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W w XYZ W. Luce,tM. B. Barrett, E. It. Hurley, Henry Bella, jr.,' Oapt. A. E. Hunt, (Pittsburg) Wil¬ THEIR IMt DINNER, \ liam Biume, VV. A. Hollister, (Avooa) H. W. Dony, J. 0. Moffat, (Duuoiore) Siuiou ltice, George Keller, M. J. Ncury, THE SCBANTON' BOAltD OF TRADE . William Walker, (MnyUold), J. it. Walton, E. G. Coarsen, Dr. u. L. Frey, Elmer H. Hawaii, BANQUETS AT THE WYOMING. E. G. Kinsley, Dr. Logan, Frank Philadelphia), J. H. is tho second time I have been compelled to ! Pisher, A. E. Nicholson (Providence, R, I.), send to you my regrets on such an occasion. J. B. Ford, A. C. Nettletou, Wm. H. Taylor, In my observation concei'ning mercantile John P. Albro, Everett Warren, ex-Judge bodies there is no one feature that has more deeply impressed itself upon me than the im¬ Kuapp, Frank Walter, J. A. Lansing, Col. portance of-ihu relation which the merchants of (Joursen, E.J. Goodwin, C. Comegys, Charles the country sustain to society, and the duty of R. Fuller, G. H. Cobb, Prof. Wood, C. S. San¬ business men to assert themselves in public ad¬ derson, Cyrus Jones. H. E. Pain«, S. G. ministration, whether of municipalities, States Kerr, Jno. T. • Pm-ter, William H. or the nation, in the future, ns they have not Pack, C. S. Woolwortb. L. J, Williams, done in the past. The country has suffered, j L. X. Mattes, Chas. L. Connell, Albert N. and municipalities especially have suffered for the want of business methods. While the mer¬ Kramer, Richard Matthews, J. W. Peck, J. H. chants and manufacturers or tile country have I Steell, L F. Megargel. George ii. iiuss, K. managed their business with great sagacity, ] and have gone forward until, in many re- 2

# spouts, mey occupy chief places among the Tracts? 16' neglect the weaker ones have wording forces of the world, while in enterprise, eneouragod the multiplication of Inde¬ inventive skill, the discovery of economical pro¬ pendent associations. Thus frequently in¬ cesses and vigorous administration, they have stead of having one grand organization challenged the admiration o£ the nations of the which would faithfully represent the whole earth, they have been willing to permit publio business of a locality, the influence is either dl- affairs to largely take care o£ themselves. It miuisned or absolutely frittered away by the may be safely stated that if the same inatten¬ multiplication of small associations, too weak to tion which has been exhibited by them concern¬ wield wide influence in themselves and yet each ing public matters had marked the con¬ strong enough, through the instrumentality of i' duct of their private affairs, business men jealousy and the ambition to act independently I generally ere this would have been in a of all others, to become a source of friction and state of bankruptcy. For this delinquency to relatively impair the strength of the other ! all are now suffering, and will continue bodies, thus weakening the power of the whole. to suffer until it is corrected. This condition It is like an army undertaking to fight the bat¬ or things may be changed. When there is car¬ tles of a country under a dozen separate com¬ ried into the management of puolic business manders, each one having his own organized the same methods that mark the successful force subject to hi3 exclusive control. There is conduct of private enterprises, We shall And a such a thing as wastefulness in the use of influ¬ way out of a state of affairs which has neither ence. It should be just as natural for business l been good for the citizen nor creditable to our men prosecuting widely different occupations to institutions. come together for a common purpose, as it is : It is apparent to every observing person that for business men engaged in like pursuits to ! we have entered upon a period in which the unite their forces under common administra¬ best thought ot the country will be needed to be tion. , exorcised in public matters. The great contest To whatever cause this tendency may be I between capilaljjund^ labor; the jealousy with traceable, a remedy would be found in the which the poorer classes are disposed to look adoption of the federal idea in association, so as , upon the rapidly accumulating lortunes of the to utilize all the benefits of looal organization few; the solidifying of the transportation inter¬ and yet have every individual member of every ests of the country and their steadily increas- trade a member of tbe common body, which I fng strength; the unrest of the agricultural and would be equal to taking care of the whole, giving other industrial classes; the demand that the to the weakest member the sanctions of all the government being a creature of the people for business forces of the community. That is to the people, should be more largely used ror say if the individual trades were permitted to their immediate benefit; the growing disposi¬ organize in a measure for the management of tion toffy to legislation for the conoction of their own affairs, and yet were ail united In one evils of whatever kind; the marshalling of great organization in a common membership to be forces in the country, under common banners, known as a “Chamber of Commerce,” or “Mer¬ , for the destruction of enemies, however unreal; chants’ Exchange,” the former, it seems to me, the wild schemes concerning government, being tbe better term, you would have the which are being hatched under circumstances highest type of commercial association. Bvery that make their propagation easy and their ex¬ department of bus'uess would thus have the istence formidable, ail combine to admonish us stimulation growing out Of its own organized that there never was a period in our history force and yet have the sanctions of the whole when there was a louder call for the exorcise of body for the enforcement of its regulations, wise activity upon the part of the business which should be adopted by the general body so minds of the country. thut they would be equally applicable to every ISow how to crystal izo business sentiment so member of the common organization. as to immediately promote the interests of the This would bring business men of all kinds individual trades and at the same time bring it together at certain hours, because It would be to Dear upon public matters is the question. If to tht-ir interest to come, l'or such a body being there is any better way than through commer¬ so representative would la addition to the fa¬ cial organization, or if, indeed, there is any cilities it would offer for the immediate trans¬ other way than through this agency it certainly action of business, take on, in a measure, the has not been revealed. Tnere are living ques¬ character ot a great commercial club, thus utiliz¬ tions affecting all communities of dense popu¬ ing the social idea lor the maintenance of dally lation in this country on which business sagaci¬ i interest. There is no reason whatever why the ty and experience might be brought to tear 1 grain, provision, cotton, grocery, lumber, coal, through commercial organization, which fur¬ I iron, buildings and all the various trades and nishes a means of giving expression to the Industries might not be combined la one or- ; average business sentiment of a community, I gauization, tnereby tremendously increasing that in general terms is the average common I the power of the whole association. The great o£ the population. It would be difficult to trouble is that it is not infrequently assumed fl what this should not be directed, for it that to have daily sessions it is absolutely neces¬ be difficult to define anything affecting sary that the body should be a speculative one, iblic good which does not need this whole- or one composed solely of traders in the ordi¬ aid. Taxation, transportation, terminal nary acceptation of that term. It Is not true in cs, freight rates, quick transit, street im¬ the manufacturing cities or in those Which are provements, cleanliness, street lighting, the 1 not great markets, the interest in any indi¬ public health, eduoation, personal security, vidual department ot business might not be public morality, the development of trade, en¬ sufficient to briug members together every day, couragement to manufacturers, collection and but it the desirableness of having daily meet- | perpetuation of business statistics, encourage¬ ings in each individual interest .were multiplied ment to public enterprises, uniform customs in by the whole number of trades, it would not only trade, amicable settlement Of business dis¬ warrant daily sessions, but the fact of a body of putes, the maintenance of a high standard of ■ men ot such numbers and influence coming to¬ , mercantile honor and many other subjects are gether would in itself briug many persons who ! making a constant appeal to the intelligence of would otherwise remain aloof lroin allorganiza- i every such community without reaching out;> tion.To secure this the association must be made into the broader fields of national questions or of I valuable to its membership. Iio daily meeting similar questions more widely applied, Evdjjf can be maintained any considerable length of locality, consequently, of any considerable pap¬ time by mere curiosity. It should be the aim, ulation owes it to itself to have at its disposal consequently, of the general body to do just as the machinery which Is necessary to secure' this ; much for toe individual trades as possible. A ; expression and to give ii useful direction? common treasury, a common expenditure, a As the three-fold cord is strong this organiza- study of th& wants of the individual interests | tiou can best perform its work when ^"embraces and encouragement offered by the whole body the whole business mind of the . community. to the weaker members will be certain to bring Believing this l have for years, when I have had its reward of growing membership and influ¬ the opportunity urged the importance of one ence. This involves the necessity of a building organization rather than many, and while I which would be equal to meeting all the varied believe that this is entirely practicable, it prop¬ wants of such an institution. You would want erly managed, ihe tendency is exactly in the op¬ to have plenty of room and ample facilities, and posite direction. The ambition to have inde¬ the nearer you can come to supplying all ne- I pendent organizations on the part of individual cessitlea the stronger will be your hold upon trades, and_the temptation of_the larger individual members of the association. Every possible appliance that will make the place j

j1-'•>.. a* more useful and attractive to the membership Continuing, he said that this word— ] will he an additional agen'cy'employed for the “Pennsylvania,”—brings to every one of us growth of the association, and for its perpetua¬ tion, and Inasmuch as men have to eat in order an idea of our glorious commonwealth. that they may live, not to speak of the oppor¬ When we consider her industries and her ■ tunity which the table affords of exchanging triumphs, we sea reason to feel proud that views on many questions not attainable amid wo are citizens of such a State, but when we tho exactions of the business hour, the matter come to consider her in connection of a restaurant connected with an institution of with the subject ‘‘reciprocity,” it becomes this hind is not to be ignorrd. difficult to separate her from the sisterhood The commercial association of a city should bo one that is able to speak for the city and to of States, for her interests wore the same ns do this it should be representative in tho high¬ those of New York, New Jersey, Massachu¬ est degree. It should in itself be the place setts, etc. lie regarded reciprocity as a where the great public enterprises of a locality selfish idea growing out of the divine in¬ are formulated. The association may not be¬ stinct of self-preservation which nations as come responsible for them, but it should fur¬ well as individuals recognize. It is a prin¬ nish every possible means for men to come to¬ ciple of protection and self-interest. YVe gether to confer about everything in which tho people as a community are interested. The have to givo and we give to take. business men of the community should become Referring to our little differences with Can¬ bettor acquainted with one another. They be¬ ada the speaker said that though they are long to a class that improves on acquaintance, now asking for reciprocity on their terms it so that suoh associations not only discover men will not be long before they will be asking who will be valuable to the community in wider spheres than they may be occupying, but they for it on our terms. Whafcpmst be our next frequently develop them into active agencies for step? We must have shipsm,carry our com¬ the good of the whole people. merce nud in order to these ships If all this be true, it follows also as a necessary we must/' build them. Is’tthere any¬ sequence tnat there should be a closer relation thing ‘ 7 the“ “Yankee *flftturo■ too than now exists between the organized business small forces of wide disttiets. The disposition to or¬ , >r such au enterpfke ? No, ganize State associations of commercial bodies is tiiere ist be some enoouragemo9t in the a step in the right direction, for if it is desirable shape a subsidy which will put of*.ships to make useful the average business sentiment on Sty. sea. England sees our weakness of any individual locality in relation to its own and kes_ advantageo___ of it. Howm to buix%jip affairs, it is equally true that it is desirable to ouyshipping is a great question agita utilize the sentiment and influence of men en¬ gaged in kiudred pursuits and for like interests ! thjr minds of our greatest statesmen m large districts extending eventually to the j f MAJOR EVERETT WARREN ^national body, whioh has been in existence for jjfpoke on ‘‘Municipal Reforms and Improve¬ many years as a “National Board ot Trade,” to ments” ns follows : which the country is deeply indebted for many important utterances bearing on public ques¬ Mr. Toastmaster and Gentlemen:—During tions of the day, whioli have yielded valuable the late unpleasantness in this State which fruitage and to the enlargement of which one of resulted in the Republican party electing the your distinguished representatives for voars Democratic candidate for Governor, one has been zealously and ably laboring. bright October day theDelamater Menagerie The business men of the whole country have of which I was a member arrived about noon entered upon a new and important epoch. AVe are apt to think because great questions have in the City of Lancaster.* We were billed to agitated the public mind in the past and have show tbat evening in the Academy, but the been decided that the work has mainly been Chairman of the County Committee suggested performed; but With the tremendous activities in view of the G. A. R. Reunion with its at¬ of our times; with the colossal agencies that are tendant crowds that a matinee performance developing for the accomplishment of great re¬ bo given at tho Court House. To this we all sults: with this country witnessing the dawn of a new day, one in which we are to be permitted agreed. At 2 o’clock the doors were thrown under circumstances favorable to eminent suc¬ open nad soon the building was thronged. I cess, to exchange commodities with all nations was put forward to open the ball, to test the of this hemisphere, and it may be with those be¬ currents of air, so that the star performers to yond the seas; with tho determination of our follow might know which way the wind blew people to support an American commerce, con¬ Just as I arose I saw out of the window on ducted by American ships and under the Amer¬ the left the statue of the old Commoner, ican flag; with the questions of revenue and coinage, and public defense, and education, and Thaddeus Stevens. It fired my heart, development of internal resources; with the I rolled up my sleeves and went strengthening of American ideas, American for them. Now, I hold that no man sentiment and American manhood, and with knows so Avell when he succeeds or the eyes of tho civilized woild turned to us, with fails, or how far ho ^succeeds or fails, a3 the longings more eager than have everbelore been speaker himself. And ou this occasion I seen, can It not be said with all truthfulness that we have entered upon a period of activity fancied I had done very well—either from growth and usefulness, of which we have hith- the fact that we were in the very room where erto but little dreamed, and, in the shaping of James Buchanan was tried for breach of which the organized business forces of the coun¬ promise, or where I could see the cemetery try are to perform a most important part. consecrated by the great Stevens us a burial Yours very truly, place for all the people, rich and poor and Sidney D. Maxwell. black as well as white. At any rate I was Ivir. Maxwell’s letter tvas read at this time feeling quite satisfied and later in tho after¬ because the intention had been to make him noon as we stood on the steps of the Stevens one of the principal speakers of the even- House I was quite prepared to accept the congratulations ,of a gentleman with a JTJDG-F, JESSUP TALKS Hebraic cast of countenance and a sort of In his happy way Mr. Albro introduced Ohatham-street accenr, who approached and rlon. AY. H. Jessup, who spoke on “Reciproc¬ introduced himself as Mr. Schmidt, presi¬ dent of the Retail Grocers’ Association of ity and Pennsylvania.” The ex-Judes as¬ sured his hearers that he was very happy to Lancaster. “I was ver’ mooch pleased mit bo present ou such a pleasant occasion, but your remarks,” he said; “I tho’t day was ex¬ he 1 eared that those who expected au elab¬ ceedingly interesting uud appropriate,” and orate enort from him on this occasion would then in asemi-oonfldentiai way he took the be disappointed, owing to the legal business wire edge off his compliment by adding, which had been forced upon by the events “you knoAV we don’t want uoddings real of the week. good ou occasions like dose.”

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it whoro the people oould see him and he .ncereiy hope yougentlemen are in the cut across the fields where he became fast in .0 frame of rniuU to-ulght. a bog. The more ho struggled to extricate did you ever drive up Scranton-street from hituseif the deeper he sank, until at last, no gas house to Matn-ayenue? Dio you alarmed for Ids safety, he called aloud for ever go down Jackson-stroet to the Kaiser help. His cries eoalt brought a neighbor Valley brauoh on your way over the hill to the with a lantern, who inquired what the mat¬ Poor-nouso? Have you ever been on Waslt- iugtoa-aveuuo on a dusty day?*$fid yon ever ter was. interview a farmer at the new LuiJfcJawunuu- “Well," said the man, “I was in a hurry to i avouue haymarket ? Have you softy, the get home to-night and so I took my way prayer in the bill in equity filed the bther across the swamp and got into this bog, and day against the Jeli'erson-avenue pavement-? the more I tried to get out the more I got in, Did you ever look over the wail at the foot'' till finally I Vent back tb the road aud got I of Laokawanna-avenue at the ruins of the old this plunk to see if I couldn’t get out with lock of the Delaware and Hudson Canal? that.” Did you ever tie your horse in Iront of the The one great requisite of municipal re¬ new hospital on the hill? Did you ever form is the active participation iu all public drive to Providenoe by the Diamond Flats in affairs by the tux-payers of the city. It is the sweet spring time ? If you have done sometimes urged with an air of ineffable super¬ any of these things you can imagine the iority, usually indicating that the man who thoughts filling my mind to-night as I rise to wears it has uoitner the wit nor the abiliry respond to the toast “Municipal Beforms and to discharge any duty or participate in any Improvements.” affairs with certain other people, that the en¬ 1 cannot crowd Olympus into a nut. In try into politics shows a lack of refinement, the time allotted to mo I cannot even skim or, as they would put ii, of culture. It is quite the cream of these most interesting subjects. as difficult to understand why these superior It would not do for any of us to “turn on beings wore created as why mosquitos were. the light” in all the departments of our They haven’t energy enough to sting but municipal government, unless we immediate¬ they do buzz in a most exasperating way. True culture never avoids a duty, however ly “Blew-iu” our. Citizens of no moan city disagreeable; nor does true refinement suffer however, and proud of our magnificent in¬ by any necessary contact with anything. dustrial and commercial development we When we recall the true type of a perfect may have our ambitions for the oily of our gentleman it is not so much the Philip choice. Some we outgrow before we ac¬ ttidney “who shot through the lists from complish them; for instanoe, the Linden- plume to heel the Star of Tourn¬ street bridge, the belt line of railroads, street ament” ns the Philip Sidney who be¬ cars every fifteen minutes to Dunmore or the smeared with blood and dust and most un¬ South Side; some of them are fulfilled—a pub¬ sightly to look upon passed hisheimot to the lic libtary—a buildiug the munificent and uncouth aud ignorant soldier who had found i lasting momorial to a lather and mother the same death, under the same flag, wi;h i erected by a Scranton boy, to be filled with himself. There is no cant more common, I books—the work largely oi the energetic and theta is no cant more hurtful In its tendency I public spirited chairman of your committee, than that which constantly cries at aud Maj. Henry Beiiu, jt. n. municipal build¬ belittles politicians as though they were a ing with suitable and commodious quarters superior order of beiugs endowed with none for our City Government, a new Postolflee of the virtues aud all of the vice3 of other and Federal Building, the outcome of and a men. You say our politicians are not honest, monument to the indefatigable labor and lUat is said by disinterested parties too effort of our ox-Congressman, the Hon. J. A. i often, why but tricks iu trade are not yet Scranton; others arc mere visions which we wholly ahandoned aud I have seen methods never expect to realize—like the Irishman’s adopted to carry church eieotious at which a pig, which he said ’‘didn’t weigh as much as ward primary would blush. Politics are he ‘expected, and he never supposed it muuaged by men of like mind and like would,” the permanent retirement to the ability of those who take part in all other Susquehanna sap country of Brother Burns. concerns of life. You must not look lor per¬ You say have patience, we are told that fection there until you find it elsewnere. everything comes to him who waits. The How many men present to-night attended trouule about that is Boss Burns tails me he the primaries in their several wards and dis¬ has a boy growing up and he is training him tricts at wnicn were placed in nomination as his successor as City Solicitor, and Aa has the members of the present councils of this got to hold the office until the boy is able to city? Are you in douDt as to the propriety take charge, and the boy is only four years of their action at any lime? Are they thwart¬ old. ing the interests of the city, as you believe Another vision—Clean pavements. I asked j them to be? Who is to blame for ad that? The a gentleman over in Hyde Park the other i most of us never attend our ward caucusses at day why they didn’t make an effort to reduce i all. We are independents who propose to a trifle at least the depth of the mud on | choose the better candidate; in otner words, Main-avenue. He answered me by saying, we wi l graciously condescend to assist in “The Councils spend all our money cleaning the chase after the party beaters haye scared the pavements in the central part of the up the game. The danger of being forced to city.” It certainly is not used on uny of the choose* between persons all unfitted for the paved streets. What is done with the money offioe to be voted for does not ocour to us. A appropriated; it would be dangerous to tisk. single man at a caucus may- accom¬ I am afraid it' I were to investigate this I plish much, but a man may accomplish should be as completely covered with con¬ much more who is willing to sacrifice a lit¬ fusion as was the man who stole the plank tle time—such a very little time—to investi- and is likely to secure as absurd an explana¬ [ gate candidates for nomination at the cau- tion. This man’s reputation for honesty was I cus and organize opposition to the bad and a little rocky and on coming home | support for the good. It can be done with from work ono night ha came across 1 very (little trouble and it is not neoessary to a lot of piaffics that some one had corrupt voters to do it. Critioism is easy, unloaded aud he could not overcome creation is difficult. the impulse to steal one plank. It The negative advice of Mephistopheios would not do to go through the village with “Ich bin der Geist der stets verneint” ought not to commend 'ffeelT tb the^’citizens of The secretary acknowledged the receipt of 1 Scranton. It the nether world must be ex¬ letters of regret from President Blmon Borg, plored for a maxim for reformers take the of the Now York, Susquehanna and Westons * motto of Macbeth's witches “I’ll do, 1*11 do rbad; E. D. Bedews, for Mayor Bofiows, now I and I’ll do.” j very ill, and General Manager Childs, of the ' This speech by Major Warren was well r

' „g and flnciyv.executed;'a group ol six Jlood houuaj£' all the work o£ Mrs,: L. A. Bassett, the weU-kuown artist. Mrs. Bassett’s pupils also Iitid a very creditable display. Miss Florence Manville Bad a number ot pictures among the collec¬ tion and one in particular is very much ad¬ Tributes to His Worth, by Judges mired. It i3 a dog's head iu oil and was painted by tbe lady norself from nature, tbe and Lawyers. subject being Iter own-dog. Mrs. Charles Lee exhibits an oil painting of a child kneeling in prayer in the midst of flowers. TESTIMONY OF HIS ASSOCIATES Miss Florence Baldwin’s work added material¬ ly to the value of ihe collection and are much praised. Among them are a duck in Unanimous Opinions Regarding His Abil¬ water coiors, fruit in oil painting, A view of Niagara Falls, lieucs ity and Fitness for the Office of Supreme from nature and several others. Judge by Hons. J. F. Connolly, F. W. Gun- Mrs. Bicker, formerly , of this city has on exhibition a charming picture of fruit ster, W. G. Ward, W. H. Jessup, Henry A. failing from a basket. It is an oil painting Knapp, H. M. Edwards, Major Everett and is one of the prettiest things in the de¬ partment. The dining room is divided from Warren, James H. Torrey and Gaylord the rest of tho place and is artistically fitted Thomas. _ up. 'i'he floor is covered with matting and the walls are hung and festooned with bunt¬ In view of the growing strength of Judge ing. Bel'reshmonts will be served during Archbald as a candidate for the supreme tho afternoons and evenings on small tables scattered throughout the room. The menu beach before the coming Republican state will include tue fallowing delicacies: Ice convention, a Tribune reporter spent a croatn, cake sandwiches, pan-cukes and part of yesterday afternoon in calling upon maple svrup. The loliowiug ladies are iu some of the leading lawyers and citizens of charge:" Misses Stella Hathaway, Annie Mc¬ Scranton for the purpose of ascertaining Donald and Annie Van Kirk. their views as to Judge Archbald’s qualili- j The coffee booth is in charge of Mrs. H. cations aud fitness for tbe position. The C. Wheeler, assisted by Mrs. li. Daley, Cora Ball and Grace Hathaway and is nicely ar¬ first seen were the associate law judges ranged. A number of packages of Chase and with Judge Archbald upon the bench of ganijornes coffee nave been donated and will Lackawanna county. be drawn and samples ol the beverage dis¬ Hon. John F. Connolly, senior additional tributed at the booth. Coffee pots irom H. law judge, after extending a cordial wel¬ O’Neill & Co., of New York, wifi be on sale. come to the reporter, in response to the The fancy goods boocu is one ol the hand¬ somest at tne carnival and ls.in churge of question, “What have you to say, judge, as Miss Lucy Josliu who will have a corps ol to Judge Archbald’s candidacy for the su¬ different assistants every evening; fancy preme court of the state?” said: aprons, a number of baskets, tidies, drapes, “I hav^ known Judge Archbald since I iaco mats and numerous otner articles was a boy. While he was a student in the are sola at the booth. A costly sliver service office of Hand & Post in this city 1 had Is also exhibited here, waieh will be awarded many opportunities to trace the progress to the iuosl popular public school teacher iu the eny. The cigar booth, wliere are on sale and the pursuit of the study of the different brands of the weed, Is in charge the science of the law. I met ol Misses Nellie Clune and A. L. -Brennan. him in the trial of cases and always At the flower booth is a gorgeous display of admired his care in their preparation. I I eat flowers anu potted plants, "Which are practiced before him after his elevation to j iiudihg a ready sale at reasonable rates. Mrs. the bench, and as district attorney and [ D. W. Humphrey is in charge, and will bo as¬ sisted by the following flower girls: Misses Annie Moon, F. Moyies and Jennie Letts. A number ol other valuable things are dis¬ tributed here aud there, but spacelorbius us noting them all. Judge Connolly, of Bcranton, opened the carnival last evening anci the Mozart Band furnished excellent music. Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Winker were tne guests ot Scraatoa relatives yesterday. Cnuues Hagan and daughters, Misses Busie and Mary, are enjoying a two weeks’ trip to New York. Walter Haslam, of Scranton, circulated among Curbonduie frieuds yesterday.

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counsel he was to me and t ' and consideration are foundiiereand cover I hers of the bar polite and His ! nearly all, if not all, questions which can ! perception of a legal and ! arise elsewhere. In a word, no mistake usually accurate. would be made by the people in any re¬ “Since I have been h __w_„iague __ on the spect if Judge Archbald should succeed in bench, I have found out more "about him the nomination and election to the supreme and his abilities than his most intimate as¬ bench.” sociates who Rjx, not similarly situated WHAT JUDGE WARD SAYS. could possibly find out in half an ordinary life time. Judge Archbald possesses in an Hon. W. G. Ward, for many years re¬ eminent degree every qualification neces¬ corder of the late mayor’s court of Scran¬ sary for the discharge of the duties of the ton and today the Nestor of the bar of this high position he seeks. As one of my col¬ county, was asked his opinion as to Judge leagues on the bench 1 would sincerely re¬ Archbald’s fitness for the supreme court. gret to lose him. He never tires and no task Judge Ward said: “Judge Archbald’s seems too Herculean for him.” qualifications for a justice of the supreme court of this state are these: He has a JUDGE GUNSTER’S ENCONIUM. j liberal education, is in the prime of man- , Hon. F. W. Gunster, junior additional ' j hood, has patience, industry, good health | law judge, announced his pleasure at the aud a legal mind. He is an ardent student opportunity of expressing his opinion of and lover of the law, and is possessed of a the president judge of our courts. He said- large knowledge of law and equity. In ad¬ “I have known Judge Archbald many dition to these qualities he is what every years. We were school boys together. He judge and justice should be, a courteous has always been a hard worker, and is one and Christian gentleman. His seven years’ of the most painstaking men that I have record as a trial judge is clear, bright and known in public or private life. Whatever , able. His kindness and impartiality, he does he does well. When I was at the I coupled with his intense desire to do right, bar I tried many cases before him and I I has endeared him to the bar and the people always felt that he gave the questions pre¬ of this judicial district. In my opinion, it sented to him careful consideration and will be an unfortunate day to us when he the attorneys courteous treatment. Of his leaves our bench.” qualifications for the supreme bench there “Hon. W. H. Jessup, of Jessup & Hand, can be no question. He has the judicial formerly president judge of Susquehanna temperament to an eminent degree. He county, one of the leaders of the bar of has had the benefit not only of a liberal Lackawanna, when asked the same ques¬ education, hut also of a thorough training tion, replied: “I consider Judge Archbald in the law. Since I have been on the bench thoroughly qualified and fitting for a place with him I have learned to rely with safety upon our supreme bench, by liis thorough on his judgment on the manv questions collegiate education, by his diligent pra'c- presented to us. As a friend I would he tice of the law. by his faithful labors upon pleased to see him promoted. As a judge of the bench, and by his unsullied personal this district, I would he sorry to lose him character. As a lawyer he was accurate, as an associate.” studious and able to see all the nice points In his spacious law office in the Corn- | in his own case as well as those of his ad¬ monwealth building, the reporter found ' versaries. As a judge he was very labori¬ Hon. Alfred Hand, ex-Justice of the su¬ ous, and bis opinions have been thoroughly preme court, and for many years president exhaustive. His experience in complicated judge of this judicial district, perusing the Vt» Date, 'Major Everett Warren said: “I have known Judge Archbald intimately for sev¬ eral years. I regard him an ideal judge. He is peculiarly fitted by temperament as well as education for judicial labors. He SCRANTON IDIOCESB is*patieut, painstaking and careful. He is and always lias been a close student of the law, is au indefatigable worker, and while ' as a practising lawyer I would hate to see w Judge Archbald retire from our own bench, I earnestly hope he will receive History of Catholicity Withii the nomination next month at Harrisburg for the supreme bench, believing that he I* ' Its Borders. would at an early date take rank with the ablest of the judges who have graced that bench.” James H. Torrey, one of the best known members of the bar, greeted the reporter very cordially and answered the question by saying: “In my opinion Judge Arcli- ITS MARVELLOUS GROWTH. baid possesses in an unusual degree the most essential qualifications for the office of justice of the supreme court. I will briefly enumerate some of them: First, ' the judicial spirit as distinguished from The Great Work Dane by Rt. Rev. William the adyocate. He approaches the consid¬ eration of every case without prejudice, O’Hara, its First Bishop. partiality or bias. Second, a thorough and 'j broad intellectual culture. Third, profound moral convictions; a spotless reputation \ and temperate habits. Fourth, a sound j and unimpaired physical constitution, and The first seeds of Catholicity within the a very unusual capacity and even fondness present limits of the Diocese |of Scranton for severe and continuous labor. Fifth, a great faculty and freedom in the use of the ware sown about Friendsville, in Susque¬ pen, which makes his opinions clear, forci¬ hanna County, in the early part of the cen¬ ble and exhaustive. Sixth, courteous and, tury now drawing to a close. When Caleb attractive manners.” Carmalt brought from Philadelphia a number W. GATLOBO THOMAS’ OPINION. of Quakers or Friends and founded Friends¬ W. Gaylord Tnomas, esq., an acuve prac¬ ville on a height about a mile from the pretty titioner of the law and widely known as flake that yet bears his name, there came there one of the leaders of the young bar of the county, said: “I think Judge Archbald is also several Catholic families. The Don¬ all right as a candidate for judge of the su¬ nellys, Kanes, Quinns, Whites and Griffins, preme court. He would be the right man all well-to-do people, settled upon the farms by the controversial spirit of the times, in that localttaMBM sought to oonvlnce him of the supposed error i rick Griffin, father of the world-renowned" of his ways by the philosophical and unan¬ Gerald Griffin, the poet, dramatist and nov¬ swerable argument of shaving his horse’s elist, the author of the “Collegians” and tail. The good neighbors, however, discoun¬ “Glssipus,” came to Friendsville in 1820. tenanced the act, and Mr. Carmalt offered to He was instrumental in having the spiritual replace the beast with another animal with a wants of the Catholics in that vicinity at¬ complete caudal outfit. tended to. Father Oeienavi, an Italian priest, Shortly after this Father Fitzsimmons was first visited the Catholics in the scattered set¬ removed to Carbondale, where he was sta¬ tlements as a missionary, and he was super¬ tioned as the first resident priest of the seded by Rev. Francis O'Flynn, who died Pioneer City. early in his ministry and is buried at Friends¬ ville. In these early days Mass used to be Educational Provisions. celebrated in the modest dwellings of the set- Father O’Reilly built the churches at Wil¬ tiers, but in 1831 liamsport, Troy, Auburn, Montrose, Snsque- The First Church In the Diocese hanna, Silver Lake and Warren. At Friends- was erected in Friendsville by Mr. Patrick: vlllle he built a college for the education of Griffin eleven years after he settled in the the yonng men in 1849 and established a con¬ town. The chnrch was of the modest pro¬ vent to educate the yonng women. He bad portions of 20x30 feet, but was considered previously established numerous schools and, large enouga for the congregation for de¬ in fact, built the schools wherever a church cades tnen to come. In this Father O’Flynn was erected. Long before State schools were attended to the wants of his people and was known in that part of the State, Father burled within its walls. After his death O'Reilly’s schools did excellent work, and Bishop Kenrlck and his brother drove 200 the effect is now apparent in the intelligent population of the towns wherever he estab miles through the wiidernesB to see the con¬ lisbed a mission. The college was started dition of the people, and he sent there Rev. with eighty pupils, which number was soon James Vincent O’Reilly, the uncie of the greatly increased. Miny of the clergymen, : present rector of St. Peter’s Cathedral, Scran¬ lawyers, doctors and other professional men ton, and from then the actual missionary in the diocese are graduates of that excellent work of the border counties was begun. In institution. The late BiahoD Shanahan, of i 1836 the north branch of the Chenango Canal Harrisburg, was a native of Friendsville and was being pnt through and it drew in that an alumnns of the college. Latin and Greek, vicinity a large nnmoer of sturdy working¬ German and French, mathematics, English, men. When the great financial panic of 1837 and in fact, all the branches of a thorough i came,work on the canal ceased and the work¬ education were taught there from the very men were thrown out of employment and first. Rev. Hugh Monahon was vice- went to farming, purchasing each from Mr. Sresident of the college and assisted Father Carmalt fifty acres of land at three dollars an 'Reilly in the work of education. In 1869, acre, for which the generous hearted Q aaker Rev. John Loughran, now of St. Joseph’s gave them eight years to pay. All tne land I Church, Minooka, for a while stationed at was soon taken np, and as the new settlers Hazieton, assumed charge of the Friendsville were nearly all Catholics the field for Father parish wish the out missions of Little Mead¬ O’Reilly’s work was greatly widened. ows, Overton, Auburn, Warren and Middle- His mission extended over seven counties , town. He remained pastor of St. Francis Susquehanna, Bradford, Tioga and Lycom¬ Xavier’s Church, Friendsville, till 1862, when ing counties in Pennsylvania and Broome, he became pastor of St. Thomas’s Chnrch at Tioga and Chemung counties in New York Archbald. Father O'Reilly became pastor of Susquehanna, now grown to a town of1 State. Father O’Reilly was a man of power¬ much importance. There he carried out the ful physique, wonderful endurance and an work of his earlier years He built a church, I unquenchable zeal in the cause of religion. founded a school and a convent There In He went through the woods, always on 1872 he was run over by a locomotive, and horseback, following a ragged mountain road brought to a quick and untimely death after a long career of untiring and unresting labor. or an uncertain path through the dense primeval forests, sometimes crashing through, First Church In Carbondale. unbroken underbrush or torn by overhanging While Father O'Reilly was kindling the brambles of the lonely and silent oaks and torch of religion in the counties on the pines. He attended the faithful at Bing- jhamton before the late Father Honrigan northern border, a new field of missionary began his missionary labors and went along work was opened at Carbondale after coal the line of the Erie road, stopping at each was discovered in that place in 1829. big shanty of workmen to administer to the Bishop Kenrlck, who never let any section wants of snoh as were of his faith. His tonr of his great diocese want for spiritual assist¬ I usually took him from four to five weeks and ance, sent among the early cabin dwellers upon his arrival home he never stopped a day at Friendsville except through necessity some French missionaries, who were the first before again setting oat upon his work. persons to speak the truths of Christianity After some years, an assistant, Father Jen¬ in the Pioneer City, and the first to offer the nings, was sent him, but the work was too Sacrifice of the Mass within the present severe for him and he died within a year. limits of Lackawanna county. Subsequently Rev. Henry Fitzsimmons, then a young man, took Some of the missionary work off his Father Clancy did mission work at Carbon¬ Ishoulders. dale and he was superseded by Rev. Henry a- One day while the latter was celebrating Fitzsimmons. Father Fitzsimmons was first K assistant to Father O’Reilly, but later became M Mass at Wyalnslng, in Wyoming county, the first resident pastor of Carbondale. July - some pious Christian gentlemen, actuated . ft

* 3, 1836, ia the date of Ifaie t irst recorded bap and he began to erect another bailding, forty, tism In Carbondalpi, and that Sacrament was ■ five by ninety-six feet, at Franklin avenne administered by Father Fitzsimmons His charge reached from Carbondale to Mauch is- and Sprnce street, with six times the ca¬ Chunk, and included Pittston and Wilkes pacity of the old bailding, which be thought Barre. Scranton, or Slocum Hollow then, would be large enough for the congregation had no need of a priest The baptismal reg for several years then to come. He did not lster of Carbon^ ale bears the names of Rev. live to see it finished, and it was completed J. Y. O’Reilly, Rev. R. O'Connell, Rev. Mich ?by Rev. Moses Whltty, his successor to the ael Drummond, Rev. Hugh McMahon, who pastorate in 1854 The Scranton parish in¬ doubtless attended the congregation during cluded Dun more, as that town was also one the absence T)T the regular pastor, on some of the out missions of Father Prendergast. of his far away missions. Mass was then The new building soon was too small, and celebrated in a little church on the Turnpike Father Whltty in Dunmore erected a frame Road Subsequently a small building was erected on the site of the present beautiful bailding forty-five by seventy five feet. A structure on Church avenue, and behind the distinct parish was soon formed, and Rev. building was a small graveyard. Edmond Fitzmanrice, now of Hazleton, was The church was only small and after a placed in control. Still the Franklin ave¬ while when the town grew could not at all nne chnrch conld not accommodate all of accommodate the people. Even out among the congregation, and another chnrch was, the solemn tombstones many a repentant in 1858, built in Providence. It was a frame sinner told across the grave of a departed building thirty by seventy feet. Again, in friend whose ears grim death had deafened, a few years, it was demonstrated that a large the sorrowful and simple tale of his viola¬ chnrch would be required, and in 1864 Fa¬ tions of the divine commands, and sought at ther Wbitty determined to have erected a the hands of the good priest the forgiveness chnrch sufficiently large for the congrega from an offended, yet merciful Cod. tion and worthy of the progressive borough then soon to become a great and prosperous In 1846 Father Fitzsimmons was trans¬ city. ferred by Bishop Kmrick to Wilkes-Barre Bailding the Cathedral. and be was succeeded J une 22 of the same Id the autumn of 1865 the Church of St, year by Rev. P. A. Prendergast. Vincent de Paul wa« begun at the corner Catholics In Archbald and Soranton. of Wyoming avenne and Linden street. It Daring the previous decade there was con' was 58x168 feet, and capable of seating 2,300 siderable progress in tne Valley. In 1844 Persons. It was erected at a cost of f100 000. coal was discovered at Arohbald, and the t was dedicated March 10, 1867. . first house built there. Slocum Hollow had On July 12,1868, a new era began for the then considerably increased in size, and Church in this part of the State. On that Father Prendergast attended to both towns date this section of the Philadelphia Diocese as well as to Pntston and other springing was made a diocese by itself, and Right Rev. settlements. A few years after Father O'Shaughneisy was gWen charge of Pittston, William O'Hara, D. D., was consecrated its Rev. Patrick McSwlggan was appointed first Bishop. Since then churches have sprung pastor of Archbsl 1, w ho was succeeded in 1862 up everywhere, new parishes have been by Rev. John Loughran, now of Minooka. created and new priests ordained to fill the Rev. John Loughran, not the same person as wants of the faithful, who have grown many the clergyman jast mentioned, however, was times in numbers under the gentle hand of the first resident pastor of Scranton. Mass the good shepherd who has now almost com had been first celebrated by Father Prender- pleted a quarter of a century as their gast in a dwelling house on Division street in Bishop. Hyde Park, and sub3equently in the house of In 1871 Rev Moses Whltty was trans¬ Thomas Tighe in the Twelfth ward, now 622 Front street, and occupied by James Sul¬ ferred to Providence, where he erected a livan. large brick temple of worship, the Church of Before any services were held in Scranton the Holy Rosary. :? It was the custom of the people to go to Car- Rectors of the Cathedral. bondale to worship. Captain DeLacy yet Father Whltty was succeeded as Rector of distinctly remembers one St. Patrick’s Day the Cathedral by Rev. R. Heuneasy, and he when one wagon conveyed all the adult by Rev. N. J. McManus. The latter suc¬ Catholic population of Scranton to the ceeded Rev. John Loughran as Pastor of Pioneer C ty. Daily, however, the com Archbald, and at the death of Father Whltty j munity Increased, and in 1848 Rev John he became Rector of the Church of the Holy | Loughran, the first resident pastor, deemed Rosary. Rev. J. W. Dunn, D.D., succeeded it well to erect a church. The Lackawanna Iron and Coal Company donated a lot Father McManus as Rector of the Cathedral, j in the Twentieth ward near the orchard and he was followed by Rev. R. A McAn- on the old Drinker farm. The church was drews and Rev. J V. Moylan. The latter ! only 26 by 36 feet—6 feet each way larger succeeded Rev. P. T. Roche, the successor of than the Friendsvllle church built many Father McManus, as Rector of St. Thomas’ [ years before. A churchyard was without Church, Arcbbold, and he in tarn bv Rev. where now stands a row of brick dwellings. Thomas J. Comerford, the preient Rector. Father Moylan was succeeded by Rev. James The Franklin Avenue Structure A. O'Reilly, the present Rector of St. Peter’s. In 1852 Rev. James Cullen succeeded Fa¬ The name of the Cathedral was changed upon ther Laughran, who in four or five years the remodeling of the structure under the after the first church was built found that direction of nt. Rev. Bishop O'Hara from the Church of St. Vincent de Paul to the the congregation had grown too large for it, Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul. The

