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1847 


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THIS  SPECIAL  EDITION 

Containing  all  the  Numbers  of 

Vols.  II  &  III 


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ijfHIS  book  contains  Vols.  II  and  III  of  The  Silver 
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^sfes    Standard.   Both  bear  the  date  1847 — as,  in  good 

time,  will  Vol.  IV  and  its  successors.  If  the  Standard 
successfully  "covers"  that  year,  no  more  will  be  re- 
quired of  it. 

The  items  here  reprinted  are  taken  from  many 
and  various  sources  —  newspapers,  magazines  and 
books  of  sixty  years  ago.  It  would  be  impossible  to 
give  credit  everywhere  where  credit  is  due,  but  it  may 
not  be  amiss  to  mention  some  of  the  sources  of  The 
Standard's  contents,  as  follows  :  Scientific  American, 
American  Review,  Gleason's  Pictorial  Drawing-Room 
Companion,  Democratic  Review,  Graham's  Magazine, 
Hunt's  Merchants'  Magazine,  United  States  Magazine, 
New  York  Mirror,  Hampden  Post,  Anglo-American, 
Boston  Almanac,  New  York  Sun,  Fisher's  Magazine, 
Hartford  and  New  Haven,  Conn.,  papers  and  Godey's 
Lady's  Book. 

The  authorities  consulted  in  the  preparation  of  the 
sketches  of  cities  are  given,  for  the  most  part,  in  the 
text  of  the  articles  themselves. 


ESTABLISHED  IN  1847  BY  ROGERS  BROS. 


Vol.   II.     No.  1. 


FEBRUARY,   1847. 


Fivk  Gents. 


OUR  COUNTRY 
IN  YEAR  1847 

REVIEW  OF  UNITED  STATES 
BY  HORACE  GREELEY 


WONDERFUL  ADVANCE  MADE  IN  SCIENCE 

THAT  CONTRIBUTES  TO  OUR  HEALTH 

AND  COMFORT. 


Mr.  Horace  Greeley 
contributes  the  follow- 
ing : 

The  great  strides 
which  Physical  Im- 
provement has  made  in 
our  day  have  been 
worthily  the  theme  of 
frequent  and  forcible  ob- 
servation. Canals,  out 
of  China,  were  rare  and 
of  small  account  before 
the  commencement  of 
the  present  century; 
Steamboats  were  un- 
dreamed of ;  Railroads 
a  palpable  impossibility. 

Think  of  our  grand- 
mothers' indignation  at 
the  mendacious  vagrant 
who  should  have  told 
them  that  a  man  might 
travel  from  Boston  to 
Baltimore  within  twe.n  - 
ty-four  hours,  riding  in 
a  twenty  ton  vehicle 
I  ropelled  by  fire  and 
water ! 

Yet  to  us,  though 
Steamboats  have  been 
but  forty  and  Railroad; 
hardly  ten  years  in  be- 
ing, these  have  ceased 
to  be  wonders;  the 
marvels  of  Steam 
Presses  and  Electric 
Telegraphs  have  super- 
seded them ;  and  tfnse 
in  turn  are  destined  soon 
to  be  supplanted  by 
others. 

Ten  years  since  I  at- 
tended by  invitation  a 
private  exhibition  cf 
Professor  Morse's  new- 
ly invented  Electric 
Telegraph.  It  was  at 
the  New  York  Univer- 
sity, and  sentences  and 
mescages  were  trans- 
mitted through  a  coil  of 
wire  said  to  be  ten  miles 
long,  and  read  off  to  a 
wondering  crowd,  most 
of  whom  doubtless  re- 
garded the  machinery, 
batteries,  &c,  &c,  as 
quite  ingenious,  but 
fantastic,  and  evidenc- 
ing a  deplorable  misuse 
of  tine  and  means. 

Now,  there  are  thou- 
sands of  miles  of  tele- 
graphic communication 
in  this  country  alone, 
and  I  sit  in  my  work- 
room in  New  York  and 


wnte  out  a  question  to 
ask  a  friend  in  Cincin- 
nati or  Richmond,  to 
which  his  answer  is  laid 
on  my  table  in  the 
course  of  two  hours 
thereafter!  (But  for 
the  delay  in  twice  cross- 
ing the  broad  Hudson 
by  ferry-boat  in  default 
of  telegraphic  connec- 
tion, this  time  would  be 
much  shorter.)  A  few 
/ears  hence  the  people 
of  Oregon  will  read  at 
3  P.  M.  in  their  news- 
papers the  result  cf  di- 
visions of  either  house  at 
Washington  at  5  P.M. 
of  the  same  day ;  for 
iime  is  not  merely  anni- 
hilated by  t!:e  telegraph ; 
it   is  abscLtely  out-run 

anticpated ;  so  that 
ticimgs  in  parsing  west- 
waid  will  be  constantly 
received  i..  advance  of 
the  hour  of  sending 
them. 

Already  the  arrival 
of  a  steamship  (itself 
one  of  our  new  though 
not  newest  wonders)  iz 
announced  in  New 
York  some  minutes  ear- 
lier than  the  actual  dale 
of  the  arrival ;  and  soon 
the  merchants  of  New 
Orleans  will  read  the 
foreign  news  received  at 
Boston  at  least  an  hour 
earlier  (in  the  day)  than 
their  brethren  in  Boston 
itself !  The  immense 
revolution  in  habits, 
opinions,  policy,  and 
ideas  which  this  magic 
wire  is  destined  to  ef- 
fect, can  hardly  yet  be 
realized. 

And  when  we  hear 
that  some  one  in  Cin- 
cinnati has  just  invented 
a  means  of  transporting, 
at  a  very  moderate  ex- 
pense, a  traveler  from 
that  city  to  New  York 
within  two  hours,  (is 
this  swifter  or  slower 
than  the  medium  speed 
of  a  cannon-ball?)  th» 
natural  sentiment  is  no 
longer  incredulity  nor 
even  surprise ;  we  sim- 
ply await  with  interest 
and  curiosity  the  devel- 
opment of  his  plan. 


THE  FUTURE 
OF  TEXAS 

SOME    TIMELY    QUESTIONS 
BEING  ASKED 


HOW  ARE  WE  TO  GOVERN  THE  RECENTLY 

ANNEXED    TERRITORY?     NORTH 

AND  SOUTH. 


T"HE  likeness  of  Horace  Greeley  in  this  number  is,  we  think, 
*  a  good  one.  It  is  characteristic.  The  carelessness  in  dress,  the 
unstudied  simplicity  of  address,  the  honest,  unpretending  truthfulness 
of  heart  that  make  up  the  man  himself,  as  he  is  seen  by  the  world, 
we  can  also  see  in  this  picture. 


The  immense  ad- 
vances of  the  half  cen- 
tury just  closing,  in 
Arts,  Manufactures 
and  Productive  Capac- 
ity, open  too  wide  a 
field  to  be  more  than 
glanced  at  here.  Low- 
ell, Manchester,  Law- 
rence are  but  types  of 
the  Industrial  Revolu- 
tion which  is  rapidly 
transforming  the  whole 
civilized  world.  Com- 
merce and  Manufact- 
ures are  the  first  to 
acknowledge  its  power; 
but  Agriculture  is  cer- 
tain to  follow  in  their 
path. 

The  petty  farm  and 
separate  cottage  will 
experience  the  fate  of 
the  household  loom  and 
spinning  wheel.  In  the 
existing  destitution,  of- 
ten unto  suffering,  cf  a 
large  proportion  of  the 
Laboring  Class,  it  is 
morally  impossible  that 
the  dictates  of  Econ- 
omy, of  Labor-saving, 
should  for  any  length  of 
time  be  generally  re- 
sisted. 

The  consciousness 
that  twenty  men's  con- 
joint labor,  aided  by  the 
most  approved  machin- 
ery, can  effect  more 
than  that  of  fifty  men 
scattered  on  twenty  to 
forty  farms,  cut  up  into 
little  patches  and  culti- 
vated by  the  aid  of  such 


implements  as  pertain  to 
such  farms  and  farmers, 
must  inevitably  in  time 
produce  its  natural  re- 
sult. Either  through  an 
Industrial  Feudalism  or 
a  more  Republican 
combination  of  efforts 
for  mutual  benefit,  a 
transformation  of  Rural 
Labor  is  at  hand.  The 
course  may  yet  be 
varied, but  the  momen- 
tum is  already  given. 

TIGHT  PANTA- 
LOONS AND  TO- 

BACCO-The  num- 
ber on  the  sick  list  at 
West  Point,  last  year, 
caused  some  investiga- 
tion to  be  made,  and  the 
surgeon  represents  the 
causes  to  be  the  inordin- 
ate quantity  of  tobacco 
used  by  them,  and  the 
practice  of  wearing  pan- 
taloons so  tight  around 
the  waist  as  to  interfere 
with  digestion. 

THE  QUICKEST 
TRIP   YET-The 

Mail  Pilot  line  made 
the  passage  from  New 
York  to  this  city,  on 
Tuesday  evening,  in  the 
unprecedented  quick 
time  of  three  hours  and 
fifty  minutes.  This  is 
the  quickest  trip  ever 
made  from  New  York 
tr>  Philadelphia  by  a 
train  of  passenger  cars. 
Phil.  N.  Amer. 


EMIGRATION 
TO  CALIFORNIA 
— A  correspondent  to 
the  Journal  of  Com- 
merce writing  from 
Monterey,  California, 
under  the  date  of  Sep- 
tember 19th,  1846, 
states  that  3000  emi- 
grants from  the  United 
States,  it  is  understood, 
have  just  arrived  at  San 
Francisco,  in  two  com- 
panies, one  commanded 
by  Capt.  Hastings  and 
he  other  by  Capt. 
Prussel,  and  ten  thou- 
sand more  are  on  their 
way. 

MORALS  1 N 
CONNECTICUT 

Morris,  the  manager  of 
a  strolling  company  of 
players,  has  been  fined 
$60,  in  Manchester, 
Ct.  The  charge  was, 
that  "said  Morris,  with 
force  and  arms,  and 
with  a  view  of  gain, 
did  cause  certain  fe- 
males, dressed  in  wom- 
en s  clothes,  to  whirl 
round  swiftly  on  one 
foot,  with  the  other  ex- 
tended at  right  angles, 
and  in  a  horizontal  po- 
sition. 

"Tar  and  Feathers" 
of  the  right  sort.  A 
Mr.  Tarr,  in  Newport, 
has  married  a  widow 
by  the  name  of  Feath- 
ers. 


The  annexation  of 
Texas,  was,  no  doubt, 
tolerated  by  public 
opinion,  in  consequence 
of  the  fanaticism  dis- 
played by  a  portion  of 
the  North,  who  lost  no 
opportunity  to  irritate 
the  feelings,  and  threat- 
en to  invade  the  rights 
of  the  South  those 
rights  which  were  se- 
cured by  our  common 
bond  of  union. 

The  war  was  a  con- 
sequence of  the  annex- 
ation of  Texas  and  the 
further  annexation  of 
distant  regions  seems  to 
have  been  the  object ; 
for  the  proclamations  of 
our  Generals  and  Com- 
modores, from  the  in- 
terior of  Mexico  and 
the  shores  of  the  Pacific 
appear  to  have  been 
warranted  by  tbe  spirit 
of  their  instructions. 

How  are  we  to  gov- 
ern the  conquered 
States?  Are  we,  like 
Rome  of  old,  to  hold 
them  in  subjection  and 
treat  them  as  tributaries 


of  our  republic?  or  are 
we  to  retain  them  as 
territories  ?  or  are  we  to 
incorporate  them  into 
our  Union? 

How  will  the  East- 
ern States  approve  of 
this  gigantic  extension  of 
the  area  of  the  old  Con- 
federacy over  a  whole 
hemisphere  of  Foreign 
States? 

How  will  the  South 
relish  the  increase  and 
spread  of  our  own  pop- 
ulation over  these  dis- 
tant and  fertile  regions, 
if  they  shall  be  admitted 
on  a  footing  of  equality; 
and  in  what  form  or 
shape,  and  under  what 
circumstances  can  the 
Southern  Atlantic 
States  be  benefited  by 
this  wholesale  incorpo- 
ration ? 

Questions  such  as 
these  begin  to  be  enter- 
tained ;  they  already 
possess  some  interest ; 
they  will  soon  acquire 
importance. 


PUBLIC    SPIRIT 
IN  LITCHFIELD- 

Two  drovers,  named 
Purdy,  passed  through 
Litchfield,  Ct.,  on  Sun- 
day noon  last,  with  a 
drove  of  cattle  from  the 
west.andputupat  Brad- 
leyville,  four  miles  dist- 
ant. The  Rev.  Mr.  — 
accosted  them,  and  en- 
quired whether  they 
didn't  know  that  it  was 
wrong  to  drive  on  the 
Sabbath?  to  which  they 
replied  in  the  affirma- 
tive ;  but  instead  of  stop- 
ping they  went  on  to 
the  next  tavern,  four 
miles     distant.  The 

Grand  Juror  was  wait- 
ed on,  the  constable 
called  out  of  church,  a 
fleet  horse  procured,  and 
the  drovers  arrested, 
travelled  back  to  Litch- 
field, and  made  to 
"pony  up'  $12,  after 
which  the  services  in 
Mr. —  church  were  un- 
interrupted. 


A  young  gentleman 
of  this  city,  says  the 
Boston  Post,  on  a  New 
Year's  day  rectified  a 
mistake  in  his  washer- 
woman's bill,  and  paid 
her  $1.50  more  than 
she  had  charged.  This 
rare  instance  of  honesty 
coming  to  the  ears  of 
several  of  his  female  ac- 
quaintances, they  have 
resolved  to  make  and 
present  him  a  dozen 
shirts,  with  a  suitable 
inscription  with  indeli- 
ble ink. 

A  fugitive  Slave  un- 
dergoing an  examina- 
tion at  Northampton, 
when  asked  if  his  mas- 
ter was  a  Christian,  re- 
plied, "No,  sir,  he's  a 
member  of  Congress." 


The  debt  of  Penn- 
sylvania, at  the  close  of 
the  fiscal  vear  is  $40,- 
789,577. 


We  are  indebted  to  New  York  Sun,  Scientific  American,   Gleason's  Pictorial,  and  others  of  the  "1847"  period  for  material  in  this  issue. 
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The     Vintage 


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The  success  of  our  newest  pattern,  the  "Vintage, "  was  assured  from 
the  first.  During-  the  months  it  has  been  upon  the  market,  the  demand 
has  steadily  increased.  Its  beauty,  its  originality,  the  careful  workmanship 
that  marks  its  execution  have  made  the  "Vintage"  one  of  the  most  popular 
designs  ever  offered  to  the  public. 

The  employment  of  the  grape  clusters,  leaves,  and  tendrils  is  in 
eminently  good  taste,  avoiding  all  suspicion  of  freakishness,  not  forcing 
itself  upon  the  attention,  and  yet  affording  a  pleasing  deviation  from  the 
conventional. 

It  has  found  its  way  into  the  homes  of  people  of  taste  and  refinement, 
and,  we  venture  to  predict,  the  call  for  this  design  will  prove  steady. 
It  has  been  adapted  to  all  the  pieces  usually  made  in  the  "  1847  Rogers 
Bros."  line.  Like  all  "1847  Rogers  Bros."  goods,  it  is  up  to  the  standard 
established  by  Rogers  Bros,  when  they  discovered  the  process  of  electro- 
silver  plating  in   1847. 

The  trade-mark,  "  1847  Rogers  Bros.",  stands  for  quality  first,  last, 
and  all  the  time.  We  cannot  afford  to  put  out  anything  bearing  this 
trade-mark  unless  it  is  the  best.  Our  extensive  general  advertising  has 
educated,  and  is  educating,  the  people  to  look  for  the  "  1847  Rogers 
Bros."  trade-mark.  This  is  of  benefit  to  you  as  well  as  to  us.  We  advertise 
the  goods,   and  it  is  for  the  dealer  to  let  people  know  he  has  them. 

Our  advertising  has  been  a  factor  in  stimulating  the  demand  for  the 
"Vintage"  pattern,  but  no  amount  of  advertising  would  have  sold  the 
goods  had  they  not  met  with  public  approval.  No  dealer  will  make  a 
mistake  when  he  lays  in  a  stock  of  the   "Vintage." 


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"1847  Rogers  Bkos."— mark 

then-  1847 — and  — 1906 — now. 

Established  in  1847  by  Rogebs  Bkos. 
issued  BY 

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(International  Silver  Co.,  Success 

Vol.  II—  No.l.    FEBRUARY,  1906.    5  Cents 


THE  STANDARD  FOR   190b. 

The  first  volume  of  The  Silver  Standard 
was  received  with  so  much  favor  by  the  trade 
that  it  was  decided  to  continue  its  publication. 
In  this,  the  first  number  of  the  second  volume, 
we  have  broadened  the  scope,  and  we  feel 
very  confident  that  The 
Silver  Standard  —  although 
perhaps  not  so  much  of  a 
novelty  as  it  was  last  year 
— will  prove  even  more  in- 
teresting and  of  still  greater 
value. 

The  first  and  last  pages 
remain  as  they  were  in 
form,  reprinting  the  news 
of  1847  as  found  in  various 
newspapers  and  other  peri- 
odicals of  that  year.  The 
fourth  and  fifth  pages  will 
present  views  of  localities, 
buildings,  etc.,  as  they 
appeared  in  1847,  and  as 
they,  or  their  successors, 
appear  to-day.  A  short 
description  will  accom- 
pany the  illustrations  and 
help  the  latter  to  emphasize 
the  great  changes  that  have 
taken  place  since  1847  (as 
on  Page  4  of  the  present 
number)  or  (as  on  Page  5) 


the  striking  similarity  between  the  ideas  of 
today  and  those  of  nearly  sixty  years  ago. 

We  would  also  call  attention  to  the  excel- 
lent cut  of  Horace  Greeley  on  the  first  page. 
The  original  appeared  in  the  publication  enti- 
tled the  Nineteenth  Century,  for  the  year 
1847.  In  the  same  number  appeared  the 
article  by  Greeley  on  "Our  Country," 
which  we  reprint  on  Page  1 .  The  picture  from 
which  the  cut  was  made  was  taken  when  the 
great  editor  was  about  thirty-five  years  of  age 
and  differs  greatly  from  the  usual  picture  of 
Greeley  with  the  familiar  eruption  of  chin 
whiskers,  old  style  spectacles  and  felt  hat. 

In  delving  into  the  musty  annals  of  the  first 
naif  of  the  nineteenth  century  we  have  been 
forcibly  impressed  by  the  fact  that  the  year 
1847  was  remarkable  for  other  reasons  than 
that  great  reason  which  we  have  known  so 
long      the  discovery   of   the  electro-silver  plat- 


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CONTRAST 

PHILADELPHIA  BUILDING  IN  1847 

AND  STRUCTURE  THAT  NOW 

OCCUPIES  SITE. 

The  two  cuts  on  this  page  present  a  deci- 
ded contrast.     One  shows  the  "  Hall  of  the 
Academy  of  Natural    Sciences    of    Philadel- 
phia" as  it  stood  in  1847.     "  It  has  been  fre- 
quently said  the  building  at  the  northeast  cor- 
ner of  Broad  and  George  streets  looks  poverty 
caste,"    observed    a    magazine    of  the  period. 
"  The  building  of  which  we  speak  was  founded 
on  the  25th  of  May,  1839,  by  the  Academy 
of  Natural  Sciences  of  Philadelphia,'  a  society 
which  was  begun  on  the  25th  of  January,  1812, 
and  incorporated  by  an  act 
of   the    Legislature    of    the 
State    of   Pennsylvania   on 
the  24th  of  March,   1817. 
"The  object  of  the  Insti- 
tution   is    to    cultivate   the 
Natural     Sciences    exclus- 
ively, and  to  diffuse  a  know- 
ledge of  them  amongst  the 
people." 

To-day  the  site  of  the 
"poverty  caste"  building 
with  the  long  but  dignified 
name  is  occupied  by  the 
Land  and  Title  Company's 
sky-scraper,  shown  in  the 
lower  cut.  The  Phila- 
delphia of  1906  is  not  the 
Philadelphia  that  the  good 
people  of  1847  knew  and 
loved  and  ■  the  fact  can 
hardly  be  more  strikingly 
emphasized  than  it  is  on  this 
page. 

To  quote  once  more 
from  the  magazine  : 

"The  'Hall  of  the 
Academy  of  Natural  Sciences  of  Philadel- 
phia' is  forty-five  feet  front  on  Broad  street, 
and  one  hundred  and  fifteen  feet  on  George 
street,  with  an  elevation  of  fifty  feet.  The 
style  of  architecture  is  plain  and  unpretending  ; 
and  as  already  intimated,  the  extenor  remains 
unfinished  for  want  of  funds,  all  the  resources 
of  the  Society  being  required  to  meet  the  cur- 
rent expenses  incurred  for  preserving  the  objects 
in  the  museum,  binding,  books,  warming  and 
lighting,  etc.,  etc." 

The  "  George  street "  referred  to  in  the 
magazine  is  the  Sansom  street  of  to-day. 

The  difference  in  the  two  buildings  is  typical 
of  the  difference  in  the  methods  employed  and 
the  magnitude  of  the  business  of  to-day  and 
that  of  nearly  sixty  years  ago.  A  Philadel- 
phian  of  1 847  would  feel  himself  indeed  a 
stranger  in  a  strange  land  were  he  to  return  to 
'his  old  haunts.      

THE  ARMY  IN  1847.  1847     COINAGE— J 905. 

The  regular  army  in  Mexico,  Decern-  The  coinage  at  the  United  States  mints  and 
ber  31,  1847,  was  21,202.  This  was  branches  in  1847  was  1 5,392,344  pieces,  value 
increased  until  April  5,  1848,  there  were  $22,657,671 .69.  In  1905,  according  to  Sec- 
25,445.  The  treaty  of  peace  was  pro-  retary  of  the  Treasury  Shaw's  last  report, 
claimed  July  4,  1848,  and  the  army  was  there  were  152,422,302  pieces  coined,  the 
reduced  to  8,866.  value  being  $91,1  72,729.83. 


ing  process  by  Rogers  Bros.  During  the 
course  of  the  year  it  will  be  our  privi- 
lege to  demonstrate  this  fact  in  the  suc- 
cessive numbers  of  The  Silver  Standard. 
While  we  show  what  a  newspaper  of 
the  period  was  like  and  attempt  to  give 
a  fairly  accurate  glimpse  of  the  events 
and  thoughts,  the  customs  and  fashions 
of  the  year  1847,  we  hope,  also,  to  im- 
press upon  your  mind  the  fact  that  it  is 
nearly  sixty  years  since  the  first  Rogers 
Bros,  silver  plated  ware  was  produced 
and,  moreover,  that  the  standard  set  in 
1847  has  been  maintained  ever  since  by 
Rogers  Bros,  and  their  successors.  If  The 
Silver  Standard  succeeds  in  this  endeavor, 
and  if  it  arouses  the  interest  and  furnishes 
some  rather  unique  instruction,  it  will 
have  accomplished  its  object. 


IS  17     -TIIKN 


-THE  SILVEE   STANDARD 


now       l'.mr, 


AERIAL  FERRY 

IDEA  OF  NEWLY  COMPLETED 

STRUCTURE  DATES  BACK  TO 

THE  1847  PERIOD. 

On  the  opposite  page  our  theme  was  "Con- 
trast"; on  this  page  our  text  is:  "There  is 
nothing  new  under  the  sun."  The  two  illus- 
trations below  might  be  mistaken  for  pictures 
of  the  same  structure,  but  the  lower  one  shows 
the  aerial  feny  recently  completed  at  Duluth, 
Minn.,  bridging  the  Duluth  ship  canal— "the 
only  one  of  its  kind  in  America  and  one  of  the 
unique  sights  not  only  of  Duluth  but  of  the 
entire  country " — and  the  other  an  inventor's 
drawing  made  nearly  sixty  years  ago. 


than  the  benefits  conferred,  because  the  ship 
ping  that  passes  this  point  is  immense,  and  the 
other  business  is  comparatively  small.  But  at 
Piermont  the  shipping  is  much  less,  while  the 
Erie  Railroad  brings  to  that  point  a  world  of 
freight  and  passengers  from  the  great  West." 

The  dimensions  of  the  Duluth  bridge  are : 
Clear  span  of  381  1-2  feet;  depth  of  truss, 
50  feet;  clear  height  above  water,  135  feet. 
The  cut  shown  is  from  a  photograph  taken  at 
the  time  the  car  made  its  first  trip  across. 

The  traveling  car  is  suspended  from  the 
lower  cords  of  the  structure  by  stiff  cables.  Its 
floor  is  twelve  feet  above  the  water  line.  The 
distance  from  bank  to  bank  of  the  stream  is 
made  in  1  1  -2  minutes.  The  car  measures 
20  feet  by  30  feet,  and  has  a  capacity  of  65 
tons.  The  structure  was  built  at  a  cost  of 
about  $110,000. 

Duluth  formerly  managed  to  get  along  with 
two  old-fashioned,   flat  bottom   ferry  boats  at 


means  of  an  overhead  structure.  This  solved 
ihe  problem.  He  immediately  went  back, 
and  told  the  people  of  Duluth  about  the 
remarkable  swinging  bridge,  whereupon  they 
decided  to  build  one  like  it. 

Thus  Americans  were  forced  to  borrow 
from  France  an  invention  that  dated  back  in 
their  own  country  nearly  sixty  years. 


GROWTH  OF  MANUFACTURES. 

The  growth  of  the  United  States  since  1847 
is  shown  by  a  comparison  of  the  statistics  of 
manufactures  as  given  in  the  census  of  1 850 
and  1900.  According  to  these  figures,  there 
has  been  an  increase  in  capital  invested  ap- 
proximating seventeen-fold  ;  in  the  average 
number  of  wage-earners  the  increase  has  been 
about  four  and  one-half-fold  ;  in  amount  of 
wages  paid  about  nine-fold;  and  in  gross  value 
of  products  about  twelve-fold. 

The  population  of  the  country  in  the  same 
period  has  increased  two  and  one-quarter  fold. 

The  number  of  manufacturing  establish- 
ments in  1 900  was  5  1 2,339,  as  against  1 23,025 
in  1850. 

The  capital  was  $9,835,086,909  as   against 

$533,245,351. 

The  value  of  products  in  1900  was 
$13,014,287,498  as  compared  with  $1,019,- 
06,616  in  1850. 

The  growth  of  the  cheese,  butter  and  milk 
industry  since  1847  is  remarkable.  In  1847 
there  were  but  eight  cheese  factories  in  the 
country.  According  to  the  1900  census,  the 
cheese,  butter  and  condensed  milk  establish- 
ments numbered  9,355,  with  a  capital  of 
$36,508,015;  salaries  aggregating  $915,442; 


"  Swinging  people  and  freight  across  a 
stream  by  means  of  an  aerial  ferry  is  a  novel 
method  of  river-crossing,"  says  the  Technical 
World  Magazine,  commenting  upon  the  Duluth 
bridge. 

Mr.  H.  M.  Houghton,  of  Bergen,  N.  J., 
conceived  the  idea  about  1847.  It  is  thus 
described  in  the  Scientific  American  of  that 
time: 

"The  nature  of  the  invention  consists  of 
erecting  piers  of  a  great  height  and  placing  a 
double  track  railroad  on  the  same,  sufficiently 
high  to  allow  the  masts  of  ships  to  pass  freely 
underneath  during  the  highest  freshets  or  tides. 
A  suspension  carriage  (or  carriages)  is  em- 
ployed; it  is  hung  to  run  on  the  track  above 
and  the  platform  of  it  is  hung  so  far  below 
the  track  on  the  piers  as  to  allow  persons  and 
carriages  to  pass  on  the  suspension  carriage  or 
platform,  and  to  be  propelled  on  the  other 
side." 

Regarding  the  site  of  the  proposed  ferry 
the  Scientific  American  continued: 

"  The  question  of  erecting  a  bridge  over  the 
East  River  at  New  York  has  often  been  dis- 
cussed, but  no  bridge  could  be  erected  over  ii 
that  would  pay  expenses  and  compete  with 
ferry-boats.  That  a  bridge  could  be  erected 
there  can  be  no  doubt  at  all,  and  the  one  here 
presented  would  be  by  far  the  best  in  every 
sense  of  tfje  word. 

"To  erect  a  drawbridge  over  the  Hudson 
from  New  York  to  Jersey  City,  the  interests 
of  the  public  would  probably  suffer,  that  is 
the  damage  to  navigation   would    be    greater 


this  crossing  ;  but  the  traffic  became  so  con- 
gested that  some  other  method  had  to  be  de- 
vised. Tunneling  under  the  stream  was 
suggested,  bui  the  estimated  cost  of  nearly 
$2,000,000  made  this  scheme  impossible.  The 
war  department  would  not  permit  of  the  con- 
struction of  a  drawbridge.  Ships  could  not 
pass  under  any  other  kind  of  bridge ;  and  so 
Duluth  was  in  a  state  of  perplexity  until  one 
of  her  citizens  went  to  Rouen,  France,  and 
there  saw  traffic  hauled  across  the  Seine  by 


employing  12,865  persons,  v 
amounted  to  $6, 1  70,670.  The 
products  was  $13 1 ,199,277. 


hose    wages 
value  of  ihe 


FARM  FIGURES. 

The  number  of  farms  in  the  United  States 
in  1847  was  1,449,073.  According  to  the 
last  census  the  number  was  5,737,372.  The 
value  of  farm  property  in  1847  was  $3,967,- 
343,580;  by  the  1 900  census  $20,439,90 1,164. 


gT  1&4T   R.OGERS   BKOS 


SILVEFL.  PLATE 
THAT     WEARS 


1 


Patterns  come  and  go.  The  popularity  of  some  is  very  fleeting.  The  "Berkshire"  has 
proved  the  exception  to  the  rule.  The  demand  for  this  design  has  been  phenomenal.  It 
has  increased  rather  than  diminished.  Artistic  and  graceful,  it  has  not  made  the  mistake 
of  being   too    "fancy."     It  is,    above   all,    the  one  pattern   no  dealer  should   be  without. 


Supplied  to  retailers  by  all  leading  jobbers 


SILVER.  PLATE 
THAT     WEARS 


184T    ROGERS   BROS 


J 


The  variety  in  design  in  -'1847  Rogers  Brus."  goods  is  shown  in  the  sugar  shells  and 
tongs.  The  patterns  so  differ  that  the  dealer  finds  it  easy  to  satisfy  the  purchaser,  whether 
the  latter  desires  a  severely  plain  style,  one  more  elaborate,  or  something  between.  The 
choice  in  patterns  is  wide,  but  in  quality  the  goods  are  what  they  were  in   1847— the  best. 


distributed  to  the  public  by  progressive  dealers 


THE  SILVER  STANDARD.  FEBRUARY,   1847 


Tfce 
giliwr  Standard 

Established 

ix  1847  BY 
Rogers   Bros. 

FEBRUARY,  1847. 


ECLIPSES   IN 

1 847  —This  year  there 
will  be  two  eclipses  of 
the  sun  and  two  of  the 
moon. 

1  — The  moon  will  be 
partially  eclipsed  March 
3 1  ;  invisible  at  this 
place ;  but  visible  to 
nearly  the  whole  of  the 
Eastern  Continent. 

2 — The  sun  will  be 
totally  eclipsed  April 
1 4  and  1 5  :  invisible 
here.  The  line  of  cen- 
tral and  total  eclipse 
will  pass  over  the  In- 
dian Ocean  and  the 
northern  part  of  Aus- 
tralia. 

3 — The  moon  will  be 
partially  eclipsed  Sep- 
tember 24  :  invisible. 

4 — The  sun  will  be 
partially  eclipsed  Octo- 
ber 1 9  ;  invisible  at  this 
place.  This  eclipse  will 
be  visible  to  the  whole 
of  Europe,  nearly  the 
whole  of  Asia  and  the 
northern  part  of  Africa. 

VALENTINES- 

The  custom  of  sending 
Valentines  has  become 
the  means  of  offering 
the  grossest  insult, 
anonymously  ;  so  much 
so  as  to  lead  many  of  our 
refined  people  to  refuse 
to  accept  them,  from  the 
postman,  or  bearer,  no 
matter  how  costly  the 
missive  may  be. — (Ex- 
change. 

The  Valentine  ven- 
ders had  but  a  sorry  bus- 
iness of  it  this  year.  We 
are  glad  of  this ;  the 
system  is  contemptibly 
foolish,  and  there  are  a 
few  other  systems  just 
as  bad  amongst  us.  We 
hope  that  our  refined 
people  will  become  sen- 
sible people,  for  as  a 
general  thing,  those  that 
are  termed  refined  have 
a  great  number  of  fool- 
ish notions. 

INSTANCE  OF 
GAMBLING-A 

colored  fireman,  run- 
ning on  a  steamboat  be-  i 
tween  St.  Louis  and 
New  Orleans,  having 
lost  all  his  money  at  I 
poker  with  his  compan-  j 
ions,  staked  his  cloth- 
ing, and  still  being  un- 
fortunate, pledged  his 
own  freedom  for  a  small 
amount.  Losing  this, 
the  bets  were  doubled, 
and  he  finally,  at  one 
desperate  hazard,  ven- 
tured his  full  value  as  a 
slave,  and  laid  down  his 
free  papers  to  represent 
the  stake.  He  lost, 
suffered  his  certificates 
to  be  destroyed— and 
was  actually  Fold  by  th= 
winner  to  a  slave  deal- 
er, who  hesitated  not 
to  make  a  small  dis- 
count upon  his  assessed 
value. 


GUN    COTTON 

— It  is  stated  that  Isaac 
Meikle,  of  Camden,  N. 
J.,  is  applying  gun  cot- 
ton to  the  propulsion  of 
machinery  in  his  fac- 
tory. The  engine  is 
constructed  on  the  plan 
of  the  ordinary  horizon- 
tal steam  engine,  except 
there  are  two  cylinders; 
one  working  in  the 
other.  The  gun  cotton 
i;  ignited  by  electricity, 
engendered  and  applied 
in  a  novel  manner. 
One  person  can  run  the 
engine. 


SILVER   PITCH- 

ER-The  friends  of 
Neal  Dow,  Mayor  of 
Portland,  have  present- 
ed to  that  gentleman  an 
elegant  silver  pitcher  for 
his  course  in  reference 
to  the  Maine  liquor  law. 

The  weather  in  Phil- 
adelphia on  the  7  th  of 
last  month  was  so  pleas- 
ant that  the  farmers 
commenced  ploughing, 
and  the  steamboat  Bal- 
loon was  advertised  to 
make  a  pleasure  excur- 
sion to  Garry's  Ferry, 
but  on  the  8th,  winter 
again  set  in,  and  the 
plough  and  the  excur- 
sion were  both  arrested. 

The  Legislatures  of 
several  of  the  states  are 
now  in  session.  In 
New  York  the  atten- 
tion of  that  body  is 
mainly  engrossed  by  the 
Constitution.  The  en- 
tire debt  of  ?^ew  York, 
as  stated  in  the  message 
of    the    Governor,    is 

124,724,080. 

Mr.W.  H.  Pres- 
cott's  "History  of  Pe- 
ru," is  passing  through 
the  press  of  the  Harpei  3 
as  rapidly  as  possible, 
and  will  probably  be 
given  to  the  public  by 
first  of  June.  It  is  ar- 
ranged upcn  the  same 
general  plan  of  the  au- 
thor's "Conquest  of 
Mexico,"  and  will  con- 
tain a  preliminary  view 
of  the  civilization  of  the 
Incas. 


DICKENS' 
A  M  E  R  I  C  A  N 

NOTES-Mr.  Dick- 
ens' account  of  his  trav- 
els in  the  United  States 
has  at  length  appeared. 
Its  feebleness  and  injus- 
tice are  too  apparent 
to  need  any  comment. 
When  Englishmen  lose 
their  national  preju- 
dices; when  travelling 
book-makers  cease  to 
find  their  profit  in  villi- 
fying  the  people  whom 
they  visit,  or  when  the 
strange  and  hitherto  un- 
witnessed spectacle  of 
an  English  tourist  of 
capacious  mind,  of  stern 
integrity,  and  of  liberal 
views  is  seen  among  us ; 
then,  and  not  till  then, 
may  we  hope  to  see  our 
true  picture  issued  from 
a  London  print-shop. 

We  have  said  that 
the  various  writings  of 
Mr.  Dickens  gave  us 
no  promise  of  a  superior 
book  of  travels.  They 
are  among  the  lightest 
of  the  light  reading  of 
the  day — the  very  whip 
-syllabub    of   literature. 

The  features  of  the 
b^ok  that  strike  the 
reader  smind  most 
prominently  are  its  in- 
anit.-  and  imbecility. 

The  style  is  the  or- 
dinary style  of  Dickens; 
always  diffuse,  often 
lackadaisical,  and  some- 
times gross. 


AZTEC    CHILDREN 

NOW   EXHIBITED   IN 
NEW  YORK. 

The  two  extraordin- 
ary and  interesting  be- 
ings known  as  the  "Az- 
tec Children,"  have  for 
some  considerable  time 
exhibited  in  the  city  of 
New  York,  where 
thousands  with  interest 
i-ave  sought  to  gratify 
their  curiosity  as  to  the 
probable  origin  and  his- 
tory of  these  wonderful 
representatives  of  th : 
ancient  Adam. 

It  is  asserted  by  Val- 
esquez,  one  of  the  prin- 
cipal conductors  of  the 
expedition  which  result- 
ed in  the  capture  of 
these  wonderful  chil- 
dren, that  ihcy  consti- 
tute a  portion  cf  the  an- 
cient and  peculiar  order 
of  priesthood  called 
Kaanas,  which  it  was 
distinctly  asserted  in  the 
ancient  annals  of  Ix- 
imaya  had  accompanied 
the  first  migration  of  this 
people  from  the  Assyr- 
ian plains. 

Their  peculiar  and 
strongly  distinctive  line- 
aments, it  is  now  per- 
fectly well  ascertained 
are  to  be  traced  in  many 
of  the  sculptured  mon- 
uments of  the  Central 
American  ruins,  and 
were   found   still    more 


abundantly  on  those  of 
Iximaya. 

Forbidden,  by  inviol- 
ably sacred  laws,  from 
intermarrying  with  any 
persons  but  those  of  their 
own  caste,  they  had 
here  dwindled  down, 
in  the  course  of  many 
centuries,  to  a  few  in- 
significant individuals, 
diminutive  in  stature, 
and  imbecile  in  intellect. 

Such  is  the  language 
of  the  conductors  of  the 
enterprise  referred  to — 
such  the  probable  origin 
of  these  extraordinary 
representations  of  those 
who  in  Scriptural  lan- 
guage were  "called 
giants,'  new  re-appear- 
ing in  what  might  be 
justly  delineated  as  min  - 
iature  editions  of  hu- 
manity- Dagi-er;«o- 
typed  specimens  cf  him 

who  was  created  a 
little  lower  than  the 
angel  j." 

The  origin  of  these 
little  strangers  must,  we 
think,  remain  for  the 
present  involved  in  an 
obscurity  which  time 
and  future  discoveries 
can  alcne  remove. 

The  boy  measures 
about  thirty-two  inches 
in  height,  and  the  girl 
twenty-nine.  They  are 
finely  formed,  and  deli- 
cately fashioned  in  pro- 
portion to  the  reduced 
-U.Z  arc  natural  confor- 


mation which  distin- 
guish their  structures. 
Their  color  is  of  the 
Spanish,  or  rather  more 
of  the  Mexican  com- 
plexion ;  the  hair  black 
and  silken  in  its  appear- 
ance, slightly  inclined  to 
curl,  yet  glossy  and 
beautiful. 

In  the  relations  which 
have  placed  them  to- 
gether, and  in  those  as- 
sociations where  cus- 
tom and  habit  would 
seem  to  produce  a  com- 
munity cf  interest  and  a 
kindred  sympathy,  there 
appears  but  little  affin- 
ity. 


DANIEL  WEB- 
STER AND  THE 
WAR-Who    doubts 

the  motives  of  the  God  - 
like  Daniel  in  opposing 
the  war  and  charging 
it  upon  the  President? 
No  one.  All  well 
know  that  he  is  seeking 
to  become  the  next  can- 
didate for  the  Presiden- 
cy. He  is  constantly 
opposing  the  war,  de- 
claring it  was  made  by 
the  President,  and  the 
whole  federal  party  are 
endeavoring  to  back 
him  up  in  this  false  as- 
sertion. But  they  con- 
not  make  the  people 
believe  it.  The  vote  of 
the  Senate  and  the 
House  of  Representa- 
tives in  May  last  puts 
the  lie  to  the  assertion. 
He  condemns  the  war 
and  considers  it  unjust 
and  oppressive  on  our 
part,  and  at  the  same 
lime  encourages  his  own 
son  in  raising  a  com- 
pany of  volunteers  for 
the  very  purpose  of 
prosecuting  what  he 
condemns.  O  consist- 
ency. 


PRINTERS   FOR 
THE    WAR— It   is 

stated  that  in  the  first 
Pennsylvania  regiment 
of  volunteers  there  are 
no  less  than  fifty  print- 
ers. In  every  company 
they  are  represented. 
This  looks  well  for  the 
patriotism  of  the  frater- 
nity. 


SUN'S    EXPRESS 

ENTERPRISE  OF  NEW 
YORK  PAPER. 

No  agency  has  work- 
ed such  tremendous  re- 
sults in  civilization  as 
steam.  The  transit  of 
merchandise  over  the 
water,  cr  on  the  land  is 
now  transacted  with  an 
amazing  rapidity.  Even 
Watts  himself  could  not 
have  thought  of  the  gi- 
gantic influence  he  was 
bringing  to  bear  when 
he  brought  out  his  im- 
provement. Posterity 
appreciate  his  genius, 
and  Great  Britain  is 
erecting  a  great  statue 
to  his  memory. 

Few  people  have  the 
remotest  idea  of  the 
expenses  incurred  in 
the  obtaining  of  early 
news.  Independent  of 
the  usual  mails,  and  the 
immense  outlay  for  Tel- 
egraphic  correspon- 
dence and  other  numer- 
ous sources,  the  New 
York  Sun  has  in  the 
course  of  five  years  ex- 
pended the  large  amount 
of  $20,000  in  running 
cteam  expresses.  This 
enterprise  is  one  of  the 
secrets  of  the  Sun's  suc- 
cess. 


RECALL  OF 
GEN.  TAYLOR 
It  is  confidently  stated 
by  those  whose  position 
gives  them  an  opportu- 
nity cf  knowing  what  is 
going  on  in  official  quar- 
ters, that  Gen.  Taylor 
has  been  recalled  from 
the  field  of  operations 
in  Mexico,  that  he  will 
retire  on  the  arrival  of 
Gen.  Scott  at  head- 
quarters, and  that  he 
has  been  ordered  to 
Washington  immediate- 
ly on  his  return  to  the 
United  States.  They 
go  so  far  as  to  predict 
his  arrival  here  by  the 
middle  of  February. 
For  our  country's  sake 
we  hope  that  these  giv- 
ings  out  will  prove  un- 
true. 


?N  American   is   an   aristocrat  to  the  backbone, 


and  would  rather  gaze  upcn  "a  real  live  lord" 
than  any  other  order  of  created  mortal. 

From  "  Old  England  and  Neto  England. " 


Eli  Whitney,  of  New       The    National     Era,     The  last  and  most  lm-        Two    whales,    each       It   is   very  clear  that 

Haven,  Conn.,  is  man-  says  as  a  general  rule,  portant     case     lately    making,  or  being  made  fears  are  entertaineoj  of 

ufacturing     1000    of  married  women  should  brought  before  the  Troy  j  about  15  barrels  of  oil,  a  return  in  the  United 

Colt's   revolving  pistols  insist    upon    coming    to  Police   Court   was  that  j  were  taken    off  South-  States  to  the   policy  of 

for  the  government.    It's  Washington  with  their  of  an  "  assault  and  bat-  i  hampton,   L.   I.,  last  protecting    American 

an  ill  wind,  etc.  husbands.  tery  with  intent  to  kick."    week.  Industry. 


FEBRUARY. 


Give  no  bills  in  which 
February'  is  included,  in 
respect  of  its  being  so 
short.  Never  pull  your 
shirt  collars  so  high  as 
to  run  the  risk  of  being 
hanged  by  the  ears.  A 
bad  month  for  hanging 
yourself  put  it  off. 
Eat  as  much  as  you 
can.  If  anybody  make 
you  a  handsome  pres- 
ent -take  it — and  fear 
not.  One  of  your 
friends  will  cut  himself 
shaving  —  seek  not  to 
know  which ;  pry  not 
into  the  secrets  of  des- 
tiny. 


CJje  guiltier  g>tantiat:ti 

ESTABLISHED  IN  1847  BY  ROGERS  BROS. 


Vol.  II.     No.  2 


APRIL,  1847. 


Five  <  !ents. 


THE  EVILS  OF 
PRESENT  TARIFF 

FUTILE    EXPLANATIONS 
ATTEMPTED 


SECRETARY  OF  THE  TREASURY  WALKER 

MAKES  ABSURD  STATEMENTS  IN 

HIS  REPORT. 


We  have  a  report  The  following  com- 
from  Secretary  Walker  parison  is  given  cf  the 
on  the  subject  of  the  receipts  into  the  Custom 
Tariff  in  answer  to  a  House  at  the  places 
resolution  of  the  Senate,  named,  for  the  first 
This  document,  like  all  fifty-five  days  of  the 
others  emanating  from  last  and  present  year, 
the    same   source,   dis-  to  wit: 

1846. 
Boston,  $674,107 

New  York,  1,971,405 


plays  the  most  consum- 
mate ignorance  of  the 
first  principles  which 
govern  the  subject  upon 


which     the     Secretary  i  Philadelphia,  299,708  | 
undertakes  to  give  ad-  Baltimore,  43,061 


TO  PREVENT 
R.  R.  ACCIDENTS 

NEW    INVENTION    THAT 
PROMISES  MUCH 


DEVICE    THAT.    IT    IS    EXPECTED,    WILL 

KEEP  TRAINS  FROM  RUNNING  OFF 

THE  TRACK. 


Charleston,         41,176, 
$3,029,457 
1847. 


vice  to  the  Senate 

Instead  of  examining 
his  subject  with  States- 
man-like views,  and 
coming    out    manfully  Bostorli  $862,494 

and  proposing  an  in-  New  York.  2,374,827  ! 
crease  of  duties  that 
would  stimulate  the  in- 
dustry of  the  country 
and  augment  its  powers 
of  consumption,  so  as 
to  insure  a  demand  for 
foreign  productions 
commensurate  to  such 
power;  he  goes  into 
comparisons  of  the  im- 
ports of  1845  and 
1 846,  predicating  all 
his  reasoning  upon  the 


Philadelphia,   341,003 
Baltimore,  89,900 

Charleston,        61,892 

$3730177 


Mrs.  Jane  C.  Wash- 
ington, present  owner 
of  the  estate  cf  George 
Washington,  is  willing 
now  to  dispose  of  1  50 
acres,   inclusive  of  th< 


JOHN  QUINCY  ADAMS,  whose  eloquence  and  physical  pow- 
"  ers  are  remarkable,  will  be  80  years  of  age  on  the  I  1  th  of  next 
July. 

