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Fig. 5. THE GEOGRAPHY OF THE ITHACA REGION.
Idealized Cross-Section Diagram Relations of Showing Preglacial, Glacial Erosion, Interglacial and Post Glacial Channels of Side Valley in the Ithaca Region
Fig. 6. THE GEOGRAPHY OF THE ITHACA REGION. (See page 21)
I Photograph of relief models showing creation of proglacial lakes in the Cayuga Inlet and Six Mile Valleys by the ice carrier to North flowing drainage. From left to right: (a) Position of Ice Front at time when Morainic Loops- were being built on the East-West Divides, (b) Slight retreat of ice and development of Separate Proglacial Lakes, (c) Further melting back of ice and development of Combined Lake Ithaca outflowing through the Six Mile Valley. NUMBER )% 1815THE ITHACA JOURNAL CENTENNIAL 1915
COREORGANEL: THE FALL OF THE LONG HOUSE A STORY OF 1779
Revolution- = By Wm. Elliot Griffis, D.D., L.H.D., Author of The Pathfinders of the
Even men and girls knew why. pelt, kept in the council hall, sacred to young THERE was disquiet in the Long the Spirit ancestor, declared. Before its Scarcely a score of moons had waned, HoUse, that stretched from the suspended on two poles, were the since the runners from Oriskany hfought Hudson to the Niagara. Some door, bodies of two white dogs. Spotlessly the tidings of the great slaughter of braves in the faces of mothers and old men thing Herkimer's riflemen. Even clean, save for the gash of the sacrificial by yet, the told the little ones of anxiety and fear knife of the medicine man, these were Long House re-echoed the woe of mothers, for the absent fathers and sons. The victims for the propitiation of the Great widows and daughters. They mourned village of outside the Coreorganel (just ' Spirit. Out of their snow white skin, he for sons, husbands and brothers slain in limits of the present city of Ithaca) was would make a poUch for his tobacco, the ravines of the Mohawk Valley; while stripped of its braves, for all able to bear daily burned in the sunset fires, which women, desolate and childless", yearned arms were away over the hills to the his children nightly saw in the west. fiercely.for white pappooses to adopt and southwest. A great host of pale faces Haply in its soothing smoke, Manitou rear in their place. Besides, had not were coming with shining muskets, each might forget his anger and in complacency King George, the Great Father over the with a death-dealing lance at the end hear the warrior's prayer and drive back sea, sent word, with m&ny a gift to re called a bayonet. Big guns, drawn by the white invader. inforce his decree, to destroy his rebellious horses and on wheels, that spoke thunder Who and whence were these pale faced children ? Had not his commands been and scattered iron, were with them. The children, who had already forgotten their accompanied with barrels Of fire water, Long House was to be forced open. Per cradles, and the faces and bosoms, of heaps upon heaps of guns, and hatchets haps its hearthfires were to be put out, their own mothers? They remembered for the braves, and mirrors, beads and leaving only cold ashes; forever. From now naught of fathers or kin. In trinkets for his forest daughters ? Were wrathful happy the Great Father,_ Washington, oblivion of the past, they had responded not all the warriors of* the Six Nations had gone out the decree, that the Iroquois quickly to the new environment of ele loyal, as were their ancestors, to "the castles must be destroyed and their corn Corlaer" mental life in the forest, so rich in. childish covenant of and the Great fields made desolate. Weeks before, joys. How near to the primitive is the Father beyond sea ? swift runners had borne the news. heart of the< child! So, late in the month of flowers, in Sultry was the long summer day of the Who ? The bloodspotted trees and June, 1778, after uprearing .the sacrifice white man's Sabbath, the 29th of August, grass of Wyoming and Cherry Valley of the white dogs to Manitou and d long 1779, but to the red child it was one like could tell. If rustling leaves could trans and exhausting War dance to fire the pas all the others. The corn was in the milk mute whispers, or soughing boughs sions of hatred and inspire courage, the and the children were playing beneath forfes^ become articulate speech, the story would braves slept till the sun lit again the the long green streamers of the leaves. be quickly told and the mystery solved- valley. After morning food, the women Yet at the first rising of the afternoon No old home could tell the tale, for roofs more insistent than the men, they all lake breeze, the Tuscarora village (where and walls had long since disappeared from moved to the grove of birch: Skilfully today stands the Fleming school house, earth in fire, into invisible ether. Many the young athletes climbed the trees to near the tracks of the Lehigh Valley rail a grass ' blade was incarnadined, on those girdle with knife or hatchet the trunk, road) was already in cooling shadow. fateful days when the tomahawk cleft while below near the ground they made Shafts of golden sunlight lay level, from its way into the brain. Many a leaf, the corresponding circlet. Sliding slowly hill-crest to hill-crest, over-roofing the clipped by stray bullets fell, while those down the face of the tree, lowered with shaded valley as with rafters of gold. The left unscathed on the parent trunk looked strong rope of twisted thongs by two pumpkin blossoms had passed their glory down on flames and fields dotted with strong-armed comrades from above, the and had shrivelled up, giving place to the dead. Yet good Mother Nature, slit the bark along and down. the deep green globes, now already older even than flesh and kind to Squaws chanted a song as they peeled touched with flushes of bright yellow. blood, the human babe, as to the whelp and the silvery skin of the tree, leaving the The children, white and red, had come fledgling, sang new lullabies. Orphans trunk naked and bleeding. Already in out from the leafy aisles of the corn fields, were quickly soothed in the Indian's! the the men had driven double where tassels and silk were in amorous earth, home and the little white captives lines of stakes, a boat's width apart and maturity. Though they had cast aside promptly responded to new joys. twenty feet in length, tapering at the ends. their green garlands and sashes, the Odd or grotesque seemed the spoil from In this bed. and enclosure, throwing the youngsters were still playing. Alike the homes on the Susquehanna, once i bark up and it around, as boys and girls practised the pageant of joyous, belly folding even though scant with the comforts of one would a bed blanket, reversing the returning victorious warriors met by wel | civilization. The butt of a jibe of old relations of outer and left squaws. Old men looked ^many inner, they coming on, ordain-' Bquaw and warrior, even a horse might' the curly and silvery fibre their redstone while the inside, smoking pipes, trees' laugh at the oddity of a gridiron hung! ing the smooth side of the cuticle women prepared the evening meal of fish, cheek by jowl with a gold laced a to glide over the waters. Then they parched grain and tender herbs. coat, woman's garment with a crockery quickly wrought to change birch bark, How and why were pale-faced little pitcher, bhat had survived all accidents of pack- from the tree's immovable integument, folks blossoming in the wilderness ? Why dorse, forest and canoe journey. to the most mobile of all primitive craft. here boys and girls baptized at Christian Only one white maiden, already sought for The women and the common workmen Fonts, now shod with moccasins and ar wifehood by a brave now on the of the fitted in the pole frame, rayed in fringed buckskin and bead- war-path, tribe, long was old enough to remember dimly her fixed the sewed them up with decorated garb ? Why here a white girl thwarts, "" rirlhood's sunny days/now into! fibres furnished the forest and smoothed of maturer The receding by yeafs7 ^wearing beaded had1 the deeps of memory. she the gunwales. The rounded the fillet and feather of marriageable maiden Already experts for seven years worn both the moccasin with prow and stern un hood ? A score of captives from the set double-ender, \ and the forehead band of Indian together the tlements had made their home in this virginity distinguished, and stitched dead' V And why that ghostly array of jointures. With guns melted in the fire, valley-village, of twenty long houses of trees the river side in the forest en waterproof their by caulked and .made timber and bark, which had sent out they virons of the village ? Their trunks in craft. a of it was able in six-score fighting men now on the war Now, thing life, Bpectral white and the dead birch leaves the master's hands to dance on the bil path. The community boasted in all of above, like funeral trappings, the the shoot over rapids, seven hundred souls. So the notched hanging lows, float with tide, once fair trees were now only timber. or bear of pelt, sticks and fringed lines on the painted freight, warriors, game, Not skinned had been the old, but alive, they or spoil, while ever responding to murdered in their prime. "Tighs" guidance. No propulsion or vincible. A chorus of and coarse paacue lor the high hills the gleam of bayonets had as helmsman was needed, for guffaws greeted the very mention of ad helm or been seen. The pale faces were panting, faces' northern ancestors of vance from any direction towards the /^ with the pale as they climbed the steep slope. Now of pre-rudder four doors of the which the the steer-board, Long House, upon Europe, Oswego,' was the time to rush them. the tail of this new born , pale faces called Pittsburg) days, served as here was victory, for the Point Surely easy The paddle-the utmost and Tioga where rival to the fish. Schenectady, white braves were all too certain of suc strength combined the waters were lost in the lightness, Chemung - evolution of cess. The story of Stony Point, heard the chief balancewas fashioned by Susquehanna. and | by express sent by Washington the day craftsmen of the tribe. So in mid-August, the braves, assembled i before, had put edge on New Hampshire was this masterpiece from every one of the sixty villages of the Not yet however, valor, while dulling discretion. With