’uoHk • .ym Cathedral was consecrated by fit; RevT Bishop O'Hara, who celebrated the Pontifical parish. From the Archbald parish have High Mass, and Most Rev. P. J. Ryan, Arch grown the Olyphant, Winton and Jermyn bishop of Philadelphia, preached the dedi parishes. Rev. P. O'Rourke was the first oatory sermon. pastor of Olyphant. Rev. E J. Melley, now Prom the original Scranton parish, besides of South Scranton, then become his successor, and the present rector, Rev. P. J. Murphy, the church of which Rev. Gerald F. McMur- succeeded him. Father Murphy is assisted ray is Pastor and Rev. J. Donlan assistant, by Rev. J. M. Smonlter. Rev. G. J. Lucas, and the Providence church, in charge of Rev. D D., assists Father Comerford at Archbald. N. J. McManus and his assistants, Rev. Wm. Rev. M. E. Lynott is the first rector of the - O’Donnell and Rev. J. J. O'Toole, the South Jermyn Church. Scranton, Hyde Park, the Green Ridge, the Wilkesbarre was first attended by Father Dickson parishes, and the Polish Church, and Fitzsimmons, of Carbondale. Subsequently the German Churches of St. Mary and St. Father Scborb, and afterward Father Borges, John have all been formed out of the original congregation who worshipped in the little nncle of Bishop Borges, of Detroit, were sta church 25 by 35 in the Twelfth Ward. ■ tioned there. At first both the English-speak¬ Other Churches. ing and the German speaking people wor¬ Rev. R. A. Me Andrews began the erection shiped in one church, but in 1858 Rev. P. C. of St. John’s Church in South Scranton, and Nagel, the present Dean of the diocese, formed the German congregation, and Rev. . upon his removal to Wilkes-Barre, Rev. E. Henry Fitzsimmons, after he had been trans¬ J. Melley was transferred from Olyphant to ferred from Carbondale, took charge of the South Scranton. He completed the church English speaking portion. The late Father and is at present assisted by Rev. J. A. O'Haran sncceeded Father Fitzsimmons, and Moffit. his successor is Rev. R. A. McAndrews, the St. Paul’s Church was erected near the present pastor of St. Philip’s. corner of Penn avenue and Marion street, German Catholic Churches. Green Ridge. It was first, in 1887, a tempor- In 1856 and 1857 the German speaking peo¬ ary building, but now a handsome frame ^ ple in the diocese were attended by Father ; structure graces the site. The first Rector Schneider and Father Sommer. Father Rev. P J McManus, is assisted by Rev. Jeremiah I. Dunn. Schneider began the church which preceded On the West Side of the city, in 1879, ser the present handsome brownstone building vices were first held bv that congregation ini in Wilkesbarre, but Father Nagel completed the frame church moved from Franklin it and took his place. Father Nagel’s mis¬ avenne. It was at first attended by priests sion extended from Williamsport to Hones- from the Cathedral, and afterward, in 1875, dale, Carbondale, Archbald, Scranton, Leli Rev. P. T. Roche was appointed first resi¬ bighton and Mauch Chunk. He built the,% churches at Scranton, PittstOD, Wilkesbarred- dent Rector. He was transferred as first and Hortesdale. He was succeeded In Hones- j Reotor of St. Dominic’s Church, Parsons, dale by Father Buthe, and he by Father Das 3 then first . separated from Wilkes-Barre, sel. In Scranton in 1865 Father Nagel was : where, upon his transfer to Arch bald, he was succeeded by Rev. John Schelle, and on Oc-|B succeeded by the present Rector, Rev. T. F. tober 10th, 1874, the pastor, Rev. P. C. Christ,! Klernan. Father Roche was succeeded in, was appointed. He is assisted by Rev. G. J. the West Side by Rev. J. B. Whalen, the pre¬ Stopper. St. Mary’s Church cost 820.000. fcffi sent Rector, who has constructed the mag¬ the pastoral residence cost 89,000, the Sisters’!; nificent new edifice on Jackson street, which house cost 85.000, and the teachers’ dwelling cost 864,000._ Father Whelan is assisted by. 84 000. 8 (Rev. D. J. Dnnne. This year the Dickson St. John the Baptist’s congregation was or¬ I parish was formed from part of the Provi- Idence parish, and Rev. M. J. Conway is ganized by the German Catholics of the West I Pastor. Side In 1885 and a church erected ai> the cor-: ner of Main avenue and Luzerne street. Rev. Thoge Outside of Boranton. F. A. Fricker is the pastor. He is assisted The Carbondale church, St. Rose of Lima’s, by Rev. Father Schmidt. was, after the transfer of Rev. P. A.'Pren- At Hazleton Father Nagel was succeeded ’ dergast to Pittston to succeed Father Shaugh- by Father Forve, at Williamsport by Father nessy, under the care of Rev. Father Carew, Koeper in 1869. At Wilkesbarre, Father who in 1852 was first called as assistant to Nagel is assisted by Rev. John Steinkirchner Father Prendergast. He in turn was assisted and Rev. Joseph J. Bilstein. by Rev. John McGrath. Father Carew was Rev. A. Snigurski, a Polish missionary, succeeded as pastor by Rev. Thomas F. Cof organized a Catholic church of his people fey, the Chancellor of the diocese. Father in 1885 and become its first pastor. Rev. Coffey is assisted by R9v. J. V. Hussie and Richard Aust is the present rector of the, Rev. J. Curran. The parish of Forest City, congregation. which was ent off from Carbondale this year, Connected with all the Catholic churches Is under the direction of Rev. Joseph J Cor¬ in the city are schools and convents. oner. Very Rev. John Finnen, the present Vicar- Wonderful Development of the Dloeese. General of the diocese, succeeded Father When Bishop O’Hara was consecrated and Prendergast as pastor of St. John’s Church, become spiritual head of the Scranton diocese Pittston, which he has rebuilt and which is there yiere only three churches in Scranton. M Now there are ten; there was then only one one of the grandest edifices in the State. priest, now there are twenty. Rev. M. F. Crane is pastor of the Avoca There were only sixteen priests in the dio-! % Church, formerly a part of the Pittston cese, forty-seven churches, two religious by any private indiv 'bools, and aC atHofic population ofSot less of Pennsylvania. tfian 25,000 people, widely scattered. Now SCRANTON WASN’T HERE. there are 114 priests, 37 schools, over 10,000 pupils, more than 300 teachers, churches There is no city of Scranton to be with a seating capacity of 75,000, 100,000 found upon the map; neither is communicants, and a Catholic population ot there any Lackwanna county or 125,000 He has dedicated over fifty churches Luzerne county. In fact the ana ordained nearly fifty priests. state of Pennsylvania at the tune He established St. Patrick’s Orphanage, the map was published seems to St. Joseph’s Foundling Home, and the House have been divided into eight counties- of the Good Shepherd. During the period of NorthamDton, Berks. Buck and Cum¬ berland. York, Lancaster Chester and bis bishopric the religious influence wbich his Philadelphia. Almost all the territory inspiring guidance has had upon the great in the northern and northeastern parti community at large all over the wide area of the diocese of Scranton can never be esti of -'the state was known as Northamp¬ mated or described.—Seranton Truth. ton of which this vicinity was a part. All’the country west of the central por-1 tion of the state to the Ohio was in¬ cluded in Cumberland county. At al¬ most the extreme western poult ot tni3 county was situated B’ort Pitt, now the city of Pittsburg, which today is mak¬ ing a desperate struggle to keep ahead of Scranton in the race for the second city of the state. the great swamp. The northeastern portion of the state as shown upon this very interesting map consisted for the most part of what was known as the “Great Swamp. INTERESTING MAP Draining this swamp were the laba- honink creek, now called the Tunkhan- nock and the Lackawanunk creek, our Pennsylvania as ft Existed in own romantic and majestic Lacka¬ 17 wanna river. Several lakes are shown -- upon the map. Shawnee lake, now known as Harvey's lake, is printed COMPOSED OF EIGHT COUNTIES near the village of Shawnee which name time has changed to that o- Ply¬ mouth. Just above the point wnere This Part of the State Was ia Northampton Scranton Bhould appear upon the map County,to the South of Which Were Bucks is a lake, which bears no name Dr B H Throop is of the opinion that this and Berk*, and Cumberland Occupied the must be Lake Ariel, known to the older Entire Western Portion of the State. residents of this city as J ones lake. The Northeastern Part of Pennsylvania Thera are a number of other lakes indi¬ Was Known as the Great Swamp, and cated upon the map as being in this part of the state, none of them, how¬ Wa* Drained by the Tanlthonink and ever, hears any name. „ Laokawanunk. _____ Not the least interesting features oi the map are the towns, or villages that There was a very old and interesting existed in the northeastern portion of map on exhibition in the window of the state. The largest one seems to Stelie & Seeleystore on Wyo¬ have been Wyoming, for it is repre¬ ming avenue yesterday that was viewed sented bv half a dozen wigwams while by large numbers of persons. the other settlements are favored with It was a map of the Providence ot but three or four. Just below the Pennsylvania, and was printed in hon settlement at Wyoming appears that ot don by Robert Sawyer and J. Bennett Shawnee while a short distanoe farther in the year 1775. Upon the top of the on is that of Nescopeck. There is a map is printed the information that it spot marked upon the map bv three was made from “actual surveys made wigwams and labetted ‘ Old Town, chiefiv from maps of W. Scull, pub¬ which is supposed to be the «t© oc¬ lished in 1770, for the Honourable cupied now by the city of AVilkes- Thomas and Richard Penn, true and Barre. There is no other settlement in absolute proprietaries and governours this vicinity shown upon the map ex¬ of the Providence of Pennsylvania, and cept B’ort Penu which was located all territory thereunto belonging. ' about where the town of Stroudsburg The map is the property of W alter M. now stands. Dickson, of this city, who purchased it Persons who desire to spend a . at an old book sale in New York last ant quarter of an hour shoul Monday. Mr. Dickson, who is a great around to Stelie & Seely s and admirer of old and rare books and his map. manuscripts, will add the map to his -ollection, which is perhaps the most aluable and complete of any possessed Tierney :‘of 225 Fi •an klin He arrived here, when but a small . >oy, on the 12th of June 1853 and settled From, >hat is now known as Shanty Hill. It was than a semi-wild and uncultivated place x/e -u, i .Gt&. ana all were quite oblivious of the future prosperity and subsequent developement by which its surroundings were to be made so remarkable. In the midst of a dense forest Date, were a few little rough houses scattered here and there and affording a quiet retreat and a solemnity unbroken but by nature's own I contrivances. All lived that simple life that ST. PfflW PARiSB. is so characteristic of the pilgrim and of the pioneer. No one pined for the goods of this Authentic History of the Cath¬ world, or spent their time in laying plans for the future. edral Parish. The First Catholic Church. The first Catholic Church was on Shanty Hill of which Kev. James Cullen was the ITS PAST AND PRESENT. pastor. In a small little frame church that could not contain over two hundred personst From 1839 to the Present Das*—New those simple people bowed the knee in Facts Developed and New Light reverence and in prayer, and thanked God on the History of the Parish- for the many blessings he had showered on . them in this land of loneliness. There was Some Interesting Incidents and no Scranton theD, none of that refinement Records. and progress of which we are now so justly proud, no grandeur, no palaces, no tapering The history of the Catholic Church of the spires, no majestic domes, no monuments, city of Scranton offers oDe of the strangest no streets, and neither had man’s busy hand and most peculiar of studies, and is a true and mind yet begun to disembowel the exemplification of the scriptural parable earth in hope of gain. Lackawanna avenue of the mustard seed. Sown in the midst of of to-day then contained only one brick the savage wilds and exposed to the rude house—the Coyne House which still stands- shocks of tempests, it has grown from and when the foundation for the Wyoming the most insignificant beginning to such I House was laid in what was then con¬ a degree of power, prosperity and usefulness sidered the woods, people laughed in that it is impossible to contemplate it with¬ derision at what seemed to them a mad adventure, a reckless, useless expenditure out being lost in wonder and admiration. of money. By degrees a few industries Its progress may have been helped, and, no were started and people begun to flock here doubt, was helped byMacauley’s “Human in order to obtain bread and work. The policy,” but the final results justify the Catholic population, which was then about supposition of the intervention of the Eye one fifth of the entire number of the that never sleeps, and of the Hand that nevtr inhabitants, increased day by day, till ceases to direct and guide. finally the little Church in Shantv Hill be* In tracing the history of the Church in came inadequate as people flocked thither Scranton, and, in order to get at the very from all points between Pittston and Peck- foundation of every fact, we found it ville. Being too small to accommodate the • rlecessary to go to the fountain bead and [crowd of worshippers, being pewless, and I to compare one point with another. At having no ornamen tation except the simple j times, doubt and confusion crept in but they cross, it was deemed advisable to choose an¬ i became weakened and dissipated in the light other and more fitting place of worship. -of further comparison and inquiry. In this Accordingly, the Bev. Father Cullen way, by the help of records and the selected a new site and erected a new frame I testimony of the few surviving witnesses building on the present corner of Frauklin j of those distant times, we were enabled to avenue and Spruce street. It was about arrive at the principal facts and the chief “forty five by ninety six feet, and stood ' points in the rise and developement of the j exactly where the brick row on Franklin .Church in what is now called the city ! avenue now stands. When it was nearly I of ScrantoD. completed Mr. Tierney Gives Some Light. Father Cullen was Moved The first one who could give any accurate and Father Whitty, whose name is so in¬ and satisfactory knowledge on this point timately connected with the events of those was the old pioneer and court tipstaff, the ? 1 Saint Peter’s Cathedral,

* early days, succeeded him. This edifice had]'- the business places which were but few in some pretensions to style and was ornament¬ number, and consequently many of the early ed to a certain extent, but, in a short time, projectors of the new church, that was italso became too small to; accommodate the afterwards built on the corner of the future Catholic people who now began to flock here j Wyoming avenue and Linden street—now iu great numbers. It was then taken >Qt. Peter’s Cathedral—strenuously objected apart and removed to Hyde Park and erect-: to its erection “in the woods,” and proposed ed where McGarrah’s store now stands on that it should be situated at the Cliff works Main street. In the meantime however, i which place was then about the centre of the Father Whitty with some of the old settieisj activity of the little town. Wiser counsels had looked around to see what could be dono prevailed however and in 1864 after having by way of erecting a new church. Prominent t gone down 20 feet in order to obtain a among those who helped to select the site of solid foundation. the present Cathedral were Michael O’Boyle, The First Stone of the New Church John Duffy. Patrick McCann, John Hawks,! Edward Mellon and Matthew Clark. Thej was laid. The Architect was old Mr. Amsden | Flats and Hyde Park then contained most of | father of the present Architect Amsden, corner of Lackawanna and Washington aveDues. It was then called the Church of life aDd trials of a true Bishop, and keenly St. Vincent de[Paul, and was considered one foresaw the effect the erection of Scranton of the finest bfiildings in this part of the* into a new diocese would have on the people l State. It measured about sixty by one of this valley. Since then Scranton has been hundred and seventy feet and was capable ja centre ot attraction. Business has flour- of containing about three thousand five fished, riches have been accumulated, the hundred people. Catholic population has greatly increased, The pioneers of those days speak with j churches, schools and convents have been pride and enthusiasm as they look back over j erected. How much of this is due to the happy | the good old times that are past when they i erection of this city into a new diocese and to were contributing their mites to the erecting the efforts of the worthy first . Bishop ; of the present St; Peter’s Cathedral. They is evident. Under his care religion and ! were primitive times, but each helped the morality have taken a mighty onward sweep. other. Business was not as brisk as it develop- I In 1884 the church of St. Vincent de j ed afterward during the Civil War. A com¬ Paul was completely remodelled and embell¬ mon laborer in the D. L. & W. car shops or ished, under the supervision of Bishop in the furnaces earned on an average about [O’Hara, by Architect Durang of Philadel¬ I two dollars, or two dollars and a quarter a phia. and the famous painter Scitaglia, who j day. The company store was then located ' did the frescoing. The strength, beauty [at the blastfurnace, and a few little stores j and general appearance of the interior and were scattered here and there throughout | exterior were improved. When this work I the Flats and Hyde Park. Slocum Hollow was completed the Church of St. Vincent de I was the ouly name by which it was know jPanl was no longer known. It was conse- . till as late as 18f>0. Not one dwelling ; crated on the 28th of September, 1884, and •house of unusual size, or beauty of its name changed to that of Saints Peter and j Architecture was erected except the Scranton Paul’s Cathedral. At the morning services J residence which still stands on the corners j Archbishop Eyan, of Philadelphia, preached, | of Lackawanna and Adams avenues, and and in the evening, at Pontifical Vespers, which was then considered a mansion , Bishop Becker, of Wilmington, Deleware. that would continue so for all time to come. Colonel Hawks Speaks. | The old rolling mills were small insignificant There is no one at present in this city who j co cirns and were situated beneath Shanty can go back so far with intelligent accuracy, Hill, The people were by no means rich and or can detail with such exactness the early the Catholic population did not exceed one life and manners of the inhabitant of what fourth of the entire population. Still with was the very beginning of Scrantan as J all these disadvantages they lent a generous Colonel John Hawks of 1280 Main avenue. I hand in the erection of their new and Providence, We called on him, and from ; stately temple of worship. jhim heard a few chapters in our ancient his¬ The ceremony of laying the corner stone tory that were most interesting. s ! took place in 1865, and brought forth a The First Mass Celebrated in North Fast- j large concourse of people from all the sur- ren Pennsylvania. | rounding towns. On that day over $8,000 | were collected. On the 10th of March 1867 It was on a bright, happy Sunday morning . the new Church was formally opened in June of 1840 the first Mass was celebrated jaud dedicated, but at that time fin this part of Pennsylvania by Eev, James ||its general appearance was much Sullivan, a missionary priest. The little £ i simpler than it is at present, It remained house in which this memorable event took P Ju> changed, however, for some time after- place is on Shanty Hiil-which received its wards. name in consequence of the number of small Rt. Rev. William O’Hara. rude shanties that were erected there—and : was consecrated by Bishop Wood of Philadel¬ | measures perhaps about fifteen by twenty phia on the 12th of July 1868, and on the feet. This same house still stands to brave j 2, th of September following was installed as the atoms of time, to bring back the memor¬ j the first Bishop of the newly erected Scranton ies of other days when men struggled hard diocese. The ceremony was most impressive against the reverses and inconviences of life and one long to be remembered by all who Its number is 522 Front street, and it over¬ were present on that glad occasion. Four looks the Eoaring Brook and the old rolling Bishops were present, a large number of mills. This was the hallowed ground on priests, and the class of Theological Students which the first Catholics of this city met in from the Seminary of St. Charles Borromeo unity and peace to give glory and thanks to where the new Bishop had formerly taught, , God in that spirit of truth laid down by tbe poet, as Doctor O’Hara, with so much zeal and j eclat. On this occasion His Grace, the Arch¬ “And chiefly Thou, O spirit, that dost prefer bishop of Philadelphia preached the sermon Before all temples the upright heart and After him followed Et, Eev. Bishop O’Hara" pure, jwho delivered a touching discourse on the * * * ;s # ‘ ------... What is dark in me illumne; what is low, and 3Teet in diameter. Such simple things Eaise and support.” * * * as matches were unknown. People used In that little temple they, in a manner flint and stone instead, rubbing them to¬ more solemn than ever Puritan or pilgrim gether to produce a fire. Sun dials took the worshipped, raised their voices in humble place of watches and clocks. Charcoal was prayer. They were—perhaps, not twenty in the only fuel that was known of, or used. all, and not one lives to tell the tale of hard¬ Walking was the style of locomotion, for ships and patient suffering that hopeful little there was nothing else in use. Coal was colony suffered, except Colonel Hawks. found by accident while some men were dig¬ For seven years this house served as a | ging foundations near the blast furnace. place of worship, because the people were too There was not a school, or a school-teacher few in number and too poor to build a more within miles, and no newspaper was in exist¬ suitable place. In the meantime Father Sul¬ ence to detail the occurrences of the unevent¬ livan continued to minister to their spiritual ful life of the few inhabitants of the hereto¬ wants, and kept the torch of faith burning fore unpenetrated wilderntss. Eoads and brightly. foot-paths were their streets and avenues. The Scranton of the Past. The squatter’s rights were the only rights In those times the Wyoming and theLacka-: that were known, and each one was entitled wanna Talleys were one continued, deep to take possession of as much land as he pleased. There was no enterprise whatso¬ forest. Here and there little plots were ever, and all were acquainted with one an¬ cleared and small shanties set up as a protec¬ other. They did their day’s work and came tion and a habitation. Around the present home contented and without a thought of the city of Scranton there was nothing hut the future. They lived that quiet, unprogressive, beginning of what was ever since know as yet happy life so well described by Pope Shanty Hill, as far back as the year 1840. when he says; A few Irish Catholic families were driven “Happy the man whose wish and care here by that inexplicable fate which drives an A lew paternal acres bound; Irishman to every quarter of the globe, Contented to breathe his native air civilized, or uncivilized. There was nothing On his own ground.” to tempt the adventurer, or to satisfy the The festive squirrel chirped and jumped pioneer. The gloom and the heaviness of one from tree to tree where the statliest mansions vast wilderness overhung the face of Nature; of the Scranton of to-day stand. Where the still brave'hearts and ready bands were not round house is now the boys of the past spent daunted by thesso difficulties. By some many an hour of innocent glee Bunting and means unexplained six Irish Catholic famil¬ catching rabbits: and on the solemn spot ies settled amid this gloom, and formed a where justice is now dispensed to the stir¬ kind of latter-day Pilgrim band of their own. ring Cuunty of Lackawanna, they used to After they had built themselves rude huts, kill frogs and pick the tamarack berry. It they next planted the cross and continued to ■ was under such conditions as these that the adore in the unpretentious cabin, which has early founders of thi3 community struggled already been mentioned, for about seven years. to gain a living and strived to leave a A few came from DunmoTe and from Hyde worthy legacy to their children of to-day. Park to complete the congregation. In the course of time the little shed where In 1840 the first furnace was created, and Father Sullivan had taught his people their the Lackawanna Iron and Coal company duties to God and to their fellow men, be- began to build. This was done in the most carne too small. It was then that William primitive style, mostly everything being Hawks, father of the present Colonel Hawks, made of wood and worked by water power as selected a place on the corner of Hemlock the use of steam was not then known in the street and Stone avenue as the site for a new valley. In 1839 Selim Scranton arrived church. It was begun and finished in 1847. from Oxford N. J., and brought with him a It was a plain structure and contained no number of persons from there to settle here. pews or gallery. This was one of the first Those also built on Shanty Hill. At that churches in North Eastern Pennsylvania, ! time saw-mills were a thing not dreamt of in and in the absence of any other Bishop, the | this region, and when a man wanted to build Fvenerable and lately lamented Bishop Ken- a house his neighbors came in community rick of Baltimore dedicated the new edifice ! respecting neither the Sabbath, nor the want and celebrated the first mass in it. It may | of an invitation, with their axes and cut down be here remarked that this little church trees which they hewed into boards after when its framework was well completed was great labor and exertion. They then helped carried away and demolished one night to put these rough-hewn boards together, by a sudden and terrible hurricane that ^ after which they called the completion of the] swept through the entire valley. Tnis, how¬ process “a house.” All over Shanty Hill tall, ever, did not dismay the faithful people who stately hemlocks had grown to giant pro- set to work again as earnestly as ever. In lOrtions, many of them being 120 feet high those democratic days there were no special¬ ists, and every one contributed his part by w

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actual wo.*. a. j it,' in happened that on this day, it__ being the -1845, the luxury...™,., is introduced, r\ f ltfl 'cell oil T • _ 1 ... and the erecting of bu thereby ;of March, all the Irish societies were out in .facilitated. » ,line, and some of the more sensible, conserva | The >iew Church Dedicated. ;tive spectators deemed it best not to allow the insult proceed any further from fear of a , The day this new church was dedicated bloody riot. The effigy was accordingly (crowds came from far and near, both out of (pulled down by Squire Newman. A few curiosity and from motives of religions zeal, lamentable cases of personal violence oc.- to see this strange, yet loved ceremonj . Of curred, but these proceedings soon caused a this church Father Fitzsimmons was soon I nniversal condemnation, after which theven- afterward made quasi-pastor. About once or Itirely ceased. twice a month he used to come from Carbon- dale—he sometimes rode on any conveyance A New Point of History. whatsoever, and more frequently walked it— A curious incident is related that happened and slept while here in what was called “The in the year 18o5, and which admirably shows White Tavern,” in Hyde Park, on the cor¬ the unfortunate temper of the times. Th* ner of Main and Jackson streets, the right first Catholic school, strictly speaking was! (hand side iD going up Jackson street. This The same as the “hedge school” of the game White Tavern” was a fitting prototype :days in Ireland. People sat down on the jof the country hotels of the “wild and woolly green sward beneath the shade of a stately jest:’ or °f the distant South of the present tree, and here the young were taught the first pime. It was chiefly remarkable for its total impressive lessons of religicn. offairvlore pack of all conveniences. Nevertheless it was of half-true history and of the simplest" rudi ’ , Ihere that the early apostles of the infant ments of education, ’ In 1850 the first regu- |phurch in Shanty Hill were compelled to lar Catholic school was erected, and it m »v h lodge. For five years Father Fitzsimmons interesting to know that it was from the top" attended this little settlement till he was su¬ of this rudely-constructed, primitive icsft,, perseded by Father Cullen in 1852. tion of learning that the first American flag I Iq 1847 first railroad was begun that ever seen in Scranton waived its folds to th rhicb, later on, and even to the present day breeze. This school was 40x20 feet 6 is known as "the old Washington road.” It , .situated on Eiver street, between ’ Pitt ton Iran along the line of the mountain from aria prospect avenues. The flag was of plain t ittstoD to Hawley, and parts of it still re- muslin at. » background, with blue and red nain. The work that this gave and the open- -stripes sewn longitudinally. The thirty-two jug up of mines, car shops and iron works stars of that time were hand-painted by .Boon caused the little hamlet to increase in (Colonel Hawks, and a harp and shamrock taumbers and in prosperity. Emigration were prominent amongthe stars. The flag from other places set in, and in a short time was hoisted amid acclamations of joy and this was the Mecca of a large class of peonle, (‘sentiments of just pride and hope. Every¬ who were desirous either of work or of en¬ thing went well for a while, but, finally, the riching themselves. The Catholics of those haters of everything Catholic, thinking that times, especially between 1840 and 1856 this meant some treason to American in¬ bvere compelled to undergo some hardships stitutions, proceeded to the school and de¬ that would now seem incredible to us They manded that that emblem of treason be taken bot only had to fight the inconveniences down. When it was explained to them that which hard circumstances and surrounding it was nothing more treacherous than the imposed upon them, but even were compelled Stars and Stripes, they slunked away to hide to contend with the criticisms, and sneers themselves in the depth of their ignorance a*d V1°le“ce t^ir deadly enemies-the and confusion. Ever after that they knew gnow-Nothings. This dangerous society, like the American flag on sight. It was this same a- poisonous fungus, grew up here even flag that was carried at the bead of the first ^ong the wilds to taint the atmosphere of parade that ever took place in Scranton. That frtedom, and render itself despicable for all was on the 17th of March, 1855. It was a very antique, primitive affair, and was com¬ Tnr rn “arr°W'minded- Persistent per¬ posed of a select body of Irish and Germans, il ^ °f Cath°llCS' Meetings of Catholics aud their parades were unceremoniously both of whom donDed green suits and cartied' bioken up by desperate men, while they ' Brian Boru pikes and battle axes of the ninth and tenth centuries. The parade was headed by a drum corps, consisting of one fife, one bnatacism led some Know-NothinVTo^fa? isnare drupi and one drum. The line of march was from Shanty Hill to Dunmore, to ifberty poTin ?' ?**** in from the liberty pole in front of the present telephone Lackawanna avenue to Hyde Park, and from ^change. To increase the sting and the in there back again to Shanty Hill, being in all about ten miles. For years the first organ¬ iulti t° I"*’Catholics, a string! ofPotItZ as suspended around the neck and a codfiTh ized German military company—the Jaegers, under Captain Charles Robinson—and the 7 ^ -- 16 Sr *

lunch , "bad to be established in order to . st Irish Military Company—the Lacka¬ off the terrible effects of an universal starva- wanna Blues, Captain Joyce—continued to tion. This was in 1857, but soon afterwards march on St. Patrick's Day, bearing aloft the prospects grew brighter and aroused a new Stars and Stripes, together with the harp- gleam of hope. Through the efforts of emblazoned emblem of Ireland. By degrees Father Whitty the Catholics stuck together j they acquired greater perfection in military on the principle that in unity there is tactics, and under the first musician of the strength, and in this they happily tided over valley, a Mr. Berger, their band increased m those trying times without much trouble. ( members and in efficiency. These two j They then turned their minds to their new j united Catholic societies had, by their design of building a church that would bt | patriotism, done much to win the approbation spacious enough to accommodate the growth j of all who saw tfte repeated demonstrations of the parish 'for year’s. For a long time if ! of loyalty and love of country they made both puzzled everybody to decide which would b. | in public and in private. It was this Mr. the most proper site for the new edifice. In ; \ Berger who taught Colonel Hawks the theory the end mere chance decided what strong ar- j land practice of music, and he in turn, at a . guments could not. later day, became the first Catholic organist ! of Scranton. Captain Joyce, of the ‘ Lacka¬ Origin of St. Peter’s Cathedral. wanna Blues,” was the first Catholic school The history relating strictly to the present; teacher of the growing hamlet, and instructed ■ Cathedral is most strange and peculiar. the youths of those days in the little pine What is now Wyoming avenue, between j school above mentioned. Phelps’ drug store and Mulberry street, was Another Progressive Movement. iu 1857 a swamp, covered with moss, long In a short time the church on Stone avenue grass and shrubbery. On one side, just became too small to contain the numbers that where the Windsor Hotel and Lackawanna flocked here from every quarter to attend Laundry of to-day stand, was a large round | divine service. Alongside and all around it knoll covered with trees. All the land be- I were tiny crosses of wood that marked the longed to old Mr. Sanderson, who bad itl last resting place of many of the old pioneers cleared and the knoll leveled by a number of! of Scranton’s progress. In consequence of men, giving them fifty cents per day. The this an agitation was set afoot to build a new clay was used to fill the swamp in the direc¬ church, with which movement everybody tion of the present Cathedral, the Episcopal | was heart and soul. A site was accordingly residence and St. Cecilia’s Academy. No selected at the corner of Fran - lin avenue and sooner was the ground completely clearea and leveled than the first circus that ever! Spruce street, It was then, too, that the idea j of having a permanent place of residence fur I struck Scranton, pitched its tents there, cov-: the attending priest first presented itself to ering from the corner of the Windsor to the! cheir minds, and a rough house was erected Cathedral lot. All who had enough of money, I, on Spruce street, right near the church, i or of curiosity to see the circus—and that was' When it was almost finished in 1852, Father everybody—thronged eagerly to catch a 1 Fitzsimmons was moved down the valley, and glimpse of it, and this fact decided the site for' Father Cullen took his place. For two years the new ebuteh; for amongst the ciuriosity- he worked hard and well to build up the . seekers were Colonel John Hawks, Edward scattered congregation and to infuse into it a Mellon, Michael O’Boyle, and a few others. spirit of unity. How well be succeeded with All were taken with the beautiful location of I the rough material at hand, and how willingly t he circus ground, and after consultation with j his best efforts were supported by a loyal Father Whitty, three lots on the corner of people was clearly shown by the state Id Linden street and Wyoming avenue were] which be left the newly established parish. bought some timein 1858 for the small sum of In 1S54 he too was changed, and Bev. Moses about$2000.Work was begun inl864 and the J Whitty, whose name was a household word in new and beautiful temple was pushed rap-j the entire valley for all that is good, took idly to completion. In a short time it was j charge. He followed in the track cf Fatbei finished and ready for use, but the already ! Cullen and consolidated his congregation as hard-tried people had to undergo another1; much as possible. The fruit of his arduous | test before they could entirely enjoy the fruits % of their labors and sacrifices. Several of the j labors was shown in 1858, when it was found j pillars were found to be faulty and unsafe, that the Franklin avenue church was too and, worse than all, tt e cupola over the organ small. The Catholic population was rapidly oft began to spread apart. Father Whitty increasing, and. people began to flock hete and his trusted pioneers of the faith were not from all quarters, notwithstanding the fact disheartened. New pillars were put in, and | that these were discouragingly hard times. the cupola was permanently secured by j Work was suspended, and the means of sup strong iron belts. Then the first Temperance port were becoming daily more doubtful. At and Benevolent Societies were instituted, and one time, it came to such a pass that “soup j from that day the Church of St. Vincent de houses,” where the poor might get a frec- Paul, as it was called increased in power and prosperity. Its history since is half of the 1 .U be dose of the year 1846, or at the . history of the city of Scranton. Since its inning of 1847 Bev. Hugh Fitzsimmonsi j corner stone was laid on that auspicious 2nd I s' ip'VaS orda'ne,l in 1837, succeeded Father [ of July in 1865, by the venerable Bishop nan, walking from Carbondale about Wood, of Philadelphia, it has been the centre j once a month for five or six years. He con- i of the hopes of the Catholics of this city. It mued the good work of his prodecessor, aLd [was the deserving object of their just pride. ui t the first regular church on Stone avc- At first it was an unpretentious building j ae' da 1852 he was sent to Wilkes Bat re strong, massive, but unadorned. Jt was got¬ I 7ft-? he died in 18"1- Between 1852 and ten up in a plain, simple, Puritanic style i ' 3 1 ather Cullen attended to the spiritual Its first organist Was Colonel Hawks, and the | "€“88iti« °t the increasing congregation. people’s minds were stirred to devotion, not n ei him, too, the church on Franklin ave by the heavenly swell of a mighty organ' but | nue was begun. Hein turn was succeed, d by the simple tones of a melodeon that’ was y .ev, Moses Whitty whose name is • o about the size of the little organ now used for , amiliar :n this part of the valley. He w: s the boys in St. Aloysius Chapel. I ordained on the 11th of June 1852. In KIsliop O’Hara Arrives. i ^ ‘ be was moved to Providence and his In September 1868 Et. Bev. William | P ace was taken by Father Hennessy who IO Hara arrived in Scranton and was immed¬ was ordained in October, 1868. Then cam*- iately installed as the first Bishop of the new “v 1 ^ McManusthe date of whose ordin¬ [diocese. The occasion was a memorable one ation is December 27, 1868, Both followeu and marked a new era for the city and dio j i e steps of their predecessors whose works cese. His attention he first turned towards t ey pushed to success. Father McManus the Church of St. Vincent de Paul, which he was lemoved to Archbald in 1877 and was completely remodeled and beautified in 188* succeeded by Doctor Dunn who was in 1 Its three marble altar^ex tended'gal 1 eriei;thi charge from 1877 to 1883. Doctor Dunn exquisite frescoing by Scitaglia. the rows of | was ordained on July 30 1874. After his pillars with their circles of dazzling light, the ?;T?„Father McAndrews, ordained July stained glass windows, and the increased [ y; took his place and remained till [ 888 when he was succeeded by Rev J y facilities of admitting light and pure air. be- speak a degree of zeal and labor that cannot I <5°ft ian Wh° Was ordained on November 2, be overestimated. After all the improve¬ • In 1S30 ha was replaced by the pri- ments had been done under the direction of sent respected, hard-working pastor, Bet . Bishop O’Hara, he changed its name to that James A. O’Beilly, of Saints Peter and Pauls Cathedral. Since During the lives of those men as rectors in then his name has been intimately connected present cathedral parish we see but steady, with every improvement in Catholic circles, honest zealous labors in the cause of * trtttb, inside and outside of the city of Scranton. He i morality and religion. These labors have played the role of the Good Shepherd in an I produced fruits worthy of the men who! per¬ unassuming, yet masterly way. He has not formed them aud of the cause in which they forgotten the outcast, raised the lowly, com¬ j 7e? Pe;;formed- To'day the parish of Sc. forted the sorrowful, and opened wide the e er .. atnedial can boast of its progress and doors of institutions of charity and learning of the degree of perfection which it has reached. that are performing their part most happily and most successful. I AOwing to the utter impossibilitv of finding 'out with exactness the many assistants at the Pastors of the Cathedral Parish. | Cathedral we have entirely omitted this bef° Lbe metnory of the Bev. James Sullivan “ J ls suffe>ent to say that these, too «r<.?DgS ?e proud honor of having been the Played an important part in making this ls,.ro .Pnest that ever said Mass m ! parish what it is to-day. act d’ in June 1£40’ and of haV1Dg Some Interesting Records. in th as the first pastor of the infant church | Through the kindness of Bevs. T.SF. Coffey 'has h* *ttle Cab‘“ on Shanty Hill. His work ! th«aQ°j-ne good truit, worthy of his labors in aU ’ 0 Beilly we were permitted to look j up some old documents of the parish which shrr.n.,1 dr'otr day*' but his life after 1S47 is i we tound to be very interesting. The first I miooi ed in mystery. He left here on his book of records is kept in Carbondale as it the a°Dai^ labors and never returned, and was there Father Fitzsimmons kept all his thre ^os^e °f the wilderness ofScranton flfci - | books. It is gray with age and venerable for ! it is f'ea^S 8g0 is now almost a myth. Still, the antiquity of some of the fact it contains. Chur u ■ ,^oped that from a captain in the | The eutries are made to extend across the d C- ™*dtanf> he has passed to a higher I page, and are written in the simple, technical nf i\ be ^urch triumphant, as a reward customary Latin formula. It is impossible ho we ver That 7?^' 11 ^ l° b® regr6tted * however to arrive at any definite conclusions, in , flIS hones do not rest in peace l ■ 1111 st of those whose life he blessed by a-i the different entries do not specify) the his presence. | place of their happening. As this parish ..arbondale and all the settlements well, and"the results that remain an jng the valley a doubt overhangs the actual most eloquent witnesses of the place of occurrence. Allowing.? however, they have performed. sufficient time for him to have come here we! (Note—At some future time we may take fiiund this entry—“Baptismata— Tempus, ] up the other institutions and societies im¬ nomen, Parentes—Dies natalis—Sponsores,”! mediately referable to the Cathedral parish. aid corresponding to these words—‘'1841, This article also will be followed in time by Maiae vicesimo octavo—Hellenam Guiliel- a similar his'ory of every parish in the dio¬ mus Hawk et Brigitta Doherty, octavo cese and if, from time to time, a slignt error Aprilis—Patricius Hart et Honora O’Hara,”! shall have crept in, or a correction be needed, which freely means‘'Helen, born of William ! we shall be very happy to receive all sug¬ Hawk and Bridget Doherty on the 8ch of gestions with regard to rectifying the same.) April, (I baptized) on the 28th day of May 1841, sponsors Patrick Hart and Honora O’Hara.” The first marriage entry runs thus ‘‘Die duodecimo Decembris, 1836, nuptias celebravi inter Joinnem Mulligan et Mariam Farrell,coram Andrea Fahey et Cecilia Foley” “On the 12 day of December, 1836, I cele¬ brated the ceremony of marriage between John Mulligan and Mary Farrell in the pre¬ sence of Andrew Fahey and Cecilia Foley.” At the bottom of both entries is the simple name—“H. Fitzimmons.” The cathedral records go back to 1855, The first marriage entry of that year was made on November 1. It runs—“Conjunxi in matri- monium Jacobum Corry etBrigittam Murray, SCRAPS OF HISTORY testibus. Patricio Murphy et -.” “(To¬ day) lioined in matrimony James Corry and Records of the Days When Our Progressive Bridget Murray, Patrick Murphy and- City Was a Borough. being witnesses.” The first baptism is[entered thus: “Novem¬ ber 1, 1855, Baptizavi Phillipum Natum undevicesimo Septembris de Domenico et MEN WHO WERE AT THE HEL1 Winifreda Hastings,, sponsoribus, Antonioj Gallagher et Eleanorai Grady,”—“On Novem- j Interesting Information Gleaned from her the 1,1855, I baptized Phillip, horn on ; a Record in the Possession of the the 19 of September of Dominic and Winifred City Clerk—The Borough History Hastings, Anthony Gallagher and Ellen of Scranton—Men Who Were in Grady being sponsors,” The name, M. Whitty, is appended at the bottom of each. Charge in Earlier Days—Some Able In one case in the old records, kept in Car- Scrantonians Were Secretaries. bondaV, a child had been born eighteen months before it was baptized. That was the Few documents in the city pos¬ time when missionary work was done, and] sess such interest for Scrantonians when, perhaps, some people had not seen a as a book of records that is in the cus¬ priest in years. tody of City Clerk M. T. Gavelle in the Summing up the entire history of the Municipal building. It is the book cathedral parish it is ore of marvelous pro¬ containing the records of the city’s gress and growth. From the little cabin oaf early history, when the Electric City Front street it has’ developed up “iuto a, was but a borough. The records begin March 27, 1856. and continue till May stately cathedral. From four families, ^con¬ 12, 1868, nr more than two years after sisting of about twenty‘imetnbers, [that wor- the city was incorporated. shipedjhere it has now a population! of be-! The first counciimen the city ever tween eightor nine thousand. From poverty had were James Harrington, J.C.Platt, and privations it has become remarkable for John Nincehelser, D. K. Kressler and prosperity and luxuriance. From a scattered William M. Ward. The first burgess few it has become a vast body strongly united was Joseph Slocum. H. L. Marvine was the first secretary of the council. by every bond that can sanctify humsn Burgess Slocum, Councilman Platt and nature: and how much of the glory of this Secretary Marvine. in conjunction with progress and prosperity is dne to the Prelate, j John Brisbine, were appointed a com¬ the pastors and the people is most clearly mittee to draft by-laws for the gov¬ illustrated when we see the unity of purpose ernment of the borough. and action, and of deep religious zeal by The first work of this committee was which they were actuated. They have done to draft an ordinance, the first section of which provided that cattle were not to run at large and in case any were impounded tbe high constable was to used, and at the same meetir give personal notice to the owners, Jones gave an opinion adverse. rhe fines for impounding were as fol¬ (taxation of money that was dr lows: horses, cows, swine and dogs 25 interest. On March 2 Joel Ams. cents each, geese, sheep and other was appointed borough engineer. The mischievous animals 4 cents. Any ani¬ salary of the clerk was fixed at $40 per mal not redeemed in three days was annum and the borough treasurer was ordered sold. A tax of $2 was imposed to receive 24 per cent, of the funds he on dogs, and they had to wear a collar handled. jbeariug the owners name. Vehicles of A NEW BOARD ELECTED. all kinds for obstructing cross walks .were ordered seized and the penalty A new board of town councilman was jvaried with the articles found in the j?’e°ted?nd t0°k their seats in March [vehicles, Circuses and theatrical com¬ 18o7. They were C. Schlnger VV A panies had to pay a license fee of $15. Roffs'J'S' Fuller, J. R Williams fBall playing was prohibited in the pub¬ : ^nd John Bsckhorn, with George San¬ lic street and a fine of $2 was imposed derson as burgess. James C Wright for flying a kite and for using indecent was chosen secretary. Mr. Wright or profane language, the ranged from . was succeeded as secretary on Oct. 19 |$1 to $10. !by Edward Kingsbury, and at that SMALL PAY rfOR OFFICERS, | meeting J. S. Fuller and W. S. Rogers ■ were appointed a committee to devise j The assessors’ salary was fixed at j means for relieving the poor, and at a 1*10 Per annum, but later was reduced future meeting it was agreed that the Mo $5, and the street commissioner got (revenues of the board for the next year j$2 a day for every day employed. A should be anticipated and pledged for .safety committee of two was appointed the alleviation of the hungry and desti- I to examine every stovepipe and chim- tute. jney in the borough twice a year and The next board took the reins of gov¬ ! their pay was fixed at $1.50 per day for ernment March 27, 1858, and was made every day employed. I up as follows: Burgess, George W For discharging a firearm in the beranton; couucilmen, Thomas Dick¬ borough limits save on the Fourth of ie Dolpn, J. J. Albright, July or without the permission of the I Philip Robinson and Frederick Schro- burgess a fine of $3 was imposed, and ' er* A B. Chase was secretary. for the same offense on Sunday the fine On April 4, 1859, constitution and by- was $5, jlaws for the government of a fire de¬ On May 12, 1856, W. P. Carling as¬ partment were adopted. sessor, presented his list and the valua¬ C. C Carpenter was elected high tion amounted to $453,280. A 5-mill constable May 3, 1859, and A. A. Ar¬ tax was ordered levied for street, and nold was elected chief of police P Q — and additional 5-mill tax was ordered Morgan succeeded Mr. Chase as secre'- for borough purposes. Itary. W. H. Pier was burgess and F > N. B. Hutchinson was the first street J. Leavenworth. F. Schrader, James commissioner and he expended in May, Mullin, William Kanna and N C Nor- 1856, $220. A gentleman named Jones' I ton counci1 men. Daniel Lundy was was the first attorney of the board. iFeN WM? c-ollecfcor- Th® next year Francis A. Page was the ffirsi nigh K N Wfllard was secretary, and the constable, but not attending to the du¬ minutes are written with marginal ties the place was given to M. D New¬ man. vV 8 1Heoetouned tha* Portion till w4’ J?hen S- Sherrerd was chosen. C SPECIAL POLICE APPOINTED. W Roseler was elected chief of On Oct. 13, 1856, the chief of police Po]>oo. Judge Hand was secretarv in recommended the appointment of the laoo, and he was succeeded by E. M. S following persons as policemen : John Hiii, who afterwards became the first IGner, Captan John L. Travis, John mayor of the city, iBeekhorn, Simon Jones, Francis Quick MAKES A VALUALE HISTORY, | Warren Slocum, Richard StLiwell, The above is only a very incomplete Samuel Wiggins, Thomas Biesecker resume of the history of those earlv John Nape, Ezekial Fisher, Warren idays, but it is as long as a newspaper Tevvskesbury, Seeley Niver, Patrick I article will permit. The seeker after Blew1 it, Edward Leonard and Reuben iinformation will be edified by a perusal Hefferfinger. Mr, Leonard refused to . serve. 'oftne records and right here it m,»y | not be amiss to state that it would be a There is no record of where the first good thing if the records of the meetings were held, but on Monday, boroughs of Hyde Park and Providence Oct. *0, the meeting was held in the were placed in the vault of the city i office of the railroad company. A week clerk s office if tftey are extant. later some fire company applied for an engine but was turned down, the bor- Z nh“gp,thfee at Uptime. On Nov. 3 Mr. Black was given permission to erect a hay scales °n Feb. 9, 1857, 'an ordinance was passed compelling the laying of side walks, flags, planks or bricks to be wanna avenue was wet and,swampy, the road bed of corduroy, with a thicket of laurel on each side, and intersected Washington avenue, as now known, and thence to the Slocum grist mill. On the Scranton side the only buildings were the Major Slocum house, a tenant house, school and meeting house and still house. The Slocum farm extended on the Flats to the river. At Lackawanna there was a covered bridge, one at Market street, and at Capouse, an ax company from Mas¬ sachusetts put up a temporary wooden bridge. Polk was elected president in the fall of 1844, and there was great rejoicing among the Democrats. Mrs. Merrifield, myself and a Two Lady Residents — Onr Early few others made a splendid big flag, we Bridges—Excltin« Poll»lcal Times. thought it was beautiful, and stretched it high over Main street. Most of the Whigs lived Mr. Alfred Twining, the well- in Slocum Hollow, and they were mad. They known and capable West Side cor¬ got up a crowd, and we heard they were com¬ ing. The “swinging” bridge was-not safe respondent of the Free Press, con¬ and as there was no bridge at Dodgetown tributes a most interesting article in they had to drive up to Providence. They last Sunday’s issue of that paper onj had a big pole fastened on a wagon, and ‘‘Scranton Bridges.” Mr. Twining thought in driving under the flag the pole would tear it down, but the rope held the flag has been a most enthusiastic advocate all right. Then they drove down to Jo Fel¬ of the Linden street and other lows’ and began to fasten a scythe in the pole bridges for the betterment of our to cut the flag. I got my man and some neighbors together hurriedly and we stretched city and did yeoman service for these an iron chain across the road in front of the accomplishments. In his article on flag and then jeered the Whigs. We had ex¬ bridges he goes back to the pioneer citing political times in those times. The Whigs put up a pine tree pole for their times of our valley and presents a candidate and it put me out. I got my boys to delightful compilation of facts. cut a big hickory one day, and at night the Among other things Mr. TwiningJ boys and myself and a neighbor woman put up the pole. I don’t know how we got it up; presents interviews with two Hydej weren’t the Whigs surprised the next morning Park ladies who were among the to see a hickory pole taller than the house very earliest residents and recall with its top on and streamers flying, that I had made from a pillow case ? There was a foot many interesting reminiscences of bridge at Dodgetown in 1854 and a covered the early times. We take the liber¬ bridge was put up pretty soon after. The ty of republishing these interviews, first frame bridge in the center of town was as they are of particular worth to built by the Lackawanna and Western in 1850, it was single track, and folks vcame in Hyde Parkers. The only bridge: wagons from the country all around to see the crossing the Lackawanna river be¬ first railroad train in 1851. There was a foot tween Old Forge aud Carbondale walk along the side of this bridge. Sandy Banks bridge was built by the old plank road was one located on the site of the company. The Lackawanna avenue bridge present bridge near the gas house, a(J was not built until after the war.” the foot of Scranton street. Con¬ Mrs. James Kilmer, who resides with her daughter, Mrs. H. C. Mott, of Hyde Park ave¬ cerning this bridge Mrs. Samuel nue, who came to this place in 1837, said to Mr.: Davis, ot North Hyde Park avenue, Twining: “There was a log bridge at the in her interview with Mr. Twining, gas house over the Lackawanna. It was car¬ ried away by a freshet in 1851, a.nd was re¬ gives some enjoyable information. placed by my husband. On the 17th and 18th Mrs. Davis came to Hyde Park in of April, 1854, snow fell to the depth of 17 1837. She says: inches, and melted away under a hot sun in a “When I came to this place there was a few hours, causing a tremendous freshet, bridge made of rough logs across where the which carried eft' the bridge. My husband gas house bridge now is. We called it the rebuilt this bridge, and brought logs for “swinging bridge.” The Lackawanna was stringers from his woods near Keyser creek, quite a stream theti, and we had big freshets pretty near on a line with Pettebone street; occasionally, and I don’t know how many they were immense trees. I remember one times the bridge was carried away. Jackson summer “fresh” when we fastened the bridge street ran the same as now past Toohill’s, and to trees on the bank with ox chains to keep came out above John Benore’s, into what is the structure from floating away. now called Scranton street, the latter place There was a covered bridge at Drake’s, was part then of Zephaniah *Knapp’s farm. now Lackawanna, and one at Razorville 1 The road ran up from the river on the east Providence. A man named Dodge built f side where Bridge street now is, and Lacka-1 first house on the Flats, and the bridge erei there some time after was named in his honor. The frame railroad bridge was built in 1849 and burned in 1863, I think. There was a !a turkey or an ostrich^mayhap T peacock’ foot walk at the side of this bridge, two planks with feathers erect like quills upon ?he fret’ wide, and it was a scary thing to walk across. jful porcupine, stood near, two neacefnl geese. Beside tbisfearful wiki fowfwalked After this bridge was burned a temporary an,°?|a,rd 0* H catamount with his hide ; bridge was built, with a foot bridge under-' Ohsed by a diamond lattice work neath, level with what is now called Bridge i The rfnt0/ ““ ducks endowed in a ring street. We went down the hill from now l£re sfanrhnSt-0ldmeaut a P°*d. «nd the yairview avenue past the old Merrifield bury¬ rimed w«= 8 JUSC out8lde with his gun ing groind, to the Bleomsburg depot, the T“ lSi, r?aJwt0 .shoot the ducks. ground was not cut away so then, till we came Irmoi^r^6-1 ,of ube intention of mv uncle s designs only added to their charnf I to the footbridge, and considered it a great

