter to make it partake as much as possible of the character of an art ^fom 1857 until 1867 the institute was sim¬ society, rather than a close corporation or of a ply a national body with headquarters in New trade union. If the power of speech and of York city. In the latter year a second reor¬ voting were accorded to laymen of the proper ganization was effected and the chapter sys¬ class, it was thought that this object tem inaugurated, with one chapter—that of would be more certainly secured than if profes¬ New York—and with national officers. The sional architects alone conducted the busi¬ second chapter was organized in Philadel¬ ness. It was the desire that the subjects for dis¬ phia, November 11th, 1869. There are now 26 chapters, scattered all over the country, cussion at the meetings should seldom relate with a total institute membershipof aboutSOO, to the schedule of charges or other points connected with the pecuniary remuneration for services, and often upon those topics of art at all times lam yours, asking you to look and science pecullarly-appropriate to such a over my imperfections and to enable me to society. We live in a country where money feel stilt further that I have your assistance in * is supposed to occupy a very exalted position these matters connected with our profession. in men’s minds and hopes aud motives, and I am deeply interested in them and have been it is to be feared that there is a tendency to ,1'or nearly 60 years. ’ ’ our thoughts being more frequently occupied Dr. Walter’s addresses to the Conventions with how much our commissions will amount of the A. I. A. were concise, clear andjdigni- to rather than how much good and true art fled. Fully embued with the high alms and we can instill into our work. In short, that aspirations of the true architect, lie had the we are too often men of business and too sel¬ | faculty of imparting those views and urging dom artists. We forget that if we are archi¬ his associates upward and forward towards a tects in the true sense of the word we are ar¬ deeper appreciation of the claims of their pro¬ tists, and that as such we enter upon a career fession and its honorable practice. All things of devotion to our art for itself. We live by that tended to belittle or degrade he abhored and stigmatized in their true light. Even as it, of course, but living by it we live for it, giving our whole talent and energy and time I write I feel that I can see his commanding to its practice. If we call ourselves architects presence, with snow-white hair, standing in and have not this feeling we call ourselves his place as President in the Convention of what we are not; we arc only builders—men of 1880, as he uttered these words: business and not artists. ” • “We owe it to our country, to the age in which we live, to our families, to ourselves, In a letter written by Mr. Sims under date to devote the rapidly fleeting hours of our lives Of June 6, 1870, to F. B. Wight, Secretary of to the iccomplishment of flic greatest possible the A. I. A., a further insight is given into the good to our vocation, ever seeking to discharge sentiment of the founders of the Philadelphia our duties in all good conscience toward those Chapter. “You will notice,” he writes, whose interests are intrusted to our care—to- “that we give amateurs a say in conducting wardco-workers in the realm of art and to¬ our business. We hope by this means to give ward Him in whom we live and move and la more catholic spirit to our proceedings than have our being. ’ ’ we think can be obtained if the power is con¬ A fitting tribute to the great Philadelphia fined to professionals, ’ ’ adding: ‘ ‘It is an ex¬ architect was that given by the Hon. J. H.B. periment and at variance with the practice of Latrobe, of Baltimore, son of Benjamin H. the New York Chapter, aftid we hope and Latrohe, architect of the original Capitol at think it will work well.” Washington, at the convention of 1881, which In furtherance of this idea of amateur inter¬ was held Sh the Federal city within sight of est the Chapter, in 1872, gave a conversazione (the great dome with which Dr. Walter’s name | at its rooms in the Athenseum Building. Of will’ be ever associated. “I can scarcely this entertainment Carl Pfieffer, Secretary of speak,” said Mr. Cat,robe, “in his presence,” the A. I. A., who was present, thus spoke at Dr. Walter being in the chair, “as I would the next National Convention; “While at like to speak, could I find words to do justice this conversazione I was impressed with the to the last architect of the vast pile that now idea that such receptions offer, not only occa¬ looks down upon the Federal city. The pupil sions for exhibiting exterior architectural de¬ of Strickland, as Strickland was the pupil of signs, but that they afford, also, excellent my father, it lias been for me a pleasing fancy opportunities fur educating the public to some for more than a quarter of a cen¬ reasonable appreciation of the duties aud tury to believe that there was, in a labors of the architect. ” faint way, a law or descent applicable I In 1872, through the courtesy of the Phila¬ under the circumstances, which connected delphia Chapter, the use of its rooms was the architect who clothed Thornton’s skeleton granted as a meeting place ‘ ‘to the gentlemen with sinew and muscle and beauty, until the interested in the organization of the proposed whole creature became his own, with his bril¬ Museum of Industrial Art,” at that time just liant, refined and accomplished successor, entering upon its great work of usefulness to who, at the head of a profession socially, to¬ 'the city and the country at large. day, without a superior, has absorbed all that The founders of the Institution ot Archi¬ has been done before in what is now the Capi¬ tects, the American Institute of Architects tol; who, making the magnificent dome, on and the Philadelphia Chapter were strong whose iron sheets the hammer never ceased men; they builded belter than they knew,and to ring during the war, that threatened to it seems but tardy justice to gather together make the whole structure worthless, has some recollections of those days of struggle screened without the exterior littleness of a Ifor the encouragement of our younger stu¬ vitiated taste, and made even the incongrui¬ dents and as contribution to the history of the ties of the Italian Renaissance subserve the growth of the profession of architecture in the purposes of genius.” I United States. Dr. Walter was associated with many im¬ ! Among the names of the pioneers of na¬ portant Government works in different parts tional unity none are more highly honored of the United States, and was also sent for to than those of Thomas N. Walter, LL. D., ■South America. Second President of the A. I. A., and Henry Benjamin H. Eatrobe was also identified A. Sims, Secretary for Foreign Correspond¬ with Pniladelphia, and designed the old ence. water works and the Pennsylvania Bank. , President PValter. Henry Augustus Sims. I President Walter’s life was a long and use¬ In the years immediately following the re¬ ful one, his crowning professional triumph organization of the American Institute of Ar- being the designing and supervising the erec- j chitects, in 1S67, Henry Augustus Sims, of ition of the dome and extensions of the Capitol jPhiladelphia, won high esteem in its service. at Washington. His connection with the A. He was elected to fellowship in 1869, and the I. A. was continued until his death, October next year was, as it were, at a single step 30, 18S7. To use his own words in the last ad¬ placed in the highly responsible position of dress he ever made to a National Convention, I Secretary of Foreign Correspondence. He at December 2, 1886: once gave evidence of his great talents and j ‘ ‘I began with you almost at the beginning, fitness for the position. At that time the In¬ andi have been in my place as often as it was stitute was young and feeble, recently organ¬ possible and have done the best I could. ” ized and almost unknown outside of the * * * “As to the year before us, I promise 'United States. At his death, in 1875, he left you to do all 1 can for the promotion of the j behind him a store of valuable documents interests of our Institute. Every where and gathered Irom all parts of Europe; had estab-l lished affiliation with many foreign societies! been followed by the Royal Institute of Brn^| of influence, and made a record for usefulness, ish Architects, has come to the conclusiom capability and industry that indicates how that it would awaken a general interest ana . cement closer union among the architectuiai much time he must have withdrawn from his private interests for the benefit of his profes¬ societies ol France than that which now exists, if we were all to unite annually in a sion. A few extracts from Mr. Sims’s letters and national conference.” .. The above report is also valuable m that it reports will be of interest in this connection. They show how deep was his love lor archi¬ sets fortli the acceptance of the American tecture and how he labored in the service of policy of the R. I. B. A., whose charter datesi from the same year as that of the A. I. A. the profession. In the first year of Mr. Slraft’s official con¬ In 1874, although in private affliction, nection with the Institutehe established com¬ Mr. Sims added materially to the amount or loreigu correspondence and laid be¬ munication with the following societies: The Institute of Portuguese Architects. fore the Convention of that year a scholarly and admirable report, draw¬ The Architectural Institute of Scotland. The Royal Institute of Architects of Ireland. ing freely in quotation from eommuni-i The Architects Union of Berlin. cations received from societies in Germany, England, Russia, Sweden and Norway. He! The Architectural Union of Hamburg. closed this, his last report, with the following The Austrian Engineers and Architects paragraph: “I think all will agree that one| Union of Vienna. important function of the office I have held1 The Imperial Academy of St. Petersburg. for several years is the procuring of such in-] Tlie Archaeological Society of Athens. formation from foreign lands.. Much of such The Architects and Engineers Union of Han¬ information may be so procured which can be over. turned to general advantage in our American The Architects and Engineers Union of Bres¬ lau. architecture. ’ ’ As an alternate of the venerable President, The Central Society of Architects of Paris. Mr. Upjohn, Mr. Sims delivered the annual The Society of Architects of the Department address to the Convention of 1874. It was his of the North at Lille. i<—t pn/ilic utterance to that body, as hedied| In connection with the above, Mr. Sims had July 10, 1875. From this address I will take an extensive correspondence with individual one paragraph, an epitome, as it were, of his architects and scientific men. He also formu¬ work in its behalf: lated and distributed through Europe a con¬ “In 1869, as an Institute, we were scarcely cise history of the A. I. A. from the first known beyond our own continent. At the organization of 1838. present time we are on terms of amity and The lines of communication thus opened, the correspondence with all the leading architect advantages soon began to appear. Herr tural societies of Europe, some 11 in number, Boekmau, Vice President ot the Berlin Union, and our list of henorary members embraces wrote that he would “gladly assist in weav¬ the leading architects and architectural writ¬ ing a band which should draw more closely ers of the Old World. The five years have the Berlin Union of Architects and the Amer¬ added much to our strength at home; but, ican Institute of Architects, and that he was beyond the mere increase in membership, our sure that in saying this he was only giving „Institute has, in the period named, increased expression to the Berlinese brethren in art.” vastly in influence and importance. Five M. Caesar Daly, author of the great “Revue d’Architecture, ” wrote that he “was so years ago it was very little more than a local favorably impressed with our system of or¬ society in this city (New York). Now I think ganization, combining such perfect local lib¬ that its claim of national, and even of Conti¬ nental character, is very generally conceded. erty with such a powerful common tie, that he had warmly recommended its study to the I am sure that we have every reason to con¬ gratulate ourselves upon this growth, and to Society Centrale des Architedie de Paris. ’ ’ The next year Mr. Sims added to the list of be satisfied that it is but an earnest of the fu¬ ture. ” foreign correspondents, viz. : Mr. Sims was a strong advocate of obtain¬ The Royal Academy of Denmark, at Copen¬ ing for the institute a still stronger national hagen. The Society for the Propagation of Archi¬ character by having it incorporated by act of tecture in the Netherlands, at Amsterdam. Congress, as it would in his mind “lend to elevate us in public estimation, especially if; The Academy of Fine Arts at Geneva. Through these correspondents much valu¬ we do credit to the organization ourselves.” able information, together with books, pam¬ This last sentiment was fully in accord with phlets, reports, &c., were received, all ot all his addresses and writings on professional subjects. which seem to have been carefully studied by Mr. Sims, and his reports were replete with While I have thus attempted to honor the men who were the founders of organized ef¬ quotations, comments and suggestions thereon. fort in the development of American archi¬ tecture, it is only justice to give due rever-| In 1873 the seed thus sown began to bear fruits that were stimulating to American enceand respect to those earlier names on the roll of Philadelphia architecture, who, architecture. In a letter received that year before the days of which this paper treats, from the Societi Centrale des Architectes there conferred honor on the city of their birth and is an account of the formation of a committee adoption, aDd to those who entered into the llto examine the analogy which may be made to exist between French Societies of architects and movement to establish the institution ofj 1836. our own Institute and Chapters.” The report goes on to state that, “Previous to the year Other Pioneer Architects. 1843, the year of the institution of our Societe Among those pioneers in American archi¬ Centrale, there existed only the SocictS tecture, for in those days they might truly be Academique de Lyons, but since that period termed such, William Strickland should be societies of architects have been formed at especially remembered. I have already stated Besangon, Troyes, Bordeaux, La Rochelle, that he was the pupil of Benjamin H. Latrobe. Lille, Marseilles, Nantes, Rouen, Versailles He assisted that architect in connection with and in other places. * * * Your the Pennsylvania Bank. Besides the works committee, inspired by the forms regulat¬ with which his name is connected in the first ing the American Institute of Archi¬ part of this article, he designed the United tects in this matter, and which have since States Naval Asylum, United States Bank,! old Masonic Hall on Chestnut street, Chestnut ! Originaldocuments inthehandwriting Qf tects andtheirservicesinconnectionwiththe OAA- (Architects, havebeendrswufromauthentio ! TheabovenotesonoldPhiladelDhiaarchi¬ j8vo, Baltimore. I Jersey,Missourianil.RhodeIsland.Hewas jState InsaneAsylumatHarrisburg,to¬ ,iBy anactofllieLegislatureTennessee,his A Will,aLetter and4:DeedinPossession organization oftheAmericanInstitute suited. 'j Architects, atwhichmanyvaluablepapers,I followed bytheInternationalCongressof will continueinsessiontwodays,and'willbe A. willbeopenedinthecityofChicago.It both Americanandforeign,willbepre-fc A. I. sources, andlargelyfromtherecordsof 1SS13), the27thannualconventionofA.I. (fine portraitofStrickland,byCooper,anda gether withtheStalePenitentiariesofNew the authorof“BuildingAssistant,”3vols., States NavalAsylumatNorfolk,Va.;the ated theHallofJustice,NewYork;United jabout fourfeetabovethepavement.The gineers. Amongtiiebuildingserectedfrom emigrating totheUnitedStatesin1816,he his designsinthiscountrymaybeenumer¬ tention ofenteringtheImperialCorpsEn¬ went theyearprevioustoRussia,within¬ stitution of1836,itshouldbesaidthat,before Haviland asoneoftheoriginatorsoiin¬ I supervisionofhisson,F.W.Strickland. from life,byNicholaiGevelot,inParis. Historical Society.Thebustwasexecuted architect isintheroomsofTennessee (Canals andRailways”(1826)“Public well-modeled bust,inbronze,oftheold His remainsaredepositedwithinthisvault.’ covering slabbearsthefollowinginscrip¬ tion : remains wereentombedinavaultsunkinto the wallofnorthporchCapitol, Tennessee, todesignandsupervisethecon¬ Date, Capitol buildingwascompletedunderthe last work.HediedAprilTib,1854,andthe 1841). 7 Delaware Bay”(Philadelphia),“Reporton struction oftheStateCapitol.Thiswashis HF Works oftheUnitedStates.”(London, cal Society.Among-hispublicationsmaybe noted “TriangulationsoftheEntranceinto From,. Engineers andoftheAmericanPhilosophi¬ and Frenchtown,Md.Hewasamem¬ ber oftheRoyalSocietyCivil struction oftherailradbetweenNewcastle try, andonnisreturnsuperintendedthecon¬ Street Theatre,ArchSt.Ste¬ ance. In1825heweirttoEnglandexamine phen’s Church,andotherworksofImport¬ the canalsandrailwaysystemsofthatcoun¬ On the31st-otpresentmonth(July, In additiontothenoticegivenofJohn In theStateLibraryofTennesseeisavery By anActoftheLegislatureTennessee, In 1844StricklandwascalledtoNashville, IN WILLIAMPENN’SHANDWRITING. Died April7th,1854,aged64years. George C.Mason,Jr,,f.a.I.A “William Strickland,Areh’t, The AnnualMeeting. of Porter&Coates. .(2^£Ss. payment istobegin aftermydecease.” ot them£100,out ofmyrentstheProvince to bepaidbymy heirorhisreceivers.The ter Leticia£100yearlyforever, thatis,toeach Also, 5000acresonyeSchulkyll. ye landfromcreekwhere thebridgeis land ofJamesHarrison,on ye mainriver. north ofPennberrytowardsthe Falls,tothe street, assetdowninthecity plaus,andall lot ontheSchulkyll,andnow intheHigh acres ineachcountyand20,000onthe overplans landofDallion,and1000acreson Susquehanah Riverwithyesecondbestland in it. Schulkyl! onsouthsideofyecitty,calledcom¬ Sehnlkyil and-400acresonDelawareaccord¬ monly myson’slot,with100acresofre to mydearwifeforher:lifeandthenLeti¬ ing towarrant,andIfurthergivehim5000 a lotrunningthroughfromDelawareto 'just arrivedwiththematthestoreofPorter then tohimandhisforamannor. Pennberry untilmysonSprinettisofage, 1684. andthepropertyisbequeathedasfol¬ great faith;teachthechildrenloveandhu¬ cludes bysaying:“Livefarseeing;have gives hiswifesomeexcellentadvice,andcon¬ Lord GodAlmightybless,keepandbewith cia Penn,mydeardaughter. mility tothepeople.” you forever. the strictwayofHisholytruth.So’ nesses. ThedocumentisdatedJune6th, Harrison andWilliamChauld,thefourwit¬ by Thoma.%Lloj'd,ThomasHolmes,James lent slateofpreservation,and,althoughthe j Boththeletterand1liedeedareinanexcel¬ shall ourspiritslivetogether,wherenothing place, therestbeingleftloGod.Againdoes thos? whoprofessthefaiththatisaboveit. fromdhe evilthatisintheworldandamong will madeinEngland. shall divideorseparategrieveus. my soulembracetheeandthine,soforever who mustliveinthefearofLordand blessings tobewithyouandpreserve dren, prayingIheGodofourmanyandrich and honoredabovewomen.Idomostdearly all visiblecomforts,alwaysvalluedbyme, sepulchre, 1writeuntothee,asmybeloved Lord pieasethtodealwithmeinmyvoyage, lows: salute andembracethee,withthydearchil¬ one, thegreatjoyandcrownofmylifeabove least theseabemygraveanddeep about toleavethispartoftheworldand as follows: is drawnuponparchment.Theletterreads ready tocomeyea,notknowinghowthe eight andahnlfincheswide,whilethedeed lar old-fashionednotepaper,afootlongby legible. There arethree moreconditionsofthewill hands ofafamousdealerinLondon,andhas discolored byage,thewritingisexceedingly paper isalittletorninsomeplacesandrather Ninth andChestnutstreets, & Coates. now inIhepossessionofPorter&Coates, in Pennsylvaniaandaletlertohiswife,are William Penn,includingawill,deedofland ‘ ‘8.IgivetomysonWilliamand mydaugh¬ “5. IdogivetomydaughterLeticiaanother The willisshortandcoucise,signed He addsseveralpostscripts,inwhichhe "3. Igivetomydearwifeyeenjoymentof “1. Iconfirmandratifyallmatterofmylast “2. Igive(hislotliveatinPhiladelphia The letterandthewillarewrittenonregu¬ ‘ ’DearlyIbidtheefarewellandmychildren, Captain J.E.Barrfoundthewritingsin “I havehereininclosedmywillastothis “My MostDearGulielmaPenn:Beingnow 4. IbequeathtomysonWilliamPenna •‘—I am—theirsandthine,inyou, “William Penn.” in which he remembers his different friends.! His own signature is torn out, and it is prob¬ able that when long afterwards he found the will again lie tore out his signature, and thus cancelled tlie document instead of destroying it. The will which is on file is the one he wrote after his marriage to his second wile Hannah Callowhill, the will which has so lately been brought to light, having been written just before leaving for England aft# his first visit to America. arley

THE ROADSIDE TAVERNS OF THE OLD COACHING DAYS THEIR AMPLE COURTYARDS AND ARCHED ENTRANCES.

One of the most famous and earliest tav¬ A^’,ch °nr forefathers were used to in Eng- erns of Philadelphia was situated on Second land. The fronts were mostly unpretentious street, near Walnut. It was first known as the City Tavern and later as the Merchants’ wLnn = Sl+t-Wf J4-paSSage'way for horses and vard barthnrledi1-n^° a moSt sPacious court- Coffee House. It was at this place that yard, back of which was extensive stabling. Washington generally stepped when sojourn¬ I he numerous ample rear buildings opened ing in this city, and many other famous men that surrounded and overlooked the courtyard. These features made it their rendezvous. The old place has whet h id.?,ntlcal with tbe noted inn long since disappeared, together with the wheie the poet Chaucer met the Canterbury Plow Hotel. The Plow was situated on the' pilgrims, or the hostelry from the portals of east side of Second street, just below Pine. SamullelIwanl3terTCla?-iSS"ed the humorous Although a portion of the old Plow Hotel Samuel Weller Looking upon such a place the entire significance of the word inn may still exists in a modernized form, its inn yard nt/e *7 o?aI’Zed- Iu sucb courtyards, in the has within a few years been built upon. Pre¬ time of Shakespeare, plays were acted before vious to that time by passing through an w ° audlences, the richer part of the specta- archway of the Plow you at once left modern tors occupying* the galleries. Philadelphia and the nineteenth century and -the st0llt P°leson the street went back into good old colonial days, when the }nn w?uld be a sign board and we were under the King. upon it the picture of a camel, a bull’s head nSSi,an"r a ?'hite bear' just as the fancy Opposite to where the Plow Tavern once ot name host might suggest. flourished still exists the old Second Street The tavern-keeper of years ago, by the Market, which dates back to the early part of way, was a man of property, who ranked hi«-h the last century. Second street, to make room for this market, is considerably in¬ creased in width. In the early days the i,s farmers themselves almost exclusively sup¬ plied the market, a custom fortunately not .Journeying north from the Plow Tavern, altogether abandoned. the first of the old Second street inns to be. encountered that is still used as a public On North Second street, from Fail-mount house is known to-day as the Columbia, avenue to Poplar street, is another market, House, Bo. 216 North Second street. The and the united length of the North Second courtyard of the Columbia House is anJ street and South Second street market houses proaehed through a dark passage-way; only is almost half a mile. Important as they may a portion of the original space exists, a lar-e seem to-day they sink into an insignificance part ot it having been built up some years that can hardly be understood by one who wh-L El,on-gb’ ho)'Tcvcr, remains to still'show has not seen the sights some twenty years ago what a quaint and picturesque spot it once on market days. On such days the entire street, for its whole three miles of length, was On the other side of the way, just above I lined with great white-topped Conestoga wag¬ Nos 257 5hlaT?°US-e- iS th? Barley sbeaf, ons, without horses and close up to each other Sheaf ic ctn'i -T-le lnn yard of the Barley1 and always so loaded with provisions as to im- ^ verv r 111 In ongmal condition, and is press the benolder with the fact that he was very roomy quaint and old-fashioned. cVt,r,e of the most bountiful region on A short distance further north from the e.irth._ Full supplies in the markets, how¬ P/r>,Cyi'Sheaf •1S tbe Black Horse. The front ever, in those early days of poor roads, were of this house is modern in appearance and is in a. great degree dependent upon good only distinguished from the surrounding weather. 6 sellings by the black steed, with its fore^ It was for the accommodation of the far¬ side* eThrUpllftcd- wb>cb decorates its mers and their horses (each wagon was drawn smc. I hrough one side is the customary by four, six or seven light horses) that the thehrnT'v-!rrdUSlh-Wn1

>b[& KJSfesjSg, 100 years. It is auite extensive, being capa-l )ian and beast, and provlded for them ampler ble of accommodating over 100 horses. A u simple, comforts. A pipe, a pair of slippers, i meat market stands on oqe side of the inn a glass of hot punch or a‘ tankard of foaming' yard, and the inn itself is on the upper side. ale served by a bright-eyed bar-maid and a A covered porch runs along the second stoTy cosy corner near the tap-room fire were the I of the inn, and many of the rooms open seductions offered by the old-time host. The 1 upon it. «.r.ln k^ese old taverns was a rough wooden Notwithstanding the modern surroundings! anair, six or eight feet long, while the furni-j of the Black Horse, the visitor standing in ture of the room was correspondingly crude. this old court-yard to-day cannot help but An old-fashioned settee or wooden chairs set think of this hostelry as the headquarters for on each side of a wide fireplace, and with a line of coaches. While a photograph was white sand scattered over the floor, consti¬ being taken of the inn yard the other day the tuted the furniture and adornment of the landlord opened a rear door and looked out. place. The sleeping apartments of these old He was evidently not accustomed to seeing taverns corresponded with the rude comforts people loitering around his premises, exam¬ of the bar-room. But if the sheets were ining every stone and brick, and conse¬ coarse, the bed, although sometimes a hard quently regarded us with some suspicion. To one, was clean. It was prepared in a small gain his good will we said : room, whose bare floors, white-washed walls “ Good morning,” politely. “This is a very and plain curtains did not invite dreams of old house?” was next remarked, blandly and palatial splendors. . insinuatingly. The Bull’s Head and the Rising Sun are the “So folks tell me,” ventured the landlord, ' last of their kind, and long since have they A rather discouraging answer. In fact, it lost their significance. The attentive host! was evident that mine host could not give us and hostess, the sand floors, the quaint, old- the information we wanted, so we said good¬ fashioned furniture are no more; the modern; bye amiably and departed. It was at the ciub house rises in their place for social, ar¬ Black Horse or one of the other hostelries in tistic and political discussions. the immediate vicinity that the celebrated Dr. Chapman, having been introduced to some Indian warriors who were then on a visit to the city of the pale faces, took the hand of the celebrated chief Black Hawk and From, .l£lr. said: “ I am glad to meet so famous a chief¬ I tain.” Then turning to the Indian boy jo alongside, he continued: “This, I suppose, v'. is your son, Tommy Hawk.” A variant of .. the story, probably authentic, says that at Nicholas Biddle’s dinner table Dr. Chapman being asked what was the name of Black Date, rt&C .•--< Hawk’s son replied, “Tommy Hawk.” North of the Black Horse, No-. 472 North Second street, is the Red Lion Hotel, another The Veteran’s Talk Susmested by quaint and old-fashioned hostelry, while “History as She Is 'Wrote.'’ just beyond Poplar street, on the east side of Second, the Rising Sun and the Bull’s Head, There seems to be a fascination in thej two more old hostelries, are to be discovered. name oi Benedict Arnold, even fori Americans of unquestionable patriot-1 — 1 These old taverns are really the quaintest1 ism. It v^as only the other clay that 1 called attention to an assertion in the of all the Second street inns, as exteriorly as; - newspapers that the late iiliza De Haas, well as interiorly they are pretty much the who ttied at Bellefonte on the 20th inst., same to-day as when they were built, over a was a niece of the traitor General of century ago. Many interesting memories are tiie Revolution. I find the same claim attached to the Rising Sun and the Bull’s ol relationship, but modified as to de¬ Head; important events and illustrious names' gree, in an article by Mr. John B. Linn are connected with their history; in fact they,1 in the Bellolonte Republican. Mr. Linn as well as the other Second street inns, form says that Miss De Haas’ mother was a part of the history of the city and should Ann Shippen, “a near relative of Mrs. not be forgotten. The generation which save Benedict Arnold.” I do not believe that them in their prime has passed away and for even in this modified form the assertion interesting facts concerning them we have can be sustained. There is no reason to already to rely on tradition. These houses doubt that a young woman named were the daily resorts of all sorts of people, Ann Shippen was married to Philip from the highest government official to the De Haas by the Rev. Dr. Joseph Pil-j lowest tippling loafer. This congregating at more, in St. Paul’s Church, in tiiis city, a tavern was not from choice but from neces¬ August 21, 1792. Although there is no' sity, as during their most prosperous days absolute proof of it on record that ij club houses were unknown and business ex¬ know of it may be accepted as true that ( changes in the dim future. With the pro¬ tliia Philip De Haas was John Philip Do; fessional and business man came along the Haas, the son and namesake of Generali wags and wits of the town, and the bar room John Philip Do Haas, ot the Revolution¬ was a common ground for the discussion of ary army. I have looked in vain in the I politics as well as religion, and also for the Pennsylvania Packet for a notice of the retailing of all descriptions of gossip, as well marriage an inattention that I scarcely as the transaction of business. think possible If Ann was a Shippen The modern drinking saloon, with its ma¬ of the Shippens. hogany bar and silver-plated hand-rail, gor¬ That she was not I am convinced, geous pictures and stucco adornments, is in That she was not a descendant of Chief no sense a counterpart of the inns of former Justice Shippen is certain, and, there¬ days. When the Bull's Head was built- a jug fore, she could not have been a near of spirits, a barrel of ale, a half dozen glasses relative of Mrs. Benedict Arnold. She and pewter pots, a box of clay pipes and a ,.Ujiy, however, nave been descended few Bounds of tobacco constituted the stock of '"i Dr. William Shippen, of whoso son the landlord. vi'ly .\_saw a rather apoobry- The inns of old times accommodated both ’ tie New York Sun My reason lor believ- ling this is that some of Dr. William Benner, in Bollefonte, where in their Shippen’s descendants are the only declining years, they were, tenderly members oi the Shippen family who are I cared for by the Misses Benner. From not fully accounted for. 'ail this it is clear that If the history of the De Haas family could be told in Its TheNttn’s account of the relationship entirety it would let in a flood ot light of Benedict Arnold to the Shippen family upon the men and methods of the pasfi^ is a very amusing example of “History The Ex-Editor. as She Is Wrote.” Everybody ought to know that it was Margaret, the daugh¬ ter of Edward Shippen, who was married to General Arnold in Christ Church in From,_ ,this city, April 8, 1779; but the /Sun’s historian has it that she was Dr. Ship- pen’s daughter Peggy, and that William jSlilppen, who built the famous old man¬ sion at Oxford Furnace, in New Jersey, known as the “Fowler House,” in which lox-Secretary of the Navy George M. Date, .3YJTfc.£.r (Robeson was born, “was a son ol Dr. Shippen and a brother-in-law of Bene- jdiet Arnold.” According to the Sun iwriter, there is a New Jersey tradition AN OLD INN. that William Shippen was not married to the woman with whom he lived at The White Bear Has an Authentic Record of Oxtord, although several daughters were an Hundred Years. born to them, each one ef whom he pro¬ vided with a marriage portion. Tills Houses with an authentic record of over statement is discredited, however, by a century are no longer common in Phila¬ the lact that the person who reports it did delphia, and these are being sacrificed to not knew that the Shippen in question convenience or expediency, without the was not a brother-in-law of Benedict least sentiment of reverence for the past. Arnold. One of the oldest taverns extant, the “White Bear,” on the southwest corner of It is a very curious fact, brought out Fifth and Race Streets, is now being reno¬ by the death ot Miss Eliza De Haas, that Iso little should he known of the family vated. Its most distinctive feature, the (antecedents of a woman whose father marble portico over the Fifth Street was the son of a Revolutionary General entrance, has been removed, as it was and whose mother was a Shippen. I believed to be unsafe. have spent considerable time looking up There can be no doubt about the antiquity the military record oi the General alter of the house. On the east front is a spout Ills promotion; but apart from the beef box under the eaves, which is of copper, incident of which I spoke the other day and thereon in raised letters, as firm and II have not found one single fact that sharp as if made yesterday, are the letters, would show that he was in active ser¬ “Il.M,” and below is the head of Washing¬ vice. General De Haas died in Piiila- delphia, June 3, 1786, but the Packet ton in relief,and on either side the numbers made no mention ot his death. Accord¬ 1786. ing to a letter of Major Williams, of There were no directories of Philadelphia De Haas’ regiment, Lieutenant De Haas previous to White & MacPherson’s.in 1785, was carried on the rolls and drew pay, and none from that until 1791, none in although he was a boy at school and too 1792, 1812-15-26-27 or ’31. Up to 1S30 young to serve. But, whatever may Henry Meyers is given as the proprietor of have been the military backwardness oi the tavern Fifth and Race Streets, and he was undoubtedly ihe builder in 1786,but so the elder De Haas, he-certainly under¬ far, as the writer can learn, it was not the stood how to caro for No. 1 and he died “White Bear” previous to 1840. possessed of a large estate, part of In old times there were extensive stables which, a large tract of land in Buffalo attached to the present house, extending valley, Union county, and a tract con¬ south to Cresson Street and weBt to Hoff¬ taining 809 acres on Bald Eagle Creek man's, now Clyde Alley. Henry Meyers, half a mile below the mouth ol Beech the landlord was a Democrat, and this was Creek, was in recompense for his ser- one of the favorite meeting-places of the i vices in the French and Indian war. To party in the city ward, and it was also the Beech Creed -estate De Haas added headqusrtes of the shoemaking craft, who many acres by the purchase of the were united in those days for social and allotments of other officers convivial purposes. Meyers was for a loug _ time president of the influential order,“The According to Mr. Linn, John Philip Friendly Society of St. Tammany.” JJe Haas, the younger, removed with The antiquity of any of our old inns is Ins iamily to Bald Eagle Creek in 1S0G attested, in popular belief, by two circum¬ His iamily consisted of John P. De stances. Either General Washington had Haas, Eleanor, married to Thomas. slept in them just before the Battle of Stevenson; William, Harriet, Edward Trenton, or a treasure was dug up in the I recently deceased in Curtin township’ (yard, with the accompaniment of slow Centre county; Ann, married to Joshua music and a ghost always in white. No Roan, and Eliza, all now deceased They such stories embellish the record of the j went with coach and horses,Eliza,'who is “Bear,” but it has its legend nevertheless. jjust deceased, being then only 3 months The late Isaac Travilla,who died in 1852, old. Varying fortune reduced the (told the writer in all sincerity that he was iamily in circumstances, and the two present at a meeting of the “Friendly daughters, Harriet aud Eliza, found a Society,” at Meyers in 1826; the members home in the iamily of J. Matlock were seated around the table, when sud- jdenly the lights went out, each man was .^izetl by tbe neck and a glutinous nandj passed over his face. So quickly was this done to each one,that none bad a chance to resent it. Then the lights were lit again,; and low, in the center of the table stood a huge roll of tripe, lied up with twine, asi was the old custom for the eating house1 bars. The members swabbed out their eyes, i and in high indignation arose, while thei president seized the beastly comestible and hurled it out the window. After much wiping and swearing they were again seated. In an instant the pre-i vious performance was repeated. Hastily, the candles were again lit, and—“Great! Ceesar”—in the middle of the table was the1' HISTORIC MARKS TO GO. diabolical roll of tripe. The president! was a man of reserve and he at once Fameflflstrnctfures will'' Give Way to secured the demon by sitting on it. the Mint Building. The late Edward D. Ingraham, an emi¬ The establishment of the new Mint nent local historian, has told the sequel. on the site selected by the Commission A committee was at once appointed and will wipe out of existence many old the following resolutions adopted : — buildings wherein years ago some of the Resolved, That the attempt of the Whigs city’s most prominent lawyers lived and aDd Aristocrats, with their British allies, had their offices. The new building will the foes of liberty, to degrade the character be the only modern structure, with- the of American Freemen by wiping their single exception of: the Central News noses with tripe ha* failed and sustained Company’s building, facing upon Wash¬ by the spirit of ’76 we solemnly pledge ington Square, all the other buildings ourselves to, etc., etc.” Ingraham,although a bitter Democrat, was much given to ridi¬ on all sides haying stood through the cule the enthusiasm of his associates and storms of half a century. These old was accustomed to exhibit a big roll of houses are closely associated with the wash leather as the dessicated remains lives of many of the most illustrious of the tripe in question. citizens of the present century, includ¬ The shoemakers met here at least four ing Colonel John W. Forney, Judges times a year and as many of them were Campbell, Hare, Thayer, Jones and Por¬ Irishmen there was lots of fun. A barrel ter, Lawyers W. S. Price, Constant of Jamaica punch was made and, according Guillou, Lucas Hirst and many others, to one authority,so strong that it had to be who were born and passed the greater stirred with a crowbar, as it bent all the portion of their lives there. spoons in the house. When the fun became Years ago, however, these old resi¬ fast and furious it was their custom to dents began to move their household take members who had not paid their goods to more fashionable localities, al¬ dues or were unpopular and duck them though those who were of the legal headforemost in the punch barrel. Gotlieb profession continued to carry on their Scherer, who lived on Sixth, above Market, business at the old stands. There still and was a noted maker of top boots, gen¬ remains in the square one lawyer who erally presided at these meetings. He was has clung to the neighborhood through¬ famous for his appetite and admitted that out the gradual exodus. William S. he was always hungry. j On one occasion he had invited severa|l Price still resides and has his law office friends to eat roast pig with him at the at No. 633 Walnut street. This build¬ “Bear.” He was present and waiting ing, which Mr. Price bought and re¬ when a violent storm came on and thb modeled 30 years ago, is the most guests were delayed. Ten—fifteen minutes modern of all the buildings on the block passed and Sherer could stand it no longer^ which will be demolished to make way so he ordered up the dinner. for the Mint. “Where’s the company?” asked the ONLY ONE OLD TIMES LEFT. waiter. “I am der gompanee,” said the hungry Mr. Price, his wife, son and daughter shoemaker as he threw himself on the pig have occupied the house for 30 years. and by the time the guests came nothing Before Mr. Price came into possession was left to eat. of the property it had been occupied by After the death of Henry Meyers the Judge Thayer, who lived there many place began to decline, as it was out of the years. In the house next door, No. 631. way of business, and in 1860 came into the .Tames Bayard, another able lawyer, had management of Madam Bugthal. She was his office and residence years ago. Law¬ a German woman of fine presence aDd yer Lucas Hirst made his home and variously accomplished. She was of a good transacted his business for more than family in Germany, but better fitted to two decades at No. 629. Samuel H. spend money than make it. tier table was Perkins and Samuel C. Perkins* and excellent and attracted much custom. their ancestors, occupied the houses Wheu the Centennial year arrived Nos. 625 and 627 for years. No, 62o “Madam” sent circulars to Germany had previously been occupied by Judge introducing the hotel among her connec¬ , Judge of the District Court, tions there. The result was not pro¬ pitious. They came in battalions with and Mayor of the city in 1849. Hosea big appetites and very little money J. Levis, when he was president^ of the and for months the place was infested Schuylkill Bank, lived at No. 627. with “Fursts,” “Herzogs” and “Ritter- In 1842 Judge W. A. Porter took up b3us.” The Madam was at first immensely his residence at No. 623. His son, flattered and by the end of the year W. Porter, who still has an office in the ruined. She subsequently died poor. building, was born in the room in which| Many will remember her as, seated under he now carries on his law business. the portico, a huge Newfoundland dog The three properties. Nos. 617, on either side, she gave audience to her and 621, were for many years occup patron*. sfcr&SSfW#