a important powder of skillas valuable and Confederacy with horns and forest j yell and a volley, Brandt and five hun Pullman the ocean finer or bullet pouches well and with many in its day as is filled, dred Indians nearly surrounded the men ours to take the a new gun and blanket from the King's palace car in ready of the Second of the three regiments the bird in the stores at N. I water as rival in speed of Kanedasaga, (Geneva, Y.) now separated and with guns unloaded. the the where points North air. Before its birth on water, Seneca Lake to the steel j . They had hoped, with cold only, to tribe must paint on Star. to the I picture-writer of the Exultantly they moved, dim the glory of Anthony with a ' Wayne, i the god, where the river its prow the symbol of inspiring rendezvous, Chemung victory even more brilliant than that of town" the emblem of near "the new the totem of the tribe, or bends in a loop Stony Point. chief. with an miles east of Elmira,. N. as the the family of the Then, (four Y., ti For just such an emergency, the long dance no son of Adam man talked). There with other holy, for white Brandt, headed Washington . had provided. The more religious than the the rangers and five tribes of was in his way Canadian sent worshipper riflemen, by but forest the braves again took the Confederacy, that is, all except the him, bayonetless, ever with lead rammed home and and chastity 'had assembled. The Delaware alert, i vows of courage, loyalty Oneidas, sights in place as the cannon pure and who were the had provided, while on the war path. Now, Indians, engineers, had been, by the forest-trained soldier, in'ManitoU's sight, they were ready chosen the spot on Which to make a holy who had seen Braddock beaten in on right by to face flood, fire, or death on the journey stand. With a dark defile the visible foessaved the day. Dearborn's down or lake, with portage towards the setting sun, near the river's brook, river, about," instant order pf "right to his Susquehanna. edge and a high ridge of steep-faced hills over the hills, to the Third the red men in each of regiment, taking Part of the equipment of group towards the rising sun, at the foot the line." rear,. completed the salvation of the explicit and which ran a stream of hoped was the "tump Clear, water, they New Hampshire men of the was the Second, taken in full solemnity of ritual 4dia either ambuscade or successful de under Reid, and the Indians fled. the corpse of kinsman or A host vow to save fense. numbering fifteen hundred, Then down at the base of the Despite the below, comrade slain. dangers, under the red flag of the double cross, hills, along the whole line and over the or warrior must leap out stealthily ap awaited the coming of SulliVan's Conti entrenchments, Sullivan at 3 p. m. ordered the cord to arm, or nentals. There were four proach, attach foot, hundred white the charge. , Five thousand victors com the lest the neck and draw away corpse, Canadian rangers, some painted like pleted a rout, with later a month the or that, the slain, count dead, Indians, under Butler and McDonald enemy scalp of tireless with torch and The highest industry sword, over visible results. and these with their red allies under the' triumph ruined Iroquois Confederacythe came to the warrior from hairy behind the lines masked with honors Brandt, lay mightiest political structure ever reared these added trophies at his belt, for greenery. Against these out of four hung by savage man. The forest Highlanders It was the feathers to his war lock. states, had marched the brigades, one of America, after centuries of thought the ground a of disgrace to lie on from each, five thousand in all, So ran abyss and care, had reared a social and political bereft of one's scalp. the words Of the last swift runner re carcass edifice of vast strength in a forest and in the cheers of the old men, ceived a week before. So amid a natural castle deemed inaccessible. admira the squaws and the At the of the summer the smiles of waning moon, Yet all this vast structure fell to pieces the warriors sallied just before that called after the harvest tion of the youngsters, in the space of a single month. Sullivan's locks erect as cock's combs, and penultimate to the the forth with war hunter's, victory was final and decisive. Save for enemies. The defiance to their hosts met. Behind lines of defense built the implying bloody skirmish and massacre at moved warrior-laden canoes like the white the red allies of fleet of man's, Graveland, no further hostile shot from man current, every George hoped to drive back the down the Chemung King the main army was ever fired. Sullivan a watcher, propeller, or wary avengers of Wyoming; or, failing in this, a pilot, a led back his host to Easton, with only the annex of Cherry lure into the defile the river Wyoming, with to miry by forty graves in the forest. were the results smaller vales bottom and there ambuscade them. By Valley, and At the Seneca Village of the stripped Enough was avenged. high noon Sullivan's riflemen were seen for* and Oriskany trees the chief boat-yard Wyom brought the pale-faces were stealthily crawling behind rocks, trees, t children of. ing's destruction a runner, breathless even and coigns of vantage along the creek, back with the spoil to supply and ragged, arriving before midnight, morej right moved corn two , to into the than the demands for adoption. In while, the told the triumph of the foe. Through Jerseymen. On their the Tuscaroras with Maxwell's the till signal years of the Oriskany, fields, hours dawn, fires were kept Penn- j on the Hand's most bellies, grass, lay but not till noon of next the 'Seneca tribe, largest/fiercest, burning, day did sylvanians. Unseen and even gloated over victory; unknown, the with and united of the Iroquois, braves, weary battle, fatigue watchers on the white man were to the Indian hilltops. all night Their accounts with the toil with the paddle, appear in New backed was their high tide of Dearborn's Hampshiremen, view. Then in line as sinuous as a all crossed out. It snake, faces' Clinton's New moved the no pale Yorkers, up the canoes some that had been to prosperity. Surely army by mountains' stream side to climb the hill and could climb the thence, moons before were beached of vengeance Wyoming to strike the British host fastnesses. The heart charging down, with their burdens on the river's strand. to enter their forest was decreed in Heaven that was too far from the in flank. It a dead warrior was lifted out. of the Confederacy, Many of New England were to suffer few after these men Scores of the shot-riddled war feast towns, whither a chiefs, shell-torn, most in the save the visit the of had travelled and fight, day, riors, or gashed with iron shard or leaden a moon or two time, site of future and then, in ven could the white man Ithaca, ball writhing, but unmoaning, were borne sat in council. How wipe out in fire the vil pathless geance burn and to beds of pine needles or balsam fo6d for his host in a forest, boughs. 'find Coreorganel. trails sunk in the lage of In the, council held the next the save for the rutty deep day, fire of eleven m Terrible was the artillery voices of worn men movmg disappointed and belated war soil and long by I guns that opened at 3 p. m. Indian vernes, save himself from am riors, arriving after the and the single file ? How battle, Which made ? As for that Winced not at torture, dauntless old too weak to bear hard buscade in defile and swamp men, could not with iron- the white man out, the mountains the cry ships, but strong with passion, were loud dragging over round shot that tore gaps in. wheels who would stand the for further war. But the squaws guns on lifted spouting lines of earthf the wall of green that hid task? Would they not be unitedly their protest. After wailings attempt the grape and the terrible The hail of shot, over their own tribesmenburied where in the morass ? mired burst both in front and be that ^avengersdke&KQK- tradition of Braddocks bombs, white coujctnak on the the^ Fed them a new kind of war. stories of made for their gravesand' such rude reinforced by hind, cleansing, annihilation, The red men wavered. of the white mans and surgery, as the women and the nearly won, balm, Oriskany the word of the Indian out in fire a Then passed old warriors could the primitive settlements wiped give, ou post hilltops that, not warriors had watchers on the along] female suffrage of the forest won. The , generational^a+inn of rred whole . the river's edge, in themselves ir the;twilight of squaws ruled. who deemed thej grown up, been hoped, but up on| deep mud as had By swift runners the tidings were car unity. The aged chieftains, with many a THE RAILROAD TO GENEVA ried to all the villages and every one of descendant of Brant and others holding From The Journal, Aug. 15, 1671. the castes and there was in all wailing last wands of fame and honor, held their Just before going to press last Tuesday Coreorganel resounded, for the first time, council, on ground hallowed by an we received a dispatch from C. M. Titus, with the notes of woe. The villagers, one cestral memories at Portage, N. Y., in president of the Geneva & Ithaca R. R. after another, broke up their old associa Letch- 1879, in the park now called after Co., announcing that the contract fori left the graves of their and tions, fathers, ex-president Millard worth, the donor, constructing the road was let to Jarvia moved on a westward trail. Within Fillmore being the guest of honor. They Lord and James Bellows of forty-eight hours house in and Rochester, every log but met for final reconciliation, indeed, and Joseph B. Sprague of Ithaca, and near the future Ithaca was tenantless. fire also to extinguish forever the hearth that the work was to commence at once. The white captive children vanished with the; to the of Confederacy. Then, bowing Those acquainted with the contractors them. Sullivan's Continentals moved aged men left will of the Eternal, the know that they are entirely responsible to the Genesee in a forest eloquently oblivion the tra cold ashes and gave to and have great experience in building silent. Plying torch to the houses and ditions of a noble past. , public works. Mr. Sprague has just set sword to the corn the men standing on the On the 29th of August, 1912, tled among us and is