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==--:-• BI-CENTENNIAL in the Barbados Storehouse. | OF THE BAPTISTS The First Baptist Church of this cit.v. situated at Broad and Spruce streets, will |rap‘------celebrate its bi-centennial, it has just been ' SBW - I and local fideTs who. moved by the rural to meet until March l.r>. 1707, when by invi¬ loveliness of the place, were frequently tation of the Kothians, a form of Quakers, inspired to .sweep their lyres in praise of the they removed to Second street, below Arch, resort. , to tlie Ivethlan Meeting Mouse, which was In the midst of this lovely place was a a. small wooden building erected in 1692. large stone rising about three feet above j In this church they continued to worship the ground, around which the people knelt until 1731, when they pulled it down and jmdjtrayed before baptism had been admin erected in its stead a neat briek church. amounted, from December 6 to December In 1762 this building was displaced by an¬ 11. A most Interesting and. not (-worthy fact 1 other of larger dimensions, having pews in ernnectien with this celebration is that !j and galleries and costing 2,200 pounds. This thislchurch had its origin In the same;] church was situated in Lagrange place. plate and at almost the same tune as the j There was some trouble over the title to this Firct Presbyterian Church, which celebrated , property during the pastorate of Rev. .ton¬ its owe hundredth anniversary on November d kins Jones, but the matter was finally ad¬ 13. ;ts the service of both were held in the t justed satisfactorily. ! old lore house of the Burba does Company, l No other remarkable event occurred in the Second and Chestnut streets, each -using it ^ history of the church for many years, indeed twice a month, when either a Baptist or ^ until 1856, when the congregation moved to Presbyterian minister happened to be in, ' ji a handsome cut-stone edifice at the corner of ; town. Broad and Arch streets, remaining there un-1 The first of these services were held about o til last May, when the property was sold. 1695. At that time there was a nourishing-.. Previous to this the ^Beth-Bden Church, Baptist congregation at Cold Springs near.-.} Broad and Spruce streets, had consolidated Bristol. Pa., formed in 1*183, under the care j with the First Church, and the congregation Jof Thomas Dungan, a Baptist preacher from !: now worships in the Beth-Eden building. Rhode Island. As the exact line between J A new First Baptist Church is, however, H (Bucks and Philadelphia counties was not i to be effected next year at Seventeenth and fixed until April 3, 1685, Dungan naturally I Snnsom streets. visited this city before finally locating where I During the long life of the First Baptist he did, and as the Cold Spring interest was I Church many distinguished clergymen have in the end absorbed by the church of this .] officiated as pastors. For the first forty-1 Icity, the history of this First Baptist Churchy eight years of its history it was served by 1 in Pennsylvania legitimately belongs to Phil-1 itinerant ministers, among whom was Rev. I ladelphia. Between Penn and Dungan there 1 Ebenezer Kinnersly. a member of the facul¬ may have been a friendly though necessarily £ ty of the University of Pennsylvania and a | brief intimacy, the former returning to t friend of Benjamin Franklin. Rev. Jenkins * England August 12. 1684. The reasqn for p Jones, who had been pastor of the Penny- this supposed intimacy was that Admiral ii pack Church, was the first regular pastor. Penn, the father of William Penn, was an H He began his labors in, 1746. Another of ; English Baptist. William Penn himself, j the early pastors from 1761 to 1772 was Rev. : though a Quaker, entertained, it is claimed, |1 Dr. Morgan Edwards, afterwards the foun¬ jstrong Baptist sentiments. der of Brown University. After Dr. Ed¬ wards came the Rev. William Rogers, D. I), , Although services were held previous to —1772 to 1775. From the latter date until that date the actual founding of the' First j 1780 the church was without a regular pas¬ Baptist congregation in this city took place j] tor as Mr. Rogers resigned to become a i on the 16th of December, 1698, when John !.* chaplain in the Continental army. Farmer and wife, Joseph Todd, Rebecca J As Philadelphia was occupied by the Brit¬ Worsencroft, John Holmes, William Silver-13 ish troops there was no meeting of the Bap¬ stone, William Eton and wife, and Mary I tists’ Association and no records of the 1 Shepherd, in all nine persons, assembled atj i church were kept from May 8, 1775, to Au¬ the aBrbadoes storehouse and with the [j gust 6, 1779, when the Rev. Joseph Man¬ assistance of the Rev. John Watts formed a I ning tried to again gather together the permanent congregation. They continued to I j greatly scattered congregation, and in 1780 meet regularly at the Barbadoes storehouse ! l the Rev. Elhanau Winchester was placed and to live in, peace aud unity" with theli in charge. He was followed by the Rev. Presbyterians for about three years, when 1 Thomas Ustick, 1782-1803; the Rev. William Dr. Jedediah Andrews came to Philadel- S Rogers, D. D., 1804-1806; the Rev. William phia to fake charge of the latter congrega- 7 Staugliton, D. D., 1806-1812; and the Rev. tion. Dr. Andrews came from New England, tj Henry Holcombe, D. D., 1812-1824, since a part of the country where the Baptists 1 which time a number of brainy men have were bitterly persecuted. His love for the j had charge. The present pastor is the Rev. congregation he found here was conse- i Kerr Boyce Tucker. quently not strong. It is not remarkable |] One of the most curious and interesting therefore that he inaugurated measures to jj happenings in connection with the early his¬ drive them out of the building.- tory of the First Baptist Church took place Several letters are yet extant Which passed j| in 1782, when a beautiful grove was pur¬ between the two societies on (the occasion b chased by the congregation on the banks of of the dispute which arose for the posses- flj | the Schuylkill river, at the end of Spruce sion of tlie quaint little church. There was j j street, for the purpose of affording the also a deputation of three Baptists appointed | I pastor facilities for leading his initiates to remonstrate with the Presbyterians for I I into the river to be baptized as did John in tin ir unehristianlike conduct, but to no pur¬ I Enon. pose, and the Baptists were accordingly I At that time there were no wharves along obliged to vacate, although they had been I i the river and as the city was some dis¬ the first occupants. Front that time forth I tance away, the busy hum and den of busi¬ they held their worship at a place near I ness life had not found its way to this con-, tlie drawbridge—known as •‘Anthony Mor- I secrated spot. It was known as the “Bap- ns’ Brewery House”—where they continued I tisterion,” and when not in use by its owners |(it was a favorite resort for romantic lovers THE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF PHILADELPHIA

old as the First Baptist Church should be istered. The top was made level by art the parent of many other churches, among and steps had been hewn to ascend. In this which might be mentioned tbe following: primitive pulpit stood the minister when be The Roxborough, Blockley, First Fraukford, preached to the people. Third, African, Fourth, Sansom Street, The Rev. Morgan Edwards, in describing ■ First Camden, South Broad Street, Evangel, the Baptisterion in 1770, says; "Round the • Immanuel Mission and Baltimore Avenue spot are large oaks affording flue shade; , Churches. under foot in green, variegated with wild j The American Baptist Missionary Union, flowers and aromatic herbs, and a tasteful the Women's National Missionary Associa- house is near for dressing and undressing : i tion, the Philadelphia Home for Incurables, the proseuches.” This house to which Mr. the Baptist Orphanage at Angora and the Edwards refers was not by any means the Baptist Young People’s Union of Philadel- ! least curious feature of the Baptisterion. It phia are also Christian institutions in the j was divided into two rooms by a hanging establishment of which this old church has j partition and so contrived that when the been a leading factor and whose existence i partition was lifted up and the doors opened I is in a large measure due to its progressive j and the folding shutters in the front let ! religious sjtirit. down it resembled an alcove facing a The Baptist denomination is to-day one > beautiful rural* prospect. "When it became I of the strongest in the city. There are two ; known about the little city of Philadelphia associations, Philadelphia and North Phila¬ that the Baptists were to hold baptismal delphia, which had a combined membership services at the Baptisterion the occasion last year of 40,253, of which over 35,000 were was taken advantage of for a general holi¬ in the city proper. There are S4 churches day, several thousand frequently attend¬ in the city and 125 all told within the juris¬ ing. diction of the two associations. Within The quaint old Baptisterion lasted until the past en or fifteen years the growth the occupancy of Philadelphia by the Brit¬ of the denomination has been especially ! ish army, when the soldiers cut down the large, four new churches having been dei- trees for firewood and destroyed the roman¬ cated in the city last year alone. tic loveliness of the place. Not only in organization and membership It is only natural that a congregation so are the Baptists strong in this cicy, but i- 'vorl? In -'otW-r lines BJis”inji'ag‘a rtT .laikable stowing. Last-year the members [LtUe t,v<>. associations contributed '$40r... . for t-'lturch work, aird among other mgs^ supported '20 mission stations in the it.v, the Philadelphia Association holds toperty to the value of $2«63X,f !u'eiVe mile8L The weather was storms of a century and a half, is being iot fit for the swim on the day selected entirely renovated. The outside walls were [ S? *?e wind was blowing a gale. Some of showing much of the wtar of time and f le"ds tried to persaude me from mak- the elements, and as a necessity the work ig the trip, while others wanted me off. So of preservation had to be done. There is a wonderful history connected | bout l ‘LfStrrteid\bUt ?fter 1 had covered vfltev fn distance, and had been in the with this old mansion which dates back i| ®t< i foi one hour and thirty-five minutes I to Revolutionary times and the occupants was obliged to give iu and was shortly of which took part in the stirring events j ftei seized with inflammation of the lungs which formed part of this country’s his¬ vhich nearly cost me my life, and compelled tory. Recently discoveries have been made j aUy bath morn,ngs to ^fmln from my which show that secret stairways, not f .1 only neatly, but cunningly arranged, ex¬ .evlV'ti11 1 ?.St started daily sea-bathing I ■ever thought of making a record, and In- isted in the house. These stairways have eed, as I have bathed iu the sea almost now been exposed to view. Right at the j ally tot upwards of sixty years, it was : side of the fireplace in the room now used : as an office, but once as a reception room, Uite a long while before I realized that I a secret panel can be removed and a las doing anything out of the ordinary stairway leading from the office to the j In September of 1877, while visiting some second and third floors is revealed. The j ' riends m London, 1 was persuaded to prom- panel stands at the back of an opening that was apparently used for a bookcase ; ecnt!|aL- UpOU my feturu to South Shields™! and it would be impossible to discover it ! 'i^Lk„eeP ai st'ormS of my baths, which I uuless by those in the secret. The panel uidndivdd-n,dkfl/0ritW<> thousand and five unaied ana five days consecutively a dirv was discovered while the repairs were [ u the sea and if it had not been for the being made. tCkness which I have referred to I would SECOND SECRET STAIRWAY. :?esentedavd aAWf iu ,my «««* «P tothl Another and more recent discovery is leseiir any. As it is, since my recoverv T that of the secret stairwuy in the concert iveedays t,Qhnevc/ thous‘and consecu- or ball room. Here the panels at the j i® ,s' tJh, i es, I have naturally taken eastern end lead to secret chambers anil ' mornings, stairways. Among the first to learn of I r h°n C mlnd the sea when it is rough the existence of these stairways was Rev. I nd I have never felt the slightest fear of Dr. Wylie. :eiug drowned, or indeed been in danger of These stairways were doubtless placed I there by William Hamilton, who came into possession of the mansion ami grounds in 1747. There was originally in the tract 346 acres, which really com- 1 prised what was much of West Philadel¬ phia and known as Hamilton Village. The grounds, however, were narrowed down to , . the present size of about 100 acres. The I From, mansion was erected during the Revolu- 1 tlon and afterwards enlarged. William ' Hamilton graduated In 1762 at Academy of Philadelphia and entertained In the t mansion his college friends, among whom were Judge Yeats, Judge Peters, Dickin¬ son Sergeant, Rev. Dr. Andrews and I Bishop White. At the beginning of the Revolution he espoused the patriot caus» Date./^f^iC:.9..:. r and raised a regiment for the Continental army. He afterwards cooled In his pa- ! triotlc ardor and opposed the cause he had first espoused. After the British left Philadelphia and on the return of the Whigs William Hamilton was arrested for high treason, being charged with assist- lng the British troops. The trial son took place September 1, 1778, before | Chief Justice McKean. HAMILTON ACQUITTED. Of the sixteen . men arrested on the charge fourteen ‘were acquitted, including

THE OLD HAMILTON HOMESTEAD

(Hamilton. He was, however, rearrested on the 2d of October, 1780, by order or K*e iJS,iprePe Executive Council, with wi?n e^nJ? Franks, James Seagroves and william Constable, for holding secret and dangerous correspondence with the enemy He was imprisoned on this charge From, '■ • <•<" J - ; Through numerous petitions by the family to the Supreme Executive Council he was allowed time to come to Woodlands to arrange his affairs and finally given an in¬ definite release. In the meantime the treaty of peace was signed in 1783 and ne was tree. secret stairways were, it is ’ ar,rauged. !n the old mansion dur- DatecP^r :1L C:./. suspickfn. d yS When Hamllt011 was under WOMEN mi A RELIC CF THE REVOLUTION.

' The Belie Was Found by Dr. Eobert E. Alison and Vv as 1 resented to the College of Physicians Through Dr. S. Weir Mi.'ciiell.

A relic of the Revolution has chosen to come to light in the days of the war with Spain, 'the first known record of women who acted as nurses in the Revo¬ lutionary War has just been discovered and presented to the College of Physi¬ cians in this city. It is a document which is a century old and twenty years more for good measure, for its dale is November 17, AN HISTORIC OLD CHAPEL. 1777. Considering this fact, it is in a ' remarkable state of preservation. True, ; Church of tlie Brethren Celebrates it is worn thin in the creases and has Its 175th Anniversary. faint yeliowings of age upon it, but | Christmas day was an important and the ink is as black as it was when it interesting one to the members of first outlined the names of those brave the Church of the Brethren, Main women who went to bind up the wounds street, above Sharpnack, Germantown, of war a hundred years ago. as it marked the 175th anniversary of Dr. Robert H. Alison, of Ardmore, the founding of the Brethren Church in presented the paper to the College of America. Alexander Mack was the orig¬ Physicians. It was one of many Revo¬ inator of what is known as the Dunkanl lutionary relics inherited from his grand¬ religion and his bones repose in the father, Dr. Francis Alison, Jr., who was burying ground at the rear of the little in 1777 senior physician and surgeon in chapel that has been worshiped in by the hospitals of the middle district of the his followers for a century and a quar- j Continental Army. ter. Under Dr. Alison’s care, this list of In commemoration of the long exist- ■ soldiers and their attending nurses was enee of the church appropriate services prepared in Reading for the Brick House will be held during the present week. Hospital, the Court House Hospital and Last night Rev. G. N. Falkenstein, the the Potter’s Shop. With several other pastor, delivered a memorial sermon, interesting relics, the paper was given and on next Sunday, at 3 P. M., when by Dr. Robert Alison to the Historical the Sower tablet will be formally pre¬ Society. There Dr. S. Weir Mitchell ran sented to the organization. Rev. Dr. M. across it, and, because it had especial ' G. Brumbaugh will deliver an address mednal interest, persuaded Dr. Alison to ! on the life and character of Bishop , transfer it to the keeping- of the College Christopher Sauer, the family name hav¬ of Phy sicians. ing since been changed to Sower. MAY HOLD A ROMANCE. During the Revolutionary war, when all the properties, belonging to Chris¬ Just at this time when there is so topher Sauer were confiscated, because much discussion about w'omen nurses he was suspected of being a Tory, the in army hospitals, the document is par¬ little old church building narrowly es¬ ticularly significant. It gives, unfortu¬ caped being sold. This was due to the nately without anyr comment, the names fact that the building had been partly of eight women of the Revolution who deeded to him and the attic was} used by went into the midst of sickness at the him for storing the sheets of his un¬ call of their patriotism—or it might bound publications. Among these were have been something still warmer. Now about 1000 copies of his just issued it is impossible to tell what sort of woik quarto Bible, a complete Copy of which they did or whether they had any as¬ to-day is very rare and which biblio¬ sistants. Dr. Mitchell thinks that there philes will pay almost any price to get were probably men orderlies about the > hold of. The trustees remonstrated with hospital, although this document makes the officers and saved the building only ; no mention of them. It states simply ’ on the plea that it belonged to the that Sarah Burk, Ann Chamberlain, 1 church organization and had been deed¬ Martha Mltchel. Cathrine West, Ann ed to Sauer, in trust, and that he merely Doyl, Elizabeth Southerland, Margaret occupied the loft by permission. The of- | Lenix and Hana,h Crooks acted as nurses in 1777. fleers, however, seized the printed mat¬ ter, several tons of which were thrown From the fact, however, that the out and some of it used for cartridges, nurses’ names are often like those of some as litter for their horses and the the soldiers, it is more than likely that balance scattered to the winds. some of the nurses were relatives of the sick men. And it is not hard to suppose FOUNDER OF THE CHURCH. many pretty romances about those whose Alexander Mack was a native of names do not fit exactly together. Sehrisheim, Germany. He was born in The College of Physicians intends to 1(579 and was educated a Calvinist. In frame the old document and place on it 1709, with eight souls, he organized the a suitable inscription which has been church in northern Prussia, which grad¬ suggested by Dr. Alison, after which it ually increased in strength and numbers will be hung in the building;. until about 1719, when driven by pevse- ! eution, about 20 families, led by Elder THE ANCIENT DUNIa PARSONAGE.

Peter Beeker, embarked for sons. The place in a few years had the phia. Following: their settlement m appearance of a village, and, as the mantoWn, services were held at the pri¬ means for building were in the main vate houses of members, and on the procured by begging, it was called Beg¬ evening of December 25, 1723, they ob¬ gars’ Town, or, in the German, Bettel served the love feast and holy com¬ Housen. It is so designated in a num¬ munion, the first held in their new asy¬ ber of old documents. lum. Mack and about thirty more fami¬ After Pettikoffer’s death the property lies arrived in 1729, and their appear¬ came into the possession of Elder Peter ances so increased the meetings that the SchUbert. Realizing the brethren’s want houses at times could not accommodate of a suitable place to hold their meetings. the worshipers. Schilbert made the church a present of Sauer, who was a printer and a man the house and eight rods of ground for of considerable means, in 1732 built a a burying place. It was legally con¬ large, roomy house on Main street, on veyed by a deed of trust to Christopher the site of what is now No. 4653, with bauer, Alexander Mack, Peter Leibert the special purpose of accommodating and George Schreiber, trustees, on Au¬ i the brethren with a convenient place to gust 12, 1760. The partitions were then hold their meetings. He fitted up a sort torn out and the whole house turned of chapel in the second story, the ad¬ into an audience room. Here the breth¬ joining partitions being fastened with ren held their meetings until 1770, when hinges to the joist, so that when neces¬ the necessity of increased accommoda¬ sary they might be swung open, thus tions prompted them to erect a building giving plenty of room. Here they met for public worship exclusively. for a number of years, during which This building, which still stands and is time the property came into the posses¬ m a remarkable state of preservation, sion of Christopher Sauer, whose in¬ was dedicated on July 1, 1770. almost creasing family and growing business six years to a day before the Declara¬ required all the room of the house, and tion of Independence became a fixed part thus in 1760 the brethren were compelled of American history. A few years ago to look for other accommodations for an addition to the old building was made for bundajr school use. The money for their meetings. the purpose was left, at his death,'by a GIFT OF THE PRESENT SITE. wealthy Californian of the Dunkard per¬ There was among them a poor brother; suasion. The original church building John Pettikoffer, who had a lot then is about 32 feet square, with an attic, about two miles above Germantown, and where in the old days were stored the who had, by begging, obtained means _ requisites for love feasts. to build a house thereon in the spring of . EARLY BURIALS IN THE GRAVEYARD. 1731. After a settlement was once com¬ menced there, other houses were soon * On the completion of the meeting built in the vicinity, mostly by poor per¬

. HISTORIC ODD DCSKARD CHURCH AT GERMANTOWN.

-7 -j -s ? 1 -T JTi W 1 "5 V'"*' louse, the old Pettikoffer house Vas~ urned back again into a dwelling for he wardens of the church to reside in. Dl Vo attempt was made to establish a rraveyard until 1793, when there was an Fi'toih , ^ tlarming epidemic of j'ellow fever in Philadelphia and many thousands be- •ame its victims. The deaths were so nany and so frequent that suitable .Xf3. ] jurial places were at a premium. The i pt in the rear of the new church build- ! ng was prepared and the first person Date was interred there a few years following , v.../ J/fk 1 he close of the Revolution. Alexander Mack, the founder of the

Dunkard religion, died 163 years ago . a a % a a Afl -a *. A * ind was buried in the Concord burying ground, on Main street, above Washing¬ ton lane, Germantown. In November. dl 1894. a number of the descendents of \ the distinguished divine participated in the ceremonies attending the removal of his remains to the cemetery in the rear of the present Church of the Brethren, E-nn where his son, Alexander Mack, the second, was also buried. The son took up the work where the father left off. and carried it along for more than half Church of the Brethren Celebrates a century. He died in 1803 at the age of 91. There were found only the larger Its 175th Anniversary, bones of the elder Mack, and these, with six square coffin handles, found in the grave, were reinterred. PASTOR’S MEMORIAL SERMON

An Interesting Historical Sketcli of the

Dunkard Church in Germantown—Was

Organized Fifty-Three Years Before the

Declaration of Independence—Some of

Its Landmarks-Old-Time Printing in L Germantown. In Siccardance with" the announcement infant church, but eight in the begin¬ in last week’s Independent-Gazette, in¬ ning, rapidly increased in numbers, and teresting special services have been held as quickly persecution came. Driven during the week at the Church of the from their homes and from province to Brethren, Main street, above Sharpnack, province, they could nowhere find a in commemoration of the 175th anniver¬ place of safety or security" from the evil sary of the organization of the church. spirit of persecution. They were fined The most notable feature of the exercises they were imprisoned, they were tor¬ thus far .held was the memorial sermon tured; but the schooling of eleven years preached by the pastor, the Rev. George of bitter experience only increased their N. Falkenstein, on Sunday evening. The faith and strengthened their devotion sermon follows: They welcomed the news of Penn’s MEMORIAL SERMON. Province (some had heard the story from “I call your attention to the reading of Penn’s own lips, in Holland), and they Prov. xxii, 28 : ‘Remove not the an'cient longed for the enjoyment of its religious landmark which thy fathers have set.’ freedom. They bade adieu to Father- It is not my purpose to preach from this land and kindred with sad hearts, but1 text to-night, however fruitful the text the change was infinitely their gain. The might be in itself, but rather apply the wild woods of the new world, with free¬ thought to this memorial occasion On dom of devotion to God, was" better this Christmas evening it is 175 years than the native home, with persecution. that the Brethren Church of German¬ THEY “WALKED WITH GOD.” town was organized, and I welcome you to a brief study of the history of these “In September, 1719, about twenty years. Without a careful study we can families landed on these friendly shores not conceive nor properly apppreciate of the Western World, to realize their what it means to go back in our history fondest hopes, and four years later or¬ to December 25, 1723. What a vast ganized this congregation of which you amount of the world’s history in those and I are members, and the first organ¬ years ! What a marvelous advancement ized in America. m industrial and material interests I “Now, as we take a historical review What astounding progress in invention, to-night, I bid you notice some of the science, art, literature! journeyings of' this people. They have “The organization of this congregation had their night marches, their trials took place 53 years before the Declara¬ without and within, suffering and per¬ tion of Independence. The history and secution at home and abroad; but when development of the Brethren Church is I see their peace, progress and propserity, interwoven with the history and develop¬ I am led to say that the Lord has been ment of the nation. Our fathers assisted with them to guide and keep and bless. in the conquest of the unhabitable wilds They ‘walked with God,’ like Enoch of and in the transformation of the prime old. In recognition of His goodness, val forests into the richest of God’s acres their lives say to us, ‘Hitherto hath the of golden harvest fields. They passed Lord helped us.’ It is not then so im¬ through the national vicissitudes with sad portant to know every fact and detail of experiences. They endured untold sac¬ their lives as it is for us to learn the rifice and suffering in the cruelty of un¬ lessons of their experience and devotioE relenting war. It meant sacrifice, im¬ that will lead us to greater consecration prisonment, death, triumph. Where are the landmarks they hav< set for the guidance of our lives' PERSECUTION OF THE PIETISTS. Have we removed some of these or care “But what gave them the mighty lessly passed them by? power of devotion to faith and duty, and “In tracing these landmarks, let mi the endurance in the moment of bitter call your attention to them under thre> trial? The church was born and reared heads,—viz: Social, civil and political amid scenes of persecution. In the days spiritual. Christ represented this t-hrei of cold formalistic ritualism in Germany fold life. In chis social life He hesitate' men and women longed and not to eat with publicans and sinner? prayed earnestly for deliverance, | and thus extended the domain of spirit for religious freedom to worship ; ual instruction. Our religious life an God according to the dictates of t work to-day is ineffectual, because to conscience, for spiritual life and holy, narrow in its scope. The same individ pious living. The Catholic, Lutheran ual is religious in the assembly of woi and Reformed Churches alone were ' ship, and in social and civil life, secula recognized. Those who dared to dissent and sinful. The entire Christian Churc from these views were denounced as - is thus feeble in iis best efforts to evangi Pietists and persecuted. The movement lize the world. inauguarated by the Pietists became the second Reformation. In these scenes of TIIE SOCIAL LANDMARK. agitation and in this struggle for advance¬ “There is only ore landmark I can n< ment in spiritual life, the Brethren f tice in their social life, and that one mu? Church was organized in Schwartzman, ■ always be dear to (very true heart. 1 Germany, in 1708. The members of the I was the blending of the public worshi ■ around Hie" home altar. They gatherer biit what we give, that will bless' the around the home hearth to receive their world. We may have millions in gold, religious instruction. In these religious and not feed one hungry man, until we meetings pious devotion blended with open our hearts and give. Poor comfort social hospitality and friendship. Thus we are, indeed, to a Christ-needing the Brethren' worshipped and reached world, if we profess salvation and lock everv avenue of their social lite? and the up in our own hearts the riches of grace first awakening in Germantown was in Christ Jesus. But there are land¬ amon® the youth. Remove not this land* marks here, too, set for us. Remove mark Continue to breathe the spirit of them not! First, and foremost, then devotion in vour social life around the they would have no man-written creed, home ajtar, and the Lord will bless our but the New Testament, the embodiment homes as he did the homes of the fathers. of Christ’s own gospel, as the ‘rule of faith and practice.’ The principles, com¬ CIVIL AND POLITICAL LANDMARKS. mands and ordinances of the man, Christ “If the Church is true to its mission in Jesus, without mutilation, abridgment the world, it must always be the van¬ or modification by the opinions of guard in the expression of the highest men. While there is a man to view moral standards and the living exponent it, may that landmark remain, pointing of the best elements of advanced Chris¬ to the Eternal Rock of Ages. Then in tian civilization. In the great moral is- j. the next place, realizing the preciousness sues in the life of this nation our church of this gospel and the design of God that held early foremost ground and occupied it is for all nations and kindred and it bravely. But how little you hear what tongues and people, in earnest devotion ground our brethren took regarding and self-sacrifice, they inaugurated a slavery. In tire agitation of that question missionary movement of Evangelization from pulpit, press and platform, in the and Christianization that has been owned deadly conflict in cruel warfare, in the and wonderfully blessed of the Lord hour of freedom by emancipation, where The Germantown church from its organi¬ was the Brethren Church ? When did zation became a missionary centre; the the church join the mighty onward Brethren went by twos to visit the scat¬ march of moral advancement to God ? tered members and the straggling settle¬ “In 1797 slavery was forbidden in the ment from county to county. The truth church and all slaves emancipated by our /spread the field enlarged, the work contin- National Conference, thus abolishing v;yd for all these years, until it reaches from slavery sixty-six years before the nation the Atlanta to the Pacific, from the Lakes did. Their peace is another landmark on the North to the Gulf on the South, , in their history- As followers of Him EebounmhS W 1876, the work was once who was declared to be the Prince of Peace, they have always opposed war more established in Northern Europe, j and advocated peace, and that difficulties then carried into Asia Minor, the Turk¬ between nations should be settled by ish Empire, and once more primitive j arbitration. Within recent years there Christianity prevails in ancient Smyrna, ; have been many instances of arbitration, the place of one of the seven churches of showing that the nations are gradually Revelations. Seven missionaries have adopting arbitration as a means of consecrated their lives, pierced the land peace and the hastening of the time of plague and famine and planted the when they shall learn the art of banner of Christ in sunny India. With war no mote. Let us have peace in the 100,000 members to-day guarding these nation, in the community, in the home. landmarks, ye may look hopefully into Peace is one of the cardinal principles of the future. the gospel of Christ. “I have noticed a few landmarks. Let “There is one more landmark on a us preserve these and find others; guard burning national question. Long and them as our sacred trust; defend them severe has been the agitation, and some¬ with humble, devoted, consecrated lives, times bitter the conflict between temper¬ and they shall lead us into the footsteps ance and intemperance. In its civil and of Him who, when his work was finish¬ political phases, the liquor problem is ed, said unto His disciples and says unto complex and difficult. The Brethren us, ‘Go Ye.’ ” have met the question in the domain of One of the most interesting features of morals and have settled it without com¬ the anniversary will be the presentation promise, as all moral issues must be set¬ of a memorial tablet in memory of Chris¬ tled, and in 1792, by decisive and positive topher Sower, one of the founders of the action of the National Conference, pro¬ church, on Sunday next, at 3 o’clock in hibited the manufacture and sale of all the afternoon. An address will then be intoxicants by any communicant of the delivered by Dr. M. G. Brumbaugh, church. on the “Life and Work of Bishop Chris¬ SPIRITUAL LANDMARKS. topher Sower.” The tablet will be pre¬ sented by Charles G. Sower, and the ac¬ “But interesting as are these consider¬ ceptance will be made by the pastor. In ations and profitable these lessons, vastly the evening the pastor will preach on more important to us and to a needy “Looking Forward,” world is to know the true scope of their 1 spiritual work. It is not what we have, it. The first Book he printed-was Zionitische: GERMANTOWN Weyranchs Hugel Oder Myrrhenberg. or, as we might sav, the “Hill of Incense.” In 1743 the The following interesting and elaborate Bible in German was printed by him forty years Bsketch of old-time printing in Germ- prior to its appearance )iere in English. In his antown, from the pen of the late Town- prospectus the price was .put at fourteen shillings, unbound, but, “by the aid of a few well-inclined send Ward, one of the ablest of the his¬ friends,” he says, “he twas enabled to sell the torians of early Germantown, will be worth of fourteen shilling's for the price of twelve; read with no little interesat this time. ?1.60, and he did so. But bound copies, his lowest price was eighteen shillings, or ¥2.40. It was written by Mr. Ward in 1881 : His newspaper was commenced on the 20th of It is not far to the site of a printing and pub- August, 1739, under the following title: Der -i listing office, noted as among the most remark¬ Hoch-Deutsch Pensvlvanische Geschiclit-Schreib- able in the colonies,—that of Christopher Saur. er, Oder: Sammlung Wichtiger Nachriehten, aus Before speaking of it, however, I ought to say dem Natur und Kirchen-Reiehe; or “High Ger¬ that any merit that may he detected in the follow¬ man Pennsylvania Historian, or collection of im¬ ing account is owing to the deep researches of portant news from the Kingdom of Nature and the learned Professor Oswald Seidensticker and of the Church.” It was at first a quarterly issue, Mr. Abraham H. Cassell, the latter a descendant but made monthly, and enlarged in 1741. In of Saur. Their labors have been long-continued, 1745 its name was changed to Berichte oder earnest, and most useful, for they have quarried Sammlung wichtiger Nachriehten aus dem Natur among the rich deposits of the past. Christopher und Kirchen-Reiche: or “Reports of a Collection Saur was born in 1693, in Laasphe, Wittgenstein, of Important News from the Kingdom of Nature Westphalia, and was fortunate in so far that his and the Church.” In 1748 it was issued twice a youth was passed under a tolerate ruler. This month, the intermediate issues not numbered, was not often the case in that day in Germany, and the price three shillings, or forty cents the for many of its sovereigns and princes greatly op¬ year, with the right on the part of a subscriber to pressed their people, who were at that time under an advertisement without charge. In the years the experience of an; excessive fermentation of 1746 to 1749 there appeared in the paper and religious thought. The letters and tracts of the in the almanac the interesting communications era are full of the “Born Again,” of the “Circles respecting the Iroquois and Delaware Indians, of the Awakened,” of “The Inspired,” and of the furnished by Conrad Weiser. These have been “Philadelphia Bund.” Of this latter was Johanna carefully collected by Mr. Abraham H. Cassell, Eleanora von Merlau, who made so deep an im¬ and translated by Miss Helen Bell. They appear pression on William Penn, and who was one of in volumes 1 and 2 of the Pennsylvania Magazine the Frankford Land Company which had much of History and Biography. The newspaper of to do with the settlement of Germantown. Among September 1st, 1749, contains the following: some of the sects of that time there were wander¬ “On last Friday the 25th of August in the even¬ ing preachers, ascetic and mystical men, often ing about eight o'clock, were Jacob Sauter and learned, but sometimes of ill-balanced mind. Martin Funck, (formerly living near Perkasie) They spoke in secret conventicles, and experienc¬ with his boy, all on horse-back, between German¬ ed nervous tremblings and head throwings, and town and Philadelphia in the neighborhood of frequently gave solemn warning. In that era Nageli's (Negley’s) plantation, and were taking arose the Dunkards; and then it was that Zinzen- what they had to market. A couple of Irishmen dorf became one of “The Inspired.” From such came to them rode along with them for a while a land Saur, in 1724, came to Germantown, and had two pistols. They put the pistols to the with his wife and son, the latter having been breasts of Martin Funck and Jacob Sauter, struck born September 26,1721. They were Dunkards, them and said they should give up their money and Saur was a preacher among them. With him and at the same time took hold of their pockets, came Charles jdackinet, John Adam Gruber, and The men were frightened and gave what they John Charles Gleim, besides several others. The had. Then they let them go.” Mennonites and German Quakers, who were the In 1751 the number of subscribers to the news¬ earliest comers to Germantown, had not all passed paper was four thousand; three hundred and away, and he therefore knew many of them. In thirty of whom were along the Conestoga Road. the spring of 1726 he went to Chester county, to On the first of December, 1754, he advertises a that part near where Ephrata, Lancaster county, pen that held a considerable supply of ink. a now is, but in April, 1731, he returned to Ger¬ fountain pen, in fact. In 1755, while the price mantown. In 1730 his wife Christina was de¬ of the paper remained unchanged, subscribers luded into leaving him in order to join Conrad who advertised were to pay five shillings, or sixty- Beisel’s mystical community. She soon became seven cents. The following notice appeared in vice-prioress of the convent, under the name of 1759, "Whoever is indebted for three vears and Marcella, and remained there until the 17th of over and otherwise has no regard to it must November, 1744, when failing health and the not take it amiss if he receives a notice.” In the ’ entreaties of her only ison prevailed with her to works he printed in English, he anglicized his leave. As her delusions were not yet fully dis¬ name into Sower, pelled, she would notigo to her husband, but re¬ Christopher Saur was in earnest man, who mained with her son until the 20th of June, shrank from no labor and no duty. The emigrant 1745, when at last she rejoined him. She had vessels of his day had little accommodation and been absent from him fifteen years, and he was were so much overcrowdei as to be mere murder now ill,"and needed, her soothing care. machines. He wrote on tie subject to the Gov¬ Saur was a man of unusual and remarkable ernor, and his letters were of such force as to ability. Bred a tailor in Germany, here he ac¬ lead to the establishment if the Lazaretto. As a quired proficiency in, it is said, some thirty other Dunkard he neither couldresort to force by bear¬ pursuits. He became a farmer, an apothecary, a ing arms, or appeal to a evil court to redress a surgeon, a botanist, a clock and watch maker, wrong;—for perfect submission to whatever might book-binder, an optician, a manufacturer > befall him was the essenceof his faith. Powerful paper, he drew wire and lead, and made all the in his influence over the German mind, and in materials for the books he printed. In deeds, he some degree over that o the Indian, too, his is called “a clock and mathematical instrument loyalty to the English vas suspected for a maker. ” He also imported German Bibles in con¬ moment, at the time whei General Forbes was siderable numbers. He was soon a successful about to march against Fcrt DuQuesne. Twelve man, for in 1732 he built the large old house of Highlanders in their kilt: and plaids, escorttd stone that formerly occupied the site where No. him from Germantown t« the “Stag,” on the 4653 now is. It had in it a room in which the Lancaster Road, the qua'ters of the General, Dunkards met for worship. This was in the sec¬ where he was well receivec, and after a satisfac¬ ond story, and the partitions of the adjoining tory conversation, dismissed He was deeply im¬ rooms tvere hung by hinges to the joists above. pressed with the good sens:, comprehension' and "When necessity required it they could be swung prudence of “The Head a Iron,” and said that open, and any amount of room be made in an in¬ in these qualities “The ted General,” as he stant. His varied pursuits made him well ac¬ called Forbes, was far siperior to the “Black quainted with great numbers of the people of the Coats.” Chistopher Saur died on the 25th of province, and so with his quick apprehension, September, 1758, and wasmcceeded in his busi¬ perceiving the need of a vehicle of thought, he ness by his only son. became a printer, and in 1739 issued his first Christopher Sower, the seiond, much resembled almanac. This- -was from a press he imported his father in his mechanica ingenuity. He made from Berleburg. where “The Inspired” had used --

1 . his own types, the first made m America- Freder¬ ick Fleekenstein’s grandfather forging them for resides on Ilarvey street. Another son of Chris¬ hint on an anvil now in possession of Mr. Jabez topher the second is understood to have gone to Gates. Sower also made everything connected Lancaster county after the Revolution He had with his business, and bound the books he printed. a son Michael and a grandson Jonathan who On the 21st of April, 1751, he married Cathe¬ was the father of this William H. Sowers ' ° rine Sharpneck In 1763 he issued a second When the Sowers left their old house it came to edition oi the Bible. He introduced the ten- he occupied by others, for a time by Charles J plate stoves, afterwards improved upon bv Frank¬ faster, who entirely remodelled it. but did not lin. He sold medicines from prescriptions given I hotre0rd!wVn the walls, as they were stronger and him by Hr. DeBenneville. In 1763 he built a better than modern ones. He pointed out to Mr paper mill on the Wissahickon. The newspaper, Cassell the spot where the first Christopher and m 1775, was issued weekly, but the price re¬ his wife were buried, in the back corner of the mained unchanged. It was in that year that the 5ut the improvements he had made Convention of Pennsylvania met, and they levelled the ground, so that no vestige of a mound passed resolutions favorably commending his remained. Squire Baynton, as he was called of ingenuity. In 1776 he completed a third edition a colonial family now extinct in the male line of the Bible, consisting of three thousand copies. lived m it afterwards, for a time. Some twenty It has been frequently stated that the whole of years ago the buildings were removed hv Dr. this issue, except ten copies, was carried off by Uw'en J. Wister, who erected on their site the fine the combatants on or before the battle of Ger¬ structure numbered 4653, occupied by him for a mantown, and used as wadding and litter. This, time, and afterwards by Moses Brow'n, who while true of the greater part, cannot be entirely initf”* lt- Mr' Rol3ert Pearsall Smith now lives correct, for more than that number of copies are known to be in existence. He continued the issue of the almanac, and also of the neivspaper until 1778. The paper was continued until 1790 by Billmever, under the title of Die Gernjantauner Zeitung. Tbs second Christopher Sower prospered in worldly goods, and in time became possessed of From, yi l /~- nine different properties in Germantown, besides several valuable ones outside of it. h* Vvas of so delicate a conscience ?*S to prefix, in 1762, to information in his paper, the words “probably true,” and no doubt his life throughout w'as entirely in accordance with the truthful though quaint simplicity of this announcement. The Date, ...mm.. __by some of McLean’s men, who shaved and stripped him stark naked, and then painted, this man, so venerable by his pure, unselfish, and laborious life. General Muhlenberg had him seek an interview with General Washington, who libera¬ I*: ted him. His property was now seized and sold, 7 the rock holse. and not in accordance with the provisions of the statute just passed. He, however, with his relig¬ Some Additional Facts Concerning the An¬ ious belief, was powerless, for his conscience cient Structure. forbade appeal to any human tribunal. And so, after living for a time at Methetchy, pronounced In the article on “The Old Rock- Ma-set-shee, now Metutchen, in Montgomery House, which appeared in The Inde¬ county, about four miles northwest from Norris¬ town, in Brother Conrad Stamm’s Weaving Shop, pendent-Gazette three weeks ago, there he died in poverty on the 26th of August, 1784. were a few facts in connection with the Some of the children of Christopher Sower the historic structure on Shoemaker lane second were printers. During the occupation of the city by the British, Christopher and Peter that were omitted, and which will be of plied their trade in it, and printed the poems of interest at. this time. The racts were Pastor Kunze, who afterwards became a profes¬ furnished to as by a well-known resident sor in Columbia College, New York. They also issued a weekly paper in the Interest of the whose name we withhold at his sugges¬ Loyalists. After the evacuation of Philadelphia, tion. Christopher the third went to St. Johns, New Brunswick, and there issued the “Royal Gazette.” Some years ago there was a little one- Afterwards he went to Baltimore, where he died story building about fourteen feet square J in 1799. Samuel Sower remained for a time in that stood alongside of a barn, on the \ Germantown, hut about 1790 went to Chestnut Hill, and there printed a paper in continuation of site of what is now Belfield avenue. At I Bnlmeyer’s, spoken of above, under the title of that time the property belonged to Sam¬ Die Chestnutniller Wocbenscfarift, From there uel H. Col lorn, and ‘when it was pro- ; S? hj0ve<^ to Philadelphia, and issued it from No. posed to put down the big sewer Mr. Col- 71 Race street, between Second and Third, under the title of Das Philadelphia Wochenblat, until lom thought that, it would be a shame iu ■ 1.795. He printed a number of books and destroy the little one-story structure in pamphlets at Chestnut Hill and In the city. In which William Penn is said to have 1795 he went to Baltimore, and established there a house for publishing German preached from time to time. According-. books. David, another son, was born in 1764. lv Mr. Collom had both the old-time He pnnted some little things in Philadelphia, meeting house and the barn moved and then went to Norristown, where he continued long as a publisher of hooks and of a newspaper. ! across the way to his ground, with His son, named David, born February 11th, the sole purpose of preserving 1794, w-as for along time the publisher of the 1 the old structure. It remained in its Norristown Herald. He married Cecilia Chollet, daughter of a French emigrant of the era of the ! new location for a little while, until the Reign of Terror. Their son, Charles G. Sower, j row of brick houses on Belfield avenue '"’as a.n<^ *s at this time a member I was contemplated, when it was torn of “The Philadelphia German Pioneer-verein, ” and is largely in the publishing business in Phila¬ down to make room for the march of delphia. In this family, therefore, the trade of I improvement. After the old structure printing has been continued in an unbroken line was razed some parties came forward from 1738 to 1881. One, at least, of the family lives in Germantown. William II. Sowers, who ■ and bewailed the fact thaf, the destruc- | tion of the old house should not have '\< been allowed, saying that they would * j m. ^v^h5^t™oTe3 and Yt^conM rncted ufj UNIFORMS OF THE PAST the Park to save it for future generation., j in look upon. It was rte. , . ’ U one time a colored man. namedl v'es-Lewis and his wife occupied the; How American Fighters Dressed in the H House His wife was a pretty Days of Washington, Scott mulith woman, a runaway slave from , j the South. One day there appeared a and Grant the Lewis home a deputy U. S. ^rBbaL

with a requisition for Mis. L*£>• - t course there was trouble, as Mm. newm Pletedrat fhXh*’ careful work, just com- pietecl, at the big museum of the Schuyl¬ had three children, and they, too, came ■ kill Arsenal on Gray’s Ferry avenue 6e- mder the requisition of the slave-owner s *°J, Rainbrjdge street, has made that de- demands Lewis protested and threat¬ paitment the most remarkable of its kind ened to fight, for his wife and family. The Jddp^t country- The arsenal itself is the neighbors became interested, and 1 oldestjmd largest in the United States short time the good pe°ple °| German It was established in 17S5 as an ordnance town began to rally around Lewis ana depot and has been known as “the Arse1 : his and!?. In a short time twelve hum nal” ever since, although the military dreddollars was raised and the slave¬ title has long lost its application. owner ° was bought off, andthe Lewis It now furnishes the largest output of family was free. Some of the hescena military clothing and equipment in the ants 'of this family are living m Ger- country, not only shipping supplies direct¬ ly to troops, but also forwarding mate¬ i mantown to-day. . iarffe On another occasion a very large rials to other military depots, where they are made up just as they are here. Hun¬ family occupied the old Rock house. It dreds of expert cutters, markers and trim¬ would seem almost an impossibility to mers are employed in the clothing depart¬ . | crowd twenty or more people m this old ments of the Arsenal and its big annex . I structure, but such was a fact At one at Tenth street and Washington avenue, ■ n family named Smith, witn while outside work, in serving the uni¬ forms and underclothing to Uncle Sam’s soldiers, is supplied to more than 3000 widows and orphans of soldiers in Phila¬ delphia alone, a great deal of heavy work in addition being let out to firms and in¬ dividuals by contract. The Military Museum children in all to be cared foi. Major G. S. Bingham, the commandant, I widower Smith and the widow Smith who succeeded Major Hathaway last fall, were married and they all moved into has put into effect many notable reforms I the Rock House, with the exception of in connection with the operation of the flip older children, who were able to Arsenal, but none of the improvements themselves. While they were has been more remarkable than that which has placed the military museum in enrnewhat crowded, they all lived happily its present unique condition. He is one SSKStTSR Ukorihl old structure of the youngest officers in the United for eqme years. States Army and comes from a family of soldiers. He was stationed in the Jeffer¬ son barracks at St. Louis, until he gained his promotion in the regular army, about four years ago, when he was transferred to the Schuylkill Arsenal. His official From, ,t. 'l*. position in the regular army is that of Captain and Assistant Quartermaste", but ,njf\ J J , ///- „ ,Qa in accordance with the recent system of !jv yd.lt1 .U-. Ar- promotion adopted by President McKin¬ V ley he has the title of Major and Chief Quartermaster of Volunteers. C/y i „ ^ /(T^ Q The museum occupies the entire upper Date, J 1 ./ -/• floor of the big Arsenal building. It would take the better part of a day to examine all the relics, curiosities and samples that fill every part of the capacious room. Be¬ fore the process of renovation and assort¬ ment, it would have taken a week. There are specimens of almost every weapon, uniform and service garb known since ante- OlLb oul Revolutionary times. From colonial days down to the present period, the display af¬ fords a complete, consecutive exposition of the evolutions in uniform and weapons, interesting Museum of Military a perfect object lesson of the military cus¬ toms and resources of the past century Relics Gathered at Gray’s and more. Uniforms of tie Past Ferry Arsenal The relics of the Colonial, Revolutionary, Mexican and Civil Wars are numerous and interesting. There are colonial rifle¬ men in trapping costume, with coon- skin hats and moccasins, with flint¬ locks and knives; figures representing the costumes of Continental'days, whefi made in the United States Army uni¬ wigs were deemed to be as necessary an forms. These, as in other cases, are ex¬ article of dress as boots, and groups repre- emplified by the use of life-like figures. In senting the various changes in uniforms the early part of the Revolution sonfe oi that have been made for the officers and the troops assumed the dress recommend men of the United States army. Among ed by Washington, a hunting shirt and the, latter axe figures exhibiting the three long gaiter breeches, maos of tow cloth variations in the uniform of the West steeped in a tan vat tnl it reached tin Point cadets since the foundation of that color of a dry leaf. This was called the institution. In 1820 the youths wore shirt uniform or rifle dress, md was wort a uniform of dark, grayish mixture, the by Daniel Morgan’s famous riflemen. Ir coaj,s with narrow waists and flaring the Pennsylvania regiments of the Con skirts, and plug hats. At the time of the tmental line, the First Pennsylvania In Kebellion the uniform had become the fa- fantrv had brown coats, faced‘with buff the Second Pennsylvania, blue coats 08 Spy-” while the modem reg¬ ulation outfit shows some important modifi¬ faced with red, and round black hats; th< cations m cut of clothes and hat. Third Pennsylvania, brown regimenta In one of the numerous glass cases there coats, black cocked bats and Buckskir repose several pairs of shoes of Gargantuan breeches. The Light Horse of the Cits proportions, which were speciallv made bv of Philadelphia, or “First Tiuop, Phila delphia City Cavalry,” formed Novembei fhe government for soldiers of the Union, 17, 1774, wope brown cloth coatee, bufl fl.°^erta,nl-y stood their ground in them tor the various accompanying cards an¬ waistcoat and breeches and a black velvet nounce that they were killed in battle, cap. Some riflemen wore on their breasts there is one pair of boots made in New the motto Liberty or Death.” Captain | lhomas Holmes’ First Philadelphia Coun- I York in 1863, for a private in a New York ty Battalion, Cdonel John Shee’s Third 1 battery of artillery who stood seven feet Battalion, Associators of Philadelphia, and two inches high. The boots are No. 17s Gomnel John Moore’s “Flying Camp,” all at least. “Two pairs were made from a wore brown coats, red or white facing!, special last,” reads the pathetic legend and; buckskin breeches. Colonel Pen- upon the card, “but before he could draw r°ses battalion wore a short coat of a the second pair he died.” reddish brown cast and yam stockings. As for No. 14s, they are apparently as In the War of 1812 numerous in the army as they are in the At the time of the second war with Eng¬ Rhiladelphia police force. land the coat of the infantry and artillery Besides the life-size and life-like figures bad become uniformly blue, no red collars ot men in various garbs and postures, there or cuffs and no lace being worn by any are groups of officers on horseback, minia- grade excepting in epaulettes and sword- ture military tents, Indian scouts and Knots. For the officers, leather caps were frontiersmen, armed and mounted; nack substituted for felt, and worsted or cotton mules, representations of camp life, officers pompons for feathers. General officers m consultation, artillerymen, etc., the and others of the general staff wore whole embodying different periods and cocked hats without feathers. The coats phases in the military life of the nation. reached the bend of the knee. There was Historic Flag’s a high black stock. Blue pantaloons were Among the large collection of historic worn in winter and nankeen in summer, flags is the flag of Fort Sullivan, S. C., with gilt knee buckles and high military distinguished in 1776, and the colors of boots and gilt spurs. The chapeaux were trom by2 to 9 inches high in the rear and other forts and posts throughout the , 15 to 17 inches in front. In 1821 dark country made famous by military epi¬ blue was prescribed as the national color sodes during the past 150 years. A re-, tor all officers and enlisted men. Just mai liable specimen in the collection of Pri a Jock built up like a mountan of dark blue cloth, single-breasted for cap¬ tains and double-breasted for all other than’fift^pounds61^' °f Pr°bably mor' grades, and buttons variously arranged in rows and divisions on the breast to de¬ note the rank. The regulation full dress uniform now UnUe

JO I high bluff. From a dense woods Early A Date, ;division was thrown against this solitary' regiment. Not more than 500 of the regiment escaped unharmed. While i fording the river Comrade Neilson was Ishot, the ball entering the right ear and OUR BOYS IN BLUE. ■coming out of the left eye. Comrade Jos¬ eph Meehan was also wounded during Pen Sketches of Germantown’s Heroes In this engagement. Neilson suceeded in the AVar of the Rebellion. reaching the shore and was sent to the [Compiled for The Independent-Gazette by '[Germantown Army Hospital. He subse¬ N K. Ployd, of the One Hundred and Nineteenth . SPenna.] | quently became an orderly and was transferred to the Second Battalion. His It affords the writer much pieasureto | record as a soldier and a citizen is bril¬ give the readers of The Independent-Ga¬ liant. zette a brief record of the Neilson-Mc- William Neilson, aged 18 years, enter- -iMurtrie family, containing seven heroic .«§ ed Co. H, One Hundred and Ninety- boys of good old Scotch stock, who seventh Pennsyl\rania, July 30, 1863, shouldered their mnskets and rushed ’'j and Avas discharged October 11, 1864. forward to defend their adopted country. ■ The regiment was assigned to Rock Is¬ All honor to their godly mother, Mrs. land, Ill., Avhere it was on garrison duty. Neilson, and her noble sons who were The comrade has a good .record as a sol¬ willing to sacrifice all for the American dier and a citizen. Union. THE STEP-BROTHERS. Gavin Neilson enlisted June 1, 1861, in Thomas .McMurtrie, one of the three Co. H, Third N. J. Volunteers, and was step-brothers, entered the navy, serving mustered out June 27,1864. During this faithfully for a long period on the block¬ trying period the comrade took part in ade squadron off Charleston, S. C. He more than a dozen engagements, display¬ ' was a braAre and loyal man and made ing great bravery. He was taken pris¬ ■m an excellent record. Thomas was dis¬ oner at Gaines’ Hill and sent to Libby charged at the close of hostilities. Prison. Rejoining his regiment, he re¬ John McMurtrie enlisted August 6, ceived a dangerous wTound at Crampton’s 1862, and served as a musician. Was Pass, September 14, 1862. At Spottsyl- made a prisoner of war. After his ex- vania he lost his left arm. He has. a Ichange he was transferred to the Second most excellent record. Comrade Neil¬ Battalion, of Veteran Reserves, .and was son was ,one of the organizers of Ellis discharged in 1865 with an honorable Post, No. 6, G. A. R. He is at present record. He is now employed at the second assistant clerk of Common Coun¬ Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia. cil, and an efficient officer. Hugh McMurtrie joined Co. H, One Sergeant Thomas Neilson was connect¬ Hundred and Eighteenth Pennsylvania. ed with Co. H, Eighth Pennsylvania He Avas badly wounded in the Wilder¬ Cavalry, a regiment once commanded, by ness, and Avas subsequently transferred the heroic General Gregg. At the time to the Second Battalion, Veteran Re- of his enlistment, August 20, 1861, he serves. lie was discharged at the elose, was scarcely twenty years of age, but on I i&UHliflif ?' s into the war, having rendered his adopte country grand and glorious services. | Recovering again, werna mm with Further comment on these heroic boys musket in the One .Hundred and Eighty- || from Glasgow, Scotland, is unnecessary. ninth Pennsylvania, out at Rock Island, !• » These imperfect lines tell the story. Tne Illinois, guarding Confederate prisoners. . good old mother has passed over the This boy made a record. He did all he Bm river, but her noble boys have been was asked to do. Yes, he did what he spared for further duty. Germantown could. Who could do more ? At present can feel proud of these seven loyal sons. he is holding an important position, and

