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THE QUARTERLY Official Publication of the St THE QUARTERLY Official Publication of the St. Lawrence County Historical Association VOLUME XXVIII JANUARY 1983 NO. 1 CONTENTS Rosuhrl Parker Meushut(* 3 Searsy Comes to Parishville Center Vurick A. CItitte)tden 6 Winters for a St. Lawrence County Settler-From Elisha Risdon's Diaries of 1812-1849, Hopkinton 11 Back When Winter Was Winter!: A St. Lawrence County Postcard Album A)ldretcv Ttrck 14 Memoirs of Andrew Tuck-Part I11 Bc~ts!jCogger Reze1)nan 18 Reflections on Some North Country Folk Art 21 SLCHA Annual Reports The Quarterly is published in January. April, July and October each year by the St. Lawrence d County Historical Association. This publication is made possible in part with public funds from As a courtesy to authors and the the New York State Council on the Arts. editor, the Association asks any- one wishing to reproduce all or part of material included in The Quarterly to submit a specific re- quest in writing at least 30 days in advance of its anticipated use. Extra copies may be obtained from the History Center, P.O. Box 8, Canton, N.Y. 13617, at $2.00 plus 259 postage and handling. Cover: Postcard view of the St. Lawrence County Jail after the "Great Ice Storm", March 27, 1913. (Courtesy SLCHA Archives. photo by Editor: Varick A. Chittenden Dwight W. Church, "The $5.00 Bill" Photo Co.. Canton) January 1983 Searsy Comes to Parishville Center by Rosabel Parker Meashaw With the arrival of mail order catalogues in the late nineteenth century, life for many rural people. including those in St. Lawrence County, would never be quite the same. The vast array of products available with such convenience would end some of the isolation that such people had always before taken for granted. Great stores like Montgomery Ward and Sears Roebuck could and would sell almost anything, including houses and automobiles. Here is the account of one family's excitement over the arrival of their first Motor Wagon, in a large crate, in 1913. At all social gatherings I was always "Who? Oh, the quiet one," but I did have one opening line I could use-"My father bought his first car from Sears, Roebuck & Co!" But then, no one believed me. Conversation languished. But Papa did buy his first car, mail- order, from Sears, Roebuck & Co.! Why not? Practically everything that con- tributed to our well being came from there, F.O.B. and guaranteed: station- ary engines, milk separators, house fur- nishings, family clothing, groceries even. Large flakes of raisins on the stem, halves of salt codfish, hundred pound bags of sugar, and five pound cans of coffee beans. If we needed it, S.R.& Co. had it ready to ship. So out goes an order in early spring 1913 for one Motor Wagon, purchase price $495.00 (no tax) and a later entry on Papa's accounts dated March 13,1913- "by freight one auto, $28.13." My two mechanic sons rate me very low on mechanics but I remember what I saw, Sears Model "P" Four-Passenger so I plunge on. There came a card (lv postage): one Price, $495.00 crate at depot, invoice # . Our good neighbor, Charlie, needed some I I I I grain so Papa borrowed his wagon to HE Sears Model "P" Four-Passenger is a combination pleasure pick up grain and crate. It was near and business motor car. If we were to ask double the present supper time when the team pulled into T our yard with crate lashed atop the price for the Model "P we could not build an automobile wagon, behind a mound of bagged that would give its owner better service. This model is equipped with a grain. The car had arrived! Only it was removable extra seat which is uniform with the regular seat equipment. chore time on the farm, so wagon was but can be taken off or put on at will. As a single seated two-passenger parked, cows came first. On the good old ten party (telephone) runabout you will find the Model "Pan ideal car for hurried trips to line, news traveled fast and, ours being town or for taking a load of vegetables and dairy produce to market. the first car in the neighborhood, This model can be used on week days for farm business, but on Sunday received prime time. As it grew dark, with the extra seat equipment it can be converted into a four-passenger with days work completed, the kero- touring car for driving the family to church or taking a long trip into the sene lanterns began to converge on our yard to light up the miracle-one skel- country. The Model "Pis a two in one all purpose automobile and etal crate some nine or ten feet long, will give more all around service