(convenience. The railroad stone bridge was thk nTeu Tu!d tel1 a fromTdog, a“d building in 1867.” this afforded great scope for the imagina father told me that the horn was ore paied by soaking it in water till the pith

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Powder Horns of Gen. Stark and Capt. Curious Engraved Figures of Beasts and Putnam, Birds—The Cotv Hooking the Dog 1 came out. The outside was then scrape smooth, and a piece of wood fitted into the The Mermaid Quite a Favorite Dei [large end. The tip was cut off, and a brass sign—Some (Quaint Inscriptions. °r lrintoeth?le WH| S6k around t0 strengthen The horn tnin ^ tv® stoPPer was fitted, (Written for The Republican. the hoin hung from its owner's shoulder bv W?£°f m?°86 l11*36- The shape of an os 1 \ 1 FRANCES M. ABBOTT. horn is exactly suited to a man’s waist and mJiflr8t household objects that im- 1 ™Ud Seem tbat ho more graceful or con- P™!*ed tsel-f on ray childish mind was the I vement equipment could be devised. My powder horn that hung by a red kord7n father s modern metai powder flask with jits spimg top looked common place beside climbed ingto°a°chWa11- ,Many times l have his uncle’s homemade work, ,oidrSpS.'SfStE‘,s; j It has always been a source of regret to ;me that my grandfather was not at Bunker IHil. He missed it by the merest chan cl | happened in this way. The two brothers’ teiTstforCm»tl0T..alwayshad the most in- Amos and John (John being only IS) be¬ th’ 7 da 1778 >’ The Abbot’ De’r longed to the Minute Men. As soon as the ! « as spelled within T Dame John itHVbe°0f thf Conc’ord fight spread; the mil- itia be^an t° gather around Boston. The young Abbots went from Concord New Hampshire, with the rest, leaving home at an hour’s not.ee with no one but their father a veteran of the French and Indian wars, to care for the farm ' 1h’J‘ »«'*«l7r.V?£ When the men reached Boston events did stood that the samk'kv'1 f°feilberi 1 under- not seem veiy active, and after waiting sent different letters USed to rePre- several weeks and seeing no prospect 0? fighting, Amos got leave to go S tl hm thfng ras not the only forWbnnISIf hlr V*°m 6 andgd some clothes There were curfon^ “y Powder horn. for himself and brother. While he was 1 birds and beasts-a realf!"ures of gone Bunker Hill was fought. This little ition. There wasa roil? ark collec' incident impressed me more than anything shaped like bee hives a^d ofh^T6611 £recs- ILeIef-Jead ab0-ut the battle- R shows that ing apples or walnut L ? "ther trees bear- past times are just like our own, and that A rectangular tavern str, a-,rge as. PumpKins. fence. One knew it *1° D<:h,nd a Unhlft’ WblCh 8ee.ms such a swift panorama [sign. though the fence and i.,tavern by the makin-3’ 18 Sl°W and uucertain in the ipath leading to the fron^cloorf’ Straight I recently had the pleasure of examining an extensive and unique collection of fan- “fccrrx' isrr “ simile drawings of powder horns made by hooking the dog, which Thi, °J ,tho cow Mr Rufus A. Grider of Canajoharie, N Y was so spirited, and several £? wltlTr^ Jn his researches through the Eastern States j V/AH WHO CAMJL VFok 'T0~£M?4AgI away

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earnan and Janies FenwicK Old horns belonging to Ezra! A horn used at Bunker Hill bears the fol¬ Mr. GrideTTound" about fiveTiu ndrecl horns lowing long inscription, all of the letters; of different designs. He has pictures also j being in capitals, and an ornamental period, of several foreign horns, carved in ivory, between each word: of Dutch and Italian workmanship, the oldest of these date hack to the early part “So steel not tbs for fear of shame, of the sixteenth century- But the revolu- For on it stands the owner’s name. tionary horns are the most interesting. With in ths horn their doth abide Every man made his own, etching or A dost to humble tyrants pride. scratching the designs with a jack knife. Then let us rise and play our part From an artistic point of view the work is And bloody tirants to the heart. The Lord will shield us the fight about on a level with our grandmothers’ mourning pieces and samplers, hut the And we shall put our foes to flight. horns were made for liberty and have a , Then freedom shall be ours forevermore patriotic spirit which ennobles the quaint And libberty resound from shore to and ill-spelled inscriptions. . shore. Many of the horns have elaborate if in¬ Daniel Higbe his Horn Maid at Roxbury exact maps of the Hudson and Mohawk May the 7’8 1775. Price.” river valleys, the scene of so much fighting. Words were sometimes wanting to ex¬ It is impossible to describe these horns 111 press Mr. Higbe’s emotion, as in the sixth detail, but a few inscriptions can be given. line where he pieced out the meaning by a The first one is marked Israel Putnam, ihe short sword, which we may interpret for same lines are found on one or two other the missing verb. The symbol of the fish just above is evidently purely ornamental. horns, so they are probably„ not original j He neglected to state the value of his horn, with the Connecticut hero. so we may infer that it was priceless in his “When Bows and weighty spears were us’d: eyes. I had not supposed until I saw the Higbe ’t were nervous Limbs Declar’d a man of horn that the first two lines of its inscrip¬ tion were of such antiquity. 1 thought But No Gun’ powder Scornssuch Strength they ;were modern doggerel, having seen them scrawled in pencil over so maDy of And heroes not by Limbs but Souls are my companions’ school books. I was al¬ shown.” ways a good little girl and never defaced Underneath are the letters, “W. A. R-, my property, but my brothers used to in¬ in a scroll, and the name of the owner, dite such ferocious threats as: ‘Capt. Israel Putnam.” “Steal not this hook for fear of life, This one is a relic .of French and Indian For the owner carries a big jack knife.” fights and the words run: T Here is a horn from Connecticut, and the “Edmund Austins Horn Made at Lake inscription suggests an old-fashioned sam¬ George Octobr 1 ye 11 A d 1758. pler: I Powder with My Brother Baul “Oliver Graham it is My a Hero Like I Conaer All. _ Name at Laybroolr I the Rose is Red the Grass Is Green Was born When this the Years are Past Which I Have Sen.” You See Remember Me if I Am The first two lines seem to be general fa¬ Dead and Gon. vorites, for they are found on many horns, Oliver Graham his horn." and the variety of spellings in which the I wonder if all the young people know “Hearoes” propose to ‘jConquor” is quite that the pronoun his after a noun as we so amusing. often see it in Shakespeare and earlier writ- —— ers, shows us the way our possessive case whs formed. In later times they elided the Ifitters of the pronoun, putting iu i Hv,r?.Pm,ro,phe Just as we do in the contrac- ^ h*ven’t. etc.; so now we write it, Oliver Graham’s horn.” the most humorous inscription I find is on a horn now owned at Schoharie, N. Y., out evidently of Massachusetts origin: 1 he Memorial of a Pranzy Cow i X write on it to tell you how t hat when she was tied she struck t,ree and b.V her unlucky stroke I his hoi’n fell to me. Stephen Clark, ithi a Dogeater was B. G. March K ‘"StaM tbe res°- The epithet applied to the cow must mean 'frenmeoor crazed. B. G. probably stands , 1 begun, and Dorchester, Mass., used to j Chu'iCs fashfon. prono u nced after Stephen The horn with the most amusing pictures i MaPKrcf3®r7edm the Essex Pirate at Salem, xviass. Xhe owner carved these words on it: “In th’ Year 1761 His Horn Mad in January 19 day j Was With Fai-ragut at MobileHay—Ran the Jonas Dodge.” y i Gauntlet at New Orleans—Cut Out the j • *s .Rtople but the pictorial work Harriet Lane at Galveston—Wounded at is truly astonishing. It surpasses that of the old New England Primer. The author j Fort Fisher—Cruised in Chinese Waters. nf tMnt y 1“iended t0 represent the Garden Saw Admiral Bell go Down. of Eden There is a figure of Adam clad in riw h°C^iedihal^ ndiug 011 a horse sad- j All the sketches from the memorial d bw6d' ?ve’ also in furs, is tak¬ volume of post 187 G. A. R.. which have ing an apple from the serpent. The tree of been published iu The Heuald were l kn°wledge looks like a hen’s nest set on a I ol men who served their country by post. Other occupants of the garden are a lighting its battles on land. Today we nog and a full rigged ship. Two or three serpents are lying loosely around, and a dog give a short sketch of one who braved is barking at Adam’s horse. K the dangers of the ocean in addition to . more artistic piece of work is carved in . those of war. James V. Irwin was one bold relief on the wooden head of another |of tnose “who went down to the sea in 7<™n-, * ^Presents a human head labeled, jships. of him it can be truly said j Monk of La Trappe.” The expression is that he “saw the works of the Lord in grim and the figure is dark with time. The the deep.” name i? not given, but winding about the horn itself is a procession of meu | He was engaged in some of the most dragging cannon through the woods and up celebrated lights in which our glorious a steep bluff. This is labelled, “Attack on navy ever took part. He enlisted about Quebec Dec 31 1775.” a month after the first shot had been The mermaid is quite a favorite design on | bred on Sumter; he served through the .many horns. She is always represented as whole war, and even then was not con¬ combing her hair with a rake. One of these sent to leave the service of his country, attractive creatures is set in the midst of but remained in the navy for two years snakes^ owls dogs, etc., on Noel Labeer’s horn, dated 1<78. There is also a tree with I and a half after his term of enlistment tat squirrels running along every limb and Jhad expired. a building that looks like“a modern county every coast from Hampton roads fhfl?ntrUSe' -fhe inscription reads, “Eager to the month of Lhe Rio Grande he has s?“Ller meets.hls d«sperate foe.” jSeeu conflict and bloodshed for the But the one I like as well as any is in the ipreservation of the union, and to this rooms of the Massachusetts Historical So- | day he bears honorable scars, the marks ciety. It contains the plan of the “Yankees Biest Work” on Boston Neck; also “The utud proofs of his undaunted courage Regulars first Works.” Thei’e is a full jand Lhe fierce vindictiveness of the foe. rigged ship “Amaraca” sailing over two big Mr. Irwin enlisted as a seaman iu the fishes. How thrilling is the simple inscrip- | United States navy on May 31, 1861 He was assigned to the frigate Santee in “Lyme March the 9th A D 1776 I September 1862. The ship was ordered Major Samuel Seldens P horn put of commission shortly after, and Made for the defence of liberty.” thereby the crew were discharged. Mr Irwm again eubsted. This was at Bos- Iton on October 10, 1862, and he was as¬ signed to t he frigate Sabine. He was transferred to the gunboat Florida. The Hist naval battle in which he took part was that of Hatteras Inlet, at which he fought under Dupont. He was after¬ ward changed to sloop of war Hartford. The Hartford was one of the two most famous vessels iu the service during Lour late civil conflict. The only one which shared its fame or rivalled it iiij WHAT AH OLD SETTLES REHEHBE; the popular reverence was the Kear-1 sarge, the interest iu which was lately revived by its untimely end on Ronca- The First Child Born in Carhondale-How clor Cay. St. Patrick’s Day Was Celebrated in the Mr. Irwin served on the Hartford! |>l Snow—Galusha A. Grow Makes His with Farragut. lie was in the battle oi'| Mobile, where the stout old warrior of' Maiden Speech. the sea, was lashed to the rigging of History is only the deeds of individ¬ the vessel. At Galveston, Texas, Mr. uals. The best-part of history is that Irwin was oue of those who were en¬ which comes to us permeated through! gaged in the cutting out of the Harriet and through with individuality. Per-) Lane. He was at the taking of New sonal recollections and personal nar¬ Orleans and the attack on Fort Fisher. , ratives are the materials out of which During the tight for of that celebrated all history is made. For that reason we rebel stronghold the naval forces were chose to interview several of our old-1 landed for a charge upon the works of est citizens and give their recollections; the enemy, as many will remember of the early history of our city. A Her- from reading accounts of the fight. Mr. ald reporter called at the home of Mr. Irwin was among those who were taken Patrick Powderiy at the corner of from the fleet for the land attack. Washington street and Eighth avenue j When the fight got hot, and the forces and spent several hours very pleasantly. met at close quarters, the slaughter was Mr. Powderiy like his widely known tremendous. It was oue of the hottest brother, is a very ready talker. He tights, for the number of men eugaged, has a remarkable memory and when that occurred duriug the whole war. asked for some facts concerning the When finally the rebels surrendered, it early history of Carbondale responded was found that their forces greatly ex¬ cheerfully, only regretting that he had ceeded what it had been thought were not some memoranda at hand to recall in the fort. ! the things of most interest. Among the wounded in this battle Mr. Powderiy’s father came to this was Comrade Irwin. He was first shot city on June 18, 1829. There were then through the neck by a bullet, and as he onIv three houses here, a frame board¬ lay on the ground, a rebel officer came ing house, a log building for a D. & H. along and gave him a saber cut on the office, and a building for the bosses in thigh. charge of building theGravity railroad.) After the war had closed Mr. Irwin Work had just been commenced on the remained in the naval service. He foundations of the Railway Hotel which] was sent with Admiral Bell on the stood where the Aitken building now I Hartford to China. The mission ou which the expedition was bound,proved stands. ,1 Mrs. Powderly’s parents, Mr. and very successful. Admiral Bell by treaty Mrs. John Gilligan, were the first per¬ succeeded in opening to commerce sons of Irish extraction to make their seven ports. At a port called Osaka residence in our city. They came in the admiral and a boats crew while at¬ 1829 to conduct a boarding house, for tempting to land, were swamped. The the Worts brothers, representing the admiral and twenty-five men were D. & H. Mr. Powderiy had this direct drowned, iu sight of the men from the from the parties concerned, and it is ship. doubtless more authentic than anything After this disaster, the ship returned else that has been publisheh on this and at Boston was ordered out of com¬ subject. The statement in the mission. Mr. Irwin did not re-eniist, “Reminiscences of Carbondale' by as he had already served two and a half Mr. Durfee that a Catholic church was years more than his term, and had been in continuous service of hisfcountry for built here in 1828 is manifestly an er- seven years. ror. The first coal mined in Carbondale was taken out by stripping off the sur¬ face earth. Messrs. Townsend and Hackley had the contract for this work. The coal taken out in this manner was in and. along the old riverbed. 1 he first work done in the city limits by the D. & H, was to change the river from its bed along the bluff beyond the rail¬ road tracks, to its present channel. _ Mr. and Mrs. Powderiy are certainly the oldest couple born in our city and nowiliving. She was born Oct.io, Idoo, he on Oct. 28, 1833. Ex-Mayor John 'EARLY REMINISCENCES. Isealon is an older native citizen . ol Carbondale than the Powderlys having

PATRICK POWBEKLY TELLS SOMEJ been born here in June 18^0. Miss Margaret Gilligan, a sister of Mrs. INTERESTING THINGS. Powderiy; is without doubt the oldest native born citizen of Carbondale, dow living. She was born here in De¬ would have been fearful. As it was cember, 1S29. She is now living with nine persons were drowned: Bryan her sister, Mrs. Thomas O’Connell, at Mahon, wife and child, Timothy Finne¬ the corner of Church street and Seventh gan, wife and two children, William avenue. Miss Gilligan has never been Flanagan, Dominick Burke. When the on a train or even a stage coach, and it waters began to surge about Mr. Ma¬ is positively asserted has never been hon’s house he and his wife were outside of Carbondale. awakened and he made a brave effort to | The Hour famine in Carbondale is carry her through the rising waters to lone of the incidents that Mr. Powderly the mountain side a little distance away. strongly remembers. All the flour His efforts, however, were vain and the used in this valley was brought from |flood claimed them as victims. Had the Wyoming flats in wagons. The [they remained in the house they would wheat crop failed one year and the jhave been saved, as it was not carried Wyoming men put up the price until it away. Many brave deeds were done in . was almost an impossibility to pay it. that early morningithat have never been At this juncture the D. & H. came to told. the rescue and brought flour from Is ew On the 17th of March, 1843 the A. O. York by the canal and Gravity road. of H. had arranged to have a big pa¬ When it arrived there was a big strife to rade. The day and night previous get it. It was given out by orders to snow fell to the depth of three or four the employes just as coal is now given feet. It was determined to have the out and there was no trouble about its parade, anyhow, snow or no snow, and idelivery as the most primitive methods the ordre with their friends, were out (were employed in getting it home. bright and early the next morning. This was the first flour brought by rail Such a snow shoveling bee was never jto Carbondale. seen in this city before or since. Crowds The bursting of John R. Durfee’s dam gathered to see the fun but the stui’dy Jis another incident that I remember shovelers went ahead umil they had a | very distinctly. The dam was on (path cleared upon the ground over I Racket Brook opposite No. 1 level, and (which they desired to march. They i was for the purpose of running a saw | held their parade in triumph a nid the mill. A terrific downpour of rain shouts of the onlookers. caused it to break on the 19th of July, One of the greatest days in early Car- 1850. The water rushed down through ibondale was in September 13, 1844. the city and across the bed of the Lack¬ Politics ran high and Luzerne was a awanna about where the Ontario freight Gibraltar of Democracy. It was re¬ house now stands. This overflow en¬ solved to have a great demonstration in tered the Dip mines and filled them un¬ Carbondale and the place of meeting til the water ran out of No. 1 slope. was the old parade ground, where the Two brothers, Ebenezer Davis and park is now situated. Galusha A. Grow j Daniel Davis were drowned. Some of was was one of the orators of the day, the miners were notified in time but the and to that audience he made his maid¬ loss of life would have been great, had en political speech. Great crowds gath¬ it not been that an accident happened ered from the surrounding country. at the slope in the morning which provi¬ Mr. James Clarkson had promised a dentially prevented most of the men fine banner to the district which brought from entering before the calamity oc¬ out the largest number of men. Green¬ curred. field took the banner. Many of the men Our city is comparatively free from who were prominent in that Democratic Jhail storms but we had one on Sept. 27, meeting afterwards became Republi¬ ! 1850. that did a great deal of damage. cans when the war came on, including 'Some of the hail stones were four inches Mr. Grow. an circumference. It was accompanied Another scene that is very vividly j by a terrific west wind. When the storm impressed on my mind, is the burn¬ 'was over the glass in buildings facing ing of two Delaware & Hudson the storm was pretty well smashed. mule barns in April, 1859. The barns 'The hail stones were large and stood one on each side of Seventh ave¬ struck with great force. Much other nue near where the depot is now. damage was done but the chief des¬ There were twenty-five mules in one truction was to the windows. Glass barn and twenty-seven in the other and and glaziers were in demand the next not one escaped. The screaming of the day. animals was something terrible and j Campbell’s dam this side of Crystal could be heard for miles. When the Lake broke on the night of April 13, fire was discovered it was too far ad¬ ■1862. It had been regarded as unsafe vanced for any one to enter the build¬ for some time , but people disregarded ing, and the animals were so securely the warning. The volume of water (fastened that not one succeeded in tear- that came down was something tx-emen- dous. Houses were carried awav before (it is as if they were feathers. The course of the flood can be seen plainly today by the gully washed out by the mad waters. If that part of the city had been as thickly settled as now the loss of life of life in the new mining camp made| him acquainted with the place before; he ever saw it, and living in it since its infancy he has watched the progress of the rude village till it has developed in¬ to a thriving modern city. THE DISCOVERT OP COAL. “I recollect,” said Mr. Thompson, “how coal was first discovered here. This place Was at that time an inaccess-, ible laurel swamp, through which noth-l ing living could find its way unless, wolves, foxes and such like. Up above IN THE PIONEER DAYS. here lived a man named Seth Dan. This old man Dan had his house near where the Great Bend and Coschecton turn-1 STIRRING TALES OP THE .PENNSYL¬ pike crosses the river. I knew Dan. VANIA ARGONAUTS. £ saw him dozens of times. He used to, stop at our house when he was in that) part of the valley. THE REMINISCENCES OF A SETTLER. “Well, one day there was a fellow up at Dan’s house. This man ran a store over at Orvis corners in Scott townseip,! An Interview With a Man Who Remem¬ and when he was going home he' bers When Wolves Howled on Church thought this day that he’d save time Street, Foxes Sported on Memorial Park by taking a short cut through the and Panthers Prowled Along Salem Ave¬ swamp. Tue Great Bend and Coschecton turnpike ran across the moun- * nue—The Town Built Over a Swamp. taiu a few miles above The early days of a community are here, and then he would have to always held by the later generation in a go down to Scott on the other side of kind of reverence. There is a halo of the ridge. romance, a suggestion of border po¬ “It was a roundabout way, and he j etry, a charm of antiquity about the was right in thinking that if he coulc| pioneers who conquered the wilderness get throngh the swamp it would shorten! to introduce the arts of peace and civil- the route. It would shorten it about a1 zation. We delight in the tales of the third, but he couldn’t get through thei adveutures of the early settlers. No swamp. No man could get through it.J part of history is more interesting than LOST IN THE SWAMP. that which treats of the settlement of a new country, and the personal remi¬ “Well this fellow' lost his way and niscences of the pioneers are by far the after wandering around a while hq portion of that history which is the! struck the creek. He concluded to fol¬ most eagerly read and to which listeners low the «creek until he got out of thd-j pay the closest attention, and from! swamp and then to strike across tht . which they glean the greatest, delight. ( mountain to ScotL As he wandered* One of the survivors of the pioneer down the stream he came to a place days of Carbondale is Jesse G. Thomp¬ where the water had washed the earth, son, Esq., and to him a reporter hied away and the coal cropped out. For ai himself one day, with the hope of ob- long distance along the creek the veinj tainingsome reminiscences which would was exposed. be of interest to the readers of The “This fellow, as I said, owned a stof'J Herald. The newspaper man was not In Scott and after he got home he went! disappointed, for the ex-alderman, al¬ to Philadelphia where he traded with: though over eighty years of age, retains the Wurtses. He told them of his find.I all his faculties in a remarkable degree, Shortly after, in the year 1824, there; and his knowledge of the very early was a sale of land for taxes all through days of Carbondale is probably unsur¬ this section. The Wurtses were at the j passed by that of any living person. sale and bought up the land. One( Mr. Thompson came to Carbondale of them came here and got a half-a-ton; in 1832, which was but a few years after of the coal and took it to Albany, where ' the first house had been built here. In he burned it in a grate before a com¬ 1833 he went to New York state and mittee from the legislature. after working for several years in the “He showed them how they could put construction of various railroads, which coal on at night and go to bed and have at that time were a new device, return¬ the room nice and warm in the morn¬ ed to this place in 1837. ing. They were so well pleased with it; Since that year he has had continuous that they sent the state geologist down residence here, with the exception of this way to find out how much coal; one winter which he spent in Wisconsin there was in this section. and one wiuter in Philadelphia. Before he came to Carbondale he lived about “AFRAID OF THE SWAMP.” two miles below Pittston, and his fam¬ “The geologist got as far as where the ily were frequently visited by travelers Great Bend and Coschecton turnpike from this end of the valley. Their tales crosses the creek. He was afraid to go; * whenthingswerestill the boardersin • Abouttwoyearsagowhen1wasdig¬ . Isaidbefore.Downthereonthecor¬ across themountainanddownthrough through thelaurelswarnp".Sohewent Barre. Therewasafellowdownthere Scott thatwayuntilhegottoWilkes- geologist tookthatbookandcopiedit book describingthissection.The and hereportedthattherewasnocoal: of it. word foeoratleasthecopiedpart named JacobSist,whohadpublisheda i deerwereveryplentiful. Onnights They gotsomementoworkand Eighteen ortwentyfeetdeep.Notvery They gotachartertobuildcanal out somemorecoaluntilfinallythey here atall.ButtheWurtsespersisted. there wascoalandplentyofit,here. convinced thepeopleatAlbanythat from theDelawaretotidewaterfor (far fromthespringashantywasbuilt. from thestate. and theyalsogotaloanof$500,000 purpose ofshippingcoaltoNewYork, I whatisnowthiscity.Rightthrough soon builttherailroad.Theygotalo¬ raised fromtheshareholderstheybuilt Ihere someplacetherewasasandbed. over themountaininwagonsbutthey the canal.Atfirstcoalwasshipped

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!bad beenafewlotslaidout,butnot Ithe Wurtseswhentheyputuptheirfirst ■ ging atreuchforwaterpipedugup this placewasalaurelswamp,as now istherewasaspring.Astheplace ner belowwheretheCatholicchurch . about thespringanditnowisawell was graduallyfilledupawallbuilt That wasthefirsthumaDhabitationin very many.Therewerenostreets.The and stoodaboutwheretheTrinitypar¬ only hotelintownwasbuiltoflogs wooded withfinehemlocktimberand sonage nowis.Thehillswerethickly as wheretheoldDartehouseisThelogs cabin. stood onthecontinent.^ state andasfineapieceofwoodland were scatteredaboutverynumerously. been cutdown,thelogswerethickly near thevillagewheretimberhad Beyond thattheforestwasinitsnatural strewn aboutthe_ground.Downasfar full ofit.Bears,wolves,panthersand the hotelcouldhear wolves how¬ to comeprettyclosethe village.1 ling downintheswamp. Theyused should judgetheywere often about And asforfoxes, theywereasthick where theOddFellows’ hall nowis. was paidtothem inthosedays.The grasshoppers, butnotmuchattention “That copywassentinashisreport, big game wastooplentiful. “With thatmoneyandwhatthey “When theWurtsesfirstcamehere “In 1832whenIfirstcameherethere “As forbiggame,whythewoodswas HOW ITLOOKEDIN1832. BIG GAMEPLENTIFUL. I themountainside.Themenwere jveyors whowereemployedbythecom¬ J togetdownthehouseofaman ' fallofsnowBedfordstartedouttoget I werethereashorttimeago,justthis j hissnowshoesdownthemountainto I hiskind. I otherwasoccupiedbytheoldmanand Ithe fireplaceenjoyingthebigblaze. pany inlayingoutsomeofthelaudon stands. Youcanseetheremainsof ford. Onedayaftertherehadbeena named JosiahLewis,andJacobBed¬ some distancehecameacrossthetracks side oftheErieshaft.That’swhere near thespotwhereErieshaftnow some suppliesforthecamp.Hewanted answering yell.Hekeptonshouting away upthemountainheheardan he commencedtoshoutforhelp,and He supposedtheyweremadebyabear, old chimneythereyet;oratleastthey named Wedeman.ThisWedemanlived in thereandsee.” haven’t beenaroundherebefore.’ tracks.’ tracks hesaid: after Lewislookedcarefullyat Lewis cameupwithBedfordheinquir¬ recognized hispartnerLewis.When of someanimal,—hedidn’tknowwhat. Wedeman’s houseusedtobe. Wedeman’s thattheyconcludedtogo a circle.Thetwomenweresonearto the trackandfoundthatitexactlyfit¬ ed whatwasthecauseoftrouble. until astheotherpersongotnearerhe he imaginedthebearmustbeagiantof but theyweresomonstrouslargethat Wedeman’s. Afterhe’dtraveledfor iwas carried on forsometime,when a iderthebed clothes. Theconversation late theystaidallnight. down together,andasitwasgrowing ted. Hehadbeentravelingaroundin Bedford toldwhathadscaredhimand |child rolledout oftheotherside house andthathadtwobedsinit.In the oldwoman.1don’tknowwhere one bedsleptthefivechildren.The bed, theotherfourweresittingbefore some bearskinrobesandsuchlike,of the travelerssleptbutIsupposeamong A bigbacklogwasrolledinandwood which therewereplentyinthosedays. woman sattheretalking when allat fortable fire.Thethree men andthe ran withittothefireplace, rolleditin bed ontothedoor. once oneofthechildrenrolled outof heaped upagainstitand madeacom¬ the ashesand tuckedthechildbackun- ^ “A goodstorywas'Foldoftwosui Thei-e wasonlyoneroominthe ,‘And Jakeputhissnowshoeinto “Anyhow Bedfordwasscaredandso “Well oldJakeBedfordstartedon “ ‘Well,theyare,justputyourfoot “ ‘Notheyain’tmyowntrackI■ “ ‘WhyJake,thoseareyourown “But afterthechildrenhadgoneto “The oldwomanpickedup thechild, BEDFORD TELLSFORHELP. ONLY ONEROOM. The mother ran to that child, what was the matter rolled it in the ashes and tucked it into bothered me. bed. “It bothered me so much that There1 she said, “we have one day, which was Sunday, I went up i faxed on each side and 1 guess there look at it. And I had hardly giant won’t be any more tumbling out to¬ at it before I saw what the trouble wa night. You-see, we’ve fed those chil¬ the cars would have to run across dren so much on bear’s meat that rope I showed it to Mr. Arch bald I they’ve become slippery and keep tumbling out of bed, unless we put idea ^ ^ quietly droPPed the ashes on them to keep them in. But I “There are many of such incidents guess they are fixed for the night. ” that I could relate if I could think of A MARRIAGE ON SHORT NOTICE. them and any that I may happen to re¬ “The town grew pretty fast in 1832 collect I will tell them to you for thav and ’33. It was about that time the make interesting reading.” Welsh commenced to come in. The Irish came first and were closely fol¬ lowed by the Welsh. At first the pop¬ ulation of the town was nearly all men. From, The few women that were here, were ,,;r in great demand. They married off the girls then at fourteen and fifteen. I recollect a funny thing that happened here once. A fellow who had been working steadily and savings his money made up his mind to get married. He j| had about $600 saved. His credit was good in all the stores. Everybody knew everybody else in those "days. But he couldn’t get .a wife. There mm of warb famTly v wasn’t any available girl in the village. “One day the stage stopped at the ho¬ j Martha Ward Gleason, of New York, tel and a female got out. Of course she excited much curiosity, and she told Gives It in Detail. who she was or who she pretended to be. Well, this young fellow got into conversation wfith her and told his cir¬ HIGHLY INTERESTING STORY cumstances and before night they were married. The young man went around It Contains a Great Deal of Heretofore to the stores and told them to give his wife credit for anything she wanted. Unwritten History of Scranton and When he went to work next morning Its Early Settlers That Will he left his $600 with her to keep. He Read with Profit.' “When he got home at night she had gone, and was never seen again. She took the $600 and besides had bought My attention has recently been called about $300 worth of goods, silk dresses to an article which appeared in The and other stuff, which she took with Tribune in August last, the subject -of her. which ,was why Cedar , street is collo- A JOKE ON MR. ARCHB4LD. qnally called Ward street; and which also purported to be a reminiscence, ot' “When the Gravity road was first the Ward families who settled there. built it was very different from iwhat it As the article is in many points Incor¬ is now. They tried many devices be¬ rect I desire to publish the following in fore they found what they wanted. Those things were new at that time and relation to the subject: it was necessary to experiment a great Strictly speaking the family' is not deal before they got the best results. German, as stated by your correspond¬ 1 remember one time after Mr. Arch¬ ent. The name itself shows that. Fam¬ bald took hold of the road he was in¬ ily tradition states that three brothers, troducing something; he didn’t tell1 ■William, Benjamin and Jacob Ward, anybody just what. There were three! came from England about 1681-2, set¬ men at the head of each plane and he tling at Chester, William Penn’s earlier thought by laying a track so that thel settlement. Subsequently William re¬ cars would shift themselves he coui move to New York State and Jacbb to save some of the labor. North Carolina, Benjamin remaining in “One day he set several men to work Chester, and it is from this one that th- to put the switch in operation at the, present family descends. head of one of the planes. I had charged [Jen jam in Ward, a descendant of this of the work and at first I didn’t known Benjamin, lved at Williams township, just exactly what he wanted to do. Bu Northampton county, near Easton, and as the work went on I commenced to was a soldier of the Revolution, being understand what it wms that he intend¬ at Valley Forge and at the battle of ed to make. It struck me that it Princeton. His wife was a Moravian wouldn’t wdrk. I didn’t just know Dutch woman named Barbara Schaef¬

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quarter of a century afterward. It had ] pears, on the distaff side.' This Benja¬ min Ward had seven sons and one not been a hotel then for some yea daughter. Conrad, one of these sons, travel having been diverted from the married Barbara Kindt, daughter of Drinker pike on the opening of the Martin and Sarah Kindt, this Martin southern division of the D. L. & W. rail¬ Kindt being also a soldier of the Re\o- road in May, 1856. lution. Conrad had also seven sons The family did not immediately settle nnd a daughter and it is two of these in Ward street, but lived in a company sons—John, born March 17. 1,797, in M il- house on the hill above the old saw mill. Hams township, and Simon, born Janu¬ Jn 1851 they purchased land and built ary 5, 1801,, in the same place, that the double house in Ward street in settled Ward street. The five other which father and son lived for I brothers and the sister, who married a many years. It was on the corner of man named Benjamin Demuth, emi- Ward street, now Cedar avenue, and I grated to Michigan over sixty years Hickory street. | ago, settling at Jackson and Clinton, Frank Ward, Simon’s son, lived in the .Marriage of John Ward. first house above the bi’idge over the Roaring Brook, a, bridge removed but ■ John Ward married Mary Bishop, a couple years ago. Simon and his son i more properly Bishoff, of Easton, and Henry lived a few doors above my fath¬ | Simon married ISusian. iKnecht, both er, a little below Freuhan’s and Weich- I Pennsylvania Dutch. Both of the men el’s. These houses were not log houses spoke that dialect and both read and as your informer says; they were good wrote German in addition to English. I j frame buildings and all are still stand¬ I often heard my grandfather say the ing and occupied except the one owned I only schools in their vicinity were Ger- I man. Both men had an accent, as both t\y my father, which was burned in 1866, about eighteen months after we had I were born and brought up and educated moved from it. It was then owned by among the Moravians. There was ! the late Jacob Schimpff, father of Carl Dutch on the maternal side for two gen¬ j Sehimpff, the pianist, to whom my fath¬ erations, as before stated. These facts er had sold it. will 'account tfor

our mucn e&tqtmed friend, John W E>q.. whose hjbatl is a complete eni pedia of knowledge, and whose inu finger is ever ready to point out the most interesting places, we could but think while riding over those ungraded roads and unbridged water courses, of the lady who had just returned from a visit to the Yosemite Valley. She said that the scenery was gorgeous, but 6he didn’t like the locomotion. “How is Date, ....^tU^. l ^ that?” said her frieud. “Why it was a la clothes pins." But that part of the City is young yet, as Father Dickson said of Colt’s pistols—“when they get of age they, will be good as any gun.” When we first came to Carbondale forty years ago this fall, there was only E EARLY HISTORY two streets, one running south to lha Whi’e Bridge, the Carboudale & Blake¬ ly Turnpike, and the Milford & Owego Turnpike running east and west up as When Carbondale Was a Wild far as Church street, and thence north Wilderness. as far as the Thomas Gillespie bouse, and then diagonally across the yard of Henry Jadwin, and back of the parson¬ age to the foot of the bill. Not a side¬ walk was thought of for a number of jlTME OF TWO STREETS. years. W here all the people that were there then and still live there, assembled now, they would make a very poor irHB PUBLIC SQUARE AND ITS AT¬ corporal s guard. TRACTIONS. We were much pleased on onr arrival at Carbondale to know that ever since the spire of the Catholic Cnurch had j B Darfee Wrote of Some or the First been put up, that not only the whole Strides Cityward the Old Town Made. city, but ail new comers had been look¬ I Catholics Bullded Well—Other Interest, ing up. We congratulate our Catholic friends on then success in building so tag Facts Noted. noble an edifice, and it would seem that | Althiough absorbed in the further de- the materials of which it is built would yel'jpmeut of Carbondale a bit of his¬ almost defy the ravages of time, and tory .'onceming the Pioneer city may would be as lasting and unfading as toot prove tiresome to the busiest rnan. their principles. We were glad to see |j, U. Durfee. deceased father of T. R that the Public Square had beea nicely Durtee, of North Main street, in his cleared off, so tnat the people could reminiscenses written twenty years ago drive across it with safety, and that the has the following to say concerning the regular rates of toll wire Dut one dollar for all kinds of carriages. But. another luamiug of Carbondale. We have been told by Stephen Rog- inconvenience is that the citizens have jers, Esq , one of the oldest citizens of no convenient place to dump their coal lashes, orempty their straw beds and your place, that the name of Carbon- Either rubbish; but probably by another Idate was first announced when a wagon pear times will change, aud the Public iload of axes, picks, shovels, &c , came from Philadelphia, making their way Squ rs will be used by the quadrupeds through Canaan then an unbroken 8 a place to bold high carnival by run- ? wilderness, marked “Carbondale,” and ling their snout colters under the turf. thus those silent messengers proclaimed Jut perhaps some mischievous boy may along the way, that Pennsylvania was ierve th jm as one did the colored giving birth to another settlement. nan’s. He said, “It tooked a whole Little did the most sanguine think then beniugto pick the shot out ob de pig, of the importance that the little city in ben de pig warnt doing nothing but embryo would become in less than half oot up de little grass in de street.” a century, and although it cannot boast e were also much pleased to see the of beiug’named after some illustrious great improvements in the sidewalks. personage, it can boast of standing on We will remember when the first one its own merits. The name is much (was laid, and how a countryman looked more appropriate than to call that part t it and said that soon he'would have of the city below the Highland Mill o polish his boots when ne came to the South Afiica. While riding through eity. The roadways are also much im- ' that interesting portion of the city with roved. Now a good marksman can rive from the depot in broad day light the Watt House and not hit one stone

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the'_ r v —- vtrmJOi - the Carbondale, James W. Johnson faces with whom we had iu time and purchased a_ jer years traveled up the rugged owned by 6. W. Morss, for iou path’s of life’s journey, also to see the per acre, where he soon built ai vast improvements that have been and tannery: also a large dwell made and are still being made. If our boarding house, beiug right Judgment is not at faulj, there has been midst of a dense forest of nefnloi, fnore houses built,jiot only in numbers, ber for his mills and bark for his nery. The greatest drawback to on but more wealth in houses the last six business was the want of a road to Car years, sinee we left there, than all that bondale. He had no other way than to were there then. What the future will go by way of the foot of No. 3 plane - a bring forth remains to be told. tremendous hill to go over both wavs and bad roads at that. After running his tannery some three or four years it was burned while he was away from jfohnson his insurance and SOME EARLY HISTORY i i° D n !8 tannery, but soon leased it | to R. D. Lathrope. As the only means then of transportation from New York was bv the canal, the hides to be tanned When All Was Dense Forest I through the winter had to be got before Around Carbondale. the close of navigation. Wm. P Miller of Gold street, New York, furnished the hides, with the condition that they were to be tanned through the winter and the , leather returned in the spring and TANNERY ESTABLISHED after taking out his pay for the hides paid the balance in money to Lathrope. But just before the canal opened the LAND BOUGHT FOR FOUR'DOLLARS fore part of May, James W. Johnson AN ACRE. I ,Cn^U,°n- Tth two„ w,rits of fieri facias I and levied on all Lathrope’s teams leather, wagons, land, tannery, mills’ Letigatlon Over the Taunlug Business et°- It turned out that about the first Only Canal Connection With New York. I of "ff-roh. that same spring, James W. All Transportation Accomplished In j sold Lathrope the above property, tak¬ ing his non-exemption notes for the amlmer-O. L.^Morss’s Marked Success. sum of $20,000. As soon as Miller heard of the transaction, he sent up his agent The herald today appends the to get possession of the leather, which eleventh chapter of J. R. Durfee’s Rem¬ had been drawn to Carbondale and iniscences cf Carbondale and Dundaff stored in a building there. written in 1875, which will prove in¬ teresting to many readers. POSSESSION NINE POINTS. LANDS AND TITLES. But there it was, in a position where possession was nine points of the law All the land for miles north and south and Miller found that his only remedy of Carbondale were formerly owned by was to relevy the leather. To do that .Lord John Russoll, of Knglandj and in case he should faff to gain his suit ,he xt Priestly- an Englishman of was required to furnish bail for the Northumberland, Pennsylvania was forthcoming of the money; but there his agent for the sale of the were very few at that day that hanker- lands. The reason for their being so ed for a chance to go bail for $20,000 to many fancy names to the various tracts be decided by law, so Miller found that was that the government did not want about the best and only thing he could j the lands to be monopolized by any one do was to take what they offered him-/ person, but sold to actual settlers; so the tannery, mills, and lands after the I that it had to be taken under different timber had been cut off. Johnson then titles, such as Susan Differ, and other sold his leather for ready cash, probably ‘ factitious names. Tne tracts were sur¬ givmg Lathrope a good slice for play¬ veyed and laid out in lots of 400 acres ing bigh-low-Jack in the game. John¬ with 60 acres allowance for roads ami son then went to Pittston and bought: highways, and sold at the nominal price coal property at the lower end of the' of four dollars per acre. I believe there viPage, right by the basin in the Penn-j was no reservation of coal until some sylvania canal, aud started the first coal! years after the Delaware & Hudson works in Pittston. selling his coal right company bought, built up and started at the mouth of the mines to boatmen, their works. What they paid for theirs to be shipped off on the canal. He also 1 do not know, but probably not more than four dollars per acre. 3d Vhe. uCOaLlaads at Dickson for awhile, but he has long since gone to A PRICELESS "FEAG THERE ■sAJonT/n, MIller- afler getting pos¬ session of the tannery property ran ii , on his own hook for iwhiieP apJoinZg CtlblSSJ?®*6? as,h's agent. He also established a store m the city with thP ;late Henry Wilbur clerk an/soSmam It Was Hoisted by the 52d Above Fort Sumter. G L- morss takes possession. 1 ®Uier.e.„tvvo years had made their in runniJ'i f /°UDd quite a difference Visiting Members Received in the (countrycountry, «nHand in-an ^buyingy -up iaand this selling wild | leather and hides by the cargo in New Morning at Griffin Post Rooms—At I and was glad to sell out tn tho Music Hall Occured the Dinner, ! preset propri«Jr. G L Mo™ Jho” has run it successfully for a loon num • Afternoon Business Meeting, Sup» ber of years, acquiring a competenev per and Evening Camp Fire, Where has built a stately palace, cleared off Addresses Were Made by A. J. Col- ait? Mn

The tenth re-union of the Fifty-sec¬ Date, . ond Pennsylvania Volunteers (infan¬ try) was held in this city yesterday and resulted in a gathering from many Places and distances, of several hun- REUNION OF Survivors of the Fifty ■Second Regi- . "a 1 ment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, miif Meet in This City.

