/ T 4 s DURHAM Library Association* Book -r-t=x-^f-^. Volume —-?rf^ Source Received Cost Accession No- . »*v>V THE GRANITE MONTHLY A New Hampshire Magazine DEVOTED TO HISTORY, BIOGRAPHY, LITERATURE, AND STATE PROGRESS VOLUME XXXVll CONCORD, N. H. PUBLISHED BY THE GRANITE MONTHLY COMPANY 1904 N V.37 Published, 1904 By the Granite Monthly Company Concord, N. H. Printed and Illustrated by the Rumford Printing Company (Rum/ord Press) Concord, AVtc Hn>n.fishire, U. S. A. The Granite Monthly. CONTENTS OF VOLUME XXXVIl. yiily—December, igo^. Ayres, Philip W., Thk Poorest Situation in New Hampshire and How to Change It ......... 65 Baynes, Ernest Harold, George I. Putnam .... 49 Beede, Eva J., Midsu.mmer {poem) ...... 87 Blake, Amos J., Sketch of the Life and Character of Col. Amos A. Parker 104 Boody, Louis Milton, The Front Fence ..... 43 Brown, Gilbert Patten, John Stark, the Hero of Bennington 73 Buflfum, Jesse H.. Dempsey's Trick ...... 68 Carr, Laura Garland, A Fact {poem) . 72 Chesley, Charles Henry, On the Tide {poetn) .... 17 Clough, William O., Crayon Portrait of Abraham Lincoln . lOI Colby, H. B., A Glass of Ale ....... 3 Charles C. Hayes ........ 15 Dempsey's Trick, Jesse H. BuiTum ...... 68 Editorial Notes : An Automobile Law ....... 88 Road Improvements under State Supervision . 89 Some Lessons from the Berlin, N. H., Fire . 133 Road Improvement in So.me of Our Smaller Towns 134 Fact, A {poem) , Laura Garland Carr ...... 72 Farr, Ellen Burpee, Our "Old Home Week"' {poem) 57 Forest Situation in New Hampshire, The, and I low to Change W. Ayres .......... 65 Front Fence, The, Louis Milton Boody ..... 43 Glass of Ale, A, H. B. Colbv H., A. H., The Hope Plant {poem) .... 76 Hayes, Charles C, H. B. C 15 Hope Plant, The {poem), A. H. H 76 Leslie, H. G., M. D., Shoreline Sketches—Thanksgiving 59 Lincoln, Abraha.m, Crayon Portrait of, William O. Clough lOI 4»'3 5'i IV CONTENTS. Midsummer {poem), Eva J. Beede ......... 87 On the Tide {poem), Charles Henry Chesley . • 17 Our "Old Home Week" {poetn), Ellen Burpee Farr ..... 57 Parker, Col. Amos A., Sketch of the Life and Character of, Amos J. Blake, Esq. .104 Putnam, George I., Ernest Harold Baynes ....... 49 Roberts, Col. James, of Berwick, Maine, John Scales . 2,-j Sanborn, F. B., of Concord, Massachusetts, History and Poetry from the Life of . 19, 77, iii Scales, John, Col. James Roberts of Berwick, Maine ..... 37 Shoreline Sketches—Thanksgiving, H. G. Leslie, M. D 59 Stark, John, the Hero of Bennington, Gilbert Patten Brown • 73 State Highway Work in the White Mountains, John W. Storrs ... 95 Storrs, John W., State Highway Work in the White Mountains . 59 T., A., Vanitas Vanitatu.m (^poetn) . 43 Vanitas Vanitatum {poem), A. T. -43 THE CLOCK TOWER, FRANK JONES BREWING CO., PORTSMOUTH, N. H. The Granite Monthly. Vol. XXXVir. JULY, 1904. No. 1. View From Clock Tower. A GLASS OF ALE. With pictures from the plant of the Frank Jones Brewing Company, Portsmouth, N. H. By H. B. Colby. Ale is a decoction of barley to It would appear from these records which is added a certain quantity of that barley must have furnished a hops and yeast, and is then allowed to national beverage for many years be- ferment to a given degree, when it is fore that book's earliest date. It is drawn off into barrels and permitted also related that Osiris, about 2017 B. to age perfectly before it is ready for C, found "barley-wine" in the the use of the consumer. Egyptian city of Pelusium; again, we It has been made in some form or are told, in another place, that about other since the very earliest ages of 3000 B. C, in the Nile land, four which we have any reliable record; kinds of beer were known. for we find that the Egyptians made Herodotus (484 B. C.) speaks only a decoction of barley which was used of a barley-wine known to the as a beverage more than five thousand Egyptians, and even asserts that the years ago, according to the estimates grape was not found on the soil of of the most eminent Egyptologists of Egypt. A native of Greece, where the present day. It played a most the grape has been cultivated since important part in their mythology dim ages of the past and where wine ' ' and is mentioned in the Book of the drinking was ever the universal cus- ' ' Dead, which is the record of the an- tom, Herodotus was plainly an entire cient Egyptian kings, and which book stranger to the Egyptian juice of is at the least five thousand years old. barlev. He