THE SHRIVER BOYS. no one is more sought after. Edw-ard Peter Warner, brother of John Germantown can fee! proud of the S., although a boy not seventeen jyears pfJL ' Shriver boys, who, although young in years, rushed forward to defend the flag. age, resolved to go to the front. He, to- ‘ Reuben Shriver enlisted in the One getlier with William Sharpless, J. Rorer, Hundred and Fiftieth Pennsylvania H Bogan, J. Hagar, S. McCauley and J. (Bucktails), dying at Washington, Au¬ Berlin, volunteered for the conflict and gust 6, 1862. William, the youngest were sent down to fill the depleted ranks boy, was connected with the One of the Ninety-fifth Pennsylvania, These Hundred and Fourteenth Pennsyl¬ little fellow’s gave a good account of vania, (Collis’ Zouaves). He, too, : themselves, and each and all rendered like his loyal and devoted brother, faithful services for their country. Ber¬ soon fell a victim of disease, lin was killed, Bogan and McCauley were dying at Falmouth, Va., April 12, 1863. among the wounded. All have honor- Their bodies now rest in the old Haines rjVvlp rppArnjS Street Methodist Graveyard. Lieuten¬ George W. Felton rendered good ser¬ ant George W. Shriver still survives. He vices in the Seventy-second Pennsylvania entered Co. B, One Hundred and Nine- (Baxter’s Zouaves). His remains repose teetli Pennsylvania, in company with his in St. James’ Cemetery, Olney. relatives from old Haines street. By his [To be continued next week.] bravery he won the admiration of the; --—•— officers and men of the command. He rose from a private to a lieutenancy. He had many close calls, but escaped until . the struggle at Petersburg, when he and 'f?r From, i/.C his cousin, Sergeant William Ployd, were cut down and carried from that bloody field. These noble heroes came /[)/ ./ from old Revolutionary stock, their VJU./i'0 A i great-grandfather being Captain John Miller, who died while fighting under w (• l Washington. Lieutenant Shriver is the Date, last member of the John Shriver branch' ot the family. All honor to their par¬ ents, who hurried their boys to the front tp suffer and die for country. All mm honor to these heroic boys who responded THE SECOND OLDEST CHURCH. to the immortal Lincoln’s call, and did — '' hat they could to save the American A Relic of the Swedish Settlers of Union. Philadelphia. To lovers of the antique and picturesque, THE WARNER BOYS. few spots in Philadelphia "are more inter¬ John S. Warner, I think, is one of the, esting than quaint old ' St.. James’ P. E. Church, which stands in quiet beauty and best known citizens of Germantown, and simplicity as a monument to those who none knows him better than the writer first cleared the dense forests of our coun¬ When the war broke out little Johnny try. although quite a lad, lay down his tools A score of years before the philanthropic Penn was born the great Swede, Gustavus and shouldered a musket in the Nintv- Adolphus, conceived the idea of founding fifth Pennsylvania, Captain McCullough a city of brotherly love in the very wilder¬ Unfortunately for the boy he was taken ness where Philadelphia now stands, hut sick with fever in the Virginia swamps : before an expedition could set out Gus¬ tavus died. and while in a temporary field hospital, In 1C37 an expedition was sent in las filled with sick and wrounded comrades name, the immigrants settling in the un¬ he, together with the rest of the sufferers broken wilderness between the Schuylkill and Delaware P.ivers. They built mud fell into the hands of the enemy lodges and log huts and lived honest and Among the wounded prisoners was M.ijo pure lives. When Penn came he declared H. 0. Roberts, and no one rendered thi them to be the most sober and industrious people he had ever seen. maimed hero more assistance than the Two clergymen were sent in 1677, and little fellow from Germlntown. 1 jrtu-' immediately after their arrival a log nately the enemy had no time to guard church was erected on the site now occu¬ these wounded soldiers, and they pied by Gloria Dei, familiarly knowm as “Old Swedes.’’ In 1762 St. James’ was escaped into the Union lines built. The church stands in the midst of “Johnny” Warner was subse¬ spacious grounds, extending from Sixty- quently honorably discharged and eighth to Sixty-ninth streets and from ^brought to his old Haines Woodland avenue to Paschall avenue, and _ - • - - comprises HTe iii;ic3. x lit ujuu i i;li gray stone found in the neighborhood. The ‘ irregular mortar lines are studded with HOW WHITTIER SANG THEM small pieces of the same stone, giving a peculiar but very pleasant appearance to the building. i To all appearances the building is as Recollections of Barber Kinzel, of sound now as when it was erected, one hundred and thirty-seven years ago. It Germantown, Who Occupied the has a thoroughly substantial look, and is a fitting relic of the plain and sturdy Historic Place Many Years people who first worshiped there. A com¬ munion table and a chair used by the early Swedes are still preserved in the vestry. If no other motive than curiosity incites The old-fashioned house where the first a ramble through the churchyard ad.ioining one is amply repaid for a visit to this old anti-slavery protest of any organized body burying-ground, where* stones are softened in the* history of the world was adopted, by the gray tint of age and decay, and stands at 5109 Main street, Germantown where clinging ivy, planted many years It is now occupied by a shoemaker, bu ago, creeps into the crevices and over¬ runs the mounds. up to a recent time Christopher Kinzel , The oldest stone in the churchyard bears a barber, had been its occupant for forty the date of 1765; it is dulled and darkened years. He is still near at hand, and know by the suns and rains of many years. Some of the inserpitions are singuar. One stone the traditions ofthepTacetvel . of ancient appearance, with the date 1768, other places of this character, this scene has this: of the early Quaker meetmg where Francis “Watch and pray do not delay, Daniel Pastorius offered his famous pro For Time doth quickly pass; For you may see that pass by me, test is more inquired for by strangei Man's days are like the Grass.” than Philadelphians. When Cieerc^ w t Near the centre of the yard are several to Syracuse he asked his hosts for t.he picturesque monuments of the necropolean tomb of Archimedes, and tound no one style, seldom seen now in even the oldest who could point it out, and no one hut himself who knew the signs y w ic neavy n. it slab of grayish marble on which could be recognized. So a T are the names of those who rest beneath might ask for the place where Pastorius One of the most interesting offered his wonderful protest> .“d la- erected, to the memoryofOeoreeW- lS mam' who had never heard of either Pas Smith,, M. D„ who died at sea in fsoS^nf was biuried in the Indian Ocean A hand some memorial window in the church also ‘°S»oTd »py'Tthe protest hsng. in . commemorates the sad death by Are of Ml of Sics in the Vree nW .»d this young physician. In the centre of the Reading Room near Mam and Coulter wmdow is a representation of the SiSn on which he was stationed lying in mid ftSet. gGe™.ntown Th. ocean on tire, the flames and smoke wreath' ing house, on the site chosen a- the .masts rigging Wreath- after the date of the Pastorius protest, is The old carnage block Dear to the

tell him of their escapades when the abandoned meeting house was turned into Lesher’s tavern. They said that in the | meadow near the tavern they had bull fights. To such vile uses the ground can perhaps never return. To make that nest to impossible, many visitors think the ground ought to be set apart by the pub¬ lic like the Penn Treaty ground. No onei Date, f / can tell to-day how much of the house, as | it appears now, is the original house of Tennis Kunders (afterward called Den-1 nis Conrad), in which a Friends’ meeting was first held in 1683. There were several V other houses in which Friends met for worship and the business of the Society in | those days. , i One of these was a bnek building at | FOES TO SLUVERK School lane and Main street, long ago torn down. Another was near Shoemaker s station. Other Friends’ houses were used for the business and worship of the Soci¬ The Old Pastorius House and ety, but evidences lean overwhelmingly to the Famous Protest Against the conclusion that the Kunders or Cop- rad house was the one whose walls must have had ears enough to hear the voice Human Bondage there raised against slavery with what Milton would call the “irresistible mightj of meekness.” . .—~~ G2WSI The Finwus -ProPest I history says: “It is remark- The meeting when it did pass the pro- J able that the two most salutary revolu- test addressed it to the higher meeting of tions which ever took place in England— Friends at Einhard Worrell’s. It read as that which made an end of the tvrannv of follows: ■Norman over Saxon, and that which a'few generations later put an end to the prop¬ These are the reasons why we are erty of man in man—were silently and im¬ against the traffic in the bodies of men as perceptibly effected. They were brought followeth:—Is there any that would be about neither by legislative enactment nor done or handled in this manner (them¬ physical force. Moral causes noiselessly selves), viz., to be sold or made a slave effaced first the distinction between Nor¬ for all the time of his» life? How fearful man and Saxon and then the distinction and faint-hearted are many on the sea, between master and slave.” when they see a strange vessel, being afraid it should be a Turk and they Anti-Slavery Noise should be taken and sold for slaves into "Noiselessly” could not be said of the J urkey. Now what is this better than emancipation process in America. Noise the lurks do? Yea, rather is it worse for began from the moment that Pastorius’ res¬ them which say they are Christians; for olutions were read In fact, the noise of we hear that the most part of such ne¬ extreme agitators had been going on be- groes are brought hither against their ! f°Te time, but the sensation created will and consent and that many of them when it came into the Friends’ meeting in are stolen. Now though they are black, j &da.y friends were the State, and we cannot conceive there is more liberty ! Francis Pastorius the most distinguished i of them next to William Penn himself -was to have them slaves than it is to have | other white ones. There is a saying that S Wfct Pastorius’ sensation the jve should do to all men like as we would N1™1 ,War. which he doubtless never be done unto ourselves; making no dif¬ WM- °fU)r

beautiful lofdiers’ National Cemetery

OUR BOYS IN BLUE. ■*&£?££- «■ rSVit£re. Pen Sketches of Germantown’s Heroes in same regiment. g® e hich crip- the War of the Kebellion. [■Compiled>iled for The Independent-Gazette by MkH. K. Ployd, of the One Hundred and Nineteenth S’ Pennsylvania.! Keyser’perished in the same battle, July, 1 1863. While in the act of fi^gh^. The writer introduces to-day several jld Germantown families who did much j Bingt cartridge he received his u wound. His body was recovered ar^ HKo preserve the Union. renoses in Ivy Hill Cemetery. A account of the death of this gallant hj has already been published in these (,}]J •: 4 , umns. —— 21

bo those who were born in rei , , ZIMMERMAN, TULL, KARSNER. '“xWdl .b.r. .hS',' S'Ct! Charles Zimmerman, a well-known old soldier, and for many years a citizen of Germantown, made an excellent record „ entfirtair»i"g and Insturc- in the First Delaware Regiment. “Char¬ SknwS? Pee‘'th" °f ley” made several narrow escapes from death, but after the conflict was over he Various creeks and runs of water met with an accident which crippled him I tJ»« Delaware river above the Schu? for life. He is an active worker in Post i kill; these formed water ways to the 6, G. A. R. | intenor and were utilized as such Charles Pittman Tull, when quite a Around and along these creeks and runs boy, in company with James Karsner, inspired with patriotism, took a little selves One oef8thrSt 6Stab,ished leave from home, both joining the First Delaware Regiment. Both made good records. “Charley” lost an eye at the battle of the Wilderness, and was left duct of the Wingohocklngl Tacony 'Little 1 upon the field for dead. The boy was Taconey and Frehetah creeks was the 1 lalive, however, when gathered up, and to-day is a useful citizen of Germantown. A lively corpse, too. William Lackman had the honor of being connected with the Ninety-fifth Pennsylvania (Gosline’s Zouaves). He inear the moih’XjftlnTtort Treek took part in many bloody engagements, |several years before the arrival of Penn receiving a dangerous wound. He, like and his people, traces of their resident all the gallant boys of that famous organ¬ havmg been found there on several occa ization, has a grand record, one to be j^ions, and in 1830 a mill bum bv th proud of. He is still living in German¬ town. bwedes before Penn landed was stilMn [existence and used 1 ln Samuel Lackman, a cousin, entered the army early in the conflict and soon perished. His remains repose in the Market Square Graveyard. Charles Lackman, a brother of Samuel, the D„p'"l, ‘.tTo? « was connected with Co. A, One Hundred and Nineteenth Pennsylvania. Charles served most faithfully. He survived the ^and to various settlers, and these grlnts ordeal and still sticks closely to old Ger-P mantown. The Lackman family were old residenters, were extremely loyal and patriotic, and deserve special com¬ sioners bo that, even before Penn an mendation. SSSKSKUSjr-iK*

J f) I land (meaning one Thomas Fairman Date, '//yil—ju.. whose land was along the Frankford creek.) would be needful, as the winds m drove the waters from the Delaware over much marshy land.” How oft the name of Frankford is re As the real beginning of the settlement peated, yet only mechanically and as a f Frankford lies in so much doubt, it is place either of residence or business, mpossible to state just to whom the without any thought of its origin, or its founding of the town should be attribu¬ history, or the growth of the place to ted, or who can lay claim to being its which it refers. In romantics’ minds, the original settler. William Penn was an name stirs up memories of days when enthusiastic Quaker, and in company Indians royed about, of revolutionary Tho^r 6r\0f that S6Ct’ he ravelled heroes, and brings up vivid recollections about preaching and teaching the doc- of the stories their grandparents used to ° S frJth- Am0ng 0ther P«»Ce8 bo tell of early times, and reminds them of visited was Frankfort, in Germany, and the legends so interesting and real, hand¬ . h® was wel‘ received by various ed down from generation to generation. sectaries, and his teachings were effec- upany, called the Frankfort which were established by the Frankford Company, formed the very year Penn Company; one before spoken of, and re¬ sailed for his new province, was composed ferred to in Watson’s Annals as follows: of men who were nearly all mystics or ‘ The Frankford Mill, possessed by Mr. Mennonites or Quaker converts made by Duffield at the time the annals were pre¬ Penn when ,he was at Frankfort in 1677. pared, was originally used as a mill by Pastorious, who founded Germantown in the Swedes before Penn landed. In 1698 1684, became a member of this company, Thomas Parsons had a mill at Frankford. and in a letter he states that the mem-- The earliest house at the place, near the bers of the company were so pleased witlfc mill owned by Mr. Duffield, was also the the new province and the project of property of Mr. Duffield. This hJuse had Penn that they purchased twenty-five been deeded to Yeamans Gillinghams by thousand acres of land, and some even Penn’s Commissioners is 1696. This resi¬ resolved to transport themselves and dence of Mr. Duffield’s as appears by a their families thither. This they did, and map of the County of Philadelphia pub¬ to them was allotted land in certain pro¬ lished in 1808, was situated in the neck of portions in that portion of the province laud lying east of the Frankford Creek, which afterward became Germantown; and formed by the junction of the Frank¬ there they, with Pastorious and others, ford and Little Tacony Creeks. There settled with their families. It is beyond were also houses of less note, probably question that from this company Frank- only cabins, which were not shown on ford creek received its name, and latterly any of these maps. The village of Frank¬ also the iown of Frankford, situated ford did not appear to grow as rapidly as along that creek. other places near to the City; for Old Giles In Watson’s Annals it is recited “there, .fGillingham, of FYankford. who died in has been an opinion prevalent about 1825, in his 93rd year, remembers playing Frankford village that it derives its name with the Indian boys in his childhood from Franty a black fellow and his ford, days, and Frankford which, was often where he kfept a ferry for passengers oa called Oxford from the township it was foot, but besides its looking too artificial in, had then but a few houses. “About to be tru4, there are obvious reasons; the time of Braddock’s defeat (in 1755). against that cause of its name. It is there came an Indian from a distance called Frankford Creek in Holme’s map» blowing a horn as he entered the Indians’ in 1682. I see it as early as 1701, referred place, they soon went off with him and to in a public petition concerning a road, were no more seen near the place.” under the name of Frankford, besides it At the time of the Revolution Frank¬ lies on the creek, the Indian Wingohock- ford played an important, part as it lay ing, which comes from the Frankford on one of the principal highways along Company’s Lands’ in Germantown. It the Delaware, designated on a map byf was their proper water passage to the Scull and Heap, made in 1777, as the river.” "Road to Frankfort,” and was used by In tiying to discover the names of the farmers in that locality, together with early occupants of Frankford, or in its other roads as the route by which they carried their products to the city of Phil¬ I near vicin ty, we are confined.mostly to the maps which were published at differ¬ adelphia, which supplies became quite a ent times, showing the location of their necessity when the British occupied the homesteads, and in petitions and state City, '.in the year 1777, and it was at , papers eoicerning public affairs. In one Frankford and along that road that the of these naps, begun in 1081, and made by lhomt; Holme, Penn's first Surveyor American troops were stationed topre-j General, fve find nearest to Frankford vent, if possible ,the carrying of supplies " The Liberty Lands of the city of Phila¬ to the British. And it was along this delphia ” extending northward as far as road that the Immortal Lafayette, the the Fran:ford creek and the Wingohoek- ing. "Oi the Delaware river from the Friend of America; travelled on his way Liberties op were lands marked down to to Philadelphia from Trenton when he .And^e?v Ja‘ung, Michael Neelson, Thom¬ visited the country in the year 1824. as lairnan, Samuel Carpenter, John Being situated as it was Frankford Bowser, Robert Turner, Gunnar Rrmbo, naturally became a place where the (from whom GuDner’s Run derived its name), Peter Neelson, Mouns Cock, Geo. farmers would congregate on market foreman, Wm. Salway and Eric Cock. . . days principally, and prepare for the trip Between Little and Great Tacony were to the City or dispose of their products, holdings of Thomas Fairman, (who meanwhile discussing the topics of the A"\elt *at Treaty Tree), Henry Waddy, Robert Adams, John Hughes, John day. The roads to the City in those days Bunfo, Henry Waddy again and Benja- were in a very bad condition, and very unn East, etc,” some of whom were the often the horses travelling along them origmai purchasers from Penn. Besides would be wading through dust and mud this there were several mills, some of "up to their necks” as the tales go; this made wagons almost useless and then .(0 transporting by hanapers came into use. the women in many cases driving the 8k: horses to the City. This condition of the roads was, however, one of the causes of the growth of Frankford as it was of other outlying places. Country stores could flourish and therefore many were established, as the farmers coming down from the country were quite r> ady and willing to dispose of their products and get in return the goods they needed a! these stores, rather than hazard the journey to the City through the dust and mud. And thus the town grew in size and population till in the year 1799 by Act ol Assembly of Pennsylvania passed th< seventh day of March it was incorporated into a borough. The boundaries began 'At a corner by the side of Frankford Creek, between land of Rudolph Neff and now or late of Henry Rover, extending SOPHICAL SOCIETY’S VAULTS. down Frankford Creek one hundred and ninety-fire perches, or thereabouts to the Official Papers Signed by Penn-Cofs mouth of the Tacony Creek (meaning, respondenee of Pranlilin—Broad¬ Little Tacony Creek), up the Tacony sides of tlie Revolution. Creek by its several courses six hundred and ten perches to a corner of Jacob Smith’s land, thence by said Jacob The American Philosophical Socletyshaa a collection of documents relating to the Smith’s land and the laud of Robert early history of the city and Common¬ Smith and others, south thirty-eight wealth of much greater interest and value degrees fifteen minutes, west four hun¬ than is suspected by many of the pres¬ dred and nine perches and south six hun¬ ent generation of its membership. During dred and ten perches to the place of the last year or two in going over Its archives some very rare papers have been beginning.” discovered, the very existence of which By a map published in 1852, Frankford, was before unknown or undistinguished as above incorporated, appears to have on the catalogue. Some of these have been well built up along the Main street been made the subjects of papers read and the turnpike; it is shown as lying 1 before the society during the past year. between the Little Tacony Creek on the To bring some of these interesting his¬ south and the lands of Large, Wistar, torical papers to the notice of the mem¬ Horrocks, J. Smith, Haworth, &c. on the bers selections have been made from north and along the east bank of the them and they have been placed in glass Frankford Creek. About Frankford and covered cases, where their titles or a in Oxford Township appear the lands of page or two of the printed matter can Shallcross, Cornelius, Castor, Wistar, be read. Several have been framed and Nice, Wain and others, names familiar hung upon the walls. to the present residents of Frankford; Among the latter class is an official and heirs of many of whom are still dwel¬ document executed by William Penn, In¬ ling there and in some cases still occupy¬ teresting not only because it is not known ing the old family homesteads. Oh, for to have been printed, and has no marks the tales those mansions could tell or tha of ever having been recorded, but also bits of history that could be voiced by as showing some mental traits of the those who have passed away. great founder of the Commonwealth. It Frankford creek, so much used as it had; Is a parchment commission, dated 6th soon become, was declared "a public day of sixth month, 1684, the day on which highway from the mouth up to Joseph Penn went on board the ketch “Endeav¬ Miller's land, opposite the race bridge or" to set sail for England, and empow¬ across the Bristol road, or Main street ered the Provincial Council to act In his Frankford,” by Act of the Legislature ol stead during his absence. The paper Pennsylvania, passed January lb. 1799. stated that this was done to show the con¬ As a Borough Frankford prospered and fidence he had in them. On the back of grew, until the year 1854 when by an Acl the parchment, and bearing the same of the Legislature of Pennsylvania, of the date, Penn limited the power conferred second day of February it was deprived to choosing officers, and making all laws of its franchises and consolidated with enacted void until confirmed by him, thus the City of Philadelphia, thus bringing showing that, while his first Impulses its individual history to a close and merg¬ were generous, his prudence, or “sober ing its future history with that of the second thought,” overcame his generos¬ City of Brotherly Loye, of which it is ity. The records of the Provincial Council now a part. at New Castle show that this commis¬ Robert Mayer. sion was read on the 18th of June. Note:—I have obtained a greater part of the An earlier proclamation signed by Penn facts above recited from the works of Sharf & appoints Thomas Loyd Master of Rolls V e-u'ott and irom Watson’s Annals; some had and Records in the Province. It Is dated been recited tome as those who reoited them 9th day of the eleventh month, 1683. beard th em from actual participators in the scenes mentioned. There is a proclamation by Governor Markham, who was appointed by Penn in 1681, concerning the cutting of timber \ and clearing of lots in Philadelphia. Three proclamations of Penn’s were printed by Reinier Jansen in 1699, and are examples of the very earliest Philadel-i* phia imprints. An interesting broadside, printed at Shoreditch in 1690, used in England to in¬ duce emigration to this country, is head¬ ed “Proposals for a Second Settlement in the Province of Pennsylvania," and offers lands on the Susquehanna at “a shilling per annum for every hundred acres for¬ ever.” Coming down to the eighteenth century, there is an address, dated 1726, from May¬ or William Hudson to Governor Patrick Gordon, interesting as having been print¬ ed by Bradford, “Sign of the Bible, in 2d street.” It is in reference to keeping peace with the Indians. Among the most valuable possessions of the society is a large collection of Letters from President Washington Franklin papers, including his cirres- and King Louis XVI, of Prance, pondence with the leading men of his to Judge James Wilson. period. They were given to the society The Board of Trustees of the Univer¬ by Franklin’s grandson, upon whom sity of Pennsylvania, on behalf of the Franklin devolved the duty of editing his Law Department, has accepted a num¬ papers after his death. The papers have ber of historic documents, among which all been mounted and bound, and are pre¬ are communications from President served in one of the Are proof vaults. Washington and King Louis XVI of A letter of especial interest to the so¬ France, to Judge James Wilson, an As¬ ciety found among the papers was writ¬ sociate Justice of the Supreme Court ten to Hon. Cadwalader Calder, announc¬ of the United States, and the first pro- - ing the formation of the Philosophical fessor of the Law School of the Uni¬ Society, and giving the names of the versity of Pennsylvania. The presenta¬ members, himself being Secretary. tion was made by Hampton L. Carson, There is also shown one of the broadsides for Thomas H. Montgomery, who de¬ distributed in the House of Commons dur¬ rived them in gift from Miss Emily Hol¬ ing the debate on the Stamp act. At the lingsworth, a granddaughter of Judge top of the page is an allegorical repre¬ Wilson. sentation of England as Selisarius, dis¬ The papers, which are all well pre¬ membered and helpless, as a Fesult of the served, are President Washington’s noti¬ oppressive laws enacted against the col¬ fication to Judge Wilson of the latter’s onies. appointment to the Supreme Court A report of John Hughes to the Stamp bench, an original parchment commis¬ Commissioners in London, dated Septem¬ sion, signed by Louis XVI, appointing ber, 1765, shows how the act was received Judge Wilson '“Advocate General of the, in Philadelphia. He complains that the French nation at Philadelphia;" oath of Presbyterians spared no pains to encour¬ office taken by Judge Wilson before the age the Dutch and lower class of people Mayor of Philadelphia, on October 5, 1789; a letter from Thomas Mifflin, presi¬ to render the royal act odious. dent of the Pennsylvania Society of the These are but samples of the character Cincinnati, appointing Judge Wilson an of the papers which have been brought honorary member of the society; a letter out of the vaults and placed on exhibition. from Judge Wilson to President Wash- Further research will probably bring 1 ington, accepting the appointment to many more of them to light. the Supreme Court bench; commission __ Q----■****'. ■», by Governor William Livingston, of New - WESTTOWN SCHOOL. Jersey, dated April 25, 1783, making Judge Wilson a counselor and solicitor at law A Large Gathering of Friends Will in all the courts of the State; letter of Celebrate Its lOOth Birthday. Edward Fox, secretary of the Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania, dated The Friends' Boarding School at West- April 3, 1792, informing Judge Wilson of town is 100 years old. Th

iddftional Locals on Pages 3. 6, and T Logan held important positions,-being Sec¬ retary of the Province, .Commissioner of William Property, member of the Provincial Council Th -the H,StorIoal Society.00™8 t0 and, for some time, President of the Coun¬ cil. When he retired to the estate and man¬ Spruce street, was 'admitted t’ ,ate °f 1S24 I sion at Stenton he was Chief Justice of iterday and devises liis entire*^?1?bate yes‘ ?* over 3200.000, to his fnm , tate’ vahj«l Pennsylvania, and to him was confided the Ja a codicil executed rec^Nv7; ex,cept that private business of the State. lie Historical Society of p7 'h

5™“* the\^ry\7clS ofV connected with thisoiSSltS®! Werel v vW tfeanowUnCi!man L~w1s a cot I1,f tthehe number whosowhose names,,ol, 2atlonton'’:Aiinong|mong and pardes lfth7* eVei: ^’ing ^8 I : were Sergeant Hen rv r1 are a ahabieL" 1 I "««• of the N^StSfam^Tr «4 George and Edward. Yoimi Pn es'I

crossed the threshold „A°h howe.ver> never : Sh Sa°tS?c laa^trif ? £* : Dare6 m°They subs?® 7^ was sold to Isaae r t ‘ 1816u the Property I themselves 'witl^ the 61F7 . l°n',e™ each one rendering kT • E|gh(v-eighth, close of thi J, v\. v-c V TT~L lIVUU V. V V . v'C-c-c^-c * • Ww O™ j Comrade Conp*HnV 0 aa- find

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Date, M- #eighth,1 although tEe Eighty- man town previous to /,esu ents of Ger- residents of the old toi V’ becaiue turn of peace r l , after the re- OUR BOYS IN BLUE. Wagner and Lieutenant r 9enend Louis I fe Uagner. Louis WagnerT'tmf0^01 Fen Sketches of Germantown’s Heroes i 1? thec War ofui theme weoeinon;/Rebellion:'/ / [Compiled for The Independent-Gk^ette by I N. IC. Ployd, of the One Hundred and Nineteenth • Pennsylvania.] Nearly every Pennsylvania regiment fun. After narrini Wounded at Bull I and many from other States contained Sis regimentPtak lrT?f#Ver-vrejoined! some men from old Germantown, iU~ Eighty-eighth Pennsylvania not b. kancellorsv’illek His oirln the b5ttle of I an exception. The Eighty-eighth was. om much trouble wLn n wound gavel composed of seven companies from Phil¬ ■ 0 Camp William Penn fomh^^^S adelphia and three from Reading, and fe lon of colored troons I n tbe ?rgamza-« landed with 3 where he com-l was commanded by Colonel George P. McLean. It served most faithfully for /ears. Before thf close pfth f°r UvoM PS . nearly four years. During that tinae homed his regiment and War heB there were inscribed upon its rolls the commanded a brhrad^ f * fl period|ffl names of about 2050 officers and enlisted rebellion closed General 7r„Per fhefc® ■ men. Of the original officers—field,!.' W a prominent be'l ■ staff and line—of thirty-eight, but two Sj L, and held the J; “ the G- A. B - remained at muster out, Colonel Louis1 )f°then that .organization. PH^a”LPOsi"fl Wagner and Lieutenant Colonel Mass, , both having entered as lieutenants; and of nearly 1000 enlisted men mustered in , reely sent himP toConl C/er“aWovn in 1861, but 93 were present at muster out years, and the good reS?]HB S ,/?r ni°e in 1865. Thirtv-six of the original He served as Xcordei of n1 k?°Ta- three years wa. n- i ot Heeds for. officers and more than 900 of the men originally enlisted had succumbed to ^°rks‘ under Mayo^Ser °f fublic wounds, disease or other causes. t filled many other prominent A a?d haa honor and trust Positions of! At Gettysburg the regiment went into action with 290. Ten were killed and the Third NationalIBauknOWPreSident ofH one hundred wounded or captured. In g qSlT“ 1E. Wagne J the desperate charge of July 1. in which! the Confederate brigades of Archer, O’Neal and Irvison were nearly annihi- lieutenant, jv lated, the Eighty-eighth bore its full share of the perils and glories of the day. During the afternoon the whole Union line was overwhelmed and eyenin: found the remnants of the First anc Eleventh Corps on Cemetery Hill, where the line was again established- ■Frv' -w mr* •

promoted to lieutenant colonel. Like the general he has become a full-fledged which have been dedicated to the purposes Germantowner, and is a credit to the of a public park. The occasion inay justi¬ community. His address at the dedica¬ m-' A fy us in stopping to contemplate the career tion of the regimental monument at of the eminent Quaker who there passed Gettysburg was brilliant and impressive. many of the years of his long life as a After recounting the four years’ services statesman and a scholar. Long after his of the regiment, the statistics, etc., he death it was the habit in Philadelphia to closed his masterly address with a eulogy look back to him as one of its two or on the dead heroes, as follows : three foremost citizens. In the early part “Where are these men? Some lie of this century the public squares which had been laid dut on the original -city dead beneath your feet; the bones of plan were rescued from the desolation into others lie bleaching upon many Southern which they had fallen as commons or as battlefields; others have fallen a prey to Potter’s fields. When the name of Penn disease or age; whilst but a remnant of was given to the plots into which the old the grand old Army of the Potomac is Centre Square was divided, it who re¬ left to participate in the reunion of this solved that the square in each of the four day. Gettysburg! The slaughter on quarters of the city should be associated your fields was notin vain; from your with the fame of a distinguished man. green slopes the tide of rebellion ebbed I The southeast and the northeast were and shrank, until, month by month, it named respectively after Washington and sank low'er and lower, and finally disap¬ Franklin; the southwest after David Rit- peared, and at last the old flag floated tenhouse and the northwest after James once more over ‘a union, one and in-i Logan. It is thus that in Logan Square separable.’ ” • has been popularly preserved the name of a Philadelphian who was the wisest, most OTHER GERMANTOWN HEROES. learned and most opulent of the old Co¬ Charles Carley, Third Pennsylvania lonial characters. Reserves, killed at Bull Run, August 23, * * * * 1S62; John Carley, One Hundred and Logan was an Irishman . of a Scotch Sixth Pennsylvania, died on his way stock which had become converted to the home from Andersonville, March 23, doctrines of George Fox. With the equip¬ I860; James Yocum, One Hundred and ment of a man of culture and ambitious to Fourteenth Pennsylvania, died May 22, become a man of affairs, he early attached 1884; Charles Yocum, One Hundred and himself to the fortunes of William Penn. Fiftieth Pennsylvania, died at German¬ As the secretary and confidential agent of the Founder, he rarely failed in shrewd¬ town, 1896; General J. C. Morton, killed ness and never in loyalty. His industry, at the Wilderness, May 6, 1864; H. K. his sagacity and fidelity were, indeed, long Gentle, Ninety-first Pennsylvania, killed the mainstay of Penn, his second wife at Fredericksburg, December 13, 1863; and their descendants in the affairs George W. Whartman, Twenty-third of Pennsylvania. He was only about Pennsylvania, died at Green Castle, 1861; twenty-six years of age when the Jacob Hays, Twenty-third Pennsyl¬ great Quaker virtually put all his con¬ vania, killed at Cold Harbor, June 1, cerns on this side of the Atlantic into 1864; T. J. Graham, Twenty-third Penn¬ his hands. He was uncommonly skilled sylvania, died in Virginia, September, in business and negotiation, and yet as a 1862. scholar he probably surpassed, even when All were devoted Union soldiers a young man, all the other public men with grand records. . around him. He knew Latin, Greek and Hebrew, as well as French, Italian and Spanish; he wrote with force and exact¬ ness, and the time which was not occupied in official life he eagerly devoted to a wide variety of scientific pursuits. When he became an old man he was regarded by European savants as one of the most cul¬ tured men of his day. * * * * The house which he built in German¬ town, and which is now known as the Stenton homestead, was first occupied, probably about 170 years ago, or at a time when, having acquired a fortune, Logan was able to lead the life of a country gen¬ tleman. His thrift in commerce and In¬ dian trading , but particularly, no doubt, in his land investments and the oppor¬ tunities which his confidential relations to the Penns gave him. resulted In large profits. It was not often that his cool and patient judgment was at fault in any transaction, either commercial or political. Even in his youth, he seems to have com¬ manded himself on all occasions with a rare self-control. Hut on one occasion he lost his usual sure-footed discretion. He fell In love ^vlth Ann Shippen, the daughter of the first Mayor of Philadelphia under the charter. He did not prosper in his suit, and he had tc undergo a chiding from Penn before he recovered from his disappoint¬ Anglo-American locTai hN^^ Unique ment. when the fair Ann became the wife a strange and brilliant- ory’ and *° lead of Thomas Story. Later, on, however, he ness, full of triumph buTe.T’.fU!1 °f sad’ married the daughter of Charles Read, with the suggestion of a alv.ays colored who, afterward, became one of the Mayors H was known "hat rST°USmind’ of Philadelphia. The marriage was a Churchill’s bride was beautiful Ea,ndolph happy one, and in his .pid age, Logan was and Ceverer than most women 0^“ bred pleased to describe her as “a true help¬ It was as an A, en of her age. mate” in his career.• # * * was welcomed in England®^ that She was a younger son withh husband It was at Stenton that Logan as Chief Justice often held consultations with his to be a great maTso^e da? p5,!- H\Was ister, perhaps. Evervhou P lme Min' associates of the bench or received the American bride she I f assured his chiefs of Indian tribes in carrying out the policy of the traditional treaty that was famous. Those who hid an eSvfed t0 be intellectual resources added tuP” of her never sworn to and never broken. Indeed, well worthy to be a "Pat " that she was the red men looked upon him as a man that her hein wof freat man’s wife ann whose friendship for them was genuine, Portant faefo? in "her^usban^’ be « S? and whose word they could implicitly She believed all thf= 1 sban5 s career trust. There, under the shades of the all England felt in the f e/Self’ Tbe faith Wingohocking, or Logan's Run, as it has s^ince been called, were received the mighty warriors who came hither to ne¬ gotiate a treaty on behalf of the Six Na¬ usS ji? "fit”? tions. But Stenton is more remembered '■ f“» ‘o “Mt.red for those pursuits in classic study and Be‘ it in scientific research which were the SS"™"' CtSeeStur??a0in0!hS House ol quiet delights and enthusiasm of Logan's life. Half of the second floor of the house met was a thunderclapo"thf^1-lsbury Cab- was given over to a library which was the — audacious, envy of scholars. It was from this store¬ house of learning that he sent out, history ofnt°ZlerSe among many writings, his translation of mstory of the Commonwealth and its nuh. Cato’s Distich and also the well-known WithehPrUfin?hft!?e eisrhteentb century.' translation of Cicero’s “De Senectute,” lett! f raithful researches into the which was first printed by Franklin,which was regarded as the choicest production Pers whirSnnLMPSerf V* ^ death he gave the hoL^Leth* of his press and which was reprinted time and again both here and abroad, ceived fromyhf1Stin*Ct,°n Which ft bad re- and as late as a half a. century after Lo¬ rh f l P’ A dau®hter of the Nor I gan’s death. There it was that Thomas I Geo ' P She had bec°me the wife of Dr Godfrey, one of Franklin’s friends in the Junto, made his discovery of the princi¬ ples of the quadrant. One day at Stenton Godfrey, who was a. glazier, happened to ST- - JSSA notice a peculiar reflection of the sun on a piece of broken glass. He drew the at¬ tention of Logan to it after having gone into the library and consulted the works of Sir Isaac Newton. The final result of the talk that followed was the produc¬ tion of a quadrant which was first tested off Cape Henlopen and which Hadley af- iZnZToeen said of",“ him y«that™ . ' nas terdwards made famous in England by af¬ 1 strict member of the <5 P as the on]y fixing to it his own name and presuming that ever saPn tt ‘ tt S,°Ciety of fiends I to describe it as bis own invention. * # * * I He had a peculiar zeal’f6'1 S,tates Senate.l | Part of an internet f r playin§' of the,1 It was one of the regrets of Logan’s | went over to Parj‘T' pea^e-maker. He life that none of his children with their matter-of-fact tastes could share with - his own hook when the Unitld'sTP"'3 °" on the ver~e of „ 6 LJnited States was) him his literary pleasures. As he looked the AdamsDadminTsatr ?lth Franc* under f around him at his fine collection of Greek helped to avert at,°"' and when H and Roman authors he wondered what would become of it should it fall into their vexation of those Federal’istT^h t0 thei I unappreciative hands. He, therefore, eager to whip the French He JI W6re! a similar attemnt to H Iso madej caused the books to be placed in a little one-story building at the northwest cor¬ of 1812, or even ‘after -hP, °ff ‘he Warl Passed which prevents " e law had been! ner of Sixth and Walnut streets—-the be¬ ginning of the Loganian library. It was doing such hingS "itha"tAJ"erlCan from his purpose to increase the collection and to provide for its maintenance, but after his death it was discovered that his will

SSZ£ ssrr ““i te Stenton to j ; 2%

thirty or forty years of this century a characteristic example of the conservative social life of Philadelphia which even in A VETERAN ARMY NITRSE, if those days was regarded as "old fash- I Mrs. Rebecca E. Erick, Who Is Dead Old James Logan lies among the count¬ to Scores of Vetetans. less dead in the graveyard of his sect at Mrs. -Rebecca E. Frick, 242- South' Fourth and Arch streets, and Stenton, as Fourth Street, Philadelphia, is one ov it was, has become almost a faded mem- the surviving army nurses of the Civil" 0I-y- PF1MM War, whose tender ministrations to hun^j dreds of the comrades of the Grand Army of the Republic are remembered with thankful hearts. Mrs. Frick; is fa' charming woman of Quaker stock, who has lived at her South Fourth Street home for fifty years. Mrs. Frick volunteered as a nursa, under Miss Dix in Baltimore at tha beginning of the war. From Baltimore she was transferred to Washington, where she ministered to the sick and wounded soldiers in Columbia Hospital. From Washington she went to St. John’3 Hospital, Annapolis, where she encount- ered many Libby prisoners. She then, went to Winchester, and was constantly in the field with General Philip Sher« idan. She was present at the battle of Cedar Creek. Her description of Sheridan's bravery, of the constant volleys of shot and shell, the falling of the wounded, fills one to-day with astonishment. Mrs. Frick was the only nurse at that time at the front. She went about in the midst of 600 tents, dressing the wounds of the soldiers and preparing food for the sick. By night she wrote (hundreds of letters home for the'wound¬ ed soldiers and brought^comfort to.

.a- V city’s large reservoirs on it. A questiot L arose then which has not been as yet ful y settled how this eighty-three-acre domain could be cut up for a reservoir when given Date,Ti , 1/1/14fj'l/lji6 /t /i/ ^... Q/ A over with so much desire and design to be always used as the people's pleasure ground. V With the century mark of the old homestead the memories of Jesse George and his wife,

J ---—-- ' ^ ' a* u c. r- ’ Rebecca George, are revived.” Closely associated with West Philadelphia is the name of Jesse George, whose old man- ! sion now standing on the hillside close to that part of Fairmount Park that bears his name has rounded out its century. The mu¬ nificent gift of Jesse George to the city of the eighty-three-acre lot known as George’s

THE OLD GEORGE MANSION

Hill is a memorial to his name that should the site known as George’s Hill to be used as not be easily forgotten. a park. He said in conveying the gift: The original members of this family emi¬ “We give this land'for the health and en¬ grated to this country in the spring of 1708. joyment of the people forever and should be glad if our example would influence others, They had not come to this country with to do as we are doing.” This gift was trans-j much knowledge of it. They belonged to a ferred to the city over thirty years ago.! sect of Friends who had sought a home in “It was,” said an old resident in the local-! this country after suffering persecution in ity, in talking of the matter, “a sight long to Wales. They arrived shortly after William be remembered when this gift was made to Penn, had settled in Philadelphia and secured the city. The old man was then 83 years j old, yet hale and hearty, and his counte-! the grant of land on what is now the western nance beamed with benevolence as he con-' boundary of the Park, where they took up templated the pleasure that he at that mo¬ their residence. ment was to gjve to thousands of people then Jesse George was one of the direct de¬ livingj3.nd milUons. to-fallow • scendants of these early settlers and being “He was a great friend of the farmer and the sole survivor the property came into his always had an open heart and home to those possession. Among one of his early and best who sought friendly advice. Recently there friends was Judge Peters, who owned Bel¬ has been a movement to improve this part mont Mansion, that stands in the centre of of the Park and also establish one of the the Park .reserves. ,--

”V5 civil strife of 1861- 5. No town in the North contained a more loyal set of women, none rendered better services. fPn/s, m From, . U...k&Kv.. To-day we have a word for two Ger¬ mantown mothers, who gave their sons „ * , ’ to defend the Union—Sarah Kephart; / fjL/ ' y / P /. / c and Hannah Boyes, Sarah Kephart was .v !.y u f- a true heroine. She was the widow of William Kephart, an old-time resident of Germantown, who died in 1856. She F)ate, .P...%. SI kept her family intact until the break¬ ing out of the Civil War, when two sons, William and Sylvanus, nobly responded to the President’s call for troops, joining Co. E, One Hundred and Sixth Penn¬ ^d^anBmarkgoNE ' sylvania, the company being commanded by the gallant Captain Frtnk Achuff. House of Supp0s^ianeful influence They were soon joined by John and . . T°™ Down. Charles, who were enrolled in the One Hundred and Fiftieth Pennsylvania, B‘ West" Falls" by "to V'f ^°ld houses under Colonel Wister. The little brother, [s'ay Company, to mike r^id1?8' Rail‘ Albert L., remained for a time with his [t°nal tracks alon^he ™ f,?r addl- Woyes an old landmark tw"* Iine’ re" mother, but, boy as he was, he was 0ntury Was regarded for a half anxious to serve his country, and, being lome mysterious and k .beine under1 encouraged by his good mother, was r-'ecause of the n "fortune6^ ln«ue"ce soon in the ranks of the One Hundred “s ksk s~®f*»**» and Ninety-eighth Pennsylvania. This left Mother Kephart alone at her old .ar one referred to waf fnnTh Particu- home. She bore up bravely and l hotel kept by Ellis SrlonJnany years daily sent words of encouragement Jy Robert Peel, both of'™?1’ and later 'since dead. During thi n,h?,m are iong to her boys at the front. Each one of <-nd his son, Wafhi^fC)vl1 War Reel her boys ’ was performing heroic duty, •he Mozart (N. Y > Refi~n’ ,enlisted in which was a great comfort to her. On lifter being- promote*to fi??’,, The son. Jvas killed at PrederietsK 1Ieutenant January 3, 1864, she received the sad Juried from the ofd toto? and waa news from Virginia that her son Charles icldent three men Wto hed^r or to this was among the dead. The body was > the neighborhood^ and n bee,n terrors brought home and buried in St. Stephen’s uesTinned of the hote"0^^wS? £f,?ular habI‘ ailroad in the deeiT cut kLld on the gravevard. Then followed more sad in¬ istance from the "hotel’ a sh°rt telligence, that William was wounded ime on the hotel was ionl-e.aFr0m that and a prisoner. He was sent to Libby, uspicion by persons upon with tese accidents, and m'an?ainted with Bell Island and finally to Andersonville, one far out of hl« ™any a one has and for over eight months suffered great ie spell which the J: V,rse to escape agony. He was finally brought home, ■jilding- were supposed" to °f the oId a wreck for life. The next to succumb I.^ho approach to" them * CaSt upon was the eldest son, John. Having con¬ eading0tcLmplny’'co*^ J8|9’ when the tracted disease, he was brought home, where he died October 9, 1865. He was gkK Kr buried beside his brother at old St. ^ station locatee? thlre^ °f the Stephen’s. Sarah Kephart lived to see the war closed. She lived to see “one country and one flag.” She lived to see three ./ i boys out of live return, all having ren¬ / V > 11 dered their country faithful services. She was a patriot and a Christian, and ej u - did what she could. After a life of use¬ .c.-.&Vuu cyyys Heroes in equallv devoted to country. She, too, the War of the Rebellion. gave her bovs to defend the country she loved so well, and nobly did they do t? pCd! off>tlJSneIHnEIdEN?ENT-GAZ®TTE by nsylvania.] hundred and Nineteenth their duty. Thomas Boyes was a gallant comrade 'in the One Hundred and Fif¬ ■ V&? tieth Pennsylvania. He fell at Gettys-

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32 UB OUR BOYS IN BLUE. Hendon ’ Hendefson> son of William rienaerson, was eleven years of aw Pen Sketches of Germantown’s Hert when his father enlisted, and “Jimmv” the War of the KebelUon; determined to be a soldier. He accom¬ [Compiled for The Independent-GWettI' panied his father to camp, and, although N. X. Ployd, of tl(Le One Hundred and ivfneRren. ' Pennsylvania.] not mustered in the service he „! christened the “boy of the regiment ” The One Hundred and Fifteenth Per Stre-Kd?-Gd splendid services, a! well a« sylvania Regiment was a Plhladelpi. contributing much to the comfort of the organization, and was composed of ? boys in blue. “Jimmy,” although not body of sturdy workingmen who an¬ yet in his teens, made himself General I v swered the call of President Lincoln. It useful and he always rece ved nra e was organized under the direct superin¬ when he made “tater soup ” Everv tendence of Robert Emmet Patterson, who became the first colonel. It was for the1 bov rfTWhatevernt ha hardships,d a g0Qd woithey’d mustered in 1862, and rendered grand endured “Jjmmy” was willing to endure services to the close of the war. It cov¬ About the time his father was wounded ered itself with glory at Gettysburg, Jimmy received a slight wound and accompanied his father tn ml V ■ , under the inspiring rallying cry of “Go Here his J tto.th® hospital. in boys, you are fighting on our own Ms military life ceased and he soil!” The regimental monument, sur¬ teSsrf’J*1’0"1 a mc

DIRCK KEYSER S HOUSE. (MAIN STREET, ABOVE TUI.PEHOCKEN.) . „

Dirck Keyser, the founder of the name deshfn?religious "liberty” he emigrated was a silk merchant in HoUand’ but desiring h^habitantlg bf Germantown to America in 1688. On April 4th, 1689 “®o ™aDDirck drew No. 22, east drew for lots, that there mig _ -Fn fifty acre® Upon this lot he built the, side of the road, which contained ih all fifty, ^ou^eP°hat would afford protec house which we here show. It was - influences This old house has passec tion from the Indians and other external s. It is now occupied! down in the line of the family, and is :£ fr0m the originalsis Dirck Key- q 1Ss“d.Y“ °MrS? to Sde?, was a°Me„»o„ite, and lor some years a minister of the sect. He died in 1711. — ^ _ ioing their full share and both return¬ buig July: i, iboor-TgaVTng a grand ing home with honorable record's. Both record. The remains, like those of comrades are prominent in Post 6, G. A. hundreds of others, fell into the hands R., both having filled prominent posi¬ Thiu enem7 ‘Tnd were not recovered, tions. Both have filled the position of ihe bones ~ot these heroes were subse- chaplain with dignity and honor, and, , quently exhumed and buried in the to-day no two comrades are more re¬ Cemetery at Gettysburg. spected than the two heroes of the Ont \’inl!eSmfiB°y^ "'a§ connected with the Hundred and Fourth Pennsylvania. Ninety-fifth Pennsylvania. He had many narrow escapes, but was permitted to return to his Germantown home. On OUR BOYS IN BLUE. one occasion the old guerrilla, Mosbv Pen Sketches of Germantown’s Heroes in paid the boys one of his unwelcome the War of the Kebellion. < ■ ^ Charley was for a short period one ot Mosbv sguests forquartersat “Libbv ” [Compiled for The Independent-Gazette by N. K. Ployd, of the fine Hundred and Nineteenth but fortunately he had sufficient pres¬ Pennsylvania.] 7 ence of mind to slip off the mule and was The compile^ of “Germantown’s He¬ soon back to camp again, minus the roes” takes pleasure in presenting the mule. He is at present connected with following interesting letter to the readers the post office at Chestnut Hill. James of The Independent-Gazette. Thanks Boyes had the satisfaction of serving in to Comrade Randall for his thoughtful¬ an emergency regiment and rendered good service. ness in remembering the boys, both dead and living, who helped to save the Mother Boyes lived to see a reunited American Union : country. Her remains repose in the Germantown, August 19, 1899. Haines street graveyard. N. K. Ployd, Esq., Germantown, Phila. Benjamin F. Redefer, a well-known Dear Comrade: Being very much in¬ citizen of Germantown, was connected terested in your accounts of the services TTnm +the+ j^nety-fifth Pennsylvania. rendered by the boys of our town during Unfortunately for the old hero, he con- 1861-65, which are being published in ^croted-L^lSease’ dyin2 December 18, The Independent-Gazette, I thought JonTf ,¥1S- S01V J2,hn Redefer, served perhaps Co. P, Twenty-eighth Pennsyl¬ faithfully m the Twenty-second Penn¬ vania Volunteers, would make a fair sylvania for three months. He, with showing. Our company was recruited in several others, re-enlisted in the Seventy- September, 1861, by Captain Ashton second Pennsylvania (Baxter’s Zouaves). Stephen Tourison, an old Mexican War At Antietam he received a terrible soldier (who was wounded at Chapul- wound, which crippled him for life. He tepec, having enlisted as drummer and has an excellent record as a soidier. promoted to lieutenant for bravery). Hav- tie still survives. ‘'ag contracted disease in 1862, he was Conrad Redefer, the youngest son -Wharged in 1863, after the battle of was connected with the One Hundred wduFufti?th Pennsylvania (Bucktails). He had the reputation of being a good Gettysburg. He died in 1866, and hi soldier. He was wounded at Gettys¬ remains repose in Ivy Hill Cemetery. burg- He died October 4, 1894. ‘ „Jn® nex! °n tbe llst is Second Lieuten Two faithful comrades connected with ant Samuel Goodman, who has made ai the One Hundred and Fourth Pennsyl¬ enviable reputation in our midst for hi vania deserve special mention. I sterling qualities as a City Father, am refer to A B. Wannop and George W. flu0 in ^be desb- He was promo , both having served their country ted adjutant in 1861, and rose to th< faithfully tor three long years. Tliev rank of lieutenant-colonel. were active in the Peninsula campaign. A Tdlriam H- Tourison, son of Captair Inis gallant regiment was the first or- mnLTfU?rn’ brst serseant> was pro- gamzation to cross the Chickahominy. moted first lieutenant. He was wounded \\ annop and fifty others were captured September 17, 1862, at Antietam. Killed near Fair Oaks, Ya., and the young Ger- at Gettysburg, July 3, 1863. mantowner celebrated his fifteenth Sergeant John W. Parks served to the birthday at Saulsbury Prison. When close of the war. Was promoted sergeant- ieduced to rags and skeletons the TWof ?e 18 ?ow living in Dallas, prisoners were exchanged. After a short exa , an honored and useful citizen. period young Wannop rejoined his regi¬ W Ilham Botton, who has lately given ment, which was transferred to the De¬ up his reserve policeman’s club,' was a partment of the South. Here Engle and color bearer and was wounded at Antie- annop had plenty of “amusement.” And b.e;ng loath to give up any they became familiar with the pick and w g’A,rheitlllcarries the bulIet in his s ovel m building fortifications, etc. toot May he live long to carry it! , annop was with the attacking party in Davidson,an old tent-mate, the night charge on Fort Sumter. The is still m harness, doing good service for military careers of both comrades, aside the entire city in Councils. He received from detached duty' and prison life, sergeant’s stripes, and was a good "ere of about the same order, both tighter and all-round soldier. -■mm .. -■ -— Daniel Fisher, drummer, is still alive George Broadnix still resides in Ger man town. gum arable and other. ingredients. While wet the writing was inscribed, and then the isquare was ironed. To-day the handwrit¬ ing of the author is as clear and distinct as f) 1 at the time it was done, nearly forty years J'^..r*.*-/-- of the Legislature of South Carolina in vot¬ ■■ ing to secede ffom the Union, and how, on *b-. Christmas Day, 1860, plans were laid to cap¬ ture all the United States forts in that State, and how all were seized the following day, except Sumter, held by one hundred STORY OF «i 7 -If troops under Major Anderson. The way in which Philadelphians observed the day for humiliation, fasting and prayer TOLD ON A QUILT appointed by President Buchanan in Janu¬ ary, 1861, is related. How the steamer Star of the- West, con¬ Relic of the Rebelion Made by a veying supplies to Fort Sumter was fired

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Still Here. . o77PterS 7ich foIlow tell of the Peace omerence held by delegates from Virginia ofinT Ne ’ ven,tUCky' Tennessee, North Car- Perhaps the most valued relic of the civil si - V si' ’7 York, Ohio, Mississippi, New Jer- war in this city is possessed by Mrs. Sam¬ ej,, .Pennsylvania, Indiana, Illinois Con- necticut, New Hampshire, Vermont ’ Dela- uel Spering, of 2226 Oxford street. It is a Ware Rhode is,and and MassachuseUs in war quilt, and on its many patches is in¬ Washington, and how their efforts to re- scribed every e’vent of interest which took tions h°a°d Cel'nSr between the opposing fac- place, from the election of Abraham Lincoln heM th S b6en futlIe’ ths Confederates in 1S60 until the close of the war in 1865. An Ala’ flrst ' Congress at Montgomery, idea of the amount of work necessary to Ala., early in February. produce this patriotic historical chart of sik „7‘na7lns inauguration, and all his pro- and cotton may be gained when the squares and calls for troops are re¬ are counted. Two thousand patches, placed ported, the election of G. A. Grow, of this in chain-link pattern, were necessary to tell feel.L? '7eaker 0t the House- and the the story of the struggle between the North nJV nS*?aty when the news of the and South. At the time the question of secession was fully reciSd ^ reC6lVed’ are falth- agitating the land and rumors of strife be¬ hn7°7er chapter, dated May 10, 1861, tells gan to assume definite form, Mrs. Spering Dhih thR ma

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Pastorius House, or the Green Tree Tavern OLD GERMANTQyVN. For the government and the execution Curi„us Names °f the Original Settlers of justice in the then small communion and Something of Their Holdings. (of Germantown) was only necessary 1 ( The German Township (first called Bailiff, 4 Burgesses, 6 'Council mem- 1 Recorder, 1 Clerk, 1 Treasurer,T. Coroner ated hvriWii?0WnL and when incorpor¬ ated bv 1\ llliarn Penn as a borough and several minor officers. The Bailiff and the two eldest Burgesses were the byTirtDy 'siitueauTof?h of threermantOWn) warrants— Wasone laid for outsix Justices of Peace or Aldermen. The Bailiff, the four Burgesses and six rius for th"eSr° Francis Daniel basto- 1JUS» *or the German and Dutch nnr. Councilmen composed the Council or chasers, dated October 12, 1683- another Borough Government. 1° ^rar}cis Daniel Pastorius, ’ for two The first Bailiff in 1691 was Francis u’ldred a?res, dated February 12 1684 Daniel Pastorius. His successors as and the third to J urian Hartsfelder (who Bailiffs were : Dirck Opde Graeff, Arnold was at one time the owner of the dis- CassellReinert Tisen, Cornelius Sieverts, Aret Klinken, Daniel Falkner, James Wied andfi?6™ Libeities)’ for one f Delaplaine and Thomas Rutter. 1684 Tht f fiIty aC^e?h dated April 25, On May 31, 1691, a charter of incorpor¬ 1(184 n uh?,land Was aid °ut on April 3, T, V d t |ie Patent was issued in 1689 ation was issued incorporating German¬ 1691 borough charter was dated May „3l, town _ into a borough, when the above mentioned government was established. Germantown began fourteen perches An order was issued that on the nine¬ teenth of First month in each year the rbeiow Shoemaker’s lane (non* Penn people shall be called together and the , HSS? V^h^on^?, ^r^wn1?^ laws and ordinances read aloud to them. Probably the first German beer saloon fr?ered fiftyfive* and were divided 110 twenty-seven and one-half on each in the United States was opened on Ger¬ mantown avenue, on the site of the avenue The” r°-d f,n0W Germantown A, The original settlers cast lots building formerly occupied by Christo¬ fin the ground, or lots, in the cave of pher Kinsel, a few doors above Wister Fiancis Daniel Pastorius, in Philadei- street. Peter Keurlis in May, 1695, asked for a license for a hotel, but as he mentwa«d-the fo.llowing curious docu- I vem s La U1 existence yet, not many did not adhere to the rules governing hotels he was brought before court. The is probfbly still,ein Jresm'attn1-1'^’ ^ law forbid selling more than a quarter pint of rum and one quart of beer to any individual in a half day, but Keurlis refused to obey the law “if his customer could stand more.” f Charles Cox Crawford was an old tent- mate from start to the finish. There was no better soldier in the service, he alwavs being on time and in his place. He came home a corporal and is still sssisi serving the Government faithfully in the

Post Office Department. Long may he tm A"r.tni709Ur hand thiS 29th day of November, live. All honor to him. Lenart Arets, Henry H. Dedier died November 27, Jan Lensen, Thones Renders, 1862, in the Germantown Army Hospital. y ILLIAM StREYPERS, Henry Fetters, corporal, was one of Reynier Tysen, God’s noblemen. He was a splendid Abraham Tunes, Jan Lvcken. soldier and a devoted Christian. W as wounded May 25, 1S64. Died at Chatta¬ nmn'fLF ' D\ Pastorius was called jipon to devise a town seal, he «eleetprl -i nooga, Tenn., July 4, 1864, loved and respected by all who knew him. cloveron one of whose leaves was a vine David Fetter was wounded at Ohan- on another a stalk of flax, and on the cellorsville, Ya., May 3, 1863. Is be¬

John Torode, an old tent-mate, bright and cheerful, and who gave promise of making his mark in the world, was drowned at Harper’s Ferry, Va., Febru¬ ary 23, 1862, while crossing the Potomac to take possession of the town in order that McClellan’s army could enter old \ liginia for his campaign on the Penin¬ sula. j. benjamin Urwiler is still among the ii- . ' George Zipperer, who is still alive, was discharged November, 1862. Last, and perhaps least among the number, is the writer, who has much to be thankful for by the kind care of 'Ah'' ~-\i Divine Providence. Fraternally yours, r. . . William Randall. |_An interesting letter from Sergeant Fergus Elliott, of the One Hundred and iMntn Pennsylvania, will appear in next week s issue. It gives a graphic descrip¬ tion of his army experiences, particular¬ ly the engagement at Peach Tree Creek where Comrades Elliott, Why and others were prominent figures.— Editor Inde- ■ pendent-Gazette. ]

Almost every resident of German¬ town has seen the old Concord School House, located on Main street, above Washington lane. On March 20, 1775, a number of the inhabitants of Germantown met together in order to promote the building and erection of a schoolhouse, and the establishing of an English school in that part of the town. The site selected was a part of the Concord Burying Ground. The total cost of the material, includ¬ ing the {labor for the building, was £239, 3s., 3d. The old pump, which still stands on Main street, in front of the old school, cost originally, with the well, £58, 16s., 3d. The” entire amount :was raised by public sub¬ scriptions. The school was opened in October, 1783, the first school master being John Grimes, who held the position during the perilous days of the American Revolution. The school room was occupied as a public school as late as April 18, 1843. In 1853 a proposition was made to rent it for a police station, but it was refused upon the protest of the neighbors. It was in this building that the American Mechanics first held their meetings. The Free Masons held meetings in the old building from 11821 from 1833. 8 3 V

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THE OLD GILBERT STUART STUDIO. The old Gilbert Stuart studio, originally a barn, is still standing in front of th; residence of William Wynne Wister, at 5140 Main street. It was in this oldbuilc ing that the famous artist painted the celebrated picture of Washington, now a the Boston Athenaeum. Washington sat for this portrait in the historic old studii| Stuart also had a studio in Philadelphia, but to avoid the many visitors who dail called to see him, he came to Germantown, and the result was, he painted the mos life-like portrait of Washington that was ever put upon canvas. 40

“WVCK,” THE o9d HAINES HOMESTEAD. This old homestead, corner Main street and Walnut lane, derived its namJ , “Wyck” from an English residence. The word means white, and by a coincident the house well deserves the name that has been given it, as it has been frequently plastered and whitewashed. On the original plan of town lots it was marked NoH 17. and ran west as far as the Township line. It has always remained in the sam«j family. It was purchased in 1697 by Hans Milan. A number of additions ancB some alterations have been made to the original building the past seventy years. Wounded soldiers were carried into this old building during the battle of German 1 town. When General Lafayette visited Germantown, in 1824, he was entertained by Reuben Haines, and held a reception where he was introduced to the ladies oi u^=——_ _

rp, . THE JOHNSON HOUSE.

and WarhtgPtoneHne 1 wa^I^ hT* ?*ands at the corner of Main street Johnson for his son John Dirnk n^T?Cfd-m 1765 and finished in 1768, by John Germantown and one of the thirtp^n ,a.rin^ ancestors of this family im During thefettleof ^ ^ who settled here in 1682. and hill of this old house still show tlini y ,°°k fref,ugt i,n the cellar- The doors I cedar fence leading to the spring which teUs'S r weI1 as the oldl in 1777. John Johnson efartpH « t,nrmv e ■ °faioug Germantown road Samuel in 1803 A lar^e businp

THE ENGLE HOUSE.

oldest marked stone in the graveyard at Skippack, dated 1723 P ^ ° ’ °n the mainland mennonite church.