■dred veterans. They were busily oc¬ cupied throughout the day and until a late hour last night. COL. DODGE PRESENT As the members arrived during the the morning they registered at the rooms of Lieutenant Ezra Griffin post. No. 139, G. A. R., on Lackawanna ave¬ nue and made that place their head¬ Commanded the Regiment quarters until noon when lunch was served in Music Hall., There the af¬ ternoon business session was held and When It Was Called was followed by a supper at 6 o’clock. The camp fire, always an im¬ portant part of a veterans’ re-union, to the Front. was held in the evening. In the rooms of Griffin post the sur- ; vivors spent nearly the whole of the later morning hours, seemingly loath _ or more of them, were draped in a miss such a good opportunity for] semi-circle along the ceiling above greetings, talks of war time exper- j the gallery and overhung the windows; fences and homage to Colonel John the gallery railing was concealed by a C. Hodge, of Dodgeville, Mass., the,; continuous draping of red, white and first commander of the regiment, andi blue, and turn large American flags who, as related in yesterday’s- Tribune, were arranged as portieres on each side arrived here Wednesday afternoon. Colonel Dodge plainly shows the ef¬ of the stage. fect of years and the infirmities he con¬ AN HISTORIC FLAG. tracted during the- war which have The historic flag possessed by the until now prevented his presence at Fifty-second, the first United States the reunions of the men he command- emblem to be placed above Fort Sum¬ ed in the dark days of the Republic. y ter and Charleston, after the war be- I Comparatively few of the members gan, was conspicuously suspended at I had seen him during the las? thirty- ] the right of the stage. It was faded, five years. He was born in Massachu¬ tattered and torn, but priceless, never¬ setts in the the town named1 for his theless, to the regiment, indivdually | father but in 1850 moved to William¬ and as a body. sport and engaged in the lumber busi¬ When President Lennard called the j - ness. He was for a time commander afternoon meeting to order the follow- j of the State militia and was assistant j ing survivors and members, many of inspector general under Governor j them accompanied by their wives, had ’ Packer. been registered. A BIT OF HISTORY. Field Officers—Colonel John C. Dodge, f At the beginning of the war Colonel Dodgeville, Mass.; Peter Alldred, hospital steward, Pittsburg; Dr. J. G. McCand- Dodge was given command of the Fif¬ Itess, Pittsburg, Pa.; Commissary Ser¬ ty-second but at Morris Island con¬ vant s. T- Roberts, Welt Pittston; tracted the lameness and many debili¬ 1 Quartermaster Hugh Crawford, New York ties which forced him to retire. The , city; Major George R. Lennard, Wilkes-1 regiment’s first engagement was at j Barre; Dr. C. H. Dana,, Tunkfeannock,, Fair Oaks, Va. It took part in the Pa.; Steward John D. Colvin, Parsons, [ Pa.; Quartermaster Smith B. Mott, Scran-1 • Peninsular Campaign under McClel- j - ton, Pa. lan, was one of the most active com- j Musicians—Silas Leach, Shickshinny, | mands and is able to boast of hav¬ Pa.;. Joseph Bristley, Scranton; Leader' ing approached nearer to Richmond of Band Fred Wagner, Scranton. than any regiment. ■Company A—William Ward, Yostville, The regiment re-enlisted January 1, Pa.; O. M. Delaney, Brooklyn, Pa.; D. W. 1864, at Morris Island, S. C., and has Holly, Berwick; W: L. Milhan, Wilkes- Barre; William H. Frace, Wanamie, Pa.; the pround record of being under fire - I. E. Finch, Wilkes-Barre, Pa.; Georges. more days than any other regiment Pierce, Wilkes-Barre; Francis E. Car¬ in the United States service during the man, Wilkes-Barre; S. W. Taylor and J. civil war. During the siege of Char¬ M. Taylor, Harveyville, Pa. leston it was continuously under fire Company B—Captain R. W. Banniatyne, for more than five hundred days, a rec¬ Tunkhamnock, Pa.; George L. Kennard1, ord of active service that no other or¬ J. B. Maxwell, John L. Cole, C. B. Low, ; Lieutenant P. M. Barr, all of Meshop- ganization can show. pen; A. H. Frear, Lake Winalo, Pa.; While in the post rooms Colonel Abram Riilker, Wyoming, Pa.; William Dodge was always surrounded by i H. Furmiap, Mehoopany, Pa.; John F. a group of his men, who received ! Miller, Sayre, Pa.; A. L. Tiffany, Comp¬ with much satisfaction the announce¬ ton, Pa.; D. I. Doty, Waverly, Pa.; Thos. ment that he would lead them in their Griffiths G. A. Kirlin, of Scranton, Pa. Company1 C — Terrance McCloskey, short march of two blocks to Music Wilkes-Baiire, Pa.; Utley Turner, Fac- Hall. They reached there about noon toryville, Pa. .an enjoyed a splendid lunch served Company D—Frank Stapleton, Shamo- by the Woman’s Relief Corps of Griffin kin Dam, Pa.; T. D. Ransom, Jackson, Pa. post. Company E—W. C. May, To wanda, Pa.; The afternoon business session be¬ E. J. Stratton, Union Center, N. Y. gan at 2 o’clock. President Major Company F—Charles 3D. Britton, Erie, Pa.; Andrew Singer, Clark’s Green, Pa.; George R. Lennard, of Wilkes-Barre, George Knight, Parsons, Pa.; R. P. presided. The secretary and treasurer, Lindley, Factoryville, Pa.;, C. S. Halstead, H. C. Miller, of Kingston was present Avoca, N. Y.; C. W. Kittle, Green, N. Y.; and attended to the duties of his office. Alson Secor, Dumnore; H. N. Mo.tt, Others on the stage were Colonel Clark’s Green, Pa.; Dr. Halleck, Keyser. Dodge, and at times several ex-mili¬ COMPANY G. tary and past civil officers of the regi- ' Company G—Henry Rush, Wilkes- ment.. » Barre, Pa.; E. E. Rozelle, Brooklyn, Pa.; Music Hall had been elaborately and A. H. Rush, New York city; James W. appropriately decorated. Leading from Evans, Berwick, Pa.; Edward Miller, the central chandelier in the ceiling Noah Adams, Pittston, Pa.; Samuel Lilly, to the top of the gallery posts were Wyoming, Pa.; Joseph A. Shimer, Wilkes- streamers; the national colors, a score Barre, Pa.; A. A. Locker, A. Bumbach, kcrantbtff • Ra.; John Swartz, Glenwood, | And that this may he to you an occa¬ Pa.; W. S. Stark, Plainsviile, Pa. sion of especial pleasure and gratffica. Company H—Captain E. R. Peeking, Ply¬ mouth, Pi. ; Captain John B. Fish, Scran- I Comrades, let us tot * few moments uf ’ *if'ptiin C' C- Battenberg, .Archbald, I 'n,edy recall the stirring events from ,a", Kingston, Pa.; C. M ! to 65. Your memory may be treacherous Applemah, W. W. Archer, Nelson La in many respects, but you will never for- Rose, Joseph Nash, S. P. Hull. W. S. Hop- Kins, Anthony Long, John L. Hull, of PuVn6 fay .(APrU 12’ 1861) when Edmund Ruffin, a Virginian, fired the first shot I Scranton|Pa.; Henry Greiner, Prompton, from Fort Johnson upon Fort Sumter the Z LU B4Roberts, Falls, Pa.; P. Snedicor, shot that indirectly opened the way to R»nTrw^’ Frank Pickering, Joseph G. the freedom of three millions of slaves w ’• Wfrla™ D°y;'e- 0lf Peckvilie, Pa.; News of the assault spread rapidly William Jl. Smith, Newton, Pa.; Peter B throughout the northern states. The ex- citement that prevailed can be coS fret?: ASkPSW never ully realized by the present generation Snlt3ri'ICkVille’ Pa'; Simon The drum and fife calling to arms was heard in every locality, recruiting be- Pa.0nuihaIn ffilIiams, Peckvilie, gan at once in every city, town and ham Pa.; Thomas A. Edwards, Edwardsville, let and, the call for volunteers for three Pa., P. | W. Hunter, Clifford, Pa ■ Ed months service was promptly met. Bdw^rdJHH' ®ohia,ger> James Jeremiah, During these three months it was "made w wm/1 I11’ David Evans, Fred Fill¬ plain that both the North and the South er, Milltam J. Jones, Scranton; Patrick were in earnest. The Soutn was deter¬ A S' ™es-Barre, Pa.; Joseph E mined to secede, and the Norm was de¬ A. iSoiweis, Shamokin, Pa.; William D termined to maintain the integrity of ones, (Jrbondale, Pa.; Sergeant W. A Harris, Wilkes-Barre. ’ the union, but neither side counted the Company K—N. C. Lannine- cost of money or the noble sacrifice of human life that would ensue.^ The Fif¬ DotohWr^JOneS' X T‘ Bobe'rts, Alva ty-second regiment was one of Pennsvl Dolph, Carbondale, Pa.; C E Morrison yamas VJ°ta of the sixteen regiments raised under the call of Presid Jo- r- gr&r-j-'sEzia H. Ripple, »• G-eorg-e ssassNeiman coin in July, 1861. Governor Curtin^1”" /■ N-Cramton Pa.; H P. Forsman, Buffalo,’I 1st.) authorized John C. Dodge ir to'rf y - I"-rf \:ham Sicatt' Binghamton, N. cruit this regiment and he was appoint" tt'c’ t' *?' ?vans’ William McClave, E. h ed colonel. Henry M Hovt lam appomt- Hackett, Scra-nJbon, Pa. of Pennsylvania, was appointed lieute^ Prayei- was offered by Rev. Dr. Jo¬ ant-colonel, and Tnim ri “uten- maj.,.. Company seph K. Dixon, pastor of the Penn Avenue Baptist church, and “Amer¬ « cSTS* •» 4on ica was sung by the members. Pro¬ one hundred and one officers Sfdm °f fessor Haydn Evans leading the sing¬ Within a few weeks the rlgLemal or¬ ing and Miss Rose playing the accom¬ ganization was complete. taI or- paniment on the piano. Then took Camp life was a new experience tn on I Place the roll call, in which responses except those who had already been In jwere heard from those whose names the three months’ service ttw„ S harmless sports of manv pwic an(* j appear in the foregoing. and you boys wUh your pracUcaT^63 Major Lennard then delivered a had a good time generally. This wos | most timely address, which was re¬ huge picnic compared with whaT fol ceived with no little applause. He : said; ;Z.f’ hUt y°“ »“ realize Tt’at Mat f ROUGH SERVICE. i PRESIDENT LENNARD'S AD¬ When we reached the so-called mp, - DRESS. sou of Virginia discipline was exali - ' Comrades of the Fifty-second regiment: -We assemble today for the third time m this thriving city of Scranton for the purpose of holding our tenth re-union 2 S3 = S'H f rom the interest manifested by your local edmmittee and citizens generally it ',”'d-cVa; a”*!”™' mSmtoi is evident that we are Scranton’s wel- and about the swamps of the Chicka- . , ®°me guests. Invitations have been ex¬ hommy, the terrible battle of Fair Oaks, tended jto all known survivors of our old r,?rev^n E).ays’ battle> etc., thence to regimefet scattered as they are, in near- i ^aro^na» under the torrid sun a'i e,Vr 5art 0f our country (except ana the burning sands of Morris Island, AI?-fkai.fnd perhaPs that distant land of performing double duty by day and by gold apd cold may be included at our night, for many months under the con- next re-union. centrated lire from Fort Sumter, John¬ Comiides.we are extremely happy today s'??'1’ Moultrie, Wagner, Gregg and many from the fact that we have our old col¬ other batteries in Charleston harbor. It onel wjth us for the first time since his seems more like a dream than reality muster out of service now more than that so many of us after such terrible thirty years ago. He comes from his trials of endurance, still survive and are New E n&land home to grasp once more able to respond to roll call once a year ' Tlo^Pe "wp °f h‘S °ld comrades. Colonel Perhaps it is because some of us an Dodge w e are more than glad to have living on the fat of the land with a peiv | the Pr vilege of giving you a cordial wel¬ sion of $6 per month. come,, we hope you may be snared to Comrades, your co-operation and per¬ answe roll call at mfeny future re-unions sistent hammering at Fort Sumter finally of the survivors of your old command! gave good results; its fire slackened and then ceased entirely, and to all appear¬ ance it seemed to be abandoned. Then it 40

January 18, 1897, Daniel P. Beach, was (Feb. 18, 1865,) that] a detachment (li¬ pany E-, East Smit-hfield, Pa.; Robert the Fifty-second with a ooat’s crew start¬ Stevens, Company A, Shicksihinny. 1 ed from Morris’ Island i 3 reconnoiter and January, 4, 189/, William A. Sober, Com¬ it was found to be eva- uated. pany D, Sunbury, Pa.; Daniel Thompson, Immediately the stars and stripes were Company B. December 15, 1896, John Rodi- unfurled over the ruins and our old regi¬ mer, Company H, Moscow, Pa. March 28, ment has the undisputed honor of placing 1897, George Wilder, Company H, Scran¬ the first United States flag over Fort ton, Pa.; Frank Early, Company I, Scran¬ Sumter and Charleston after its evacua¬ ton, Pa. September 6, 1897. Charles B. Sut¬ tion. That same flag has been in our ton, band1, Wilkes-Barre, Pa. M'ay 18, 1897, possession ever since,- -and will be on George C. Curnes, Company C, Lock exhibition at the camp fire tonight. Haven, Pa. Sumter redeemed and the old flag re¬ SECRETARY’S INSTRUCTIONS. stored is what we sought. That being at¬ tained, Lee’s surrender soon followed, All survivors, Fifty-second regiment, and you “Boys in Blue” went marching Pennsylvania volunteers, whose address home with victory inscribed upon your is known, will receive papers containing banners. . j the proceedings of the tenth reunion. At¬ Comrades, our pleasant reunions are tention is called to the resolution provid¬ not held for the purpose of boasting of ing payment of one dollar ea-oh year for the achievements of the old Fifty-second. dues. The bronze baindige adopted by the We had a plain, simple duty to perform association for the survivors will be sent and it was performed faithfully. You | on receipt of 50 cents, -postpaid. Address were conspicuously devoted to duty from i all orders andl communications to H. C. ’61 to ’65, in every situation no matter Miller, Kingston, Luzerne c-ounty, Pa. what the danger or hardships involved. Respectfully submitted. You proved yourselves worthy of the - TREASURER’S REPORT. trust imposed upon you. The advancing DR. years admonish us that our membership is rapidly growing less. ■ Nine of our Sept. 24, 1896, to balance on hand.$26 46 comrades have passed from our sight Collected dues at Lock Haven . 42 00 since our last reunion, never to be seen Sold badges at . 11 75 again by us till we in turn meet them ... . 50 on the eternal camping ground. When C. L. Dodd, dues and badge .'.. 2 50 that time comes, as come it will, let us J. E. Perry, dues . 1 00 one and all hope to be in good standing H. J. Van Gild-er, dues and -badge.... 2 50 and entitled to the password that will Sept. 1, 1897, C. L. Dodd, dues. 1 00 safely land us on the other shore. T'heo. M. Keeney . 1 00 Henry Rush, -badge. 50 The song, “We Are the Boys, the William. Johnson, badge . 50 Gay Old Boys, Who Marched in ’61,” Charles Derby, badge and dues . 1 50 was sung by Philip Thomas, of Provi¬ William L. OH-ey, dues . 1 00 dence, the veterans assisting in the $92 21 chorus. Balance on hand . . 23 13 Secretary and Treasurer Miller then CR. read the minutes of last year s meet¬ ing at Lock Haven. Pie also presented Sept. 24, 1896, expenses .$ 1 98 Telegram . 25 his reports as secretary and treasurer. Lunch . 3 75 The reports were as follows: Papers, see bill .v.*.15 25 Express-, see bill. 85 SECRETARY’S REPORT. Printing, see bill . 4 00 To the Survivors of the Fifty-Second Secretary’s salary. 25 00 Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, In¬ Stamps', postal cards, paper wrap¬ fantry ; C omradeis: pers . 18 00 I respectfully submit the following: John Kinney (late Company D), care of By balance .$23 13 Samuel Kinney, Wilkes-Barre, Pa., who was taken prisoner July 3, 1864, on James $92 21 Island, S. C., in the attack made on Fort Johnson, was sent to Anders-omvilie, Ga., The reports were ordered received and Saulsbury, N. G, prisons. He wisnes and Comrades Leech, Bannaltyne and comrades who were with him to corre¬ Mott were appointed an auditing com¬ spond with him, with a view of obtaining mittee to examine the treasurer’s re¬ their affidavit to prove his pension claim. Also, David Williams, late Comp.my 1, port. South Quincy, Mass., who was also taken Included in the secretary’s report prisoner at the same time, is looking for was his reference to the gavel and comrades who were with him in Chaiies- anvil made from • war relics and pre¬ ton, ®. C., ja.il, where one James YRung sented to the association by Colonel (also of Company I), while scram-yi ig for E. H. Ripple and William McClave, of mush which was thrown on the ground, Scranton, and the secretary. The fol¬ kicked him in the face and broke liis nose lowing report was made bearing upon from which he is stil-l suffering. He -also wants affidavits to perfect and prove his the matter by Mr. McClave last year, pension claim. and was in detail as follows: It is also with sorrow I announce the THE GAVEL AND ANVIL. death of the following comrades who have answered t-he-ir last roll call, and I sug¬ On May 6, of this year, Comrade H. C. gest proper resolutions be drawn up, a Miller, scretary and treasurer of this as¬ copy of which be s-ent to the respective sociation, wrote Comrade William Mc¬ Clave, stating that he (Miller) had gath¬ families: ._1 . . _ .. . ered together a number of interesting 41

war relics from Morrli Isi an df S. C. and that Comrade Colonel E. H. Ripple, had away from the society arid fellow in his possession the socket and lower our association and joined the ranks end of the old flag staff of the Fifty- the camrades that are beyond the bugle1 second regiment battle flag, and suggest¬ call. ed that if these several relics could be combined and made up into a suitable ,pRm?0lVe<3’ Tllat w'hl|e we mourn the loss' of these comrades who stood shoulder td gavel for the use of the association, it shoulder with us during the struggle fori would be a delightful surprise to the our country’s unity during the dark days; comrades on the occasion of our ’96 re¬ ^ rebellion, who shared manfully union. Comrade McClave heartily coin¬ cided with the suggestion, and agreed i ns tile ’hardships and triumphs, wej bow m reverent submission to the willl j to make the gavel in time to call said ! °f bhe Supreme Commander of the uni¬ i meeting to order. verse. ; The materials are genuine war relics I Resolved, That our secretary convey to! and were furnished by Comrades Miller the relatives of our deceased comrades, and Ripple as follows: A piece of live oak cut from a telegraph pole, that our sympathy in their bereavement and belonged to a military line established by an expression of our sorrow irf their loss ’ our troops on Morris Island, and also t JL6f°JVeti' Timt ^.ese resolutions be en¬ fragments of two brass bomb shells were tered on our book'd' records and that ,w'ei furnished by Comrade Miller, and the fridmmvy & clloser a:nd more fraternal! socket, together with the short,piece of 'and fellowship with and for! each other as we journey towards the The lower end of our flag ' staff, “which outposts of (the great dividing line. , i\j had to be sawed off the staff in order to get the flag into the glass case at Har¬ The names of the deceased comrades risburg, where the old regimental flags appeared in the resolutions but will are kept by the state, was furnished be found contained in the secretary’s by Comrade Ripple. The gavel and an¬ report which is printed in the fore¬ vil were designed by Comrade William going. McClave and made up at the works of McClave, Brooks & Co.,, Scranton, Pa. Letters of regret from the following The handle of the gavel is designed to comrades were received and several of represent a contracted or shortened flag hem read: O. C. Sears, Rileyvilte, j staff, including the spear point tip, and Jessie Merrill, W. W. Richie, Lock- is made up as follows: The outer half ffTf1’ J>a'; Joseph S- Showers, Clear¬ of the handle consists of the brass Sock¬ field, Pa.; Theodore Smith, Gibson, 'S et and short pieces of tne old flag staff. . The other half consists of a ferrule Tb«n/nameiJ R°Sa’ Bay Station> Ohio; 1 : and spear point made out of the brass Theodore Kenny, Shelby, Iowa; C. L ; from one of the shells together with Dodd, Rosemont, Va.; Wm. h’ Kish- : the wood from the live oak telegraph baugh, Gonzales, Texas; Cha'rles F. | pole above referred to. Derby, Los Angels, Cal.; Alfred Wil¬ The head of the gavel is also made liams, Chadron, Neb.; George W. Del- ! from a piece of the said telegraph pole, anter, New Pittsburg, Ind.; Wm. L and is encircled near each end with a Olley, Excelsior, Pa.; C. A. Beehn hoop or band made from the brass frag¬ Newfoundland, Pa.; W. M. Bowers ments of shell, from which the ferrule Lewlsburg. Pa ; Michael Hurley> D,an_; and spear point is made. All the brass parts of the gavel are ville. Pa.; Del LeR'oy, Ilion, N. T They | polished and nickle plated, and the title sent greeting and requested copies of ? i of the association on the socket forming newspapers containing the best account j the outer part of handle. of the proceeding's. • ■ I The anvil is made from the brass I bound fragments of the other shell as a follows? the letters °f resret Was as - base, with a nickle plated cast iron rap¬ ping table mounted thereon. FROM GENERAL STEWART. The brass band of the base of the shell still shows the expanded ribs on some, Adjutant General’s Office, „ , , „ Harrisburg, Sept. 22, 1897. which were made by the spiral grooves of Colonel Ezra H. Ripple, the rifle gun that hurled the shell on its Scranton, Pa. deadly message. tr.sIy Dear Colonel: I telegraphed you The gavel and anvil were in evi¬ today expressing my regret at being un¬ dence on the president’s table. The able to be with you tomorrow. There are a number of matters here that I cannot anvil shows the brass reinforcing of leave, and among other things we want the rebel shell. The brass and the to determine tomorrow whether or not ridges prove the ownership of the rifled HLleatnnreTleVe S°me of the tro°Ps at cannon from which the shell was fired, J!^ e‘on' 1 regret being prevented af¬ as lead was used in reinforcing the ford in £oar.reuni°n very much indeed, Union shells. for I looked forward to a most enjoyable me and considered it an opportunity to RESOLUTIONS. reciprocate to a limited extent the many The following committee on resolu¬ personal favors I have been the recipient tions was appointed: Comrades Aid- nf tLy°m handS' 1 h°Pe tha‘ the boys tbri °id command may have a good rich, Crawford and Battenberg. This time and a very successful reunion. I committee, before adjournment, pre¬ wish you would present my regrets at sented the following resolutions, which being unable to meet with them and my were adopted: best, wishes for their success individually and as an organization. Whereas, Our roster reveals the fact Very sincerely yours, thiat comrades . * * * have passed Thomas J. Stewart. conferred in hisis electioneie ,eF Dodge made a brief state- orary member. in fesoonse t° Captain E. A. The important toutine busine .ash, of New York city, a veteran of ing been transacted and there Company G, of the Fifty-second, and nothing offered in the way of new m later captain of the Sixteenth Penn¬ ters for consideration, the meeti _ sylvania cavalry. The latter had to evolved itself into a story-telling and catch a train for home and wished just recollection contest at the suggestion a word from Colonel Dodge, who said of Secretary Miller. At 4.45 o’clock the that while he was prepared to only meeting adjourned. speak at the banquet, the reception he had received was enough to make a SUPPER AND CAMP FIRE, dumb man speak, but he would resist The supper given by the local mem¬ ; the temptation to do other than rise bers in Music hall was attended by and acknowledge Captain Push s re¬ about 200 persons and the occasion quest. A moment later Captain Push proved a most enjoyable feature of ihe was called upon, but he had left the reunion both on account of the excel¬ hall. lence of the spread, which was served The election of officers resulted as fol¬ by Hanley, and the informality of the lows: President, George R. Lennard, occasion. It was in no sense a banquet of Wilkes-Barre; first vice-president, and in consequence formed a splendid William McClave, of Scranton; second occasion for the ladies as well as the ' vice-president, T. A. Edwards, of Ed- veterans for sociability. wardsville; secretary and treasurer, H. At 8 o’clock the camp fire began and C. Miller, of Kingston; chaplain. Rev. before it was well under way every M. D. Fuller, of Orange, N. Y. seat on the lower floor was occupied and quite a number of spectators were WILKES-BARRE NEXT YEAR, in the gallery. Chairman William Me Wilkes-Barre and Berwick were Clave, of the local committee, presid¬ nominated as the places for holding ed during a splendid programme of next year’s meeting. Wilkes-Barre music and patriotic addresses. The was selected by a majority of oyer speakers were Colonel Dodge, Rev. Dr. three to one, the exact count not being Joseph K. Dixon, Attorney A. J. Col- made when the preponderance of opin¬ born, Major E. W. Pearce, ex-Sheriff ion was recognized as favoring the Lu- A. B, Stevens and Hugh Crawford, i zerne capital. of New York city. Honorary members were elected as A happy incident of the camp fire follows, they being voted on separate¬ was the presentation of a handsome ly: C. A. Battenberg, Scranton; Al¬ gold-headed cane to Colonel Dodge. bert Maxfield (Eleventh Maine in¬ The vocal numbers were generously fantry), New York city; Captain J. E. distributed through the programme Knapp (Eighth New York battery), of and included selections by the Electric New York city, and Charles Klein, of Glee club, the Jones Family quartette, the Ninth Pennsylvania cavalry. Miss Margaret Jones and John W. Mr. Maxfield, one of the newly- Jones. Dr. Dixon opened the meeting elected honorary members, was given with prayer and pronounced a bene¬ the privilege of the floor and related diction, fervid and appropriate, at the the compilation and publication of the - close. history of the Eleventh Maine regi¬ Colonel Dodge made the opening ad¬ ment. He suggested the propriety and dress. Physical weakness made it benefits to be derived in the publish¬ plain that the effort of attendance, to ing of such a history of the Fifty- say nothing of the strain of speech¬ second Pennsylvania. Mr. Maxfield’s making, was a trial for him and it was suggestions were received with much understood why he occupied but a favor and was discussed by Secretary brjef period of time. He made a com¬ Miller Comrade McClave and others. parison of the then and the now, re¬ " a A motion that an historical commit¬ viewing the enlistment, the service of tee be appointed prevailed, along with raw recruits, the memorable engage¬ amendments that it consist of four ment at Fair Oaks and the enviable members and that they be privileged record possessed by the Fifty-second. to select the regimental historian. The When Colonel Dodge concluded, the committee was named as follows: cane was presented him by Major John i Colonel E. H. Ripple, Major John B. B. Fish, of this city. It was of ebony Fish, William McClave and Smith 13. and headed with gold. Major Fish Mott, all of this city. said, in substance: “Thirty-one years C A. Battenberg was called on tor ago your comrades presented you with a speech and responded briefly and per¬ a sword; today we have passed the tinently in relation to his respect and meridian of life, and we thought it fit¬ love for the veterans and the honor ting to present to you a token of our love and esteem, that upon which you may lean in the declining years of life,” "o,v " - X- ■-' r- '* 11

sleep. To stand in the -presence of an | In accepting the gift Colonel Dodge dier, is to- stand before liberty and v — said that the welcome he had received, in symbol. In the receding remnant of the greetings given him and the evi- the gallant “Fifty-second” I see again denqes of gladness at his presence had the ibloody flow of the Cbickahominy—I sense again the noisome smell of the already made him so near the point of death-dealing swamp—I hear again the speechlessness that he could do no screechng shell over the fields- of “Fair , more than return a simple voice of Oaks,” “M-alvern Hill” and the fair city . thanks for this further token of esteem by the sea—and this for the preservation from his old command. of the temple of union and liberty God’s Dr. Dixon always fluent and gifted civil mountain bulwarks for the weal of . and full of beautiful thought, present- the race. . ed an address peculiarly true to the To him. who walks over the field- of Waterloo or Austerlitz—or who reads of . occasion well calculated to receive the Inkerman and Balakl-ava comes the sad attention of the Fifty-second veterans. questioning why this waste of life? Why Dr. Dixon said in part: this dreadful carnage? Fro-m the Russian Mr. President' Survivors of the Old and Turkish battlefields thirty thousand Fifty-second—I had almost said “Com¬ skeletons were shipped! to England as rades,” for there is soldier-blood in my bone dust to -be sold for the fertilization veins drawn from the Clans of Scotia, of English fields' -and -gardens. Of the and ever since you men fifteen -hundred 'battles recorded in his¬ “Walked in war’s red ways.” tory, few furnish -any light upon the -high¬ I have stood under the shoulder straps er philosophy of man’s life. The story of of an honored father who la-id his life Waterloo ends- alone in sadness. The on his country’s altar. What a thronging story of Gettysburg is golden with prom¬ tumult of emotions, of triumph and sad¬ ise. ness rises in the hea-rt at the -mere men¬ When the poet or historian touches the tion of those far away days when your place Where you shed -blood, where you names were enrolled upon the enlistment fell fighting with you-r face to the foe, register, and you put on for the first time where you received (honorable ©cars— the blue uniform—a uniform that shall God's best music is set to chiming—God’s forever stand' tine world over and the sweetest flowers touch the rhetoric; God’s a-ges of history throughout as the symbol divin-ist passion throbs in speech—for the of purity of purpose, power and patriot¬ tramp of the patriots, the -dash of cavalry, ism—as the pledge of loyalty, heroism the roar of cannon! the flaunting of flags and union. were all in the name of universal liberty. As I open the doorway of your yester¬ When the battle opened men were slaves days, -there comes to me down the aisles —■when the -echo of the last shot died of thirty-four years a strange, weird aiway -along the slopes of the battle swept sound. Since then—O since then! What hills, men were -divinely free. Hands were weary marches and -sleepless nights un¬ lifted in prayer that wear no chain. This der rain dripping clouds! What wasting Union, this liberty, this -all conquering | by fever and death in the swamps before power of God' Almighty’s plan for the - Yorkto-w-n! What courage as you waded weal of the race is your -seal and crown, waist deep in the swamps of the Chiek- my brothers, for your blood red -seeri- ahominy. W’hat heroism and deathless fice for the strength of your best man¬ valor you gave the world on that May- hood—for this- willing -and glad gift of day when at Seven Pines your brigade the -best years of your life. -Can you for¬ made the most desperate fight of the war get it? Cam the world forget it? saving the Army of the Potomac from The old Roma-n has it as he talked with ro-ut and disaster, leaving over half of .Cassiu-S—“-Rome h-as nothing more to of¬ yo-u-r men to fill a soldier’s grave and fer you n-ow.” Soldiers! -the world has make your name immortal. nothing more to lay at your feet. In these What heroic grandeur and what lustre four years of service you reached the you p-ut upon the flag those three June, climax of life. You charged and were days when Jack-son hurled -his tremedous charged upon. You saw the hlac-k force upon yo-u-r right and turned the mouthed cannon when its belched fire— flank of the army, a-nd fear seized the men you felt the thrust of glittering steel and as they thought of the rear at “Bottom-s dyed it crimson with your own -blood; you Bridge.” What glory gleams across the waded in the swamps, you forded the pages of your record as you stood in the rivers when they ran with the blood of forefront of the land forces beseiging the your felo-w-s; you had your life -starved out city of Charleston, and were the first to in the prison pens of the south; you stood enter the gate® of the conquered city— like men to- ’be shot at for -thirteen dollars the first to plant the dear old flag upon a 'month; y-ou fought in the trenches a-t the ruined ramparts of Fort Sumter—the Petersburg—under the -cross fires of the the first time the Stars and Stripes had Wilderness 'and1 amid the carnage of the floated from the shattered, battlements af-f world’s greatest -battlefields—the historic ter Major Anderson took down his flag Gettysburg. You followed Sherman and in 1861. Sheridan, Reynolds and Thomas, Sickle® DR IN-E SEPULCHER. j and Hancock, (McCilellan and Terry, Meade and Grant.. You rode and marched Flag of battle thou art—thy folds have into the jaws of death with the bullet been torn -by traitor shot, 'thy stripes (have tattered flag- floating in the smoke above been dyed a -deeper crimson by the blood I 5rour heads; you won renown such as no of heroes—thy stars have looked down other body of men can ever win again or clear-eyedi upon Sumter the- first altar had ever won before-; you reached -the boil¬ of treason, forevermore the altar of free¬ ing point. dom. We love thee! We could ask no All tfaf life -seems tame and indifferent diviner sepulcher t'ha-n to lie down amid since th-ose four years which had crowded thy tattered folds for death’s awakening into them the entire history of this re- public.'“Pour 'million shackles broken— history enriched with deeds patch as its pages never before (had. been illumined— by the priceless heritage of a free govern¬ ment purchased and sealed with the lives From, of five hundred thousand patriots—the flag uplifted to the very blue of the heavens, its folds glistening iwith every star that had ever glittered there—and rJ\o-u-K. ’ n •, •then a return to those sleeping vales and l quiet hillsides'. Ex-Sheriff Stevens in his address Bate, //ff | made a point of his caution that in thrilling over the memories of the past, the soldiers should not neglect a thought for their country’s future, a future in which they couldi take no- liv¬ DAVE NOBl.fiS’S $15 DEBT. ing part. He urged his hearers to help inculcate patriotism into the MANY MILLION AIK MS MADE BE¬ minds of the young and the genera¬ GAY SM BE COULDN’T PAY IT. tions to come. The teaching of it in

the public schools he strongly advo¬ A Fugitive In the Wilderness, He Cure a cated. Quaker Points Which JLed to Building: A good illustration of the sense of tho Delaware and Hnrtson Canal and Mr. Stevens’ remarks was shown in the the Development of a lireat Coal Field, recitation of “The Flag” by the speak¬ “If old Dave Nobles had been able to pay his er’s little 8-year-old grandson, Walter neighbor the $15 he owed him there wouldn’t Stevens. The youngster recited the have been any Delaware and Hudson Canal selection with a correctness and effect Company, with its $240,000,000 worth of prop¬ that provoked loud appause—as did erty, and a good many men who are millionaires the words of his grandsire. to-day might be working for a living. All those Mr. Crawford occupied a brief period millions came from that $15 that Dave Nobles in relating some reminiscences of the owed and couldn’t pay,"’ said a Lackatvanna regiment. They were well chosen and Valley coal mine operator. “I am reminded of received with considerable favor. this by the fact that a grandson of Dave Nobles died the other day, and I don’t think his estate GOOD ADVICE. will figure up as much as that $15 his grand¬ Mr. Colbornwas introduced by Chair¬ father owed, and he lived all his life within gun¬ man McClave as “the silver-tongued shot of property that might have been his, and orator of Northeastern Pennsylvania,” has yielded millions to those who came into but that he needed no introduction was possession of it through the good fortune of »J shown in the applause which greeted that old Dave Nobles debt. [ him. He delivered one of his ringing, “The Delaware and Hudson Canal Company patriotic, characteristic speeches and owns or controls the entire coal field of the dwelt particularly on the need of Lackawanna Valley from Carbondale to Scran¬ watchfulness against interior strife ton. In 1812, and for many years afterward, and on the necessity of patriotic that valley was almost an uninhabited wilder¬ thought and teaching. ness from Wilkesbarre to the northeastern Colonel E. H. Ripple offered a mo¬ border of the State. In spite of all the efforts of tion that a vote of thanks he tendered enterprising and enthusiastic individuals in the newspapers for kind and ample what is now known as the Lehigh coal field, notices, the Woman’s Relief corps, the people had not been induced to look favorably Jones Family quartette, the Electric on anthracite coal as fuel. Among the Glee club, the citizens of Scranton, leading men of that day who believed in Lieutenant Griffin Post, No. 139, for the the efficacy of anthracite were Maurice use of its rooms. Rev. Dr. Joseph K. and William Wurts, two Philadelphia mer¬ Dixon, A. J. Colborn, jr., Master Wal¬ chants of ample means. They believed that ter Stevens and all who had assisted it would be wise for them to get possession of in making the reunion such a distinct as much land in the Lackawanna Valley as pos¬ success. The motion was heartily sible, although no coal had yet been uncovered adopted. in that valley. All the investigating and pros¬ The camp-fire and reunion concluded pecting had, up to that time, been done in the with a quartette selection, “Slowly the Lehigh, Luzerne, and Schuylkill regions, the Veterans are Passing Away,” and the idea of the investigators being that the Lehigh benediction. River would aiford cheap means of getting the The arrangements for the reunion coal to market when a demand had been created for it. Philadelphia was the objective point were made by the local members of the Fifty-second. They acted as a com¬ < of all the early anthracite coal operators 1 But the Wurts brothers entered into the wilder¬ mittee of the whole, but the detailed ness of the upper Lackawanna Valley to do their work of preparation was performed by prospecting. Their idea was to get possession the following executive committee: of possible coal lands near the upxier tributaries William McClave, chairman; Colonel of the Delaware River—the high range of the E. H. Ripple, William Archer, Anthony Moosic Mountains being the dividing line of the Long, James Jeremiah, S. B. Mott. Susquehanna and Delaware watersheds—so 45

The deeds were made in the name of the _ Delaware might be used Wurtses. All of the coal land now owned by y to transport the product of their the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company he- tween Carbondale and Providence, now a ward ;ivu mines to Philadelphia. in the city of Scranton, except the Nobles tract “From 1812 to 1814 the Wurtses searched on Ragged Island, and the Anderson farm— their chosen field for the coal they were con¬ which, besides the tons of millions of dollars worth of coal they have yielded during the past fident had an existence there, but without mak¬ sixty-five years, are to-day valued at the enor¬ ing: any discovery that promised realization of mous sum of $240,000,000—were obtained in their hopes. They had discussed the matter be¬ that manner, for an outlay that ran but a little way into the thousands. . tween them and had decided to abandon the “Old Dave Nobles figured conspicuously in field and seek for anthracite deposits further the development of this craftily acquired prop¬ south in the valley, with the intention, if they erty. All through the summer of 1815 he was kopt busv removing obstructions from the chan¬ were successful, of utilizing the Susquehanna nel of Jones’s Creek, which was the nearest ■wa¬ River as an outlet to market. William Wurts ter that offered a way to get coal to the Dela¬ had actually returned to Philadwphia, and ware River. It was nine miles from the Ander¬ son tract, and emptied into the \\ allenpaupnck Maurice was on his way thither from the scene Creek twenty miles above the point of junction of his final efforts to find coal, near whore of that stream with the Lackawaxen ltiver, the city of Carbondale now is, when he which had a sixteen-mile flow from that point to the Delaware. It was by • that devious came upon a man in the garb of a hunter, who and treacherous route that the Wurtses was trying to conceal himself in a thicket. hoped to run the first cargo of coal ,Wurts, supposing the man was some mountain from the Lackawanna Valley to Phila¬ delphia, an entire distance of 200 miles. Nobles hermit, addressed him, and, quieting his fears, cut a road through the wilderness from the An¬ questioned him. He learned that the man was derson farm to the nearest point on Jones s David Nobles, and that he was living in the Creek. A surface vein of coal was openea on the Anderson tract, and late in the year, on the woods to escape imprisonment for a debt which j first fall of snow, two sledloads of the coal were, he owed to a man in Wayne county. hauled by ox teams to the bank of the creek. •• During the conversation, Wurts, honing that There the coal was loaded on a raft of dry pmo trees. Nob!e3 started with this pioneer cargo of Nobles had at some time seen anthracite coal anthracite to pilot it to the Wallenpaupack. deposits, made inquiries on the subject. Nobles The creek was high, and all went well tor a replied that he owned a tract near by, on which mile, when the raft was wrecked on a rock and the cargo went to the bottom. Nobles narrowly he had often seen peculiar black stones such as escaped drowning.' Wurts described. “After this disastrous attempt to reach the “ 'If these stones are coal,’ said he. ‘I know Delaware, the Wurtses abandoned the Jones s Creek route and sought another one. Opening a where there is plenty of it. coal vein on tho tract they had purchased from •• ‘ How much do you want for your lot?’ asked Dave Nobles for $15, they cut a road from there Wurts. to the banks of the Wallenpaupack, a distance . of twenty miles. In the spring of 181b they “ ‘ If you will pay my debt of £3,’ replied No¬ Hauled two tons of coal from the Ragged Island bles, ‘ I’ll give you a deed for tho tract. The mine to the Wallenpaupack, where it was load¬ man I owe has refused to accept it in payment.’ ed on two rafts. These wore run safely to Wilsonville, from which p’«co tho stream “ Wurts lost no time in releasing Nobles from was a succession of rocky rapids and his debt and in getting title to the land. Recog¬ perpendicular falls. At IN llsonvillc the nizing / treasure ho had found in the old coal was taken from the raffs and hauled to the Lackawanna River at Paupack woodsman, who was profusely grateful for his • Eddy, now the village of Hawley. There it was release from the debt, he employed Nobles to act loaded on substantial arks especially built lor as guide for him to the various localities in the its transportation to Philadelphia. One ol the arks was wrecked in the narrows of the Lacka¬ valley where Nobles said coal could be found, waxen, but the other was sent safely to Phila¬ i and Wurts’s wildest anticipations were more delphia. This was too tedious and expensive a ijhan realized. Coal existed on vast tracts from method of transportation, however especially as no one could be induced to buy the coal, and /lagged Island, where Wurts surprised the fugi- operations on the Lackawanna were suspended T ftive debtor, for sixteen miles down the until 1823. Then the Wurtses made a road valley. He found that all the land, except over the Moosic Mountain from their Nobles tract mine to the Lackawaxen River near the what was known as the Anderson tract, present site of Honesdale. The road was twenty I now in the city limits of Scranton, was owned miles long. They mined 2,000 tons o. coal by a resident of Snnbury. Apprehensive that if that year and intended to naul it to he applied in person to the proprietor and opened the river the following winter but there was negotiations for the purchase of the property verv little snow that winter, and only 100 tons the Sunbury man might suspect that there was were

..flfire distance from the Mobile Mountains' j the Hudson River to ascertain whether such northeastern part of Rcfin&jWi a stupendous scheme was practicable, the re¬ wilderness, and in 1789-91 Kenry Drinker pur¬ sult was the construction of the present canal chased from tin State 25,000 acres in what aro between Honesdalo and Ronrtout, and the grav¬ ity railroad over the Moosic Mountains from the now Lackawanna, Pike, Wayne and Susque¬ mines to meet it. This canal and railroad were hanna counties. A great portion of this land completed and opened in 1829. and in tnat year was on the headwaters of the Lehigh River, in the first cargo of anthracite coal evei de¬ livered in New York direct from the mines the present Lackawanna county. It was called was transported over the route. fhe coal Drinker’s Beech, because of the groat forests of was taken from the old Dave Nobles tract, beech that covered the tract. Drinker cut which had cost $15, and has yie ded mil¬ lions of dollars to the Delaware and Hudson roads, at great expense, through these forests Canal Company. To the accommodating spirit, ' and spent large sum3 in efforts to make the therefore, of the neighbor who let Dave Nobles get into his debt and the inability of Nobles to upper Lehigh River navigablo so that his lands pay the debt it may be said that the Delaware might bo made available to settlers, but. the lo¬ 1 and Hudson Canal Company owes its existence cality was too unpromising to attract them. to-day and its possession of the *240.000.000 nmnprt-.v in the coal remons, as wen as “In 1815 Henry W. Drinker, a son of this pioneer landowner, made a settlement in the beech wilderness. With this as an incentive he renewed the efforts hi3 father had aban¬ doned to induce settlers to locate there, and it Was he who inserted this advertisement in the Philadelphia papers offering to exchange land on long credit for beechnuts, maple sugar, fish, game, work, timber, shingles and the like. In a short time, these inducements proving effi¬ cacious, many settlements were formed along the upper Lehigh, and the settlers were the an¬ cestors of most of the coal and iron barons of the Lackawanna Yalley to-day—many a Jco- i lossal fortune of the present time having been founded on a few hundred weight of maple sugar, certain carcasses of deer or one or two thousand shingles, split in the woods by the grandfathers of the now millionaires. "To open these isolated settlements to the out¬ DRINKER’S BEECH RICHES. side world and make the icgion accessible. Drinker built in 1819 the first turnpike road MODEST ADVERTISEMENT THAT that ever entered (he Lackawanna Valley. This BROUGHT MILLIONS. he had chartered as the Philadelphia and Great Bend Turnpike. It was sixty miles lone, and Beeliniinss or the Belmvine, t»oka»ann» extended from the Delaware River near the and Western Railroad—Henry W. Pi-lak¬ Water Gap to Drinker’s Beech. It is known to er's IK Starts to carry Through Ills Kn- this day as the old Drinker road, and is a land¬ I '■ terprise — William Henry’s Persistence. mark in fixing boundaries in that part of Penn¬ Scranton, Pa., May 27.—An old resident of sylvania. In 1819, also, Drinker became aware this city has among his papers a torn half page of the existence of anthracite coal in the valley, of a newspaper Published in Philadelphia in and although it was then useless, all efforts to 1815, which contains the following advertise¬ introduce it having failed up to that time, he ment: believed in its actual iruportance.and foresaw the QETTLSRS WANTED—To take up Land in the advantages of better communication between ^ region of the Upper Lehigh Riv^r, on Long the Delaware and Susquehanna valleys. Strange Credit, at $5 an acre. Pay for samo taken in Timber, as it may seem now, his idea was that this Beechnuts, Work, Shingles, Maple Sugar, Fish, Game, communication could be made by a railroad. or any ether Product, natural or cultivated, of the There was not a railroad in existence’ in tho Forest or Soil. HENRY W. DRINKER. world at that time, except the crude mine train-1 “1 could name offhand,” said the owner of this ways in England. Drinker blazed with an axe old newspaper relic, “more than a score of per¬ a route from the mouth of tho Lackawanna sons who are worth from *2,000,000 to *10,000,- River, where the borough of Pittston now is, 000 and owe their wealth and standing to-day to through the unbroken wilderness, across the that advertisement. Indirectly this city of Pocono Mountains to the Water Gap, a distance Scranton owes its existence to it. That adver¬ of sixty miles, and satisfied himself Unit such a tisement led to the building of the Delaware, scheme as he had in mind was feasible. This Lackawanna and Western Railroad. There is was in 1824, and in 1820 Drinker obtained a a fascinating story connected with it and I charter from the State of Pennsylvania for a would he willing to wager all I’m worth that company that ho called the Delaware and Sus¬ there isn’t one of the beneficiaries of that an¬ quehanna Canal and Railroad Company—the’ cient ad. who knows it or has ever heard it. first charter for a railroad company ever issued. “The development of this great coal and iron His idea was the building of a railroad with region camo of a chain of interesting and really inclined planes, horse power to be Used betwoen romantic circumstances, and the first link in the planes, and water power to raise the the chain was forged more than a century ago planes. He interested a number of promi¬ when Henry Drinker, a wealthy Philadelphian, nent Philadelphians in tho plan, and in 1831 a became interested with Dr. Benjamin Rush, survey of the route was made. George Clymer, Robert Morris, Samuel Mere¬ “Anthracite coal had by that tithe asserted dith and other eminent men of that time in the its value. The Lehigh Navigation Company, purchase of Pennsylvania wild lands. The on the south, had come into existence, and opened up a profitable market for coal in Phila- 47