public spirited and ordered of Washington to devastate the reddened battle site of the once field, will take hold of this work with vigor. left behind him a waste dotted country, the noble Sullivan Park, crowned by The price is said to be $24,000 per with the sites of towns in ashes. mile, forty Empire monument reared by the State, to include grading/ties and iron. black stubble was where Only left, thour to the of the Con was dedicated memory We expect to see the cars at sands of acres golden with potential running tinental heroes who destroyed savagery the earliest possible day. harvests had mellowed in the sun. Fifty and opened the westward pathway of white captives during the triple march of civilization towards the Golden Gate. It the three Wings, starting from Sche The Titus which is one of Ithaca's proudest memories, one block, houses The and nectady, Pittsburg were Journal, stands as a Easton, of her richest historical assets that monument to the rescued. It was on their return march through What are now her beautiful late Charles M. Titus, who erected the that the Fourth Pennsylvania on one the times" streets and avenues rich in happy homes, building during "hard of the side of Cayuga Lake and the third New moved the victorious regiments of Dear late 70's, giving work to many men at a Hampshire camped on site regiment, the time when born and Butler leading their triumphant work of any kind was most of Ithaca, as the tablet on the wall -of continentals from the Keystone and the welcome.. Ithaca states in bronze. The Pennsyl- Old Granite States. vanians found Coreorganel a level waste
of ashes. It had been burned by Colonel MAN" A ."STONE FOUND Dearborn the before. day From The Journal, Aug. 28, 1879. The castle or Long House of the Six MILES GOT AN OVER-LOAD The second day of July, 1879, dawned Nations, hitherto impregnable, had been From The Journal, May 3, 1867.- upon what appeared a day of moment to [stormed by the genius of Washington Last Saturday afternoon about 5 geologists, theologians, savants and sci and the executive ability of Sullivan. o'clock, an accident occurred near the entists the whole world over. A stone The Iroquois Confedercay, as a unit of hotel at the corner of the lake, by which a man of gigantic proportions was exhumed of power, as an element influence in the lost1 man named Miles Morgan his life. at Taughannock upon the grounds of Mr. struggle for a continent, passed out of Morgan was a resident of Ludlowville, John M. Thompson,, while some of his history. No more decisive battle was ever and in company with Frank Clark, and employes were digging a pathway. The fought on the continent of North America John Fisher, both residents of the same discovery was quickly heralded from lip than that of Newtown, near Elmira, place, had come to Ithaca for a load of to lip; the wise men of all denominations August 29, 1779. lumber. It appears from statements began periodic visits to the "wonder of the of | The foray 1779, conceived, planned, age." made to the Coroner by the witnesses Learned dissertations and lucid and watched over in every detail, and named, that Morgan was a- man who explanations of the whole thing were do- remembered every day, let us repeat, by sometimes drank, and in loading the delivered over the stone man and wbe Washington and executed by Sullivan, wagon he did not omit to load himself. looking spectacles. The newspapers too".; made Yorktown possible. It laid the described' The consequence was that when they had up the discovery, minutely the foundation on which Ithaca and the proceeded on their way home as far as details of its finding, and editorially ex great University could be built. Even the point indicated, a sudden lurch threw panded upon the race before the flood. yet, in Iroquois tradition, the name of Morgan from his and the. wheel With this issue of ye war" seat, of The Journal stone the "first in and peace lives, but the the heavily loaded wagon passed over his man goes to join the Cardiff giant, the pre red men know it not as we do, for to him head, not crushing his skull, but historic, like some other "celebrities we he stands in their as breaking perspective the his! has- served- his neck, and causing almost instant could name missiqi)_a-aa Destroyer of the Long House. It was the * death.. goes to "jine the gang of expired grOat battle of near N. Newtown, Elmira, Y., ones." Peace to his ashes(?). > on August 29, 1779, that opened a road Note It was ascertained that the in the forest for the forward march of man" "stone had been manufactured? Anglo-Saxons to the shores of the Pacific. by Road," Ira M. Dean. > Along "Sullivan through the forests and on the mountains, from the Delaware to the Genesee, as to a New Jerusalem, moved the pioneer, settler, reformer, missionary and builder of cities. Never again as a host did the Iroquois
gather. Divided against itself and its former inmates fighting only as individuals or groups in the later struggle of 1812, the Long House never again regained its LARGEST COUNTRY WEEKLY' On July 4, 1871, T ;e Journal (weekly) was increased in size from. four pages, nine columns to four l JOURNAL CENTENNIAL NUMBER pages, eleven columns, necessitat-- 1915 the ing installation of . a larger press. The issue of that date,/ heralded the change as follows: a ' '' Thirty Years Ago On the third day of July, 1841, the 'present proprietor of The Journal entered into partnership*
with Alfred Wells in the publica-> tion of this paper and he has been Mr.' connected with it as partner of W. or as sole owner and publisher ever since, a period of just thirty years.
. This occasion has been chosen as a sort of anniversary, and today we present to our readers The Ithaca Journal, the largest coun try paper in the State of New York, the1 if not in, United States. There are so many of the. most pleasant characters, during the many and long years we have,, CHARLES CARPENTER AT THE '.'CASE" ON HIS 77th BIRTHDAY published one of the two most prominent political papers in Tomp FELICITATIONS FROM THE OLDEST and the printer has kept up with it. Take, kins that we shall be County, par "CONTINUOUS PRINTER" Ior instance, your own daily newspaper; doned if we refer to them. Kind compare The Journal of to-day with its friends have ever attended upon Interlaken, N. Y., August 10, 1915. namesake of forty or fifty years ago, and and support us, the accorded to you will note the march of improvement Backward, turn backward, 0 Time in your flight, the sheet we have owned and con again Make me a child just for to-night. in every department. Work that in those ducted has been most gratifying early days would take days or even weeks In looking back over a period of six and substantial. Today we have to accomplish, can now be done in a few decades or more, and realizing that at a subscription fist far larger than hours, and in a style that would astonish that early day the farmer gathered his any other paper in the county, an the old time printers could they come grain with a sickle or a cradle, mowed his advertising patronage which comes back and see the change. with a scythe and raked with a , it The Journal hay to because of its The writer has seen- all these changes wooden rake, the miller ground his flour extended and valuable circulation place, from the old hand press, with the old mill stones, getting the power taking far in advance of year in the, any over- that hard work would print a token an from the (or under) shot water-wheel, by and of past, a fine job work whiph hour to- the present fast webb and then to look at the gigantic strides in printing attracted to the office is because press with a capacity of 20,000 to 30,000 machinery of to-day to carry on the same the facilities we have of prepared in the same length of time; from the industries, is it any wonder that the for its prompt execution. tedious (to many) average mind stands appalled ? ; And not type-sticking by hand, * * ** * * to the lightning composition of the Mer- only has this great change taken place in We are grateful for public sup ganthaler and he has kept pace with the the agricultural world, but in all other port in the past, we are hopeful changes and improvements. branches as well, and in none more so for a continuance of the same preservative" sup than in the "art that of But to go into a detailed sketch of the port in the and enter upon printers' future, printing. advancement and progress of the Journal' the 56th volume of The Take it in the latter, when the writer art in the past 65 years, or to give a remin with better assurances of success went to the printer's case to learn the iscent sketch, would require too much than ever before. trade in 1850 the old Ramage press space. Suffice it to say that in no branch mammoth cylinder The press on?, of or has there been more was in use making two pulls of the lever mechanism, art, which The Journal is improvement. the press to print one Side of a four-page paper; The compositor, this week is from the manufactory the the editor all to balls were used for inking the types; no man, reporter, try of A. B. New York and Taylor, City, J commercial paper to speak of was in use; excel and they succeed. is the largest press used any The writer is proud that he ever learned by everything was printed on a hand press, paper in central New York. weekly the first power press the writer can re-. the trade, proud that he has kept pace its and more proud member being an Adams, (flat bed) and with advancement, after more than 65 years at turned by a crank. that to-day, "comp" the case and 78 years he In those early days the who nearly young, can yet do a good day's and fears wished, or had to work at night, strained work, "noise" younger' "tallow no from aspirants. his eyes by the dazzling light of a many dip," There be older men than he at the and to enter a daily printing office may that but if in the who (they were few and far between at. trade, few, any State, see the have worked at the case as time) in the very early morn, and continuously a sight as he over 65 years, myriad fire-flies in the, room, was long Best wishes for the continued long to be remembered. prosperity March of Progress and success of The Ithaca Journal, the and its staff. But in no branch of industry j has Charles Carpenter. march of progress been more apparent, THE AMERICAN JOURNAL.