BEHIND the SCENES. ; 2l I.U.nlnsf, '■ Life I. All a Bod of Ilo.rV —”1 W’U HUB Uet?l. <-''»i|ritu „„ U It* tw York Commercial Adve ■■■■ ...'■•> anti for offices by members of tb .bullion family, Griffith* Evans occu¬ a the public, what a tad vocation f- pied So. 635 and the hon.se No. 037, on Across the Atlantic One Hundred! ■ Hi- corner of Seventh, was for many (Year# Ago—Traits of Early I Jears n famous French rCBtaurnnf noted ■ for the excellence of its winos and its Pennsylvanians. wmzmgk ■ cnnvns-baclc ducks. John Moss bought r the properly early iu the 40's, whence’ M derived tho title of the Moss Man- I Sinn. e girl Pan.*t>ELPfttA. April 21.—Having to star! her loved ,1 home to play maid o nOKRVCOMBED WITH L\W orKICES. over a night at Philadelphia I looked with! i Sixth street, from Walnut to Sanson,' interest upon tliu changes iu that onco prim! vvns also full of lawyers' residences and city, whoro the Clunkers are said to bo playJ offices in the old day*. John L. New- ineout, Like other dissenting denomina-f e^e would cromblo. to ho emshed^h , , «r,d Henry Phillips livc.l there, and' bon* ther served tho purpose toward the' in Ihe house at the corner of Sixth and, UroMier ("llof Nansom streets Alderman Bnditer lived close of vho seventeenth century, when tba ! and had his office. Mr. Badger was an world was totting ready for the renaissance^ I Alderman of the old school, n man of of tho eighteenth century, on; of which wo’, fine presence and nn intelligent and in¬ live an

two small paned windows on the r ghtj these loyalists, many of whose descendants! , are still in the British service. It was rath-'; have broad sills, which have often been 8 er curious that Sir 'William Johnson, in! the resting place of the thimble of ;course of time, mixed his blood by marriagej Betsy Ross. At the rear /nd of the with that of Sir Hudson Lowe, the jailer, at room is a wide and high mantelpiece, s St. Helena, of Napoleon Bonaparte. perfectly preserved, its blue tile border being as bright as it ever was. The doors are hung on curious rectangular hinges. The flag was made under the From, supervision of Gen. Washington and Robert Morris. Under a resolution of congress Betsy Ross received £14 12s 2d iZUF.. for flags made for the fleet in the Dela¬ ware river. Afterward the contract to make all the government flags wagji Date. awarded to heiv_ ■

BETSY BOSS’ HOUSE.

Under Washington’s Supervision She Made the First American Flag. The house in which Betsy Ross made the first American flag still stands at 289 Arch street, Philadelphia, and the room in which the flag was made re¬ mains practically the same as when it was Betsy’s sewing-room. The bricks of which the house was constructed came across the sea is ballast in the hold of the ship Welcome. William Penn did not think it unworthy of himself to supervise its construction, and it was

Her Statue Stands to.Be Seen by, Thousands in Agricultural Building, World’s Fair.

It Is Not Chiseled Oat of Bronze Nor Mar¬ ble, But Is Modeled in Soap.

Its Erection Is Due to the Patriotism and Business Sagacity of a Well-j Known Philadelphia Manufacturer! and It Is Acknowledged to Be a Work of Art,

Special Correspondence of The Inquirer. I Chicago, July 7.—Of the maiiv buildings at the World’s Fair to which the visitor turns with interest and lin¬ WHERE THE FLAG WAS MADE. gers long alter he or she lias passed their portals is Agricultural Building. considered a pretentious dwelling in its Not only is this because, with the ex¬ time. The two windows of the second ception of the Administration Building, story, with their twenty small panes of it is the most magnificent structure on glass in each of them, are the same ones the grounds, with its classic architec-i ture, stately pavilions and spacious ro-l which were originally put in. The tunda, hut also because of the many, ground floor has been somewhat changed exhibits in the fields of art and industry1 in the front, as the present owner, Mrs. which are to be found on every Side. j Amelia Mund, has her tobacco counter To those exhibits there li*s now been there, and the usual show window has added one which lias already attracted replaced the onesfof former days. much attention and which 1b likely be¬ But the little room in the rear an.l the fore the fair is oyer to draw to it every upper rooms are unchanged. The little visitor, whether they be patriotic citi¬ room has a floor of heavy oak boards, zens or merely levers of what is beauti¬ nailed down with hand-made nails. The ful and original. •v . 77

THE DREYDOPPEL MONUMENT OF SOAP AT THE WORLD’S FAIR. ___1_^min**** p The name of Mrs. Betsy Ross, of PATRIOTISM AND ENTERPRISE. Philadelphia, like that of many others Thanks, however, to one public spir¬ who played their part in helping to ited citizen, the name of Betsy Ross is shape the future tff the young Republic, now likely to be a household word in has never been blazoned on the temple the mouths of the American people. No of lame. It may be questioned if, out¬ sculptor ever chiseled her statue and side of Philadelphia, where she lived only a few of her pictures were ever and died, there are many people except printed. Mr. William Dreydoppel, of students of history who could tell what Philadelphia, determined that a statue she did that her name should be of her should be erected and that too, I remembered, and yet whenever the in a place in which it could be seen by I Stars and Stripes are seen waving in the millions; and so, in the northeast corner breeze the fluttering folds should call up of the gallery of the Agricultural Build¬ to recollection the bravo and patriotic ing there stands the woman as she was woman whose deft and patient fingers when she sat in her Philadelphia plied the needle and wrought the first home and wrought the flag which has flag that told to the world the birth of ever since been the emblem of freedom. liberty. It i3 true that in this Colum- Mr. Crosby, of that city, a direct de¬ I bian year there was in connection with scendant of Mrs. Ross, had an old the celebration of the anniversary of the daguerreotype which was believed to be adoption of the American flag a recog¬ a lalthful likeness of bis ancestor, and it nition of Betsy Rose’ services, but this wis handed over to Mr. Charles Weiss- was chiefly confined to Philadelphia, gerber, a well-known artist, who had and the people of the country at large been selected to make the statue. did not become aroused to the import- Neither marble nor bronze was de¬ i ance of her work. cided upon as the material to be used by the sculptor, but pure Dreydoppel soap, i J originality of the design, all tending to sonified material which has readily make it widely admired. Mr. W lllislin out its»lt to the sculptor’s chisel, and I. Buchanan, chief of the Department ot has shown Itself to be possessed of more Agriculture, who has taken great in¬ lasting qualitiesthan would *t tirst have terest in the statue since its erection, re¬ been believed. The artist did the most grets that it was not placed in a Pro'"1' of his work in Philadelphia, and after nent position on the hist floor, and he had completed the various sections of would have it, moved now were it not the statue, they were brought to this for the labor that would bo involved in city and put together in the pavilion taking the sections apart and putting where the statue now stands. them together again. It bas demonstrated that the material will re¬ A WORK OF ABT. tain its shape until the close ot the fair, The artist has represented Betsy and numerous inquiries have already , Boss sitting in an old-fashioned, high- been made as to iho likelihood of the backed arm chair sewing the American statue being placed on exhibition m flag, with a stool by her side on which Eastern cities after that time. It has she has evidently sketched the design. not, however, been decided whether, Her scissors hang from her right side, while the folds of the flag fall grace¬ such disposition will be niade ot tbej fully from her hands over the pedestal. statue. The expression of the face is serious and • A SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS MAN. <*entle.* The wavy hair is parted in the Mr. William Dreydoppel, to whom the centre and smoothed down in the old public are indebted for this beautiful fashion on either side ot the forehead exhibit, is one ot the most prominent! and then fastened in a knot at the business men of Philadelphia. He was back. Tho head is adorned with a lace born in the little city otNeuwied on the cap, and the dress is in the style worn Rhine on April 1, just 60 years ago. by colonial dames, the sleeves falling1 That same day of tho year, only a num¬ just below the elbow. ber of years earlier, is famous as being The statue rests upon a pedestal in the the birthday of Bismarck, between form of a five-pointed star, the points whom and Mr. Dreydoppel there is a representing the star of the American strong resemblance in leatuies. Ihe flag, which was the suggestion of Mrs. merchant’s early education was obtaineu Ross when the proposed design tor the among the Moraviaus, and to that tact flag was being 4*>nsideroa. The circular are doubtless due his thorough business plinth which surmounts the pedestal methods and the success which has at¬ bears the words “The Birth of Our Na¬ tended all bis enterprises. tion’s Flag.” In the recesses of the Mr. Dreydoppel landed in this coun- pedestals are five wreaths, on four of try on October 16, I860. At the break¬ which are inscribed the years of the ing out of the civil war he enlisted in principal wars of the country, li/6, 1812, the Eighth New York Volunteers, and 1846 and 1861, while the filth has a fac¬ after three years’ service re-enlisted in simile of the old Liberty Bell. At the Hancock’s Qorps.and served there until foot of each point of the pedestal is a the close of the war.sothathe now holds cannon ball, the base of the pedestal be-1 two honorable discharges ing composed of thlrtosn stabs of soap, In 1867 Mr. Drevdoppel started in bus¬ each bearing the name of one of the] iness in a small way, on Fifth street, thirteen original States. above Race, Philadelphia, and by The height of the statue, including the sagacitv, industry, good judgment and pedestal, is sixteen leet, and the weight integrity has succeeded in building up five tons. The cost was over §6000 one of the most successful At the corners of the booth in which manufacturing enterprises in the city is work of art stands are the diplomas of Philadelphia or the fctate of Pennsyl¬ hieh were awarded to the Dreydoppel vania. Large shipments of ins soap ,ap at the Centennial and Pans Expo¬ have been made to Europe, and he has; tions. They are under glass and are a steady trade all over South America. I closed in tasteful frames also made0 Not contented with this he is constantly ie soap. A canopy ot red, white and evolving new and practical ideas, and lue bunting overtops the statue, and at] has entered into a huge advertising ie torn corners ot the booth there are scheme which involves the free distiibu- >ur white posts festooned with red, tion of 1,000,000 Illustrated hand-books) -liite and blue ribbons, Bach post being of tho W or Id’s IT Air* urmounted by a banner in the national olors, with the words “Dreydoppel oan” in gilt letters. The various sections of the statue rrived at Agricultural Building on tpril 10, and irotn that time until May Uie artist was busy fitting .together he many blocks ot soap which go to nake up the statue and its adjuncts. 3efore the opening of the fa^ tho artist aimed the exhibit oyer complete to Mn Date William Dreydoppel, Jr., who has.UHn ’ -.17 , r 'harge, and when many other exhibits were unopened or the work of MILITARY RENAISSANCE. ing good, unfinished the statue of Betsy^Rosa loomeci up> a beautiiul and strikingly picturesque figure. Since5that time it has been been a THOUGHTS OF OTHER DAYS- constant attraction to visitors from all States and countries, the romantic stoiy BITS OF ROMANCE. connected with it, and the beauty andj ful but granffTnTts proportions, spread¬ Stories of Field, March, Bivouac, ing as it does oyer the entire period of- Prison Fen and Death—How the history of our land, while vet a col¬ Brave Men Fought and Bled ony, in the throes of War for Independ¬ ence aud a Republic. for their Country. Ours is not the province to write a full history of this organization, of its partic¬ Tii© First Troop, Philadelphia City ipation in battle, adventures in bivouac, honors conferred as escort, and many Cavalry. other relations it has sustained to the ' • NOVEMBER 17, 1774. American people, as that requires the proportions ofa full book, all of which Associated witli the First Brigade, N. can be found upon printed page by those G. of Pa., and with it encamped here ■a bo so desire. Suffice it to say then, now, is‘-The First Troop, Philadelphia that Abraham Markoe was the first Cap¬ ■Citv Cavalry,” at present commanded tain, and served with it during the Rev¬ by Capt. E. Burd Grubb, late Brigadier olution at Trenton, Princeton an 1 other General of artillery in the army ot the peaces', it is a well defined fact in the .Rebellion, , ... . history of our National flag that Captain As may be noted by the heading of Markoe presented the Troop with a stan- these lines, the Troop’s organization dard’in 1775 that had thirteen bars. This dates back, to 1774, wheu, on the 17th of Standard is carefully preserved, arid un¬ November, in Philadelphia, twenty- doubtedly was tbe origin oi Hie idea oi eight; gentlemen met, who represented “stripes” in tbe flag li 'ally adopted. the ‘’respectability and wealth of the 'During the Revolm ion 'he Troop con¬ city,” and formed a company of cavalry, tinued in active service- until January tradition having it that the meeting 23d, 1777. when it received aeompliment- took place in Carpenter’s Hall. ary'discharge from the commander-in I It was in that year that the people of chief, General Washington, tbe original the American colonies first selected del¬ now forminga part of its valued arch¬ egates to a Congress held in our me¬ ives. Individual members of.this com¬ tropolis, charged'with the duty of at least mand, however, volunteered and per¬ protesting against the aggressiveness of formed good service, a part of which I Iho Mother Country as regarded taxa¬ was in Chester county upon the fateful tion,and other pregnant matters. This field of Brandywine. While Washing- j [Congress adjourned about the end of ton’s army was at Valley Forge (Decern- ■ October, and the next month the citi¬ her 18, 1777, to June 19, 1778) these zens of Philadelphia appointed a Com Troopers were divided into small de¬ uiittee of Correspondence, charged to tachments and sent to various points, devise “the most efficient means of re- and used to keep up communication ; sisting the aggressive acts of the British 'with tbe army and the Government, Ministry, and to carry into effect the then at York, and the Committee of non-importation resolutions of the lately Safety, at Lancaster, so that the ground' adjourned Congress.” y.f the present encampment was passed - ■ffhethen three milliou inhabitants of over by those warriors in the times that I this country were, all in a state of fever¬ Hied men’s souls, A portion of the ish excitement, and the very air seemed Troop was with Lafayette at Barren itremulous with the coming of porten- tious events. Upon a fringe of land on Hill. May, 1778. , , . . . After the evacuation of Philadelphia I the sea coast, extending from the South¬ by Tjbrd Howe,'June 18, 1778, on the 14th ern confines of Georgia, to the Northern¬ of July all the members of the Troop,re¬ most shore of , these peo¬ united for tbefirst time in many months, ple were strung out. The great, blank, and shortly afterward were ordered to unexplored breadth ot the American Dhesler to escort Monsieur Guard, Plen¬ Continent lay behind them practically a ipotentiary from France to the Colonies, sealed world, the undisputed home of to Philadelphia, where ho was received the Indian, wild beast and fowl, while by Congress; and so it continued to do in front was the Atlantic ocean, which, good service in one capacity or another with its trackless waters, afforded Eng- until the surrender of Cornwallis in laud, then mistress of the seas, and October, 1781, when on the 3d of the fol¬ mighty in war and in the councils of lowing mnntli the eighteen German and the nations, unlimited privileges to six English regimental colors then cap- sweep down upon our scattered settle¬ iured were seut to Philadelphia, placed ments for the purpose of coercion or de¬ in charge of the Troop,aud by it, amid vastation. itbe greatest enthusiasm, laid at the feel The story of the reckless daring of a of Congress, then re-assembled. On the mere haodrul.of Colonists aspiring to be ;15tb of September, 1787, the Troop (en¬ : free from British shackles, at such a tered a complimentary dinner to George I lime and under such circumstances, has OEVashington at the City Tavern, Second been a thousand times commented upon istreet, above Walnut, Philadelphia. |without exhausting it, or detracting YVhile the bill "of fare of that entertain¬ from it a particle of its glory aDd fresh- ment is not given, the following hill of uess; so that when we to-day say to the the caterer will be interesting to our readers of the Messkngek that amid reade-s, particularly in drinkingsenses such pregnant scenes as were transpir¬ Lugfat Troop of Horse, ing in 1774, and which led on and up to September the 14th, 1787 the actual Revolution of 1776- 82, “Th.e To Edwd Moyston Dr First City Troop of Philadelphia” was To 55/Gentlemen’s Dinners A [organized, and that it has been organ¬ fruit Relishes Olives &c 20. 12.6 ized and ready at any moment to re¬ 54' Bottles of Madera 20. 5. 0 spond to tbe call of its country from 60 of Claret ditto,..,,... 21. 0. 0 [lbat day to this, we know that we build 8 ditto ofOld Slock.3. 6. 8 •about it a halo of glory, not only beauti¬ “22 ffottfcVof Porter iiUoT g of. Cyder ditto.. 12 ditto B*-er.. .. From, 7 Large Bowis of Punch.,. Sugars Spertnaey Candles , Decanters fine Glass & Tumblers Broken Ac...... "To 16 Musician & Servant din¬ ners...... 16 Bottles of Claret.. Date, 6 ditto Madera. 1. 17. 7 Bowis of Punch...... 2, 16.

£89. 4.2

It is to be presumed from the above that the entertainment was not a dry one. During the the Troop was The Victim Was the Wife of Cap-’; in service, and active in defense of the country, being highly complimented by tain James H. Jamison. Tee connnander-in chief tor duties performed. It served with dis ti notion donug the riots in Phi ade phia, 1844, and at other times and places, CAPTAIN OF LINCOLN’S BODY-GUARD; when emergencies demanded a reliable ( uody. Ad interim it acted as escort to Presidents, distinguished foreign guests, j Generals, Admirals apd other Mignitar- Man and Wife Were Natives of ieSr having always the post of honor as ibecometh its ancient rights and pnvi Pennsylvania.

^irflSSl, when the war for gthe Dnioni broke out, it promptly enlisted in the THE STORY OFTHEIR HOME LIFE threeimontbs’ service,, and at the «xPlr. lion of that 1 ertn was-mustered out. Tbirtv-seven'uf the. eighty-three mem¬ Captain Jamison Was Visiting Friends bers of the Troop out in the emergency,! and Relatives In His Native State returne 1 to the army, mostly as officers in the cavalry arm, as their previous When He Received Word That His training eminently fitted them for such Wife Had Been Fonll.v Murdered and

positions. The history oi the war for| His Home Destroyed—Supposed to Be this Republic is the history of _ The f'irst'City Troop,” written m blood, the Worlc of a Neighbor—Robbery the faithfulness andself abnegation. Probable Motive. The roster of mb' Troop, including dfftcera and tn^ti^npjm i's organization to 1874, ibe year its centennial aoni- A special telegram in The Times yesterday, voraaiy* V?- 854, morning told the story of the brutal murder; The Troop has an elegant new Arm¬ of Mrs. James H. Jamison and the burning ory on Twenty-first street, substantial and permanent, the corner stone of of her home at Lake Como, Putnam county, which was laid July 4, 1874. It was Florida. It was ascertained yesterday that built and occupied on the centennial Mrs. Jamison was the wife of Captain James anniversary of the organization, Novem¬ H. Jamison, who recently visited Philadel¬ ber 17, the occasion being a gala one, in phia and was a native of the State. Captain which the First Division National Jamison has many friends in Pennsylvania Guard of Pennsylvania, under General and throughout the North, who know andj Provost, participated, admire the courageous, whole-souled, and; As in the beginning, so has it been ever since, and is now, that the member¬ quaint character, who for two years prior to1 ship of the Troop has been dis tinguished the close of the civil war was in close con- for its “wealth and respectability; aud ta ct with Abraham Lincoln as the captain of while an individual member may be his body-guard. worth a million dollars, yet he is amen¬ The advices from Florida would indicate able to the strictest military duty, and that the crime was perpetrated by a neighbor not only so, but performs it with admir¬ of Captain Jamison’s, a Kentuckian named able fidelity. The conduct of this com¬ pany here in camp will be a frmttui Brentand ; that robbery was the motive, and study for civilians in attendance. that the home was burned after the robbery The present roster of officers ia as fol¬ and murder in order to conceal the evidences lows : . of the crime. General E. Burd Grubb, Captain. Captain Jamison was in Philadelphia visit¬ J. Laps ley Wilson, First Lieutenant. ing friends and relatives about two weeks J. Edward Carpenter, Second Lieuten¬ ago. He had just returned from a trip to the ant. World’s Fair and while here was the guest of ’ C. E. Kelley, Cornet, Prof. J. William While. Surgeon, City Treasurer McCreary and his nephew, Ringgold W. Lard nor, First Sergeant, Dr. J. W. Kurtte, of 1615 Vine street, and his Hugh Craig. Jr., Quartermaster. son by his first wife. Bush E. Jamison, ot the 81

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Public Ledger staff, whose home is at Holmes, “TThtii the wilderness bloomed into a garden. Delaware county. Pa., and in The Times VERY PROUD OP HIS WIFE. gave some interesting reminiscences of his re¬ 11 You must come and see me at my home,” lations with Lincoln. he said. “You will love my wife; every¬

BOTH PENNSYLVANIANS. one does. She is a little wee bit of a woman, not bigger than a pint of cider, but I tell you Captain Jamison was born on the. historic that saying about', heaps of wit being tied ground where the battle of Gettysburg was up in small packages ’ is true in her case. afterwards fought, his boyhood’s home serv¬ “ You should see her flower garden.” he ing as a rebel field hospital during the battle. continued, addressing the newspaper man’s | Mrs. Jamison, who was so cruelly murdered wife. “Just think of it. you Northerners! Saturday night, was Miss Amanda Myers be¬ She has two acres set out in flowers. You fore her marriage, and lived witl^her parents don’t have such flower gardens up here. at Hanover, Pa. She was married to Cap¬ Oranges? Why, more oranges than you ever tain Jamison about eighteen years ago. With saw in your life. You know that is what I her husband she resided at the home in am now—an orange farmer. Florida where she was killed, for seventeen “Then we’ve a pet alligator,” he continued (years. She used to come North to visit rela¬ with a twinkle in his eye. “Now don’t you tives nearly every summer. Tli is year it write this up and say that we harness him to was Captain Jamison’s turn to make the trip, a boat and take rides around Lake Como, be¬ ] and he left the farm in charge of his wife. cause we don’t. But there really is one par¬ He was visiting his wife’s sister in Hanover ticular alligator which we call our pet and when the news of the tragedy reached him, sometimes feed, and which never goes away and left at once for Florida, and probably from the shore of our farm. Talking about reached his home last night. riding, we do have what you folks up here Both Captain and Mrs. Jamison were great would call peculiar driving stock. For in¬ favorites with their neighbors and did not stance, when we want to go to church we know that they had an enemy among the hitch up a young steer and away we go as whites in their locality. Captain Jamison , happy as you please. Here’s a picture of the spoke while here of some ill-feeling that ex¬ family just as we were starting for church isted between himself and a former negro 'one Sunday. The little woman is my wife. employe whom he had discharged for inso¬ Sbe has dark hair and eyes, add if anyone lence just before leaving, but only spoke of thinks she isn’t the smartest and most cour¬ it incidentally and as a matter of no moment. ageous little woman in Florida they are sadly \ If ever a man loved his home and his wife mistaken. it is Captain Jamison. While spending a day “Even if we are growing old, my wife and at the home of a newspaper man during his I are just like two school children in love. recent stay in Philadelphia he dwelt in his Did I tell you about the mocking-bird I conversation almost exclusively upon the de¬ bought for my wife, and how it was drowned lights of life at his beautiful home on the and the verses I wrote about it ? No ? Why HQ shores of Lake Como, Florida. He told how ever since then my neighbors call me the he went there seventeen years ago, when it ‘Poet of Lake. Como,’ and my wife, dear was a heavily timbered and unbroken wilder¬ little woman, she cannot read them without ness and, with his beloved wife, labored on prying.__

.4 LAKE COMO’S LAUREATE. tary Stanton’s orders almost the captain’s “ It was this way. One day my wife and I drove down to Palatka. I wanted to sur¬ prisoner. The story of Captain Jamison’s command, prise her with a present, so I bought her two which acted as body-guard to Abraham Lin¬ mocking-birds, a male and a female. I didn’t coln, was told in The Times of August 29. want her to know it until we reached home, It was a picked body of men, chosen by Gov¬ so I slipped them in on top of some sweet ernor Tod, of Ohio, one man being selected potatoes in a sack and tied it up. The roads ^ from each county in that Stato. Jamison had previously done noble service at Shiloh and were rough, and when we were part way was acting at the time of the formation of the home the sack jolted about and the female body-guard as aide to Governor Tod. He was! bird was killed. Of course I didn’t know it made second lieutenant of the guard and at the time, hut the poorbird’s mate (lid, ana ] shortly afterwards, owing to the court-martial; all the rest of the way home he sang and sang and dismissal of the captain and first lieuten¬ —oh! so beautifully and pathetically. And ant, succeeded to the command. He acted my wife, she sat there in the wagon and kept under the direction of Secretary of War Stan¬ turning this way and that and wondering ton, who was determined that President Lin¬ where that mocking bird could be and why coln should be protected against assassins in it was following,us. When we reached home spite of his desire to go abroad at any and all I opened the sack and there was one of the times without a guard. poor birds dead and its mate standing over its While President Lincoln never liked the dead body with its feathers all rumpled up idea of a body guard and had the company ready to defend its dead wife, and singing assigned to other duties just two weeks prior and scolding with all its might and main, to his assassination, it is evident from the without showing the least iota of fear. My stories told by Captain Jamison that the wife fell in love with the plucky singer at President took a decided liking to the quaint once, and so did I. We both always liked little man who commanded his protectors, i pets. Why. once we had seven dogs at one On his carriage and horseback rides about! time. Well, oue day my wife and I were Washington the President always found Cap¬ away and the cat tumbled the bird’s tain Jamison at his side and the Union Light cage down, the door fell open, and the bird Guard in attendance. This whether he got away. How it happened I don’t know, would or not. .hut in some way the bird, whose wings had been clipped, tell into the lake and was FULL OF LINCOLN’S STORIES. drowned. An Indian 'who loafed about the Captain Jamison’s retentive memory has neighborhood found tjae body, and recogniz¬ treasured almost every word and incident ing it by the clipped wings, and knowing how of that memorable companionship, and his! my wife loved it, brought it to us. Well, my wife cried over it and I felt like doing so, and mind is a perfect mine of Lincoln remi¬ then we buried it with high honors. Then I niscences. He can repeat President Lincoln’s wrote the following poetry, which you news¬ characteristic stories in the same droll, dry- paper folks will probably laugh at, and ever wav for which the President was noted. since I have been Como’s laureate: During Captain Jamison’s stay here he showed his friends many mementoes of the Lines on the Death of Jly Dear Wife’s Lincoln family, including letters signed by Pet Mocltlng Bird. President Lincoln, Mrs. Lincoln and their Poor little birdie, once loved, now lost. son Robert; the dress coat in which Lincoln On the breast of tbe waves of Como tossed. was inaugurated for his first term, and many] Gently borne to our loving hands, other interesting relics. He made a trip to' By tbe gentle ripple o’er golden sands. Washington and visited the old scenes there, Happy he Is, and nappy he’ll be, and met manjt old friends. Under the shade of the magnolia tree, Men all over the North who held positions Where soft and sweet the wild zepnyrs blow in Washington during the war, as well as On the beautiful shore of Laire Como. men prominent in the anti-slavery movement, hold Captain Jamison in high esteem and! Plant no flowers on his tiny grave. will hear with heartfelt sympathy of his ter¬ Over his head the magnolias wave, Gently the blossoms will fall like the rain. rible bereavement. While still in our sorrow we cherish the pain. The cut represents Captain Jamison, with Refrain. his wife seated on his right, m the family jaunting car preparatory to attending church Sweetest of music will greet our ear, on Sunday. The home that was burned is in Time our sad hearts will gently cheer, the background. But never again shall his thrilling voice, With its dear loved accents our souls rejoice. | Refrain. Ah! if we all could from sorrows fly, On the gentle breast of the wave to die When the mate that we love goes out of our life, And leaves ns alone ’mid earth’s sorrow and strife. Refrain.