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f 3elphia. 'i'he Delaware and Hudson Canal Com- 1 0^er.l° seil tbc land. This put an entirely pany had brought the riches of the upper Dacka- new idea into his bead, and that was to get, pos¬ wanna Valley to light, conquered the preju¬ session of the iron mines and use them as a new dices of New York against the new fuel, and inducement to capital to resuscita'.e tho rail¬ was advancing to wealth and power. Coal was road. project, making Slocum Hollow tho ob¬ jective point of the road between tho Dela¬ selling- at $9 a ton at the tidewater markets, and ware and the Lackawanna. This met with coal lands in this undeveloped lower Lacka¬ strong objection from Drinker, who had the wanna Y alley could be purchased for $lo an welfare and future of Drinker’s Beech upper- most in his mind, and not Slocum Hollow. acre The time seemed ripe for tho building of But Henry was not to be put down. He ate. Drinkers railroad. James Seymour, tho en- Jast won a New York capitalist named Arm-* gineer who made the survey of the route, re¬ °T,er fb bis views on the new prospects of the railroad. Albright had in the moantimo ported that a railroad could be built from the tailed to raise the money to purchase the Slocum Hollow property. In 1340 William Henry pur¬ for $6256oS) n r 1° Lacka a Valiev for $62o 000 on which 240,000 tons™ of coal a chased 500 acres of the tract, including tho iron year could be carried. mines, tor $8,000. In payment for it he gave a thirty days' draft oil the capitalist Armstrong hJhat report seems s°mewhat ridiculous now by agreement with him. But in thoso days the but the engineer made it all the same The mails were slow, and before the draft reached Dew \ ork for acceptance Armstrong had died hors "nw to be ope^ted by inclined planes and suddenly. His administrator refused to ac¬ I h0rse P°wer- a« the locomotive was as yet an cept the draft, and William Henry’s contract for (uncertain factor in the railroad translation tb° land was worthless. He induced the owner o! tho land to give him an option on iho prop- I Problem At the time Drinker obtained bis erly lor sixty days. Then he went to hustling. I garter Samuel Meredith made a survey from He called on the two Scranton brothers, George w • andTelden T„ the ironmasters of Oxford, N.T.d i *■» and laid t he situation before them. They became interested in the story,and visited the wild Lacka¬ I tanmto'S? NeTSiTsSSig li2 s?»™° wanna region in company with the enthusiastic (for a railroad over thisrmfril A,cb?rter Henry, journeying over tho turnpike built bv The design of this was to obtained, * Henry W. Drinker in 1819. The coal and iron a proposed railroad betveen deposits of Siocum Hollow were an agreeable 1 the Lackawanna, and'thus make an>d surprise to the .Scrantons, and they resolved at once to fill the place-made vacant by the death Tie?.111" riCh and growing NJcaw YorkhS of the capitalist Armstrong. They fulfilled the contract^ made by Henry, and became the own- Drinkefwas itTfim P^fdenf’h* 18S& ! ers, with him, of the Slocum Hollow property, not raise capital to go on with could luej established iron works at the Hollow, and was not until 1883X? the work, and it ; began the development of the region. pctual charter for a gravity acper- , .f'be New York and Erie RaLroad had ma¬ kittston to the New Yo^t SrL if - frora ' terialized by this time and was being pushed to junction with his original charm th VU £011' completion along the southern border of New ^erk capitalists became intere^ted^m rVV a ork .State. This turned the attention of the scheme. The buildino- thl ecV the faci antons to an outlet by rail of the Susque¬ hanna, \ alley to iho Erie over the route laid Erie Railroad, now ihe Erin Raifrn lolk am* t this time being agitated,' a""h* ilde of S“y out by S.jnuel Meredith in 1829. rather non and trade was to the jthem Tier Sht than southward over ihe Pocono to tho Dela¬ lake country. The rrm. • i7o>,n i eI anrt lIle ware and the Drinker route. Drinker had erased to take an active interest in the original project when Henry succeeded in getting pos¬ session of the Slocum Hollisw property, as he Lnnkerroad the hard times of 188-Mm? an tbe saw that the hopes of Drinker's Beech were ruined by that move, and he had turned his at¬ tention to retrieving his lost fortune, Murray, an Enciisii Aug:il3tus “-in 1847 the Scrantons purchased tho old in this'eountry atthatttaf‘ Meieaith cnarter and built a locomotive rail- road up tue Susquehanna to Great Bond. They mteresfed "nkthem?d At" a nmetlng tailed it the Lackawanna and Western Rail" pany held ar Fnstnn eei8 ot L^e coin- road. It was completed and opened in 1851 Inis brought New York city, although by a s”s roundabout way, within a day's journey of the & si'vsszr t-r I Lackawanna, coal region, by tbe way of the £5 Erie iiom Great Bend. But the Scrantons ! e£=-“ j were not satisfied with this roundabout con¬ nection, and in 1851 they procured a charter lor the Water Gap and Cobb's Gap Railroad Company, and purchased for $1,000 the origi¬ nal D tinker charter of 1819. rl he Lackawanna and Western and tue Water Uap and Cobb’s ftiif ;s*tes- j's «= isi Eap Railroad companies were consolidated un¬ der the name of the Delaware, Lackawanna and W estern Railroad Company, and the rr.il- roau that Henry Drinker had originated and had aasrAftffi ©TO sst struggled so long and so hard to build was at I Both Drinker and \rfiiiat0 vr30 lts deathblow, last constructed from the Delaware to the Daekawanna. “From the purchase of 500 acres of land for $8,000, which was led to by the perseverance of Henry W . Drinker in bringing the resources ot the wilderness to the attention of the outside f cfrmiri g- th gettiement^laio wn ^d&I cfc u n 6 H d I ’ world, the great Delaware and Lackawanna system has grown, together with its millions tetrwciv^^iS of wealth ill coal lands. Upon that modest in¬ Hollow. W Slocumf haedPOsmeltedr°nmin-the vestment the enormous plant and property of Pnmltivc furnace years before t11 Ta the Lackawanna Coal and Iron Company'and j\.lbrig,ht of Northamnron ««,,* *. ~C3b J, J. the city of Scranton itself, with its varied in¬ bought the land now occuniedUhvJ« Coul,d httVB dustries and rich surroundings, are founded. I eluding Slocum HoUow ami thebL?Cra“ton’ in‘ The coining of the Drinkers into the then unin¬ $10 an acre. Albright S,., -6 3ron mmes, for habited wilderness has been followed by the in¬ iron business in NorthamntntIater0St£d 111 the I vestment of_ hundreds of millions of capital took specimens of the "sCum" Doll3’’ and he there and the enriching of all the families Easton to exhibit it. This wp?\>k l E ore t0 : whose founders came into the valley in re¬ sponse to Henry W. Drinker's advertisement swrg&tksk?^ ■ for settlers who were willing to take up land in had brought from Slocum Hollow. °and o/ISe the wilderness and pay for it with maple sugar, fish, game, and shingles. "'IcriFy W. Drinker, i>y me Sale of ins lands, and Western railroad. Th&re is a which increased in value greatly with the ad¬ cinating story connected with it and I vent of the railroads and the development of would be willing to wager all I’m worth i the coal trade, accumulated another fortune, > ' and retired to a life of ease at Montrose, Sus- that there isn’t one of the beneficiaries ; quehanna county, where he died. There aro of that ancient ad. who knows it or has but two of his direct descendants living. One, Anna Drinker, was a poetess of national fame ever heard it. 5 forty years ago, writing over the name of Edith “The development of this great coal t May. She became insane, and was an inmate and iron region came of a chain of in¬ ' of the State Insane Asylum at Harrisburg for teresting and really romantic circum¬ more than thirty years and was believed "> bo an incurable patient. About five years ago her stances,'and the first link in the chain reason was suddenly restored, and site took up was forged more than a century ago her residence in Philadelphia. Her brother, rfosenh, in lPrt-t, shot and killed President when Henry Drinker, a wealthy Phila¬ Cooper of the Montrose National Hank. Cooper delphian, became interested with Dr. Was the trustee of Anna Drinker’s estate, and Benjamin Rush, George Clymer, Rob¬ | Joseph Drinker charged him with having been i ..unfaithful to his trust. Drinker was con- ert Morris, Samuel Meredith and other ! yieted of murder and sentenced to be hanged. eminent men of that time in the pur¬ 'After years of delay he was adjudged insano chase of Pennsylvania wild lands. The nd was placed in the lunatic asylum at Dan- fille. becoming an inmate of that asylum about northeastern part of Pennsylvania was be time bis sister Anna was discharged from then a wilderness, and in 1789-91 Henry Ij the Harrisburg asylum after her long coniine-, Drinker purchased from the state 25,- \ inent there.” 000 acres in what are now Lackawan¬ na, Pike, Wayne and Susquehanna counties. A great portion of this land was on the headwaters of the Lehigh river, in the present Lackawanna coun¬ From, ty. It was called Drinker’s Beech, be¬ cause of the great forests of beech that covered the tract. Drinker cut roads, at great expense, through these for¬ ests and spent large sums in efforts to make the upper Lehigh river navigable Date, / / so that his lands might be made avail¬ able to settlers, but the locality was too unpromising to attract them. MADE A SETTLEMENT. “In 181^ Henry W. Drinker, a son of GENESIS OF THE this pioneer landowner, made a settle¬ ment in the beech wilderness. With D., L & W. RAILROAD this as an incentive he renewed the efforts his father had abandoned to induce settlers to locate there, and it Its Construction Was Indirectly Caused was he who inserted this advertise¬ by an Advertisement. ment in the Philadelphia papers offer¬ ing to exchange land on long credit for beechnuts, maple sugar, fish, game, HOW HENRY W. DRINKER WAS work, timber, shingles and the like. In a short time, these inducements THE STARTER OF IMMENSE FOR¬ proving efficacious, many settlements TUNES IN NORTHEASTERN PENN¬ were formed along the upper Lehigh, and the settlers were the ancestors of SYLVANIA — DRINKER'S FAMOUS most of the coal and iron barons of the BEECHES AND WHAT CAME OF Lackawanna valley today—many a o THEM. colossal fortune of the present time having been founded on a few hundred h< From the Stroudsburg Times. weight of maple sugar, certain car¬ casses of deer or one or two thousand [ SETTLERS WANTED—TO TAKE UP shingles, split in the woods by the land in the region of the upper Le¬ grandfathers of the now millionaires. high river, on long credit, at $5 an acre. “To open these isolated settlements Pay for same taken in timber, beechnuts, to the outside world and make the work, shingles, maple sugar, fish, game, or any other product, natural or culti¬ region accessible. Drinker built in 1819 vated, of the forest or soil. the first turnpike road that ever en¬ (Signed) Henry W. Drinker. tered the Lackawanna valley. This he had chartered as the Philadelphia and “I could name offhand,” ..said the Great Bend turnpike. It was sixty owner of this old newspaper relic, miles long,and extended from the Dela¬ “more than a score of persons who are ware river near the Water Gap to worth from $2,000,000 to $10,000,000 and Drinker’s Beech. It is known to this owe their wealth and standing today day as the old Drinker road, and is a to that advertisement. Indirectly the landmark in fixing boundaries in that city of Scranton owes its existence to part of Pennsylvania. In 1819, also. it. That advertisement led to the Drinker became aware of the existence building of the Delaware, Lackawanna of anthracite coal in The valley, and al-! route was obtained. The design or tins though it was then useless, all efforts |was to form a junction with a proposed to introduce it having failed up to that I railroad between the Delaware and the time, he believed in its actual import¬ I Lackawanna, and thus make a through ance, and foresaw the advantages of route to the rich and growing New York Southern TUy. better communication between the :• jpeumpany was "organized in Delaware and Susquehanna valleys. 1832. Drinker was its first president. Strange as it may seem now, his idea But he could not raise capital to go was that this communication could be on with the work, and it was not until made by a railroad. There was not a 1833, when he obtained a perpetual railroad in existence in the world at charter for a gravity railroad from that time, except the crude mine tram¬ Pittston to the New York state line, in ways in England. Drinker blazed with conjunction with his original charter, an axe a route from the mouth of the that the New York capitalists became Lackawanna river, where the borough interested in the scheme. The building of Pittston now is, through the un¬ of the New York and Erie railroad, broken wilderness, across the Pocono now the Erie railroad, was by this time mountains to the Water Gap, a dis¬ being agitated, as the tide of emigra¬ tance of sixty miles, and satisfied him¬ tion and trade was to the Southern self that such a scheme as he had in Tier and the lake country. The route mind was feasible. This was in 1824, j thither proposed by Henry Drinker was |and in 1826 Drinker obtained a charter I eighty miles shorter than the proposed from the state of Pennsylvania for a ' Erie route and passed through the coal company that he called the Delaware region. Before work was begun on the and Susquehanna Canal and Railroad Drinker road the hard times of 1835-36 company—the first charter for a rail- I j came on. Seme of the leading men road company ever issued. His idea f interested in the enterprise were ruin¬ was the building of a railroad with in¬ I ed. Sir Charles Augustus Murray, an clined planes, horse power to be used English capitalist, was traveling in this between the planes, and water power country at that time. He learned of to raise the planes. He interested a the plans of Drinker and his associates j number of prominent Philadelphians in ,, and became interested in them. At a the plan, and in 1831 a survey of the meeting of the company held in Easton route was made. Sir Charles was present. He agreed to raise $500,600 in England to aid the COAL IN DEMAND. building of the railroad on condition “Anthracite coal had by that time !, that the company would raise enough asserted its value. The Lehigh Navi¬ money to make a decent beginning of gation company, on the south, had come the work. into existence and opened up a profit¬ “The chief aid and adviser of Drink¬ able market for coal in Philadelphia, er in this enterprise was a hustling and the Delaware and Hudson Canal com¬ determined man named William Hen¬ pany had brought the riches of the ry. By his efforts he induced the Mor¬ upper Lackawanna Valley to light, ris Canal company of New Jersey to conquered the prejudices of New York agree to take $150,000 of the stock of the against the old fuel, and was advancing railroad company, but pending the ne¬ to wealth and power. Coa] was selilng gotiation of this stock word was re¬ at $9 a ton at the tidewater markets, ceived from Sir Charles Murray that, FJ and coal lands in the undeveloped owing to business depression in Eng¬ lower Lackawanna Valley could be land, he was unable to raise the money purchased for $10 an acre. The time he had expected to get, and the work seemed ripe for the building of Drink¬ received what seemed to be its death¬ er’s railroad. James Seymour, the en¬ blow. Both Drinker and William Henry gineer who made the survey of the had exhausted, their private fortunes route, reported that a railroad could be in their efforts to carry the railroad ; built from the Delaware Water Gap to scheme to success. the Lackawanna Valley for $625,000 on which 240,000 tons of coal a year could SITE OP SCRANTON. be carried. The city of Scranton has now a pop¬ “That report seems somewhat ridicu- ulation of over 110,000. In 1836 its site j lol's now, but the engineer made it all was an unbroken wildernss. Three j ] the same. The road was to 'be oper¬ houses and a stone mill, forming the ated by inclined planes and horse pow- * settlement known as Slocum: Hollow, ' er, as the locomotive was as yet an un- were all the evidence of civilization vis¬ , certain factor in the railroad transpor- ible hereabout. There were deposits of j tation problem. At the time Drinker iron in the Hollow. 'The Slocums had ! obtained his charter Samuel Meredith smelted ore in a primitive furnace s§* made a survey from the Lackawanna years before. In 1836 J. J. Albright, of Valley at Providence to the Susque¬ Northampton county, could have hanna Valley at Great Bend for a route bought the land now occupied by Scran¬ for a railroad forty-seven miles up the ton, including Slocum Hollow and the Susquehanna to the New York state iron mines for S10 an acre. Albright " * I line. A charter for a railroad over this ! was interested in the iron business in •• v' Northampton county, and he took spec- possession of the Slocum' Hollow prop¬ imens of the Slocum Hollow ore to Eas¬ erty, as he saw that the hopes of ton to exhibit it. This was about the Drinker’s Beech were ruined by that time the Drinker railroad scheme col¬ move, and he had turned his attention lapsed. William Henry heard of the to retrieving his lost fortune. iron ore Albright had brought from “In 1847 the Scrantons purchased the Slocum Hollow and of the offer to sell old Meredith charter and built a loco¬ the land. This put an entirely new idea motive railroad up the Susquehanna to into his head, and that was to get pos¬ I Great Bend. They called it the Lack¬ session of the iron mines and use them awanna and Western railroad. It was as a r.ew inducement to capital to re- completed and opened in 1851. This suscitate the railroad project, making brought New York city, although by a Slocum Hollow the ebjetive point of roundabout way, within a days jour¬ the road between the Delaware and the ney of the Lackawanna coal region, by Hackawanna. This met with strong the way of the Erie from Great Bend. objection .from Drinker, who had the But the Scrantons were not satisfied welfare and future of Drinker’s Beech with this roundabout connection, and uppermost in his mind, and not Slocum in 1851 they procured a charter for the Hollow. Water Gap and Cobb’s Gap Railroad “But Henry was not to he put down. company, and purchased for $1,000 the He at last won a New York capitalist original Drinker charter of 1819. The named Armstrong over to his views on Lackawanna and Western and the the new prospects of the railroad. Al¬ Water Gap and Cobb’s Gap Railroad bright had in the meantime failed to companies were consolidated under the raise money to purchase the Slocum name of the Delaware, Lackawanna Hollow property. In 1840 William Hen¬ and Western Railroad company, and ry purchased 500 acres of the tract, in- i the railroad that Henry Drinker had eluding the iron mines, for $8,000. In I originated and had struggled so long payment for it he gave a thirty days and so hard to build was at last con¬ draft on the capitalist Armstrong by structed from the Delaware to the agreement with him. But in those days Lackawanna. the mails were slow, and before the FAR-REACHING RESULTS. ‘draft reached New York for accep- ( tance Armstrong had died .suddenly. “From the purchase of 500 acres of ! His administrator refused to aecept the land for $8,000, which was led to by the draft, and William Henry’s contract | perseverance of Henry W. Drinker in for >ie land was worthless. He indue- j bringing the resources of the wilder¬ ed the owner of the land to, give him ness to the attention of the outside; an option on the land for sixty days. world, the great Delaware and Lacka¬ Then he went to hustling. He called wanna system has grown, together on the two Scranton brothers, George with its millions of wealth in coal W. and Selden T., the ironmasters of lands. Upon that modest investment y Oxford, N. J., and laid the situation | the enormous plant and property of the 1 before them. They became interested Lackawanna Coal and Iron company in the story and visited the wild Lack¬ and the city of Scranton itself, with awanna region in company with the its varied industries and rich sur¬ enthusiastic Henry, journeying over roundings, are founded. The coming the turnpike built by Henry W. Drink¬ of the Drinkers into the then uninhab¬ er in 1819. The coal and iron deposits ited wilderness has been followed by of Slocum Hollow were an agreeable the investment of hundreds of millions surprise to the Scrantons, and they of capital there and the enriching of resolved at once to fill the place made all the families whose founders came vacant by the death of the capitalist into the valley in response to Henry Armstrong. They fulfilled the con¬ W. Drinker’s advertisement for set¬ tract made by Henry, and became the tlers who were willing to take up land owners, with him, of the Slocum prop¬ in the wilderness and pay for it with erty. They established iron works at j maple sugar, fish, game and shingles. the Hollow, and began the development “Henry W. Drinker, by the sale of of the region. his lands, which increased in value, greatly with the advent of the rail¬ ADVENT OF THE ERIE. roads and the development of the coal “The New York and Erie railroad trade, accumulated another fortune, had materialized by this time and was and retired to a life of ease at Mont¬ being pushed to completion along the rose, Susquehanna county, where he southern border of New York state. died. There are but two of his direct This turned the attention of the Scran¬ descendants living. One,Anna Drinker, tons to an outlet by rail of the Sus¬ was a poetess of national fame forty quehanna Valley to the Erie over the years ago, writing over the name of route laid out by Samuel Meredith in Edith May. She became insane, and 1826, rather than southward over the was an inmate of the State Insane asy¬ Pocono to the Delaware and the Drink- lum at Harrisburg for more than thirty r route. Drinker had ceased to take years and was believed to be an incur¬ i. active interest in the original pro- able patient. About five years ago her t when Henry succeeded in getting reason was suddenly restored, and she Isoldiers uniting against the flag that took up her residence in Philadelphia. 'made them what they were? Her brother, Joseph, in 1884, shot and Here upon this ground you prevented killed President Cooper of the Mont¬ that national suicide which then threaten- . rose National bank. Cooper was the ed us, and gave new life to a nation trustee of Anna Drinker’s estate, and that stands to-day between the two great Joseph Drinker charged him with hav¬ oceans of the world the arbiter of cruelty ing been unfaithful to his trust. and oppression inflicted by the belated remnants of ancient tyranny upon a peo¬ Drinker was convicted of murder and ple struggling for institutions like our own. . sentenced to be hanged. After years Wi'jh these environments and stand- . of delav he was adjudged insane and ing in the most honored forum I ever ex- & was placed in the lunatic 'asylum at peefc to occupy—addressing one of the most j Danville, becoming an inmate of that distinguished audiences that ever listened , asylum about the time his sister Anna to a speaker I tremble with the emotions was discharged from the Harrisburg which it were idle to endeavor to conceal, and regret the barrenness and paucity of v asylum after her long confinementtent , our language in my vain attempts, to find there.” words fitting to express the gratification that I feel in being thus honored by an invitation from the president of your as¬ sociation to address you here to-day. ON HISTORIC GROUNDS. From,. Veterans. We meet to-day on one of the fields of history to listen and pay tribute to the soldiers dead. Yon who have been more fortunate than your comrades who dwell here in their consecrated graves meet in to exchange once more those ex- ^-.ssions of friendship and regard which Date, .WL the associations of the march, the camp and the battlefield kindled and nurtured into that brotherly fellowship of soldier comrades. You meet upon a field upon, which the arms of the government of the United States were successful against sold¬ iers in armed rebellion against that govern¬ ON GETTYSBURG BATTLEFIELD ment. Though such a fact stands out be¬ fore me here it is not my purpose to kindle anew the fire that once severed the bonds THE REUNION OFTHE HUNDRED AND of friendship between the North and the FORTY-THIRD PENNSYLVANIA. South. The broken cord has. been re¬ paired. The misunderstandings of the past have been, explained. The issue has The Address of Attorney M. .1. Martin, of been joined and tried and a true verdict This City, Delivered at the Thirty- has been rendered. Reconstruction was the execution issued on the judgment en¬ Second Annual! Reunion of the Regi¬ tered. The Union Mansion house has ment Held Thursday. been repaired and stands to-day storm { proof and battle proof as a beacon light Attorney M. J. Martin of this city, was on the hills of Christian Civilization—a the orator of the clay at the thirty-second warning to despotic"monarchies,- and ex¬ annual re-union of the veteran One Hun¬ ample to future governments and a monu¬ dred and Forty-third Regiment of Penn¬ ment to the wisdom of our forefathers. sylvania Volunteers, which so bravely dis¬ Your handiwork is upon its walls. The tinguished itself on the bloody field of strongest pillar every raised up in support Gettysburg in that famous bloody and de¬ of the old mansion house was builded on cisive battle of the Civil War. the battlefield of Gettysburg. It was built In his address to the veterans Mr. at the price of blood flowing from the Martin said: hearts of America’s young manhood. ATTORNEY MARTIN’S ADDRESS. You may ask why was such a sacrifice ! necessary. It was necessary to preserve the Mr. President and Veterans of the One integrity of this Union. A dissolution of the Hundred and Forty-third Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers: Union had been threatened on account of I owe the honor of this occasion to your differences in opinion regarding a question allegiance to our country and your sup¬ of political economy and the relative merits port of our constitution. of the right or wrong of a condition of By your conduct on this field thirty-five slavery existing in certain States in the years ago you have merited the benedic¬ Union and sought to be extended to certain tion of a grateful people, and the honor others. that will attach to your names through all THE INSTITUTION OF SLAVERY. posterity. Slavery was not an American instifu Conscious of the duty you then per¬ tion. It had existed in nearly every coun¬ formed what must, be your feelings as try on the globe in one form or another [you reflect upon the past. What feelings from the earliest periods of authentic his¬ of mingled joy and pride must animate tory. It existed in both the empire and you to-day. How. is it possible for any the Republic of Ronie« It existed at an effort of mine to add anything of inspira¬ early age in Greece, It existed in Eng¬ tion to a scene like this—surrounded by land under the Saxons, whose slaves were graves of your comrades, standing upon sold and transferred with the realty as the ground made sacred by their blood, the we now sell and transfer permanent fix¬ ground upon which you defended our tures attached to the soil. The slaves were untry and her government against a part of the Lord's manorial posses- sioms. and when he sold his estates the slaves owned by him and Employed on Lenged Savonarola. New creeds are form-1 that particular estate went with it. ulate'd and new doctrines promulgated. After the conquest of the island by The Church of Rome is threatened and William, the Normau ho introduced the the Huguenots of France are organized.; system of feudalism which obtained in CHANGES IN ENGLAND. England for centuries. He was a mili¬ The contagion spreads to England. The tary conqueror, and not unmindful of the “Defender of the Faith” divorces Cath¬ uncertainty of his tenure or that be owed his position to the success and allegiance arine, and Woolsey dies with a broken; heart. The Church of England is estab-1 of his soldier followers. To reward his lished. The office of the Pope is vested I followers he divided the conquered colony in the Iving of England, and the property i among his chief officers, and they in turn among the men of the ranks. None of of the Church of Rome is confiscated by I them'could secure an estate in fee and the Crown. Bishops and priests are for¬ the estate which was given -to the private bidden to perform the duties of their vo- j cations. New officers are at the helm.. An soldier was base and uncertain. Villienage was established and the vil- entire change has taken place in the pol¬ itical control of the British. Empire. liens were slaves of their lords, though But the Tudor lineage fails and the j, • with some better rights and some better Stuarts take the throne. With them Cath-i privileges than their Saxon predecessors. olicism gets a new foothold, and the newt They still were sworn to strict allegiance faith suffers at the hands of the old aug-) to the over-lord, and the soil which they mented with the spirit of revenge. The L tilled and made valuable could never be¬ contending Faiths renew their rivalries f- come vested in them nor their heirs. notil lawlessness is looked upon as a vir-1 Such was the condition of the English tue, and the people become defiant in die-1 villiens rill the ingenuity of the clergy in nuneiation of their sovereign. The oppos-p their avaricious efforts to build up the ing faction, praise him and religion be- 'j ecclesiastical heirarehy over-stepped the comes a topic to be discussed with a blud- bonds of reason, awakened the toiling geom in one hand and the broad sword bondsman to his rights and brought the in the other. shimiug lights of English jurisprudence up-, New compartments are made in the on the stage. Protestant Sanctuary. The partition walls GROWTH OF CIVIL. FREEDOM. in most instances are thin, but in some firm | Remainders, reversions, uses and trusts and built to stay. The Puritans discover were established. Simon De Montford Cromwell. John Knox has aroused the -j had founded the House of Commons. A Presbyterians. The established church limitation had been placed upon the leg¬ proclaims to the subjects of the Empire islative powers of the Lords and the peo¬ of Great Britain that it is the only church .■ ple commenced to. rule and govern them¬ in the following of Christ. The Church selves. The statute of Mortmain' was of Rome spurns all the others as impost- | passed and the c-lergy were restricted. The or®, and brands their followers as heret- | statute of Wills was passed and the men ics. Thus the contending creeds make 5 could take devises. Henry VIII. signed war against each other with an intoler- j the statute of Uses intended to abolish ance irresistible. One sect oppresses and I absolutely all uses and trusts in land, persecutes the others and they flee from B but so firmly established them that all their old homes to the trackless wastes of ! the equitable estates of to-day rest upon the unexplored new world. The Puritans j it. settle in New England; the Quakers in (Gradually the system released the bonds? Pennsylvania; the Catholics in Maryland; and slavery of English subjects was lost the Huguenots in the Carol!,nas, and the in the darkening twilight of the past. Dutch refugees in New York. New theories had arisen. The world awak¬ SOUGHT RELIGIOUS LIBERTY. |“ ened from the slumber of the dark ages. They clear the forest and battle with the Europe felt the impetus of the moving new foes—the American Indian, endure the nerves of progress. Men looked for new freezing blasts of the New England winter' worlds to conquer. Columbus and the Ca¬ and suffer the ravages of starvation and bots had braved the billows of the Atlan¬ disease that their posterity may found a tic iu bai>ks that tried the fortitude of new nation dedicated to Freedom; a na¬ the hardy sailors who trusted in the lead¬ tion where all men are recognized in the ens who steered them, to an unknown port. sight ot their fellowmen as they are Joe- After these explorations again the slum¬ fore their God as equal possessing certain ber seized them, and save a few spor¬ adic settlements' in Spanish and French inalienable righ-ls among which are “life, America the vast continent was not vis¬ liberty land the pursuit of happiness.” ited until the spirit of the age -of Eliz¬ To secure the blessings of these to them¬ abeth aroused their dormant desires into selves and their posterity they left the an unbounded ambition to acquire the comfortable homes of their fathers with the wealth which was reported to bet wait¬ blazing hearth and over-burdened hoard; \ ing for the discoverer in the wilds of they bade farewell to their old chapels North America. Drake and Frobisher and among the graves of the ancestors, whose ; Raleigh and Magellen are the new actors bell had so often summoned them to on the stage. The resources of the new prayer; they dropped the sickle in the continent are confirmed in the courts of green fields that centuries of cultivation Europe on the return of each new adven¬ by their sires had enriched; they walked turer. The settlements of Cartier, Ral¬ for the last time through the meadow’s eigh and Mamendez are heralded among over which they had roamed in youth and the struggling peasants of Europe. Mon¬ picked'the wild flowers and chased the archy lose their power. The dread of their lark faorn the nests they knew over the 1 oppression is gone. A new haven has been moors land fens their infancy loved and 1 opened to the oppressed. New thinkers their youth cherished. have appeared in the religious forum. The bonds of friendship, kinship, af¬ Luther and Calvin utter their thoughts fection and devotion were severed. All with an. earnestness that would have chal that they held most dear they left behind them and embarked on the toiling tempest of the wild Atlantic to be greeted here by : ■ «

the r roek bound coast of Cold New Eng¬ early nnbtfier Century in this land land, the desolate quietness of thcj Vir¬ freedom. ginia forests, the interminable jungle of INDEPENDENCE ACHIEVED. the palmetto and the pine in the Carolina 1 In 1783 the governments of Europ > bav- swamps, and Jurking in his wigwam be¬ |lng recognized the independence of the hind them all was the sly, deceitful and olomfets, England renounces her claim up- treacherous North American Indian, in them. They find from their experience ready to pounce upon them at the first 'in the (ate war that the articles of eonfed- moment they seemed sleeping on the as¬ ration are not suited 'to their political con- surance of their safety. ■fitions. ’They immediately take steps to lit was to combat a trai ns* fhia. fno tiuut form a new government, and the rights of ihardlv! buried before Frederick the GreaF the different States is the first and last contest* the will and starts the war or the Austrian Succession and no sooner question to be settled. They think it is finaJlysettled in the convention of 1787, closes this than the seven year war of Europ# breaks out in which the soldiery when, the delegates of the different States, of the I Continent is in arms on one side acting for the constituents who sent them or the other. France formed on olliauco ho people of the several states adopt that with the queen and England pitched her famous preamble—“We, the people of the arms ip the camps of Frederick. The set¬ UnitedjSfn tes, in order to form a more per¬ tlers in the new world take up the con¬ fect ujiion, establish justice, insure do- test and from 1756 to 1763 the battle nestic tranquility, provide for the common rages under the new name of the French lefenen promote tlie general welfare and and Indian War. A war between the lecure (he blessings of liberty for ourserves English and French settlers with the In¬ nd out posterity do ordain and establish dian allied with the latter. his constitution for the United States of With this war the awakening thoughts America.” pf Freedom and Independence spread That constitution is submitted to the throughout the colonies. They had voted loep'le a nd, after a difficult struggle against revenue and levied taxes, raised _ armies scheming politicians it is adopted and goes and fought successfully without aid from into effect. The nation conceived at Lex¬ the Mother Country except the $5,000,000 ington is born and takes its place in the 1 which she contributed to the fund of $16,- family.of the nations of 'the world. 000,000 raised by the colonies for the prose¬ When that document which the last cution iof the war. “Grand Old Man" of England said was The moat wonderful instrument ever struck , PATRIOTS UNITE. off the,brain end. purpose of man at any The old religious and sectional jealousies given time, went into effect, we were thir¬ | were forgotten and men of all latitudes teen Stales bordering on the Atlantic sea¬ < and eteeds fought shoulder to shoulder. board and stretching from Maine on the Democratic ideas seized them and legis¬ North to the boundaries of Florida on the lative bodies were organized. The young South-Limited under one flag—one govern¬ British subalterns sent in their glittering ment—a united people with a common law, i lace to thrust aside the able officers of common purpose and a common language. ,» the Colonists, incensed the people and they i The aeeds of discontent were early sown. . commenced to drink for. themselves. But : In the Administration of our second Presi- | in spitp of the sneers of royal snobs and dent twt> very unpopular laws were passed, j regal favorites Gates, Stark. Morgan, Put¬ known jas the Alien and Sedition laws. r nam aid Washington received their train- | Agents iof European governments wire re- •'» ing anil learned when the time came how | ported jo he among us soliciting the aid and f to treat with British regulars and their friendship of our government to the dif- } mercenary allies. ferent lowers then engaged in war upon *’ The (time soon came and the gentleman the continent of Europe. Those laws were 3 of Virginia with the sturdy son of proud passed for the purpose of punishing their p New England stood side by side and fired offenders and giving the President power ? ‘‘the slot heard1 round the world” echoing to expel from the eoumtry any alieu sus- | in its wake that immortal proclamation: peeted of entertaining and spreading ideas “Taxation without representation is un¬ inimical to the peace and welfare of our just.” country. Immediately after the passage A new nation is conceived. A confed¬ if these laws the President was advised of eration is formed and a national congress their unpopularity and with what great . is established. Genius which rarely shines lisfavor they were received by the country, alone and generally in clusters bursts cf- ! tnd the Legislatures of the States of Ken¬ fulgendin the heavens of our liberty. The tucky and Virginia passed resolutions Adampfs and the Pinckneys. Hamilton and which warned the President of a threat Madist a. Franklin and Jefferson, Wilson i- Tom each of these States of secession from and Rs adolph. Patrick Henry and Richard I he Union if any attempts were made to , Henry Lee are glittering in the constella¬ tion. I •nforee these laws within these two States. T’hoy met in a convention at Philadel¬ DOCTRINE OP STATE RIGHTS. phia apd the most defiant political docu- This was the first declaration from any meat every liurltfd by oppressed sub- ;■ State of a supposed right of secession. .loots at the throne-of an unjust and tyran- , This was the germ from which Calhoun’s tmoal monarch reciting their own grievances politics were matured and the enunciation and the arbitrary despotism of their king of that principle which threatened, a divi¬ is thrown as a final challenge to George sion of our country and thrust upon us the III, rw hen the Continental Congress passed horrors of a civil war. It was in direct the Declaration of Independence. contravention of- the warning given by If tlio first draft of that document as Alexander Hamilton to the New York con¬ written, by Jefferson had onlv been adopt¬ vention called to pass upon the adoption ed. slavery never again would have been or rejection of the Federal Constitution. the pretext for an issue between rwo sec- When he was asked in that convention if o*»r country. But the clause for- the State of New York could withdraw at bidding slavery was stricken out and the any time she was dissatisfied with 'the Itraffic of God s creatures was tolerated for Union, his answer was definite, emphatic nnbquTvoeaL ' He fold them that Tliis ,ir>D could not) contemplate such a thing Wisconsin and Michigan. .6 its own existence and its i>wn death in In 1804, immediately after the purchase the sa ne instrunn ut: that if the State oi of Louisiana, Congress divided it into two New York went in it was m the Imoii till territories—one the District of Louisiana governments should be obliterated fioin and the other the Territory of Orleans,; the earth. Each State threw their all into which became the State of Louisiana in the common crucible of nationality to he 1812. When this State was added to the: mingled with that of her sister States by Union the balance in the United States the alchemy of political science unto a new Senate was even between the free and nation that shall endure while independence the slave States—each having nine States. is an attribute of sovereignty and freedom After this the States were admitted in has a land she can call a home. pairs—a slave State with a free State— The people of the United States formed Mississippi with Indiana; Alabama with a government that States could not break. Illinois; Maine with Missouri; Arkansas The Kentucky and Virginia resolution be¬ with Michigan; Florida with Iowa; Texas came nugatory by the repeal of the obnox¬ with Wisconsin. ious laws, lmt the principle took root and The equal vote in the Senate was pre¬ flourished in another and warmer climate. served. though many times it was threat¬ It hurst forth in South Carolina a sturdier ened. Every threatened extension of slave plant under a new name a quarter of a een- territory was bitterly contested. When ir was attempted to establish it beyond the turv later. For the maintenance of our government Mississippi the patience of the North was and the protection of our industries a tariff aroused to action. The admission of Mis¬ souri met with violent opposition. But the law was passed in 1826 and in 183— ,1(' collection of duties on imported articles storm was averted for a time by admit¬ was resisted in the port of Charleston. The ting Maine ut free State, and passing Clay’s ■ Compromise Act of 1820. agreeing to ad¬ tariff laws passed by the National Con¬ mit Missouri a slave State, but prohibit¬ gress were declared imperative and void by ing slavery in any Other territory we«t the Legislature of the State of South Caro¬ of the Mississippi river and north of the. lina. The authority of Congress to regu¬ southern boundary of Missouri. late commerce was denied. CAlljlOUN AN*D HAYNE. THE WILMOT PROVISO. Nullification and secession were the new > Thus it was settled until Texas rapped doctrines proclaimed by our Southern sis¬ at the Union door and Wilmot came forth ter. John C. Calhoud and Robert Y. with his celebrated proviso which, though Hayne were her champions, her advocates ' lost, excited a violeqt debate that was ,and her defenders—the one in the United , hardly quited when the storm burst forth Sta tes and the other in the Governor's of- \ anew, and the giants of the controversy fice of his State. Both were eloquent, were again in the forum over the admis¬ stern, resolute and deterru.ined. But in. sion of California. A compromise was the President’s chair of our national gov¬ effected with Stephen A. Douglas’ Fugi- ernment was Amin w Jackson—the hero of ' ti-ve State Law. New Orleahs. the man who brought peace Not content with this he soon fans the nnd order to our Southern frontier and tbe slumbering embers into new flames and cession of Florida to the United States. appears in Congress with his notorious The mere mention of his name recalls all “Kansas and Nebraska Bill” doctrines. of honesty, courage, devotion to principle, It became a law in 1854, and the obli¬ determination to do right that can inspire gations of 1820 and 1850 were violated and Repealed. Bands of armed ruffians j 'the soul and brain of way man. I HA sent General Scott with bis army to flocked into the new States of Kansas Charleston, established the custom house, and Nebraska, seized the polls, held elec¬ tions, burned villages, plundered; towns : collected the tariff hjx and told Senator and murdered the "free inhabitants.” Calhoun if he moved one step farther in “Bleeding Kansas” became a . battle , his purpose he would be tried for treason ground upon which the skirmish lines of i under tjhe laws of his country, ■the Civil War fired the warning guns of i But the tariff was a mere peg upon the impending battle. which to hang the doctrine of state sov¬ A new political paijty is organized to ereignty. 'Slavery was the vital question oppose all further extension of slavery. that prompted them to action. New ter¬ 'The Whig ceased to e::ist, but the Demo¬ ritory had been added to the public do¬ cratic party still holds out and nominates main. Jefferson had purchased the then James Buchanan, for. President. By an territory of Louisiana from France. Sp-ain arrangement with t'he(Supreme Court of had ceded Florida to the United States, the United States the Dred Scott decision and 'the original thirteen States had made is withheld, till after election, and then deeds of cession of their claims to the pronounces the obiter dicta, “the black, land west of the present boundaries. The territory of Oregon was claimed by right man has no rights which the white man of discovery. Our domain extended from is bound to respect.” ! The anger aroused by the Fugitive Slave the lakes to thq Gulf, and from the At- ! Untie to the Pacific) not including the Law is intensified by this and “Personal Liberty Bills” are jassed through the present States of Texas, Californio, Lftah, Northern States. Unc e Toms Cabin is Colorado and the territory south of these being read: William Lloyd Garrison has States. described slavery in th ■ ■ language of Isiaa SUAVE AND FREE STATES. as a “covenant with d'ath and an agree¬ On each acquisition of new territory the ment with hell.” Wei dell Phillips, hurls question whether it should be slave or his burning phillipies pgainst the iniqui¬ free territory always arose. By the ordin¬ tous traffic from the lecture platform. ance of 1787, passed the same year the A sensibility of the biack man's wrongs Constitution, was, and while the Consti¬ has seized the people, and Lincoln has de¬ tutional Convention firas in session, slav¬ clared "this Union cauiot exist half slave ery in any form wras prohibited forever and half free.” in the northwest territory, now comprised JOHN BROWN’S RAID. in the States of Illinois^Jndiana.Ohio, - 55