Immediately after the battle nf r< ^ 1 Army sought refuge in the vicinity of thS6™13?*0™11 WashinSTton,s graveyard adjoining, General Nash and ^ h°Use’ and in the battle^yere buried. nd otller soldiers killed in the V •

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I j>n% he^'pdk^*fron!Bovlf or TT o** gu ns late ae I860. A wneo.. i*,t0 Pitrsburg * out of a tree section anne* iPOt’ bore Conestoga. uon appertains to th

PIONEER'S HOME-MADE AX VhVoil ot narrow blade and deep 1 «ffUrg ax’ wltl ifc's'tVusur'“V'S■ ..o” St t.v up to the year 183a 6 Bucks Coun

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, oftenrnodef^is'another^object uspd of interest.hft the TtStnith wa<* laud, and is said to^Tstm “ewiy-clenred I counties of this State uu ™ n u?e in two i double-bit ax a hand m^d°nle"In?nsP nl?^i,mftslrlan 3 hatchet grafting knives 'afe*amoa^th8' ralkes an< eous objects. among the mlscellan

I IMPLEMENTS OF THE PIONEER COLONIAL KITCHEN UTENSILS i i - Household utensils „ro MLS’ i waffle iron is decnnVodarei.inumerous- A Some Account of the Interesting drummer bov and flffr In \m?/Ures of n bearskin shako. P|e rlateiVu„n fo?' with and Valuable Collection of the caps are of dark red^or dirt k S' Jugs and from an ancient pAuL'?.ark hrown glaze. Backs Comity Historical these are decorated with fottary- Some of figures. ueeoratecl with bands of color or Society. brown find6 venow°bf<1thn(:0 green> oraDge, our old PennsvlvmOo tbe willing hand of In these palmy days the sons and daugh¬ quaint mottoes'in'?3 * potters- Some bear have inched deS "n m|he01'tE,?gUsh- So“e ters of Pennsylvania can look back with nates. There are e tullP predomi- interest to the early and struggling days of ilren's tovs in^urtons <-?Xamples of chll- the pioneers who blazed the way for suc¬ birds or'lavlv nXTeS tte,r'v’ ,shaped »ke ceeding generations. In our comfortable hands of black or n f ,?nlmals. Wared houses, lighted by electricity and warmed decoration on the ported Jumi ,avorite throughout by steam or hot-air pipes, with A large brass cnnMnP °,f 1 ght red glaze, apple-butter not nsi!,1,011 s kn°wn as the every necessary brought to our doors ready acterlstic Fennsvlvanin11 ?a,k!?s thls char- made, and with a market that renders easy jugs. a scranef fnr dainty. Earthen housekeeping cares, we look back with sur¬ prise at the days when the winter food salt-box painted fred h“17%.?.h t,r°ugh- a supply must be housed during the sum¬ mill, home-made broo’mst^’ “l*? coffee mer and when clothing, carpets and mince-meat chopper “ookIn^''d“d estlck : pieces of bedding must be hand-made by curious bread basket’ marie nf dlpper at boat-shaped bread tr“ of /i,FVtrnw- slow and laborious processes. Traps for wlth gliding milk nit^h^l tn\ decorate capturing wild animals, axes, hoes, bake- rated with tiilins in *ro!?ber^' Plates dec. irons, scythes and ploughshares were made by rural hand-labor, with much difficulty. Pickle jars pi^pJate, glaz' terns, home-msde il L bofl3- Pots. lai I We can realize the march of mechanical Irons, distaffs snlnninCi£S', St1e*yards’ nni improvements most vividly by visiting the rich collection of antiquarian tools of agrl- ! culture, household utensils and other ob¬ ner horn, once nvneh , ? a£ ancient dir jects used in colonial times in Pennsyl¬ A “Wetz Hahn™ e? ] ln Bu('ks County vania. and nnrtqtm powder Turns18 h°rn The Museum of the Historical Society of was known to hare fc one. of whicl Bucks County, Pa., houses a collection of nevolutlonarv\ar are in Ctahrried„ln th, rare value. In great part it has been col¬ One a cow’s horn’ ?cre„ini ^,e collection lected, described and arranged and cata¬ with tulips and bears the mnV/ d®corate< logued by Henry C. Mercer, now curator of on Him who hath sent nn°xir Iepenf the University of Pennsylvania’s Museum an instrument.” e Sent| on Me» but as of American and Prehistoric Archaeology. It is easily reached from Philadelphia by GAEOco.nE. 7^SHINGT°N’S GRIDIRON, taking the train or trolley to Doylestown. It is a good place to make the short jour¬ block, was use^ I^^TO^at^T !? oaken ney by train, arriving early enough to give sufficient time to the collection, and then returning at leisure by the pretty route traversed by the electric cars. the HOUSED IN THE COURT HOUSE. (. property* of 8 At present the collection is housed in the | camp of His Excellency! Franks’ alde-de- Court House at Doylestown, insufficiently commodious for the numerous objects of J™B°°KS AND LARD LAMPS. interest or historic associations. The great body of a Conestoga wagon, a type well tin or cast^ron ^but 1!1fPS WeKre lmade of known in this Commonwealth, meets the Specimens nfrh’ but always boat-shaped eye on entering the room. This “schooner" w^th peewter places “mefe be ??en togetb^ waS presented by Mrs. Thomas Hovenden, widow of the artist, who used it as a model onef a ‘‘pow wow bt'k in his last painting, "The Founders of a I State,” depicting some family of pioneers i stood°*lnhthertGermaenlal ™K»°e crossing the prairie In this lumbering vehi- rrinstitutions, with, the great sanitary Com¬ curious bee-hive Is made of straws of mission, did much to make Philadelphia rye, spiral twists meshed with hickory the synonym for hospitality throughout splints. Its use is now discontinued in Itho country. Bucks County. A couple of glazed show cases contains MSS., maps, uniforms, t How the Movement Started; swords, letters and papers, bullets and : .The “Cooper Shop” consisted of a two other objects with some historical associa¬ storied briok edifice, with a front of 32 tion either of colonial date, Revolutionary feet on Otsego street, below Washington days or the subsequent wars of this nation. lavenue, extending back 160 feet. For a But the bulk of the museum’s collection is devoted to such material as illustrating number of years before the war ihe build¬ the progress of civilization, especially In ing was devoted to the manufacture of the ploueer era. Shooks for West Indian sugar planters DURHAM DECORATED STOVE PLATES by Its proprietors, William M. Cooper and jfl. W. Pearce, This city was necessarily A unique department of the collection represents the artistic work of the ’’Penn- ' jfhe medium through which many brigades syivanla Germans” in stove plates, made I cf troops found their way, some from the at Durham Furnace, In this State a cen¬ jjjast and some from the West, to the tury and a half ago. These plates are of National Capital and other Southern cast Iron, two feet square, elaborately * places. ( By fstr the greater part landed at decorated with scenes from Bible history, ' the foot of Washington avenue, on the with mottoes', hearts, tulips and incidents I fcelaware, w’hence It was usual to take [passage on the cars of the Philadelphia, borrowed from allegory. The Dance of (Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad, Death, Adam and Eve, the Death of Abel, [whose station still stands on South Broad David and Goliath were favorite topics. Wreet. Interesting stove plates were made by John Potts at Warwick Furnace, near js In April, 1861, while the troops were' Pottstown. In colonial days. These floriated Waiting, hungry and fatigued, for trans- designs competed with the work of the jportatlon, the ladles of the vicinity formed Durham iron masters at one time. (themselves Into a committee, and, with |the assistance of their friends and neigh¬ bors, distributed coffee and refreshments D P among the soldiers. These ladies were felrs. William M. Cooper, Mrs. Grace / (Nickels. Mrs. Sarah Ewing, Mrs. Eliza¬ From,... beth Vansdale, Miss Catharine Vansdale, /P/ jSfrs. Jane Coward, Mrs. Susan Turner, [Miss Sarah Mellen, Miss Catharine Alex¬ tA.z/j}.., ’FTm 4/ ander, Mrs. Mary Plant and Mrs. Cap- itain Watson. The Cooper Shop, but fifty, -yards south of Washington avenue, of¬ £ / , /f fered obviously a capital distributing Fate, (place. Mr. Cooper and his partner, having "V . i&t first given up a portion temporarily to accommodate the troops.at last patrioti¬ cally appropriated nearly their entire shop 1 — for four years that the soldiers might (obtain the needed assistance. When It FED 600,000 SOLDIERS. [closed, its doors, on August 23, 1865, 600,000 men had been fed, W0RS OF "TEE COOPER SHOP ■ REFRESH- | Bliss Ross and the Hospital. ' Improvements suggested themselves els Mr SALOON. time advanced. The original committee Was increased in number until at last from to', fasffftrflon Originated by [the little rough table that fed Colonel (Bienker’s Eighth New j-ork Regiment, V STf-.,, •__ * - ^ jpn May 27, 1S61, there arose a vast, well Civfl War, and Supported by Ali kept thoroughly organized Institution, Claaaes of Coatritrafors. ,where a thousand men were fed in an (hour,. where the weary could take rest, !the sick be nursed with tenderness and Army veterans who 'friendly affection, and where the prompt¬ t * to this city next month will re- est and best medical attendance was be¬ «ietonceeafa1Lthat n° traCe now remains of stowed, for the committee soon found ■fr®, °nc° famous Cooper Shop, refresh- ..that not only were men to be fed, but Se (ladies, the chief of whom was Miss Anna rnr.m*tab e medal the survivors of those I i&I. Ross, whose deeds have been com- former residents of Southwark who oriS- imemorated in the records of Anna M. Ross £ated_aml carried on the work. Se ' aPost,’ No. 94, G. A. R., of this city. All Classes Contiibnled. .. It was soon found that contributions from other section of the city would be needed If the refreshment saloon was to (continue In its work. The stream of (troops to and fro was constant and kept ^^9

up for all the tears the Rebellion lasted. But when the Situation was properly P eented to the [community the lnstltutio was sustained by the unremltted efforts Frorn,tfw^.M.^"T. ^A. of all classes. [Poor as well as richgave 7 their contributions freely, according to s 0 o their means. With like zeal the ladles organized fairs, public an<* pld‘ .. r .^7T..'^Aa ...'YCa. vate dnd raised funds which. In the ag- trrer'ate were of the utmost Importance •A ifo furthering the work. The Sanitary rA/ Commission contributed with a generous Date,

A Glimpse of tlio Interior. For the benefit of the present genera- "^1 tion, which, now that no vestige of the "OUPTBOYS IN BLUE.' old building remains, cannot gain by actual visit an idea of the work done, Pep Sketches of Germanto wn’s Heroes in some description of the interior may b i / tlie War of the Rebellion. of interest. In the extensive area of the shop were placed six tables, of which N[^ pCd of rJoEne SErefaTdGMneTteTeEnt^ three Tan the entire length of the sa- N loon On the left side ran two tables, two-thirds of the length of the saloon, while on the right of entrance was a table for tha officers. On the extreme left was a small side table for the sol¬ diers The room was strictly clean and HUy/and every article shone by the care-

^^;nds oT the active housekeepers who ministered to the visitors. kettle1 of pnff flreplace where the first =s=sE=g:?gs L k hli WaS prepared there was early built of pressed brick and Iron a whoTught Side by side with him in the | range In which 100 gallons of coffee could he made per hour, and a huge boiler for '“SffiSr, from England: hams, etc. While the vegetables aAd inSmber, 1857, the break™ out o 1 meats were being prepared each table was the Rebellion found me ^ ^lmg laid with a clean white linen cloth on which were arranged plates of white eighteen years and * stone china, knives and forks ahd all other articles necessary for table ‘S “ca^ MoC»lloagh:s company Bouquets of flowers, the gifts of Interested and the experience gained m that com visitors, were frequently! added, ancient mand served me m good turn vt hen m their fragrance to savory odors tw tv,p field A note from my fatner 10 at once an Invitation and a a° “^ w^e Captain McCullough prevented me goi g bill of fare consisted of C HTtll ® out with his company, but in March, r„ rm “a “i ”«»?»» imo q bosus “written consent on mi Hundreds Fed (tt Once father accomplished the purpose, and I ■ • r\ Tarns worthis Company The ladles were alwajt fn nttA* The viands were placed ln dishe*36”06’ HmTdred and Ninth Pennsyl¬ side table, from which duo ttl°“ a vania (Curtin Light Guards,) and be «« was made. When all wa, re!dv tl0n man ding officer being rotme/’ com~ formed In line at the reafy wTTd Tnd^n soldiers marched to the tLj d *he form with colors flying and band play and, deploring to the ri^,t and^eft * their stand, each In his sace Th took W‘The Girl I Left Behind Me,” w [eft home and friends in defense of th seats for 359, and no soE£%^e” we” ted tp pay a cent for the mealP nrh' officers sat jat another tfble , ' The UDming the latter part of May tl newed vigo| imparted b ttoely noTri^I regiment left the Capital for Harpei ment enabled all to pro plrrv and had our first brush with tl mind and Dody. Whei eed refreshed In one table was served another was prej^ a77>J® was was sent away empty. and no on8 PK&SMountain, August 9, L ‘ , Relics of the onfllct. never forget the impressive scene as -As the war progressec ' some curiosities marched forward in line of battle, ^ of rebeldoni found thei: way to the re- general Prince, accompanied by freshment saloon. Amcw’7he™ ro* rough board boat In whiwW0 contr„e,!:e t orderly riding in our immediate fro- negroes were picked J a?d When we reached the cornfield, w 1 Bay, a piece of the was being mowed down by the bull ice boat that was borecbv a c ty Tnd shells of the enemy, Prince mm non ball, a percussion ausket to ll,, right of the regiment Fort Beauregard, a exf™ tl ? at wou __ a rebel officer, a swoj , from: Tre and fof'aSitoh that volley ■ after* being Sver equalled in drill pract.ce or artioles of ,Jlke interestLid LqebeJ dea

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was my mistortune ttr he taken prisoner and to accompany General Prince, with a rebel escort, to Kieh- rnond, marching all night and reach¬ ing Orange Court House, early in the morning. While Prince was sum¬ them, I returned to ^not dare to remove mering at Libby Prison I was rusticating at Belle Isle. Business few minutes later I r7-CCTpany- A appeared to be brisk at this resort, for from Captain Gimber to order the colors. With the <77 charge of every foot of space was occupied by Nall, and Greeifwood Mc' “Boys in Blue” (or any other old thing not a very aereeahm „ ? mincl this was they happened to have on) and those creeping “things in gray” which “stick- as the first dSy Sa soldf/ -° °bey’ but eth closer than a brother.” A five I accepted, and caVriefl5 fl7m7hdlenCn weeks’ sojourn there reduced me some¬ what below fighting weight, and, being exchanged, I was sent to Annapolis and afterwards to Alexandria, Ya., to re¬ cuperate. On rejoining my regiment in relinraishin" tfem to o nta and A1timas, December I was greeted as sergeant, and o' P»s'«on informed that I had been carried on the rolls as such since the battle of Slaughter cumfwhth^far^615 “ “'Mon. oc fate njw than ft 777" pAeasant to re- Mountain. the time A tp! Participate in at Colonel Stainrook, than whom no braver officer ever drew sword, was Grier’s Plantation if 7 dnven from killed at Chancellorsville, Ya., but the Ins forces at Peach g7drcon,centrated regiment, though bereft of its beloved commander, was destined to make its mark upon the pages of history. Once, and once only, did this regiment exhibit of JdyCa“ei864WS ^ ™the mo™ing second Division 7Flrst Brigade of our the faintest show of fear, and that oc¬ curred at Gettysburg. After the des¬ ■ousted on a wooded”77 adSn^’ was Pennsylvania Potto ldge> with Knap’s perate charge at Culp’s Hill, in the attempt to break through our lines, and which resulted so disastrously to the enemy, we were relieved by Lockwood’s Maryland Brigade, who, being fresh, at once charged and recaptured our breast¬ works. The color bearer, Sergeant Mc¬ and when the hi]1’ Nally, stood up on a rock to wave a mishers and chare-ed , d ove m our skir- parting salute and was shot through the I Second Brio-ade oPi°n °,llr ,lnes the works. Despite i up to the body for his rashness. Sergeant Green¬ artillery and infant311 active fire from wood, of Co. F (a fellow sojourner at Belle Isle), took charge of the colors. magnificently across t/e hey £harSed After a short rest, during which we front to the ravine J l 0p?nu field in they entered and «t le j^&ht, which were in imminent danger from our own bursting shells, we re-entered and re-; the right flank If the lieved Lockwood’s Brigade. We noticed notwithstanding the i7 Bngade, that they, in retiring, stooped below the resistance. if as 7' s determined top of the works to avoid the bullets of moment that we reachP^thlhlS ?ntical the sharpshooters, but Captain Gimber, were moving to Jtrlf Th he •'™rks and who was commanding our regiment, in¬ line, when we were "tt 7 tng7 of the ninth Ohio who Wi* 7 t le Tvventy- sisted upon the regiment “right dress¬ ing” in full view of the sharpshooters, but werefalling’back in cogJVen way and the command was not executed, for the order, and our fegiment ±7°n a5d dis’ I along with them. I asked the , 7 color bearer was killed instantly, and the bearer to remain „,;*i bKea the color others got in the works as quickly as stop the rout hut l 1 and t° try to possible, the more so as the captain, see¬ finSed „C„ S bXe d,and ing the mistake he had made, ordered alone. Some of r-o v ’ and 1 WRs left them to “Get down ! Get down !” Then it was too late. A human life had been through the sur^in.; “USt have broke sacrificed, an excellent man, a good sol¬ dier, lost through a whim of Captain Gimber. Greenwood lay cold in death, enshrouded in the Stars and Stripes, and no one moved to raise them. I left my caused me to do what I did if Is ca7e company, carefully raised the flag from Return to^df^d^r"5 that the first t0 the grasp of the dead, and endeavored to men ofto defend the comrs were two place it in the line of the living—in the men of my own regiment, Alfred B place made vacant by the death of Ser¬ S co^Fhh^ 7A’ and Michael Mohan,’ geant Greenwood—but, to his everlast¬ I ■ rv4 the latter exclaiming, “That’s ing shame be it said, Sergeant McKeown, I 77 T1?’' staild where you are we’ll of Co. I, tried to prevent me doing l.standjvjth you.” tv. u so, saying, “Take them awav, thev don’t belong h ” tain death' o^ iny'jfi^|$? lines were e-established, and night closed recollection of Bene'^’i a jd’ the 1 upon a ve v eventful dav, with victory [ ! my memory w» iIsl?nd stl11 fresh in crowning dur efforts. as’-dearlv ‘as poiTble ^ r selL°?r lives Next foil) wed the long siege and capture 'Mohan ‘ ve%P Z,it0 iCroasda,e and of Atlanta and Sherman’s march “from ( by two artillerymen and VmmediateIy (Atlanta to the sea,” the siege and capture t that we remove one of th* 1 8i«gW*ted •of Savanm.h, the surrender of the rebel army under Johnson, our victorious march thlough the rebel capital and on to Washington, and the final grand re- view of t‘’ 8hfirma.TiSherman’s,s Bummers,”Rnnimpra n ondand home to “the girl I left behind me.” -v.SLatt tit HrS.™"® Fergus Elliott. (“Germantown Heroes” will be corre tinued next week.) S this gun when we °r trllre® Ioads from . about* a’ "hah forced by amongst wh°m was “Smm^MVhy ^f /0 From, %

2 side its busy couinanm'16 and Placed be- guns were server) of1101,1’ and these two 73 i/ V%rd..±3 1 the rebels were checked umi? that

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■ “Don’t desert mv mT6ry» “a? he met> ■ few men around'tlfe rv!) and. rallied a In a previous article we had occasion to examine the origin and first bitter struggles of the great Philadelphia 8££SS^Tjpr^- theatre. 'We saw the abuse which was showered upon the earliest company of - nrypflng Thespians that visited the city One Hundred and p “,T. clee’ of the in 174s; traced as far as the meagre historical records would allow us their brief and romantic story, and watched them vanish whence they came. We frmn'^he ^-avin^^eft^hi® ad>S ^Jards then saw the advent of Lewis Hallam’s came up to me and LtVegIment and company five years later, and noticed ously : P “e and asked very* iixiperi-imperi- with much satisfaction the apparent ex¬ “To what cellence of their work, the high char¬ , , “The One' do you belong ?” acter of their members, their kindliness, I phed. ; Hundred and Ninth,’p ire- perseverance and patience in the face of virulent abuse, and finally at the close “T\hQat ar1 Kthf. T'venty- £ eion from Governor Denny to erect a theatre in Southwark on what was known as Society Hill, at the corner of South and Vernon Streets (near the site tvL-t Pfesent old market), just outside ™L!lmits' While Messrs. Alexander and Williams, blacksmith and painter re- Kpectlvely; wore at work on what was in f “*“? worthy citizens an ^improving the A ° u, e den of v,ce- the Pennsylvania Assembly saw fit to pass a bill for the Scenic Of foots. suppression of lotteries and plays, which the Governor, probably fearing- the re¬ In August a special effort seems to proach of the churches, at once signed ! have been made to improve the scenic and sent to England for apprSwS. effects of the plays, for as an additional Thanks, however, to the gracious con¬ attraction to “Theodosius, or the B’orce sideration of his Majesty, George the of Love,” on August 10/ it was adver¬ tised that there would be "a grand view solemn Council, the bill j shared the fate of many others of its of the temple—the transparent altar- Kind which tended to discourage thl piece showing the vision of Constan¬ tine the Great before hie battle against I methe Oldold Worwworlda andin? entwas'S repealed.and IuM ries of the Christians—the bloody cross in the .Mr i,’.ascribed about in golden characters j "(j/ia Opening of If in hoc signo vinces..’ ” Likewise two i weeks later there was given “The true I an Oar/y XJ/ioatre. I cud ancient history of Macbeth, written by Shakespeare, with the whole original Pieparations having continued in the musick as set by Purcell ;Witches Dance, j -ice of many petitions, everything went and all the decorations proper to the vrell, and on the 25th of June 1759 the ! play.” The chef d’ouvre in this line, I new theatre on Society Hill” was however, must have been seen on De- opened under as favorable auspices as j cember 2, in the tragedy of “Romeo and I f,lu d bf exPected with the tragedy of Juliet,’ with the funeral procession of ‘Juliet’ to the monument of the ‘Capu- 1 „;™Pv!a"e;,r/O"0Wed by the farce, lets,’ and a solemn dirge, as it is per- T.»a!?r x s- j formed at the Theatre Royal, in Covent Garden.” | k I&l SSS”b*r *• ««w: The following notice was appended to T>l.ay beffan at 7 o’clock promptly and the published announcements of the play; “The audience may depend that ; Tere giV6n on Monday ■ Jnesday and Friday evenings with ) the play will be performed in the best manner we can and that everything in of rthegvefrty tbroughout ‘he remainder t the year. An amusing incident is the play, procession and entertainment ’ plated to the effect that when one of will be conducted in the utmost de¬ toe ladies called the attention of an at- corum.” tc-ndant to the inscription over the stage , It is pleasant to note that the last two “Tot,is mundus agit histrionem,” copied | performances of the season—the last for from the old theatre, and asked hfm nearly seven years—were devoted to hft was Its meaning, he, catching at : charity. The first ot these was the | “Tragical and interesting history of “wUS fr°m mundus> answered promptly We act on Mondays, Wednesdays ^/d George Barnwell,” “by permission and r ndays, madam.” The fact that nearly as by particular DESIRE toward the rais¬ many performances were given during ing of a fund for purchasing ar. ORGAN July and August as during ’the other for the COLLEGE HALL in tins city, months is in itself an jetton a and instructing the charity chi Viren In PSALMODY.” the universal custom among people of ashion making- a Summer exodus into A concert by several gentlemen of the Cty was give;. jn conjunction with the play for which purpose a harpsichord was provided; a prologue in praise of ruusic was spoken by Mr. Haliam and

presented which hsfi ^epert0lre was 7’ hot pr^ous to

in?nnddiesUri5f ** me dents of the 7? °f.maklng the stu- +nr hL • the co!le&© more perfect” in cVped HabmlethpI^™°7aInShakespfa®-^ nfusic that th* °f psataody and church music that the public might be the better comedy^ written bv tL Dtlnrnark:” "A called the DrunnL author of Cato, mentrsta^edd at ^-Hege comment House;” ”A tlU™7r’ °r tbe Haunted The , 7 otber publlc occasions. by Shakespeare e«u7 ™ntten orginally fn-7 laft performance was of “Hamlet” torj- S * tbe Tragical His- pitai Ind^th^ °f PennsYlvania Hos- ters.” "A row trat a hiS tbreo r)auS!w aparenthy arolsTIrVof^m^rl Reverend Mr Tj,f£ dy wrltten by the Kirt 5 7 Hume, minister of the logoff °m0US element- for on there be- We can Cr°eeZd’ ?aUed Dopglass°” ^ atStheff n°rS® ta£en thr°nghout the city feeling of satisfaction®10®/,Wlth what a 'ceeds th P°Sed accePtance of the pro^- I cu7teri h® rn.anaSers of the hospital 7r- citation the authorship TA^h&ps ex' tioned play was annoyed 4^77; 1 matton of P"Td °°tice “for the infor- It may be remarked, was one f50aglass- acouaintfd 77hPthTniSawWsh°m£lnLUn; Popular plavs of the °°e °1 the most nent critic WilsonLyl^fT ’7® ^ 1 to show that th„,.e ttlan they are. and direct the treasurer^® R°} auth°rized to lately raised by exhibiting3® th

LeXDe^^-7cSd^?^ Deiow Liie sqgWlU-SVvrJ' strong as when they were firs' hundred and ttiirty-three >eu The It is point ear out; however, !n the re- fact, the proprietor of the^est^j ^ TZ Pp’b',She,d and sumP*uous hlltory of the Pennsylvania Hospital that the t0Z«Tl am"Indexed for an and pl'es 6^jf FfhIeVea the conscientlous scru- | peasant hour spent in ™aml«.Ueen old building and the ma y Tli I which- make up the extensive bold ment, informed me that whe are nations had to be made it that walls the workmen who tore through Evan Morgan^t was°p£d to^ye old brick found this operation aim prin hospua'.’ As the hospital was then in more difficult than in the able thlt th f0F money u js not prob- walls erected later. t 1 ® ^at the managers, whose president l prm was Benjamin Franklin, then abroad ! grai made any objection to the play when I Car It/ Notices in j had and and itiffs is Prettynreftry safen?tice to assertwas ann that°unced, their j Coionial Newspapers. prol manifesto was only called forth by out- The first notice which we h. neg side criticism of their conduct. able to unearth in the newspape if day regarding the return of t he panypanvel leftiefT‘ i;;nlfthe Stcity,-/Jerf0rmance probably’ theto makecom' pany is a communication P^ffect anlTn ^ Southe™ s££ Pennsylvania "Gazette for u ( A f0ll0Tng' year Jt turned up in New York and began a long- reason signed "The Censor." It reads.) veJo “At a time when most m£( par. atTSthlf that tWtime6 Veia betteri; *that climatethe South for thn families are complaining of , long y7°"n& theatre, they left New York in scarcity of money and of the J man 1/62, and for the space of four years of trade and are retrenching! A 1 I 12* * Wa'lderln& J«e in the Southern op rises very great must thei, ousl tlon be who, thus cir^™stJ . encouragement to a se o). P comedians.comedians, who,wuu, by^ the^ law veioj Tj/ie ffiuildiney of land, - j and this pmintrv.country, are co ‘-um Unfortunately, as the , The s,t V4fvsr -n° had Vi£;ted the theatre the audiences, for son t)veg ; 11 was contended by many the time that the front bench in to decrease in size, “ daunt the determinatior e 'aP‘ hou'f&yfTaS-the best seat in the who appended the fo us fw “,fai.r view of the whole stage” --and considering this galiorv a, corms- the play hill of "Ham j wished ponclmg to our balcony there are many I 9: "The director of tj which i leave to assure the tj solution. tViontre°-oers to-day who would uphold , future no audience hi «ral use i the same contention in respect to our will he disappointed j p”nt,s, whatever, and that tj wieiay modern theatres. « I will be certainly perf veloping It is interesting to note thatthea* do we know the exact site of this thea | When Congreve’s c< method tre—for twenty-five years the o J Dove” was presented swab tb theatre in the city-but that ten or was made that the; brush or! twelve feet of the original walls to da care to crop such 1 the methl support the building on the southwest punge every pansag-1 1 ^ t&ct corner of South and Deithgow (original y fensive either to de tnnt it i< Apollo) Streets, a little above Fourtn. 1,1; -aers I pllcatmn This building was erected shortly a.lte An interesting ir j c

f.WtWll *SiSg6i _— ance upon this subject during the whole ' surd and pedantic list of selections reign of opposition to the theatre was .rom the early Christian fathers, includ¬ that which next appeared. In every re¬ ing such barbarous enormities as this spect it was diametrically the opposite from. Tertullian—good man though he of the communications which called it was: “If tragedies and comedies are rep¬ forth, and, as might be supposed, pur¬ resentatives of crimes and irregular pas- ported to be a serious defense of the sions, they are bloody, lascivious and theatre from the point of view of the j. impious, for the representation of an “gentleman sport.” It was signed “Free¬ enormous crime or shameful thing is not thinker.’ 'and was possibly written by better than what it represents”—and some clever but debauched young grad¬ sentiments to the same effect from St. uate of the College of Philadelphia. Cyprian, Dactantius, St. Cyril, St. Chrys¬ ostom and others. Another Oxamplo The next and by far most elaborate at¬ tack upon the theatre was a series of several lengthy articles, extremely scho¬ of the Opposition. lastic in nature, which continued to ap¬ It opens by calling attention to the pear in the “Gazette Weekly” with one refinement of the American gentility—so or two breaks for nearly two months over the signature of “Philadelphus.” . far advanced in polite culture tha it They were entitled “The Absolute Un¬ demanded, as the completion of a true lawfulness of the State Entertainment liberal education, an intimate knowledge Fully Demonstrated.” i of the customs, sports and fashions of The four leading arguments which Europe, to be acquired hitherto only by were gone into at length were as follows: a journey across the Atlantic. The ex¬ (1) The inherent grossly sinful nature of the stage part from its tendency to pense of this being naturally very great encourage sin. and the young men on their return re¬ (2) Its antagonism to the following quiring ten-fold the money for their verses of Holy Scripture: “Let no cor¬ support, on account of their Old World rupt communications proceed out of your notions, the country is thus robbed an¬ mouth, but that which is good to the | nually of enormous sums of money. use of edifying, that it may minister “To remedy this growing evil, he grace to the hearers. says, “sure, ‘nothing could more fortu¬ (3) The fact that those who act with nately have happened than the present spirit low and base parts cannot be establishment of the theatre, where our persons of good character, whose en¬ youth may hear and view at a titling couragement is, therefore, pro tanto the expense every refinement of politeness, encouragement of vice. every sentinment of honor and every (4) As the Church encourages piety scene of debauchery and villainy repre¬ and religion by the use of holy readings sented in their most striking colors and prayers, so must the stage by pre¬ Here the fine gentleman may be taught senting “love intrigues,blasphemous pas¬ i the genuine airs, manners and msmeer- sions, profane discourses, lewd descrip¬ i itv of a court; the rake, the lascivious¬ tions, filthy jests,” etc., serve the cause ness and ribaldry of a s^ew;.and the man of immorality and vice. whose native genius leads him to p*ay on his> fellow creatures may here find ready invented to his hand every species of One of the fraud and iniquity that the heart of man

^Published ffttacks. ■ CByCa«^d?ng certain select plays he argued, a youth might soon imbibe Such arguments as these, while repre¬ enough of polite life to venture into senting the views of a large portion of society with a “confident, genteel and the community, especially the Quaker becoming air,” would learn how to han¬ and Presbyterian element, could not dle affronts and amours and recognize have greatly advanced the cause by rea- i son of either of their logic or brilliancy. thl!nPou0gPh hasbeenlim-to give a general A far better arraignment of the theatres idea of the character of theatrical oppo¬ —probably the very best of the time sition as represented in the^newspapers. and one that contained many grains of I The season closed on November -o, 17tw, truth—was published shortly afterward when the company went to New York, returning “ the following October for by “Eugenio.” , ' . He argued that despite the excellent a short season of three months. advice often offered from the stage, One of the most interesting events of even by Shakespeare, the public were this season was a sumptuous exh*bit>dh of fireworks, the first upon any stage m apt to disregard noble sentiments which America, which was presented after the came from a man in a borrowed appear¬ performance on December 9 without ad¬ ance while the evil effects of the action ditional charge. the would sink deep into their hearts. It is pleasant to note that alter t c “In the eager moments of passion, “positively last night” the company i he said, “when reason is off her guard, waited over to give a performance for i then it is that every avenue to the heart the benefit of the poor debtors. i is open. Every wound then received is 1 likely to prove fatal to us. When music flust fPefore the lends its sounds to elevate and enchant us then imagination ranges unguarded, the still voice of religion is drowned Revolutionary 2Par, amid the transports of passion and During the TV inter ol 1769-1.. nature proves victorious.” >any passed a comparatively He then dilated upon the innocence and ind successful season at tt industry of the young colonies and sug¬ vark ” but did not appear «»***“ gested a striking parallel between the Dctober, 1772. when they found, luxury and effeminacy that had caused stirred by dark omens of ihe coming the downfall of Rome and Carthage, and, inflict. The great event of this seasoj the same fatal influences which were fvas the presentation on February 1/ now making themselves felt in the NeW| he second original American drama m World. On the whole, the attack was performed on an American stage, TI vigorous and well considered . Conquest of Canada, or the theg^g Probably the most remarkable uttei-) \ The prominence of its previous .owners possesses unusual Interest. Originally forming a part of Springettsburg; one of | From, .'Us.rrA.. several manors which Pent) laid out in the provin’ce he named this in honor of his first wife, ,who was Guilema Maria ,/1 -D >/ Springett. ..tt/hr/.J. The property passed to the ownership of Deputy Governor William Markham from whom it descended to Major Jas¬ per Farmer, and from the latter, in 1697 Date n IF - it passed in turn to David Williams, one of the early Welsh settlers, and a miller, who it is believed, erected the venerable mill which is still in daily use beside the How fgtv «<» it stream flowing through the estate. I down the beaufifu?ra9 6hers Wh° spee<3 I From David Williams to his son Reese ever think of thft L UyIWU Val1^ ' Williams, it reverted coming into the which they catch a „ cient ma-nsion of I possession of Anthony Morris, the col¬ the train sweeps 'rounrfSthn& gllmpse as onial brew-master about 1715. John Potts, Conshohocken to the Curve below David James and George Mifflin were where the river hr f the Narrows each owners in turn, the latter, a broth¬ mountain rampartsafgi thr°u§-h the er of General Mifflin, who resided at the Few, if an,f ,, at Spnng- Mjns I Falls. teems with historiT af &t- thls Place I After Mifflin, came Colonel Samuel Miles, who settled there in 1773, and re¬ fower still know thathTatl0ns aad American Vineyard ml** ,h re the first cruited from his Whitemarsh, neighbors a regiment of militia, which he led to ‘ured by one who ^ nt6d and nur- dreams of the part themed mig-hty distinguished service in the Revolution. Abel James succeeded to the owner¬ At th °U,i C0I«merciaf hferaPe was I ship of Mt. Joy, then it passed to Major Prevost, who became the grantor to appeared am^Lflr^1 Uti0n «>ere Pierre Legaux in 1786. and ardeputna«on ertor^enS I Legaux acquired possession of three sought the hospitable sho refugee who f tracts of land, the larger portion lying in Merion Township on the west bank to escape theimpendtoJ®!. °f Am^ica of the Schuylkill. It was a steep hill¬ SKIS' i” f““°m "“’I side, covered with virgin forest, and cratie family of ancleiftf u ‘° an aristo- around its base, the river curved and raine. By the scanty il ^^ in Ver¬ flowed away to the south. The rest of bis early personal thrown upon I the estate lay in Whitemarsh Township able to learn that h« 'y We hav® been 1 on a low fertile plateau long under cul¬ cated in Metz Lwas born and edu- 1 tivation by Legaux’s predecessors. the Parliamenththerbe » a counsehor in I The old mansion, probably built long arts and wi»nJnere’ a Patron of the I before Legaux”s time, is still standing | foreign academies!’ besMe^ several I and is occupied by Lucressa Righter, a [Personal friendship e enJoying- the descendant of Pierre Legaux. It is a well- preserved, substantial stone structure, , Under°tVheereign L°Uls fa** C°nfidence I an excellent example of the architecture Positions in the^Gov L<;s'aux had filled of the colonial period, a type containing 'and distinction Governuont with honor) the peculiar features so common to the best houses of the time. After settling down at Spring Mill, the [Amer0irca,t°hetheadtb^e6n °1 th ,?SCape to I enterprising Legaux made various im¬ service of the v e diplomatic, provements about his new home, and de¬ S S®*" iSSa? °”a « >»« Fr,ntt veloped its natural resousrf's. Excellent limestone was found upon the premises v4 and kilns were erected to burn it. The flouring mill was made more ac¬ cessible by having new roads opened to¬ ward them from other parts of the town¬ about 178b c°mPatriots of pmJfe,sence ship. He started a sawmill to prepare for market his forest timber. The river near his home was deep gmd not fordable, as at Young’s plantation below or at Mattson's ford above, and £X“h'f?„*£»« |'S' occasional transportation was obtained Sktn 6d hlmsolf with tehnai,on- Le- by means of an indifferent ferryman with his flatboat; but when Legaux took up

the question of public convenience i tfiSSftS.iJfj"™- ”"v'n,<' ,hei Srlutlfn Assembly passed an act ind him t0 establish, eq, 8® American PhUosoohl ^ member 0f and mamtam a public ferry at Spri ■So2.‘tff,e ,Wh^S'S°fty in close tnu/>v* ,n^ 00 ^ould tm>hr?Ue\his efforts intercourse betwe tt wasSLmpeb°f the day- 6 ha<3 WUhl f^aux bought from^,!™®' fhen pJerre 1 ar «PIantation on the l^utln,e Prevost, 1 S ^Znt year? h6 Petted 'h l £5 fPrtng Mill. The n^Uylkni Biver ’ oontaineS6Pr°party ca^ There —— lerion sic of the ferry, operated W thfe'-enterprise mgr Frenchman, and a shafl fiStely of - importance above it, both- of- which -v’mbers^oferf;L Wash. yieided largeiy to his- revsnucjs. S&upon ^onor of conventfour oth^n , f?® ^h'°le Z may be said 'he posted : our vinevaS? Us a visit*1 us the the mf1™?8 °.f a thriving commtihity in"' they foun, y and bee hn* ^ order tn humber of delight °Uses''

8t00edeihhtbe SrV’C 6f W«>WS. Which'- fH C6nter ot the meadows not far from the mansion, there, gushed a natural spring of great volume, and flow- in,, through grassy banks, it furnished i the power for ther grist mill at the river ®ld?’ -to„ wh.lch, by the same stream, ! artificially aided by Legaux’s genius the S'uished Cjn°jhe’rs. canoes trafficing on the river found ^y ! I Trrn the lit til World of chLl®38 diatln, and convenient access. The springs were locally famous, from

whtafir-ttaditl0'2 and by early s«ttlera who first sought and turned them to' tah^TtCml use- . ThuiS- the locality ob- tained its refreshing name, which "Time nor change, nor war’s remorseless sway” tL»_"the best . have wrested from it in the two cen- turies that have now passed. ■n/r .--- be due t0 Lesaux’s intimacy ! i covered between * with Dr. Benjamin Franklin that the | bfgaux has nt7lth wood • l^° moun- vine. wi u attempted £ * Mr latter, in proposing three plans for sup- I I his home has Wanted ato cultivate tha ?ii!ng tPhliad®lDhia Wlth a water sys- 1 and it succeedc the southraileyard near tern, stated that one of them was “to 1 vfr a ^ tiSmlerl welh *s * exJ*>sure: bring the clear, cold, pure water of Spring Mill, fourteen miles northwest of Philadelphia”? It is entirely withTn rea¬ requires vasVlo2r is dtar 1 a^^erica; son _ to credit Legaux with being the S^g because original “promoter” of this Schuylkill nished me w^herica- Mr time hit fJr-Hnf ^ SCl?em*’ as 11 savors of ■ rne some verv Proof of th« wX fur- 1 hm fertility of mind in similar lines. eost him by the ?00d -Rousininn116 favo / We now come to le grand passion-the ®en pence Viirt rlI}sle bottle which ambition of the hustling French farmer and enthusiast, a plan which he con- °f extended observation and scientific research while traveling in America. mendin| to^?rson the nefeJtu ur^ed uZ Noting the remarkable growth produc¬ wines if t^ress a ta«?flty of rec5%t tiveness and sweetness of the native ?htP6S whi.ch thrived so luxuriantly on the warm banks of our forest-bordered ™s; and confident of a great destiny ‘J2?i i for this country in the cultivation of the be argued that these Iatitudea compared favorably with these of sunny France and Italy in climatic and physi- s:Lzi«, as i: fav°rable to its introduc won and development. PriWtihu01113 Hm bef°re him. he proceed¬ ed to demonstrate his theories Importing a lot of the best' varieties J» S0.”tiS?r™':«nVs0i'or I i S- fr03? Bur°P6- even from dis¬ tant Africa, he began the growing -0f :a£l-i S' & »rav 1 vines on his plantation In 1787. He set eontains LReposiforv ” s “Daihr i out several acres on the warm' southern am°nF otheZZLZjl93- .It -fi slopes of the farm and gave most care- ful attention to their propogatlon. He talked learnedly about them to those whom he met and Impressed hie; ~ ws uP°n large circle of friends ™ I Some month ,ture. "“'-murage th, progresspro^res^^o^hiff of his 110114new andventure watched 4

>uriuTirwl mend, for1^ 11we"1 haveaWas rionly °t °los to t °rpf up onftr o an entry he made }n hil diaiV £ earn how well he succeeded In divert- ng the naMonaljmind. erc / - Si

-wje UUSItffeSS. The company 'was to pav Legatix hla investment -and lift the merle* * uri tha.ith of June, 1302, the 500 shares of £3300, which, as Legaux stated in had beeri ^subscribed for. Governor. Me his letter to Washington, was against - Kean thereupon issued letters patetjt to the plantation. Governor Mifflin ap¬ the company and they Immediately or¬ pointed Messrs. Colonel Samuel Mil A • ganized by felectrng a Board of Mana¬ Tench Francis, John Swanwieh Colonel gers, of which Dp. Beniamin Jay was Timothy Pickering and Israel Whelan president, and, Israel- Morris secretary ,T,ie subscriptions were slow in oou-T' and treasurer. - In the list of stock¬ in however, and Legaux had again ‘ro holders we And these well-known nauurti resort to the Legislature for assist-' of prominent. meni-e ance,. In the meantime an article ap¬ . Thomas McKean, Robert Morris, Citi¬ peared in the “Advertiser" August 16' zen Charles Ed. Genet. Minister from 1792, announcing that “the first Vintage- France; Thomas Mifflin, , A, J. Dalles, ever held in America will begin at the Benjamin F. Bache, Thomas Bradford. vineyard near Spring Mill, and Mr P, S. Ditponceau, Jonathan Mifflin. Jon¬ Legaux will begin to produce American athan Smith, Jr., Timothy Pickering, wines made upon principles hitherto un¬ Stephen Girard, M. Sicarrt. Dr. Benjamin known, or at least unpracticed here ' Rush. Samuel Meredith. Mordecai Lewis, We shall no longer be indebted to Samuel Coates, Jesse Sharpiess, Samuel foreign. wines for the halm of life and Pleasants, Samuel Wetherlll, Robert Walno, Colonei Anthony Morris, William Bradford, P. Le B. Duplesiss, Alexander Hamilton. Aaron Burr, Dr. Beniamin S. Barton, John Hopkins, Jared Inger- The First sofl, Casper Wlstnr, A. Poulson, Mahlon Dickerson, william Duane, William Rawle, Dr. Edward Shlppen, George S. Stephenson, Peter Muhlenberg, William Moore Smith, George Bartram, and Vineyard in manv others, among the 3X5 subscribers to the stock of the Pennsylvania Vine Company, The work at Spring Mill progressed America. rapidly. Several acres had been set out in vines. Vaults for the storage of wines were constructed under the terraces and gardens, many changes were made in ex¬ Continued from page 23. pectation of the success of the venture. The wholo neighborhood received an im¬ petus from the fair prospects, Mr. Leg¬ Succeeding generations will bless the aux for his diligence in promoting the af¬ memory of ihe man who first taught fair was elected superintendent at an an¬ the culture of this generous plant." nual salary of $GO0, with residence and in 1X00 the Assembly supplemented the his living off tho farm. Under the most incorporation act 0f 1792. By this meas¬ favorable auspices the success of vini¬ ure the stock could be bought bv a culture seemed assured. ™ore PsPl!lu,r plan at M.00 per share “"w,1?- th<7 ba'ance jn easy payments, ac- In a very few years the interest in cording to the pleasure and discretion the vineyard began to pall after the or the commission. The commission was stockholders experienced some disap¬ enlarged and included beside the original pointment, and it became evident very ?.tel-ben Girard, Casper Wister, Ji*., soon that the methods employed by the John Yaughan, Benjamin S. Barton, Sl- management were very expensive. They 21,?” Cban^on. Samuel Coates, James could not get out of the experimental Si„80n>,,B' Hcnry Latrobc and Benjamin stage. Subscribers began to default In sa>, all appointed by Governor Mc¬ paying the balances'on their shares; Kean These gentlemen issued a cir- skilled labor grew more expensive and hk.arl',ie“f,10r "prospectus" reciting the difficult to obtain; money kept sinking history of the undertaking and besides into the venture and none came out of the advantages to be derived in becom- it. Dissensions arose between the man¬ ng stockholders contained some curious agers and Superintendent Legaux. who him of Information as well—two of them complained ot their neglect; recrimina¬ of-• l’e I n^te; Tbat the vintage spoken tion and litigation followed in a ruinous Ot above yielded over six barrels of wine train and rapidly hastened the downfall fh -1 i-lml a vineyard established under of the Pennsylvania Vine Company. The oil® nn . l)la.b was now in successful vineyard became more and more neglect¬ opviciuon in Kentucky. ed; the devoted but aged Legaux. hum¬ *7 P^an of subscription it was f; bled and chagrined, became like a hewer stated that citizens of the United States i of wood and a drawer of water where n-ny at thei1' own ex- ivhl' sencL,ap,prcm'ces of either sex, °*L black, to the school of the I entlllheos?ad b6en a gentIe and '"flu- vintage for three, four or five years’ a 1 mnn'/l fT Zas i° be pa'd as entrance A, thl ‘"Mf fu"dB,of the company, of ml or the apprenticeship ?„ M® years there shall be delivered I EL*'graduate the value of $30.00 in |i tices 'fnlf3o°f Ble.best Quality; appren- tices for a shorter period, vines in proportion to the service rendered Pierre*thi,s harl be®" accomplished Subscriptions differed only in this that rx { , ^ T/6§fa.ux, harassed, worried they were not required to pay an en- nninote^ and even robbed by WsmiifcS: tiance lee, but their apprentices Cfor ce0lverli0ft,Te ,BbaPrPes) should

ind olonies had ' been esta to be an organi- zatlon ,rly for tjie purpose of per__, Its next important duty was during he whisky insurrection in the western part of Pennsylvania in 1794. It was amonf the first on the field dur¬ From , y 'luj- ing that tryin ' crisis . . , Prom that ti ne until 1811 Its principal services were in quelling nearby riots ■/)/ and in acting a! escort to prominent men passing througi the city. ..&L- At its meetin; held on May 29, 1812, the commissioned Jfficers were authorized to volunteer the s irvice of the Troop to the Dale, . ' ' Governor of Pinnsylvania for service in Y the expected var with Great Britain. Though not o i any battlefield at this time, their zea in performing any duty assigned their won them the highest regard of the iovernment. crrorr—Vvirrx uiv, v.icvcrt!SL men- in the business, the resuts were more than discouraging. We hid several de- srriptions of the monster furnished by eyewitnesses of his deeds: the force of piain clothes man was coubled, every detective in the city was ordered on night duty in the distrlcti haunted by ‘Man-or-Demon.’ I nyself turned patrolman, and then, uncer my very nose, almost, occurred the slaughter of 'In Rue Tarbot, as unexpei:ed, as cruel, ip purposeless as the three preceding it. “Ten days and nights I worked on the east, then I had to knock off for fear of collapse. 1 decided to take a week's vacation, forget the whole thing and then go at it again with body and brain fit for business. “My plan was not to read 4 word about the murders, not to speak about them, not to think of them. As I hadn’t been Inside of a theatre for two months the r’-iy would be the very best means for diverting my attention and for giving m.v thoughts another direction. . “With that idea in view I entered this cafe on April 17. 1859, at 7.30 in the even¬ ing. I intended to wait here for the opening of the Ambigu Theatre, which then, as now, was devoted to the pro¬ Old Valley Green Hotel, on the beautiful Wissahickon, is doomed. duction of more or less sensational or Its fate was pronounced by Chief Engineer Vogaes, of Fairmount Park, who patriotic plays. in his monthly report to the Commissioners of the Park, said that the famous old “What piece was on the programme I hostelry which in its prime saw the fashion of 1’hiladelphia enter its doors to didn’t know, but whatever it might be. regale themselves with catfish and waffles, and with the passing of the years it was sure to afford me amusement and witnessed speedy pacers yield to silent steeds of iron, was wearing out, was di¬ diversion in tke mental state I was in. lapidated and was beyond the hope of economical repair. He, therefore recoAi- “The garcon brought me the evening mended that the great wide-porched hostelry with the inviting shade should be papers with my absynthe, but I dismiss¬ razed and supplanted by a new and modern hotel. ed the printed sheets by a wave of the Even in its age the old tavern drew to it thousands of wheelmen, and every hand. ‘What may be the bill across the fair day last Summer its surroundings were kept lively by the coming and gbin- way?’ I asked nonchalantly. of bicyclers. The grove lying between it and the Wissahickon was filled with “Baptiste opened his eyes wide a.t my color and life. pgnoranc-e. ‘WThy, it’s “Man-or-Demon," The Commissioners have not acted upon the recommendation, but at their ,vith the great Frederic X^emaitre in the December meeting will probably order the old building to be torn down and a title role. This is the fiftieth night.’ spJck-and-span new roadhouse erected in its place. “ ’Man-or-Demon’—fifty nights, and we lad had four atrocious murders by the nonster popularily designated thus with- n the last four or five weeks. There was lome sort of connection in this, sure. "I leaned back in my chair to think, :hen these words fell upon my ears:— “ 'There he comes, making as usual or the Ambigu. He goes there every light.’ “The speaker, who sat at the table on >y left, was old Dr. Pignon, a cele¬ brated physician in his day. A younger Aesculap kept him company. ' ‘Every night—why, that is enough to drive one crazy,’ said the latter “ ‘What you say is only too true,’ re- CLIVEDEN, THE CHEW MANSION IN GERMANTOWN

in 1763 Benjamin Chew bought lan on what ^ then known - rte^Oid German- town Hoad,” where he erected, upo ^ and ’ John Adams dined with known as “Cliveden. It was he e „_7 the American troops, in Chew in 1774, while Congress sat ^Philadelphia. nthgyj sed down Germantown pursuit of the retreating Britis , - 0fP“Cliveden ’’ The Americans stopped their road, by a brisk hre from the w ndo^.of^C^veden.^^ ^ ^ thought that it is

an. that he paid three times K In 1797 Mr. Chew bought the property back. It is sa it bach. Benjamin Chew many prominent positions -g&gr During hks^eighty^seven ££ RM House of Delegates at Do- under the government, inclu£‘nf,en^l^vinf^^ecorL^y'^e^ity^of Philadelphia ver, Del.; Attorney-General ot Vt|s ias{ position of prominence under the gov- and Chief Justice ofPennsyl * ~ ,, Hieh Court of Errors and Appeals. Mr. ernment was that of President Judge: ofthemgh court ^r was divided at Chew had eleven daughters and one receiyed during his visit to America in 182!a The house is still in a well-preserved state, but shows many mark, of the battle between the Americans and English.

i I --mvuiram Kneass, to found an ('patterned after his own ideas. Aftermeeting with several discouraging 'failures' in the attempt to interest others in such a scheme, he was Induced to visit From, CSrt... Professor. Keating, then a young man, who had recently been elected to a professorship of chemistry applied to agriculture and the ' y b. i. mechanic arts in the. University of Penn¬ sylvania, and who, it so happened, had also, met with discouragement in a recent effort / ' r, J - / / — 4 to secure co-operation in establishing an Bate, ..us....F~... l.u \ Institution of science. -t-f The Immediate outcome of the conference I between these young enthusiasts was the j issuing of a call for a preliminary meeting of friends of their enterprise, at which plans - i could be discussed and the needful prepara- •cretary Dr, oe objects of the Frank¬ I tions taken to call a public meeting. This lin Institute, which has just : preliminary meeting, as Mr. Fraley records aht Tells I in his Interesting historical sketch, pre¬ closed the seventy-fifth sented at the fiftieth anniversary of the year of a useful and hon¬ bw Franklin Franklin Institute, was accordingly called. orable career, are defined in The list of those who attended, and of stitute the act of incorporation, those who had previously signified their March 30, 1824, to be “The Willingness to aid the project, includes as Born. promotion and encourage¬ the names of the following persons, who ment of manufactures and are entitled to the honorable distinction e mechanic and useful arts.’’ of being the first promoters of the new so- icietv, viz.: Matthias W. Baldwin, Peter A. It was the first institution of its class to Browne. Oram Colton, Thomas Fletcher, ■ established in the United States and Robert E. Griffith, WTilliam H. Keating, though embodying in the scheme of its or- William H. Kneass, David A. Mason, Sam¬ nlzation^many qf_thefeatures of lie so¬ uel V. Merrick, James Ronaldson, James Rush, George Washington Smith, M. T. iled “Mechanics’ Institutes,” the scope Wickham and Samuel R. Wood. as more broadly gauged and its working At a subsequent meeting of these promot¬ ethods constructed on a higher plane than ers a plan of organization, a constitution, ese. It was, if the comparison be perruls- etc., were approved, and measures were Dle, the result of a compromise. Neither taken to call a public meeting. To this end e Mechanics' Institutes, which sprang into a list was made of the names of some 1,500 citizens, selected from the city directory, Istence like mushrooms about the time and to these an invitation was sent for a aen the organization of the Franklin In- : meeting to the be held in the county court itute was being considered, and which ! house, at Sixth and Chestnut street. This ere devoted almost wholly to the instruc- ! meeting was held on the evening of Febru- >n of artisans by means of lectures and I ary 5 1824, and was largely attended. Mr. isses, nor the exclusive societies of those Merrick, In his letter to Mr. Fraley, states trned in the sciences and arts answered that “the meeting was a perfect success, and the novel method of throwing the as¬ the Ideas and needs of the founders. sociation open to the world, without the \.n instrumentality was sought through intervention of cliques, made it universally pich these two elements, so diverse in i popular.” . , . jaractes, yet potentially capable, being No contemporaneous printed record of this dually so helpful, could be brought into j meeting exists, but Mr. Merrick records that ■ternal relations. A platform was needed, it “was presided over by James Ronaldson, Esq. and after the purposes of the proposed vad enough and strong enough to aceom- institution had been fully explained by Col¬ dnte professor and layman, master and onel P. A. Browne and others, an animated irkman, side by 6ide without incommoding ' discussion took place until the subject was , her. In brief, an institution was wanted fully understood by a highly intelligent as¬ piich should have inscribed on its corner- sembly who unanimously accorded their ap¬ l>ne “Science and Practice, Practice and prouaiiouprobation uiof theuuc purpose in view. After i ience.” which the constitution was presented, crit- j Icallv discussed, and. after amendment, was , material form to these ideas our unanimously adopted and a day fixed for ! I titute was founded and the sentiment the election of officers from those who 3 >ve quoted has been its animating spirit should previously enroll their names, and ■m the beginning to the present. The which numbered some three to four hum nnders. chose for it, of all names, the d red “The election having taken place, the P st fitting—that of the illustrious printer, Franklin Institute assumed its position ! teaman, philosopher—the synonym of I>ad utilitarianism. among the institutions of the State, and has . since attained a gratifying pre-eminence | he Franklin Institute was organized in James Ronaldson was the first president and | ' year 1824, chiefly through the personal Mr Merrick and Professor Keating werei nrts of Samuel V. Merrick, who had in members of the first board of managers. , “j tw. Wm. H. Keating a helpful coadjutor, VS J ■Jd'a- an autograph letter of Mr. Merrick to the n. Frederick Fraley some interesting •mnlsceuces bearing on the subject are r tunately preserved. From this letter it //} , i leafs that Mr. Merrick, then a young From, s hi of 21 years, found himself “the owner > a workshop, without a mechanical edu- Mon, with scarcely a mechanical idea." ip first step which he took tO' improve this i lation was a disastrous one. Jie applied for membership in a local as- ijiation of mechanics, and lacking the ij'essary qualification for membership, was tick-balled. This apparently trivial cir- ■nistauce appears to have caused him to consideration a suggestion made THE OLD HENRY MANSION.

Frank A. Hartranft, broker, reports to The I ent Gazette the sale, T. B. Henry, of the Hei erty, Main and Logan s Dr. W. S. Ambler. ' house, one of the few r< Revolutionary mansion! mantown, was erected ii John Gottfried Waschsi was sold to John Snowde a son of the original Henry. Directly op_ ground formerly belong Henry homestead is Cemetery, where we bodies of General Colonel Bird, both of from wound,s receive battle of Germantown, the Revolution mili were maintained on tl: by the British while Pi was in their posses house itself, of quair architecture, stands in its pristine condition, with the exception of a few exterior alterations of comparatively red In it have been born several eminent men, among whom were Mayor Alexander Henry, Charles Alexander,, f State Senator J. Bayard Henry, sons of the late T. Charlton Henry.