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[WHOLE No. 209. VOL. V No. 1.] ITHACA, COUJTTY OF TOMPKINS, X T.....AUGVST 15, 1821.
been made in the paynent of VXTHEREAS de/a;ilths been made in the pay DEFAUX'f liaY'ng Sale. ami ih* inter* t thcieiipon, in Land for V V ment of a certain sum i>[ muiiev secured to he a snci ofroorwy an indenture of mnrt- I. To village and those vho re ?nid an indetttare of murtgrige djte the tended to be secured by by way subscribers, by bearing Ten- A GREAT BARGAIN I exocuted the 23d of October, 1819, to ceive their paper post-riders $2 00 per an- .firstday of April, one thousand ujfllt liumlred and gage, day by iiicljard fluryecand Adeline ex cxecutod Thomas Douebe'rtv asd 'l*er ntFQ,uick. Breath, liandsouiu I^AND payable or $ not nisetepQ, by |o ACKES or Wtm, quarterly j if "paid ami tfistament of John 25, ecutors of the last will "Breath, !.; of id the oi to . year.- \Vycolf, I^osiirg, county 'i'ompkin'S, & tc5 ||><; wrt'li'iiii pale fH'f Aid of the Reuben and Anne hii wilt, |'or s.,|Cj tty Nulliao of tbe r-nme place, nn All tlmt curtiun deceased, by Smith, Sd, papers* Allen, ll. To those who receive their at the number' thmecertni pieces or pamlsof lanil, ol'lol ve.it oir tract or parcel of lah.l. be^ga part of lt of"all tracts, niiiiihi:i'l7, TII>s3i-.%.j<)ininK lyin- the town of ami U'atlim- $1 or $2 00 if paid the lowaa-id bound* ant: in Hector, [hr. i-uiid t-4 noiih li-om J. office, 50, quarterly, not. GIL iity-eigM, in cuunty tifora-niil, , situate, being dii-t : 1> the of Tompkins, desaibed as follows, to wit on "kh end of theyeor. edas follows, to wit: Bcgiiytjigal soutb-west county Oslioin'o lavcrn on'(b nortli lnn
EditI -The above is i one-half actual the oldest files- ^r facsimile., size, of copy of The Journal in existence. The ofJ an earlier dale than 1821 were destroyed by fire. ITHACA DAILY JOURNAL.
Published Every Afternoon (Sundays excepted). Price 87.00 per Year.--One Month, 60 Cents,
VOLUME 1. ITHACA, N. Y., MONDAY, JUNE 27, 1870. NUMBER 1.
TheJthaoa Dally Journal. PERSONAL. Ithaca Journal. By Telegraph to tho Ithaca Dally Hates of AdvertitHnff Daily The appearance of this paper marks a Joumal- Parepa-Rosa has gone to Europe to be ra td JOHN n. Proprietor, 1 8ELKRKO, era our local gone till fall. JOURNAL. WESLEY nOOKER. BotilnaBi- Manager >Edllor, new in history. We believe oreat Hotl, ITHACA DAILY . un ob lku. B. D. CUNNINOIIAM, 1 Carlyle will be the of rax sqoau or 13 the timo has fully come for the advanced New June 27. 80 degrees change guest Ward Floor" York, Henry 1 Insertion.. . -B 1 00 Botes' Brick Second Beecher when In this country. Ornca-Cnlvor & Block, journalistic facilities among us which this of temperature last night. fell 20 ad... 1 M Mercury son No. 69 Eaet State Stroot, Charlotte Cusbman, the greatest of n enterprise purposes to provide. The want degrees. Thirteen cases sunstroke here yes 1 week B W ITHACA, N. Y American actresses, is about to return to 1 500 in our of a readier means of Heat so intense horse care stopped country' " community terday. this from her long residence ia g 0 00 Ter U3.S. 1 month 100 communication than ia offered a running. Rome, S- " One yenr, In advance... (T OC by weekly 100Q B " 14 00 " Mies One 00 h as been feltfor some time, The arrests for 24 hours Sophia late of * month, paper, pressingly ending yesterday Smith, Hatfield, e woo Blngle copies 0 Mass., has left $800,000 in her will, to found 9 WOO Yet bo great is the attendant expenses of a morning were 3130, large increase over last an institution for the higher education of 1 year 86C0 so are week. dally paper, exacting its demands Contract* for more than one squaro made la the Ithaca Journal. for 24 hours young women. The only provision is that Weekly Arrests ending Monday 25,000' office. upon editors and and so high has Northampton shall raise addition publishers, to f Special Notices and Displaced Ail'-'frtlfcm toti arty Subscription per year $3 00 2,650, and three. Precintcs morning per cent. In addition to toe regular rates. Marriage the standard of latter day journalism be hear al. Advertising per year one square SO 00 from. and Obituary Nottcec/rw. Local Adverilelo g 10 cents come, that we have not been forward in Justin McCarthy, the Englishman who Mr line in Dally; Weekly lfl cenle: 25 conn per Ilea No Inserted In cither oi NEWSPAPER DECISIONS. Tragedies. has enlivened the pages of the anfl Id boib. Local Notices Dally courting the responsibility which this enter Qalaay Weekly for Ices than $1. 1. Any person who takes paper regularly irom the New York, June 27.Only fonr trage some other American magazines of late, has prise entails. But the increased population In the pOBtofflcewhether directed to his name or another, just arrived in England, much pleased with Rates of Advertising dies are reported as occurring here yester orwhothorhehassubscribedornotisresponslblefbr of our town, and the rapid advance we now his sojourn in tho United States, ITHACA WEEKLY JOURNAL. day. these was the of a tho pay, Among stabbing IM are making towards prominence in the Rev. Bernard H. Nadel, the successor 1 liquor.;. 1 Insertion 3 monthe,; .. . .. 7 00 B. If i personordcra hta paper hemust Frenchman named a jealouB discontinued, Joyseau. by of in the Drew Theological - family of cities and villages of the State, Dr. McCHntock e woo pay all arrearages, or tho publisher may continue to husband. died a few days ago at the age oi oneyear " M00 e such that we feel wo should be derelict Seminary, lend It until payment la made, and collect the whole 55. Antl-CMneao Meeting. amount, whether It Is taken from the office or not, of duty to longer put off this project, Immense Father Hayacinthe has been visiting at TTHACA 3. The Courts hare decided Chut to take Indications arc favorable for an immense refusing Therefore, with this paper wo begin the Munich. newspapers and periodicals from the postoffice, anti-Chinese mass meeting Tuesday night. publication of a daily journal, less pretend Mr. the English solicitor for the removing and them uncalled for, lfl prit Burt, leaving Speeches are arranged in English and Ger Wednea- of Erie returned to England on fads evidence ol Intentional fraud. ing than some our older neighbors in road, expected to be REAL ESTATE order la re man. Governor Hoffman is last, Papers arc forwarded until an explicit other cities,yet, it is hoped, none the less use dty ceived the Publisher lor their and present. Brown and Lillian two of by discontinuance, ful nor less adapted to the wantsof the com J. H. Gilbert, until poyment of all arrearages Is ob required the witnesses in the McFarlond made, by MADRID. spicy trial, munity in which it is to find readers. Ap GREAT EXCITEMENT IN Kev. Mr. law. were married the other day by And Insurance No name mttred on onr books without the first pay preciating the advanced and advancing Frothingbam. Agency, The Plot Co Blow up tlie Powder Maga ment in advance. standard of the we shall aim to are Hamilton Fish in profession, zine at Fortrew ofGtbraltnr, They toasting Subscribers arc particularly requested to note the Madrid. keep close up to this standard in every June 27.Great excitement pre expiration of their subscriptions, and to forward what Madrid, No. 1 Wilgus Block, (up stair*,) Regina will visit Ireland in which seem to be required the vails city. A plot has been discov Victoria is due forthccnBoing year, with nr without farther thing may by In this September reminder from this office. community for which we work. Steadily ered to blow up the powder magazine at the Suez Canal builder,is Corner of State and T loya Tbe receipt ofthe paper Is a sufficient receipt forthe supposed that M. the Sts., newspapermanagers are coming to duly ap Fortress of Gibralter. It is DeLesspce, firel feted in London. subscription. plot. The being preciate the true sphere of and Fenians are at the bottom of. the journalism, June 28. An ex ITHACA, N. Y. ringleadere here have been arrested. Spkinofield, Mobs., to know that no legitimate department of traordinary change ia the weather has tak closed vacation. The Cartes has for past boors, the press can be sacrificed to another. en place here during the thirty Sotmtal o'clock re The thermometer at 2 yesterday We offer tho described for sale. Batltj While, therefore, we shall aim to make the Independence InCanada. following property to-night has fallen to corded 103, and it For terms and other Information apply at our office, Daily Journal preeminently a newspaper, Montreal, Juno 27.A greatmass meet Ithaca, Monday, June 27, 1870. No. l.