inactive vviirfO Senators proclaimed in iny The dark clouds appearing in the hori¬ Congress of a nation the r ight of peaceabb zon foretell the awful Incss of the approach¬ secession. ing storm. .To-hn Brown, fresh from the HOSTILITIES BEGIN. battle fields of Kansas, starts the work of The treacherous work made rapid pro¬ deliverance by seizing tbe arsenal at Har¬ gress. The Star of the West was fired on per's Ferry. And what happens? Ho s in Charleston harbor on January 9. 1861. seized in turn by Col. Robert E. Lee, of: A Union vessel, flying the Union flag, tbe United States Army, and executed for fired on from a Union fort and no explana¬ treason—a crime of which Robert E. Lee tion required by the offii ers of our govern¬ became a thousand fold more guilty only j ment. The work is pushed on a few years later. _ [ openly and in defiance of our Crimes are added to crimes «nd yilliao- , government. They did not met in secret ies to villfetnies until the Presidential elec- i or secluded places. They met in the open tiou of 1860. The convention in the Wig- i and their orators cheered them on with a warn in Chicago is watched by a nation, cry to arms. "Spill blood and fire the as no other national convention was watch¬ Southern, heart.” . ed liefore or since. Every word littered They did not have long to wait. Gen¬ is recorded, and every action of. that as¬ eral Beauregard starts the battle and. fires sembly is noted. There i upon .its walls oin Fort Sumter on the 12th of April, 1861. hung 'the Constitution of our country pit¬ Major Anderson evacua.tes but does not eously imploring the sons of men it had surrender on the 14th of April, taking with enobled to defend it from the jeers of him the shell torn flag that waved over tne scoffing Europe, the taunt of royal monar- fort he so gallantly defended. The next ehies—aye. more—from having its tatter¬ morning Lincoln issues the call tor io,va/U ed remnants spread as a memorial upon men for three mouths' service. The cry the grave of George III.—yea, from calling of the North, “On to Richmond, stirs the back to earth the spirit of Washington blood of every patriot and echoes on the to witness the fulfillment of his prophecy southern shores of the Potomac amid the —“if this Constitution does not stand the ; cheers and shouts, “Johnies, Ctl to next, 0110 will be written in blood." Washington.” , , Thanks to the work of that convention Shades of the departed Pinckneys and 'that constitution still and; will forever Rutleges and Jeff or sons t and Madisons, stand while there lingers iu the heart of where were your spirits hiding, when from man a single spark of that ancient faith the soil that shrouds your sacred clay -the teaching 'the brotherhood of man and tile breezes blew the refrains of the death fatherhood of God. knell of our country and the destruction From that old wigwam a deliverer, came of that city bearing the immortal name or forth: a man who had said if he ever got him who 'lived: and honored^-yeiv-rever- a chance to hit slavery he would hit it euced as the “Father of His Conntry. hard. Abraham Lincoln is nominated for Why did not the soul of fCchard H^my the Presidency of the United States to be¬ Lee rise from the grave in oidj Tg nia, come the saviour of a nation and the eman¬ robed in the majesty of his greatness, cipator of a race. wrapped in that sacred mantel which he OUTBREAK OF THE REBELLION. wore as he stood in the Continental Con His nomination is. accepted through the gress at Philadelphia, on that South as the death blow to slavery. This 2nd of July. 1776, moving tly- De laraLon was not his mission. He said, if elected, of Independence. Why did he »°t “'is •he would enforce the laws as he found rise and stand before that new son of the them: but lie wovfld save the Union, if pos¬ “Mother of- Presidents and beater of hi. sible, with slavery, if not without slavery. honorable name to shame his ^escengit This was unheeded. The next month after before the world as a traitor to his country his election South Carolina passed the ordi¬ and unworthy of an honorable ancestor. nance of Secession and withdraws from PATRIOTS AND TRAITORS. the Union. Buchanan and his Southern But no the old graves were trampled un¬ Cabinet remained silent and passive. The der foot and rhe ancient land, marks were work of destruction still goes on. Floyd, forgotten The issue was framed and the the Secretary of War. permits the North¬ Un begun. The country was divided ern arsenals 'to be plundered for the pur¬ Douglass, who declared he could pose of replenishing those of the South and from Washington to his hamn$e fitting up and filling up the stocks of the hv the light of his burning effiges alter tne arsenals scattered through the States that passage1 of Ids “Fugitive Slave Law,” now were daily hastening in he work to follow declared “There can be no neutials—only the footsteps of their wayward sister, Datriots and traitors.” . South Carolina. * Two flags float in this country. Th Mississippi. Ala ba ma., Florida. Texas, si Stars and Bars sWl| Georgia and Louisiana f,-...'allowed before— the— , next February. The “empire of the golden circle" of Buchanan seemed probable "of existence. Jefferson Davis holds his seat in the United States Senate twelve days after his State has passed the ordinance of Secession. Then raising from his seat BIBB in that honorable assembly on the 21st of to Richmond and make Virginia the battle January. 18(11, he delivers his. insolent and infamous.speech, justifyng the action of his State and asserting with all the elo¬ quence he could comumnd the right of any State to peaceably ' seceed from the Union. He then bids farewell to the Sen¬ Frsstronghold left on u • t ,riK> Union ate and starts for Montgomery to be chosen Richmond held out a* . ^ of President of the South .m Confederacy. armies fox foui >cai • ^ many times O. how the bones of Andew Jackson mu’st the armies had been n M- . ' £ It have burned in their gra ? when the Presi¬ during the summers of IWP - - ' dent of the United Stats sab listless and tv aw' s (' ci that additional forces would lie the enemy ' cna'fj}jjjlt5srci yd tv there necessary. A new call for volunteers was what they have already said about you. issued, in response 'to which the North I need not mention Ben Crippen to re¬ mcached on-to Washington, forwarding The mind you of how reluctantly you obeyed tidings to the President they loved. We the command to retreat from that position. are coining. Faioer Abraham, three hun¬ The monument which you havp erected on dred thousand strong.’ that position tells the story of his death. In This grand army was the One Wim- dred and Forty-third Regiment ot Penn¬ “Who early thus upon tfip of glory sylvania Volunteers. In. the rank and Like thee doth fall and die, needs for his tile of which von veterans drilled and fame Naught but the simple telling of bis story marched and fought. From the rank and The naming of his name.” tile of that old regiment you have seen -your boyhood friends and soldier comrades But the events of those three days drop one by one—falling about you like fighting crowd upon me. I cannot re¬ leat os from the branches in the autumn, count them all, nor is it necessary to re¬ winds until at times you seem standing al¬ fresh your recollections. You have but to most alone. Forced by the havoc of battle stand anywhere on this field and look about and the fortunes of war you have left you. Instantly the “post rises before you vour comrades sleeping on the hanks of the 1 like a dream.” Amid the numerous scenes Rapid an, the James, the Potomac, and j of the past that so rise before you is the the Rappahannock. You have seen them gallant charge of Picket’s division. fall at Petersburg, at the Wilderness, at Chancellorsville. at Spotsylvania, at HOLDING THE HEIGHTS. North Anna, at Cold Harbor, and at A month ago the surviving veterans of Chiekahominy. that division met in Philadelphia in re¬ HALLOWED MEMORIES. union with the Grand Army of the Re¬ public. On that occasion “Mother Pickett” Names like these recall to your minds was introduced to the audience and utter¬ scenes which "mo language can depict ed these words: “My love Vo you, one and no pen can describe.” The mere mention all.” Upon the great battlefield of-. Get tv- of them takes you back to old Virginia burg it was said to Mr. Lincoln: “Think | and menorv springs to your assistance of the men who held these heights.” Mr. i with thoughts so swelling upon each other- Lincoln said: “Think of the men who in the struggle for opportunities ot ex¬ charged them.” I think first of the boys pression that your tongue falters and you in gray who Charged them and then ‘ I succumb to silent reverie amid scenes that thiuk_ of the men who held them, the once shown resplendent beneath the noon J boys in bhiP. A day is coming when there day sun of your young manhood, but now i . wilt be a last Confederate, but the last growing dim in the lingering twilight ot j comrade in blue will always live.” What your advancing years. a tribute to the Union! As “Mother ; Hovering in the vanishing haze of recol-) Pickett” feels for us so i lection is the day of your enlistment at .-Camp Luzerne, when yon bade farewell “We have no enmity for those f to home and kindred and offered your ser- Who, by their acts not ours, were foes— : vices to the country you loved. You think But charity: and from malice froe of the many surprises you met with as I | Would cherish with sincerity.” you were ordered about from place to place j !—first to Harrisburg for rifles, then to | j Thirty-five years ago, the blue and gray Washington to Camp Seward to drill, next 1 met upon this field as enemies. The losses Vo Gamp Slocum to learn how to build a MPickett’s line sustained' were enormous.1 fort, and soon to Fredericksburg to re¬ The effort they made was desperate to the ceive your initiation under fire. last degree. They walked into the face I will not attempt to enumerate the hnl- of death, assaulted our lines and curried liant achievements and glorious sacrifices. death before them. But Pickett’s line was of this regiment. The whole history of, driven back leaving 12,000 of their 18,000 j the regiment is a history of noble sacri- ’ lying upon the field. Where were you • ficee, meritorious deeds,, brilliant achieve-1 : when they first appeared across that mentis.—a history of bravery, courage andj meadow? Would you let Wilcox answer? patriotism that may stand before the com-. You did net wait for orders. You knew . Lined armies of the North and South andl your duty and you did it as soon as they challenge the commanders of either tol came within your range. produce a better. The effect of the fire of the artillery Which of you would ask for a more bril¬ and heavier infantry brigades upon liant record than to have been a member of Pickett’s lines are well related. The the One Hundred and Forty-third Regi¬ charge of the Light Brigade at Balak- ment of Pennsylvania Volunteers at Peters¬ lav» is immortalized by Tennyson. But burg and at the Wilderness. , the effect of the charge of that brigade AT GETTYSBURG. was insignificant on the outcome of that battle although their heroism was superb. In your achievements of these you pass¬ But does history tell you in atv glowing ed from one more glorious still. Under j terms of the charge of the brigade that the strain of a forced march you moved | turned the tide of the battle and made it from the Potomac to Gettysburg and an English victory? Has the charge of were among the first to engage the enemy the “Scotch Greys” been idealized appro¬ a.nd. hold them in check until Meade’* army priately as they rushed on to ye-ath and could arrive. In 'this position _ General victory shouting: “Scotland foxifeer?” No, Revnolds soon offered up his life as a nor has the work of your old r pirnent a holocaust on the altar of his country. The Gettysburg been credited to t!m as k , Colonel of your regiment soon took com¬ should be. mand of the brigade and you took your PICKET'S CHARGE'. position on Seminary Ridge to resist the repeated assaults of the many times out Rickei’s charge was the last ruggle of numbering enemy. I could add nothing to » drowning man. When he v s driven | the commendations bestowed upon you by back from the Union lines the efijse of the Southern Confederacy commence its slow 57

retreat across ^ , pWsfiog to reflect up’oiPthe past Virginia to Appomatox. out -this is not necewsary. We have he¬ There-'on the 9th of April. 1865, Grant roes still among us. We have not vet fall¬ made friends of the enemies. They laid en from he teachings of the fouiidors of down their arms and returned to their our nation, and it is our duty to see that homes and fields, to start anew in the path wre do not. Wo lack for no defenders ot peaceful industry. They acknowledged so long as there remains on the roster that Secession had been extinguished; that ot the American army and navy tsneh human slavery had- been abolished; that names as Colonel Roosevelt, Commodore we are one country; that we are all feehley and Admiral Dev.ey. Americans at home and Yankees abroad; FLAG ENCIRCLES THE EARTH. tout “there was not air enough on our continue to float two different -American They have carried our flag to the an flags.’’ Yes, they applauded the Supreme trpodes. It floats- over -the i.--l mds of the Court of the United States when it pro- l acific beckoning the Christianity of the noucedi that this is “an indestructible Occident to come forward with the word, Union of indestructible States.” ot. God and “teach ye all nations” that Did the French doubt the truth of this the barbarism- of the Orient is darkness, when they withdrew their troops from that the feon of God is “the way, the truth and the life.” . ’ Mexico? Did England doubt it when she reluctantly paid the Alabama claims? Was But in carrying our flag beyond the she still doubting it when Cleveland wrote seas we should bear in mind the fate the Venezuela message? Or do you think -or Rome. whose eagles were carried too that Spain is doubting it to-day? They far Cling close to the Monroe Doctrine have met .Joe Wheeler and Fitz Hugh Lee and the advice of Washington; to “avoid all and they have called those “Johnics” entangling alliances with foreign nations” 1 Yankees. The solicitations of the Mother country ror a friendly alliance come to us -with I need draw no comparison of the past with the war just ended. You went to 1 tt>e invocation to “forgive and forget.” , war in response to the appeals of patriotism We may forgive, but why should we for- get? Patrick Henry once told her, “We for the preservation of our country. We have no way of judging of -the future but engaged dn the Spanish war in response j to the appeals of suffering humanity fori by the past.” We may take the same '* criterion to-day and ask ourselves what relief from a yoke that has been galling | has been -the policy -of England through for four centuries. It was the cause of the world. She has formed nr. alliances 1 colonists of a once proud and splendid except for her own aggrandizement, and empire now crumbling at its foundations generally ended with; the humiliation iif beneath the progressive march of an ad¬ not the- man of the other signatory power. vanced civilization. The once haughty Spain now sits pensive and humiliated THE PROPOSED ALLIANCE. among the royal families of ancient Europe ■ It is true we- are one race, speak the —sighs for -the glories she might have had, i same language, worship the same God, and weeps at having nothing left her to' ancl have a common ancestry. But has admire but the musty ruins of the past. England always been mindful or>l re-specc- SPAIN’S HUMILIATION. this? Can wo forget Lord North and- George III? Can we forget General She can blame no one for this but her¬ ITmI burning the capital of our nation in self. She has .violated treaty obligations; ISM? Can you, veterans, forget that be¬ broken pledges of reformation in govern- ' hind the rebel lines here at Gettysburg menit repeatedly; extorted exorbitant taxes were English officers and English "agents for the maintenance of her church as well spurring the enemy on and -offering them as her government; because so abandoned aid in; the hope -of dismembering this Un¬ to the ways of villiany and treachery os ion- and destroying this nation? Answer to connive at the destruction by her of¬ these questions and- teli m-e if you think ficials of the property of a nation with it wise to form an alliance with Great which she was at peace. Britain? Since we have not found an al¬ But she has paid dearly for tire Maine. liance necessary for the preservation of The republicanism of America has demon¬ -our country during the firs' century of strated to the imperialism of Europe that our existence why should it be necessary the stars and stripes protects the property for the second ? over which it floats. It is true. we have entered on a new We maintain no standing army, but we national policy; -but if that new national have a citizen soldiery that have won the I • policy leads _us to destruction we -would admiration of the world, and a navy that I better drop it immediately. Persevere in sliip to ship, gun for gun and man fin the -old paths- -and a century hence the man nmy challenge any navy thav floats spirit of Lincoln may return to earth and I the seas. They may characterize us as a proelamr once- more upon this historic 1 nation of "Mercenary shop keepers.” but. field ‘this government of the people, for those simp keepers have the spirit of the people and. by the people shall never Anglo Saxon liberty in their bones. They peri-sh from the face of this earth.” remember Rumiymede when they think o'f .You, veterans, made tli.it speech pos¬ Yorktown. We■ pause at New■ucav wnOrleans trails sible. You have left a heritage to pos¬ to dream of Saratoga. We gaze upon terity that can only be measured by the ttbe Sword of Bunker Hill now covered beneficence it will bestow upon the count¬ with the rust of a century hanging crossed I less generations of the future. Your work in the eagles talons with that newer and. has been done. It is ours to protect and brighter sword of Gettysburg. We see i guard -that which you- have given- us. In .Tones off Scarboro- Head. Perry on Lake tV • tr T\" V XV' Oil iiflKe the performance of that duty new heroes JLErie. .McDonough on Chaplain. Farragut will develop -and new victories will la- I going into Mobile-bay and' I say- won, but nothing that man can, do will ever eclipse the halo -of your glory or de¬ •AH those were giants of our race tract front the fame that, surrounds yoin- tv hose grassy tombs in sor, hou.ored names. Whose w'ortii my soul delle-hr-^tS “By her soldier’s graves Columbia proves Whosejvery loss ’tis ween “lCe ‘ — » - ■ - ' ■ - - - - - . , m SriVK - ■ ^novvanl ffiom rrrP nrgiu ot man- ~vr— Those^lown'vv'wte lines at Gettysburg re- In the First Presbyterian church r^e Shall I - terday the celebration of the semi-cen¬

To view with pride their hero-father’s tennial of that church began. The first service was held at 10.30 in the morn¬ ssrs£'^« - - ing and in -the afterheon the Sunday i shrinei. school observed the occasion. Last, these, with specter Our standing army night at 7.30 began the principal anni¬ Our fortressed towns their battle ordered versary service, at which a number of addresses were delivered. Tonight a HereSs® our valiant, sown like dragon’s reception will be held at the church, Hereten£Uorn sons renew the pious which will be attended by many former Here'prout?"Columbia bends with tear stir members of the congregation. To kiss1 tCh blood seal binding North and The history of the fifty years of earn- jestly useful work by the members o.. I Two Sping hands upon the knot they this congregation is much the histoiy When Union lived and Human Slavery dj of this city, since both were founded at about the same time, and each have been so closely identified with the pro¬ gress and development of the other. It was a day fraught with mans emo¬ tions to those, who gathered in the old edifice yesterday to participate . in the exercises or listen to the recounted memories of the /iff past. The emotions were of a Date, .' mingled nature^comprising as they

must tender recollections of faces that once looked out reverently from the pews, but that now' are hidden under IS HALF A the November snows; of voices that once lifted the hearts of the congrr CENTURY OLD gation in songs of praise; of smile' ar preetinj^s_that that nownow.. are ^ilentsilent foiev

- > KJ brokenKIl with" - ---- age-- or infirmity. There were sentiments of pride, too, Celebration of Semi-Cen¬ | in the brave story of thesetvmcp vparyears, in I tennial of the First the members who had made their mark inl theUJC S3*great '-V' - world-- outside. ’ ■ Not the least pleasant part of t e Church. occasion was the presence of two so of the church, representatives of pron nent families, who will make a li work of service in the pulpit or in mis many able addresses. sion field. They were T. J*. Arch i and Spencer Dickson, both of whom are divinity students, the former in his Tlie Pastor, Rev. Dr. McLeod, and second year at Auburn Theolog5 seminary and the latter finishing • Former Pastors, Rev. Ur. Logan Princeton Theological seminal y. mid Rev. Dr. Parke, Spoke at Che! Morning Service—In the Evening | THE MORNING SERVICE-

the Speakers Were W.W. Scranton, addresses by Pastor McLeod Hon. Alfred Hand. Colonel H. M. ^ ex-Pastors. Boies, Edward B. Sturges, Spencer The first service began at 10.30 j day morning and the historic C. Dickson, Thomas E. Archbaid was crowded. The sunshine and Alexander W. Dickson.

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.T)7 Luzerne to organize "this church, is in at the" ' win -oiting along in years, although he stilt stained panes gave brilliant . VvtVs voting, tor h-’s years. His colleague, to the shafts of light. Sus¬ l’,n rpat occasion Dr. Qorrance. ha? long pended high above the pulpit the fine ; s'nce gone to his test, but our good friend P" r>ark<“. wlm supplied the pulpit of Gothic arch was screened by a soft this chv.1 h during; the Oust si^inonths of veil of Florida smilax, which held in itsexistenee. and who lias made full proof its meshes the golden dates “1848-1898.” of his ministry, in one parish, for fifty Golden chrysanthemums fringed the years, is here today, strong and vigorous, altar, and massive palms made a bank his eye not dim, nor his natural force | of green from the rear. abated, and we not only gladly welcome j On the platform were Rev. Dr. James him, but will gladly and thankfully listen j McLeod, pastor of the church; Rev. Dr. to whatever he may be pleased to say to | N. G. Parke, of Pittston, and Rev. Dr. us. S. C. Logan, former pastor for twenty- UNDER DR. LOGAN’S CARE. five years. A double quartette sang As for my predecessor. Dr. Logan, j a number of anthems with fine effect. a century, and under w'hose faithful min- J istry the church grew and prospered, i The organist, Miss Florence Richmond, may be permitted to say, concerning him, rendered beautiful preludes and offer¬ that he loVes this scion of Zion with a tories. most fatherly affection, and that he will v- After the Scriptural reading, Rev. Dr. continue to love it. When he forgets to McLeod offered prayer, and followed love this Jerusalem, his right hand will with the first address of the morning. forget her cunning, and his tongue will, It was a thoughtful, earnest effort that cleave to the roof of his mouth; but it was much appreciated. The doctor said may be said with the utmost con¬ fidence, that neither of these things during his discourse; . • 1 will befall him, either in ti is DR. M'LEQD'S ADDRESS. world, or in the world to come; for Fifty years ago. on the fourteenth day he cannot, and he will not forget this of last month, this church was organized, church. Dr. Logan, like . Dr. Parke, is in commemoration of that event, a ser¬ still vigorous and active, but he, too, is vice of praise and thanksgiving was held growing old. But while the snows of in this house, on that anniversary day. It Lebanon are upon his brow, it is pleasant )was not convenient, just then, to carry to feel that the excellency of Carmel and out. the plans that were proposed for the of Shairon is still upon his lips, and, no, marking of so notable a period in the his¬ unto him. also, we will gladly and thank¬ HO tory of our church, and, hence, the more fully listen, on this memorable occasion. ~ complete celebration of our jubilee, was The addresses of these reverened breth- ™ a postponed until new. ren. as well as those to which we wil til I The day when this church was organ¬ have the privilege of listening this even elar ised, was, from one point of view, 'a ing, must, in the nature of things, w'laiW i '453 (day ot small things.” The village was largely historical and reminiscent. Hence^^e small, and the wilderness in winch it was f - instead of preparing, what might he -eo planted, seemed most uninviting. But ns called, a historical sermon, I have thought it better to notice, briefly,, some points the village gr*w and prospered, the wil¬ ■A derness began to disappear. And as the that might, with propriety, be emphasized village grew into a town, and Hie town in such a sermon. into a city, the church kept pace-with it, 1. Throughout its history, this church and stew' with its growth. The: wilder¬ has been thoroughly Presbyterian in re¬ ness and the solitary place were made spect of its doctrine, its polity, and its glad by its presence. It was a light shin¬ evangelical spirit.. It has been true to its ing in a dark place, and for fifty years, peerless constitution, and, therefore, as it has pleased God to bestow upon it His 6 we believe, it has been true to the truth. most gracious favor. He has used it for 1 The Presbyterian church holds certain the conversion of sinners and for the edi¬ doctrines in common with all evangelical fication and comfort of Christians; and, in churches, and it maintains certain prin- j no spirit of vain-giory, but, with devout ciples which differentiate it from other | thankfulness, and to the praise of God’s churches. To these doctrines and prin- , glorious grace, it may be said, that from ciples this church has always been loyal the day of its organization until this hour, and true. All its ministers and ruling el¬ ders have, publicly and solemnly, de¬ this church has been a power for good in :>■ME this community, and in the regions be¬ clared. that they believed “the Scriptures yond. of the Old and New Testaments, to b© Of the seventeen members who were en¬ the Word of God, the only infallible rule rolled the day.thijs fcTlttyeh ivasjrfjriganized. of faith and practice.” They, also,^ in not one remains.11 TlTey have all gone to the same manner, declared, that they “Sin¬ their reward.. .The. -last, survivor,. Mrs. cerely received and adopted the Contes- Selden Scranton, “fell oil sleep” last year. j sion of Faitii of this church, as contain- A few are still with us, who, thftbgh not | ing the system of doctrine taught in the enrolled that day, have been identified Holy Scriptures;” and, further, they all with this churchi’rem its yegtnpihS. Mr. publicly expressed their hearty approval William H. Platt—ohe_"of bur. Ruling El¬ “of the government and discipline of the ders—and Mr. and Mrs. Rielifd'd' W. Olm- Presbyterian church in these United stead, and Mrs Susan Harper, belong to States.” this little band' -' '* NEVER AN UNCERTAIN SOUND. The first pastor of the t-hureh, the Rev. Holding last to these beliefs, the j. D. Mitchell. D. Dr is still in the land given an uncertain sound. The doctrines of the l!“!n«;. and it,is Only because of Ills here promulgated have been the doctrines v> feebleness that he is not with us in body, taught in thfc Holy Scriptures; those doc¬ r.s lie is with us in. Spirit,' today. One of trines that cluster around the person the ministers appointed by the Presbytery never felt at liberty to be all prop^f occasions, the doctrines pe- with God> truth than has God, H! jliar to oift; branch of the Presbyterian and, while thoroughly rational, we have church, and [embodied in our creed, have never discovered any good reason why we been vigorously and successfully main¬ should rebel against revelation. We are tained in this pulpit, and, by the repre¬ so liberal, and, at the same time, so or¬ sentatives of this church, in the Presby¬ thodox, that we love to say with St. Paul: tery and Syrtod, and in the General. As “Grace be with all them that love the sembly. \ Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity.'1 That is But ChristianiV is a larger and more a fence so low. that any sinner may, if comprehensive term than Presbyterian¬ he chooses, sten over It and enter into ism, or than Fpiscopalianism. or than Ro¬ the Kingdom of God, and unto all such, man Catholicism, or than any other ism. wo are in the habit of giving a cordial Recognizing' this fact, our church has, invitation to sit down with us around the throughout its history, manifested a spirit table of our Divine Lord, provided, only, of true brotherhood and of broad catholic¬ they are in good standing in any evan¬ ity toward all other evangelical, churches. gelical c-hureh. Unto those who love the Lord Jesus On the other hand, our fidelity to the Christ In sincerity, this churdh bids God¬ truth requires us to emphasize another speed. We believe, most hearths', in that significant sentence of the same holy grand old motto: “In essentials, unity; in 1 apostle, namely this:. “If any man love non-essentials, liberty, and in all things, | not the Lord Jesus Christ let him be charity.” We believe and rejoice in Chris¬ I Anathema, Maranatha." That is a fence tian unity, but we have no great longing | so high, and a barrier so effective, that for church uniformity. For an illustra¬ | it excludes from the heaven of the holy, tion of the boasted beauty of church uni¬ j all who persist in their refusal to aban- formity, we have only to go to the grave- ! don their sin, and to accept the pardon , We will find uniformity there, but | and the salvation which Christ so freely the uniformity of death. There have offers in I-Hs5 feospeV-- periods in the history of the church, MARKED CHARACTERISTIC. when it was characterized by outward uniformity, but the whole world knows 3. Another marked characteristic of this .hat, during those long and memorable church has been its philanthropic ar,d years, the qhurch was spiritually dead. It missionary spirit. The cause of Christian was when she was glorying the- most, in j missions at home ard abroad has always her uniformity, that she was the most un- ! lain close to the heart of this church. Our j Sunday school, itself, has, for many ChrisUfUJ-.-.Far, at the very time, when she wag proudly boasting of her uniform¬ | years, supported a foreign missionary. J The large amounts of money raised by the ity, she was i Women's Home and Foreign Missionary “That abhorred form, j societies, bear ample testimony to the in¬ Whose scarlet robe was stiff with earthly terest taken ill a work so dear to the heart pomp, j of Christ. Indeed, all the boards of our Who drank iniquity from cups of gold. church have been warmly and generously Whose' names were many, and all blas¬ supported by our people. phemous.” Our records show' that, since this History has tested and tasted church church was organized, its members and uniformity, and its just verdict is, that it adherents have contributed, for benevo¬ is neither sweet nor wholesome. It is high lent and church objects, the handsome time for conventions, and assemblies to sum of $590,866; and one pleasing feature stop their discussions about the desir¬ in connection with' this contribution is, ability of church uniformity. It is high that more than $250,000 of it was contrib¬ ; time for the fox to stop its futile attempts uted for objects outside that given for the to absorb and control larger, and strong- support of our own church. But this does I o»\ and, more useful bodies than himself. not tell half the story of the benevolence of this people. This is only what appears UNITY AMONG FOLLOWERS. on our records, as reported to our Gen¬ The unity among His followers, for eral Assembly. It is safe to say, however, which the Saviour prayed, is a unity oi- that, in addition to this, thousands upon Spirit, and not airy outward uniformity in thousands of dollars have been given by respect of church organization or govern¬ our people for church and charitable ob¬ ment If we go into the orchard, or into jects, that have not found a place in any the fields and forests in the springtime, of our reports. But although the amount and visit them again in the summer, and : of such gifts is unknown to us, it is well in the autumn, we will not see uniformity j known to Him for whose sake it is given, but we will see an attractive and sugges¬ ! and He will amply reward the givers. The tive unity. The trees and their foliage; ; blessed Master whom we serve, will not the flowers, and the fruits, differ widely ■ forget His faithful servants. in respect of form, and color, etc. There ; 4. I may mention as another noteworthv is no uniformity, but nevertheless, there fact, the sterling patriotism of this is a real unity, which it is delightful to church throughout its history. We do not behold. And even so it is in the church claim any monopoly of patriotic ardor, of Christ. In all these churches there are but, nevertheless, on this occasion, it is trees of righteousness, in endless va¬ proper to say that this pulpit has not been riety, but they are all the planting of the silent when our country was in danger; Lord, and through them and by means and when rioters were rampant, the bell of them, He will be glorified. of this church rang the alarm and called 2. This church, being a Presbyterian patriots to the rescue. During the war of church, believes in a broad orthodoxy, an the rebellion this church furnished i orthodoxy, if you please, that is as broal full auota of brave men, who march' ! as the Bible, and. at the same time, quite boldly to the front, and who were ready as narrow. Me belong to a most libeial to die in defence of the Union. And, dur¬ | and a most rational school, ing our recent war with Spain, when our .president called for volunteers, this ' . -- ijiSrJfc-.i 'a-; • 61

ehurclj ___ Great and Strong," In'which MV Wart i^lanFw0?*1 nien’ as the roster of our kins sang a solo. Rev. Dr. Darke gavt* ? V',rte^fh re-imer'" Will abund- fievirt < rhis <:hurch has never be- an interesting address, which was filled nieftd« wl we do not now believe that with reminiscences. He spoke of the ilm On^ t0 be divorced from patriot- fact that while Dr. McLeod represented Chrict?ar,the *c.ntrary> we believe that the the present, he represented the past and thnw£atm,t ,s tbe ‘ruest patriot, He was a pioneer in church work and - best /,/ ,u°Se wh0 serve their God the best, are their country's best benefactors. came to Scranton when Lackawanna avenue was a log road, fenced on either INFLUENCE FOR GOOD. side with stumps. The pioneer band-' chmv'w6! itlfluence for good which this i fhat had laid the foundations of the ra«‘ fifn exerted in this c'ty. during tee [church and community had passed From**//5hnyearS’ Ia simpIy incalculable, away. That they had gone forever. . time v/i , 80n6 forth- from time to ! brought many thoughts of sadness, but erT d and faithful Christian work- i t ie church did not sorrow as without churchesemu ones wev/were eSUltorganized' °ther inPr osbyterlanour city j hope. gBtlceand,rCthoS areunow stro«& and ener- Dr. Parke came to the valley in 1844 g tic, and, today, the mother church re- and with Dr.Dorrance labored as amis¬ jo.ces greatly over the health and the sionary in the townships of Pittston, prosperity of her children. Indeed the Lackawanna and Providence. In all home ofht^eS °f the Children' oast tee this large district there was but one £ The611" niother completely in the church of twenty-eight members ec"' i for , b are mucb better furnished, much bXr® rommodious, and they have tablished in 1842 by the Presbytery t'1 j ter thetr c arrangements and faciliti es Susquehanna. This part of the coun'-f. , , Sunday schools, and Bible try had a house of worship in Hyd^' wlS- °Un? Peoples' meetings, and , Park, where a sect, the Christians, at¬ ri.., ®R* Missionary meetings and ter so- '• tended service. There was also one in It mnsthTlngrS than the mother church, ; Scranton controlled by the Methodists, 1 ba, confesse2 that our church ! but not used by them. In Pittston and defectiveand appointments are sadly Lackawanna townships there was no do not u d far bebind the times. 1 hnr v^f W whether it is possible to church, although preaching by travel-' hurry along- the building of the new ing missionaries and preachers was teneChee°r Wh‘Ch Klans have’ f°r some sometimes noted, but the early pio- \ that n«^ Prti.Pfred. But it seems to me neers made a mistake in building no that now would be a good time for the churches. inrf tu°f this church to Put their heads and their hearts together, and erect a But there came to the valley a few f men and women to make Scranton their* worth16 ™c'rthy of this congregation, and home, one who founded the beginning j Slyycity.°Ur hiSt°riC P°Sition iu tbis of church work. They had left a home t abundant reason, today, to of churches and at once thought to Si thV°miS goodness to this church continue their God-fearing manner of The fothh fift/ ,years of its existence, f life. The speaker continued with a stblers and the mothers who planted i f’K! ’mrtured it, have left unto us l good- ! reminiscence of his first years here, ly heritage. We remember, today those when he lived at Taylor .then “Ather¬ ton.” The organization of this church craved°VeC* i U’ and Wbo labwed> and fa-e hm ^.u SaVe libera»y ter its wel- was made in the Odd Fellows’ hall in ot-eVuc,1 wh,° are nc Ion^er with us. We 1848, when Scranton was known as Dietv andk^U -G°d for their stalwart Harrison, with eighteen members, ours to fonr Z'u fJOdly example. Be it whose names appear in another column. tends/ m as they followed In the fall of 1849 Rev. J. D. Mitchell church /mi r ? fUtUre history of this was called as pastor. This church was Him wh^ d,sc ose- is only known to indeoendent from the fir^t and never uiesticKs,dle?tiSinCerely made' and this pledge Lutheran, German Reform, from Con¬ S andekei,TrI’ Wi" keep this church necticut, New Jersey, Southern Penn¬ and a’blessed te/ur/^WteTGod’/^1^ sylvania. Germany and Scotland, and all have worked together almost with¬ of0thefGo0SDe^eSt0Ted Upon the Preaching out friction for fifty years. of grtce-race inte Pennme/o a" d PPOn tbee otflerother means we may be s.?re with «>»» church, A beautiful tribute was then paid to I blesS/g to hit T U w111 always be a Elder Charles Fuller, of saintly mem- j ory than whom no better, nobler rep¬ «•>“ « «^ST resentative of the church has lived. SEE.&S “•“»■>“ “ Selden T. Scranton and his wife, with her gentle, unselfish, lovely spirit was PR. PARKE’S REMARKS among those dear in memory. George After the^anthem ‘‘There is a City W. Scranton, J. C. Platt. James' Sands, Charles F. Mattes and Joseph H.’ , the roll of the church were 343 mem- . „.. Hutchinson, the bevs at the close of his pastorate the C o Ur s eli * f a mi lyMi's. Fellows, Cather¬ historical roll showed 1,350 Tim infaii ine and Temperance Miller were among membership as he found i.was 168 m those who received affectionate men¬ 1868, 335 children were baptized during tion in the course of this excellent ad- his pastorate. fire=s The speaker had known and OUTSIDE THE CHURCH. honored them ah, and with few excep¬ tion, had followed them to the grave. For work outside the church and city The pastors were all men of power $201,459 was raised. vWithm the ^hurc and consecration. Each received a trib¬ $169,149 was recorded, a total amou ute of praise, while the late Mrs- *'” of $370,608 as the work of a single pas¬ Logan -the aroma of whose beautiful torate. In that time the speaker had life reached a wide circle.” was named united in marriage 568 P^PPle. 48 with emotion. As for Dr. Logan and couples. One of them reminded him Dr. McLeod, they were there to speak that morning that it was the anniver¬ for themselves: _ I sary of one of these weddings. It As for those who have gone before, j should be included in the prayers, fo they did the sowing and we reap the in the sanctity of the home the people harvest of their labors. What they did j of God have done the true work of the , J" the church and for us can not be overestimated. We unite with them in CDr" Logan then referred humorously ! °aSm? praise and honor and glory to an incident, when a brother,who had \ to Him who hath loved us._Ifyou been sleeping very soundly, re^d ‘_ would see their monuments look firmatively to the question if the pas around you at this city wit 1 s tor had not preached too long. The complaints generally came from such churches and its charities. parties. The wide-awake ones do no*. A FORMER PASTOR. mind the time. . Rev. S. C. Logan, D. D., LL. D., was The sneaker said: I came he the last speaker of the morning. He in¬ 1868. The Lord sent me. I did not troduced his remarks by saying tha come to make a reputation—that had twenty-five years ago, on Nov. 16, he been made. Six times have I sat in the stood in this pulpit to consider the general assembly, which is as high an days of old. This was on the occasion I honor as I can ask of the Lord. Twice of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the the church has been honorably men¬ organization of the church. At tha^ tioned by the general assembly fop its time there was present a large body of fidelity, its generosity and «al^f the members who had been more oi ness.” He then spoke of the less intimately associated with the con¬ [languages, the crossed ties °* gregation from the beginning. Con¬ and race. There was a German br other, tinuing, he said: there was a WeIgh side^_a Tankee side^, ! The shadows have fallen upon me today an Irish side and there was a. scotch ! as 1 have never felt them before as the side. The Coal and Iron company built men of those days appear so vividly to this church and sustained it. The me in their rounded Christian manhood Delaware, Lackawanna and Western in their beautiful characters. My brother company gathered dowm at the end of has spoken of them according to my town aiid had its following. The Dela¬ ware and Hudson Canal company Again I stood here in 1878, after ten years of my pastorate, when through the sprang up with its influences, all build¬ eloquent efforts of Brother Hand a debt ing up a great city. of $1,803.41 was raised, and when we re¬ 1 The late Colonel Sanderson was then ceived greeting from all the churches of mentioned as an important factoi in the city with which we had fellowship. the early building of the city, and the In November, 1880, the fortieth anni¬ part taken by members of this church versary was celebrated the recoids of in defense of their country was em¬ which‘have been filed away in the arch¬ ives of the Presbyterian Historical so¬ phasized. In conclusion, he said earn- ciety and I stumbled the other night upon ,4stiy that he trusted in the last l-oll the archives of the woman of whom my this devoted church membership will brother has spoken. It was beautiful—it be recorded in the church of the living was lovely. Then in 1893 I silently went ■God. 1 , away without a word of farewell, llie The benediction was pronounced by pastoral relations being severed by the 1 rightful authorities 1 went away silently Dr. Logan. The following is the programme ren¬ I but I tell you, my dear brethren, there are bonds which no ecclesiastical power dered at the Sunday school service shall ever sever. These bonds °f a^e yesterday afternoon: Organ voluntary, more permanent than the assembly s ac¬ ’oxology, prayer, reading of scripture, tion. It is the' bond which God weaves ymn, ‘‘Soldiers True and Faithful; between His servant and the ministers .ddress, William J. Hand; hymn, ‘‘On¬ and the souls He sends him to save. ward, Christian Soldiers;” address, The speaker then stated that he came John MeWilliam; hymn, “The Son of here thirty-six years ago last week, the God Goes Forth to War;” address, Wil¬ first service attended being the Thanks¬ liam F. Mattes; hymn, “Stand Up for giving service.in a little Baptist church Jesus;” address,” Charles W. Hand',; on Penn avenue, just completed. On *A m ■

_ selfish andpublicspiritedlives.Infrontof gels, andifangelsareministeringspirits Albright andCharlesFuller,James river aretonightcrowdingthischurchto spirits ofthosewhohavecrossedthe of salvation,maywenotbelievethatthe sent toministeruntothemthatareheirs rounded byagreatcloudofwitnesses, which theyheldandhandeddowntous? successors worthilymaintainthetrust For, ifthesainteddeadbecomeasan¬ the livinganddead.Yes,dead, that beatsuponathrone.Wearesur¬ this haseveronitthesamefiercelight upon ahillcannotbehid,churchlike Harrington andCoufsenSherred, Manness andMattesHutchinson, lain deadintheircoffins.Herewehave vowed tothemselvesleadupright,un¬ pulpit itwasmyprivilegetosaysome¬ the very-roof-treetoseewhethertheir whose nameswillbeassociatedwiththe two Platts,andthethreeScrantons, and DoudJaySquire,the held ourchildreninarmsforbap¬ this pulpitthefathersofsomeushave Quiet Sundaymorningheretheynave my voicewhowillrememberthatonsome What wasthenwrittenafragment individuals whohadbeenactiveinthis address, valuablefromahistoricalas and hostsofothers,menwomen, Brisbin, andDr.MitchellHickok, Archbald andThomasDicksonJohn each otherinourmemory:Thereis of ourbrides. tism. Herewehavereceivedthehands and manyawomanwithinthesoundof church, boththelivinganddead. thing inabriefwayofsomethe said: congregation forever. business oflife anabstractetherialin¬ its greatestinfluencebecause itswork ible power,inthisworld and deriving extent anunknownquantity; aninvis-' church ofJesusChristis, toalarge of whatIshallattempttonight.The all men.Itistheconcrete existence, is largelyunseen.Achurch ofJesus well asalitererypointofview.He churches waspresentlastevening.The visible spiritual life. Christ isseenandknown andreadof happy addressinwhichhesaid: ing ofthe“Sanctus”madeabriefand music wasofahighorder.Mr.W. success? Whatinfluences have per- this growthfor hershareoflaborand the visiblebodyAvorking outinthe Scranton presidedandafterthesing¬ the FirstandSecondPresbyterian mated her membership and control Number ofAbleAddressesMuch. Ah! ladiesandgentlemen,acityset I amsurethatthereismanyaman QUARTER OFACENTURYAGO. How tonighttheoldnamescrowd lion. AlfredHandmadeabrilliant A quarterofacenturyagointhis What place has thischurchhadin A verylargeunitedcongregationof EVENING SESSION. Interest. and cosmopolitanliberalitywhichchar¬ success. Toanextentit bad beenpar¬ anxiety ovr at midnight critical time!•’’ attempts were partm’ in thesmelting furnacehere tially successfulinthreeinstances. The immediate purposewastocelebratethe dimmed. Theywereonanewventure, than itsphysical. might mean entir pended ona practical newev which they had stakedtheirc entire successoftheventure here'■ process hadnotyetbeen a pronounced teeming withcoal.But the chemical posed tobeteemingwith ore, asitwas started theunionina-territory sup¬ ketable andpermanentproduct. They an experimentunderdifficulties.Their of theterritorywasnomoreinvitingj can dowonders.Themoralcondition streets whichpresentednooutlet.Am¬ capacity, itsfaithinthefuturecon¬ elements ofatownwereentirelywant¬ an efforttoforceatownwhenthe scaffolding wasstillup.Itlookedlike municipality ofSlocumHollowjustbe¬ them suchapowerforgoodoverthis acterized thelaterPuritansandmade with ironoresoastoproduceamar¬ permanent marriageofanthracitecoal not light,northeirvisionofhopeun¬ bition andhope,coupledwithfaith,: blocks laidoutonpaper,andwiththe trasted stronglywiththehouseless ing. Thebeautyofthestructure.Its this templeofworship,andwhilethe fore thefinishingtoucheshadgraced this townofHarrisoninthelarger traveller. Itwasmyprivilegetovisit finished through,itpresentedalaby¬ more orlessofthepioustendencies prise. Allthesewerepermeatedwith rinth ofconfusionthatpuzzledevery uninviting aspect,andasnostreetwas ter theerectionofthischurchgavean blocks withungradedstreetsevenaf¬ trees andbrushleftremaininginthe nature oftheground,andforest lover ofnature.Afteritsstreetswere of territoryandpeople?Thesiteon( pioneers were,whatdidtheyfindhere. broad landfromeasttowest. spirit whichactuatedthenewenter¬ source whoreadilycoalescedwiththe consciously mouldedsentimentand located andpartlyopened,therough to commenditthepoet’seyeor which Scrantonwaslocatedhadlittle1, here ofearliersettlersfromthesame England states.Theyfoundafew thought werefromthebestofNew tory ifIdidnotcallattentiontothe Among theyoungwereKings-! control? IanswerthethreeScrantons, the controllinginfluenceswhichun¬ fact thatthemajorityofthemand like toname.Iwouldbefalsehis¬ Dodges andBlairs,othersIwould of friends,andfromotherstatesthe burys, ColonelHitchcockandahost lers, Douds,Albrights,Dicksons. inson, Mattesses,theMannesses,Ful¬ and thenewcivilizationwhichstarted Who werethepioneersofthischurch ary growthandprogressofchurches the Plattsandtheirwives,Hutch¬ here andwhichthischurchseemedto either ofthisorotherdenominations? which distinguishherfromtheordin¬ The burdensofthesepioneerswere: Having seenwhoandwhatthese LITTLE TOCOMMENDIT. 63 N

industry, terrorized over the innocer and had generally made things uncom¬ fortable. He had come into conflict sun of the new day. with a few of their leaders. At our interview he did not propose to show beautiful work. the white feather. But they were bound ! Standing alone in )f0ftrt in to make finger rings of his bones. With was the only beautiful work (* a ^ his father’s authority and mine, as a this wilderness. As a vilde g of member of this church just from pray¬ lost its beauty by the first of Dr Hie- er meeting, we persuaded him at least civilization. The pa 185g until for the moment that the safest place kok extended from June 4 18 that for him to sleep that night was at his 1867. It was du"nftsth'faeat power as Aunt Mary Doud’s house. Whether he the church gamed:its g^ U church did or not has never transpired. At an element ^ Uie e preiiminary all events he is here tonight. That wo¬ and social influence. by his man who would have sheltered him, or foundations had been o-0od, en- did, was one of the active factors in predecessors, and he busiest and this church. ergetic force at hand The bus* ^ ^ DR. HICKOK’S LABORS. most .successful mei hardest and worldly affairs church, Dr. Hickok’s labors here cannot be most supporting laboi ei s in too highly estimated. He was a care¬ So it should always be. of ful student of the Bible, loved its his¬ Joseph H. Scranton was a to ^ tory and brought the experience and strength with his gran P e the philosophy of the early church, its uniaue personality and hw eaa patriarchs, its rulers and its civiliza¬ Sabbath school for twelve y tion to bear with singular power on George W. Scranton, od word every individual or national question of whole-souled affability, hi « nd push, religion or policy in any emergency for every body, his energy a n presented. He was thoroughly convers- gifted with high honor he ^as : ant with the whole of Scripture, and hand of a schola y ith his apti- j from the old or the new he could press j in his grasp the leaves from that gard- tudefor demand accuracy Kept -at- | en and they would exhale the fragrance | which not only delighted but brought physical and spiritual health. He was painstaking to a fault in his prepara¬ . ?o“ oiTa'KU” , "swearing an? Jaw- tion for the pulpit and the lecture lessness among his employes Charles , room, thoroughly evangelistic in his Fuller blended a telling Pie Y preaching, often sententious and epi¬ grammatic in his utterances. In 1861, when the cloud of civil war hung heavy, he preached a sermon of great power and patriotism from the text "The Powers That Be,” etc. He Charles F/Mattes, the cerpetual elder placed the religion of patriotism on nnrl trustee, harmonized all coipoiatt high ground. He was called on to re¬ action and quieted all conflicting in¬ peat it. Eight months after, after two terests. Thomas Dickson, with big defeats of our army and a fast was rmn^fant interest and attendance, proclaimed, he preached another ser¬ brought his influence, his uncommon mon from Judges xx: 26-28: ‘‘Shall I common sense, his clear ju ^ (the II Tribes) yet go out to battle gift of God, his advice and generosity against the children of Benjamin, my fn every emergency. All these were brother; or shall I cease. And the Lord men free from bigotry, free from caste, said go up.” It was a time when 26,700 with positive convictions, ruied not by of little Benjamins in the wrong put indifference, as so many aie, but noi 400,000 of Israel in the right to flight. ing Uie ahnand work of the church as As Dr. Hickok closed that patriotic resting upon them. «Si sermon, his thrilling words will not sound unapt in these days of a war for ONLY THIRTEEN REMAIN. humanity’s sake. As he gathered in Mv acquaintance with this congrega¬ the significance of the struggle and tion the great host of which are gone forecasted the future he said: “Our beyond the river, only thirteen of whom civilization is on trial. If it survives remain, began thirty-eight years and it will be a better, a purer, a freer civil¬ six months ago. I left the cnurcn ization than America has yet known. where I was residing Sunday evening If it fails, then woe to the nations! to come here Monday morning the next The great beacon of struggling na¬ Wednesday evening I was m the pi ay tionalities; the hope of the free; the meeting of this church, opposite the pole-star of the brave; goes down in Wyoming house, and have attended e - stormy waters: and I know not 'where ery prayer meeting .since when in town, is that Promethian fire that can that Ind when it was not more my duty light relume.” to stav away than to come. I always GENERATION JUST CLOSED. remained through the se^v^®’ ^ahed once. On that occasion I was called I come now to the period which cov¬ out in my professional capacity to gn e ers the generation just closing. It is advice how one could save the neck of the period following the close of the the worthy heroic gentleman who is civil war. During this time what events tonight our presiding officer. He was have occurred in our history as a | just as obstreperous then as he is now church and a nation. The old men He had a whole-souled aversion to the of the pioneer period are • now manner in which a body . d gone, save two. Many years of my j strikers had for five months paralyzed church life were spent with them. Our liberty and independence were I knew them all intimately in business j born out of the Presbyterian system, and religious work. I knew their vir¬ it was sneered at as a Presbyterian tues, the idiosyncracies, some of their revolution. We derived our ideas of failings, they knew mine, and as a liberty and the free principles which friend could give me the faithful underly true government from the wounds of a friend for which I thank Bible. Nearly every one of our guar¬ them. They made me an elder in this antees to the individual which under¬ church thirty-eight years ago, and lie our system of justice can be traced to the Bible. The presumption of in¬ forced the duty on me when I hesitat¬ nocence until proven guilty, is only the ed. I love them. I am not old, but I feel lonely here today without them. [ charity of the thirteenth chapter of In this period the Second or Me¬ 1 Corinthians, put into legal practice. morial, church went off with our bless¬ When a person charged with a crime ing. It carried the great majority , of is once acquitted by the judgment of my personal friends of my own age his peers, he is acquitted forever from with whom I had held sweet counsel. that charge. No government ecclesi¬ I was in hearty sympathy with their astical or civil can suffer if the guilty going, for this city needed the two go free under the presumption of inno¬ churches. Up to a. point I expected to cence held over them until legally prov¬ go with them, but duty overcame in¬ en guilty, or that once in jeopardy he clination. I know all the history of is not condemned, or that the broad their movements, it was creditable and mantle of a true Christian charity well accomplished. shields him when prosecuted, but when You will jjerhaps expect me to speak a church or a state born to the high of the pastorate of Dr. Logan, the long¬ function and prerogative of trahspos- est and most fruitful in many ways ing the principles of our holy religion that this church has had. It is said into the every day working of the it is not well to give the judgment of freest government the world has seen history on passing events, nor for the allows any person to be condemned historian to recite or judge of that of ! either on popular clamor or without which he is a part. At the risk of the highest sanction of human order j trespassing on this rule, we will talk and the presumptions of charity, so as a little in this family circle of what to leave a doubt in either the form or we have seen done. His pastorate, with the act of justice, then both rriigion its unspent influence, covers the whole and justice have fallen in the streets. half of our semi-centennal. He came WHAT HE SAID. here at the age of 45. His reputation Dr. Hickok said: “I can never bring had gone before him, for he was known myself to believe that He, who worked throughout the churches. In 1S66 he and waited, for uncounted centuries, to made, at St. Louis, a thrilling speech prepare a habitation for man; who on behalf of the Freedmen which inci¬ disciplined the race, for 4,000 years dentally was the cause of his being before they were ready for the advent called to the pastorate of this church, of His Son; who has diversified our j for it was the character of that speech Christian history, with reformations which inspired Dr. Hickok to recom¬ and re-formations; and is evidently mend to the speaker after we had waiting still for some higher develop¬ failed to settle on a pastor to jsend for ment, or spiritual baptism; can ever be 1 Dr. Logan. satisfied with the present attainment GLORIOUS BEGINNING. of His church! There is to be a so¬ His pastorate really began with the cial, civil and physical perfection for first sermon he pi’eached in this pulpit, man; a spiritual baptism and trans¬ cendent glory, for the church, which unconscious as he was of that fact. ‘‘eye hath not seen nor ear beard!” It was a glorious beginning from the The slow progress of redemption; the text -ilHe shall see of the travail of His soul and shall be satisfied.” He long waiting of His people; the disap¬ was far away from the scholastic } pointments and counter revolutions in bigotry which trammels some men, far society, are all prophetic of an incon- ceivable perfection and blessedness yet into the spirit and scope, and in the ■ to be! The disappointments of faith trend of Christ’s glorious Gospel. He came here with the fire of youth still indicate a higher dispensation about to dawn, a nobler life soon to be inaug- in his veins, full of the Gospel, full of the love of preaching. erated! We can afford to wait “in the patience of hope.” when we are as¬ What has been done is for history sured that every hour’s delay pledges and the future church to deal with, a nobler success; carries hope to a and it will, as all history does, deal with them with impartiality and jus¬ higher Pisgah; and builds on the Mount tice, free from the biased impulses 1 of Transfiguration bright tabernacles, of any who were in the conflict. For¬ in which we may dwell forever, in the tunately this church has been only light of our Lord’s presence and bene- slightly disturbed and the waters are , diction. i smooth. I wish I could impress upon “But, brethren, we must wait in every hearer an idea of the true dig¬ i faith and faithful obedience: we must nity and value of pure and undefiled stand in our lot and bear heroically religion and individual liberty which the responsibilities of the age; we are guaranteed to every individual and must go forthAeven weeping, bearing to the nations by our God-given gov¬ precious seed; ye shall doubtless come ernment. I doubt whether it is now a again with raoicing, bringing our thinkable thing for this nation to be¬ sheaves with us\ If not here, from the battlements of heaven; from the far, come imperialistic or to make and hold any down-trodden people as slaves or distant developments of an immortal vassals under_her benign sway. life, we will peal\the trumpet of vie- 1 beat upon the shores of eternity. Th