The buildings demolished were an old-] landmark of the locality, for a long time known as Bush Hill, which in colonial | days was the property of Andrew Hamil¬ P , ton, who lived at "The Woodlands," West I From, Philadelphia, which now forms part of Woodlands Cemetery,where the old manor [ house is still standing. The Whitney Car Wheel Works, which are now at Ninth | u.AlSJkduAM.to..*z. street and Montgomery avenue, were tablished by Asa Whitney about 1846 temporary structures a square west P foh their recent location. In I860 the buildings I Date, just torn down were started, and were | n- first occupied in 1853, remaining in until 1897, when they passed out of the I possession of A. Whitney & Sons, the [ AN OLD LANDMARK GONE. name of the firm for over a generation. The main building fronted 400 feet on I Demolition ot the Whitney Cb* Pennsylvania avenue, with a depth of 60 | Wheel Works at Bosh Hill. feet southward, and having three wings, The block of ground from Sixteenth to . each 132 feet long by 60 feet wide, extend¬ Seventeenth street and Callowhill street ing south to Callowhill street, the office being in the middle one and fronting on 'to Pennsylvania avenue Is being cleared . of the debris oaused by the demolition ot A.’,,A'w the street. All were one story high and the buildings of the Whitney Car Wheel built in the most substantial manner, with Works, to make room for a large trestle, stone foundations, brick arches, iron I with tracks and open coal pockets, which m. roofs and stairways, etc. The roof of the ] the Pinkerton Construction Company is ■ ■ main building was of corrugated iron im¬ about to build for the Reading Railway ported from England, and the first of its Company, which designs to grade and kind in this country, its original cost be¬ utilize the site for a coal depot. The prop¬ ing $30,000, although it recently sold for | erty was purchased by the company about "scrap" to a dealer for $1700. The two high two years ago for $275,000, a price greatly chimneys, 125 feet above the surface, and below what it was valued at before the a two story office are all that remain tc Reading Subway, which cut off a large mark the site of a once great Industrial strip of the northern boundary, was pro¬ establishment that had an annual output jected. The cost of the trestle, grading, of about $350,000 in ordinarily good-times. etc., will be about $8000. These chimneys were the first of their kind in this country, and, u the name j of “Whitneys,” have for. pattern for a number of others in parts i Ms Of the Pnion. They will be allowafTto stand until the site is fully cleared but whether they will be taken down in sec Jr tlons or “dropped” by underoinning with With oil and afterwards From,..!.At ' gmted has not yet been determined. The present successors of A. Whitney & Sons (at / are James S. Whitney, the manager of t e Ffj u '/jyf tf); works, who represented the Fifteenth Sec- "anrsinH eFBHrd E*UCatiW1 iv iM,/ Fi HannLs' treasurer, and Asa W. Whitney, superintendent. ‘ 1 Date. ’J -C .L F. .99 While the Subway project was being considered, a difficult problem presented Itself as to how to give the Baldwin Be, lers and Whitney establishments railroad facilities without impairing or destroying the talue of the respective plants but if was finally solved by the Reading Com! MYSTIC CRAFT ground Unotno? &included-th,6 aPT ti0nin the°f theSubway whitnev im¬ provement and utilizing It for the benefit .^U^^raiiroadand the other establish- OF GERMANTOWN

From, U.. Old Ship House Above Washington

/nJ / - . i/ fl ./) Lane-Possesses an Unex¬ ... /' 'A. a — plained History,

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Fate, ,v_- ^ ."27;. NO ONE KNOWS ITS ORIGIN

Has Looked Down Upon Many Changes SKETCH OF THE MERMAID. During More Than a iotnmqne Old Hostelry t„ Cppe, t»e mantown. «* Century. issmms pplpssi revolutionary land mark The Mermaid Hotel is one of the oldest Rich in the possession of numerous houses which antedate the tempestuous times of the Revolution and whose history is closely identified with those troublous days, Ger¬ mantown is easily the most Interesting sliiipi among all Philadelphia’s suburbs to the an¬ tiquarian and the student of local history. Page upon page has been bound into the iMigfi books of history and of fiction dwelling upon the traditions clustering about the early period In the history of what Is now a part of this bustling city, and never do these stories lack the charm which the romantic HIss—ssi mind invests in them. Here the fanciful and the real, the stern fact and the glit¬ tering imagery are so closely associated liter, lator hv aiy rum-i- j Martin that it has become, at this late date, hard ies Kershaw Clark and then by to separate the one from the other. From end to end Germantown avenue, or the l^fit0^ ThUto “Main street,” as the, older residents still ’ hy ^Christopher SeaLne,W‘r &llt ia lovingly term it, is one great avenue of ,er- wh° his trade thereto? many historic memories, to which the German¬ town people adhere with almost religious tenacity. They can relate incidents applicable to any one of a hundred old houses studding their chief highway and minutely describe the scenes as told by their grandparents, who participated in the great majority of them. They will meet your slightest hint by stage. When the line of coaches from at scepticism with anger and indignantly Chestnut Hill to the city was established the old Ship House became noted as a repel ahy suspicion advanced that their re- stopping plach. The hostelry next passed cital bears in it the tinge of exaggeration. into the possession of Josiah Wood, who , ,Y.et ,re is in this dense settlement of also kept It as a public house and hotel. historic houses one which, as ancient as About 1836 the property came by purchase °f the neighbors, has baffled the local to James Ford, and a second .transforma¬ historians to trace its history and the queer tion was made. From a tavern and hotel u amon& its fellows. the building was converted Into a boarding This is the old Ship House, which stands school for young ladies. Ford was head on the west side of Germantown avenue master, and his associates in teaching Were north of Washington lane, in what may be his wife and sister-in-law. Miss Isabella justly termed the heart of Germantown's Sutherland. Ford was a Scotchman, and memorable sites. with the shrewdness of his countrymen The building derives its nautical nickname amassed a considerable fortune from his f"* P®cu“ar mark which still remains venture. Among the pupils at the academy in its avails and is to-day the subject of re¬ were the daughters of the best and oldest mark of the curious passer-by, Just as it families of Germantown. Indeed, some of was a source of speculation to their ances- the most fashionable names in the society i?*'s a bandr«d years ago. Perched high in of the city proper were found upon its the south wall of this house is a full-rigged book's. Records state that “the teachers fhlP _Hnder saiI- her prow pointing towards were polished and well educated, and the b~6urtXer uP°h which her prototype had pupils were treated as members of the probably saiTed. How this craft came into family.” Ford’s venture lasted about ten of th«a?£e1hfr])or ls be>'ond the conjecture years and proved a financial success. With ?o„the b?s,t informed writers on German- his family he left for California about 1844. h\3\°?y- Even the Rev. S. P. Charles Bockius, a name as old as German- Hotehkln, the latest annalist of that sub¬ j town itself, appears of record as the next tle’ t0 disml«s the presence of occupant and owner of the Ship House. the ship in these words: “It is supposed ; Bockius had lived in the property next be- JJjai a sea captain had the ship which is i low, which came to him from his grand¬ formed of plaster of Paris, placed on the father, Jacob Unrod, who owned most of lower gable of this house.” There is no rec- the land to the southward. Since then the °.rd; however, that any sailing-master re¬ house has lost its public character, but still sided here, nor does the author explain the retains all Its historic interest, and the cu¬ if0r^is ^sumption. Nevertheless the rious old ship has. ever proved an enigma ship is there, to the great wondering of too complex ror the mind of the historian. -visitors as well as residents The building FIGURED DURING REVOLUTION. itself is not without attractions stona n£ Not to be alone among- Germantown buildings of the Colonial period, the ship house possesses its little share of historical value. When she settlement was in a fever of excitement: over the proposed British occupation of Philadelphia and a battle was imminent the hotel was destined to play an humble but important part in the conflict at Gerlnantown. In the sheds and KSiTfe SmMnX'e'' hTUhn?|V“i stables, long slice disappeared, the Ameri¬ can troopers quartered their steeds prior to the battle i'hich was to come a short P building of thishis Dartpart of th ?,equent toLO tnethe time later. Thit the hoi-house was1 untenanted‘ ’ E Port,on% wing M«^t^ 3S during the figlt cannotcot be disputed, since H it stands withli gunshot of the Chew Man- sion, the crucial position which turned the within1”^ HALL IN geRmantow’. tide of conflict n Lord Howe’s favor. _ Within this section of the building the This is, hov ;ver, but one of a dozefi Germantown burghers were wont to meet parts filled by he ship house during those and discuss the political situations as Xv stormy days of war. Peace again estored, it was called upon to shelter som thing of better worth and more in keeping with the tastes of German¬ town than gaulily caparisoned war-horses and clanking linns. h In a small triangular room on the north¬ ern side of thi house was kept a small hand engine used :or extinguishing fires. This s~»' machine, kncwn throughout the neighbor- this century it attained notoriety as a fa ood as “Tie Bull-dog,’’ enjoyed a well- lerited popularity as a protection against \ IVV Mil

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- v - xt»ac5r T*!-r ■r ' • A Valuable Relic. Editor "Public Ledger”—Sir: Upon a From , l ? "/jUl./yy. large bronze tablet affixed to the Penn NatioW-Pank Building, at the corner of Seventh and Market streets. Philadelphia. . ([) / • j) , Is the following Inscription: "On this site originally stood the dwelling in which Thomas Jefferson drafted the Declaration of Independence, which was adopted by the Continental Congress in this city, July I Date, A d.-..A../y". 4 1776. Erected 1775. Removed 1883. ’ The house was built oy Jacob Gran, June 1, 1775. and purchased by t^e Penn National Bank In 1S83. Nicholas Biddle, in his eulogy of Thomas Jefferson. April 11, 1872 said: “Jefferson, when charged with the’task of drafting the declaration by Men and Things Adams, repaired to his lodgings and set to work. These lodgings he had selected with his characteristic love of retirement MY DEAR PENN: I was wondering in a house recently built on the outskirts last night while reading your ar- tide if you would write some day on of the city, and almost the last dwelling the old volunteer fire department house to the westward, where, in a small and its work as compared with the exist¬ family, he was the sole boarder.’ In re¬ ing paid department, provided you think ply to a letter written by Dr. James it -would be of enough general interest to Mease, Thomas Jefferson wrote under the readers of the present day? J. A. n. date of September 16, 1825, that he lodged It would not be possible to furnish more in the house of a Mr. Graaf, a new brick decisive evidence of the great change house, three stories high, of which - which has been wrought in the social con- | fented the second floor, consisting of a ditions of Philadelphia in the course of a parlor and bedroom, ready furnished. In single generation than the comparison that parlor I wrote habitually, and in it which this correspondent invites. No in¬ wrote this paper (the Declaration) partic¬ stitution that has been connected with the ularly.'’ The Graff dwelling having been municipal system had so widespread an purchased by the Penn National Bank was torn down to make room for their effect on the habits, manners and morals new structure, to be erected accorcjng to of the people of this city as the volunteer plans prepared by the well known archi¬ fire department. It is difficult for not a tects, Furness, Evans & Co. few Philadelphians who now look upon The marble mantel taken from the par¬ William S. Stokley, for example, in his lor in which Mr. Jefferson habitually hale old age, to realize that as late as , wrote” was set up in the President s room the time when he made his advent into the in the new building, where it remained but Mayoralty the fire department had just a short time; the officers deeming it out ceased to be one of the most dangerous of harmony with the modern surround¬ hotbeds of lawlessness and crime that had ings it was carefully removed and stored ever been engendered in a great city. So in the basement. It is interesting to note that when the old mantel was removed closely was it entwined with the political from Jefferson’s parlor it was found to life of Philadelphia, so strong was it in conceal a large amount of Continental and all its ramifications, that it could not be Colonial paper money, of various denom¬ rooted out until after a contest which at inations: also a number of pieces of aint, one time, it was feared, would be pro¬ such as "were used in the muskets in those ductive of local anarchy. The reform by days. The floor joists in the old building which its abolition was finally accomplish¬ were of cherry wood and the late Mr. ed was agitated during a period of neatly William C. Ludwig, a member of the twenty years. No death strugle has ever Building Committee, selected one which been more violent and more prolonged had supported the desk on which the than the bitter resistance with which the Declaration was drafted and had a por¬ red-shirted followers of the “masheen tion of it made into canes, which were dis¬ fought the movement year after year an tributed among some friends, i The desk was presented to Mr. Joseph inch by inch, until finally they had to Coolrtdge by Mr. Jefferson In 1S25, and is yield to new forces and new conditions. now In Boston. The windows, doors and * * * * frames of the room were presented to the There had been a time, however, when Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D. C-, the volunteer firemen were one of the glo¬ and the marble mantel, which was taken ries of Philadelphia. No man in the com- I from Jefferson's parlor, has recently been munity, however eminent or opulent, presented by the President and Directors thought that the duty of running to a fire ! of the bank to the wife of one of their was beneath his dignity. In fact, the ranks i late Directors, in whose house it has beer of the department were often recrui.ed erected, and where this priceless relic from the best citizenship of every ward will remain a perpetual reminder of an and district. Such Philadelphians-to name l event which has revolutionized the world. WALTER K. LUDWIG. a few of the most conspicuous—as Thom¬ I 2047 Spruce street. Philadelphia. as Willing, Robert Morris and John Cad- walder in earlier days, and Robert Rals¬ ton Dr. Kuhn, John Swift, Richard A aux, Isaac Hazlehurst, John Price Wethenll. Frederick Fraley, Townsend Sharpless and Alexander Henry in later days, were nies and who In every neigh Whrtftasa'fir6 TOlunteers- Even Bishop I their own “gangs,” were not in colli with the police. But even then there were | not a few firemen who were full of the his comrades nf a hand with spirit of honest enthusiasm in their work, Inal spirit of theC°mPany-” The °rig- who regarded it as a point of honor to be the first at the engine house when an alarm was given, who would jump into their trousers and then dress themselves while x-unning by the side of the rope, and who suffered no mortification so dreaded our country ” It ’ 6 Wl11 be useful to as to be passed by the other fellows. Old- the time of the Jacksnn Until about time firemen who have not forgotten the the Native American , ^ ? P°mics and days of soap locks, big collars and patent ?rr of .hi™™*?t leather boots, will remember the soliloquy of a dandy hero after a hard run cn a fe«Se‘p«r„/‘,h“ “««?“• night when he expected to see his best into the fire houses ?ny,‘Sm J0rked itself girl: out many of the men ™t5rtdUally forced “Girl that you went to meet thinks it ain’t name of firemen svnn h° had made the you— zon in its best estate ThT^ With citi' Mud in your whiskers—mud in your hair— of the department, between Tott Parades Mud in your eyes and nose—what do you also brought fireman V 1832 and 1850, care? Stop when the engine does—look at your thing li«e“a loSe SystemSethr in somel figure; cians were quick tn L and tbe pobti- Wondering, you ask, ‘Is it me or some utilized as a force Tn 866 ,W U C0Uld be nigger?’ machinery. ° Worklng their party Feel ashamed but go home on the rope; Thinking of bathing tubs, towels and soap; Thinking of clothing spoiled—how Mary Jane, <■ 1 sand men equip^TiTThe fiVe thou’ Once disappointed, will ‘shake’ you again; forms of the various ' P'cturesque uni- Seek consolation, and find one at last; Every thing spoiled, but—you didn’t get through the streets of pTfTT marched their banners and t Philadelphia with passed.” With the consolidation of the city in the military outstripn dTK1''38- Not eye" casions in the affect? them on such oc- 1854, an attempt was made to create a paid fire department in the municipal system. was this pride of mar °aTn°f ^ t0Wn' « The firemen howled it down as an invasion with the gregarious defigEf “hTT-ther of their rights; very few public men and m the hose houses that drew bunkln»” partment the hardv ini d f Into the de- newspapers were courageous enough to differ with them, and every candidate for lows who enjoyed the an i°bust young fel- I office who favored the reform found him¬ titude. In no Tong timeP\a,USe °f the dominant that in soiTe of The S° 1 self marked for defeat. The nearest ap¬ notably in Moyamensint tL districts, proach to bringing the volunteers under powerful than the in " ley Were more I the control of the city government was ham McMuTeniTrre^^r6111- WiI' when, shortly after consolidation, the Politics of the Democrat- ln tbe old'time I companies were placed under the general the uncrowned Wne ofT ^ began a* I direction of a chief engineer, a limit placed upon the number of their membership and district; many ^oThers ‘Tlcftm T h,S i' | some conditions enacted, in return for Passed away, but as leaders of ,D ^ complying with which each company was cers,” “Killers,” “Bufflrs ” -Ti a J30""'1 entitled to an apropriation from Councils “The Fighting Rats ’ “The - °°d Tubs’” I of not more than .$400 a year. Richard “Schooiy” gangs, ihey hafa 6 and' Power to which thenn - d a sort of! Vaux, as Mayor, also introduced what he called the system of Fire Police, and put in the cSXlthK ofn°RPbTTleI t0'day think it was „of Philadelphia. I Dr. Blackburn, then a reporter on “The once compared it t^Rfi0^5"'L,eland who Evening Bulletin,” at its head, but it never amounted to anything more than as a channel for investigating the causes of fires, surviving, as it still does, in the office

r of the Fire Marshal. But it was an enter- | ing wedge toward the downfall of the old rang out the alarm <- 4 House“ ‘T”! bell department. . * * * * It was not until after the war of the were struck and inf,nie^?nd again alarms Union was over that the movement to for th, iS," >l»rM abolish the volunteers began to make into a fight for ^the' S 1 comPanies headway. Not only the disorder and “Plug” or to cantur P°?,session of the riots, but the heavy losses which business dump it into the" SrhuTkiTn?ogre'mand men and insurance companies suffered years there was hardiv a * r any from fire-bi®s in the disreputable com¬ night when in some nnrtSUmmer Sunday panies, gave^a new impetus to the reform. brickbats and stones wereToT ^ ^ It was about that time when New York, the vicinity of a hose n- ot flylnS ln after a long fight, succeeded in establish¬ when the small boys wh^weT h°US®,’ °r ing a raid service. When DanieLM. Foj being the adherents of thT,:^^ £ • r against tn’e introduction of the ‘‘paid” de¬ j beca or he enlisted himself lifcart- partment, andfwho then looked upon “p. ily on Ide of the advocates of a paid F. D.” as something like a badge of sle- depar As far back as 1850 he had very, that will not now cheerfully almit incurted ( displeasure of the firemen that it was a turning point for the better of the ern Liberties because of the in the life of Philadelphia. j stand wide he then took against them, * * * * In the an. °f violent threats from his With their independence of character, party he did not recede from this position their .loyalty, their free and easy generos¬ on his entrance into the Mayoralty. At ity and hospitality, the best of the old race that time }nore than half the members of firemen were a remarkable body of of Councils were or had been firemen, and men, but no one would have them back few office-holders had not at some time again for the battalions of trained veter¬ run with the “masheen.” Eut many poli¬ ans whom Chief Baxter led on Saturday. ticians who were ready to yield to the de¬ PENN. mand of the business men for abolishing the department were really afraid that it could not be done without precipitating a great public disturbance. In the mean¬ time the insurance men of Philadelphia /'I A /) / had found it necessary to Organize a spe¬ /M cial service of their own under young From, -Terence McCusker for the protection or rescue of property which firemen failed to save, and which has since developed into the efficient system known as the Insur¬ ance PatrJ. A year or two later the or¬ dinance fol- abolishing the department was passed. It was ordered to go into Date, -s. \ :.kl.'.# Pi.. i effect on the 15th of March, 1$71. There ' 1 / 1 w as great fear that the firemen would not obey it. Indeed, there was something like J consternation when the first fire broke out OLD LANDMARK MAY GO over the possibility of a bloody resistance to the new system. Some of the compa¬ Valley Green Hotel lu Issalilckon Ravine nies did persist in answering the alarms. to be Demolished. But in a few weeks the worst was over and the paid fire department came into ex¬ The Quaint old structure known as the istence, to the surprise even of its advo¬ Valley Green Hotel in the upper part of cates Wlthout a serious riot and without the picturesque Wissahickon Ravine is I think, the loss of a single life. to be demolished and a modern structure • * * * to be erected in its place for the shelter The expedient by which much of the and comfort of Park visitors. opposition to the new system had been Jesse T. Vodges, Superintendent of the mollified was the creation of a commis¬ Park, at a meeting of the Commissioners to-day recommended that the old Valley sion which included several of the repre¬ Green Hotel be torn down. His recom¬ sentative firemen of the day. It was un¬ mendation, which probably will be ap¬ der this commission that the department proved, was referred to the Committee on was governed up to the time when the Superintendence and Police. Bullitt act Placed it directly under the oontrol °f the Mayor and the Director of Public Safety. No experiment or inno¬ vation in the affairs of the city has ever been more promptly vindicated by its re¬ sults. More than anything else, it opened From, .'Jcrj,- the way for Mayor Stokiey to effect the ,f)J n , // / radical change by which he made orga¬ nized rowdyism in Philadelphia a thing' ...J> . or the past. To-day there is no branch of the municipal service which is more ef- clDlffied th<« Pire Bl,reau- and the dis- Date, JYjy.:. / c plmed body of men who paraded through our streets on Saturday would have been a dream to earlier Mayors like Vaux and Henry. And yet, after all there was a L sentiment about the old Volunteers with thZ S,hir,tS aml th6ir torcblights and “The Reminiscences of a Very Old £ , anly bearing in their best days Man,” the advance sheets of which, their daring, their perils and their heroi’ through the courtesy of D. Appleton & ssm, which still lingers among the affec- Co., have just arrived fresh from the tionate traditions of Philadelphia and press, will appeal to a wide biography- which the veterans who now maintain loving public, but they will have special he fellowship of the past may well re and peculiar interest for Philadelphia and Philadelphians,_ count with pride. Eut there is not one hivlhem’ however much he may fought in the bitter strife of 1870 They form the legacy of John Sartaln’s The reminiscences, while they neces¬ active memory and extensive experience, sarily give ari account of the main and John Sartain. though born in Lon¬ course Ot Sartaln’s life, are entirely free don. belonged in profession and in pre¬ from any suspicion of being what he dep¬ dilection to this city of America. recates under the name of an “Egotis- The book is the fulfillment of his pur- I tography.” A single instance shows how pose to make ‘‘a simple, unpretentious I he has kept himself in perspective. narrative” of what it was his “fortune On the subject of a high honor which to see in an unobtrusive way of the he received at the time of the Centennial scenes and performances with which he he has only this modest paragraph:-- happened to come in contact. “It was my good fortune to find op¬ But it is more than that. portunities of largely promoting the in¬ Written by a man who was one of the terests of the Italian artists, and, in skilled engravers of his day, an aca¬ consideration of Count Darsi’s represen¬ demician of the Pennsylvania Academy of tation of these services, King Umberto the Fine Arts and for twenty-three years conferred on me the title of ‘cavaliere,’ a director of that institution, a man who creating me ‘officer of the Royal Eques¬ played a prominent part in the public art trian Order of the Crown of Italy,’ send¬ work of Philadelphia—for John Sartain ing the jewel of the order and my diplo¬ designed the arrangement of the acad¬ ma through the Italian Minister at emy, assisted in the plans of Memorial Washington, who in turn forwarded Hall, acted as a member of the Washing¬ them to mo through the Italian Consul ton Monument and the Centennial Art resident in Philadelphia.” Gallery Committees, and took charge of With such entire freedom from self- the American art exhibition in London consciousness the “very old man" has during 1887—these reminiscences have a turned the searchlight of his memory distinct value as a history of art m on people and places and incidents, Philadelphia since 1S30. touching them with a kindliness and a A conscious historical purpose, how¬ sympathetic interest that is akin to the ever, does not seem to have actuated spirit of Justin McCarthy. their author. At length, when he is making the fin¬ In fact, he explains the origin of his i ishing strokes of his pen, in his 89th book lialf-jestingly: He says:— year, ho expresses his satisfaction in “Benvenuto Cellini, the eminent Flor¬ the deed accomplished, ,and quotes feel¬ entine artist and consummate bravo, de¬ ingly Longfellow’s lines on old age:— clares that ‘It is the duty of every one, “It is too late! Ah, nothing is too late in whatever state or condition of life, Till the tired heart shall cease to palpi¬ to be his own biographer; but he should tate. not enter upon this important and aidu- Cato learned Greek at eighty; Sophocles ous undertaking before he has attained Wrote his grand Oedipus, and Simoni- the age of 40.’ Now, as I already num¬ dies ber much more than twice that many Bore off the prize of verse from his years, it is fair to assume that Cellini compeers would pronounce me fully qualified, at When each had numbered more than least in the matter of age. But I should fourscore years; never have entered upon this task, for And Theophrastus, at fourscore and ten. task it is, had it not been for the im¬ Had but begun his Characters of Men.’ portunity of numerous friends who insist Chaucer, at Woodstock with the nightin¬ that much that I have seen, and much gales, that I know of many persons of distinc¬ At sixty wrote the Canterbury Tales; tion both in this country and in Europe Goethe at Weimar, toiling to th« last! ought to be recorded. Completed Faust when eighty year!?Vere “It may not be out of place to men¬ past. tion here the immediate impulse toward These are indeed exceptions; but they- the starting of this book. show “A small gathering of intimates in my How far the gulf-stream of our youth library one evening included my es¬ may flow teemed friends; Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Into the arctic region of our ‘lives, A. Janvier. In the course of the gen¬ Where little else than life itself survives. eral conversation, I had occasion to re¬ * * * * * 3 late the case of a man who endeavored “The night hath not yet come; we are to evade payment of a just claim by not quite means of a quibble. In the written ob¬ Cut off from labour by the failing light; ligation the words ‘this indenture’ were Something remains for us to do or dare; used, but as the four smooth edges of | Even the oldest tree some fruit may- the document formed a perfect paral- j bear; lelogram, he argued that there was no * a - * * $ * « * indenture, and therefore the contract “For age is opportunity no less was not binding. The Judge on the Than youth itself, though in another bench asked to look at the agreement. dress.” When it was handed up to him he took , “The London of my earliest recollec¬ out his penknife and cut one edge of the i tion,” he says—that was in 1808—“which paper to a waved line, and then returned my mind’s eye still sees with vivid dis¬ it to the captious disputant, saying, ‘It tinctness, exists no longer, or at least is now an indenture.' only in a few detached fragments left “This suggested to Mr. Janvier an here and there. The miles of fields that amusing idea. He drew up an obligation I remember, and which in part I have tha.t I would within one year from date traversed, are now covered with smoke- begin writing my reminiscences. He plac¬ blackened houses, and many extensive, ed the pen in my hand and I signed It. outlying wild commons are transformed He then cut it in two diagonally in a | into beautiful parks and gardens.” waved line from one corner to the other. A detailed description of St. James’ ‘There, that’s an indenture. You may Park as it used to be is then given, fol¬ have one half. I shall keep the other, lowed by many interesting bits. Here is and will hold you to it.’ a picture of London streets; at the time ■ “Hence this book.” when he was a child;— “.Rnforei Daiva«* cm... .• x “ -V street existed The ble replied, ‘Fortunate tor me—in my chief thoroughfare between. Oxford profession.’ This portrait is only a Street to the north (then commonly hea4, and is in the permanent collection called Oxford Road), and Piccadilly to of the Pennsylvania Academy of the tho south, was a narrow lane named Fine Arts. It was painted about 1833.” Swallow Street, the only remaining- por¬ From the exciting profession of mak¬ tion of which still enters Piccadilly op¬ ing fireworks, Sartain was taken to tend posite St. James’ Church. The traffic a toll-gate. This tiresome and weedify- arriving from the Strand by way of the Haymarket, uniting with that from ing occupation did not please him and Coventry Street, passed up Tichborne he promptly ran away, nor was he forced back by his mother. Street (now obliterated), through Maryle- (bone Street, and entered Swallow Street Instead, he decided to'learn the art of I from the northern, end of Warwick ■ engraving and was properly apprenticed Street. The house line on the east side of to Mr. John Swaine, of Threadneedle the modem Regent Street is the same as [ Street. The date of this apprenticeship was the east line of Swallow Street, the j was really the beginning of John Sar- j tain’s artistic career. Sprescnt breadth having been obtained by i totally abolishing the entire '.vest side of j By a great stroke of good luck he was soon given the opportunity to do some the old lane. I remember distinctly the work on early Italian prints for Mr appearance before the transformation William Y'oung Ottley. Of this occasion he narrates:— began." Being a man of two countries, John “Now to spend twenty months in a Sartain allotted his book almost equally room starred with pictures such as I between them both; ‘‘Reminiscences of have attempted to describe was a great Kngland” fill the first nine chapters, while privilege which I did not fail to appre¬ the second half of the book deals with ciate. But in addition was the instruc¬ “Reminiscences of America.” tion I was constantly receiving from Mr. The English recollections are those Ottley himself, in superintending and which are associated with his childhood, directing my work, and last, not least, and he is enabled therefore to recount the conversation of the eminent men who them side by side with comparisons visited such a man as Mr. Ottley. Among made in his riper years. them were Sir Thomas Lawrence, presi¬ The life work of Mr, Sartain began dent of the Royal Academy; Samuel Rog¬ soon after he was 12 years old, and be¬ ers, the poet-banker; Thomas Roscoe, gan with brilliancy. He went with Sig¬ Charles R. Leslie, R. A.; Thomas Frog- nor Mortram,' "pyrotechnist and scenic nail Dibdin, the bibliographer; Francis artist,” to make fireworks in Charles D°uce, the antiquary; Rev. William Kemble’s Theatre Royal, Covent Garden. .Long. Frazer, Lloyd and others. There the little lad got a glimpse of | "There was one visitor whose entrance many famous actors, and took a hand always gave me a thrill of pleasure, and in many famous plays. He writes:— that was Sir Thomas Lawrence, the pres¬ "The rendering of ‘The Two Gentle¬ ident of the Royal Academy, who never men of Verona' was so altered from the came till late in the afternoon. When he original that1 Shakespeare would have first took notice of me he came around been greatly surprised, could he have into my corner and asked me what I was seen it, but it secured a long run in . doing. I replied that it was Donatello’s f consequence of the liberties taken. My bas-relief on the pulpit of the Church of part in the performance was to explode San Lorenzo at Florence, ‘Christ taken a great tower with gunpowder. Sir down from the Cross.’ He examined my Thurio (played by Farren) cried, ‘Ah, plate attentively and exclaimed, “Ha! Lady Silvia, ,we shall soon gain the I possess the artist’s first sketch for victory!’ That last word being my cue, this bronze, but it’s a good deal changed I applied my light port-fire to the powder from his original design.’ He spoke some on the instant, and the tower burst very kind and encouraging words about asunder; each.half of the structure, nice¬ my work.” ly poised on rockers by the framework The inducements offered in America to behind, was pulled over by a scene shift¬ mezzo tint engravers and the hope of in¬ er on either side at the moment of the creasing his means finally induced Mr. explosion, producing an effect in front that was realistic in the extreme.” i Sartain to come to this country. He Behind the scenes Fanny Kemble was bought himself off from the remainder sometimes a visitor. of his term of apprenticeship and prepar¬ “Of course, she was too young to have ed to leave his motherland. business connection with the theatre Here is his account of the decision, and then, but some years later she made his arrival in the new country:— her debut as ‘The Roman Daughter.’ ” "Finally, after my marriage with the Sartain relates how his commission to daughter of my preceptor, Mr. John engrave Kemble’s portrait as Secretary Swaine, I made up my mind to take the Cromwell brought him into contact with step. After I began to speak of it open¬ the family again somewhere about 1832, ly one and another brought me letters of when they were playing an engagement introduction to persons in New York and in the, old Chestnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia, chiefly the former. So ab¬ Philadelphia. sorbed was I in study and the pursuit “I was introduced to Mr. Kemble,’’ he of my art, and so little did I know of says, “in Sully's painting room, going maritime matters, that I inquired at a there by appointment for the purpose. shipping agency for information about When the sitting was over, Mr. Kemble steamships, and yet it was only the year stepped down from the raised platform 1830! I was heartily laughed at, and was and, looking at the picture, remarked told that steamers were for river naviga¬ that the face appeared large. Sully .mid, tion only, and that if I were to live to the ‘You have a large face.' To which Kem¬ age of Methuselah I should never hear of such a thing as a steamer crossing the ocean. "At: the London docks. X chose a ship x lciibr that sailed for Philadelphia, although my oy ^ destination was New York, for I found the cabins preferable to those on the packets for the other port; and besides, Danie?SRMgway Wdernffif by' I thought X might as well deliver my healteUgkrde°nWesVpeo"' whf then the Philadelphia letters of introduction on and Sartain contracted tv,if is now? I the way through instead of traveling £r?H._which he "buffered6 £fUe-there I there for the purpose.” , .-.... it reduced his pW°.r several * # * * * ' every other day but ^dovW0rkinS this disadvantage he had uV.?n with "We two then first trod American soil his recovery threp /]nished before at the Chestnut Street Wharf. Having thr.%’V' Dr. Sharp, Professor'w Boston already selected the letters of introduc¬ tion to be delivered immediately on land¬ Phn??del?hiaCharJes. Lowei 1 * are an<* ing, we inquired the way to Centre time were one ofVr N^holw Square. Strolling up Chestnut Street we noticed on Third Street to our left a white marble building of fiiie architec¬ f»th^ ture, with a projecting portico of six A very complete account of the Acad- Corinthian columns, and turned out of emy of the Fine Arts during his direc¬ our way to admire it. We asked a passer¬ torship of twenty-three years is given in by what it was, and he answered, 'It’s these reminiscences. He pictures it first Stephen Girard’s banking house. Are you when it was a leaky, unfrequented strangers?’ Resuming our walk, we were building, located, as he says, "far out on Chestnut Street, beyond Tenth,” where directed at Fourth Street to go north it stood in a kind of solitude and pay¬ till we came to a wide avenue with a ing visitors were few and far between ” market extending through the middle of The building was some distance back the road from the river bank to Eighth from the street, with a circular grass Street, and there to turn westward again plot in front, in the center of which rose to Broad. the mutilated antique marble statue of "When we delivered our note of intro¬ Ceres, brought by Commodore Patterson duction to Mr. and Mrs. Ferguson, they from Megara, one of the isles of Greece. On the pavement near the curb were received us with the utmost cordiality, two grand old Lombardy poplars, whose and before the day was done had settled roots had so destroyed the level of the us comfortably in a boarding house on brick sidewalk as to force pedestrians to the north side of Market Street, near be careful of their steps.1 Twelfth. The view from our window was “The original structure, erected before charming; a beautiful grove of fine trees the stockholders applied for a charter, covered the whole block from Eleventh was a dome-roofed rotunda, fifty feet in diameter, with light in the center, but to Twelfth Streets and from Market to the outer covering of shingles was so de¬ Chqstnut. One house only had been built cayed as to leak like a sieve. It was on it; that stood on the corner of Twelfth an amusing sight on a rainy day to see and Market Streets. In it Robert Mor¬ I he floor spotted over with tubs, buckets ris had died. The entire square of ground basins and other vessels that Mrs Scar¬ was owned by Stephen Girard, and he in¬ let, the janitress, would stand about to tended it to be the site of ills projected catch the drippings, which in many college for orphan boys.” places had already rotted the floor. !ocation of the Academy on Meeting Thomas Sully in New York Chestnut Street beyond Tenth was so Sartain was advised by that artist far west, as I have said, as to be vir¬ to choose Philadelphia as a place of tually a solitude. Seldom were visitors residence, and he took the advice, partly, seen to pass up the wooden steps of the we are given to understand, because a porch to enliven the loneliness. The en¬ large amount of work was ordered from tire structure consisted of the original him by Philadelphians. rotunda, built in 1805, of a gallery fifty “It is no wonder that with such en¬ feet long to the north of it, and of an- couragement I settled down permanent¬ other, sixty feet long, to the east of it, ly, as Mr. Sully advised. I took a house filled with casts from the antique. This on South Ninth Street, and the first Sun¬ fine collecion of casts was a donation day I was installed I was visited by so from the first Napoleon, obtained many artists that' it looked as if they through the influence of Mr. Nicholas had come by prearrangement, but they Biddle. They were ail destroyed by the said it was not so. The group included fire of 1844, and many valuable and Im¬ Sully, Neagle, Elcholtz, Doughty, the portant ones have never been replaced, landscapist, Cephas G. Childs, Joshua among them the beautiful “Venus of the Shaw, and a portrait painter on silk in Capitol," the original model of Mephis- oils whose name I have forgotten. Mr. topheles by Petrick, and a cast of the Eicholtz was so much pleased with the colossal statue of Milo by Lough, the specimens of my work that he prooosed English sculptor who modeled the group that I should engrave for him a picture of the Centaurs and Lapithae now in the he had lately painted, the portrait of a Academy. bishop. This he afterward dropped, sub¬ , "When the decayed, leaky roof of shin¬ stituting for it his portarit of Nicholas gles .wiLs rePlaced by one of slate, the Biddle, president of the United States Bank. old stuff was stacked as kindling wood under the gallery of casts.. And ex¬ "Other artists resident in Philadelphia cellent kindling wood it proved later at that time were Bass Otis, A. B on, when the lunatic brother of Mrs Rockey and Robert Street, portrait Suis, the janitress, stole over to it in painters; Dickinson, the miniature paint¬ the night time from the west side of er; Thomas Birch, the marine artist, and the building, where he slept, and set it his father, William Birch, who painted aflame. in enamel and engraved, his subjects being mostly views in Philadelphia. “The fire destroyed the gallery above "Henry Inman cannot be included in with ail its contents, and extended its this list, because he had not yet remov¬ havoc into the north gallery, among val¬ ed his studio from New York, as he did' uable pictures. On the east wall hung very soon after, nor had Rembrandt Benjamin R. Hoydon's enormous canvas, Peale arrived from Europe, where he i “Christ’s Entry Into Jerusalem,” which I was occupied in making copies from : celebrated masterpieces ” rpv.« 1- ~. • Brew from tne casts, and when suffl-J dentlv advanced were admitted into the ifc class, a class carried on at their own I had to De cut irom its frame By men Expense, the academy merely lending mounted on ladders, who were deluded them the use of the room under the meanwh le from the firemen's hose to southeast gallery. I was always a con-, enable them to stand the heat ¥r tributlng member of this life class and was dragged out of the building' like one of its committee. ; an old blanket, as was also Wesfs bil P “Now seemed the opportunity for or¬ 'picture of 'Death on the Pale Horse8 ganizing the schools upon the proper j which hung on the north wall and was basis. After maturing the entire plan rescued in the same manner. The laTter in my mind I suggested it to Schussele. loniy was the property of the Academy He was pleased with the idea, and we The Entry Into Jerusalem,’ which had arranged together the terms that would l?rVWtetl by ^e owner, now adorns be acceptable and many of the details. the Art Museum of Cincinnati. Upon my return to Philadelphia the Com¬ I . circular wall of the rotunda. wp«i mittee of Instruction and the board in varied above for architectural efCectWbv turn concurred most heartily in the eight sunken panels, one of which was scheme, and thus in 1870 began the art pieiced through to the eastern gallery schools of the Pennsylvania Academy of j for ventilation. In front of this opening the Fine Arts. ... hung a valuable picture by Murillo* I “About this time the institution began which was quickly and irretrievably de- to fdel cramped for space, and as the stroyed by the fierce flame that poured adjacent property could not be obtained through from lh.e room behind it Thp ic seemed advisable to look around for other paintings in the rotunda were only i another site. This action was precipi¬ temporarily damaged by smoke ’> y tated by an offer of $140,000 for its ground bpon the occasion of M. Sartain’s sec- |to build a theatre. The transfer was to ond visit to Europe, he proposed to the ' take place without delay, so the academy Board of Directors of the Academy that i stored its pictures and found temporary it would be a good opportunityto pres- I quarters for its schools. A lot 100 feet ent in person the diplomas to 'its honor- front by 260 feet deep was secured on ary members abroad, free of expense to Broad Street, at the corner of Cherry, (the institution. They gladly * ava led 1 and plans were invited. The designs sub¬ f themselves of the suggestions and Mr 1 mitted, however, -while pretty enough in J Sartain, in delivering the certificates, hid ! exterior effect, were within altogether e,nielV interesting interviews with Sir /unsuited to the uses required, notwith¬ Charles Eastlake, John Buskin Clark ‘ standing full printed instructions as to I son Stanfield and George Doo the en ' Iwhat was needed. So all were rejected, i graver. ’ the $1000 offered in prizes were divided Of the president of the Koval Acad¬ [among the three best and the drawings emy he says:— s j returned to the owners. “Sir Charles Eastlake 1 found to be “My long practical experience in the a most charming gentleman. His res! working of the institution having made dence was a stone-fronted house in Fitz ;me better acquainted than any one else roy Square. He said that he felt hiVhiJ with its needs, I was then asked to pre¬ honored by this mark of appreciauJn pare plans for the distribution of the in -pirn of the Academy of Arts classrooms and galleries on both floors, irrespective, of course, of the architect¬ SW» SMS ural forms, which were the province of 'the architects selected, Messrs. Furness fetrnnt** We* Ln®stnut ^tieet as recon- and Hewitt. Thus commissioned I en¬ tered on the task with all my heart, and Haviland's was enthusiastic to the degree that 1 felt as if the design and my individuality ■■Indhne8boy J^? Hldm^onnySelf from 'were merged into one. I could have o him of hisSeexau^siteerSiaJl0n 1 sP°ke breathed the prayer of Socrates: ‘O my fr>y the Philadelphia S a6 -/,cture’ owned beloved Pan, and all other gods, grant 1 (the donation 0fthe hni der[',y through me to be beautiful within!’ ‘The corner-stone was laid December fea?«,sa0i,shtKLM sKssa- ss |7, 1872, at the northeast angle of one i 'of the courses, over a cavity containing jlcu™.“hl,7ta1|,»«fth'4C“ef"'“r"”' !a cqllection that cannot fail to be inter¬ esting to explorers of the remote future, p was hoped that the building might be ! erected for $250,000, but It cost double that, including the price of the ground $95,000. It was completed, ready for oc¬ cupancy, bv the Spring of 1876, So that its first exhibition opened simultaneously with the Centennial International Exhibi- i ticn in Fairmount Park. The schools 1 were installed in their new, well-lighted quarters under Professor Schussele’s di¬ rection, and all the branches of the in¬ End hoL:o"nectloP with- the academy; stitution soon settled again into their lchusse?ed J° meeV,hceho0oioKs,c'r ln chare« a bodv of Pennsylvania academicians and provided that the Exhibition Com¬ mittee should be composed of three ySSLobrwn,u!nre?ui academicians elected by their own body !istsPfromlnthtrUCt?rS- Its collection§of fire i,-!,?mr,^heK&nt‘que' destroyed in the twelve or ?tL5e-n replaced until some thirteen years after, when the and three directors appointed in a like manner by their own beard. instate°of^ltcn Stit,UV°n awakenerl into of livelier interest. The artists “In my opinion," writes the very old Spring ‘exCh°ihlHibrte freely to the annual man, "the academy would gain character exhibitions, and the public at- and respect ty returning to that rational ^nded in paying1 numbers, especlallv in arrangement, established by the direct¬ lrhteedVenin8n thKe gaWerles being’'leU A nnmber of casts were then ors while Mr. Cope was president, thus buttressing itselt by a phalanx of acade¬ veini^t}, fS°m London and Paris, and a isnl’n vht d r00m for study and their I micians comprising the best resident 1 *?,ay wa* Provided under the north talent of the city. It would then no ictufe gallery. Here students of art longer be at loose ends, liable to have its exhibitions c&pricicusly controlled by V?A. 66 _ outside irTCSHwimoie cliques, eheourasvn| nonsensical vfgaries and temporarj laps rFTHe original Torm of Foe's poem “The to the detrimeht o£ true, honest arc. ” witVi its subsequent improve¬ Not the least interesting ot the friend¬ ment is cited during the sketch It ships' which Mr,.Sartain formed while aii eighteen lines, divided into he was acting as a director of trie acad¬ two stanzas, of iwhlch this is the first:— emy was that with Miss Rebecca Grata, The bells!—hear the bells! the original of Scott’s character in, The merry wedding bells. “Ivanhoe,” and at one time one of the The little silver bells! _ beauties of Philadelphia. Here are bits TTow fairy-like a melody there swells from the "Reminescences about herj H°W From the silver tinkling cells “One of my colleagues was Mr. Hyman Of the bells, bells, bells. Gratz, with whom I was necessarily Of the bells! much thrown in the transaction of busi¬ Vivid in its description, reflecting some i ness, he being treasurer and 1 chairman of the three most important commit- | tees. Toward the close of his life he j tain’s1 description of the last time he became very feeble, and he would often ask me to come to confer with him at his residence, No. 2 Boston Row, Chest¬ saw Mr. Poe. It was late in the year nut Street, above Twelfth, to save him the effort of going to the academy. [ “There I had. the great pleasure of 18“Early one Mjonday afternoon he sud- meeting his sister, Miss Rebecca Graf?, denly entered rfy engraving room, look¬ who was the managing head ot his ing pale and haggard, with a wild and household. She, as is well known, was frightened expression in his eyes. 1 ana the prototype of the Rebecca of Sir j Walter Scott's ‘Ivanhoe,’ With the same vividness with which I recall Will¬ ed him to be seated, when h^bega^ ^ iam Blake’s widow as she opened tp me the street door when I visited my friend, for Refute and protection; jin you let Tatham, the sculptor, in London, I have retained the startling impression made ^afety ’iaf l' de concealed for a upon me by this celebrated Jewish lady v, hen she performed for me the same tlTassured him that he was welcome. service in Philadelphia. I recognized her that in my house he would be peri » instantly as the original of the portrait safe, and he could stay ^iong^ thg painted hy Sully many years before. liked, but I asked him wh be difflcult Her eyes struck me as piercingly dark, yet ot mild expression, in a face tenderly S’™ .. M!.iSVl»! M fed to MOJ

P0“To return to Ivanhoe’s Rebecca: I have learned much that is exceedingly SKS* WSw interesting about Rebecca Gratz from her grandnieces, the Misses Mordecai, v/ho have honored me with their friend¬ LAS’ fi as ship. She was born on the 4th of on his way to New gat a few seats March, 1789, and was the daughter of Mi¬ overheard some men should chael Gratz. a native of Langendorf, Up¬ back of him P'otting how rn yff frQm per Silesia, who emigrated to America kill him and then throw ^ they in 1758, and settled in Philadelphia. He the platform of the oa^ou^ have been came well provided with this world s spoke so low that it ou^ under¬ goods, which he greatly increased by impossible for hi™ their words had it trading with the Indians. In 1769 he stand the meaning £ of hearing was I married Miriam Symon, of Lancaster, not been that hlf_ . They could not then a remote settlement in the far so wonderfully &™}e:hpr~as he sat so i wilds of Pennsylvania, and eleven chil- guess that he heard d^erent to what dren were born to them. During' the quiet and apparently inamer^ train ar. closing years of the last century and was going on, hut whe gtation he gave the earlv part of this Rebecca and her rived at the Borde « ained concealed two beautiful sisters were the toast of them the slip and remaine ^ Hg had the clubs of the day as the Three Graces, | until the oars moved pn ag train a slight twist of their name the three | returned to PWladelphia by i^ refuge Gratzes. They were as good as they I back and had hurried to ™e belief the were beautiful. There had been a story “I told him his 0wn in our Aunt Rebecca’s life, a struggle whole scare was Jthe ea those peo- between love and religion, in which fancy, for w;^L'r-tebf| ufe, and at such duty conquered, as it always did with pie have m taking nis ue ,It was for her Walter Scott could not have chos¬ ?isk to themselves? He said _ j. en a nobler type of Jewish maiden. revenge. a woman trouble. “Another relative writes: ‘Her eyes He answered. Well. - tra;ning him, Mr. were of exquisite shape, large, black and “Quieting hl® hta to the Schuyl; lustrous; her'form was graceful and her Sartain accompanied him to jntention of . carriage was marked by great dignity, kill, where sit down in attractions which were heightened oy going, and Per\Ua 1 conVersation. elegant and winning manners. Gentle, Fairmount Park f experiences, benevolent, and with instinctive refine¬ “There he told me bis‘t gUCh, and the ment and innate purity, she inspired af¬ or what he aKeg that his imaglna- fection in all who knew her. She receiv¬ succession of a a caim, de- ed the best instruction those early days tion created herej^P iterance of facts afforded, and was well fitted for practi¬ liberate, measured Utteran fantastin . ai cal and social duties.’ ■ These, were as weirder ^ Mg pubiish- When Mr. Sartain was persuaded into anything to h® se it is altogethe. engraving a new plate for every num¬ ber of “Graham’s Magazine"—a venture ^ymSeS-to°co^S>n a faint ide. in illustration which was most unusual— of his wild de*cr;p,U°" • cell in Moya he made the acquaintance of Edgar Allan ■■•I was confined n . .and throug Poe who was Graham's assistant editor. mensing Prison, said he, bat The chapter of reminiscences which 7 my grated *ind“" tSr On the top deals with this friendship is one of the tlemented granite pet> between th most entertaining in the entire book most stone of th p he(j against tb The opportunity to learn the habits and embrasures, stood brightly radi the character of the great author was fruitful, and Mr. Sartain’s photographic dark sky a y°u"* ^fg^ught. either i memory is able to recall all aetaus. ant, like si\';erher Pnvironment, so the the'Scross-bar khadowsjhrown from m “In about a month from this, as nea as X can make out, Poe lay dead in < Baltimore hospital. In those few week: how much had happened, and how hope¬ questions,«S Z in-jgg-j-js words &figg£make ful seemed the prospects for his future! and I dared not fall tOaheaxo a either He had joined a temperance society, de¬ livered lectures, resumed friendly rela-, aplL ar nr to make pertinent answer, the to hear or to maae i ^ have been I tions with an early flame of his, Mrs. consequences to my sense of hear- Sarah E. Shelton, and become engaged •S°m?« wond£|'fully acute, so that X passed i to her. » in£ « Through this ordeal, which was.a “Dr. John J. Moran, who attended the to cafh me. But another was m poet in his last moments, says that Poe parted from her at her residence, in St°r>eAn attendant asked me if I would Richmond, at 4‘in the afternoon of-Oc¬ inro.4? taake a stroll about the place, t 1 tober 4, 1849, to go North. She states miShed SeXn^eGoLnr?e1ofeouVl?oinds on 1 that when he said “good-bye” he paused the ramparts we^ameto a ^uWron^o- a moment, as if reflecting, and then said to her:— boiling spirits. H declined, but “I have a singular feeling, amounting liIkesdidtyCes What do you suppose to a presentiment, that this will be our would have 'been last meeting until we meet to part no more,” and then walked slowly am sadly away. ‘Yes/’ said X. ‘‘but that would have , “Reaching the Susquehanna, he re | fused to venture across because of tin ki!’®Afycourse it would.’ said he, ‘that’s wildness of the storm-driven water, anc he returned to Baltimore... Alighting from the cars, he was seen to turn down Pratt Street on the south side, followed by two suspicious-looking characters as far as the southwest corner of Pratt and Bight Streets. 5S‘$£ th"thUI„ « “A fair presumption is that they got h-r’hendho?ro?'of the imagined scene him into one of the abominable places ih v.-Y/ ir/tn a sort of convulsion, that lined the wharf, drugged him and threw hi ^ yery faint sample of the robbed him of everything. After day¬ break, on the morning of the 6th, a gen¬ tleman found him stretched unconscious upon a. broad plank across some barrels 'si£ srs J on the sidewalk. Recognizing him, he i “ ISSM^VS Sgft possibly’ in a obtained a hack and gave the driver a j card, with Mr. Moran s address on it and on the lower right-hand comer the I name of ‘Poe.’ guard° 1 WaS watchful and kept on my I '‘The accepted statement that Poe died ! in a drunken debauch is attested by Dr. I asked him how he came to be in Moran to be a calumny. He died from a S PriSOn‘ He answered that chill caused by exposure during the night a *50 L T ?u?Pecte(i of trying to pass under a cold October sky, 9lad only in a $50 counterfeit note. The truth is he the old thin bombazine coat and trousers »»*■ ■«*«> »o many ’there which had been substituted for his own learned w"™ °nIy~the d™P too much. warm clothing.” L learned later that when his turn cams One more quotation from this treasure somee;m°tley-Sr0UP b6f0re Mayor Gilpin house of reminiscences is worth append¬ m ’ and h?d‘ ‘^hy’ this is P°®, toe ing. It is a list of the contributors to i “Sartain’s Union Magazine,” which was mstomary hne/’3 dlSmiSSed Wlthout the launched on January 1, 1849, in Philadel¬ phia, and of the prices which were paid t bed^on1? «aee h°me‘ and gave him at the time for work by the great liter¬ vhiio r , fa ln the dining-room ary men and women of the day:— vhile I slept alongside him on three .hairs, without undressing. “Among our contributors were Henry W. Longfellow, J. Russell Lowell, Bay¬ o"havehhZeCOnd mornin§ he appeared ard Taylor, Harriet Martineau, W. Gil¬ elt that ? + much like his old more Simms, Frederika Bremer, Lydia listed Lt fted him t0 SO out alone. Maria Child, Edgar Allan Poe, John ffect althoualthoughUo-hr HhismeaIS mind had was had nota S° vetod Neal, Nathaniel P. Willis, Joseph R. ly free from the nightmare. After Chandler, George H. Boker, Charles G. Leiand, George W. Bethune, D. D., Hor¬ aid me'he1” hJrt0 he retUrned‘ and then ace Binney Wallace, Thomas Buchan¬ hat wllat r ^ome t0 the conclusion hat what 1 said was true, that the an Read, Professor Joseph Alden, Henry Tuckerman, Park Benjamin, Henry B. ' 0 e thing had been a delusion and a Hirst, Mrs. Sigourney, JDr. William Eld¬ care created by his own excited nagination. excited er, William H. Furness, D. D., R. X-I. Stoddard, h’an Featherby, Francis de H. He said his mind began to clear as Janvier, Francis J. Grund, Thoreau, n” the grass- his face buried m John S. Dwight, Fanny Forester, Miss •ap-rd hls^0stnls inhaling the sweet Brown, Silver Pen, Eliza L. Sproat, agrance mingled with the odor of the Edith and Caroline May, Mary Howitt, Thomas Dunn English, Alice and Phoebe id h'pJ^ , 6 he lay thus’ the words ne id heard kept running in his thoughts Cary, Frances S. Osgood, Miss E. A. Starr, Henry W. Herbert, Mrs. Annie H. h tL ed,in Vain t0 couhect them Stevens, Mrs. Sedgwick, Ignatius L. h the speaker, and so the light grad- Donnelly, Mrs. C. H. Esling, Anna Bly broke in upon his dazed mind8 and Lynch, Grace Greenwood and others too - saw that he had come out of a numerous to mention. •earn. Being now all right again bt is reaay to depart for. New York ’ He 'rrowed what was needful, and I never w him again. • j the prices paid I can mention ,.Liy a few. .Longfellow never received less than $50 each for his numerous ar¬ ticles. Horace Binney Wallace was paid $40 for his article on Washington Irving, and Poe received $45 for "The Bells." In DEAR PENN: Would it be poasibl the form he first submitted it, consisting for you to throw some light o of eighteen lines of small merit, he re¬ the historical meaning of the ceived $15, but after he had rewritten and phrase, “The Hamilton family of improved it to a hundred and thirteen the Bush Hill and the Wood- lines he was paid $30 more. Poe received lands,” which I have several times seen referred to? I have always understood $30 for his article on ‘The Poetic Prin¬ Bush Hill to be the high ground, through ciple.’ ” which the western part of Falrmount In September, 1875, Mr. Sartam notes avenue and Spring Garden street run. his appointment as chief of the Bureau But a friend with whom I was passing of Art, which was to be a part of the Sixteenth and Callowhill streets,where the1 Centennial celebration. Men orial Hal new Subway has forced the W hitney .Car was already in course of erection. Works to abandon that site, claimed that "The design, by a private understand¬ this lot was a part of the old Bush Hill. ing, was planned 'to be suitable for th( I have also been unable to locate the accommodation of the State Legislatur< place where the Yellow Fever Hospital, in case a possible removal of that bodj which you have spoken of, stood, '•till from Harrisburg to Philadelphia, coulc you enlighten us as to what was the at any time be effected, and this under connection of the Hamilton family with standing assisted in obtaining so larg< this place, and whether these Hamiltons an appropriation from the State towarc are related to Alexander Hamilton. its construction. A. L. H “At first it was expected that the gal¬ leries into which the building was. tc The Hamilton family here named had no be divided would be more than sufficient kinship whatever to Alexander Hamilton ) for all the works of painting and sculp¬ although it is not unlikely that while he ture likely to be contributed to the expo¬ was Secretary of the Treasury in Phila¬ sition, but the applications for space were so numerous that an art annex was delphia. he may have been, a visitor to one ordered, and was erected to the north of the mansions identified with then- of Memorial Hall. It was equal to it in name. The Hamiltons of Philadelphia length and breadth and contained thirty prided themselves indeed upon being an galleries, each forty feet square, besides; aristocratic stock, and the great states¬ a larger gallery 100 feet by 54. ‘•When the architect submitted to me: man, while at all times a champion of his plan the doors were all placed in the; what were called aristocratic notions In center of the walls. I showed him that politics, was of obscure birth in the West they occupied precisely the space most valuable for the display of pictures and Indies, and Of no social distinction before left only the corners for that use. I he had married into the Schuylers. of made a .sketch for him with the opening New York. Indeed there was a belief that in each room at its angle, cutting it he was the offspring of an illegitimate across diagonally to the line of the walls: Upon this plan the annex was built, and union. But the Hamiltons of Philadelphia the effect of the large, unbroken wall had sprung from the celebrated Andrew spaces was excellent. When, eleven Hamilton, who planned and superintended years later, the art department of the the construction of the State House and American exhibition in London was placed in my charge, I had the galleries whose defence of the rights and liberties there built in the same way, and the of the press established a historic legal novel plan was much admired." landmark at the trial of John Peter Zen- But if Mr. Sartain felt a pardonable ger. They were rich, fond of entertain¬ glow of satisfaction over this po.rtioh of his public work for Philadelphia he will ing, conservative in their relations to pub¬ not say as much about other of his un¬ lic affairs, and regarded with something of dertakings. _ awe by this populace. The name of the The entrance to Monument Cemetery, family disappeared many years ago with which he designed, was evidently a sore cross to him. Twice in the course of the death of a generation of Hamilton his reminiscences he speaks of the ruin oachelors. But for-upwards of, a hundred of the architectural effect for which he years it represented much of what was was striving in this arch through the brilliant and luxurious in the, social life j substitution of the ideas of one of the : committee. , „ . of - Philadelphia. i Straight through to- the end of this bcok of memories the same kindliness, Bush Hill and the Woodlands were the ; simplicity and clearness prevails. Even names of their estates. The first was a I in the chapter which was written in bar- tain’s 89th year there are no signs of region of probably one hundred and fifty the encroachment of age upon the au¬ acres, of which the site of the Girls’ High thor’s faculties. , School, at Seventeenth and Spring Garden Besides being a valuable piece of local art history the "Reminiscences of a Very streets, may be said to have been the cen¬ Old Man’1 are a remarkable monument tre; the second was a still larger estate, to the vigor and the perennial freshness below the line of Market street. In West of the mind of John Sartain, artist, en¬ Philadelphia, or the Blockley township, graver and author. ,, * and extending beyond the cemetery which now bears its name. The mansion on Bush Hill, built by the Hamiltons. -stood on, or perhaps above, the line of the north side of Buttonwood street, between Seven¬ I From, . teenth and Eighteenth. " In the colonial t n f) days it was the seat of an elegant hos¬ pitality. But during the Revolution the Hamiltons were either indifferent or hos¬ tile to the. Continental cause; they suffered ostracism as Tories, and one of them came 1 near going to the scaffold in the local up¬ 1 Date,.. /.». ' ' y. risings against, the adherents of the Crowj