Mr.  Adams  was  born  in  Braintree,  in  Massachusetts,  in  that  part 
of  the  town  which  has  since  been  set  off  and  incorporated  by  the 
name  of  Quincy,  on  Saturday,  July  1  1th,  I  767. 

Mr.  Adams  is  still  in  equable  health  and  vigorous,  and  walks  with 
a  short  but  firm  and  elastic  step,  and  remains  in  perfect  possession  of 
all  his  intellectual  faculties.  He  has  a  residence  in  Washington,  and 
generally  stays  there  until  May,  though  the  session  may  have  closed 
before.  In  the  summer  and  autumn  he  remains  in  his  ancestral  man- 
sion at  Quincy. 

May  he  continue  yet  many  years  in  the  land  he  has  so  long  hon- 
ored, and  go  down  to  future  time  under  that  affectionate  and  vener- 
able title,  accorded  by  his  country—"  THE  OLD  MAN  ELO- 
QUENT." 


The  village  of  S  t  .  I  Many  of  the  team-  i  The  people  of  Con- 
Joseph  in  Missouri,  ]  sters  in  Maine  have  necticut  have  defeated 
amounts  of  the  different  buildings,  grounds,  and  j  which  ten  years  ago  I  pledged  themselves  in  the  proposed  amend- 
articles  imported,  upon  |  tombs,  to  the  Govern-  j  was  hardly  known  as  j  combination  that  they  ment  to  the  Constitution 
the  rates  of  duty;  a'  ment  for  $100,000.  I  a  settlement,  now  con-  will  not  haul  or  convey  providing  that  colored 
though  the  quantity   of  Congress  should  buy  it.  I  tains  1 ,000  people.  any  ardent  spirits.  men  may  vote 

goods  imported  depend- 
ed upon  such  rates, 
when  every  tyro  in  po- 
litical economy  knows 
that  demand  and  supply 
are  the  great  regulators 
of  trade  of  all  kinds, 
foreign  and  domestic. 

Now,  it  is  a  fact 
well  known  that  the 
Tariff  of  1846  has  di- 
minished, and  it  will 
continue  to  diminish, 
the  number  of  artificers 
and  manufacturers;  for 
the  very  reason,  that, 
as  Mr.  Walker  states, 
at  lower  duties  it  por- 
duces  an  increased  rev- 
enue by  supplanting 
articles  made  at  home 
with  similar  importa- 
tions from  abroad. 

It  is  very  much  to  be 
feared  that  the  contin 


The  annexed  engrav- 
ing is  a  view  cf  an  im- 
provement in  Railroads, 
by  Robt.  Mills  Civil 
Engineer  and  Archi- 
tect, Washington,  D. 
C,  the  object  cf  which 
is  to  attain  a  very  high 
speed,  and  at  the  same 
tim?  prevent  accidents 
by  running  off  the  track, 
or  by  collisions.  Two 
trains  are  shown  run- 
ning in  opposite  direc- 
tions. 

This  plan  of  railroad 
is  proposed  for  the 
"New  Pacific  Line. " 
At  an  early  period  in 
the  history  cf  railroads 
in  the  United  States 
Mr.  Mills  turned  hir 
attention  to  this  subject, 
and  recently  hasbecome 
again  interested  in  it  by 
the  many  serious  acci- 
dents which  have  taken 
place  in  vanous  parts 
of  our  country. 

The  general  charac- 
ter of  this  plan  of  rail- 
road may  be  judged  by 
the  picturesque  view. 
It  will  be  seen  that  each 
way  consists  of  but  a 
single  track  elevatad 
above    the    ground,  so 


that  the  cars  suspended 
on  each  side  of  the 
track  will  be  so  far  ele- 
vated as  not  to  be  sub- 
ject to  the  lead  possible 
interruption.  The  cars 
instead  of  being  sup- 
ported by  the  axle,  as 
now,  are  suspended 
from  the  axle,  on  each 
side  of  the  rails,  the 
wheels  running  dupli- 
cate on  the  top  of  the 
rails,  and,  having  a 
broad  fulcrum  of  sixteen 
or  eighteen  inches  base 
to  sustain  the  cars  in 
equalibrium,  any  differ- 
ence of  the  load  on 
either  side  of  the  rails 
will  not  effect  its  verti- 
cal position ;  but  to  meet 
any  exigency  another 
rail,  one  on  each  side, 
is  placed  sideways 
against  the  upright  pil- 
lars at  the  bottom  line 
of  the  cars,  which,  by 
means  of  friction  rollers 
placed  on  the  lowest  in- 
ner edge  of  the  cars, 
will  insure  the  vertical 
position  of  the  carriage, 
and  thus  the  motion  of 
the  cars  will  be  easy  and 
free  from  change.  We 
hope  much  from  this. 


TELEGRAPHIC 
FEAT-On   the    1st 

inst.,  the  train  of  cars 
on  the  Utica  and  Al- 
bany line,  N.  Y.,  ran 
off  the  track  at  Fonda, 
when  Mr.  Porter,  of 
the  Telegraph  at  Utica, 
being  one  of  the  passen- 
gers, sprang  from  the 
car  and  cut  one  of  the 
wires,  and  sent  an  ac- 
count of  the  accident 
to  Utica. 

This  was  done  by 
grasping  the  cut  wires 
with  some  non-con- 
ducting substance  be- 
tween the  fingers,  and 
bringing  the  two  wires 
in  contact  to  complete 
the   break   of   the 


BLACK.  NOSES  ;  ary  shall  procure  a  cer- 1  removed,  until  time  thoroughly  black  and  for  the  purpose  of  per 
FOR  CONVICTS  tain  chemical  dye,  such  j  shall  wear  it  away,  and  renew  the  application  mitting  nature  to  restore  cuit,  and  thus  actu 
ued  heavy  drafts  upon  A  resolution  has  been  as  will  stain  the  cuticle  nature  furnish  a  new  as  often  as  necessary  to  to  the  feature  its  original  ate  the  pen  lever  at 
Great  Britain  for  specie  introduced  into  th?  or  outer  surface  of  the  cuticle  or  surface;  and  keep  it  so,  until  one  hue,  preparatory  to  the  Utica,  making  it  write 
will  cause  a  financial  Kentucky  Legislature,  skin  perfectly  black,  so  that  with  this  dye  he  month  cf  the  expiration  second  advent  of  its  the  message.  A  jour- 
crisis  there,  which  will  which  provides  that  the  that  it  cannot  be  wash-  shall  have  the  nose  of  of  his  sentence  when  it  owner  into  the  world,  nalistic  and  telegraphic 
inevitably  reactupon  us.  keeper  of  the  Penitenti-  ed  off,  or  in  any  way  each    convict    painted  shall   be    discontinued,  Surely  a  novel  plan.        feat  worth  recording. 

We  arc  indebted  to  American  Review,  Hampden  Post,  Scientific  American  and  others  of  the  "  1 847  "  period  for  materia]  in  this  issue. 
Meriden,  Conn.,  April,  1906-MERIDEN  BRITANNIA  CO.— International  Silver  Co..  Successor. 


1&4T    KOGERS   BROS 


SILVER-  PLATE 
THAT     WEARS 


1 


No.  3050.      SILK   COVERED   CASE. 

For  some  time  there  has  been  a  demand  for  something  not  so  costly  as  our  oak  or  mahogany 
chests  of  silver  and  yet  more  elaborate  than  our  combination  sets  in  lined  boxes.  Our  new  case, 
which  is  reproduced  in  the  illustration,  we  believe  will  supply  this  long-felt  want. 

It  is  silk  covered,  a  rich  dark  green  in  color  and  very  handsome.  It  is  appropriately  lined  and 
contains  twenty-six  pieces — six  of  our  No.  12  solid  steel  knives,  six  medium  forks,  six  table  spoons, 
six  tea  spoons,  butter  knife  and  sugar  shell,  listing  complete  for  $21.50. 

The  jeweler  who  carries  a  complete  line  of  "1847  Rogers  Bros."  silver  ware  will  desire  a 
number  of  these  cases,  while  the  small  dealer  who  has  not  found  it  advisable  to  carry  our  chests 
in  stock  may  find  in  them  a  satisfactory  compromise. 


Beauty  is  one  of  the  essentials  of  silverware.  Silver  must  have  something  more  than  use- 
fulness to  recommend  it;  it  must  attract.  But  it  must  do  more  than  that.  It  must  invite 
a  close  examination  of  the  details  of  its  design.  Silver  that  bears  the  trade-mark,  "  1847 
Rogers  Bros.",   looks  well  on  the  counter   of   the   dealer   and  welcomes  critical  inspection. 


Supplied  to  retailers  by  all  leading  jobbers 


IlKf rwpel&I ■  18  47    ROGERS   BKOS 


1 


Its  beauty  alone  will  not  sell  silverware.  While  some  persons  who  desire  to  purchase  have 
little  definite  "knowledge  to  guide  them,  it  is  true  that  more  and  more  the  buying  public  insists 
on  getting  goods  of  established  reputation,  guaranteed  by  well-known  trade-marks.  For  sixty 
years  "1847  Rogers  Bros."  has  been  recognized  as  standing  for  the  best  in  silver  plated  ware. 


'Distributed  to  the  public  by  progressive  dealers 


1847 — THEN*- 


-THK  SILVER  STANDARD- 


-now— 1900 


TR*r>E — "1847  Rogers  Bros." — mark 

THEN— 1847 — AND— 1906— NOW. 

Established  in  1847  by  Rogers  Bros. 

issued  by 
Meriden  Britannia  Co., Meriden,  Ct. 

(International  Silver  Co.,  Successor.) 


Vol.  II— No.2. 


APRIL,  1906. 


5  Cents 


WHAT  J  847  STANDS  FOR. 

Our  object  in  publishing  The  Silver  Stand- 
ard is  to  emphasize  the  "  1847"  in  our  "  1847 
Rogers  Bros."  trade-mark.  We  shall  not 
attempt  to  deny  that  such  is  our  purpose.  We 
desire  to  lay  stress  upon  the  fact  that  1847  was 
fifty-nine  years  ago;  that  in  that  year  the 
process  of  electro-silver 
plating  was  discovered  by 
Rogers  Bros.,  and  that 
the  fifty-nine  years  of  exist- 
ence between  1847  and 
1906  have  been  years  of 
growth  and  progress. 

Now,  a  man  may  live 
to  be  sixty  years  old  and 
be  able  to  show  little 
or  no  reason — so  far  as  his 
value  to  the  world  goes — 
why  he  should  live  a  sin- 
gle year  longer.  Thatisn  t 
the  case,  and  from  the 
very  nature  of  things  can't 
be  the  case,  with  a  busi- 
ness. If  a  man  fails  to 
"make  good,"  if  he  can't 
take  care  of  himself,  some- 


"  It  shows  what  advertising  will  do,"  perhaps 
you  say.  But  it  does  n't.  Advertising  is  an 
important  part  of  modern  business  methods, 
but  its  importance  does  not  compare  with  the 
importance  of  keeping  the  goods  advertised  up 
to  the  recognized  standard,  the  result  of  honest 
material  and  skilled  workmanship. 

Advertising  will  sell  goods,  but  no  amount 
of  advertising  will  continue  their  sale  if  they 
prove  unworthy.  Silverware  bearing  the 
"1847  Rogers  Bros."  trade-mark  has  been 
sold  for  almost  sixty  years,  and — what  is  espe- 
cially significant — the  demand  has  been  con- 
stantly increasing,  so  that  in  1905  more  "  1847 
Rogers  Bros."  goods  were  sold  than  ever 
before. 

That  in  brief  is  what  1847  means  to  us, 
and  we  publish  The  Silver  Standard  for  the 
purpose  of  calling  attention  to  the  significance 
of  the  date.  But  The  Standard  means  more 
than  a  mere  finger  post.     We  take  a  very  gen- 


body  else  will  look  out  for  him.  As  a  last 
resort,  the  almshouse  or  the  jail  will  be  re- 
quired to  do  it.  If  a  business  fails  to  "make 
good,"  it  dies. 

Mere  existence  for  sixty  years  means  a  great 
deal.  Existence  with  ever-growing  reputation 
means  infinitely  more.  Every  year  finds  the 
reputation  of  "  1847  Rogers  Bros."  decidedly 
enhanced. 

The  buying  public  have  been  taught  by 
experience  to  look  for  the  trade-mark.  They 
have  come  to  realize  that  all  "Rogers"  goods 
are  not  "  1847  Rogers  Bros."  goods.  They 
appreciate  the  significance  of  the  complete 
trade-mark. 


uine  pleasure  in  its  publication,  none  the  less 
that  it  requires  time,  thought  and  energy.  For 
one  thing,  it  stands  for  an  amount  of  research 
the  extent  of  which  might  surprise  one  unaccus- 
tomed to  such  matters. 

We  have  striven  to  make  The  Standard 
sufficiently  broad  in  scope  and  accurate  in  de- 
tail to  depict,  in  some  degree  at  least,  condi- 
tions as  they  existed  in  1847  and  the  period 
covering  the  last  of  the  first  half  and  the  be- 
ginning of  the  second  half  of  the  nineteenth 
century — an  interesting  and  important  chapter 
in  our  history,  marked  by  acquisition  of  new  ter- 
ritory and  by  progress  along  industrial,  scien- 
tific and  literary  lines. 


SPRINKLER 

BARREL-LIKE  AFFAIR  THAT  LAID 

THE  DUST  ON  STREETS 

IN  1847  PERIOD, 

A  water  sprinkler  may  afford  a  somewhat 
homely  illustration  of  the  progress  made  during 
the  years  since  1847,  nevertheless  we  believe 
the  accompanying  illustrations  will  prove  of 
general  interest.  One  represents  a  sprinkler 
invented  by  Mr.  J.  D.  Price,  of  Smithsburg, 
Washington  Co.,  Maryland,  and  secured  to 
him  by  patent.     It  is  described  as  follows : 

"  The  machine  consists  of  a  water  vessel  by 
which  the  water  is  carried  and  from  which  it 
is  drawn  by  force  pumps;  the  latter  being 
operated  by  the  revolving 
vessel,  expelling  the  water 
in  a  shower  through  nu- 
merous perforations  in  a 
curved  pipe  at  the  hinder 
end  of  the  machine,  thus 
sprinkling  a  broad  strip 
of  ground  as  the  machine 
is  drawn  forward. 

"The  water  vessel  is 
most  conveniently  built  like 
a  cask  for  holding  liquids, 
of  staves  suitably  hooped 
upon  two  heads. 

"  The  water  vessel  is 
furnished  with  a  bung  hole 
through  which  it  can  be 
filled,  the  connecting  rods 
are  disengaged  from  their 
crank  pins  and  the  machine 
drawn  to  the  place  where 
the  water  is  to  be  sprinkled.  The  connecting 
rods  are  then  put  in  gear,  and  as  the  machine 
is  drawn  forward,  the  pump  pistons  being  driv- 
en by  the  revolving  vessel,  eject  the  water  forci- 
bly through  the  perforations  in  the  curved  pipe 
to  a  considerable  distance  on  each  side  of  the 
machine. 

"This  machine,  from  the  simplicity  of  its 
parts  and  its  efficiency  is  particularly  applica- 
ble to  the  watering  of  the  streets  of  cities,  and 
as  the  water  which  constitutes  the  great  weight 
of  the  machine  is  rolled  forward  in  the  revolv- 
ing vessel  but  comparatively  little  power  is 
required  to  perform  the  work." 

The  lower  cut  shows  an  up-to-date  ma- 
chine, the  electric  car  sprinkler,  in  operation. 

While  our  grandfathers  may  have  been  as 
well  off  as  we  are  along  some  lines,  in  the 
matter  of  street  sprinklers  their  equipment  cer- 
tainly was  a  bit  primative. 

Even  the  old  fashioned  "sprinkling  cart," 
which  the  electric  car  has  not  yet  wholly 
driven  from  the  field,  is  considerably  ahead  of 
the  low,  bairel-like  affair  invented  over  half  a 
century  ago. 

In  its  humble  way  the  modern  sprinkler 
typifies  the  advancement  made  in  the  mechan- 
ical world  since  1847. 


In  1847  there  were  about  1,555  news- 
papers and  periodicals  in  the  United  States. 
To-day  there  are  nearly  21,600  newspapers, 
about  2,300  being  dailies. 


1847— THEN- 


-THE  SILVER  STANDARD 


-Now— 1906 


CHICAGO 


"There  are  four  daily  and  seven  weekly, 
one  semi-monthly,  and  two  monthly  news- 
papers published  in  Chicago." 

Another  magazine  of  the  period,  "Glea- 
son's  Pictorial,"  printed  the  following: 

"Unlike  the  majority  of  our  lake  cities, 
there  is  but  little  in  the  situation  of  Chicago 
which  would  seem  to  recommend  it  to  the 
founders  of  a  city.  It  lies  on  the  edge  of  a 
broad  and  extensive  prairie,  broken  by  scarce- 
ly a  stray  knoll  or  scattered  rising. 

"And    yet    ait    has    done    much    to    make 


GLANCE   AT  THE   CITY  AS    IT 

WAS  IN  1847  AND  A  LOOK 

INTO  THE  FUTURE. 

That    we    should    find    a    striking   contrast 
between  the  Chicago  of  to-day  and  the  city  of 

1847  is  to  be  expected.      The  true  Chicagoan  amends  for  the  natural  flatness  and  uniformity 

thinks  of  his  city's   phenomenal  growth  with  of  the  situation  in  which  Chicago  is  placed. 

the  complacent  matter-of-factness  of  a  dweller  Unlike  most    of    its    brethren  of  the  lakes   it 
in  a  superior  world.     He  expects  others  to  won-  I  would  seem  to  have  been  laid  out  with  more 

der  at  it,  but  as  for  him,  it  is  only  the  natural  than    an    ordinary     attention    to    appearance. 

course  of  events ;  for,  is  it  not  Chicago  and  is  Along  the  shore  which  fronts  Lake  Michigan 

not  Chicago —well,  Chicago?     To  the  dwell-  runs    a    fine    and    broad    walk    planted   with 

ers  in  other  cities,  however,  if  not  to  Chicago's  young    trees.     Here  it  is  lined  with   graceful 

people  themselves,  the  two  pictures  on  this  page  dwellings,  and  there  a  square  lies  back  from  it 
will    prove  of  interest. 


One  shows  the  Lab 
Front  as  it  appeared 
more  than  half  a  cen- 
tury ago,  while  the  low- 
er cut  gives  an  idea  of 
the  Lake  Front  of  to- 
day, with  the  Audito- 
rium and  Annex  in  the 
foreground. 

Even  back  in  1847 
Chicago  was  no  "mean 
city."  Great  things  were 
expected  of  her.  "  Fish- 
er's National  Maga- 
zine," a  publication  of 
that  time,  speaks  of  her 
as  follows : 

"Among  the  towns 
and  cities  of  the  western 
country  whose  magic 
rise,  progress,  and  rapid 
development  during  the 
brief  space  of  a  few 
years  have  excited  the 
astonishment  not  only  of  our  own  countrymen, 
but  enlisted  great  interest  abroad,  the  city  of 
Chicago,  the  principal  commercial  town  of 
Illinois,  may  be  pointed  to,  as  challenging  the 
history  of  our  whole  country  for  a  parallel, 
considering  the  short  time  since  it  emerged 
from  the  chrysalis  condition  of  a  trading  post, 
and  became  the  city  it  now  is. 

"  Chicago  is  situated  on  the  southwestern 
border  of  Lake  Michigan,  in  Cook  County, 
and  is  the  eastern  terminus  of  the  Illinois  and 
Michigan  Canal.  Its  site  is  level,  yet  with 
sufficient  elevation  to  secure  it  against  the  dan- 
gers of  inundation  from  the  waters  of  the  lake, 
its  harbour  is  good,  and  the  country  in  every 
direction  around  it  considered  the  finest  in  the 
West.  Rolling  prairies  of  the  most  fertile 
description  commence  within  a  few  miles  of 
the  city. 

"  There  are  fourteen  religious  societies  and 
associations,  and  seven  churches.  There  is, 
also,  a  medical  college,  a  Young  Men's  Asso- 


and  navigable  canal  which  contains  the  ship- 
ping, which  already  turns  into  Chicago  a  great 
portion,  if  not  nearly  the  whole,  of  the  com- 
merce of  the  lake.  This,  however,  is  scanty, 
as  railroads  have  been  gradually  linking  this 
city  with  every  part  of  the  Union,  and  making 
it  one  of  the  great  centers  of  Western  traffic." 
Today  this  city  of  "nearly  or  quite  17,000," 
not  content  with  her  wonderful  growth  (the 
last  census  gave  her  1,698,575  inhabitants)  is 
suspected  of  dreaming  dreams  and  seeing  visions 
in  which  she  is  to  play  a  still  more  wonderful 
role.  According  to  a  Chicago  correspondent  of 
a  prominent  New  York  publication,  "the  time 
is  less  than  a  generation  distant  when  the  Cen- 
tral West  will  have  votes  enough  to  disre- 
gard the  East.  When  that  time  comes  the  Na- 
tional Government  will  be  instructed  to  build 
the  30- foot  channel  from  the  Great  Lakes 
to  the  sea,  the  plans  for  which  are  already 
drawn,  not  to  bring  in  but  to  take  out  its  pro- 
ducts. Lake  Michigan 
will  thus  be  made  prac- 
tically an  arm  of  the  sea, 
and  then  Chicago  ex- 
pects to  become  the- 
metropolis  of  the 
world." 

The  correspondent 
continues : 

"  People  talk  today 
of  billions  as  glibly  as 
they  spoke  of  millions 
a  decade  ago.  Yet 
even  so,  it  rather  takes 
one's  breath  away  to 
be  told  that  Chicago's 
wholesale  trade  last 
year  aggregated 
$1,481,000,000— an 
increase  of  300  per  cent, 
in  three  years  ;  that  the 
live  stock  sales  footed 
up  $300,000,000  more, 
and  that    the  value  of 


with  its  broad  flat  patch  of  verdure  shaded 
with  foliage ;  and  though  not  yet  completed 
elation,  a  Mechanics'  Institute,  a  Lodge  of  Odd  \  and  laid  out  as  it  will  doubtless  be  at  some 
Fellows,  and  an  Independent  Order  of  Rec-  j  future  day,  the  walk  promises  to  make  Chicago 
hibites.  The  military  and  fire  departments  are  I  one  of  the  fairest  of  the  numerous  cities  which 
well  organized,  and  there  are  various  charitable  i  are  everywhere  scattered  upon  the  shores  of 
associations.  '  the  lakes. 

"A  Hydraulic  Company  supplies  the  city  j       "A  stream  which  runs  into  the  lake  at  one 
with  water  drawn  from  Lake  Michigan.  j  end  of  the  city  has  been  widened  into  a  broad 


the  products  manufactured  within  the  outer 
belt  line,  an  area  of  thirty-eight  miles  square, 
aggregated  $1,314,000,000,  making  a  grand 
total  of  $3,095,000,000  as  the  amount  of  the 
year's  business." 

Such  is  the  Chicago  of  1906 — "the  princi- 
pal commercial  town  of  Illinois"  in  1847;  the 
town  with  "four  daily,  seven  weekly,  one  semi- 
monthly and  two  monthly  newspapers." 


This  is  a  reading  age  and  it  is  a  busy  age.  These  two  facts  combine  to  make  adver- 
tising a  very  important  element  in  the  mercantile  world — and  in  the  selling  of  silverware. 
The  dealer  who  sells  "  1847  Rogers  Bros."  goods  is  helped  by  the  makers'  extensive 
round-the-year  advertising  in  over  five  hundred  daily,   weekly,    and   monthly   publications. 


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TEN-HOUR 
SYSTEM-The 

Manchester  Democrat 
gives  a  case  in  point  to 
show  that  employers  are 
no  losers  in  the  ten- 
hour  system.  A  rail- 
road contractor  in  that 
place,  whose  hands 
work  only  a  ten-hour 
day,  has  a  job  of  grading 
beside  another  that 
works  on  the  old  plan; 
the  work  and  pay  of 
the  hands  being  equal. 
The  ten-hour  contract- 
or will  have  his  jcb 
done  in  one  hundred 
days  work  less  than  the 
other.  A  similar  result 
is  spoken  cf  in  one  cf 
tie  Rhode  Island  pa- 
pers. 

PROMISING 
SONS  OF  DISTIN- 
GUISHED S1RES- 

Maj.  Van  Buren,  son 
of  the  Ex-President, 
acted  as  aide  to  General 
Taylor  at  the  siege  cf 
Monterey.  John  C. 
Calhoun's  son  is  aide 
to  Maj.  Gen.  Gaines. 
Henry  Clay's  son  is 
Lieut.  Col.  of  a  regi- 
ment of  Kentucky  vol- 
unteers. Daniel  Web- 
ster's son  is  Capt.  of  a 
company  of  volunteers, 
and  will  be  in  Mexico 
soon.  John  J.  Critten- 
den's son  is  Capt.  in 
the  new  regiment  of 
Mounted  Riflemen. 

THE    TELE- 

GRAPH-There  are 
already  2,350  miles  of 
telegraph  wires  in  op- 
eration in  the  United 
States— about  700  of 
which  are  in  a  continu- 
ous line  from  Philadel- 
phia to  Cincinnati.  In 
the  course  cf  a  few 
months  there  will  be 
1 ,000  more,  chiefly  to 
the  soutb  and  the  south- 
west. There  will  then 
be  one  uninterrupted 
line  of  upwards  of 
3,000  miles  in  length, 
of  instantaneous  com- 
munication between  the 
Atlantic  Ocean  and  the 
Gulf  cf  Mexico. 

Gen.  Win  field  Scott 
is  61  years  old.  Dan- 
iel Webster  is  66. 


T^HE  railroad  seat  improvement  as  shown  is  the  invention  of  C.  P. 
1  Bailey,  of  Zanesville,  Ohio,  who  has  taken  measures  to  secure 
a  patent  for  same. 

The  chair  has  two  backs,  one  for  each  passsenger  on  the  seat,  as  is 
now  the  custom  with  railroad  chairs.  The  leading  features  of  it,  how- 
ever, are  quite  different  from  the  common  railroad  chairs,  the  backs 
of  which  fold  ever  on  pivotted  levers,  while  the  backs  of  this  chair  do 
not  fold  over  at  all. 

It  has  the  same  advantages,  however,  as  the  folding  back,  and 
embraces  some  others.  When  it  is  desired  that  the  backs  of  this  chair 
should  be  changed  from  one  side  to  the  other  of  the  seat,  according  to 
the  direction  of  the  train,  or  for  any  other  reaton,  they  are  merely 
pushed  horizontally. 


A  jcumalict  has  dis- 
covered that,  all  things 
considered,  railways 
are  very  slow  and  be- 
hind the  age.  He  says, 
that  when  he  travels  he 
blushes  to  think  the 
message  on  telegraph 
flies  like  lightning,  while 
he  is  lazily  creeping  on 
at  30  or  40  miles  per 
hour. 


OMNIBUS  BUSI- 
NFSS  IN  NEW 
YORK-This  is    a 

branch  of  business  tne 
extent  of  which  is 
scarcely  to  be  imagined. 
It  engages  the  attention 
of  eighteen  firms,  with 
an  aggregate  capital  of 
$730,000.  The  great- 
est number  of  coaches 
run  by  any  one  of  the 
establishments  is  forty 
— the  smallest  is  two. 
There  are  326  coaches 
in  all,  the  annual  license 
money  of  which 
amounts  to  $5,9 1 9. 

The  number  of  per- 
sons regularly  employed 
is  over  800  besides  the 
work  given  to  hun- 
dreds of  artificers  in 
coach  factories  in  build- 
ing new  vehicles.  It  is 
estimated  that  the  re- 
pairs put  on  every  om- 
nibus before  it  is  finally 
condemned,  cost  more 
than  its  original  price. 
The  iron  tires  of  the 
wheels  are  an  inch 
thick,  and  yet  they 
need  renewing  every 
two  months. 

Is  there  not  a  most 
lucrative  field  here  for 
investments  in  an  Ele- 
vated Railway? 

C  U  N  A  R  D 
STEAMERS  AT 
JERSEY    CiTY- 

Many  readers  will  be 
gratified  to  learn,  as 
we  do  from  the  proper 
authority,  that  the  Hon. 
Samuel  Cunard,  and 
others,  contractors  with 
the  Lord  Commission- 
ers of  the  British  Ad- 
miralty for  the  convey- 
ance of  the  mails  be- 
tween Liverpool  and 
New  York,  have  at 
length  made  arrange- 
ments to  make  Jersey 
City  the  terminus  of  a 
line  of  steam  packets. 

The  associates  of  the 
Ferry  Company  have 
contracted  to  erect 
wharves  and  to  build 
storehouses  for  that  pur- 
pose; and  these  packet; 
will  consequently  land 
and  receive  their  car- 
goes at  that  place.  Not- 
withstanding the  great 
outlay  of  money  for 
docks,    &c.     say    from 

$60,000  to   $70,000 

— it  is  thought  to  be  a 
good  investment  for  the 
company,  and  we  rea- 
sonably anticipate  from 
the  arrangement  decid- 
ed advantage  for  this 
flourishing  community. 

'Yankee  Coach- 
makers,"  an  English 
paper  says,  "are  steal- 
ing a  march  upon   our 

coachmakers.  The  Theodore  Hook  says  Our  armies  in  Mexi-  The  census-taker  of  Of  1  38  males  in  the 
uniqueness  and  light-  of  railroads  and  steam- ,  co  have  been  instructed  Cincinnati  reports  un-  Connecticut  State  Pris- 
ness  of  their  build  has  boats  "they  annihilate  [  to  furnish  their  own  der  the  head  of  "City  on  84  declare  intern- 
occasioned  a  quick  sale  space  and  time,  not  to  j  provender.  They  are  Avocations,  eleven  perance  to  be  the  cause 
for  some  carriages  late-  mention  a  multitude  of  I  to  take  their  rations  out  gentlemen,  one  loafer,  of  their  present  confine- 
ly  brought  here."  passengers."  I  of  the  Mexican  bacon,    and  forty-two  thieves.      ment  and  degradation. 


In  the  Massa- 
chusetts Secreta- 
ry's Annual  Re- 
port we  find  that 
in  the  whole  State, 
Boston  excluded, 
there  have  been 
5263  marriages  in 
the  year.  This  was 
an  increase  of  400 
over  the  previous 
year. 

As  Congress  has 
now  adjourned,  we 
hope  tohear  of  few- 
er political  speech- 
es being  made  and 
mo-e  political  cap- 
ital, in  the  shape 
of  common  sense, 
invested  in  the  na- 
tional bank  cf  all  par 
ties. 


The  Covington  Iron 
Works  of  Baltimore 
have  failed  and  thrown 
1 ,000  out  of  work. 


THE  CHIFFON-  ured  are  eagerly  sought 
IER — In  large  towns  for.  Indeed,  many  a 
like  London,  Paris  and  sheet  of  paper  so  clean 
New  York,  the  chif-  and  white,  on  which 
fonier  abounds.  In  many  a  maiden  writes 
New  York  they  are  al-  her  purest  thoughts,  is 
most  exclusively  Ger-  made  from  the  gather- 
man.     Men  and  worn-    ings  of  the  Chiffonier. 

en,  boys  and  girls  sally  

out  by  daylight  in  the  It  is  proposed  to  con- 
morning  with  a  bag  on  |  struct  a  Plank  Road 
their  shoulder,  and  a  from  Schenectady  to 
Saratoga  Springs, 
by  way  of  Ballston. 
Books  cf  subscrip- 
tion will  be  open- 
ed on  the  first  of 
December.  Such 
a  road  cannot  fail 
to  be  advantageous 
to  the  business  in- 
terests of  that  city, 
as  well  as  to  the 
towns  through 
which  it  may  pass, 
and  a  good  invest- 
ment to  the  stock- 
holders. 

Edwin  Forrest, 
the  tragedian, 
knocked  down  and 
cowhided  N.  P. 
Willis,  the  poet, 
last  Monday  even - 
basket  in  one  hand  to  ing,  at  the  Washington 
pick  up  the  offal  in  the  Parade  Ground. 
streets — bones,    scraps 

of  paper  and  old  rags,  The  sportsmen  around 
with  broken  glass,  old  Buffalo  are  now  mak- 
iron,  and  everything  ing  great  havoc  among 
that  can  be  manufact-   wild  pigeons. 


A  CHIFFONIER. 


OH,    LADIES! 

A  writer  on  America, 
in  an  English  periodical 
says: — "  We  admired, 
as  every  one  must,  the 
pretty  faces  and  figures 
of  the  New  York  ladies. 
But  it  is  a  pity  that 
they  follow  the  abomi- 
nable practice  of  chew- 
ing the  gum  of  the 
spruce  fir,  which  no 
doubt  is  the  cause  of 
the  early  loss  of  their 
teeth.  It  is  a  most  un- 
becoming habit.  The 
jaw  is  kept  in  perpetual 
motion,  like  that  of  a 
cow  ruminating." 
Ladies,  do  you  chew? 

GUTTA  PER- 
CH A    TIRES -We 

see  it  noticed  in  three 
or  fcur  of  our  Philadel- 
phia exchanges,  that 
some  tires  of  carriages 
have  been  made  in  that 
city  of  gutta  percha. 
In  our  opinion  no  tire 
can  equal  one  made 
of  iron. 

BACHELORS- 

The  bill  lately  intro- 
duced into  the  New 
York  Legislature  to  tax 
bachelors  seven  dollars  a 
year  for  the  support  of 
orphans,  defines  a  bach- 
elor to  be  :  "  Every 
unmarried  white  male, 
unconvicted  of  crime, 
of  good  health,  and 
fair  physical  propor- 
tions, and  who  is  be- 
tween the  ages  of  29 
and  56  years,  shall  be 
deemed  an  old  bache- 
lor." 

SMALLEST 
HORSE    YET-A 

pigmy  horse,  weighing 
only  45  pounds,  the 
smallest  one  that  ever 
lived,  has  been  sent  to 
General  Tcm  Thumb 
as  a  present  from  Java . 
It  is  a  wonder,  and  the 
little  General  will  find 
him  a  valuable  acquisi- 
tion to  his  personal  con- 
venience. 

There  are  2,309 
women  attached  to  the 
American  army  in 
Mexico  for  washing, 
mending  and  attending 
to  the  sick. 


'HE  whole  system  is  wrong  from  first  to  last — 
^**k  the  construction  of  the  cars— the  total  absence 
of  even  ordinary  precaution,  and  want  of  the  protec- 
tive hand  of  the  government. 

From  "  Old  England  and  Neew  England. " 


TO  BURN  COAL 

LOCOMOTIVES  BUILT 

FOR  THAT  FUEL. 

Mr.  Winans,  of  Bal- 
timore, an  eminent  en- 
gineer, has  lately  con- 
structed twolocomotives 
for  the  Reading  Rail- 
road, which  have  been 
built  expressly  to  bum 
anthracite  coal.  We 
have  been  informed 
that  they  give  great  sat- 
isfaction to  the  com- 
pany. This  is  a  ver.r 
important  improvement 
on  the  furnaces,  as  it 
will  enable  them  to  use 
fuel  of  one-fourth  the 
price  of  wood  and  will 
be  a  great  saving. 

We  can  see  no  diffi- 
culty in  the  way  of  the 
general  use  of  coal  in 
the  place  of  wood.  It 
is  but  a  few  years  since 
our  engineers  on  the 
North  River  thought  it 
impossible  to  dispense 
with  their  pitch  pine 
firewood,  and  that  it 
would  take  a  week  to 
go  to  Albany  from  New 
York  with  coal,  but 
what  has  been  the  re- 
sult of  the  change? 
Why,  quicker  trips 
have  been  made  this 
season  than  ever  before 
on  the  Hudson.  We 
do  not  say  that  this  is 
all  the  result  of  substi- 
tuting coal  for  wood, 
but  it  proves  that  no 
diminution  of  speed  has 
resulted  from  the 
change.  Where  wood 
is  cheap,  it  is  to  be  pre- 
ferred as  a  fuel,  as  there 
will  not  be  such  a  wear 
of  pipes  and  heating 
surface,  an  important 
consideration  undoubt- 
edly in  locomotives. 

"All  the  wrong  of 
the  war — all  the  evil  of 
it-  all  the  sorrow  it  may 
occasion  belongs  to  Mr. 
Polk,"  says  the  Boston 
Atlas.  What  a  vile 
slander  upon  Mr.  Polk! 
The  journal  of  the  Sen- 
ate and  the  House  of 
Representatives  of  May 
last  shows  that  40  out 
42  of  the  former  and 
173  out  of  187  of  the 
latter  voted  that  the 
war  existed  by  the  acts 
of  Mexico.  And  now 
the  Atlas  and  the  Fed- 
eralists charge  it  en- 
tirely to  Mr.  Polk. 


A  tombstone  in  Jer- 
sey bears  the  following 
epitaph:  '  Died  of  thin 
shoes,  January,  1839." 
A  truthful  epitaph  we 
have  no  doubt. 


APRIL. 

Lie  in  bed  all  this 
month  for  fear  of  being 
made  an  April  fool  of. 
Many  things  happen  in 
April.  A  good  month  to 
receive  a  legacy  in,  but 
don  t  reject  a  small  one. 
Avoid  bonnet-shops.  A 
bad  month  to  be  bank- 
rupt in. 


CJje  guiltier  g>tantiarti 

ESTABLISHED  IN  1S47  BY  KOGERS  BROS. 


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JUNE,   L847. 


Five  Cents. 


PRAISE  FOR 
WORKING  GIRLS 

LOWELL,  MASS.,  YOUNG 
WOMEN  ARE  LITERARY 


ENGLISH   CLERGYMAN   SPEAKS  IN  HIGH 

TERMS  OF  FEMALE  EMPLOYEES 

OF  OUR  FACTORIES. 

We  have  received,  —of  New  England? 
by  the  arrival  of  the  last  Or,  if  not,  is  there  any- 
steamer  from  England,  thing  essential  to  their 
a  small  book  entitled  state  of  employment 
"American  Factories  that  should  hinder  them 
and  their  Operatives,"  frcm,  at  all  events,  as- 
by  the  Rev.  Score:bv,  piring  to  an  improve- 
Vicar  of  Bradford,  men t  in  their  condition? 
Yorkshire.  Of  the  city  Certainly  there  is  not. 
of  Lowell  he  writes  as  "  From  all  the  infor- 
follows:  malion  1   could  obtain, 

"We  proceeded  to  [tested  by  all  available 
one  of  the  factories  that  meansand  received  with 
we  might  see  the  factory '  all  reasonable  caution, 
workers  as  they  came !  I  have  been  led  to  infer 
out  to  their  dinners.  | that  the  character  and 
Several  hundreds  of  moral  conduct  of  the 
young  women,  but  not 'Lowell  young  women 
any  children,  issued  are  unusually  high." 
from    the    miLs,    alto-       The  Doctor  goes  on 


POST  OFFICE 
NEEDS  REFORM 

UNITED  STATES  IS  BEHIND 
GREAT  BRITAIN. 


ENGLISH  PEOPLE  CAN  NOW  SEND  LET- 
TERS IN  THEIR  OWN  COUNTRY 
FOR  TWO  CENTS! 

Of  all  the  manifold  I  torted  frcm  an  unwill- 
devices  supplied  by  the  ing  legirlature  and  re- 
ingenuity  cf  man  to  pro- 1  luctant  government  the 
mote  the  progress  of  mat  stupendous  official 


LOWELL  FACTORY  GIRL. 


a  tion,  the  idea  of 
a  Nationa  I  Po;t  Office 
stands  in  the  fore- 
most  ranks   cf   import- 


refoim  cf  which  the  an- 
nals  cf    any  civilized 
nation    can   afford   an 
example, 
ance.  Any   individual    cf 

Correspondence  by  the  population  cf  the 
letter  is  speech  at  a  dis-  j  United  Kingdcm  can 
tance.  I  now  transmit  a  packet 

A  tax  upon  letters,  is,  weighing  half  an  cunce 
in  fact,  a  tax  upon  to  any  other  individual, 
speech.  It  is  worse.  It  no  matter  how  remote 
is  a  fine  levied  upon  his  position  within  the 
the  affections.      It  is  an  country,  at  the  cost  cf 


"There   is  an  entire  by   many,  that  the  es-  ladies    have   craduatec 
absence   of   all   preten- 1  tablishment  of  our  man-  from  the  mill:?,  and  are  j  impost  upon  the  love  of  two  cents! 
sions   in   the  writers  to|  ufactories   requiring  fe-  not  ashamed  cf  it. 
be   what  they  are  not.   male   labor   would    be       Another  considera- 
ther   very   orderly  in  to inquireinto  the  causes  They  are  factory  girls,   most  disastrous  to  health  tion  is  that  of  wages.  It 


their  manner  and  very  of  the  superior  mora 
respectable  in  theirand  intellectual  condi- 
appearance.  They  tion  of  the  Lowell  fac 
were  neatly  dressed  in  tory  girls,  but  in  this  wi 


They  always  call  them- '  and   morals,  judging  appears  that   a   young 

selves    'girls.'      They  from  the  confinement  Lo  woman  from  the  country 

have   no    desire    to   be ,  which  females  are  sub-  who   is  employed  as  a 

fine  ladies,  nor  do  they !  jected  in  English  facto-  spare  hand,  cr  pupil,  re- 
their  persons,  many  with  i  cannot  afford  space  to  I  call  themselves 'ladies,' tries.  It  has,  however,  ceives  besides  her  board, 
their   hair   nicely    ar- .follow  him  further  than '  as  the  common  fashion   produced    no   such  re-   50  cents  per  week;  and 

ranged,  and  not  a  few  to  give  the  first  sentence  is  cf  most  American  fe-j  suits.  It  is  stated  on  as  she  advances  in  presents  a  territory  the  dczen.  The  writer, 
with  it  flowing  in  care- 1  of  that  chapter,  which  j  males.  They  have  no  authority,  that  in  one  knowledge  and  dili-i  forming  a  large  section  however,  has  the  cpticn 
fullv  curled  ringlets.  All  is  in  the  words  follow-  affectations  of  gentility;  mill  in  Lowell,  82  boys  gence,  she  will  receive  cf  the  Globe  inhabited  |  of  paying  the  postage 
wore,  being  the  height  ing:  land  by  a  natural  con- j  and  405  girls  have  been  from    75    cents   to   $1    by  a  sparse  population,   according  to  the  above 

of  summer,  alight  cal-       "Concluding   as   we  I  sequence  they  are  essen-j  married   in    18   years;   and$l.50each  week,   separated    by   distances  rates,  when  the  letter  is 
covered  bonnet,  or  must  do,  if  the  forego- j  nally  free  from  all  vul- '  and  that  in  another  mill.  The  average  pay  of  all  net  to  be  traveled  over,  | delivered   at   the    Pest 


kindred.  It  is  a  duty  "enny  stamps  are  is- 
laid  upon  friendship.  It  sued  by  the  Post  Office, 
is  a  penalty  on  com-  coated  with  adhesive 
merce,  an  amercement  matter  at  the  back,  by 
on  the  diffusion  of !  which  they  are  readily 
knowledge,  and  a  drag  and  permanently  at- 
on  the  progress  of  civil-  tached  to  the  letter, 
ization.  i  These  are  sold  at  thir- 

The    United    States  teen-and-a-half   pence 


n  the  female  operatives, 
t  the  present  time,  is 
about  $1  .93 
per  week,  be- 
sides board; 
yet  it  sometimes 

happens  that  ence,  so  desirable  to  all 
they  earn  even ;  becomes  a  want  cf  im 


$3and$4.0ut 
cf  50  girls, 
there  were  24 
who     received 


sort   of   caleche,   large  ing  researches  and  ob-garity."  1187    girls   have   b 

enough  to  screen  the  j  servations  be  at  all  cor- 1  Mr.  Dicken:,  in  his  married  in  fi 
face,  and  with  depend-  respondent  with  the  "American 
ent  curtain  to  shield  the  facts,  that  the  intellect-  Notes,"  men- 
neck  and  shoulders,  jual,  moral  and  religious  t  i  o  n  s  the 
Many  wore  veils,  and  condition  of  the  female  "Lowell  Offer- 
some  carried  silk  para-  operativesof  Lowell isof  ing,"  of  which 
sols.  |  a  very  unusual  and  sup- 1  he    says:     "I 

"Lowell,  for  the  erior  order  — the  inquiry  brought  away 
amusement  of  its  25,-  as  to  how  these  bene-  from  Lowell 
000  of  total  population,  ficial  effects  are  pro-  foui  hundred 
produces  one  daily  duced  becomes  as  good  solid 
newspaper,  two  thrice  interesting  as  it  is  im-  pages,  which  I 
a  week,  and  six  weekly  portant."  have  read  from 

besides  the  clever  peri-  We  have  two  wit-  beginning  to 
odical  conducted  by  nesses  to  offer  in  proof  end.  Of  the 
the  factory  girls,  the  of  the  justness  of  Mr.  merits  cf  the 
'Lowell   Offering,     Scoresbys  views.  'Lowell  Offer  - 

which  is  a  monthly  The  first  is  Mr .  ing,"  as  a  liter- 
publication."  Knight,    the    English  ary  production 

The  Doctor  here  in-  editor  of  a  work  called  1  will  only  ob- 
troduces  an  extract  from  "Mind  Among  the ;  serve,  putting 
the  "  Lowell  Offering"  Spindles."  published  in  entirely  out  of 
which,  after  reading,  he  London,  and  reprinted  sight  the  fact  of 
goes  on  to  say:  "Now  in  Boston.  In  his  intro-  the  articles  hav- 
which  of  our  factory  duction  he  reviews  the  ing  been  writ- 
operatives  could  write  several  articles  he  pub-  ten  by  these 
such  a  description  and  lishes,  all  of  which  are  girls  after  the 
story  as  that?  Yet  why  bona  fide  the  produc-  arduous  labors 
should  they  not?      Are   tion    of   young   women  of  the  day, that 

lh»y  inferior  in  natural   of   Lowell   who    work  it   will  compare  advan- 1 and  that  28  have  been! saving 
intelligence  or  in  mental  in    the    factories  and   tageously  with   a  great  married  from  one  room  The  usual  pay  per  d; 
abilities  to  their  sisters       who  edit  and  write  for  many  English  annuals."  in  a  single  year.     Some  !  for   an    overseer   is   $2 
almost  their  own  sisters  the  "  Lowell  Offering.  ",      It  has  been   supposed  wealthy  and  fashionable  per  day;  and  the  aver- 


even  by  the  aid  of  the  Office, 
marvelous    powers    of       The    necessity    of 
steam,  in  less  time  than  radical    reform    being 
can   be   expressed    by; conceded,  it  is  for  the 
weeks.      Among   such  general    Government 
people,    correspond-  and   the   Legislature  to 
consider  whether  it  be 
more    consistent   with 
policy     and       wis- 
dom   to   adopt,    with 
suitable  modifications, 
the   system  which    has 
produced  the  results 
so  satisfactory  in  Gre  a  t 
Britain,    or  to  adopt  a 
new  system. 


penous  urgency. 