WORSHIPED LINCOLN’S MEMORY. Besides his home and his wife Captain Jamison had hut one favorite theme for con¬ versation, and that was his vivid recollec¬ tions of President Lincoln. So close had been his association with the martyr President An important historic find was made the that he almost seemed to have absorbed into other day among some old iron in the yard of his own individuality many of the quaint Joseph Reiley’a residence, at Main and Lever¬ and lovable traits of the noble character who ing streets, consisting of the seal that formerly during the close of war times was by Secre¬ belonged to the borough of Manayunk and which was affixed to all official documents. It had lain in the yard for a number of years, and supposed to have been among a lot of old iron Maxwell Rowland wa? a niau who was at Mr. Reiley had purchased at a public sale. greatly honored when living, and deeply Upon its face is a representation of a loom, regretted and most kindly remembered beside which stands a female weaver. Around when dead. The several branches of the the outer edge of the circle are the words: numerous Rowland family living in this Borough of Manayunk,” while surrounding neighborhood seemed to look to him as the loom in an inner circle are the words • the head of the family, as he was also of “Incorporated June 11, 1840.” the shovel works manufacturing firm What a valuable acquisition this would be to founded by his father in 1829. the antiquarian curiosities in the possession of M r. Rowland was a man of decided the Pennsylvania Historical Society, convictions, of great force of character j The incorporated borough existed from the and of fine executive ability. He seem¬ date given until the act of consolidation went into effect, in 1854. So far as is known, but ed to be naturally a leader of men and one of the old borough officers is now living, without effort on his part, exercised a Rx-Councilman John Bowker,. powerful and beneficial influence in the community. His sunny and genial temperament endeared him to a host of friends, and “once a friend always a friend” with him. He was the first From, *777 Noble Grand of Mystic Lodge, No. 270, I. O. O. F., and always took an active interest in its affairs, aiding to make it the great factor for good in the commu¬ nity, which it proved to be, and still is, and we hope may long continue to be. Date, ZJjCTZy r / fT93 He wrote a history of the Lodge at the -y time of its twenty-fifth anniversary, which was printed. BATTLE OF GERMANTOWN. Its Anniversary and a Glance at the Past.

It was on the 4th day of October, 1777, that the battle of Germantown was fought. On Wednesday, therefore, the 116th anni¬ versary of that important event occurred. Washington, at the commencement of the campaign in that year, had little more than 7000 men under bis command. On the 11th of September was fought the battle of Brandywine, and, after an obstinate engage ment, the Americans were defeated with the loss of 300 killed and 600 wounded. The British loss, according to their own statement, was less than 100 killed and 400 wounded. General Howe entered Philadel-. phia on the 26th of September and made an attack on Germantown on the 4th of Octo¬ ber. Washington’s army was repulsed with the loss of 200 killed, 600 wounded and 400 prisoners. The British loss was 100 killed and 500 wounded. It was a disastrous re¬ verse, but Washington’s plaus were satis¬ factory to Congress and his army was ap- nlamled for the bravery it dnnhrrid mm

From, y^~-C h ZL / Z. MAXWELL ROWLAND.

Mr. Rowland was born August 14, . /tjZer^-7-... Ph..:. 1822, in Harford county, Maryland, and’ died at Holmesburg in June 1882. He $ was interred at Cedar Hill Cemetery. He Date, , 7' ./.!£&*■■ was brought up in Holmesburg and edu¬ cated in the public schools, principally r~ the Lower Dublin Academy, of which HOLMESBURC, he was afterward a trustee. He was one of the founders of the Fraukford and Holmesburg Railroad Company, and served as a Director and Treasurer of A Week’s Happenings inill Hie Burg that corporation. He was also a direc¬ tor of the Seventh National Bank of Philadelphia, a school director of the I wartV and a director of the Inde¬ pendent Mutual Insurance Company, of Philadelphia and Bucks counties. He was a trustee of the Baptist Chuoch, and [of the Athenaeum Association. In 1876 he was elected to represent the 23d ward in Select Council, and served faithfully and afily for three years. He was for many years the efficient superintendent of the Baptist Sunday school. His eld¬ est son, William Rowland, Jr., was his ■successor in the manufacturing firm, and in many of the offices held by him, such :as trustee of the church, the Lower1 Dublin Academy and the Athenaeum Association, director of the Insurance Company and Auditor and Treasurer of the Railroad Company; also in the School Directorship. His second living son, Jonathan Rowland, Jr., is also a trustee of the Lower Dublin Academy and was a Director of the Railroad Company untillthe corporation was merged with the Pennsylyania Railroad Company. T/he portrait given herewith was en-j graved from a picture in Rev. S. S. jxitchkin’s book on The Bristol Pike,” Where a sketch of the Rowland lamily m ay be found._ . — I ■ ’

THE HISTORIC SPOT TO BE PRESERVED FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS.

property, and stating that the failure toi After many long years of neglect ami I act would cause unceasing regret for misuse the famous Penn I reaty ground an irreparable loss. A. resolution was up in Kensington will at last on October be dedicated and opened to be used consequently adopted appropriating al as a public park forever more. Al¬ sum of money to effect the purchase, though it is exceedingly fortunate tor but after the matter had gone thus far I the present, as well as the future gen¬ the County Commissioners assumed that! eration of Philadelphians that, this they had no right to purchase or sell ground has at last been purchased by real estate, so the Legislature was ap-1 the city, and thus protected from dese¬ pealed to to pas's an act empowering cration, it, at the same time, seems very them to make the purchase, but nothing! curious that Councils have waited until was effected and the money was absorb¬ this late day to take the action which ed in the expenditures of the succeeding! they have at last done in the matter. fiscal year. The project lay in abeyance) It was not until about a year ago that until 1852, when it was revived and a both branches of Councils authorized the survey made, upon a petition by thei condemnation and purchase of this prop¬ Board of Commissioners of the district) erty at a cost not to exceed SS.j,OUO. | of Kensington to the Quarter Sessions, j The park Is situated north of Han¬ A jury was appointed to assess dam¬ over street, between Beach street and ages, the Historical Society approved the , and has an area of the action of the Legislature and ex-j a little over two acres. It was not long pressed a hope that the Commissioners! after Councils secured the property tliatl might be induced to take early action,) work was commenced upon reclaiming it. I but the whole matter seems to have, For vears the ground had been neg¬ rested there. The committee who made lected' and uncared for, a portion of the) the report certainly; used every argument) time being occupied by a lumber yard, which should have weight, as even the, but recently simply a vacant lot. following brief extract would show: It must not he thought, however, that So far as the expression of public no effort previous to the present suc¬ opinion has been enlisted the indications cessful one has ever been made to ac¬ are strongly in favor for the purchase of quire this historic property, as, as long this ground. The record of Penn’s ago as 1848 a report was published by treaty or conference is a singular feature the County Board recommending, in in the early history of Pennsylvania, strong language, the acquisition of this mi paralleled in the annals of any other PENN TREATY PARK, looking n j Commonwealth, and the spot where the?--- .simple, touching drama was performed [generations of men. AVho can visit the n.s the Quaker and the Indians should 1 cradle of that, event, both a text for long ago have been made one of the chief jthe moralist and a theme for the stat.es- attractions of Philadelphia. The specta¬ jtnan, without feeling the charm of the tor, whether a tourist from abroad or a historian's wand and having Its sleeping citizen belonging in our midst, is iu memories awakened. either case shocked and mortified at the In 1827 an association embodied for spectacle presented in its dilapidated commemoration of historical subjects connected with the history of Pennsyl- vania called the Penn Society was form- move this organization made was to obtain the right of placing a small marble monument on an inclos- ure ot ground on Beach street. Kensing¬ ton, _ near where the great treaty elm stood. I ms memorial was the first pub¬ lic monument erected in Philadelphia, and is therefore of double interest It !* nmrbLa b’°C'k °£ marbIe> P^Ced upon ,l m-ubie base about four feet high and in the shape of a truncated pyra¬ mid sloping from the base. When it was erected it was regarded as merely a temporary affair, as the society m-m posed at a later date to erect a'much larger monument, but they were “ev2 bletodo_ this,_and the little, memorla still remains. For years it stood friend- an abandonerf iUP°S the rag°ed ^ of n a an(*on

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VENN TREATY PARK, LOOKING NORTHWEST. 6V',r£r'S"ibed “ Mow: •' Treaty Ground i condition, anr^ turns away mourning the _ of indifference which, permits it so to re¬ WILLIAM PENH and the After speaking of the associations’ Indian natives, 1682 by « Lisit to Independence i Hall, the report continues: Unbroken Faith. On the south. So also with the visitor to Penn's treaty ground, where the founder nf WILLIAM PENS’ Bom 1644, ,, t Pied 171S. and protection, under the spreading elm On the east. J tree met the warrior red men in countiT Pennsylvania, and by deeds of peace established ti e Founded 1681 principles of tin policy which ban shed y. by „ Deeds of Peace. the sword and the scalping knife for two On the west. Placed bv the Penn Society, f- FINN’S TKEAIV THE INDIANS. _■ ' , A. D. 1827, I- mg influence that the policy then adopt¬ To Mark the Site ed had on the welfare of the colony; Of the Great Elm Tree. the record of faithfulness with which the, Anyone who visited the Penn Treaty promises then made were kept, honora¬ Park' a year ago and take the same trip ble alike both to the red man and tot to-day will be surprised at the transfor¬ the white; the prominence with which mation which has been wrought in the it stands out at the end of two cen- , interval. The ground has been cleared turies, as a precedent, that justice and I up and leveled in places and an iron rail¬ humanity are the most important fac¬ ing erected around the wharf, while as¬ tors on which to build a friendship with phalt walks and grass plots have been the natives, show it to be a monument laid out. An electric light tower, 54 more lasting than any made with hands feet in height is in operation, and a big to the wisdom and benevolence of those. 40 by 26-foot flag is flying gayly from a who conceived it, and one to which pole 140 feet in height. A large and every citizen of the Commonwealth graceful fountain, with two iron basins, should point with pride. the top basin supported by throe figures One of the best accounts we have of , and surmounted by another which holds the treaty is in a letter of Penn's, writ¬ the spray, in the centre of the park, will ten to the Free Society of Traders,! be ready for use within a few days. In dated August 16, 1683, in which he says, a short time a pavilion, about 40 feet referring to the Indians:__- * square and double-decked, will bo set up “When the purchase was agreed, great in the wharf extension, and 26 trees promises passed between us, of kindness j will be planted in various parts of the and good neighborhood, and that the; park. Indians and English must live in love Although the park has not yet been as long as the sun gave light: Which opened to the public, Superintendent done, another made a speech to the In¬ Merritt stated the other day that on dians. in the name of all the Sacha- many of the hot nights- last summer, makan, or Kings, first to tell them what between 800 and a thousand people were was done; next to charge and command gathered on the wharf and various parts them to love the Christians, and. par¬ of the park to enjoy the river breezes. ticularly live in peace with me and the The historic associations of this place people under my Government. That are as interesting as those of any spot many Governors had been in the river,[ in Philadelphia and they are certainly but that no Governor had come liixn-. the oldest, and it is an undeniable fact, self to live and stay here before; and that no event in Pennsylvania history having now such an one that had treated possesses more interest than Penn's j them well, they should never do him Treaty with the Indians. The far-reach-| or his any wrong. At every sentencei 87

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I LSt-a^t )7J t'rlfl in, /«“«• 16S3. until the earlv e"'!1.11'1 survived when it was h]nwn‘ i of. t lIS century, II in MaAdT lSlirat whi1,1“ !■ Kre?t ^ie determined bv th« • h time 3t was 3 that it wasat °f *l,is tree p! F% Ph« «.o Bri

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FOUNTAIN IN PENN TREATY PARK.

maxoieS °f the S1'eat 0lru at 8hacka- ! E- LESLIE GILLIAAIS.

Of the woodman’s n* hnS lu dan"er the British officers on , w®8 ’sayed «T historie associations. (*3"Vf lts who had command of the heiIIC°e, time ordered a sound’of V^s’ at °31« to uroteet it duH&ffih" “h “Idiera the Zee'was n'SjlZw “ad,® Under the most, important dver m-ideZvZ- °f And m. Irc>, ti„e ^ && KZTp’JffithTWB7

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MASTER STREET ABOVE SECOXD. ' well into the ’50s, when lie was suc¬ ceeded by James H. McBride. The Harrison School owed its popular¬ ity to the fact that between 1840 and .1SG0, and, in fact, for some years after, it was the leading school of the suburbs and upper portion of the city. Kensington and adjoining sections were inhabited by an industrious, hard-work¬ ing, progressive class of English, Irish and Scotch families, who were thorough¬ Date, JLk.CA. Sf'fiS ly imbued with the necessities of secur¬ .. ing the best possible education for their childien, and it is from this section that a large part of the stamina, talent and A MATROX OB REVORUTIuN. force^of the city has since been drawn. |With the consolidation of the city in Arm West (Alricks) Lowrey. 1SJ4 and its subsequent division into wards, resulting in the ultimate laying Ann West, daughter of Francis West, out of educational sections to correspond senior, was born about the year 1730, at with the wards, the sphere of the Harri¬ Clover Hill, Sligo, Ireland. Her father son School became gradually narrowed came to Pennsylvania when she was a until for years previous to its abandon¬ ment it had drawn its pupils merely few months old, and settled in Philadel¬ from the comparatively limited area of phia, where the daughter received a fair the Seventeenth ward. education. Upon the organization of Workmen will soon begin tearing Cumberland county Mr. West was ap¬ S down the old building, and before an¬ pointed one of the first justices, an official other twelve-month has pased away its position he held until his death about historic site will be occupied by more 1770. In the year 17S5, Ann West became modern structures. the wife of Hermanus Alricks, and they had four sons and a daughter. Mr. Al¬ ricks died Dec. 14, 1772, in Carlisle. The ■ tiring the contest, she year alter his widow married in collecting charitable contri Lowrev of ’.Donegal, who probably had be

j Running parallel with Second street off Coombes’ alley is Chancery lane. Good, old ;gossipy John F. Watson, the annalist of Philadelphia, asserts that the original name of this street was Chancellor’s lane, and it was so called because a certain Captain Will¬ iam Chancellor, a noted sailmaker. lived there. Captain Chancellor was a great friend* of Sir William Keith, one of the early Gov¬ ernors, remaining loyal to him to the last, I even going so far as to see him off from New, j Castle when Sir William hastily sailed away j from our shores to England. Captain Chan-' cellor lived in a good, big house at the south- I east corner of Chancery lane and Arch street. I Many of the old houses in Chancery lame

ELFRETH STREET, LOOKING,EAST aave been rural in its appearance, with is one of the most valuable contributions to pretty gardens in front of the houses. local history that has ever been printed. At Passing through Chancery lane to Arch one time Drinker’s court was known as Clif¬ street and crossing over that thoroughfare ton’s alloy and it is said that the fiTSt street Gilliams’ court is to be encountered. The lamp erected in Philadelphia was set up in place has long since become no thoroughfare, this street before the house of Mr. Clifton, a being protected from the street by an iron largo two-story brick dwelling situated at the railing. It is now private property and used southeast corner of the alley. The Marquis by the oil warehouse immediately to the de Talleyrand when he first arrived in Phila¬ west for the storing of goods. Few people, delphia in the month of February, 1794, chose indeed, are familiar with the history of this the house at the southeast corner of Drinker’s old courtway, and know that at its extreme alley for his residence. This dwelling has end still stands, in a dilapidated condition, since been pulled down. the first hall of the Academy of Natural Sci- Running off Front street, just south of cnees. Drinker’s alley, is Elfreth street. The houses This hall was erected in 1815. It was first along this thoroughfare preserve a more un¬ occupied by the infant society in April of broken line of antiquity than those along that year. It was erected at the expense of other of the old courts in the neighborhood. , Jacob Gilliams, who was one of the founders There is hardly a modern innovation along i of the society, and who owned all the prop¬ this whole square in length. erty along Gilliams’ court. The architect of Running from No. 821 Arch street is Lox-1 this building was William Strickland, the ley’s court, named after Benjamin Loxley, most prominent designer of that period. The who at one time resided at the corner of this halTis built of brick, three stories in height, street. He was by trade a well-to-do carpen¬ and contains one good-sized room on the first ter. Loxley’s court was not cut through floor. , „ until 1751, when Loxley purchased the prop¬ The second and third floors were used lor erty. Mr. Loxley was the owner of a very the society’s cabinet of natural history, remarkable frame building, situated at the library and lecture room, and the ground corner of Little Duck and Second streets. floor for laboratory purposes. At the period AcrossPthe front of this house was a large bal¬ of its erection there were several dwellings cony, sustained by the wails of the room be¬ lining either side of Gilliams’ court, which low, and above this balcony the roof contin¬ wore occupied by tbe leading faruilies of this ued from the main portion of the house and city, as at that period the neigh oorhood was was sustained by very large carved cantaliv- an extremely fashionable one. At the corner ers. Thu3 protected from sun and rain, and of the court, uow No. 221 Arch street, resided commanding a good view of the street, the Mr. Gilliams’ father, Louis, who has the balcony made an excellent rostrum. Watson proud distinction of haying been the first says that W Pit field, on his first visit to Phila¬ dentist in Philadelphia. delphia, preached from the balcony of this After the old hall was vacated by the Acad¬ house to a large congregation assembled on emy of Natural Sciences it was occupied for a the street below. Loxley’s house is also cele¬ short time as an educational institution for brated as having been at the time of the Revo¬ young ladies, and in the fifties it was used a3 lution the home of Lydia Darrah. 1 a place of worship by a peculiar sect known Members of tbe Methodist Church should as Feet-Washers. As the social status ot the take a particular interest in Loxley’s court i neighborhood gradually declined, and the from the fact that the first regular meetings westward exodus commenced, fasnionable of this society were held in a pot house in people residing in Gilliams’ court and vicin¬ this court. ity departed. Thus by slow degrees ulie old court was shorn of its former glory and gradu¬ ally deteriorated until it became useless tor any other purpose than that to which it is put to-day.

Drinker’s court, or alley, is another old- time thoroughfare still existing which bears a name that was once famous. This alley runs west from 140 North Front street. It was named after Edward Drinker, who was born as long ago as the 24th of December, 1680. | Drinker had the reputation ot being a very much married man, as ho had four wives and eighteen children. It is said that at one time in his life he sat down at his own table with fourteen children, and not long before a Hidden old cemetery _i---- his death he heard of the birth of af ‘ child to one of his grandchildren, the fifth in succession to himself. It may also be said of ON THE SITE OF THE BOURSE. him that he was a spirit in politics and a Whig during the Revolution. One greatest amusements was to make kites out It Will Be Paved Over and Twenty-live of the King’s proclamations for the use ol his Interred Bodies Will Be Under the great-grandchildren. He lived to a great age. In this connection an anecdote is re¬ Feet of the Passers-by. lated that when Dr. Franklin was ^ Eng¬ land he was asked to what age people lived in this country. He replied that he could [special fob taggabts’ times.] not tell till Drinker died. Most Philadelphians who have been in the habit of passing along Fifth street, north of Descendants of Edward Drinker still reside in Philadelphia, and the diary of Mrs. Eliza¬ Chestnut, will remember the high brick wall beth Drinker, which was published a few that ran along the east side of Fifth street for years ago, giving interesting facts regarding about twenty-five feet and formed a sort of i Philadelphia about tho Revolutionary period connecting link between the entrance to the Fifth Street Market and the buildings of the | Girard estate on the south, and many passers- by have known that behind that brick wall I safe keeping, but the writT there has stood for about 150 years the old burial place of the ancient society of “Seventh ’ SorTthe0 work0oef demoUt- °ld yai'd’ Day Baptists.” I beryYmfroSfTt *** ^ The little old cemetery is now apparently thing of the past. The substantial brick wall has been torn down and the burial place, tiaThistoYv £Uthh 1S a somewhat obscured Sr- with its twenty-five interred bodies, of ssusMAtre « * Seventh Day Baptists is covered with old lu Memorium. ■ ■ bricks and rubbish and forms part of the •Erected * * • * a T> icoo * . Cambe.Und.Ea.t ,* , ; ruinous 6cene incident to clearing away the Kichard Sparks, » * * * * * * buildings on the site of the new Philadelphia Bourse. Besides the rubbish, the only thing that marks the site of the ancient little cemetery is a small tree that grew there, and which, half-covered with old bricks, has not yet been removed. It is a matter well known to local anti- feet of the north end of this stone * * * * quarians that the old burial place was to re- In memory of Elizabeth West „„ a mam there in perpetuity, and that the bodies widow of William West * *’ * * ag®d interred there could never be removed, at departed this life, A. D 1773 * , *'h° least not for the period of 999 years, dating Memorium of Jano * * fi-om the year 1820, on which date Stephen tor of James and Barbfry Xml’ dan#h* Girard purchased a large plot of ground along merly of the city of Cumberland East’ New the line of Fifth, above Chestnut, from the Jersey, who died A. D„ 1772 ? * * r l Seventh Day Baptists on a lease for 999 years and it was stipulated by the terms of the lease * * *•'. that until its expiration the old graveyard In memorium i <**<**»*,»„ Jemain iutect and not be built upon, whowas **»**», f f and that no person should ever have control over the little bit of land except the legitimate successors of the Society of the Seventh DayBap- posed to be an ancestor of the Snarl™ ’fS SliP’ wn,3’ W'uth wb?m the original lease was executed. of Sparks note Tt ?Ha?S fa!nily> When the projectors of the Fifth Street Market purchased their site from the Girard estate it fron th« httleKraveyard, but they werecou- h t6rms of the lonS lease, aud T™ a°} build the market house lor many years past the old burial ground « over it as the dead bodies could not be re¬ has oeen visited aunuallv hv a 2 £round moved to dig a foundation, and hence the mar- b°,nse People had to leave the burial ground mu W a on®> aa Such is the old Germantown Mennonite desire to make and hold money are still Meeting House, within whose whitened walls generation after generation of wor¬ to prevail—that we can never live with¬ shipers have listened to the truths of Script¬ out harsh government and without 1 ure as expounded by the followers of Simon great distinctions of wealth. Many be¬ Menno. The humble structure as it stands lieve that these things will be the ulti¬ by the wayside is in itself a living monument to those early German pioneers who came to mate condition of humanity. But that these shores over two centuries ago to enjoy was not the condition of the Mennonites, religious liberty, and who by their thrift, who numbered many thousands. Let I honesty and piety, proved themselves worthy to be ranked among the most valuable us all hope that this great nation shall | pioneers of Provincial Pennsylvania. ultimately be one family, accepting one May the venerable structure remain where government of love and mutual interest. I* it stands for years to come, a cherished me¬ mento of the olden time. Unless that be the case all our creeds in Julius F. Sachse. Christianity become worse than noth ; M - . ' M ing. If, after all these years of a belief j in Christianity, we are to be no more; than a warring and unhappy people we 1 should give up all privileges of worship 1 and enter into a great struggle in which '.C&i ua.u the fittest shall survive. We are now, I believe, going through one of the last j Date, {/■■■{ struggles of power, when men whose desire to make money is the chief ob¬ ject of their lives will see how little imJ portance it is to them personally. Men! MENNOMTE CHURCH who to-day are in the midst of all! this misery could be living in the midst of plenty if Christianity cot Id become a; A Movement to Save the Historic Old part of our daily life. I believe these; Structure From Decay. Mennonites who built this house were| right, and. the results of their work will) become apparent, not in a century from AN ANTE REVOLUTION AKY RELIC now, but very soon. “This meeting brings before me inter¬ The Sanctuary of the Oldest Con¬ esting associations My ancestor, Jacob Keyser, was a member of the committee gregation in America of That Pecu¬ who built this church, and I wou’dj liar Sect of Christians Known as the rather that he left me the part he had inj Followers of Menno Simon—Promi¬ this house than all the wealth of the nent Citizens Plead for the Preserva¬ Astors.” tion of the Historic Walls—The Sum Mr, Keyser closed with an earnest appeal for contributions to the fund for of One Thousand. Dollars Needed, j saving the church from decay. . _ I I .

_CHURCH AND ODD KEYSER HOMESTEAD. Dr. Peter Dirck Keyser, of Philadel¬ so act to-night that these walls may be phia, said the question of the preserva¬ preserved as a monument of religious tion of the church was not a religious one but rather an historical one. It :liberty. In this utilitarian age, when was not the mere improvement of the |we live too much for the present, we building, “but,” said the speaker, “the | are apt to lose sight of the past. Let us saving of this monument of religious see that these walls are perpetuated, liberty to this country. William Penn, that our children may be stimulated by when making preparation for what we the example of those who have gone be¬ call Quakerism, went to Holland, the fore. Let us inculcate in the lives o home of the Mennonites, and there people the practical truths of Chris worked it all out. He worked from the tianity.” Dutch ideas of civil and religious liberty. j The Rev. D. M. Pfautz, pastor of the “I am sorry that we have not more of church, stated that from $Soo to $1000 other denominations here this evening. was needed to make the improvements I am not a member of this church, but jin contemplation, including a new back we are all worshiping one godhead. building, the repairing and repapering f That feeling engendered in Penn should j of the old building, a vestibule in front,/ be carried out this evening.” new carpets, and the introduction of fl Dr. Keyser said that the citizens of water into the building. Pennsylvania who revered the old State Daniel K. Cassel gave some interest. Y House on acccount of it being a mon¬ ing facts concerning the Mennonites. Y ument of civil liberty, should hold in and Adrian Van Helden gave an histori¬ reverence and look upon the old Men- cal sketch of the descendants of MennoB nonite Church as a monument of relig¬ Simon and his religious work. ious liberty, and take pride in keeping it William Kite, librarian of the Friends’ * in proper repair. Free Library, said that the first protest “You hear,” said Dr. Keyser, “that against slavery, in the handwriting of ' in Boston the people are raising funds Pastorius, was hanging in the Friends’ j: for Panueil Hall, but when it comes to Library, “and,” said Mr. Kite, “weI religious monuments I think that this would be happy to have any of you to church will staijd above almost any come and see the handwriting of Pas-j1 we have in this country.” torius as it has been preserved for 200 : | The Rev. Chas. H. Arndt, assistant years.” Speaking of the unity of the ". rector of Christ P. H. Church, said : “I Friends and the Mennonites, he said am more or less a stranger in German¬ there was very little difference between town, but I learned of this old church the two sects. before I came here. I revere it, for in this room sprang the movement that Several letters, which were accom¬ established the church of which I have panied by subscriptions, were read by the honor of being one of the rectors. Secretary Bryant, and after subscription blanks had been passed around the “Words are cheap, indeed, but let us meeting adjourned. Contributions may ' be sent to the Rev. D. M. Pfautz, Bristol street, and Daniel K. Cassel, 4333 [ house was built, as they appear on the! Main street, Nicetown. records: Jacob Keyser, Sen., and Mar¬ SOME INTERESTING HISTORICAL facts. garet his wife, William Rittenhouse, For many years the old Mennonite , Sen., Nicholas Rittenhouse, -and Sarah Church has been regarded as one of the his wife, Susanna Nice, grany, Catharine ' most interesting of Germantown’s his¬ Rife, Mary Stoneburner, Ana Heisler, [ torical buildings. It was in German¬ grany, Barbara Bergmann, Margaret! town that the first Mennonites settled, Smith, William Hendricks, and- having emigrated from Holland, at the his wife, Mary Penninghausen, Abraham I invitation of William Penn, in the year Rittenhouse, and Ann his wife, Jacob! 1683, and established their first church. Rittenhouse, carpenter, and Susanna[ Some of these early settlers drew lots his wife, Nicholas Johnson, and Ann | for the choice of land in the cave of his wife, Ann Houpt, Jacob Rittenhouse,! Pastorlus, which stood on the site of the paper maker, William Van Aiken, John1 present Channon house, Main street, a Rittenhouse, and Margaret his wife. couple of hundred feet above the pres¬ The present meeting house on Main ent Mennonite Church. Immediately street—-a little gable-ended structure,j after locating their land, they began to standing back from the street and in the : dig cellars and build their huts, where middle of a graveyard—was built in they spent the first winter, enduring .1770, as may be seen by an inscription many hardships and privations. The . on a marble slab in the front wall of the 1 history of the Mennonite Church in church. The Building Committee were America, it may be said, commenced John Keyser, Sr., Nicholas Rittenhouse, 'with the settlement of Germantown. Abraham Rittenhouse and Jacob Knorr ■^hese early Mennonites were a hardy, This committee was appointed by the thrifty and earnest set of pioneers, de¬ church on January 20, 1770, and the scendants from, that Christian sect from house was finished in the same year “at : the lower Rhine regions of Germany and a cost of ^202 5s., Pennsylvania cur¬ Holland, who for years had been pil¬ rency.” Twenty-five names were on grims going from place to place in the the list of membership at that time. hope of finding quiet and rest. Previous to 1843 the services were con¬ Eighty-three years after the arrival of ducted in German. The preachers were I the Mennonites in Germantown the not allowed pay for their services. No first public protest was made against member of the church was allowed to go * slavery. This protest is dated April 18, to law and none to join the army. No 1766, and is signed by Francis Daniel . one was permitted to take an oath, to ’ Pastorius, Gerrett Hendericks, Derick charge interest, or to marry outside of j Op den GraefF and Abram Op den the denomination. The church was! Graeff. Three of these signers, Hen¬ open once or twice monthly, the preach¬ dericks and the two Op den Graeffs, ers sometimes riding on horseback | were members of the Mennonite thirty or forty miles to fill the pulpit. Church, while Pastorius was a Pietist. The Revs. Funk, Minnick, Hellerman The Mennonites therefore were the first . and Biedler (since a Bishop) were among' to protest against slavery, as they found its early preachers. it in America, and to the Quakers belong In 1852 Beekman Potter, Esq., and the credit of having successfully carried John B. Campion secured the building the work further on, which Abraham Sunday afternoon to form an Episcopal j Lincoln finished when he issued the Sunday school, services being held in Emancipation Proclamation. the evenings. They started with seven-! The Mennonites first worshiped in teen scholars and six teachers. From private houses and under the shade of this little nucleus sprung the now flour-1 trees during the pleasant days of sum¬ ishing Sunday-school of Christ Church.! mer. Their first meeting house was The Second Presbyterian Church or¬ erected in 1708. It yas a log house, in ganized in the building and its members | keeping with those plain people. The worshiped there, as did also the Re-’ deed for the ground on which this formed Episcopal Church. modest church was built was delivered _ In the year 1865 the Rev. Frank Hun-1 in the year 1702. It contained three sicker, a Mennonite preacher, was called square perches. This log house was to the charge. He labored very success¬ erected on the site of the present meet¬ fully for two or three years, building up ing house. For many years the old log the church and Sunday-school. Personal church was used as a school house, and difficulties between members caused a Christopher Dock, a man of decided dissolution, and the attendance fell off to | literary attainments, was the teacher. almost nothing. The following are the names of Services were occasionly held, thel members in 1770, when the pulpit being filled by the Revs. Grubb, f ~Halderman, Hendricks, | appoTnte^pyhu^^urveyor General 0 f I J 1880 others. In the year the Rev. Wtn. Pennsylvania, but died on the voyage J McArthur, of Haines Street M. E. Church, over. Thomas Holme was theu appoint- ' at the request of the few remaining wor¬ ed to the office. Holme’s daughter shipers who still remained, filled the Esther was married to Crispin’s son pulpit for about two years. Silas, and from them Benjamin Crispin The Rev. John Minnick, one of the was descended in the fifth generation. old Mennonite preachers, used to come Mr. Crispin was in 1822 appointed an each Sunday from Dolly Dolly Corner, officer in the 3d Regt. Penna Militia, by near Shoemakertown, on horseback, his Governor Heister. In 1823 the same wife, Nanny, riding on behind. Preach¬ Governor appointed him a Juslice of the ers in his day did not require a coach Peace for By berry, Moreland, Lower and six. Dublin and Oxford townships, Philadel The old and stringent denominational phia county, called District No. 2. He rules are now disregarded. The mem¬ s 'tved in this office until 1837. bers believe in music, a salaried minis¬ try, and they are privileged to marry outside the denomination. It was from behind a wall which separated the burying ground from the street that the British General Agnew was fired upon while at the head of a column of his soldiers and mortally wounded during the Revolutionary war. The name of the perpetrator of the deed is carefully guarded to this day by the only person who knows the truth. Hans Boyer, a half-witted fellow of that day, claimed the credit of the deed, but it i< said to have not rightfully belonged tc him.