S '' -* _ »h had evacuated the city, Tew sWtrtyiresffea comrades came upon the scene, assisted by young Dr Philip a few notable and some Syng Physick. that the worst of these hor. JW""'g x"aracters in this stock. Not rors were abated. There was never a mo¬ the lea^t famous of them was the charm¬ ment during the awful ordeal when Girard ing: Nancy Hamilton, who afterward mar¬ was known to have exhibited a sign of ried James Byle, and whose grace and !fear. He moved around among the dying beauty in the days when Philadelphia was wretches, smoothing their beds, giving the capital of the nation were thought by them medicine or preparing them for the discerning to be unsurpassed by the 'death, and with no more show of outward charms of any other young woman of her' concern than if he were giving orders for time. One of the "best-known remarks of unloading his ships at Arch street wharf Abigail Adams, the shrewdly observan * « * * wife of John Adams, was that, among al The Bush Hill mansion continued to be the beauties of England, she had seen nom i used as a hospital through all the vel- I that surpassed Nancy Hamilton. low fever outbreaks which ravaged the ’ * * » • cUy in the closing decade of the last cen¬ Indeed., the Adamses themselves were a tury. Some of the physicians who took up one time occupants of the mansion on Busl them quarters there, nerved by the exam¬ Hill, but after it had been vacated by th ple o, Girard and Helm, revealed hardly Hamiltons. Adams, as Vice-Presidenl less of the spirit of heroism. Girard in his lived there for probably two years, and i career as a sailor and trader in the West is not improbable that during that tlm Indies had seen a good deal of the vellow Alexander Hamilton, who had a house h (fever But tofaiost of the physicians of tho city at Third and Walnut street's, roa; Philadelphia the pestilence was new in have gone thither as a guest, although hi their experience, at least in so sweepin- political relations to Adams were not a a form. They veritably took their lives in all times friendly. So remote was th. their hands when they faced it, or after mansion from the thickly populated par their own families appealed to them to fol¬ of the city that both the Hamiltons and th. low the example of most of the public men Vice-President were often under the ap of Philadelphia and leave the city to its prehension of highwaymen and other pre fate. Not less than one-third of the mem¬ jdatory characters who Infested the hill bers of the profession perished in standing At one time there was a project in whicl by their post of duty. Bush Hill deserves General Cadwalader had a hand for creat* always to be partly associated not ing a town on Bush Hill by dividing it Inti simply with the memory of Gi¬ building lots. It was stipulated that $600, rard, but with that of the men 000 should be paid to the Hamiltons fo who remained true to their profes¬ the property, but the big speculation wa sional obligations in that season of unex¬ premature: it turned out to be a total fail amp ed terror. Indeed, not the least hon- ure and the estate reverted to its owners oraoie record of the physicians of Phila¬ After Adams left the mansion it beeam. delphia is that which attests the courage associated with a chapter of depravity am? • 1 of their forbears of 1797, who tofiid crime beside which the exploits of the free night and day in the Bush Hill pest-, hooters of the road sankintoinsignificant house. Some of them who survived to en- as examples of the dangers of Bush Hill marks of public gratitude were At the same time were also enacted there Samuel Tfiffield, Edward Stevens, John some scenes of sacrifice and heroisn Redman fmxe, Samuel Pleasants, John which have seldom been paralleled amon& Church, m-. Sayer, Dr. Dobel and Dr.. us in the annals of philanthropy and cour¬ Michael Lijib, who afterward became Uni¬ age. As James M. Beck once finely said. ted States Senator and one of the most Bush Hill was the Calvary of Stephen successful of the early “bosses” in Phila¬ Girard in the heroism of humanity. delphia politics. » * * • This was when the Hamilton mansion Various attempts were made in the early ’as turned into a hospital, during the yel- part of the present century to convert the ow fever season of 1793, and when Girard house at Bush Hill and the adjoining prop¬ erty into a public garden or resort. It is ogether with Peter Helm, stood in the known that some of the actors of the ’orefront of a peril which daunted the Chestnut Street Theatre Company of that, strongest and bravest men. The descrip- time were concerned in such an enter¬ ions which Matthew Carey and Charles prise. At a later period a popular French 3rockden Brown have given in narrating pyrotechnist gave displays of fireworks on he suffering, the desolation and the hor- the hill, and established there some of or of that visitation are too well known to those amusements w’hich for many years 'e repeated. Public men, the clergy and afterward made it a scene of summer di¬ ven physicians were appalled by the mag- version. The mansion itself seems to have litude of the scourge or fled in terror from been burned about the year 1808, but the be. eity. The hospital at Bush Hill walls continued to stand, and constituted warmed with victims of the plague. The part of a factory for oil cloths, which ex¬ lace ran riot with filth and vermin, drunk- isted there up to within a little more than less and pillage and the brutality of twenty yeafrs. The Bush Hill grounds gen¬ "es. Corpse after corpse of the vie- erally, however, came to be a rendezvous was carried out amidst yells, groans for disorderly characters, who were drawn curses. It was not until Girard and a '• » <• . ‘ ■ ' ^**v&sp '.V-

y f * ^farirtr to the region by military parades, day festivities, arid not infrequently the hanging of a murderer or a pirate. The TWO OLD LANDMARKS. facetious sometimes called it Bush Hell. It 'Brief Historical Sketch of the Nice and j was not far from the present Girls’ High I School that such desperate marauders as Dorsey Houses. Porter, the mail-coach robber, and Moran, Among the few remaining landmarks the bloody buccaneer, were swung off of old-time Germantown are the Dorsey from the gallows with such crowds around and Nice houses. The Dorsey house is [ them as nowadays flock to a “hanging located on Main street, above Washing¬ match” on the frontier. Skeletons were ton iane. It was built about 1700, by sometimes dug up in large number, for Jacob Knorr. He was the great-great¬ many of the victims of the yellow fever grandfather of Elizabeth and Sarah were buried in the vicinity of Eigteenth Dorsey. Jacob Knorr and his immediate ( and Buttonwood and Spring Garden i family are buried in the Concord Bury-1 street, and the Hamilton family at one ing Ground, adjoining to the north. time had a burial place of their own on George Knorr, a son of the original the estate. Jacob, lived to be 94 years of age. This When the first Andrew Hamilton, who old house was originally of handsome owned both the Bush Hill and the Wood¬ cut stone, pointed, and much admired as lands estate, died he. left the one property being one of the well preserved and to his son James and the other to his son well-cared-for Colonial homes on Ger¬ Andrew. The country seat at the Wood¬ mantown road. About the year 1848 a lands was long famed for its beauty, its number of alterations were made in the furnishings and its gallery of pictures. An i old house. Some of the masonry was inspection of its interior was one of the cut away, and as the stone could not be privileges which visitors to Philadelphia matched, it was found necessary to eagerly sought for, and its gardens were plaster the exterior front. Among other hardly less attractive than Pratt's at Lem¬ changes was the removal of the front on Hill. The Sunday dinners of William Hamilton, the good company which he door from the centre of the building to succeeded in bringing to his table and his the upper end. About the year 1875 an magnificent coach and four went far to addition was made in the passage-way give him a reputation as a man of taste. of the old house, which shows in the Even Europeans could not withhold from picture by the difference in the appear¬ his estate their admiration for its embel¬ ance of the windows. lishments and found much to satisfy them Edward Mellor, president of the Ger¬ that its owner lived there after the manner mantown Real Estate, Deposit and Trust of a gentleman. This Hamilton was one Company, and family occupy this old of the earjiest graduates of the University Colonial house.

of Pennsylvania. He little thought, when THE NICE HOUSE. he celebrated his graduation with his col¬ Next below the Dorsey house is the lege comrades at the Woodlands, that more residence of the late Samuel Nice, who than a century afterward the University would be the most conspicuous occupant for so many years was engaged in the undertaking business at Main street and of the acres which then made up his es¬ tate. He was the member of the family Washington lane. This house is a very who in his young days as a Tory had es¬ old one, but just where it was erected it caped hanging, but whose enemies finally is not known. Its pebble-dashed front caused him to be exiled for a time from has remained unchanged for the past Pennsylvania. The popular remembrance seventy-five years or more. The old of these things followed him nearly to*the house was in the midst of some of the end of hi si ’life. But the Hamilton name, hardest fighting at the battle of German¬ while it perished in the family, was im¬ town. Samuel Nice was an apprentice pressed upon the city’s topography. In a to the cabinet making business, located part of the present Twenty-seventh Ward on the corner of Washington lane. there was a village of Hamilton, and in George Knorr married Elizabeth the present Fifteenth Ward Hamilton Scheetz, a sister of General Scheetz. street has long been a reminiscence of the Another sister married Daniel Heller. early owners of Bush Hill, Later on Samuel Nice married succes¬ PENN. sively two daughters of Daniel Heller. So the Knorr, Scheetz, Heller and Nice families are closely connected. The undertaking business, now con¬ II// ducted by Kirk & Nice, at Main street and Washington lane, was commenced by the Knorr family about 1760. After the Knorr family, Samuel Myers took • JP) i j /(fi charge. Myers learned his trade with Jacob Knorr. Samuel Myers was re¬ lated to the Kirk family, of Upper Dublin township, Montgomery county. 0 Q £ B F. Kirk, the present member of the Date .*■■■■/■. firm of Kirk & Nice, also is a descendant A the sme g 1 defp^H ^theT'56?- t0 PUt up PMla- ' fradeeSd® 8a‘n'uel _Yic , 1.830 took LSa,nuel Myers Jearn^ his 1 f Moiling jt,7Jlqr^e °f the hA -aild about I ' ‘^cceeded bv nbout Con' S? »«S!E

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Some Prominent :feaariis oJd PO(Vua, barea been „ a®. number *« the ?e »heS™i"“f « ??/en of the Pay. een twehJVu Srm have h ■ stated I , °nTM„0,ndfay he writes: “Saturday even- people. 6 ‘ho,,s«i aeTfifc^ te- | aclub ' jS ■ to AH6 VauX^ac^um0^^^^^"! 'om. EJM 'S f"“‘“ of de state, hSSStH,"’,' 2ff ■o a lawyer; Mr. Patterson, late viAe nro ’ Br8* Cooper °f ^Z^ia; : if. a cordial welcome in the best so- I this place is large and elegant, and well | v of the places he visited. He wrote iularly and fully to his wife, herself kffd^-". . V exhibitions of This j ,y of 1‘terary accomplishments, and : / *n ’Ze morning' yesterday I preach otters have been preserved. |_ed m Mr. Vaughan's church7 which Ts a J. ' iey were written with all the free- • i of private and confidential conversa- ] small octagon. Charles and Elihu i. and he frequently cautioned his Chauncey, Mr. Roch, who was in Boston, 3 t0 . e careful about showing them, Marshal Grouchy, Dr. Coiquhoun and me nas removed the reasons for re- 'e in most cases, and readers of to- several other distinguished men were iiv the audience. It rained hard all day, I1,?ie t0 see some of the Pictures but the inhabitants of this town attended ’ al life Ir> this country as it was worship numerously, notwith¬ y years ago. drawn by this corn¬ 'll Observer. standing taWiveather.” _ -I ... >- - ^yr«ii>i _ ^ Somethin# of ~ y ;■ ..,-ij Washington Jfatt. Among the managers of the ball whose names appeared on the card he men¬ ■•n the afternoon he continues his tioned Mayor Wharton, Major J. R. letter: ‘•General Cadwalader. an lngersoll, brother to Charles, who wrote Charles- Chauncey, Esq., met me thi “Edwy and Elgtra;” S. Fairman, the morning- m.*j,Vashington Hall, and tol< same whom we saw in Greenfield—he has me that they, should call upon me im become rich in Philadelphia. Captain J. mediately. They both inquired afte M. Scott and lngersoll were at, Cadwal- you * * * and General Cadwalade ader’s Club, and were amusing.” made me acquainted with General Whar¬ As to the ball, he writes: “This ball ton, the Mayor of the city, who is called was one of conciliation, or rather for the the pink of courtesy, and rather goes ' purpose of encouraging patriotism and beyond Sheriff Bradford. other good feelings. The higher and “The hall is very large and when more fashionable members of society con¬ crowded an alarm is easily excited descended, at least a few of them, to -iom the fear of breaking the gallery or meet the commonalty. It was estimated trom fire. OifSaturday, when Dr. Cauld- that only a,bout thirty of the patricians well was about to rise to pronounce his were present in a collection of ladles and eulogy upon Dr. Wistar, a seat in the gentlemen to t"he amount of 1500. Of g , gav.e way> and the noise instantly these 1500 it is ascertained that 800 were set the ladiesjto screaming and running, luclifis. and considerable effort was necessary to “The hall Is 120 feet long and 90 feet prevent them from doing each other real wide. The number of cotillons danc¬ harm from an imaginary danger. ing at once was forty. The view from consequence of that experience, the gallery was J splendid, and beyond a"d the susceptibility of alarm among anything of the kinS I ever saw. Tht the people whenever any individual rose dances were varied to the greatest ex t°7ay t° look about others would rise tent of diversity, and the mixture o: instantly andipanic would begin. Some 1 people, manners an4 motions was ex lad es appeared at the door entering the tremely amusing. hall, and the gentlemen rose to look around and over the heads of those be- “General Cadwalader and wife, Charles Chauncy and wife, Mr. Levy and wife hind them this produced an agitation, Horace Binney and. others to the number when the Mkyor came forward on the of thirty, as already mentioned, were stage, and said: ‘Gentlemen, pray be present. Marshal grouchy was there comfni bn rifrightened: the ^ies arl Binney, who is quite a wit, as well as i but they will not harm you.1 lawyer, was going kbout the room oi e-rflTt S. prodpced a general laugh, a took his stand by aj pillar with his ha 8 eat loar and a loud clapping, and the in his hand, makirjg remarks on th< The°nUu0^ t0 b® agitated Quite subsided. figures Eftad .dresses- pefore him. The hall is 120 feet long and well pro¬ portioned. The decorations are very “Toward the end df the evening there handsome * * * the center of the rJom was a degree of controversy about £ is adorned with three large circular dance, which made some talk the follow Ing day, but none1- worth detailing. Ther< w'iiw’hre “"ft W“h crimson festoons, h three tiers, of candles for this was a little waltzing, which I had nevei evening, which will produce a finer effect seen before. It is very pretty and I saw no indecency in it. I jiha£ anything I have seen in our town. “There are many handsome faces lr „s7' walk around the room to-night im to see the party and the show, as Gen¬ this city, but the delusion is expellee eral Cadwalader told me he would have by a ball like the one I have described- the delusion that girls lin low life or ir fhetheCa hallimnS isent hungn t0 “withei- The festoons ffallery also, around and the third and fourth classes of society are handsomer than those in the firsl such ih? extremely well. We have no such thing- among- us.” rank. So much of the beauty of a face Several days after he wrote his wife depends on its expression and the as¬ sociation of mind and sentiment wit! CCellVt the haI1‘ sendlnS ber the card of invitation General Cadwalader it that the best bred and most accom¬ plished must always have a great ad¬ had sent him according to promise, that i vantage in this respict.” “e. “t,he style of such things in Philadelphia.” | In one of his letters he writes: “Toui The card was brought up at the clubi letter No. 4 reached me yesterday morn¬ of wIlS at Cadwaladers, on Saturday1 ing. Mine, to which it was an answer, mght, where I supped, and Nicholas Bid¬ went from here at 2 o’clock on one Sat¬ dle, who Is daily in expectation of an urday and yours arrived here at 7 o'clock appointment as Minister to Berlin very A. M. the next Saturday. This rapidity properly criticised the engraver for' mak- of the mail is delightful. A little less than a week—seven hours less—we thus hncm I® l6male at the top of the card find sufficient for an interchange of our b°ld ,tbe barp ir> her lap, a position not adapted to any harp in modern times. thoughts and affections on paper at the Perhaps, however, some ancient harps distance of 311 miles from each other.” may have been small enough for this purpose.” if is Views of

if is impressions the University. of a Sreat Hall. Dr. Holley’s purpose In visiting Phila¬ ^‘Koraco Binney is put at the head of delphia threw him much with the pro¬ his profession In the State. He talks fessors of the medical school, as there well and is evidently acute and strong. were both medical and law departments Dunkin is one of the Judges of the Su¬ in Transylvania. Dr. Chapman and Dr preme Court, and is said to be a good Dorsey were members of a club to which lawyer. Mr. Meredith is one of the most he was invited, and the subject of a suc¬ polite gentlemen I have ever. met. His cessor to Dr. Wistar, then recently de¬ learning and taste are apparently good, ceased, was brought up. and his manners are admirable. He is of the old school in many respects. "The place,” he writes, “is undoubtedly a very important one, the best that can "Thomas Biddle is a very rich banker be offered to any physician in the United of this place, like Prime, in New York, States. Dr. Chapman tells me that there though not like Prime in any other re¬ are this year about 530 persons attending spect. Mr. Biddle is a man of education the lectures of the medical school, and and philosophical habits of thinking. about 500 students who pay for tickets. "Nicholas Biddle is famous here as a Each ticket is $20. The income, there¬ scholar and man of taste. His under¬ fore, for four months, the time the lec¬ standing is good, but his taste and ac¬ tures continue, is $10,000. complishments are said to be better. He wrote in the “Port Folio” formerly, and "I am informed that $8000 are generally once edited that work. He went out as realized by each professor. The students . secretary to Mr. Monroe to France, and are obliged to attend all the lectures, and 1 is a personal friend of the President the price is the same for each, so that who is his patron. On this account Mr. the professorships are equally valuable.” Biddle expects an appointment abroad, The following indicates the state of med- as I have already hinted. ica. science in one branch at that time-— "Dr. Chapman lectures on the theory "On Wednesday morning, while look¬ and practice of physic. He is an ill- ing at West's great picture at the hospi¬ looking man, pitted with small-pox, and tal, my right eye had some obstruction has lost the palate , of his mouth. Not¬ in its vision which I thought was a hair withstanding this, he is a popular, and, I could not get it out, and left the pic¬ Philadelphians say, an eloquent lecturer. ture to look at it another day. Charles Chauncey is a man of good "I attended Dr. Chapman’s lecture and parts and character, a gentleman and then Dr. Dorsey’s. When Dorsey’s was a good lawyer. over he told me in his ante-chamber that “The other persons at the table X do no hair was in my eye but there was not know enough of to speak concern¬ coagulated lymph, and I must go home ing them. * * The company showed so¬ and wash it with brandy and water. I ciety in as good form as we have it in | did so, but the eye became inflamed, and the country. * * Mr. Thomas Biddle a proper ophthalmia commenced. asked me to dine with him on Tuesday I changed from brandy and water to and to an evening party on Wednesday. milk and water as a wash, and the next He offered me letters to his friends in morning sent for Dr. Physic, who is Kentucky and I shall take one or two. famous for curing diseases of the eyes "Mr. William Short called upon me He directed me to be bled eight ounces, last week and asked a good deal about to take a strong dose of salt, to wash the you, too. He has a sister in Lexington eye with soft bread and rose water to and gives me a letter to her. He is a hve upon oatmeal gruel, and to confine rival candidate to Biddle for the appoint¬ TnTuf’ 1 had begun, in a dark room. ment to Berlin.” All this I did, till Saturday noon or after- In another letter he says: "The en¬ and am now so well that I venture to lightened men of this city have a high write this long letter, though in opposi- opinion of the Importance of the coun¬ try beyond the mountains and of the University of Lexington. Many of them have talked to me about it, and all ex¬ press an earnest hope that I shall take the office proffered me.”

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'Woman of the 'Day. Again he writes: “I go this morning to Mrs. Meredith by her invitation and to¬ morrow at 1 o’clock to the Academy of Fine Arts with her. She has a singular face, but it is a strong one, her figure large and uncourtly, but her conversa¬ tion Is fine and her mind commanding. “Mrs. Meredith has ten children. * * This is a delightful family. Mrs. Mere¬ dith does not like West’s picture, and I think the Philadelpians do not like it much, any of them. It is, however, as Bishop White said at Meredith's dinner, a good milch cow for the hospital, since it has brought in in four months over $4000 by the fees of exhibition. I On March 2 he writes: “Since writing No. 9 and folding it, I find that the pa¬ per will not admit of a seal, and that another sheet must be written upon in this manner to give room for the’fipl ,at tvioore is thoi _ , closuro.i l will send the whole by mail, Philadelphia as a poet for private conveyance is very uncertain iston. His songs are all ti¬

and the expense of a treble letter Is iaaiuuu cnj-w ult is rare to- - be in companj- but 55 cents, and what is that to the with anyone here who is smelling out pleasure of having letters arrive at the | ^rvimriro VliQ VP.rSftS proper time? “Bishop White is about 70, a venerable j TJhe Colloquialisms and agreeable man, talking with sim- ! plieity and naturalness, very catholic! ol {Philadelphians. In his feeling and preaching and greatly ! “I had a long sitting one evening In beloved by his people and the communi¬ Mrs. Meredith’s study with her, and ty^ I had some conversation with him) 1 she undertook to point out my Boston-1 isms in pronunciation, and I her Phila-| before dinner and at the table,' and our delphianisms. She found but two and I sentiments harmonized very well. found more. But then she said that, Among other anecdotes he told me somehow or other, I had not so many wag one 0f an act of discipline in Dr. Yankyisms as other Bostonians. I told West s church of Stockbridge. A young her I was not a Bostonian, but was a man and woman were called to make a ! Connecticutenian, and had lived for, confession before the church for having r some time in New York. This seemed to spent Saturday evening together till 9 account for it in part, but yet Connecti¬ o clock courting. Sunday begins at sun¬ cut she thought more provincial tnan down on Saturday, you know, and this Boston.’-! V B , . ] |c7 ,ofx ®-ffec'tion was a violation of the “She remarked upon the words shew, Sabbath. * * • I have demonstrate, contemplate and those ending in ing. The only word which 1 Sfeosort for I pronounced wrong in this number is have. I say, hev, and should say have, 97/en of Culture. a as in hat. You know that I have criticized the Bostonians for saying I Mr. Meredith, in addition to what I •shue * instead of show, and for using have said of him already, will be under¬ this as the imperfect tens,e’ih^eTs^ stood better when I tell you that his house was an elegant resort for such men of taste and scholarship as Joseph i be“ButrPMrsd ^Meredith said tof Dennie, Thomas Moore and other ac¬ complished foreigners who come to Phil¬ adelphia. He told me that Moore was was much worse than abzorb, and Dial one of the most perfect gentlemen in I had the best of the comparison. You, private life he ever saw, and had the know +hat this is the lady who teaches her own children the languages and fit- happiest faculty of uttering his thoughts them for college. She has a good knowl- and throwing out his information in a i Maa-of-thn world—*—*-r condensed form. Nothing like indelicacy ! was found in his conversation. “Miss Sears is now at Washington “Mrs. Meredith has named one of her but was quite a belle in this city. Gen children after Dennie and the children ! eral Cadwallader and Dr. Dorsey con call him Oliver Oldschool. * * * Mrs. tended at Biddle’s table that she Is th- Meredith is niece of Gouverneur Morris handsomest and finest woman that ha and cousin to Colonel Morris who was at been in this city for years. They sail our house last Autumn. I that the play of her face when sh speaks is incomparable and irreslstibl “After dinner, the other children came ir. its sweetness and enchantment. The; in for a little time, took almonds, raisins 1 would not believe me when I told then and other frijits and went out again. ! that Miss Hart is much more beautiful This was pleasant. It does them good i They said if Boston or its vicinity ha< and relieves the company. It calls out I anybody handsomer than Miss Sear; they would set out immediately to sec a new set of feelings and allows to a j her. So that I do not know but Cap parent’s heart a little play of motion I tain Hall may have his rooms filled witl and recollection.” Philadelphians.” On March 5 he writes: "I went on Monday to see the albiness, Miss Henry. famous {Peauty You remember that her' hair is white and her eyes pink. * * » I conversed of the Zftmef with her considerably and she has the In a letter, written just before he start¬ ordinary portion of intelligence. • • • ed to Baltimore, he said: “I* went to h “I have visited the Academy of Fine very handsome and agreeable party al Arts and am much more pleased with 1 Mrs. DashkofFs on Thursday evening, Allston’s great picture than I expected. and if I stay in town, shall dine there to-day. The servants were all In livery, At Sully’s room, who keeps a hall | and the effect is excellent. I should like for exhibitors, I found some delightful to seo livery introduced in Boston. It paintings. * ■* * Sully has a real Cor¬ takes away the unfinished appearance ot reggio, the marriage of St. Catharine. servants. Last evening I made two visits, one1 “I am delighted with the easy manners to Dr. Mease’s and the other to Mr. Bid¬ of ladies in this place, their good taste, their freedom from the noisy mode of dles. Dr. Mease married a daughter oi talking, too prevalent among some la¬ the Hon. Pierce Butler, once a member dies in New York, and their good sense. of Congress from the South. * * * At “The celebrated beauty, Mrs. Powell, Mr. Biddle’s I found the most distin¬ was at the party. I was introduced to guished players upon the piano and sing- ■ xher and had some good talk. She was ers in Philadelphia. I Miss De Vaux, or De Vos—pronounced De Vo—but how spelled I know not. “The influence of Phillips has rekindled She is very handsome, but still not so the musical taste of this city astonish- ! handsome as Miss Hart.” ingly. The ladies have formed a musical In one of his last letters from Phil-i club to meet at each other’s houses in aaelphia, he says: "In my last, I ob- succession once a week to play ari¬ sing. * * * 'served that I would say something more The dinner wjis verv pipimnf about Mrs. Dashkoff’s party. As I dine there to-day at 5, and it is now short and gold knives and forks of 4, I will employ the hour and beguile and numerous: and® ^the^loV^ hunger by writing to you. * * “Mrs. Dashkoff was. before marriage, la baronne de Preutzer, and when she alwaysU kep t h u Infer S" came to Philadelphia first, used to put Vea'tSw®! great ^eUcacy^ ' this upon her cards. She is a well read took some from curiosity but it t-isi-ea and accomplished woman. . . Her hus- can be3 “ SmellS and iS ^ odious It

band has had a controversy with 17 i^r£‘ Pf'Shkopp is extravagantly fond n nfew peopIe wh0 are not adepts Government, in consequence of an inter¬ and who have not acquired the artificial ference with our courts of justice to pro¬ I taste can sit at the table when it tect a Russian Cohsul, named Koslaff, who was indicted for a crime. Dash¬ ' M Piece M koff is to return to Russia, and be suc¬ ceeded by Mr. Triyhe. He does not go to Washington this Winter, on ac¬ SS5.XeaSSffinfllS count of chis misunderstanding. S.^i^ni?f^0Si^dT hear The sofas were not like ours, a frame such things you know like a sasm T supporting a cushion, but cushions, one 1*• l00’ an.d looked pleased the whole below another, to the carpet, and a time, and said that X should no doubt frame only for the tiack and ends. You become an amateur in a week and * may make your seat higher or lower at connoisseur in a month.” and a your pleasure. * * * The company break up here much earlier than with Wednesday morning, March 11 IRIS us, soon after 10. h® wrote from Baltimore: “I got as far a^the,bottom of the last page when the "Mrs. Hopkinson and her daughter stage drove up. There were luckifv h„? are on a visit to Mrs. Dashkopp, and when the company went away I was My“r£a asked to sit down and have a talk. SS Mrs. Hopkinson said she was just ready for a frolic always when the people were going off. We had a sitting of it and this lady was very amusing. * * * 1 “ “The reason why I am in Philadelphia still is that I have been waiting for the steamboat, which began to run, but J has been stopped by ice or something ■ else, and has not returned from her From,.d . first trip. I have therefore now paid my passage on the stage to Lancaster ./}): a /, / through the mud for to-morrow. At Lancaster I may stop, if the roads are A-- excessively bad, and the danger of rid¬ ing considerable.” /)_ ^ D,/ C ft traveling ‘Under Date, JJjhL..ll/... fffany ‘Difficulties. He wrote from Shrewsbury on March 10: “In consequence of the attempt of k* ui c. 111 * yM iH> t# a »•«»»» ftAj the steamboat to run last week, half of the line on this road is drawn off, and at York we found ourselves (the passen¬ Seen and Heard gers in the stage), without any con¬ veyance to Baltimore, except every other day. Even then the conveyance is in Many Places uncertain, because the stages are full, and we were ten, a load ourselves. "We made an attempt to get along At tire conclusion of a highly laudatory by hacks, and in this way rode four¬ teen miles. Nothing but a wagon could etter about The Times comes this query: be hired further. This we atempted, but ‘When was a Fish House Punch first it was so crowded, the seat so uncom¬ ntroduced? By whom? And what are fortable and the jolting^ so | ts ingredients? Recently I was at a •anquet and partook freely of this fa- nous drink, and have not forgotten it CrPveW comfortably situate firc> ince. By enlightening me on this siib- a®, Dutchman s, by ect you will no doubt enlighten many ithers who have been affected as I have >een.” ****** Fish House Punch first brought trouble SWifi nto this world through the medium of he oldest social organization speaking he English language, and which still las its habitation in this city. This is :he famous “State in Schuylkill.” It is inly, however, within the hospitable walls (rasgsagskopp andrted four months and her >f that famous organization that this most seductive beverage is to-day maxle is it was over one hundred and sixty- seven years ago. Since then there have as'Uie'S*- “'2-s0,a' -7 jbeen many imitations of it: all seductive and deceptive, and generally accomplish- The good folks who would have us all jug the calamity which appears to ha% e do what is right and who are apt to com¬ overtaken the inquirer. The spurious ment upon the alcoholic habits of the copies generally contain champagne and present generation, some time fall into other liquids foreign to the primal com¬ the error of praising the temperate habits pound, but the predominating trait of of our forefathers. Probably some of both original and counterfeit is that the those who have gone before us from this mild taste of the punch is as false . blessed country of ours never looked upon dicers’, oaths” or woman s smiles, i the wine when it was red, but there is who sips for the first time imagines that very little record of their existence. A , he has been made immortal by the ambrosia large number of the first memW* ot_xne of the gods, and only realizes, when he “State in Schuylkill” also belonged to | is under the table, that he still belongs the First Troop—which we now call tbe to the earth, earthy. City Troop—and this latter military or- JP****** ♦ T T 1 , ganization, which was distinguished tor , The' secret of the making of the orig¬ its eminent service m the revolutiona -y | inal Fish House Punch is jealously pre¬ war, gave General Washington an en¬ served by its guardians, and even among tertainment at the City Tavern. In the members of the the organization which elaborate history of the Troop, whiui. gave it being, there are frequent disputes was published upon the occasion of its as to the proper recipe. For instance, o centennial anniversary, m Gporee Cuthbert, who became a member 1874, is found a copy of the bill » in 1858. frequently claimed, when^he was was furnished by mine hcst of he Ci^ conviviallv confidential, that he had the Tavern for the dinner given on that occa one and only formula for the proper prem sion It reads as follows, the figures aration of the beverage which met th representing pounds, shillings and penc • nalate gentlv and then teased the brain Light Troop of Horse, September the. 14th, 1.S7, ■to ‘wild Phantasies Still older members, —To Edward Moyston, Dr.. £ s. d. however, quietly laughed f his pret To 55 gentlemen's dinners and fruit ^ ^ # sions. It is difficult to get at the train relishes, Ollives, etc. 20 e “ of the matter, because the members 5 0 54 bottles of Madeira. he in Schuylkill” pride them¬ 0 0 4Sfe GO of Claret ditto. 6 8 selves upon the secrecy which suraound 8 ditto of Old Stock. 15 0 everything appertaining to then 22 bottles of Porter ditto. 1G A careful canvass, however, of its present. 8 of Cyder ditto. 12 12 ditto Beer . . 4 eflgi..\vMoh M*. . “™; 7 large bowls of Punch. bers of the Assembly. Sbenif. Formiei Segars, Spermacity Candles, etc...... • • 5 To Decanters, Wine Glass and Tumblers ^ nud Secretarv, leads irresistibly to tnc 2 6 conclusion th a t the original recipe of pre- 0 0 I To 16 Musicians and Servants’ dinners. 2 revolutionary days is still m vogue on 12 0 | 10 Bottles of Claret. . ® the festal days which the members cele¬ 17 ! 5 ditto Madera. 2 10 brate and that it is as follows: One bot¬ 7 bowls of Punch. tle of brandy, two bottles of Jamaica 89 4 2 ram a quart of sour and a pound of ****** sweet: the sour meaning lemommce^nd It will be noticed that while the edi¬ the sweet meaning sugar. I be adcu bles given the diners, including musi¬ Jon of a dash of peach brandy and some cians and servants, cost about $113 m sliced fruits completes the deadly talc. the money of the present day, the total The older members state that many l * bill was nearly $450. Those were evi¬ in >>« rf“ \Z’- dently rather clever tipplers. It must and a half pounds ot sugar, but that fie not be imagined, however, that they were quent attacks of gout warned them that a rowdy lot because of that remarkable too much saccharine matter was dma item in the charge regarding breakage. bling their underpinnings,and consequen In explanation, it should be borne m ly the proportion of sugar was lessened mind that in the olden days when a \ fiercer mixture which members o to^t was drank at dinner and the glasses the “State in Schuylkill” sometimes a - emptied at one quaff, they were dashu tack on momentous occasions 18 kno™ Lto the fireplace in order that they mighi as "The Governor.” The secret o - never again do honor or service to an- making has never before escaped beyond the walls, but for the benefit of those 0tOne may ask, however, how this appiicu seeking a pleasant and quick ending, it to broken decanters which figure in < L herewith betrayed. It is composed of equal proportions of •lama.ca rum am h'weil George Washingtou was there brandv. with sugar to suit the fast. . «„ „ wffl 1« tbe a,“PBOE». it will be noticed that in neither ot these mixtures is whisky given as either •i basic condition or an addition. That is easily explained from the fact that m Ivy the olden davs, and even up to the date . of the civil war, whisky was looked upon as the drink of; a groom and not ot a gentleman, — -- r association s^rvinPresi(3ent'of n Cincinnati, in isq« as Sljch until /\j Elizabeth w EewWaS speeded ty v>)Ie,n,’. Pa. W' of Phocnix-^nocmx- From, ' During Mrs. Wonrin, - he association has in"S administration E of f fi bership, and 1 ^In mem-mem E. effortsf-ffnrtc- anC'ng its interestsinterest" oery• salons-“.3iou,s efforts and that of +^theCr?V . °™«gng to herh^ the Republic the wand Army of ff Date, ..a l'«» ,h« "»**« w.X nations, °thtehemotites hava local 0rga . Philadelphia will have the honor of entertaining this week a corps of women whose bravery is a byword. These are the members of the National Association of Army Nurses of the Civil War an organization that comes very near’to the hearts of the veterans, and ?m. wSTchhr,/P£e£‘rt o£ which, like the Grand Army of the Re¬ public, though its ranks are rapidly . thinlng out, can never be recruited. The Woman’s Relief When the war cloud came it was not aged" e^abiishing fC 1886 ^ the men alone who were thrilled with patriotic fervor, but their wives, moth¬ ers, daughters, sweethearts, were eager for something to do for flag and coun¬ try and from all over the North wom¬ en uncicuoffered to go to the- front and, __care buildings, whilf the iT ■ ’ and J.uifor the sick and wounded,-- - and soon, State appropriated Sis S ature of that these women were found wherever they tional buildings d ?35’000 tp erect add! I could give aid and comfort. Often they J-nis propertv i went in the face of almost social grand organization *he Pride of this ostracism at home; they encountered the • and is a verv hair IS va^ned at $65 these brave „ ry haven of rPs.+ „ jD0>' rebuffs of red tape at the front. The men, whom they served, reverencing . their unselfish heroism, tried to shield them from danger and death, but they braved and faced both, doing their duty the °Nnr=r .th.e great commander. While without one thought of self or of reward. a yearTt tho en°Ciati0n °nly “^ts Once The history of these women has been Friendship enJcarnPments, to renew old almost an unwritten one. When the of the G A &Rd *v meet the eornrades Ifi. * —their boys of sixties war closed they returned to their homes and took up their duties. At the be¬ Wornb6l0ng eitherSItXotietShe ginning of the war Dorothy L. Dix was lO a r CorPs ®f Ladies of the appointed by the United States Govern¬ ! boys ' m’blte StiU ioc>kihg for the (have „ bpe’ though many of them ment to enroll nurses, but as she would The subl-ofr, t5elt threescore and ten. take none under 30 years of age, many J-ne subjoined sketches give brieflv tho others went into service, enrolled by generals and by colonels and surgeons of wa7 wbo°f S°-me °f thesegwome! of the regiments, and did heroic service. lives To1lfeaVe 0f+the best years of their Phia h J tL=°untry’ and who Philadel- In 1881 Miss Dix conceived the idea of pnia has the honor to entertain. bringing these nurses together and in¬ vited all she could reach to assemble in

J’ann/e TJitus Jfazen. lead and wounded had all been brought Mrs. Hazen is the granddaughter < iff the field, and meeting the surgeon Lenox Titus, a soldier of the Revolution tnder whom she had worked at Wind¬ and was born in Vershire, Vermon mill Point, he gave her the worst cases May 2, 1840. ying on the barn floor. She tried in vain to go to the froi She remained here until her services as a nurse, being met on every hand 1 were no longer needed, and also spent the plea. “You are too young," but some weeks at Fortress Monroe Hos¬ last she went to Miss Dix; telling h pital. Her mother, ;Mrs. E. B. Penny- that her eldest brother had “died for tl packer, was matrod of the hospital at flag,” while two others, boys of sevente. Chambersburg, Pa.,1 where a younger and eighteen, were with the Vermo sister was also a npse, and on Thanks¬ troops in the Potomac Army, and p’e? giving and Christmas Mrs. Price glad- with her to be put to work. Mlsr D ened the hearts of the sick and wounded said: "Child, I will not say no, th' ugh there by taking them a bountiful din¬ is against my rules to take me ner, provided by : her society, which young," and then sent her in her amb was aided nobly by the late David R. lance to Columbian Hospital, on Ap: Reeves, of Phoenixville. She assisted for 10, 1864, where she labored faithfully u some weeks at the hospital at Cham¬ til it was closed June 27, 1865, her youn bersburg. est brother being among the wound One of the surgeons, writing of Mrs. brought to her from the Battle of Co Price’s untiring labors at Gettysburg, Harbor. says: “Not only was she a nurse, but Mrs. Hazen says: "I shall always r she did a great deal of correspondence, member Miss Dix with the warme and kept a recorfl of all cases ampu¬ love and gratitude, and with the greate tated." Mrs. Price was a volunteer reverence decorate her grave, in Mou: nurse, receiving no pay for her ser¬ vices. She is corresponding secretary ^h„b^rn,1Cerr'etery' every Memorial D~ and chief of staff of the Army Nurses’ She resides at Cambridge Mass and hao Association, and resides in Philadel¬ been a member of the W Rc phia. y years, serving for twelve years of that 77}rs. Susannah JCrips. on andChaPlain °f CorPs No. 2 of Bos- Mrs. Krips enlisted as a nurse in 1863, serving with the Second Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery for five months, also at Capitol Hill Hospital, Washington; ■ rnrnm Jarvis’ Hospital, Baltimore, and Hough Mrs. Hazen is intalllng officer of General Hospital, Alexandria. She was National Nurses Association the at the latter about one year, and after J the battle of Winchester a train-load of ; Clara barton. wounded were brought direct from the : battlefield, and the strength of the ] itffigSina wn’h? a y°UnS gir]’ was ^s- nhrses was taxed 'to the utmost, and ■ ^fter working, almost without sleep, for ss srt - one week, Mrs. Krips was prostrated with an attack of typhoid fever, which destroyed he hearing of her right ear. During her illness she was attended by | began there her ]lfe work Dr. Elliott, surgeon in charge, and Miss \ tvEJnd th6n' S° great was her Personali¬ Plummer, a fellow-nurse. ty and executive ability that u As soon as she recovered, she report¬ a?y7h6re unchallenged, while m l ed for duty, and was discharged, July tary trains were at her disposal She 28, 1865. She served without pay until after her Illness, when she was put on Sl H?^ °n duty until she had marked’ the pay rolls at $10 per month, and dur¬ the iSo^ad^frS ing her term of service had only a fur¬ lough of fifteen days to visit her home. Mrs. Krips is press correspondent of the was Nurses’ Association, and resides in Phil¬ rSf.S/S’Sh *,£ K" Sh* adelphia. 77}rs. *77/ary jiston. Mrs. Aston served under Surgeon R. S. Kenduline in the hospital at Broad and Washington Streets, and the in?elh %Wed wlth thls work by silnl Christian Street Hospital, Philadelphia, !; mg the Geneva Treaty,” in 1x92 & from September 5, 1862, to August 11' Since then, there is no need to^tell of 1865, as a volunteer nurse. Her hus the work of the president of tv,l° a 1 7 can Red Cross, for It i" w iusn history of every national calamity'”0^ as well as in every land where the Red ■% Cross is recognized. e tne - “ - ‘ - - —vi— NcTgenefal ever enjoyed a review of his I troops more than did Mother Bickerdyke r ‘“//{other ’ S&Scheratyhe. her “cows’ review.” j Mrs. Mary A. Bickerdyke, was a widow Mother Bickerdyke remained in service residing' with her two little sons, at until March, 1866. Then she worked for a Galesburg, Ill., when she went to the while in the missions in New York and California, establishing a home for neg- front in 1861. lected youth in San Francisco. While After caring for the wounded at Bel- this woman is revered everywhere, It is mont, November 7, 1861, she was ap¬ in Kansas where she has made her home pointed matron of the United States since 1867, that she is almost idolized. On Hospital at Cairo. She was also author¬ the anniversary of her 80th birthday, ized agent of the Chicago Sanitary Com¬ July 16, 1897, the commander of the De¬ mission, with authority to draw such partment of Kansas, G. A. R., issued an order for its observance as ‘Mother supplies as she needed, while Generals Bickerdyke Day.” She is now enjoying ^ Grant and Sherman gave her passes the rest she so nobly earned in the home everywhere, and ordered all military of her son, Professor James R. Bicker- roads and boats to give her free trans¬ dyke, superintendent of public instruc¬ portation. Mrs. Bickerdyke had been a practic¬ tion, at Bunker Hill, Kan. The G. A. R., Department of Kansas, ing physician at Galesburg, and her will bring mother Bickerdyke with them knowledge in this direction was of great in the best style they can give her to value to her in her army work. While a the encampment, but she will stop at the tender Christian nurse, she was stern nurses’ headquarters, No. 1700 Arch and inflexible when duty demanded, as many a refractory or thieving subordin¬ Street. ate found to his cost. There was not red 7/Jotker t/tansom. tape enough in the army to hold her, when her boys were in need of help, as Mrs. Eleanor Ransom was . commis¬ surgeons and quartermasters soon learn¬ sioned a nurse by Governor Morton, of. ed. It was said that “Mother Bickerdyke Indiana, in December, 1862. was of more use to Sherman than any In February she went to Memphis, . brigadier In his command.” Tenn., with twenty-three other ladies, Always resourceful and economical, where she assisted “Mother” Bicker- ; she found that all the clothing from the dyke in establishing the Gayusa Hospi-J wounded was cast aside, to breed sick¬ ness, after every battle, so she had It tal. Here she was joined by her only!® all gathered up, and with the aid of her child, Miss Abbie Bickerdyke, a young contrabands organized a laundry. To teacher, who was sent out by the Sani-, show the sums saved to the Government tary Commission, and remained as herj It is only necessary to give the footing mother’s assistant and secretary until) j of the "official list” of one day’s wash¬ she was stricken with typhoid fever, dy- j ing, which is 3731 pieces. She baked fresh ing from its effects at her home on her I bread for her hospitals, and it was said 24th birthday. Deft a widow and child¬ that “Mother Bickerdyke could bake bread on horseback'” and indeed she less. Mrs. Ransom resolved to devote ,.y often transported the “set sponge” for herself to her country. She was made a baking in this way and her portable sanitary agent in 1863 and sent in 1864 to oven on a march and baked as soon as New Orleans to look after regiments en¬ camp was reached. camped there, and was detailed to as¬ While at Memphis the milk and eggs j sist Surgeon General McClintock in furnished by the rebels were so bad transferring the invalid soldiers from | that Mother Bickerdyke determined to | there to New York. have a pure supply, and obtaining a fur¬ 1 They sailed December 16. 1864, on the lough, hastened to Chicago, where she steamer North American, commanded by made her wants known, and soon had Captain Marshman, of Philadelphia, with one hundred cows and one thousand 203 enlisted men, and on the morning of hens donated by the patriotic people of the 23d the boat, which had encountered Illinois, whose Governor had them a terrible gale, went down with all on shipped to Memphis. board, except Mother Ransom and the General Hurlbut, commanding the de¬ few women on board and fifteen of the partment, gave her an island opposite soldiers. They were taken off by the . Mary E. Dibbey, a small sailing bark, - which came to their assistance just be- the city, where contrabands were de¬ fore their vessel went down. tailed to take care of this stock. Some The little overloaded boat was over- 1 of these cows traveled long distances 1 taken by the Arago, from Hilton Head, . with the army, and saved many a sol¬ with officers returning home, received ( dier’s life. the rescued ones and landed them in ; Just at the close of the war “Mother” New York on December 30, where, after Bickerdyke was waited upon by some the soldiers were sent to their homes, j of her boys and tendered a review. They ■ Mother Ransom found herself alone and ■ seated her in an elevated seat and then penniless in a strange city. her old cows filed past. She had lost all her credentials, except j Each one had been curried until her I a little water-soaked, penciled note, 1 coat shone; their horns were polished from the medical director at New Or- : and their hoofs blackened and bright leans, which she found in her I as patent leather. With this she went to the United Stages j- Sanitary Commission, who cared for her : tenderly and gave her $50.00. As soon as she was able she returned to Memphis, £ where she was discharged in March, g 1865. Since the war she has been wholly 9 I devoted to mission and rescue work. ISbl. with her husband, a soldier of'the Mrs.- Spencer was wounded at City' Twentieth Indiana Infantry, being one Point by a spent grape shot which, pass¬ of the first women to go to the front' ing through a horse, struck her on the She followed the regiment from battle- thigh, injurylng the sciatic nerve so that field to battlefield, until her husband she has to go on crutches; She is’ SO ! was brought to her. shot and dying- but she remained at her post, going at in¬ years old, a widohv, and lives at Oswego, tervals to some of the army hospitals N. Y. for a little change and rest. In 1S65 when the nurses were discharg¬ 97?rs, Shzabei/i 0. Stbson, ed Mrs. Biser went, at the- request of Elizabeth Austin was born July 9, i?25, at Ferrisburg, Vt., of Quaker parentage, and Nevada Department, W. R. C., and and was married In 1840 to Thomas D. past national chaplain of the Army Gibson, of Ashly, N. Y., who died in Nurses’ Association. 1846. By sewing, teaching and weaving she 97?rs. ytlminct TP. Spencer. took care of her only child and managed Mrs. Spencer went to the front In to take a medical course, graduating in 1859 from the Phrys Medical College, of September, 1862, with her husband, who Cincinnati, O. In 1861 she enlisted as a was surgeon of the One Hundred and nurse and was ordered October 5, by Miss Forty-seventh New Tork Infantry, and Dix to the U. S. Hospital at St. Louis, after the battle of Gettysburg was ap- | Mo., and from there went to the battle¬ pointed State agent by the Governor of • fields of Shiloh and Vicksburg, bringing back 439 wounded. The hospital boat was New York, and was also made matron conveyed by a gunboat and was con¬ in charge of all supplies at Windmill stantly under fire during its trip up the Point, Va. river. She was then ordered to Madison, The purveying steamer Planter was at Wis.. to take charge of the military hos¬ her disposal, on which she had con¬ pital established by Mrs. Governor Har¬ tinuously 1000 rations with bedding and vey, who had been South and gathered clothing for needy soldiers, while on from the fields and swamps 130 sick and wounded Wisconsin, Michigan, Iowa and shore she had teams at her command, Minnesota soldiers. In her work here and a surgeon to sign her orders. Gen¬ Mrs. Gibson was assisted by an officer’s eral Grant gave her a pass that carried widow, Mrs. Linda Hunt,who had charge her everywhere until the close of the of the spplMal Hiet kitohpn Mrs Mary M. war. She was ready for every battle In Briggs and her daughter, and Frances which the Potomac army was engaged, and Achsah Ann Baldwin, all of Madison. averaging forty miles a day on horse¬ The next arrivals were the sickf Wiscon¬ back, and here Is a pen picture of her¬ sin soldiers, and those from Southern self on the march. prisons, sent to Madison to be discharg¬ ed at the end of the war. Owing to over¬ “A large roan horse, saddled, bridled work, Mrs. Gibson was obliged to take a and loaded, upon each side a full knap¬ furlough in August, 1865, when she met sack, at the back a roll of bedding, in her son in Cleveland, O., whom she had front, hanging from the pommels, a not seen for four years, in which time coffee pot, canteen and two haversacks he had not only graduated from school, filled with supplies, which were ac¬ but from service in the Potomac army. cessible in case of accident or hurry, and When her furlough expired she return¬ ed to duty, remaining until all Govern¬ in the middle of all my own dear self ment property had been disposed of. in a position most people would have After the war Mrs. Gibson resumed the deemed untenable.” practice of her profession, but her health Mrs. Spencer was the first nurse to was too much shattered, and she has reach Gettysburg, where she remained / now a spinal curvature. She resides with for several weeks at the little white her son at Appleton, Wis., and since 1890 church, where she cared for General receives a pension of $12.00. Sickles after his leg was shot off. 97?rs. Jfate 97?. ‘Duncan. At the dedication of the National Cem¬ etery President Lincoln personally thank¬ Mrs. Duncan was bom in Livingston ed her for her services, giving her his County. N. Y„ in 1840, and was married enclosed card which admitted- her at all to a soldier in -the service July 20, 1862, times to his presence, and in 1890 at going immediately afterward to Balti¬ the dedication of the New York monu¬ more, where she was detailed to Patter¬ ments she was presented with a beauti¬ son Park Hospital, where she had charge ful medal. of the worst typhoid fever ward, having at one time seventy-five patients under Mrs. Spencer’s worst experience was her charge. x at the battle of The Wilderness, where From there she was transferred to all night long she waded through the Ward No 1 in which were the worst deep mud, carrying coffee to the wound¬ surgical cases, where she remained until ed and dying. Around her body she had the year for which she had enlisted had. a piece of strong cloth fastened to form expired. Mrs. Duncan resides at Em- a bag, in which was bread and meat, and mlttsburg, la. with six cups of coffee, three hooked on 97?rs. Jictdie jC. TPaliou. each hand, she waded from the fire to the wounded. She had no time or place Mrs. Ballou inherited her patriotic spir¬ to rest, and as far as she knew was the it and her love of justloe and fearless- only woman on the field. l ness from Revolutionary ancestry and This carrying of coffee crippled her lfrom her father, who was one or the pro- hands, but her boys call them “those Imoters of the “underground railway” ini beautiful hands,” and how they all lOhlo. reverence her! She is their comrade, At the beginning of the war she ten¬ in fact, being a member of the Grand dered her services to Governor Harvey, Army of the Republic of New York, and Jof Wisconsin, and a few months later rendered such good service to the sick of has been selected by that State as a - the Thirty-second Wisconsin Infantry type of grand, heroic womanhood, to while rendezvoused at Oshkosh, that the have her bust, in marble, with those of officers arranged for her to accompany ■’Captain” Molly Pitcher, Harriet them to the front, and later she was ap¬ Beecher Stowe and Cl^ara Barton, p. pointed a nurse by Surgeon General Wol- j on the grand staircase of the new o A Pott, at Milwaukee. _ , -V \ tol at Albany _ V , 82 V* On tlie amvai or rne regiment in ren-~7 nessee, she was detailed for duty in the I Overton Hospital, from where she was sent with 250 sick to Keokuk, la. ' On the- return of her regiment to Memphis she served in the hospital barracks and Gen- eral'Forrester’s Church, nursing- hun¬ dreds tt^Sh a terrible epidemic. Mrs. Ballou resides in San Francisco, where she is well known in- journalism, is a forceful, earnest speaker and writer, haying just published a much praised volume of poems entitled “Driftwood.'5 and is an artist of national fame. She is president of the Women’s Re¬ publican State Central Club, which sha organized, and enjoys the distinction of being the only woman ever sent by tlie voters of her State, as she has twice been to represent her. district in the Republican League Convention, and is now serving her second term of four years as Notary Public. Mrs. Ballou was" one of the organizers of the National Nurses' Association and past president of James A. Garfield W« R. C., Department of California: J 97/rs. Elizabeth 7/ichoi/s. Mrs. Nicholls went to Chicago in 1861.. to take care of her husband, a member of the 111th New York Infantry, wh® was sick in hospital. S'he was there enrolled as a nurse by;- Dr. William Vosburg, surgeon in charge,' Part of her time was spent in the diet kitchen. She then went to the front with the 111th, her husband being detailed to assist her, and was at Gettysburg, and wherever the regiment was engaged, battling faithfully with wounds, small¬ pox, diphtheria and fevers, until sha with her husband, was discharged at-’ the close of the war. Mrs. Nicholls says her last duty at. night was to go through the hospital and bid eich soldier “Good-nig-ht,” fear-’ ing that some of them would wake up in: the- camp above. Mrs. Nicholls resides at Clyde. N. Y. •ztfunt !7iec/ci/ 2/ouncf. Mrs. Young enlisted in the 109th Newt; York Volunteers, in 1862, at Ithaca. N. Y.. which was put in the Ninth Corps, and on her arrival at Fredericksburg, with her regiment, she was appointed matron of the hospital there by Miss1 Dix. Are youlookingforanoldcomradewho find MIf’ThePres3”Will helpyou se if:oo^youPhave ««*>;

ment? someoldfriendperhaps ina A 4 i IT you be!ievewillhereatthe en^p, fn himandwillprintfree of chin Date, . From, . personal requestsofoldsoldiers who 1 Wshtolearn thewhereaboutsof comrades. Write to“ThePress'’ TO G.A.R.VETERANS. L\Part *nt!le ®ncarnpmentand -V—- From AllSectionsoftheBroadLand COLUMN ONTOMARCHINDAY On EveryHandtheVeteransWillBeGreetedbyStarry Mighty All-ConqueringHostsAreClos¬ Flag TheyDefendedandLove—Everything IsinReadi¬ ness fortheEncampment'sOpening,Even tothe Smallest Detail—G.A.R.Queries ing inUpontheCity. Are ontheFourteenthPage. • ceTve anenthusiasticwelcome.Con¬ Loud reachedLondonfromtheConti- gressman EugeneF.LoudandMiss thorities havegivenMr.Loud fullfacili¬ ties toexaminetheworkings ofpost of officesinvariousContinental coun- tries. , . nent yesterday.TheBritishpostalau¬ secretary oftheAmerican Legationat here nextweek tobeginhisduties. Constantinople, isinLondon.Heleaves offices. Mr.Loudhasstudied anumber Lloyd Griscom,thenewly-appointed The Americans connectedwiththeun- 71W-- g|.: - ^ * 83 campment of the Grand Army of the\ Republic. The city has borne its share" commodate all applicants. Chalrman of the work, and the citizens of Penn’s Bckersly said yesterday:— town, by contributions in cash and by j “There will be rooms in plenty. Of. welcoming banners, have shown their in¬ course, some of the visitors will have to terest in what will be the greatest re¬ room in one house and taae their meal3 union ever held. in another, hut there is no reason why Chestnut, Market and Broad Streets may bo any one should suffer. There are one solid blaze of color and llght. some~temporary inconvenience, as there Not a building within the route of the' is always on occasions of this kind, but parade but has its’ front incased in the that will be overcome soon. rainbow-hued colors which these same The main hotels of the city are pretty ■men hold so dear. To describe the well filled up now and rooms in the decorations in detail would be a hercu¬ will be scarce after to-day, but as few lean task, but the one thing most of the rank and file care to stay at a I brought to mind by the miles of bunting high Priced hotel, this will make little and streamers is that the veteran of the- difference to the old soldiers. The aver¬ Civil War holds a warm place in the age price asked by the holders of rooms hearts of his countrymen. and boarding house keepers for first- At noon yesterday the streets began class rooms is: Dodging, 50 cents to $1 per to congest with crowds which were not of the city. Here, there, and every¬ ^Printed slips, to the number of 4000. where they poured, but the great mag¬ containing a list of accredited boarding net seemed to be the beautiful Avenue houses, have tfeen placed in the hands of Fame. Here walking room was at a of Superintendent of Police Henry M. premium, and as dusk came on the Who. has distributed them to the crowds grew instead of diminishing. By various lieutenants of police districts in night Broad Street sidewalks from Spruce that part of the city, between Columbia, to Cherry Streets were practically im¬ and Washington Avenues and the Dela¬ passable, and the surging but good-na¬ ware and Schuylkill Rivers. Visitors tured crowds flowed over into the street. can procure a copy of this list from any Monday night the lights in the avenue policeman. will be turned on in full for the first There seems to he some difficulty re¬ time. Those north of City Hall were garding the position of the Sons of lighted last night. Veterans Regiment in the line of parade on Tuesday. The General Committee in- Three Posts Lead the Host. vited Colonel The first conquering column of vet¬ H. Douglas Hughes, not only to talce chp erans has swept into the city, and last ge of Camp Sexton, but to parade at tt night the white tents at Belmont shel¬ right of the line of the i Pennsylvania.: tered three posts which can claim to , partment. The regiment was also asked have led the army. The corridors of ho-j to head the New Jersey Department, bi) tels and waiting-rooms of railway sta¬ t as the first invitation tions were besprinkled plentifully with I had been accepted, the latter had to be blue uniforms worn by time-scarred and declined. Now comes Commander-in- gray-haired men, and headquarters at Chief Johnson, of Cincinnati, who says Fifth and Chestnut Streets were crowd¬ that the regiment shall not parade and ed all day long by old soldiers anxious that none but veteran organizations to find their assigned quarters. shall take part in the great procession. Hundreds went to the river front with How the matter will end, it is difficult the vague idea of catching a glimpse of to say, but when the commander-in-chief Sampson’s fleet, which had been reported arrives to-morrow he will be reasoned from the Breakwater, at 10.40 o'clock in | with and a modification of the ironclad the morning. That they were disap- j order may be obtained. pointed in their hopes seemed to have | The Polios and the Crowds. no dampening effect on their spirits. Final orders were issued to the police The Summer girl was abroad in the yesterday by Superintendent of Police land in all her glory, and everything Quirk providing for the handling of the patriotic appealed to her so forcibly that crowds expected on Monday and Tues¬ she and her sister and her aunt, to say day. About 2000 policemen will be on nothing of her escort, were busy with duty and nothing but serious illness exclamations of commendation. will be accepted as an excuse for This is likely to be the last grand en¬ absence. campment of the survivors of the Civil This small ariny of policemen will be War held in this city, but if it is Phila- i marshaled by thirty-two lieutenants, delphia will have no cause to reproach who in turn will be commanded by Cap¬ herself with what she has done to make tains Malin, Edgar, Brown and Thomp¬ 4t a success. son. Plenty of Boom for All. Captain of Detectives Miller has been Even if 50,000 veterans reach this ordered to assign detectives during the city by Tuesday morning Chairman parades of Monday and Tuesday, and at Bckersly, of the Boarding House Com¬ the various halls where the various re¬ mittee, says that there will be no trouble unions are to be held. in providing quarters for them. There re rooms galore and the list on file at r headquarters is long enough to ac- . In addition to