-DOGSE AND LOT on Tioga Street, cor we~shall endeavor not to be nnmindful of was held here on Saturday night. Sir ing ner of Mill Street; one. or the best locations la tha pres the obligations wo are under to stimulate John and other speakers were li - t u e - i Loca [From Hie Evening Poat-1 Young Village ; Eonac in good repair. sentiments brace meeting. TO CH1RLES DICKBNS. all those higher which up ent, and addressed the No. 3.LOT SOxlSSonNorth Aurora Stroet, near at Pine Crove Park. and render it healthful. Trotting Tompkins Street. Notwith hollow society Tnunanatinrgn pagenntry Devastating Fire at CllTton Spring". The Pine Qrovo Trotting Track at 6.HODSE AND North Tioga Proclaim hta fame, The LriiAeA Daily Jodrnal will give 27th. the State. A Fair No. LOT, Street, Clifton SpnisoaJune A nioBt de la well known aa one of the hast In Bnt where loverb whisper low : and No. 1413, near Marshall Street. special attention to local never los is billed to come off on the 4th and,fith of Joly, matters, occurred in this village on Sat Where the embers structive fire 1. brightly glow, be sure of a erand show of Trotting No. LOT, 59x W0 on North Tioga Street, sight of the fact that the welfare of the pnblic may Where Home's ewectcst charms endure, ing The entire village is damaged and TrainaMbnrgh. urday. These Pairs are always a snecess at Wo. 6.TWO HOUSES AND LOTS on Wheat St., the and town and are and that utterly1 Where children, fair pore, county reciprocal, part ofit destroyed* The the greater New south ald4, Lota 33x133. Prattle on with childish glee- Books, while it seeks to provide the village with War- neai fire begap-in a barn to the Jnst received at Miss Ackley'e News Room, No. 1$.HOUSE AND LOT, North Tioga Street, There breathe his Dame. belonging it shall Cornell Library: eaatslde. Lot 40x130. reliable, enterprising daily paper, field block.- and thence spread rapidly in " Lothair," Breathe it not in accents cad. not improve the Weekly Joubn 21.LOT on North side of State bo forget to The entire loss is estimat No. Street, every direction. Place," Nortonen ofpain ; "Pnt Yonrself In His LotMiUB. ai. in tlie same proportion for our county Lwecn Plslu and Com Street*. ed $75,000 with little insurance. His no ofgloom or core. at Base Ball Flayer for 1870, song No. 24.HOUSE una iwo acres of improved land. readers. In general news we shall aim to ? eonj* Croquet His no ofdnrk despair, Golde, 27. i East H11L Niagara June Ed. Davis, Magazines for July. But of love, ofJoy, sang he, be always up with the times, giving Falls, No. 25.GRIST MILL and 83 acres of Improved notorious Sol. was held Wondrous was tho melody ; readers what is news, and thattho laterft son of the Davis, only BUSINESS OABDS. land; largo house; near Ithaca. voice glnd the murder of Scarcely sweetly We shall the Coroner's jury for and most reliable attainable. by No. 20.nOCSE AND LOT, on South side of Shall again. W aing the negro Earnctt. leek to publish nothing which the majority JOHN PARROTT, TAILOR, West Stale Street, uear Genera Street. tJ Ocnileoien'a over material roodenp. Par/cord's pronounce useless or stale. 27. Phrenplogical Journal and of readers will O" No, HOUSE and S#j,creB of Improved land, The Wanbington Matters. Cutting done as neoal, .J* endeavor to Over Finch's Book Store, corner State nnd 'Hogn Sts. T} mile from Itrmca; 45 apple trees, .34 corny tree*, Monthly, for July, begius its 51st volume In every department we shall June 27. The great Wash Washington, Ithaca. N. Y. Orders solicited. (50 Concord Grapes Vines. spirits," improvements. of for we believe that en Cur with marked It contains, be "good ington Conference Committee the ' BISHOP & AYFOOT No. 32.-FARM of 500 acres, 1 mila from Caro Physchol- all" Drs. MORGAK, D for is more a panacea for reports in favor besides Plijsiognomy, Ethnology, charity nearly bill have agreed, but line Center. 3f0 acres under 4 dwilling i rency Homoepathlc Physicians and Sur cultivation, than the portraits and cluiractcrB of Bee all the evils to which flesh is heir, retirement of the 8 per cent, as pro nnd D hams. ogy, etc., of the geons. tho scorn- "Baker and snarl of the cynic or the sneer of also provisions for redis Omcc M East State Street. N. 36.FARM'ofra acres near Caroline Depot. thoven, Sir Samuel W Wife, posed in the bill ; Ofkcb- BTomts In repair. respect for the of Afternoon, from 2 to 4; Evening House and born good of Mark Lemon : The Yet a due dignity tribution of twenty-five millions existing Gov. Palmer, Illinois, from 0 to 8. Dr. Daypoot can be fonnd athisofflcc the No. 36.-FABM or 4tf acres, good dwelling and Types of the the we trust, restrain The House amendment Governors of New York ; profession, will, bank circulation. Davfoot. E.V Moeoan, A. Bishop, D. H. M. barn, plenty of fruit ; near University Bulldlnga. Daily Journal from upon rejected. Thi Beyrout Population Men ; Ituaca imposing for millions was ; Measuring issuing fifty No. 38.HOUSE AND LOT, 92 WcatSenccftSt. readers those offensive personalities and will Education Ravages of "Wild its impression prevails that the Houbc Lot 66x132. Physical , OECOND INSTALMENT arc to for Htrained witticisms which, we sorry Senate proposition and abro 41. Bensts; Summer in the Fields; Reform agree to the ||No. LOT on South side Mill street, 0x133. otherwise tair features of go- SINCE MAT 1ST. mutilates the tax. A canvass 42.FARM of 10 miles from Caeca- We must Best: with a Mor say, gate the income lively No. acres, % Womtn; Wit, RECEIVED A TfSW STOCK OF JUST and. all In good The so public journals. dllla Place. Largo Dwelling Barn, al Love nnd Liberty; Vacations: many g on. ; Dad-y stato of repair. Will besold at a bargain. we send adrift the Ituaca FURNITURE ! Pastor's do, 27. Invisible Monster; Wives; Glimp New June Gold HLgallH; 45. Tompadna the conviction that it York, AT No. HOUSE AND LOT, Street, Electric Journal, strong in Governments ses of a Western Editor ; The Post; Central Hudson River, 98$; between Aurora and Tioga Streets. but' HOWARD & a welcome and Indispensable than on Saturday. SPENCER'S, Success in will become dull ic. better Was St. Paul a Bachelor? Lite; YO. 3 WK9T STATE ST. lwd 49.STORE, North-Kast Corner of State and acquaintance doing. No, visitor wherever it makes an Stocks steady, little in reels. Equal for Women \ Integrity : Up Anrora'St Pay settled i. fa 'iif. has been aud that the question to ba Washington. etc. trusting From Iboosand dollars No. 50,LOT on East corner ofSenoctv and the Skies ; To Correspondcnta, Only Bill, first readers will be. notwhetherthey 26th.The Senate has stricken the niortgage.'doted the fifth day of January, Streets. LotMx300. a by its June secured by Factory $1.50 for half ,,,!. |.v.!LtiL.i.