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...CS/s, HON. BENJAMIN CRISPIN. In 1828 he was appointed a Director! Date, /jyj of Public Schools by the Court of Quar- * ter Sessions of Philadelphia county. In ■ 1837 he was elected a member of thel Legislature and was re-elected in 18381 /FiOLMESBlIRC. and 1839. In 1840 he was elected to the! State Senate and in 1843 was elected I Speaker of the Senate. jA Week’s Happenings the Burg When the city was consolidated ini 1854 he was elected a* a ipember of Com¬ j fjfjr mon Council from the 23d ward, then - Benjamin CrispirfVas born in 3 792 on comprising much more territory than at i the farm situated on the Welsh road present. He was one of the most prom- I j now the residence of George T. Mills.’! inent members of Emmauuel church and • He died in 1864, and is buried in the served for many years as vestryman and warden. He was also President of the f burand H°f E"irnf';Uel clu,rclb Holmes- tmrg. He resided for many years a* the Holmesburg Athenaeum Association, and corner of Main and Mill VrSj. £T» a member of the building committee that - ancestors were Norman and English and constructed the town hall. He was \ the first one of whom we have knowledge elected a trustee of the Lower Dublin Academy (where he had received his ‘Knight* diui la,n CrlsP‘n- a Norman h-nigfit, distinguished as a warrior and education) in 1837, and served as Pres: j horseman atthe Norman Court. Another der.t of the Board of Trustees from 1838 ancestor also named William, fought to the time of his death, 26 years after- vvlt,h dwt.cCtl0n at the btl«leof Hastings pis son, B. Franklin Crispin, of Philadelphia, is now President of the iWilfiam CH?'the C°"querer- Al»othfr Cnspm was a captain in Crom- Trustees, and was also a vestryman,; fj | veils army, and received from him a Another son, William, now deceased, foifelted estate in Ireland. This Crispin was a vestryman and trustee. Three |was a cousin of William Penn.'and wls other sons, bilas, who was a graduate of West Point, and a Colonel oi Ordnance, \s XJ. S. ASJ Edward and The mas are also -jj lead. Charles H. Crispin lives in the j | city- ... . I Benjamin Crispin was a man of high [principle, of strict integrity, ot great) Leiser hud hauled the ,bell. .Great was decision of character and of sound judg- i J the consternation of the tribe of Leiser j meat. He filled most creditably all they when others calmly..and coolly proceed-1 honorable and responsible positions to; ] ed to smash this cherished tradition. which he was elected and appointed, and ■: The chain of relationship in this fam¬ was a!.- o, in private life, a most worthy | ily proceeds thus: Frederick Leiser own¬ and exemplary man. His wife, Maria I ed a large farm in Lynn. His daughter Foster, to whom he was married in 1816, was married to Daniel Folweiler.theson I survived him nearly eighteen years, and of a neighboring farmer. The children died at Hoimesburg in 1882 at the age of Daniel Folweiler and the daughter of of 86 years. Of this family, numerous I Frederick Leiser were Jesse, John, Dan¬ in this locality for so many generations, 1 iel and David Folweiler, Mrs. Henry none bearing the na'^e now live here.' B. Franklin Crispin’s daughter, Sarah | Creitz, Mrs. Hettie Kressly, Mrs. Mollie Frances, married to George S. Clark, re Lutz and Mrs. Mary Folk, of Ohio. sides on Decatur street, and William Of this offspring Mrs. Henry Creitz Crispin’s daughter, Catharine M., mar¬ w s the mother of the late Daniel Creitz ried to William Clark, resides on Main and also of Mrs. Win. Ziegler, of 114 street. Sentli Ninth Street, Allentown. Daniel! The above sketch we take from Sam¬ Creitz and Mrs.Zicgler were great-grand¬ uel C. Willitts’ “ History of the Lower children of Frederick Leiser, and Jesse | Dublin Academy,” &c- The accompany¬ Folweiler and his generation were grand- j ing portrait was engrayed from a picture children of the old patriot. in Rev. S. S. Hotchkin’s book, “The Frederick Leiser had a son, Jacob Lei-1 Bristol Pike,” tn which there is also an scr, who served in the war of 1812, and' Crispin’s life. also a daughter, who was married to a Key. Mr. Miller. The relationship is ex¬ plained so that all the facts may dovetail, and agree. John, Jesse, Daniel and David Fol¬ weiler and Mrs. Creitz were born and | reared on the old Leiser farm and died oil her there or on the farm adjoining. Learning that Mrs. Ziegler, who is a bright and energetic woman, had made a i tudy of the family history, a reporter | called upon her to-day for the story. | Said Mrs. Ziegler: “The members of our family were reared to the patriotic im- I pression that our great-grandfather had. A Graphic Account of the Tour of hauled the bell, and I verily believe he ! did. He died in 1810, aged about 80 the Proclaimer of Liberty. [years. To his daughter and son-in-law, ‘Daniel Folweiler, and to all of their children who wore living before lie died, A DESCENDANT TELLS ALL ABOUT IT he frequently asserted he had hauled the hell. My uncle, Jesse Folweiler, who died four years ago, used to tell us the Leaser’s Wagon and Four Morses story. lie often regretted that it had Chosen To Drag the Bell From not been recorded, saying he feared the! descendants would allow it to lapse into Philadelphia Hither==Grant of tradition after his generation had passed Land As a Reward. away. “But the children were careless and j never heeded his urgings. From Uncle 1 The effort to establish the truth of his¬ Jesse I got the following story: When tory in regard to the man that hauled Philadelphia was threatened by the the liberty bell is merrily progressing. British, a committee from the eontinen- 1 The house of Micfcley is calmly confident tal congress was instructed to save the) that it was none other than its ancestor.| bells by having them hauled away from ■ The house of Leiser is dead certain its the city. The committee made the progenitor performed the duty on which rounds of the tavern stables in search of the fate of the country hinged. a team. At one of these they noticed a ; The house of Leiser never dreamed large and heavy wagon, almost new, thebotmr was claimed by another family that seemed the best for their purpose, ! J and it w as chosen. They then looked for horses and chose a splendid team of four. The committee 'pave instructions that the owners of horses and wagon he summoned, when they discovered that the whole belonged to a loyal citizen from Lynn, named Frederick Leiser. The committee contracted with him to haul the liberty and Christ Church bells Date, ./ , . to a place of safety. “He started next morning and brought the bolls as far as Bethlehem, where the wagon broke down. Before it could be TOE COMM repaired others had taken the bells to Allentown and hidden them in Zion’s Reformed Church. Who took the bells f IIUL'EF I>£ HI, to Allentown from Bethlehem wc never knew. After Reiser’s wagon had become old and worn out it was placed in Fol- History of the Growth of the Church weiler’s barn and destroyed when the structure was burned several years ago. During- a Century. “The most important feature of the story has never been brought to light. As the consideration for hauling the A HEW IMPETUS TO THE WOEE, jells the gave to Frederick Leiser a grant for 160 acres of and at the junction of the Allegheny So mathirg- of the Career of Rev. Dr. tnd Monongahela Rivers, where Pitts¬ burg now stands. Leiser had as much Henry Berkov/iiz, Who Has and as he could cultivate in Lynn and Been Instilling Reform tever claimed the grant. He gave the iocuments for the property to hisson-in- into the Church. aw, the Rev. Mr. Miller. He, too, al- owed the matter to go by default and he papers, having passed out of our im- The congregation Rodef Shalom, which uediate family, aro lost to us.” worships in the handsome synagogue at That Leiser received the grant of 160 the southeast corner of Broad and Mt. Ver¬ ores for hauling the bell is testified to non Streets, is about a century old. The >y Arnandes Yoxtheinmer, of Ritters- first records of the congregation were de¬ ille. Mr. Yoxtheininer’s father was a stroyed years ago in a lire, but President oldier in the war of 1812 and served David Teller guards several documents with Jacob Leiser, son of Frederick showing marriage records and other mat¬ jeiscr. Mr. Yoxtheiumcr’s father often ters which bear the date of 1802. The aid that Jacob Leiser had built castles charter which the church now lias was u the air on a farm out west granted to granted July 15, 1812, under the title of is father for hauling the liberty hell |the Hebrew German Society Rodepf i-om Philadelphia to Bethlehem. But | Shalom. It is signed, by Governor Snyder aeob never took advantage of the op- -and Attorney General Jarett Ingeraoil and ortunity and the old man gave the William Tilghman, I. Yates and H. H. rant to his sister, when she was married Breckinridge, Judges of the Supreme j the Rev. Mr. Miller. f'ourt. rihe charter members were A, -Mrs. Ziegler yesterday received a let- Gumpert, Isaac Marks, Simon Kauffman, Alexander Benjamin, M. Spey ers, Michael ir from her cousin, John C. Folweiler, Levi,A. B. Cohen, Lyon Cadett,Lewis Allen f Wanamaker’s, which corroborated iand Meyer Reiman. The descendants of er recollections of this historical inci- some of these are still active workers in the [church. The society first worshiped in a little room on Pear Street and a few minuses of come of the meetings written in Germno are still extant. In 1820 the society moved to No. 1 Bread Street, where it took rooms, Abraham Hart was then one of the leading members. The record of t't'bbis is neeersarily incomplete owing to the burning of the documents at that time : However, it -is known that in 1828 Rev. Mr. Jacobs ruled over the spiritual welfare of the Hock. In 1825 Rev. Air.Wertheimer was the rabbi and he was succeeded in the following year by Rev. Jacob Lipmau, SYNAGOGUE OF THE CONGREGATION RODEF SHALOM. Rev. Moses Cohen was calTeinn 1857 and I £he only one in the UnTtecT^tales since then Rev. Mr. Rowe, Rev. Mr. has exactly followed this style in Uloway and Rev. Dr. Vidaver occupied detail. It is capable of seating 2000 tbe pulpit. In May,186b', the congregation pie. Galleries on each side odd both elected Rev. Dr. Morria .Jastrow as its the attractiveness and capacity of the a rabbi. He accepted tbe call and began his torium. The organ is said to be one work in September of the same year, con¬ largest in the State and cost $16 tinuing until last December, when be prac¬ was tbe first orgaD ever placed ovc tically retired, although he still holds the puloit in a synagogue, although that position of Emeritus. Rabbi. Re.v. Dr. bas been followed many times since Henry Beikovrit* succeeded him as rabbi pulpit occupied by tbe cantor is a and i* now actively engaged in the work. someiy carved one of wood er GROWTH OF THE CHURCH- memory of Mrs. R. Teller by her b During these years the congregation grew Tbe other pulpit was placed there too lafge for the little meeting rooms on pupils of tbe school. The chief thin beauty in the synagogue is the shrine Dread Street and moved first to larger of the pulpit, in which the scrolls o' rooms on York Avenue above Vine. Later law are kept. It is made of marble, o it hought the Unitarian Church edifice on and other such stones in the shape Juliana Street below Sixth. This, too, small mosque. It is surmounted by a . soon proved too small, and in 1870 the east in a single piece of solid brouxi present elegant structure at Broad and Mt. cost about $7000. The illuminated win Yernou Streets wns erected, it cost, with are also very handsome. They were nut i the property, $250,000. The building is Saracanie in architecture, and is said to be thf nm® Jhan 8Uch eJaS8 was not mY chasedDmtcnased I foia.8 a ma,nufacturer B0,they had j„ to be- represents the twelve. _„. . >v texts and the emblpTus next year, after preliminary preparation ribe. Jn the rear of tbe church are !he entered that coliege, receiving tbe ben* y- ‘lore for meetings. efit of his year at Cornell, and thus joined ;| boring the past Hummer the whole (the first class. It was an eight years’ interior of the church was renovated at a course and he was one of the four nien who cost of $10,000. Chairs have taken th graduated in the first class sent from thut . place of uncomfortable pews. Ac expen¬ institution. They were the first men edu¬ sive ventilating apparatus has been placed cated in America for the Hebrew ministry. in the ceiling and roof. New lighting has Key. Hr. Joseph Krauskopf, of Temple also been put in, together with carpets and Kenesctfi Israel, was a member of the same lan improved beating apparatus. The class and the two were bosom friends at college and the friendship was cemented by Dr. Krauskopf’s marriage to the sister • of Dr. Berkowitz. While he was stndying |at Hebrew Union College, Dr. Berkowitz was also taking a course at the University of Cincinnati, from which he graduated in 1882. Half a year before his graduation as * rabbi. he received a call to a church in Mobile, Ala. The place was kept open

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bu.in«8 meTaf' f!P®Cially for the ' ’begun! f *be sc°Bgre.?«tion, were Itev. Dr. Henry Berkowiiz. on NortheCtiMth4he ®hT? is a schoal . btreet, below Girard for him until he finished his eourse. His "'Connected"* w^th^th1 buildiDS 00st $40,000. work there covered a period of five years. J«"«b tbe. «?ngregatioa ia* ttoe During this period he did not neglect his studies but received a post graduate degree fosTer a lo "e for °^X0D’ Wbicb aim* t0 of D. D. from Hebrew Union College, for a paper on “Judaism on tbe Social Ques¬ tion, ’ the same that was read before the Parliament of (Religions under the title of “the voice of the mother of religions on the social question.” a choral society. Tbe Young Folks’ R«.ad While in Alabama be introduced the Ufcf terf%hrpT“Cie^*“"‘ed oRnet humane movement in that State and did * | clo Eov'ni C Chautauqua Library Cir- a large amount of lecturing and traveling AU’ i V ■ ‘ Befkow>tz has stirred a *1110 on behalf of the Jewish Charity of New I tbe airniff”/? °£ “ew’sb studios under; Orleans. it "looks gi twilit Ciauta«d!ia t;ircle, and He was called to Kansas City, Mo., m j resuif “« movement would 1888. He succeeded Kev. Dr. Krannkopf, S* Yoan J'pSl"?nt«C0?7e- In that c«sa there. Dr. Berkowitz remained at Kansas City for four years and a half. He organi¬ | Pioneer cifde kS S°Clety wil1 be tb« zed the Bureau of Charities in that city, ITS PRESENT PASTOR, and formed many societies to aid him in ■ Rev. Dr. Henry Bei^owitz, the rabbi of his church wort. He also found time for lecturing and organizng charitable work I March 18, 185,. THe received^ iD Pittsbabis prelimi--’* on in the country around Kansas City, ila beius the only rabbi in a large portion of the State. .1 from thetT High1 School.“ ttbat For ci *>a year in i«?to DR. BERKOWITZ COMES EAST. ne studied at .Cornell, but; cwi“* to 1“ financial panic we, unable to finish fat* | He was chosen to deliver the conference sermon before the Central Conference of course there. He tben took up the study of law ror several years in Pittsburg." HV American rabbis held in New York in .became interested in the movement to July, 1891. While he was East at that time (found Hebrew Union College which | he received an invitation from the Congre¬ estabjiihecl at Cincinnati in 1875. The gation Keneseth Israel to remain and assist I in ihe dedication of the new temple on t--,-,-.. „—' an-address on mid. next nay was waited pa. by.£a committee of the Congregation odef j51mlom,;wtio invited him'to become jbbi 04 *th$'fc eh-urcb. He accepted .iltlfoilftlo his congregation in the West tried to keep him there. Ministers of vari¬ ous denominations united its farewell de¬ monstration when he finally left. Since ids coining' to Rodef Shalom In December 1892, he has made several radical changes in the- church- -- rites,- - - in keeping with til© reformed movement. • Some of his congre¬ gation objected to these and to his future policy as outlined in a sermon on “True ami False Conservatism,” and they left, forming an independent organization under the name of Jeshuath Jsraei Con¬ gregation. The increased attendance at tire services and the interest taken iu the church work, however, show that a large proportion of the congregation look with favor on the change made. The members of the congregation took occasion to testify their appreciation of their rabbi’s work by surprising him on the tenth anniversary of his wedding last week, when they pre¬ sented him with several handsome gifts. Dr. Berltowitz is a member of thecomncittee REV. CHARLES W. BiCKl.EY, D. D. appointed by the conference to prepare a On Sep'ember 12,1853, a meeting was held at new Hebrew prayer-book and is now rite house of the Rev. T. K. Peterson, 1005 actively engaged in that work. Vine street, to devise ways and means for Tb* reader of the congregation is Rev. building a church, and on September 19 an William Lowenberg, who is also assistant organization was effected and the name Tab¬ superintendent of the school. ernacle Methodist Episcopal Church adopted. On September 30 the Presiding Eider ap¬ pointed the Rev. T. K. Peterson as Pastor of the organization, to serve until the following From,.<7^2.. Conference, and a charter was granted De- EeniberS, 1853. The first Board of Trustees! under the new charter was organized Decern-! ber 19, 1853, and at (he annual Conference of | . 1854 the Rev. Wrn. Major was appointed the! first Pastor of Tabernacle Church. The Buildingj Committee secured a desirable lot of ground on Eleventh street, above Jeffersou, and ou Date, isi&rr. fVfy.i the 10th of April, 1854, the construction of a temporary frame chapel was commenced on t he rear end of the lot facing Mervinc street; AFTER FORTY YEARS. the dedication took place on the 30th of ibe same month. On June 4th, 1851, the Sunday- school was reorganized and the P.ev. T. K. Peierson elected Superintendent, and on Sep¬ ANNIVERSARY OF THS TJlBERNauLe tember 11th the corner-stone of the new church edifice was laid with appropriate core- METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH. monies. The Rev. T. K. Peterson having re¬ signed the superinlendoney of the Sabbath school, W. P. Haffa was, on April Stli, 1855, Programme of (lie Exercises for the Forth¬ elected in his stead, and on the same coming Celebration—Historical Sketch of clay the Rev. Stephen Townsend, Sec¬ the Enterprise. ond Pastor of Tabernacle Church, preached his first sermon in the frame chapel. The Rev, Joshua H. Turner, having been ap¬ Historical Sketch. pointed as the third Pastor, preached his first As early as the year 1851 a number of Meth¬ sermon on April G, 1856. During this month odist friends who had moved to the north¬ Stephen Shepherd was elected Superintendent ern section of the city were gathered to¬ of ! lie Sunday school. About 10 o'clock on gether by the Rev. George Quigley, who, the evening of April 12, 1856, a terrific tornado forming them into a class, appointed Enoch swept over the northern part of the city, car¬ Evans leader. This was the nucleus of the rying away a part of the roof of the church. present church organization. On August 10, The damage was soon repaired, and the work 1831, Mr. Quigley preached to them for the on tlie building pushed on to completion. first, lime in a house belonging to Trinity Services were held for the first time July 27, Methodist Episcopal Church, on Eleventh i • 1856. in the lecture room of the new, church, street,near what was then known as Camae’s I which was formally dedicated October 26. Woods. Services were held at this place at I On the piercing cold night of January lStli, Intervals for more than a year, when, the! J8T7, Tabernacle Church took fire from a de-; property having been sold, the place of meet¬ feel in one of the flues, and in a short time ing was changed to a room in an unfinished nothing was left but the walls. On the 20th house on Jefferson street, below Eleventh. | of January, two days after the fire, a meeting Religious services were held at that place | was held to devise ways and means to rebuild until September, 1853, when a better and the churcli. ancl on February 19th the con¬ more eligible house, on Eleventh street, op¬ tract for rebuilding was made at a cost of posite where the present church stands, was 88900. On March 19th the Rev.T. K. Peterson secured. accepted the superintendency of the school for the second time, and filled the position ac- TABERNACLE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH. ceptably for seven years. On April Gtti that oFthe church in 1863. In 1S5T the work part of Uie front Wall of the church left stand- of demolishing the old frame church, which ins since the fire blew down, and on the 29th had been used for school purposes, was of November of that year the lecture room of commenced, and upon its site was erected the the church was furnished and dedicated. present two-story brick building, costing the I The Rev.-George Quigley, who succeeded the sum of 85863 98. On November 12, 1864, the Rev. Joshua H. Turner as Pastor, preached Rev. T. K. Peterson resigned the superin¬ Ills first sermon on April 4, 1858. The first tendency of the Sunday school, and was suc¬ leader’s meeting of Tabernacle Church was ceeded by E. M. Jones. In the spring of 1865 held April 23, 1858. The audience room of the the Rev. R. H. Pattlson, D. D., entered his church was completed and dedicated Novem¬ field of labor as Pastor of the church. Iu 1864 ber 14,.1858. The statistics of February 13, the school-house was sold to the city for 1859, show an attendance of 334 scholars at the J15,000, and with the amount thus realized Sunday school. In I860 the Rev. J. S. Willes the mortgage was paid off, besides the' floating became the fifth Pastor of Tabernacle Church. indebtedness of the church, leaving Taber¬ On January 19, 1861, an organization was nacle Church fret from debt1 (ground rent ex¬ formed known as the “Young Men’s Christian cepted). On February 10, 1867, the Juvenile j Association, of Tabernacle Methodist Episco- Missionary Society of Tabernacle Church was I pal Church. ” In the spring of 1862 the Rev. organized as an auxiliary to the Parent So¬ J. S. Willes was succeeded by the Rev. J. ciety of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. i Alien, and the Rev. Pennel Coombe Thomas Perrins was elected Superintendent 'entered upon his duties as Pastor of the Sunday school on May 26, 1837. In the spring-of 1SGS the Rev. T. C. Mnr-| appreciative congregations greet him morn¬ phey. D. D., was appointed to Tabernacle ing and evening. charge, and.durlug the early autumn of that! Mr. James Glliender followed Mr. Thomas year the Sunday-school room was renovated; Perrins as Superintendent of the Sunday and refitted. The Rev. S. H. C. .Smith suc¬ school, and he in turn was succeeded by Mr. ceeded the Rev. T. C. Murphey, in 1S71. as Thomas A. Harris. The present Superin¬ Pastor, and in the first year ot his adminis- tendent. is Mr. Gillender. trat’on the church underwent a thorough Tabernacle Church raised more money last renovation, at a cost of about $0030. In 1873 year for benevolence than in any year or its the membership of the church was somewhat histoo-. It gave away almost as much as weakened by a number withdrawing and the current expenses, and is the third on the connecting themselves with wlmt is now list of churches in contributions. The amount known as Park Avenue Church. In addition raised in the church and Sunday school for to this Grace Church drew heavily upon its missions was $1722 46; Methodist Hespital, membership. In 1874 tho Rev. A. Ritlenhonse, $1905; Women’s Home Missionary Society, D. D., was assigned by Conierence to Taber¬ $344 Co; Church Extension, $219 92;" the poor nacle Church, and to him the church is in¬ of the church, $218 59; Methodist Episcopal debted for the beautiful arrangement of the Home, $210 50; worn out preachers, $200; sus- lecture room. The first meeting , of the tentation, $140; Methodist Episcopal Orphan¬ Young People’s Association was held Sep¬ age, $120 50; ’Woman’s Foreign Missionary tember 11, 1874, and on October 1, 1875, the Society, S101 43; Freedmen’s Aid and first Board of Stewards was organized. Southern Educational Society, $83; Amer-i In 1876 the Rev. W. C. Robinson succeeded ican Bible Society, $73 80; education, $63; Dr. Rittenhouse as Pastor, and during his temperance, $50 50; Salvation Army,$26; Sun¬ ministry there the lecture room was remod¬ day School Union, $20; Children’s Fund, $18; eled and the audience room renovated at a Tract Society, $15; Conference commission, cost of about $0009. In the spring of 1877 t lie $10; home expenses, $8566 63. Juvenile Temperance Society was organized Tabernacle’s Pastors. in the school. The Pastors of the Tabernacle Church and The Rev. Andrew Longncre, D. D., was ap- , their terms of service are as follows: Rev. T. poinled Pastor in March, 1878, aud served for' Iv. Peterson, 1S53-1854; Rev. William Major, a full term of three years, preaching profitably I 1854-55; the Rev. Stephen Townsend, 1855-56• and acceptably to large congregations. The the Rev. Joshua H. Turner, 1856-58; the Rev.’ Rev. James Morrow, D. D., now Secretary of George Quigley, 1858-60; (he Rev. J. S. Wilies, The-Pennsylvania Bible Society, was appointed 1860-02; the Rev. J. Allen, 1862-63; the Rev. Pastor in March, 1881, and remained with the Penne! Coombe, 1S83-65; the Rev. R. H Pat- church a full-term of three years, serving it tison, D. D., 1865-68; the Rev. T.C. Murphey, and well. He organized the Band D. D., 1868-71; the Rev. S. H. C. Smith, 1871- of Hope, which successfully grew into the 74; the Rev. A. Rittenhouse, D. D., 1874-76- present \oung People’s Temperance Associa¬ the Rev. W. C. Robinson, 1876-78; the Rev.’ tion. a very flourishing organization. A. Longacre, D. D., 1878-81; the Rev. James The Rev. George K. Morris, D. D., now at Morrow, D. D., 1881-84; the Rev. George K. St. Paul’s Church, Cincinnati, was appointed Morris, D. D., 1884-87; the Rev. J. O. Wilson Pastor in March. 3884; his preaching was of a D. D., 1887-91. 'high order and attracted large congregations. The Sunday evening congregation and the ley Bickley, D. D., who was appointed in Young People’s Christian Union Services, March, 1891, was born in the Twenty-second held one hour previous to the regular service’ Ward of this city, and belongs to a family of were both doubled in attendance under his preachers. He was educated at Gwynedd pastorate. The latter service was, at a Academy and Dickinson College. The degree later period, put in charge of the Chris¬ of Doctor of Divinity was conferred on him tian Society, which organization absorbed during his first year at Tabernacle Church by the entire membership of the Young Men’s Moore’s Hill College, Indiana. He has served Christian Union. Dr. Morris paid particu- a number of the prominent Methodist larattenlion to the intellectual as well as the Churches of this city and in Harrisburg and spiritual training of the young people, and Reading, among others in this city being thereby won a large place in iheir affections. Nazareth (now* Thirteenth street), East During the last year of his administration Montgomery Avenue, St. Stephen’s, German- the plans were formulated and the move¬ J.own, and Wharton Street. He has been es¬ ment of extensively improving the church pecially successful ia conducting extensive was Inaugurated. The Sunday-school classes revivals, paying church debts,advancing were mustered into service and ra'sed $1800 towards the improvements. In the midst of benevolent collections and in unitlm^is-' this movement the time limit compelled a cordant elements. He is a great Sunday! o Cnnstian Endeavor worker, as change, and the work sc enthusiastically be¬ well as a fhitnlvil Pastor. gun under Dr. Morris in 1SS6 was continued and completed in 18S7 under his successor. Dr. Tabernacle Church is to-day in a prosperous! Wilson, the total umount expended be>n" ®m0were expended in imnrove-l $7200. ” ° “ts,aii(! beautifying the lecture room and church last year, and, for the first time The Rev. J. o. Wilson, D.D., now at Simp¬ m its history, the church is in the possession son Chuieh. Brooklyn, was appointed Pastor a fine parsonage, which was purchased last , in March, 1S87. During his pastorate the lime > ear at a cost of $9300. The total value of (he limit was extended to five years. He remained a«d parsonage is $50,000. The mem- with the church four years, during which time he preached to large congregations on the, clulrcil ^ "S, and there are in " popular topics. The improvements com- audVachl^- 500 SChOJars*with 32 pieted made the church very attractive, and the balance of the $7200 was raised. Shortly asfofloweSeT 1 Jj°,"d °f Trnstees is composed alter this the popular Christian Endeavor \ Wclsh' President; Frank A. Ding e, W i:ham Sadler, Richard Tull movement swept over the land and a soeieiv Treasurer; Marmaduke Bowker, John u' was organized in this church. The Ladies’ Harris rr°'ary :•Gillinder, Walter J. Aid Society was also formed during this ad-1 .trains, Clarence D. Antrim. ministration. file Rev. C. W. Bickley, D. D., the present Pastor, was appointed in March, 1891, and Is now in his third year of service. Large and I l^adjoinedtheemergencymenand \ wantednobusinesswhileanenemywas ■ por,andabovethegreat dinofcheers I ThenextgreateventtheUnionBell Ion oursoil. kinging oftheirbells,to the widepav [drill; goanddolikewise.”Business .street store-keepersclosedtheirstores 'men disappearedfromthestreets.They