Now,  in  England, 
the  people  have  risen, 
and  with  one  consen- 
*  i  i  P.er:taneous  voice  uttered 
week,  besides  meir  will  in  accents 
neither  to  be  mistaken 
ncr    resisted,    and   ex- 


board;  but 
these  cases 
were  extraor- 
dinary'-      Yet, 

as  an  evidence  age  pay  cf  male  opera-  although  they  are  en 
of  the  thrift  and  fives  at  the  present  time  abled  to  acquire  sub- 
prosperity  of  is  not  far  from  85  cents  sistence  by  their  own 
many  of  the  per  day,  besides  their  labor  from  the  soil,  arc, 
operatives  itjboard,  and  that  cf  the  as  a  general  fact,  in- 
may  be  men- ;  females,  upon  regular  competent,  frcm  their 
tioned  that  the  |  work,  is  little  less  than  circumstances,    to   p.o- 


factory  girls  of 
Lowell  have 
about  $100,- 
OOOin  the  ins- 
titution f  or 
that    city. 


$2    per    week,    beside 'cure    any    surplus   of 
their  board.  i  money  fcr  their  families; 

The  females  who  are  and  hence  it  happens 
employed  in  the  manu-  that  the  daughters  are 
facturing  establishments  willing  to  enter  the 
of  Lowell  are  generally  mills  in  order  to  prccuie 
the  daughters  cf  indus-  the  conveniences  that 
trious  farmers  in  thejthe  work  in  the  facto- 
surrounding region, who  ries  affords. 


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JUNE,  1906. 


5  Cents 


graphs  deal  with  Mr.  Longworth  and  his 
champagne  and  the  United  States'  first  mail 
steamer,  which  sailed  June  1,  1847.  The  in- 
vention of  threaded  bank  note  paper  furnishes 
an  important  item. 

On  the  fourth  page  is  a  comparison  of  the 
San  Francisco  of  1906  with  that  of  1847,  in 
which  year  Yerba  Buena  assumed  its  present 
name.  San  Francisco  then  had  about  500 
inhabitants.  The  year  following  came  the 
discovery  of  gold  that  turned  so  many  toward 
California. 

The  article  on    "Cotton"  on  Page  5    is   to 

emphasize  only  one  fact,  viz  :  that  manufactures 

J  in  the  oouth  had  attained  to  considerable  im- 

The    "rare    June    day"    is  with  us  again,    portance  in  1847.     The  subject  is  an  interest- 

Those  of  us  whom  fate  has  placed  in  New    ing  one  but  space  forbade   anything    but  the 

England  have  not  been  loath  to  bid  winter  fare-    most  superficial  treatment. 

well  and  have   welcomed   spring  as  a    time  in  [       We    wish    to  thank    those  of    our    readers 

which  to  thaw  out.      Now  that  summer  sue-  ,  who  have  written  to  us  expressing  interest  in 

ceeds    spring    we    have   almost    forgotten    the   The  Standard.     We  appreciate  commendation 

drifts  and  draughts  of 

dreary  winter. 

We   have  devoted 

a  good  deal  of  space 

on    the  first    page  of 

this  issue  to  the  work- 
ing girls  of  Lowell — 

the    mill    hands    of 

1847  —  who    found 

relaxation  from  man- 
ual labor  by  dab- 
bling in  literature.    A 

single  literary  factory 

girl  is  worthy    of  an 

extended   description, 

but   in    Lowell    sixty 

years  ago  there  were 

enough     of    them    to 

furnish    all    the  copy 

for    a    magazine,    the 

"  Lowell    Offering." 

Lucy  Larcom    began 

her    career    while    a 

Lowell  mill  hand   as 

a  contributor  to  the 

"  Offering." 


BETORE    THE    DISCOVERY   OF   GOLD 


VIEW  OF  SAN  FRANCISCO 

IRE    THE    DISCOVE 


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The  last  page,  it  will  be  seen,  is  concerned 
to  no  small  extent  with  fashion,  having  articles 
on  "  Dandies,"  "  Changes  in  Fashion"  and  an 
1 847  fashion  joke.     Other  entertaining  para- 


and  we  welcome  suggestions,  although,  of 
course,  we  do  not  pledge  ourselves  to  follow 
the  latter.  We  will  try  to  answer  any  ques- 
tions that  may  be  asked  us  regarding  1847. 


SAN  FRANCISCO 

THE  YERBA  BUENA  OF  1847 

AND  THE  CITY  AS  IT  APPEARS 

IN  THE  YEAR  1906, 

It  was  in  1 847  that  Yerba  Buena  ("Good 
Herb")  became  known  as  San  Francisco. 
There  were  in  that  year  "  some  500  inhabi- 
tants— 450  probably  Americans  and  300  of 
these  Mormons."  It  was  also  in  1 847  that  the 
"  Sons  of  New  England  "  met  at  the  house 
of  Mr.  Lincoln  in  Yerba  Buena,  where  pub- 
lic worship  was  performed,  followed  by  a 
"  New  England  dinner  " —  the  first  public 
observance  of  Thanksgiving  Day  in  California. 
"  There  are  now  eight  American  newspapers 
regularly  published  in 
Mexico,  viz:  *  *  * 
one  at  Monterey 
(California),  and  a 
Mormon  paper  at 
Yerba  Buena,"  re- 
marked a  paper 
printed  in  May,  1847. 
The  total  value  of 
exports  for  the  quarter 
ending  December  3  1 , 
1 847,  amounted  to 
$49,597.53;  the  value 
cf  imports  for  the  same 
period  was  $53,589- 
.73.  "  Yerba  Buena 
will  assuredly  be  a 
great  commercial  em- 
porium," declared  a 
letter  writer  in  1847. 
Said  Hunt's  Maga- 
zine :  "From  its  posi- 
tion and  extent  the 
city  and  port  must  be- 
come the  depot  of  all 
the  produce  of  the 
great  rivers  and  val- 
leys. It  will  also  be- 
come the  great  naval  station  of  the  Pacific. 
The  rapidity  of  the  growth  of  this  place, 
we  are  confident  in  stating,  will  far  sur- 
pass that  of  our  most  prosperous  western 
cities." 

At  the  beginning  of  the  present  year  San 
Francisco's  population  numbered  500,000 
and  at  the  present  ratio  of  increase  it  will 
reach  three  quarters  of  a  million  by  the  time 
the  next  national  census  is  taken.  Bank 
clearings  in  1905  amounted  to  $  1 ,834,549,- 
788;  real  estate  sales,  $74,926,065;  build- 
ing contracts,  $21,941,595;  imports,  $44,- 
339,611;  exports,  $64,918,505;  tonnage 
in  harbor,  6,200,000  tons. 

Three  trans-continental  railroads  reach 
San  Francisco  and  another  is  in  process  of 
construction.  The  Pacific  cable  connects 
with  all  Oriental  ports. 

1  he  view  of  Yerba  Buena  given  above  is 
certified  to  be  "a  faithful,  accurate  represen- 
tation as  it  really  appeared  in  March, 
1847."  The  lower  picture  shows  the  San 
Francisco  of  to-day,  looking  toward  the  bay 
instead  of  from  it,  as  is  the  case  in  the 
cut   above. 


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The  above  description  of  San  Francisco  was  in  type  when  the  news  came  of  the  destruction  of  the  city   by  the 

combined  forces  of  earthquake  and  fire. 


1847 — THEN- 


-THE  SILVER  STANDARD- 


-Now — 191)0 


COTTON 


THE  SOUTH,  BACK  IN  1847, 

WAS  MAKING  A  NAME  IN 

MANUFACTURES, 

We  hear  much,  these  days,  about  the  "new 
South" — new  industrially.  But  is  the  indus- 
trial South  so  new,  after  all?  Is  it  not  the  re- 
vivified rather  than  the  "new"  South?  When 
we  begin  to  look  for  facts  and  figures  in  the 
history  of  cotton  manufactures,  for  instance,  we 
come  upon  some  very  interesting  information 
along  that  line.  Statistics  are  often  dry  and 
cotton  statistics,  from  the  nature  of  the  ma  irial 
with  which  they  deal,  may  be  regarded  as 
even  dryer  than  the  ordinary,  but,  swallowing 


1847,  declared:  "There  is  at  this  moment  an 
energy  in  the  investment  of  capital  for  manu- 
facturing purposes  in  the  Southern  states  which 
will  soon  place  the  South  in  a  position  per- 
fectly independent  of  the  Northern  states  or 
Europe,  for  the  supply  of  at  least  the  coarse 
and  medium  styles  of  cotton  goods.  Factories 
are  springing  up  in  every  Southern  state." 

The  paper  then  goes  on  to  speak  of  a  factory 
in  progress  of  erection  at  Charleston  which  was 
to  contain  3,000  spindles  and  100  looms, 
the  machinery  to  be  driven  by  steam  power. 

"The  South  will  shortly  make  all  her  own 
cotton  cloth,"  the  Scientific  American  con- 
tinues, "and  we  may  yet  see  the  time  when 
the  cotton  shall  only  leave  the  plantation  in 
the  form  of  cloth.  *  *  *  We  may  with- 
out any  prophetic  claims  advise  our  Northern 
manufacturers  to  look  more  to  investments  in 
woolen  manufactures.  From  different  sources 
we  have  accounts  of  the  great  activity  in  the 


The  illustration  of  the  Old  Plantation  Gin  House  and  Screw  is  from  D.  A. 
Tompkins'  book,  "Cotton  and  Cotton  Oil."      It  is  copyrighted   and 
is  used  by  permission. 
The    lower   cut   shows   a    Modern   Cotton  Treating   Plant   and  is  used  by  per- 
mission   of    the   Technical    World    Magazine. 


within  a  few  years,  and  her  capitalists  and 
men  of  enterprise  are  directing  their  energies 
to  the  development  of  the  real  resources  of 
that  section  of  the  Union.  Millions  of  dollars 
have  been  invested  in  manufacturing  establish- 
ments, and  other  millions  will  soon  take  the 
same  direction. 

"Little  Delaware,  we  are  assured,  has 
already  a  greater  number  of  manufacturing 
establishments,  in  proportion  to  her  population, 
than  any  other  state  in  the  Union.  Maryland 
has  invested  $45,000,000,  and  soon  will  have 
railroads  in  operation  to  the  extent  of  five  hun- 
dred miles.  North  Carolina  has  five  hundred 
miles  of  railroads  completed  or  in  progress — 
while  even  in  South  Carolina,  where,  until  re- 
cently, manufacturers  were  ridiculed  or  de- 
nounced, several  extensive  factories  are  now 
in  active  progress  and  successful  operation. 

"Florida,  young  as  she  is,  has  $4,000,000 

invested  in  railroads  and  manufactories  —  while 

Georgia    has   invested  $5  5,000,000   and 

lias    upwards  of  seventy   cotton  factories    in 

the  full  tide  of  successful  experiment. 

"Alabama,  Mississippi,  Missouri,  Arkan- 
sas, Kentucky  and  Tennessee,  are  also  ani- 
mated by  the  same  spirit.  Mississippi  has 
fifty-three  cotton  factories,  while  Missouri  has 
invested  in  internal  improvements,  mines  and 
manufactories  the  enormous  sum  of  $85,000,- 
000." 

In  1851  North  Carolina  had  thirty-eight 
mills  in  operation,  consuming  annually  20,- 
000  bales  of  cotton,  turning  out  manufactured 
product  valued  at  $83 1 ,000.  The  same 
year  Georgia  had  thirty-five  mills,  capital, 
$1,735,000;  operating  60,000  spindles  and 
consuming  20,230  bales  per  annum.  South 
Carolina  had  eighteen  mills,  consuming  10,- 
000  bales,  capital  invested,  $857,000;  Ten- 
nessee, thirty  factories,  30,000  spindles,  700 
looms,  consuming  15,000  bales;  Alabama, 
twelve  factories,  15,580  spindles,  300  looms, 
consuming  5,000  bales. 

De  Bow's  "  Industrial  Resources  of  the 
South  and  West"  for  1852  quotes  a  speaker 
at  "the  last  fair  of   the  American  Institute  at 


all  prejudices,  a  plunge  into  the  figures  be- 
low we  believe  will  prove  of  considerable 
profit  to  the  reader. 

According  to  the  Baltimore  Manufac- 
turers' Record,  there  was,  last  year,  capital 
amounting  to  $225,000,000  invested  in 
cotton  mills  in  the  South ;  there  were 
9,205,949  spindles  and  2,163,000  cotton 
bales  were  used.  These  figures  do  indeed 
indicate,  as  is  claimed  for  them,  "an  enor- 
mous upbuilding  and  great  prosperity"  of 
the  Southland.  But  back  in  1847  the 
Industrial  Giant  was  beginning  to  stretch 
himself  and  awake  to  the  great  possibilities 
before  him.  The  American  Quarterly 
Register  of  that  time  speaks  of  eight  large 
cotton  manufactories  in  South  Carolina, 
while  in  Georgia  there  were  thirty-two 
cotton  factories  in  operation,  employing  in 
their  building  and  working  $2,000,000  and 
3,000  hands ;  the  value  of  goods  turned  out 
being  $1,500,000! 

A  Georgia  paper  in  184  7  predicted 
that  "Georgia  and  Tennessee  are  destined 
to  become  the  great  manufacturing  states  of 
the  South,  if  not  of  the  Union." 

The  Scientific  American  of   November  13, 


erection  of  cotton  factories  in  old  Vir- 
ginia, Georgia  and  Alabama,  and  we  perceive 
by  the  Franklin,  La.,  Banner  that  good  ma- 
chinists, blacksmiths,  coopers  and  mechanics 
of  every  description  are  wanted  to  come  and 
settle  there." 

The  same  paper,  two  years  later  printed 
the  following  : 

"The    South    has    indeed    roused     herself 


New  York"  to  the  effect  that  there  are  "  said 
to  be  upwards  of  250  cotton  mills  south  of 
Mason  and  Dixon's  line." 

While  the  industrial  awakening  of  recen 
years  is  so  great  that  the  name,  "the  new 
South,"  may  be  justified,  it  is  well  to  remem- 
ber that  the  South  sixty  yeais  ago  had  begun 
what  then  promised  to  be  a  wonderful  career 
of  prosperity. 


18  4T    ROGEFLS   BR.OS 


"SILVER^  PLATE 
THAT    WEARS 


"5 


Fruit   Knives   and   Nut   Cracks 

Highest  Grade  Silver  Plate.      Nickel  Silver,  Silver  Soldered. 

Hollow  Handles.      Knives  Packed  One-Half 

Dozen  in  Lined  Box. 

7  Berkshire,  No.  1 

8  Berkshire,  No.  2,  Saw  Back 

9  Vintage,  No.  2,  Saw  Back 

10  Columbia,  No.  2,  Saw  Back 

11  Vesta  Nut  Crack 

12  Vintage,  No.  1 


Avon,  No.  1 
Avon  Nut  Crack 
Lotus,  No.  2,  Saw  Back 
Avon,      "     2,     "  " 

Vesta,      "     2,     " 
Vesta,  No.  1 


Illustrations  about  one-half  actual  size 


-  ■  -  — . - it 


The  variety  of  patterns  in  "  1847  Rogers  Bros."  goods  is  shown  in  the  illustration  of 
fruit  knives  and  nut  cracks.  Like  all  "1847  Rogers  Bros."  ware,  these  knives  and  cracks 
are  of  the  highest  grade  of  silver  plate.  They  are  of  nickel  silver,  silver  soldered,  with 
hollow  handles.     The  knives  are  packed  one-half  dozen  in  a  lined  box. 


Supplied  to  retailers  by  all  leading  jobbers 


SILVER.  PLATE 
THAT     WEARS 


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THESE 

ADVERTISEMENTS 

shown  here  in  reduced  form, 
appear  in  the  June  issues  of 
the  following  publications: 
Ladies'  Home  Journal,  Delin- 
eator, Designer,  Housekeeper, 
Ladies'  World,  Men  and 
Women,  Modern  Priscilla  and 
Woman's  Home  Companion, 
occupying  two  columns  in  each. 

These  magazines  have  a  com- 
bined circulation  of  about 
3,000,000.  Reckoning,  as  is 
customary,  five  readers  to  each 
copy,  we  have  15,000,000  intel- 
ligent human  beings  for  an 
audience.  It  is  true  that  all 
these  fifteen  million  will  not 
buy  silverware  but  we  expect 
soon  to  have  proof  in  black  and 
white  that  some  of  them  —  and 
a  very  appreciable  "some"  — 
will  follow  the  suggestions  re- 
garding "gifts  for  a  June  wed- 
ding" and  "how  to  choose 
appropriate  silver." 

Besides  the  publications 
whose  15,000,000  readers  are 
appealed  to  by  these  adver- 
tisements, there  is  a  long  list 
of  magazines,  with  a  circula- 
tion, say,  of  2,000,000  — 
10,000,000  readers  —  carrying 
our  advertisements. 

All  in  all  there  are  500  or 
more  publications — daily, 
weekly  and  monthly — used  by 
us  all  through  the  year — not 

spasmodically,  but  all  the  time, 
summer  and  winter. 

The  point  is  this:  You  cannot 
afford  to  refuse  to  profit  by  this 
extensive,  systematic  advertis- 
ing. 

If  you  handle  our  ware,  our 
advertising  is  your  advertising. 

A  little  supplementary  work 
on  your  part — aided,  if  you 
wish,  by  the  electrotypes,  show 
cards,  signs,  posters  and  sug- 
gestions we  supply  to  you  free 
— should  clinch  the  matter. 


How 

to  Choose'' 
W  Appropriate  | 


M.ROGERS 


cDistributed  to  the  public  by  progressive  dealers 


8 


THE  SILVER  STANDARD.  JUNE,  1847 


SilurrStanrttu-ti 
Established 

IN   1847  BY 

Rogers  Bros. 


JUNE.  1847. 


MAIL  STEAMER 

FIRST  AMERICAN 
VESSEL  OF  KIND. 

The  Washington, 
the  first  of  a  class  of 
American  steamers,  is 
t  o  commence  sailing  be- 
tween  New  York  and 
Europe  this  week.  She 
is  230  feet  deck,  39 
feel  beam,  30  1-2  feet 
hold,  and  measures  2,- 
000  tons  burden.  She 
has  three  decks  fore  and 
aft;  first  and  second 
cabins,  grand  saloon, 
spar  deck  and  mail 
room.  Herenginesare 
72  inch  cylinders  and 
10  feel  stroke.  Her 
boilers  are  capable  of 
sustaining  the  extraordi- 
nary pressure  of  30 
pounds  to  the  square 
inch. 

Whether  it  be  for  the 
beauty  of  her  finish,  the 
strength  of  her  material 
or  the  arrangement  of 
all  her  parts  we  venture 
to  say  that  she  is  the 
most  splendid  steamer 
afloat.  On  her  experi- 
mental trip,  she  attained 
the  wonderful  speed  of 
1 6  knots  an  hour. 

The  figure  head  is  a 
full  length  statue  of 
Washington  and  when 
this  majestic  vessel 
reaches  old  England  s 
chalky  coast,  the  people 
wili  look  upon  the  star- 
spangled  banner  which 
so  often  floated  victori- 
ous where  the  "Father 
of  his  Country"  led, 
and  as  they  gaze  upon 
his  image  and  upon  the 
noble  vessel  which  bears 
his  name,  they  will 
forcibly  feel  that  he  who 
was  First  in  War  was 
also  First  in  Peace. 

MARSHAL 

AND    CLAY- 

Thomas  F.  Marshal  of 
Kentucky  was  the 
leader  of  the  mob  thai 
destroyed  or  removed 
the  press  of  Cassius  M . 
Clay.  They  are  now 
both  captains  of  volun- 
teer companies  in  Mex- 
ico, and  are  said  to  be 
on  the  most  friendly 
and  intimate  terms. 

GREAT  PRO- 
JECTS-Three  of  the 
greatest  projects  in  con- 
templation at  present 
are  a  canal  across  the 
Isthmus  of  Darien; 
another  across  the  Isth- 
mus of  Suez,  connecting 
the  waters  of  the  Medi- 
terranean with  those  of 
the  Red  Sea;  and  third, 
a  railroad  from  Lake 
Michigan  to  the  Pacific 
Ocean.  The  com- 
pletion of  either  cf  these 
would  constitute  an  im- 
portant era  in  the  history 
of  trade  and  commerce. 


HOW  DANDIES 
ARE  MADE-This 
is  a  grave  question,  for 
fops  are  like  veal  pies — 
in  the  opinion  of  the 
waggish  Weller  —  the 
crust  may  be  rather  re- 
spectable, but  the  mak- 
ing up  of  the  interior  is 
"werry  duberous." 
Exquisites  at  this  pres- 
ent writing,  are  a  con- 
glomeration of  lank  legs, 
hairy  heads  and  creamy 
countenances.  Such 
are  their  natural  pecul- 
iarities. But  it  is  evi- 
dent that  in  considering 
the  subject,  the  great 
topic  of  inquiry  is, 
What  is  a  dandy  rar- 
torially?  Here  descrip- 
tion will  proclaim  him 
to  be  a  being  stuck  into 
tight  trousers,  ditto  coat 
and  vest,  ditto  boots, 
not  so  much  ditto  over- 
coat, and  crowned  with 
a  cylindrical  structure  of 
felt,  which  is  called  a 
ffet.  Mentally  the  sub- 
ject of  dandyism  offers 
little  field  for  remark, 
because  the  weakness 
which  distinguishes  the 
unfortunate  class  of  our 
fellow  citizens  now  un- 
der consideration  is 
caused  by  natural  im- 
becility and  want  of 
common  sense. 

The  clothing  of  an 
exquisite  is  a  work  of 
lime  and  science.  We 
can  imagine  how  much 
of  the  labor  is  done. 
One  serious  question 
is  how  does  he  manage 
to  tie  those  huge  bows 
in  his  cravat,  which 
stand  out  below  his  chin . 
giving  h.m  thereabout 
the  appearance  of  a 
cherubim,  all  head  and 
wings?  What  a  work 
of  fixing  there  must  be 
before  he  gets  the  knot 
exactly  right!  What 
gazing  into  the  mirror — 
what  pulling  of  ends — 
what  twisting  of  folds 
—  what  tying  and  un- 
tying! Everything 
must  be  just  so.  There 
must  be  no  wrinkles  — 
all  must  be  smooth  and 
"ship-shape,"  or  the 
dandy  so  remiss  upon 
this  subject  would  be 
avoided  forever  by  his 
associates. 


DANDIES. 


CHANGES  IN 
FASHION-Few 

persons  are  aware  of 
the  changes  that  are 
continually  taking  place 
in  trade  and  commerce. 
Witness  the  following: 

Mr.  Sturges,  of  Bos- 
ton, in  a  lecture  deliv- 
ered some  two  or  three 
years  ago  on  Trade  and 
Finances,  referred  also 
to  the  singular  changes 
in  fashion. 

Nankeens,  said  he, 
were  once  imported  in 
large  quantities.  As 
late  as  1820 
there  was  one 
million  dollars 
worth  imported; 
now  there  is 
none. 

In  1 806  Can - 
i  ton  crape  was 
first  used;  in 
1810  ten  cases 
were  imported; 
in  18!  6  there 
were  12,000 
pieces;  in  1826 
the  importations 
amounted  to  a 
million  and  a 
half  of  dollars; 
and  in  1 844  the 
article  was  not 
imported.  Yet 
the  country  has 
lost  nothing  by  _ 
this  caprice  of 
fashion,  as  our  country- 
women appear  as  lovely 
in  nine-penny  calico  as 
in  Canton  crape, 


Silk  was  once  im- 
ported in  large  quanti- 
ties from  China;  a  car- 
go of  nearly  a  million 
dollars  worth  was  once 
landed  in  this  country; 
and  now  the  whole 
yearly  importation  from 
China  amounts  to  less 
than  $100,000. 

Great  changes  also 
have  taken  place  in  re- 
gard to  the  pay  of  our 
CI  inese   importations. 

In  1818,  $7,000,000 

in   specie   were  carried 
to  China,  but   now  our 


commenced  in  1787; 
and  in  1 802  there  were 
fifteen  American  ves- 
sels engaged  in  it,  and 
now  it  has  ceased  alto- 
gether. It  all  goes  to 
show  the  fickleness  of 
Dame  Fashion. 

The  Pittsburg  Gaz- 
ette gives  a  statement 
of  an  exceedingly  deli- 
cate operation  perform- 
ed by  M.  Brooks  the 
telegraphic  operator  in 
that  city.  This  con- 
sisted of   writing  out  a 

long     message 

from  the  sound 
alone.  The 
writing  stile 
being  out  of  or- 
der, it  was  nec- 
essary to  remove 
and  repair  it,  bat 
by  the  slight 
"  tick "  of  the 
magnet  every 
I  etter  was  dis- 
tinguished and 
every  word  cor- 
rectly reported 
during  the  whole 
day. 


AMERICAN 
CHAMPAGNE- 
Mr.  Longworth  of  Cin- 
cinnati, states  that  he 
has  made  from  his  last 
season's  vintage  of  Ca- 
tawba grapes  6,000 
botdes  of  champagne, 
which  promises  to  be 
of  a  superior  quality, 
and  will  be  fit  for  use 
the  next  year. 

A  gendeman  in  New 
York,  who  spent  the  last 
summer  in  Cincinnati, 
and  who  is,  or  has  the 
title  to  be,  as  good  a 
judge  of  champagne 
wine  as  any  gendeman 
in  the  land,  informs  us 
that  beside  Mr.  Long- 
worth's  there  are  several 
other  extensive  vine- 
yards in  the  vicinity  of 
Cincinnati;  that  the 
oroprietors  of  several  of 
them  have  obtained 
wine-makers  from  the 
champagne  dis- 
trict in  France,  and 
that  they  now  produce 
champagne  on  the 
banks  of  the  Ohio  fully 
equal  to  any  French 
article;  that  he  drank  at 
different  tables  this  do- 
mestic champagne  of  last 
year's  vintage  which 
the  most  practiced  wine- 
drinker  could  not  have 
distinguished  from  the 
best  foreign.  The 
Frenchman  will  have 
to  look  to  his  laurels. 


"There,  that  is  a  portrait  of  my 
mother's  father,  painted  in  1802." 

"La!  what  guys  our  grandfath- 
ers made  of  themselves." 


arch 


ases  are 


paid  fo 


The  stock- 
holders of  the 
Fall  River, 
Massachusetts. 
Railroad,  re- 
solved with  only 
one    dissenting    voice 


in  bills  of  exchange  on  that  no  spirituous 
England,  of  the  opium  liouors  be  transported 
trade.     The  Fur  trade  over  the  road. 


NEW  LAMP 
FOR  LOCOMO- 

TlVESTThe  Roch- 
ester Daily  Advertiser 
says  that  Mr.  Henry 
Ward  of  that  city  is 
making  lamps  for  rail- 
road locomotives  by 
galvanic  process.  He 
plates  the  parabolic  re- 
flectors (which  are  con- 
structed  of  Britannia 
metal)  with  silver  and 
gives  to  them,  by  polish- 
ing, a  surface  which  re- 
flects with  great  power. 

The  selectmen  of 
Westfield,  at  the  late 
town  meeting  held  in 
that  place  were  instruct- 
ed to  strike  from  the 
jury  list  the  names  of 
all  Odd  Fellows,  rum 
sellers  and  rum  drinkers. 


BANK  PAPER 

NOW   MADE   WITH 
THREADS  IN  IT. 

Messrs.  Crane  &  Co. , 
of  Dallon,  Massachu- 
setts, manufacturers  of 
bank  paper,  have  in- 
vented a  very  simple 
and  efficient  method  of 
preserving  the  denomi- 
nation of  a  bill  from  al- 
teration. Threads  of 
silk  and  cotton  are 
arranged  in  parallel 
lines,  lengthways  with 
the  note,  and  embodied 
in  the  substance  of  the 
paper  during  its  manu- 
facture. A  one  dollai 
bill  has  one  thread,  ard 
one  is  added  to  each 
denomination  up  to  five 
dollars,  then  a  ten  dol- 
lar bill  has  six,  another 
is  added  for  twenty, 
fifty,  one  hundred,  ard 
one  thousand;  the  la: I 
having  eleven  threads. 
It  must  be  very  difficult, 
if  not  impossible,  to  in- 
sert another  thread  after 
the  note  is  finished,  and 
as  the  threads  mark  its 
value  as  distinctly  as 
the  figure,  the  chances 
of  a  successful  altera ticn 
are  at  least  very  greatly 
diminished.  The  Me- 
chanics' Bank  Associa- 
tion of  New  York  City 
and  several  of  the  banks 
in  that  state  and  in  the 
East,  have  ordered  the 
threaded  paper,  and  it 
will  probably  come  in- 
to general  use.  It  is 
desirable  that  something 
should  be  hit  upon  that 
will  prevrnt  (he  frauds 
upon  the  public  from 
the  alteration  of  bank 
bills. 

LOCOMOTIVE 
STRUCK  BY 
LIGHTNING-On 

the  I  3th  ult.,  a  locomo- 
tive attached  to  the 
passenger  train  passing 
from  Adanta  to  Au- 
gusta, Ga.,  was  struck 
by  lightning.  The 
fluid  passed  along  the 
machinery  of  the  engine 
to  the  cars,  shaking 
some  of  the  passengers 
pretty  severely,  but 
doing  no  damage. 


§S|N  New  England  there  is  scarcely  a  village  that  has 
<&>  not  some  institute  for  the  delivery  of  lectures,  the 
formation  of  a  library,  and  the  study  of  various 
acquirements. 

From  "  Old  England  and  New  England." 


The  people  of  Mer-  A  girl  belonging  to  A  young  man  was 
rimack,  Mass.,  at  a  Wrentham,  Mass.,  has  arrested  at  Princeton, 
public  meeting,  have  been  sentenced  to  sixty  New  Jersey,  last  week 
resolved  that  the  place  days  in  the  house  of  and  fined  ten  dollars  for 
shall  hereafter  be  called  correction  for  pretend-  smoking  a  cigar  in 
Lawrence.  ing  to  be  a  witch.  church  during  worship. 


Grant  Thorburn  says  I  A  panther,  measur- 
that  he  and  his  wife  ing  eight  feet  in  length, 
have  lived  together  up-  was  shot  in  his  den  re- 
wards of  forty  years,  cendy,  in  Rockland, 
and  have  never  lost  but  Sullivan  County,  New 
oi.e  teaspoon.  York  state. 


JUNE. 

A  bad  month  for  your 
house  to  be  burnt — un- 
less, indeed,  it  be  in- 
sured for  double  its  val- 
ue. When  you  ride  in 
the  park,  and  the  boys 
tell  you  to  get  inside  the 
horse  and  draw  down 
the  blinds,  don't — it's 
not  seemly.  If  a  comet 
appears,  let  it  alone; 
and  when  it  is  tired  of 
appearing  it  will  dis- 
appear. If  you  see  a 
ghost,  tell  it  to  stay  there, 
and  come  for  us,  and 
we  will  go  look  at  it. 


Clje  gultier  §3>tantiarti 

ESTABLISHED  IN  1847  BY  ROGERS  BROS. 


Special  Issue. 


MERIDEN,  CONN.,   JUNE,  1847. 


Five  Cents. 


1847  BIG  YEAR 
FOR  MERIDEN 

INDUSTRIES  OF  TOWN  ARE 
DESCRIBED 


BRITANNIA.  IVORY    COMB    AND    OTHER 

MANUFACTURES    OF    PLACE 

FLOURISHING. 


The  manufactories  of 
Meriden  constitute  so 
prominent  a  part  of  the 
country's  product  that 
one  naturally  feels  some 
curiosity  to  know  some- 
thing of  their  origin  and 
present  condition,  as 
their  total  sales  now 
amount  to  about 
$1,000,000  a  year. 

Of  all  of  them,  none 
is  more  interesting  than 
the  Ivory  Comb  indus- 
try, whether  one  re- 
gards its  origin  and 
growth  or  the  great 
beauty  of  the  produc- 
tion and  the  systematic 
work  of  the  mechanism 
of  the  machinery  em- 
ployed. 

According  to  the  best 
means  of  information, 
ivory  combs  were  first 
made  in  this  country  by 
Andrew  Lord,  of  Say- 
brook,  about  sixty  years 
ago. 

Abel  Pratt,  of  Say- 
brook,  made  ivory 
combs  fifty -one  years 
ago.  He  sawed  the 
"  plates"  by  hand  and 
250  was  considered  a 
good  day's  work; 
whereas  by  the  present 
improved  process 4,000 
can  be  sawed  out  in  a 
day  by  one  man. 

At  the  present  time 
all  the  ivory  combs 
made  in  America  are 
manufactured  in  Con- 
necticut, two-thirds  of 
the  whole  being  made 
in  Meriden.  The  busi- 
ness was  commenced  in 
this  town  in  1819  by 
Merriam  &  Collins, 
wh  o  u  sed  the  best 
machinery  known  at 
that  time.  Their  estab- 
lishment was  not  long 
continued. 

Howard,  Pratt  & 
Co.  began  to  manu- 
facture ivory  combs  in 
Meriden  in  !  822.  This 
firm  is  now  in  existence 
under  the  name  of 
Julius  Pratt  &  Co. 
They  are  always  busy  at 
this  establishment, 
where  very  great  im- 
provements have  been 
made  in  the  machinery 


by  which  the  work  is 
executed.  The  slow 
processes  of  the  hand 
have  been  discarded, 
and  machines  which 
almost  seem  to  have  in- 
telligence perform  the 
work  with  such  rapid- 
ity, precision  and  beauty 
that  while  the  value  of 
the  raw  material  remains 
as  it  was  thirty  years 
ago,  a  far  better  article 
can  now  be  sold  at  less 
than  half  the  price 
formerly  demanded. 

Walter  Webb  &  Co. 
commenced  business  in 
1831;  Philo  Pratt  & 
Co.  in  1836.  The 
business  of  thislatter  firm 
was  subsequently  trans- 
ferred to  W.  Webb  & 
Co.  and  Mr.  Pratt  be- 
came a  partner.  In 
this  establishment  also 
the  best  machinery  is 
used. 

The  three  firms  of 
Geo.  Read  &  Co.,  of 
Deep  River,  Julius 
Pratt  &  Co.,  Walter 
Webb  &  Co.,  of  Meri- 
den, now  turn  out 
about  15,000  or  18,- 
000  combs  daily,  or 
about  five  and  a  half 
millions  annually;  of 
these  probably  more 
than  three  millions  and 
a  half  are  made  in 
Meriden.  Quantities 
of  these  are  exported  to 
all  parts  of  North  and 
South  America,  and 
some  are  even  sent  to 
England. 

Another  industry 
which  is  growing  very 
rapidly  and  is  destined 
to  be  of  great  import- 
ance in  Meriden  s  fut- 
ure is  the  making  of 
britannia  ware  of  vari- 
ous kinds.  Among 
those  prominently  iden- 
tified for  years  past  in 
this  business  are  I.  C. 
Lewis,  W.  W.  Lyman, 
J.  A.  Frary  and  Lem- 
uel J.  Curtis  as  manu- 
facturers, and  Horace 
C.  Wilcox  and  Dennis 
C.  Wilcox  as  selling 
agents.  It  is  now  con- 
sidered very  probable 
that    within    a   short 


time  these  enterprising 
business  men  will  corn- 
bin"  forces  and  organ- 
ire  a  large  company  so 
as  to  enable  them  to 
more  satisfactorily  make 
and  handle  the  growing 
demand  for  goods  in 
their  line. 

A  new  invention 
galvanic  electricity— 
whereby  goods  can  be 
given  a  coat  of  pure  sil- 
ver, is  also  being  con- 
sidered, and  it  is  likely 
a  line  of  their  goods  in 
the  near  future,  al- 
though made  of  britan- 
nia metal,  will  be  silver 
plated  before  selling. 
This  new  process  of 
electro-deposition  has 
been  largely  experi- 
mented with,  and  is 
now  being  used  in  a 
small  way  by  Rogers 
Bros,  in  Hartford.  Our 
far-seeing  Meriden  men 
are  about  convinced  of 
its  value,  and  if  adopted 
by  them,  will  un- 
doubtedly create  an  im- 
mense demand  for  their 
goods  so  treated.  There 
is  also  some  talk  cf  hav- 
ing Rogers  Bros,  of 
Hartford  come  to  Men- 
den,  install  the  new 
process,  and,  likely, 
merge  their  spoon  and 
fork  business  with  that 
of  the  Meriden  men. 

Among  our  other 
prominent  and  growing 
manufactures  we  men- 
tion the  following: 
Pratt.  Ropes,  Webb 
&  Co.,  Table  Cutlery; 
Curtis,  Morgan  &  Co., 
Charles  Parker,  Julius 
Parker,  Sanford  Parm- 
lee  &  Co.,  Hardware; 
Oliver  Snow  &  Co., 
Pumps  and  Machinery; 
Foster,  Merriam  &  Co., 
Casters  and  Castings; 
Henry  M.  Foster,  H. 
T.  Wilcox,  and  Os- 
good &  Co.,  Steelyards 
and  Scales;  Stedman 
&  Clarke.  Goodrich  & 
Rutty,  Lauren  T.  Mer- 
riam, H .  W.  Curtis, 
Charles  Pomeroy, 
Blakslee,  Styles  &  Co., 
and  Samuel  Yale, 
Plain  ar.d  Japanned 
Tinware;  Birdsey  & 
Williams,  and  H.Gris- 
wold.  Bone  Buttons; 
William  Hale,  Suspen- 
ders; Jedediah  Wilcox, 
Carpet  Bags. 

Even  the  agricultural 
produce  cf  Meriden 
amounts  to  no  small 
sum,  as  the  following 
list,  by  the  assessors  of 
1847  testifies:  Fire 
wood,  1  , 1  47  cords, 
Wool,  l,J 9 1  pounds; 
Corn,  8,523  bushels; 
Buckwheat,  2,1  14 
bushels:  Rye,  5,206 
bushels;  Oats,  7.180 
bushels;  Potatoes,  8,- 
590  bushels;  Hay, 
1 ,656  tons;  Tobacco, 
8,000  pounds;  Butter, 
52, 560 pounds;  cheese, 


5,675  pounds;  Honey, 
706  pounds. 

Taking  everything 
into  consideration, 
Meriden  is  in  a  very 
prosperous  condition, 
and  is  likely  to  grow 
much  faster  in  the  near 
future.  It  is  only  41 
years  since  it  was  set 
apart  from  Wallingford, 
and  now  has  a  popula- 
tion of  about  3,000 
people.  If,  during  the 
next  41  years,  it  only 
continues  its  present 
progress,  no  one  can 
complain. 

Since  the  completion 
of  the  railroad  seven 
years  ago,  the  tendency 
has  been  to  build  near 
the  line  in  the  West 
Village,  and,  no  doubt, 
the  large  manufactories 
of  the  future  will  be  lo- 
cated near  the  railroad. 
where  shipments  by  the 
iron  horse  can  be  made. 


HITCHING  THE 
CUSSED  THING- 

The  New  Haven 
Register  gives  the  fol- 
lowing account  cf  an 
incident  of  the  New 
Haven  and  Hartford 
Road,  soon  afterit  went 
into  operation.  The 
train  stopped  at  Meri- 
den to  wood  up  and  a 
flighty  gentleman  who 
was  probably  for  the 
first  time  in  his  life  in  a 
railroad  car  and  who 
held  on  to  his  seat  with 
both  hands  frcm  the 
moment  the  cars  left 
Hartford,  looking  as 
though  he  expected 
every  moment  to  be 
shock  out  of  the  win- 
dow, suddenly  stepped 
out  on  the  platform, 
and  took  a  rapid  look 
at  the  locomotive. 

"Anything  the  mat- 
ter! I  should  think 
there  was  something 
the  matter  if  ycu  ever 
notice  it!  Why,  they've 
stopped  right  in  the 
middle  cf  the  read,  and 
hain't  hitched  the  cus- 
sed thing !  Spose  ii 
should  start,  hey?  I 
guess  some  of  us  ud  be 
in  kingdom  come,  afore 
night."  A  roar  of 
laughter  from  the  pas- 
sengers in  no  wise  al- 
tered the  man's  views 
of  the  superior  safety  cf 
his  position,  "in  case 
the  cussed  thing  should 
start." 


CRIME  IN  CON- 
NECTICUT-The 

present  number  of  con- 
victs in  the  state  prison 
is  1  50;  ten  years  ago. 
216  were  there  con- 
fined. The  Directors 
attribute  this  cheering 
change  to  the  diminu- 
tion cf  intemperance  in 
the  state. 


REMARKABLE 

RIDE— A  citizen  of 
Waterbury,  well- 
known  as  the  "Col- 
onel," was  recently 
compelled  between 
the  hou  rs  of  8  and 
9  o'clock  in  the 
evening  to  make  a 
legal  tender  to  secure 
the  purchase  cf  some 
property  or  pay  the  pen- 
alty of  $300  specified 
in  the  bond;  the  seller 
having  refused  the  $2,- 
500  in  Phenix  bank 
bills  as  not  being  the 
"dollars,"  the  tender 
must  be  made  before 
midnight.  The  "Col- 
onel," thus  suddenly 
taken  "all  aback"  was 
not  discouraged.  He 
mounted  a  small  but 
spirited  marc,  which 
like  himself,  was  "one 
of  em,"  and  made  for 
the  Meriden  bank  - 
distance,  I  5  miles !  He 
there  exchanged  the 
$2,500  in  bills  for  gold, 
and  returned  to  Water- 
bury,  having  been  ab- 
sent but  2  hours  and  28 
minutes  and  riding  the 
same  horse  both  ways. 
He  rede  the  first  15 
miles  in  1 5  minutes. 
Those  who  know  the 
road  across  the  Pros- 
pect hills,  and  taking 
into  consideration  that 
the  Cashier  had  to  be 
woke  up,  and  the  mon- 
ey counted,  will  readily 
admit  that  the  Colonel 
and  his  mare  can  only 
be  beaten  by  Prof. 
Morse.  • 


HIGH  SCHOOL 
IN  WEST  MERI- 
DEN—The  next  term 
cfthisschool  commences 
on  Wednesday,  Aug- 
ust I  8th,  under  the 
superintendence  and  in- 
struction cf  Mr.  Henry 
Smith. 

Board  can  be  obtain- 
ed in  the  vicinity  cf  the 
School  at  reasonable 
prices. 

Tuition  in  the  com- 
mon and  higher  branch- 
es cf  English,  including 
the  Natural  Sciences, 
$4.00. 

Greek.  Latin,  and 
higher  mathematics, 
$5.C0. 

For  those  connected 
with  the  schcel  will  be 
a  full  apparatus  for 
making  all  useful  exper- 
iments in  Natural  Fhil- 
osophy.  Chemistry,  in- 
cluding Magnetism. 

It  is  intended  that  this 
School  shall  in  every 
respect  be  worthy  of 
the  confidence  and  sup- 
port cf  the  community 
and  no  reasonable  effort 
on  the  part  cf  the 
Teachers  will  be  spared 
to  make  it  such. 

Henry  A.  Smith, 

Principal. 


CHAS.  PARKER 
WAS  ROBBED 


VICTIM    OF    A    THIEF    IN 
NEW    HAVEN 

PR0MLNENT  MERIDE.I  MAN  WAS  DUPED 

BY  RASCAL  IN  THE  PARK 

HOTEL. 


Mr.  Charles  Parker, 
of  Meriden,  who  stop- 
ped at  the  Park  House 
in  this  city  last  night, 
says  the  New  Haven 
Palladium,  was  robbed 
of  about  $1  7  by  a  per- 
son, as  he  supposed, 
who  slept  in  the  same 
room  with  him. 

Mr.  P.  did  not  dis- 
cover his  loss  until  he 
arrived  at  the  depot 
this  morning  to  take  the 
five  o'clock  train  for 
home.  He  took  out 
his  wallet  for  the  pur- 
pose cf  paying  his  fare 
when  he  found  the 
money  had  been  ab- 
stracted. 

He  returned  to  the 
hotel,  and  made  known 
his  loss,  and  his  room- 
mate, who  calls  himself 
"Temple,"  waseearch- 
ed,  and  ingeniously  con- 
cealed under  his  vest 
cellar  was  found  a  pair 
of  key  nippers,  used  for 
the  purpose  of  unlocking 
dcors  where  a  key  is 
left  in  the  lock. 

In  other  pockets  of 
of   his   overcoat    was 

The  Liberty  Party  cf 
this  State  held  a  con- 
vention in  this  town  on 
the  I  5th  inst;,  and  re- 
nominated their  last 
year's  ticket,  except 
that  Lewis  Beers,  Jr.  .for 
Secretary,  was  substi- 
tuted for  Vincent 
Hinckley.  Six  dele- 
gates were  appointed  to 
attend  the  Liberty 
National  Convention  at 
Buffalo  on  the  20th  cf 
October.  The  Con- 
vention voted  to  raise 
$7  5  to  pay  the  expenses 
of  the  two  delegates 
from  the  State  at  large, 
and  picked  up  $50  on 
the  spot,  the  balance 
having  since  been  raised . 


found  one  of  the  handles 
and  in  one  of  his  panta- 
loon pockets,  the  other. 
It  appears  that  Temple 
was  observed  by 
another  gentleman  who 
occupied  a  bed  in  the 
room  to  go  out  soon 
after  Mr.  Parker  left. 
After  a  short  absence, 
he  returned  and  again 
retired  to  bed. 

He  was  arrested  by 
Sheriff  Carr.  and  taken 
before  Justice  Bennett, 
who  put  him  under 
bonds  for  examination 
on  Monday,  and  for 
want  cf  surety  he  was 
committed  to  jail. 

Temple  arrived  here 
in  the  boat  from  New 
York  yesterday,  and 
says  he  belongs  in 
Philadelphia,  and  is  a 
speculator.  On  his 
person  only  $4.00  in 
money  was  found,  and 
he  does  not  give  a  very 
satisfactory  account  of 
his  business  here. 

The  stolen  money 
was  found  this  forenoon 
concealed  under  the 
hall  carpet. 


From  Bradley's 
Connecticut  Register 
tor  1847: 

Meriden  (written 
Merridan  in  the  Colony 
Records)  was  a  disput- 
ed tract  cf  land  lying 
between  Farmington 
and  Wallingford. which 
in  May.  1728,  was 
annexed  to  the  North 
Society  cf  Wallingford, 
and  the  whole  incor- 
porated a  town  in  May, 
1806.  Its  name  is 
probably  a  corruption 
cf  the  word  meridian — 
the  township  being 
equi-distant  from  the 
two  semi-eapitals, 
Hartford  and  New 
Haven. 