<: Buck .UHl Har $8 a and is ottered at 34 to 23. V,-,-. ..ml.-T.-Mt.,! year, but wheth clause out ot the tax-bill, ne- afford become Income of the town of Laosing. 51.HOTEL with one acre or land and can to subscribers, riet 'H. Back, his wile, Monty No. Address S. R. notenteruponhis duties PermellaTer- to Jiin. Wellb, Mr. Ackerman will and Plate of New York, to loca* year, July subscribers to it, of Tompkln?, coasary out Hotel In the place | er can afford not to be until first of July. of the some and buildings, only they as General the :' 'now t'OL-mellaBueh, ptact, 389 Broadway. Now York. Attorney was recorded In the d at Ginile's from Ithacs, upon his assuming the duties Sfhleh Mid mortgage County Danby, Immediately PWk'sOrBcc of rompkins connty. In Uber No. 1, of more reorganization of the At No. 52.-HOUSE AND No. 4i St, Htalth for Flro-Worke. In office the page ISO. on the sewnth of LOT, Prospoct -The Herald of July Terrible Explosion of of his r!nlnV rnorteaecs, at day the Department ofJus 12 ^rock M. And, whereas, tbe Lot 62 x 115'. table Plillldelphia, General'sinto S.l standard. Its torney &SS& at than maintains its high aimed lo be duo npon said M the tice will take place. The Solicitor-Generals, Stc7." 63. i.i!-- a t oiibllcailon....MlMllim ofntthis QOtiCC,notice, 1U tbO BUTD No. LOT, North Tioga Street, near YtXai is mninW de June 23.About half-past a cine! of the first contents arc full, while it Philadelphia, Assistant Attorney-Generals, twor-'-' dollars ad clghty-alx of two offour hundred Street. Lot 001 1W. an explosion occur princlp'' four o'clock this morning several additionalclerks will have. three honored dollars of discussions of the principles of clerk and voted the on the wharf organization. twenty-twr No. 54.TWO West side of Linn. Street. the store of John Ruasier, appointed to perfect the uuu'hundrcd LOTS, red in to be mort- interest reader. wbb and there ii become dnc on said health in a manner to every Chestnut street. Tho building Solicitor's bureau of the with ofInt/rcst; Each 44x181. below The Treasury, further sums of monoT, aa follows _ _ 'the a lew minutes under the i" room stories and with and in Service comes and gives reasonable to SUed fireworks, the Secret Division, nundrod dollars No. 55.-HOU3E AND LOT, No. MLInnStMet. It still each at establishment was destroyed. James claims cotton and ot one 1hnndred dollars In year, the whole abandoned property and for lv paymenta, Wood & Hoi. rumaiiidcr in live canal Lot 40x132. miscellaneous reading. in cenL interest id the aged twelve was seriously In the Treasury De six per years, wl" Walton, destroyed property, etc.. ._iiLoalInterestthereofter. And Laigbt N. Y, His eyes were de tobacco annual payments 16.STORE. No, 46 East State Street. Publishers. 13 St., jured about the head. partment. AH the sujrar and coses, writ o: has been instituted brook, whereas, o proceeding will not recover, also and interest secured stroyed, and it is feared he internal revenue seizure and penalty, ui to secure the debt remaining year. the l hereof. Nowthere- $20,000 in 5rst Bonds and Mortgages $2.00 per rushed well as L,. i hi Kaidmornraeeoruny part member or Hope Hose Company, new as pow- I come under this department, heroi gW_erf that vlrtao of the fc^-SUnotice Elfl hSraBj by i- pur- branch and war other foro, record- For uni ! u euros from (250 to $4,000. t articles forJfarferlt the store with a pipe, work ofall the departments, - said tgage and ranging Illustrated Monthly Into all the legal sale contained iu duly a second re J" -cS of Isb statute In feet title gunrnntccd In all cases. injured by explosion, Diatrict-Attorneys, V. S. Marshals, etc., aforesaid,rcsald, ar_ ?r -The Ocean errribly the _"? mortgage will Steamer, in Uie made and provii said in his death anhournfterwBrdB, throughout the country. Austan," sulting $5O0 to loan on First Lelns, on improved Real -Jane "j " ft* -Frederick hospital. June 25.- A New ^S.ip.S= '>''" "!*" Estate. Again.- Washington, leading on the Varies," the county of Tompklne, Love in villain, of iWca, I" unless a sale "The Old who seems to be the o'elotkln We charge nothing Is effected, giving Dream of York ov ot IBT0, 0 politician, ffKj .evenin September. inlscolianeoua June 25.All the steamers in conversation yon the benefit ofadvertising tree. is cimtimictl. The Xew York, confidence of the President, Antcroa mortgage ..i follows : all that tract Btated thai a acrltwd in Bnul Europe go out full. with Senator and the for # Fenton, of county their usual place, to-day to-day Lansing, Fire und Accidental Insurance effected In lint* stoma occupv this sub-Treasurer's MreUcof'isdViina^ln"U>etow5 Life, There were 472 deaths in city during transfer of Cornell to the elate of New and S?Tolupkl.,S, York,, hel?E_part,o;Be- class and at fair rates. and Drawer are full. * " bounJed a follows : companies, Chair This is nn increase ofninety further changes in the New No.Hflln said town. Editor's Easy the past week. office means the -1..., nt ihenortli-cBiJl corner of State', honored, with all tht occurred Capital ffii,5l7,G04,017. Finch has it, nine over the number that during offices. nine chain, and lort, Koprciented, Dudley F. York -, S,Sok"Silo thS 3 Thirl, hod thence north chjlne and previous week. President stated that he to i .tike ; trrentj fori; Insurance Tickets Issued at short notice. the The to-day and forty, Railway monthlies for July. thlrtj-nlae chain, link., successor to ok! "thin ei"l oiternoon reached determined upon a Motly thence aooth tweniirjevcn cents Place," thermometer this not 001 ld lot: 1 day 25 ; 5 days $1.25 ; 30 dare $5.00 Charles The HcerUm that o Ke^a.t __ His helming. olht, " . Yourself in England. niece of Cont.in.tai: put a8 minister to chain, "the th- 2 days 50 ID days SO days in the shade in this city. an $2.SJ; 10,00. 98 as that ,hlrtj-.ccnhnldredlEa of acre, be sale at the notintend to send Mr. 2S"and latest great is for be does Fish, Insuring $3;000 In case of death, and (15 Ir> novel, editor of "nP**Mttor- or lees, week); Shade's CharleB A. mno more ^^j This morning, Dana, on several Lyons gentleman's views Dated J.~ SSh. dcmnlty. In case of total disability. dlyl McCttain & was arrested at the instance of the bookstore of Ahdrus, the Sun, not accord with thePres Igm^^ j,,^ VMVtn eign questions do H. H. ELDRBD. P. W. PHILLIPS. omitted and held in baj] fcunno, Lovb, Attorney. village. We irmdveratntly anti-gambling ring party, of this ident's. to anawcj a charge of libel. last week. to say so pioneer" The American Colonial was made of wonderful mind and heart,! physique, nerve and brawn; equal to highest Spartan standard. the The , American Indian was a character that
has never been matched in the annals of j uncivilized peoples; in the elements that create romance; that make physical, mental and moral stature; and make patriotism, pride and eloquence popular. The American Indian has a place of his
own among men and his prowess and
traits are familiar to the whole world. But the Indian, and the forests and the i wild beasts that inhabited them did not stop or dishearten the American pioneer. He was inspired by the highest law of nature.