knd bellsrang outtheUnionBell— f V [Bang! bang! bang !Victorywasassured each carriagetriedtooutring itsneigh- jment infrontoftheState House,where jthe alarm-Bang!bang1it carriages inthecitywith theirnoisy general alarm,itbrought allthehose [sent athrillfrommyfeettohead.I bang! saidtheUnionBill.A I hadheardthatbellbefore,whenitoc¬ this wasajoyfulsound.Bang!bang! sounded wasthecaptureofRichmond— (Strike theflour.Thetonesofbell and putsignsontheshutters,“Goneto said. a sound, butIwaswhentherebelsin¬ alarm in‘6i,forIwasnotwithinits [say, “Iwasoneofthechildrenwhore¬ vaded ourState,andbellsounded i andtheywillbeproudtoremember [memory asahappyeventoftheiryouth, lerty Bellwilllongremainintheir the past— brought backtomemyrecollectionof cupied theStateHouse,andit?voice I heardthebellintheirTownHall also hashistoricalassociations. that thereisanotherbellandit ord, Iwouldliketoremindourchildren erty Bellcannotbequestioned,but from theWorld’sFairin1893.” without reflectingonitshonorablerec¬ ceived thebellwhenitwasreturned in thereceptionceremoniesofLib- To theEditorofTheIndependent: Pennsylvania isinvaded.Chestnut I do.notknowwhetheritsoundedthe When visitingGermantownrecently The historicalassociationsofthelib¬ The parttakenbytheschoolchildren , Itsdirgeofmourning; Its rejoicingtoneofsuccess-’ Its gladsongUniontriumphant. Its startling-soundofalarm; Its HistoricalAssociations. [Columbia PublicSchool. Holmesburg. Ute position of SergeantandSecond vania Reserves. Hewaspromotedto ward Co.E, Third RegimentPennsyl¬ John Clark’svolunteercompany, after¬ 1861, asaprivatesoldier inCaptain by hisfather,andwaseducated atthe _City Point,Va.,onApril4.Hisparents up asafarmer,anoccupationfollowed 4, 1835,inFrankford.Hewasbrought were AmericansandhewasbornonJuly April 1,1865,anddiedinthehospitalat' ed atthebattleofFiveForks,Va.,onff of Holmesburg,whowasmortallywound¬ late BrevetColonelEdwinAtleeGlenn,; Sketch ofaBraveSoldiertheLale Frankford, November7th,/8gj. Union Bell?T.P.L- the war,and,aboveallconfusion,rang crying inexcessofjoyovertheend noises, menhuggingeachotherand in thevictoryofUnion—Bang!bang! silver bellsincessantly,whiletheUnion out theUnionBell. bang! Cheersandtears,abedlamof on thepavementandrangtheir sounded fromtheIndependenceHall. bang !ofthegeneralalarm Bell, fromthesteeple,sangitsrejoicing The hosecarriagesagaingathered the Unionsaved!bang was receivedtheUnionBellrangout pressive tollingofthebell. seemed nottobedisturbedbytheim the immortalLincolnwasborneaway.' seemed tomournwithusasthebodyof that reachedeveryheart.Thebell He joinedtheUnionArmy in~~MayH Men spokeinwhispers—1funeralquiet“ and theUnionBelltolledofasorrow rejoicing hadbeenturnedtomourning body layinIndependenceHall.Our Union BellwasonthedayLincoln’s Bate, /I.?.4 From,./ V We presentthisweekaportraitofthe Should notthisbellbecalledthe When thenewsofLee’ssurrender The nexthistoricalassociationofthe COl. EDWIN^rtEEGLENN. War. __ I chivalrous soldier of fiery courage and h| untiring energy, but also a man of con- > spicuous ability and sound jndgment. From the hour he became an officer he de- j voted all his leisure time to study, often applying himself to his books long after ; his comrades had turned in for the night. He thus acquired a vast fund of profes¬ sional knowledge which increased hys capability for usefulness. His private character was without a blemish. His superior officers spoke of him with the highest appreciation and regard, and those under his command were ardently devoted to him and would follow him anywhere. He had a sunny and genial disposition which endeared him to all, though he was the strictest kind of a dis¬ EDWIN ATLEE GLENN. ciplinarian. The soldiers knew, however, that his warm sympathy and earnest Lieutenant and served with the company interest were always with them and that until their three years’ term of service he subjected no one to greater severity of expired and they were mustered out. discipline than he imposed upon him¬ Soon afterward he accepted the position self. Col. Glenn was a born soldier and of Major of the 198th Regiment Pennsyl in that employment found a vocation vania Volunteers, organized by the Union most congenial to his ardent and cour-' League cf Philadelphia. This regiment agecus temperament. There is little j as well as the 3d Reserves did some hard doubt that had he survived the war he fighting and Mr. Glenn was always dis¬ would have been given a high rank in1 tinguished for his intrepidty which at the regular army, or, if being a soldier in times almost amounted to rashness. In time of peace had proyed too tame fori the last great battles of the war he com¬ him, he would have obtained from the|. manded the regiment and was twice pro¬ I votes of the people some office commen-j moted for gallantry on the field. At surate with his meritorious character and| Gravelly Run, on March 31, 1865. he led services. the command in a desperate charge, At all events, just previous to the time carrying the colors himself and capturing of bis death few young men had fairer the enemy’s works after a fierce resis¬ prospects of advancement than he. He tance. was a man of splendid physique, kept in On April 1, 1865, he was ordered by perfect condition by constant exercise Gen. Chamberlain to attack some in- and temperate habits. He >vas a most trenchments where a portion of the army loyal patriot and a firm Christian. His had already been repulsed with heavy parents were Swedenborgians, of which loss. Calling on his men to follow him, denomination he was also a devoted ad¬ which they did with prompt valor, Coi. herent. He was married early in life to Glenn led them through a murderous Miss Maria G. Hughes who with two fire and was himself the first man over daughters still survives. the' breastwork, which they captured. One of Col. Glenn’s brothers was the Just as he grasped the rebel standard he late B. F. Glenn, a well known real estate was shot in the abdomen and fell, hold¬ man of Philadelphia, and another is ing the flag in his hand. His loss was Harry kF. Glenn, a prominent business universally regretted in the army and at man of Berwick, Pa. He was also a home. He was buried with militaiy brother-in-law of B. Franklin Crispin, of honors at Cedar Hill Cemetery. In ap¬ West Philadelphia. preciation of his splendid military ser¬ A biographical notice of Col. Glenn vices the Union League of Philadelphia may he found in Bates’ “ Martial Deeds erected a handsome monnment to his of Pennsylvania,” and a further account memory. Mr. Glenn was not only a in “ Bates’ History of the Pennsylvania Committees_ to urge subscriptions were re¬ ceived, and it became obvious that the requi- Volunteers” Vol. V, under the head of I site funds would be raised. “ The 198th Regiment.” His services in Somewhat later in the same month a third the 3d Penns ylvania Reserve Regiment I meeting was held, at which certain resolu¬ tions were passed embodying the principles are a part of the history of that command, by which the Trust was to be governed The first of these established a Board of written by Col. E. M. Woodward. “ Trustees, whose direct successors we are. The second prescribed that the right to vote for such Trustees at an annual election to be held for the purpose was to be limited to the From, contributors to the building or improvement fund—any contributor to the extent of £2, or about $10, or upwards, being entitled to a vote. The third provided that the children of any denomination of Christians, who were Prot- 'estant dissenters, would be received as pupils Date, in the school. How wise they were to limit the franchise to the tried friends of the institution has been has been illustrated throughout the entire history of the Academy. THE CITY. How wise they were in not limiting the charges for tuition, the fact that the institu¬ LD GERMANTOWN ACADEMY. tion lives and flourishes to-day attests. Had they,Je?ta”hshe(i sach a limit, ‘he school would have been closed ten years after its In Interesting Account of the Formation erection, never to be reopened until this re¬ AND EaBLY HISTORY OF THE SCHOOL — striction was removed. Founded in 1760 as a German and Ens- Many years later the Trustees received a msH School—Used as a Bank in the legacy of certain turnpike stock and other se¬ curities to the value of £150, about $750, Great Yellow Fever Epidemic—Its Pros¬ the income of which was to be applied, so far perity in Later Years. as it would go, to the tuition of pupils who Mr. Charles W. Schwartz, of the Board of were unable to pay the fees. It has always ustees of the Germantown Academy, in aa been so applied faithfully by the Trustees, but the founding of free schools has since rendered dress before the students of that venerable it undesirable and unnecessary that the fund atitution of learning this week, gave the should be increased. lowing interesting account of its formation The amount of money raised for bnildin® d early history. Mr. Schwartz said:— purposes was about $6,000, a vast sum for that lermantown was settled in 1683. its site time, larger, I verily believe, considering vmg been purchased from William Penn by 000ato-dayd populatKm’ than would be $800,- miel Pastorious arid others. It was one of - early settlementsjof the country, and at j Plans were prepared and submitted and period when the founding of the Aeade- adopted; the plans that we see carried out in was first considered its population was the present buildiDg, with the two houses for ■y small and its wealth, as measured by the teachers at either side. The building asent standards, was non-existent. The was completed in 1762, and the first English tlement was,however, made by very sturdy master employed was David James Dove. He n —Germans, Hollanders, English-— all appears to have been an accomplished scholar n who had been exiled from their old but had acquired some reputation as a satiri¬ mes by religious persecution, and had cal poet, and this satirical tendency, always ight an asylum here because they might be an unfortunate one in the master of a school 3 to worship God as their own consciences seems to have made life burdensome to his ?bt dictate. They were, therefore, men of ushers, who, one after the other, either re¬ motions, preferring exile and hardship signed or absconded. her than a peace which implied the anr- Some of the instructions as to discipline are fider of their cherished convictions. | tbiv amusing. Mr. Dove having required The first meeting to consider the question that the boys should doff their hats in the I an Academy was held at the house of presence of the master, remonstrance was niel Machinett, on Main street above High, made by the members of the Society of i house now occupied by Dr. Alexis Smith, J JJriends, so the Trustees instructed that their t was at that time the centre of the social ' “rnfm110?8 convictions must be respected. 1 intellectual life of the village. There it The Irnstees instructed the master to re¬ 3 that the representatives of royalty were quire all the boys to take their way to and ertained whenever they visited Philadel- from school by the broad highway, and by no i.a, and there also were discussed all ques¬ means to stray into the tempting orchards ts of public interest, and it was quite or to encroach upon private property. They ural that this place should have been also enacted a rede that all boys should be re- isen for holding this important ^meeting, I quired to attend church on Sunday, and laid vas regarded as onejof the most spacious there very nsid rules for their behavior 1 beautiful houses in the place, and still re¬ ins one of the finest examples of early «AwS„thre

| country by the French Government to ; investigate the American railway sys¬ tem. At that period the Columbia Road used 36 locomotives, the greatest num¬ ber of any road in Pennsylvania. The Philadelphia and Trenton Railroad used only five) and the Philadelphia, Wil¬ mington and Baltimore but four. At jthe same date more money had been expended for railroads in Pennsylvania than in; any other State. ! With the eale of this road_ to the Date, iZl^CL_/s3l./.fgs2 , Pennsylvania Railroad in 1857 tire original road-bed was gradually aban¬ doned! for better grades and a more direct route, and to-day it requires a 1833-1893. sharp eye and some knowledge of rail- road construction to follow the original line from this city through Belmont PAUL’S METHODIST EPISCOPAL* and beyond. Until within a few months ago many of the stone blocks upon CHURCH. which the rails were laid were visible along the abandoned road-bed in the Historical Sketch. Park. Recent filling in and* leveling bbnrebM away have obliterated, however, a num¬ wblcKSiS, ‘S“* ro“ ber of these curious mementoes of early railroad building, and even the most ele¬ vated grades of the road-bed are, in many places, logt. Two of the best specimens of the stone blocks, in which tv„„.calledaa %t! vjr«_ur8eorge’s°toe s. rTineiehefe g«was! ^ a Board^ of the places hollowed out to receive the also a Board6©?nsfpCt iucorp0!'aUon, and chairs are still discernible, may be Pline Theih S e";ards under the Disci- found near the edge of the Park drive I which bends from Belmont Mansion ior stk? srs | northwesterly. j? is'/ontenanus at tlie treasurer?,sBaM of the“• ,Board«««»‘be: of True

theuepai part tor o7so,f somee ?toS Uchangefre Wilsa the dispositioncustom on pay,these moneys over to the Stewards Then parties arose, and in Ebenezer Church the waves of excitement ran hi? Ah! and ^ ZotSpg isrr Vuh^“

titletHieofsfp of St. Paul’nCp Ss°vj Methodiste^ Episcopal^ Sand Church. The Rev. William Cooper was appointed to] take charge of the new colony, andagrant| Crouch was appointed, and during his second" was obtained front the Commissioners of the1 year the church was remodelled. At the Con¬ District of Southwark for the use of their ference of 1S78 the Rev. Johns. J. McConnell hall, located on Second street, above Chris-; was sent to the charge. The number of mem¬ tian, since occupied by the police station. A bers then reported was 580. The other Pastors Sabbath school was organized in the old Ni¬ of St. Paul’s have been as follows: The Rev.i agara Hose House, 807 South Taird street. D. W. Gordon, 1S81-84; the Rev. J. W. The society subsequently purchased a pro¬ Langley, 1881-87; the Rev. George K. Morris, perty belonging to the Methodist Protestants, D, D., 1887-90; the Rev. J. H. Wood, 1890-02, on Fifth street, above Catharine, which they and the present Pastor, the Rev. J. W.! occupied for several years. The Rev. William Langley, who was returned in 1892. Uric was sent toSt. Paul’s by the Conference; The Superintendents of the Sunday school his term lasted one year, and he was suc¬ have been as follows: Thomas B. Carson, Oc¬ ceeded in the pastorate by the Rev. William tober, 1833, to March, 1835; George W. Jer-j A. Wiggins, who remained for two years. man, from March, 1835, to March, 1837; Win.' The Rev. William Barnes came in 1837, and it Farson, from March, 1837, to March, 1841; was during the second year of his minis¬ Wm, Walker, from March, 1841, to October, try that the present edifice was built. 1844; Wm. McCready, from October, 1844. to The corner-stone was laid in May, April, 184G; Michael Isard, from April, 1816, and the church dedicated Novem¬ to June, 1848; Benjamins. Bown, from June,, ber 12, 1838. At a meeting of the male 1848, to January, 1850; Michael Isard, from members of the church held September 17, January, 1850, to August, 1854; Daniel M. 1838, the Trustees were authorized to purchase ICarcher, from August,-1854, to January, 1862; a lot of ground adjoining the church for a B. S. Bown, from January, 1862, to January, cemetery- At a meeting held January 9, 1874; Daniel M. ICarcher. from January to No¬ 1839, it was unanimously resolved to sell the vember, 1874; Frank B. Clegg, from Novem¬ old church, on Fifth street, to take up the ber, 1874, to January, 1875, and Thomas A. lotadjoiuiug the church and erect a parsonage Redding, the present inumbent, from. Janu¬ thereon. The church was completed, the ary, 1875. cemetery was bought and the parsonage The present Board of Trustees is as follows: erected. In the spring of 1839 came as Pastor President, Thomas A. Redding; Vice Presi¬ the Rev. Levi Scott, who was afterward dent, Samuel H. Howilz; Secretary, Wiiburl elevated to the Episcopacy. He remained only F. SLiles; Treasurer, J. A. Hudson; Tbomasl one year, having been called to an official C. Nesbitt, Charles Perriue, Thomas McCar¬ position in the Church, and was succeeded in ter, J. H. Goree and Wm. A. Martin. 1S40 by the Rev. William Cooper. The Rev. Thomas Jefferson Thompson was the next on the list of Pastors. He came in 18-11 and re¬ mained two years. He was followed in 1S43 by the Rev. John D. Ouins, and in 1845 the Rev. William Urie was returned to the charge, and spent two years there. During his pastorate divisions occurred and disputes arose. When the Rev. John A. Roche be¬ came Pastor the agitation continued, and a number who withdrew from the church formed a new society and built a new church, on Fifth street, below Washington avenue, which is now the Library of Mechanics’ Insti¬ tute of (Southwark. This colony kept up its organization for a short period, and a few of them finally came back to St. Paul’s. The Rev. Joseph Mason, the next Pastor, was there during 1849 and 1850. He was followed by the THE HISTORICAL SOURCES OP THE NA¬ Rev. Richard M. Greenbank, in 1851 and 1852; then came the Rev. Peter J.Cox, 1853 and 1854, TIONAL CONSTITUTION. who was succeeded by the Revs. James M. McCarter, James R. Anderson and James E. Meredith, eacii of these ministers remaining A Paper ou the Subject by the Rev. Dr. two years. Xlre membership d odog these Stevens—Letters Relating to Washington years ranged from 485 to 400. In 1861 came the Rev. J. Walker Jackson. During this trying Portraits. period in our national history the church was loyal to the core, members of both church and At the regular meeting last evening ot the school enlisting for service in the field, while Historical Society of Pennsylvania an instruc¬ those at home gave their time and money in tive paper was read b; the Rev. C. Ellis Ste¬ aid of (he sick and wounded in the military vens on “From What Historical Sources hospi tals. Came Onr National Constitution?’’ At the The Rev. Samuel W. Thomas succeeded Mr. outset Dr. Stevens discussed at some length Jackson, and he was the first who, by the ex-j the views on the subject expressed by Doug- ; tension of the pastoral term, was allowed to lass Campbell, who was a hard worker in the remain three years. In the last year of his line of historical research. He took excep¬ ministry a successful movement was inau¬ tion to the conclusions arrived at by Camp¬ gurated for liquidating the church debt with bell, who assumed that Holland had a great the accrued interest, which amounted to! influence over the English and therefore upon about $3800. After Mr. Thomas came the Rev. this country; that from the Dutch this coun- I Anthony Atwood in 1866, and in 1867the try got the ballot, the common-school system church was enlarged by the addition of a back1 and the process of land registration. building, and improvements were made in: In examining the sources of the Constitu¬ the parsonage. The Revs. Wm. J. Paxsonand! tion, said Dr. Stevens, it is necessary to bear Jos. Welch were the next Pastors successively, in mind that the nation was founded by men the one coming in 1869, the other in 1872. Dur¬ who mainly were of the English race. Theiri ing the term of Mr. Welch Bethany Mission social usages and language predominated, wasestablished, and a placeof worship erected and considerable English law was brought at a cost of 8SOOO. In 1875 the Rev. John F. over with them and set in operation here, a century and more they were in union witl The latter nation in its constitu- as Wertmulier had sittings of the gre’at man f a single Executive,a legislative body at that period. ;ing of two houses, a distinct judiciary ‘ "The finest and purest likeness of the Chiet "general principles such as a Bill of is the original picture in crayon, by Sharpless, etc. The colonies were first tft done in 1796, and with the original, by Peale, „„ chartered by the Sovereign of England. in 1772, of the Provincial Colonel, forms the These charters were essentially documents First and last of the originals of Washington containing a few governmental principles, most to be relied upon in the World. Stuart and usually contained a clause requiring an is the great original of the First President of assimilation to English laws. The colonies the United Slates, Peale of the Colonial Officer, remained united to England, and this was the Sharpless of the Man. ’ ’ beginning of a Federal system with London

as the capital. As a matter of fact. Dr. Ste¬ * vens said. Rhode Island and Connecticut long after the Revolution held to their own chart¬ From,.... ers and Connecticut until the year 1818. Ur [ Then considering the National Constitution, Dr. Stevens said it provided for a personal Executive a Legislature of two branches, a distinct judiciary and a Bill of Rights. The (2k., Constitution practically took the model of the Colonial Government and applied it to the nation, introducing new features made neces¬ Date, l2 sary by the new condition of things. He then went on to show that the Senate of the United 3 States was a development of the House of ■''i.AND MARKS FAST DISAPPEARING. Lords and Privy Council jointly; the House The old Norman Hotel, one of the of Representatives an outgrowth of the House landmarks on Main, street, nearly op¬ of Commons, and that there was scarcely any posite Church, Grernyliitowii, has "been [power of Congress that was not the outwork- razed to the ground/to make room for dug of old English Parliamentary usage. Dr. Stevens also pointed out the similarity The extensive improvements on the Car- |pouter estate. Nearly the whole line of of the powers and prerogatives of the King as | ancient houses between the old Bnek compared with those of the President of the United States. He also quoted from Black- !tavern and the old Franklin Hall has stone and other authorities to show that they now been cleared away. Franklin Hall, VI • .ihhfiy distinguished men in entertained like opinions on the subject; that | L mladelphia mudo their maiden efforts the whole system of government was trace¬ able po an English basis. jin the line of oratory, will also sliortlV the conclusion of Dr. Stevens’s paper. J bt> vazed. Several hundred men are now Secretary, Hampton L. Carson, read a at work tearing down houses, and Cres- Etter from Fairman Rogers, in which he pre¬ heiin roa.x has been cut through the Car¬ sented the society with a map of the Highlands penter estate, and graded from Carpen¬ of the State of New York, made for General ter street to Westveiw avenue. Curb¬ Washington in July, 1779, by Robert Erskin, stones have been set and the roadway geographer to the army. The map is believed is_ being macadamized. The whole line to have belonged to Chief Justice Marshall, lot property fronting on Carpenter and that he used it in writing his life of street, from Cresheim road to Km Ion Washington. steel:, has been graded, large trees low¬ The Society was also the recipient, from ered and an asphalt sidewalk laid. Km- Judge M. Russell Thayer, of two valuable ien street has been made sixty feet letters written in 1857 toT. W. C. Moore bv wide. Mr. George W. P. Custis. Mr. Custis, who j died at the Arlington House, October 19, 1857, in his 77th year, was considered an authority on the comparative value of the portraits of Washington, and in jbne of the letters he wrote: 1 “We are sadly in want of prime engravers .(' , in our country. Painters excellent & \ abundant. My Peale & Sharpless should : be well engraved for posterity. I assured Lord Napier, who made me an especial visit, Date, t -Va/r, to inspect the Treasures, that the Sharpless I (original from life) was the best likeness of the man extant. Turnbull for the figure, Stuart tor the head & Sharpless the expression & EARLY HISTORY OF THE HUGUENOT you have all you canhave of the portraiture of Washington. We must have a National DE MICHELET (MICKLY) FAMILY [Portrait by & by the American people the Good, the Wise & the Brave of ail hu¬ OF THE REFORMED CHURCH. manity demand it. The fame & memory of the Pater Patria grow with time, and now, when a few gray heads like my own are only [leit to tell what Washington looked like, now The history of many families would no doubt jis the time for the National Portrait. ’ ’ In the second letter, which ante-dated the be very interesting, could the material and data first by about a mouth, after referring to [several portraits of Washington, he said: be supplied. Probably no family in our country * ‘-A-s to the Wertmulier Picture, it is, in my is more fortunate in this respect than the above opinion, an imposition in toto, and so I told the Swedish Ambassador, who waited on me mentioned. Their history well authenticated, to get information respecting it. It is said to have been painted in 1795. Now, I was not a with the genealogical tables quite complete, day absent from the family of the Chief during 1795, & am sure that no such artist appears over the course of 1300 years. They rom among the the family who resided on the old estate knights of the nobility. The first of the name, Provence, many others of them were citizen; of whom we have account, is Dionysius Mich- Paris and of Metz in Lorraine. eletus who came into France from Greece in When Protestantism first gained actual ft the fifth century. He died, leaving no male hold upon the soil of France, through issue. Others of his immediate home family teachings of the Reformer, John Calvin, ; became citizens of Constantinople. In the when Margaret of Valois, Queen of Navarre s ^ reign of the Franconian King Chlodwig, one of sister of Francis I., notwithstanding great Qp these accompanied Odard, the King’s chief sition. exerted a powerful influence at the cq minister, back to Paris, and was made treasurer and among the people, all the de Michelets of the King. He died A D. 536, leaving male France professed the Reformed doctrine. Be issue. During the following 200 years his de¬ so active before under different kings ffcvora scendants multiplied greatly, and a number of to the ruling religion, this Huguenot fan them were prominent in France. When Char¬ soon met with terrible persecutions. The lemagne arose, the de Michelet knights gave verest of all was during the general St. Bartl him great aid. Edwin of the family was one of omew Massacre, A. D. is72. As a cor 5 his chosen leaders in the expeditions to Spain. quence, not only was the fine estate in Provei ■This knight displayed great bravery in the and the home properties in Metz and Paris combats in the Pyrenees and Basque mountains. ken from them by force, but numbers died 1 The family dwelling place over hundreds of death of martyrs. Of the survivors, some f years was the estate Chateau de Michelet in for a time to pathless mountains, and oth Provence. Here Edwin died A. D. 842. His came refugees from France altogether, sons Frederique and Denys were celebrated de Michelet, and wife Suzanne who was a I Abbots of the Roman Catholic Church, and ted Protestant Huguenot of the de Mange both died in French cloisters. His son Charles,, bility, came to reside in Zweebrucken, Gerr married to Beatrice de Hujou of the nobility, ny. There died Louis, the beloved pastor o was chief officer of Charles the Bald’s house¬ congregation of Huguenot Refugees of our 1 hold, A. D. 843. This knight was of such formed Church. One of his sons by name J* noble mien and extraordinary strength, that in Jacques (John Jacob) was residing as'a Refug 1 a battle with Norman knights near Arles (as is in Rotterdam, Holland. From there he came fc related) he cut in two with one blow a knight of America in the ship “ Hope,” arriving in Phi | the enemy, who was in full armor, and with delphia, Aug. 28th, 1733. This Jean Jacques 7 coat of mail. In the time of Louis, commonly Michelet, son of the pastor who died in called St. Louis, the knight Odarique de Miche¬ bracken (named in this country John Jao let (married to Eulalia Leontaras,—daughter of Mickly) is the ancestor of all the Micklys a Grecian prince from | the island of Cyprus) America. He died Aug. 18th, 1769, at the pla accompanied his sovereign to Egypt, where in now known as Auckly’s, Lehigh Co., Pa. T the siege of Damietta, A. D. 1249, he lost his homestead occupied by him soon after A. right hand. We learn that from the thirteenth 1733 at present owned and occupied by 1 to the sixteenth century the de Michelets con- great, great, great grandson, Edwin. The fit | tinued quite active in all affairs belonging to the Edwin in the family history was a knight born honor and interests of France the eighth century. A very chaste monument Quonini, married to Louison, a lady of the de the cemetery at Whitehall, Pa., marks f Armaquacke nobility, was in the time of Fran graves of the first de Michelet (Mickly)- and 1 ■ cis I., a colonel of a Cuirassaer regiment. He wife who came to this country. One scfti ai I distinguished himself in battles in France, Italy one daughter of this first family were cruel and Germany. His death occurred A. D. 1563., murdered by the Indians. The son John Pete His son Bertrand, an artillery officer whose who narrowly escaped, was afterwards in mi garrison residence was Dijon, died in battle in tary servicfe against the savages He and h ' the Netherlands A. D, 1602. Besides those of )ther Jolin Martin were soldiers in tne\tfaY~oA Dr. E. X'.'§chulenberger“Carlisle, PIT:, ha« : Revolution, who are specially mentioned for her possession the de Michelet history in neat ] :ir bravery in the battle'of Germantown, Oct., book form with the old coat of arms as a frontis¬ 7. Their oldest brother, named after their piece; in ft also are the genealogical tables! ier Jean Jacques (John Jacob), was atao a no- down to the present of the dwellers in France, l patriot. He not only gave himself, but like- in Berlin, Prussia, in Norway and in the United® e the free use of his teams, in the service of States. country. His teams were in Kreidejr’s Wa- For this first complete publication in Americs Brigade. To prevent capture by the Brit- of this family history we are under many obliga¬ the Liberty Bell and some other church tions to Miss Annie F. Mickly, Mickly.\$, Pa.,, ai :s of Philadelphia were taken in his wagons lady of fine intelligence and a large acquaintance! Ulentown, Pa. By his direction and for safe among the friends in Europe. The patriarch ofh ping, the Liberty Bell was placed there in! a’s Reformed church. the de Michelets (Micklys) living at this date in ■ America is Daniel Mickly of Waynesboro, Pa. ,| mong the scholars and authors in thijs family being 98 years of age. He is a most worthy mention Jules de Michelet, a French representative of this old Huguenot household orian born in Paris, A. D. 1798. He be- ^ our Reformed Church. M. e Professor of History in the College RoTHfti lie age of'23, and afterwards was proffess*? le college de France. Among the valuable ss published by him is his six volumes orie de la Revolution. He was ibtrusted 1 the archives of the kingdom; but he lost josition in the archives office by refusing r/ru.M:'1 / , .ke the oath of allegiance to Louis Napoleoi ther scholar still living, and at the advatfie A LJKAF FROM JljfSTORY.