relates: "Their beverage A GLASS OF ALE. Private Railway in Brewery Yard. is a wine prepared by them from bar- reached England, where its manufac- ley, there being no grapes in their ture attained such absolute perfection country." Pliny (23 A. D.), speak- of brewing that the "Ale of Merrie ing of the Egyptian drink, says that England" has been for many years it is made from grain soaked in the standard of quality. By the be- water; and, as a wine-drinking Ro- ginning of the reign of Henry II the man, he deplores the fact that so English were greatly addicted to the much skill is wasted in the production use of ale. The waters of Burton- of so light a beverage. That it was on-Trent began to be famous in the made from malted grain is not alone thirteenth century. The secret of shown by the various designations of their being so especially adapted' for barley, but also by the discovery of brewing purposes was first discovered harley-malt in the ruins of ancient by some monks, who have ever been Egypt. In this connection we find celebrated in poetry and painting as no mention at all of hops, so it is good and great drinkere, and the mon- most probable that they used pungent asteries were remarkable for the roots and certain spices for the flavors strength and purity of their ales, to suit the popular taste. brewed from malt prepared by the The formulas for the making of monks with great care and skill. barley-wine, and many variations of A record still extant and bearing the same, were evidently carried date of 1295 (think of it), bears wit- gradually from one country to an- ness of a re-lease of certain lands and other, by occasional travelers and by tenements in the adjacent neighbor- the incessant invasions of warring hood of Wetmore to the abbot and armies, and in due course of time convent of Burton-on-Trent at a daily A GLASS OF ALE. rental, during the life of the lessor, "for we brought neither beer nor of two white loaves from the monas- water with us from the ship, and our tery, two gallons of conventual beer, only victuals was biscuit and Holland ' ' and one penny, besides seven gallons cheese and a little bottle of brandy. of beer for the men. The brewers of And later when on board ship they Biirton-on-Trent are more famous to- were debating as to the advisability day than ever before. INIiehael of establishing a permanent settle- Thomas Bass, who died in 1884, was ment on Cape Cod, the same record ' ' noted for his industry, integrity, abil- says : We had yet some beer, butter, ity, and public liberality (especially flesh, and other victuals left, which to religious and educational works). would quickly be all gone; and then For thirty-three years he also repre- we should have nothing to comfort us. sented Derby in the British parlia- . So in the morning, after we had ment. ]\Iichael Arthur, his eldest called on God for direction, we came son, succeeded him in the manage- to this resolution—to go presently ment of the business. His parlia- ashore again and to take a better mentary career commenced in 1865 view of two places which we thought and he was created a peer, under the most fitting for us; for we could not title of Lord Burton, during the last now take time for further search or Gladstone administration. consideration, our victuals being Beer was brought from old Eng- much spent, especially our beer, and land to New England by the passen- it being now the 19th of December." gers on the Mayflower, and we find in Later we find: "Monday, the 25th, Young's "Chronicles of the. Pil- 1620, being Christmas day, we began grims," that, after a two days' pur- to drink water aboard. But, at suit of Indians on Cape Cod, they night, the master caused us to have stood much in need of fresh water. some beer, but on shore none at all." Store where Ale is Matured. A GLASS OF ALE. A Floor in the Mal.t House. A year later, one of the Pilgrims started a brewery on Bridge St., but writing to a friend in England, tells soon moved to Market St. Swindels him, in shipping goods for the colony : was a thorough master of the art of **Let your casks for beer be iron- brewing and made a good quality of ' ' bound. But so far as I can find out ale, but he lacked the business capac- there is no record of the arrival of ity essential to success, so in 1856 he this beer in any kind of casks. One sold an interest in the brewery to John Jenny, a brewer by trade, came Frank Jones, and in 1861 Mr.