A   new  factory  is  There  are  five  appli- 

going  up  at  Thompson-  cations  for  Bank  char- 

ville,  over  300  feet  in  lers  pending  before  the 

length   and    60   feet  General  Assembly  from 

broad.     It  will  contain,  Winsted,      Canaan, 

when   it   is    finished,  Derby,     Deep     River, 

1 ,500,000  bricks.  and  Westport. 


We  are  indebted  to  Hartford,  New  Haven  and  other  papers  of  the  n  1 847"  period  for  material  in  this  issue,  published  on  the  occasion  of 
Meriden's  Centennial,  June   10-16,  1906— MERIDEN  BRITANNIA  CO.— International  Silver  Co..  Successor. 


JTHE   SILVER  STANDARD,  JUNE,  1847. 


Ttee 

.StlutrStantlarri 
Established 

in  1847  BY 
Rogers  Bros. 


JUNE,  1847. 


CONNECTICUT 
COPPER  MINES  - 

The  New  Haven 
Journal  says  the  copper 
mines  of  Bristol,  in  this 
state,  are  more  extens- 
ive and  valuable  than 
people  generally  imag- 
ine, and  at  the  present 
time  are  exciting  con- 
siderable interest  among 
capitalists  and  scientific 
men.  Within  a  short 
time  a  large  body  of 
operatives  have  been 
added  to  the  mines  and 
we  are  informed  that 
now  more  than  300 
hands  are  constantly 
engaged  and  the  yield 
of  ore  is  increasing  in 
quantity  and  value. 
These  mines  are  con- 
sidered by  many  capa- 
ble of  judging  to  be 
equal  in  point  of  profit 
to  any  other  in  the 
country,  and  the  opin- 
ion has  been  expressed 
by  Prof.  Silliman,  who 
has  made  extensive  re- 
searches in  these  regions 
that  the  veins  of  ore  ex- 
tend in  a  southerly  di- 
rection from  Bristol  to 
Hamden,  and,  if  thor- 
oughly worked,  would 
be  sufficient  to  give  con- 
stant employment  to 
thousands  of  miners. 
Large  quantities  of  the 
ore  are  daily  sent  over 
the  Canal  Railroad, 
and  in  time,  we  have 
no  doubt,  the  mines  will 
prove  a  source  of  in- 
come and  profit  to  the 
road  as  well  as  to  those 
who  are  engaged  in  the 
operation. 

A  CLOCK  FOR 
SIXTY  CENTS- 

Mr.  Chauncey  Jerome, 
of  New  Haven,  Conn., 
has  actually  made  a 
timepiece  which  he  will 
warrant  will  keep  good 
reckoning  and  which  he 
sells  for  60  cents  at 
wholesale,  and  at  $1 
at  retail.  The  works 
are  all  made  of  brass. 
He  makes  upwards  of 
eight  hundred  a  day  of 
these  articles.  After 
this  let  no  one  want  a 
clock.  A  few  years 
ago  (only  12  we  be- 
lieve) the  old  wooden 
clocks  sold  for  $10, 
now  no  one  will  have  a 
wooden  clock.  Com- 
mon cheap  clocks  can 
be  bought  in  abund- 
ance for  $2  apiece,  but 
it  seems  Mr.  Jerome  has 
capped  the  climax  of 
cheap  time  keepers. 

The  grading  of  the 
tow  path  of  the  Farm- 
ingtoncanalfor  a  branch 
railroad  is,  we  are  in- 
formed, already  in  pro- 
gress— one  man  having 
taken  a  contract  for  20 
miles. 


NEW  FOOT 
WARMER-Mr. 
Wm.  N.  Clark,  of 
Hartford,  has  lately  in- 
vented a  most  complete 
foot  stove — a  real  Yan- 
kee invention — a  com 


BARNUM  HOUSE 
IS 


AEOLIAN  HARP 


A   NEW  GAME 

IN  POLITICS-It  be- 

A    REMARKABLE  TELEGRAPH  WIRE  in8  know"  at  the  late 

BUILDING.  TO  WALLINGF0RD.    gS^SJStaSu'J 

Md   t    d  .         «»     c j.  c.  scratch      the  name  of 

r.  P       .  Barnum  s       Mr.  Editor  :  -  Since  the    Democratic   nom; 


a  common  tin  oil  lamp, 

surrounded  by  a  saucer  architecture,   attracts  a  ford,  and  th 


plete  feet   warmer.     It  h?u5e,  ls    nearly    com-  tn?  desertion  of  copper  nee  for   jud       of   pro 

is   a   small    box,    very  P'etef     The  structure,  wire  formerly  in  use  on   bate    in   th;s  dis,rict     a 

light   and   neat,  in  the  «ruch   seems   to   be    a  the   telegraph    route  ticket  was  prepared  es- 

bottom  of  which  is  fixed  compound  of  Moorish  from    New    Haven   to  psciany  for  tnsm     The 

Gothic    and    Turkish  Hartford,  via  Walling-   regular  State  Ticket  of 
doption   (ne  party  was    rin,ed  jn 

to  catch  the  oil  if  any  great  many  visitors.  An  of   that    stronger   and  ,he  usual  forrrii   except 

should   jumble    out    of  English  gentleman  who  larger    wire   ct  iron,  1  ,hat"0   A   D    Todd 

the  lamp.     In  the  bot-  washerelately declared  have   noticed   a   novel  for  Judge  of  Probate," 

torn  of  the  box,  which  that  he  had  come  3,000  tact,    which   is   wortn  was  inser!ed  twice  and 

is  all  lined  with  tin,  are  miles  for  the  purpose  of  attention  and  extensive  a  p,n  Was  drawn  across 

small   holes   to    supply  taking   a   look   at    the  circulation —less  from  one    cf    these     names 

the  lamp  with  air,  and  thing.     Probably  he  its  scientific  importance  These  tickets  were  dis- 

on  the  rim  of  the  lid  are  was  an  artist  employed  than   from    its    musical ,  trjbuted  among  the  dis- 

small   holes   to   let    the  f?r  a  London  pub hca-  taste  _  ,  affected,    who,    seeing 

smoke  escape.    The  lid  tion      We  believe  there        1  his  iron  wire  is  an  Mr     Todd's  name   al 


DEATH  LIST 
IN  MERIDEN 

NAMES  OF  THOSE  WHO 
HAVE  DIED  DURING  1847 


ALSO  NAMES  OF  MERIDEN  PEOPLE  WHO 

PASSED  AWAY  IN  OTHER 

TOWNS. 


Dr 


In    Colborne,  Cana-       In    Meriden,  of  pul- 

,  West,  suddenly,   monary  consumption, 

Mrs.    Merriman,   relict  Hannah  S.  Yale,  wife 

f  the  late  Joel  Merri-   cf    Ira   N.   Yale,   Esq 

lan,  Esq.     Mrs.  Mer-  aged  28.      Mrs.  Han- 

riman   was  a  native  of  nah  Yale,  relict  of  Dea- 


Meride 


We  believe  there 
made  of  two  sheets  of  is  nothing  in  England—  /Eolian  Harp.    Urawn  ready  scratched  off  (as  j 
tin    about    two   inches  01  indeed  in  Chnsten-  very  tense  between  the  they  supposed)  voted  it  a 
apart,  so  that  the  lamp  dom  —  resembling   this   supporting  posts,   it  vi-   with  a  hearty  good  will 
heats  the  tin  and  is  be-  edifice,   excepting   the   brates  a  wide  range  of  Some  ,hirty  or  forty  of 
tween    the    sheets    and  Brighton  Pavilion,  built   tones  and  the  execution    (he      scratched      tickets 
keeps  the  feet  comfort-  by  George  IV.      1  hat  is  delightful.     In    mel-  found    ,heir    way   imo 
able  and  warm.      The  is  a  much  larger  build-   ody,    no   less   delicate  the  ballot  box   and  it  is 
top  is  covered  with   a  mg  but  the  model  is  in  and   exqusite   than  the   known  that  several  were 

piece  of  woolen  cloth  almost  every  respect  gentlest /tolian  tune  :n  pu.  there  by  persons  William  Cornwell 
and  the  box  looks  like  a  inferior.  So  say  the  a  lady  s  window,  it  is  who  did  no(  jntend  to  aged  60. 
neat  little  trunk  and  is  architects.  I  here  are  blended  at  fitful  gusts  vote  for  the  Judge.  The  In  Meriden,  on  Tues 
certainly  a  very  superior  more  expensive  houses  and  blasts  or  the  wind  trick  was  no,  djcovered  day  evening,  June  15, 
kind  of  foot  stove  to  one  in  the  country  but  none  with  that  dynamic  full- ,  until  too  ]a|e)  and  then  Mrs  £jlzabelh  p  wife 
that  is  heated  with  char-  probably    as  showy,   ness     ot     tone    at    the|the  swearjng  in  certain  of   Henry    C.  Butler, 

coal,   as   a  lamp    with    The  cost  of  the  structure  loudest  swell.                     quarters    was    tremen-   Esq.,    aged    33    years.   EllahH.,  only  daughter 
a  very  small  quantity  of  and   grounds  will    be        I  o  be  just  and  even-  ,J„,,C  i      Tk;=    ,.,„    L,_   \Y/_   . I 1 .     „ 


Meriden,    Mr 


con  Nathaniel  Yale, 
aged  87. 

In  Meriden,  Mr.  Al- 
fred Newton,  aged  41 , 
of  the  firm  of  Sanford, 
Newton  &  Co. 

In  Meriden,  June 
17th,    of    brain  fever, 


This 


be-   We   tender  our  heart-   cf  Elizabeth,  widow  of 


Iwill7uppl7t^  stove  some   $60,000.  -   prided     I    must   next  Heve  isaltogethera  new  ieh   sympathy  to~our  ^e  late  James"  Under 

state  what  is  the  pop 


d  keep  up  an  abund-  Bridgeport  Standard 
ant  heat  for  the  feet  for 
1 2  hours. 


species    of 
accounts   fc 
markable 


aud, 
the 


nd  friend  on  the   occasion   green,  aged  1  year  end 
re-  of  his  afflicting  bereave-    ll  months. 


ular  impression   and 
r^  a  a  m      »  ^r-.^^^   how  the  people  explain 

DAM    ACROSS:,     Th-  man  who i  first '  T*  7jT'cj  -uV  JUUBi 

THF     CONNFCTI         11  J  •  ,Todd  had  in  this  town,   near  friend  and 

CUT    RIVER    ^he  ^v^rnaM  -^chfield  Enquire,     friend I  as  jha.of  his  la-  AM^urtis,  .and 


reiment       The  loss  of   a       ln    Meriden.    Mrs. 
nd  such  a  Emeline   A.,    wife   of 
Alfred  P.  Curtis,   am 
mented  wife,  must  carry  e|desi  daughter  of  Lev 
NEW       L  A  N  -  desolation    through  a   Bradley      E  =  q       of 
TERNS  — The   New  household  such  as  those  Qieshii 
whichw7scap°tured  on  employed   by   the   city  SsJikeTbndge?  then   ^enA  *?   ?artf,ord  only  who  have  expert- 
his  premises    the    night  of  Hartford  to  estimate  is  the  time  we  hear  the  j  ?a!lroad    ,s  .furnishing  enced   a   like  visitation 


LARGE  OWL 

Mr.  E.  C.  Allen  left  at  Hartford  Courant  con-  that  when  the  electricity 

our  office  yesterday  an  tains  the   report  of  an  was  passing,  when  th 

owl  of  the  largest  size,  engineer  who  has  been  news  wash 


news  was  hurrying  over 


previous.    It  was  caught  the  cost  of  bringing  the 


their   men  with  a  new  ,  can  appreciate. 


hesrnre,  aged  27. 

In  Meriden,  very  sud- 

May  denly,  Mr.  Elisha  Cur- 


,,c      i  wa.  mi.oKi  the  cost  ot  bnneine  the  „  1   J      .k        .L  tneir   men  witn  a  new  ,  can  appicciaic.       iviay     .      ■•    ;,. 

us.    It  was  caught  me  cost  oi   unugnig  uie  melody,  then  tne  wires   i  •    j     t  i      ,  i  ■  i     ,l,,  p,„,,;j„„„,  ,.,k„„   fis,  ag<=d  74 

«.=<.l    i,„    *nA  J«  waters  of  the  C  onnecti-    '  J      •  vr/  n'kind  ct    antern,   wmch    that  rrovidence  whose    -«i  =»>-"»  ^ 

steel    trap    and  is  waiers  oi  ine  v^onnecu     Jar   and    ring.      Wellh  i        -t-l-       „  „,  ui„,  ,  •    .„„„i,  k„       I„  \fiar:A„ 


offered    gratuitously   to  cut  river  into  that  place  [hen,  let  Electricity  turn  I  ,bU/ns  ! 
any   ornithologist    who  for  manufacturing  pur-  mus;c   teacnr- 


would  care  to   prepare  poses.     The    first   sec- 


banki 


and  he 
jpt  De 


burns  sperm  oil.      This  ?very  blow  is  struck  by       In  Meriden, suddenly, 

the    place  of   the  Mercy's  hand,  support  Ada    Maria,    daughter 

old  kind  fitted  with  can-  and   strengthen   all  the  of  J.    C.   Van  Duzer, 

dies,  which  have  been  members  of  the  afflicted  aged  14  months. 

generally  used  sincejfamily ,    under   their       ]n    J\]ew  York,  Mr. 

the  road  was  opened.      heavy  bereavement.  Henry   Chittenden! 

In    Meriden,    8th   of  aged   about  42,   form- 

AT  YALE  COL    June-    cr   consumption,  erly   of    Meriden,   and 

LEGE-The  number '  widow  Susan  S.  Yale,  lately  a  resident  of  New 

of  students  is  5S4,  viz  :  ag;c,  z6  years. 

52  law,  53  theological. 


lid  dam  or  how 


A    NEW  TITLE 

The   honcrary  de- 


it   for   the   cabinet.     It  tion  proposes  to  build  a  Meyer,    Ole    Bull,  th 
measures  four  feet,  four  dam   across    Connecti-   Hiitchinsons   and    tht 
inches   across  the  back  cut    nver   about    fifty  Harpers 
and  wings.     The  talons  rods  north  of  the  rail- ,        Wallingford,  Conn 
of  each  foot  spread  over  road  bridge  at  Enfield, 

a  surface   of   four   and  which  is  to  be  twenty- [  

three-quarters  inches,  three   feet   high   and       fYT  FOR  TAT— 
He  is  a  most  destructive   1 ,250  feet  long  !     We  Jhe    doctors   of   Con- 
looking   chap  in  every  do   not   consider   that  necticut   are    trying   to'and    52   medical" stu- 
way,    and    Mr.    Allen  there  is  to  be     a  draw      jnduce   the   Legislature  '•  dents,  5  resident  gradu 
did  a  good  job  in  cap-  in  thr 
turing  the  creature. 

A  Yank^Toratorout'S^i^^!  g^te'^ou,  , 
west,     vindicating     his  mg  the  comme^of-    ^  ^-^   ln»»*--       '  2  '"  ^.^o^e, 
native    Connecticut  navigable   river," 
against   slanders  which  We  suppose  these  th 
have     been     uttered  ?re  well  understood  at  lature  t0  pass  a  |.aw  that 

against  her,  raid :  the  head  of  s  ood  nav-     11    L     ■  • 

uic  ncau  ui  siuup  imv  |  all  physicians  prescrip- 
tions shall  be  written  in 
plain  English.  Be- 
tween  the    two, 


Ha 


SNOW  IN  JUNE! 

The     Wilmington 


SMfpr^dVavoid  ^To^k'ted? !  gradual      Of  thet/t  fT  °f  LLf  D"  ^  (Del)  J°"™1  says  that 

<-nn<sti'tiitinn»llv   tk»  Patent  or   °.uacK  medi-   graduates,     or  the  last  heen    conferred   on  a    severe    snow    storm 

Y   Xt  CL'ne   sha"    ¥  so!d,ln  named  121    are  in   the  Governor  Toucey,  the  visited  the  farmers. 

this  state  without  a  la- 1  senior,  90  in  the  Junior,   ^ew  Haven  Fountain  and  a'oove  the  Pent 

oy-   bel  giving   all   ingredi-    I  1  2  in  the  sophomore,   understands   these  ink-  vania  boundary  lin< 

h    t  eLn,S'     l  °  befven  Wli"  and  "  ln  tne  freshman  ;a]s  to  sjgnify  "Learned  Monday   last.       S 

Dut  them,  the  medicinemen  class.  |  Liquor  Dealer."     Th?  fell    for  nearly  an  I 

ings  have  asked   the  Legis-  Governor    had   be'.ie:  in  some  places  and  i 


"As  to  Connecticut  jgation" 
boys    manufacturing 
horn  flints  and  wooden 
nutmegs,  I  plead  guilty  '     At   the 


fun. 


medical  and    , 

to   these   charges;  they  surgical clinique  held  at  [™U/{l  wl11    ^jord 

did  manufacture  wood-  the  Medical  College  in 

en   nutmegs,    but   they  New  Haven,  the  phys- 

had  to  leave  the  State  icians  present  in  con- 
before  they   could    sell  sulfation  were  Drs.  E. 

them."  jives.    Knight,   Hooker, 

Bronson,  Bishop,  Dag- 
gett and  Tyler  of  West 
One  dollar  bills  of  the  field,    and    Barl 

New   Haven    County  Meriden.     There  w 

bank 


Elihu   Geer,    printer  quit  the  rum  business 
in   Hartford,  has  been 
chosen    Colonel   of  the 
First   Regiment   cf  In 


d  above  the  Pennsyl- 
derstands   these  ink-   vania  boundary  line  on 
now 
hour 
must 
have  injured  the  crops, 
but  we  hear  of  no  seri- 
ous damage. 


The  fair  cf  the  Con- 


fantry       Ehhu"s  first  gregational    Church  in 

r  should  be  sb 
der  shooting-stick 
"form    columns 


The  second  premium 
for  the  best  cultivated 
farm  in  Litchfield  coun- 
ty was  awarded  the 
0f  past  season  to  Mrs. 
Vesta    Hawkins,    of 


"  Press  forward ! "  He 
is  a  great  chap  at  "rule 
and  figure"  work;  and 
if  "set  up"  on  the 
Mexican  border,  we 
have  no  doubt  he  wi 


One  day  last  week, 
A  allingtord  comes  oft  we  yj^j  ,he  State 
tomorrow  afternoon,  pr;sorK  |n  ,he  work- 
continuing  tnrough  the  shops  business  appeared 
day  following.  Ureal  exceedingly  brisk,  and 
exertions  have  been'the  workmen  most  in- 
made  to  render  the  tair  dustriously  disposed, 
highly  attractive  and  it  Shoes  are  ma(ie  jn  the 
the    mammoth    loat  ot  best  style.     The  cut! 


bble  the  enemy's  forwarded    u 


hich    has   been 
the 


,    county  ivienueii.       inerewere  w  —,.     squauuic    me    ci.cu.,  »  torWarded    us    is     th< 

ed,   com-  thirteen  cases,    the  first  (  .  •      ■  c'n  head-lines  with  his  can-  Woik  of  the  gentlemen 


farm  contains  I  50  acres 

It  has  been  under  M 

H's     management     for  0(  rarne. 

the  last  ten  years 


posed  of  paper  made  of  being  a  man  from  Meri 
India  rubber,   which  is  den,  for  paralysis. 

manufactured    at    Lis-  

bon.     This  is  the  most       The  Screw    Factory 
expansible  kind  of  paper  of   Crocker   &  Ives   in 

currency,  and  is  admir-  this  town  was  destroyed  At  the  New  York  ney  was  addressing  P.  S.  We  particu-  Springfield  and  New 
ably  adapted  to  such  by  fire  on  Wednesday  Methodist  Conference,  President  Polk  in  Hart-  larly  advise  our  bache-  Haven,  has  been  re- 
banking  institutions  as  night.  The  loss  is  esti-  John  E.  Searles  was  ford,  some  thief  entered  lor  friends  to  visit  Wal- jduced  to  four  dollars, 
desire  to  "stretch  their  mated  at  about  $20,-  appointed  the  clergy-  the  house  and  robbed  lingford  on  this  occa-  We  can  all  afford  to 
credit."  ,000.  man  in  Meriden.  her  of  valuable  jewelry,  sion.  I  ride  now. 


non,  and  secure  his  im-   what  can't  the  ladies  of 
print    on  the  title   page  ,hat  substantial  old  town 
accomplish   when   they 
put   their  minds  to  the 
While   Mrs.  Sigour-  task? 


e  cutlery 
we  saw  might  have 
passed  for  Sheffield 
manufacture  if  it  had 
"Rogers"  stamp. 


The   fare  from  Bos- 
ton to  New  York,  via 


THE   SILVER  STANDARD,   JUNE,  1847. 


MARRIAGES 
IN  YEAR  1847 

HARVEST  REAPED  BY  CUPID 
THIS  YEAR 


MERIDEN    YOUTHS    AND    MAIDS    JOINED 

IN   HOLY    BONDS    OF 

MATRIMONY. 


In  Meriden,  Benja; 
mi  n  T  .  Barnes  of 
Southing'on,  and  Sarah 
Benner,  of  Meriden,  by 
Rev.  John  E.  Searles, 
pastor  Methodist  E. 
Church. 

James  F.  McGal! 
and  Mary  Mastiall.  by 
Rev.  John  E.  Searles. 

Erastus  Higley  and 
Mary  A.  Belden.  by 
Rev.  John  E.  Searles 


South  Glastonbury,  and 
imily  Tilbury,  of  Ken- 
sington, by  Rev.  Cyrus 
Munson. 

Henry  Royce,  of 
Meriden,  and  Emily 
Lane,  of  Killingworth 
June  1  Cth,  by  Rev.  G 
\V.  Perkins. 

Dorus  A.  Stiles,  o 
West  Springfield 
Mass.,  and  Betsey  Ann 
vVarner,    daughte 

by 


Allen  Stacy,  of|l<*n  £•  Wa 
Pennsylvania.  andjRev-  G-  W-  Perklns 
Maria  Hart,  of  New  Horace  G.  Beach 
Britain,  by  Rev.  John  of  Meriden,  and  Esthe 
E.  Searles.  L.   Lucas,   of   Middle- 

Anson  M.  Williams  j°w.n:  by  Rev-  G-  W- 
sd    Mary    L.    Hull,    Perkins, 
both  of  Meriden.  I      Chester   Beckley,   of 

John  Shelly,  of  Dur-  Berlin,  and  Mary  E. 
ham,  and  Cornelia  J.  BeldenA  ?f  Menden, 
Hinley,  of  Clinton,  by  June20  oy  Rev.  Har- 
Rev.   John  E.  Searles.   vey  Mlller- 

Alonzo  Bennett  and  Hiram  MReming- 
MaryA.Yale,  both  of  '»"•  <?f  Menden,  and 
Meriden,  by  Rev.  John  ™™e*A  5°?f,rtj[>. A 
E.  Searles.  Wesifield  Pansh,  Mid- 

_  ,  .       _  dletown,    by    Harvey 

Rev.    John  Turner  Mi]ler 
Cashing  and  Miss       .      _.    .         .         . 
Hrnah    Curtis,    of   -'"CI""'  Church. 
Meriden,  by  Rev.   ^uuford.  by  Rev.  Mr. 
Cyrus  Munson.  Bennett.    Mr.    Horace 

iit  Kediield,    or   Menden, 

Benne<   J,earl,eIsf  .,?'  to  Miss  Emma  Clarissa, 
Wallingford,  and  Unlla  daughter  of  David  par_ 
P.    Persis     of    Reads-  me|ee>   £sq  _  of   Guil. 
borough,  Va.,byKev.  ford 
John  E.  Searles.  ,     ..    .  ,         ,        , 

^  i  f   ^-i     i        j       'n  Menden,   by   the 

samuel  S.  Clark  and  Rev  !_[,  Miileri  Mr 
Jane  M.  Coe,  both  of  john  Jvos  to  Miss 
Menden,  by  Rev.  G.  Almira  Birdsey,  both 
W.  Perkins.  0f  Meriden. 

Sylvester  Randall,  of  ]n  Meriden,  DudIey 
Hartford,    and     Mary   p^  R         of  Clinton,  to 


In  West  Meriden,  by 
Rev.  G.  W.  Perkins, 
Mr.  Rufus  S.  Dowd, 
of  Hartford,  and  Miss 
Caroline  Mernman,  of 
West  Menden  ;  also  by 
the  same  pastor,  Mr. 
Edward  M.  Goodrich, 
of  New  Haven,  and 
Miss  Mary  J.  Dowd, 
of  Saybrook. 

In  Meriden,  Mr. 
Harrison  Miller  and 
Miss  Lucy  R.  Johnson, 
of  Worcester,  Mass. 

In  Meriden,  Mervin 
T.  Russell  and  Miss 
Esther  Buckland. 

MAILS  REGU- 
LAR AGAIN -The 

mails  are  running  regu- 
larly again .  The 
Post  Gffice  Depart- 
ment has  closed  the 
contract  with  the  New 
Haven,  Hartford  and 
Springfield  Line  at 
$i4,CC0.  They  asked 
$20,000,  but  the  Post- 
master-General brought 
them  at  last  to  the 
old  terms.  The  trouble 
began  about  a  month 
and  a  half  ago  when 
the  mail  was  refused 
by  the  Captain  of 
the  New  Haven  steam- 
er. This  captain  had 
orders  from  the  owners 
not  to  receive  the 
mail  unless  $27. CO,  the 
demand  for  carrying  it, 
was  paid  in  advance. 
The  cartman  had  not 
the  money,  and  so  the 
cartload  of  letters  and 
newspapers  was  taken 
back  to  the  Post  Office. 
_A.11  Central  Connecti- 
cut and  the  valley  of 
Connecticut  river  to  its 
sources  were  thus  de- 
prived of  the  mail  for 
several  days  after  they 
should  have  received  it. 


E.  Martin   of  Menden,  Harriet   R     QUes,    of 

by  Rev.   G.   W.   Per-  Meriden. 

r   ,      .       .     „  .  At  New  Britain,  Mr. 

Ephraim  A .  Kelsey  George  J.  Dunham,  of 

of   Westbrook     and  Berlin,  to  Miss  Vienna 

Catherine  J.  Andrews,  J-fall,  of  Meriden. 

of   Menden,    by   Kev.  .      .  .    . .        _          . 

G    W    Perkins  n    Mer.den,  Samuel 

'      .          „        .           ,  Anson  Sutliff  and  Miss 

,v,  ,ryr  <Yurtl,SSn!,.  Lydia  Jane  Isbell. 
Wallingford,  and  tliza 
R.  Sutliff,  of  Meriden, 
by  Rev.  Harvey  Miller, 
pastor  Baptist  Church. 
Charles    Page,  of 


In   West   Meriden, 

Gamaliel  F.  Snow  and 

Sarah  H.    Durand,    of 

Berlin. 

In  Kensington,    by 
tast  Haven,  and  h-liza  D  D        id   I.L.- 

rv  c  n/i      _       i    i      Kev.    Koyal    Kobbins 

Dixon,  of  Montreal,  L.    i\/r      n-      .       f  l  , 


C,    by    Rev.    Harvey 
Miller. 


NEW  HAVEN 
INDUSTRIES- The 

largest  establishment  in 
the  Union  for  the  manu- 
facture cf  "Yankee 
clocks"  is  located  in 
New  Haven.  Itisper- 
fectly  amusing  to  see 
the  way  they  turn  out 
timepieces,  averaging 
more  than  30,000  a 
year,  half  of  which  aie 
sent  to  Europe.  They 
are  neatly  finished  with 
mahogany  cases,  the 
interior  is  of  brass  and 
the  average  cost  not  be- 
yond three  dollars.  An 
indefinite  variety  of 
small  wares  are  also 
manufactured  there 
aside  from  the  entensive 
commerce  which  is  car- 
ried on  with  the  West 
Indies.  Vessels  are 
constantly  leaving  that 
port  with  horses  and 
mules  for  the  islands, 
Mr.  Erastus  Kelsey,  of  where  they  are  used  up- 


nd  on  the  sugar  plantations 
These  animals  are 
brought  from  every  part 
of  Northern  and  Mid- 
dle   states     and    many 


Portland,    Conn 

Miss  Fannie  Way,   of 

Chas.    Daniels,    of  Meriden. 
Lyme,    and    Emily  L.       ln  New  Haven,  Mr. 
Lester    of  Menden,  by  james  Tutt]e  and  M;5S 
Kev.  Harvey  Miller.       L_evia  Root,  of   Men- !  come  'rom  i<^entucky 

Lcrenzo  Smith,   of  den,  June  27th.  

Westbrcok,  and  Lucy  ln  Avon_  by  Rev  c  J  The  Connecticut  riv- 
A.  Butler  of  Menden,  W.Potter,  Mr.  Will- ler  was  higher  last  month 
by  Cyrus  Munson,  rec-  jam  Curtis,  of  Meriden, !  than  was  ever  known 
tor  St.  Andrew  s.  and   Miss   Adeline!  before,    save    once    in 

Sampson  Horton,  of  Higley,  of  Canton.  1828. 


ABLE  PLEADING 

LAWYER  WRIGHT  IS 
PRAISED  HIGHLY. 

At  New  Haven  in 
the  Superior  Court,  the 
case  of  State  vs.  Martin 
Owens  came  up.  Both 
Owens  and  his  accuser, 
Ann  Morel,  are  natives 
cf  Wallingford.  Trial 
cccupied  Court  for  a 
day.  Owens  was  ac- 
quitted. A  large  crowd 
was  constantly  in  at- 
tendance dunng  the  trial 
and  also  the  wife  of 
the  accused.  The 
counsel  for  the  State 
and  pnsoner,  says  the 
New  Haven  Pallad- 
ium, acquitted  them- 
selves in  a  masterly 
manner.  The  opening 
argument  by  the  asso- 
ciate of  the  States 
Attorney,  Dexter  R. 
Wright,  Esq.,  of  Meri- 
den, who  v/as  admitted 
to  the  bar  a  few  months 
ago,  was  a  very  able 
one  as  v/as  also  that  of 
Josephus  Merriam, 
Esq.,  cf  Wallingford, 
for  the  defense. 

FIREINSOUTH- 
INGTON-At  about 

1 0  o'clock  en  Saturday 
evening,  a  Sre  was  dis- 
covered in  a  barn  be- 
longing to  Mr.  Levi  B. 
Frost  in  Sou.h.ng.on. 
It  was  consumed,  to- 
gether with  from  fifteen 
to  twenty  tons  cf  hay, 
three  valuable  horses, 
two  yoke  of  working 
oxen,  three  cows,  four 
hogs  and  from  fifteen  to 
twenty  sheep.  Nothing 
is  known  to  a  certainty 
of  the  origin  of  the  fire, 
although  various  rumors 
upon  the  subject  are 
afloat.  —  Hartford 
Courant. 

THE  N.  Y.  &  N. 
H.  ROAD  — More 
than  1,500  men  are 
employed  between  the 
westeri.  line  of  New 
Haven  and  New  York. 
The  whole  route  is  now 
under  contract  and  the 
work  is  progressing  with 
great  rapidity. 

The  amount  of  travel 
on  the  Hartford  and 
New  Haven  Railroad 
is  very  large.  The  up 
ward  steamboat  train 
yesterday  had  about 
200  passengers ;  and 
and  the  train  from  Bos 
ton  had  84  through 
passengers  to  New 
York.  The  route  via 
Hartford  is  growing 
popular  daily.  —  Hart- 
ford Courant. 

Phelps.  Dodge  & 
Co.,  of  New  York,  re- 
ceived a  consignment  of 
30  tons  of  copper  re- 
cently from  Eagle  Har- 
bor. In  the  lot  are  five 
boulders  of  the  pure 
metal  weighing  8,700 
pounds.  Lake  Supenor 
copper  is  now  used  at 
the  Sheet  Brass  Factory 
at  Waterbury.  Conn., 
and  is  of  a  very  rare 
quality. 


MIDDLETOWN 
INDUSTRIES- 

Middletown  contains 
8,000  inhabitants.  Its 
location  is  upon  a  gentle 
declivity  commanding  a 
beautiful  view  of  the 
winding  river  and  the 
more  beautiful  valley 
stretching  far  away  to 
the  blue  eastern  hills. 
There  is  a  Methodist 
college    located    there 

Inch  is  in  a  prosperous 
condition,  and  schools 
of  a  high  character  for 
the  education  cf  both 
sexes  abound. 

The  advantages  for 
manufacturing  are  fine. 
The  water  privileges 
are  good.  The  manu- 
facturing establishments 
are  woolen,  button  and 
comb,  plane,  screw  and 
>b,  webbing,  gun 
and  pistol  factories,  a 
steam  flour  mill,  &c. 
Just  across  the  river, 
and  within  two  stones- 
throw  of  the  bridge 
location  are  famous 
sandstone  quarries, 
teeming  with  men  who 
are  continually  employ- 
ed in  getting  out  stone 
which  i  s  sent  North, 
South,  East  and  West. 

PROSPERITY 
OF  HARTFORD- 

A  writer  of  the  Cour- 
ant estimates  the  annual 
trade  and  commerce  of 
hat  city  at  $6,900,- 
000,  being  more  than 
double  what  it  was  ten 
years  ago.  Further, 
the  same  wnter  says, 
Hartford  progressed 
more  rapidly  in  business 
and  wealth  from  1837 
to  1847  than  during 
any  previous  ten  years 
or  half  century,  and  is 
now  actually  in  a  more 
prosperous  condition 
than  during  anyprevious 
period  of  herexistence. ' ' 

SWORD  PRES- 
ENTATION-The 

Senior  class  in  Yale 
College  have  purchased 
a  beautiful  sword, 
which  they  will  present 
to  Samuel  W.  White, 
of  Miss.,  who  left  col- 
lege to  join  the  Rifle 
Regiment  under  the 
brave  Jefferson  Davis, 
and  distinguished  him- 
self at  Monterey  and 
Buena  Vista.  The 
sword  may  be  seen  at 
Mr.  E.  Benjamin's 
jewelry  store,  in  New 
Haven. 

We  learn  that  a  bed 
of  coal  has  been  discov- 
ered in  the  town  of 
Ridgefield  and  that 
measures  are  in  prog- 
ress for  working  it.  A 
gendeman  of  expenence 
has  contracted  with  the 
proprietor  of  the  land 
for  the  privilege,  and  is 
now  in  the  pursuit  of 
proper  hands  and  means 
for  commencing  opera- 
tions. 

The  dwelling  house 
of  Mr.  Abraham  Stev- 
ens, of  Berlin,  was  de- 
stroyed by  fire  on  Wed- 
nesday about  noon. 


IS  L0C0F0C0 
IN  FUTURE 

LETTER  TO  N.  H.  REGISTER 
FROM  WALLINGFORD 


THE    PALLADIUM    DECLARES    THAT 

"FARMER"    IS    IN    REALITY    A 

DEMOCRATIC  LAWYER. 


Editors  New  Haven 
Register  :  For  years  I 
have  believed  it  neces- 
sary to  have  a  tariff  for 
protection ;  but  recent 
facts  and  recent  devel- 
opments have  proved  to 
my  mind  that  this  is  a 
mistake.  Under  the 
tariff  of  42,  manufac- 
turing was  good,  and 
farmers'  produce 
brought  a  fair  price.  I 
looked  upon  these  as 
the  fruits  of  the  tariff, 
and  I  deprecated  i  t  s 
abolition. 

The  tariff  of  '42  was 
repealed,  and  the  tariff 
of  '46,  which  I  believed 
would  blast  the  pros- 
perity of  the  country, 
ism  operation.  As  my 
convictions  cf  duty  to 
myself  and  my  country 
obliged  me  then  to  de- 
nounce the  tariff  of  46, 
so  my  convictions  of 
duty  now  oblige  me  to 
acknowledge  that  my 
fears  and  expectations 
were  not  well  founded. 

The  tariff  of  '46  is 
in  operation,  and  con- 
trary to  my  anticipa- 
tions the  country  is 
prosperous.  Where  I 
expected  to  find  poverty 
and  misery,  I  find  hap- 
piness  and  plenty. 
Where  I  expected  to 
find  distress  and  ruin, 
there  I  find  prospenty. 
Manufactunng  is  good. 
Farmers'  produce, 
which  I  expected  to  see 
rotting  upon  our  hands, 
brings  a  high  price  and 
finds  a  ready  market. 

I  see  things  in  a 
different  light,  but  still 
I  am  not  sure  that  I 
should  abandon  my 
party  were  it  not  for 
other,  and,  as  I  view 
them,  more  important 
reasons.     When    I  see 


the  men  with  whom  1 
have  ever  acted  oppos- 
ing the  war  with  Mex- 
ico, I  feel  bound  by  my 
love  of  country,  by  my 
sense  of  justice  and 
right  to  come  out  from 
among  them.  If  Cor- 
win.  Gentry,  Greeley  & 
Co.,  would  not  expose 
themselves  to  the  civil- 
ized world  in  the  light 
of  robbers  of  a  nation's 
honor,  they  must  retrace 
their  steps.  Should 
they  do  this,  then 
"  doubtless  peace  might 
be  negotiated  on  terms 
alike  honorable  to  us 
and  acceptable  to  the 
Mexicans." 

Wallingford  Farmer. 

The  "  Wallingford 
Farmer,"  who  practi- 
ces Law  in  this  city,  is 
very  eloquent  on  the 
blessed  state  of  things 
which  has  been  pro- 
duced in  our  national 
affairs  by  the  election 
and  administration  of 
Mr.  Polk!  He's  a 
smart  fellow  !  he  didn  t 
graduate  for  nothing! 
but  if  he  thinks  he  will 
impose  upon  indepen- 
dent men  the  belief  that 
he  was  ever  a  Whig  or 
anything  else  but  a  loco- 
foco  lawyer  with  a  rest- 
less, ambitious  hope 
that  one  day  or  other 
he  may  get  some  office 
that  will  pay  him  for 
his  zealous  endeavors 
to  glorify  an  adminis- 
tration which  more  than 
any  we  have  had  for 
many  years  has  been 
"a  stench  in  the  nostrils 
of  the  people,  he 
counts  without  his  host; 
he  is  just  the  one  to 
"sell  his  hen  of  a  rainy 
day."  —  New  Haven 
Palladium. 


Some  rogue  attempt- 
ed to  set  the  State 
House  in  Hartford  on 
fire  last  Sunday  night, 
but  the  combustibles  did 
not  burn  as  well  as  the 
rogue  intended  they 
should.  By  the  by,  we 
trust  the  one  we  have 
in  this  city  is  properly 
insured,  for  it  may  be 
wanted  one  of  these 
days  for  a  livery  stable 
or  a  railroad  depot. 
New  Haven  Register. 

The  value  of  the  sil- 
ver tea  spoons  in  Amer- 
ica is  $36,000,000. 


A  Middletown  paper 
states  that  at  the  great 
axe  manufactory  t  he 
works  are  kept  going 
night  and  day.  The 
company  have  two  sets 
of  hands  and  yet  are 
unable  to  supply  all  their 
orders.  Also  that  the 
India  Rubber  Company 
in  Waterbury  run  their 
works  night  and  day, 
having  two  sets  of  men. 

The  ladies  of  Dr. 
Burgess'  church  in 
Hartford  have  presented 
him  with  a  silver  tea  ser- 
vice, valued  at  $400. 


1847 — THEN 


-THK  SILVER  STANDARD- 


-now— 1906 


'1847  Rogers  Bkos." — ma 


then- 1847— and— 1906— now. 
Established  in  1847  ky  Rogers  Bros. 

ISSUEIi    BY 

Meriden  Britannia  Co., Meriden,  Ct. 

(International  Silver  Co.,  Successor.) 


Special 


JUNE,  1W6. 


5  Cents 


EARLY  MERIDEN 

THE  TOWN  AS  IT  WAS  IN  1847 
COMPARED  WITH  THE  SIL- 
VER CITY  OF  1906 


actually  Harbor  Brook,  despite  what  would  be  Hartford.  Their  small  plant  is  shown  in  the 
to-day  the  suicidal  action  of  the  ducks  in  en-  upper  picture  on  Page  5.  After  several 
tering  its  waters.  years  of  indifferent  success,  a  second  discovery 

At  the  rear  of  the  hotel  proper  will  be  seen  as  important  in  its  way  as  the  first  was  made 
the  "railroad  refectory,"  where  the  travelers  of  in  Meriden. 

the  year  1847  were  wont  to  refresh  the  inner  This  was  the  realization  of  the  possible  value 
man,  when  the  conductor  announced,  "  Five  of  the  new  process  employed  by  the  Rogers 
minutes  for  refreshments  !  "  The  cut  of  the  brothers.  The  latter  were  hampered  by  the 
hotel  is  from  a  print  loaned  by  Mr.  Seth  J.  lack  of  capital.  The  Meriden  men  supplied  it 
Hall  and  family.  i  and  the  interests  of  the  Rogers  brothers  were 

The  good  people  of  1847  were  very  proud   merged  into  those    of  the   Meriden  Britannia 
of  their  railroads,  which   had  been  in  existance  Company,  an  event  that   marked  the  real  be- 
but  a  few  years.     Just  what  a  locomotive  and  ginning  of  the  silver  plating  industry, 
train  looked  like  at  that  time  is  shown  in  the        Another  important  source  of  the  Meriden 
illustration.  Britannia  Company  had  its  rise  in  that  part  of 

The  view  of  modern  Meriden  indicates,  to  the   town    over    East    known    as    "  Bangall." 
some  degree,  the  advance  made  in  sixty  years.   Mr.  1.  C.  Lewis,   who  for  several  years  had 
Various    manufactures    existed    in    the  first   been  engaged  in   a  small  way  in  the   manu- 
half  of  the  last  century  —  as  told  in  the  article  facture  of  bntannia  ware,  in    1850  established 
on  Page  1  — but  the  silver  plating  industry  was  himself  in  a  larger  shop,  where  he  substituted 
born  in  1847,  and  it  is  this   industry  that  has   water  for  horse  power  in  the  manufacture  of 
made  Meriden  what  it  is  today.      Our  glimpse  candlesticks,    lamps,    tea    pots    and    pitchers, 
of  early    Meriden,    therefore,    must  include  a  The  site  of  this  shop  is  a  short  distance  beyond 
On  this  and  the  following  pages  we  shall  glance  at  the  early  days  of  the  silver  plating  the  end  of  the  East  Main  street  car  line,  but 
endeavor  to  give  a  glimp:e  of  early  Meriden —   business.     The  story  is  not  one  merely  of  facts  of  the  building  itself  there  is  no  trace.     Good 
not  the  Meriden  of    100  but  of  60  years  ago,   and    figures.      There    is    "  human    interest  ",  sized  trees  grow  where  the  wheel  pit  was  and 
with  which  time  it  is  the  mission  of  The  Silver   aplenty  in  the  narrative.  there  is  nothing  to  indicate  that  the  place  was 

Standard  to  deal.  Our  purpose  is  not  to  It  was  in  1847  that  Asa  H.  and  Simeon  once  the  scene  of  prosperous  toil.  The  sketch 
write  the  history  of  the  town  during  the  1847  Rogers  discovered  the  process  of  electro-plating  of  the  factory  on  Page  5  is  made  from  the 
period  but  only  to  suggest  by  illustrations  the  that  was  to  revolutionize  the  silver  industry,  description  of  Mr.  Andrew  J.  Forbes  and 
contrast  between  the  Meriden  of  Centennial  The  Rogers  brothers  began  operations  in  from  two  pencil  sketches  of  the  buildings  as 
year  and  of  two  gen- 
erations ago. 

The  ducks  no  long- 
er swim  in  Harbor 
Brook  and  the  course 
of  that  stream  through 
the  heart  of  the  city  is 
not  so  easily  followed 
in  1906  as  it  was  in 
1847. 

The  illustration  on 
this  page  of  the  old 
hotel  would  not  afford 
any  very  definite  clue 
to  the  visitor  today  as 
to  the  location  of  that 
once  popular  hostelry. 
The  brook  in  the  fore- 
ground, however,  was 


they  appeared  some 
years  later.  The  lat- 
ter  sketches  were 
loaned  by  Mr.  Le  wis' 
family. 

After  the  death  of 
Daniel  B.  Wells,  Mr. 
Lewis'  son-in-law, 
whom  Mr.  Lewis  had 
taken  into  partnership, 
an  arrangement  was 
made  by  which  Mr. 
Horace  C.  Wilcox 
(who  might  well  be 
called  the  father  of 
the  silver  plating  in- 
dustry) and  Mr.  Den- 
nis C.  Wilcox  joined 
forces  with  Mr.  Lewis. 
In  1852  the  Meri- 
den Britannia  Company  was  formed,  with 
a  capital  of  $50,000.  The  incorporators 
were:  Horace  C.  and  Dennis  C.  Wilcox,  I. 
C.  Lewis,  W.  W.  Lyman,  Lemuel  J.  Curtis, 
John   Munson  and  James  Frary. 

The  picture  of  their  first  factory  will  be  found 
on  Page  6.  This  building  stood,  and  still 
stands,  on  the  corner  of  State  and  Miller 
streets.  If  any  one  is  not  familiar  with  the 
Meriden  Britannia  Company  plant  of  today, 
the  other  cut  on  Page  6  will  show  the  growth 
of  that  concern.  In  1898  this  company  com- 
bined with  several  others  to  form  the  Inter- 
national Silver  Company. 

MR.  FORBES'  ANECDOTES. 

Mr.  Andrew  J.  Forbes,  to  whom  reference 
has  been  made,  is  one  of  the  few  men  now 
alive  who  were  concerned  in  the  beginnings  of 
the  silver  industry  in  Meriden.  He  is  sev- 
enty years  old,  and  today  holds  a  responsi- 
ble position  in  the  International  Silver  Co.  His 
home  is  in  West  Somerville,  Mass.   On  a  recent 


1S47  —  THE* 

trip  to  Meriden,  he  visited  the  site  of 
the  old  I.  C.  Lewis  factory.  Mr.  Forbes 
went  to  work  at  the  age  of  ten,  for  his  brother- 
in-law,  H.  H.  Graves,  of  the  firm  of  J.  B.  & 
H.  H.  Graves,  from  whom  Horace  C.  Wilcox 
bought  his  first  britannia  ware.  In  1850  he 
began  his  employment  with  Mr.  Lewis. 

Among  his  fellow  employes  were  the  follow- 
ing, many  of  whose  names  are  familiar  to 
Meriden  people :  W.  H.  Golden,  Sr.,  Ed. 
Paine  (late  of  Middletown),  Henry  Bullard 
(living  in  Meriden  now),  Dan  Crandall,  Mike 
Akerman,  "  Pod "  Yale,  Asher  Hall,  Lewis 
Hall  (son  of  Asher  and  father  of  Wilbur 
Hall),  Nelson  Cornwell,  John  Palmer,  Will- 
iam Mathews,  Larry  Mathews,  Friend  Booth, 
Jake  Heiny,  Daniel  B.  Wells,  Stephen  Green, 
Henry  Pizah,  Owen  Flynn,  Sage  Pelton,  Peter 
Smith,  Joseph  Williams  and  Ed.  Ricker. 