5f 92 years, is Dr. Chas. Louis de Michelet I {SV?r the R,eading;Tjmes] essor of Philosophy Berlin, Prussia. We are Mb. Editor.■ Lucretia Mott’s ances¬ bted to Armand, son of Quentin de Michelet, tors, the Cofljns, descended from the an¬ is careful collection of so much valuable cient Devonshire family of that name, fled before the Puritan persecution to mation about the origin and history of the the island of Nantucket, to the east of y and their old and honorable coat of arms, Massachusetts. Here Lucretia was born ccount of which may be found in the in 1793, and here her childhood was ves of Paris, of Metz and of Vienna and passed till she was eleven years of age, " Book of Heraldry. There are evidences when her father removed to Boston, Massachusetts. Lucretia had opportu¬ ant baptisms in this family as far back as nities of education at Boston that would x century. have been quite out of question in the e estimable wife of Louis, pastor of the primitive island of her birth. At the age of eighteen Lucretia married James egation of refugees in Sweebrucken, also Mott, and her home was at Philadelphia. a diary, which is still extant. From this Partly for the sake of educating her i own children, and partly with the%iew tained much particular and valuable of helping her mother, who had been left a widow with five children to support, ledge concerning the persecutions of the Lucretia Mott opened a school. When enots of our Reformed Church. This she was about thirty years of age she be¬ 7 were members of the Reformed Church j gan gradually to be drawn into work of more public kind, through her deep in¬ the earliest times of the Reformation in terest in many moral movements of the :e. As the Germans express it, they are time. Foremost among those stood the anti slavery agitation. Bhe travelled imed von Haus aus. Of this Huguenot many thousands of miles, speaking and f in the ministry of our Reformed Church lecturing for the anti-slavery cause. It was then, even in America, Revs. J. Marion and J. Harvey Mickly. quite a novelty for women to aughter of Rev. J. Marion Mickly, Mrs. tako an active part in public movements, ■w BlIT-rr Lucretia Mott, the aged l^uater lady uuu gome of the more old fashioned o was by his side; her hand on his arm the Abolitionists did not approve of -the was a sufficient protection, and be passed participation of Lupretiq Mott and the angry crowd in safety. Very soon after other women in the work. However, this came the War of Secession. The at first only a minority held this view, , Abolitionists knew, though politicians and the difficulty which some men felt did not, that this war would decide the in working with women caused Lucretia ' question of slavery. The American peo¬ Mott to form the Philadelphia Female ple were enabled to prevent (the seces¬ Anti-Slavery Society. At the first sion of the slave States, and in 1863 a meeting of this society none of the proclamation issued by President Lin¬ ladies felt competent to take the chair, coln announced the abolition of slavery so they elected a negro gentleman to in the United States. Lucretia Mott that position, a choice which Mrs. Mott lived seventeen years after this crown¬ explained a few years later in the fol¬ ing victory of her life’s labors. She lowing words: “Negroes, idiots and died on the 11th of November, 1880, women were in legal documents classed universally respected,and loved by tho e together, so that we were very glad to get who knew her, one of our own class to come and aid us in forming the society.” In 1840 Lucretia Mott was one of the delegates chosen to repre¬ From, sent American societies at the World’s Anti-Slavery Convention held in London in that year. It is well . known that she and all other lady dele¬ gates were refused recognition because they were women. Sir John Bowrmg, Date Mr. Ashhurst, and Daniel O’Connell were among those who protested against this arbitrary act of exclusion. For thirty years Lucretia Mott hardly ever let a day pass without doing some¬ M. DR. MACINTOSH ? thing to weaken the fabric ot slavery, which she felt to be the greatest curse ON GILBERT TENNENT. of her native land. Her manner and voice were sweet, solemn and tranquil, her small fragile figure, her exquisite womanliness of demeanor, made Scenes Out of Presbyterianism’s it difficult to believe that she could become the object of violent Ancestral Gallery. hatred and persecution. Yet she had often known what it was to stand on a platform in the midst of a shower of A SON OF THE i "LOG COLLEGE.” stones and vitriol, and to endure in si j lence the unmanly insults of the pro- j slavery press. Historical Discourse by the Pastor The simple, direct sincerity ot her mind, her forgetfulness of self, and her of the Second Presbyterian tranquil courage, carried conviction to the minds of thousands that she had a Church on That Church’s message worth listening to. But at first many of her own religious community First Pastor. thought it necessary to show their dis¬ approbation of her conduct by refusing to recognize her when they met. Rev. Dr. John S. Macintosh preache Bhe usually took a share of a seat behind yesterday at the Second Presbytaria the door in railway cars, because that Church on Gilbert Tennent, the first was ordinarily assigned to negroes, and of the Church. He chose as his text the would converse kindly with her fellow Second Epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthi- passengers there. ans,fourth chapter.first and second verses: At the trial in 1859 of Daniel Danger- “Therefore, seeing we have this ministry, field, a fugitive slave, Lucretia Mott re¬ mained all through the long hours of as we have received mercy, we faint suspense hy the side of the prisoner. but have renounced the hidden things At last the long trial ended in vic¬ dishonesty, not walking in craftines*, i tory for the right. Daniel Dangerfield handling the woi'd of God deceitfully: was declared a freeman; but the au¬ by manifestation of the truth, commen thorities of the court thought .it would ourselves to every man’s conscience in be impossible to get him away in safety, sight of God.” He said:— through the angry pro slavery crowd, “Gilbert Tennent; friend and without an escort of police. Their fears of Georg* Whitfield; the first paster ■ were found to be groundless, for when Second Church; born 1703, died the doors of the court were thrown open While the name and the fame an

life and labors were still minds of old and were stirring A SCENE IN TOWN. 'the young, George Whitfield, First scene, Two Ulster Manses. It is the greatest of modem evangelistic preach¬ .early June. 1700,and we wait at the door of ers, burst like a meteor on these shores. the Killybagh manse. County Down To-day we find ourselves in the sunny Then and there a dark-eyed, sweet-faced^ hours of Whitfield and his most trusty and tall, thoughtful girl of some twenty Sum¬ pcaree inferior ally, our own Tenneut, son of the Log College, mighty evangelist, pas¬ mers, the daughter of the manie, watches eagerly the end of the roadway where is tor first in New Brunswiok, then in Phila¬ delphia. He stood last week in Donegal • , just passing from sight a well-built, vi^or. we stand to-day in Armagh. We stood in I ous comely young clergyman, a man every the seagirt, rock-ribbed, gaunt and rugged inch of him, whom people stop to look after for the. light in his face is winsome (northwest of Ireland, in a country whose .magnificent headlands, giddy cliffs, deep- and the man is moulded for battle and vic¬ tory. Bhe is Catharine Kennedy and the cleft glens and far away ocean sweeps give to the charmed traveler scenes of majestic young clergyman is William Tennent, and grandeur which, coming in swift succes¬ ?.re Just betrothed. Look at them sion, put Donegal easily as rival beside „ * - are our own church ancestors. Devon aod Cornwall, Iceland and Norway ,p“^!f^nSPiel ®nd,the apostolic church of he. Scotch forefathers; a woman of rine Scotch settlers mingled and married with English Nonconformists of Cromwell’s in1rit10nnHf ^ endowments, of sweetest ffV}* y gentlest ways. She was the hours, with Quakers, with Norman-Jriah llight and joy ot that old Killybagh manse Protestants and noble Huguenots; and thus 'Wnhd W+h3ch th® ”lght B0W draws its veil’. produced one'of the sweetest, richest With the morning comes the County blooded, thoughtful and most cultivated Armagh and there appears another home sections of the stalwart Scotch-Irish folk. wflr08 £enned/ hTad becoloe the wife MAKEMIE AND TENNENT. of William Tennent. He was born in 1673 jeducated carefully for college, became a “Makemie, the missionary apostle, is the foremost scholar in Trinity College, Dub- child of Donegal; Tennent is the son of lia, graduated with high classical honors Armagh; Plstermen both. They are parted and was selected as chaplain to a wealthy by only thirty-five years. The true apos¬ and cultured nobleman. Study, thought- tolic succession is not broken. Makemie iful watching of surrounding events fre¬ comes into view at the orisis of destitution; quent converse with the old Presbyterian Tennent at the crisis of degradation. Make- confessor at Killyleagh and the influence mie comes to proclaim the faith ; Tennant i of Ins wife held William Tennent back to purify. Makemie kindled the old Jight lfS^riT acf? Parish in the Estab¬ that must be ever new; Tennent flashed lished Church of Ireland. At last the crisis out the new light which is everywhere the came to him and he severed his connection true old light of the fathers and the apos¬ with Episcopacy. He obeved his con¬ tles. Makemie was the genius of the Im¬ science, left Armagh and went to Coleraine plantation ; Tennent is the genius of the in County Derry. Associating himself- Restoration. Makemie is our Moses; Ten¬ with the persecuted Presbyterians,the hand nent our Samuel. Makemie was the’ Paul of lory magistrates and pitiless prelates fell of our new-born, first organized Presby¬ with special severity upon him. At last terianism; Tennent is at once the Athana¬ rtf for btm grew too grievous and with his sius and the Chrysostom of our revivified fe , and four hoys he left the manse at and enlarged Presbyterianism. Both were poteraine one July morning in 1718. pivotal men; both were marked children the home at NESHAMINY. of Providence; both were born leaders; both oecoi b“Second Scene, Neshaminy and the Log were saintly souls of all unselfish consecra¬ ollege. Down the old York Road the tion. Both were the finest gold out of bnly passable highway between New York God’s hottest furnaces, for each was the son of persecutions. Beth owned the blood ind Philadelphia, came on the 22d day of of confessors and of martyrs. Makemie’s November, 1739, a very noticeable man forefathers suffered under the bloody ft was George Whitfield, the man who Beatons; Tencent’s languished in Irish gave birth to the Second Ch«rcli of jails and fled in exile to Holland to escape [Philadelphia. He sees at Nesliattiiny one the clutches of that eloquent persecutor pf the grandest sights America’s past has Jeremy Taylor. Both were organizers- to show the house of the Tennents and the Makemie of churches and Presbytery ■ Ten- jLog College of Neshaminy. [nent of synod and colleges. Both were men | “In that home- gathered that night a of new days and new movements. The marvelous group. There sat Cathar¬ hour of each struck the moment of aggres¬ ine. the gray-haired mother and four sive advances The one man is liked most such sons as few homes can boast, Gilbert closely with the liberty of preaching- the iennent, aged now 36, a;nd pastor of New otner with the liberty of the people Brunswick, and his three remarkable ; "These two lives are packed with inci¬ brothers. Side by side were Whitfield and dents that thrill; entrancing life throbs the hoary-headed Willifem Tennent. That everywhere and mightily. For us the night marked the turning point in the inner nerve of aentest interest is—all his hnt.ory of Gilbert Tennent. Whitfield moving tale is our own family story we Jeaine to rest his heart with the saintly walk at home through all these pktha. old father and he fspnd in the scholarly But all we have time for, in these too stalwart eloquent sbn Gilbert the com- swift moments, will be a few scenes out of ipanion of bis missionary soul, the col- our ancestral gallery. 'ieague of his evangelistic toil, the true (successor and continuator of his revival Lwork. _ / other side. Barnabas separated oveV the' B "Third scene: ?Thc City Court Housei and , head of John Mark; Tennent with bis Log tbe city crowd. Ylhe old courthouse or our city stood at Second and Market Streets, j College friends separated from the reaction-; and it was in/and around thai building ary old formalists of the Synod of PMladel-r that crowds often gathered in Open meeting, I phia, over the head of John Rowland,who The preachers came: aifd tbe crowdsl was destined to be one of the greatest evan¬ gathered. One crowd of thick-packed gelists given to this land by the grace hundreds bas grouped itself round the old and spirit of God. Gilbert Tennent was a man of the sweetest disposition, of magnifi¬ flagstaff at Society Hill which was at- Front and Fine. In tbeir midst and on a cent self-mastery,of winsome manners, and broadest charity; but he was one of thoie rude stand was George Whitfield, pouring gentlemen who for principle can and do| out those glowing torrents of heart mov¬ grow harder than adamant and sterner, ing eloquence that everywhere made him than battle-steel. A leader born, developed I master the multitudes with so sweet hut and acknowledged, be speedily took the resistless power. Another crowd gathered guidance of a revolt against the Old Light on the baloonies, upon tbe steps and in reactionaries which led to the rupture of the rooms and square of the court house. the Synod of Philadelphia and the Synod i Stern men are in tears; women sob, and of New York, to which Tennent and bis the tides of intense feeling sweep through friends at once joined themselves and the thousands that crush closer and closer in which they continued for some to catch the impressive words which rush Seventeen years. The causes of that fast and hot from the burning lips of tbe schism were not doctrinal; they were preacher. This was Gilbert Teunent. ecclesiastical and evangelical. The “Eldest son of William and Catharine Old Lights were bitterly jealous of all the Tennent, he was born on tbe 5th of Feb¬ Log College men, especially the Tennents. | ruary. 1703, in the County Armagh, They disparaged the training given at Ireland. He was educated partly in Neshaminy; they demanded that all candi-j Armagh and Coleraine; came with father, dates for the ministry and for license should j mother and brothers to Philadelphia in get a certificate from the synod as to quail-1 1718; carried on his higher education fication. This act of tbe synod was usur¬ partly at the Log College and partly at pation of the rights of the presbytery. The Vale, of which he was a graduate; was Presbytery of New Brunswick, led by licensed by the Philadelphia Presbyteria Tennent, refused to submit, and, despite jn May, 1725: and in a few months was the synod, licensed John Bowiand. The' ordained pastor of tbe church at New synod declared them contumacious, and; Brunswick. Whitfield heard of him, then voted their act illegal and void. The New heard him, and thereafter gave bim no Light meng revolted against this tyranous rest till he became the trusted companion of act. It took seventeen years to heal the | the great evangelist. This is the man breach. But when the object of the schism that sways the crowd on the court house was gained Gilbert Tennent became the1 steps and balconies. At one of those meet¬ peacemaker. His strong, busy pen soon ings John Bodgers, tbe first Moderator of sent forth the word of peace, and in a short the General Assembly, yielded himself to time tbe gulf closed. Christ. “Out of that reunion came in due time THE SECOND CHURCH FORMED. the First General Assembly, which most fittingly met in our Second Church and “Fourth Scene—The New Pulpit and the was presided over by the man who as a boy New Preacher. In 1711 some 140 or 150 attended one of the great Whittield-Tennent ... persons gathered around George Whitfield meetings at the court bouse, but then as their spiritual father. By his advice known in the Church as the revered Dr. they came into holy union and communion John Rodgers, of New York. with one another,and formed the Second AT TENNENT’S GRAVE. Church of Philadelphia. inese earnest "The sixth and last scene. It i* a little men and women called Gilbert Tennent to quiet grave at Abington. You may see it be their.pastor. For some time he hesitated about accepting the call; but while he de¬ from the roadside. But beside it I have liberated he was not idle, for those months stood and thought much. Only a few steps of thought were given up to a great evan¬ from the borne of a kind friend, it has gelistic tour through New England. formed for me a calm and restful spot for At last tbe call is accepted, and by the act fruitful musing. Here at my feet a for¬ of the presbytery the union is completed. gotten grave—in it perhaps a few grains of At first they bad no church, but worshiped dust. But how many glorious resurrections in Whitfield’s Academy, at Fourth aud has his life? What sweet perpetuation; Arch Streets. From 1748 to 1750, the ‘Old what large harvests; what increasing un¬ Academy’ was our home. Then tbe ‘great foldings into ever widening currents of our house’was built and occupied at the north- heaving, flooding sea of action; what mul¬ west corner of Third and Arch Streets. tiplying radiations out and into vastly “Here was the new pulpit of the city enlarging circles of our country’s social, and the new preacher was Gilbert Tennent, educational, spiritual life! On his soul- the center of a band of consecrated, life for forly years there had never crept a thoughtful, influential men and women. shadow. Forjorty years it basked in the Here was his throne, and as a man of God, light of redeeming love, and on the 23d of as a ripe scholar,as an unequaled preacher, July, 1764, it passed from the morning as a great home missionary,as a fiery evan¬ glories of earth’s pilgrim path into the gelist, as a far-seeing patriot leavening the noonday splendor of the heavenly home.’’ young minds of growing Philadelphia,so soon herself to lead tbe country, our first pastor did a work that has grown out into the largest, highest and most progressive life of our land. BROKEN BY SCHISM. “Fifth Scene—The First Keunion. Thickest shadows gather; but the light falls on the Is necessary that letters of administration de bonus non shall be issued, conferring author¬ ity to collect by snit or otherwise and admin¬ ister the aforesaid assets. The petitioner, therefore, prayed for letters of administration, with a copy of the testa¬ tor’s will attached, for use in establishing the claim. The petition was granted, and Reg¬ ister Shields issued the required letters of ad¬ ministration, a bond of §100 being taken as security. The proceedings are akin to those taken by persons several years ago who presented French spoliation claims against the "United A REVOLUTIONARY DEBT States Government to recover amounts dne to the estates "of their progenitors, arising out of Which a Philadelphia^ and Others Claim the seizure of American vessels and goods by the rtate of Sooth Carolina Has Never French cruisers. Yet Paid. Elies D. Hibbs, a railroad man, residing at '2937 North Sixth street, yesterday took the initiatory steps before Register of Wills Shields towards the recovery of a claim of From, §00,COO alleged to be due by the State of South Carolina to an estate of his great-grandfather, Joshua Fanning, for sums advanced as loans to that State during the War of Independence ; in 3770. ■ The petitioner, it is said, has been for up¬ wards of 10 years gathering testimony in the Date, 1 A., I jmatter, and has secured from the other de- ‘ seen dan Is of Joshua Fanning their renuncia- Itions of their own rights and acquiescence in the condition that he shall represent them iu tiie proceedings. ' The petitioners were the following named great grandchildren: Elias D. Hibbs and Sarah E. Lovett, of Philadelphia; Lydia A. Howell, Anna M. By Gabriel’s Side in an Old Phila¬ Hibbs, Elmira C. Kesler and Elizabetli B. Bishop, of Bristol; Joseph S. Hibb:=, Tully- delphia Cemetery. town; Mary A. Hibbs, Sarah M. Taylor and Howard B. Roberts. Chicago; Sarali A. Cole, Newark, and the following greatgrandchil¬ dren: D. P. Pittmau, East Trenton; J. H. I LONGFELLOW’S PATHETIC POEM. Pittman, Trenton; Aaron B. Pittman, Hyn- son, Md. », In his petition Mr. Hibbs sets forth that Joshua Fanning was a Lieutenant on the I How the Acadians Found Shelter American frigate Randolph, Captain Nicholas Biddle, and that, his death was reported to I and Hospitality Among the have occurred on ship board off Barbadoes (about March 9, 1778. He was at the time Quakers, and the Lovers seized of real and personal property ^mount- , ing to S30, COO, and wanted to have made his Were Laid at Rest I last will and testament December 14, 1776, leaving surviving him a widow, Mary, named Together. in the will as Sun, and a daughter, then 3 years old, also named Mary Fanning. The widow survived her husband two years, hav¬ ing died at Newtown, Bucks county, in 1789, Longfellow, in his tale of the Acadian the exact date being unknown to the'peti- lovers, tells of the meeting of Evange¬ tioner, leaving the infant girl, then 4 years line and Gabriel in a hospital in the old, in the custody of her sister. Lucy Watson, Quaker City, and how, after their death. residing in Philadelphia. It was further re¬ Under the humble walls of the little Catholic cited that the executor named in the will, churchyard, Andrew Haywood, of Philadelphia, died In the heart of the city, they lie, unknown and without performing any part of his duties. unnoticed. That at the time the will was probated there were parts of the personal estate without the The real existence of Gabriel and jurisdiction of this State which should have Evangeline has been questioned, says been collected and distributed to the heir-at- the “New York World,” and the entire law. story, so beautifully related by the poet, The said Mary Fanning, th'6 daughter, was, has been pronounced a myth; but with on May 3, 179S, married to John Hibbs, of a. true Philadelphian no shade of disbe¬ Newtown, Bucks county, and died February lief in the legend can find lodgement. 20, 1827, leaving several children. The num¬ For has he not known from his boyhood ber of next of kin of Joshua Fanning, as the spot where Evangeline lived, the site shown in the petition, was 11 great-grand¬ of the almshouse where she ministered, children and four great-great-grandchildren, and, most conclusive proof of all, the who were the only descendants of the said churchyard wherein she and her long- Joshua Fanning. That the executor named lost lover were interred? in the will of Joshua Fanning has departed That a large number of Acadian ex¬ this life, leaving certain personal estate still iles found refuge in Philadelphia after to be administered, consisting of outstand¬ expulsion from their homes is a matter ing loans, amounting, with interest, to thou¬ nf history. More than three hundred sands of dollars, for the collection of which it mfortnfiates were brought thither by the BritiSli' in their sloops* Hannah, Swan and Three Friends, and, despite married with the inhabitants and be¬ ie protests of the city authorities, were come assimilated with the general popu¬ anded on Province Island, below the lation. others wandering off to the South! :own, in November, 1755, half clad and and the remainder dying as a result of ilmost starved. There were a _ hrlf- exnosure and from natural causes.! dozen miserable shanties on the island, Longfellow tells of the journeyings of those who sought their kindred in thej French colony of Louisiana, among them being Evangeline. iust beginning her long search for Gabriel. When many years later she returned, aged and heartbroken, to Philadelphia, It is reasonably certain that she sought in Powell street such of her old friends as were then alive, and probably dwelt with them until she became a Sister of Mercy. Indeed, over-zealous antiqua¬ rians go to the length of designating the' exact spot where she resided as being on the north side of Powell street, a short distance east of Sixth street, which is,' however, only a fanciful theory. The hospital wherein Evangeline at last met Gabriel is popularly assumed to have been the old Quaker almshouse, The Church Where They Are Buried. which occupied a large lot on Walnut street, between Third and Fourth) vhich were used as a make-shift quaran¬ streets. The premises are yet in pos¬ tine station, and here the masters of the session of the Society of Friends, but vessels landed and left the exiles with the ancient structures, which had been scant ceremony. standing since 1713, were razed in 1841. SUBSISTING ON CHAJUTY. and a private court called Walnut placq At first they were denied admission was opened through the grounds, upon into the city, but humanity finally over¬ which now faces a double row of old-] coming the scruples which had hitherto style office buildings. In time of plague Influenced the inhabitants, the Acadians such as Longfellow describes, it is quite; were permitted to come and go without within the limits of possibility that the hindrance. Being absolutely without Friends’ almshouse might have been, means of support, unable to speak Ln- used as a hospital, and there is nothing elish and quite unaccustomed to city Me incompatible in the idea that Evange¬ and the pushing thrift of the Quakers, line as a Sister of Mercy should visit a the exiles tvere pitifully helpless. Ad- Quaker institution under such circum¬ fled to this was a bitterness against them stances, and there meet with the final felt by the citizens, not only on account incident of her clouded life. of their French origin anid Roman Whatever differences of belief may| Catholic belief, but also because they have crept in regarding Evangeline’s; had been forced upon an already over¬ habitation in Powell street and her| burdened populace to support. The meeting with Gabriel at lie Friends’ Acadians huddled together like panic- almshouse, there is a unanimous con¬ stricken sheep for many a .bleak and sensus of opinion in corroboration of! chilly day that fall, sleeping m the open Longfellow’s statement regarding their' air, and subsisting upon such food as burial place. All antiquarians agree <-a«« from charitable citizens. . that Gabriel and Evangelic.j rest in the In the midst of their afflictions, n Inch tiny graveyard at the rear of old Trinityj were fast becoming unbearable with the Church, standing at the corner of Sixth near approach of winter, a deliverer and Spruce streets. Why the unfortu arose Samuel Powel, a wealthy citizen nate lovers should have been buried in of Philadelphia, had long owned a block the grounds of a German congregation, of laud, between Fifth, Sixth. Spruce when the parishes of St Joseph and of and Pine streets, originally patented by St. Mary’s, the latter with a large Penn to the Free Society of Traders, graveyard attached, are but two blocks which, at the time of the coming of the distant, is not dear. The church Acadians, was far out of town and un¬ records throw no light upon the subject,, used. Moved by the distress of the and the twain admitting their one-timel French neutrals, he erected for them a real existence, remain in death as in number of tiny cabins on this land, their life, under a cloud of mystery. fronting upon a narrow thoroughfare which later on was known as Powel or Powell street. , , The same Samuel Powel afterwards became the last Mayor of Philadelphia under the Crown. His wife, woo was noted for her beauty and wit, was a daughter of Charles Willing, the great- great-grandfather of Mrs. John Jacob. Astor. There is a quaint old portrait extant of the Mayor in powdered wig and heavy velvet coat trimmed with rich lace. KBTtlRMED TO PHILADELPHIA. In the shelter provided hy Powel’s From, ..fe - In 1861 Robert Johnson was in the ^ city of Petersburg, Virginia, where he had been since 1858 following his busi¬ $7,1 f s 7, < Ps< : ■ ness of plumber and gasfitter with suc¬ cess and profit. He bad many friends there and belonged to a military com¬ Date pany, known as the Petersburg City Guard. The State seceded and the com¬ pany was ordered by the rebel governor HOLM^SBURC: to take up arms against the government. Mr. Johnson did not hesitate. He bore in his veins the blood of too many gener¬ [a Week’s Happenings in the Burg. ations of loyal Pennsylvanians and true Americans to be led away from his duty r to his state and his country. He atl CAPTAIN ROBERT JOHNSON. pnce abandoned his lucrative business and what property he had accumulated [ Sketch of a Vaterau of the AVar of nd fled from his Southern friends to his orthern home. Here he at once be- the Rebellion, ;ame active in assisting to raise men to ightfor the old flag and was elected first ieutenant of the before named com- |, holmesburg is justly proud of that nand of which John Clark was captain. hand of manly and intrepid youno- men iVlien that officer was made Lieut. Col. who in a body represented her in the’ if the regiment, Lieut. Johnson was field during the war for the maintenance promoted to be captain of Co. E. This of the union and the constitution, known as in August, 1862. Previously he had as Co. E. 3d Regt. P. R. V. C. ' There een detailed to act temporarily as an were many other Holme3burgera in vari- iide-decamp to General Meade. He ous commands who are also Remembered terved with conspicuous courage and acti¬ was thePnd|e’ °U- the comPany named vity in the many battles in which the was the only muitary organization serv- cgiment was engaged being severely g in the field, which was composed ounded at the second battle of Bull almost entirely of Holmesburg men un. When the regiment was mustered Ihey were picked men, too, as at that ut'at the conclusion of its three years’ time none but perfect physical types [term of service, Capt. Johnson was offer¬ were accepted, and represented the very ed the position of Lieut. Col. in one of flower of the youth of the yillage. When the new regiments then being raised by'^ the call for soldiers came it was promptly ithe Union League of Philadelphia, answered and patriotically responded to which he was reluctantly obliged to de- Business, , and pleasureP‘Hasure were laid aside jcline, being unable to endure further and the gallant youths accepted the hard aetiye service on account of disability themCeS-Hld ma“y sacriflces required from caused by the wounds mentioned, which cence "'p* PTpt and patient acquies- jhave troubled him ever sinee. In 1868 her fa’itlRu so5" ViiDla 8 Patnotic cal! to nd 1869 he was assistant Sergeant-at- ner faithful sons went beyond her own rms to the Pennsylvania House of Rep- borders and reached the ears of those far esentatives. He was also at one time Supervisor of Highways in the- upper part of the 23d ward. He has always aken an active interest in politics and i has represented his neighborhood in many Republican conventions. Since Ithe war he has been engaged in the hotel iness, first as the proprietor of the reen Tree Hotel, and later as proprietor and owner of the Washington House,both in Holmesburg. Capt. Johnson was born in Collegeville (above Holmesburg) on Oct, 10, 1835, and is a son of Leonard and Priscilla Johnson. The Johnson family had been for several generations located in that vicinity (see Rev. S. F. Hotc- kin’s historical work called “ The Bristol Pike”). He was educated at the old Lower Dublin Academy and was brought up on a farm which he subsequently purchased. At the age of 16 he was ap¬ prenticed to a plumber in the city, with whom he remained ■ for five years. In 1857 he went South, working at different towns in North Carolina and finally set¬ CAPTAIN ROBERT JOHNSON, tling in Virginia as before stated. On December 15, 1864 he was marrie to Miss Anna Russell, daughter of Mr, Edward Russell, the ceremony being per¬ formed by the late Rey. Dr. Beasley, of All Saints’ Church, Torresdale. lie has three children, Edward R., Susanna C., and Robert. The family attend Em-, manuel P. E. Church. Capt. Johnson is over six feet high and splendidly proportioned and in hisl From, t. < C > early years was a finespecimen ofathletici . . young manhood. y Our picture represents him as he ap¬ peared during the war. He had a bro-l &v , ther Jacob A., who was a promising: young man and a member of Co. E,| killed in action at Fredericksburg, Ya. Bate, Dec. 13, 1862. OLD FRAME HOUSES

Some Relics of a Former Age Still Standing in Philadelphia.

With the many incombustible building son. Necessarily the material out-oS materials now at hand, there really which a frame building is constructed is seems. to be small excuse for the con¬ wholly combustible, and thus such struct struction of permanent frame buildings ures are a constant menace in case of m Philadelphia. No doubt the original fire. They therefore act as depredators cost is somewhat less, but when the fact of the value of what would otherwise is- taken into consideration that no in¬ be gilt-edged real estate; while at the surance can be placed on frame build¬ same time increasing to a greater or ings, unless probably in some cases at a less degree the insurance rate on well high premium, and that the destruction and legally constructed buildings in their by fire of such a structure and its con¬ immediate vicinity. tents is therefore generally a total loss, Not infrequently have fires started really very little money in the end is in frame buildings of no value, but saved. the flames have been communicated to Twenty years ago Councils passed an the properties in the vicinity, and a cost¬ ordinance prohibiting the erection of ly fire (which probably would not have! wooden or frame buildings in the city, occurred had the law been observed asi excepting only in certain portions of the it should have been, thus originated, suburbs. This lair, however, has al¬ which would not only be the cause of ways been practically a dead letter, at the loss of business and property, but least so far as the parties who wish to also the sacrifice of human life. make frame additions to their houses, In the early days there was some such as kitchens and sheds, are con¬ excuse for the construction of wooden cerned; and it is also ignored in many dwellings in the city, but even the early cases where structures of wood are colonists would not have been guilty erected for stables, carriage houses, or of erecting flimsy frames that inanvj tor business purposes. builders would like to fresco the city By attempting to enforce the law, the with to-day if they dared. Precisely) building- inspectors have been given no what sort of houses were built by the end of trouble. Scarcely a week passes! first settlers in Philadelphia is known but wliat they condemn some building! with satisfactory exactness from con¬ as illegal, and order its removal. When1 temporary records. In Penn’s Tract of) the owners receive such a notice, they Information and Direction to Such Per-J at once apply to the Councilman of sons as are Inclined to America” wej their ward, who presents an ordinance have a description of the first houses. legalizing the' building. This is gener¬ We may assume that the Welcome’s pas-ij ally passed by his colleagues, aud then sengers erected exactly such structures., the owner can defy the building in¬ the dimensions of which were about spectors. rI he City Solicitor, however, ins follows; they were 30 feet long and has just delivered an opinion that Coun¬ I,_— —_ r cils have no right to authorize by special, 18 feet wide, with a partition near the ordinance the erection of a frame build¬ middle, and another to divide each end! ing;, any such ordinance must be general1 of the house into two small rooms. in its scope. The buildings were constructed of That a la-w intended to prevent the) trunks of trees, the branches of which construction of wooden buildings in the1 of course were cut off, but the bark heart of a densely built-up and popu-j frequently left on. They were rudely lated city is a just one cannot but he I joined together, and an ordinary plaster acknowledged by any fair-minded per¬ used to fill up the crevices; the rooms were made... of rough - clap-boards.... wTheH iba>rd 6f&- iroraR r

7^ ft Lombard Spr

/V\oderr\ carrot Te'cted m me extreme. Sometimes -until houses, alttTCttgn exceedingly rude ini the last day of their existence they; 'construction, were quite substantial, and were tenanted, and others were boaided lasted for many years, some oven exist-, ins down to our times. They were thus) UPIn°Peynn’sS‘day, the great majority of much more substantial and not near as the bouses stood by themselves, bem„ dangerous as the frame buildings ofi constructed wunwith swansmall yards surround-r ‘ to-day, although the total cost for a[ ing,. this. according__.1 4to-^ +the ho -fAiirwlprfounder s lflGfidea, house and barn was not over £15, 10s. of a green country town. But as enii But even Penn early appreciated thatl gratiou increased, and the demand for brick or stone was a much better and property for building lots in the heart more substantial building material than of the city became great, rows of houses wood. He consequently encouraged the soon sprung up, and thus, although in settlers at a very early date to burn the early days the menace to surround¬ brick, and at least construct a portion ing property of frame buildings in case of of their dwellings out of this material, fire was not great, a time at last ai- Thus many houses were built with a rived when this argument against them timber frame work and brick walls, began to be reeoguized. after which time in the old Tudor Cottage style. This much fewer of them were constructed, sort, of building went on rapidly as soon although their erection was con¬ as limestone began to be quarried and tinued in the suburban districts, dowi burned. , , . to the passage of the ordinance m lbb In Penn’s Father s Account, etc., and even this law, as has been stated written in 16155, he mentions the fact has not been effectual—because it ha: that he had built bis brick house, prob¬ not been enforced—in altogether prevent ably the one in Letitia Court, which ing their erection, as at the presen is now standing in Fairmount l ark, time it has been conservatively esti “in good stvle and fashion, to encourage mated that there are several hundie others from building with wood.’’ And illegal frame buildings m the citj. Man he adds that “many brick houses are of these, however, have been legalize now going up.’ , , , . bv special ordinances passed by Council It is likely that Penn had much to con¬ after building inspectors had condemi tend with among the settlers m his attempts to encourage them to use € Y)f * course the law of 18G3 did not i brick as a building material; as wood anv way touch the frame buildup in anv quantity, and almost every var¬ which were in existence previous 1 iety, was to be had almost for the ask¬ that time, the only way to gi ing. The vast forests of Pennsylvania, rid of these structures being for tl which were once her pride, but which building inspectors to condemn then have now been ruthlessly destroyed, to and as such proceeding has alwaj the shame of her inhabitants, were • been viewed bv the public more or le: then in their virgin state, and the set¬ in the light of an arbitrary one, sm tlers had but a few squares at the most a course has not often been pursy ' to go from their homes, or the location To encourage the owners ot tray on which they desired to build, to se¬ structures, however, to pull them do\ cure good material. , , and build more respective dwells On the other hand, the cost of domes¬ in their place, the G-irard Estate paj s tic bricks was then quite high, while premium on all frame buildings destio the imported article was in price, far ed. This premium, of course, lane, beyond the means of the majority of the more or less according to the value colonists, imported bricks only being the structure, sometimes as much _ used by wealthy citizens, such for in¬ three or four hundred _ dollais ben stance, as the Proprietor himself, who paid for a destroyed building. undoubtedly built his fine mansion at There are, however, many old roc Spriggttsbiiry out of imported bricks. eries, some of which were construct His secretary, .Tames Logan, also con¬ years and years ago, when they sto structed his' home at Stenton out of in outlaying boroughs and villages ot the imported article. which the city had no restrictions b As new quarries were opened up and| were brought into the town proper brickyards started, the price of stone the Act of Consolidation of 1854. Utq< and brick was necessarily reduced, and aie to be found in the. very heart in the course of time was brought al¬ the old city proper, serving as very i most within the reach of the very hum¬ comfortable dwellings but. picttn esq blest builders. Thus it came to pass reminders of a building era ot the pa tlicit very shortly after Penn s Quaker In the course of time they will nat Town had become an assured success, ally be destroyed, indeed, day by cn most of the dwellings were built of their number is growing less, ana brick with stone foundation. Councils would enforce their laws No restriction, however, was placet, thev should, the time would not he 1 on the construction of frame dv ellings off * when frame buildings in I hilffl for manv years, and they continued phia would become as muon of art to be built occasionally in all sections ositr as Penn’s first brick house Mas of the city, but not as a. rule in con¬ the early settlers. ‘ifl spicuous locations; and in many cases when erected, were looked upon by tlieir owners, who were generally their occupants, as temporary affairs, mere makeshifts, until circumstances would alter to the extent of providing a m_ear for the construction of a more sub¬ stantial dwelling of brick m For some reason or other, many of the. e hopes were never realized, and thus- the frame buildings were alloyed to stand, until they became dilapidated and de i Quito a number of her possessions were ex¬ hibited at Chicago, and when Mrs. Gillespie was seen the other day at her home she had juM returned from the Wo,IPs Fair city ;0 . what a cold place!” she said. “I bo- liev I contracted the worst cold I ev^r-had in i , life out there. I was obliged to super- mtc/fj. the packing of every case of relics. 1 as to ■ ertain extent I held myself person- j al‘y J - Tol ble for their safe delivery to their owners, and, as you know, the collec-.; ticD was quite extensive, so I was obligated to spend some very cold days in the Govern- meL t Building before the last case was pi -ked. Thev are, however, pll home safe non •. I be- htvj, and I think I was aboc - the nr it uu- fori mate one of the exhibitors, as tbis • .can - tifu, teacup, which once belonged to Ft nk- lin, was broken, but. as you see, I ha. , hau it n -nded so well that none but an expert cai discover the crack, and I am onl- glad thf was my relic and not some of th< wther exhibitors that suffered.” RELICS OF FRANKLIN. Among the relics of Franklin, whi h Mrs. Gillespie displayed as he -mg been er.hibitei at the World’s Fair, wt&e three beautiful chir , plate which were .given t Frsrklif W . J Milr'r0-. Apparently tl;b platter aV : ^rWrr origin; the ware, liowever, i

i'tgiiiUlMj—-. —■ ..— i ■«— tS-r lespie showed a handsome fruit dish, evi¬ dently of French manufacture. The decora- tions on this dish represent a grapevine, the leaves, grapes and vine being raised from the surface of* the aish. DUPLESSIS’ FRANKLIN. There are two of these dishes,” said Mrs Gillespie, to my knowledge. One of them • 7- br

MRS. . The Painting by Hopper.