'arid strike into a triumph worthy CcllIYcarry DUon their crests the- *progress — ffi c o, the Son of God, at the marriage of ilization and the uplifting of the race. his affianced church!” I bring this BENEFICENT MOTHER CHURCH. of hope as if it were a telephonic Such a beneficent mother church is this message from heaven today to en¬ whose children have gathered here to call courage our new pastor in his la 01 of love, and to this congregation in her blessed today. The good men and wo¬ men who organized this church as one their sympathetic labors with him. (heir first duties when they laid the foun-, ADDRESS OF COL. BOIES. dation of this great city, builded better than they knew. They were the cour¬ Colonel H M. Boies gave a clever ageous and pious pioneers of an uncer¬ address as follows: tain enterprise, v/ho had faith m their un¬ We have just passed through the cor¬ dertaking, and in God. They believed as uscating orbit of the Leonids, that celes¬ the first settlers of this continent, the tial celebration of the harvest home founders, the makers, and the rulers of which signals the conclusion of the labors this nation have all believed, ‘ Except the of the husbandman, and in our blessed Lord build the house, they labor in vain lands calls the families together and the that build it; except the Lord keep the children home to their annual Thanks¬ city, the watchman waketh hut in vain. giving. It is fortunate and appropriate (Psalm cxxvii, 1). Therefore they com¬ that we mav assemble here, while our bined in this Christian church their in¬ souls are stiil comforted with the pleas¬ telligence, their power, their dominant ures of our domestic reunions, to eom- leadership, for sanctification and conse¬ : memorate the golden anniversary of our cration to the work of their Divine Mas¬ ' venerated and beloved mother clmrcn. ter. They determined that the commun¬ Today she adds to the many blessings site ity’ which gathered about them should has bestowed upon this community a new have the Bible, should observe the Sab¬ dignity, the respectability of age. bath, and be governed and controlled by The First Presbyterian church, always the principles and influences of the Chris¬ first in every .good work, is the first insti¬ tian religion. tution in Sctanton to celebrate a semi¬ They made this church the dynamic cen¬ centennial: and thus to set ihe seal ot ter for generating, accumulating and dif¬ confirmation and assurance upon the fusing not only the light of the gospel, hitherto more or less tentative, though but every work of charity and benevo¬ hopeful state of public opinion concern¬ lence; of private and public welfare; of ing the future and permanence of our opposition and restraint of vice and im- city. Semi-centennials are not celebrated 1 morality; of social entertainment, gen¬ in transient and ephemeral communities, eral prosperity, and good government. but only by those which have a history In the beginnig this church controlled the to be proud of, and a future of hope and religion and politics of the people. As promise. The beginning of tlie second numbers increased its members encour¬ half century by this church therefore aged and assisted in the establishment of marks the commencement of a new epoch other Protestant churches, and Christian in the history of Scranton, an epoch of institutions, some of which were organized confidence, of assurance and stability. within its walls. It started mission M is a notable event; business will find schools, which grew into self-supporting encouragement, in it, the price of real es¬ j churches, the Lackawanna Bible society, tate will be strengthened by it, the I which endeavors to ensure every family growth of our city will take a new stim¬ I in the county a copy of the Bible, the ulus from it. and streams of benefaction 1 Young Men’s Christian association, the will flow from it in many directions. Home for the Friendless, the Lacka¬ There is no blessing which nature can wanna. hospital, the Second or Memorial bestow upon one, if she search the whole Presbyterian church, the mission to for¬ realm of creation, r^d draw the choicest eign speaking peoples in this valley, with treasure from the heavens above or the its five missionaries and seven kinder¬ earth below or the waters under the i gartens for those who have come to us earth, which can compare in priceless with eight different languages, had their ■—Pftw’ffi' in undvine iii-_J inception and birth here, and may justly fluence, in that love which is God, to a. call the First church, mother. good mother. If she grant wealth, it may For years her bell not only called the become a delusion and a snare; nobility people to worship, but struck the alarm a.nd an elevated station may afford the of fire. In the riots of 1877 it sounded the chance of deep degradation; great phy¬ tocsin which summoned the citizens for sical endowment and genius even may the restoration of order and the protec¬ only speed the downward course of de¬ tion of their property under the leader¬ struction, but the child that is nour¬ ship of a son of one of its founders and ished in the arms of a good mother, whose the chairman of this meeting; whence footsteps arc guided by her constant spring the Scranton City Guard and the care, whose mind develops under the sun¬ Thirteenth regiment now in camp under light of her wisdom, and whose sou! the orders of the president to secure the grows on her love enters upon life in the blessings of free government to the down¬ fulness of strength, of joy and hope, en¬ trodden inhabitants of Cuba, and the couraged, sustained and followed in every Philippines. May God give the peopl>e vicissitude by an affection which knows wisdom, courage and faith to accomplish1 no doubt, and only changes as the years His divine purpose. go on by the growth of peace, mutual satisfafiction and pride. She may die, EFFECT ON SOCIETY. but the power of her influence lives on Through all her fifty years these benig forever, and shines forth in her chil¬ and potent influences have given tone a" drens’ children. It is a force of nature vitality to the spirit and sentiment which is never lost or dimnished. The this community. Insensibly they have \ circle of its waves will always be grow- moulded and fashioned the society and without the loss of energy, ui«*il theyj j unabated, in the fuTl vigor of usefulness. city with eharacterisS^fwhich distinguish I May God the Master and Leader of us it in a remarkable degree from others of all guide our future step's in the way similar size. Not even the great influx our fathers trod, to fields of larger good, from without, or its rapid and marvelous and more fruitful service in the city growth in prosperity and wealth has been which they founded with reverence to able to overwhelm or extinguish them. Him, and in the great world without, to The features of Scranton which most which their wisdom and our inheritance stimulate the pride and contribute to the enables us to extend their blessings. satisfaction and comfort of her citizens have received an indelible impress from, An address by E. B. Sturges fol¬ reflect, and may be traced back, directly lowed; or indirectly to them. In this respect at When I come into this dear old church least the old mother church is the good I know I am at home. Twenty-nine years mother of us all, and no citizen of this ago I became a member of this church great citv, however completely discon¬ and among those who are here tonight I nected from relationship to her need dis¬ see a multitude of faces whose friend¬ claim his inheritance, or refuse her honor- ship and encouragement have made me today. The leaven of New England whose love this city of Scranton. workings are displayed everywhere in Perhaps I ought to have a feeling of American institutions has leavened this remorse tonight, but if it were treason whole lump, and will leaven it to the end of time. for us to organize the Second church 1 sure our treason has been forgiven. I have, however, been designated by her * cannot prove my friendship in a better session to speak on this occasion for her way than by saying very little at this immediate family, as one of the older sons, long independent of the parental hour. Thirty years ago I stood here and ex¬ roof indeed, but still inspired and gov¬ tended the congratulations of my church. erned by filial affe.etion. The Second or Fifty years is very little in the history Memorial Presbyterian church is now in its twenty-fifth year, nearly half as old of the world but when we consider that that time covers the entire history of our as the mother. It was organized exclu¬ sively by members of this church in the city it means much to us. I congratu¬ lecture room, at a meeting presided over late you that from this pulpit never has gone forth any uncertain sound, by our beloved pastor. Dr. Logan, whom nothing but pure rivers of gospel trutn. God has graciously spared to participate You have never been asked to follow any in this celebration, and to look after us as a pastor-in-law all these years. If the of the visions that are now filling our at¬ mosphere. More than all I congratulate hiving of this swarm were the total fruit you in that a great number, who, in the of his ministry here, instead of but one, parlor or in the hovel, at home or abroad, and that among the earlier of his public have been working out the will of the services in Scranton, he might well be satisfied with his pastorate of the mother Master. church. Of the future—several years ago I spent Sunday in Smyrna, Syria, and I went to We have grown up healthy and robust the only Protestant church there. Tears to the full family size; w-e have been self supporting from the start; and now have1 came to my eyes when I looked up and beheld, “Be thou faithful unto death and our own missions, chapels, Sunday schools, kindergartens, home and foreign I will give thee a crown of life.” One of j the Important signs of the times is that ; missionaries, a doctor of divinity in our we are learning more and more every day pulpit, and all the activities and ac¬ that life is only a thing of self-sacrifice. cessories which you enjoy. We expect to Live up to this text, however, and the bring to you before long the honors and diadem of grandmother, when you may future shall be as the past; even morg# rejoice to see your good work carried for¬ abundant. ward by the second generation of your Spencer C. Dickson was the next descendants. The vital currents which] speaker. His topic was “What the we have inherited from you we transmit! unweakened to our offspring, and they in,® Church Has Been to the Young Peo¬ ple.” turn will conduct them down the stream - of time multiplied in number without CHURCH AND YOUNG PEOPLE. diminution of force. We lay ot your feet the record of the first twenty- five years He spoke in the beginning of the of our youthful labors as the legitimate : ideal relation which a church should reward of a “good mother” from a grate¬ bear toward its young members. As ful child, recognizing the potency of its I ! having been born and brought up in inheritance. this one church, which he had known To tire glory of your own achievements and loved all his life, his remarks were in your first half century we add the good done by your children in their ever widen¬ chiefly subjective in character'. He ing fields of operation, as the crown of wished to show how absolutely indis¬ your rejoicing today, for there is no pensable church life and influences are earthly joy sweeter or holier, or greater to those of less mature years, and in than that a parent derives from a child's well doing. particular of these influences in this We may well believe that there Is re¬ church. joicing in heaven among the sainted souls In the first place the church should of the founders of this First church as be to all a spiritual home, a source of they contemplate, the harvest home of inspiration and a guide into all that this semi-centennial season, and praise is pure and true and good. The speaker God for the gathered fruits of tneir ta¬ bors. continued: , • Y e, y our children, hail you with grate¬ But I do not wish so much to speak o ful praise, and thanksgiving, that you oegm another period With natural forces llvurch as an administer of punisR- recent days of our own history when su Jsnt, as a dispenser of spiritual good for young heroes as Ersign Bagley and Lieu¬ the young under its care. Our Lord lett tenant Hobson freely gave themselves for a direct comni^pf tR&t these young mem- their country. How much has been done bers should be'fed. In his last command by youth in every field of noble thought to Peter He' twice ‘ told him to feed his and service! Raphael had finished the sheep, but the third time it was to feed painting of the frescoes at 37, Mozart his lambs. For our Lord well knew that composed his operas .before he was 3fi V they were most likely to go astray and Alexander Hamilton at SO and James needed the most assiduous and painstak¬ Madison at 3G placed themselves at the head of American statesmanship by their ing direction. But while the church must give to its advocacy of the adoption of the federal voung people the right sort of spiritual constitution. Keats wrote Endymion be¬ food, it must set before them high ideals fore he was 22. Napoleon at 23 was rec¬ of Christian living and thinking, the mere ognized as a military leader in European gospel preaching from Sabbath to Sab¬ affairs. Frederick W. Robertson, one c.f bath, or the exhortations to purer and the prophet-preachers of the century nobler lives given in the Sunday school had finished his message at 37. will not produce their legitmate fruits YOUTH HAS POWER. unless those so exhorted see in the lives And why should not young people have about them monuments of grace and ex¬ their place in the great achievements of emplifications of all that Christ does by the world? Youth has all the powers of his word or spirit in renewing the whole manhood. He is strong and feels the ex¬ man after the image of God. cess of physical power. He is full of en¬ But while high ideals are to be gained ergy, eager for any tack and intensely they must at the same lime be correct ambitious, ready, like an Alexander, to ideals. The revealed word of God is the conquer the world. Hi$ imaginations are highest ideal in life and if a church holds boundless, his ideals are not lower than out such' a life before its young people, the stars. His perceptions are quick al¬ always urging Jesus Christ as the model though years alone can bring the ma¬ then that church will be doing mankind ture judgment and experience. Time the highest service. This is the relation seems all before youth. His life is full a church may bear toward its young peo¬ of hope for the world. Youth can be no ple. pessimist. His plans must succeed. CARED FOR THE YOUNG. Think, too, what opportunities our pres¬ This church has from the beginning ent life is giving to young people through i maintained a splendid nursery for the education and travel. They can hear young. In the Sunday schools it has over¬ readily of what the world is doing each seen the training of hundreds of children. day. They are thrilled with the great The untiring efforts of devoted men and movements of the nations and long to women in this department of our church do their part in pushing forward the plan deserve all praise. Some already reap the of God. The your.g man of our time can reward of their earthly labors, others occupy no r arrow sphere. He touches continue these duties and privileges with | the world at many points. He is a man the one great desire in their hearts of of the world. Surely such a force wisely saving souls. The amount of good thus directed, can exert a tremendous influ¬ done is incalculable. ence upon the church of today. Has this church put before the young | What can the young people do for the the example of Christian living? Has it ' church? This question is partially an¬ .been possible to see here what it means' swered by another question. “What have jto obey our Lord’s command, ‘Follow the young people . already done . for the me?” Indeed it has. I could name over church? The two men who set in motion hrery many in whose lives a daily ob¬ the forces which have not ceased and server could see the marks telling of a probably never will cease to affect our Bife hid with Christ in God. part of the Protestant world—Martin Lu¬ | I remember that- as a boy this element ther, was only 34 when he nailed his S‘5 Uf our church was. peciallv impressive to theses on the church door at Wurtem- Sue as I looked at this or that one, either berg; John Calvin, only 27 when he wrote jny Sunday school teacher or our pastor, “The Institution of the Christian Re¬ or saw others on Sunday or at the Wed¬ ligion,” that system of theology with few nesday night service with the greatest subsequent changes from the author's regularity and promptness taking their pen which has been largely accepted dur¬ accustomed places and lending to these ing the last 350 years. What boldness, al¬ services that calm dignity so impressive most presumption for such a young man to those of younger years. to scan the works of God! But that bold¬ In conclusion he said fervently, “God ness has always characterized our faith. blCss this branch of his planting and Jesus Christ himself when men are Just entering upon their life work, was counted grant that in the future, as in the past, more than bold and over ambitious. They she may fulfill her God-given mission attacked him as a blasphemer. What in bringing in and training immortal presumption, too, of the young friends of soulji to the praise and honor of our the cross who hoped to convert the worm Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.” to their unusual views of life and death. “What the Young People Should Be We now do not cali this confidence of the to the Church” was the subject of an apostles presumption or fanaticism. Wre call it faith. addresg, by Thomas F. Archbald. He said HAVE LED THE CHURCH. Young men, with the faith of their 'lead¬ Lord .Beaconsfield has said: “The his¬ er, with a boldness like his own, have led tory of heroes is the history of youth,” the church in a remarkable way in push¬ and long has been its hero roii since the ing her work on our frontier or in for¬ da w when the boy David killed the enemy eign countries. Young people have borne of his country with his sling. Until, these 67

Swith Hyde Park, Providence and Carbon the heat.of the battle in her attack on '-dale. Churches and church privileges j heathendom. Older heads and hearts were almost as few as in the wilds of would not have had the courage and !|Pike county. But a new era has dawned. ! faith in ultimate success, nor the un¬ A new force had entered upon the scene. bounded enthusiasm to overcome almost A new settlement had been made. The insuperable obstacles. age of iron claimed the attention and de¬ David Brainerd was not disturbed by manded the skill of the enterprising and expulsion from Yale because of an indis¬ industrious. It was fifty years ago that a creet remark he had made that a cer¬ little band of Christians, feeling their tain tutor was as destitute of grace as need of the stated means of grace, organ¬ the chair. After leaving New Haven he ized the Frst Presbyterian church. Lot continued the study of divinity artd soon their names be held in memory as we look ; after began his work among the Indians. back upon the time of small things and It was too great a strain and he died in praise God who led and inspired them. the forests of New Jersey at the age of i only 29. llis love for Christ and his de- They were Selden T. Scranton and Ellen i sir© to help men were intense. No oppo¬ C. Scranton, his wife; George W. Scran¬ ton and Jane H. Scranton, his wife; Na¬ sition could daunt, no difficulties over- thaniel B. Hutchinson and Rebecca A. I come his resolution or exhaust his pa- Hutchinson, his wife; Mrs. Mary Cour- i tience. sen, Mrs. Sara Coursen, Miss Mary A. I A half century later the prayers of Coursen, Miss Temperance Miller, Miss Brainerd were singularly answered in the Catherine Miller. Miss Maria Fellows, i life of another young man. This second Peter Clark, Charles Fuller, James Hutch¬ missionary zealot was William Carey, of inson, Richard Hollenback and Simon England, the "cobbler missionary.” When Ward. ' making his plea for missions he was in¬ GONE TO THEIR REWARD. vited by his elders to take his seat and | leave the heathen to God. All have gone, let us hope and believe, Fortunately this advice was not taken. to the house not made with hands, eter¬ After he had gone to India Brainerd’s nal in the heavens. prayers and enthusiasm aroused Adonir- They are gathering homeward from every am Judson, who later went to Burmah. land His zeal was further kindled by meeting One by one. at Andover seminary four young fellows As their weary feet touch the shining who had come from Williams college strand. eager to go to any part of the evangelis¬ One by one. tic world. Their brows are bound with a golden crown Mr. Archbald then spoke of the stu¬ Their travel stained garments are all laid dent volunteer movement and quoted down; impressively the cry of the young men And clothed in white raiment they rest and women: "We stand ready to go; on the mead are you ready to send us?” He then Where the Lamb loveth his children to lead. referred to the important work of the One by ore. young in Christian associations, the It was on October 14, 1848, when under Endeavor and other societies, and em¬ the guidance of our honored friend, Rev. phasized the need of individual effort, N. G. Parke, D.D., and the late Rev. John the giving of all of self as Christ gave. Dorrance, then pastor of the First Pres byterian church of Wilkes-Barre, these HISTORICAL ADDRESS. constituting a committee of Luzerne Pre: “The Church as Seen fxtfm the Re¬ bytery, the good seventeen organized what is now the First Presbyterian cords” was the subject of-the Address church of Scranton. by A. W. Dickson. He said: •lye* Charles Fuller, whose years of loving Fifty years is a long- time, the child and patient service entitle him to be - cannot comprehend it. Six hundred long called “beloved elder,” and Nathaniel B. months, twenty-six hundred weeks, eight¬ Hutchinson were the first elders. George een thousand, two hundred and fifty days, i.' W. Scranton was elected an elder at tha As one mentally looks ahead over a pos¬ same meeting of the congregation ot' the sible fifty years, what changes in na¬ new church, but declined the office. "I tions and races—in church and state—in Elder Hutchinson held office until 1SS05 cn manners and methods, suggest themselves when, with his good wife, Rebecca, he to the imagination. was dismissed to unite with the Provi¬ Fifty years. It seems as if old age were dence church. Elder Fuller continued in surely at the end of it all, and yet as com¬ active and devoted service until Nov. 24, pared with the eternal years of God, .1881. when God called him home. what an apparently unimportant speck of Who can estimate the value of his ex¬ time. It is as if viewing the great ocean ample of service and prayers in the a tiny drop of water should demand at¬ church of his love and the community tention—as if in the weight of worlds a where his Godly walk and1 conversation single grain of sand should claim recogni¬ were a constant living argument in favor 'V: tion. of the religion he professed and the Saviour he loved. How true of him. "Ha After a brief review of some of the visited the fatherless and widow in their mighty changes which have taken afflictions and kept himself unspotted place in the universe in this half cen¬ from the ^-orld. He held the office of tury, he continued; clerk of session from the beginning until January 6, 1879. when by reason of age Fiftj years ego this valley was largelv and infirmity he laid down the office. forest. Here and there a little village NO EXCEPTION TAKEN. I Stage lines over miserable roads con- jaiected the modest town of Wilke«--Rai.-o This is testified to by the fact that m 8

ion was iver taken in the Presbytery Ministerial re'lb'f e minutes of the First church and Freedmen , j a precedent was established which Synodical sustentation ,as not been liioken and which the present. Aid for colleges I.clerk and his Successor may well heed, the Bible sociciy ... 1 church has had the following pastors and Anniversary reserve fund .... supplies: Rev. N. G. Parke, who min¬ Miscellaneous . 136,j80 istered, to the infant church for the tirst For the first twenty-five years $208,337 six months; Rev. Jacob D. Mitchell, • and for the past twenty-five years $256,- D„ installed April 17, 1850, resigned Oc¬ 162. or a total of $464,499. tober, 1853; Rev. John F. Baker, Installed In the miscellaneous column are placed May, 1854, resigned January 14, l»oo, Ret. such items as are not directly under the Milo J. Hickok, D. D., Installed August, charge of the boards or committees of 8 1855, resigned April, 1868; Rev. Samuel the church, for instance, the tract so¬ I c. Logan, D. D., installed September 3, ciety, the American Sunday School union,- 1869, resigned February 2, 1892; Rev. James the Toung Men’s and Young Women’s McLeod, the present pastor, who was Christian associations, hospitals, Home installed November 9, 1893. | for the Friendless and other charitable During the absence of Rev. Dr. Hicko.c : causes which appeal to the members of in Europe, Rev. W. W. Atterbury of New our churches. York supplied the pulpit, and during No record is here made of the large a similar vacation of Rev. Dr. Logan, amount contributed eac-h year for the Rev. Samuel A. Wilson, D. D., of Louis¬ church's housekeeping expenses and re¬ ville, Ky„ acted as supply to the great ported under the head of eongregationals pleasure and edification of the congrega¬ but “if he who provides not for liis tion. own household is worse than an infidel.’’ The church has had the service of our church is surely net heretical. twenty-two elders, Charles Fuller, 33 The records show that there were dis¬ years; N. B. Hutchinson, 12 years; James missed eighty-eight persons to .ioin .n Harrington, 12 years; Samuel Sherred. -.0 the organization of the Second Presbyte¬ years; Charles F. Mattes, 38 years; Geo. rian church on June 29. IS74. and that the Fuller, 10 years; E. A. Lawrence, 3 years, sum of $3,166.83, a portion of the memo¬ R. M. Arnold, 7 years; Alfred Hand, 81 rial fund of 1871, was paid over to H. M. years; Robert Blake. 4 years; Edward Botes, treasurer of the Second churcn. Judson, 4 years; W. M. Stowers, 12 years, and that on September 30, 1874, the chapel Charles H. Doud, 24 years; William H. fund collected by Elder William H. Platt, Platt 27 years, Alexander W. Dickson, about $400, was paid over to the trustees 27 years; Henry A. Knapp, 1° years ,Thos. of the Green Ridge Presbyterian church, H. Watts, 10 years; Louis F. Mattes - to which church on June 16, 1878. we dis¬ years; Samuel L. Foote, six months; Wd- missed six members who took part in its lim E. Plumly, IV2 years; Frederick K. j organization on June 24 of the same year. Tracy, 1% years; Harry C. McKenzie, l/s There was also dismissed on February years 11, 1891. eight persons to unite in the or¬ Owing to the destruction by fire of the ganization of the First Presbj terian records of the congregation it is impos¬ church of Elmhurst. sible to get at the names of all those wno have served the church in temporal af¬ MEMORIAL FUND. fairs, but among all the efficient servants X The records show that this so-called of the congregation who have by wise 1 memorial fund of 1871 ivas raised to com¬ counsel and careful business methods 1 memorate the reunion of the old arid new kept the church fair towards the world school branches of the church and that and owing no man anything two men may a part of it was used to build the lecture be mentioned who without invidious com¬ room and furnish the church with an or¬ parison or fear of criticism stand To¬ gan, the balance unexpended being pr.id gether and are memorable as model over to the Second church. : trustees, these were the late Charles F. The Sabbath school work of the church i Mattes and William W. Manness, who has from the beginning claimed and re¬ by patient labor and diligent and pains- ceived the hearty support of the pas¬ 1 taking' care served their church as they tors and members of the church—for the served their God with a whole heart and early history of the home school and the a willing mind—with them and after them mission connected with and supported by the church lias DeM ably served in the the church 1 cannot do better than to re¬ capacity of trustee bWnany of the wisest fer you to the excellent and comprehen¬ and best men in the church, who with sive paper read by the late Mr. J. Cur¬ o-reat unselfishness have done their part tis Platt at the twenty-fifth anniversary, in keeping the church free from debt where he tells in a most interesting way while they ha\4 also cheerfully done all of the organization of the Union Sunday that was required of them in the direc¬ school—of the Juvenile Missionary asso¬ tion of true progress and vigorous admin¬ ciation of the Pine Brook school, the istration. ; Hickory street school, the Briggs shaft BENEVOLENCE OF CHURCH. school, the Cedar street school and th A short sketch of the benevolence of Zion colored school. the church may be of interest. There In the records are found the names o i have been reported to Presbytery and the following active workers: Charie credited to the church upon the records Fuller. Samuel Sberrerd, Mrs. James Har¬ ! of the Geiiliral Assembly the following rington, George Swift. Mrs. J. C, Platt Theodore Roe. David Harrington. Georgel contributions: B. Chase. E. C. Snyder. John Brisbin, E 1 ssions . ''or h ome m P. Kingsbury, M. D. Fuller, Alfred Ha-M 'oreign mis lions .. 79,501 John F. Snyder, George Blake, N. H. oard of education Shafer, F. L. Hitchcock, C. W. Kirkpat¬ uMicfitioni and Sabbath school rick, Ezra H. Ripple, F. B. Nettleton. Ed¬ irk i. ward B. Sturge?, Mrs. Jessie B. Torry urchj erection 69

imd it is equally the fact that out of R. YToSTIETvr ArcTTbald, Mrs. I)Wight, prayer meeting springs the revival, the. Baker. John MeWiliiam, William H. things have been and are true of thiSj Platt and others hew or formerly con¬ church as they have been of all otheT*"' nected with the church who with true There have been a number of notable missionary spirit gave freely of their ■revival periods in the history of the time, influence and means in the mission church when large numbers have united schools of the church, walking miles ev¬ with the church by examination and by ery Sabbath with little thought of self, letter in 181,8. 1.23: 18G3, 5S; 1S67. 74; 1872, 45; but with great love for the children who 1873, 44<; 1884, 51; 1887, 73; these were grand needed instruction. The home schdol has times for pastor and people when the had for its superintendent Joseph H. church increased in number and many Scranton, Joseph Curtis Platt, Thomas T. were added to the churc-h of such as should Horney, William F. Mattes and A. W. be saved—whom the whole church felt Dickson, who holds the office at this time the quickening power of God’s Holy Spirit —for many years beginning with 1S71 it and God was glorified in His people, but has fully supported a missionary in the we cannot always be in a state of revival, foreign field in Syria but for the past the spirit moveth when and how He wills three years in Chira, where at Chining —there is a time of sowing and a time >f Chow it is represented by Miss Jennie reaping and both are necessary to the Hill, a medical missionary. harvest. THE OLDER MEMBERS. The music of the church has always Of the older members of the school, i. e. been above the ordinary from the time those engaged in the wort in the early when Samuel G. Baker, with his large days of its history, few survive in active volunt eer choir met in the old Odd Fellows’ work. Richard W. Olmstead still goes hall, in 1848 to the present time, the music in and out among us quietly and elficlent- of the church as been in the hands of ly performang his duties as of old. Elder those who loved it and enjoyed the priv¬ Hand is always present when at home, ilege of singing. Mr. Kingsbury’s paper while the venerable Dr. Logan keeps up on ’’The Music of the Sanctuary,” print¬ both interest and attendance, doing that ed in the proceedings of the Twenty-fifth which comforts the heart of the superin¬ anniversary, is so complete that nothing tendent, viz., supplying teacherless can be added of value as to the early classes. times of choir and singers. We have still A branch of the Sabbath school work with us of the first choir R. W. and Mrs. prosecuted with gi eat devotion for years Olmstead and Mrs. George B. Chase— by Miss Stella Seymour and Miss Marion probably no one has done more for the Dyer with other Godly women was the music of this church than Mr. Edward P. Chinese class taught in the church on Kingsbury, who for long years wielded Sabbath afternoon. This work so quiet the baton with grace, ably, seconded as and unoffensive as to be almost un¬ be was by Miss Stella Seymour as organ¬ known, was a mest interesting feature of ist and a goodly number of men and wo¬ our Sunday school mission wrork. men singers. “The old choir in the gal¬ The church’s connection with the work lery” is a delightful memory to many 1 from foreign speaking peoples in the of the older members of the church—the Lackawanna and Wyoming valleys was of . study of harmony was not always con¬ especial interest Inasmuch as the Italian fined to music and chords were struck branch of that work has been under the which have vibrated through the years watchful care or the Young Ladles' so¬ and “blest be the tie that binds” was a sentiment which had many an application ciety which with unflagging’ zeal and de¬ votion to duty has fully supported a mis¬ and yet with all the pleasure incident to sionary for the Italian people besides singing in the church there are pains also other valuable assistance in the work. for I suspect that nothing short of the All honor to the Young Ladies' society, an heavenly choir and the angels song could instrument in the hands of God in bring¬ escape criticism, let us hope ali will be ing into the membership of this churcli satisfied with angelic harmonies, l’or it and we trust within the kingdom of God's is hard to please with any human re l- dear Son one hundred and_ twelve of these dering. r-,T T-, VT13 5T nr-TTT'Rr’PT sons and daughters of , Italy. Rev. Leon¬ ardo d'Anna, the present missionary, has The “Old First Church,” as it is loving¬ proved himself a workman who needs ly called by those who have known it not to be ashamed—his quiet, gentlemanly longest has had associated with it a long and Christian work among us added to roll of what may be called without much his faithful and fruitful service commends fear of criticism, strong men. I do not the gospel he preaches expect to spesk of the living in this con¬ Mr. d’Anna was preceded in his work nection and canrot be expected to men¬ by Mr. Raymond de Leon, who left us to tion all who have by their strong person¬ study at Bloomfield Theological seminary, ality made their mark upon church and afterwards working among his people in society so deep and lasting that we are Boston, Mass. This work of the Young today enjoying a reputation for which Ladies’ society has born fruit in mission we are indebted largely to them. "W hen operations of like character in Carbo.i- 1 speak of Colonel George H. Scranton, dale, West Pittston and Wilkes-Barre and Selden T. Scranton. Joseph H. Scranton, Duryea one of the converts of Mr. Charles Fuller, Thomas Dickson. .1. Cur¬ d’Anna's mission, the Rev. Mr. Costanzo tis Platt, Charles F Mattes, William W. Mannes, is now a missionary to the Ital¬ Manness. W. M. Stowers, James Blair, ians in Egypt, and another, the Rev. A. George B. Chase, Dr. Ralph A. Squire and Montitone, is in charge of the wTork un¬ a long list of others. In speaking of these der the case of the Presbytery’s execu- I only mention them as representatives | tive committee at Duryea and Old Forge. of a type of men of whom this church has just cause for pride-They did not stop THE PRAYER MEETING. at obstacles in any line of duty, but It goes without saying that all churches pushed through them or over them until have their origin in the prayer meeting— -f'-v.

use was won. {*.. jpulplt has been filled by many who .V be called great preachers. Dr. Mc- />sh,Dr. Nevlns, Dr. Cyrus Dickson. Dr. John Bfall, Dr. Joseph T. Smith, Dr. Mat- teo Brichet, Dr. Blackin, Drs. Samuel R. and Sampel J. Wilson, Dr. Henry F. Hickok, Dr. Mutcjhmore, Dr. Henry M. Storrs, D. L. Moody, Ballington Booth and his lovely wife, Henry H. Jessup and his excellent brother, Samuel, and many others—It certainly can never be said that our pastor feared to Invite talented j preachers to this pulpit. Brethren, we have a goodly heritage, as 'this city was blessed In its establishment : by God-fearing men and women who re¬ membered the Sabbath day and kept it holy—so this church was organized by those who loved God arid felt their need of Him—do we love this church as they loved it? Would we sacrifice our means and ourselves for it as they did? What a grand church it has been through all the years. What a grand old church it is .a now. Are we worthy of it?' Are we living every day, praying, every-day, denying ourselves every day for ..Christ and His church so that those coming after us may say of us well done? ..God bless the old church. God keep, her through all the years He may permit her to live and worship for Him. The fathers have gone. What of us and our children ? Are we, will they be faithful to their trust? God I grant it. He has kept us in the past. He I has given us faithful men of God to preach to us His glorious gospel—no un¬ true, unsound note has ever been given from the pulpit: God grant there never may. Fifty years of a pure gospel. What a responsibility! The tumult and the shouting dies, The captains and the kings depart— Still ;nds Thine ancient sacrifice An .mble and a contrite heart. Lord God of Hosts be with us yet. Lest we forget—lest we forget!’’ The service closed with a benedic tion by Dr. C. E. Bobinson, of the Secee- end Presbyterian church. > 71

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> ^ a m^s a t a ^fci^iLit ftAAjyUmAJJA&AAfl1- JUDGE STANTON'S

Pen Pictures oi Some Parts of the Lack¬ awanna Valley.1 THE EAiLY RESIDENTS A SPLENDID CLASS

Old Families Are Named—An Ideal Region.

^TnSETnoirnumerous; and they were an Editor of Scranton Sunday News: ■ Dear 'Sir: When my family reached exceptional, elegant, Christian body of Carbondale from New York city, in the men with such intelligent leaders as Captain William. Brennan, Hugh forty’s it was a thriving community and' the Mecca of fortune-seekers, and O’Neill, John O’Neill, Anthony Moyles, in some cases,, of health-seekers. James ’ Moyles, John Nealon, Colonel My father’s health, impaired by too Byrnes, Michael Flynn, the Moffits, the Powderly’s the Brown’s, the McTighe’s, , close application to business in New York city, sent him forth to Carbon- the Kearney’s, Hon. John Kelly, and dale which then, was considered one numerous others—their peers. Then of the most thriving and promising turning to the other side, there ap¬ peared an equally respectable and in¬ towns in the country. Getting to Car- taondale from New York, was then no telligent body of men, fitted to lead in any community—such as Horatio child’s play, although I could only then Pierce, James Stott, James Archbald, play the part of a child in arms. When Colonel Darte, the Jifkinse’s, and a later I heard the history of the travel, or maybe better, of the voyage, it told host like them. Was Oarbondale a of days involved, rivers crossed with pleasant abod'e, you may ask? Well, now turn your eyes to the public square rafts or improvised ferries, _ and inci¬ dents as startling and amusing as- the where the militia in as haughty array Klondike travelers are now experienc¬ as the ancient phalanx, stood forth in ail their stunning toggery, w ou d ne ing. But at the terminus of the voyage . ’T-S from Alaska, and her mountain cities. youth and beauty that lined the streets Carbondale stood forth in pleasing re¬ of Carbondale in those early days, to ef. She had her churches, school give the sunshine of their presence to houses, stores, taverns, restaurants. such momentous military events, pale . before the handsome faces and beau¬ teous forms, that later in our history If - the coal operators of the Present gave’-fhe'light of encouragement to our day would look back to . those eai ly soldier boys, as they went marching- on. days, and learn the doctrine of live and When Colonel Darte, Captain Brenn¬ let live that was then observed and an and Lieutenant Stanton put the practiced, there would be less killing of military forces of Carbondale in m woiWnnen and more love for the em¬ Hon, the atmosphere of B'urope was ployers But Christ wept o\ ei Jerusa pregnant with war. Carbondale and lern and if God tolerated the enormi¬ Archbald had no task-masters whrp ties of the early ages, it is likely there to feel, in those early days-. The w ork- will be sin and suffering to the end ingman of those and surrounding com I started out to say a few things about munities, were men for a that an the Carbondale-Archbard ^rtion of at the risk of being deemed egotistic, Lackawanna county. I could fill the I will bay that it was the memory ot New York Journal in volume with pe - - the workingman as I then saw him, sonal incidents of these people cov - ■ prosperous happy and' free, and la-ter, ering reality and romance, all tending ( oppressed, ground to the earth, a white to low them worthy of the deepest I slave that made me the stern oppon a flection and friendship hut -enToTcorporation methodsc-But to re¬ turn to our musings. Scranton City, Pa„ Nov. 25, 1898. After a period of say nine years, J Archbald began to loom up as the town of the Valley; and a bright business prospect being presented to my father there, he nold his property in Carbon¬ Editor of Sunday News: dale, situate on the Main street, to Dear Sir; When I parted from you Mrs* Moffitt, and became a resident of iaS Sunday my au revo.r was C Arch'bald then -and ndw nestling snug¬ bono” for had not they—the greaiei ly between gently sloping hills, here part of them—to whose ears such nar¬ and there crowned with rugged-faced rative would be the musm of and pyramidal rocks, and centre-laved the spheres, gone the 3 f ., with the thin limpid waters of the ro- that knows no return. A fatne - mantic-named Lackawanna. And by mother sister, brother, went on | ! the way, what a fishing and hunting Tat ling, sad journey from our do¬ I ground, was sweet Archbald in those mestic circle in Archbald amd I saw | days; and what a delightful peopie there other family circles like tne I she had. I lived there to about my nine- Healey’s and the Eaton’s, cut down i teenth year, and I never saw violence Hke the grass before tfv* reapers or troubles that sent any one to the SytheT Beloved Father McSurggan county courts', or for the matter of that, Sever kindly Doctor Foote, the sage to the town courts. As young people of ’ Judge Kearney, benignant Anthony the town, it was customary in times Movies and many besides these pnmi- of neace to prepare for war, and as I tive residents' and forefathers, have boys of the community, we—I mean slept o- the Hill side there, and else¬ -a host of lively youngsters, did a. great where, for years. We who are now on deal of private practice in the arts of the scene, can only "let the deadi P ^ <• which Fitzsimmons and1 Corbett are bury its dead,” and cause the living now the masters—in fact we, the said to pass in review. JBfl boys, were mighty good at the art of We so forward with fellow traveler, self-defence, but we did every thing like Horatio Pierce, Hon. Peter Walsh as George Francis' Train would say, John Sweeney, James and Patrick ‘‘within the law.” And such a thrifty Moyles, M. M. and James and Willia . town as it was. and its American- /; YA Kearnev Prof. P. J. White, James J. Irish, German, Welsh, English pop’^la- Williams’ and numbers of other' ^°n' tion, was as homo-generous as if Ire dale and Arehbald citizens, to the later land was the mother of them all. Car¬ but more outspreading growth, called bondale was united, and Archibald was Scranton. I saw Scranton PeeP^r ab°'| intertwined. The Simpsons, the Eatons, the ground about the early fifty .at She the Farnham’s, the Watres.', the Spari- is now a vigorous community m®mg genburgs, the Osbornes, the Jones’s, the fair to be the Pittsburg of Eastern Millers, the Kearneys, the Gilroy’s, the Pennsylvania. Some, a limited numbei. Laws, the Footes, the Moyles, the Car- deserve the credit for this prosperous rolls, the Brodericks, the Gilmartins. steady6 and I might say, marvelous the Healeys—well I can only begin to I growth: and the Scranton’s who gave name them—knew no distinctions of Hler a name, hold to the prestige and j race, creeds or previous* conditions, worthiness that were theire when the j Who can forget the saintly Father infant was in swaddling clothes Carey, or the ascetic Father Lough- Ae-ain the mixed population ran. Protestant residents there, with breathed into this new municipality, their truly Christian spirit, had no vigor, progress, efficiency and pove . rivalry or enmities with their Catholic great whose neighbors, other than in the effort to But “like Ceylon’s palm stand equally well with God, when the buds fly open with a sound that shakes final summons would come. the pigmy forests ’round Scranton did Ancf then a word as to politics and not show her reserve forces until labor. Later I ran against Edward about the sixty's. Jones for congress, and we fought each Then with Seven-league boots, sne other manfully and with pure politics, ' took the steps leading to £er presen to a finish; but Edward Jones was a T-restme And hr the way what a his man, and he allowed his employes to . torian Major Bradford could have been, earn living wages and so did_Alva and what a reputation in a IBeraiy Eaton and George Simpson; and they way, his woumwould be,ue, uif whe nad written made the town throb, in the fullness of i the events and incidents of his ad- prosperity. * 73