Over  the  site  of  the  old  shop  today  broods 
a  Sunday  calm,  and  outwardly  the  place  was 
quiet  enough  when  Mr.  Forbes  knew 
it,  but  the  mask  of  sedateness  covered 
a  deal  of  boisterous  fun  and  good- 
natured  deviltry.  His  recent  visit 
brought  to  his  mind  many  an  esca- 
pade in  which  he  or  his  former  com- 
rades figured. 

To  the  east  of  the  old  shop  stood, 
and  still  stands,  an  ancient  house, 
which  in  Mr.  Forbes'  day  served  as 
the  boarding  house. 

"We  had  some  great  times  there," 
he  observed,  pointing  to  the  building. 

"  It  brings  to  my  mind  the  episode 
of  the  pies.  One  night  Steve  Green 
got  down  into  the  pantry,  where  were 
stored  over  forty  pies,  the  week's 
baking -- mostly  dried-apple  pies,  I 
remember — and  passed  them  out 
through  the  window  to  the  rest  of  us.  On  a 
shelf  was  a  tin  pan,  which  Stephen  knew 
usually  held  doughnuts — molasses  doughnuts, 
which  you  could  pull  out  like  India  rubber. 
Steve  tipped  the  pan  to  see  if  there  were  any 
doughnuts  in  it.  As  it  happened,  the  pan  that 
night  contained  flour  and  the  tip  Green  gave  it 
was  sufficient  to  spill  all  the  flour  over  him. 
The  pan  came  clattering  to  the  floor,  awaken- 
ing Mr.  Crocker,  who  was  in  the  room  above. 
Down  he  came  to  investigate.  There  was  no 
avenue  of  escape  open  to  Green  except  to 
dash  through  the  kitchen,  and  pass  Mr.  Crocker. 
The  latter  saw  him  coming,  clothed  in  a  floury 
shroud.  The  good  man  must  have  mistaken 
his  boarder  for  a  ghost,  for  he  turned  and  hiked 
up  the  stairs  to  his  room. 

"Another  of  the  boarders,  Dan  Crandall, 
was  the  hero  of  a  certain  fishing  trip.  He 
and  I  were  out  on  Black  pond  when  the 
boat  began  to  fill.  Bailing  proving  of  no 
avail,  Dan  dropped  overboard  and  com- 
menced to  swim  for  the  shore.  1  would 
have  followed  immediately  had  1  not  noticed 
that  Dan's  fish  hook  had  caught  in  the  seat  of 
his  trousers,  and  that,  as  he  swam,  he  was  tow- 
ing the  fish  pole  behind  him.  I  made  a  grab 
for  the  pole,"  continued  Mr.  Forbes,  "  and 
if  I'd  caught  it,  you  bet  I  would  have  'played 
him.  As  it  was,  I  nearly  drowned  before  I 
could  stop  laughing  long  enough  to  swim 
ashore. 

"  Black  pond  was  a  great  resort  for  us  boys. 
It  was  there  we  took  our  Sunday  bath,  and 
from   its    waters    we    pulled    many   a   perch, 


-THK  SILVER  STANDARD 


-mow— 1906 


pickerel  and  bull-head.  Some  fellows  came 
there  once  with  a  seine,  which  greatly  angered 
us,  who  always  fished  with  bait.  To  discour- 
age the  net  fishermen,  we  sunk  everything  we 
could  think  of  in  the  pond  and  tied  all  the 
scythes  we  could  collect  to  logs.  Then  we 
hid  in  the  bushes.  It  made  my  blood  run 
cold  when,  their  net  having  become  entangled, 
one  of  the  fishermen  stripped  and  dived  among 
the  scythes  to  learn  the  cause  of  the  trouble. 
However,  he  was  not  cut  in  two.  But  their 
net  was  of  no  more  use. 

"  Over  in  Middlefield  there  was  a  button 
shop,  and  we  used  to  go  there  to  see  the 
young  women  employes.  Peter  Smith  was 
married,  but  had  not  brought  his  wife  to 
Meriden.  One  evening,  he  went  over  to  the 
button  shop  and  called  upon  a  girl  named 
Charlotte  Burnham.  Now,  Charlotte  was  a 
very  quiet  young  woman.  Conversation 
coming  to  a  standstill,  the  young  man  thought 


1  must  say  a  word  about  Uncle  Pete 
And  the  lovely  Charlotte  Burnham. 
When  strolling  out  one  moonlight  night. 
Their  hearts  with  love  inflated. 
She  says,  '  I  think  the  button  shop 
Is  pleasantly  located."  " 


added, 


"Needless   to    say,"    Mr.    Forbe 
"  Pete's  wife  was  greatly  interested." 

"  I  don't  know  as  I  had  better  tell  the  fol- 
lowing story.  If  the  facts  had  gotten  out  half 
a  century  ago,  somebody  would  have  been 
richer  by  two  hundred  dollars,  that  amount 
having  been  offered  as  a  reward  by  the  powers 
that  were.  A  party  of  the  boys  were  driving 
to  Berlin  one  evening  when  they  came  to  a 
toll-gate.  The  toll-keeper  had  locked  the  gate 
and  gone  to  bed.  Not  wishing  to  arouse  him 
they  took  the  gate  off  the  hinges,  and  towed  it 
into  Meriden,  and  hung  it  up  near  where  the 
Meriden  House  is  now.  I  guess  that  two 
hundred  dollars  reward  is  outlawed  now," 
chuckled  Mr.  Forbes. 

"  One  summer  Mike  Akerman  and  I  made 
an  agreement  that  whichever  of  us  made  the 
least  money  before  the  Fourth  of  July  would 
pay  for  a  trip  to  New  York.  We  would 
have  come  out  just  even  if  Mike  had  not 
dropped  a  couple  of  tea  pots.  Instead  of 
picking  them  up  and  hammering  out  the 
dents,  he  kicked  them  under  a  bench. 
That  put  him  behind  me,  and  he  paid  for  *he 
trip.  We  each  had  about  $80  when  we 
started,  and  Akerman  had  a  gold  watch.  When 
we  reached  Middletown  on  our  return  trip, 
our  united  wealth   consisted  of  eighteen  cents. 

"We  bought  cigars  and  walked  home.  This 
simply  goes  to  show  that  there  were  ways  of 
:  pending  money  then  as  there  are  now.' 

"  Here  are  a  couple  of  hunting  incidents. 
We  used  to  make  up  shooting  teams,  the  two 
best   shots    being    captains  and    alternately 


he  would  wait  and  see  how  long  the  girl  would 
keep  quiet.  They  sat  there  for  an  hour,  not 
a  word  being  exchanged.  Finally,  Charlotte 
stammered,  '  I  think  the  button  shop  is  pleas- 
antly located,  don't  you  ?  '  Shortly  after  this 
the  young  man  brought  his  wife  to  Meriden. 
I  had  written  some  doggerel  about  the  button 
shop  and  he  desired  that  his  wife  should  hear 
it.  I  recited  it,  therefore,  but  when  I  had 
finished  the  poem  as  he  knew  it  I  went  on 
and  added  a  verse  which  Pete  had  never 
heard.     It  was  as  follows : 

"  My  song  quite  new,  the  words  quite  true, 
I  hope  you  all  will  learn  them, 


choosing  their  men.  We  shot  for  points 
and  the  various  kinds  of  game  had  each  its 
own  value.  For  instance,  I  remember,  a  red 
squirrel  counted  two  points,  a  grey  squirrel  five 
points,  a  quail  five,  grouse  ten,  hawk  twenty, 
owl  twenty-five  and  fox  cne  hundred.  One 
day,  when  Nelson  Cornwell  and  I  had  chosen 
sides,  I  had  the  misfortune  to  sprain  my  ankle 
in  getting  over  a  wall.  I  had  shot  one  grouse. 
Things  looked  pretty  dark  for  our  side,  when 
I  came  across  a  wagon  with  a  dead  owl  in  it. 
While  1  was  dickering  with  my  conscience 
whether  to  steal  the  bird,  the  owners  of  the 
wagon,  Silas  Clark  and  '  Cheek  '  Foster,  came 


6 


1847— THEN- 


-THE  SILVER  STANDARD- 


-xow— 1906 


up.  I  offered  to  exchange  my  grouse  for  the  and  for  some  time  before,"  says  Perkins'  his-  recognize  in  D.  N.  Camp,  whose  plea  for  a 
dead  owl,  but  owls  were  of  little  value  to  tory,  "when  the  population  of  the  town  was  state  normal  school  is  printed  on  the  last  page, 
them,  and  they  willingly  gave  it  to  me,  adding  not  more  than  900  and  as  late  as  1812,  there  the  well-known  educator,  Professor  Camp,  of 
that  there  were  plenty  of  them,  there  being  were  five,  if  not  eight,  taverns  within  the  limits  New  Britain,  brother  of  Mrs.  F.  E.  Hinman, 
five  in  the  swamp  nearby.  That  gave  us  a  of  Meriden.  As  these  taverns  always  kept  of  this  city,  as  profoundly  interested,  if  not  so 
tip,  and  before  we  left  we  had  secured  every  ardent  spirits  and  as  the  population  of  the  town  active,  in  educational  matters  today  as  he  was 
one  of  the    five   owls.     When    we    came  to   w:as  small,  and  as  the  amount  of  travel  then  sixty  years  ago. 

figure  up  our  day's  sport  Cornwall's  side  had  was  much  less  than  it  is  now,  these  facts  indi-  In  closing  this  brief  account  of  conditions  in 
totalled  170.      I  held  my  owls  back  and  with-   cate  a  low  state  of  morals.  1847  we  should  be  remiss  if  we  did  not  pay 

out  them  we  were  just  five  points  behind  "There  are  at  present  but  two  taverns  in  tribute  to  the  men  whose  energy,  public  spirit 
Cornwall's  men.  Then  1  sprung  the  owls,  Meriden,  with  a  population  of  about  3,000,  and  integrity  we  honor.  Of  them  we  may 
which,  at  twenty-five  per,  raised  our  count  to  but  only  at  one  of  these  are  spirituous  liquors  say  what  Rev.  Mr.  Perkins  said  of  their 
290  —  way  ahead  of  our  opponents.  sold.  '  fathers: 

"One  day  1  was  out  with  my  gun  when  I  Many  other  events  of  more  or  less  import-  "Let  us  remember  that  we  have  reached 
heard  some  dogs,  and  a  nice  big  fox  trotted  ance  which  occured  in  1847  might  be  men-  our  present  stage  of  progress  because  those 
within  a  few  feet  of  me.  I  let  him  have  it,  tioned,  but  this  article  does  not  pretend  to  fathers  of  ours  were  men. 
and  he  fell  dead.  I  grabbed  the  carcass,  and  chronicle  all  of  them.  Work  on  building  the  "Back  to  the  institutions  which  they  founded, 
threw  it  up  in  a  hemlock.  Presently,  along  "Oregon  Road,"  for  instance,  was  begun  in  the  character  which  they  tiansmitted  to  their 
came  two  hunters.  The  dogs  had  lost  the  that  year.  Most  of  "  the  news"  of  the  year,  children,  must  we  trace  the  causes  of  the 
scent  at  the  spot  1  picked  up  the  fox  and  were  however,  is  to  be  found  on  Pages  1,  2,  3  and  growth,  intelligence  and  wonderful  im- 
greatly  distressed.  '  Have  you  seen  a  fox  go  8.  The  academy  which  was  burned  as  told  provement  of  the  present  day.  Whatever 
by  here  ?  '  asked  one  of  the  hunters.  'No,'  on  Page  8  (at  the  bottom  of  the  third  column)  is  really  valuable  in  Meriden  now  stands 
I  said,  T  did  not  see  any  go  by.  What's  the  stood  at  the  corner  of  East  Main  and  Elm  out  as  the  true  history  and  the  best 
matter   with    your  dogs  ?  '      '  They   have  lost  streets  on  high  ground.      Meriden  readers  will   monument  of  our  fathers. 


the  scent,'  said  the 
hunter.  'Perhaps 
they  have  treed  the 
fox,'  said  I.  '  Treed 
the  fox!'  repeated  the 
hunter.  '  Young  fel- 
low, did  you  ever 
know  of  a  fox  go- 
ing up  a  t ree  ?  ' 
'  Of  course,'  said  1, 
'  1  have,  and  that 
looks  like  one  up 
there  now,'  I  added, 
pointing  to  the  hem- 
lock. The  joke  was 
on  them,  but,  of 
course,  they  took  the 
game." 

The  year  1847 
was  an  important  pe- 
riod in  the  religious 
history  of  Menden. 
Then  it  was  that  the 
Congregational  Church,  whose  members 
had  worshipped  for  many  years  in  the  edi- 
fice on  Broad  street,  became  two  dis- 
tinct bodies,  the  one  moving  to  West  Meriden 
and  building  a  new  meeting  house,  the  other 
remaining  on  Broad  street. 

The  West  Village  church  that  was  built  in 
1847  was  turned  into  a  theatre  when  its  suc- 
cessor, the  granite  church  of  today,  was  erected 
and  a  few  months  ago  fire  wiped  out  the  meta- 
morphosed structure.  Rev.  G.  W.  Perkins, 
author  of  a  brief  history  of  Meriden,  wa? 
pastor  of  the  Congregational  church  and  ac- 
companied that  portion  of  the  congregation 
which  moved  from  the  hill. 

According  to  some  authorities,  the  first  Cath- 
olic church  in  Menden  was  organized  in  1847. 
It  is  interesting  to  note  in  this  connection  that 
Rev.  M.'.  Perkins  several  years  before  coming 
to  Meriden  had  won  the  hatred  of  many 
bigoted  persons  by  a  bold  defense  of  Catholics 
and  a  plea  for  what  to-day  we  would  term  "a 
square  deal. 

The  Methodist  church,  which  had  been 
formed  in  1844,  erected  a  building  for  wor- 
ship in  1847. 

As  the  churches  increased  in  number  the 
taverns   appear  to  have  fallen  off.      "  In  1790, 


"Let  us  then,  with 
grateful  hearts,  thank 
God  that  such  men 
lived  and  toiled  be- 
fore us;  and  embalm 
their  memories  by  im- 
itating their  virtues." 


The  gross  area  of 
the  United  States  in 
1847  was  2,059,043 

square  miles.  1  he 
Mexican  war,  1846- 
48,  resulted  in  the  ac- 
quirement of  more 
territory,  the  gross 
area  in  1850  being 
2,980,959.  Today, 
exclusive  of  Alaska, 
Hawaii,  etc.,  the 
gross  area  is  3,025,- 
600  square  miles. 


1847 — THEN 


-THE  SILVER  STANDARD 


-now— 1900 


a  wedding  gifl  silver    f 
i 
■  ■ 
. 

•  wed,  ihos? 

liredioi  beauty 

and  worth  ;ir»-  the  silv« 

1847  ROGERS  BROS. 


WHEN   YOU  BUY 

SILVERWARE 

When  you  buy  silverware,  how  do 
you  do  it?  Blindly?  Or  do  you  make 
sure  you  are  getting  the  best — the  kind 
that  not  only  looks  well,  but  will  wear? 

There's  only  one  way  to  tell  how 
a  piece  of  silver  will  wear.  You  can't 
tell  by  looks.  You  may  be  a  good 
judge  of  dress  fabrics  or  furniture,  but 
you  can't  judge  silver  as  you  do  most 
other  things.  You  may  examine  a 
couple  of  pieces  and  rind  no  dif- 
ference. But  one  will  wear  and  the 
other  will  not. 

How  can  you  tell?  What  is  "the 
only  way  "  ?  It's  very  simple.  Turn 
over  the  article  and  look  for  the  trade= 
mark.  On  spoons,  knives  and  forks 
you  should  read : 

1 847   Rogers   Bros." 

On  Tea  Sets,   Tureens  and  other  hol- 
low-ware, you  should  see: 

MADE   AND 
GUARANTEED  BY 


*  *  *  Rogers  Bros. 

Your  grandmother  bought  these 
goods  because  they  were  the  best. 
That  we  are  successful  in  living  i;p  to 
the  standard  set  in  1847  is  proved  by 
the  fact  that  our  output  has  doubled 
in  the  last  ten  years.  When  a  busi- 
ness can  exist  for  sixty  years,  it  must 
be  because  the  buying  public  has  confi- 
dence in  it  and  its  product;  but  when 
in  the  last  ten  years  of  its  already  phe- 
nomenal growth,  it  increases  its  sales 
One  Hundred  Per  Cent,  it  means  that 
it  has  kept  its  old  friends  and  that  their 
satisfaction  has  induced  others  to  be- 
come customers. 

Look  for  the  trade-mark.  Not  merely 
the  word  "Rogers,"  but  "1847  Rogers 
Bros." 

Upon  request  we  will  send  you  our 
catalogue  "  10-16,"  illustrating  some  of 
our  goods. 

Meriden   Britannia   Co., 

Meriden,  Conn., 

International  Silver  Co.,  Successor. 


How 
I  a   to  Choose"1 

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Silver 

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1    .iiid  judgment  will 

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1847  Rogers  bros: 


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THE  SILVER  STANDARD,  JUNE,  1847 


MERIDEN  MAN 
IS  INDIGNANT 

HE  CRITICIZES    THE  POST 
OFFICE  DEPARTMENT 


IRREGULARITIES   IN    TRANSMISSION   OF 

MAIL  TO  AND  FROM  THIS  TOWN 

CAUSES  PROTEST. 


Messrs.  Editors  — 
The  neglect  or  care- 
lessness in  some  quarters 
of  our  Post  Office  De- 
partm?nt  has  become 
so  glaring  and  inexcus- 
able that  forbearance 
has  ceased  to  be  a  vir- 
tue, and  by  way  of 
calling  particular  atten- 
tion to  the  matter,  and 
eliciting  from  others 
more  facts  relating  toil, 
the  writer  ventures  to 
state  a  few  circumstan- 
ces which,  without 
being  sought  after,  have 
necessarily  come  under 
his  notice. 

It  is  a  notorious  truth 
that  more  irregularities 
have  occurred  in  the 
transmission  of  our  mail 
matter  to  and  from  this 
office  during  the  past 
year  than  since  our  re- 
membrance. The 
New  York  daily  pa- 
pers, due  here  on  the 
same  day  of  their  pub- 
lication, have  generally 
failed,  once  a  week, 
and  often  twice  a  week, 
and  in  a  number  of 
cases  have  been  carried 
by  and  brought  back 
the  next  day.  We 
hear  among  our  business 
men  frequent  com- 
plaints of  remittances 
being  sent  by  them  to 
meet  notes  which  do 
not  reach  their  destina- 
tion until  too  late.  Pro- 
tests and  loss  of  credit 
to  the  parties  are  the 
consequences. 

It  is  well  known  that 
the  Department  has 
during  the  past  year 
put  a  new  officer  on 
the  Railroad  from  New 
Haven  to  Boston.  It 
is  his  duty  to  sort  the 
mails  to  and  from  the 
towns  lying  on  the  line 
of  the  road,  so  that 
virtually  a  distributing 
office  is  kept  in  opera- 
tion on  board  the  cars 
carrying  the  mails. 
Now  is  it  not  singular 
that  the  year  peculiarly 
distinguished  above  all 
others  for  irregularities 
along  the  line  of  the 
road  should  be  the  very 
year  and  the  only  one 
in  which  this  new  office 
has  existed? 

If  I  have  not  suc- 
ceeded in  showing  the 
proprietorship  of  this 
carelessness  and  neglect, 
then  I  shall  despair  of 
ever  tracing  cause  and 
effect.  1 1  certainly  i  s 
not  with  our  Postmas- 


ter. The  experience 
of  years  has  proved  him 
a  man  remarkably  cor- 
rect and  vigilant  in 
every  duty  connected 
with  his  office.  It  can- 
not be  with  the  distribu- 
ting officers  on  the  way 
for  the  letters  alluded  to 
were  distributed  by  the 
agent  on  the  cars.  It 
probably  is  not  the 
fault  of  the  offices  at  the 
end  of  the  route.  Post- 
masters are  not  back- 
ward in  delivering  let- 
ters for  which  they  re- 
ceive money.  We  can 
see  no  place  to  impute 
the  blame  but  to  the 
mail  agent  of  the  road. 
We  know  not  how 
much  other  points  are 
caught  in  this  way,  but 
we  know  they  must  be 
to  some  extent,  because 
letters  applying  to  them 
are  often  sent  by  mistake 
to  this  office.  One 
thing  we  will  say  that 
if  all  the  persons  in  our 
small  town  should  pub- 
lish their  grievances,  the 
Post  Office  Depart- 
ment would  seek  relief 
from  the  insupportable 
clamor  which  would 
prevail  to  at  once  dis- 
continue their  Locomo- 
tive Post  Office,  or  sub- 
stitute for  the  present 
incumbent  an  agent 
who  is  both  qualified 
and  disposed  to  d  i  s  - 
charge  the  duties  of  an 
office  of  such  vast  im- 
portance to  the  public. 

The  rapidity  of 
carrying  the  mails  is 
a  matter  of  far  less  con- 
sequence  than  the 
certainty  and  regularity 
of  doing  so.  We  must 
know  on  what  to  de- 
pend, and  if  we  cannot 
rely  on  the  P.  O.  De- 
partment to  perform 
faithfully  the  business 
with  which  we  entrust 
it,  we  must  carry  our 
own  mail,  or  else  send 
them  by  friends  who 
will  he  fa.thful  to  our 
interests  and  we  ven- 
ture to  say  that  no 
power  CI  the  executive 
and  no  power  under 
H»aven  can  arrest  the 
course  cf  such  a  move- 
ment if  we  become 
once  arous;d  to  it. 

That  we  shall  be 
in  earnest  about  this 
matter  if  the  present 
course  of  things  is  long 
pursued  is  most  certain. 

Remonstrance. 
Meriden,  Conn. 


BACK  TO  THE 
STAGE  COACH 

The  cashier  of  the 
Meriden  Bank  recently 
enclosed  remittances  to 
the  amount  of  $14,- 
000.00  in  a  letter  for 
Boston,  and  as  he  knew 
the  mails  had  been  very 
irregular,  went  to  the 
depot  and  placed  the 
packag?  in  the  hands 
of  the  mail  agent,  stat- 
ing that  it  should  be  in 
Boston  the  next  day. 
A  week  later  it  had 
not  been  received  and 
the  mail  agent  when 
interviewed  stated  that 
he  sent  it  directly  to  the 
Boston  Post  Office  and 
they  were  at  fault,  but 
the  postmaster  claimed 
it  had  never  been  re- 
ceived at  his  office.  It 
finally  turned  up,  how- 
ever, as  at  the  end  cf 
seventeen  days  the 
Boston  Post  Office  d;- 
livered  it  to  the  bank 
addressed.  This  is 
hardly  equal  to  the 
stage  coach  days  of  ten 
or  twelve  years  ago. 

SHOCKING  AC- 
CIDENT-A  shock- 
ing accident  occurred  at 
Griswold's  Factory  on 
Thursday  of  this  week. 
Some  men  at  work  up- 
on a  new  road  were 
blasting  rocks  near  the 
Factory.  A  piece  of 
rock  was  hurled  into  the 
building,  and  struck  a 
young  lady  in  the  back, 
inflicting  such  injury 
that  she  died  in  about 
one  hour  afterwards. 
We  did  not  hear  the 
name  of  the  sufferer. 

Premiums  awarded 
by  the  New  Haven 
County  Agricultural 
Society  at  the  cattle 
show  and  fair  at  Water- 
bury:  On  farms,  Levi 
Yale,  of  Meriden,  sec- 
ond prize,  $15.  Best 
pair  working  oxen. 
Friend  Johnson,  of 
Wallingford,  $3.  Best 
bull,  2  years  and  up- 
wards, Andrew  Pres- 
ton, Wallingford,  $5. 
Apples,  greatest  num- 
ber of  kinds  and  best  in 
one  collect'on,  W.  M. 
Hall,  of  Wallingford. 

The  Palladium 
thinks  we  are  in  error 
in  saying  that  one  of 
the  new  State  Prison 
Directors  is  a  "contrac- 
tor for  prison  labor." 
We  are  told  that  Philo 
Pratt,  of  Meriden,  one 
of  the  new  Directors,  is 
a  contractor  for  prison 
labor.  If  we  have  been 
misinformed,  we  would 
like  to  be  corrected. 
How  is  it?  New  Hav- 
en Register. 

The  Academy  in 
this  town  was  destroyed 
by  fire  on  Saturday  last. 
Cause,  a  basket  of  ashes 
carelessly  left  upon  the 
premises.  The  acad- 
emy was  started  by 
John  D.  Post  in  1840 
and  was  a  very  plain 
two-story  structure. 


LOCOFOCOISM  FIRE  IN  WEST 
ROUTED !-Our ex-  MERIDEN-On 
press  returns  from  every  Monday  night,  about 
section  of  the  state  are  12  o'clock,  the  carriage 
now  all  in,  and  bring  shop  of  Messrs.  Brown 
complete  returns  from  &  Beecher  was  discov- 
all  but  nine  towns  ered  to  be  on  fire,  the 
(whose  votes  cannot  flames  at  once  bursting 
essentially  vary  the  re- i  out  of  the  roof  with 
suit),  and  we  have  the  great  rapidity.  By  the 
satisfaction  of  announc- '  untiring  efforts  of  Rev. 
ing  the  complete  triumph  George  W.  Perkins,  a 
of  the  Whigs  and  the  line  was  formed  of  citi- 
utter  rout  and  over-  zens,  and  with  buckets 
throw  of  the  Locofocos.  and  ladders  (the  build- 
We  have  probably  se-  ing  being  two  stories) 
lected  a  Governor  and  arrested  the  flames  be- 
all  of  the  State  Ticket  fore  great  damage  was 
BY  THE  PEOPLE!  done.  We  understand 
— have  elected  all  the  the  loss  to  be  about 
Members  of  Congress —  $100,  insured  by  the 
thirteen  Whig  Senators  Aetna  Co.  The  loss 
out  of  twenty-one — and  has  been  settled  by  their 
a  handsome  majority  of  prompt  and  active 
the  House  of  Represen-  agent,  Curtiss  L.  North, 
tatives,  with  a  prospect  to  the  satisfaction  cf  all 
of  greatly  increasing  this  parties.     The    fire  was 


MR.  D.  N.  CAMP 
GIVES  VIEWS 

MERIDEN   MAN   AT   NEW 
HAVEN  CONVENTION 


HE  ABLY  ADVOCATES  THE  ESTABLISH- 
MENT 07  A  STATE  NORMAL 
SCHOOL. 

At  the  convention  in  fying  themselves  for  the 
New  Haven  to  discuss  teachers'  profession; 
the  establishment  cf  a  and,  if  they  do,  they 
State    Normal   School,   are   soon    called   away 


or  greatly  increasing  n,s  parties.      ine    nre  was  Mr.  Camp,  cf  Meriden. !  toother  States.    Ma 
majority.      Truly,    this  supposed  to   be   ace-         ke  ,        h      He  chusett3 has  them;  Bos- 

is  glory  enough  ror  one  dental.  reviewed  the  movement  ton  has  two  or  three ; 

\/  t     f       f"  m  tms  counc"v  ror  'ne   New  York  has  them : 

WURiLl  TRmS.  BANK  COM-  training  cf  teachers  and  and  each  year,  as  our 
LoccLo  Whittlesey  MISSIONERS'  RE-  for  normal  schools  from  teachers  acquire  a  rep- 
lied™' PORT-The  report  of  the  time  the  first  sugges- 1  utation,  strong  induce- 
the  Bank  Commission- ^  ti°n„was  ma°e  by  Mr-  ments  are  held  out  to 
del  in   a    Hart-   them,    and   they   leave 


25,280;    sea 
',639.     In   Meriden 


I  ,ujy.     in   ivieriaen,   — ,     --•—-.-• /-,,!l,,,J 

Whig.  265;   Locofoco,  "s   V    the    Lepslaturei^allaud 
31  I.  «-»it»r,n<T    56  has  been    published. ,  tora    n 


ewspaper    in  us. 

Griswold  ETC^bVnkintne"«tate!|l,825.     He  pointed  to  expect    it ;    tho 

°'.  aftermakingitslastdivi-lthefactthatMassachu-  expect   to  live 


311;  scattering,  56 
^shbel    Grisvv 
was  elected  Represen 
tative  from  Meriden. 


rhaps    the . 
lose   who 
id  de 
dend     has   on    hand    a  x^   and    New    York  on  the  soil  of  Connecti- 
surplus  of  earnings  over  have  successful  normal  cut  cannot  expect  to  get 
and  above  the  amount :  schools.    He  continued:  remunerated. 
MOSES  IN  MEX-  of  dividend;    and   in       "  What  we  now  ask  The    work   to  be 

ICO-It  is  said  that  some  instances  this  sur-  is  that  the  State  should  accomplished  is  a  great 
Moses  Y  Beach  Esq  plus  fund  amounts  to  a  do  something  for  our  one;  the  institutions  of 
of  th»  New  York  Sun'  full  dividend  of  more  common  schools,  liberty  and  Chnstianity 
banker  editor  stock  than  7  per  cent,  on  the  Teachers  are  very  illy  are  involved  in  it ;  the 
dealer  etc  is  in  Mex-  capital.  The  surplus  paid  fcr  what  ought  to  present  and  future  arc 
ico  and  like  the  caged  of  the  Menden  Bank  be  required  for  thern.  deeply  interested  in  the 
starling    of   Sterne,    he  is  $4,354. 1 9. 


WAS  SUDDEN 

ATH-M 

c  Dobson,  of  Be 


Perhaps  th-ry  are  pa:d  result,  and  we  hope  the 

well   for   all   that   they  people  and  the  Legisla- 

give,    for    our  public  ture  cf  Connecticut 

school"  do   not  furnish  will  meet  the  question 

half   the    knowledge  fairly,  and  acquit  them- 

they   should,    but   the  selves  honorably.     For 

died    very   sud-   compensation  that  they  inthatcase.it  will  not 

denly  on  the  22nd  inst.   receive  is  not  sufficient  be  long  before  we,  like 

Though    this   grca!   to  enable  them  to  go  to  Massachusetts  and  New 

th»y  have  we  hop-   'oss   to   nis   ^ami'y  cln  our  Colleges  ard  higher  York,  shall  be  able  to 

he  will  take  his  revenge  "ever   be  rePfed-  ?*  Institutions  cf  Learning  point  with  pride  to  our 

bv    planting    a    shin-  '' ls  .a  source  or  comfort   with  reference  to  qual:-  Normal  Schools. 

f    ,  ii  .l         to  his  near  friends  that 

plaster  mill  among  them  - 

after  the  pattern  of  th< 


can  t  get  out.        It  is 
intimated   that    he    has 
been   detained   by    the  DEAT 
authorities  or  the  city —  i  p.  , 

owever,  that 
the  barbarians  have  not 
had  the  audacity  actu- 
illy  to  "jug"   Moses 


ohn\hek30lhPTUMa°y      WEST    MERI-      CONSTITU- 
fast  to  apply  ,o  C.  L  DEN  FAIR- -We  TIONAL  AMEND- 

North,  of  West  Men-  are  happy  to  learn  that  MEN  1  —  I  he  vote  of 
den,  agent  cf  the  New  the  proceeds  of  the  Fair  the  State  on  the  pro- 
York  Life  Insuranc-  given  by  the  ladies  of  posed  amendment  to 
dangers  and  outrages  Cq  (o  insure  his  .^  (ne  Congregational  strike  out  the  word 
or  a  civil  as  well  as  a  f  ii  000  Society  in  Conklin's  "  white"  from  the  con - 
'  __  Hall  at  the  Railroad  stitution  will  be  as  fol- 
Hotel  for  the  benefit  of  lows:  For  the  amend- 
We  learn  from  Wal-  the  new  church  were  ment,  5,616;  againstit, 
.  lingford  that  measures  encouraging.  We  ac-  19,945.  Whole  num- 
opera  called  Moses  in  are  ;n  progress  in  that  knowledge  receipt  of  a  ber  of  votes  polled,  25,- 
Egypt  ; .perhaps  Mo-  town  for  the  purpose  of  .plendid  bouquet  from  111.  Farmington, 
ses  in  Mexico  just  at  rendering  aid  to  the  the  lady  managers  Marlborough,  Hamp- 
this  time  would  make  a  Carving  poorof  Ireland,  (through  Mis.  Clark),  ton,  Pomfret,  Thomp- 
better  one,  the  incidents  fWis  ;s  a  good  example  |t  j5  a  fitting  emblem  of  son,  Haddam  and  Nor- 
being  founded  on  the  for  the  country—  and  we  ,i,e  fair  donors  and  of  folk  were  the  only 
compulsory  conhne-  trust  every  town  in  the  j  ,e  sacred  cause  which  towns  which  gave  a 
ment  of  the  enterprising  state  wjH  a(jd  |ts  mi[e  attracted  their  efforts,  majority  in  favor  cf  the 
editor  of  the  Sun  in  the  to  trle  funJ  now  being  May  the  fragrance  of  amendment.  The  col- 
Mexican  metropolis.  |  raised  for  the  relief  of  their  good  deeds  exist  ored  man,  therefore,  is 
the  distressed  people.        |ong   after    the    flowers  still  without  a    vote   in 


Jacksonville  and  Plain- 
field  banks.  This  be- 
ing shut  up  in  Mexico 
iust  now  amidst  all  the 


matter.     "Moses  in  the 
bulrushes"     has    been 
de  the  subject  of  an 


Extract  of  a  letter  to 
the  Hartford  Times  and 
dated  Meriden: 

A.  E.   Burr,  Esq, 


A  petition  has  been 
presented  to  the  Legis- 
lature by  Rev.  G.  W 


have  "wasted  their 
sweetness  "  in  our  sanc- 
tum. 


this  state. 

The  vote  in  Meriden: 
yes,  145;  no,  148. 


It  is  with  pleasure  I  give  Perkins  and   others  of 

you    the  result   of 

election 

seminary 


-Mr.        The    Meriden  dele- 


result  of  our  Meriden,  for  the  estab-  tj^  V^u  ,h?'a  gat«'to  '^Wfoc™- 
have  coSiTy  rou^d  ^^,Cf  *  «-*-  worthy  citizen  cf  Wall-  vention  will.be  .Philo 
the  Mexican  army.     In 


this  town  we  give  49] 
plurality  on  Member  of  We  are  indebted  to 
Congress  and  lack  but  Mr.  George  P.  Cooke, 
1  2  votes  of  electing  our  of  Wallingford,  for 
Representative  over  all  specimens  of  some  of  the 


ingford,  killedhimself  in  Pratt  and   Ellas  How- 

Meriden    on    Wednes-  ell.  To  the  Democratic 

day  night  by  cutting  his  convention,    the    Meri- 

throat.     No  reasonable  den  delegates  chosen 

cause   can  be  assigned  are    Ira    N.    Yale   and 

for  the  act.     No  doubt  Benjamin  Upson.   Both 


opposition. 

Yours,  etc. 


finest  apples  we   have]  Mr.  Bush's  mind   was  parties  appear  very  con- 
seen  this  season,  affected.  hdent. 


%^t  guiltier  g>tantiarti 

ESTABLISHED  IN  1847  BY  ROGERS  BROS. 


Vol.  II.     No.  4. 


AUGUST,  1847. 


FlVl    C]    ITK 


CINCINNATI 
TO  BE  QUEEN 

WILL  BE  LARGEST  CITY  IN 
COUNTRY 


BEFORE    VERY    MANY    YEARS    NEW 

YORK'S  POPULATION  WILL 

BE  EXCEEDED. 


All  people  take  pride 
in  their  cities.  In  them 
naturally  concentrate 
the  great  minds  and  the 
great  wealth  of  the  na- 
tion. There  the  arts 
that  adorn  life  are  cul- 
tivated, and  from  them 
flows  cut  the  know  elge 
that  gives  its  current  of 
thought  to  the  national 

ind. 

The  United  States 
until  recently  have  had 
large  cities  in  the  hope 
rather  than  in  reality. 
N-*w  York  is  now 
sometimes  called  the 
London  of  America. 
Not  that  those  calling 
her  so  suppose  she  will 
ever  come  up  to  that 
mammoth  in  size  and 
importance,  but  be- 
cause she  holds  in  the 
New  World  the  rela- 
tive rank  which  London 
holds  on  the  Old  Con- 
tinent. 

It  would  be  presump- 
tuous to  say  that  her 
population  might  not 
reach  five  millions  with- 

the  next  century 
and  a  half.  Of  the 
f~w  persons  who 
■e  doubted  her 
continual  suprem- 
acy most  have  giv- 
en the  benefit  of 
the  doubt  to  New 
Orleans.  This 
outport  of  the  great 
central  valley  of 
North  America 
was  believed  to 
command  a  des- 
tiny, when  this 
valley  should  be- 
come well  peopled 
that  might  eclipse 
the  island  city  of 
the  Hudson. 

Some  twenty 
years  ago,  the 
writer,  then  living 
n  a  southeastern 
tate,  was  con- 
rinced  that  the 
greatest  city  must, 
the  nature  of 
things,  at  a  not 
very  distant  day, 
grow  up  in  the  in- 
terior of  the  con- 
tinent. The  largest 
city  of  the  interior 


was  then  Cincinnati, 
having  scarcely  20,000 
inhabitants;  and  the  sum 
total  of  all  the  towns  in 
the  great  valley  scarcely 
exceeded  50,000.  St. 
Louis  at  that  time  had 
but  5,000.  and  Buffalo 
aboui  ihe  same  number. 
Here,  then,  was  a  bas- 
is very  small  for  so 
large  an  anticipation. 
Who  could  believe  that 
St.  Louis,  with  5,000 
people,  could  possibly 
within  the  short  period 
of  1 50  years  become 
greater  than  New  York 
with  a  population  of 
near  200,000>  But 
what  seemed  most  ri- 
diculous of  all  was  that 
the  future  rival  of  the 
great  commercial  em- 
porium should  be  placed 
a  thousand  miles  from 
the  ocean,  where  neith- 
er a  ship  of  war  nor  a 
Liverpool  packet  could 
ever  be  expected  to 
irrive. 
[Continued on  Page  8] 


APPOINTMENTS 
BY  PRESIDENT 

SUPREME    DISREGARD    FOR 
FITNESS    OF  OFFICERS 


WHY    ARE    THE   HEROES    OF    THE 

PRESENT    WAR    ENTIRELY 

FORGOTTEN? 


NAUVOO  TEMPLE. 


NAUVOO-A 

Mormon  city  and  set- 
dement  in  Illinois,  now 
deserted.  It  is  in  one 
of  the  finest  locations 
for  a  town  upon  the  riv- 
er, it  being  situated  at 
the  second  and  last  rap- 
ids below  the  Falls  of 
St.  Anthony,  which 
extend  from  that  place 
to  Keokuk,  a  distance 
of  12  miles. 

The  rjreat  Mormon 
Temple  stands  out  con- 
spicuous. It  is  the 
finest  building  in  the 
West,  and  if  paid  for 
would  have  cost  over 
half  a  million  of  dollars. 

It  is  built  of  a  white 
stone,  resembling  mar- 
ble, 80  feet  front  by 
I  50  deep;  200  feet  to 
the    top   of    the    spire. 


The  caps  of  the  pilas- 
ters represent  the  sun; 
the  bases  of  them,  the 
half  moon,  with  Joseph 
Smith's  profile.  The 
windows  between  the 
pilasters  represent  stars. 
A  large  female  figure 
with  a  Bible  in  one 
hand  is  the  vane.  An 
inscription  on  the  front, 
in  large  gilt  letters,  reads 
as  follows: 

'The  House  of  the 
Lord,  built  by  the 
Church  of  Jesus  Christ 
of  the  Latter  Day 
Saints.  Commenced 
April  6,  1841.  ^Holi- 
ness to  the  Lord." 

There  is  in  the  base- 
ment of  the  temple  a 
large  stone  basin,  sup- 
ported by  twelve  oxen 
of  colossal  size,  about  fif- 


teen feet  high  altogether, 
all  of  white  stone  and 
respectably  carved.  A 
staircase  leads  up  to  the 
basin.  It  is  the  font 
where  all  the  Mormons 
were  baptized.  It  is 
seen  in  the  engraving 
standing  beside  the 
Temple,  but  in  the 
basement  is  its  real  situ- 
ation. 

In  New  York  the 
wholesale  stores  em- 
ploy clerks  whose  busi- 
ness it  is  to  go  to  the  ho- 
tels and  make  acquaint- 
ance with  the  country 
merchants  in  order  tc 
induce  them  to  buy 
goods  cf  the  firm  which 
employs  them.  These 
clerks  are  called  drum- 
mers. 


Mr.  Polk  has  officer- 
ed by  original  appoint- 
ment, since  the  com- 
mencement of  the  Mex- 
ican difficulties,  one  regi- 
ment cf  riflemen,  eight 
regiments  of  infantry, 
one  of  dragoons,  and 
one  af  voltigeurs,  whose 
appoinlments  are  in  ad- 
dition to  the  generals, 
commissaries,  paymas- 
ters, quartermaster  and 
surgeons  commissioned 
by  him  in  the  volunteer 
forces. 

The  whole  number 
of  commissions  issued 
cannot  fall  very  short  cf 
one  thousand.  In  mak- 
ing new  appointments,  i 
the  President  is  not! 
limited  or  controlled  by 
any  law.  His  power, 
over  the  secretaries  is  I 
complete,  arbitrary,  and 
irresponsible,  except  to 
his  oath.  There  is  no 
king,  prince  or  sultan 
more  thoroughly  above 
all  legal  restraint  in  his, 
appointments  tSan  the 
President. 


Let  i's  look  at  the 
late  appointments — out 
of  440  new  commis- 
sions issued  to  the  ten 
regiments  we  can  dis- 
cover but  nineteen  who 
had  been  in  service. 
We  are  confident  that, 
however  it  may  be  with 
the  Cabinet  and  the 
President,  the  country 
at  large  rely  upon  offi- 
cers who  have  seen  ser- 
vice in  preference  to 
those  v/1  o  have  not. 

Why  are  the  heroes 
of  the  present  war 
forgotten  and  neglected; 
the  men,  who  ragged, 
sunburnt  and  unshorn, 
were  toiling,  without 
pay  or  sustenance,  over 
the  sands  of  New  Mex- 
ico, while  the  kid-glove 
politicians,  clerks  and 
hangers-on  cf  Pennsyl- 
vania avenue  are  pro- 
moted to  the  offices? 
If  party  did  not  in- 
fluence the  mind  of  the 
President,  how  did  it 
happen  that  of  six 
Brigadier-Generals  and 
two  Major-Gener- 
a's elected  not  one 
Whig  is  to  be 
found? 

To  confirm  our 
opinion  cf  the  su- 
perior fitness  of  the 
appointmentsmade 
by  the  volunteers 
over  those  made  by 
the  Executive,  we 
give  a  list  of  volun- 
teer Colonels  who 
had  been  in  service, 
as  far  as  we  are  in- 
formed :  Jefferson 
Davis,  1  st  Missis- 
sippi; William  K. 
McKee.  1st  Ken- 
tucky; Humphrey 
Marshal,  Ken- 
tucky Cavalry,  A. 
M.  Mitchell,  2nd 
Ohio;  S.  K.  Cur- 
tis, 1st  Ohio;  A. 
S.  Johnston,  Louis- 
iana; W.  B.  Bur- 
nett, 1  st  .New 
York;  J.  F.  Ham- 
tronek,  1st  Vir- 
ginia; L.  S.  De 
Russy,  2nd  Louis- 
iana; J.  Rogers, 
Louisville  Legion. 


We  are  indebted  to  New  York  Sun,  American  Review,  Hunt's  Magazine  and  others  of  the  "1847"  period  for  material  in  this  issue. 
Meriden,  Conn.,  August,  1906— MERIDEN   BRITANNIA  CO.— International  Silver  Co.,  Successor. 


"SILVER.    PLATE    THAT   WEAR.S" 


HOLLOWWARE-PAST  AND  PRESENT. 


No.  I.     Early  Years. 


Somewhat  over  half  a  eentury  ago  silver  plated  white  metal  hol- 
lowware  superseded  britannia  ware.  The  latter  was  itself  a  usurper, 
having-  ousted  pewter,  which  for  several  centuries  had  occupied  an  im- 
portant place  in  the  house- 
holds, first  of  royalty,  then 
of  the  nobility  and  then  of 
people  of  humble  station  as 
well.  "In  the  later    six- 

teenth and  early  seven- 
teenth century, "  we  are  told, 
'  'pewter  may  be  said  to  have 
begun  to  be  commonly  used 
by  the  people  as  well  as  in 
many  households  of  qual- 
itv."  It  played  an  important  part  in  the  colonial  households  of  this 
c<  umtry. 

Then  came  china,  taking  the  place,  to  a  large  extent,  of  pewter  plates, 
cups  and  dishes,  although  pewter  continued  to  hold  its  own  in  some  lines, 
being  still  employed  for  tea  pots,  pitchers,  candlesticks,  sugar  bowls, 
porringers,  etc.,  and,  on  the  whole,  it  made  a  very  satisfactory  metal. 


Group  of  Pewter  Ware. 


MEN  AND  METHODS. 

In  the  first  half  of  the  nineteenth  century  there  existed  in  Connecticut 
and  Massachusetts  a  considerable  number  of  small  factories  where  pewter 
ware  was  made.  Some  of  these  shops  were  very  humble,  in  many  in- 
stances being  nothing  but  one  or  more  rooms  in  the  dwelling  house  of  the 
proprietor. 

It  was  about  this  time  that  britannia  ware  began  to  supersede  pewter. 
Both  metals  had  tin  for  their  basis,  but  the  substitution  of  other  metals  for 
lead  in  the  alloy  of  britannia  made  that  ware  harder,  less  dingy  and  more 
easily  worked. 


Supplied  to  retailers  by  all  leading  jobbers 


"SILVER.    PLATE    THAT    WEARS" 


H 


Some  of  the  manufacturers  in  this  pewter-britannia  period  were  :  Lewis 
lV  Holt  and  J.  A.  Frary,  Meriden,  Conn.  ;  John  Munson,  H.  B.  Ward  &  Co., 
and  Samuel  Simpson,  Wallingford,  Conn.;  J.  B.  &  H.  II.  Graves, 
Savage  &  Danforth,  Middletown,  Conn.;  Lamb  Bros.,  Berlin,  Conn.. 
Boardman  Bros.,  Hartford,  Conn.  ;  Abisha  Doolittle,  Augustus  Sawyer, 
Westfield,  Conn.  ;  Roswell  Gleason,  Dorchester,  Mass.  ;  Graves  &  Whitlock, 
Troy,  X.  Y. 

The  methods  of  manufacture  were  crude.  The  shops  were  operated 
sometimes  by  water  and  sometimes  by  horse  power. 

There  were  no  presses  or  buffing  lathes.  All  handles  and  spouts  after 
casting  were  scraped  and  burnished  by  hand,  while  soldering  was  done  with 
a  foot  bellows  or  with  an  iron. 