than any other car we manufacture. five feet high, with plenty of peek- space. The car consisted of one wooden No. 218343 Price, $495.00 box filling the length of the crate, about eight inches high, wheels lying flat under the back to give rise to accommodate the little air-cooled motor slung under the front. There was one built-in front seat, two passenger wide, The Sears, Roebuck & Co. catalogue description of the Model P four and one removable back seat allowing passenger automobile, 1913. (From Sears and the Automobile, courtesy of for quick change from family car to the author) farm truck. The conference decided to January 1983 leave until morning when the men could meet again (after chores) to assemble the pieces, thus giving Papa time to study the manual and causing Specifications Model "P" me to miss all the fun. School! Bah! When I came home from school next SEATING CAPACITY-Fw. with pien- WHEELS-& rety hest "A" gdn day, there sat Searsy in all her glory, (y of room for each p-w. Top of cwh- wheels, dccted hickory 1%-inch spoka, Su- buggy-sized, wooden spoked wheels ion. 34x16 inches. van's patent metal hub and spoke flu~ge.pmp- FRAM&Pd steel. chumel sectia. re- erly dished. galhered and aet. No better with solid rubber tires lifting the inforced with corner plates and c- members. wheels can be &$abed. seating compartment high off the All hot riveted. TIRES-38.2-inch cuahim tires, am lii ground. Small round metal plates sus- MOTOR-Two-cylmder. horizmtal oppaed rubber. Mat resilient cushion tim knowa. pended on brackets at the side helped a type. of the mat improved duia. 4%-inch STEERING-By side lever. The lo* lady to step up and over to a seat. She bore. 4-inch stroke. All p.m accurately 6ned. e6jCient md quickest rnelhod of .raring thd Bearimp of very hi+t type- Annular can employed in .,, automobile, inuring (Searsy) boasted no protection from the ball thrust braring 414 inches in dieter. elements from above, side or back, and safely. HORSE POWER-14-hom power (A-L- CONTROGSput and thr~nlekvcn eon- only a leather dashboard some eighteen A. M. rating). veniently located on steering pat. Left fod inches high in the front. It required no LUBRICATION-Machanicd fom feed pedal applies frictia. Right foot pedal great time to realize that this vehicle oiler and rpluh system. inuring perfect lubri- operatu brakes. was for fair weather only. We did have iation on all working p.m. CARBURETOR--SdKbler. The highat a huge red and yellow umbrella with a ICNITION-J~~ dry C& type float feed. with auxiliary air inlet. Same sapling for a handle, long used over and non-vibrating coil. This coil is of the very U used on the maiorily of high prid can- the lumber-wagon to advertise some highat type. and rmlu lmoog the highest fa TANK-Hear). gauge mterial. located brand of fertilizer and hog-feed. One economy. under the seat, having a capacity for 150 miles. try proved this not only belittling but TRANSMISSION-Frictia disc type. The Cravivfeed to -t escimt, flexible and ecoaomieal )r.n~- SPRINCSI-Four 6'st%- hard to handle over a car bowling Iclsprrd vev knO.rm, piti"= under the were Kve-leaf. full elliptic. oil md along at speeds of from twelve to conditions. insures absolute safely. reilient, insuring very easy ridha. fifteen miles per hour. BODY-Spring wagon body. Hudwod My father soon picked up information lick chain fmm sills, very stmngly built of thoma& -ed shaft' mat e'cimt .pplyina- lumber. for delivery service. side -b 8 bcha at the blacksmith shop. Some man over power known. Hopkinton way was dismantling an old high. dmp tailgate. patent leather duh. length REAR AXLE-HeaVY* -lid. of body 7 feet 6 inches, width 32 inch extra surrey and peddling the parts. A quick dmp forged. seat which is removable. a business md pleuure trip netted the fringed top with all FRONT AX-Heavy. 1% inches, wlid, combination. brackets and bolts, side-curtains even. drop forged, with steering knuckles and spindles FINISH-Highest qualily. We call ).au There is no record of the cost but Papa of the latest design. very highest qlulilg of attention to our specif~catims in this ca~alo~. was a close bargainer. Well, that forging. showing the detuled informatiem in rrg.rd b helped but she still threw mud, soft BRAKES-Double acting expdiig brakes Bish. Brewster gman nmning gear md wheels tar, whatever the wheels encountered. on the rear wheels. positive in their application. md black body. Furthermore, our ankle-length, full non-rattling. and powerful enough to hold the UPHOLSTERING--Genuine leather.
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