I On Wednesday and Thursday the Na¬ corps win ~ e' w^‘Je the i- anc* ans« tional Convention will be held in With¬ Jhe biCyCl° erspoon Hall,Juniper and Walnut Streets. /There are' a number of candidates for . -erpsinaSntdrUhCted the office of National President. Of these erat" With theri lr W°rk to r h°S' Mrs. Calista Jones, of Vermont, a past SJck and JnJu ,ln taking ca ° C0'°P- department president front her State, wagons wiii hT °ng th<> route °f the 6eems to be in the lead. ■ *&Z>Z~£SS The Land Naval Parade. The National Association of Naval •SS-ST-- « £3“5a Veterans, whose land parade will be held to-morrow, are making their final prepa¬ rations. The old salts seem to feel ag¬ grieved because the American union I jack, dhe emblem of the navy, has not t"”-mounted ss.s;s pandrr mewhn=” ™ «wear.r 'found a more prominent place in the capes r* TOen will wear i, 6 e'Ioves; decorations of the city. Late yesterday afternoon it was an¬ .^te^rw!?^ COatS" ! nounced that President McKinley and ^ rreeSib!a his party would reach the city at 9 P. M. Monday. It was intended by Chairman Louis Wagner to use the Girard College Sf i?y « - ^enir - cadets as an escort for the President ? Pass the iin^at tTheecars are avowed in the event of his arrival in the after¬ noon. As it stands now it is not likely H eVery «teen JnutTfo^11 b°! that any military escort will meet the Members of th for this pur. President. He will be driven to his apartments without fuss and feathers, badges win bTar^6 Wearing but his welcome will come when on Tuesday he reviews from the stand on ftieh has be t0 PaS3' | the east side of City Hall the parade ^written Eft as about of the men who fought that the Union --— — ^ might be preserved. ■ans who fought that the public may Secretary of the Navy Long was in¬ overlooked the fact that there will vited to review the parade of the naval ‘any delegates here next week from veterans, but he was compelled to de¬ t Laches of th^ G. A. R. and the cline. In his stead he has appointed Rear Admiral Melville, and before him -P s Relief Corps. in the first or- Sampson's men and the men who served ttion are iicluded the wives, with Farragut will pass in review. .j vs and daughters of veterans, and after corps is The Encampment’s. Formal Opening. recognized auxiliary G. A. R. When Acting Commander-in-Chief of Ladies of th G- A. R. is an 0]d j the G. A. R., W. C. Johnson, of Cin¬ ganlzation, havinp cinnati, reaches this city to-morrow at been organized un- r the title of th. the head of his delegation, the Thirty- wee ^ . -'-orpsBosworth Corps in third annual encampment will be open¬ 1*S6 delegaies from-- the ucpatdepart- l- ofnr MowrNew Jit. _ -n ed formally. When General Johnson 1 rsey, Pennsylvania, as and Califor : ia formed a national was here a few months ago to confer r and changed he name to the one with the Executive Committee in re¬ borne. Since gard to plans for the reunion he told a U ,,,, - hen the association reporter for “The Press” that in his tloom Vr°TnlThe memhership is « 20,000. National Conventions are opinion the coming encampment would 1 at the same time and place as the reach the high water mark. *• k. Encampments, and greetings: The National Association Union of ex- j ent the old soldiers and received Prisoners of. War 'will hold a parade on | them. Wednesday at 9.30 A. M. On Thursday ^adge of the Ladies of the G. A, evening a campfire will be held at the “flye-pointed star, with the same Academy of Music, at which Colonel *lc figures in the center as those A. K. McClure will preside. Governor r. A. R. This is surrounded by a Stone, ex-Governor Pattison, United wreath, the whole being of bronze, States Senator Penrose and M. J. Ryan will deliver short addresses. Two hun¬ rf is pendant from a bar pin, dred singers from the United German nich are the letters F. C. L., by a Singing Societies will sing old war k flag. songs. National Woman’s Relief Corps, The Bourse will be open to the vet¬ Xpects to have 450 delegates pres- erans during the encampment. PPorts the Memorial Home for A Famous Flag. t Veterans at Brookville, Jeffer- Among the many reiics of the Civii *? ^ ^ reception will be given on War which will appear in the parade on T~y n‘Sht at the Continental Ho- Tuesday none will be more interesting 2$ National President, Mrs. Flo than the old time-worn and stained flag of Montlpeilo, Ill,, and the i which will float at the head of the line ■ of her staff, in honor of the of the Illinois Division and at the right l '“r-in-chief of the G. A. R. and of the George H. Thomas Post, No. 5. | ■tins iwg was use at general Thomas’ headquarters. Itj was carried at the of less lmpertaftcd. ' • right of line in ti Society of the Army Thud* immediately After the disband-;, of the Cumberland ; in Chicago at the re- . rrient of the Union armies, local Org’niza-' ception of Genera Grant on his return tions composed of the discharged soldle: from a trip around the world. It was were formed in many of the States Under assigned to the right of line by General different title#, all having the same main Corbin in the same society in Washing¬ object in, view, namely, to keep alive . the ton at the unveiling of the statue of Gen¬ great memories of the tremendous con¬ eral Thomas in Thomas Circle in 1879. flict through which they had passed. - A* General James A. Garfield paid a time passed these memories and the' ties tribute to it and* proposed a vote of founded upOn them grew stronger * and thanks to the owner for bringing the stronger. flag to Washington. It has been to all | ■the G&tm. of the Orsrsftilfc&tib'A. the encampments of the Grand Army, The idea Of Organising every element of as well as many reunions of soldiers in the army which had united 4o save the Indiana, Ohio, Wisconsin and Illinois. It Union Into one grand organization, with was draped in mourning at Henderson, the officers and men on eouai footing, all Ky., while on its way to the reunion of governed by the same rules and regula¬ the Army of the Cumberland at Chatta¬ tions, is credited to Chaplain W. J. Rut¬ nooga, Tenn., on receipt of the news of ledge, the Fourteenth Illinois Infantry the death of President Garfield. of The honor of its practical development be¬ The flag is the property of Comrade J. longs to Major B. F. Stephenson, of the E. Sanford, of Columbia Post, 706, of Same regiment. Stephenson and Rutledge Chicago, and was loaned to Thomas Post were soldier “partners’'—that is, tent for this occasion. Hooker’s Twentieth Army Corps will mates and cronies in the war. It was. dur¬ hold a reunion at the First Regiment ing the Meridian expedition, under Sher¬ Armory, Broad and Callowhill Streets, man, at the beginning of 1864, that the on Wednesday. Members of the Elev conception of cementing the friendship of enth and Twelfth Corps are Invited. the old soldiers after the war wAs ovbr by organizing a, grand society occurred to the mihd of Chaplain Rutledge. It was natural that the Idea should be, discussed with his hosOm companion, Major Steph¬ enson. Both Were AoOn confident of Its From ,dLSaF feasibility, ahd both Were earnestly In favor of setting the project on foot "as soon as the favorable moment arrived. After the war WAS over and the flhai parting came, Stephenson and Rutledge, residents of different quarters of Illinois and somewhat remote from Caqh Other, never losing sight of their idea, corre¬ sponded together on the subject. Mean¬ while Df. Stephenson had already Opened up the question and. submitted rough notes of a proposed ritual for such. An Organiza¬ THE GRMB tion to several interested., persons in Springfield, Ill., where the, late Chaplain OF TIE REPUBLIC Rutledge met him in the month of March, 1866. It was durlhg^this conference be¬ tween the two, and others who had been OKiam,-growthwro JgtORt of consulted and became interested, that the germ of the Grand Army of the Republic as we see It to-day sprang into Consistent form. This preliminary work at Spring-- j field was participated in by hardly more ■i than a dozen men. Besides the original ' projectors, Rutledge and Stephe'nSofl, they Tho ** “t. «»• «*— r were aided by Colonels Martin Flood, Dan- Katio«al the Mcmber- lel Grass, Edward Prince, John ,M. Snyder, _ S of tie Renravhafeie Society. . Majors R. M. "Woods and Robert Allen, ‘ Captains John S. Phelps, B. J*. Smith, Dr. James Hamilton and two or three Others. Post ft6. 1. Great importance ^v^arfe^ltafeed to The ritual for the organization was the lome writers t0A^ul origin Of the **- work of Major Stephenson, and Can tain •onsWer the a* the Grand Phelps. The lAfter had risen from the ;raordiiiary Tt wah the most ‘ ranks in the Thirty-second Illinois . In¬ army w^t?nPthelwond'that the fantry. Some secrecy -was preserved, and natural .thing W■ J- - t& -ghoultj^r ®n_ the printing of the ritual Was placed in aiers who had Bhoia Civil the hands of Phelps, who took it to an¬ dured the hardship® o & t6 continue other town—to the office of the Decatur ehculft in 4oKit> form ® successful con-j (Ill.) Tribune, whose proprietors and ail their adsdhlation after ® ftrst took the their employes were ex-20ldlers. ’While detained at Decatur attending to this duty direction « score® of comrades Captain Phelps began proselyting for the 'and West, iomposed pf tho b^,a. new society, and succeeded in arousing ; .of thfe different command ^ had poUt- among the old soldiers a great enthusiasm nink a few of these oerceivod that for the scheme. So successful w-s Phelps Teal"aims, hot It was^on^ that the Springfield people were out- | politics must bo06Che^ ^ lhe Tennessee stripped in the good work, ahd the De¬ The Society of the of -.ha waf, catur veterans organised the first post of was organized before th ^ ^ the .Third the Grand Army of the Republic, which and so was what Army of the was mustered in on the 6th day of April, CorpiVfon. £ VtfSZja*, 1SSS, by Dr. Stephengon, who wtts accom¬ panied to Decatur bv a number r,f -■ 'th ' '.v

estod Springfield friends to take part'in made in the system therein embodied. the ceremonies. It was called Post No. 1 Robert M. Woods,S the clear headed and and was, In fact, the birth of the Grand energetic Adjutapt General of the Illinois Amy of the Republic. But previously the Department, wai the author of the ad¬ promoters of the project had gone through mirable declaration Of principles upon : the form of organising the “Department which the new Order was founded, as of Illinois” of the Grand Army, though in f ■ fact it... had no*uu* (iieniuersnipmembership except the | follows: Section l. This soldiers (“and sailors’ baker’s desen of local soldierssnMi^ engaged In was added here rnd elsewhere at the first the preliminary steps of the movement National Enean ptofent) of the volunteer ^Srjpedktuir P°st wa-s tli® first formal, armv of the Unf.^d States during the Re¬ Thls was the form of char¬ ter issued to the Decatur post: bellion of 1881-65, actuated by the impulses GrAhd Army Ofxtbe Republic, and convictions tf patriotism and of eter¬ Department of Illinois nal right, and Combined in the strong To all whom it may concern, greeting: bands of fellowship and unity by the toils, Know ye, that the Commander of the the dangers am the victories of a long Department of Illinois, reposing special and vigorously waged war, feel them¬ selves called upon* to declare. In definite fidelityfidXrof ofC £?M. awF. :aCKa.nan,J in th9 G.patrhftism R Steele and form of words ar.d in determined co-epera- George H Dunning; I. c. Pugh, j. h Nale’ tive action, these principles and rulds which should guide the earnest patriot, B F ^^ibsame, J. W. Routh,’ the enlightened, freeman and the Chris¬ «» -1fy’ I- N' Goltrin, Josepn Prior tian citizen in ils course of action; and Mm A’ d°^’ by th0 authority In him vested, empower and constitute them to agree upon those plans and laws which should govern tfiem in a united and sys¬ CrantdIAmembe/S °f an enca-mpment of the Grand Army of the Republic, to be Known tematic working method with which, In as Post 1, of Decatur, District of Macon Some measure, Shall be effected the pre¬ servation of the .grahd results of the war, Department of Illinois, and are r.erebv the fruit of their labor and toil, so as to ^constituted , , ,-aiiu as said post and cbuiiioruedauthorised to male..alee A by-lawshv- flwa for +the V, ~ government__ of said benefit the deserving and worthy. post and to do and perform all acts necea » Section 2. The result's which are designed to be accomplished by this organization t7 t0, ®nduCt and on said orgin / zat on in accordance with the constitution are as follows: of the Grand Army of the Republic First. The preservation of those kind and fraternal feelings which have bound to¬ A?rTl8a68.SPrlngrfield’ IU- th‘S 6th da^ of gether with the strong cords of love and affection the comrades in arms of many B. F. STEPHENSON battles, .sieges and.matches. Commander of the Denartmo^t Second. To make these ties available ROBT. M. WOODS, Adjutant General" In works and results of kindness, of favor . °f cour,se’ a)1 this elementary wodc was and material aid to those in need of as¬ more* . or less crude,’ anaand exexperiencePerienco point-po7nt- CQed outOUt. manymfltiv nnctt'Kipossibilities for Improvement. / 1 1L sistance. Third. To make provision, where it is The work of revision lay mainly with Dr net already done, for the support, care UMP V WaS n0t «n«l mS u and education of,soldiers’ orphans, and th** copies of the constitution of the new Order were printed and sent to for the maintenance of widows of de¬ ceased soldiers. of the. s t,Ur P0St The es*ential points of the scheme as covered by the writ Fourth. For. the. protection and as¬ sistance of disabled soldiers, whether , dis¬ ten constitution were as follows- abled by wounds, sickness, old age or as Po3sttPreClnCtl0rgm1Zatl0n3’to be k"'«’n misfo'rtUhe. “as post-,~77> theula omcersofficers to be Post C «-vv^i!iccQ-i.no lonowng staff to the the Grand Encampment of the G, Depaj-tsnent Cc&nnsSLnder: Colonel Jules was held at this Indianapolis gatheri: £ « ber’ Ch!c'f of Staff; Major Robert It resulted ail follows: Commander-1: M. woods,Adjutant General; Colonel John Chief, General Stephen A. Hurlbut, M. Snyder,- Quartermaster General; Cap¬ Illinois; Senior! Vice Commander, Gener. tain John St. Lightfoot, Assistant Adju¬ J. B. McKeaif, New York; Junior Vice tant General, and Lieutenant John S. Commander, General R. S. Foster, Indi¬ Phelps, Aide-de-Camp. All hands together ana; Adjutant General, B. F. Stephenson, ' immediately ■ started in* vigorously to Illinois; Quartermaster General, General arouse the attention df the disbanded sol¬ August WiUlch, Ohio: Surgeon General, diers of* Illinois to the advantages of the D. C. McNeil, Iowa; Chaplain, William A. organisation. July -13 was the date fixed Pile, Missouri. for holding a Stite Convention to' formally The First Philadelphia Encampment organize the Department of Illinois, which The second Encampment met in Phila¬ was set on foot by a formal call signed delphia, as will be remembered by the . by prominent veterans of the w'ar in all older readers of the “Public Ledger,’’ parts of the Commonwealth. January 15, 1868. At this Encampment Growth of thp G. A. R. twenty-one de; artments were represented. The Idea , printed by Chaplain Rut- In addition to hose represented at Indian-,, .ledp:and forrrblated by Dr. Stephenson apolis in 1856, there were delegates pres¬ had taken-root.1 and was spreading. By ent from the E ate departments of all New the date of th;| State Convention thirty- England—Mail e, New Hampshire, Ver¬ nine posts had been chartered In Illinois mont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Con¬ ?nd, * ConV^>tion was very largely at¬ necticut-New Jersey, Maryland, Dela¬ tended. The r«'partmeht.of Illinois was ware, Michiga i, Tennessee and Louisiana. firmly est&biieljed, & Cdmpfehensiv6 de¬ The Philadelp lia Encampment of thirty- claration of prlhciplefe adopted and a -le- pne years agi proved the organization, served tribute paid to Dr. Stephenson, to then less tha i two years old, to be al¬ whom was mainly due the success of the ready nationa In its ramifications. This undertaking. Major General John M. Encampment abolished the district organ, Palmer, afterwards Governor of Illinois izatlons, whicl. had not taken root to any and United States Senator, -was formally considerable extent, thus bringing the chosen as the > first Department Com¬ posts into direct connection with the State mander, to succeed Stephenson, whose departments. It was after a heated dis¬ tenure was wholly informal, and Major cussion that the resolution declaring the General John CAok Assistant Commander. organization would not make nominations The good wOrli which began In the Prai¬ for office, eitc., quoted above, was adopt¬ rie State was Mken up all over the court- ed. General John A. Logan was elected try. h-s early the fall of 1866 depart¬ Commander-in-Chief at this Encampment. ments had already been organized for the It was Logan's order of May 5, 1868, desig¬ States of Wisconsin, Iowa, Indiana and nating May SO as a day for “strewing with Minnesota. There were many posts in flowers or otherwise decorating the graves Ohio, Kentucky, Missouri, Arkansas, of comrades who died in defence of their Pennsylvania, New York and Massachu- country,” which gave origin to what is setss. Soon every State In the Union known officially as “Decoration Day.” which had contributed troops to put down The third Encampment was held at Cin¬ the rebellion was represented by thriving posts of the Gi, A. R., and most of them cinnati, May 12, 1S69. A change of the . were departments. rules and regulations here adopted had the, Dr. (Major) ptephensoh, though never effect to reduce the membership from elected by a Grand Encampment, Was on about 250,000 to less than 25,000. It was sufferance Commander-in-Chief. In Octo¬ Some time before the Order recovered ber, 1866, he issjjed a call for the first Na¬ from the blow Of this ill advised change. tional Encampment, to meet at Indianapo¬ The fourth Grand Encampment met in) lis November 30, 1866. Each post was to Washington, May 11, 1870; the fifth at Bos-; be entitled to cine representative, and one ton, May 10, l87l; the sixth at Cleveland,; additional representative for every 100 May 8, 1872; the seventh at N6w Haven, in members in excess of a hundred. The 1873; the eighth at Harrisburg, May 13, 1S74; Committee on Credentials reported the the ninth at Chicago, May 12, 1873; the following lists) of delegates: Illinois, Si; tenth again at Philadelphia, June 30, 1870, Indiana, 148; Ibwa, 6; Wisconsin, f; Mis¬ the centennial year,; the eleventh at Provi- souri, 9; Kansas, 1; Kentucky, S; New dettie, June 26, 1977; the twelfth at Spring- York, 1; Ohio, 15; Pennsylvania, 3: Dis¬ field, Mass., June 4, 1878; the thirteenth at trict of Columbia, 1. Total, 228. At this Albany, June 17, 1879; the fourteenth at. Indianapolis meeting, which invigorated \ Dayton, Ohio, June 8, 1880; the fifteenth at the movement and gave national scope, | Indianapolis, June 15, 1881; the sixteenth a number of changes were made In the I at Baltimore, June 21, 1882; the seven¬ constitution and ritual. The title of the teenth at Denver, Col., June 23, 1883; the whole was chafiged to “Rules and Regula¬ eighteenth at Minneapolis, July 23, 1884: tions.’’ It was) resolved that national en¬ the nineteenth at Portland, Me., June 21, campments In future were to be composed 1585; the twentiethat San Francisco, Au¬ of one representative at large from each gust 4, 1886; the twonty-first at St. Louis, department a^.d one representative for September 28, 1887: the twenty-second at every 1000 members therein. The chief de¬ Columbus, Ohio, September 12. 1888; the partment officers were to be ex-officlo twenty-third at Milwaukee, August 28, 'members.' The principles embodied in the 1889; the twenty-fourth at Boston, August declaration printed above were endorsed 12, 1890; the twenty-fifth at Detroit, Au¬ fn stirring resolutions, and the President gust 3, 1801; the twenty-sixth at Wash¬ and others in authority were called upon ington, September 10, 1892; the twenty- to provide positions, if available, for seventh at Indianapolis, in 1803; the twen¬ maimed soldiers. The G. A. R. was now j ty-eighth at Pittsburg, in 1894; the twenty- launched as a national organization. | ninth at LoUiSvllle. September 10, 1895; the thirtieth at St. Paul, in 1896; the thirty- first at Buffalo, in 1897; the thirty-second at Cincinnati, in 1898> and the.thirty-third > 3 nstain "at Philadelphia, the third time the Grand Army of the Republic has gathered in this citj-. Each Encampment decides . for itself where the next meeting shall be held. The Commanders-iH'-Chief. In the thirty-three years of its existence , the eoeiety of the G. A. R. has had twen¬ ty-five Commanders-in-Chlof. In its ear¬ lier days there was the disposition on the' part of the “boys,” doubtless engendered by their military discipline, to choose some of their distinguished generals for the office; and, not only that, but to re- cieet them to a second term. General Bathed In golden sunlight, five of the Logah was the only three termer. Gen¬ most magnificent fighting craft of the | erals Burnside, Devens, Hartranft and nation carried the men of the new John C. Robinson each served two terms. But -with the close of General Robinson’s navy here yesterday to meet the veterans second term, in 1868, the tendency became of the old. As the day faded, ten thous¬ niore democratic, and no Commander-in- and people gathered along the city water Chiof has since been honored with a re- front, saw the warm evening breeze election, nOr has any leading General cf tenderly caress the glorious banners that the war since been chosen to# the office. floated free over the taffralls of the For the first twelve years of its existence matchless armored cruisers New York Generals Hurlbut, Bogan, Burnside, and Brooklyn and the tremendous battle¬ Devens, Hartranft and Robinson, in their ships Indiana, Massachusetts and Texas. order, commanded the organization. Since 1879 the Commanders-in-Chtef have been Then they saw, as if by some magic as follows: William Earnshaw, Ohio; Impulse, these same flags fall as one at Louis Wagner, Pennsylvania; George S. the crash of the flagship’s sunset gun, Merrill, Massachusetts; Paul Van der and the thought was readily suggested Voort, Nebraska; Robert S. Beath, Penn¬ that these same colors have never been sylvania; John S. Kountz, Ohio; S. S. struck, except to the unshotted cannon j Burdette, Washington State; Lucius Fair- that naval law prescribes shall mark the child, Wisconsin; John P. Rea, Minne¬ close of day. They take down that flag sota; William Warner, Missouri; Russell only when the law of the universe de¬ A. Alger, Michigan; W. G. Veazey, Ver¬ mont; Johrt Palmer, New York; A. G. clares the passing of the day. Weissert. Wisconsin; J. G. B. Adams, Il¬ All this week these stately warships linois; Thomas G. Lawler, Indiana; Ivan will lie at anchor in the stream, and N. Walker, Massachusetts; Thaddeus S. every citizen may pace their decks, peer Clarkson, Nebraska; John P. S. Gobln, ] into their turrets, explore their engine Pennsylvania; James A. Sexton, Illinois, rooms, in short examine to the heart’s who died before hie term expired, and content, for Uncle Sam has decreed that whose1 successor will be chOsen by the when the men who kept the Union whole present Encampment for the ensuing year. muster their fast thinning ranks at an¬ The Membership. nual encampment, they shall all see for Thus rose this remarkable society, thou¬ themselves the grand power of the new sands of whose veterans for the third navy. This decree Admiral W. T. Samp¬ time fill the streets of Philadelphia. That son, his officers and men are only too it is slowly but surely passing away is as | glad to carry out, and none will come certain as that time passes: not because or go who can say that hospitality and of flagging interest In or love for it. but good nature are not as natural to these simply for the reason that advancing age sailors as handling and fighting their and death are - doing their -work. The splendid ships. veterans of the Civil War are passing The passage of the squadron from I nway. But probably there will still be a Grand Army of the Republic as long as the overnight anchorage off Bombay one of the veterans survives to tell the tale Hook to the city was a most majestic of tho great Civil War. It is a strange fact,' spectacle, for the huge ships were as however, that hardly a third of the~so!~ ' spotlessly white hulled as paint could diers who participated In tho Rebellion on make them, while the light buff-colored the Union side are or ever have been superstructures and turrets and the pol¬ members of the Society of the G. A. R. ished black guns that peer from every In 1897 the number reported on .the rolls nook and cranny stood out sharply de¬ wefe S1M.66. Thero were then 7108 posts of the Order. How these totals will com¬ fined against the ever-changing back¬ pare with the roster to be submitted at 1 ground of blue sky, green meadows or the present Encampment is. of course, un- deeper green wooded hills. The crews, in I known, but it is certain that their num- spotless white, trod decks so clean that I bers are not now so great by several thou¬ the planking looked as white as the sands. But as their years advance many painted hulls, while the constantly re¬ L of tho younger soldiers, who at first took curring flashes of sunlight falling on pol¬ but little or no interest in the organiza¬ ished brass made the vessels fairly tion, ar$ drawn to it by the memories Of twinkle. I the war and finally join. The stream Is I continually being fed from this element, but with ever lessening numbers, until finally all will have gone. '"browed and fairly bristling with the | polished black guns that helped teach the world America's naval prowess. M The Start for the City. These four ships were all returning to <■» 5ight had scarcely disentangled the land of their birth. All were built 7 from the enshrouding mists of at Cramps’, and each one had traveled early morning when the ships became the course they came yesterday with scenes of great activity. A little line of new brooms aloft to denote their suc¬ signal flags fluttered from the fore-hal- j cessful trial. Last of all came the gal¬ yards of the flagship, which, translated, lant Texas, and her reception showed conveyed to teach commanding officer that she has a warm place in the hearts orders to get started. The anchor of all, which her commander, the gallant watches were piped away and at an¬ Sigsbee, fairly shares. other signal powerful engines began winding link after link of the great City’s Great Eeception. chains around huge drums,and slowly the When the first wharves of the city proper came into view it waa seen that tremendous mudhooks were swung up on both sides of the river the people through the water, cleansed of all ad¬ were prepared to welcome the visitors. hering mud with streams from lines of Every wharf was crowded and the speed hose, and at last they were stowed at of the squadron was reduced until the the chocks and made fast. ships had barely steerage way, in order Single column formation was the word to give the people a good chance to see as well ds to avoid any accidents. flapped by the signal flags, and the big The anbhorage had all been assigned propellers slowly began to revolve as the and it was shortly before 2 o’clock that New York’s speed cones went aloft, set¬ the New York backed her engines in the ting the pace at six knots. Every passing strong flood tide and when her headway craft slacked to salute the noble ships, checked entirely she let her anchors go. and on shore wherever a flag could be This was just off Chestnut Street wharf and the flagship now swung around, seen it was being dipped. To all of awaiting the others, which had to pass these the New York’s flag answered in review! to reach their moorings. with stately sweeps, and the great, The shrill call of the bugle brought the white cruiser slowly picked the way up full marine guard and the flagship band stream, followed by her veteran con¬ to the after deck. They formed in sorts. double lines, just beyond the frowning Everything breathed of peace. The muzzles of the 8-inch after guns, and when the Brooklyn went by she gave the beautiful sunlight that followed a little formal salute to the rear admiral’s flag sprinkle of dawn rain threw a perfect and the marines presented arms as it canopy of beauty about the white- was responded to. walled vessels, and the swirls of foam Then tie Indiana and Massachusetts that leaped away from their propellers came slowly by, each saluting in turn seemed to hesitate and then settle back and being saluted, while the great crowds ashore kept up a continued roar of again as though there was no occasion cheers. Both battleships let their an¬ to race madly ashore. chors go clearly, and as they swung Surely the famed White Squadron had around ih the current it looked as never looked more charming,and it hard¬ though they were doing it especially to ly seemed possible that this fleet, now show their ponderous sides to the spec¬ so speckless and pretty, could have j tators, a sight which was duly appre¬ been the same that sent Spain’s vaunt- \ ciated. ed ironclads to the bottom or ashore on Texas Nearly Fouled. the pitiless Cuban coast in less time The Texas brought up the rear and for than a dog watch, and on a Sunday a few minutes it looked as if the bad morning very like yesterday. luck that has followed the ship in har¬ But it was the same fleet, altered in bors in die past was about to be con¬ tinued, for an excursion steamer cut appearance, of course, and while noth¬ across h4r bows so closely that the bat¬ ing like so aggressive looking as when tleship’s (pilot had to nearly run into a garbed in the grim gray of war, it is wharf to avert a collision. Happily, the now much prettier to see. vessels did not come together, nor did Astern of the flagship, perhaps live the Texas strike, but it was some min¬ cables lengths, rode the gallant Brook¬ utes before she picked out her assigned lyn. Here was a hero ship for sure, and anchorage and was safely moored. a fitting and most enthusiastic welcome Once the ships came to anchor, there was accorded her. From her huge was a busy scene on all. Boats crews were piped away and the gigs and cutters stacks, nearly 100 feet above her decks, were quickly lowered. Meanwhile, the smoke curled lazily away to leeward, moving boom, with its Jacob s ladder, while at the catheads white-clad sailors was lowered away and the big steam kept the lead going in constant search cranes picked up the steam launches for shoal spots. The pretty cruiser and swung them down into the river. found such a place once in the Dela¬ Awnjngs, or hoods, were rigged on the ware, but the cruel rocks of Schooner braces and a few minutes later the Ledge are no longer very dangerous, captain’s barge left the New York carry¬ thanks to the intelligent use of dyna¬ ing the flagship mail ashore. Then the visitors left the vessels, and mite. until dark the watchers were kept busy j Following where they always are in preventing over-anxious boatmen fro~ show procession, came the gigantic coming alongside. _ - twins, the battleships Indiana and Mas¬ sachusetts, both low in the water, bluff To-night the big searchlights of the fleet will be brought into use and on ed on manipulating the engine room Thursday night there will be a general gong, and the engineer naturally obey¬ fleet illumination. ed each clang. In consequence the Sam¬ oset made a futile attempt to lay to) and Mayor Extends Welcome. then jerked the big bow hawser apart. Early in the morning a distinguished Here Captain Chadwick, of the New party representing the city, the G. A. R. ] York, appeared at the rail. He gave some and the Naval Veterans assembled at I well meant, valuable and decidedly forc¬ League Island. Mayor Ashbridge, Gen¬ ible advice, and Anally thue tug snuggled eral Louis Wagner and Major Collum under the protecting side of the cruiser headed the delegation, which also in¬ and the Mayor and his party stepped cluded Director Haddock, Adjutant Gen¬ aboard the prettiest ship in the American eral Stewart, Councilman Hulk, W. R. navy. Tucke and a number of others. They were welcomed aboard the Gov¬ Sampson Looks Careworn. ernment tug Samoset by Captain Clark, From the peak of the New York’s mili¬ formerly of the Oregon, and the hero tary foremast flapped the deep blue flag of her run around Cape Horn and her with its twin white stars that told that battle off Santiago. The start down Rear Admiral Sampson was on board. stream was made shortly before 10 Captain Chadwick received the guests o’clock and the monotony of the trip at the gangway and immediately invited was unbroken until the lower end of them below to meet the Admiral. Chester Island was brought abeam; then As the party stepped across the white the keen-eyed tars stationed forward holystoned deck the more thoughtful discovered several tissue columns of ones could not help thinking of the day smoke lying far down the river and off Santiago, when this great cruiser, by just around the bend below Chester. the process of ill-luck that sometimes Ten minutes later strong glasses show¬ befalls, failed.to get a share of the glory. The great 8-inch guns lay on their car¬ ed the splendid New York looming up riages, polished to mirror-like brightness around the curve. She looked like a and around every weapon and in all the pure wjpte splash in an atmosphere of slits where they are mounted appeared a murky haze, for she was surrounded wreath of large sunburned faces that by cargo boats and tugs that belched told of a perfect crew that would as out clouds of smoke. lief fight as answer mess call. Then another ship came into sight Still, from the muzzle of the turret guns extended brass capped plugs and and as a glance showed the tall stacks inscribed on the metal were the names of and majestic front, a murmur that al¬ places where these engines of destruc¬ ways epded in “Brooklyn” swept over tion had been turned loose in anger. It the Samoset. They were coming into , was a proud record, only lacking the view fast now, the Indiana and Massa¬ final crushing blow, which the Brook¬ lyn’s gun plugs tell of, to make it fully chusetts sweeping around the curve with i complete. their great hulls low to the water and I In his cabin on the afterport side Rear their ponderous guns looming out of I Admiral Sampson awaited his visitors. turret 4nd barbetted sponson like some | He arose to greet them, cordially invited huge btock plugs. all to be seated, and then sat down, As thjf Samoset was sighted the crews ! facing Mayor Ashbridge. Here was the were called forward and each deck pre¬ highest commanding officer of the navy, j excepting Admiral Dewey, and so much sented ft. picture of white-duck-robed hu¬ has been heard of him that all were in¬ manity: while aft the trim uniforms terested. and bright buckles told of the marine I To begin with, his pictures do not do guard drawn up in line. him justice, for he is a remarkable look- The Sfemoset altered her course to cross | mg man, his strong features being so New York’s bows and a few minutes hidden by a carefully-trimmed beard, now fast turning gray, that no camera , later she ran under the starboard quar- can catch the resolute mouth and firm ! ter °f the great flagship and hailed for chin. He is tall and rather spare, with permission to come alongside. A senior clear gray eyes, deep-set and shaded lieutenant with a great megaphone or- ; by ample brows. At a glance he seems i °ere

chance to come hero nt thin *-• ^ tne meet the men of thi,2, tlme and to navy. of the old army and L/at;er he showed that he has a deal of dry wit about him, for when General Wagner, after a cordial invitation tO( and so will their passengers. the fleet to stay here indefinitely, said, i “We will keep your ships clean,” he re- i HISTORIC RANSOM POST. sponded:— , “Yes, you sometimes do that here by Was Organized by General Sberman scraping their hottom with rocks.” I There was an uneasy laugh at this] When He Lived in St. Louis. and an involuntary glance to see if the _ -Drtct- Nn 131. of the Depart- Brooklyn and Schooner Ledge were com¬ mentnSo°f Missouri, is expected to arrive ing anywhere near together again. Fleet Will Be Available thThi?°prons;tn was organized when General General Wagner explained in a detailed ShTrU’n lived In St. W«..." way the plans for the celebration now gathered some of his close yei on, and Rear Admiral Sampson express¬ fnends He became its first commander, ed himself as well pleased with the ar¬ rangements. He added that It is his in¬ attended regularly its meetings and un tention to have all who may desire it til his death, always went with it_to to see the ships, and that every liberty National Encampments, marched with that can be allowed will be accorded U on its parades, and took part in its visitors. Later,' Captain Chadwick said that visitors will be admitted from 11 to 1_. f The°pnost and guests, however will not o’clock and from 1 to 5 o'clock each he in Philadelphia formally until th s day, except Friday, the day of the naval | evening, as breakfast is t° be ^11^ review. He also made a rule by which lua ■Rnitimore stud Ohio oLatioi, anv boat coming alongside must take party departing shortly after for. a day off any visitors who desire to go, irre- spective of what craft may have brought them aboard. Failure or refusal to com¬ ^Upon^ts return in the evening, Ran¬ ply with this order will result in the som Post will be met by a committee or revocation of the offending boatman s ' detail and escorted to the Hotel Lafay permit to land on any ship. ette where accommodations have bee These routine matters settled, an in¬ spection of the ship was in order and engaged for 160 persons. the guests ascended to the broad decks Ransom Post will take part in the to watch the completion of the run to navade to-morrow with the Department the city. On both shores crowds could of Mtssourl. the other posts present be seen frantically waving flags, and their cheers echoed across the water, being General Frank P. Blair, No. 1, Ceneral Lyons, No. 2; General Hassen- while every few yards patriots, unmind¬ Generai uyu , w rrv ^ Harding, ful of the Sabbath, belted away with deuble. No. 13, and Harry- ’ ““ salutes that included everything in the No 107. Besides there will be a large firearm line from cannons to pistols. contingent of “unattached,” the Depart¬ At Billlngsport a band of music sere-, naded the fleet with patriotic airs, and ment of Missouri ^Sfateslarge ^ all around ran excursion steamers, radeship from Eastern States. freighted with humanity, and all anxious to see the great fighting ships. Watohing for Thieves.

CROWDS LINE THE RIVER. Ag YogeYheYwYth °af deataUalofSpecial officers from t^ck';Y1°mendfYrmtSothner Long before noon the crowds began to] gather to welcome the expected war¬ ships. Every wharf from Point Breeze i to Port Richmond and all those along the j arrested on suspicion four m ^ prisonM^^werY ^rroll^Root^l9 years. Camden side had its quota of expectant patriots, and not a murmur was heard Streetf ErnesYsuttor, 24 yearsA02^n^ort2h4 because of the hot sun, all standing or Ninth’ Street and John Mc^ wm'iam sitting patiently until at last the white years, ^ S°u™earrs of Ninth and Race bulk of the New York showed clear YtS wIs Ycke'd°up, charged with down stream. being a, professional thief. Then the enthusiasm broke out in ear¬ nest and long before the ships came G. A. R. POLITICS. abreast they were cheered again and again. It was astonishing what Weath¬ Contest for the Commandership-in- erly sea eyes these landsmen had, for Chief Well Under Way—Lead¬ they made few mistakes regarding the ing Aspirants. identity of the ship and the history of each one was told over again, or com¬ parisons were made between the ships rs's." fflswws* in front and other fighting craft the Sender w«y by «« ,2“aS people had seen. , most prominent tSSS! Up toward Port Richmond, Cramps Commander ■ Missouri, and men were out in force to see the ships they built. With theSe hardy workers the Brooklyn is a great favorite, and many were the stories told of her ability as a fighter, and also as a flyer. • With the rank and file along the wharves the tall-stacked _ cruiser _was are also the pronounced favorite, and it sne and his lieutenants claim t had been hit one-tenth as often or as hard as some of the loudest talkers 1 most certain o . rtralt were won said she was, she would have been on badges bearing b P states yes- the junk pile now. Still, m the main by veterans from‘ 8eem to ha# they had it right, and the big ship surely looked able to back up all her admirers terday. and hl® fidence. colonel Shav an all\ -Yrielohia yesterday and es said. . ,

a* -US Slour »d0h>eh»son men._ The 121st Pennsylvania Volunteer’Regi¬ XO a gram extent tne Pennsylvania mental Association has secured rooms at delegates will control the choice of the St George’s Hall, Thirteenth and Arch next commander. Pennsylvania does not Streets as a headquarters for the G. A. want it, as she had two recent chief¬ p visitors Companies I and K were re¬ tainships, and so to whomever the vote cruited in Frankford in 1861, and were of this State is thrown will probably be connected with the 151st Regiment, the victorious candidate. The Shaw Pennsylvania Volunteers. It is proposed •men claim that Pennsylvania will be hnvp a campfire at Masonic Hall, more likely to vote for their candidate Womrath Street, Frankford, Wednesday than for either of the others. evening next for the visiting comrades Atcing Commander Johnson’s friends of the 121s t and their fnends claim that he is entitled to an election, One of the features of the Grana Army and they say that as Ohio has not had parade on Tuesday will be a battahon a chieftainship in eleven years, while of veteran Zouaves from New Yorki city, New York aftd Missouri have each had commanded by Colonel F. L. Schaefer. one, that the Buckeye State has certain The battalion will parade in its pictur¬ rights. They are not satisfied with an esque uniforms, the same astwer® election which would give Johnson the by1 the soldiers on their departure for the honor for one day, as would be the case war in 1361. The battalion will arrive if he were elected for the balance of this term, but claim that as he was not here to-day at 3 P. M. elected last Spring he should get the coveted prize now. boy killed by train. F. C. Steitett, of St. Louis, who is working fort Judge Rassieur, has left After lying in an unconscious condi¬ nothing undone to add to the prospects tion for over forty-eight hours at the of success fpr his candidate. He is not University Hospital a boy who, during absolute in 1 Is declarations that success awaits Rass eur, but gives all his time a conscious interval, gave his name as to working ior his friend. Frank Oates, but whose home is un¬ A private :anvass of G. A. R. men in known, died yesterday afternoon as Hie the Continental late last night showed result of injuries received on the P. • seventeen ffar Shaw, eleven for Ras¬ & B. Railroad just outside of Media last sieur and nine for Johnson. S Youn-yoTt°esnwfs struck by an express G. A. E. NOTES. triin and mangled almost beyond recog- ■ n When picked up he was put on a train. . Items of Ijersonal Interest to Mem¬ which raced into Philadelphia in the bers if the Organization. hope of saving the lad’s-fast-ebbing life. | Commander Thomas G. Sample, of Lieutenant James U. Lysle Post, 128, of Allegheny, whose camp is in Washington Square, wa| presented yesterday with a diamond ring by the members of the n post and th| escort corps. The surprise was presented by Department Comman¬ From, W L der Morrison, in whose honor the camp is named. Sample was “floored,” as he expressed itj by the gift, and could only put his thanks and expressions of as¬ tonishment in broken phrases. “God blesp you for the noble part you aoj and 'T'he Ppess’ have taken to make the Date, fat- visit of myself and comrades a pleasant 4- one during our visit to your city, Septem¬ ber 4 to 9,” writes Patrick Wade, dele¬ gate o National Encampment, from De¬ partment of Connecticut. Frank Boyle, 256 South Twenty-third the curs lint fti iiHt Street, claims that he initiated the move¬ ment to organize the present Citizens’ Volunteer Hospital Association. A grand reception will be tendered to A Wealth of Decorations in Honor all the Foresters visiting this city during the Grand Army Encampment by Court Abraham Lincoln, No. 166, at its hall. No. 1126 Germantown Avenue, on Wednesday of the Grand Army. evening. Headquarters of the Fifteenth Pennsyl¬ vania Cavalry Society will be in Com¬ pany A’s room, First Regiment Armory, FLAGS AND ELECTRIC LIGHTS Broad and Callowhill Streets, on and after to-dqy. The annual meeting of the society will be held on Thursday at 4 o’clock in Lu Lu Temple, Broad and Some of the Notable Displays That Spring Garden Streets. One of the fea¬ tures of the parade will be a battalion Voice Philadelphia's Wel¬ of veteran Zouaves from New York, com¬ manded by Colonel F. L. Schaefer. The come to the Soldiers battalion will parade in its picturesque Zouave uniform, the same as was worn of 1861. by the soldiers on their departure for the war in 1861. The battalion will arrive here to-day at 3 P. M. Members of the 135th Pennsylvania Volunteers and of Captain Weaver’s Hundreds of thousands of Persons Mounted Infantry will meet in brigade gazed in admiration yesterday at the headquarters, City Hall, Room 540, on decorations with which the city is V ednesday, 10 o’cock A. M._ _ adorned in honor of the coming of the Grand Army of the Republic, and on every side the opinion was expressed that Philadelphia had never looked better than it does to-day. Weeks ago Mavor Ashbridge issued a proclamation --ailing upon all good citizens to deeor- -ite their homes and buildings with bv day and to illuminate them by r

night, and the suggestion has •’ out of imitation rtflies, diamonds and splendid fruit. , • • TTril.oI saphires, and has draped his entire win¬ The Union League and the Hotel dow in black velvet. Powerful reflec¬ Lafayette have set the pace for original tors throw tri-colored lights on this flag, and costly decorations. The Union and the effect is beautiful. League has added an awning of red, Many of the private displays on Broad white and blue canvass to the great street are entirely /lost behind the Ave¬ mass of color put in place early last nue of Fame. T|>e gfceat high pillars week. A magnificent illuminated piece and the continuous lines of color and occupies the centre of the display and lights do much to tide the beauty of the ■-throws colored lights with dazzling bnl- smaller displays off the adjacent build liancy on richly festooned pillars of tne ings. Every hote club house, store, Avenue of Fame, which are made a fea¬ bank and office bui ding on Broad street ture of this display. Several hundred between Spruce s' reet and Fairmount incandescent lamps are strung from avenue has some dicoration, and the ef¬ niches in the club house to the pillars fect of the whole is inspiring and cer¬ and a circuit breaker alternates the tainly expresses a yeaith of welcome for current so that red, white and blue the visiting soidie lights are shown every minute. “Time But Freshens The Laurels is ENCAMPMENT NOTES, the sentiment shown by the electric display on the facade of the Hotel La¬ National president of the Army fayette The scores of lamps used m Nurses’ Association. Mrs. Elizabeth W. forming these words are fastened to Ewing, in her general orders concerning tri-colored reflectors, so that a steady the plans of the ways, says: “Through blaze of red, white and blue will be_ re¬ the courtesy of the Grand Army Com¬ flected over the street. Every window mittee in Philadelphia quarters have is fastened with flags and presentable been provided for the women of the portraits of the famous generals and Civil War free for five days. Head¬ statesmen of the war period. quarters have been established for the The Columbia Club has always made Association of Army Nurses .of the Civil a feature of patriotic displays, and on War at No. 1700 Arch street. this occasion the home of the club, at “The sessions of the convention will Broad and Oxford streets, has been he held in the Fidelity Life Insurance decorated from roof to sidewalk with Building, No. 112 North Broad street. a tasteful display of hunting intertwined “All nurses will, if possible, report at with the colors of the city of Philadel¬ headquarters on Mondnw -at phia. The Mercantile Club, on Broad street above Master, has also been liber¬ 4 o’clock, where the secretary, Scott will enroll the r names There ally decorated. , The Fourth street tront of the Bourse will be a coun

i-ork. has headquarters at No. 50 at which the shots were fired was usual¬ ‘IP Thirteenth street, where open ly from two to five thousand yards. The aSS be kept. The Division in- gunners had 11 burning desire to knock itles «»1 posts, with 1950 men, and it to smithereens. They expected to see : ms in Kings, Queens, Nassau, Suffolk, it tumble to dust, thinking it was made *? ehuiund. Orange, Rockland, Putnam, of stone. itehese and Westchester Counties, The lighthouse remained standing, ap¬ ljutant Tregaskis is in charge of the parently untouched, even after the most iingtnients. carefully aimed shots. There wajp.mich chagrin on board Admiral SsJFO son’s pet j- ships. It was impossible to sej^/vher !the first or any other shell la/ ai a exploded. The disgusted gum/9 T t' ed of defective ammunition. i other theory was that the angMv ? igreat for anything like aecuiVT j the lighthouse being about I above the water level. _\ 96

'IFTY-TWO HOLES IN IT. The Admiral says we can’t do any' It was not until after the capture of nore shooting.” Santiago, and an officer had gone “But I can cut it in three shots,” pro¬ ashore to have a look at the tower. This tested Blue. ■ officer found 52 holes in one side of the Delelianty pursed his lips and squinted lighthouse, and a whole section of steel wistfully at the flaunting red and yellow wall on the land side shot away. bunting. “I hate like the devil to ask A Spanish officer said that one of the again,” he said half to himself, "but I’ll first shots fired at the tower passed do it.” CRAZY TO CUT IT DOWN. \ through the upper part of it, demolish¬ Back fluttered this signal to the flag¬ ing the big light and killing one of the ship: tenders who had gone up there to in¬ “Can cut the flag down in three shots.” spect the Yankee fleet through a pair For several moments there was no re¬ of binoculars, not dreaming that the ply. Finally the Admiral’s signal, “All tower could be hit at 3500 yards range, j right, if you can cut it down in three or about two miles. shots, go ahead,” was displayed. General Wood restored the _ Morro Blue bent over his gun, adjusted the liffiit, but he would not allow his work¬ sights, shoved a cartridge into the cham¬ men’to attempt to mend the old tower ber, and closed the breach. For the He preferred to leave it just as he had fraction of a second he glanced down found it, to prove to whoever might the barrel. Then there was a sharp visit the locality that, angles or no an¬ report. The far-away flag suddenly gles. the gunners of the American navy wisted itself around the staff. Then could shoot. t slowly unwound and two yellow pen¬ nants fluttered in the brisk east wind, CRUSHING LA SOCAPA BATTERY. lue’s shot had cut out the red bar in The most formidable batteries the he centre which bore the Spanish coat- Spaniards had about Santiago were the f-nrms. Socapa and Punta Gorda batteries, lhe THE END OF THAT FLAG POLE. Socapa battery was located on the crest “A corker, Blue,” shouted Delehanty of the ridge to the westward of the rom the bridge. “Try again, but re¬ harbor entrance and consisted of two member that you were a litle high that 6 4-inch Hontorias. The commander of time. Depress your piece a bit." the batterv was a Spanish naval lieu¬ Bine readjusted his sights, and again tenant, the nephew of a prominent his gun spoke. This time a cloud of statesman. He said: “The shooting ot dust rose from the base of the flagstaff, your men was marvelous. It was so ac¬ which leaned over. It was quickly curate and so rapidly delivered that we righted by one of the Spanish gunners. were never able to work our guns for “A bit low and too far to the left that longer than a few seconds. Two or three time,” said Delehanty, examining the shots from us would attract the fare 'fleet of the shot carefully through his of ihe vessel which happened to be glasses. “You knocked off a corner of nearest us, and the hail of shills, large the pillar the staff is fixed in. Take and small, which-always followed quick¬ ■nore time with you next shot. It’s the ly, smothered our fire. ast. you know.” “One of our guns was dismounted dur¬ Blue was fully a minute arranging for ing the early days of the blockade and is next shot. Every man on the Su- buried so deeply under a mass of stone vanee held his breath, and every eye and earth thrown up by the explosion as fixed intently on the far-away yel- of a big shell that we could not get it ow streamers which still fluttered de¬ in place again. fiantly. Blue fired and down came the “Four or five times after this misfor¬ staff cut clean in two at the middle. The tune the men at the other gun were range was 2500 yards. buried under avalanches of the same kind and two of them were suffocated one day before we could dig them out, SOLDIERS OF THE REBELLION. the fire being so hot that their com¬ rades could not work. The Oregon and A Total of 2.G7G.54!) Men Fought for New Orleans were the boats that made the Union. it .hottest for us,” In view of the present gathering of VICTOR BLUE’S FINE SHOOTING. veterans of the civil war, which promises Perhaps the best bit of gun work of to be the largest since the close of the the war was executed by Lieutenant rebellion, it may be interesting to know that a total of 2,670,549 men were mus¬ Victor Blue, of the Suwanee, who is at tered into the United States army during Philadelphia this week on the Massa¬ chusetts. It was at Aguadores one morn¬ the war, as volunteers or by draft.. The total number furnished by each State, ing iir June. Half a dozen Yankee ships with the aggregate reduced to a three- had been bombarding the Spanish posi¬ year standard, was as follows: tions when the signal “cease firing flut¬ Aggregate tered from the New York. reduced The position of one of the Spanish to 3 years batteries was marked by a red and yel¬ States. Aggregate. standard. low flag. Blue was preparing to take a Maine . 71.745 56,595i New Hampshire . 34,605 30,827 crack at the flag when the order came. Vermont . 35.256 29,052;/ He appealed to Lieutenant Commander ' Massachusetts . 151,785 123.844 Delehanty to let him go on and cut the Rhode Island . 23.711 17.878 Connecticut . 57.270 50,514 flag down. Delehanty asked permission New York . 455.568 380,980 of the flagship to go ahead. New Jersey . 79,511 55.7S5 “Cease firing,” was the peremptory Pennsylvania . 3G6.326 267.558 signal repeated. Delaware . 13,651 10.303 .Vest Virginia . 30,003 27,653 “I guess it's ino go,” be sgifl to Blue. 40,790 40. 692 listrjrt Columbia .... 10.872 11. 506 230. 976 i L A noteworthy feature of the Eneamn- i Mo . 31i.l33 | ment is the large number of Women -ic Indiana .. 1?0,147 152. 283 Illinois .•••• 258.211 212. 694 . tio|UIMUfVTg Ttril<: veteranK from ail stcC 80. 805 t|0|)s ofjhe Union. They come by hun¬ llli-Ulgan . ■ ?,ni?s 985 Wisconsin . or'Ai? 78. Minnesota . 25.034 19, 675 dreds and all wore one or mftre badges Iowa . 70,300 68. 182 significant of the organizations to which Missouri . 103173 80 102 they belong and on which fall a con- Kentucky . 78o40 70,,348 IS .654 Jsiderable part of the work of the Grand Kansas . o-'i'07 Army of the Republic. Some of these Tennessee. _21 ,104 organizations are particularly strong and Tota)s .2.G7G.549 2,150,205 all will have a busy week with their When tlie war broke out there were business sessions and social gatherings. about 42 vessels of various classes m Candidates for official positions are num¬ 'the navy, and these included steamers erous and the active work of electioneer¬ and sailing ships. On board these were ing has already begun. 555 guns, and crews numbering <600 One of the most important of the 1 men. The vessels were scattered all organizations is the Woman’s Relief over the world! and they had to be called Corps, which has already opened head¬ home from the coast of Africa, the coast quarters at the Continental Hotel, of Asia, the East Indies, the coast of | where a large number of members report¬ Brazil and the Mediterranean. On the ed yesterday. The women are doing a North Atlantic const at that time there grand work as the thousands of dollars was only one efficient vessel. \V hile which pass through the hands of the there were many volunteer enlistments treasurer each month attest. Not one in the navy at the beginning of the war penny is taken from this amount to there were also many losses, and of support the work of restoring the Ander- the 250-odd officers who resigned or sonville Prison property, as that comes were dismissed from the service nearly from a voluntary contribution. The all- entered the Confederate service. Grand Army treasury has more than Nearly every man of the crews remained once felt that the W. R. C. is truly the faithful to his country and flag. helper and co-worker of that large or¬ The ships were ordered home ns rapul- ganization. lv as possible, which in those days was slow work at the best. To blockade the WOMANS’ RELIEF CORPS WORK. immense coast, both the inner and outer, The W. R. C. is a large property own¬ required about GOO vessels, and there er, for besides holding the deeds of the was a call for volunteers, so that the famous old prison pen in Georgia, there navy might be increased at once. The is a valuable property in Madison, O., call was speedily answered and more known as the National W. R. C. Home, ships were put in commission, so that where the veteran, his wife, mother or in December, 1804. there were 671. sister, also army nurses can find a pleas¬ There were captured by the blockading ant and comfortable refuge for their de¬ squadron during the war 1143 vessels, clining years. Nor does their benefac¬ valued at $24,500,000. There were de¬ tions end there, for during the Spanish- stroyed 355 vessels, valued at about $< American war, an emergency fund was 000.000, making a total of $31,500,000. f Nearly all these vessels belonged to established and from it $16,000 were Great Britain. . , . sent to the hospitals for the use of the To furnish these two fighting branches sick and wounded. required tons of ammunition, and the Massachusetts alone spent, in addition ordnance departments were kept busy to this sum, $10,000 on the soldiers last night and day. The ordnance depart¬ year. A number of States also have ment of the army alone issued over erected homes, where their own veterans 1,000,000,000 cartridges for small arms. ban find shelter and comfort. It is prob- . For fixed artillery ammunition there (able that at this convention some of the were consumed nearly 3.000,000 rounds. (money now in the hands of the treasurer This made a total of 103,000,000 pounds /will be voted for the use of the suffering : of lead, which required more than 2o.- soldiers in Manila or those who have 000,000 pounds of powder to fare if. Ibis been brought home. department also furnished i802 can¬ PENSIONS FOR ARMY NURSES. I non, averaging one for each five effective companies in the service. Another line of work taken up was the securing of pensions for army nurses. Mrs. Annie Wittenmyer, herself an army nurse, was made chairman of the Pen¬ sion Committee, and she went to Wash¬ ington, where she had a bill drafted and urged through Congress, whereby wom¬ en who were regularly enrolled as army Large Numbers Accompany the nurses now draw a pension of $12 a month. The women feel proud of their order, Veterans From All Sections, and justly, for it is the largest char¬ itable organization of women in the world, now numbering about 150,000. GREAT WORK OF RELIEF CORPS It has carefully kept out of politics, and intends to always adhere to that policy. The national president of the Woman’s Relief Corps, Mrs. Flo .T. Miller, with' A Busy Week Outlined for the Asso¬ her staff and a large delegation from the ciation of Women Who Do West, arrived last night, and is quar¬ tered at the Continental. Most of the Work of

the Grand Army 'UUJ . S3 VU , _,3Irs°Ke1j?!^AS^8' o.pkxed. hlfnrl Wvr • lsled’ and 111 -the battle Treasurer of the f^!ey' t.ne National before R.chmond the father left an arm upon the_field. day and set ud the hm ' arrlIcd .Vester- at the Contiln al 31 sh? °f tbe °rder ■.T1? ^^lfL, Bl'tt was married to i finances as in snle, am sports the Major M llbur F. Hitt, who. when only I j’a®, fhero been* 1 such rtcoPdlt,on—never I twenty years of age, was assistant ad¬ i in the treasury r oc, ^ lar^e balance / jutant general of a brigade. He was I $400 was sent to the Pre • rtb rrSlmi breveted captain and major for merit¬ I to. be, used for the shn-' dl,° Hospital orious conduct on the field. | .'rbo have just returnefiS 1 Younded Mrs. Hitt has always been a friend to f Wines it luoks "rie<| om the PhijJ any one who wore the blue. She has seen much service in the Relief Corps, TbeenCted "“aniiuoLlv BagIey win having* held offices in the Department of The Department of Vermont W R c Indiana and in the National. She has been national aide, twice assistant na¬ tional inspector and national inspector. j tinentnl yeferda-v and are at the Con- | ci.’,,., 1 p ^le number are Mrs. rT . Iai,a lib Niles, president; Mrs. New- FAIR WEATHER PROMISED. P«t presidents, of the f-alista R .Tones, a member However, Past September 3!**tW i ;v!”so“vlllf Pr,son Park Board' e\t nffi ^ f-,n??nt s candidate for the high¬ Have Eeesi Rainy. ( est othoe m the gift of the national body. The records in the Weather Bureau! SOME CONSPICUOUS WOMEN. reveals the fact that it has rained dur¬ sonvWCT>liSta PB dunes, of the Ander- ing the first week in September every S?, Pns.ou Park Board and past lational junior viCe president of the year since 1S93, with the exception of ,K' Y” ,received iior education at last year. Whether or not the present p „ ^ademy A ermont, finishing at week will be an exception is a fact that Rutgeis -h emale Institute. New York will interest hundreds of thousands ot I .Cll-V- ®he was teaching in the Wash- lngton school, in Chicago, when Fort j people, but, despite this the weather' 1 Sumter was fired upon. With four revo- ! man would hazard no prediction. How- j iuhonary ancestors, she comes of loyal | ever, he did say that what lias passed th! R0ii / nnrly 1

^ '\Lrs * Ida S. McBride, past national “REBEL BILL’S” SUICIDE. secretary of the Woman’s Relief Corps, A Germantown Character Shoot* was born in 1850 at Plymouth Ohio^ She was tbe eldest daughter of the late Himself in the Head. William Mercer aged W years, famil- Doctor James N. Chamberlain, of '• terloo Indiana. She has been engaged ?o rlv known as Rebel Bill, he na\in0 in Woman’s Relief Corps work since i come from the South to Germantown 1880. serving as corps secretary, corps | at the close of the rebellion, cpn^gd Dresident, ‘department inspector, junior fickle vesterdav mornmg bj shootin-, vice president, department president and in ?he more .important office of national his room at Hreene au" . . fivp secretary. Mrs. McBride is the wife of Judge Robert W. McBride, late of the Supreme Court of Indwiia. He ■ BTeUeHm.CIand was a well- an ex-soldier and a member of the Grand toown character in Germantown, He Army of the Republic. Mrs. McBride accompanied her de¬ was a fencemaker by occupation. The partment to the convention. body was taken in charge by his sister, , V 1 Cordelia A. Blakeman, past depart¬ Mrs. Appleton. __ ment president, of Connecticut, is the wife of one of Connecticut s most popu Hr nast department commanders of the <1 A. R-. Colonel S. G. Blakeman. She mb has been a prominent worker since jom- tm a“l?<‘«S“5ter°p”«ty place

ing the’ order, having Pittsburg deiegation. The twenty-eight of senior vice her corps, as tiie department, tents are pitched under ^ a " f dent and president .of Walnut street and the foHmmte ^ She is a national dffie. tionai presi- t0I'S W )° To dav The tents have been Mrs. Agnes Hitt, past 1 Corps, possession to-daj. H comfortable itent of the Moman «* gehrf was \ies of a family of pntno^ ^ fln. SSL" £vc° b‘« supplied .a •« bv years of eN.pt m .jepi for work for the veteran to °y,m“pous ln.it stand, and refresh- •eSiv a gentle.sva o er m en me.it Imotbs have sprang up ■« >“ 1 and ifbesTenergiM0 ' are de'sotin,. nd distress i tJSI ■ deviatin' When the, war IS’StSi.cSfe'SJ^rlSelectric lights, the camp v ill De / . &.V -• • ' The veterans from Pitts- SKmR ?a„Tli''“e‘1 b>-