Previous  to  1850  there  were  no  rolled  metal  goods  made  in  Connect- 
icut, all  articles  being  cast  in  molds  and  turned  into  shape  by  hand  tools. 
The  process  was  a  slow  one  but  a  skilled  man  cotdd  turn  out  artistic  work. 

In  1852  Horace  C.  Wilcox  and  his  brother,  Dennis  C.  Wilcox,  joined  to 
themselves  nearly  all  the  manufacturers  of  any  consequence  and  the 
Meriden  Britannia  Co.  was  formed. 

SILVER  PLATE. 

Britannia  metal  proved  a  very  popular  successor  to  pewter,  but,  with 
the  discovery  of  an  effective  electro- 
silver  platingprocess  by  Rogers  Bros. , 
then  of  Hartford.  Conn.,  in  1847,  it 
was  lifted  to  a  still  higher  place,  it 
being  perfectly  adapted  for  receiving 
a  silver  coat. 

Through  the  absorption  of  Rog- 
ers Bros.'  interests  by  the  Meriden 
Britannia  Company  the  new  industry 
was  placed  upon  a  solid  foundation. 
Its  growth  from  that  time  on  is  well 
known  to  the  silver  and  jewelry  trade. 

At  first  there  was  some  prejudice 
manifested  against  plated  goods  but  soon  it  was  recognized  that  they 
were  no  mere  imitations  and  trade  and  public  came  to  realize  that  good 
silver  plate  had  a  place — and  an  important  place — of  its  own. 

(  To  be  Continued. ) 


Earlv  Silver  Plated  Ware.  Etc. 


distributed  to  the  public  by  progressive  dealers 


LS47— THEN- 


-THE  SILVER  STANDARD- 


-now— 1906 


trade — "1847  Rogers  Bros." — mark 

QJttr  dtlitrr  §>tauimrft 

THEN      1847 — AND— 1906 — NOW. 
ESTABLISHEII   IX    1847  BY  ROGERS  BROS. 

ISSUE  I  >    BY 

Mehidex  Britannia  Co.,Meriden,  Or. 

(International  silver  Cw.,  Successor.) 


Vol.  II— No.  4.      AUGUST,  1906.       5  Cents 


GROWTH  SINCE  1847. 

The  population  of  Cincinnati,  as  given  in 
the  last  United  States  Census  report,  was 
325,902.  It  should  have  been  3,200,000, 
according  to  the  very  interesting  article  in  this 
number  of  The  Standard.  A  prophecy  is 
always  entertaining  reading  after  the  time  for 
its  fulfillment  has  passed. 

The  Cincinnati  of  1906  is  an 
important  and  thriving  city  but 
it  does  not  occupy  so  exalted  a 
position  as  the  writer  of  our 
article  sixty  years  ago  predicted. 

It  was  on  July  22,  1847 
that  the  first  camp  of  Mormons 
moved  into  Salt  Lake  City, 
after  their  long  and  weary  jour- 
ney from  Nauvoo,  111.  The 
Nauvoo  Temple,  a  picture  of 
which  will  be  found  on  the 
first  page,  was  destroyed  the 
year  following,  being  burned 
on  October  19,  1848— the 
work  of  an  incendiary. 

When    we    remember'    that 


frozen  rivers  from  making  the  trip  from  his 
home  near  Columbus,  Ohio.  He  succeeded, 
however,  the  following  spring.  The  death  of 
this  patriarch  broke  a  link  that  bound  the 
beautiful  city  of  1906  to  the  insignificant  village 
of  1847. 


THE  PNEUMATIC  TIRE. 

The  pneumatic  tire  is  usually  regarded  as  a 
very  modern  invention  and  it  is  therefore  in- 
teresting to  learn  that  it  was  known  in  1847. 
Indeed  its  invention  dates  back  two  years  be- 
fore that,  R.  W.  Thompson,  a  civil  engineer, 
having  patented  a  pneumatic  tire  in  1845,  his 
invention  differing  but  little  from  the  present 
form.  At  that  time  there  were  no  cyclists  and 
the  patent  was  allowed  to  lapse  without  having 
reached  any  commercial  importance. 

When  the  bicycle  came  in  the  pneumatic 
tire    had    been   forgotten.      In    1889   John   B. 


the  steam  locomotive  was  still  a  baby  in 
1847,  it  is  a  bit  surprising  to  be  told  that  an 
electric  car,  an  invention  we  are  wont  to  re- 
gard as  modern,  was  exhibited  in  that  year. 
Electric  lighting,  too,  was  being  experimented 
with  in  1847,  but  on  that  subject  we  expect 
to  have  something  to  say  in  a  future  number 
of  The  Standard.  The  cut  on  Page  8  also 
emphasizes  the  fact  that  some  of  our  modern 
innovations  are  not  so  new,  in  theory  at  least, 
as   some  of  us  may  have  imagined. 

In  June  of  the  present  year  occurred  the 
death  of  Abram  H.  Cavender,  at  the  age  of 
93.  Mr.  Cavender  attempted  to  settle  at 
Saint  Paul  in    1847,    but    was  prevented  by 


SL  PAUL 

IN  THE  YEAR   1847  CITY  HAD 

100  INHABITANTS,  CHIEFLY 

HALF-BREEDS. 

St.  Paul,   with   a   population,   according  to 
the  last  census,  of  163,065,  in  the  year    1847 
boasted   "about  one  hundred  persons,  chiefly 
half-breeds."     Two  years   later,    when  Min- 
nesota became  a  territory,    several  American 
families  had  moved  there  and  the  population  of 
the   village  was   about  three   hundred.     The 
views  here  given  show  it  as  it  was  in  its  early 
years  and  as  it  appears  to-day,  the  latter  being 
furnished  us  by  the  Post-Dispatch  of  that  city. 
A  writer   in  Graham's   Magazine  in    1855 
thus  describes  the  beginnings  of 
St.  Paul's  existence: 

"Situated  as  it  was,  immedi- 
ately contiguous  to  the  military 
of  Fort  Snelling  and  in  the  vi- 
cinity of  several  Dakota  villages 
on  the  Minnesota  and  Missis- 
sippi rivers,  it  became  a  choice 
spot  for  those  modern  harpies, 
the  frontier  whisky  sellers,  to 
pitch  their  tents. 

"For  a  time  the  place  was 
without  a  name.     By  the  Da- 
kotas  it  was  called  sometimes 
Imneesia  ska,  or  White  Rock, 
because    of    the    saccharoid 
sandstone  which  underlies  the 
limestone    rock    upon    which 
the  town  is  built;  at  other  times 
they  designate  it  by  a  sentence,  which  trans- 
lated means  "the  place  where  they  sell  whisky." 
"The  origin  of  the  present  designation  was 
in   this    manner:       Those    who    had    erected 
their   log   trading-houses    at    this    point    were 
French  Canadians,  or  mixed  bloods  that  had 
been   voyageurs   of  the  fur    companies.       At 
certain  periods  quite  a  number  would  assem- 
ble  here  from   the  interior,  and  amuse  them- 
selves with  the  fiddle  and  the  dance. 

"On  the  occasion  of  the  first  marriage  of 
one  of  the  French  Canadians,  in  making  out 
the  certificate,  the  log  chapel  in  which  the 
ceremony  was  performed  was  designated  as 
the  Chapel  of  Saint  Paul.  From  that  time 
the  voyageurs  began  to  know  Saint  Paul's 
Chapel,  and  soon  St.  Paul's  became  familiar 
in  the  Indian  country.  When  it  was  chosen 
as  the  capital,  the  possessive  termination  was 
dropped,  and  the  place  became  known  from 
Lake  Itasca  to  Gulf  of  Mexico  as  Saint  Paul. 
Dunlop,  an  Irish  veterinary  surgeon,  fitted  8  "The  close  of  the  year  1853  discovers  but 
piece  of  rubber  hose  to  his  son's  bicycle  and  fevv  0f  the  original  tenements  or  settlers,  but  in 
this  led  to  the  construction — or  reconstruction  their  places  modern  and  tasteful  mansions,  and 
— of  the  pneumatic  tire.  an    active,    intelligent    population     of      about 

It  is  an  interesting  fact  that  a  bicycle  was    four  thousand  five  hundred." 
invented  in  1845.      It  was  never  manufactured  

for  any  other  person  than  the  owner,  however.        _  .„,,,,        ,  .^a-,  i  ■ 

The  years  1  846  and  1 847  were  big  ones  la 

the  commercial  history  of  the  United  States, 

Diamonds     of    the    first   water,    quoted    at   owing  in  part  to  the  general  failure  in  Europe 

$140  a    karat    or  more  at   the  present  time,    Qf  tr)e    potato    crop  of  both  years,  and  corn 

were  selling  at  $30  a  karat  in    1847.  crops  in  1847.     The  value  of  imports  for  the 

Cleveland    in     1847    had  a   population  of   year  ending  June  30,  1847,  was  $146,545,- 

12,769.       The     last    census    gave    the    city   638.     The  value  of  exports  for  the  same  year 

38 1 ,  768.  i  was  $  1 58.648,622 . 


LS47 — THEN 


THK  SILVER  STANDARD 


-xow— 190G 


ELECTRIC  CAR 

FIRST  ONE  EXHIBITED  IN   1847 

AT    DOVER,    N.    H.,    BY 

PROFESSOR  FARMER. 

No  doubt  it  will  surprise  most  readers  of 
The  Silver  Standard  to  learn  that  the  first 
electric  passenger  car  was  exhibited  sixty  years 
ago  at  Dover,  N.  H.,  July  26,  1847.  its  in- 
ventor was  Professor  Moses  G.  Farmer.  The 
car  is  now  in  the  keeping  of  the  Smithsonian 
Institution,  at  Washington. 

Professor  Farmer  was  years  ahead  of  the 
times,  having  lighted  his  parlor  (then  in  Salem, 
Mass.)  with  electricity,  probably  the  first  elec- 
tric light  in  a  homestead.      He  also  used  elec- 


fore  and  aft,  and  about  twenty-two  inches 
high.  1  welve  cells  were  carried  on  each  of 
the  four  shelves  in  a  box.  In  front  of  the  box 
or  tender  was  the  electric  motor. 

Professor  Farmer  was  born  at  Boscawen, 
N.  H.,  February  9,  1820.  He  lived  most  of 
his  life  at  Greenacre-on-the-Piscataqua,  Eli- 
ot, Me.  He  was  buried  there  opposite  his 
wife  in  the  pines  adjoining  the  old  homestead, 
Bitter-Sweet,  which  of  late  years  has  been 
the  rendezvous  of  the  savants  of  the  world. 
There  his  daughter.  Miss  Sarah  J.  Farmer, 
established  a  summer  school,  where  men  and 
women  well  known  in  literature,  science,  art 
and  religion  congregate  during  July  and 
August. 

In  his  early  life  Professor  Farmer  was  a 
proficient  musician,  but  a  severe  fever 
left  with  him  the  memory  of  a  single  tune. 
Shortly  after  this  he  left  Portsmouth,  N.  H., 
teaching    in    a    private    school.       Just    previ- 


tricity  for  cooking.  The  fire  alarm  system 
now  used  in  Boston  was  also  of  his  devising. 
When  we  remember  that  the  telegraph  was 
then  in  its  infancy,  we  may  realize  to  some 
degree  the  advanced  position  he  occupied. 

I  his  is  all  the  more  remarkable  when 
we  consider  the  fact  that  it  was  not  until 
1846  that  he  became  interested  in  the  sub- 
ject of  electricity.  In  that  year,  while  on 
the  way  to  Boston  on  a  business  trip,  he 
happened  to  see  a  man  reading  a  bock 
"Electro- Magnetic  Telegraphy."  He 
bought  a  copy  of  the  work  and  the  interest 
thus  aroused  led  to  the  construction  of  his 
electric  car,  a  sketch  of  which,  by  W.  L. 
Key,  of  Boston,  made  from  the  description 
by  Professor  Farmer  a  few  months  before 
his  death,  n  reproduced  on  this  page. 

The  picture  of  the  up-to-date  electric 
car  illustrates  the  progress  made  in  sixty 
years.  The  car  is  one  manufactured  by 
the  Wason  Manufacturing  Co.,  of  Spring- 
field, Mass. 

Each  of  the  Farmer  cars  was  about  four 
feet  long,  and  1  I  -2  feet  wide.  The  frame 
was  cherry.  On  the  passenger  car  were  two 
seats,  one  at  each  end,  the  passengers  facing 
each  other.  The  seats  were  supported  on  C- 
shaped  steel  springs,  and  were  upholstered  in 
crimson  plush.  The  wheels  were  of  cast 
iron,  about  six  inches  in  diameter,  and  had 
flanges  of  a  little  over  1-4  inch  depth,  being 
supported  at  the  ends  of  the  steel  axle. 

The  electric  current  was  generated  in  forty- 
eight  cells  of  Grove's  battery,  the  size  of  each 
cell  being  about  one  pint  capacity. 

The  cells  were  connected  in  a  series  by 
strips  of  platinum  3-4  of  an  inch  wide,  reach- 
ing to  the  bottom  of  porous  cups.  They  were 
contained  in  a  box  about  twenty  inches  long. 


Station  at  Newport,  where  he  remained  nine 
years. 

In  1881  his  health  gave  way  and  he  be- 
came a  confirmed  invalid.  After  several 
years  treatment  in  New  York,  he  removed  to 
Eliot,  where  he  continued  to  reside,  his 
daughter  acting  as  nurse,  companion  and 
amanuensis.  He  visited  the  World's  Fair  in 
Chicago,  and  there  presented  several  new  c.nd 
wonderful  electrical  inventions,  including  a 
system  of  printing  by  teleg.aphy,  which  he 
did  not  live  to  see  placed  en  a  commercial 
basis.  He  died  in  Chicago  in  the  spring  of 
1893. 

For  the  facts  in  this  sketch  we  are  indebted 
to  Miss  Sarah  J.  Farmer,  Mr.  Augustine 
Caldwell,  of  Eliot,  Me.,  and  to  an  interesting 
article  in  the  Boston  Herald  some  years  ago. 


EARLY  COLLARS  AND  CUFFS. 

Although  collars  were  manufactured  before 
1847,  the  cuff  and  shirt  industry  was  just  get- 
ting on  its  feet  in  that  year.  1  he  collar  busi- 
ness itself  had  not  gained  sufficient  strength  to 
stand  alone  until  very  near  1847,  it  being  in 
1843,  to  be  exact,  that  the  manufacture  of  linen 
collars  and  shut  bosoms  was  engaged  in  as  a 
separate  business,  although  as  a  side  line,"  it 
began  about  seventy-five  years  ago. 

The  first  separate  collar — collars  up  to  that 
time  having  been  attached  to  the  shirts — was 
made  by  the  wife  of  a  Troy  blacksmith  and 
the  first  person  to  conceive  the  idea  of  making 
collars    in    commercial    quantities    was    Rev. 


ous  to  Christmas,  1849,  having  married,  he 
settled  down  in  Dover,  N.  H.,  and  continued 
to  teach  for  a  year  or  t'vo.  He  invented 
and  manufactured  a  novel  type  of  window 
shades,  and  also  paper  curtains   for  windows. 

After  his  first  experiment.  Professor  Farmer 
became  identified  in  December,  1847,  with  F. 
O.  Smith,  South  Framingham,  Mass..  then 
building  a  telegraph  line  from  New  York  to 
Boston.  In  the  summer  following  he  removed 
to  Salem,  taking  charge  of  the  line  from  Bos- 
ton to  Newburyport.  Subsequently  he  under- 
took to  open  offices  along  the  route  of  the 
telegraph  system,  and  place  the  business  on  a 
sound,  working  basis. 

In  1856  he  went  into  the  electrotyping  busi- 
ness, but  a  financial  crisis  the  following  year 
caused  the  firm  to  retire.  In  1872  he  be- 
came   an    electrician    of    the  U.  S.  Torpedo 


Ebenezer  Brown,  a  retired  Methodist  minister 
and  proprietor  of  a  small  dry  goods  store.  The 
manufacture  of  cuffs  and  shirts  in  1847  was 
the  natural  outgrowth  of  the  collar  industry. 

WAGES  IN  1847. 

The  average  rate  of  wages  in  1847  in 
Maine,  New  Hampshire  and  Vermont  was 
for  mechanics  $1  per  day  and  for  laborers 
62  cents  per  day.  In  Massachusetts,  Rhode 
Island  and  Connecticut  it  was  $1.25  for 
mechanics  and  75  cents  for  laborers.  In  New 
York  mechanics  received  75  cents  to  $150 
and  laborers  from  50  cents  to  75  cents 


Texas  was  annexed  in  1845.  The  popu- 
lation in  1847  was  estimated  at  123,000.  By 
the  last  census  Texas  has  a  population  of 
3.048.710. 


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CINCINNATI 

TO  BE  QUEEN 

[Continued  from  p.  I  ] 

There  are  now  other  i 
m-n,  considered  sane 
men,  who  believe  the  I 
great  city  of  the  nation  j 
is  to  be  west  of  the 
mountains,  and  quite  a 
way  from  the  salt  sea. 
Governor  Bebb,  in  a 
late  address  before  the 
Young  Men's  Library 
Association  of  Cincin- 
nati, expressed  his  de- 
ed d  belief  that  Cin- 
nati  would  in  the  course 
of  a  century  become 
"ths  greatest  agricultu- 
ral, manufacturing  and 
commercial  emporium, 
on  the  continent."  The 
interior  towns  have 
commenced  a  growth 
so  gigantic  that  men 
must  believe  there  is  a 
power  of  corresponding 
magnitude  urging  them 
forward;  a  power  yet 
in  its  infancy,  but  un- 
folding its  energies  with 
astonishing  rapidity. 

Let  us  make  some 
comparisons  of  the  lead- 
ing eastern  and  western 
cities.  New  York  was 
commenced  nearly  200 
years  before  it  increased 
to  100,000  people. 
Cincinnati,  according  to 
Gov.  Bebb,  ha:  now, 
fifty  years  from  its  com- 
mencement, 100,000 
inhabitants.  Boston 
was  200  years  in  ac- 
quiring its  first  50,000. 
New  York,  since  I  790, 
when  it  numbered  33,- 
131,  has  had  an  aver- 
age duplication  every 
fifteen  years.  This 
would  make  her  pop- 
ulation in  1850,  530,- 
096.  This  is  very 
near  what  it  will  be, 
including  her  suburb, 
Brooklyn. 

Cincinnati  has,  on 
the  average  since  1 800, 
when  it  had  7  50, 
doubled  her  numbers 
every  seven  years; 
while  New  York,  on 
the  average  of  sixty 
years,  has  scarcely 
doubled  hers  in  every 
period  of  fifteen  years. 
If  New  York  is  com- 
pared with  Cincinnati, 
during  the  same  fifty 
years,  it  will  be  seen 
that  the  period  of  her 
duplication  averages 
over  fifteen  years.  She 
had  in  1800.  60.489. 
Doubling  this  every  fif- 
teen years,  she  should 
have,  in  1850,  nearly 
650,000.  This  num- 
ber will  exceed  her  act- 
ual population  more 
than  100,000.  where- 
as Cincinnati  in  1850 
will  certainly  exceed 
96.000. 

Let  us  now  suppose 
that    for   the    next    54 


years  after  1850,  the 
ratio  increase  of  New 
York  will  be  such  as  to 
make  a  duplication 
every  eighteen  years, 
and  that  of  Cincinnati 
every  ten  years.  New 
York  will  commence 
with  about  500.000, 
which  will  increase  by 
the    year    1868  to    I  ,- 

000,000;  1886  to  2,- 
000.000;  1904  to  4,- 
000,000. 

Cincinnati  wtll  com- 
mence in  1850  with  at 
least  100,000,  which 
will  double  every  ten 
years;  so  that  in  1 860 
it  will  be  200,000;  in 
1 870  it  will  be  400,- 
000;    1880   it    will  be 

800,000;  1890  it  will 
be  1,600,000;  1 900  it 
will    be    3,200.000; 

1904  it  will  be  4,066, - 
667. 

The  resulting  figures 
look  large,  and  to  most 
readers  will  appear  ex- 
travagant.  


Let  us  suppose  the 
duplication  of  New 
York  for  the  next  1 00 
years  to  be  effected  on 
an  average  of  twenty 
years  and  that  of  Cin- 
cinnati of  twelve  years. 
New  York  will  have 
in   1850  500,000 

1870  1,000,000 
1890  2,000.000 
1910  4,000.000 
1930  8.000,000 
1950  16,000,000 

Cincinnati  will  have 


1850 
1862 
1874 
1886 
1898 
1910 
1922 


100,000 
200,000 
400,000 
800,000 
1 ,600,000 
3,200.000 
6,400,000 
1934  12,800.000 
1946  25,600.000 
This  looks  like  car- 
rying the  argument  to 
absurdity;  but  if  these 
two  leading  cities  be 
allowed  to  represent 
all  the  cities  in  their  re- 
spective    sections,     the 


result  of  the  calculation 
is  not  unreasonable.  It 
is  not  beyond  possibility 
and  is  not  even  im- 
probable. 

NULLIFICATION 

IS  THREATENED  BY 
ALABAMA. 

Colonel  Walker  ha; 
introduced  into  the  Ala- 
bama Legislature  reso- 
lutions declaring  that 
under  no  circumstances 
will  this  body  recognize 
as  binding  any  enact- 
ment of  the  federal 
government  which  has 
for  its  object  the  prohi- 
bition of  slavery  in  any 
territory  to  be  acquired 
either  by  conquest  or  by 
treaty,  south  of  the  line 
of  the  Missouri  com- 
promise. That  the  act 
of  the  Pennsylvania 
Legislature,  passed  at 
the  last  session,  to  pre- 


yent  the  claiming  of 
fugitive  slaves,  is  a  vio- 
'ation  of  the  Constitu- 
tion and  would  justify 
retaliation  by  setting 
aside  and  disregarding 
like  stipulations  in  that 
instrument  in  favor  of 
those  States,  among 
them  free  access  of 
their  ships  and  com- 
merce to  our  ports. 

The  ladies  -,hould 
never  indulge  11  the 
loaferish  cant  phrases 
that  are  often  in  general 
use.  We  notice  by  an 
exchange  paper  that 
one  recently  found  her- 
self much  embarrassed 
by  doing  so.  She  often 
used  the  words  "noth- 
ing else,'  and  the  prac- 
tice became  a  habit 
with  her. 

One  day  the  Minis- 
ter of  the  parish  came 
to  see  her.  She  was 
making  a  bustle. 
"What  are  you  mak- 


ing  that  useless  article 
for?"  said  he.  "Oh, 
to  wear  to  church," 
was  the  reply.  "Real- 
ly," rejoined  the  good 
man,  "you  will  not 
wear  that  thing  to 
church,  will  you?"  "I 
■han't  wear  anything 
else,"  said  the  lady. 
The  Minister  was 
greatly  astonished  and 
the  lady  embarassed. 
Never  use  a  cant  phrase 
again. 

MOTTOES  FOR 
LETTERS     In  a 

New  Hampshire  village 
several  young  ladies, 
entirely  ignorant  of  the 
name  and  use  of  the 
new  Post  Office  stamps, 
applied  at  the  Post 
Office  for  mottoes,  and 
instead  of  placing  the 
stamp  upon  the  fare  of 
the  letter,  placed  them 
immediately  over  the 
seal  on  the  back  cf  the 
envelope, 


IN  THE  AIR 

RAILR0ADBU1LT 
ABOVE  STREET. 

It  will  be  observed 
that  the  telegraph  wires 
in  the  engraving 
are  fixed  on  posts  in 
trom  of  the  third  story 
windows  cf  houses. 
Underneath  the  wires, 
and  in  front  of  the  sec- 
ond story  windows  is  a 
railway  track  on  each 
side  of  the  street.  These 
tracks  are  supported  by 
strong  arches  resting  <  n 
the  pavements,  and  ro 
arranged  that  the  ordi- 
nary business  cf  th? 
street,  the  carriageway 
and  sidewalk  are  not  at 
all  i  nterf  ered  with. 
Those  in  the  en- 
graving are  represented 
as  being  propelled  by 
the  new  atmospheric 
railway  principle  by  ex- 
hausting the  air  in  a 
large  tube  in  the  mid- 
dle of  the  track,  by 
means  of  a  stationary 
steam  engine  at  each 
end  of  the  line. 

Such  is  the  value  of 
space  in  large  cities, 
and  such  the  multitude 
of  persons  going  from 
one  part  cf  the  city  to 
another,  that  there  is 
every  reason  to  believe 
this  project  of  a  railroad 
would  be  successful  and 
yield  large  profits  in  a 
city  like  New  York. 
In  Broadway,  for  in- 
stance, the  throng  of 
carriages  and  pedes- 
trians is  fo  great,  that 
some  project  of  this 
character  will  have  to 
be  adopted. 

A  lady  riding  a  few 
days  since  on  horseback 
through  one  cf  the  Bos- 
'on  streets  was  stared  at 
particularly  hard  be- 
cause she  sported  a  pair 
of  nice,  clean,  snowy 
white  pantalettes  with 
ruffled  straps!  We 
have  heard  ef  ruffled 
:hirts,  collars,  and  tem- 
pers, but  never  befor- 
of  ruffled  straps. 


|HE  people  to  a  man  are  of  an  inquiring  disposi- 
tion, and  they  rarely  let  an  opportunity  escape 


of  satisfying  their  curiosity. 


A  newspaper  con- 


stitutes the  very  breath  of  Jonathan's  nostrils. 

From  "  Old  England  and  Necw  England. 


It  is  estimated  that  I  Editors  who  are  too 
over  35,000  letters  and  !  stiff  and  independent 
about  200,000  news-  to  copy  anything  from 
papers  pass  daily  papers  seldom  furnish 
through  the  post  office  anything  worth  reading 
in  New  York.  in  their  own. 


Mr.  Capon  of  Bos- 
ton, has  proposed  to  the 
Massachusetts  Legis- 
lature the  purchase  of 
the  freedom  of  all  the 
slaves  in  the  country. 


UBrl 


It  is  reported  that  the  Mr.  John  R    Gmigh 

telegraph   wires  on  the  lately  lectured  at  Troy, 

Buffalo  line  have  been  N.    Y..  for   $25,    and 

injured    by    immense  the  receipts  were  over 

flights     of     pigeons.  $300,    at   a   shilling   a 

Rather  doubtful.  head. 


AUGUST. 

Events  will  take 
place,  and  circum- 
stances will  happen; 
also  things  will  come  tc 
pass.  Beware,  there- 
fore, and  trust  the  stars. 
You  may  have  a  cold 
in  the  head,  and  you 
may  not.  Taceis  Lat- 
in for  candle,  and  things 
must  be  as  they  may. 
Avoid  apoplexy,  give 
no  encouragement  to 
rheumatism,  and,  if  you 
ire  taken  ill  with  ty- 
phus fever,  don  t  stand 
it.  Drink  not  physic 
slowly,  and  take  chlo- 
roform when  you  are 
having  your  hair  cut,  or 
sitting  for  your  daguer- 
reotype. 


ESTABLISHED  IN  1847  BY  ROGERS  BROS. 


Vol.  II.     No.  5. 


OCTOBER,  1847. 


Five  Cents 


IMMIGRATION 
UNPARALLELED 

EUROPEANS  COMING  HERE 
IN  INCREASING  NUMBERS 


CAUSES    OF     THIS    INVASION    OF 

OUR    COUNTRY    BY 

FOREIGNERS. 


The  scene  depicted 
by  our  artist  is  one 
which  occurred  on  ar 
rival  of  a  packet  ship 
at  New  York.  Th. 
artist  has  given  us  here 
the  actual  scene.  On 
the  left  is  an  emigrant 
hearing  of  the  death  of 
relative;  near  by  is 
represented  the  meeting 
if  man  and  wife  after 
long  separation;  hard 
by  a  son  is  supporting 
an  aged  father,  while 
in  the  background  two 
lovers  are  greeting  each 
other;  there  a  man  is 
uperintending  the  load- 
ng  of  a  dray,  and  here 
i  dock  loafer  is  picking 
his  pocket.  The  scene, 
altogether,  is  one  of  the 
most  suggestive  charac- 
and  furnishes  an 
[epitome  of  scenes  often 
witnessed  upon  the  ar- 
'al  of  emigrant  vessels. 
Since  the  first  day  of 
January,  1846,  nearly 
[275,000  immigrant; 
lave  landed  in  the  city 
f  New  York.  This 
may  seem  a  startling 
announcement. 

The  transportation  of 

immigrants  has  become 

fin  important  branch  of 

usiness  in  the  merchant 

Vessels  of  our  Atlantic 

pities.     Large  shipping 

ouses  are  each  season 

jmploying  from  twenty 

o  thirty  first-class  ves- 

iels,  and  the  tide  of  im- 

nigration  is  this   year 

etting    towards    the 

United  States  in  a  de 

•eree  unparalleled  in  the 

nistory  of  the  country 

The  causes  of  this  are 

both  natural  and  extra 

ordinary.     Two  natur 

,al  or  permanent  causes 

jhave  long  existed. 

The  first  of  these  is 
(the  depressed  normal 
condition  of  the  poorer 
classes  throughout  Eu- 
jrope.    > 

1  Five  nations  form  the 
rcgreat  mass  of  foreign 
I  immigrants;  they  are 
I  English,  Scotch,  Irish, 
[French  and  German. 
1  The  Irish  and  German 
make  the  largest  frac- 


tion; for  Great  Britain 
colonizes  her  English 
and  Scotch,  but  never 
her  Irish  subjects. 


mercy,  take  advantage 
of  such  a  crisis  to  fill 
their  vessels,  with  two 
little  discrimination, 
with  paupers,  wilh  th? 
diseased,  and  even  crim- 
inals. 

Something  w.ll  have 
to  be  done  before  long  to 
prevent  this  reprehensi- 
ble p'acticc  cf  those 
actuat-d  only  by  a  de- 
sire to  I..]  t!icir  pockets, 
regard.crs  cf  the  wel- 
fare of  this  country. 

The  first  report  of 
the  commirloners  of 
emigrat  on  cf  t!:e  port 
of  Nrw  York,  was  pre- 
sented to  t'  :;  Legislature 
ofNewYcikon  lues- 
day,  October  19.  It 
sets  forth  that  since  the 
fifth  of  May  last,  101,- 
546  emigrants  of  both 
sexes  have  arrived  at 
that  port.     Of  said  pao- 


A  NEW  ENTER- 
PRISE—A project  has 
recently  been  started  for 
connecting  New  York 
with  the  interior  by  a 
ship  canal.  It  is  said 
that  all  New  York  will 
have  to  do  to  open  a 
communication  for  ships 
of  four  thousand  barrels 
freight  from  there  to 
Chicago  is  to  enlarge 
her  late  canal  from  Troy 
to  Lake  Champlain  and 
the  Canadians  will  do 
the  rest.  With  the 
ocean  on  one  side  and 
her  Erie  Railroad  and 
Erie  canal  on  the  othir, 
and  her  northern  ship 
canal  giving  her  a  ship 
communication  with  the 
Great  Lakes,  New 
York  would  enjoy  a  po- 
sition with  a  mighty 
commerce  such  as  no  city 
ever  enjoyed  before. 


PARASOLS  IN 
DRAWING  ROOM 
— The  introduction  of 
gas  lights  into  private 
houses  has  been  taken 
advantage  of  by  the  la- 
dies, who  under  protest 
against  the  glare  and 
dazzling  uncomforta- 
bleness  cf  such  bright 
lights,  deliberately 
spread parasolsin  anev- 
cning  soiree,  and  (inci- 
dental advantage)  con- 
verse under  and  behind 
the  same  very  agreeably . 
A  p  nk  parasol  judic- 
iously held  between  a 
lady's  face  and  a  gas 
burner,  throws  a  ten- 
der, roseate  hue  over 
the  complexion,  and 
can  be  dexterously  ma- 
nceuvered,  of  course,  to 
curtailan  annoying  per- 
spective, or  furnish 
glances  in  effective  mo- 


REAPPEARANCE 
OF  MR.  CLAY 


IMPRESSIVE  OCCASION 
LEXINGTON,  KY. 


AT 


ARRIVAL  OF  IMMIGRANT  SHIP. 


The  second  cause  of 
immigration  is  the  ex- 
tent, fertility,  and  easy 
tenure  of  our  public 
lands  yet  unoccupied. 

Nine-tenths  of  all 
immigrants  who  land 
on  our  coast  go  into  the 
interior  of  the  Middle 
States,  to  the  Far  West, 
or  become  the  builders 
of  our  railroads  and 
canals. 

There  are  two  extra- 
ordinary causes  of  im- 
migration. The  first  is 
the  famine  in  Ireland 
and  scarcity  in  other 
countries  of  Europe. 

The  second  is  the 
venality  of  certain  class- 
es of  shippers,  who,  un- 
der the  natural   plea  of 


sengers  there 

were  na- 

:ives  of 

Germany 

43.208 

Ireland     .     . 

40,820 

England  anc 

Wales 

6.501 

Holland   . 

2,966 

France 

2,633 

Scodand  . 

1,856 

Switzerland 

1,506 

Norway    . 

881 

Belgium    . 

478 

West  Indies 

265 

Italy     .     . 

130 

Sweden    . 

119 

Spain  . 

72 

Denmark 

51 

Portugal  . 

31 

Poland      . 

21 

East  Indies 

7 

South  Ameri 

ca            1 

Total       101.546 


LATEST  NEWS 
FROM    MEXICO 

— Gen.  Scott  has  taken 
part  of  the  city  and 
commands  the  whole  of 
it  from  the  heights  of 
Chapultepec.  The  se- 
vere batde  for  these 
heights  cost  our  army 
many  a  brave  man. 
The  Mexicans  lost  4.- 
000  killed  and  wound- 
ed, the  Americans  1,- 
700.  Santa  Anna  was 
wounded  but  retired 
slowly  and  occupied  a 
strong  position  at  Gua- 
daloupe.  It  was  re- 
ported that  the  Mexi- 
cans under  Paredes  had  i 
retaken  Puebla.  No 
appearance  of  peace! 
yet. 


nopoly  to  the  privil- 
eged. The  arts  do  not 
seem  to  have  fallen  be- 
hind the  sciences  in  the 
march  of  improvement. 

A CHANCE  FOR 
EMIGRANTS-The 

State  of  Arkansas  in- 
vites emigrants  to  come 
and  take  lands  which 
have  been  forfeited  for 
taxes,  and  no  payment 
will  be  required  on 
them.  The  auditor  on 
proof  of  setdement  will 
make  a  deed,  which  the 
supreme  court  has  de- 
cided will  be  valid. 
The  forfeited  tracts 
comprise  some  of  the 
finest  lands  in  the 
State. 


STEPS   AGAIN  FROM   PRIVATE   LIFE 

TO    GIVE    ELOQUENT 

WARNING. 

The  imposing  and  im- I  that    may   be    assigned 
pressive    reappearance,  (for  it. 
quite  recently,  of  such  '      On   Saturday,    I  3th 
a  man  as  Henry  Clay   Y.clo°?,r-    at    ,2    M- 
Mr.  Clay  met  an    im- 
mense concourse  of  his 
fellow  citizens  in  Lex- 
ington, Kentucky,  and, 
after  presenting  a  series 
of  resolutions,  addressed 
them    for    about    two 
hours,    in    an   earnest, 
frank  and  eloquent  il- 
lustration of  the  views 
embodied  in  resolutions 
presented  by  himself. 

Mr.  Clay,  when  h? 
appeared  upon  the 
stand,  wasreceived  with 
tumultuous  and  long- 
continued  acclamation. 
He  stood  for  a  while, 
erect  and  silent,  gath- 
ering himself  up,  as  it 
were,  and  concentrat- 
ing his  force  for  a  great 
occasion. 

It  may  be,  it  proba- 
bly will  be,  that  in  the 
heated  atmosphere  of 
war,  the  high  moral 
and  Christian  senti- 
mentsembodied  by  Mr. 
Clay  in  his  resolutions 
will  find  little  accept- 
ance; that  the  self-de- 
nial which  they  incul- 
cate, the  respect  for  th? 
opinions  of  mankind, 
and  the  regard  for  the 
rights  of  the  conquered 
and  the  helpless,  will 
fall  powerless,  if  not  re- 
pulsively, upon  ears 
on  the  political  scene-  habituated  with  tales  cf 
his  stepping  forward  as  battle  and  blood,  of  tri- 
a  volunteer  from  private  |  umphant  entries  over 
life,  again  to  raise  his ;  slaughtered  thousands 
eloquent  voice  in  behalf  I  into  captive  cities  and 
of  the  true  interests  of  that  when  Mr.  Clay 
his  country,  which  he  says  to  the  popular  crav- 
looks  upon  as  in  great  ing  for  extended  tern- 
jeopardy  by  reason  of  tory,  "Peace  be  still! 
the  Mexican  war,  and  he  addresses  himself  to 
its  apparent  aim  of  ears  of  more  than  adder 
boundless  conquest  and  deafness.  If  all  this  be 
comprehensive  annexa-  so,  Mr.  Clay  will  still 
tion;  such  an  appari- ;  have  the  approval  of 
don,  at  any  moment  his  own  heart, 
fitted  to  arrest  the  at- !  In  words  of  one  who 
tention  and  command  knows  him,  "He  would 
the  interest  of  all  his  |  rather  be  right  than 
countrymen,  derives  President,  "and  the  day 
special  weight  and  grav-  may  come,  when,  if  his 
ity  from  the  circumstan-  counsels  are  neglected, 
ces  in  which  it  is  pre-  the  country  may  see 
sented,  and  the  motives  cause  to  rue  it. 


are  indebted  to  Scientific  American,  American  Review,  Gleason's  Pictorial  and  others  of  the  "  1847"  period  for  material  in  this  issue. 
Meriden,  Conn.,  October,    1906— MERIDEN    BRITANNIA   CO.— International  Silver  Co.,  Succ«ssor. 


I 


"SILVER.    PLATE    THAT   WEAFL.S" 


3 


HOLLOWWARE-PAST  AND  PRESENT. 


No.  II.     Disturbing  Elements. 


When  the  buying  publie  had  once  come  to  realize  the  worth  of  plated 
hollowware — all  hollowware  at  that  period  being  good  hollowware,  well 
made,  honestly  plated — the  demand  increased  rapidly  and  the  industry  began 

to  experience  a  period  of  phenomenal 
growth.  Skilled  workmen  were  em- 
ployed and  a  great  deal  of  attention 
was  paid  to  the  designing,  with  the 
result  that  the  demand  increased 
steadily. 

Not  only  did  the  new  goods  ap- 
peal to  those  who,  not  having  the  means 
to  purchase  solid  silver,  had  been  forced 
to  be  content  with  pewter  or  britannia 
ware,  but  the  more  wealthy  came 
to  realize  that  plated  hollowware  had  a 
definite  place  in  their  households, 
in  exactly  the  same  way  that  plated  flatware  has.  These  were  the  days  of 
great  prosperity  for  the  makers  and  in  consequence  for  the  sellers  of  silver 
plated  hollowware. 


A    "MERIDEN"    GROUP 
Produced  in  the  Early  '60s. 


FADS  AND    FRAUDS. 

This  prosperity  continued  for  some  years.  Then  came  an  interruption. 
About  fifteen  years  ago  the  hollowware  business  ran  into  one  of  the  worst 
kind  of  snags  that  threaten  the  navigator.  They  call  this  sort  of  a  snag  a 
"fad."  A  dealer  may  combat  all  kinds  of  difficulties  and  come  out  trium- 
phant,   only  to  meet  defeat  in  the  case  of  a  fad. 

The  fad  we  speak  of  was  the  "sterling"  bugaboo.  Now,  good  sterling, 
of  course,  is  the  finest  kind  of  silverware — and  it  costs  accordingly.  Poor 
sterling,  however,  is  another  matter.  Good  plated  ware — Mkriden  Standard 
— is  immeasurably  its  superior.  The  trade  knows  this.  But  when  the  "ster- 
ling" fad  sprang  up  the  dealer  was  swamped.  The  demand  was  for 
"sterling" — any  old  kind  of  "sterling,"  the  poorest  made,  the  least  artistic  the 
better,  because  it  was  cheap. 

Another  imfortunate  circumstance  was  the  jeweler's  attempt  to  supply 
the  demand  for  china  and  art  goods.      The  dealer  is  now  beginning  to  realize 


Supplied  to   retailers   by    all  leading  jobbers 


& 


SILVER..    PLATE    THAT    WEAR.S" 


that  this  stepping  aside  from  the  beaten  path  of  his  trade  was  not  a  financial 
success.  The  "sterling"  fad  may  have  been  beyond  his  control,  but  in  the 
case  of  the  china  and  art  goods  departure  he  was  guilty  of  at  least  contribu- 
tary  negligence. 

A  third  disturbing  element  that  tended  to  discredit  good  silver  plate 
was  the  placing  upon  the  market  of  greatly  inferior  goods,  made  of  poor  ma- 
terial by  incompetent  workmen,  and  covered  with  the  thinnest  kind  of  plat- 
ing. People  "bit"  because  the  goods  were  cheap,  but,  discovering  the  fraud, 
their  disgust  caused  them  to  turn  not  only  against  the  poor  goods  but  silver 
plate  in  general. 


FUTURE    OF   PLATED    HOLLOWWARE. 


It  looks  now  as  if  plated  hollowware  was  coming  into  its  own  again. 
The  call  for  "sterling" — anything  so  that  it  is  "sterling" — is  dying  out.  The 
buying  public  is  beginning  to  use  the  horse  sense  which  it  possesses  in  so 
large  a  measure  but  which  failed  when  brought  face  to  face  with  the  "ster- 
ling" fad  and  the  cheap  plated  ware  craze. 

The  dealer,  too,  realizes  that  there  should  be  a  good  profit  for  him  in 
plated  hollowware — the  best  kind,  Meriden  Standard.  A  little  effort  on  his 
part,  a  little  local  advertising  along  this  line,  instructions  to  his  salespeople  to 
explain  the  virtues  of  plated  hollowware,  should  work  wonders.  The  fact 
that  some  of  the  leading  deal- 
ers who  have  been  wont  to 
relegate  plated  hollowware  to 
an  unimportant  part  of  the  store 
are  now  displaying  it  promi- 
nently— and  with  gratifying  re- 
sults— shows  which  way  the 
wind  is  blowing. 

Our  advice  to  talk  plated 
hollowware  is,  of  course,  not 
wholly  disinterested,  but  we 
sincerely  believe  that  it  will 
prove  of  great  benefit  to  the 
dealer.  There  is  a  good  profit  in  plated  hollowware.  There  is  no  reason 
why  it  should  not  prove  a  very  profitable  line  during  the  coming  season. 
At  any  rate,  that  is  the  way  that  the  situation  appears  to  us.  All  that  is 
needed,  we  believe,  is  a  pull  altogether  by  maker  and  dealer.  We  are 
ready  to  pull — are  you? 


MODERN  WARE, 
by  Meriden  Britann 


(  To  be  Continued.) 


'Distributed  to   the  public  by  progressive  dealers 


1847 — THEN- 


-THE  SILVER  STANDARD 


-now— 190(i 


*■      TKiUE — "1847  Rogers  Bros.'" — mark 

THEN— 1847— AND— 1906— NOW. 

Established  in  1847  by  Rogers  Bros. 

issued  by 
Meriden  Britannia  Co.,Meriden,  Or. 

(International  Silver  t'o.,  Successor.) 


Vol.  II— No.  5.      OCTOBER,  1906.      5  Cents 


J847-IMMIGRATION-J906. 

A  casual  perusal  of  the  newspapers  and 
magazines  of  1847  will  disclose  the  fact  that 
the  subject  of  immigration  was  occupying  the 
thoughts  of  many.  The  tide  was  turning 
westward  strongly  in  that  year.  The  famine 
in  Ireland  was  driving  many  of  her  sons  from 
her  borders  and  the 
United  States  was  the 
Land  of  Promise  they 
sought. 

All  Europe  suffered 
from  the  failure  of  the 
crops  and  the  Irishman 
had  plenty  of  company 
in  his  journey  to  the 
new  home.  Compared 
with  the  figures  of  to- 
day the  number  of  im- 
migrants in  1847  was 
not  large,  but  it  was  no 
inconsiderable  number 
for  nearly  sixty  years 
ago.  The  infusion  of 
foreign  blood  at  a  time 
when  the  republic  had 
not  much  more  than 
gotten  accustomed  to 
finding  itself  firmly  upon  its  own  feet  was  a 
tremendously  important  event  and  presented 
problems  that  were  recognized  as  exceedingly 
grave.  It  is  most  natural,  then,  that  we  should 
find  so  much  space  devoted  in  the  publica- 
tions of  the  1847  period  to  the  subject  of 
immigration. 

The  number  of  immigrants  landed  during 
the  year  1 847  was  239,270.  In  1 905,  accord- 
ing to  the  annual  report  of  Commissioner 
Frank  P.  Sargent,  there  were  1,026,499.  For 
the  fiscal  year  ending  June  30  last,  there  were 
1,100,073. 

The  number  denied  entrance  to  this  country 
last  year  was  12,433. 

During  recent  years  Italy,  Austria,  Hun- 
gary and  Russia  have  sent  over  hosts  of 
their  people.  Sixty  years  ago,  if  the  immi- 
grant was  not  an  Irishman,  he  was  pretty 
sure  to  be  a  German.  From  1841  to  1850 
we  received  780,000  exiles  from  the  Emer- 
ald Isle.  Germany  sent  the  next  largest 
number— 435,000.  In  1850  the  Irish  con- 
stituted over  forty-two  per  cent,  of  the  entire 
foreign  population. 

Between  I  783  and  1820  it  is  believed  that 
only  250,000  immigrants  came  to  our  shores. 
The  number,  however,  gradually  increased 
until  1847,  when,  as  we  have  said,  the  failure 
of  the  crops  in  Europe  gave  a  startling  impetus 
to  the  movement.  The  problems  involved  are 
today  more  grave  than  they  were  sixty  years 
ago.     As  showing  the  changed  conditions  in 


the  East,  for  instance,  it  is  interesting  to  read 
the  following  from  the  American  Magazine 
of  the  year  1834,  the  statement  made 
being  practically  as  correct  for  1847  as  for 
1834. 

"It  is  in  New  England  that  you  find  Jona- 
than at  home.  In  the  other  states  there  is  a 
mixture,  greater  or  less,  of  foreign  population, 
but  in  New  England  the  people  are  homo- 
geneous and  native;  the  emigrant  does 
not  settle  there — the  country  is  too  full  of 
people,  while  the  fertile  soil  of  the  West 
holds  out  superior  attractions  to  the  stran- 
ger." 

Among  those  who  "came  over"  about 
1847  we  find  some  notable  names — names  of 
men  who  have  made  great  and  lasting  impress- 
ions on  the  life  of  the  nation.  Andrew  Car- 
negie "landed"  in  1848  and  Archbishop  Ire- 
land in  1849.  Thomas  Nast,  whose  pencil 
so  boldy  attacked  the  mighty  Tweed,  was  an 


immigrant  boy  in  1846,  as  were  Edward  and 
Thomas  Moran,  the  artists,  in  1844. 