Saw Value of Water Power
The history of Ithaca began as did that of other American frontier villages, in the timber growing districts and in the valleys that received the flood and flow
from the hills and table lands above and around them. Dumond, Yaple and Hine paw understood the significance of the
tremendous waterpower that came tum bling down in the streams through the great gorges of this section to find their PORTION OF THE BUSINESS OFFICE levels in the lake. Electricity and steam power were of course unknown to the patrons of The Journal. And while pioneer of 1789. IT is a far cry from the days when a I speak for them I must indulge in recol growth of courier on horseback brought the The early the hamlet is lections that arise to the minds and given in Spafford's The Gazetteer pub weekly paper from Owego to the little tongues of most of and connect them, lished in in 1813. hamlet of to the present time, when Albany It says: Ithaca, them and The Journal with the historic The Journal is delivered daily to its "Ithaca has 40 houses, a Presby days that fill them, as they must inspire readers within a fraction of an hour after terian congregation and a Methodist the owner, manager, editors, reporters, the press. meeting house, several mills, an in leaving composing room, job room and business week- It is a far cry to the days when a creasing trade and is a handsome office staffs, with a pride that is refresh wants of the pioneer old paper sufficed the post village. The township was set ing and encouraging. I cannot point to of Ithaca. Ocean cable, telegraph tled Yankees from New England early a questionable spot or stain upon its by and telephone, and wireless telegraph and Dutch from New and has pages during its hundred years of life Jersey, have made possible the chronicling of 10 grain mills, 13 saw mills, 3 and leadership among the people of this fulling few world events within a lapse of but mills, an oil mill and 3 ma and neighboring sections. carding moments after their occurrence, and the chines. Following closely upon the crushing paper of today has become a neces "Tremain 11 miles north daily that General John Sullivan gave the In Village, walks of life. to people in all west, on the turnpike from sity dian tribes, and the devastation of their Ithaca, There is but faint resemblance to the through Ovid to has a post- villages in this part of the new state Geneva,
mills." hamlet of 1S15 in our Ithaca of today. 10 or 12 houses and some the triumph of the office, "newspaper" (1779) ; Colonials over Ebenezer Mack's of 1815 England and their Indian and Hessian This book (or Gazetteer) is an inter appears as a midget beside The Journal allies (1783); the adoption of the Federal esting one and very rare. It is probably of 1915, but each paper served and is Constitution (1787); and the first oath the only one in Central New York and is its patrons to the very best of its serving of office as president by General Wash in the library of Ebenezer Mack Treman ability. As Ithaca has grown with each ington (1789), the Colonials and Conti in Ithaca. It does not say if its statistics J succeeding year The Journal has kept nentals, with a passion inspired their by are taken from the census of 1810, or are pace aye, has kept in advance, for to and won political recently dearly freedom, its own and of later date. Its statement there is no city with twice the popula day a passion to own and pressed develop land, about the Methodist meeting house will tion of Ithaca, in this or neighboring their into Central and Western way New surprise and please local churchmen of states, that has so modern and complete some York; of them as civilian pioneers that denomination. The Presbyterians a newspaper and job plant equipment as and others as settlers upon the tracts as have been credited with the first las The Ithaca Journal and The having j signed to them as rewards for military church in the the Methodists the Tayuga Press. ! hamlet, service in the Continental army. second. Gazetteer asserts that its The Journal is The Publishing Company ' The statements are all verified its own proud of the record made this , First Settlers by iiistly by personal agents. I have never newspaper in the past one hundred years In 1789 three pioneers struck stakes in reliable, seen these figures and statements in print and has striven to make the occasion of what is now the city of Ithaca, taking except in - The Gazetteer and do not its Centennial Number in every way | possession of 400 acres, the western bound produce them for absolute accuracy upon worthy of past ideals. Believing that the ary of which is our present day Tioga ' the question it raises as to who built or readers of The Journal will be interested street. That tract is now known as East its' had the first church in Ithaca. in the story of founding and advance j Hill and perhaps includes part of the the publisher invited that well- Cornell campus. The men ment, \ were Isaac Ebenezer Mack Comes in 1815 known student and writer of local and Hine- history, , Dumond, Jacob Yaple Peter of the settlement ! The development Thomas W. Burns, to contribute a sketch paw, and the three families counted its first twenty-five years was accomp- during of the paper's birth, growth and ; twenty souls, young and old. For several far inland and naturally slow. It was lishments. years resided in peace the j they among for its pro without a waterway outlet Mr. Indians who had not moved from Burns's Story away period are ducts. The records of that Ithaca. The lamentable that I am glad to present my compliments history left tojserve few and very unsatisfactory a trail of tears very and congratulations to The Ithaca blood, suffering, and mas or aid a writer of who aims to give Weekly Journal and to The Ithaca sacres in every step taken by the pioneers today its days. of civilization a review of Ithaca during early Daily Journal upon so distinguished, cosmopolitan across this of proof of the im continent for all The chief element so reverential a day its hundredth had ended time in the of the village at states. portance and promise anniversary. And I speak for the old original thirteen The heart- 1 the end of its first quarter century of families, the old residents, the old breaking memories of Wyoming, Oriskany I in the early numbers well as for the and did not halt the life is to be found subscribers, as later day Schenectady march | emDire toward the Pacific. f the paper founded Ebenezer by Mack, 'Alfred Wells. Two years later few- Judge only a copies of which survived the Wells sold a half interest to a new comer fires in the buildings occupied at the time from Brooklyn and the lower Hudson by The Journal. River, John H. Selkreg, an expert news On January 7, 1815, Ebenezer Mack, paper man in all of the branches of the after four years of residence there, re business. In 1842 he became sole owner signed the foremanship of a newspaper of the plant, abbreviating the title of the and job composing concern in New York paper to The Ithaca Journal. City and returned to his home in Owego, to take charge of the estate of his father, The Birth of the Daily Judge Stephen Mack, who had recently I In 1870 Mr. Selkreg made DeWitt died. Part of the estate consisted of a J. Apgar his business partner and newspaper with the title The American j they issued a daily edition the first Farmer. Young Mack was at that time number appearing June 27 of that twenty-five years of age. year. In 1876 Mr. Apgar sold his After selling the paper and settling : interest to Mr. Selkreg, and in 1877 The the estate he came to Ithaca to carry out Journal Association was formed, con the purpose and hope of his youthto sisting of J. H. Srelkreg, Geoge E. Priest, establish a paper in Ithaca. He had in Charles M. Benjamin and George W. his boyhood on horseback carried the Wood. In 1878 Wood sold his Journal mails and The American Farmer through ; ! stock to Mr. Selkreg who, in 1880, sold Ithaca to Auburn and Geneva and was his holdings to Priest & Benjamin. familiar with the trails and highways, The Journal has always exerted a and knew most of the early pioneers. strong influence in local and state politics, His four years of experience in New York land its various proprietors have figured and four more in Owego gave him great largely in public affairs. John H. Sel- aid in the carrying out of his purpose, jkreg was a strong factor in the political and from the little plant CORNER OF THE of that long ago TELEGRAPH ROOM field. Like Ebenezer Mack, he served as day grew The Journal of the present. Assemblyman and when Senator, and in local General Jackson was He published news and elected, the advertisements, offices with great like Macks then distinction; and, residing in a house which excerpts from sermons, speeches and lec Mr. Mack, he was a popular orator. stood where the Library now tures; laws and other items of interest building George E. Priest was chairman of the that stands, the paper was published in upon his job sheets, dodgers and hand State Board of Tax and Franchise Com a low wooden building on Tioga i bills. He had made arrangements to street, missions for six years. Charles M. Benja- opposite the present site of the Ithaca I publish a paper when Jonathan Ingersoll ,min served several terms as County Trust Company and Clerk build- and another came in and a County published sheet in 1911. ings. j Teasurer, passing away In the fifties it was in the i named The Seneca Republican. It was Deming In 1912 The Journal plant and its real over block, the store now occupied first issued on and of by | July 4, 1815, was, was sold Mr. Priest for him Ben Mintz. In property by the sixties it was back a small and modest paper j course, very self and as Mr. Benjamin's executor to again in the Culver block. In 1872 it was ! but not more so than the one issued Frank E. Gannett of of Elmira, formerly removed to the then new Journal block Mr. Mack since 1815. j by Monday, May 1, a graduate of Cornell and thor erected Senator Ithaca, by Selkreg and now part The First Newspaper oughly trained and accomplished in the of the Rothschild Brothers department j newspaper profession. He is now sole Nos. The publication of The Seneca Repub store, 112-114 South Tioga street, i i proprietor of the entire plant and pub In 1905 lican did not influence Mr. Mack nor Priest & Benjamin, at that time lisher of The Journal. John W. proprietors his older and untitled publication, for Baker, of The Journal, purchased manager of The the both sheets were continued a few months, business both Journal Titus block at 123-125 West State and The Cayuga its job made when Mr. Mack purchased the Republi Press, printing street, extensive alterations upon it has had wide experience in and named can outfit, united it with his own department, it The Journal block. That branch of the industry. same year The and named it The American Journal every printing Journal plant was re Ambitious politicians and writers have moved to this This was two years before Tompkins location, where it is today. founded many papers in Ithaca at various Two characteristics of Ebenezer County was mapped out and established; Mack times and for varied purposes. I were fixed upon his paper and dis- five years before a village charter was Among have