mderfng antfC 'unique institutions. ministration, in those 'var a- Now, or instance, we had* that—day When Scranton was first budding, kind of Building and Loan associations. her rolling- mills sputtering- and tossing They came with a whoop and a bound, showers df molten metal over hair- and they left under a cloud, causing dad employees, made a spectacle that those who meddled with them, to have rivaled the inferno, in the estimation a pungent, nasty, disagreeable taste in of Scranton's early inhabitants; but the mouth, and other feelings in other Major Bradford's mill for making- sol- , parts of the anatomy. diers and shekels, threw the early days , They who arose in the morning rich, into almost total shadow, in the esti- went to bed at night wondering where mation of all who saw how the army £ they had mislaid their wealth. Yes in¬ was replenished. . 8 deed, it was a carnival of weeping and No doubt the Handley Archives coulr. * wailing and gnashing- of teeth. As' furnish many readable chapters of con- | Judge, I allowed an injunction writ to ■ • temporary history. go forth in its majesty to restrain, and Had Scranton any politics in those f tie, and shackle, one of the piratical davs? Shades of Hon. James Mullm, officers of one of these eleemosynary in- Hon. Daniel Lundy, Attorney Dan { stitutions, who was indifferently and Rankin, Journalist J. B. Adams and pleasantly misappropriating the small other eminent politicians.! !_ ! The town I sum of fourteen thousand dollars to I was sputtering with politics, just as 1 his own and pleasure’s use, but as I her mills were sizzling with molten never saw him after, I suppose he metal, and a Wilkes-Barre politician sandbagged the minions of the law. who dared to show his head, m pur¬ Scranton once had a Bounty Tax— suit of office, had that member scalped Talk of a Bounty on skunks. The quick as you could say "Jack Robin¬ Bounty-tax out-scented the skunks, and the oldest inhabitant has not got¬ son.” .And Honorable James Mullen, and ten awav from the smell yet. And the Honorable Daniel Lundy—could lift the odor of Bounty clings, to some gar¬ ments yet. But let us stop to ask , scalp of a convention much more deftly ■ whether it matters anything at all. than Hon. William Connell« ^thods what odors men have clinging to them, when they run for office in Lackawan- , at'the'Virst John Handley—drew his in¬ j na county, provided they have dollars ji; spirations from these fountains, and he i and distribute them freely in return - ascended the. Political ladder Quite a for votes? Coal, iron and steel have . number of rounds. but *hetller “ s done much. Yes, everything for Scran¬ ladder ever reached as high as Jacon s ton’s growth, but perhaps they have • ladder, it is for the chronicler yet to not made as happy a population as they say. i. might make. The plan of increasing The deceased'judge Was a very apt the labor population so that they would pupil, but in the long run he met men crowd each other In the struggle for worthy of his steel, if he had let poli¬ existence, so closely, that no time or tics and office alone, he would have opportunity would he allowed them to been a financier that Scranton city fight the unjust and unchristian terms ciuld point to with pride. And the of the corporations, is a plan worthy of | sixty’s brought Hon. Frank Beamish the misgovernment of Pennsylvania. I into the political turmoil. Frank was a | When you write even of Scranton, r diamond in the rough. If he had been you find much to moralize over, but disciplined in the schools, he had the there is so much apathy even in the talent to take high rank in political labor ranks, that perhaps nothing but I and official life. the Angel Gabriel's horn will make He, like others of his cotemporaries, sufficient sound to reach them. was pursued by the hand of vengeance, W. H. STANTON. , -j but Frank Beamish was better and , more worthy than most of the men who THIS ISLE OF IRELAND. pursued- •him. • "Brave fighter- as he was,- • n yet he could not cope with the relent- !S—. - ’ (By W. H. Stanton.) 'r. j less pursuers, backed as they were by corrupt and inexorable power. There is an Isle beyond the seas, . And right here it is worthy of note, With skies outglowing Italy’s, that this corporation ridden state, in . And scenery like unto Eden’s. her administration of the law, is as ... So balmy is the breeze that springs unrepublican as it is .possible for a From hill and vale, on swiftest wings, political division of the Republic to be. You’d cling to her all seasons. In the Sixty’s Scranton and surround¬ ing towns had her mayor’s court. The Land of Ireland, thou art the Isle, supreme court of the United States From ocean reared at Heaven’s smile, paled into insignificance when this tri¬ And as a gem in setting. '}* bunal was erected .James Mahon, esq., Thy griefs bring clouds where should j Hon. Frank Collins, and myself, as in¬ be sun, cumbents of the district attorneys Thy heart was pierced as life begun, office, kept the criminal classes of the But thy sons are not forgetting. country, largely on the run, however you may construe the expression. Like f.; * t-.x . | They’ll leaven the thought of England. everything good, this court passed too, . , . away in its youth and beauty—a thing jfWith the cry of Republic echoing of Joy, mourned by those who do not through , believe in hanging or the excruciating To hearts that are throbbing to live. tortures of the law. But one thing- that And the races divided, shall united be, court had to its credit—Its Bar never Under one flag, in broad unity— stole each other’s business. In our A union that Heaven will gi'e- early history of Scranton, we had other j -. 1 judge, jjniiartook,’ from the bench, Editor of News. humiliate Tme, then a member of * Dear Sir: In passing, I better adopt bar. practicing before him, and so _ the phrase of the seamstress who “must nistent wap he that I had even to sp catch up the stitches,” and catch up the last year of his term near and such stitches as dropped the mayor's 1 the Indian territory, but when the day court of Carbondale from my imper¬ for settling accounts came, I returned fect narrative. Why they called this with enough of the Indian resentment and the Scranton court “the mayor’s to take the chief role in the work of court,” the records of that day do not retiring him, as Judge Dana had. been explain, but some one suggests that it retired, to Private life. was an emphatic way of repudiating Such are the joys, and sorrows that anything in common with the braying are constantly keeping us poor mor¬ genus. Yet these were no unpreten¬ tals on the watch for solar plexus reci- tious courts, when it is recalled that orocities. that “Grand Old Man,” John N. Con- * I became a newspaper editor and pro¬ yngham, and the soldier judge, E. M. prietor about the end of ’69. My! How Dana, and our own kindly-hearted-and the Daily Times did sizzle in true deeply-versed W. G. Ward, and those Democratic spirit! There came a big able attorneys of Carbondale,one father six months’ strike, based on a twelve- of our distinguished townsman, W. W. cent-increase demand. The companies, Bathrope, Dwight N. Bathrope, and! like the pugilists, got tired, and like also these legal lights, Ira D. Richards, the devil who offered all of his treas¬ and Alfred Darte, expounded and ad-1 ures on the Mount, the companies of¬ ministered the laws from the high fered the Times an apron-full, to throw places in these courts. And shall we -the business: but the Times having omit to mention the men who kept the ears, heard not, and it came to pass records? They were men whose names that the companies, as the pugilists will not down at the wave of any would say, did not take the gate money, wand. Great big-hearted men were and all bets were declared off. Charles John Brown and Bernard McTigue, of Parrish shortly after, tried to reach Carbondale; and shrewd Dan Rankin,^ for Hon. Frank Collins’ wind, as they and courtly and thoroughly expert, pay it in the prize ring, in the fight for Charles H. Welles, and last, but not the state senatorship, by throwing a least, the erudite A. Miner Renshaw, five-thousand sail, windward, ’to the gave' us records that today are speak¬ ■(Times, but the Times and its proprietor ing in our Scranton court house of di not fancy the ballast offered, and deeds done in the flesh decades ago, Mr. Collins reached port by about seven that had their consequences to human¬ hundred majority, despite storm and ity as the generations pass onward. weather. But overshadowing all, stood out in And what pleasantries were indulged bold relief the lofty, moral and intel¬ in by the Times', the Republican and lectual stature of Judge Conyngham. the Democrat. The readers’ mouths All lawless of his day in Pennsylvania, were watering daily to learn from the I believe, stood dwarfed in the pres¬ columns of these papers, teeming with ence of his purity and nobility of char¬ journalistic enmities, what degree of acter, and his intuitive and acquiesced patience editors car: endure, before they acter, and his intuitive and acquired take to Gatling guns. knowledge of the law. He knew not Moralizing, I might be permitted to favorites before the court, and the say that editors get to be pretty tough bench-fed lawver was never heard of growths,but as some one has remarked, in his day. His heart was too big, pure they are consoled by the thought that and humane, to do injustice to any one. in the hereafter they will be hot-house And Iky and Wolfe and Minnotte would plants.' never dare to keep shop within the The Free Press was launched soon, precincts of the sacred temple where and I took a hand in at its inception, he presided. and through my persuasion Hon. F. A. Judge Dana was pure of mind, but Beamish was induced to enter the jour¬ had the fault of acting pedagogue from nalistic field. It was surrounded by a . the bench I saw him give, from the lot of brainy men soon, like Hon. John 1 bench, Attorney John Handley a cor- E. Barrett, Journalist J. C. Coon, ex- 31 rection in the use of the word “vitiate,” ; pert printer J. T. Button, and quite a 'f that struck me, then comparatively I number of others who liked the free¬ < youthful, as a vicious thrust. I believe dom of the press. While Mr. Beamish the men did not admire each other, but and I were enjoying ownership, we the man on the bench took advantage came to close quarters with some of of his position in using it to humiliate the highly -elect, and certain caustic i an attorney. The iron burned deep in¬ sayings of Mr. Beamish on one occa¬ to the feelings of the attorney that sion to ex-Judge Hand brought on a day, as every spectator could see, and general battle, with the object in view when my friends rolled up a majority of incarcerating Mr. Beamish, but Mr. of three thousand and thirty votes Beamish, as' defendant, and Aretus against Judge Dana seeking to be hie1 Winton and I, as attorneys, repelled own successor, I believe John Handley the assault, and white-winged peace thought some of his score was wiped again spread its wings over the city out. Not because, as your paper has and valley, but not for long. Mr. Coon lately said, I had a maternal uncle and Mr. Button and others who under¬ Handley, in the south, large man as took to steer the Free Press through Judge Handley, but because a ven¬ waters that the events narrated had detta was declared when a judge mis¬ lashed into foam and turbulence, aoon used his position to humiliate one prac¬ came into dire collision with one Mr. ticing before him. Silkmar. and he, forgetting that “pa¬ Yet such is the inconsistency of hu¬ tience is a virtue," came near launch- manity, that later John Handler^ as v r -——mmw the whole concern into the bottom- nHfiHii -sure sdul) will mislead one, the truel less pi Christian doctrine will lead thousands the F4 „ Tn the saving of their souls. Thus I to make it speak, it seems to be "doing might moralize, but maybe I am in- | Its full share of scattering the doctrine ■fringing on what so many others can of Peace and good-will. do better But returning to discuss Later, I hacked Mr. Coon in a new Certain features of the valley it will Sunday journalistic enterprise, in about i>e observed that the coal deposits ha\e my last campaign. X think it was called bLn the strata and foundation on the Plain-Dealer, and I fear, as mat¬ which all our towns have been reaied. ters turned out. it was no favor to him. Carbondale, Mayfield, Jerm>n, Aich- The paper said that it didn't like the liald Winton Peckville, Olyphant, Dick¬ Judge Harding methods, and the judge son City Throop, Dunmore, Scranton didn’t like Mr. Coom's method of say-j Moosic, Minooka. Taylor, Old Forge all ing so, and by reason of a peculiar way are built above and inthe midst of coal that about that time obtained, of mak¬ 1 beds, and their inhabitants are no\\ ing bail so high that it couldn't be, largely starving, because of too much reached. Mr. Coon was incarcerated for i coal, 'it is like the shipwrecked People a few weeks, until Mr. Mahon, of Pitts- 1 with belts on their persons, filled with ton, and I could effect arrangements1 gold and no food or water to be bad between p among us. Are they the blessings that servation. Where Bob Ingersoll (in we hear them proclaimed.; or are they method devised to give a small clique ' managers and retainers big incomes’ . 3ppor rg many families m every community the valley are lost year after year geause the work- ingman hesitate to a the companies | to be allowed to fei ge in and plant ..cl salariesV A man ndiroX'^i these lands*. , two hundred dollars. He pays on this The workingmen of the valley are I two dollars and titty cents a month to thoughtful on many subects, as I well I nine or ten years; or, say, one hundred know, but sometimes they prefer ex¬ and twenty months. This vWll nl?ffieri perience and practical workings rather him pay altogether- three hundred^ d | than trust to their own intuition in the lavs cash and the non-borrow^ra^t matters of their every day life. Like i interest also on these monthly pay - neglecting- to obtain the privilege of re¬ I ments. The non-borrower s share ma- claiming waste lands for .the growing ! curing in ten years, brings him eighty of potatoes and other crops* they vote i dollars profit. At six per cent it would into office men whose interest it is to ' take his dollar sixteen and two-third stand diametrically against them on all ! years or two hundred months,to double the economicil questions; and yet they 1 its value. Might not this system, be ekpect. to go by this wrong road to made the noor man's friend (.) at prosperity. Reasoning in a vicious cir¬ smaller monthly outlay to him, and cle leads to disastrous results, and su.'h smaller profits to the non-borrowers.' reasoning is very much indulged in by Suppose the rates of the borrower a majority of the sturdy burgers of our were just half the amount named valley to their own undoing. wouldn't it be a more equitable way of There is another, hydra-headed mon¬ Mving homes' to all. The Building and Loan associations having reared their ster appearing in our valley that is al- J heads everywhere through the valley ready the source of no little discord and for Dublic admiration, they can not disruption in the affairs of old neigh¬ -‘omplain if we do not all view them bors. If a man is in business or runs ’avorably. Then, if these monthly re- for office then “society” is played renchments and savings could be made, against him. If he competes in busi¬ low man” thousands of dolars might ness or poltiies with a person who nonthly go into other channels of busi- knows how to temper the minds to the npgcl promotion of his interests by becom¬ I appreciate the thanks of the Build- ing a member of this or that society, I ng and Loan managers tendered to me he is sure to be defeated with religion, I for my timely suggestions, but they are or nationality, or family ringing the welcome to them and, as some one re¬ changes. These are matters of late marked, may it do them much good. but vigorous growth in our valley, but In the early days the Plank road the sooner the dry-rot reaches them from Carbondale Scrantonwards was the better for us all. supposed to be the chef d oeuvre of the Educational matters are looking up road-builders. It might be a tempor¬ in our midst. Bishop O'Hara's labors ary solution of the vexed or muddy supplemented by Bishop Hoban’s ef¬ question of the building- of a trayelable forts are sure to bringe splendid edu¬ 1 road from Scranton to its sub-division cational facilities' to the doors of the ; known as Providence. And, by the way, Catholic families of the valley. St. they called Providence in the early days Thomas’ college is said ito have a fac¬ : Razorville. Yet this hard name was ulty of the brightest and most profound 1 out of place when applied to her peace- literary attainments. loving residents. Attorney David R. The Scranton high school and the Randall could, with his voice, knock a other schools of the county are giving statue off the Washington monument, much satisfaction to the parents of the and vet he passed away as the gentle children who attend them- The only zephyr. Heroic Jacob Bloom heard of drawback to the educational question “halters” during Rebellion days, but he in our midst is the enforced absence never waded knee-deep in anything from the schools of so many children more gory than the red-tinged muds of because of the poverty of parents who I Providence. Hon. Thomas Saltry and cannot support their families without ' Hon. James O’Malley for many moons the additional wages received by these * ha kept Scranton and Wilkes-Barre poli¬ boys of tender year®. It seems as if ( the ticians at bay, and yet they have stood I very many of the ills are traceable be- for the rights of the Body-politic with back to poverty, and yet money, as a as much heroism as Ajax defying the rec root, has some fungi growths- that lightning. The razor-back pig might ay appropriately be maligned, as Lackawanna county has led in the you ; struggle for the betterment and the the “Razorville” to be shorn of her laurels. The man who trifles with this subject j amelioration of the condition of labor, the i This will be the all-absorbing question of ' is playing with something like edged ; of the future for America- In 1877 an tools no doubt; but as Razorville has | Lackawanna and Luzerne counties to given way to Providence, a period can j (then both as Luzerne) electrified the da appropriately round up the subject. lb whole country by the triumph of la¬ w Yours, etc., boring men over all political or party of W. H. ST ANTOKHI charlatanism. With such men as a? o'; Bryan in the lead o-f Democracy the ti battle between Democracy and Repub- o The Lackawanna valley is not exact¬ i licanism will be a struggle between la¬ It ly buried in coal pits, and it has thou¬ bor and capital. As now organized the L sands of acres of fertile lands that Republican party must cuddle under J should yearly be bearing- rich erop.s for | her wings all the multo-rnillionaires, d the sustenance of the needy and desti- i trusts, syndicates and corporations of us uite. I have observed year after year. | the land, and At labor, in,such day, fails tie passing from Fell township to C id to r?ee her advantage, it will be because Forge township, that the most fertile ! of willful blindess. But whatever 4>e ,ai.ds are left uncultivated by the own¬ tide, Lackawanna county has a duty ers princpially corporations^an 1 me to perform. W. H. STANTON. 77

—i „ Randall as chairman oi i ber David R- Ra"^.in in stentorian one of them- 1 was fleeing from the tones, ^'while h“ 1wthat as injn menacing.... LOVE'S MYSTERY. delegate-wrath the convention (By W. H. Stanton!") , S'adjourned until he wcmld^turn. - 1 I would not break her heart, | And yet we had to part. &."Kf ShtSr the Republic And go our lonely .way: was saved. ,Q_tinn that nominated ! The mystery of it all, In ifhefor°nthe concessional short i Is now beyond recall, myself for tn 6 m secured by j But oh, that weary day. term. I had the ^e/ourths of the the promise of th sesslon corn- I would not give her pain, delegates when th friends went And vet could I remain menced; but Me ^e delegates’ ranks Where feeling was amiss. openly through progress and She thought the fault was mine, while the voting wa until they And 'I would give no sigh. paid the prices .femandem pf the So waned our day of bliss. secured a majority Republican 129 delegate votes cafi - t bright Mine was the wavering clasp. survived ^^v.^congressmen. Hers was the clinging grasp, and X became th county came into \s the tide swept both apait, When Lackawanna ■coumy d01. of She reached the nearest shore. existence there ^a’convention called. But the billowy bore me o er, , events, a Democrati n to beat Where Circe touched my heait. The Ring formed a and the prices I me for the judgeship ai d $300 Now she would disenchant. 1 for delegates were fixed And lovingly would haunt. and even $500. . the time be Me whom troths have tied, The Ring pre\ ailed ks anothei Soft kisses flush my face, ing, but in a coup fUn county Snirit arms1, me embrace, . convention nominated wm{n&Uon that Yet advance hath been denied. ticket, giving me --- ^irst conven¬ es Vbought^ay in with a ma- Oh the mystery of it a11- tion, and our tlcKec the Demo- \nd the misery we recall, jority of 1.000 and a sample of Bv the struggles to forget. •c -o A.t .,.i« »*« »> .. And doth the heart ne'er ® hone to save the Republi . ca„ai- The love that we first choose,, Once on a time while l w , a Doth first-love’s Sun ne er set. date for the Re ward that vote cast m a Democrat ^ ^ ward p-vp me sitaout 3.11 tn^ v«ISi »■>» that the me, and not exceeuw & oon as many years ' and* with politics that said for the other ™waS a proposition fathers taught, a in the slums, the polls closed there was aproceeding have had then sources ^ ,g pleasant Talking ot the fathe ’ itaoe of good ,hegcoun “ To this Si MfHSJ to reflect on what a |^ita„e and and wise goyernm it ig humiliat- talking of slum-p iva; 0j corrup- r | ing to look upon the carniva lon tion and debauchery eyery “a’f Co.umbui Rmenea

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national, state or C g anu money un~ he is backed bj n d nQt g0 outside limited. And ^ _ v«r*w sncli our valley hmits to Ja.y ° whence^ rtrnC of life. But that closet proved C qu’eef working arrangement. Just a. '=00" SoK'u" That resulted m b1" 6 with m0re f.’moveh anh the ballot box containing' and expounders of the 1 ^ tg than

CaPav-C‘iryheads We have a Republic lixed up for the occsion was substitut innw res«ng on such pillars as Quay aid thus my Political enemies S? It Reed and others of their kind ae-ain saved the country. They am P1 at ’ can well limit the duration of this closet-game in fifteen other Demo¬ the^ Republic’s existence by the degree cratic precincts, but. you see. the coun- f their political rottenness. nv hVd to be saved. Some people fR is treason, no doubt, to speak m grumbled at the time because I betook i ,hh terms but that kind of treason myself to a political labor .organiza- _ volves no’ turpitude. But talking of tion as a protection against the pleas- | i inventions, who can forget the old j Luzerne political shindies? ,. I remem-

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0 «•■** 'vf? antrTes of King a little hard Lackawanna andWyomii.0 - perhaps the corporation raanaf ™and in to save the derstood it, but tne outside work country. nmintv conventions at it as if labor was running The Republican county Pande- it well, some one will r'k, for li are sometimes remmderconnen t capital to stand antagonistic’ momUm. U: been born, he sensible man will answer “No been oorn, or if, ha™° nM county, a question’. They should hadn’t come , to La^k ConnelUsm to hand as long as it is posdib there wouldnt be a y ting £ea- gether, but when one tvra flght over . P^at he afloved himself i the otr.er, then the brakes t put down until the mac.„nerv is rCc»mV me to*****--I?spMre. A. properly adjusted. Let us look to com adnkes oncepe remarked to a ■ Lawyer st?"e d 0f reforming poli- side our county, and see how it politic an who talked 0^1 egooel £or tWs with the whole state. Then aga tics, Oh, you are j^Ir_ Connell s outside the state and see how i world,” so there - ty,ink; Mr. Con- with the whole country. i\o.mn own party many ° offlce> and that give labor a prosperous standin nell too sood to h fjn(f other -cept just and careful legislation, he might, if he v >d^t >u’nselftshness i congress, by high tariff legist worlds to c°hduei- t to even Mr. look to the- interests of capital of men must be appare B ° all jokes the interests of labor—which? Connell by tl». “”%as0®" The profits of such legislation ac¬ crue more surely to capital than to S conWi»; Label’—and let it be added the legis- .-levs who give such legislation, know n“ltt that Place. WJgg «££ ■efore hand what will be its? trend. tition will not dar congress may The senate of the United States "i“ ■ an made up mostly of millionaires, or I be proud of our congressman fogies. And in line with this suDject ‘ T, They can not look beyond their nos 1 not to he forgotten that Hon. John . , and to them the restlessness of lal under starvation wages, is something 1 !*VL°l*S^a "5.« "»“• akin to treason. If the House, more nearly in touch with the masses, now ftHraStotaml and then inclines to liberal legislation, 1 the senile and narrow-minded senators raise their hands in holy horror, and "° 'b, b* 1 * * * S°‘S.te..blP of ... JO»A raise the cry of “crucify”! “crucify”! I Whatever we may say abou-PoW1^ Then think of the solicitude of Quay I there is no one ofuBtooh ^ fay at of Pennsylvania, and his friend, Pen¬ ?eatm^eundSSitSd aE the outset, rose, over the poverty and destitution c.e musL must he clean- of -labor in 'the comlraonwealth? SedVin all that we do politically, or Their lamentations resound through¬ out the land. Quav to be sure, is un- "e will pull up Probably ™d«md^ - der indictment for frauds?, hut can he I ment. YV- xx' not dismiss such troubles with r resignation akin to that of old lad; who went intoxicated to church am “when she had to finally retire thei Editor of News reroini.3cence is ex- from, under the compulsory embrace- I do not feel that i ume your men t of two stalwart policemen, she activ m my' Une, out i ^ rnv ^etiy in ™ rUontebehypercritical if my resigned herself to the situation b> ■ i’..h-rsreaders will notoenot be ..yyv the unes. remarking, “and wasn’t Jesus cruc’ h pen ,n°IfinS0“fOrmer issue of your in- lied between two thieves.” I stated m a tosncei _ e mcal c_lUes- Poor Quay? how his great he teres.ing pap down to a hat- \ bleeds for the sufferings of. poor tionsbctivcen^.ab^.ann^jab will soon na capital, on manity, and how he lies or sits, a\ tie at night, thinking how he can economic ble and irrepressible and In- laboringnten all rich? And how evitable are now marshaling for the hat tiouslv Penrose adds his amen to hosts saintlv endeavors of his fidus achate tie Then think of these honest men owr '1, will be a WgJ-WJga&Hk ing and guiding the Legislature of I tal does not- -J -

Vital essence in the one, fell death In I ; leads me back to 1ST", and the other, hand. ; also inclines me to say that the party Are of the means employed- urtto-such j that is leaning on Bosses Quay, Platt and Hanna, will soon, no doubt, find mystic end; Positive and negative, when apai these bossed rotten reeds. What o£ 1877, ifi Luzerne county, then embrac¬ they stand, ing what'is Lackawanna county? Wc Chemical affinities called after, they were laughed because of our au¬ blend. dacity in opposing- the bosses. But we stuck to our own text, and won. Sup¬ Every man dieth—that is he doth be¬ pose the labor-movement should as¬ come sume state proportions. What is there j- SeVered and dissolved into his com¬ to prevent a state success fought out ponent parts;. ■ • i on the lines of that day. Palmer told From the being, the subtile and the me after the election, that if they ap¬ gross have gone, prehended my success, that three days Affinities seeking, as is said hearts before election, they would have had seek hearts. one hundred thousand dollars in cir¬ y culation in the district; and I told him The universe is unfathomable mystery, in reply, that one million dollars Of .'.which finite wisdom but little yet would not have accomplished a victory unfolds; , . against me, and that was true. The Heavenward. Babel’s tower reached corruptionists’ occupation was gone at fully as high. that election, and then for once, at As man’s deepest research into v\ hat least, an honest election was held right Nature holds. here. Poor Juuge uana, how they bled him! Apd how the ^abor hosts did go into that fight! There were no lag¬ At an early day in the history of gards. The men of Valley Forge left this section, I, and about a score of the impress of their bleeding feet on kindred spirits, thought it a duU to the snows of that camping ground. out the drama on the boards in Arch- The men who traveled Luzerne county bald and elsewhere. The “Archbald (embracing Lackawanna) in 1877 to Citizen” lately told some portion of the arouse laboring men to give battle to tale how we strutted, fought bled, the political corruptionists, had little- and’shook our gory locks. The Scran¬ covering to their feet and no money ton ooera houses with all their stage in their purses. But they went boldly effects and gaudy trappings, have nev¬ and cheerfully on, working without er known how to do these things, when murmur or repining. It is profitable compared with the manner in which to recall such events? Why not? Is we disported outrselves. W bait .aud¬ it useless to point out a course that iences we had? They came surcharged ( can overthrow the big bc.ss, Quay, with fun and laughter, and Linder-, an his .mdy-guard of Liliputians? man’s hall almost shook to Pieces e\-j As Patrick Henry said, so can we erv time that we amateurs’, called the say. "If that is treason, make the nub-lic to witness our histrionic efforts. most of it.” This question will not. So versatile were we that, as the boys j down even in tr>° presence of militar¬ ,.eak of the “twist of the wrist, w e j ism, and .soon the question of terri¬ i could step without a jar or n0* *:e of! torial expansion will give way to the discord from Hamlet to Handy Andy -, expediency of getting bread and but¬ 'm Bmnbastes Furioso. Oh. yes, we ter. W. PI. STANTON. wet-e dairies,'or at least so we thought a>d i believe the good people of Arch- , Paid and Carbondale so thought too. T -n- wa.s our inimitable friend and j;VEK WAS, AND EVES WILL BE. ,. Mi an. Theodore Miller, who could • » (By W. H. Stanton.) J;g;"hia tongue from Germany to (Questions is nonsense—God had not a Ireland, about as quick as some people beginning. -bn change from crying to laughing. And only fools say that an end of " "■ Veodore on one occasion, played the Him can be; I character of Solon Shingle and as Solon He hath always been, and will be ever reigning, I he had to fcTTFuf audience aobftf losing : On and on, as flows the endless etern¬ a barrel of apple-sarce. There was an¬ other comedian on the stage that might ity. —an old—old bachelor by name, Tom Non-existence warreth vainly and Brown, who, having imbibed a little powerless. two freely before the curtain was rung up, looked at matters in a little too Indestructible will remain the things that are; aeriously, as a consequence. Nature’s forces that duly expand and Hearing Solon thus complaining, his compress. sympathies were so aroused that he broke through all the conventionalities Their functions ne’fer will cease, in that the occasion called for, and he day nor near nor far. not only convulsed the audience for about fifteen minutes, but he demoral¬ Elements and matter both blended and ized even the thespians. Archbald’s .single. dramatists boldly invaded Carbondale In nature’s crucible are given high¬ for a whole week even within the sac¬ est forrh; red precincts of her court house, and Most beauAidus is the issue, whatever Carbondale gave the wanderers a most commifigie, hospitable reception. A rainbow is. the offspring of sun¬ The troupe contained talented men shine and storm. and a bright galaxy of young ladies. i and a roaring sound that all the tudies and the histronic effor oi the jungle could feebly imitate, jse days have no doubt borne good careering along the brow of the cutting a great swath at every t\ Talking of the drama reminds me and leveling mighty trees as if the that I saw fit on a time to write two were mere reeds. plays, “The Tshmaelrtes,” and “The So much accomplished, the monste Arch Traitor.” I was a little inclined leaped back again into the clouds r to place quite a bit of capital on my from that time to the present cycle “Arch Traitor,” and I intended at an have not visited our valley. early day to give it an airing on the The moral of it is. however, that the | stage. In the meantime, however, I West has not always had a monopoly thought it would be no harm to have of cyclones. I would like to tell of ] a New York dramatic critic give it a some powder mill explosions that our . reading. Shortly after- then was plac¬ valley experienced, and how men who ed on the stage in New York, most Mrs. Kate Atkinson, etaoin nupj np singular to tell, a piece or drama with were never on the battlefield can tell features so close to my play • that I what havoc and ruin result from the | have since been of the opinion that explosion of a hundred kegs of powder somewhere in New1 York city there is i We have also had our mighty flood- some person who thinks very, much I ing and overflow of the Lackawanna | along the same lines that I do. How¬ river, when houses were swept out into ever, I will scarcely send any more of my productions to New York city to be *■110 stream and quite a number of live3 placed under the eyes of some one for lost. his, or her (it was a her in that case), The Lackawanna valley has had its vicissitudes and tribulations in full opinion of its merits. measure, but it has been, nevertheless, There is a notion prevailing that you a happy domestic retreat for many must go away from home if you w'ould tens of thousands or poor humanity wonders. I know' to the contrary, who have a true appreciation of God’s however. I saw' a cyclone one sum¬ great goodness and love for man. mer’s day in ^rchbald, and I saw what I would call ar. abortive cyclone in Southern Kansas.. As to the Kansas : affair, mv son and I rode from the i border of the Indian territory up into 1 Kansas, fourteen miles, about midday. SMITH, JONES AND OTHERS, When starting out we saw among the (By W. H. Stanton.) that were moving slowly in the Whenever the story’s told direction that we were traveling, a pe¬ Of Smith, and Jones and Brown, culiarly shaned cloud that resembled We forget that rustic bold, Vr-rv much, a large ball of fire. When The Reub who comes to town. we "reached our destination it took us ab mt thirty minutes to transact busi¬ Mow Reub from out the country, ness at the county court house, and. as ive iapproached the depot on our re¬ Quite often, slides to town, nd to make known his entree, turn there came from: a cloudy sky. some very large hailstones-that seemed He goes to hunt up Brown. to fall leisurely from the hand of some one up in that cloud. "While we were nd Brown knows about one Smith, pondering over this Southwestern way Who also lives in town; of doing the hailstorm act. out from mith owns a faro out-fit. this leaden sky dropped an immense Which has charms for said Brown. black body, appearing to be about a - half-mile square at its 'iloud-ba.se, and This doughty Smith well knows Brown, ] tapering to a point, where it almost \nd Brown knows Smith too well, touched the depot building ind Smith knows the sports of tow n, | There were a number of us at the As all the folks can tell. depot building by that time, the pas- •V-enger train having Just arrived, but Mow Reub and Smith and this Brown, all we d^d was to stand in our tracks And Jones who knows a lot. and think a good deal. bnce painted this nice old town— The scampish old cyclone monster did Yes, painted it red hot. nothing for the next half hour but roar like ten thousand lions and flash light¬ They dared to buck the tiger. ning so effectually that at the end of They pulled his w'aving tan; about that period there was a new lay¬ teub drank a lot of cider. er of clouds in the heavens. If there And later went to jail. had been a little wind behind that cloud. remarked one of the oldest Then tangled legs brought tir’d Jones] settlers shortly after, the pretty town To lie where tramps had slept, of Winfield, and we, too, would never There he snooz’d, on softest stones, be heard of thereafter. While stars their vigils kept. That’s the w'ay they would do things in the breezy southwest, ut in Arch¬ And these sports,both Smith and Biown bald the whole thing passed off in a Didn’t see much need of light, i more matter of fact way. The day As they snugly cuddled down, 1 was hot enough to melt metal. No liv¬ In deepest mud, that night. ing thing could be seen aoroad. All at once, on the hill or mcmtain top, back Here’s the moral of this lay, of the Eaton-Simpson colliery, ap¬ People should go to bed; peared a huge black body, hanging Why not use the hours of day. from the clouds, with a fail to it, appar¬ To make the town look red? ently hundred 61 long, and this .. „—— i body and tail, rotary motion 81

'"Her husband, standing near her one CHAPTER II. ■ day, saw a gray hair •shining from CAPITAL. APPEARS TO BULLETS. among her raven tresses, and when he Prom the foregoing’ chapter the read¬ joked with her about a twenty-nine- er perceives that the cause of labor year-old head growing the hairs oi o-d will be the weft crossing the warp of age she answered that in her case, 1 this' growth was simply a badge of I this narrative. mourning for the victims of corporate The toil that brings the daily bread, rapacity; and, she added, looking at | underlies the whole system of gov¬ ernment, for man is erect ana con¬ their three children, “what despau and even desperation would he ours, were j scious of his manhood, or a clinging and submissive slave, according to the these little bairns to be crying to us, for food, an are hundreds of little chil¬ conditions under which he performs dren, to their parents in this region of labor aJid service for his fellow-man. boundless resources,. and we could get Henry Esmonde. who, from the mo- I merit of crossing the threshold of man¬ none to give them.” Thus the wife’s wit and feeling utter¬ hood. took a prominent part in the ances helped to keep Esmonde’s mind several struggles carried on between and thoughts more intensely centered corporations engaged in iron, steel and on the problem of emancipating labor. cither manufacturing industries, and The laboring classes appreciated the coal operations in his section of the loyalty of the Esmonde household to , country and their employees, saw early their cause,and the profoundent secrets following the war between the North of labor assemblages were not too and the South that the immerse and sacred to be freely mentioned in the colossal fortunes thrown into the hands Esmonde family circle by any member of a, very limited number by the op¬ of the meeting who might afterwards portunities for plunder offered during call there. If Esmonde advised to a that struggle, would inevitably result course that did not run within_the_ in degrading and reducing to base ser¬ metes and- bouh3s~~tHat the~ undisci¬ vitude the masse®, unless they could plined and impetuous minds of the he educated to a realization that by masses were inclined to pursue, they casting their ballets for the friends stayed their steps in deference to his of labor they would put such men in counsel. control of the public offices, and thus i It was at this time well known by holding up the standard of labor them,through even corporation sources, against all aggressions. that shortly before, when as editor and His every exhortationtolaboring-men, labor advocate, Esmonde could have wherever he addressed a body of them defeated the labor cause in a strike un¬ (and un to the time the readers hears dertaken for the purpose of obtaining of him in the company of Ishmael, m an advance of wages, that he refused of the city of New York, when he was an offer of dollars amounting to a snug rounding off a season of lectures whose fortune, made by the corporations, if delivery caused him to speak at points he would drop his advocacy- of the em¬ scattered over a large portion of the ployees’ cause. territory of the country) was to or¬ As the summer advanced, and the ganize political, and put honest men m wage question still remained unadjust¬ the control of the government. ed, some restless spirits among the la¬ Esmonde reasoned 'that if the masses boring men, few in number, but so act- should choose and elect the Legisla¬ tive as to be omnipresent, began to tli*. tive, Executive and Judicial officers of hither and thither, and to advise the government, there would he men in enforcement of stringent measures in authority whom the power of gold order to empty the shops, mills, and could not seduce. mines of a certain small number of the His return from New York to the employes, who, refusing to stop work, community where he resided brought continued to labor, doing as the em¬ him face to tece with scenes that were ployees who had gone out termed it, daily be co rtf. life' more and more fre¬ “scab” labor. . quent in the labor centers of the coun ¬ This movement on the one side, set try as wealth continued to accumulate in motion a small band of brainless, in the hands of the few. bumptious fellows on the other side, Thousands of laborers were deprived ; who like the doughty editor Scabb, be¬ of work because they refused to give j lieved in blood-letting' as the best rem¬ their services for wages thait would edy to subdue laboring men who were not afford them a livelihood. audacious enough to set a price upon His wife and children had many piti¬ their labor. ful stories to tell him of the utted des¬ So one-day, while the few working¬ titution prevailing in the families of men who believed in a policy of sever¬ hundreds of mechanics, miners and ity and exaction were going from shop laborers in that fair region of country to mill and from mine to pit, calling on in which (the community where they all to throw down their tools, and who resided was located. were while on this march, gathering The Esmonde family circle was a around thei r a large body of people, of sympathetic one, and. their hearts all sexes £ nd of all stations in life, grieved when looking on the scenes of drawn thither by curiosity simply, this poverty prevailing. blood-lettin? squad, armed with the Mrs. Esmonde, although petite and latest impioved breech-loading rifles, of delicate health, was ever alert to met them, land without word of warn¬ carry succor to the needy and dis¬ ing fired a -volley into the mass of un- ( tressed. suspecting people, killing two, and Her large, brown eyes and mobile wounding many. I features spoke volumes of indignation It was a wanton destruction of lit-, whenever she saw a victim of and when the news was carried I "Man’s inhumanity to man.” ., xn.'ix wriwrr; ol country, Hffi AessTdh very Shortly after, the aousands of workingmen who had ! sons who did the killing were arraii bt;oh opposed to any exhibition of force, to answer for the crime of murder, indued to meet violence with vio- j The great corporations then appeal lence: I on 1 he scetife. Esmonde who was only a short dis¬ Under their protecting aegis, they tance from the scene of the shooting who did the shooting, sat in the court. at the moment that it occurred, real¬ ized on the instant that there would The judges who presided, had been be a cry of blood for blood, and .ie in the employ—or perhaps more prop¬ thereupon prepared to avert conse¬ erly. had been pensioners at the hand? quences that would be terrible not only | of these corporations for many year? to those who had taken life, but to the before their elevation to the bench. class to which they belonged, and to The trial was consequently farcical. their innocent wives and children. ; The fudges, who, as a great advo¬ fie sent quick messengers for a cou¬ cate once said of a vicious judiciary, ple of dozen good men, true and tried were "foundlings of fortune,” and had in the ranks of labor, and dispatched become “overwhelmed in the torrent of them in many directions, with instruc¬ corruption at an early' period,” direct¬ tions to argue and reason with their ed a verdict of acquittal to be entered, brother-laborers until they could get and they were actually apologetic in them to agree not to take action indi¬ i tone to the persons at whose trial, on vidually, but to hold meetings in ev¬ j £io grave a charge, they were in duty ery hamlet district, and ward, and then bound to "preside without fear, favor, to move as these meetings should de¬ or affection. termine to be the wisest and the best Here was a new revelation to the course. men who earned their bread by toil At the same time Esmonde ^>et vig and sweat. orously to work obtaining the evidence Even the judiciary of certain of the necessary for the successful prosecu¬ courts were agencies in the hands of tion of ■ the-, pi rties who fired to take the capitalistic employers whenever 1J1 t*. . i they might need to use them. How to He found, an the course of his inves¬ meet this newly unmasked danger, tigations, that the larger portion of was now the question. ( those who carried suns that day were The election of a successor to one of not to blaimf for the shooting, and that ;• the judges who presided at this trial, none were mere grieved than they at j the terrible results of the deed pet pe¬ was to take place in a few months. The corporations, the bench-fed law¬ trated by a reckless and malicious few yers, and the political caucuses, had of their number. He ascertaine-d that a few corpora- already declared in favor of making tion-understlrappers of cruel and cow¬ this incumbent of the bench his own ardly natures, and a minister of the successor. gospel (?) Blank, by name and nature, The projectors of the scheme were a person who believed that Manunon doomed to disapointment, however. is the true God, and that he who serves The laboring classes began to ask at his shrine is nearest Heaven, were themselves whether thev had not enough of voters within Itheir own the authors of all the trouble. Esmonde found in the course of this ranks, to elect whomsoever they investigation that which every day’s wished. experience reveals, to wit, that the It only needed a suggestion to cause true American citizen is conservative; them to make the experiment. that he believes in the power of the By common impulse, they made ballot, and resorts with abhorrence to Henry Esmonde their candidate for the the use of the bullet. office of judge. The persons, except about a half Before touching upon Esmonde’s po¬ dozen ,who were asked, to handle rifles litical campaign, the condition of labor on this occasion, were told that there in other parts of the country is worthy would be no shooting, and that a pub¬ of some mention. lic appearance would be of the dress- Strikes and lock-outs were prevailing parade order- throughout the United States, in a very great number of the chief mining The few who started out to kill, by manufacturing, and railroad towns. this deception involved a large number There was a spirit of unrest existing. of generous-hear ted men in a crime The high-protective tariff written whose commission in their heaxts they in the statute-books, at the dictation most strongly condemned. of corporate capital, operated simply 1 The few days time involved in get- in the direction of making the rich I ting, by public meetings, the sense of grow richer, and the poor, poorer. i the laboringmen of that region of The death-dealing shots fired among 1 country as to the course to be pursued Esmonde’s townspeople, were imitat¬ i toward tho.se who did the kiliing, gave ed elsewhere throughout the country; | time for passion to subside, and when and wherever the corporations had not the representatives of these several a sufficient number of parasites' with gatherings assembled to declare the the quality of blood-thirstiness suffi¬ result of their deliberations it was ciently developed to nerve them to found that their voices were for order shoot down workingmen, the governors and the prosecution in the courts of the of states supplied an armed militia persons who shot and killed their fel- to go forward with the murderous low-workmen. work. At the next term, of the oyer and ter¬ In some places the long-suffering miner cOtirtf of the county which was laboring classes turned on the gun- 83

ITTwas"understood in labor crrolef. carry ng hirelings ( f that if money was offered to. them tal ,a id shot many of them de: for their votes, that the receipt of if their tracks. imposed no obligation. Day after day the newspapers were | Consequently, despite jthe vast , filled fi'. ith accounts of these collisions, j amount of money used against. Es-» and now and then mention jvas made ■ mopde, he was elected by thousands of of Dark Ishmael here, and Dark T.sh- a majority. . ; rnael Jthere. quieting by his presence This was among the early pitched the fiercest tumults and most deadly battles on a political field, between conflicts. some of the wealthiest corporations of Whin afterwards Ishmael wrote to the country and their employees, and Esmonde, he narrated his experience the result was an overwhelming vie- , or. sdfne of these occasions. tor}' for the cause of labor. His, account of them made very in¬ Esmonde was his simple self in the teresting reading. He argued in his letters against vio¬ midst of the universal julfilation in lence, however, saying that while it is labor circles, and when there came congratulations on his* success from all necessary to show the capitalistic ty¬ sections of the country, from not only rants of the North, tha* their em¬ the laboring people, but from many ployees will never consent to he re¬ j men of honestly acquwed wealth, who duced to 'the state of slavery and ser¬ believed in fair elections and a. faith¬ vitude from which the colored people ful administration of the laws, it only of the south were lately delivered and ’ served to strengthen him In the resolu¬ emancipated, still we have the power tion formed in his very youth that the to do it even more effectually by the public trust confided to him would ballot than by the bullet. he most scrupulously and conscien¬ In his communications he more than tiously guarded and administered. once scored the policy styled high-pro¬ Mrs. Esmonde’s pleasure at her bus-1 tective tariff, in most scathing terms; band’s success, was overcast by a de-Lt and he asked, “It is possible that the . ! gree of gloom that the burden of his1; laboring men of the North will longer labors and responsibilities, now heavy' allow the present giant humbug, call¬ enough, would be increased after his. ed protection, to be further Haunted * assumption of office. in their’faces? Whv do they take as their exponents On one occasion when she was con-j on legislative questions, humbug com¬ gratulated by an acquaintance on the moners who owe their positions in con¬ social distinction that elevation to the office carried with it, s'he answered gress to the moneys that the owners that the family wanted no place in of railroads, the mine-operaters and society that they were not entitled to the large manufacturers every two on honest merit, that they would be years, spend with lavish hand, to elect the same to all in the future as in the ' and re-elect them?” past, and that official pretentiousness It gratified Esmonde to learn tha was most repugnant to her husband’s Ishmael was asserting his leadership sense of good citizenship. at this critical moment, and that his cool judgment was not only planning t Ishmael wrote saying many thing? to prevent violence, but was also de¬ complimentary and congratulatory.and vising to lead the lately enraged labor closing with these words: ‘‘Tour sue- . masses from further physical eneoun- cess has taught the laboring men of ] ter, to the consideration of the most the country that through the ballot- box lies their road to safety. You will vital economic questions. Esmonde knew that no excesses be a just judge, and it is simple jus¬ tice that the masses seek.” would be perpetrated under Ishmael’s Editor Scabb wks among those who guidance, and tha.t although the labor¬ would not be consoled. His subsidized ing neopre had been so outrageously sheet Had Tjeen“ the most blatant treated by the minions of capital that mouthpiece of the corporationse during destruction of life and property would the campaign, and having assured his appear to he almost justifiable retalia¬ readers that Esmonde would be beaten tion! still Ishmael was too just, gen- by thousands of a majority, he even erorfe and brave, to allow the innocent went so far in conjunction with a few portion of the population of the coun¬ other like spirits in his desperate try lo be involved in loss of life and work, as to advocate the withholding property, because of the excesses and of Esmonde’s commission by the gov- i criny-s of those, who, possessing vast eraor. wealth, were trying 'to reduce freemen But although the election of Es¬ to a condition of slavery. monde was not palatable to the Chief ES nonde Was now the central figure | Executive officer of the state, who of the political contests of the year. was beholden to the corporations for The corporations and large capital¬ the office that he was holding, still ists' were thoroughly aroused to the, he refused to follow the rash editor in fact that they might through the agi¬ his lawless course. tation in labor circles, lose their con- The commission was issued, despite t.roi_or rather ownership, of the Judi¬ all underhand efforts, and Esmonde ciary of this portion of the state. wrote to Editor Scabb thanking him A vast sum was thereupon raised by _his opposition. 4 them in the money centers, to corrupt and demoralize the labor hosts. But the moneys thus raised, and later paid out for these infamous ends, reached men who knew their duty to labor in the premises._ — i ■

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