FRANKLIN CHINA, DINNER AND TEA SETS. '

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FRANCIS FOLGER FRANKLIN. From a Painting by an Unknown Artist, now Reproduced for the First Time.

'^aS 1ill,11:’rlnce would include almost "two- | Hanging close to Mrs. Bache’s portrait hundred different pictures, perhaps more. I Mrs. Gillespie’s wall is a likeness of her hus- „very curious old painting, owned by Mrs i band, Richard Bache. who was a native of j Gillespie, which is now for the first time re¬ Settle, Yorkshire, England. He was born on produced, is a portrait of Francis Folger September 12, 1737, and came to America ii ranfflin, who was born on the 20th day'of while young, entering business as a merchant. :June, 1732, 4nd died in November, 1736. This He married Sarah, Benjamin Franklin’s only boy was named after Franklin’s-mother’s daughter, on the 29th of October, 1767, and family, his grandfather beiDg Peter Folder succeeded his father-in-law as Postmaster iqmte a prominent man in his day in New .General of the United States, which office he England. 'Francis Folger Franklin was born 'held from November 17, 1776, until 1782. about two years after Franklin’s marriage A VALUABLE MINIATURE. fandsome twelve years before his sister, Mrs’ While chatting with Mrs. Gillesp regard- ,Gl,Uespie has a good portrait of ing the exhibition of colonial and Revolution¬ t u 6 lady’ a copy by SulIy after the ary relics at the Fair she was asked if she H°???r,Po/t^'t, which is owned by considered that there was much interest dis¬ ! Washington mS^CendaatS’ wbo resides in played in this exhibit. “Well, I must say ’ ’ she remarked, “that I was at first slightly skeptical regarding the general interest in

X the s'TbJect,' and, therefore, took pains to ob¬ months later she, with her Kusband and serve how the re Vies were viewed by^tlie vis¬ family, removed to the farm in Mont¬ itors.’ I noticed there was always a crowd of gomery township where she has since! people around the cases, who appeared to resided. Her mother was a resident ofi read with great interest the inscriptions on Germantown in her youth, and was family the various items exhibited ; nor did there iar with the scenesAnd Incidents of the appear to be any particular class who took an War of the Revolution, particularly the| especial interest in the subject, but those battle of Germantown and the occupation from the cities, and others from the rural of Philadelphia by the British. Her fam¬ districts, young and old, men and women, ily lineage can be traced until the time of well dressed and poorly clad, all seemed to be William the Gonquerer, thefounderof the; eqnally attracted. family being one of the Conqueror’s “There certainly is a fascination about an knights, and received a large grant of article of furniture, tableware or personal land in England for him. She was the apparel that once belonged to a very distin- youngest and last of three sisters, who L guished person whose name has become a attained the ages of 100 years and 11 household word, yet who passed from the moilths; 97 years, and 93 years 10 months, scene of their earthly labors years before thei and 12 days respectively. Her children! present generation came into existence. Qne1 surviving are as follows: John P.,Thomas day I stool for some time beside the case! J , Mary A., Dr. M. R., of Gwynedd, and which contained my Franklin relics, together! Charles S., of Montgomery Square." with many other interesting curiosities, and listened to the remarks of the spectators. I overheard one man, who said he had come from the far West, remark to his wife and a party of companions: ‘Well, 1 would have From,.l/a* c , , < ^ taken this trip twice over again just to see these relics of Franklin; to me they aTC of the greatest interest.’ Consequently I at last came to the conclusion that the American people take considerably more interest in their ancestors and in prominent personages of their country’s history than has been gen- - Bate, dkc, y ' ./tvo.. erally attributed to them.”

From,. METHODISM

. GERMANTOWN|

Bate, / / , A Sketch of the Infancy and Pro- | gress of the Denomination, ALMOST A CK.N7.WKV OLD,

Remarkable Longevity of a Family LAYING OF THE CORNER-STONE Deoended from a Knight of Wil¬ liam the Conqueror. The Ceremonies Conducted by Mrs. Of the life Mrs. Mary Knapp, widow of Dorothy Regar, the Only Case on! the late A. P. Knapp, Esq., who died at Record of a Woman Officiating in her residence In Montgomery Square, on Such a Capacity—John Cbannon,! the morning of December 12, in the 98th year of her age, the North Wales Record One of the First Sunday-School | relates the following interesting particu¬ Scholars, Still Living. lars : “ Mary Worrell Knapp was the daugh- ter of John Hawley Worrell, of Frank- The special revival services at the ford, Philadelphia, who was during1 the1 First Methodist Episcopal Church, war of 1812 and previous thereto an ex¬ tensive manufacturer of gun powder at | Haines street, during the past week, his-miii property on Frankford Greek. At have attracted large audiences, aod the dbath of the celebrated Commodore drawn together many who were either Stephen Decatur, John Hawley Worrelli Sunday-school scholars or members of purchased May 10th, 1810, of the execu¬ tors of his estate his residence and mili the old church, but who have wandered property on the banks of Frankford away from their first love and connected Greek, and removed thereto, where the themselves with other religious denomi¬ early girlhood of Mary was snent until nations hereabouts. her marriage in her 18th year, to Abram -Phelps Knapp, a native of Connecticut, A short sketch and pencil drawing of[ home years later, she, with her father ’The old First Church at this time will and husband, removed to Huntingdon county, Pa., (at that time almost a wil¬ doubtless be quite interesting, as the derness) and engaged in the improve¬ history of Methodism in Germantown ment of a large tract of land. begins prior to the Revolutionary War, “The father’s health falling, they re- turned to Frankford, in 1834, and a few and has from time to time included THE FIRST METHODIST CHURCH IN GERMANTOWN.

among its membership some of the fore- I direct descendant ~~of_’ Francis Daniel most citizens of this historical old town. Pastorius, a member of the Dunkard About the year 1773 Bishop Francis Church, in upper Germantown, made Ashby, the apostle of Methodism in a short address, and Mrs. Dorothy Regar America, came to Germantown, and gave out a hymn, after the singing of preached to a large assemblage in the which she offered up a prayer, and pro- Dutch Reformed Church, at Market Iceeded to lay the corner-stone. This is Square. Afterwards there were occa¬ probably the only case on record of a sional outdoor preaching by itinerant | woman officiating in such a capacity. ministers. In 1795 Jacob Reger, of Nearly ninety years afterwards the Germantown, married Miss Dorothy female members of the same church were Schraeder, of Philadelphia. Owing to given a voice in important business mat¬ the fact that there was no Methodist ters, a graceful compliment to the only church in Germantown, the young i woman in the world who had ever been man had to make a promise that he honored in the laying of a corner-stone would take his wife and mother in-law of a church which has been one of to St. George’s Church, Philadelphia, the most influential in the State. which promise he religiously kept after lu the year 1818 the building wa the family removed to Germantown found to be too small for the increasin The meetings were afterwards held in congregation, and an addition wa jjacob Reger’s house, on Haines street, erected on the northeast end. Money near Main; at the t Id Germantown in those days was scarce and the con Academy, on School stree'; at Joseph tributions were not as liberal as at Jacobs’ hou-e, Main and Mill streets, present. Samuel Harvey made an ap¬ where Charles L. Eberle’s store stands; peal to the conference, requesting mem¬ at Frederick Axe’s residence, Main bers to pay as near five cents a week as street, where the store of the late Gideon possible. This appeal was followed for Keyser is located. a time, but it was necessary to remind the members occasionally that money In the year 1804 the first Methodist was needed to carry on the good work, church was erected on Bickins’ lane now Haines street, on the site of the when the collections would be liberal'. In 1822 a new church was erected on Haines street merry-go-round, on a lot the present site of the First Church at a 60 by 100 feet, at a cost of about $1300. cost of $2qoo. The old building was When the day and hour arrived for the sold, and in after years it was used as an laying of the corner-stone at the infant school, where thousands of chil¬ dedication ceremonies, the Rev. Ezekiel Cooper, who was sta¬ dren acquired the first principles of the three R’s, until it was purchased by Wi¬ tioned in Philadelphia, failed to put nona Council, No. 63, Jr. O. U. A. M., an appearance, and Daniel Pastorius, a several years ago. In 18331 churcli was enlarged by the ^qldftton of a gallery and vestibule, and in 1843 more alterations were made to the pulpit. L In 1854 the second Methodist church, was organized by a number of members * V - J* from Haines Street Church, the Rev. Newton Heston becoming pastor of the new charge in 1856. In 1858 the present church edifice was erected at a cost of $12 ,000. Since that! time, however, considerable money has been expended on the way of improv- ments. It is one of the largest in Ger mantown. There is ample room, therefore for all who wish to attend these special . revival services the coming week. The Sunday school connected with this church was organized in 1818, by the Rev. John Price, a circuit preacher. John P. Watson, the author of Watson’s : Annals, was teacher of the boys, and Ann Bowinan of the girls. John C. Channon, now^jver eighty years of age, residing on Maifi street, above Tulpe- hocken, we understand, was a scholar in the first Sunday-school, and the only survivor of those who were brought together to be catechized by the Rev. Date, ; Mr. Price over seventy five years ago. THE VENN HEIRS' CLAin illLLIONS

THEY LIVE IN JERSEY AND WILL ASTONISH THE BANK OF ENGLAND DIRECTORS.

After Winning $10,000,000 There They Will Use It to Fight for $50,000,000 Worth of the Earth Lying in the State and City Founded by William Penn.

The descendants of William Penn, people will be interested in knowing those most of whom are residents of Jersey, who propose either in law or equity to assert a claim to a fortune which they upset titles to real estate all oyer Phila¬ estimate at $65,000,000. and $10,000,000 delphia ; to crippie the capital of tlie of which they confidently expect to win 8ank of England and grab a large slice and receive for distribution in a few af property in Prance, too. months. They claim $10,000,000 against The prime mover in the matter is the the Bank of England and it is this only living wearer of the illustrious claim which, if all the Penns say is name of William Penn, a direct descend¬ true, will make the Bank of England ant of the founder, who is the father of directors feel ten times as sick as they a large and prosperous family and is an did when they discovered that their upholsterer in Newark, N. J. This Will-! cashier had dropped a million in bad iam Penn was especially invited to at¬ speculations a few weeks ago. tend the Penn day celebration in the! The Penns claim about $50,000,000 Philadelphia public schools so that the worth of earth in the grand old State of school children might see of what stuff, Pennsylvania, including acres and acres of what sort of flesh and blood the found¬ of ground in the very centre of Phila¬ er of this city and State was composed, delphia, part of the very foundations of making allowances for the modifications the Pennsylvania Railroad terminal. of time and anti-liereditary influences Representatives of the Penn heirs who during many generations of Jersey were seen about the subject were either environments. ’able or unwilling to make explanations But William Penn was unable to .t would raise their claim above the come, and, as a consequence, the school arance of absurdity to an outside children also failed' to see a precious ver, but nevertheless they said old book written by Penn while im¬ h to show the sincerity of their prisoned in the London Tower, and and to make the Penn family in- ■fidiich his descendant keeps ever ig to the public at this time. ~ The near himself under Jock and key. The book is mentioned not only because it Eliza is the only one living, and she 85 years of age, and resides at Elizabeth, N. J., hep marriage name being Sorrell. (3) Robert Penn, of the same gener- ition, had children, Thomas, John, Jo¬ seph, Stephen, Robert, Mary. (3) Phoebe, of the same generation, tad children, Joseph, Robert, Sarah, Catharine and Mary. (4) Eliza, of the generation marked 3), has had chilcien, Mary. Martha, uarriet, Eliza, Daniel, Thomas, Henry. . (4) John, of the generation marked (3), a son of Robert had children, Wil¬ liam, David, John, (Charles, Susan and is a curiosity in itself, which the present Mary. owner will never part with unless at (4) Robert’s son Robert, of the gen¬ a big price, but is an important part eration mai’ked (3), had one son, Ed¬ of the proof of their right to the $10,- ward. . i |000,000 in the Bank of England, (5) William Penn, of the generation j The Penns have had their claim in marked (4), married his second cousin, ' the hands of a set of big New York Harriet, daughter of Eliza, and they lawyers, and William Penn gave the are living to-day at Newark, and their | name of Bathieu Brothers, Broadway, children are Ann, Eliza, John, William, New York. This firm of lawyers, owing Harriet and Lucy. either to mistaken address or misspell¬ (5) William’si brother, David, is alive , » ing of the name, have not been found and has ehiidrep, Laura, Louis, Francis, by the “Inquirer’s” New York corres¬ and David. pondent. However, Mr. Penn said at (5) William’s brother, John, died re¬ the time of the interview that Lawyer cently, leaving to represent him one Bathieu was then in England working child, Mary Rosina. on the case. The Penn family was (5) Charles is living with his children, daily expecting good word from him, I Sarah. Alice, Charles and George. and even hopeful of the distribution of (5) Susan is living with children, Har- the fund yet in the month of Novem¬ j riet, Laura, Helen and James. ber. I (5) Mary is dead, leaving to repre¬ | The most communicative one of the sent her Annie, Teresa and William. parties interested in this claim for mil¬ Those named in the paragraphs lions was found to be a son-in-law of marked (5), with Stephen and Eliza, are the existing William Penn, named declared to be the living descendants of David J. Cohen, of Newark,' who gave he information about the present mem- the Penn family. ers of the Penn family, being thor- Eliza lives at Elizabeth: William, the ughly posted how the fortune will be upholsterer, and Harriet live at 80 rlivided. He traces the branches from Thirteenth avenue. Newark: David is a William Penn, the founder, as follows: painter at Montclair: Charles is a.shoe- I (1) First after William there were rnaker in Brooklyn; Susan is married to George Penn and Thoiras Penn, James Tyrrell, of Orange; John, who j (2) In the next generation there were died recently, was a Brooklyn merchant; |Tohn, Robert, Mary and Phoebe Penn. Robert is a farmer. [ (3) John Penn, of th’- last named The Penn heirs claim that the fortune generation, had children, William, Eliza, must by law be divided in four parts [Sarah, and Amanda Penn, of whom represented by Eliza and Stephen, who are living, and the representatives of John and Robert, deceased. | The evidence on which they base their demand for $10,G0(),ff0(3 against the counsel >t the other sic Bank of England is alleged to be an old to know his case, was..— --shown to an bank book which has bee* mysteriously “Inquirer” reporter. Its owner had been passed down from William Penn, who offered $700 for it. There was only concealed this great fortune from his¬ one place that it ought to go. be said, tory in some way. This bank book is and that was to Pennsylvania. Glad¬ declared to be wrongfully in the pos¬ dened to hear his inherited partiality session of Stephen Penn. for Pennsylvania the reporter sug- One of the Penn family said Stephen i gested that he should present it to the was in London and was a broker. He Pennsylvania Historical Society. is accused of having obtained wrong¬ Mr. Penn seemed to take kindly to the ful possession of the bank hook m 18TL idea that the Historical Society ought to and to have wrongfully drawn $400,000 have it and admitted with evident re¬ interest on the deposit sinije that time. luctance that it could be bought for He obtained the book from Mary Vyon enough money. Mr. Penn “could not” a Penn who married a Frenchman of let the reporter copy out the queer old that name, and at her death in 18 il passages in the middle of the book^ be¬ the book should have come to Lliza cause of the caution of his New York Penn of Elizabeth, N. L. though by lawyers, but consented to allow a part what’ process of law the claimants do of the preface to be copied, as he agreed with the suggestion that that could do "IttftWdetails in the story his cause no harm. He held the lamp I WUham asserted that "his lawyers hard by while the reporter took a few quaint passages, from the old book, and refused even to go to his supper while the work was being done. The book .is about au inch and a half thick, G liches long, bv 4 inches wide. It is marked London, William Penn said. Thais "Printed and sold by Andrew Sowle

TK-biit I do not want to tell. annoIll HI 1082”1UO- tiuvxand Penn’s° prefaceP*-v . is dated The only other piece of evidence which “Wr„-,ninfrhiirstWorminghurst in Suffex the 1st of the William Penn puts forward as a basis 6th month 1682.” It is covered with of theto claim is a curious old book, heavy calfskin and is in an excellent which speaks its own genuineness, hay state of preservation for a book 211 tog been written by William Penn whde years old. Every line can be read. The imprisoned in the Tower of London. whole is dedicated to the task of up¬ rChe possession of this book is alleged to holding “virtue and temperance” and be necessary to prove the real descend¬ the twenty-two chapters contain quota¬ ants of Penn. The book is said to have tions from the writings of a hundred or tfeen carried to London . several times in more authors in every age of literature. connection with the litigation against The preface reads in part as follows: the Bank of England, and to compel “Reader, the great business of man's Stephen Penn to account for the wrong¬ life is to answer the end for which he ly taken interest. The fact that such lives, and this is to glorify God and save heavy litigation could have escaped pub¬ his own soul. This is the decree of licity did not seem to disabuse the minds Heaven as old as the world. But so it of the Penn heirs. When this was sug¬ is that man mindeth nothing less than gested to them, they said that the mat what he should most mind and de- ter had been worked along very quietly ‘•piseth to inquire into his own mind, They mention among other things that its original duty, and end, choosing their New York lawyer, who could not rather to dedicate his days (the steps he be found, had been obliged to come all should make to blessedness) to gratify the way back to Washington after his the pride, avarice, and luxury of his first trip to London, because he must I heart as if be had been born for him¬ get papers from the Secretary of State self or rather given himself being, and iu order to entitle him to pursue the so not subject to the reckoning and judg¬ fortune in London. ment of a superior power, to this wild The old Penn book, entitled, “No and lamentable pass hath poor man Cross, No Crown,” though guarded with brought himself by his disobedience to jealous care by its present possessor, the law of God in his heart by doing William Penn, under advice from his that which he knows he should not do and leaving undone that which he knows he should do. And as long n* this dis¬ ease continueth upon man. he will mlk| God his enemy and himself incapable\f love and salvation that He has maifl fested by his own Christ Jesus to th world. If, reader, thou art such an one mv cause! to thee is to retire into thy¬ self and take a view of the condition of thy soul, for Christ will give the li.-ht with which to do it. Search carefully and thoroughly, thy life is ui>on it th soul is at stake * * Chnsts is Christ’s way to Christ s crown. T | the subject of the following discou as writ during my, confinement m ' Tower of London in the year B>6S, n. represented with enlargements of matter and testimony. eternal jfSdtswsrs *» * *»*■“• ~ 4

The chapters treat of the cross, its necessity, its meaning, and of pride, ar¬ Touching Scenes and incidents at rogance, luxury, virtue, temperance. The the Gathering of the Veterans. heathen writers and warriors are quoted freely. Then at the close of the book A Banquet Follows a is a letter from Penn’s father, in which he says: “Firstly, let nothing in this .-.Business Meeting. world tempt you to act against your conscience; secondly, what you design to - 'do, do justly and reasonably, and "be not troubled with disappointments.” The One Hundred and Fourteenth Penn¬ William Penn, the present owner of sylvania Volunteer*,the Zouaves D’Afrique, the book, declares that it is the only held their twenty-third annual reunion yesS .copy in existence, though he said there were copies of another edition of the terday afternoon at the hall of Post i9, G. (work. He wouldn't let it go to the I A.R., Marshall Street, below Girard Ave¬ [World’s Fair for fear of its being lost. nue. There was present as the chief guest [There are other Penn relics in the fam¬ of the association a member of the regi¬ ily. A diary kept by the founder after his coming to America is in the hands ment whom the other veterans have not of Eliza Penn, at Elizabeth, along with seen since the close of the war—Mr3. Rich¬ some old coins which he canned, but ard Leonard, or, as she was known during she keeps them under lock and key. The pictures that are given are those1' the campaigns, "French Mary.” Her re¬ I of the present William Penn and some ception was truly affecting, and she was jof his children, most of whom live with literally welcomed with open arms. him at 80 Thirteenth avenue, Newark, As each veteran came forward to shake N. J. hands with their beloved vivandiere, even Lawyers and others well posted in though the thirty years separation had historical and 'egal matters declare that bletted many of their taces and names from there is not the remotest possibility un¬ der the sun that such a fortune, as the memory, the relation of some small inci¬ Penn heirs expect daily to be distrib¬ dent recalled the speaker to her mind. The uted, is in the Bank of England to their tears would well up in her eyes as the death I credit, and one able gentleman said: of some comrade was related, and many a [“The only question that arises out of touching scene was retold for old times’ the story is whether some lawyers are sake. Mary stated emphatically that when [working a fake on the Penn heirs or she died her little vivandiere whisky keg whether some of the Penn heirs are would go “to the One Hundred and Four¬ working a fake on son eoody else.” A teenth men, and nobody else.” failure and reorganization of the Bank MARY’S UNIFORM. of England has occurred since Penn’s There stands in the hall the figure of a [time. The absurdity of aDy possible [claim to lands in Pennsylvania would zouave dressed in the uniform of the One appear in many ways, but especially in Hundred and Fourteenth Regiment, and I the old acts of ihe law-making power when this was pointed out to Mary sne 1 of the State, confirming all titles that exclaimed: “Why.dat’s like I used to wear, | were long ago questioned by reason of only I had a dress. I got one like dat at [any doubtful or missing link in convey¬ i home.” After every member of the associa¬ ances from Penn. tion had shaken hands with Mary and The plan of the Penn heirs, however, bad a short talk with her the association ias soon as they get the 810,000,000 cash was called to order by President A. H. G. . from England, is to use that to fight Richardson. _ , |for their lands in Pennsylvania. The committee on the Gettysburg monu¬ ment reported its good condition, and the Sons of Veterans committee made an ex¬ cellent report of its work, it numbering now 120 members. At the election of officers for the ensuing vear Albert O. Smith was chosen pres¬ ident; Thomas C. Campbell, first vice-pres ident; John A. Tricker, second vice-pres¬ ident; W. E. Hoffman, adjutant; B.L.My¬ ers, corresponding secretary, A.C. Brown, treasurer, and A. W. Given, chaplain. Date, THE VETERANS’ BANQUET. A banquet was given in the evening at Franklin Street and Fairmount Avenue. About 125 covers were laid, and the ball ZOUAVES’ VIVANDIERE was neatly decorated with flags and greens. The newly-elected president, Albert C. Smith,presided and near him was seated the TOLD COMRADES. guest, of the evening, “French Mary. ’ Her little /ivandiere keg occupied a prominent place on the table. After the excellent supper had been dis¬ ‘French Mary” at the Reunion of posed of, General Charles H.T.Collis, who commanded the One Hundred and Four¬ the 114th Regiment, P.V. teenth Regiment, responded to the toast, f‘Tbe One Hundred and Fourteenth Penn¬ sylvania Volunteers.” .... , I He spoke of the regiment’s history dur¬ HEB OLD KEG WAS WITH BEE. ing the war and recalled to the .minds of his men anecdotes which had slipped the memory of many. He was followed by MARY’S OWN STORY. Mary is a Frenchwoman, having been born in Paris in 183e. She speaks English brokenly and her modesty made her ill-

The Famous Whisky Keg.

disposed to say much about herself,but she finally consented to relate the strange story of her life. When but a girl of 14 years the revolu¬ tion in the city of Paris broke _ out, and during its progress she bad her first sight of fighting and bloodshed. Her experience! in this conflict gave birth to the liking she has always displayed for a life of adven- i ture. in 1849 there came to Paris a young j German, Bernardo Tebe, to finish hia trade) as tailor. Meeting the sweet little French girl he promptly fell in love, and after a short courtship they were married, ai-j though Mary was but 15 years of age. As they were both desirous of seeing, new lands and new adventures,they crossed the English Channel, shortly after then- wedding, and settled down in London in 1850. Four years after their arrival the Crimean war broke out, and Tebe enli6ted.

‘‘French Mary,” the Vivandiere of the Zouaves D’Afrique.

Comrade Edward Williams, who in lieu of a camp-fire song, recited one of Eiley a

10“The^Tbird^Army1 Corps"’ -as the toast on which Corporal James Tanner spoke. He spoke of the warm welcome Philadel¬ phia always had for troops passing through at any hoar of the day or night. Of the work accomplished by the soldiers of the late war, he said that all we have to-day is what we get as heirs from them and con- eluded br saying emphatically. I nose soldiers did not countenance the tearing down ofX American flag; they did not look with favor upon the grabbing of a, struggling young republic by the throat and the restoration of a dissolu te queen to ^

^Wilham Grew delivered an address on “The Enlisted Men of the One Hundred and Fourteenth,” and General Ember of the Sixth Pennsylvania Cavalry, spoke on