Among  other  items  in  this  number  of  The 
Standard  to  which  we  would  particularly  di- 
rect the  reader's  attention  are  those  dealing 
with  the  beginnings  of  electric  lighting,  and 
the  rumor  of  an  Atlantic  cable. 

Our  second  article  in  the  series  on  "  Hol- 
low ware — Past  and  Present,"  should  be  read 
by  every  seller  of  silverware.  There's  a  mes- 
sage in  it  for  him. 


TYPOGRAPHER 

INVENTION  OF  1847  PERIOD  WAS 

ANCESTOR  OF  MODERN 

TYPEWRITER. 

It  was  in  1874  that  the  typewriter  was 
placed  on  the  market  for  general  sale.  Trans- 
pose the  last  two  figures  of  this  date  and  we 
have  1847 — familiar  to  our  readers — in  which 
year  and  in  1856  A.  Ely  Beach,  of  New 
York,  secured  patents  on  a  machine  involving 
the  system  of  type  bearing  levers  arranged  in  a 
circle,  swingingtoward  and  printing  at  a  common 
center.  The  inked  ribbon  and  also  the  bell 
indicating  the  end  of  the  line  were  features  of 
this  machine,  which,  although  slow  in  action, 
embodied  principles 
which  have  since  been 
successfully  utilized  and 
are  today  prominent 
features  of  the  typewrit- 
ing machine.  Another 
predecessor  of  the  mod- 
ern typewriter,  patented 
about  the  same  time  as 
Mr.  Beach's  invention, 
was  the  "typographer" 
of  John  Jones,  of  Roch- 
ester, N.  Y.,  which 
is  illustrated  here,  and 
contrasted  with  a  mod- 
ern machine.  It  was 
described  as  follows  : 

"Strictly  speaking, 
this  is  a  machine  for 
copying  manuscript  by 
printing  it  in  letter  form. 
It  is  a  neat  and  ingenious  little  printing  press 
for  letters. 

"  The  letter  paper  is  put  on  the  cylinder, 
C,  which  is  pushed  in  towards  the  center  of 
the  rings  before  printing  is  commenced,  for 
every  line. 

"As  the  printing  ring  of  type  revolves  or  is 
moved  round  by  the  handle,  D,  every  time  the 
said  handle  is  brought  down  the  specific  letter 
on  the  type  ring  leaves  its  impression  on  the 
paper,  and  cylinder,  C,  is  moved  by  the  same 
action,  a  small  distance  forward  to  leave  space 
for  the  next  letter.  The  index  ring.  A,  is  for 
the  purpose  of  showing  what  letter  or  figure 
the  handle,  D,  hangs  over,  in  order  to  press 
it  down  and  imprint  a  like  letter  on  the 
paper. 

"When  the  cylinder,  C,  moves  the  paper 
to  the  end  of  the  line,  a  small  alarm  is 
sounded,  and  the  said  cylinder  is  run  back 
on  its  ways,  and  in  doing  so  it  is  turned  one 
notch  around  to  leave  a  space  for  the  next 
line.  As  the  type  ring  passes  over  the  ink 
rollers,  each  type  receives  its  ink  for  printing. 
"  This  ingenious  machine  is  very  compact, 
not  over  a  foot  square,  and  is  not  compli- 
cated considering  the  work  it  performs. 

As  already  stated  it  was  not  until  1874 
that  the  typewriter  was  placed  on  the  mar- 
ket, and  during  the  first  few  years  only  a 
small  number  was  sold.  "  People,"  we  are 
told,  "were  not  only  indifferent,  but  were 
antagonistic." 


1847 — THBN- 


-THE  SILVER  STANI>\U> 


-now— 1906 


DETROIT 


CEASED  TO  BE  THE  CAPITAL  OF 

THE  STATE  OF  MICHIGAN  IN 

THE  YEAR  1847. 

It  was  in  the  year  1847  that  Detroit  ceased 
to  be  the  capital  of  the  State  of  Michigan,  a 
position  she  had  held  for  ten  years.  Her  pop- 
ulation in  that  year  was  less  than  18,000. 
The  last  United  States  census  reported  it  as 
285,704,  almost  that  of  the  entire  state  in 
1847—300,000. 

The  Detroit  of  1847  is  described  as  fol- 
lows: 

"Detroit  is  the  concentrating  point  of  the 
commerce  and  banking  of  the  whole  State ;  in 
fact,  there  are  no  banks  in  the 
State  except  in  Detroit. 
More  than  two-thirds  of  the 
exports  from  the  State  are 
from  Detroit,  and  over  three- 
fourths  of  the  imports  into  the 
State  are  into  the  single  port 
of  Detroit. 

"The  most  of  the  stores  are 
substantial  brick  buildings, 
there  being  several  very  fine 
blocks  of  three  and  four  story 
brick  stores,  which  together 
with  the  warehouses,  many 
very  good  dwelling  houses, 
churches,  and  other  public 
buildings,  give  the  town 
rather  an  imposing  appear- 
ance as  seen  from  the  river, 
or   from    the  opposite   shore   at   Windsor. 

"  The  city  is  supplied  with  water  from  the 
Detroit  river  by  means  of  a  hydraulic  estab- 
lishment in  the  upper  part  of  the  city. 

"  There  are  in  Detroit  sixteen  churches : 
four  Roman  Catholic,  two  Episcopalian,  one 
Presbyterian,  one  Congregational,  three  Meth- 
odist, two  Baptist,  one  German  Lutheran  and 
one  Sailor's  Bethel. 

"The  public  buildings  consist  of  the  old 
State  House,  the  United  States  building,  the 
State  building  for  the  Supreme  Court  and 
public   offices,   the  County  Court  House,  the 


County  Jail,  the  City  Hall   and   Market,   and    scarcely    any    vegetation    grows,    except    very 
the  Fireman's  Hall."  small  scrubby  oaks."     The   surveyors'   report 

The  value  of  Detroit's  exports  in    1847  was    resulted  in  postponing  the  settlement  of  Mich- 


$3,883,318;  imports,  $4,020,559.  She  led 
Cleveland,  Chicago,  Milwaukee  and  the  other 
upper  lake  ports  above  Buffalo  in  the  amount 
of  wool  and  lumber;  she  was  "  the  leading 
primary  flour  market  of  the  upper  lakes,"  al- 
though the  figures  for  1847  were  surpassed  by 
those  of  Cleveland.  In  variety  of  articles  re- 
ceived in  considerable  quantities  for  export 
Detroit  was  third  among  the  upper  lake  ports, 
Toledo  and  Cleveland  being  first  and  second 
respectively. 

In  1848  the  Michigan  Central  railroad 
erected  a  large  freight  depot — "the  largest  per- 
haps in  the  world,  100  feet  wide,  and  extend- 
ing along  the  river  800  feet,  with  a  wharf  in 
front  of  it  40  feet  wide." 

The  settlement  of  Michigan  occurred  20 
years   later  than  should    have  been  the  case. 


igan  until  twenty  years  later.  Hunt's  Maga- 
zine for  July  1 848  (from  which  much  of  the 
material  for  this  sketch  was  derived)  said  re- 
garding this  unfortunate  report : 

"  It  has  been  shrewdly  hinted  that  the  old 
French  setllers  out-Yankeed  the  Yankee,  and 
put  a  very  successful  and  profitable  joke  upon 
the  surveyors.  Hospitable  and  kind  and  offi- 
cious, they  entertained  the  surveyors  at  the 
River  Basin  and  Detroit,  and  occasionally  lent 
them  guides,  who  led  them  over  almost  im- 
passable marshes,  through  swamps  and  over 
sand  knolls,  till  their  minds  were  properly 
impressed  in  regard  to  the  capabilities  of  Mich- 
igan. In  subsequent  years  the  secret  has  been 
slyly  let  out  that  the  fur  trade,  doomed  to  cer- 
tain destruction  by  the  inundation  of  settlers, 
was  too  valuable  a  prize  to  be  relinquished  if 
it  could  be  saved  a  few  years 
longer  by  wit  or  strategem." 

The  views  of  Detroit  here 
given  contrast  the  city  of  the 
1847  period  with  that  of 
1906.  We  are  indebted  to 
Pearson's  Magazine  for  the 
cut  showing  the  old  city. 


CANNING. 

The  art  of  hermetically 
sealing  tomatoes  in  tin  cans 
was  first  employed  in  1847, 
by  Harrison  W.  Crosby, 
when  he  was  acting  as  stew- 
ard of  Lafayette  College, 
Easton,  Pennsylvania.  This 
discovery—  later  perfected  and 
The  reason  for  the  delay  is  interesting,  not  to  calling  to  its  assistance  labor-saving  machinery 
say  amusing.  According  to  a  report  made  in  — was  one  of  the  great  elements  in  developing 
1815  to  Hon.  Josiah  Meigs,  then  United  the  canning  business,  comparatively  small  at 
States  Road  Commissioner,  "the  surveyors  that  time,  into  the  profitable  industry  it  is 
who    went    to    survey    the    military    lands    in    to-day. 

Michigan  Territory  "  found  the  country  a  very  Another  important  discovery  that  was  in- 
poor  place  for  white  men,  consisting  to  a  large  strumental  in  the  growth  of  the  business  was 
extent  of  "low,  wet  land,  with  a  thick  growth  the  invention  in  1847  of  the  stamp  can  by 
of  underbrush  intermixed  with  very  bad  Allen  Taylor.  By  the  census  of  1900  there 
marshes.  ***  The  immediate  spaces  between  were  2,195  canning  establishments  in  the 
the  swamps  and  lakes,  which  is  nearly  one-  United  States,  with  a  capital  of  $48,497,978, 
half  of  the  country,  is,  with  very  few  ex-  the  value  of  the  products  being  given  as 
ceptions,  a  poor,  barren,  sandy  land,  on  which    $82,592, 1 96. 


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NEW  LIGHT 

ELECTRICITY  MADE 
TO  SUPPLY  IT. 

A  Mr.  Staite  has  se- 
cured a  patent  in  Lon- 
don for  rendering  light 
available  by  electricity, 
a  subject  to  which  we 
have  frequently  directed 
attention  through  our 
columns.  Mr.  Staite 
has  constructed  an  elec- 
tric lamp  and  has  pro- 
duced a  powerful  vol- 
ume of  light  from  a 
battery  of  very  small 
power. 

Amongst  several  ap- 
plications which  he  con- 
templates may  be  men- 
tioned one.  viz:  tele- 
graphing by  means  of 
flashes  of  light  through 
colored  media.  With 
four  sets  of  electrodes 
for  example,  placed  in 
glasses,  colored  white, 
red,  green  and  blue, 
the  whole  alphabet, 
with  the  numerals,  are 
indicated  by  a  very 
simple  code  of  signals, 
and  with  astonishing 
rapidity. 

The  key-board  of 
the  telegraph  is  so  ar- 
ranged that  each  key  in 
the  series  is  colored  red, 
white,  green  and  blue, 
and  when  either  key  is 
pressed  down,  it  com- 
pletes the  circuit  with 
that  particular  electrode 
at  the  distant  station 
which  exhibits  the  same 
colored  flash.  There 
may  be  any  number  of 
keys,  and  one  to  strike 
a  bell  at  the  conclusion 
of  each  word,  or  for 
the  ordinary  purpose  of 
drawing  attention,  etc. 
For  night  signals  on 
railways,  Mr.  S.  pro- 
posed to  have  fixed, 
say,  one  enclosed  in  a 
red  glass,  one  in  green, 
and  one  in  white.  The 
battery  wires  are  so 
arranged  that  which- 
ever lamp  is  required 
to  show  a  light,  the  at- 
tendant at  the  station 
completes  the  circuit 
accordingly,  and  vice 
versa.  The  red  light 
mayindicate  "dinger," 
the  green  light  'cau- 
tion," and  so  on. 
These  lights  may  be 
shown  at  any  distance 
from  the  stations  and  be 
under  the  perfect  con- 
trol at  the  same  time, 
of  the  attendants  at  the 
station,  a  system  calcu- 
lated to  be  of  great  ser- 
vice in  preventing  acci- 
dentsal  nighl,  especially 
in  dark  or  foggy  weath- 
er. Mr.  S.  uses  the 
self-sustaining  percolat- 
ing battery  of  Messrs. 
Brett  and  Little, 
Americans.  It  is  hoped 
success  will  crown  his 
efforts. 


BARNUM'S  RESIDENCE. 

The  above  engraving  represents  Mr.  Barnum's  splendid  mansion,  or  villa,  near  Bridgeport,  Conn.,  constructed 
in  the  Oriental  style.  This  magnificent  structure  is  of  a  composite  order,  of  the  Byzantine,  Moorish,  and  Turkish 
styles  of  architecture.  Its  entire  front  is  124  feet,  the  wings  being  thrown  off  irregularly,  with  domed  conservatories 
at  each  extremity;  the  main  building  consists  of  three  stories,  each  having  broad  piazzas  supported  by  colonnades  of 
graceful  pillars,  surmounted  by  minarets  of  the  most  elegant  appearance.  The  cost  of  the  structure  and  grounds 
will  be  some  sixty  thousand  dollars. 


SLAVERY   IN 
NEW    ENGLAND 

— The  Boston  AtSen- 
eum  says:  "A  portion 
of  our  readers  will 
doubtless  be  surprised 
to  learn  that  slavery  ex- 
ists in  New  England, 
and  that  men  and  wom- 
en are  sold  or  leased  at 
public  auction.  Such 
is  the  fact.  The  per- 
sons thus  barbarously 
treated  are  guilty  of  the 
dreadful  crime  of  pov- 
erty, and  because  they 
are  unable  to  take  care 
of  themselves  and  the 
town  in  which  they  live 
has  no  accommodation 
they  are  sold  to  individ- 
uals. The  purchasers 
are  obliged  to  feed  and 
clothe  these  wicked 
paupers    at    the    price 


agreed  upon,  which  is 
paid  by  the  town,  and 
are  at  liberty  to  get  as 
much  labor  out  of  them 
as  they  can.  Able 
bodied  men  have  stood 
by  at  these  sales  and 
seen  their  own  relatives 
sold  into  slavery —their 
cousins,  uncles  and 
aunts,  and  even  parents. 

CALIFORNIA 
NEWSPAPER-It 

appears,  among  govern- 
ment dispatches,  that  a 
newspaper  was  issued 
at  Monterey,  August 
15th,  called  "The 
Californian,"  by  Rob- 
ert Semple.  Itisissued 
every  Saturday,  at  five 
dollars  a  year.  It  is  the 
size  of  a  single  leaf  of 
fools-cap  paper. 


STEAM  FACT- 
ORY IN  HART- 
FORD—"A  com- 
pany has  been  formed 
in  this  city,"  says  the 
Hartford  Courant, 
"with  a  capital  of  $10,- 
000  for  the  purpose  of 
manufacturing  goods 
from  wool  or  cotton  by 
steam.  They  are  now 
laying  the  foundation  of 
their  factory  in  Little 
Grove  Street  near  the 
corner  of  Potter.  It  is 
to  be  1  40  feet  long  by 
40  feet  wide  and  4 
stories  high. 

"We  are  informed 
that  those  who  have 
been  engaged  in  steam 
factories  express  the 
opinion  that  with  the 
improved  machinery 
steam    power    can    be 


used  with  quite  as  good 
economy  as  water — 
the  cost  of  the  former 
being  no  more  than 
what  is  usually  paid  for 
water  privileges  and  for 
heating  the  buildings." 

SUBMARINE 
TELEGRAPHS- 

The  London  Mining 
Journal  for  August  1 4, 
contains  a  project  for 
laying  down  a  tele- 
graphic line  of  commu- 
nication between  the 
west  of  IrelandandNova 
Scotia,  to  be  composed 
of  stout  copper  wires 
twisted,  enclosed  in  an 
india  rubber  pipe.  Sup- 
pose that  it  did  not 
break  in  the  middle, 
would  not  anchors, 
wrecks,  &c.  interfere?   i 


AUTHOR  OF 

ETHER-The  State 
Legislature  of  Connect- 
icut, after  a  due  con- 
sideration of  the  various 
claimants,  have  full> 
recognized  Dr.  Horace 
Wells,  of  Hartford,  a, 
the  sole  discoverer  of 
the  (so  called)  Leth- 
eon  as  applicable  to 
surgical  operations  and 
have  passed  him  a  vote 
of  thanks. 

The  editor  of  the 
Newburyport  Adver- 
tiser has  been  shown  a 
cherry  stone  of  ordinary 
size,  containing  thirty 
dozen  of  well  formed 
spoons.  They  were 
manufactured  by  Mr. 
A.  J.  Hodgkins  of  that 
city. 


lj|F  there  be  one  feature  more  striking  than  another 
§j|  in  American  character,  it  is  the  boundless  atten- 
tion they  pay  to  woman. 

From  "  Old  England  and  Netu  England." 


TWO  RUNA- 
WAYS-Calvin  Wal- 
do, jailor,  and  B.  F. 
Dickinson,  deputy  sher- 
iff, offer  a  reward  of 
$25  for  the  arrest  of 
John  W.  Ross,  who 
broke  from  the  Prange 
County  Jail,  Chelsea, 
V t.  He  is  described 
as  being  about  5  feet  6 
inches  in  height,  about 
18  years  old,  had  on  a 
tweed  sack  suit  of  red- 
dish color,  with  black 
cotton  velvet  on  th^ 
collar  and  cuffs— vest  of 
the  same  kind  of  cloth 
with  gilt  buttons,  dark 
grey  pantaloons,  red- 
dish color  plush  cap, 
whiskers  of  about  ten 
days'  growth  and  of 
sandy  complexion. 

An  Eastern  boss,  ad- 
vertising a  runaway  ap- 
prentice describes  him 
as  being  "thickly  set, 
usually  wearing  a 
glazed  hat  five  feet  high , 
and  iron  shod  shoes  a 
little  cross-eyed,"  &c. 

MECHANICS 
FOR  THE  WAR- 

forty-three  mechanics, 
composed  of  black- 
miths,  carpenters,  sad- 
dlers, armorers,  &c, 
irrived  in  this  city  on 
Saturday,  from  Pitts- 
burgh. They  are  in 
the  employment  of  the 
Government,  and  re- 
ceive about  forty-five 
dollars  per  month  and 
one  ration  per  day. 
They  are  a  fine  looking, 
ntelligent  set  of  men, 
ind  we  are  gratified 
that  out  of  the  evil  of 
war  comes  the  good  of 
giving  them  employ- 
ment and  high  wages. 
They  leave  for  their 
destination  either  today 
or  tomorrow. —  [Cin- 
cinnati Paper. 

RAILWAY  BUS- 
IN  ES  S- Only  four- 
teen lives  and  $18,000 
worth  of  flour  have 
been  destroyed  on  two 
of  the  New  England 
railroads  during  four 
weeks  past. 


The  Postmaster  Gen-       An   old   soak   downl     The    population     of 

eral  has  givrn  notice  East  accounts  for  his  I  Jersey  City  in  the  State 
that  the  free  transit  of  i  perpetual  thirst  by  the  of  New  Jersey  is  at  pres- 
British  mails  through  fact  that  he  was  weaned  :  ent  5,862,  this  being  an 
this  country  will  cease  |  on  salt  codfish.  Very  I  increase  of  444  in  one 
after  November  16th.    !  ingenious  reason.  I  year.  '' 


A  miTkman  in  Cin- 
cinnati remarks  in  an 
advertisement  that  there 
are  no  creeks  or  streams 
between  his  dairy  and 
the  market. 


Twrnty  ships  are 
now  on  the  docks  of 
New  York  i^i  the  course 
of  construction.  They 
are  of  the  first  class,  a 
number  being  steamers. 


OCTOBER. 

The  harvest  is  gath- 
ered, and  barns  are  full. 
The  best  month  for 
brewing.  Domestic 
storms  and  natural  con- 
vulsions brewing  as  well 
as  porter.  Get  all  you 
can  out  of  your  friends. 
Make  love  to  pretty 
women  with  money. 
Take  heed,  the  world 
will  come  to  an  end 
some  day.  Pay  your 
rent  if  you  are  obliged 
— not  otherwise.  Avoid 
accidents  of  every  de- 
scription; and  don  t 
jump  into  a  well  blind- 
folded. 


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ESTABLISHED  IN  1847  BY  ROGERS  BROS. 


Vol.  II.     No.  6. 


DECEMBER,  1847. 


Five  Cents 


KILLS  SPARKS 
OF  LOCOMOTIVE 

TOWNSEND'S  INVENTION 
OF  GREAT  INTEREST 


HORIZONTAL  PIPES  CONVEY  THE 
SMOKE  TO  THE  END  OF 

THE  TRAIN. 

There  can  hardly  be  gress  to  the  rear  it  keeps 
found  a  subject  con-  the  inside  of  the  pipes 
nected  with  railroad  so  moist  as  to  quench 
travelling  which  has  oc-  all  the  sparks  before 
cupied  so  much  atten-  they  reach  the  end  of 
tion  as  that  of  extin-  the  series, 
guishing  the  sparks  from  The  several  horizon- 
the  fires  of  locomotives  tal  pipes  are  connected 
and  conducting  the  to  each  other  by  sec- 
smoke  from  the  train  so  tions  of  elastic  pipes, 
as  to  exempt  the  pas-  consisting  of  India  rub- 
sengersfrom  its  annoy-  ber  cloth  peculiarly  pre-  I 
ance.  pared  to  withstand  the 

The  project  of  con-  heat,  and  supported  in 
ducting  the  smoke  from  its  position  by  a  helical 
the  engine  horizontally  coil  of  wire,  terminating 
to  the  rear  has  been  a  at  each  end  in  a  metal- 
desideratum,  but  it  has  lie  hoop  which  is  so 
been  left  to  Mr.  Town-  constructed  as  to  be  in- 


PEACE  TERMS 
VERY  SEVERE 

MEXICO  MUST  CEDE  HER 
TERRITORY 


REFUSAL  TO  DO   SO  HAS  CAUSED 

RENEWAL  OF  WAR  BY 

UNITED    STATES. 

The  party  in  power,  fallen  short  of  the  truth, 
acting  through  an  Ad-  By  this  project  of  a 
ministration  everyway  treaty  Mexico  is  invited, 
fitted  for  the  task,  are  on  a  penalty  of  the  con  - 
renewing  the  war  upon  tinuance  of  the  war,  to 
Mexico,  in  consequence  yield  up  all  her  territory' 
of  her  refusal  to  cede  north  of  the  Rio  Grande 
her  territory,  the  prop-  del  Norte,  together  with 
erty  of  her  citizens,  says  the  province  of  Santa 
the  American  Review,  Fe,  the  two  Califor- 
a  Whig  publication.  nias.  and  the  free  use 
The  people  of  the  of  the  isthmus  of  Te- 
United  States  have  a  huantepec;andtheUni- 
territcry  of  their  own,  ted  States,  in  return, 
immense,  sufficient  for  offers  to  pay  the  claims 
a  population  ten  times  of  her  own  citizens 
arger  than  now  pos-  against  Mexico,  pro- 
sesses  it.  The  people  vided  that  they  do  not 
of  Mexico,  their  neigh-  exceed   three    millions, 


send   to  invent   both  a   stantly  adjusted  and   Albany,    has    taken       A   MATCH  FOR  Bridgeport,    Conn.,   in   bors,  have  also  a  terri-   to  pay  in  addition  a  cer 


jode  of  the  ready  con- j  fastened  to  either  end  of  measures  for  procuring  \  TO  M  THUMB —  1838.  The  likeness  is  tory,  bordering  on  their  tain  sum,  to  be  hereaf- 
nection  of  the  several  either  of  the  metallic  a  patent,  and  it  is  ex-  Mr.  J.  A.  Thomas,  re-  correct.  'own;  they  therefore,  ter  determined,  and  to 
pipes  by  elastic  sections  pipes.  pected  that  the  travel-  siding  in  Beaver  street,  Incidentally  the  under  a  pretext,  fall  demand  nothing  for  the 
and  to  so  condense  the  |  The  several  pipes  on  ling  public  will  soon  en-  Philadelphia,  has  a  gowns  of  the  two  la-  upon  their  neighbors  costs  of  war. 
exhaust  steam  within  any  number  of  cars  are  joy  some  of  the  benefits  match  for  Tom  Thumb,  dies  in  the  picture  show  and  after  abloody  war,  I  We  have  based  our 
the  pipes  as  to  extin-  thus  connected  or  oc-  of  the  invention,  in  the  person  of  Miss  the  latest  Paris  fashions,  marching  to  their  capi-  rights  upon  violence, 
guish  the  sparks  and  casionally  detached  I  Lizzy,  who  is  being  tal,  dictate  terms  of  pushed  aside  the  Con- 
measurably  clarify  thej  without  any  trouble  or  CHEAP  POST-  represented  as  being  8  A  POST  OFFICE  peace,  conditioning  for  stitution,  and  put  the 
smoke  in  its  passage.  exertion  on  the  part  of  AGE — The  deficit  of  years  old,  measuring  ON  WHEELS —  an  immense  and  valua-  purse  in  the  hands  of  an 
We  can  see  no  reason  the  brakeman.  Each  the  first  year  after  the  about  25  1-2  inches  in  Since  the  running  of  ble  tract  of  their  neigh-  irresponsible  Executive, 
why  it  should  not  be  joint  or  section  is  fur-  ac<.  was $800,000;  the  height  and  weighing  cars  on  the  Northern  bors'  territory;  and  on  What  then  follows? 
immediately  introduced  nished  with  a  small  deficit  of  the  last  year  about  30  pounds.  Railroad,  and  to  ob-  a  just  and  bold  refusal  An  immense  national 
and  extensively  adopt-  water  pipe  which  pass-  was  $640,000;  while  There  is  a  peculiarity  viate  the  necessity  of  on  the  part  of  Mexico,  debt  —  deep  taxation— 
ed,  feeling  assured  that  es  down  the  side  of  the  'he  deficit  this  year  is  in  her  conformation  by  detaining  the  Boston  they  renew  the  war,  a  steady  augmentation 
a  majority  of  travellers  car  for  the  escape  of  the  only  $40,000.  It  is  means  of  which  she  is  mail  to  be  changed  ai  heaping  injury  upon  in-  and  extension  of  the 
would  give  a  ready  water  produced  by  the  rumored  that  a  plan  enabled  to  put  her  feet  Concord,  N.  H.,  a  jury.  contral  powei — corrupt 
preference  to  such  condensation  of  the,will  be  introduced  into  upon  her  shoulders,  and  short  car  is  fitted  up  for  After  the  insult  of-  elections  —  the  rapid 
trains  as  should  be  fur-  steam.  I  the  next  Congress  to  re-  also  to  arise  from  a  sit-  the  purpose,  and  a  dep-  fered  by  our  govern-  waste  of  the  public 
nished  with  this  appa- i  Nearly  over  the  safe-  duce  the  rates  of  post-  ting  position  on  the  uty  of  the  Concord  ment  in  the  mission  of  funds  and  neglect  of  all 
ratus,  even  at  an  ad-  ty  valve  is  a  valve  open-  age  and  make  all  letters  floor  without  using  her  Post  Office  proceeds  to  Mr.  Slidell,  an  insult  improvements, 
vanced  rate  of  fare. 


CENSUS   OF 


It   is   we  hope  to  see  it. 


ing  upward  for  the'im-   be   prepaid.     This  hands  to  aid  her,    and  Franklin,  preparing  the   apparendy  intended  to 
mediate   escape  of   the   would  indeed  be  salu-  without  bending   the  way  mails  for  delivery,    exasperate  the  Mexi 

steam  when  blown  off   tary  Postal  Reform  and  joints  of  her  knees.  and  the  larger  ones  for  cans,  it  was  very  natu-  p^rx/nVMn 

rally  expected  that  the  Vr11-  v  tLfiNU. 
1  he  census  or  the  city 

of  Cleveland,  Ohio,  has 
just  been  taken.  The 
following  is  an  abstract 
of  the  returns :  whites, 
12.575;  colored,  194 
-total,  12,769.  In- 
crease since  1840  is 
6,698;  increase  in  the 
last  eighteen  months, 
2,634. 

DEATH  OF  EX- 
CHANCELLOR 

KENT-The  able  and 
-P  .      learned   Ex-Chancellor 

the   vertical   with    the   casionally  the  rear  end  STUBBORN— Santa  (Charles   Sherwood  HOME— Old   Rough   would   partake   of    the  York  on  Monday,  the 


This  improved  appa- 
ratus is  so  well  repre- 
sented in  the  engraving 
that  we  have  thought  it 
inexpedient  to  use  any 
letters  of  reference.  It 
will  be  seen  that  a  bell- 
muzzle  pipe  projects 
horizontally  forward  of 
the  regular  smoke  pipe 
of  the  engine,  and 
which,  after  its  junction 
with  the  smoke  pipe, 
extends  rear-wards. 

This  front  pipe  is  for 
the  admission  of  cold 
air;  and  die  steam  from 
the  engine  is  conducted 
separate  from  the  smoke 
nearly  to  the  junction  of 


GEN.  TAYLOR  picture  of  Tom  Thumb       GEN.  TAYLOR   mission   of    Mr. 


horizontal  pipes;  and  of  the  series  of  horizon-  Anna  intimates  he  won  Stratton).  The  little  and  Ready  was  re 
then,  coming  in  contact  tal  pipes,  thus  throw-  the  battle  of  Buena  fellow,  who  has  created  ceived  in  New  Orleans 
with  the  cold  air,  it  be-  ing  the  smoke  upwards.  Vista  three  times,  but  no  end  of  interest  both  on  the  3rd  inst.,  in  the 
comes  partially  con- 1  The  inventor,  Mr.  Gen.  Taylor  was  too  in  this  country  and  injmost  magnificent  man- 
densed  and  in  its  pro-  |S.   P.  Townsend,  of  stubborn  to  know  it.       [Europe,   was   born  inlner. 


same  spirit  and  lead  to  |  3th  inst.  His  remains 
the  same  result,  the  were  carried  to  the 
continuance  of  the  war.  grave  attended  by  a 
Nor  has  the  public  ex-  most  imposing  proces- 
pectation  on  this  point .  sion  of  all  classes, 


We  are  indebted  to  Godey's  Lady's  Book,  Scientific  American  and  others  of  the  "  1847"  period  for  material  in  this  issue- 
Meriden,  Conn.,  December,  1906— MERIDEN  BRITANNIA  CO.— International  Silver  Co.,  Successor. 


SILVER.    PLATE    THAT    WEARS'* 


HOLLOWWARE-PAST  AND  PRESENT. 

No.  III.     Return  of  Prosperity. 

We  believe  that  plated  hollowware  is  about  to  enter  upon  a  phenomenally 
prosperous  era.  Our  reason  for  so  thinking  is  not  merely  that  we  desire  it 
should,  but  cold  facts  show  that  the  present  demand  is  for  something  better 
than  poor  sterling  but  less  costly  than  good  sterling.  There  is  one  correct 
answer  to  that  problem,  and  that  answer  is  good  plated  ware — Meriden 
Standard  hollowware. 

Reports  from  many  quarters  show  that  the  buying  public  is  taking  a 
greater  degree  of  interest  in  plated  hollowware  than  it  has  for  years.  Be- 
lieving that  such  a  demand  means  increased  business,  we  desire  to  be  in  a 
position  not  only  to  meet  the  demand  but  to  hasten  it.  We  urge  every  dealer, 
therefore,  to  talk  plated  hollowware,  and  to  remind  the  public  to  look  for 
these  trade-marks: 

MADE  AND  GUARANTEED  BY 


ROGERS  BROS. 


IRIOnl  I  T"^  I  INICKELSILVERI 
IPllOl  L^J  Iw.m.  MCUNTSJ 

The  question,  so  far  as  it  concerns  dealer  and  maker,  is  just  this : 
i.      There  should  be  a  good  profit  in  plated  hollowware. 

2.  The  place  that  the  ware  should  fill  is  so  obvious  that  it  is  no  difficult 
task  to  make  the  public  understand  that  it  is  to  its  interest  to  buy. 

3.  The  uartial  usurpation  of  the  rightful  position  of  plated  hollowware 
by  china  and  art  goods  appears  to  be  at  an  end. 

4.  Great  things  are  accomplished  by  co-operative  endeavor — a  principle 
we  have  demonstrated  and  are  demonstrating  every  day.  If  you  have  fol- 
lowed our  general  advertising  the  past  months,  you  know  we  have  been 
doing  our  part.     Are  you  ready  to  do  yours  ? 

Do  not  be  afraid  to  educate  the  public.  Meriden  Standard  hollow- 
low  ware  is  far  superior  to  poor  sterling,  china  or  art  goods.  You  know  it  is 
and  why  it  is.      Let  the  people  know,  too. 


Supplied  to  retailers  by  all  leading  jobbers 


£ 


"SILVER.    PLATE    THAT   WEAR.S 


3 


The  Delineator  will  announce  its  Holiday  Issue  (mentioning  its  leading  advertisers)  in  510  of 
the  most  prominent  daily  newspapers.  The  makers  of  "1847  Rogers  Bros."  are  the  only  silver- 
ware concern  referred  to  bv  the  Delineator. 


distributed  to  the  public  by  progressive  dealers 


1S47 — THEN- 


-THE  SILVER  STANDARD- 


-now— 1906 


trade — "1847  Rockks  Bros." — mark 
then — 1847 — and  — 1906 — now. 

Established  in  1847  by  Rogers  Bros. 

issued  by 
Meridex  Britannia  Co.,Meriden,  Ct. 

(International  Silver  Co.,  Successor.) 


Vol.  II— No.  6.  DECEMBER,  1906.  5  Cents 


THE  SECOND  VOLUME. 

The  second  volume  of  The  Silver  Standard 
closes  with  this,  the  December,  number.  If 
our  readers  have  derived  a  tithe  of  the  pleas- 
ure and  instruction  from  a  perusal  of  its  pages 
that  we  have  experienced  in  their  preparation, 
the  Silver  Standard  has  not  been  in  vain. 

In  the  first  number  of  Vol.  II  we  explained 
our  purpose  in  issuing  the  little  publication. 
Those  of  our  friends  who  have  followed  our 
efforts  with  any  degree  of  interest  will  be  able 
to  determine  whether  we  have  accomplished 
what  we  had  in  mind. 

A  glance  at  your  file — if  you  are  among 
those  who  have  kept  files  -  will  show  if  "The 


fore  the  memorable  discovery  of  gold  and  the 
city  just  prior  to  the  recent  catastrophe.  The 
"striking  similarity"  was  brought  out  by  fig- 
ures proving  that  the  South  was  more  interest- 
ed in  manufactures  in  1847  than  we  who 
hear  so  much  about  the  "new"  south  may  have 
supposed. 

The  next  number  was  a  special  issue,  gotten 
out  as  a  feature  of  the  Centennial  celebration 
of  Meriden,  Conn.,  and  was  distributed  large- 
ly among  Centennial  visitors. 

No.  4  contrasted  old  and  new  St.  Paul. 
In  that  number  (he  electric  car  was  found  to 
be  an  older  institution  than  doubtless  most 
of  us  supposed,  the  first  of  its  kind  hav- 
ing been  exhibited  at  Dover,  N.  H.,  July  26, 
1847.  A  projected  elevated  railroad  for  New 
York  also  was  illustrated  in  that  issue. 

Detroit  was  the  city  described  in  No.  5, 
and  the  modern  typewriter  was  shown  to  have 
had  a  predecessor  in  1847. 

Thus  have  we  "kept  the  faith."  "In  delv- 
ing into  the  musty  annals  of  the  first  half  of  the 
nineteenth  century,"  to  quote  again  from  our 
first  number,  "we  have  been  forcibly  impressed 
by  the  fact  that  the  year  1847  was  remarka- 
ble for  other  reasons  than  that  great  reason 
which  we  have  known  so  long — the  discovery 
of  the  electro-silver  plating  process  by  Rogers 


ATLANTA 


CITY    RECEIVED    ITS    CHARTER 

AND  ITS  PRESENT  NAME 

IN  YEAR  1847. 

In  1847  Atlanta  sought  and  obtained  its 
charter  and  what  we  may  term  the  real  his- 
tory of  the  great  Southern  city  began.  In 
1836  there  had  been  but  one  house— the 
little  log  cabin  of  Mr.  Hardy  Ivy.  Atlanta 
was  at  that  time  known  as  Terminus,  being  the 
eastern  end  of  the  Western  and  Atlantic  Rail- 
road. Three  years  later  Mr.  John  Thrasher, 
an  old  woman  and  her  daughter  were  the 
only  inhabitants. 

In  1842  there  were  not  more  than  three  or 
four  families.  Three  very  important  things 
happened  in  the  latter  year.  The  first  two- 
story  building  was  erected,  the  first  steam  en- 
gine was  brought  to  the  settlement  and  the  first 
land  sale  was  made  at  auction. 

The  following  year  the  people  secured  a 
corporate  name  and  charter  from  the  Legisla- 
ture   and  Terminus    became  Marthasville,   so 


Standard  for  1906"  is  what  we  hoped  to 
make  it  when  we  described  it,  last  February, 
as  follows: 

"The  first  and  last  pages  remain  as  they 
were  in  form,  reprinting  the  news  of  1847  as 
found  in  various  newspapers  and  other  peri- 
odicals of  that  year.  The  fourth  and  fifth 
pages  will  present  views  of  localities,  build- 
ings, etc.,  as  they  appeared  in  1847.  and  as 
they,  or  their  successors,  appear  today.  A 
short  description  will  accompany  the  illustra- 
tions and  help  the  latter  to  emphasize  the  great 
changes  that  have  taken  place  since  1847,  or 
the  striking  similarity  between  the  ideas  of  to- 
day and  those  of  nearly  sixty  years  ago." 

In  No.  1  we  presented  a  view  of  the  cor- 
ner of  Broad  and  George  (now  Sansom)  streets, 
Philadelphia,  with  the  "poverty  caste"  build- 
ing of  the  Academy  of  Natural  Sciences  of 
Philadelphia  ot  1847,  and  contrasted  that  with 
the  same  corner  as  it  is  now,  the  site  being  oc- 
cupied by  the  Land  and  Title  Company's  sky- 
scraper. Showing  "the  striking  similarity  of 
nearly  sixty  years  ago,"  the  principle  of  the 
unique  aerial  ferry  at  Duluth  was  found  to 
have  been  familiar  to  the  readers  of  the  Scien- 
tific American  two  generations  before  the  fer- 
ry actually  was  built. 

In  No.  2  the  Chicago  of  1847  and  of  1906 
were  contrasted,  as  were  the  street  sprinklers 
used  in  those  periods. 

No.  3  showed  San  Francisco  (then  known 
as  Yerba  Buena)  as  it  appeared  the  year  be- 


Bros.  During  the  course  of  the  year,  it  will 
be  our  privilege  to  demonstrate  this  fact  in  the 
successive  numbers  of  The  Silver  Standard." 
We  feel  very  confident  that  we  have  demon- 
strated that  fact,  and,  although  time  and  space 
would  permit  of  but  hasty  glances  here  and  there, 
we  trust  that  those  glances  have  shown  something 
of  "the  events  and  thoughts,  the  customs  and 
fashions  of  the  year  1847."  We  hope,  some 
day  not  too  far  distant,  to  present  a  sketch  of 
this  time  in  more  connected  form  and  at  some- 
what greater  length.  As  a  view  not  merely 
of  the  year  1847  but  of  the  period — a  period 
both  picturesque  and  eventful — it  should  prove 
of  value  to  all  interested  in  the  history  of  our 
country. 

The  first  number  of  Vol.  Ill  of  the  Stand- 
ard will  appear  in  February,  at  which  time  an 
announcement  of  our  plans  similar  to  that  of 
the  present  year,  quoted  above,  may  be  ex- 
pected. We  may  say  at  this  time,  however, 
that  we  hope  to  make  the  magazine  as  inter- 
esting in  the  coming  year  as  it  has  been  in  the 
past — indeed  we  believe  that  The  Standard  of 
1 907  will  be  of  still  greater  value  to  its  readers. 

That  the  Standard  has  met  with  favor  is 
evidenced  by  the  cordiality  shown  by  many  of 
the  ttade  and  by  the  very  liberal  use  of  extracts 
from  its  columns  by  prominent  newspapers  | 
— one  paper  reproducing  the  entire  first  page  I 
of  one  number. 


called  in  honor  of  a  daughter  of  Ex-Governor 
Lumpkin. 

During  1844  and  1845  the  first  factory,  an 
old  tread  saw-mill,  was  erected,  the  first  news- 
paper, the  Luminary,  was  established,  the 
first  school-house  and  church,  combined  in 
one,  were  erected  and  the  first  through  train 
from  Augusta  to  Marthasville  was  put  on. 

Three  more  newspapers  came  in  1846,  and 
the  first  important  mass  meeting  was  held,  in 
celebration  of  the  completion  of  the  Macon 
and  Western  Railroad.  In  1847,  as  we  have 
said,  the  city  received  its  charter  and  became 
Atlanta.  The  first  city  election  was  held 
January  28,  1848. 

From  this  time  on  progress  was  both  steady 
and  rapid.  Nor  is  the  end  in  sight,  for  the 
beautiful  city  of  1906  believes — and  there  is 
every  reason  to  think  believes  rightly — that  the 
present  day  conditions  are  but  prophetic  of 
still  greater  advancement. 

In  1861  the  population  had  risen  to  13,- 
000  and  business  had  increased  proportion- 
ately. New  enterprises  and  industries  created 
by  the  war  brought  more  people  to  the  city 
than  were  drawn  to  the  battle-field  and  the 
cily  refused  to  be  ruined  by  the  conditions  that 
dealt  the  South  as  a  whole  so  severe  a  blow. 

The  population  in  1864  was  20,000.  By 
1880  it  had  become  37,409  and  Atlanta  had 
become  the  forty-eighth  city    in  the    country. 


1847— THEN 


THE  SILVER  STANDARD- 


-xow-  190f> 


In  1890  there  were  65,533  people  and  in 
1900  the  number  was  89,872.  According  to 
Governor  J.  M.  Terrell's  estimate,  there  are 
now  1  1  1 ,000  within  and  at  least  25,000  out- 
side the  city  limits  who  get  their  living  in 
Atlanta,  making  a  community  of  I  36,000. 

The  National  Association  of  Manufacturers 
had  its  inception  in  1895  during  the  Atlanta 
Exposition.  At  a  meeting  of  that  body  at  its 
birthplace,  last  year,  Governor  Terrell  delivered 
an  address  from  which  we  beg  leave  to  quote 
a  rew  passages,  as  follows: 

"Steel  and  stone  skyscrapers  have  shot  up 
in  rapid  succession  and  the  heart  of  the  city 
looks  like  the  lower  part  of  Manhattan  Island. 
There  is  no  other  city  in  the  South  that  has 
the  metropolitan  appearance  that  Atlanta  pre- 
sents. It  has  one  square  mile  that  can  hardly 
be  equalled  anywhere  on  this  continent  out- 
side of  New  York,  Chicago  and  Philadelphia. 

"The  business  of  Atlanta  is  growing  twice 
as  fast  as  its  population,  although  the  inhabi- 
tants are  increasing  three  times  as  fast  as  they 
are  in  the  country  at  large.  The  city  is  south- 
ern headquarters  for  most  of  the  great  national 
corporations  that  do  business  in  this  section. 
It  is  the  third  insurance  center  of  the  country, 
and  easily  the  first  in  the  South. 

"Railways,  telegraphs,  telephones  and  many 
such  interests  have  here  their  headquarters  for 
from  five  to  twelve  states.  The  manufactured 
products  of  Atlanta  have  increased  from  seven- 
teen to   thirty    millions   since    the    last    census 

(1900). 

"Georgia  produces  a  cotton  crop  worth 
ninety  millions,  or  more  than  the  gold  product 
of  the  entire  country.  The  states  making  up 
the  southeastern  group,  of  which  Atlanta  is  the 
natural  center,  produce  a  cotton  crop  worth 
about  three  hundred  millions  and  turn  out  cot- 
ton goods  worth  over  one  hundred  millions. 

"Atlanta  is  on  the  crest  of  the  ridge  that  di- 
vides the  watershed  of  the  Atlantic  from  that 
of  the  Gulf,  and  part  of  the  rain  that  falls 
within  the  city  limits  flows  to  the  Ocean,  while 
the  remainder  flows  into  the  Gulf.  An  alti- 
tude of  1 ,050  feet  above  the  sea  gives  the  city 
a  bracing  atmosphere,  which  is  conducive  to 


vigor  ot  body  and  mind.  The  people  are  re- 
markably energetic,  and  whatever  they  do  is 
done  well.  About  ninety- five  per  cent,  of  its 
people  were  born  in  the  southern  states. 

"  In  some  respects  this  city  is  the  most  im- 
portant educational  center  of  the  South. 
About  14,000  pupils  are  enrolled  in  the  pub- 
lic schools,  and  5,000  students  are  entered  in 
institutions  of  the  higher  education.  The  fin- 
est polytechnic  institution  in  the  South  is  the 
Georgia  'Tech,'  and  its  graduates  hold  import- 
ant positions  all  over  the  world.  We  have 
140  churches,  four  theaters,  several  libraries, 
numerous  parks,  and  one  of  the  most  charm- 
ing residence  communities  in  the  South." 

In  addition  to  being  a  center  of  the  cotton 
trade  and  manufacture, 
Atlanta  deals  largely  in 
tobacco,  etc.,  and  has 
important  iron,  flour 
and  other  manufactures. 
The  cotton  exposition 
was  held  there  in  1881. 

Atlanta  University, 
the  well-known  negro 
educational  institution, 
was  founded  in  the  year 
1845. 

Atlanta  became  the 
state  capital  in  1 868  and 
today  the  city,  as  has 
been  well  said,  "is  at 
once  the  political  and 
commercial  capital  of 
Georgia."  The  growth 
of  the  city  during  its 
sixty  years'  existence  is 
illustrated  by  the  three 
views  accompanying 
this  article,  the  same  lo- 
cality, Whitehall  and 
Peachtree  streets,  be- 
ing shown  in  all  three. 
The  low  buildings  seen 
in  the  first  view  gave 
place  to  more  important 
ones,  as  shown  in  the 
second    cut,    which    is 


from  a  photograph  taken  in  1887,  and  these 
in  turn  have  made  way  for  modern  structures. 
The  sixteen-storied  building  in  the  background 
of  the  picture  of  Atlanta  today  has  been  com- 
pleted recently.  It  is  fitted  up  in  magnificent 
style  and  is  the  pride — and  justly  so — of  At- 
lanta people.  It  was  built  out  of  the  profits 
of  a  well-known  non-alcoholic  beverage, 
which  is  especially  popular  in  the  South. 