Encampment Notes. There will be over 5000 veterans from menty nnd attendance at the Encamp- From, Lfl Fr°m Snnbnry, Pa., conies a veternp of the Mexican, Indian and civil wain Christopher Martin, now 78 vears oid’ who fought in 52 battles and- was sev¬ eral times wounded. V;nrvvi11 over "t0 posts from N»v inthe'pb,h Uf'r d —'s Parade, compris- ■\:f? ^ v division, Department of at Twelfth Tw[ headquarters will be I -WV.nirn -nV01:'1 sheets. Colonel divi^im, r d v1 b$‘n command of the dnision trom New York citv. Chapin Tost, of Buffalo, arrived last evening with 30 old battle flags Thi, post will boom the Pan-American Ex position of 1901 at Buffalo. Their speda tram over the Lehigh Valley Kailroad was gaily decorated. Ancient Hostleries Replete With Ensign Deligorgas, who is on the fla~- thTr'eW lo,'k' tbrou£h the courtesy of Memories of the Past. V,^ t1Tment’ belon§'s to the navy of .^Kay,°«'”d "" tbr“ WHERE BRITISH OFFICERS MET R' Sp^er’ o£ the Physicians on whoever York, is a Philadelphian uiio is i ery popular in the fleet. Detectives from New York Boston Scenes Witnessed by tlie Old Bine Chicago, Washington, St. Louis and’ Bell Tavern at Paschall. every other large city in the country' are here to work in conjunction with the Washington and the local police and detective forces in pro¬ Kitchen Maids. tecting Encampment week crowds. P

s™„Af\eoo called to the frightened host for something miles of the way. He is 70 years of age to moisten their parched throats; they M. S. 1 owell, commander of Washing¬ being followed perhaps by a detachment ton Tost. No. 45. G. A} IL, furnished h7s of Colonial soldiers, still more thirsty, 111- clad, footsore, but in hot pursuit. ters-i^CamTen.0 N®W JerSey bpadquar- Such scenes the old Blue Bell Tavern at Paschall has often witnessed. Standing on the only highway between Philadelphia SAWA BRIDE IN HIS DREAM. and the South, it was passed and repassed by troops of both sides, particularly dur¬ Widower Afterwards Met Her and a ing the winter of '77 to the spring of the following year, when the British were in¬ Wcddinft Followed, stalled in this city. At this time a conflict i Special to “The- Record.” took place in the tavern itself between I ^chwenksville. Pa.. Sept. 3.—Whether Lord Cornwallis and the scouts of General truth ever appears in dreams or not. Potter. It ended in the British capturing thirty-three men. with a loss of live killed •' ,,n. Leonard Lutz, aged 00 years, a and seven wounded. n ell-to-do fruit grower of Lee. Ill., lma Is there a roadside inn in the whole more faith in them than the average country with any pretension to old age man, because of the part one played in which has not a verified story, or a weli- is marriage here a few evenings ago. gotten-up tradition of Washington having His first wife died last November, and put up there, or at least in passing par- I some tmie afterwards he had a dream taken of its spiritual comfort'.' In many I eases "mine host” had the foresight to i m which appeared the vision of a woman. , preserve the mug from which the illustrious ! one quaffed his ale. And the tree where Subsequently he came to this place to he tied his horse can be pointed out, and l'*'} biK m?c.6’ ?h's- Joseph Con vers, and the pump at which he bathed his heated met Mrs. Lizzie Myers. She-resembled brow. History makes of our first President m etery respect the woman he saw in an abstemious man, and one not given to .? aream. He went home, but soon de¬ "over-partaking," hut tradition does not cided to return and pop the question to help to support his reputation for sobriety. If he drank at all the taverns that he Is Lrs. Myers. He did so, and the result is credited with having frequented he must was a wedding. They will leave for have been seldom sober. their \v estern home next week. . guests would occupy tlie inadequate little ■WASHINGTON AT THE BLUE BELL. country inn at one time oil market nights, . • But of a surety the Blue Bell can elnini sleeping on all sorts of improvised couches, the distinction of having had had him for many bringing their bedding with them, a guest. It was the best and most com¬ and many more preferring to spend the modious hostelry along the Darby road in night in the dense, hazy atmosphere of Colonial days, and this road General Wash¬ the barroom, swapping wondrous tales. ington had reason to travel over often. The landlord of this hostelry got into There is a story told of the stern, unbend¬ trouble during the Revolution for his op¬ ing man, which may be an old woman’s position to the British and was taken tale or it may be truth. If heroes are all prisoner and carried to Philadelphia. The made of the same stuff we have plenty of inn changed hands many times, and as latter-day confirmations of the tradition. often changed Its sign. For some years It goes that the maids in the kitchen it was known as the Sign of the Wagon, were rhapsodizing over the great guest, but later returned to its old allegiance. It and one of them, carried away by girlish was the best reputed tavern between Ris¬ enthusiasm, confided to the others that ing Sun Inn and Coryeles Ferry. she would like to kiss him. It happened The Rising Sun has quite a history of as in fairy tales. The august personage its own. It was burned during the Revo¬ stood in their midst, and In the blushing lution owing to the political persuasions silence which followed, not being able to of its host. For many years one of the discover the exact offender, pronounced relics of this old house was a pair of brass sentence all around. Needless to say, his candle-sticks, which played an humble part in the struggle for independence. They was not the present day get-In-as-many-as- were used as missiles by a Germantown vou-can smack. It was the courtly and lady, who hurled them at an inquisitive deferential 'Salute of a gentleman of ye Redcoat who insisted upon examining a olden school. chest in her house. It would have been The old stone part of the tavern was the inconvenient for the lady had the soldier original Blue Bell, and is dated 1762, and succeeded in his quest, for the chest was the newer portion was built in 1801. ine filled with bullets made out of the. gentle¬ Baseballs were proprietors during the woman’s pewter plate. These she car¬ palmy days of the old hostelry, and they ried herself by night to Raglee's Hill, did a thriving business ministering to the where her four sons were encamped with soldiers, Whig and Tory, who passed their the American forces. So she offered stout door. resistance to the prying Britisher, and sat The stepping-stone used for many years upon her chest to prevent his discovering outside the tavern was a relic of the time her secret. Whether he would have been before Penn’s coming. It was a circular discourteous enough to help her to another mile-stone, with a square hole through the seat is an open question, for one of his of¬ middle. The site of the mill on Cobb s ficers coming on the scene opportunely, or¬ Creek where this was used by the Sm edes, dered him away. was established by the discovery of a cor- This tavern was also visited by Wash¬ responding hole cut in a rock. ington, and on1 Germantown avenue just a short distance away, he made a tempor¬ THE SIGN OF THE RED LION. ary headquarters. Crossing the old stone bridge—built In King George's time—which spans the Po- A DELIGHTFUL OLD-STYLE INN. quessing Creek at Andalusia, you come upon another old and famous hostelry, The Paoli Inn is a delightful specimen of whose sign is the ’’Bed Lion ’ It is the the old-style hotel. It has more dignity, typical colonial inn, built of red brick, with more style and less of the roadside tavern hipped roof, many windows and low-ceiled. about it than most of the remaining Revo¬ In 1730 Philip Amos procured a license to lutionary inns. The low, rambling build¬ set up a tavern here. He chose a propi¬ ing, with Its many doors and windows, its tious site, for the road was much traveled red roof, queer back buildings, set well upon by teamsters, and the stages passed back among the green, is a pleasing and a here at regular—or rather irregular—Inter¬ picturesque reminiscence of long-ago days. vals. In 1781 part of the Colonial army That ‘‘fine gentleman of the olden school,” encamped near here, and the.Jsoldiers gave General John Evans, had his name asso¬ the farmers round many a wakeful night, ciated with the inn during its best days. and brought them many a sad to-morrow, Here the cream of military circles met when they found the stall of their fatted fbr for business and pleasure; here Wash¬ calf empty and their fields relieved of their ington and his generals mused over the ripening crops. . , weighty affairs of the country. And But the proprietor of the inn always General Evans, always a perfect _ host, fared well, and was regularly patronized saw that nothing was lacking to insure by the officers and the soldiers who were these gentlemen—whose daily fare was hickv enough to have the price of a bever¬ often little more than bread and water—at age. Samuel and John Adams were among least a brief respite from their unlux- the noted guests that this old tavern en¬ urious army life. tertained, and the latter mentions in his Of the few ancient- taverns -which date diary having stopped there. back as far as the seventeenth century The Bed Lion looks to-day very much as the Jolly Post is the oldest and most not- it did a hundred years ago. No flagrant ! able. it bears the legend on its _ front modern improvements killed the distinc¬ which carries it back to pre-Revolutionary tiveness of the old place. The only addi¬ Uavs. The date is 1680. Standing on the tion is a wide piazza, which shelters a Frankford Pike, which was the direct thirsty few who find their way here from road to Trenton, it, too, must have done a Torresdale Park, and from the Bristol and thriving business with farmers, teamsters Frankford trolleys. . , Where the present very much modernized and stages ever passing. Every highway leading to and from the Mineral Spring Hotel stands at Willow Grove was the site of another Red Lion city had in olden days its full quota of Inn It was built as early as 1(32 at the wayside inns. On the Lancaster pike, junction of the York road and Governor s which was the first pike opened in the road and was a famous stopping place for country, we have still a host of these old farmers on their way to and from market. taverns, some of which have been given As many as a hundred of these burly over to other uses, others retaining to-day their old signs—insignias of a generation which has passed away. There is the White Horse, the Cross Keys, the old Mariner’s Compass, the Sign of theWnagon, the Eagle and innumerable others. On the Ridge road we have another procession of them. The Jeffersonville Hotel, the Trooper, the Bridge, the Black Horse—all of them dating close around the Revolu-

^ Tlieir name is legion, and to discourse of _ „. _;ockius, w’otmded , at Fredericksburg, is still in the flesh, an I them all it would require a volume. Many honored citizen of Germantown, .where of them are disappearing or being mod¬ ernized out of nil semblance to their olden he will continue to reside until called up selves, but thbse which stand are replete higher. Lieut. Bockius is a prominent with memories of historic days, and are comrade of Post 6, G. A. R. peopled even yet with motley gatherings Robert Murray is among the dead, date from the past—men whose hardihood was the foundation stone on which our country unknown. Anthony Hegg and Frank was builded, qnd whom we with glad rev Wells were among the wounded. I pre¬ ereuee call our grandsires. sume they are still alive. Other repre¬ sentatives were in the ranks of this regi¬ ment, but their names are unattainable. Each one has a grand record, each one it/ - , f)j served his country faithfully. Early in the war Captain Mark W. From, tlw/f. - Collett, a man possessing great military knowledge, commenced drilling our DJ J L citizens, for the purpose of taking part . < V'/rr; mmi ryrr, in the conflict. Soon after he was offered the position of major in the Third New Jersey Volunteers, which he accepted, Date , FI l f when quite a number of our boys en¬ rolled themselves in his regiment. Among the number were John Ellis, William Ellis, James Platt, George Har¬ f OUR BOYS IN BLUE. graves, Gavin Neilson, E. Lewis, W. Medford, J. Meadows, J. Henry, H.

Pen Sketches of Germantown’s Heroes in Flue, James Tatlow, Charles Delaney, the War of the Kehellion. Luke and J. Earley, Lewis Hong and others. These heroic men were con¬ fCompiled for The Independent-Gazette by nected with Co. H, each one rendering S. K. Ployd, of the One Hundred and Nineteenth Pennsylvania.! good services for country. The regiment was composed of excellent material, and A big gran, monument, standing it was destined to make a grand record among thero'KS and boulders, close to and to sustain fearful loss. John Ellis the Devil’s Den, Gettysburg, tells the story heads the list of our heroic dead. He of the Ninety-ninth Pennsylvania. Here fell at Cloud’s Mill, Va., July 17,1861. these heroes stood, a wall of living flesh, He was the first soldier from German¬ between their homes and the desperate town to fall. His remains repose at St. attacks of the enemy. From their or¬ Stephen’s graveyard. Charles Delaney ganization to the close of hostilities these died from wounds received accidentally, heroic men battled lor their •country s July 28, 1861. Walter Medford was cause. “On to Richmond! ’ was the killed at Gaines’ Hill, June 27, 1862. universal cry. “On to Richmond !” to Luke Farley died March 2, 1862. many meant on to death—on to hard¬ James Farlev was killed at Gaines’ Hill, ships, to weary marches, to privations, June 27, 1862. Lewis Hong, of the to wounds, to wasting sickness, to prison, “Haines Street One Hundred,” fell at to starvation! Cold Harbor, June 3, 1864. His term of On to Richmond cost this regiment a service had expired, but he willingly loss of 760 loyal sons, on to Gettysburg met the enemy again, alas ! only to meet cost them a loss of 110 out of 339 ! What his death. Colonel Mark W. Collett fell a record ! Old Germantown was repre¬ at Salem Church, May 3, 1863. Other sented in this band of heroic men. heroes have answered the last roll-call— A number of familiar names appear— H. Myers, J. Henry, H. Flue, J. Tatlow, Nice, Bockius, Park, Hocker, Green, J. Meadows, William Ellis and James Wells, Murray, Hegg being among the Platt, who died in 1898, being amorn number. Here on that eventful day, the number. \ July 2, 1863, the gallant Lieut. John R. Gavin Neilson, who left an arm in Vi\ Nice fell mortally wounded and died the ginia, and George Hargraves, who rt next day. A sad spectacle presented it¬ ceived a wound, alone survive. What self on the bloody held. The brother, record for the gallant heroes from Ge Corporal Harry Nice, of the One Hun¬ mantown. ; dred and Forty-seventh Pennsylvania, Germantown has another distinguish also received his dead wound. Both ed soldier living here, who deserve were raised in our old town—both volun¬ special mention. I refer to William Ben teered to defend the Union—both were der. Comrade Bender, besides being brought home and their bodies laid to hero of the Civil War, fought in th< rest in old St. Michael’s Lutheran grave¬ French revolution of 1848, and the yard. Gallant heroes, beloved by all, Franco-Prussian war, where he was they leave sweet memories. George 0. wounded. When the Rebellion broke Green died at Falmouth, Ya., July 21, out, Bender resigned from the French 1863. George Parks was killed at Peters¬ army, and offered his services to our burg, June 17, 1864. Lieutenant C. Government. He first served in the Nason died January 3. 1863. Second Pennsylvania Volunteers, ape subsequently on the gunboat Princeton From this vessel he was transferred t William Tarr died February 3, 1891. All Bender returned to America. All honor ■ three went down to death leaving grand to this heroic French-American, and records. may he spend the remainder of his Some time ago, with the assistance of useful life in old Germantown. my old friend and comrade, Captain (Continued in next week’s edition George H. Laut, I gave the death rec¬ ord of the Ninty-fifth Pennsylvania. -Since that time at least two comrades have answered the last roll-caM. 1\ illiam Tyler, after much suffering, passed away. He was a faithful comrade and served ,, v From < ; jJzf/, his country well. He died early in 189v*. Cs The name of Lieutenant Michael Lawn ( ft • ,1 -—A is familiar to the community.^ He was Ithm.WklriJV...- /!-,ni) ./&r... ■connected with the old Ninty-fifth, rising from a private to lieutenant.- He t a ft was a typical American volunteer, be¬ :4 loved by all who knew him. In the Date recent Exeter railroad wreck he met his n death. At the time of his death, May 12, 1899, he was post commander of Post 6, G. A. R. He left a grand record. On the rolls of the One Hundred and OUR BOYS IN BLUE. Ninty-second Pennsylvania we find the 11 name of our honored comrade and towns¬ Pen Sketches of Germantown’s Heroes in man, Joseph Edwards. Comrade Ed¬ the War of the Rebellion. wards, after the expiration of his enlist¬ [Compiled for Tee Independent-Gazette by ment, entered the United States Army, N. K. Pioyd, of the One Hundred and Nineteenth serving for three years. He was on the Pennsylvania.! ill-fated train with Comrade Lawn and Nearing the bottom of a huge pile of was dangerously injured. He is slowly records, taken from various sources, recovering. He is at present senior vre'e even from the tombstones in many commander of Post 6. The Edwards graveyards (although only a portion of family deserve special mention. The our dead soldiers have a stone to mark father, G. C. Edwards, and three -their last resting place), _we find a miscel¬ loyal sons rallied to the defence of the laneous collection, beginning with the Union, and all were wounded and made Fifteenth Pennsylvania Cavalry. many sacrifices for their country’s cause. This noble body of men was organized The father is numbered with the heroic ■early in 1862, and at the head we find dead. Hallowed memories. heroic men like William J. Palmer, The Eighty-second Pennsylvania had Charles M, Betts and other gallant lead¬ a fair representation from Germantown, ers. This regiment was destined to have each one rendering excellent services. a great future and to perform active duty Among its heroic dead we find the names in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, of J. C. Robbins, who passed away West Virginia, North and South Caro¬ March 27, 1878; J. B. Roberts, March 2, lina, Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi. 1875; C. F. Jones, January 1, 1S92; J. At Stone River it lost one-third of its Holcomb, May 1, 1892; C. C. Dunn, number engaged. At the close of the January 30, 1894; H. Kreer, 1897. war every general officer under whom it The death roll of the Fifty-first Penn¬ served gave the regiment the highest sylvania contains the names of John praise. From the records we find a num¬ Powell, who died April 24, 1895; G. W. ber of heroic men from Germantown and Unruh, December 12, 1886; B. F. Jones, vicinity, each having performed grand February 26, 1886. services for the country—men like Henry Captain Charles S. Schaeffer, C. P. D. Hirst, S. Howard Sands, William Tull,"Dr. James Karsner and'C. Zimmer¬ Tarr, Edward M. Mehl, Abraham W. man were connected with the First Thomas, William Benner, David C. Delaware Volunteers. All survive with King, Howard S. Buzby, Charles A. the exception of Captain Schaeffer, who Graver, Warren Supplee, J. G. Henvis, ’ died May 5, 1899. J. W. Simpson, John 0. Stokes, Samuel The names of H. D. Sheetz, Sergeant A. Topharn, J. Shallcross, W. H. Lush, Charles Brous, Joseph Paramore, I. Rus- J. M. Gill more, David Harkinson and seli and others from Germantown are on others. A. W. Thomas was among the the rolls of the survivors of the One Hundred and Eighty-sixth Pennsyl¬ vania. Comrade Paramore is post com¬ mander of Post 6. The rolls of the One Hundred and Ninety-seventh Pennsylvania contain fthe lui namesnomoo of/wF William"1111 r> »-»i Fox, who died October 29, 1865, and C. B. Thompson, who died at Rock Island, October 5, r:: 1864. Among the survivors are John From,jt)..f. Schrack, J. S. Warner, R. Neville, «. Parker, John Selsor and Gasper Jefford. 0/ 1 I " /) The names of J. Aiken and Watson T/IQff , ^—; Hess were inadvertently omitted from the published list of the dead heroes of the One Hundred and Sixth Pennsyl¬ Date, vania. Aiken died January, 1866; Hess, ^September 14, 1884. William J. Pendleton and C. Hornsby were members of the One Hundred and Twenty-first Pennsylvania. Pendleton was wounded at Gettysburg. Both sur¬ / OUR BOYS IN BLUE. vive. P. McDonough was killed at f •Spottsylvania, May 10, 1864. A. Went- Pen Sketches of Germantown’s Heroes in zel died September 28, 1863. Robert the War of the Rebellion. Johnson died March 9, 1891. [Compiled for The Independent-Gazette by The name of Edward Rorer, of the N. K. Ployd, of the One Hundred and Nineteenth Pennsylvania.! One Hundred and Ninety-ninth Penn¬ sylvania, was through some oversight In closing the second series of our omitted from the published records of records we are not forgetful of the ser¬ the Rorer family in the war. He died vices of the Pennsylvania Reserve Corps. February 28, 1899. He, like his noble With the gallant Curtin at the head, and brother, served his country most faith with commanders like McCall, Reynolds, fully. Meade, Ord, Seymour, Crawford and Sergeant Adam Sanderson, who is Horatio G. Sickles, victory followed. mow connected with the Police Depart The Reserves, who rendered grand ser¬ ment, served in the Fourteenth Mass vices, were originally organized for State achusetts Volunteers. He was among defence, but at the request of the Gov¬ the wounded who were imprisoned at ernment they were mustered in the Andersonville. United States service. Company G, M. Clayton and Henry Eberly were Third Regiment, was recruited in Ger¬ connected with the Seventy-fifth Penn¬ mantown and was commanded by Cap¬ sylvania. Clayton died August 27, 1881. tain Hugh Harkins, and subsequently by Robert Vanhorn, an old Germantown- Captain John Stanton. er, was connected with the One Hun- A portion of the death list has been se¬ dreth New York Volunteers. He is still cured and' is as follows : Lieutenant John in the flesh. Connelly, died at Camp Pierpont, Decem¬ The names of Sergeant Andrew Green¬ ber 27, 1861; D. McCloud, died December wood and Charles Fisher are added to 4, 1861; James Duddy, killed at Freder¬ Hie death list of the Eighth Pennsyl- icksburg, December 13, 1862; J. K. vania Cavalry. Greenwood died August Smith, killed 1862; Richard Wilson, 7, 1880; Fisher, April 16, 1899. killed at Antietam, September 17, 1862; The name of Lieutenant C. Mason, of James Bingham, killed at Antietam,’ the Ninety-ninth Pennsylvania, publish¬ September 17,1862; Charles Carley, killed ed in last week’s edition, should have at Bull Run, August 30, 1862; P. Dunbar, read C. Mason Hooker. killed September 17, 1862; R. Caldwell, The death roll of the Twenty-third killed May 5, 1864; Alexander Park, I ennsylvania contains the names of €}. died March 16, 1864; T. Jobbins, died A hartman, died at Greeneastle, April 27, 1864; Joseph Swift, killed April 1861; J. Graham, died September, 1862- 16, 1864; G. W. Boisbrun, died Decem¬ Thomas McCann, killed at Fair Oaks ber 9, 1889; Robert Murter, died Febru- va., May, 1862; J. Hays, killed at Cold ary 12, 1880; Major John Stanton, died Harbor, Va., January 1, 1864; E. Green¬ December, 1898; H. Vinton, G. W. Un- wood, died 1865; E. Weiss, died Decem- ruh, B. Bowles, John Wilson, Samuel ”er-}>h868; Gerhard, J. Butler and Cowell are on the death list, date un¬ E. Miller, date unknown; S. Ritten- known. F. J. Hibbard, Co. F, Second house, November 23, 1S83; E. Griswold, Pennsylvania Reserves, died March 15, looO. 1885. Joseph Findley Shriver and E. Hans- Among the list of Germantown sur¬ berrv were connected with the Twenty- vivors of the Reserve Corps are William ninth Pennsylvania. Shriver died H. Walters, H. R, Ritter, Edward Sclli 1^75; Hansberry, March 14, Hames, D. W. Bussinger, T. Stone, J. I odd. Freer, J. Jones, W. Heckroth, H. W. (To be concluded next weeirpl**1" Heckroth, William Abrahams, J. Wil¬ son, R. J. Mitchell, A. Bishop, M. Hickey, G. Rahn, E. Toon, C. Deal, R. Evans, A. Hong, J. Long, H. Praul and T. Stroup. ( ■? :

'MU'. m . ■ I i ",’5,a^lt?IJ!|mei>i!?nSy,V^”ia ’ the ^— with tho a®®s Gregory now connected '"The death list of the Sixty-ninth Penn¬ sylvania is as follows : J. Jack Co. , rts s&sj-xrr He ™ killed at Spottsylvama, May 12, 1864, J. L. Vondersmith, Co. K, killed at Peters¬ was. connected tlfft? affrSS burg, June 18, 1864; Joseph Wallen Co. K killed December 1/, 1862, T. Quunoy, and is 81 years ofTi feCer“unty. died October 26, 1888; J. McDowell, died

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I William GodbardiedMaS 2? }S Sergeant fi. Levin, killedE I? i rr-lp.aS.^lSf E G Collier, Seventy-second Penn sylvania, killed at Antietam, September k 17 1862; George Maxwell, same, regi¬ ment, killed at Antietam, September 1/, ■$ 1862; Elwood Rorer, same regiment, 9f killed at Fredericksburg, December 13, | 1863- John Barrett, same regiment, died EiSneer6Srn,011 °i *he Ar’:hery and ■ September 19, 1883; John Cleaver same ' regiment, died December 2, 1888> I Skillman, same regiment, died October feafe 12, 1892; A-.-Gobel, same regiment, died

1§S/Emerson, Ninetieth Pennsylvania, killed August 20, 1862; H. Gorgas, same regiment, died at Saulsbury Prison January 22 1865 T. Ehlengher same ^dSeptembe^e.S °rCtober 23, 1880.’ regiment, died July 6, 1883, H- Gentle, Ninety-first Pennsylvania, killed at Fredericksburg, December 13, 1863, Samuel Lackman of thp *. I I. Mecke, Ninety-eighth Pennsylvania, died August 22, 1896, C. S. Hart, One i“g«, ssjfc *£»•** died Hundred and Fourth Pennsylvania, killed 1862; C. Baxter, One Hundred and Sixteenth Pennsylvania, 'hed June 29, 1863; I. Davis, One Hundred and Twenty-fourth Pennsylvania, died April sylvania, died October 15 IsSe B 1’ in i rn'vT!?.?® V J , giment™™*.- died May 2222,'mf isso. The rolls of the One Hundred and Thir¬ tieth Pennsylvania contain the names ot died ISOS-56!'1 Nineteenth Pen^lViS Bloomfield Moore, killed December J), , sylvania,Sfvanfa“died died April/'"Sc 29 1807 p w^e 1862; Adam Meyers, died "• Vanarsden, died December, 1862; J. b. ft“a4? SEa: Lispen, died 1862; C. Shuster died 1862 8ssssut$w»m The name of Isaac R. Martmdell is added die?“ie r !®1 S to the long list of diad connected with Pennsylvania Ca/atoy d?id Jnto*^1* the One Hundred and Fiftieth Pennsyl vania, He passed away April -8, 18v Cavalry ^ki^ied Ocf b^ec Eighteenth interred at Ivy Hill. The death list o Mortoh, Twenties l.ber, 26' »8»i A- S. the One Hundred and Fiftieth Pennsyl¬ ary 8, 1893 Cavalry, died Febru- vania was published previous to his, Vg: HH vani^In/anfry^’d^from^ii61111871 deTobias Sibel, Two Hundred and Thir teenth Pennsylvania died August . 1 SS samt^egTment11^'^0 d^;C

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_ _ _ ortlwood. Captain Mark Walter,' late, buried at Haines street graveyard, tharles and Irvin Moore, no date, buried ’ ifh-y //•' ,t St- Michael’s graveyard. C. H. Town- From, end, One Hundred and Eigthy-third Pennsylvania Volunteers, died at Ander- onvilie, 1S64. Germantown was largely represented I n the navy. Among our records find the name of a distinguish * Qc, who for many years served his cot rt most faithfully." I refer to Rear Actanr; Breese. The Admiral has passed away, eaving a grand record. Captain Pickney, i distinguished citizen and officer, is among the dead; George T. White, died at Andersonville Prison, 1864; Andrew Men and Things White, died February 7,1871; J. Skilton, died October, 1863; G. W. Bussinger, DEAE peNV: Have you ever visit¬ died 1891; J. H. Flood, died November er Graeme Park and the old man¬ 30, 1886; J. W. Llord, died March 1, 1888; sion of Governor Keith, on the Joseph Knight, died March 2, 1891; County Line road, about a half mile west of the Doylestown Pike Edward Buchanan, died 1898;- Z. Y. and five miles above Willow Grove? X Bolton, died May 20, 1891; J. Uncleson, made a visit there recently, and was very died December 24, 1891; William Hess, courteously shown through the house by' Miss Penrose, of the family of that name died April 12, 1895; Joseph Mauson, G. who now own the property. It is certainly Stone, J. B. Mather, J. McGinley and one of the most interesting historic spots Willian Tomlinson are among the dead. m Pennsylvania. How did Keith come to Among the living are Charles T. Riley, build such a house so far from Philadel¬ phia at a time (1721) when that part of who served faithfully for six years; Jacob the country must have been almost a wil¬ Lipp, John Knight, Robert McKinney, derness? I am sure anything you will John T. Harrison and John Cooper. The have to say about the old house and the three last named served in both army Governor himself will be interesting and instructive, particularly to the many Phil¬ and navy; adelphians who 6ve during the summer on Note—This list closes the second, the Doylestown pike. j. f. c. and probably the last, series of “German¬ This house, with its high ceilings, wains¬ town’s Heroes in the War of the Rebel¬ coting, chimney piece and staircases of lion.” The volunteer compiler has for the Colonial style, is one of the best pre¬ months and years given much time in served of the old mansions in Pennsylva- I collecting names, dates, etc. In going nia that have an historic interest. It is over piles of records he found many closely associated with the memory of errors, which were corrected, although one of the early Governors of the Com¬ many others still appear. He failed to monwealth, with a physician of Philadel¬ get much information from numerous phia who was eminent in its public life, relatives of deceased soldiers, but those with a poetess whose admirers went so who refuse to accord these heroes a little far as to compare her to Madame Sevigne tombstone to perpetuate their memories and Mrs. Rowe in her social and literary could hardly be expected to give such charm, and with the shadow of the trea¬ aid, and, therefore, many names of son by which George Washington, and gallant heroes had to be omitted. There afterward Joseph Reed, were to be won are others, alas, concerning whom we away from the cause of their countrymen. I It was built at a time when, as my corre- I cannot give name or date. We know spondent says, "that jart of the country j not what was their fate. Going into was almost a wilderness.” But it was not battle, perhaps seen to fall, and that is then quite so isolated from Philadelphia all—missing in action ! On every battle¬ as this statement might seem to imply. field, among the thousands of brave de¬ It is to be borne in mind that Burlington, fenders whose blood went out to enrich on the Delaware, was settled even before the soil, are the graves of Germantown i Philadelphia; that there was a scattered heroes who went down to death. Many population on both sides of the river, and have been removed to the National j that more than twenty years before Cemeteries whose only epitaph is the • Penn had established something like a single word, “Unknown.” These men ( summer capital at his fine manor near battled to save the Union. They died . Bristol The house which we are now that the nation might live. Honor to considering bore a similar relation to Gov¬ the illustrious jH ernor Keith. In the city he had his resi¬ dence in the Shippen house, on Second street, near Spruce. When he was not there he was likely to be found among his negro slaves at the mansion in the forest. * *iii* A f

—-.—-, a; » * « » The house, which is nearly one hundred When the daughter whom she called and seventy years old, dates back to the her "own dear Betsy” returned from time not only when Sir William Keith Europe, she took the place of hostess for performed there the Gubernatorial func¬ her father’s household. Elizabeth Graeme, tions in Pennsylvania for the Penn fam¬ who was then, perhaps, about twenty-four ily, but a little earlier, or to Andrew Ham¬ years old, had already won distinction in ilton, probably its first owner. A Scotch¬ Philadelphia as a girl of more than ordi man, with a disposition to be pertinacious nary accomplishments. She was a dili¬ and quarrelsome, Keith’s differences with gent student, wrote French with ease, 'the proprietary interest are among the talked well and nursed a taste for making most entertaining episodes of our early verses. She had suffered the pangs of a history. Perhaps he is best known to pos¬ broken engagement with a lover when she terity through the vivacious account of was seventeen, and the farewell letter the friendship between him and Franklin, which came to her from her dying mother which the great philosopher gives in his gave special admonition as to how she autobiography—how Keith took the young should choose a husband. She was neither printer into his favor, how the promises a robust nor a handsome woman. Her which he made raised his protege into health had been delicate from her birth, high spirits, how he was persuaded to go to and her devotion to her books had not im¬ London and make his fortune with let¬ proved it. But her bright mind and a ters of recommendation and how, when talent for the conversation which intel¬ he reached there, the friendless youth lectual men enjoy gave her a distinctive found the letters worthless. The picture place among the young women of Philadel¬ which has come down to us of Keith in phia at that time, most of whom would his coat of mail, wig and ruffles indicates not now be considered as possessing more a man of spirit and energetic parts, not than the education of a minor grade in a unmixed with vanity. Even Franklin, girls’ grammar school. When she went notwithstanding how badly he had been to England it was in the company of that used by him, seems to have had some Rev. Dr. Peters, of Christ Church, whc respect for his capacity or for the good had many years before married, a servant which on the whole he had done for Penn¬ girl when he was only fourteen, but whc sylvania. He was finally removed from had outlived the foolish escapade of his his place by the Penns, went back to boyhood in a career of usefulness in th( England and became a member of Par¬ pulpit. Dr. Peters introduced her to Eng liament. lishmen of eminence, who were delightec * * * * with her talk. It is related that on om The Governor had a step-daughter who occasion she met Sterne at the races. Sh married Hr. Thomas Graeme, and it is lay a small bet on one of the horses tha from him that the estate derives its name. were in the tear, and explained that sh The doctor was not only a physician of did so because the “race was not alway some reputation in the city during the to the swift nor the battle to the strong. middle period of the last century, but was For some reason this seems to have struc frequently conspicuous in office or in the author of “Tristram Shandy, the public affairs and in the concerns of the at the height of his fame, as a clever sa i established church. He had come over The fact that he begged to be introduce with Keith, was proud of being a de¬ to the young lady and that they engage,, scendant of the Graemes of Montrose, in an entertaining change of views wa. whom he could trace to the middle ages in regarded as no little honor for the Amei Scottish' history, and secured several lu¬ can girl, although no man m the sacrc crative offices through the favor of his profession was more of a dlsr®Puticei father-in-law. In the political squabbles lot than Sterne in his careless and licei of the Governor with the anti-Keith par¬ tious habits. » * * * ty, the doctor was accused of being what One of the memories of Graeme Par we would now call a “fee-grabber,” and there was much criticism of his appoint¬ after her return to it is that of the you ment as a member of the Supreme Court. poetaster Nathaniel Evans, a classical He was a thorough Scot, was the first scholar, who lived for a time at Glou¬ president of St. Andrew’s Society, and cester, N. J., and who sometimes was the “Park” was noted for the hospitality a guest at the Park. Between him and of his family, its bounteous table and its Miss Graeme there was the avowed lit¬ social charms. Graeme's wife was a per¬ erary relation of Petrarch and Laura, of son of resolute character, but long af¬ Swift and Stella. They addressed rhymes flicted with an incurable disease. Some to each other; an “Ode to Graeme Park time before she died she seems to have was among his productions, and he seems been particularly anxious to bid farewell also to have addressed a matrimonial to the favorites of her family and her proposal to her in one of his poetic friends, so that they might not witness epistles. To this Elizabeth replied with her in the final passage to death or carry sprightly graciousness. with them a memory of the death cham¬ “Haste not to bend at Hymen’s shrine; ber. In one of her letters she assured a Let friendship, gen’rous friendship, be friend that she “had been waiting with a The bond to fetter you and me— pleasing expectation of dissolution for a Vestal, platonic, what you will. long time,” and she insisted that her So virtue reigns with freedom still. But if in matrimonial noose youngest daughter should be sent to Eu¬ You must be bound, and have a spouse rope, so that neither would suffer the The faithful rib that heav n shall sene bitterness of the parting when death I’ll fondly greet, and call her friend. should come. Her husband, who died a few years before the Revolution, at an advanced age, survived her; and the cof¬ fins of both still lie in the ground of Old Christ Church. . mm in truth, the charmer of Graeme^ Fattr srltish'Government nad autnor- was several years older than her reverend it for peace with submission. Suitor, who was only twenty-five when r-'He iinformed, her that Joseph Reed, at that he died. It was with her assistance that ['time the head of civic affairs in Pennsyl- Latin imitations and English vgtsgs time theineau ox civ»o I- were, published by Dr. William Smith at vania, cojuuld earn ten thousand guineas. a time in her life when she was in the I and a geiod place undOr the crown if h midst of more happiness and prosperity I would only use his influence for a pacific than it was ever again to be her lot to en¬ | adjustment of the troubles, and told her joy and when in Philadelphia society she ! that she would do well to “convey the was in vogue as a person of unusually | idea to Reed. She consented although fine gifts of scholarship for a woman not without reluctance. Reed rejected Who would now think that in those long the offer. “I am not worth purchasing, ago days there was to be found back of the he said, “but such as I am, the -King of old York road a young woman trans- _ r- . . — ^ »* uiuau u au:-\ Great Britain is not rich enough to do it. lating Telemachus into verse and in th' He promptly laid an account of the now ancient house repeating platonical affair before Congress, without mentioning to her reverend Nathaniel the role the name of the emissary. But it was not Moor Park of Stella to the dean’ long before she was suspected as an in¬ triguing temptress, and denounced in th The Graeme home in the city was ah Whig newspapers. A controversy o owe , noted in the winter for its intellects she loudly affirmed the uprightness of her entertainments under the direction intentions; and Johnstone, the British Elizabeth. Indeed, long before Dr. WisU began to send out cards for his famout^ Commissioner, relieved ^er °f blama. parties” Miss Graeme’s Saturday nighl ’ the meantime, her husband had left the 3rew together a coterie of men and wtf . ■ country with th. ctism. men of tastes like her own. On one c$ry him. His property was confiscated and these occasions there was among th j she never saw him again. quests a young and agreeable Scotchmar iugh Henry Ferguson, who soon impress The rest of her life at Graeme Park :d her as a man with whom existenc was one of gentle sorrow m the midst o w°uld be congenial because of his intelK her losses. Her estate was shattered, she ectual tastes. These, however, couh was childless; and she apparently had some of those little eccentricities of con- lardly have been matured to any specia - duct which we find in women of acute irilliancy, for young Ferguson, who was.;' sensibility whose minds have a rom.antic i kinsman of the celebrated Dr. Adan turn- who are too proud to reveal their i’erguson, was ten years the junior of his; reverses and who cannot adapt themseles namored blue stocking, and she was thir- y-six. Th^y were married, however, after to new conditions. She would sometimes . short acquaintance, and lived on theif'’ sacrifice her little income in order to help ountry estate bequeathed to the bride by along some poor man in distress or re¬ ier father. In a few years the Revolu- lieve the suffering of animals. It has bee" lon broke out; Ferguson took the side of said that she copied every line from he crown; he went into the British ser^E| the Bible in order to fix it in her memory ice; his Wife fell under suspicion and Thiry years after her death m 1801 Joshua fraeme Pgrk as a resort came to be re- * Francis Fisher wrote of the remembrance arded with disfavor by her American which men still had of the refined delicacy riends, although there was never any and the romantic generosity of the hostess ositive proof that she was actually dis- of Graeme Park. There she had lived as ryal. an occupant at the suffrance of the State, and there, too, the plain people were ac¬ But La#y Ferguson, as some of her customed to look upon her, some with riends were wont to call her, was under pity and others with that sinister aversion he Christ Church interest that sided with which long followed the downfallen aristo¬ he Coombes and Duche influence, rather crats of Toryism. han with William White, in the great risis. When Duche wrote the letter to In Christ Church ground, not far from Vashingtpn, urging him to desert the the ashes of the Graemes, rests their luck¬ ebel cause, disband the American Army less daughter-the first, perhaps, of the women of Philadelphia that dreamed of nd make terms for himself with the triumphs in the drawing-room ™_th her rown, it was she who carried it to the •amp. Regarding it as the insulting pen and her wit. emptation of a traitor, Washington sent n w l1 HI l he letter to Congress; the rest of poor luche's life was blighted and ruined by n he disclosure; and Eady Ferguson was harply Earned by Washington not to be he bearer ol_any more such missives. From , ' lut morej dangerous for her v/ere the sus-;- •' ’ .A icions Which were aroused after she re- 2^ / N— eived permission to pass the American between Graeme Park and the city, to meet her huband, among the ~>h. It was then that she met Gov- 44 Johlnstone, one of the commissioners ,,u"> .7 • / 'illiam JN. Schon, S. Finckel and William E. Evster. The present pastor, the Rev. Dr. Albert, suc¬ A LONG PASTORATE. ceeded to the pastorate in the autumn of 1851, this being his first and only parish. After the congregation had used the Dr. Ju. E, Albert Nearly Half a Century in house for a short time they purchased a Trinity Lutheran Church. lot at the corner of Main and Queen The Rev. Dr. Luther Endress Albert, streets, and built a church, which was pastor of Trinity Lutheran Chuch, Main torn down and the present edifice and Queen streets, on Sunday last com¬ erected in 1857. An excellent cut of pleted his forty-eighth year in the pulpit the first church building is presented in of that church, to which he was called in connection with this sketch. 1851. An appropriate sermon was Henry Goodman, father-in-law of Dr. preached by the venerable pastor to Albert, was one of the first vestrymen, mark the anniversary, from the text, II and for thirty-five years superintendent Cor. iv, 1 and 2 : “Therefore, seeing we of the Sunday-school. have this ministry, as we have received The large stone cross, a monolith mercy, we faint not, but, by manifesta about twenty-five feet in height, which tion of the truth, commend ourselves stands in from Main street, and which to every man’s conscience in the sight of marks the grave of Henry Goodman and God.” Dr. Albert said - his wife, is said to be the only one of “As the minister is engaged in the the kind in this country. grand work of saving _ souls, like the The lot on which the church stands Apostle, he is not to faint. Sometimes was No. 6 on the original Germantown the most eminently useful pastors are plan. The house at the corner, now the most discouraged, especially over the rectory, was erected by Joseph Bullock, lack of spiritual results of his ministry. and afterwards re-erected by bis son, But why should he faint? The same Dr. Bullock. Spirit which moves him to earnestness The property was purchased in 1836 will move others through him. The for $3000, from William Wynne Wister. The corner-stone of the first church leaven is at work, though out of sight building was laid May 15, 1837, and the and he can say with St. Paul, ‘I count dedication took place December 31, 1837. not my life dear, so that I may finish my The building cost $2699.68. The corner¬ course with joy, and the ministry which stone of the present church building was I have received of the Lord Jesus.’ ! laid October 11, 1856, and the building “There are some things which natural¬ was dedicated October 12, 1857. The ly tend now to produce faintness, such original debt on the new edifice was as the long mental strain of pulpit prep¬ wiped out in 1865. Various minor im¬ aration, the pastoral work of a large provements were subsequently made to congregation, the constant effort to main¬ the church property and in 1886 the tain the harmony that has always exist¬ whole interior of the building was re- ed, the anxiety connected with a sound ! modeled at a cost of $14,000. The clock financial condition, and the continual 1 in the steeple was put in position in sundering of ties long formed, and ad¬ 1 1858 or 1859, and, being the first of the vancing years affected by the burdens of kind in Germantown, it was considered the past, and the increasing duties of a great innovation. the present. To counteract these, there i The Rev. Dr. Albert was born in 1828. are other things, for which I cannot be He graduated from the Pennsylvania too thankful; such as the work itself, College, at Gettysburg, in 1847, and which is a grand inspiration. Then, I after spending two years in the Theo- have ever had the warmest, truest per¬ logical Seminary at Gettysburg was sonal friends to help and cheer, than licensed as a preacher. He assisted his whom no man ever had better, and who father, who had a pastorate at Centre- have stood by in all kinds of weather. ville, Pa., until November, 1851, when And, in addition, there is general good he came to Germantown. The title of health which I have ever enjoyed. For doctor of divinity was conferred upon these and other reasons I have not faint¬ him by Gettysburg College about thirty ed, but continue in the ministry to this years ago, he being considered one of the day. Our relation has been a blessed ablest and most scholarly ministers i" one, and my fervent prayer is that it the Lutheran denomination in th may ever continue.” country* TRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH.

Trinity Lutheran Church was an off¬ shoot of St. Michael’s Lutheran Church, Main and Church streets, Mt. Airy. It was established in 1836. The first ser¬ vices were held in the old portion of the brick house, comer of Main and Mill streets, now occupied by the Women’s rristian Association. The early pastors ■nHMMI Date, m 1l . / A LANDMARK SOLD.

)ltl Hull of American Mechanics Re¬

ported to Have Been Sold for a

Factory.

The old hall of the American Mechanics it the northeast corner of Fourth and leorge streets is-reported to have been sold o the Theobald & Oppenheimer Company, ■igar manufacturers. It is stated that the legotiations have been practically com- ileted, but the formal transfer lias not yet iee.1 recorded and the cons.deration is still vithheld. The intention of the purchasers s to make considerable alterations to the ila building, which will be used as a cigar actory when these alterations have been lompleted. The old building has been a landmark for nany years, and is still in a fairly good date of preservation, notwithstanding that he interior was damaged by fire a few ,-ears ago. It was built by the American Mechanics’ Association in the early ’50s, the ictual date of completion being variously dated as from 1852 to 1S57. It is built of irick to a height of five stories, and is mas- iive both in construction and dimensions, for many years it w;as the headquarters of he Order, and was also used by many ither societies as a meeting place and for Men and Things -arious other purposes. During the Civil Var it formed one of the hospitals used for el aiming treeps. AN old newspaper often furnishes Of late years, however, it fell more or curious matter for study and re¬ ess into disuse, owing to the Order estab- flection. In this mood I have been ishing branch quarters in various sections if the city. Consequently, when it was i conning a copy of “The Spirit of amaged by fire a few years ago, only par- the Times,” dated November 1, 1847, wnich ial and temporary reconstruction was - a friend submits for examination. This pa¬ nade. It was then placed on the market, . lid has been for sale since that time. Sev- per between 1840 and 1850 was conspicuous ral offers have been made for the prop- in Philadelphia journalism. It was pub¬ rty, but none met the approval of the lished at 32 South Third street, was under 'ommiltee on Property until this recent bid the control, at the time of which we now f the cigar firm. speak, of Thomas B. Florence, and was edited by John S. Du Solle, one of the After having been in the possession of one most trenchant writers of his day, and family since the days of the early colonies, known to a later generation by the New .he famous old Henry house, located at Ger¬ York letters which he wrote to the “Sun¬ mantown avenue and Fisher’s lane, has been day Despatch" over the signature of sold by its owner, Miss T. B. Henry, of “Knickerbocker.” “Tom” Florence, whose Elizabeth, N. J., daughter of John Snowden Henry, to Dr. W. S. Ambler. hat store was long known to every Phila¬ Few of the remaining structures of the delphian,was then rising into local distinc¬ Revolutionary period are surrounded by so tion as a leader of the downtown Demo¬ nany interesting historical associations. It crats, was a prominent figure in the Board vas erected in 1735 by John Godfried Wasch- of Education,and was winning the popular¬ ■mud, and subsequently sold to John Snow¬ ity which afterward enabled him to go to ier Henry, a son of the original Alexander Congress for term after term. Florence had Henry. Directly opposite, situate on a por- also been proprietor of a paper called ‘The ion of the original Henry homestead, is Daily Keystone,’’ which was published on Hood Cemetery, where were laid the bodies Dock street, and which was swallowed up

« Turning to the general affairs of the stract,” said the “Spirit,” "we tmnK xirat city, it is curious to note the case of one Congress has no constitutional right to Michael Kennedy, who had been summoned legislate on the subject, and we consider before Judges Parsons and Kelley in the the issue of slavery as not one that should Court of Quarter Sessions is to answer the be brought into the action of the Demo¬ charge of maintaining a gambling house cratic party.” The annual elections were In his hotel or tavern. It seems that Mi¬ to take place the next day in New York chael had allowed his customers the priv¬ and New Jersey, and there was a fervent ilege of playing dominoes in the bar-room exhortation to all who loved their country In deciding who should pay for cigars, in either of those States to “forego all irinks or oysters. An attempt was made personal feeling and by union and energy :o procure his release, but the Court took imitate the glorious example just given :he ground that if any person played for them by Pennsylvania” at the October even a penny, a cigar or a glass of beer election. The official returns of that elec¬ tion had shown in Philadelphia a larger n any house, public or private, the place Democratic majority than in any county was open to the charge of being a gam¬ of Pennsylvania. This was the occasion for bling concern. Another piece of criminal special exultation over the fact that “for news was that “a man calling hipcself once the star of glorious old Berks is real¬ Shakspeare has been arrested in Spring ly eclipsed,” and it was pointed out as a Carden with a large quantity of counter¬ matter for profound satisfaction that feit money in his possession,” and that he while Francis R. Schunk had received a was to have a hearing before Magistrate majority of 4,700 in the great Democratic Lutz. There were speak-easies, too, in stronghold of the interior, Philadelphia those days, for it was recorded how James had given him more than 5,000. Sothern, a tavern keeper in the Moya- * * * * mensing district, had been .fined twenty dollars and costs in selling liquor without The chief objects of news interest at a license. On the other hand; the advo¬ that time were the despatches on the Mex¬ cates of temperance or total abstinence ican war. There was a column of them, were then pushing their cause with much which resemble not a little the accounts vigor; a special attempt was made to ex¬ that we now get of the operations in the tend It to the blacks, and Elizabeth Rob¬ Philippines. It was reported that Santa erts and Mary E. Purnell, in announcing Anna had been attacked in Puebla, that that Garnet Union, No. 4, Daughters of the Mexican commander was fortifying Temperance, had just been organized here, himself behind cotton bales, that many of stated that it was “the fourth union of the Mexican soldiers were denouncing colored ladies that had been organized in him, but that all the advices agreed in the Pennsylvania as Daughters of Temper¬ opinion that he believed 'himself impotent ance,” and that eleven persons were “duly to effect anything more, and that he might installed into the mysteries of the order.” soon flee into Guatemala. There were But astrologers and fortune tellers seem conjectures that General Patterson, of to have been in active demand. Thus, C. this city, had a new expedition in pro¬ W. Roback announces that he has just ject against some State not hitherto in¬ arrived from Sweden, where he had been vaded by the Americans instead of join¬ “consulted by all the crowned heads of ing General Scott; that Patterson Europe,” that no other astrologer living had dispersed several guerrilla par¬ had his reputation, and that he could be ties: that extensive preparations found at his office, No'. 71 Locust street, were going on for despatching a, opposite Musical Fund Hall, to “answer train for the interior, and that the all questions concerning lawsuits, mar¬ Mexican inhabitants were undergoing a riage, journeys, voyages and all the con¬ change of mind and were now disposed to cerns of life.” Over in the Northern Lib¬ favor peace. There were reports of a erties. or on Third street, between Noble steamer that had burst her boilers at Vera and Tammany, Madame Duboyce was en¬ Cruz, of vessels coming home filled with gaged in “reading the planets” and ex¬ sick and disabled officers and soldiers, of plaining the mysteries of life, to the scarcity in provisions, of troubles in Col¬ boundless astonishment and satisfaction onel Cushing’s Massachusetts regiment, of her callers. As to the physical ail¬ and of new reinforcements to be sent to ments of humanity, column after column the front. Thus it was noted that the re¬ of the advertising space was surrendered cruits for the Pennsylvania regiments to the announcements of the “Panaceas,” who had been in garrison down at Fort “Elixirs,” “Syrups” and “Remedies” by Mifflin for some time were to leave for which every ill that flesh is heir to could Vera Cruz in the ship Warwick. It was be cured and old rakes speedily converted into young bucks. stated, too, that there had been 179 de¬ * * * • serters from the United States army and In the affairs of science and industry the that of these 115 were of American birth. annual exhibition of the Franklin In¬ The “Daily Sun,” which was the Native stitute, which had closed on the previous American organ in this city and which was Saturday night, had not been attended then probably edited by Lewis C. Levin,the with entire success. It seems that “the pre¬ brilliant leader of the1 party, which sent miums this year were not very numerous,” him to Congress from one of the Philadel phia districts, was sarcastically requested to copy the paragraph,* * * * uuse, kept by John Florence- on that “the jndges^did not give satisfac- Broadway, at the corner of Walker tion” and t^iat ‘Anany of their decisions street, at Judson’s Hotel on Broadway, were considered /injudicious.” Wili ams ■& of which Curtis'Judson was the host, or Hinds, howcvery'proclaimed how tie mer¬ at the National Hotel' near Courtland its of “Mott‘§/Air Tight Cooking Stove” street wharf, of which J. B. Curtis was had caused that utensil to take first pre¬ the proprietor, and which was recom¬ miums at ffie institute in its ‘general mended as being “in the central part of adaptation m>r all culinary purposes and the city, {convenient to busines and all saving of fuel.” There was also an inter¬ the resorts for amusements,” with Cap¬ esting announcement from J. Hancock at tain- Flint as its manager. 46% Walnut as to how he could enable every man to be his own gas manufac¬ * * * * turer ’ through the use of the patent which The most notable event In amusements he held; how buildings might be warmed, was the appearance of Forrest at the team created, victuals cooked, etc-, in Walnut Street Theatre as Lear with Mrs. 'Ubiic buildings, hotels, manufactories and Wallack as Cordelia and Mrs. Thayer as private dwelling, houses. John Baird call- Goneril. The tragedy was followed with id especial attention to his steam marble the farce of “Did You Ever Send Your vorks on Ridge road, above Spring Gar- Wife to Burlington?” in which Chapman len street, and to his imported garden played the part of Chesterfield Honey- statuary and vases as examples of mod- bun, and Mr. a’ Becket and Mrs. Thayer rn artistic embellishment, while Robert were Crank and Mrs. Crank. At the Arch l\ood s establishment on the same street, “Hamlet” was given with Mr. Shelley In >elow’ Spring Garden, was described as the title role and Mrs. Burke as Ophe¬ . place which every stranger to Phiiadel- lia, while Burton, who was manager of >hia should visit, as there “could be found he greatest variety of plans and beau- the house, played the Grave-Digger. The iful patterns for iron railings to be seen afterpiece was “Turning the Tables,” a the United States.” Levi Strickland with Walcot, Burton and Mrs. Clarke In s inspector of Cargoes for the State Ca- the cast. At the little theatre on Chest¬ al stated that he wanted a thousand men nut street, above Seventh, the Ethiopian t his office, Schuylkill Eighth and Willow Harmonists were holding forth, and at the treet, where he would have them passed National Circus and Theatre, Ninth and ree of charge over the Columbia Railroad Chestnut, now the site of the front part of 3 repair the great damage which the the Continental Hotel, Joseph Foster was anal had suffered in recent heavy fresh- Equestrian and Stage Manager, Whitaker ts. At the same time Samuel V. Merrick, the Riding Master and John May, clown s president of the new Pennsylvania to the circus. Their attraction was “En- •ailroad Company, advertised proposals dymion Chasing Fame,” with a variety Jr the grading .and masonry on thirty- of “classic acts” in riding, gymnastics, sx miles of the road, then in course of etc., followed by “Ivanhoe,” with Charles instruction, between Section 20 and Foster as Ivanhoe, Mr. Marschael as the ewistown. Black Knight, and Mr. I^eafle as Isaac the * * * * Jew. One of the sensations of the day was the advent of Van Amburgh’s Men¬ At this time the. journey to Pittsburg agerie, which occupied the lot on the 'as still a matter of two days’ travel, south side of Locust street, near Broad, nd Peters, the manager of the Eagle with “a spacious pavilion,” and where 4ne at 274 (old style) Market st., an- the great Van Amburgh, it was announc¬ ounced that seats for passage to that ed, would “enter the cages and the pub¬ ity could be procured at the depot, lic have the opportunity of beholding his tiller, manager of the Phoenix Line at thrilling performances whose dominion ighth and Market sts., stated that their over Lions, Tigers, Leopards, etc., has xrs would leave there every day except won for him in Europe and America* the unday for Downington, Lancaster and title of the Lion King.” And not the least olumbia, and that the distance between characteristic bit of news in the social ancaster and Philadelphia would be amusements of the town was the an¬ Jvered in four hours. William Foulke, nouncement that the Hibernia Hose Com¬ 5 agent for the Germantown and Nor- pany would give a “Grand Firemen and stown Railroad, informed citizens that Citizens Dress Ball at Military Hall, on •nmbuses would leave the Exchange at Third street, -below Green,” with Haz¬ hird and Dock streets twenty minutes ard’s Cotilion Band engaged especially advance of the time for the departure for the brilliant occasion. each train at Ninth and Green streets, * « * * he Camdfen and Amboy line, from Wal- ' What odd little glimpses of the Phila¬ it street wharf, with William H. Gatz- , delphia of 1847 they seem to most of us as er. as its agent, carried passengers to we catch them through tho flotsam and ew York with three dollars as its rate jetsam of “Tom” Florence’s now forgot¬ fare aid $2.25 on the Emigrant and ten “Spirit!” PENN, ransportation Line, while on the two nited States mail trains operated by Not a Home Kernels 6 Philadelphia and Trenton lines the re was #}. The traveller to New York, was advertised, could stop at the Flor- Hr r 1 • - — ii Creighton Wandle came near beir Argonaut; coming to Huston soon afte HISTORY OF CLEARFIELD CO. Hiram Woodward began. ' For years he drove team for Woodward, hauling sup¬ plies from Tyrone via Clearfield. He mar FROM ITS INCORPORATION [TO THE ried Sarah, daughter of Camilla Hewlett. PRESENT TIME. No children were bgrn of the union. The couple live in advanced years on their sub¬ stantial farm. With them is Mother Carefully Compiled and Entertainingly Hewlett, who at the age of 87 is still indus¬ Written by a Corps of Special Cor¬ trious and sunny souled. respondents.