^ After*nfuch persuasion and with a great deal of reluctance ” Frea£Ma,Xit£“ *21 duced to address the members With every Mary Leonard of To Day. fine of her face expressing the happiness Mary insisted on accompanying her bus sba felt, she said :— , . , “Well boys, I can’t talk very good , but band’s regiment, and they went through T am very glad to tee you, because you the entire campaign together. treat me scfgood. Boys, i wish you would AGAIN AT THE FRONT. come to Pittsburg next year and I will try After peace had been restored the pair to do the best I oan for you. You under came together to Philadelphia in 1856, stand me? I will be going home row,but I am very glad I saw you and very where Tebe set up a tailoring shop and sorry I am going home.” bis" wife helper) the household fund by The 119th and 121st Regiments Celebrate dressmaking. ,The call for troops at the Fredericksburg Fight. outbreak of Ihe Rebellion again stirred The 119th and the 121st Regiments Penn¬ Mary’s valorous heart, and.making herself sylvania Volunteers celebrated the thirty- a vivandiere’s uniform, she joined the reg¬ first anniversary of the Battle of Fredricks- iment in which her husband had enlisted, burg last evening by banquets. the Twenty-seventh Pennsylvania Volun¬ That of the 119tb Regiment was presided teers. Mary carried a stock of imall sup¬ over by Gideon Clark. An opening prayer plies and her little keg of liquor,and in this was offered by the chaplain of the regi¬ way earned no small amount. In addition ment, B. R. Taylor.and the secretary, Jacob to the regular soldier’s pay, 25 cents a day Scheldt, read letters of regret from H. G. was given her for services in the hospital. Wright, George W. Getty,General M.T. Mc¬ By industry she had managed to save Mahon, Elisha H. Rhoades, General Calvin $1600, which she kept in her boot. By E. Pratt, Colonel Charles J. Field, who put Borne unfortunate accident her husband the regiment in the field, and R. S. West¬ found this out and communicated it to brook. Chaplain Miller recited a poem, some of his countrymen in the regiment. “The Volunteer Soldiers” Major Landel re¬ These companions after getting him intoxi¬ cited a history of the battle, George W. cated, induced him to make an attempt to Johnson gave a history oE the regiment, steal her small fortune; and when Mary appropriate remarks were made by woke the next morning, she found the boot Colonel Gray, while the orator of tile slit up the leg and the money gone. This evening, General J.W.Latta, made an in¬ act disgusted her with army lite, and re¬ spiring reminiscent speech which was gardless of the wishes of Colonel Einstein, greatly enjoyed. who was in command, she resolvod to Prior to the banquet of the 121st Regi¬ come North. General McClellan was to ment the electiou of officers cccurrec review the troops, however, in a few days, at the regimental headquarters od Fil¬ and she was persuaded to stay and laundry bert Street, which resulted as follows the suits of the officers. On review day, President, Thomas Simpson; vice-presi in her handsome uniform, she took her [dents, William W. Strong and Charie place by the colors, and when the General iBarlow: secretary, John Galbraith, an< saw her, he stopped, and added his request treasurer, Joshua Jarsed. A number o to the other that she should not leave the informal speeches were made at the ban army. It was all to no effect, and Mra. quet and two recitations were given b; Tebe reached Philadelphia with but $13 in Private J. L. Smith, of the 118th Regiment her pocket. and the former president of the 121st JOINS THE ZOUAVES. William D. Baldwin. Shortly after her arrival, Charles H. T. ,Collis, who was organizing the Zouaves D’Afrique, heard through correspondents at Washington, of her great worth, and after much persuasion, she consented to join his regiment. In the Spring of 1S62 she again reached Washington. Over a year later the Zouaves and the Twenty- seventh Regiment were thrown into close contact, and on the second morning of the battle of Gettysburg a number of men were advancing along the line, inquiring for the Zouaves. Having found the regiment,they Ciaypole Family Papers. , asked for Mary Tebe, and requested her to , a boy yesterday delivered to Clerk Edward follow them to the Wheat Field, where a ’Nichols a neatly w\/pped parcel, which He I dying man wanted to see h^r. Their de¬ said was sent by the Rev. Dr. Hughes O. Gib¬ scription convinced Mary that it was her bous, Pastor of the Old Pine Street. Presbyte- | husband and though urged not to make the jrian Church, to see if the owner could be 'attempt, she insisted upon going. j found. The package was left on a counter of A guard was detailed to accompany her a men’s furnishing goods store, at the corner I and she found Tebe dying of wounds. She of Fourth and Spruce streets, about two was just in time to see him die. months ago. The package contained three i She continued with the One Hundred and ancient documents. On the outside of the one I Fourteenth Regiment, or Zouaves, and be- there was the following writing: • ‘The prop¬ jfore the war was out fell in love with a erty of Elizabeth Ciaypole, May 5th, 1794. handsome Maryland orderly,Richard Leon¬ The legacy of Sarah Hollowell to her niece, ard. She was married to him at Culpepper. Elizabeth Ciaypole.” Inside was the cover The Rebei3 were making an attack upon leaf of a Bible, on which there was printed the place, and the ceremony was inter¬ the following: ‘‘Containing the Old and New rupted, so that no marriage certificate was Testaments, together with the Apocrypha, made out; but they were afterward mar¬ translated out of the original tongues, and, ried again. with the former translations, diligently com¬ During the war “French Mary” was in pared and revised by the special command of thirteen of the principal battles, among King James 1st, of England, with original I them Fredericksburg, Fair Oaks, Gettys¬ notes and references, to which are added an burg, Chancellorsvilleand Winchester. lier index and an alphabetical table of all the 'first engagement was at the fir3t battle of names in the Old and New Testaments, with Bull Run. She carries a bullet in her left their significations. ” The work was ‘‘printed ankle received at Fredericksburg, at the press in Worcester, Massachusetts, b> j Besides two medals and her little keg, Isaiah Thomas, by him in Worcester, and b> she has a lilver oup she prizes highly, pre¬ him and company at Faust’s statue, No. 4i sented to her by Lieutenant-Colonel Ca- Newbury, MDCCXCI. ” vada, inscribed : “To Marie, for bravery The second of the documents is in the form 'shown on the field of battle.” of a certificate stating that James Claypo'.e, ol London, and Helena Merces were married on FOUGHT THEIR BATTLES O’ER. the 12th day of the 12th month, 1657, at Bre¬ men Germany. Also, that they set out from Gravesend on the 25th day of the 5th month. 1083, and arrived in Philadelphia the 8th day ot the 8th month, 1683. They came on the ship Concord, Captain Jeffrys commander. Joseph; Claypole departed on the 6th day of the 6th From, month, 1687, and was buried in Friends’ buriaii place,Philadelphia. Helena Claypole died onl the 13th day (the month is illegible), 1688, and wasburied in Friends’, burial place, at Phila¬ delphia, Mulberry street. It is then mentioned TZhe^t:. that William Claypole, grandson of the above named James, was born in Philadelphia in; the year 1711, and was buried in Friends’ Date, burial place in February. 1779. Elizabeth, his daughter, was born in Philadelphia Octo'-j ber 1st, 1718,and died May 3d, 1805; John Clay-1 r A RARE 4|U6 BOOK. pole, son of the above-named William and Elizabeth, was born August loth, 1752, in The First Directory for the City of Mount Holly, N. J., and was buried in Christ Phiiiulelpbta. Church burying ground, and it is stated that, We have been sho wn a copy of the first di¬ for his offspring, you are to see page 1015 of rectory of the city of Philadelphia, published this book. in the year 1785 by Francis White, who kept The third paper is a record of the marriage an intelligence office, and was ‘’a dealer in of John Claypole, son of William and Eliza¬ public securities of every kind, at Chestnut beth Claypole, to Elizabeth Ashburn, widow between Third and Second’ streets.” The of Joseph, and daughter of Samuel and Re- book contains about 3,700 nanies of citizens becka Griscom, on the 8th of May, 1783. Then and honsekeepersi with their occupations, follows a list of the offspring and the dates of nearly alljof whom areloeated east of Seventh their death and other information. street. As the houses were not numbered, Mr. Nichols said that he would take charge! places of business and residences were given of the papers, and show them with pleasure/; on certain streets between two other streets. to any one interested in them. / The preface is as follows: The publishers of this Directory has en- endeavored to remedy the frequent com¬ plaints made at his office, by strangers and others, for the want of a more easy guide to From,. .Qk&utZJL* find out any person they might have busi¬ ness with, and notwithstanding his care to render it correct, it being the first of the kind published here, It cannot be expected to be ■wholly complete. He therefore hopes the indulgent public will excuse any errors or omissions which may appear, as he in¬ tends to have the next as correct as can possibly be collected. This collection took Date, > place 1st September, and was sent to the press under the present alphabet, rather than detain it, as the longer such is on hand, the I The Claypole Papers Restored. the more false and useless it will appear—the next shall be aiphabeted, so as to find any f George Camby, of 1111 South Penn person’s name at a view. Francis White. ' Square, came to the Orphans’ Court this Intelligence Office, Chestnut street, \ morning nnd claimed the supposed auciedt . . . October 27, 1785. J | document.*, which belonged to ti.e Claypole In addition to names of residents are the family. Mr. Camby staled to Clerk Ed¬ following named as contents: The members of Congress, grand depart-: ward Niehols that* he is the grandson of ments of the United States, members in Elizabeth Clayp >le, and has the original Council, members in Assembly, Judges and family Bible in bis possession. The docu¬ Justices of the Peace, public State offices.; ments, Mr. Camby stat.d, were photo- Counsellors at law, ministers of the gospel, ^«rphic copies of the originals, prepared physicians and surgeons. President, direc¬ tors, days and hours of business at the bank.1 for family distribution. They are records of Professors at the University. Rates of poster- marriages and births of the descendants of age as established by law. Arrivals and de¬ John and Elizabeth Claypole. The photo¬ parture of all ports and stages. The society graph of the fly-ieaf of the Bible was taken of Cincinnati, the committee, their places of meeting and abode. s > that it could be restored to its original place. The book is now the property of Mr. C. B. Lee, whose great-grandfather, Mr. Francis 1 he papers were lost a few months ago, Lee, is named as the proprietor of the one but other copies existed, and Mr. Camby is daily stage line between Philadelphia and now engaged in distributing them among New York. The book appears to have come the other members of the family. down through the possession of John Scott, ibe maternal great-grandfather of Mr. Lee. Mr. Camby saw a publication in a news¬ Mr. Lee proposes donating this book to the paper, and at once went to the Orphans’ archiv es of the Chester County Historical So* Court and received the papers as stated. ciety. Elizabeth Claypole’s maiden name was El zabeth Griscom, daughter of Samuel Griscom, and she married first John Boss, an upholsterer, who died in January, 1778, leaving her the young widow, Betsy Rossi who made the first American flag, at the' little old fashioned house still standing, 249 Arch street. She afterwards married Cnpt. Joseph Ashburn, and after nis death mar¬ ried Johu Claypole in 1793.

I V. . »>...• W ~ ' tDBH* - V Date, Date . WASH 1NGTON WAS A KICKER. MWISII CONGREGATION ^ne of His Seders Falls Info the Hands of a Local Admirer. A novel but valuable Christmas pres- OLDER TBANfBE NATION. ent was yesterday received by J. Clay¬ ton Krb, of the Keystone News Bureau, fiorn Major Samuel A. Losch, the Schuylkill County legislator. It is an Mickve Israel, Which Had Its Ori- j autograph letter written to’ in March, 178.J, troni * gin in Meetings in 1726. iMount Vernon to Matthew Carey in ! reference to the Evening Herald, just started by Mr. Carey. The letter evi¬ dences the fact that people n. those ORGANIZED WORSHIP IN 1747. days were just as prone to appropriate other people’s newspapers as they are now, and the letter, which follows, speaks for itself: . First Synagogue Built in 1782—Ad¬ “Sir—I purposed so soon as I under¬ stood you intended to become the pub¬ dress of Fealty to George Wash¬ lisher of a newspaper m Philadelphia to request that a copy of your weekly ington— Rabbi Morais’ Long production might he sent to me. I was the more pleased with this determina¬ Service. tion when, by a letter from my friend, the Marquis de la Fayette, I found he had interested himself in your behalf. It has so happened that my Gazettes The recent death of Horace Moses, the from Philadelphia, whether from in¬ last residuary legatee of the late Hyman attention, printing or post oflices or other Gratz, which clears the way for a munifi¬ causes, came very irregularly to my I hands. Let me pray you therefore to cent bequest to Mickve Israel Congrega¬ address those you send to me in the tion of this city amounting to $150,000 for appearance of a letter. The common the erection of a Jewish college for the ■ paper usually applied will do equally training up and education of teachers, well for the cover. It has sometimes occurred to me that there are persons brings at this time the Synagogue of who, wishing to read newspapers with¬ Mickve Israel, with its scholastic and out being of the- expense of paying for venerable Eabbi, Hr. Sabato Morais, aDd them make free with those which are addressed to others. Under the garb of the history of its early congregation into a letter it is not presumable this lioerty Special prominence, and deservedly so, an * would be taken. it lays claim to being one of the oldest I am, sir, Jewish congregations in this country. Y’r most obed sev , G. WASHINGTON. As far back as 1726 Arnold Bamberger The letter was found away back in the (owned land, in this vicinity, and with his 70s by the then Secretary of the Com- family and several of hiB faith residing ' monwealth, John Blair Linn, while com- nearby held worship according to the be¬ j piling the archives of the State. It was lief of their fathers at his home, which i subsequently presented to Major Losch, was for a time within the limits of what land the latter now presents it to Mr. is now the city. Erb, who is a sort of mild bibhomamad,. The nucleus, however, of a congregation began to meet regularly for worship long before the in a quaint old house located in Sterling Alley, during the year 1747. The plot of land occupied by the Jewish Cemetery on the north side of Spruce Street,between Eighth and Ninth Streets, which was purchased by Nathan Levy as early as 1738, and where he and several members of bis family were buried, was some time afterward sold to the Portu¬ guese Congregation of Mickve Israel (Hope of Israel) by the remaining members of the Levy family, which was the means of stimulating into a permanent existence the earliest methods adopted by the Hebrews for their ancient forms of worship in this city. 142

INTERIOR VIEW OF MICKVE ISRAEL SYNAGOGUE. THE FIRST SYNAGOGUE BUILT. Josephson and dated Philadelphia, Decem¬ In 1773 a movement was made toward the ber 13, 1790, as well as a courteous reply permanent establishing of this congrega¬ returned to the leaders of the congregation tion, and on September 13, 1782, the first by the first Chief Executive of the United regular synagogue building on the north States. side of Cherry Street, above Third, by Rev. The little congregation had its vicissitudes and struggles and for a time received financial assistance from Hayim Solomon, a wealthy Hebrew, who during the term of President Madison came to the rescue of .Aw the Government with a loan of $350,000. Rev. Seixas continued his rabbisbip until 1784 when he removed to New York city to assume the charge of the Synagogue Shiaritb Israel. He was succeeded by Rev. Jacob Raphael Cohen, a native of Gibral- j tar, who had located for a season in Mont¬ real, Canada. After his death in 1811 as well as during his ministry it was quile difficult for the congregation to pay the running expenses of the synagogue,together with the Rabbi’s salary. In consequence a legalized lottery with plenty of prizes and no blanks was resorted to to liquidate the existing indebtedness. After this there was a vacancy in the rabbisbip for nearly I four years, during which time Abraham| Hymaa Conen, a son of the Rabbi, acted i as reader. In 1815 Rev. Emanuel Nunes Carvalho, a resident of England, who previously minis¬ Rev. Ur. Sabato Morals. tered at Bridgeton on the Island of Bar- badoes and later at Charleston, S. C., was Gershom Mendes Seixas, the rabbi of the chosen Rabbi. He was widely known as an infant congregation, whose first president author and scholar and remained with the was Barnard Gratz,the paternal ancestor of congregation two years, his death occurring the well-known Gratz family in this oity. March 28, 1817. Among the archive* of the nation is the SECOND SYNAGOGUE BUILT. record of an address of homage and fealty Hartwig Cohen and M. Bensadun acted sent to George Washington during his first as readers until 1825, when Rev. Abraham Presidential term on behalf of Miekve Israel Keys, a native of Great Britain, who Israel Congregation, signed by Manuel occupied a ministerial office at Barbados, court, whieh ctfitains the Sucva (tabernacle), buoame the Rabbi. He died after a sue- (erected during the FeaBt of Tabernacles, ceisful service of four year*. During hi« and at otaer times by the sexton, Hayim term the congregation erected a new and more commodious synagogue an Cherry- i Prominent Hebrews of this city have Street, above Third. This was dedicated been members of this congregation,Abraham i by Rabbi Keys on January 21,1825,assisted 1M. Hart being president far many years. by Rev. Hoses Levy and Madura Peixotto, Abraham M. Freebie is the present pre¬ of the Portuguese Synagogue of Hew York siding officer. From its organization to tbe city, with impressive eeremoniee. In 1829 1 present time the oitbodox ritual has^ ever Rev. Isaac Leeser was chosen rabbi. He ' been used at this synagogue originally was born io Neuenkirchen, Westphalia, introduced by the Spanish and Portuguese I Jews, who were its first attendants, and Prussia, on December 12, 1806, and while 'yet a boy pursued his studies at Munster. at the present day no innovations in these I Coming to this country at the age of 18 he forms are tolerated. . located at Richmond,V».,where ho assisted Dr. MoraiB, the early friend of Sir Moses 1 Rev. Isaac B. Seixas, the Rabbi of the Montefiore and John Mazzini, is well- Portuguese congregation in that city. His known throughout the country as a linguist table defense of the Jewish people from an and philologist, being the founder of and article which appeared in the Loudon Quar¬ president of the Jewish Theological Col- terly Review brought him into favorable | lege, of New York city, and the repre- notioe and paved the way to his being sentative of Baron Maurice D. Hirscb, the called to this city as minister to the Michve noted Jewish philanthropist. In recognition Israel Congregation, Bis. dualities—of | of his profound learning and scholarly activity and perseverance ai ouce made attainments the honoraDle degree of LL. their impress upon the congregation, lie D was conferred upon Rabbi Morais by being the first Rabbi to introduce English the University of Pennsylvania on June discourses at the synagogue during the | year 1830. Rabbi Leeser made a thorough organiza¬ tion of the Jews throughout the United .States, taking prominent part in the dedi- I eating of synagogues and defending his race from unjust attacks. He founded the 1 Board of Delsgates of American Israelites, which eo-operated all over the world lor .the rights of the Jews. The Hebrew Edu¬ cational Society, the Maimonides College for the training of ministers and rabbis, and the Jewish Hospital, owe their origin to his untiring efforts. For a quarter of a century he was the editor of the Occident and American Jewish Advocate, which, after bis death, was conducted by (Mayer Sulzbeiger, of thie city. Rabbi Leeser spent eighteen years in an English translation of the Hebrew Bible An Interesting Sketch of the Old Relic (and was the leading advocate ef the Jewish —the Important Part it Has Played Order B’nai B’rith (Sons of Covenant), 'in which society he occupied prominent ( In History—Independence Hall. (positions. He served as rabbi of Mickve No potentate or conqueror ever re¬ Israel until 1850, a period of twenty-one years. In 1857, the Congregation of Bethel ceived greater homage, says J. W. Emetb (House of the God of Truth) was I Morton, Sr., than has been and ever organized by some of his friends and he accepted the charge of the congregation, i shall be accorded the old Liberty BeL, (remaining with them until his death in I now resting once more in its ancient '1868. home, Philadelphia. Its journey to RABBI MORAIS CALLED IN 18ol. | From the Fall of 1850 until the Spring the Columbian Exposition, in April last of 1851, Abraham Finzi acted as reader, was one long round of enthusiastic adu¬ and in March, 1851, the present well-known lation. No object in all that vast collec¬ Rabbi, Rev. Dr. Sabato Morais, was called tion of the interesting and wonderful to the congregation as a minister. He was born at Leghorn, Tuscany, Italy, April 13, I of ail nations reached the hearts and 1823, and had been located in London for touched the souls of the hurrying mil¬ five ’ye*1* before he esnae to this country, lions as did the grand old relic of the being Hebrew master at tbe Orphans’ School of the Portuguese congregation.Sha I earliest trials and triumphs. And the Are Shamayim (Gates of Heaven), i. Be vis homeward journey—who can describe Marks. He was chosen rabPi of Mickve it ? From beginning to end a series of Israel in April, 1851, and during his min- istry the present synagogue on Seventh magnificent receptions, a mighty Street above Arch, was erected, the coj‘ner_ stream of effervescing patriotism;! Sire stone being laid on May 9, 18a9 and the structure dedicated tor worship on the 24th | and son, mother and maiden, all striv¬ of May, i860. Rev.Dr.Morais officiating ing for juBt one sight of the battered, 1 at tbe ceremonies. The synagogue is two silent emblem, as it clashed through I stories, built of brick and stone, with an exceedingly plain exterior, the interior, the village or halted in the town, however, being attractively furnished and covered with floral tributes, and fol¬ .decorated. The worshippiag-room is on | the second floer, and is surrounded by lowed by thanksgivings. Men and ' roomy galleries. The first floor is occupied women gathered their children along bv the smaller shrine and comsnttee-reoms, land at the rear of tlie building is a large the railroad tracks, and, with bared beads and fluttering fla passage of the train w: the State freight. Even at night the' bl; ’ where it watch fires lit the path of the precious rlf77. metal, - The bell was used to mark Young readers hawe lately been hour at which the courts convened,' i clamoring for a history of the old call the members of the Assembly - tOj Liberty Bell, and a description of the Their posts, and later on to summon the' venerable building in which it is bo freemen of the city and county to such| carefully preserved. public meetings as their leaders might ! The building known as the State' designate. House, in Philadelphia* when originally Qn July 30, 1768, the brazen sentinel built, was quite “outside the city.” The r in the tower called together the “free- structure was commenced in 1729 and . men of the city and county” to con¬ completed in 1734, and was occupied sider what instructions should be given by the Assembly for the first time in to their representatives, and it was then October, 1735. At this time the sur¬ and there resolved that “the Colonies roundings were very crude, and huckle¬ are reduced te the level of slaves.” berry brush covered the lots adjoining. December 27, 1773 saw the ship Polly In 1739-40 two wings were added, one going down the Delaware river, her car¬ on either end, and connected by piazzas go of tea rejected by the indignant col¬ with the main or central structure. The onists, who at the bell’s summons, had entire cost of the edifice up to this - ‘Tilled the State House and overflowed point was about $28,000. About the . into the square.” The 1st of June fol¬ latter date it was determined to erect a low ing witnessed the flags at half-mast for the closing of the port of Boston, tower and belfry over the south end of announced by the tolling of the muffled the main hall; and this work was com¬ pleted late in the year 1751, at which April 24, 1775 the tidings of Lexing-| time. November 4, 1751, the steeple ton reached the Quaker City, and or was raised amid general festivity and the following day, at the stroke of th< rejoicing. bell, 8,000 people met beneath its sounc and pledged themselves to defend with) Three days prior to this, November 1, arms the sacred cause of liberty. 1751, a letter was addressed to Robert When on the 10th of May, 1775, the Charles, of London, ordering the bell. bell sent forth its call for the assem¬ The bell was sent from England by bling of Congress, two bodies met—one the ship Matilda, and reached Phila¬ by authority of the King and the other delphia in August, 1752 It seemed to by the will of the people. This was the meet all the requirements of the pur¬ last service rendered unto monarchy by chasers, although the price was £198 the grand old bell. instead of £100. But appearances are July 4, 1776, the Declaration of Inde¬ pendence was adopted. Congress was! deceitful, lor while being tested for assembled in the East room of the| sound, immediately after it was hung, State House—better known as “Inde¬ a stroke of the clapper cracked the pendence Hall.” The debate had beeul metal and rendered the bell useless. in progress since June 7, when Richardf It was at first intended to send the bell Henry Lee, of Virginia, rose in his placej and offered his famous resolution, be¬ back to England to be recast, but ginning: “Resolved, that these United| finally a firm of local founders, Messrs. Colonies are and of right ought to be Pass & Stow, were employed instead. free and independent States,” which The bed was broken up and recast in resolution laid the foundation for the March, 1763, and it is said that the immortal Declaration of Independence. Philadelphia firm turned out a better By order of the committee of safety the sheriff was instructed to read the Declaration job, mechanically, than the original. of Independence, then duly signed by all, “at Pass & Stow added a certain proportion 12 o’clock noon on Monday, July 8, at the of copper to the original alloy, and for State House.” All constables and offie were commanded to be pre-ent As the hou this or some other reason the tone of approached the bell in the tower again i the new bell was not quite satisfactory. out its stirring call and brazen defiance. From that moment to the present the So a third cast was made, and this time has been regarded as a symbol—an ‘ outv with perfect success. The Liberty and visible sign”— of American imepeude Bell, therefore, was subjected to three a precious po-sessiou to be < arefully guar from harm or desecrating touch. V" castings—one in England and two in therefore, the Britisli Army threatened T Philadelphia. dtlphfa, J;i li, / , the lixecutiv 'hat the Liberty Beil, tot year it was viewed by millions at Cbi- chimes of Christ Church'and St. Petei cagb. It ie not likely to leave its home removed to Allentown. This removal ■■ffobn. made by waging, under tlie care of a stribl what a glorious thing it would be if band ot devoted patriots, and the oeH was every patriotic American boy and girl kept salely in Zion Re o med Church until could spend a day at the old State the ©vacua! :6u ot Philadelphia by the' British- "in 1788, when it was returned to its home House, in company with the Liberty and duties. Bell and all the other relics and re¬ The surrender of Cornwallis was an: minders of our historic forefathers I nounced by the ringing of the bell at The East Room, or Independence Hall, noon, October 24,. 1781, amid the roar as it is generally known, is in almost of cannon and the answering peals from the same condition it was in 1776, when | the church towers. .the Declilration was signed within its I The proclamation of peace was rung walls. There you may see the chair forth on April 16, 1783, and thenceforth and desk used by John Hancock. , the bell was used on only the most no- In the museum you may see the odd, j table occasions, among others the visit old-fashioned silver inkstand wnich |of Lafayette, on September z9, 1821; stood on John Hancock’s desk, and ■ the fiftieth anniversary of American which was used in signing the Declara¬ ;Independence, Juiy 4, 1826, etc. . tion. Among other relics is a sofa used After the stormy period of the Rev¬ by George Washington, a pew which he olution the old bell rested in retire¬ occupied in church, the bell ti ed in ment, except when on special occasions giving alarms at Valley Forge; shot and | as already noted its deep tones were cannon balls from Revolutionary battle¬ employed to voice the heart beats of fields, paintings and portraits of Revolu¬ ithe people who loved it. For years it tionary heroes, etc. j rested in a modern framework, which Small wonder, then, that deep emo¬ |now iormsone of the attractions of the tions of patriotic pride swell the bosom [museum. It was also placed for a time of the descendants of these noble men in the museum. It was also placed ior when standing on the spot which was a time in the east-room, and for many the scene of their noblest achievements [years on a pedestal having thirteen May the spirit of our grand old sires, | tides, one to represent each of the orig¬ whose mortal bodies have long since inal states. In 1876 it was suspended crumbled into dust, inspire the rising in the open tower by a chain of thirteen generation with the broad and lofty links, and in that position it is to day. patriotism of '76 I It is proposed to place the bell upou”a wheeled pedestal on the ground floor, so as to provide for its safety in case of fire—a precaution that certainly should be taken. The boys and girls in Philadelphia certainly love the Old Liberty Bell,'and so do thjpir elders for that matter. Fully halt of Philadelphia participated in the grand reception tendered to the old bell on its return from Chicago November 6. Not only were the State land city officials, the military, the police, the firemen and other citv de¬ partments represented in the great parade, but thousands of schoolboys |marched in line, amid the plaudits of nearly halt a million cheering, shouting spectators. It was long after midnight when the bell was again placed beneath the roof of the old State House. Up to the last The sturdy school boys followed it. Foot jball and cricket had no attraction for the Philadelphia young Americans that day ; they all united in offering homage Ito the hell, and no part of the mighty 'pageant attracted more attention than jthe sturdy ranks and smiling faces of the sciiool boys. Aside from its forced journey to Al¬ lentown, in 1777, the bell has left the SSiate House on only two occasions, In 1885 it was loaned to the managers i of the New Orleans Exposition, and this eharities Built On .HPTusculum’s ti c Ruins

Last Landmark of a Colonial Estate Disappears Before Modern Improvements.

With the demolition last week of the Third street. On another page of the mins of a small old-fashioned stone same old directory is the address of dwelling house, which stood in the “George Washington, president of the1 midst of a populous manufacturing dis¬ United States, 190 High street.” Six trict, under the shadow of Bromley’s years later, in the directory of 1803, Mr. great carpet mills, ou Beamy street, Leamy is seen to have extended his busi¬ above Lehigh avenue,disappeared the last ness, having another warehouse at 69 vestige of “Tusculum.” Walnut street. For a century or more the stone walls Stephen Girard was a Select Coun¬ have stood immovable, while the hands cilman in those days, but the little mu¬ that built them and the mind that con¬ nicipality of which he was a ruler ceived them have perished; and the reached no further north than Vine hopes that were born with their founda¬ street. Beyond this point, Front, Sec¬ tion were shattered and lost. They have ond and Third streets were opened to seen green fields and shady lanes re¬ Germantown road. To go further north, placed by walls of brick and roads of Frankford road was the only large stone, all alive with the roar of traffic highway which passed up through the and the hum of industry. For a moment suburban district of Kensington. There they can recall the memory of by-gone were smaller roads, mere laues and by-j days and former owners long dead and paths, skirting the farming country almost forgotten, before passing away round about, and it was through these’ forever. the way to Tusculum lay. “Tusculum” was the summer paradise One son, John, named like his father, of a happy family long ago. It was one was the pride of the family, whose of the large estates, which were then far name he was expected to perpetuate, out in the suburbs of the little Quaker but he died in his youth. His sister^ city, and have since been embraced in Louise, a charming girl, also died un¬ its limits. Several hundred acres were, married. Oue daughter, Elizabeth, included within its boundaries, which in¬ married, becoming Mrs. Stout, but was cluded the ground now occupied by the early in life left a widow, without! Episcopal Hospital and several adjoin¬ children. The remaining daughter, Ann,' ing tracts, below which is now Lehigh never married during her life, but re¬ avenue, near Front street. Above Le¬ mained at Tusculum till her parents’ high avenue the outlines reached in a death, passing the winter at their city diagonal line from the corner of Mas- residence, 708 Spruce street. cher street to Second and Cambria, north Miss Ann Leamy and Mrs. Elizabeth on Second street to Indiana avenue, H. L. Stout became by inheritance northeast to Mascher and Clearfield, then, from their mother the owners of Tus¬ back to Lehigh avenue, touching it just above Front street. culum and other real estate in this city. They were the last of their fam¬ John Leamy and his wife, Elizabeth, j ily and their nearest relatives were with their four children, were the oc¬ cousins. The two sisters were devoted cupants of “Tusculum,” which Mrs. members of St. Andrew’s Church, on Leamy had inherited from her parents. Eighth street above Spruce, and one Before her marriage Mrs. Leamy’s name of their rectors was the late Bishop was Miss Ross, and she is said to have William Bacon Stevens. In 1851, Bish¬ been a niece of George Ross, a signer op Potter, then head of the Pennsylva¬ of the Declaration of Independence, and nia diocese, projected the foundation of a relative of “Betsy” Ross, who made| a church hospital. Dr. Stevens en¬ the first American flag. Mr. Leamy, tered heartily into the plan, and the father of the little flock, was aj preached a most enthusiastic sermon in merchant and importer of teas, wines its advocacy to his congregation. and other goods, tie was of Irish descent, but his family had emigrated] The Leamy sisters were mudi moved to Spain, where he had been in the same by the appeal, and concluded to devote business before coming to America. their parental homestead to the accom¬ The exact date of Mr. Leamy’s loca¬ plishment of this practical charity. tion in Philadelphia is not known, but The old mansion, a fine specimen of his name is found in the oldest city di¬ Colonial architecture, with five acres rectory, published in 1797, where his I surrounding, was donated for the pur- place of business is givenjas 79 Southj nose, and was opened as the Episcopal

■t THE OLD LEAMY MANSION.

Hospital December 11, 18521 This "old" I by the new stables erected for the hos- mansion was long ago abandoned for pital. hospital purposes, but vras only torn , During their lives the sisters dis- (down a year ago, its site being marked I played great interest in the hospital.

THE LAST OF TTJSCULUM. d retained' ownership in the t the entrance to Tusculum, The building was erected in 1844 by guarded the shaded path leading Hiram Ellis, a conveyancer, and owned! to the mansion; and when Lehigh by him for a number of years. It was venue was opened found themselves on. the opposite sid'e of the street from constructed for and used as a straw the hospital. It is the ruins of the lodge factory, by a Frenchman named White, I which are now being removed. Mrs. Stout died in 1874, leaving Miss who made hats and bonnets of plaited Leamy the soIq survivor of the family straw. and inheritor of the property. There¬ after Miss Leamy could be seen at least Quite a number of young men and i one day in each week at the little cot¬ women were employed in this industry, j tage on Leamy street, which had served as the lodge on her ancestral estate. which was the first to be established She was beyond’ 80 years of age when upon the hill. The business was car-; she died in December, 1878; and her will, when opened, showed that she had ried on for some years, but proving retained her charitable purposes to the unprofitable was finally given up. end. By its terms the control of the Mr. Ellis then had it altered for remainder of Tusculum, and other real estate, which had' vastly increased in dwelling purposes and made it the! value, was placed in the hands of trus¬ home of himself and family for some tees for the purpose of establishing a home for indigent old ladies connected years. The property passed through I with the Episcopal Church. Twenty several hands and came into the pos¬ years was the limit of time in which the conditions were to be fulfilled. Fifteen session of Mr. Vance, who about 30 years have passed and the original trus¬ years ago sold it to Mr. Brecht, the tees are dead. Lawyer John G. Johnson being their successor, but such of the present owner. property as has been held has greatly During Mr. Brecht’s ownership it has j appreciated. The Church of the Visita¬ tion, at Leamy and Lehigh avenue, been used as a tenement house, first occupies what was once a, portion of occupied by Germans and then after- j Tusculum, Bromley’s carpet mills an¬ other block. The lodge property, at wards by Poles, Hungarians and other the northeast corner of Leamy foreigners, who racked the building ,street , , and- Lehigh--avenue, which and cared nothing about paying rent, had been partly destroyed by fire and until finally the owner nailed up the long unoccupied, has been sold for build¬ ing purposes, and' G7 houses are to go doors and drove out the motley crew. up on the ground around the old build¬ When first erected there were few, if ing, Sterner street, a small thorough¬ fare, being opened through it. Other any buildings upon the hill, shade! portions of the estate have been con- trees surrounded it, and the view from «de/ably improved, and it is likely that by 1898, when the 20 year limit expires, the upper stories was very beautiful. fund sufficient for the establishment On a clear day one could easily seethe pf the home will have accumulated. ships on the Delaware, and a lady now living in Roxborough remembers From, ( / standing on the incomplete walls and watching the flames and smoke arise! from the burning churches during the! %£ ' ' ■ : . church riots iu Philadelphia. a At one time the surrounding ground ; Fate, <-'•'' extending from Fleming to Belair street, was cultivated as a garden by AN OLD DMARK. 3? Mr. Brecht’s father, who came to this Tl’e Straw Factory on “Nigger Hill” Being country after the death of his wife and Demolished. i made his home with Mr. Brecht. The A force of workmen are busily en¬ old gentleman was very generous, and gaged tearing down the big rectangular many neighbors and acquaintances j building at the corner of Levering and eDjoyed eating of the fresh vegetables Fleming streets, owned by Mr, F. which were raised here, which were Brecht, of Lyceum avenue, never sold, but given to those who The building, on its elevation, has found favor in the eyes of the elder! been for years a conspicuous figure in Brecht, who did the gardening as a the landscape, and at one time was a pastime. busy hive of industry, but of late years This part of the Ward was familiarly has been occupied by sundry tenants known as “Nigger Hill,” because, not until it fell into a dilapidated condi¬ far from the straw factory on the edge tion and became an eye sore. of the hill stood the cabin of a colored naan named Casey, and his wife. Hei was the only colored man whom me people of Manaynnk would allow to live in the district, and for years all others who attempted to take up a residence here were driven out. The other old properties on “Nigger Hill” whose histories date back half a century and whose buildings were erected about the same time as the straw factory, are the Bramble and Rawley properties and the properties of the Boones and Cleggs. The latter |two are nearer the brow of the hill and !are the best known to the greater part of the present generation.