were Jefferson and Tompkins . tinguished seven years be them The it until this given to the hamlet, and day, holding it in merged with The high favor the Times, 1835 to 1837, with intellectual and moral fore a fire company was organized in The Our 1848 leaders in this community. was in the town of Journal; Flag of Union, are the village. Ithaca then j They to merged with The i the in Seneca County. The first 1849, Journal; serious, conservative systems of both Ulysses, its The Ilhacan, 1868 to 1870, merged with editorial and news and paper was therefore begun in Ithaca in j pages; the The Journal. (The Ithacan of this and fairness with charter day ; dignity which its busi- , 1815, twelve years before the first generation is another removed ness department is was granted in jand paper, conducted. The to any railroad company Ithaca from Dryden in 1871). The standards of all years before to "departments of the paper ; the State, and thirty-one Chronicle was established in 1820 by founded by such an expert in the news- ! telegraph lines were erected in the State. a very popular and able man, David paper and printing art, industrial In 1823 the title The American Jour leader, \ Spencer and with its amalgamated papers banker and Ithaca Jour statesman, was so high it nal was changed to The survives until now in The Ithaca could not fail to Ithaca it be appreciated by the ' and in 1827 it became The nal in Gen Daily News. community which it circulated. The Journal, Literary Gazette and Journal was, built upon 1828 the words Home therefore, a eral Advertiser but in Journal's First i solid Advertiser" foundation, and its traditional dig- "and General were omitted. Ebenezer Mack Treman, grandson of j and Gazette" nity solidity has been maintained. were to In 1842 the words "Literary Ebenezer Mack, says that, according the title has been grandfather's first dropped and since then family tradition, his Great Changes until the distinction newspaper was published in a small The Ithaca Journal, But The Journal of 1915 is not The and stood where between the weekly wooden which the jJournal of had to be made building 1815. Ebenezer Mack did not and The at present Weekly Journal Sprague block now stands, have a daily The I highly educated county as a read its occupied the Bush Dean store at the __&_ Ithaca Journal, daily having by ing clientile. Schools were few and com W. 151 East State street, or the J. birth in 1870. No. paratively crude, fitted to the pioneers of Andrus became a No. the first store west. In 1824 William Reed store, 149, early days. His editorials were of more Mack. Editor Mack had Journal to other importance than were partner of Mr. The removals of The the news columns. political factor ascer- prominent able to . The same could said of become such a sites, as far as I have been be The Journal enlarged to pub- business plant had follows: In 1820 it was in Editor Selkreg's earlier years. and his tain, were as Em- j The Journal where the proportions that Culver The such waS[ lished in the block, j Journal of 1915, however, is con Nathan Randall. In 1837 is to pire State Housefurnishing Company ducted the sold in 1833 along lines made necessary by to Mattison and Barnaby; East State street; Randall sold it now located, 209-211 our modern schools and an educated interest to L. H. sold his Colonel Mack's daughter, then Mattison in 1828 or 1832, clientile. The editorial commentary is became sole and 92 later Barnaby in Ithaca not Eddy, and Mrs. Hall, now residing so precious as is the news of the day was sold to Judge well in/0'"Tr, 1839 it says she_jrememberL - - years of owner, . age, fresh from the wiresnews not gathered and published once a week and cold be cause old. Kbenezer Mack's quiet, dig nified, deliberate style of conducting The Journal, would not do now. The Jour nal is not producer upon a mere hand press today. Mr. Mack and Mr. Selkreg often stood at the type case and set up their editorials, thinking them out as they set the type. The typewriter, the linotype and the immense, revolving newspaper press which whips out any number of pages up to 16 at the rate of 25,000 counted copies an hour, play a great part in producing The Journal of 1915. And connected with the newspaper is not
room" the ''job of the old days.
Instead one will find the printing de partment of The Cayuga Press, without question the most modern and best equipped print shop between New York and Buffalo. The product of The Cayuga Press is fully in keeping with the high ideals of the newspaper of which it forms an important part. The late James Quigg, prominent and revered as merchant and gentleman, said to me that The Ithaca Journal pro moted and built, through its editorials, the Ithaca & Owego (now the Lackawanna) railway and that it was a very great thing THE MODERN COMPOSING ROOM to have built in those days and served and data went into ashes and cannot be a very great purpose. Mr. Quigg said: restored nor replaced. The second fire "Colonel Mack once told me that in was in the Culver block, but the paper founding The Journal he had in view was soon restored to its patrons. two things; the development of the village The files of The Journal for the last by building mills on its streams, where; quarter century are in the University splendid water power would cost very Library and in the Cornell City Library. little, and himself investing money in the Some of the latest bound volumes are in mills; and then manufacturing paper the Journal block. Local historians often from which he would make stationery, find even the publish books and establish a retail and advertisements in The Journal of decided and families of wholesale business, using his paper freely value, "finds" the older merchants share in the to advertise his goods and work up a large made in these old papers. The local paper trade; that if the venture in the mills was is a valuable of the not profitable the paper would pay, if the history village, city and as historians and village and county were prosperous and county, biographers well for no event of grew as he expected they would; that. know, importance is supposed to escape both moved forward to greater success the reporter, editor or correspondent of a live and than he had foreseen; that the paper had popular newspaper in a or been the making of both the village and city county of ordinary size in population. himself through its advertising of the The local historian of a village and his wares: that he was proud century hence can enrich his knowledge of of the popularity of The Journal and of many of the business men of our and the part it played in opening up the way day, the char acter of their to Owego, and later by rail to New York business, by having at his service a or a file of The and intervening territory by way of the copy Journal Erie railway." of this day, or of any day that it has been or may be issued. I base this statement The Journal played its part admirably EDITORIAL ROOM AND STAFF . upon my own experience. in directing the public mind to the need The earliest records of tran- of the Erie Canal and connecting it with money THE LEGEND OF AN sactions in the book are kept Ithaca and Cayuga Lake. It rendered OLD LEDGER according to pounds, shillings and influential service in the towns pennies, and very urging An interesting old document which has not to the to bond for the construction of the rail according present j come to the attention of The Journal monetary system of the United ways that now connect Ithaca with Ge- States government. is an old account book which dates back British" The records i neva. according to the Auburn, Cortland, Elmira, Waverly as far as 1813 and keeps a record of the monetary system appear and the rest of this State, and with the up until 1820 j business affairs of a man's life to the up when the dollar sign coal fields in Pennsyl is first seen in the Wyoming Valley year 1S24. Just wdio the well thumbed book. Thereafter the vania. It was said Editor that English system by Selkreg book belonged to is not but it known, appears at The Journal was never neutral and was infrequent intervals. was contributed to The Journal by always aggressive upon The accounts are any great question George Aldrich of Brookton. principally in record of work that concerned its readers. I cannot re performed, each page represent Though more than 100 years has call an affirmative or a negative decision ing an employe or a new job. One elapsed since records the book was first used as that the owner of ever made by the voters of this village, the book began to work a business record nearly all of the writing on city or county, not political, when The May 20, 1822, on a contract for one is legible and the accounts can be read year for Journal was not on the winning side. $250, board, and mend quite plainly, with the washing exception oJLjl ing. The Journal has had two fires in its Another is an agreement between Among the names mentioned in th small portion which has been evidently the writer and a great the firm of book are evidently in th rooms, both doing damage to its soaked in water. Newell and Rufus, boy Since some of the con Whipple in which equipment and stock. One fire was in the the former states that employ of the book owner, Enoch Germon tracts mentioned are from it is Dryden, he will work until in the fifties. The most a certain time Whipple and Stephens, Newell ane Deming Row, I thought probable that for a the person found." owning "Dollar a and "found" Aldrich and lamentable part of its loss was the bound i day The Whipple, T. Co., John Roe the book resided in that village. So far thirty-five means his board. Hoar and Elijah files of The Jouunal, and ; as is known Another contract Aldrich, Hallett, Law only one Ithacan was men records ! the sale of a rence Guilbert more years of carefully preserved local tioned, Guilbert shop by John Osborn Sullivan, Saxton, Stepher Saxton, grandfather of to William Aldrich of Peter for most of its precious records Dryden for $75. The Crum, James Colbert, Snyder history, Edward Saxton, who is in the employ nature of the numerous to shop is and others mention. of The Journal todav. notdefinitely stated. top