-r=i [The Spirit will give a complete history of the county. It will be written up by Townships and V Jacob Harmon Rosenkrans moved from Boroughs and will carefully coyer the develop¬ Luzerne, now Lackawanna, county to Hns- ment of the County, and also give short biograph¬ I ton in 1865. He was born in Sussex county, ical sketches of the Pioneer Families.] New Jersey, and died at Penfield on Sept. _ 17,1898. Served in the civil war in the l<9th HUSTON TOWNSHIP. * Pa Reg’t. The Rosenkrans family seem to have originated in Holland. There is rec¬ BY ALLEN ROSENKRANS, PENFIELD. ord of a Col. John Rosenkrans marrying a Dutch maiden on Manhattan Island in 1637. Henry W. Brown, who recently so sud¬ Jacob’s father, Abraham Van Campen denly died at Penfield, was of a family that Rosenkrans, married Belinda Myers, also is not now numerously represented in Hus- j descended from Hollanders. Jacob mar¬ ton. His father, Austin Brown, and Austin’s I ried Ann Mariah Watrons in 1852. The brothers, William and Frederick H., came children were Allen, George, who accident¬ from New York State to Bennett’s Branch. ally killed himself while hunting on Sept. William died years ago. Frederick married 19,1870, Frank, Mrs. Dr. E. C. Lewis, Mrs. Loana Hewitt and two daughters were born, Thos. S. Lewis, Friend, Ray and Howard, Mrs. Samuel Lee and Mrs. Geo. H. Terry. Austin married Cornelia Macumber and ^Warren A. Lamb is one of the younger settled on a farm near Penfield, living there men who belongs to the second era. His until he accidentally shot himself years ago. father, Sergeant Lamb, married Sara The children were. Henry, Mrs. A. Lawhead, Woodward, now the wife of Lieutenant Mrs. C. H. Halford, Mrs. Wm. Radebaugh William Roberts. Warren came here when a youth. He married Jeanette Brown, and Mrs. Wesley Norris. Henry married Zarmiah Edmonds, of whose people came from Lnzerne county to New Jersey, and their children are Mrs. dwell in Penfield. The children are Wm. Harry Clouser, Harry, Allen and Frank. E , Harlan, George, Grace and John, dec d. 'Thus quite meagre in number ar6 the green The Radebach family belong to these years. John S., the father, was a promi¬ leaves of this family tree. The Horning family came into Huston in nent man during the civil war and enjoyed the close friendship of Governor Curtin. He the middle 60’s, buying the fine farm where was for some years postmaster at Penfield. they now live. Their native heath is Mont1- He married Mary Flanagan. The children ^ornery county, and their ancestry Penn¬ were W. H., John H., ElsworthD., Mrs. Dr sylvania Dutch, Kline, Mrs. Frank Bowman and Mrs. Aftoi David Horning married Susan Hunsicker. "The children were Lav d and two daughters, , Robacker. _ John W. Pray, a young man from Maine deceased, and John H. and Lewis H. living , worked as a lumberman for Wm. L. Parke here. John and Lewis married the Hev- and married Mary, the lumberman s daugb ner sisters, of Minnesota, as has been told. ter The children are Mrs. G. N. Ellenber John’s children are June, Bell and Kline. cer, Mrs. Bixler, Adah, William, Blaine am Lewis’ children are Ruby, Goldy and David. Lottie. Mr. Pray has been an experience, Dr. John Harper Kline belongs to the and successful lumberman and is at presen second era development. His father, superintendent of a lumber company i Daniel Darius Kline,died some years ago at West Virginia, his family residing at Per Osceola, aged more than a century. The Doctor married Sophia Radebach. The field. children are Mrs. M. J. Beach, Mrs. Maurice ' Jansen, Mrs. Victor V. Smith, Mrs. Frank Smith, Leah, John H., Jr., and Nellie Bird, Wmm deceased. As the only physician in Huston for years Dr. Kline had an extensive prac¬ tice. He served as Treasurer of Huston for 14 years, and for three decades has been a prominent citizen. f H. H. Lenigcame from Snyder county ery county to eik county ana men to nus- I ton township about 1870. Their children J iuston in this period. His family is nk, a Presiding Elder of the Methodist were Horace L., who served when a youth irch in Missouri, Mrs. Jesse E. Beach, in the Union army, Lewis, who; when last pbia,. Lillian, Jerry, dec’d., Robert, heard from, was fighting Indians under Gen. Nelson A. Miles, in Texas, Amos and Ltmer, Charles and Henry, and several de- Sally V., deo’d. eased. Robert Sullivan lived to four score as the Horace and his wife, Rebecca Taylor, lead of a family in Huston. _The children maiden name, have as offsprings Mrs. Frank [Turley, Amos 3d and Horace. pere Mrs. Allen Matly, Robert, Edward, homas, John, Benjamin, George, Howard, Amos 2d married Katie Francisco and re¬ sides at Emporium, Pa. fate and Agnes. Charles A. Hammond belongs to this era Andrew Reading, a native of Sweden, of development. He was born in New ame to Huston during this epoch, and soon Brunswick of English ancestry and came fter married his countrywoman, Christine when a young man to Huston. His mater¬ ohnson. The children are Alice, John and nal grandfather, Col. Coombs, served with me deceased. Mrs, Reading is also departed, Wellington in the campaign that overthrew fndrew Reding is at present one of the Napoleon. supervisors of Huston township and is a Charles married Eliza Lixfield. The chil¬ noral, intelligent and industrious citizen of dren are Carrie, Annie and George. Mr. 1 :onsiderab!e property. jr Hammond has been an industrious and lCONTINUED NEXT WEEK.) energetic citizen and does a large business as a meat merchant in Huston. STORY OF CLEARFIELD CO. John Corby came to Huston during this era and farmed and lumbered until his old age, dying a few years ago. His family OM ITS INCORPORATION iTO THE are Mrs. Hiram Fisher, Mrs. James Brun- PRESENT TIME. dage, Mrs. Patrick Curry, Mrs. A, A. Stone, John H. and Hiram, deo’d., Stella, Oscar and Julia. Father Corby was powerful in refully Compiled and Entertainingly testimony and prayer, religiously, and was Written by a Corps of Special Cor¬ much respected as a Christian man. respondents. Samuel Brown, Jr., of this period, one of the substantial citizens of Hnston, married Rhoda Heath, but the pair are childless. fhe Spirit will give a complete history of the nty. It will be written up by Townships and Rev. Frank Lenig, now of Missouri, Dis¬ roughs and will carefully cover the develop- , trict Attorney A. H. Woodward, of Clear¬ nt of the County, and also give short blograph- field; Fred. R. Scofield and wife, of DuBois; I sketches of the Pioneer Families.] W. D. Woodward, Jr., Ex-County Auditor, and wife, George E. Towns, S. J. Lucore, of Brockwayville; Mrs. Alice Forman, of HUSTON TOWNSHIP. India, now deceased; Miss Nellie Bird and A. H. Rosenkrans, were of those who profited BY ALLEN ROSENKKAN3, PENFIELD. by the work of the Penfield Literary Society. i Huston has sent forth those named and also Henry P. Towns was a prominent figure at Rev A. A. Bird, of Wilcox, and P. P. Bliss, he close of this epoch. He was a native of the sweet singer of world-wide fame. New Hampshire, of Scotch-Irish ancestry. And now, to avoid the monotony of the At Lowell, Mass., he worked as a spinner; reader being tired with the sight of too many served in the civil war; came to Clearfield family trees, there will be given some trans¬ county and located at Sabnla, and after* actions that deserve record happening dur¬ wards at Penfield, where ho was suddenly ing the second epoch of these years. taken ill and died a few years ago. At his THE FRONTIEB-LIKE PERIOD. death he was secretary of the Huston school The construction of the Low Grade rail¬ board and had served as such officer before. road naturally brought into Huston a class He was a confident applicant for the post- of laborers whose morals and manners office in 1889, but along with two other were not of the highest type. It was not an veterans was passed by and Frederick R. unknown sight to witness bravados with Scofield was appointed at the instance of pistols in their belts stalking around as if Senator Quay. eager for an insult which they might wipe Mr. Towns was an enthusiastic Presby¬ out in carmine, as the saying goes. Fights, terian and for years an Elder in the churoh. riots and destruction of property were fre¬ He married Mary R.'Sarson, of French an¬ quent occurrences, and the law machinery cestry. The children are Mrs. Caston Bar- were frequently set in motion to punish. tron, now of Potter county, George E., During this period was the accidental, hardware merchant of Penfield, and Mrs. killing of the young son of William Shoe¬ Irving A. Thompson, of Nashua, N. H. maker, in Hickory. A party were coon Amos Horning, Sr., and his wife, Sarah High, maiden name, came from Montgom¬ -—:-t b 1 To become better acquainted with Phil¬ hunting andone of them, mistaking the boy adelphia's historic trees that tell 1 ‘‘Of forest chieftains and their vanished for the ooon, struck into the boy's breast i tribes . with an axe, killing him instantly ’ ' Of perished generations, o'er whose neads Another sad affair was the accidental self Their foliage drooped—which, once had- shooting of George Kosenkrans. This boy owed . The reverend founders of our nonored bouthBoJtTZrk Fork as' oneWaS ofStat a *°partnedy athunting a point deer State,” the Art Department of the Civic Club me ; Z™ ?*’ U0°S hitving goae t° start in its Walnut street rooms this afternoon. up the deer, when it would seek the stream Mrs. C. Stuart Patterson, chairwomaniO. to hide its trail. The youth's father heard the art lovers, presided, and the tap of her gavel called to order the first section meet¬ SnuThrtK°f afm’ and going ^ Place fouud the boy dead, he having leaned upon ing of the Civic Club in the new yea . From the Forestry Committee of the co¬ ennn h H a\d With Wfl heeI the S enough to discharge the gun. terie, led by Mrs. John P. Lundy, the pra gram of the day drew its orator. Mis the “sano” INDUSTRY. Ethel Austin Shrigley, of Lansdowne, For a few years during the second era the whose talk on “Historic Trees of Phila¬ delphia” was followed with “unanimous ?hftogt°hegCh8ing WaS Iarg0ly ccgaged inu he. to the Chinese, potent root had been nods of approval. . Miss Shrigley is a member of the Cen¬ gr 'Wing unsought and unnoticed in the tury Club, and her power to inspire for¬ forests But by chance a party of itinerant estry crusaders 1ms been displayed before that organization of public-spirited wo- heaDRrf °ame into the townsUp and the Klondike stood revealed. Men forsook ^MrR^Lundy is one of the founders of the other employments and went “sanging » Pennsylvania Forestry A®f,°ciag^’etary’s Good hunters had no difficulty in earning has placed its corresponding secretary s> three or more dollars per day and boys made

nmbs extendedyfor nearly the same dis¬ tance in all directions. Mmise erew “On thp site of the Custom tiouse grtw the first yellow willows, which attained to stature The introduction of the ?re^was In accident. Dr. Frankltal found a wicker basket sprouting either In Dock st. or in a boat on the creek. He gave mittins’s from it to entries rns,.

Date These" D’ees^extemled

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St“The tall pine trees by Ed’Y1^pnSth'wets

S°SS,° a?=S»tS D? 'Edward HISTORIC TREES Under which his daughter Margaret, and OF PHILADELPHIA

Miss Shrigley’s Interesting Descriptive ffielt“S~ Paper Bead to the Art Department of the Civic Club. incensedszTv&Sx&fiizs* at the i ~ +/-» flip branches of'th^treeTeveraf times the flames were MAYOR’S BROAD STREET PLAN promptly extinguished^ b^ ^^emen.^ 1839 Mr. Dundas, in w o S hawthorn

srea«[“,-the tree still lives. . ” ,uc‘ -ia, n°w includes a number of trees, i because of their origin or of some al association are worthy a position GeneraP'Sir William Howe took misses 3 their surrounding comrades.” fore the tatHe of r'S headquarteV be- s Shrigley discovered the most inter- roie tue battle of Germantown \fter- g existing trees in Bartram’s gar- ward General Washington oecupied Sten¬ and described the proposed oak grove ton with his staff. When his Excellency has been begun in Fairmount Park, became President of the United States he I will be known as Michaux Grove. ,once, more t0 ^teuton as the racat L ouri.i>al'k contains more ancient canredb0Penn»°,rrlS . Poglln> who has been than these, continued the botanist, rX|ie sketched word pictures of the wal- Cblonial Dame/' Dla 8 m0st distlD«llished |8f;ree planted at Belmont Mansion by ITS HOSPITALITY. » yette, the chestnut that Washington ,r,Pr- Pra?^l n' the Marquis de La Favette »ed near by in a cavity made by Judge Thomas Jefferson, Randolph, of Roanoke' r s cane; the remains of the old orch¬ James Monroe and Janies Madison were il1 Main st. planted by John Wistar; among the long line of illustrious visitors riant hemlocks at Stenton, the coun¬ Stenton^6 tasted the famous hospitality of place of James Logan, planted by >= the only relic of the vast primeval The present owners of Stenton direct !t that stands in Germantown; the | descendants of James Logan, have given rnwood on the Heft property; the rare to, the Pennsylvania Society of CdloniaL ?e tree that was brought north with Dames of America the privilege of restor- t difficulty by Lieutenant Melville and *Df; a.11.'}, preserving the antique mansion Kis,.« near what was formerly the as a historical memorial. ^klm School, and the Blunston oak ingIiiss anu!tthati °iVstentonU' tr*'a8 ;is>n afor superb the ondertak-specimen at at 1Eorby ,tl?at was mentioned in a in 1683, and is still luxuriant. Of colonial architecture, which haV neve? , ,e Civic Club will use its efforts to ThenSocletveof c°im /*? original condition. f lze the desire of Mayor Ashbridge for lie society of Colonial Dames believes the (jmble row of trees on Broad st.. from acquisition, of Stenton will be an imoor Tiantown ave. to League Island The taut object lesson to the city of Phlladel- eatal tree, the linden, ash and maple P.h av keeping green the memory of the Mrs. Lundy s favorites for the avenue ou0rrtp?ovinceand de6ds °f the founders ot practical as well as artistic purposes. THESPIA. THE SOCIETY TAKES ACTION. IS- „.At a meeting of the Colonial Dames held at Congress Hall. November 15 1899 a res olution was passed to appropriate the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars to nav Th? “eu Vrent) P ‘ in earnest thJ Dam.?s have now taken Up

oSfte?S8 “ VstSi°d%radt SpON 10 BE BESrOHEO savstf. V&ztAssits? contributed h?dmhatKthe amount will be CoUn??iCion^m“y “eesen?f to^he'\Clety' The Historic Mansion to Be Placed urer, Mrs. Alexander?!. Tassatt The^am ?eri fUI,ds is sent out by Mrs Marv in Its Original Condition. Histoid^Hous^”811 °f the ('0mmUtep oa

—-\ SCENE OF COLONIAL ACTIVITY J> ■ ,0 The Old House Where the Indians -From, <• ^?U ii'};pUr.y owed to Linger, and Where c if u.■ They Always Found Justice .\Jth (fto-— and Hospitality.

Date, undertPJie^bj^the Pp"est,in- works yet of Colonial DamesofP a ,?SL)vauia s°ciety Posed restoration of Wenton00 is the P™

land with William jwif1] c*!£? from Eng- Secretary of the t> ^ 1690. He was the Council and Chief^Jnsti Prefident of preme Court of Vi1 Jastice of the Su¬ gars. As President of8t5hVa^Ia for many acted as Governoi^nff/ihe £oun<’ll, Logaq L36 to 1738. He was 1 ™vince from ture and seiehcA interested in lltera- Ica! library tnVh. an,^ bequeathed a class „ The history0 of Ven? °f Philadelphhl ” tliat of Revolution^.1 is in a measure An Interesting Historical Sketch by k? “Mr. Mosby,” S'made welcome by Loon't °/ten af 8UPSts the revow,. 1 OLD STONE MEETING HOUSE ban. They were opposed to war or going to law. They favored arbitration. Was tlie Birthplace of Several Other Re¬ They were g6nerally an honest, upright people, filled with the love of God. In ligious Denominations — Rittenhouses, after years these stringent laws were set Keysers and Kulps Among the Old- aside and the services became more Time Members—Were Opposed to War, frequent, the preaching being in English. and Seldom Accepted Interest for a Among the ministers were William Rittenhouse, Gottshalk, M. Kulp, Jacob Doan—Personal Recollections. Funk, Minnick, Abraham Hunsicker and son, Hellerman, Hendricks, Funk, Written for The Independent-Gazette . Beidler and others.

Germantown—old Germantown—was GETTING PROGRESSIVE. destined to become great and historic. For a long period the congregation It became a refuge for many of the ** showed signs of dying out. The ministers oppressed of the Old World, who had were getting old, 'as were most of the suffered the most barbarous persecution. members, and the younger element Almost every foot of its territory is con¬ longed for something more in keeping nected with historical events of Revolu¬ with the times. In 1865 the Rev. tionary days. It was the scene of a Francis Hunsicker, a man of ability and fierce struggle between Washington and of modern ideas, took charge of the church. his oppressors. ^ A . He met with encouragement, and soon In 1683 it became the home of Pastorms, established a good Sunday-school and a one of God’s noblemen, who, after a large congregation. Everything was useful and eventful life, was laid to rest modernized. A neat pulpit took the in the Friends’ Graveyard, on Main place of the long desk, and comfortable street. Hood’s Cemetery, with its heroic pews suspended the old-time benches. A dead, is full of interest, as are the old good choir and an organ formed another Concord and St. Michael’s Lutheran attraction. Unfortunately, personal dis¬ Cemeteries. The old Dunkard Church sensions arose, the once happy band be¬ and its graveyard afford a grand study came separated, and finally the pastor Close at our doors is the beautiful Wissa- became a Presbyterian minister. In hickon, with its delightful scenery, and 1880 the Rev. William McCarthur, of wherever we look we see grand old Revo¬ the Methodist Church, filled the pulpit lutionary homes. for some time. After his retirement the Our special subject for to-day is the pulpit was filled by the Revs. Fredericks, old Mennonite Meeting and its people. It Funk, Grubb and other good men, Dan¬ was in Germantown that the first Men- iel K. Cassel being an active spirit. Mr. nonites settled, having emigrated from Cassell is now among the dead, but a few Holland in 1682. These persecuted fol¬ faithful Christians, with a good minister lowers of Menno Simon began their wor¬ and a little Sunday-school, are still labor¬ ship in private houses and in the woods, ing in the little Zion in God’s work. In 1708 they erected a log meeting house, A CRADLE FOR THE CHURCHES. the first Mennonite Meeting House in America. It stood near the present stone In 1852 the Mennonites held services church, which was built in 1770. The monthly and the little Zion was let to a old building was also used as a school- few citizens, with Beekman Potter and house, Chrisopher Dock being instructor. J. B. Champion at the helm, to form a .1 new Episcopal Sunday-school, and possi¬ SOME OF THE OLD MEMBERS. The building committee who super¬ bly a church. The services were at first vised the erection of the stone church held in the evenings. The Sunday- were Jacob Keyser, Sr., Nicholas Ritten- school started with six teachers and house, Sr., Abraham Rittenhouse and seventeen scholars, some of the latter Jacob Knorr. . Among the old members being children of Mennonite families. were JacobiKeyser, Sr., and wife, Nich¬ From this humble start sprang Christ olas Rittenhouse and Sarah, his wife; Church, Germantown. The Second Susanna Nice, “Granny” Catharine Rife, Presbyterian Church organized and wor¬ Mary Stoneberger, Ann Heisler, shipped in this historic building, as did • “Granny” Barbara Bergman, Margaret the Reformed Episcopal Church. With¬ A Smith, William Hendrick and wife, Mary in the last few years the members of Penninghasen, A. Rittenhouse, Peter Trinity United Evangelical Church held : ■ Rittenhouse and Susan, his wife; Ann services there, until the completion of Houpt, J. Rittenhouse, paper maker; W. their church at Duval and Bavnton Van Aiken, J. Rittenhouse and Mar¬ streets. garet, his wife. A record of 1789 gives SOME OLD MENNONITE FAMILIES. additional names, including those of Kolb The name of Rittenhouse is known all (Kulp), Moyer, Mervine, Benners, Culp, over the land. It was in 1688 that Wil¬ Nice, Engle, Margaret Smith, David and liam Rittenhouse, with his wife and two Mary Genter, John Rife, Schriber and sons, Nicholas and Garrett, and a daugh¬ ! Schnider. ter, Elizabeth, arrived from Holland. STRINGENT RULES. They located their paper mill in the mea¬ •V Some of the preachers came from a dow near the Wissahickon. The business considerable distance, and they always was carried on successfully by the Rit¬ preached without recompense. The tenhouses and their descendants. The Mennonites were a very plain people. elder Rittenhouses and many of the Some wore hooks and eyes instead of numerous descendants were connected buttons. Some were opposed to tomb- with the old church, William and his i'U stones. They seldom took interest for a son being preachers. Many of this old- ___mer,'JT^’wJio owned what Tly are mined in the old grave¬ l£came the PI >yd homestead, on Haines yard. David Rittenhouse, the celebrat¬ street, was a devoted Mennonite. He ed astronomer, was born in 1732 in the and his son, John, Jr., were prominent ancient home known for years as the figures in the church. John, Sr., owned McKinley house, which was erected in the property where stands the Young 1707. The name of Rittenhouse will go Men’s Christian Association. They were down to posterity. a very plain people, the old gentleman THE KEYSF.RS. wearing hooks and eyes in place of but¬ tons. He and his faithful wife perished The Keysers, like most of the Menno- ; in a fire in Bucks county, and were nites who came to America, were a perse¬ buried in the old graveyard they loved cuted family. They were among the so well. early settlers of Germantown, and be¬ Joseph Shriver and his good wife, came very numerous and influential. In Mary, were devoted Mennonites. They 1688 Dirck Keyser, Sr., of Amsterdam, owned and lived on the Dettweiler with his sons, Peter and Dirck, Jr., homestead until their death, Joseph dy¬ arrived in Germantown, and became ing in 1829 and Mary in in 1817. They men of note. were a kind-hearted, Christian people. Appropriate it is that the history of At their death the homestead became the Keyser family, opened by the mar¬ the property of the son-in-law, Jacob tyrdom of the first Keyser, should close Ployd. with the record of the heroic death of The Funk family was another delight¬ two of its younger generation, Lieuten¬ ful old Mennonite family Several were ant C. P. Keyser and Corporal Samuel prominent ministers in this historic Keyser, who were killed at Gettysburg, church. The old graveyard contains the Pa., July 1, 1863. The same spirit of remains of many of this heroic band of holy courage which prompted Leonard the followers of Menno Simon. Keyser to suffer death at the stake, and There were many other devout Menno¬ the same love of liberty that brought nite families who deserve special men¬ the ancestors of the family to America, tion, the Hellermans, Hunsickers, Peter led these young heroes to lay down and John Smith, Umsteads, Cassel and their lives upon the soil of the State numerous others just as faithful. their forefathers helped to make strong and great. THE HISTORIC GRAVEYARD. The venerable Samuel Keyser, who This ancient graveyard is a grand for a lifetime lived adjoining the old study. Several hundred have been Mennonite Church, was a direct descen¬ buried here. Many of the older Menno¬ dant of Dirck Keyser. He became a de¬ nites have no tombstones, as it was to voted Methodist, but the Mennonites many an innovation. Many Revolution¬ had no better friend. For years he had ary soldiers were buried here, as w'ere the meeting house and grounds kept in several of those who fell in the Civil order, never taking a penny for services, War. One little stone reads, “Derrick e c. At his hospitable home the preach- Keyser, departed this life 1756;” another, e rs and others were entertained, and “Jacob Keyser, aged 92 years;” another, often when a funeral would arrive from “Mary Keyser, aged 82.” a distance his house was thrown open Others read: “Samuel Keyser, died and a good meal furnished to all. 1773;” “John Keyser, 1813;” “Isaac THE KULP FAMILY. Kulp, died 1802, aged 80;” “Joseph The Kulps were a numerous old Men¬ Shriver, aged 75;” “Mary Shriver, died nonite family. They, too, settled in 1817;” “Hester Shriver, 1S20.” Germantown long before the Revolution. A little slate stone reads, “Heinrich Dielman Kulp, of Baden, was born in Rittenhouse, Geboran, died 1760.” 1648 and died in 1712. Martin Kulp was Several modern tombs and vaults have born in 1680, and came to Germantown been built by the Rittenhouse and Nixon in 1707. He served as a minister to the families, which contain many of their Germantown and Skippack Churches dead. Other sacred spots are occupied He was a trustee and witnessed the deed by the Nices, Larges, Dettweilers, Kulps, of the old church. He died in 1761. Funks, Markles, Fishers, Gorgases and Jacob Kulp arrived in 1707. His wed¬ scores of other families. ding took place in the log church in 1710, This sacred and historic place, with its Dirck Keyser officiating. Isaac Kulp lowly mounds, its primitive stones, its was born in 1722 and died in 1802, on his modern tombs, is exceedingly interest¬ farm, now the crematory, on Washing¬ ing. ton lane. He was twice married, Maria The big stone wall has disappeared. It Swartz and Barbara Rittenhouse being was from behind this wall that Hans his wives. He was blessed with fifteen Boyer fired a shot that mortally wounded children. Many of his descendants re¬ the British general, Agnew, at the head side in and around Germantown. Several of his troops, during the battle of Ger¬ pieces of antique furniture once owned mantown. Agnew was carried down to by this good old family are now in pos¬ the Charles Wister house, opposite Queen session of the writer. Isaac Kulp’s son street, where he expired. His remains Jacob owned the old farm opposite. He, now lie in the DeBenneville graveyard at too, had a large family. The Kulps were B ranchtown. ____ a strictly honorable family and did much for charity. Most of them are buried in the old graveyard. ' TRACING THE BUSTILL FAMILY.

Elizabeth Bustill, that was, is the jam- present widow of Charles Ciymer Jones * aBKitowiB aud the mother of Franklin Haynes CONCLUSION. Jones. Her husband was of Indian de¬ The writer has spent much time over scent and her Aunt Grace, daughter of the records, and from personal recollec¬ Cyrus, married Robert Douglass, of tion of over a half century makes a feeble Philadelphia, a West Indian, whose son attempt to finish his imperfect sketch. Robert was an artist. His pictures adorn He has heard many precious sermons some Philadelphia houses. The origi¬ preached in this little Zion. He witn nal Cyrus Bustill was a baker, and he his companions were among the seven¬ may have worked at the Revolutionary teen scholars that constituted the Epis¬ bakehouse at the Fisher place, on the copal Sunday-school which was born river at Torresdale, which still bears the i within these walls. Their forefathers name. The bread was baked there for are buried in the old graveyard. i Revolutionary soldiers. Cyrus Bustill May these sacred walls ever stand as a received a letter of commendatiou from General Washington, tor whom he is said to have furnished supplies. Cyrus and farcon«“Wg«.e remains ot many David Bustill attended the services of the Friends. who suffered persecution o ^ Some of the Lenni Lenapes favored the American cause in the Revolution. In provincial days were occasional! sail¬ isOhe prayer’of .he. unpretentjou^nte. ors, as well as soldiers. The American Baptist Publication Society issued a book Germantown, January 8, 1900. on the Journevcake, written bv the Rev. S. H. MitchelL This Christian Indian, and useful minister, was a great Lenape Chief. This tribe is now in the Indian From, Territory and has much land. Two P n / A years ago only ninety-six of the Indians remained. May it not be supposed that ■ ^ fc/ylsfi/flt&JlL*.(/...&!ZZL in the Lenni Lenape story of the origin of Bustleton the name Bustill and the w bustling woman were connected by a Date, /$aJ, pun ? The name has also has been writ¬ ten Bussletown and Bustletown. A Contradicting its name, Bustleton, which! NOTED FOR BOARDING SCHOOLS. pursues a very quiet existence as a part , . Cobbett published the Porcupine Ga¬ I of the Thirty-fifth Ward of Philadelphia, zette at Bustleton for a few months in I is a source of wonder to its own people the yellow fever times, in 1799, and Ed¬ I and those of other parts. Why was the ward Marshall, the hunter, one of three place given such a busy cognomen is a men who made the three great Indian querv that has always been asked, and walk in 1737, lived there. Bustleton though there have been numerous ans- has been noted for boading schools from I wers vouchsafed, everybody is not satis- early days, and St. Luke’s School for | fied. The tradition of the suburb is that boys, on the site of the ancient school of the village was given its name on ac- Dr. Andrews, now keeps up the reputa¬ | count of one of its inhabitants~~a bus¬ tion. The Neville School, Rev. Dr. tling woman, who was an early ri®er* I Franklin Haynes Jones, an Indian of intelligence, who is well informed, claims that his maternal great-grand¬ father, Cyrus Bustill, was an early settler I there. He was a full-blooded Indian, I born in that old Indian settlement and council fire, Burlington, N. J- Cyrus f Bustill married at Edge Hill, ^.attawa- twee, sister of Nattawatwee, the popular chief of the Leuni Lenape tribe (.origi¬ nal people ) The Bustill family owned land in Burlington. Nattawatwee be¬ came a Christian and died in Pittsburg in 1776. He had lived in Burlington. Cyrus Bustill was the father of six Ichildren—Grace, Rachel, Mary, Charles, Cyrus and David, The latter was born in Bustleton about 1788 and his children who reached adult years were Elizabeth, (Esther. Sarah. Joseph, Charles and James. Elizabeth was probably the "Bustling Bess” of the local tradition, quite a wide-awake person and a talker. It is interesting to know that the family keeps up its reputation for early rising-

. 7’ I Mm Samue! Jones’ school, where some pupils was a Baptist minister, ana nis lather. were trained for the ministry; John William Kinnersley, who was a lay as¬ S i sch“'. -of far away, it Plea” sistant to the Rev Jenkin Jones, at Bus- ant Hill, and the Chapman School (Pen¬ tleton, is buried near him. Edward ny pack Hall), at Rowlands, make inter¬ esting notes of history. Duffield, the executor of Franklin’s will had a farm at Poweltown, not far from John Comly was the author of school Bustieton, and near Dr. Rush’s early „r00p,; ?r-TJ?De® was elected president j home, in Byberry. Samuel Boreck’s of Rhode Island College, now Brown 1 old mansion stands among the pine trees Lmversity but declined the honor, near Bustieton. Ralph bandilord, the abolitionist, com¬ St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, a me¬ memorated by Robert Vaux in the vol¬ morial of Dr. Bernard Henry, claims ume which contains the memoir of the Bishop Coleman as its first rector. The hermit, Benjamin Lay, is buried at San- diford, near Bustieton. large Methodist Church building was erected many years since. Rev. S. D The old Pennypack (Lower Dublin) McConnell is the present pastor. Baptist Church building, nearBustleton, According to Samuel Willits’ “History of the Lower Dublin Academy at Col- legeville,” Busseltown was named before Holmesburg, which used to be called Washingtonville, after the Washington tavern. Holmesburg was named in 1801. Holmesburg people went to vote e late as 1842. «

THE OLD BAPTIST MEETING HOUSE.

represents a Baptist organization older I an^ °^er its denomination in Philadelphia. A new church is in the

REV. S. F. HOTCHKINS.

The present Pastor of St. Luke’s Memo¬ rial Church.

THE NEW JERSEY BUSTLETON. A few miles from Burlington, N. J., lying quietly among meadows and dairy farms, is another Bustieton. On the Old York stage road is the neat Provi¬ dence Presbyterian Church, chapel and parsonage. The Rev. Joseph bimms is pastor. Farther on are three ancient dwellings, and then come the farm houses of the Bowne and Frazier fami¬ lies, standing back from the road. John Richardson was an early resident. Phil¬ ip Bowne was of English descent and dates before the Revolution. George N. THE NEW CHURCH. Bowne is now the owner of the Bowne village, under the care of the twenty- farm. second pastor, the Rev. Thomas P. Hol¬ A little one-story inn formerly stood loway. The Rev. Elias Reach, of Lon¬ by the roadside, and when the old stage don, was the first clergyman. The parish coach bore passengers from Philadelphia once included all the Baptists in Penn¬ to New York its arrival made a stirring sylvania and New Jersey. Indians are lime. The inn has departed, but a well said to be buried in the ancient grave¬ and a lilac bush mark the site. The old yard. Ebeuezer Kinnersley, a professor road is reported to be an Indian trail in the College of Philadelphia, who somewhat straightened. worked with Dr. Franklin in electrical discoveries, is buried at Pennepack. He TEft 'company is the only menace ust .• 7 r r? in I’iorence towrflmp, berryberrys s eonservaconservatism. " It is a settlei which! Is not concerned about the futi whieh wsisja part of Mansfield township, but Goods ever on its past. It is al< remoti from trains and trolleys, though it in TW 5’ T D0-te naCQed Bustil1* living is included within the limits of Philadel¬ in Burlington is provincial times, seem phia. But there is nothing rusty or musty to be naturally connected with the name about the old age of Byberry. It is not of the place. Samuel Bustill, a lawyer, like a village of one street, where the men assemble evenings at the general store appears to have been the great man of and sit on cracker boxes to tell the same PhillXi yn- C^ries T- Gor-illiere, of never-ending stories and where the women Philadelphia, has a copy of his will. gossip over fences. The houses are too far apart for such sociability. It Is a Mis wife was Grace Gardiner. Tan- scattered townslfip, extending over 5600 ney s “Life of Penn” records that Thom¬ acres, and the only place of reunion is the as Gardiner built the first house in Bur- meeting house. iington. Bust ill’s wife may have been SETTLED BEFORE PENN’S COMING. of his family. The male end of this It was settled In 1675, seven years before Burlington family of Bustill is extinct. Penn's coming, by the four Walton broth¬ ers, natives of Byberry, England, who Ooarlee T. Gorilliere m descended from called their new-found home after their Samuel Bustill, old. These brothers established their hum¬ ble bachelor quarters in an old cave, near In closing this account the query arises the Poquesslng Creek. Their next-door as to what relation the Indian and white neighbors were roving tribes of Indians, Bustills had to each other. There was who proved, when treated kindly by the new settlers, peaceable and friendly. The a Grace in the Indian family. It was a tract of land the Waltons occupied was custom of Indiana to change names with included in Penn’s grant, and when he those they toyed. In 1719 Bustamento arrived, in 1683, they purchased it from him. Bustillo was Governor of the Philippines. Byberry has always been distinctively a As the “t” is lacking in some of the Quaker community. The first settlers were Friends, and they erected a log' meeting earlier records, could the English name house, covered with mud and bark. It have been taken and then somewhat al- stood where the carriage shed now Joins the old cemetery. This primitive place of !un.uR0D the coming of the Bustills to worship was used for twenty years. In the Philadelphia Bustleton ? 1714 a new building was erected. The most Bev. S. F. Hotch&inv^ noteworthy thing about this seems to have been that it had a fire-place on the out¬ side, which evidently didn't keep the Friends warm, for mention is made of a stove used within. THE PRESENT MEETING HOUSE. The present building was erected in From, 1808. It is a two-story affair, plentifully equipped with straight wooden benches. The inside is plain and unadorned, even J by a coat of paint. It Is heated by four ' huge stoves. Wooden partitions separate the men’s side from the women’s. Here among these undevotional surroundings

Date, L -I the Hixltes silently worship every first dlThe early Quakers were naturally culti¬ vated, and desired the mental cultivation!

f x--: stems after settUnfiTa p?ace wasto trgao- ^^d^sh^Hbra^ TheFrie^sat! Company0w^lncorporWed at Beu- ta^andThe yfirWst books.Vre installed in the house of a member. n A Ancient Settlement Founded Before building was remodeled in 1823. Again s&sxne

Penn Landed in America. their final resting Plac?-„^ volumes old collection ofBlnterest to1 aTre“'bole and. new, oi lnt . rTvhpv ranee over tastes are not fvivoR)«®. They_range o SOME INTERESTING RELICS a vast “®“bert °U2pl%tl“»p£y. science fl0royallPflwv represented. Old and extinct arebooks, all aairiyoalf-bound and, timetimp-worn, worn. nkeas rswell A Visit to an Old-fashioned Comma- < as those works of tn ^ found 0n the ■B ' • L this generation, are xo ue nlty bnt Uttle Known, Al-

tliOLgh Within the

City Limits.

slowlvslowly dying out .“£I ifS.aswadporomotromotioni0n of scl- “for the acfiai®'V°n-. and doui)tless accom- There is nothing modern about Byberry entifieentific investigation was in itslts prime.pri,ne. except its “Improvement Company.” This hangs its sign outside an ancient building, « A* «»£ the door of which is always barred and the shutters of which are always fast¬ SS^ tiS.,1. tf<■ '• *>» <"* ened. What It purposes to improve is a worse for ag? and dust. - mystery. The roads need it, but it is to be hoped that the meeting house, the j school and the old walled-in burying grounds are safe from the desecrating j touch of Improvement. I ^ _ OF DR. RUSH. PURSUIT ON. HORSEBACK ' nr Tames Rush, whose position ashus¬ * * 4 band to Madam Rush er ^^n^mfnent ---— individual c'alm to laurels a Watson CroSs Country in the Old Days to

«S“id hiS2t«j in ,5,i Catch Horse Thieves and Recover dwells upon the Pas fa”i rni^ to chlld- the wholesomness of 1 et!l™ ,,f )rlterest Property Stolen From Members

In Court of Common Pleas, No. 1, Judge Biddle presiding, a charter has just been granted to one of the most unique organizations in Philadelphia, one that P The site of "Old Philadelphia.” has been in existence for more than a cen¬ tury and yet was never incorporated until now. It is the Rising Sun Association, originally formed by farmers and landed gentlemen to protect members from loss [ of property, in other words to recover ih! Schuylkill in point of cleanliness^ stolen horses, mules, vehicles, harness, etc., and, if possible, to ca,tch and punish the thieves. The records of the association go back : IlsiliiSS to 1824, but the body is known to have KuSoJiklng^ver the books and relics in existed at least twenty-five years previous LI Rvherrv Library the task was made to that date. During the long period of |the Ryberry , t • ce 0j> an old resident easy by the assistance o^a ^ ^ tnhab- which there are minutes to tell the society and native of tb k . particular one has held its meetings in but three places. itants are as spry a* this P^ct At first the gatherings were at old they m„^tbnen| active a perfect encyclo¬ Hunting Park, York road and Broad pedia oafeiocal Wo™atlon^t«fflwereol8 street, where there were in times gone by some exciting trotting races, and next at tSUMf^A ?!"'»-its the Keyser Hotel, one of the old land¬ marks at Germantown and York roads. |S-hSfEf^'SS! At present the men assemble at what was the old inn at Wister and Main streets, Germantown. HUNTING HORSE THIEVES. I A glance at the by-laws shows some in¬ utmost by thrifty and experienced teresting facts. Dong before the tele¬ farmers. graph and the telephone systems were B | introduced, if a member of the associa¬ ■ j u J j j -J • v tion lost a horse, mule or other stable property, every member was informed of it without delay, and they were each re¬ I quired to scout the country side in dif¬ From, ferent directions, mounted, in search of the animal and the thief. Besides this a description of the property was sent to all the surrounding villages, and if suc¬ cess did not reward their efforts quickly then a reward was offered for the round¬ ing up of the culprit. At present the more modem methods of such work are resorted to. The records show that in every case during the past twenty-eight years the stolen animal was recovered. Only a year ago a fine one was traced to Burlington, N. J., and restored to the owner by three of the members. Quite recently it was deemed proper tc apply to the courts for a charter, and the petition for the same was prepared and filed by Attorney H. Gilbert Cassidy, and Attorney D. J. Callaghan was appointed master in the case. Several witnesses were examined, including George W. Boyer, who has belonged to the associa¬ Rising Sun Association and Its tion for more than a quarter of a cen¬ Unique Purposes Dating tury and whose father had been a mem¬ ber for forty years. George E. Weiss, a Back a Century well-known business man, was also called and stated that his fatner had been con¬ nected with the organization for nearly vammitree orrme Hqnarea coma oe now Uepeafca, in view ot the complete change in political conditions from uiose wmun three-score years'. ' OtHefs“"wEo gave tes¬ prevailed when that famous organization timony were Edward T,r Alburger, John was formed. It is to be remembered that| Davis and Dr. Abel J. Mathews, all men the, Committee of One Hunured was com¬ posed exclusively of Repuoiican citizens of good repute in the community. and that the results which they achieved NOT A DRINKING CLUB. came about through the co-opai auon of the Democratic party in Philadelphia at In his report to the court the master that time, or of at least by tar the major was somewhat humorous. “The Rising portion of the. party. The Democrats were Sun Association,” he said, “has no club¬ then actively and strongly organized and had- polled as high as 7h,0lX) votes. More¬ house in the ordinary understanding of over, the Republicans did not have^ an that term, but meets twice a year for the average majority of more than 20,(M).»Sven purpose of transacting regular business at with as. popuiar a candidate as Garfield Boyer’s Hall, Germantown avenue and the'Republican majority in the Presiden¬ Wister street'. It is a society composed of tial election whrch immediately preceded the advent of the Committee ot One Hun¬ gentlemen of excellent standing. The mas¬ dred was not more than 21,01)0, while no ter particularly endeavored to ascertain Mayor of Philadelphia had ever received whether or not liauor had been sold or a, higher'majority than 11,000. It may be would be sold by the association, but it doubted whether the Committee of One does not appear to be a political, social or Hundred controlled at any time more than literary organization in need of lubrication; 25,000 -Republican votes, but those which and all the witnesses declared with an em¬ they did control were quite sufficient to constitute the balance of power when phasis that impressed the master with united with the normal Democratic party their veracity that it was not a drinking of Philadelphia. The sucoess of the com¬ club; that it had no sideboard nor bar, and mittee depended almost entirely upon, and that there was no intention of procuring was the result of, a coalition which it either. The master is, therefore, of the formed with the working forces of the opinion that the association is not only Democratic party. Up to that time a de¬ fection of even 10,000 votes in the Repub¬ not unlawful and is not injurious to the lican organization of this city was in the community, but is one worthy of encour¬ nature of an. “uprising” or “revolution, agement and commendation, and he there¬ and it was by such defections that. Rowan fore recommends that a charter' be granted was defeated for Sheriff and Pattison it. . elected to the Controllership, and other The association is in a flourishing condi¬ city or county offices occasionally cap¬ tion, having a good, snug sum in the treas¬ tured from the Republicans. But the huge preponderance of the Republicans to-day, ury. In case of failure to recover stolen together with the feebleness of the Demo¬ property a committee is appointed to value cratic party, is such that another Com- . >nd appraise the same, and the associa¬ mittee of One Hundred could not repeat 1 tion pays to the member who suffered loss what was done in 1S81 and 1882 without a two-thirds of the assessed valuation there far greater popular support from Repub¬ of. licans than was given to the original com¬ mittee. Until either the Democratic party shall be brought back to its former nor- | mal conditiun, or until the existing Re- | publican organization shall be split again as it was in the Crow campaign In 1896, j a new Committee of One Hundred on the From, .<£*. old model would have an uphill task be-, fore It in securing a majority of the vote of Philadelphia. $ <* * » “G. F. P.” sends the following curious ..;./.;.1. titular description of the first American edition of Sheridan’s “The School for / q Scandal,” together with the cast of one Date,...&r~&V.. ..d. of its earliest performances in this coun¬ try. Probably the only copy of this edi¬ tion now extant in Philadelphia is in the library of Judge Samuel W. Pennypacker: THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL. A Comedy Bv Richard Brindley Sheridan, Esq. Performed with Universal Applause AT THE THEATRE IN NEW \ORK, mgs FROM A MANUSCRIPT COPY In the possession of TOHN HENRY. Esquire, AMONG THE queries and commu¬ Joint Manager Of the AMERICAN COMPANY, nications'.of the week there comes given him by the AUTHOR. a letter signed by “A Disgusted NEW YORK: Republican,” who, after dis¬ Printed by HUGH GAINE. at the Bible in coursing in generalities upon the politi¬ HANOVER SQUARE. MDCCLXXXVI. . \ cal situation in Philadelphia, declares 120 pp. 86 (2). that “the time is now ripe for Republican citizens to organize another Committee of ADVERTISEMENT. One Hundred to purge this city of politi-. “So many Spurious Copies of THE 13? SCHOOL for SCANDAL having been ob¬ cal abuses. In my opinion this is a sub¬ truded on the Publick. has “d" f ARBEthis es? ject which should be agitateu, and good lav before them, in its PROPER GARB. thx& es. results will flow from It.” it is a matter cellGDt Comedy, presented to Mm by Richard of considerable doubt, however, whether Brinsley Sheridan, Esq.. *ha j?,st'Y admired the sweeping success which attended the CONGREVE of the present Tim.s.p.iy DR AM ATI S PERSON AE-AMERICA. Sir Peter Teazle.\Vr Sir Oliver Surface ...wf°n"u

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Dear Penn: X have been much-interest¬ hams.'of Allegheny Cit^was^ev^rUrlted ed in your several articles concerning1 Wil¬ liam Maclay as having been one of the first united States Senators from Pennsyl¬ an admirable member of tnt t- aae vania. as well as in his moral convictions j House. He represented his'disVrict LAHe1" Of honor and rectitude as compared with gheny City and a part of Butler ^oimtl®; 1 the easy-going methods of the present day 1 in the Thirty-eighth Thlrtv hint*? ' My interest in the subject is heightened Fortieth Congresses, and was one^of the ' from the. tact that I believe I was born managers on the nart of the Ho, l on. an adjoining farm to the one on which Representatives to conduct the impllch- 1 the illustrious statesman lived and died ment of Andrew Johnson. Williams « and is buried: a.™asterful lawyer, and a man of sreat I remember distinctly that when I was abilities, though inclined to be indolent > a lad (now more than sixty years ago) w ^hen rous^d alld full swing had 1 there was a family plot inclosed bv a brick 1few orOr nonn pmnlcequals ato < the+ u - v-»Bar of- Pittsburg.7to* ;, wall on our neighbor's farm, in full view m his day. His argument as manage? and hot more than a few hundred yards fsatastae-ainst Johnson j*?is nnnd^^ogconsidered v..by £££**£* L ■ from my father’s house. In this inclosure the~ —--ablest - of those'•“vco deliveriesuci j v sjirjes. y nronnn iLt. t _ j . ' -f were several very unimposing tombstones, Apropos of this, I note in an article by and one of them, I am quite sure, had the J name of William Maclay inscribed on it with some reference to his having served his State at. the Federal capital. This farm is located in Union county, | about six miles west of Lewisburg, the * » /t/vy j present county seat, and was at that time i From , % yVTlM) owned by General Abner Green, although i it was often referred to as the Maclay ' 7 n 0 A farm. • I The public may feel an interest in-know- j ff>, \U ju {rL- ing where rest the remains of one of their | /i // first representatives, and the writer would I /f like to have his belief verified. Will you c7 kindly supply the information? Date, - >/C j 2/ INQUIRER. • 7’ ^ •./. Zi In Edgar Stanton Maclay’s preface to the .Journal of William Maclay, he says. ■

that “on. his retirement from the Senate. ■ , William Maclay resided on his farm, ad¬ joining Harrisburg, where he erected a? UNION LEAGUE OF ’63 stone mansion. He died on the l6th of April, 1804, in Harrisburg, and is buried in Tlie Prompt Efforts of the League to Paxtang .Churchyard.” It should be borne" Raise Emergency Troops When Lee in mind, however, that Safnuel Maclay. a brother Of'William'Maclay, was also a Invaded Pennsylvania. % member of the'United States Senate from To 1 be Editor of THE TIMES: Pennsylvania,:.and that Samuel .Maclay’s son was also a member of the Lower House" Senator Penrose lias introduced in the. of Congress. United States Senate a bill for the recogni¬ tion of tlie military service of the "First Concernihg Maclay '“J. W. DeW.,” also Union League Regiment,” raised in June, Of this city, writes as follows:. 1863, under the auspices of the League, for "Permit me -to ■ thank you for the article three months’ United States service, held about my grandfather, Wi Ham Maclay. to be Irregular, the President’s call being and; to. add one or two facts concerning for six months’ service. him, 1 have in my possession a miniature This brings to mind a bit of history. which represents him in''Continental cos¬ tume, with embroidered -ruffles, embossed When urgency for troops was so great, and Velvet waistcoat and all. the elegant et¬ enlistments so slow, the military committee ceteras worn by gentlemen of- the -old of the League, composed of B. Gerhard, J. school. His features are clear out, his ; G. Fell, James H. Orne. Janies L. Olagboru, forehead high, and thoughtful, his eye ; John B. Myers, John P. Verree and. J. 11. piercing tilt kindly, and 1 Is descendants n- ! Fry, chairman, now all passed into' the be¬ herit from’tyls the pride that can afford- to be courteous to the poor and down¬ yond, took upon itself functions of govern¬ trodden of. earth. I cherish sweet memo¬ ment, and with tlie approval of Major Gen¬ ries of a,n old mrse who had lived with j eral Dana assigned by the. President to Ibo my grandmother, who was William Mac- j organization of the militia and volunteer lay’s oldest daughter, and your article re- j forces at Philadelphia, enlisted volunteers called a remark she. made while showing i under the President’s call for throe mouths' me the family coat-of-arms. “Your fam¬ ily,” she said, "can sneak polite and kind 1 service. to everybody: but there’s some folks General D. N. Couch, commanding the De¬ who’ve got rich that don’t know how to 1 partment of the Susquehanna, a martinet, be polite, because, you see, they’ve got no disapproved of these irregularities to Stan¬ coat-of-arms.’ This was a practical ver¬ ton, i. e., ”1 do not. see the necessity of hav¬ sion of ‘Noblesse oblige' that it would be ing any new varieties of service,” bringing well for American men and women to re-' the retort from the chairman of the commit¬ member and practice.” -{.fa f * ' * * » tee to Stanton. “We are astounded to learn In the course of a communication “J. j that an ord'er is issued by General Pouch to B. R.,” of Media, writes as follows: discontinue the enlistment of three months "I wish to call attention to a curious T i moil. * * * I beseech you let the enlist¬ mistake made in two recent local notices ments go on. at least to filling up of present organizations.” The committee had ils "a.', and the companies were sworn into >t'f 7 bur I | United States service lor three month,- % ■■ s hi 1 was a brother tfthe conteaerate Gel TiTter'the service Ua.n-C.-n the r«>gi- Pemberton, wb(Surrendered July 4, - ment was not formally i-ceogiu*M " at Vicksburg; tc irant- This was cunous- government. being mustered out as .1 bvair ly overlooked, s far as -I noted ia all organization about September 1. This illustrates tbc uugratefiilinss ot xo papers that . ro itibned her death,^ ana they said she 1 is a daughter of rjnltea publics when exigencies haic pa.sta, States Senator 'ilHams. Williams served .vice rendered is often Torgottri ■ f In the Sta'te: Le slature'. Lower House, In While nerfonmns; horOK1 woik in cicie - 1861-2;’*- of tlie city, when the national goveniineut V _* •»* seemed almost powerless to ^Vtcot tjm Dear Penn: f- the; information of one committee even dared to appeal .1.111nll jn ents i« your column who form to the great War Secretary ’ ’ of the corresp' stantly upon the Governors of all the Match a short time ice • made Inquiry as to cast of us to send us whatever soldiets aie ij-the whereabou of some of the old-time dsh’s .Circus at Ninth and at this moment available, dldl1 7:=, 'f 11lis performers of profoundly impressed with the penl 01 1 Chestnut streei the writer will state that the safetv of which now hangs on im one of them -t whom he has made refer- issue of tire battle, in which MeadeV defeat ] ence—German th-e noted trick rider—is must be regarded by every sensible man as now a rest of downtown, being a possible contingency. , t, about- to celebrate his eightieth birthday, rriii« <1 isnnt,-h fraught with pen s or and being in the enjoyment of cotnpara* hour wasPwired from the League house on. lively good health for one of his advanced the eye of the battle which marked the hi„h years. j 1 - - / . ;' , . tide of our civil conflict. bas The last apde&rance -of Mr. German! in •ist'inton roolisKl • “None Tint rst.w i 'a public exhibition,-, the writer believes, aiiv' military organization efiectiye tor 1 a s- was about1 a dfeeii'years a-g&, on thebcca- ing troops within a short period,” and that ! sion of an Italian parade in this city, when i he headed the procession, mounted on a ! spirited horse’from Craig’s-riding school, ! one which, by the way, General Pml.Sheri- i dan had declined to ride a short tune pre» ‘ viously. on a public occasion in this city, from crossing the Susquehanna until Me.uU ton account of'.its fractioasTress, but. which I the veteran German!, in-.spite of his age, 1 rode with air his pristinb grace- and ac- 1: compllshment,. his skilful.. horsemanship 1 being one of the distinctive, features of the celebration in question. • ■ _ _ W. P, G. • » • - Dear Penn : X desire to supplement H. P.’s” account last Saturday of the ol<^ menagerie .bunding upon, the site oS ■ which the Gilmore Auditorium stands, he ' t0Colonel Whipple became brigadier and is entirely correct in his description, as I well remember it, and many times I Major Clancy. « “^^^mi^loned was taken there when a hey. 1 re« cohmel?who led the ^nient Tuly 20. under member the “Sulky Elephant'' also, and in passing around the ring to look into thr cages, gave him as wide a berth as pos sible. The small stage’’your correspon pic's headquarters wheve •* £ '[m(ier dent-speaks of, was, I think, the continua- engaged 1“ restoring order and en- tion of the cages in -which--Herr Drets. bach gave his “thrilling performances with.the lions and tigers, always conclud _ mg with big “terrific ride” in a golden, strong skimlsh lines deirlcyw chariot drawn by a -rampagious lien, th them and aiou^ the main , em ^1 pictures of-which gave one the impres sion that he drove- the lio’n af full ?peed -around the ring,- which- he' didn’-t lire the “small stage’ came -into play. i»S“» The lion, the chariot and Herr Dreisbacl) squatting therein, went across in about f°Tttisato be regretted the evidence of tnuch three jumps of-the Lion. of the work aVvnteiiia!tbeUl!re°th’u almost One night, - though, a thrilling scene, not on the bills, took place, of. which I f was a witness. For the Herr Dreisbach benefit it was announced that he woui ride around the open" ring; upon the ele¬ ^^C«in||e|eSu£the phant, holding in his arms a. tiger, and accompanied by a young- lady who was also to bold a leopard. The elephant duly caparisoned with the car., an..his back, populated as described, except that the ft^Vud'short fiUuuUorm?D^spon^l Z “tiger” was- a young, leopard, was led. into the ring, and slowly marched around. The leopard became uneasy and before it could be prevented got loose from the* Herr’s arms and made a scramble down. the elephants sides, and excoriating themj united nation under the old “^survivor. with his. claws, frightened the elephant^ who raised his trunk and emitted some) fearful, roars, which,-with the leopard’s! growls, made a small panic. Fortunately* -> a Droit well Of Massachu- Dreisbach caught the leopard by the tali] Hon., George S. ^out-well, the managers), , y* ev • and the two. wehi~bverlhe side of the ele-> setts; (who was a^dgne ot t Qn the Im phant together, when: .the poor, beast was in “McClure s ?r Peceffl" t ,&r a cut dragged into, his cage. " - < peachment Trial tha b0*0graph of the j The young lady, with her animal, sat taken n° ^EE^Ethemia Thomas Wil- f perfectly still and the'elephant was back¬ managers. Among them credited as £r.om ed into his compartment behind tha liams. but beneath Osei -c^ Boutwell is cages. For awhile things were; very lively suc^-error in narrating in that menagerie, blit fortunately no one was hurt. The visual-'redfl-re finale was : What * omitted that evening:-'. -J. G. W. ,'orajty' of Philadelphia 125V, ' only 'one professlonai! lire two .otfier persons '-wKb,. al3 yer in the; past thirty though they were hot street- venders, it Charles F. Warwick. seeftis.iq:to rft# , .deserve-to , . , -h® r*tnenib“”"'ed_ , . m s. ^1-►_ ;* * \U sketch like this, and.the firsfof these is tha some of the odd char- lamp lighter, who, wrapped in his heavy trn that once flourished on overcoat, with its large cap.e,' carried in one hand a flaming torch, while, with tha these quaint memories other, he steadied' the- short ladder that — “rt}hdeht who lias not for- rested upon his shoulder, while, walking Sdlelphia of his active days: from lamp post to lamp pcst.to light tha oil lamps that were used at that time to • ,As a companion piece-to @ George Mu'ndy. and-ot;her i illuminate the streets of our City.' And. tn^who were, familiar sights last comes the night watchman, who oatac 0f ]ong ag0> j thought t called aloud the hours and half hours' of the night, and kept 'the citizens informed, jr cltli an article describing a. as to the state of th“ weather. It seems dd seV> venders who once did a. ' ot but the majority of whom as if I can still hear him. cry: “Half-past twelve o'clock! A cloudy morning’” al¬ ood bu-yin the memories of our old- though it has been many a long year sinca 1-io hoc nriorl ti /vi fti vi i 4- n J4* h^^/ho old winter morning, would he has cried the hour of the night, and it Is more -than likely-that hois now resting tfivst’ colored hominy man, witis in the silent grave. „oO«aVc hat, and white apron, ex- - B P. C. ?,Vg YiVShis chin to his feet, fastened * « *. » VeWi^'Ch by a band, and at hit To F. H.—The hduse of amusement on Grout'S3- ;'°n his left arm he car-< Taishet Of hominy, which wai Arch street, now known as the Trocadero, T.\ed a cloth as.' white as tha • was once called the Park Theatre, and _0veand in his right hand a bell, f was managed, while it was so known, as Switzerland. Wthe shades of evening- approached, th tiffin man—th- perfect ■ prototype - of th iminy man—would appear, cbnd* ringing IS- bell, would call:--“■Muffins-hot muf- 'ns'”: In the'-evenipg. from 5 o clock-until ong.nast 11. could be seen, near the corne- if the street, seated close by the buildinL . and wrapped in her shawl, the old ? woman; who, from time to time, wouic I crv: “Hot cornL-Hot corn! tn th proper season of the year you would mee ♦he fish woman—many ot the'younger ones were, tall and straight as an ^ma I in dress and figure, and... With . pleasm, 1 faces and musical voices-^who would hav on top of their head a Pa^r.“P®? [rested her wooden tray, filled with fish. and. as she walked along, she .would cry '“Shad! Shad-o! Buy any shad? season changed, so would —er shad to perch and catfish. E of vendors had its own pecuii ^ song1, which, unfortunately , -G^.nn produced ip type. - , trade, he shipped'asjtbje seamhn from New Tho brief but fierce little fight in the. York to Bombay last voyage as boatswain barber of Cardenas during , the Spanish ports, making the last ' * * Declining of .the ship entered war> in proffer of Service as cadet, and I the Revenue^Ciittei W^ has written KTwJCw were kiiled and wo^|d was graduated - a few- scientific was recalled afternoen,^ hen^a sw^ many short stories widely known articles. Lieutenant Scott is w^ ^ club I of honor was presented atates Revenue Hutchison Scott his friends. among the youngei presenta- Marine Service, by a n™ ln the ban- circles in ^ an occasion of tion this afternoo:nd oubseauent jolUflca- Club. NO. gftSSt|SS»W alike of M. Prowc. “irii'lMB Lieutenant Scott and hi$ popularity. nob the oniy The sword wa® t-I ^oura-e and coolness in recognition of hl® c ti^e he was an at Cardenas. At that un The officer of the revenue cu> ter.Hiffisom Hudson took Part n tlie Winslow SPdnthe Scott was and the WUmingto Huds0n’s guns,

ln “Xn the Winslow was disabled by tenantr.'SffiS-V of the cuL ^ the Woodhury ■» was >“ the Spanish^ be did most elective -rk * smothering the as the cruising' to'the

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HUTCHINSON SCOTT, U. S. R. S. . Caldwell & Co,,. to be presented and made b.v 3. E. the Winslow was in imminent danger of observed to be grounded on a ledge of rocks being sunk the Hudson steamed close to her which stood well out from the shore. The and Lieutenant Scott succeeded in getting crew had reached the rocks and were wav¬ a rope to the torpedo-boat, and the cutter ing frantically for helit. Captain Fengar towed her out of danger. ■ -called for volunteers.' Among the foremost In his report of this action to the Secre¬ to respond was Lieutenant Scott. When tary of the Treasury Lieutenant Frank H. the dory, in a fearful sea-, reached the rocks, Newcomb, commander of the, Hudson, its occupants dared not tun up close, and said: ‘The coolness and intrepidity of after a couple of ineffectual attempts to Lieutenants Scott and Meade in handling heave a. line, suddenly Scott, securing the their respective gams’ crews, and taking line around his waist, sprang overboard advantage of every favorable opportunity before any one in the boat knew what he to get in an effective, shot' at the enemy, I was about. Shouting to play the line out, and their efforts, under the most trying * young Scott was dashed upon the rocks and

LIEUTENANT SCOTT THROWING THE LINE TO THE “WINSLOW ” ON WHTPi ALL THE SPANISH GUNS WERE TRAINED AT CARDEN AS ^ [Reproduced from Harper’s Magazine] circumstances, to run lines to the disabled seized by the imprisoned sailors. He 'wa; ! Winslow, are deserving of the highest badly stunned, but had gained his point b- .‘TOmmendation.’’ 1 getting the line to the rocks. Another iini j The speech of presentation was made by ! was hauled up from the boat, and one b- J. Willis Martin, the well-known lawyer, one the sailors jumped clear of the rock- j and applause greeted the close of his re¬ and were hauled into the dory 1 marks. Then the speaker handed the splen¬ ™e^rcl given Lieutenant Scott is t did weapon to Lieutenant, Scott, who, in ac¬ very handsome weapon. The grip is o ] white sharkskin bound in gold, the guarc 1 cepting it. made an appropriate address, in ^ handsomely modelled in the scrolls j which he thanked -these, who had singled bound with4 laurel, and bearing- the seal 01 i him out for such an honor, ?hoUt7t'&in1 the front anci the arms ol j Lieutenant Scott is a son of the late Cap¬ the United, States on the top, while at the bottom appears the monogram "J H S ’ tain Hutchison Scott, United States army, set with a ruby, two diamonds, and a sap¬ ■ and a nephew of Mr. Dallas Sanders, of this phire, emblematic of the national colors city, and is known as one of the most The guard terminates in an eagle’s claw daring and capable of the younger officers tenant n!cntfarSn- a™ethyst, which is Lieu¬ of the Revenue Cutter Service. tenant Scott s birth-stone. The blade of the sword is beautifully damascened and He was bom February 11, 1868, at Pitts¬ nee tS an 'inscription perpetuating the heroic burg, Pa., and is descended from a long line PnKa °fr,Vleut®nanit s,cott during the war in of illustrious men famous in the diplomatic, Cuba, and particularly at Cardenas. The railroad, army, naval, and social world. He Thebn?Io 1Sf 0f isiIve^’ handsomely embossed, was educated in France, Canada, and the the idea of seaweed and laurel entwined Is effectively used. The lower half is deco- United States, and was also a well-known hfa?Pli,eiivy leaves emblematic of athlete. He was appointed to the Naval *ov? and friendship. The regulation belt Academy in 1884 by President Chester A. and hangers go with the sword, which is Arthur, but resigned- owing to continued contained, with all its trappings, in a ma¬ severe attacks of malaria. He entered the hogany case. The whole design of the gift law office of his uncle, Dallas Sanders, but, on Tlgpypam Stln' ^ reflects great credit disliking the confinement, shipped as a boy executed

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