Pervading  the  life  of  the  city  there  is  the 
spirit  of  enterprise  and  progress.  The  visitor 
is  impressed  with  the  fact  that  the  people  are 
on  the  move.  Atlanta  combines  many  of  the 
best  features  of  both  north  and  south,  and 
typefies,  to  a  large  extent,  the  whole  state 
of  Georgia.  Uniting,  as  it  does,  with  its  nat- 
ural resources  the  energy  and  ingenuity  of  its 
mechanical  enterprises,  the  city  cannot  but 
grow  in  importance  as  the  years  go  by. 

Other  cities  that  received  their  charters  in 
1847  are  Indianapolis,  Ind.,  Syracuse,  N.  Y., 
and  New  Bedford,  Mass. 

The  first  named  was  laid  out  in  1821.  New 
Bedford  separated  from  Dartmouth  in  1787. 
Syracuse  was  settled  about  the  end  of  the 
eighteenth  century,  and  received  its  present 
name  in  1824. 

Salt  Lake  City  was  laid  out  in  1847. 

Merrimack,    Mass.,    became    Lawrence    in 

1847. 

Jersey  City  had  a  population  of  5,862  in 
1847. 

Worcester,  Mass.,  was  made  a  city  in  1848 
and  Portsmouth,  N.  H.,  in  1849. 

From  1840  to  1850  the  aggregate  number 
of  new  buildings  erected  in  the  city  of  New 
York  was  15,409. 


& 


SILVER-  PLATE 
THAT     WEARS 


18  4T    KOGEKS   BKOS 


1 


Our  latest  pattern,  the  "Priscilla,"  was  first  shown  in  the  early  summer,  but  we  have  sai  d 
little  about  it  as  we  have  found  it  impossible  to  keep  pace  with  the  demand.  We  illustrate  on 
this  page  the  line  as  far  as  completed  in  order  that  the  dealer  may  be  thoroughly  posted  re- 
garding our  goods.     We  do  not  urge  orders  at  this  time. 


Supplied  to  retailers  by  all  leading  jobbers 


£    st'hlX^wpel&1    1S4T    ROGERS   BKOS    6~jj» 


AVON 

Roast  Holder 


BERKSHIRE 

Carving  Set,  3  Pieces 
In  Lined  Cases 


This  is  the  season  when  Carving  Sets  have  their  most  important  duties  to  perform.     Be- 
sides the  patterns  here  shown,  there  are  others — some  new,  others  that  have   been    popular 
for  years.      All   "1847  Rogers  Bros."  carvers  have     hollow   handles,     nickel  silver,    silver 
'soldered,  with  blades  of  the  finest  crucible  steel.     The  plate  is  of  the  highest  grade. 


'Distributed  to  the  public  by  progressive  dealers 


THE  SILVER  STANDARD,  DECEMBER,  1847. 


Tfce 

SifajerStatularri 

Established 

IN  1847  BY 

Rogers  Bros. 


DECEMBER,  1847. 


DEXTER  HOUSE 

MANSION  OF  ECCEN- 
TRIC MAN  SOLD. 

The  Lord  Timothy 
Dexler  mansion,  in 
Newburyport,  Mas'., 
has  been  purchased  I  y 
Dr.  E.  G.  Kelly,  for 
$7,000.  It  will  be 
fitted  up  in  style,  and 
be  an  ornament  to  the 
city. 

This  building  is  no- 
table as  presenting  a 
monument  of  the  ec- 
centric genius  who 
formerly  resided  there. 
Timothy  Dexter  was 
born  in  Maiden,  near 
Boston.  He  became 
rich,  and  bought  a  fine 


LORD  TIMOTHY  DEXTER'S  HOUSE. 


COTTON -In  J.C.CALHOUN        We  see  in  an  Edin- 

784,    now   only   64  NOMINATED—   burgh  paper  a  statement 

mansion  that  had  been   years  since,  an  Ameri-  The  Senate  of  Georgia   that  in  South  Carolina 

laid  out  after  the  Eng-   can  vessel,   with  eighty  have  passed  resolutions   not  a  single  divorce  has 

lish  style,  by  some  per-   bales  0f  cotton  on  board  RV  a  triumphant  major-   taken    place    since   the 

son  of  taste  and  wealth,    her     was    seized    at  ltv-    nominating    Hon.    close  of  the  Revolun'on- 

When  Dexter  bought   Liverpool,  on  the  plea  J°hn    <£    Calhoun   for   ary  War. 

this  seat,  everything   that  so  large  an  amount  "ext    KTeV~ 

about  it  w;as  in  fine  or-   of  cotton  could  not  have  f^n.}    ,°|.  tn 
der,  but  it  was  not  to   been    produced   in   the 
the  vulgar  taste  of  the    United  States.     In 
new   proprietor.       He    )  785,    the    shipment 
raised  minarets  on    the   amounted  to   14  ball 


roof,  surmounted  each 
angle  with  gilt  balls,  and 
had  the  whole  painted    | ; 
as  fancifully  as  a  harle- 
quin's dress. 

Directly  in   front   of 
the  house,  on  a  Roman   following 
arch   of   great  beauty    "An    old 


United  States. 

Mr.  Judd, 

a  clergyman 


786,   to  56  bales!   at   Augusta 


787,    to    109;    in 


M, 


to  389;  in  I  789,    Thanksgiving 


to  842.    In  "Norman  s 
New  Orleans  and  En- 
virons,"   we   read    the 
anecdote  : 
Carolina 


Day,  instead 
of  readme  the 
Governor's 
Procl  ama- 
t  i  o  n  and 
preaching  a 
Thanksgiving 


stood   General   Wash-   planter,    having    gath 

incton   in    his    military   crecJ   his   crop    of    five 

garb.     Onhislefthand   aCres,  was  so  surprised   sermon   read 

was   Jefferson;    on    his  and  alarmed  at  the  im-    ,ne      wno 

-:ht  Adams,  uncov-  mense  amount  they 
,ied,  for  he  would  suf-  yielded,  which  was  fif- 
f'er  no  one  to  be  on  the  teen  bales,  that  he  ex- 
right  of  Washington  claimed,  Well,  well— 
with  a  hat  on.  [  have  done  with  cot- 

On   the   columns   in   ton  — here  is  enough  to   „„ 
the  garden  there  were  make  stockings  for  all   ""  1;  °^"l 
figures  of  Indian  chiefs,   the peoplein  America." 
military  generals,  phil-   How    many    stockings 
osophers,  politicians  and   wouldthe  crop  of  1847 
statesmen,    now   and   makej    which    will 


book  of  Lan 
entations. 

There  are 
thirty  -  two 
cotton     facto- 


tion  or  in  process  of  con- 
struction, in  Georgia,  in 
which  are  invested  $z,- 
000,000.     From  I  8  to 


BOSTON'S  RES-      GEORGIA   SiLK 

ERVOIR-The  cor-  —The  Savannah  Geor- 
ner  stone  of  the  city  res-  gian  contains  an  extract 
ervoir  on  Beacon  Hill,  from  a  letter  from  Phil- 
Boston,  was  laid  one  adelphia  relative  to 
day  last  month  with  ap-  some  cocoons  produced 
propriate  ceremonies.  near  that  city.  The 
Three  views  worms  are  fed  from 
of  the  cere-  trees  planted  in  worn 
mony  of  lay-  out  cotton  lands.  The 
ing  the  corner  letter  is  from  Mrs.  Mi 


stone  were  ta- 
ken by  the 
Daguerreo- 
type apparat- 
us, as  a  pre- 
liminary to  a 
great  painting 
that  is  to  be 
made  of  the 
scene.  One 
of  the  views 
was  taken 
when  the  pro- 
cession halted 
at  praye 
another  one, 
when  the  cor- 
ner stone  was 
beinglaid:and 

The  name    of    the   the  midst  of  me  Mayor"*  £at  lhos<j  wh<^  are  noj 

Di-j  .         I.  TL  disposed   to  despond 

emocratic    candidate   address.     The    v i e  ws   un(Jer  discouragements 

tor   governor   of   the   are   said   to   be    weir  which a,tended  an  em- 
state   of    Georgia    is   done.        1  he  likenesses   barkation  into  the  busi- 


Lanahan,  of  Philadel- 
phia, who  makes  reel- 
ing silk  a  business 
paying  the  producer  $5 
per  pound.  She  says 
of  the  cocoons  from 
Georgia  that  she  ex- 
hibited them  at  the 
Franklin  Institu:e  and 
was  advised  to  manu- 
facture them  into  satin, 
but  the  loom  she  pro- 
cured net  answering, 
and  not  being  able  to 
,  r .  get  one  that  would,  she 
'  made  it  into  a  blue 
black  Gros  de  Naples, 
which  sold  readily  at 
$1 .25  per  yard. 

The  Georgian  thinks 


MESSAGE 

WHAT  PRESIDENT 
POLK  SAYS. 

MEXICO  MUST  IN- 
DEMNIFY US. 

Only  that  some  scoun- 
drel, who  will  undoubt- 
edly be  condemned  to 
shades  of  Erebus,  cut 
the  telegraph  wires  on 
Tuesday  morning,  says 
a  New  York  paper, 
the  whole  of  the  Presi- 
dent's message  would 
have  been  circulated  in 
our  city  printed  in  full 
on  that  evening.  As  it 
was  we  had  it  in  full 
early  Wednesday 
morning.  The  electric 
telegraph  has  made 
hought  almost  omni- 
present. It  is  a  most 
wonderful  and  invalu- 
able invention. 

The  subitance  of  the 
message  is  a  determina- 
tion to  occupy  Mexico 
until  a  full  indemnifica- 
tion is  had  fcr  the  war, 
and  that  indemnification 
terntoty.  T  he  olive 
branch  is  no  more  to  be 
held  out  by  us.  Orders 
have  been  sent  out  to 
secure  the  external  and 
internal  revenues  of 
that  country.  Our 
army  is  now  an  army  of 
occupation.  Mere 
forces  are  requested  to 
fill  up  the  place  of  dis- 
charged volunteers. 

The  revenue  is  in  a 
healthy  condition,  $2b,- 
346,000  were  received 
into  the  Treasury  last 
year.  The  expendi- 
tures were  $59,451,- 
000.  Twenty-four 
millions,  one  hundred 
and  twenty-one  thous- 
and dollars  in  specie 
were  imported  last  year 
into  the  United  States, 
and  the  whole  of  this 
but  about  $2,000,000 
has  been  detained  in 
the  country.  A  branch 
mint  is  recommended 
to  be  established  at 
New  York. 


then  a  goddess  of  fame,  aIl  probability  num- '  20,000  bales  of  cotton  George  Washington  of  the  most  conspicuous  ness  W,H  eventually  be 
or  liberty,  meretricious  ber  about  2,250,0001  were  consumed  last  1  Napoleon  B  o  n  a  -  I  persons  are  easily  rec-  rewarded.  Hardly  cot- 
enough  to  be  either.    If  bales?  _  I  year.  1 parte  Towns,  lognized, I  ton's  rival,  however 

he  in  the  p!"ntitude  of  aM 


his  generosity,  raised  a 
column  to  a  great  man 
today,  he  reserved  the 
liberty  of  changing  his 
name  tomorrow ;  and 
often  the  painter's  brush 
made  or  unmade  a  fierce 
warrior. 

COTTON  AND 
INDIGO  A  South- 
ern planter  has  been 
sowing  indigo  and  cot- 
ton together.  Perhaps 
he  contemplates  raising 
blue  cotton;  and  should 
he  water  the  plants  with 
nitric  acid,  he  would 
probably  raise  gun  cot 
ton     if  any. 

VIRGINIA  FIGS 

— The  ladies  of  a  fami- 
ly in  Chesterfield,  Va., 
have   gathered,   dried 


^T  is  utterly  impossible  to  mistake  an  American  en- 
JL,  route— he  has  either  his  feet  upon  the  seat  next  to 
him  or  he  sits  with  his  knees  "let  in"  to  the  back  of  it;  he 
either  sucks  a  piece  of  sweetmeat,  bites  a  piece  of  wood, 
or  chews  a  bit  of  tobacco,  keeps  on  continually  spitting, 
and  invariably  reads  a  newspaper. 

From  "  Old  England  and  Ne<v)  England. " 


APPROPRIATE!     The  distress  in    Ire-[     The  almshouse  in]     A  letter  from  Monte- 1     GAS  LIGHTST 

Mr.  Downey  sayslland  still  continues,  and]  Essex,  Mass.,  contains  re  y,  California,  says  I  The  streets  of  St.  Louis 

and  packed   figs  nicer,   that  the  emblem  on  our  ■  increases     rather     than   but    five  paupers,  the   that    flour  was  there   were   lighted   with  gas 


fresher  and  better  flav-  shield  should  be  a  rail- 1  abates.  Immense  sums 
ored  than  the  imported  i  way  train,  and  our  only  |for  relief  of  the  sufferers 
article,  I  motto,  "hurrah."  I  have  been  raised. 


youngest  of  whom  is  $40  a  barrel,  tea  $3  a  for  the  first  time  on  th 
60  years  old.  Popula- 1  pound,  brown  sugar  50  I  night  of  the  3rd  of  No- 
tion, about  15,000.        !  cents  a  pound.  I  vember. 


DECEMBER. 

Winter  commences. 
Bills  come  pouring  in. 
Trust  yet  to  the  stars. 
All  flesh  is  grass — but 
beef  is  not  watercress- 
es.  Make  moral  re- 
flections. Give  no 
Christmas  dinner;  but 
go  to  some  one's  who 
does.  Receive  presents 
of  turkeys,  geese, 
pickled  salmon,  and 
cod,  with  oysters  foi 
sauces.  Look  out  foi 
I  Saturn  in  the  ascend- 
ant in  the  house  of 
Mars;  and  when  you 
see  a  comet  with  a 
green  tail,  send  an  ex- 
press to  the  astronomer 
royal,  with  a  lock  of 
your  hair. 


€i)c  gnltoer  fetannarti 


ESTABLISHED  IN  1847  BY  ROGERS  BROS. 


Vol.  III.     No.  1. 


OUR  COUNTRY 
IN  YEAR  1907 

WEST  IN  60  YEARS  WILL 
HAVE  100,000,000. 


ACCORDING  TO  ANOTHER  PROPHET  THE 

ENTIRE  COUNTRY  WILL  HAVE 

400.000.000. 

The  increasing  busi-  or  more  than  one-third 
ness  and  the  saving  in  as  many  inhabitants  as 
freights  upon  the  canals  are  now  on  the  globe. 
of  New  York,  present  As  immigrants  to  this 
one  of  the  extraordinary  country  from  other 
events  of  the  age.  The  parts  of  the  world  are 
cost  of  freight  from  steadily  increasing. 
Buffalo  to  New  York  it  is  probable  that  the 
before  the  construction  ratio  of  increase  will 
of  these  canals  was  be  augmented  rather 
$100  per  ton.  The  than  diminished,  and 
canal  committee  sup-  that  a  century  hence 
posed  it  might  be  re-  this  republic  will  con- 
duced to  $10  or  $12,  tain  more  than  four 
whereas,  the  average  hundred  millions  of 
of  freight  from  Buffalo  people,  without  taking 
to  New  York  1830  to  into  consideration  any 
1847  was  $8.81 .  future  extensions  or  an- 

The   west,   full   of  nexations. 
youth  and  vigor,  has  a       What   a  tremendous 

high  destiny  before  her.  responsibility  rests  upon 

She    finds   among   us  those  who  have  a  hand 

consumers    for   bread-  in   shaping   the    moral 

stuffs  and  provisions  to  and  political  destiny  of 

an  enormous  extent ;  such   a   people.      The 

and  when  she  becomes  following  tabular  view 

as  she  is  destined  to  be,  of  the  increase  of  popu- 

the  great  manufacturing  laticn    of   the  country 

centre  of  the  world,  her  was  prepared  for  the 

material  and  her  mar-  National  Intelligencer 

kets  will   be   found  in  by  the  venerable  Wil- 

this  quarter.  liam  Darby: 

The    west    in    sixty       Table  I.    Population 

years,  according  to  one  of  the  United  States  as 

statistician,  will  proba-  recorded  in  the  Tabu- 

bly  contain  one  hund-  lar  view  of  the   Enum- 

red  millions  of  people,  erations   made   by    the 

The  east  will  have  then  Decennnial   Census, 

but  twenty  millions.  1  790  to  1840,  inclus- 


The  west,  with  its  level 
surface,  cheap  mater- 
ials, and  free  right  of 
way,  may  build  the 
best  class  of  railroads  at 
less  than  half  the  cost  of 
the  eastern  railroads, 
and  run  trains  on  them 
at  greatly  reduced  ex- 


1790, 

1800. 
1810. 
1820, 
1830,  I 
!  840.  1 
Table  II 


3,929,872 
5.305,952 
7,239,814 
9,538,141 
2,866,920 
7,063,353 

Prospect- 


of  tb 


e  popu- 


pense.  The  west  offers  lation  of  the  United 
now  the  best  choice  of  States,  from  1 860  to 
routes.  1940,   inclusive,    on 

History  furnishes  no  the  ratio  of  one  and  a 
example  of  so  rapid  a  third  decennially,  as 
growth  of  a  nation,  in  found  by  Table  I,  very 
all  respects,  asisexhibi-   nearly 


FEBRUARY,  1847. 


Five  Cents 


GEN.  TAYLOR 
FOR  PRESIDENT 

HIS    NAME  BEING  FREELY 
USED  FOR  OFFICE. 


MILITARY    SUCCESSES  SEEM  TO    HAVE 

INDUCED  ALMOST  A  RAGE 

IN  HIS  FAVOR. 

The  military  success-  seems,  has  his  peculiar- 

es  of   General    Taylor  ity  too,  in  this  respect. 

have  induced  almost  a  An    officer   in   attend- 

rage   in  his  favor,  and  ance  at  the  time,  states 

people  seem  determined  after  reading    a    letter 


to  make  him  a  Presi- 
dent by  force,  whether 
he  can  write  or  not 
write. 

The  Louisville  Jour- 


which  he  received 
while  at  the  supper 
table  from  Gen.  Scott, 
"informing  him  that  he 
was    going   to  lose  his 


nal  says:  "We  think  itregular  troops.  Old 
very  likely  that  the  peo- 1  '  Rough  and  Ready ' 
pie  of  the  United  States  j  crumpled  the  shee  t  on 
will  in  1848  do  what  which  it  was  written 
the  Mexicans  have  j  very  much  in  his  hands 
vainly  attempted  to  do  laid  it  aside,  and   then 


R.  R.  INCLINED     UNDER  RIVERS        SPEECH  BY  MR 

PLANES-Thereare1  CALHOUN -In  the 

19  roads  with  inclined  PROPOSAL   IS    MADE  U.  S.  Senate  on  Satur- 
planes,    requiring   sta-  _^^^         day,    the  three  million 

nonary  engines,  and  on    lu  OU1LJJ    1  UnfltLi.  bill  was  ^en  up  and 
the  Portage  Road,  over  |      ^   [yjr     Renny     0f  Mr.  Calhoun  took  the 


al    T 


ay- 


ted  in  the  progress  of 
this  republic.  If  the 
population  increases  for 
a  hundred  years  to 
come  in  the  same  ratio 
it  has  for  sixty  years, 
another  statistician  de- 
clares that  it  will  in  the 
hundred  and  sixty  years 
have   risen  from  abou 


1860. 

1870, 
1880, 
1890, 
1900. 
1910. 


30,958.000 
41,145,000 
54,859,000 
73.144,000 
97,525.000  jUpward 

20,034,000   {German 


the  Allegheny  Moun-  Brookville,  Indiana,  floor,  and  made  a  bril 
tains  in  Pennsylvania  proposes  lo  con3truct  liant  speech  on  the 
there  are  ten  inclined  carriage  roads  under  the  Question,  which  was 
planes  in  a  distance  of  beds  of  nvers,  by  which  listened  to  by  a  crowd- 
>U  miles.  .       desjgns   (o   connec,  ed  floor  and  galleries. 

i       T   1  'T      *  >°wns  °n  opposite  side- 
L  roads,  the  '- 


The 


He 

letting 


was  in  favor  of 
Mexico     know 


■      ,ong"   by    making    a   perfect    . 
est  being  on  the  Long  s(ree,  from  one  (o  jhe  the  terms  upon  which  a 


peace  wou 


!dbe 


Island  Road  under  the  _j, 

a  ,i       ■  ■    d       1      otner,     luuiung     unaer  •— ;■  -, — .""■", 

Atlantic  street,  n  Brook-   water  on  me  bed  of  the  <ed   hy   the,  United 


accep- 


lyn,  which  is  more  th 
half  a  mile  long.  Tb 
is   a   tunnel    700    feet  ; 
long  through  solid  rock 
on  the  Harlem   Road, 
near  New  York.     On 
the    Reading    Road 
there  are  three  tunnels, 

960,  1 .600  and  1 .993 

feet  long.  This  road, 
though  only  92  miles 
long,  cost  $10,338,- 
540. 


nver. 

The  tunnel  or  street 
made    of    malleabl 


States;  and  then,  with 
out  inviting  her  con- 
currence,    proceed    to 


or  boiler  iron  rivetted  define  ou,r  boundaries, 
occupy  the  territory 
claimed     with    our 


together  in  the    sam 
manner  as  steam  boil- 
ers.    Its  shape  is  nearly  tro°Ps-  an,d  aF<  entlrel>' 
that    of    two-thirds    of  on  ,he  defensive. 


a    circle 
limited. 


its  size    un- 


MEXICAN    PRI- 

His  present  drawing  ^ £TEpE1?_Cf\PU ' 

„„„,.. T>  (__.   Robert  Parker,  of  the 

schooner  Morea,    gives 


represents  one  22   feet 
high,  1 


commenced  in  a  furious 
manner  putting  mustard 
over  his  meat,  potatoes 
and  bread,  into  his 
d   on  every- 


DEATHS  POST-  way  ea,c.  , 

centre  V  I  -i  teet 


PONED- A  country  T  J'ATVlu 
paper,  a  day  or  two  clear  and  13  eet  high, 
ago,  after  a  long  list  of  aLf«"Pa,n  '."  the  <*•>«« 


births,    marriages    and 

J  .u  , ■  .  J  ,u  t  i  'eet  nign.  i  ne  cos 
deaths,  printed  the  rol-  •  .  j  i  \/i  d 
I       •         .  estimated  bv  Mr.  K 

lowing   strange  nonce- 

"Several    deaths   un 

avoidably  deferred." 


EXTENSIVE 

EMIGRATION- 

of   1  .000 

migrants 


UNDER  RIVERS 

The  other  day  at  a 
New  York  hotel  a  gen- 
tleman   was  reading 

from  a  newspaper  an  thing  that  was  around 
article  dealing  with  the  t  his  plate.' 
general's  nomination  It  is  reported  that  a 
which  (said  the  article)  |  ship  owner  at  Bangor 
was  subject  to  the  de-  i  has  three  vessels  nearly 
cision  of  a  National  completed;  they  are  to 
Convention.  "ANa-'be  named  "Zachary 
tional    Convention    be  Taylor."    "Genera 

"   exclaimed   a  Taylor,"  and  "Rough 

six-foot  Kentuckian,  and  Ready.' 
"why  sir,  I  tell  ye, :  By  the  most  recent 
Gineral  Taylor  will  be  accounts  Gen.  Taylor 
nominated  and  elected,  is  (or  was)  at  Victoria 
too.  throughout  the  with  6.C00 men;  Gens, 
whole  of  these  United  Worth  and  Wool  at 
States  by  spontaneous  Saltillo  with  8,000. 
combustion!"  Santa  Anna  is  watch- 

On  the  other  hand,   ing    their    movements, 
a  New  York  paper  de-   but   in   no   apparent 
clares    that    politicians   hurry.       A    rumor    is 
are  not  likely  to  make   current  that  the  Mexi- 
much  by  speculating  on  ;  can  Congress  has  ccn- 
General  Taylor  for  the   eluded   to    accept    our 
Presidency.      In   con- 1  proposition  for  negctia- 
._  versing    with  a  gentle-   lions,  etc.     The  forri fi- 
ll  side  of   the  an  account  °f  a  strange  i  man  recently,  who  told  cations  at  Tampica  are 
appearing  long,  low, !  him  he  had  been  nam-   in   a  forward  state  and 
black  brig,  which  met  ed   for   that   office,    he  prospects  look  as  favor- 
with  him  on  his  recent '  replied,  "I  am  sorry  to  able  as  usual. 
voyage,  off  the  coast  of  see  it.     I  have  always       A  Methcdi;t  church 
Florida.     She   is   sup-  j  thought  and  still  think  at     Nashville.    Tenn., 
posed  to  be  a  maraud-  [  that  a  civilian  and  none  has  raised  funds  to  con- 
ing privateer  or  a  pirate |  other    ought    to    hold   stitute    Gen.     Taylor 
under  Mexican  colors,  j  that  office.     I  have  no  and  several  of  his  offi- 

other  ambition  than  to  cers  life  members  of  a 

B  R  A  C  E  L  E  Ti  bring   this   war   to  an   missionary  society. 

WATCHES-Brace-  honorable    close.       I  ~ 

lets,   with  watches  in- j  shall  then  go  to  my  farm       Acivilengineerof  the 

serted  in  them,  are  be-   and  there  in  the  bosom   South   predicts    "  that 

The  Woonsocket.   coming  all  the  rage  in   of  my  family  live  and  the   mighty    Mississippi 


the 


bove    carriage  way  7 
feet  high.     The  cost  is 


en- 
ny  at  about  $200  per 
foot  and  he  is  of  the 
opinion  that  it  would 
be  a  good  investment  for 
capitalists. 


920,  160,045,000    lately  took  passage  from   R.  L.  Patriot  says  let-   some  of  the  eastern  cit-  \  die."  for  all  purposes  of  trav 

1930,213,360,000   |New    Orleans    to    St.   ter  postage  was  recently  ies.      They  have  long       Various    men    have  el    will   be   deserted." 
1940,284,480.000     Louis,  leaving  2,000  at   charged  on  a  newspa-   been  common  in  Paris,   various  ways  of  letting  The  Railroad   Journal 
By  1 950  it  will  have   the  former  place  to  f ol-  per  because  an  interro-   where  it  is  the  practice  people  know  when  they  is  of  the  opinion  that  the 
four  millions  to  nearly  increased  to  379,307,-  low  as  soon  as  convey-  gation  point  was  found  to  insert   watches  into  are  disturbed  in   mind,    prediction  will  be  veri- 
four  hundred   millions,   000.  ance  could  be  had.  on  the  margin.  finger-rings,  canes,  etc.   and   Gen.    Taylor,   it    fied  at  no  distant  day. 

We  are  indebted  to  New  Haven  Register,  United  States  Magazine  and  others  of  the  "1847"  period  for  material  m  this  issue. 
Meriden,  Conn.,  February,  1907— MERI DEN  BRITANNIA  CO.— International  Silver  Co.,  Successor. 


1847 — THKN- 


-THE  SILVER  STANDARD 


-now— 1907 


tradk — "1847  Rogers  Bros." — mask 

then — 1s47 — and — 1907 — now . 
Established  in  1847  by  Rogers  Bros. 

issued  by 
Meriden  Britannia  Co., Meriden,  Ct. 

(International  Silver  Co.,  Successor.) 


Vol.  Ill— No.  1.  FEBRUARY.  1907.  5  Cents 

"A  UNIQUE  PUBLICATION." 

With  the  present  number  The  Silver  Stand- 
ard enters  upon  the  third  year  of  its  existence 
— and  does  so  confidently.  Volume  I  was 
more  or  less  an  experiment,  but  the  cordiality 
of  its  reception  seemed  to  warrant  publication 
a  second    year.     Any 


John  S.  Phillips,  formerly  of  McClure's 
Magazine,  now  editor  and  publisher  of  the 
American  Magazine,  finds  that  "these  pieces 
and  pictures  of  the  past  are  very  interesting 
indeed.  Some  of  the  pictures  are  prophetic. 
I  was  not  aware  that  sixty  years  ago  they  were 
printing  engravings  of  the  Elevated,  but  here 
is  one  in  your  book." 

"Your  Silver  Standard,"  writes  T.  J.  Zim- 
merman, editor  of  System,  "appeals  to  me  as 
one  of  the  most  interesting  pieces  of  literature 
that  1  have  read  in  a  long  time;  and  this  is  the 
best  possible  compliment,  I  believe,  that  can 
be  paid  to  the  advertising  merit  of  any  piece  of 
printed  matter." 

Mr.  Arthur  Brisbane,  editor  of  Hearst's 
New  York  Evening  Journal,  has  "found  great 
interest  in  looking  over  it." 

Mr.  R.  H.  Tithenngton,  editor  of  Munsey's 
Magazine,  terms  The  Standard  "a  very  unique 


doubts  we  may  have 
had  regarding  the  "last- 
ing" power  of  The 
Standard  weredispelled 
during  the  twelve 
months  just  passed. 
Whatever  sense  of  nov- 
elty disappeared  from 
the  minds  of  its  regular 
readers  would  seem  to 
have  been  compensated 
for  by  an  increase  of 
interest  in  the  period  of 
our  country's  history  of 
which  The  Standard 
treats.  Our  friends 
have  multiplied  and  the 
warmth  of  their  com- 
mendation has  in- 
creased. 

As  affording  some 
idea  of  the  impression  made  by  The  Standard 
both  as  a  house  organ  and  as  a  publication  of 
interest  to  those  outside  the  trade,  we  quote  a 
few  words  from  some  of  the  letters  we  have 
received.  The  writers'  names  will  be  recog- 
nized as  prominent  in  public  life,  literature  and 
business. 

Col.  George  Harvey,  editor  of  the  North 
American  Review,  writes  that  The  Standard 
"seems  to  me  very  cleverly  done.' 

Mr.  Richard  Watson  Gilder,  editor  of  the 
Century,  finds  that  "the  quaint  volume"  is  a 
"very  useful  reminder  of  old  times,  made  with 
ingenuity  and  patience." 

Mr.  Henry  M.  Alden,  editor  of  Harper's 
Magazine,  thinks  The  Standard  "of  very  great 
interest." 

"This  little  publication  is  very  attractively  got- 
ten up"  in  the  opinion  of  Mr.  Albert  Shaw, 
editor  of  the  Review  of  Reviews. 

Postmaster-General  George  B.  Cortelyou 
speaks  of  The  Standard  as  an  "interesting 
work,  which  I  am  very  glad  to  have. 

Mr.  George  French,  editor  of  Profitable 
Advertising,  believes  it  "is  more  interesting  to 
people  outside  the  craft  it  is  issued  for  than 
most  organs. 

Mr.  Edward  Bok,  editor  of  the  Ladies' 
Home  Journal,  writes:  "I  was  intensely  inter- 
ested in  it.  Old  wood-cuts  always  have  had 
a  fascination  for  me,  and  surely  they  are  here 
in  all  their  delicious  joy.  I  would  like  few 
things  better  than  a  complete  set." 


LOOPING  THE  LOOP  IN  1847. 

Above  is  reproduced  a  cut  that  appeared  in  the  Pictorial  Sun,  published  in  1847,  a  semi-annual  edition 
of  the  New  York  Sun,  showing  a  new  form  of  recreation  then  in  vogue  in  Paris. 


publication,"  and  finds  "the  way  in  which  you 
bring  out  the  contrast  between  1847  and  1907 
is  exceedingly  ingenious." 

President  Thorpe,  of  the  Keystone  Publish- 
ing Company,  writes  as  follows:  'As  I  have 
Volume  1  here  in  our  library,  I  find  on  com- 
parison that  the  new  volume  is  much  more 
imposing,  though  I  am  pleased  to  see  the  same 
quaint  style  maintained.  The  illustrations  in 
this  volume  strike  me  as  being  peculiarly  inter- 
esting, and  what  of  the  matter  I  have  been 
able  to  scan  so  far  I  find  both  entertaining  and 
instructive.  It  is  history  in  a  very  palatable 
and  digestive  form." 

The  Standard  appealed  to  Mr.  Elbert  Hub- 
bard, of  Philistine  and  "Little  Journeys"  fame, 
as  "quite  the  most  unique  thing  that  I  have 
seen  in  recent  time,"  while  Mr.  Joel  Chandler 
Harris  ("Uncle  Remus")  declared  that  "it 
has  interested  me  very  much,  especially  the 
bits  of  history  and  the  miscellaneous  informa- 
tion you  have  succeeded  in  picking  up.  Good- 
ness knows  where  you  found  it  all,  but,  having 
found  it,  you  have  made  a  most  attractive 
volume." 

The  press,  especially  the  daily  papers  and 
the  advertising  magazines,  have  treated  The 
Standard  very  kindly  and  have  liberally  quoted 
from  it.  The  New  York  Sun  of  January  6, 
1 907,  printed,  as  an  editorial,  a  column 
review  of  Volume  II,  making  free  use  of 
items  it  deemed  especially  noteworthy.  As 
every  advertiser  knows,   no  amount  of   money 


could   buy    space   in    the    New    York    Sun's 
editorial  columns. 

In  this  connection  the  opening  paragraph  of 
a  review,  about  two  columns  in  length,  that 
appeared  in  the  Jewelers'  Circular- Weekly, 
January  16,  1907,  will  be  found  of  interest: 

"Volume  II  of  The  Silver  Standard,  that 
most  unique  and  entertaining  periodical  pub- 
lished by  the  Meriden  Britannia  Co.,  has  been 
issued  in  book  form,  and  constitutes  one  of  the 
most  interesting  volumes  we  have  seen  in  a 
long  time.  The  Silver  Standard  is  so  different 
from  any  other  magazine  that  it  is  in  a  class 
by  itself  and  certainly  no  other  house  organ 
can  approach  it  in  entertaining  and  instruc- 
tive literature.  The  New  York  Sun  de- 
voted over  a  column  of  its  editorial  page  in  a 
recent  Sunday  edition  to  a  review  of  The 
Silver  Standard.  This  is  a  testimonial  that  no 
other  house  publication  or  no  form  of  advertis- 
ing literature  has  ever 
received  before,  and 
that  any  magazine  or 
any  publication  of  any 
character  might  well  be 
proud  of." 

TheCincinnatiCom- 
mercial  Tribune  was 
another  prominent  pa- 
perto  give  extended  no- 
tice to  The  Standard, 
reprinting  an  article 
from  the  August  num- 
ber which  occupied 
nearly  a  column  in  the 
Tribune. 

The  Lexington,  Ky., 
Leader  on  May  10, 
1 906,  printed  an  ex- 
tract from  The  Stand- 
ard of  over  a  column 
in  length,  and  again  on 
December  25,  last,  devoted  nearly  another 
column  to  our  little  magazine,  and,  in  addition 
to  a  review  of  the  December  number  as  a 
whole,  reprinted  in  its  entirety  an  article  half 
a  column  in  length.  The  cut  accompanying 
the  article  also  was  reproduced. 

The  Fort  Worth,  Texas,  Record,  on  Feb- 
ruary II,  1906,  reproduced  in  facsimile  form 
the  entire  first  page  of  The  Standard. 

The  Springfield  Republican  also  printed  a 
very  appreciative  notice. 

Besides  the  papers  mentioned,  many  others 
have  referred  to  us  from  time  to  time  at  greater 
or  less  length. 

The  most  remarkable  thing  about  it  is  that, 
after  all,  The  Standard  is  not  primarily  litera- 
ture or  history  but  "advertising  matter."  This 
being  so,  the  fact  that  it  has  succeeded  in  so 
interesting  readers  outside  the  trade — many  of 
them  men  of  prominence — and  has  called  forth 
extended  and  appreciative  notice  in  a  paper  of 
the  New  York  Sun's  standing,  leads  us  to  be- 
lieve that  it  must  be  read  with  profit  by  those 
in  the  trade  and  that  while  it  depicts  the  year 
1847  by  presenting  "trifles  that  bear  the  form 
and  pressure  of  the  time,"  it  reminds  the  silver 
merchant  of  the  trade-mark  that  bears  the  date 
of  sixty  years  ago. 

We  assure  all  our  friends — both  those  in 
and  those  out  of  the  silver  trade — thatweshall 
endeavor  to  furnish  a  periodical  as  interesting 
in  the  future  as  so  many  of  its  readers  have  de- 
clared it  to  be  in  the  past. 


I 


SILVER^  PLATE 
THAT    WEARS 


I8  45T   ROGERS  BROS 


2 


The  Priscilla  pattern  here  illustrated  is  the  latest  "1847  Rogers  Bros." 
design.  First  shown  last  fall,  it  resulted  in  sales  far  beyond  our  capacity.  It 
meets  the  demand  for  simplicity  without  sacrificing-  the  grace  that  distin- 
guishes all  "1847  Rogers  Bros.  "  patterns.  Additions  to  the  line  are  being- 
made  and  orders  may  now  be  filled  with  reasonable  promptness.  A  catalogue 
illustrating   this   and    the    more    ornate   designs   will  be    sent    upon   request. 


Supplied  to  Progressive  Retailers  by  Leading  Jobbers. 


1847 THEN- 


-THE  SILVER  STANDARD- 


'S o\v— 1907 


NEW  YORK'S  GROWTH 


WONDERFUL  CHANGES  THAT  HAVE  TAKEN  PLACE  IN  THE  METROPOLIS 

DURING  THE  PAST  SIXTY  YEARS. 


Perhaps  no  city  in  the  world  has  changed 
so  much  as  New  York  within  the  last  sixty 
years.  Many  citizens  are  now  living  and  in 
active  business  who  recall  the  city  of  their  boy- 
hood as  a  very  different  place. 

Then  there  was  an  element  of  beauty,  with 
trees  and  church  spires,  wide  rivers  between 
farms  and  woods,  and  a  number  of  distinct 
cities  on  Long  Island  and  Jersey. 

The  traveler  sailing  up  the  bay  sought  New 
York  for  some  time  in  vain,  frequently  mis- 
taking Brooklyn  for  the  greater  city,  and  was 
surprijed  when  he  was  told  that  the  great  city 
was  yet  far  off  on  the  northwest. 

Now,  even  from  the  Narrows,  the  city  is 
seen,  and,  approaching  nearer,  there  looms  up 
a  mass  of  building,  brilliant  in  color  and  of  a 
peculiar  architecture  as  distinct  in  its  way  as 
the  Gothic  of  the  middle  ages,  or  Venice  in 
its  prime. 

In  1847  the  scene  was  very  different.  The 
traveler,  perhaps  in  one  of  the  Black  Ball 
packets,  sailed  along  the  outer  bay,  seeing  at 
Rock  away  a  single  hotel  and  at  Coney  Island 
another  small  one.  All  else  was  desolate 
sands  for  miles. 

After  passing  the  Narrows  the  shores  on 
each  side  had  the  aspect  of  a  smiling  farm 
region,  or  were  yet  clothed  with  thick  woods. 
To  the  east,  many  little  suburban  towns 
stretched  along  before  Brooklyn  was  reached. 
Back  of  these  lay  wooded  heights  and  farms, 
some  as  they  had  remained  since  the  Revolu- 
tion, among  them  many  a  Dutch  and  Colonial 
farm  house. 

On  the  west,  Staten  Island  was  all  country, 
with  a  spire  here  and  there  far  back  amid  the 
hills.  On  the  shore  near  the  ferry  landings 
the  white  and  yellow  buildings  of  the  Quar- 
antine Station   made  a  pretty  picture  but  the 


BY  W.  H.  WALLACE. 

place  was  detested  by  the  Staten  Island  peo- 
ple and  the  voyager  alike. 

As  the  traveler  went  on  he  passed  the  three 
islands.  Where  the  Statue  of  Liberty  now  is 
were  the  grassy  walls  of  a  small  fort,  the  sec- 
ond island  was  stony  and  barren;  in  the  cen- 
ter stood  a  large  square  brick  house  said  to  be 
a  powder  magazine. 

On  Governor's  Island  were  many  tall  pop- 
lar trees  that  rustled  pleasantly  and  waved 
gracefully  in  the  breeze.  The  uniforms  of  the 
soldiers  of  that  day  were  gay  and  splendid. 
On  the  tufted  walls  of  the  fort  were  huge  can- 
nons on  timber  carriages  and  all  was  warlike 
and  imposing. 

Towards  the  city  the  sandy  shores  of  the 
island  ran  far  out,  and  on  these  the  fishermen 
placed  their  shad  nets  in  the  spring.  Some- 
what further  up  the  East  River  arose  a  dan- 
gerous rock.  This  remained  until  a  short  time 
after  1850,  when  it  was  blown  up  by  one 
Mallefort,  a  Frenchman,  the  first  one  who  ever 
succeeded  in  blowing  up  rocks  by  gunpowder 
placed  under  water  and  exploded  by  electricity. 
This  exciting,  and  at  that  time  novel,  event 
was  seen  by  many  thousands  of  citizens  in  New 
York  and  Brooklyn,  including  the  writer. 

The  Battery  at  the  end  of  the  city,  though 
smaller  than  at  present,  was  a  mass  of  beauti- 
ful green  trees.  What  is  now  the  Aquarium 
was  then  Castle  Garden,  some  distance  out  in 
the  water  and  reached  by  a  bridge. 

Built  for  a  fort  in  the  early  part  of  the  last 
century,  many  remarkable  events  have  been 
connected  with  this  building. 

The  great  celebration  when  the  Erie  Canal 
was  finished  and  the  reception  of  Lafayette 
when  he  last  came  to  America  were  among 
the  most  notable.  Here  were  held  the  fairs  of 
the  American  Institute  for  some  years. 


Between  1845  and  1855  it  was  the  Opera 
House,  and  many  celebrated  singers  have  been 
heard  in  it.  Here  Jennie  Lind  sang  on  her 
coming  to  America. 

It  was  a  unique  and  pleasant  place  for  an 
entertainment.  Back  of  the  tiers  of  seats  were 
rows  of  windows  looking  out  on  the  bay  and 
city,  and  one  could  step  from  a  window  to  a 
board  walk  outside  where  one  might  sit  or 
walk  in  the  fresh  air,  and  have  a  delightful 
view  of  the  river  and  the  city.  This  was  the 
forerunner  of  the  roof  garden  of  to-day. 

The  extension  of  the  Battery  joined  Castle 
Garden  to  the  city;  it  ceased  to  be  a  place  of 
amusement  and  for  many  years  was  the  emi- 
grant depot. 

Just  across  the  street  from  the  north  gate  of 
the  Battery  stood  No.  1  Broadway,  a  cele- 
brated Colonial  residence,  called  the  Kennedy 
House  during  the  Revolution,  and  in  1847 
known  as  "Washington's  Headquarters." 
Here  lived  many  historic  persons — Lord  Howe, 
General  Clinton  and  General  Washington  for 
a  short  time. 

Next  door  were  the  remains  of  the  King's 
Arms  Tavern,  where  were  held  many  meetings 
of  patriots  during  the  days  preceding  the  war 
for  independence.  Opposite  was  Bowling 
Green,  one  of  the  few  places  of  that  time  that 
yet  remain. 

This  was  the  first  park  the  city  had  and  is 
today  the  oldest.  It  has  undergone  many 
changes.  The  writer  recalls  its  earliest  foun- 
tain— a  pile  of  gray  rocks,  down  which  the 
water  trickled  or  flashed  in  little  streams.  In 
the  basin  of  the  fountain  there  was  kept  dur- 
ing a  summer  a  pair  of  gay  crimson  and  white 
flamingoes  that  attracted  much  attention. 

All  around  the  little  park  were  many  fine 
dwellings  of  wealthy  and   worthy  old    New 


1847— in  jvn 


THE  SILVER  STANDARI)- 


Yorkers  and  the  neighborhood  was  quiet  and 
secluded,  for  the  real  life  and  business  of 
Broadway  did  not  begin  until  just  above  Wall 
street. 

It  is  hard  for  one  to  realize  that  in  1847  to 
1850  the  retail  business  of  the  city  was  con- 
centrated on  Broadway  between  Wall  and 
Bleecker  streets.  Here  were  all  the  fine  stores, 
art  galleries  and  hotels,  most  of  the  theaters 
and  numbers  of  small  shops  for  the  sale  of 
special  articles,  gloves,  laces,  ribbons  and  the 
countless  things  now  sold  in  the  great  depart- 
ment stores. 

The  wholesale  region  was  on  Broad  street 
and  on  the  streets  lying  around  it.  The  dry 
goods  men  were  on  Liberty  and  Cedar  streets. 
The  lawyers  were  on  Nassau  street.  Wall 
street  had  the  banks,  as  today. 

Perhaps  the  most  thronged  and  busy  place 
then  was  Courtlandt  street.  It  was  lined  with 
hotels,  and  at  its  foot  started  the  Albany  boats, 
affording  the  only  means  of  reaching  Albany 
and  the  west.  Another  great  street  was  Ful- 
ton, to  the  Fulton  Ferry. 

The  Astor  House,  built  in  1835,  was  the 
great  hotel,  where  put  up  the  political  powers 


of  that  day,  Webster,  Clay,  Seward,  Weed 
and  many  others.  The  United  States  on  Ful- 
ton street  and  Lovejoy's  on  Park  Row  were 
other  hotels  of  fame. 

Opposite  the  Astor  House  on  Park  Row 
stood  the  Park  Theater,  the  Drury  Lane  of 
America;  on  the  corner  of  Ann  and  Broad- 
way was  Barnum's  Museum,  and  here  for  a 
short  time,  a  foot  bridge*  crossed  Broadway. 
On  Chambers  street  near  Center,  was  Burton's 
Theater,  then  the  home  of  comedy  in  New 
York,  and  almost  in  sight  of  it  on  Chatham 
street  stood  the  National,  where  "Uncle  Tom's 
Cabin"  was  first  played. 

The  Academy  of  Design  was  on  Nassau 
street  and  the  only  great  library  the  city  had 
had  just  moved  from  Nassau  street  to  the  cor- 
ner of  Broadway  and  Walker  street. 

A.  T.  Stewart  had  a  small  store  for  laces 
and  dry  goods  on  Broadway.  Just  opposite, 
on  the  east  side  of  Broadway,  between  Reade 
and  Chambers  streets,  he  built  his  great  "mar- 
ble palace,"  as  it  was  called  in  those  days,  the 
building  we  see  today  but  heightened  somewhat. 

*  Illustrated  on  Page  4,  Vol.  l.,No.  7,  of  The  Silver 
Standard. 


Ball  &  Black,  then  the  leading  jewelers, 
were  at  the  corner  of  Murray  street;  Tiffany, 
Young  &  Elliss  at  271  Broadway,  corner  of 
Chambers  street;  Appleton,  the  book  publish- 
er, was  near  Fulton  street;  Putnam  just  above 
Duane,  near  the  Hospital;  Scribner  in  Clin- 
ton Hall.  Williams  &  Stevens,  then  the  larg- 
est art  store  and  picture  gallery,  was  near  Du- 
ane street  and  nearly  opposite,  on  the  east  side 
of  Broadway  was  the  Broadway  Theater. 
On  this  side,  also  within  a  block  or  two,  was 
the  Deschaux  art  store,  Pike's  optical  instru- 
ment store,  and  yet  further  up  was  Goupil's, 
destined  in  time  to  have  a  celebrated  gallery 
where  could  be  seen  many  of  the  works  since 
famous  in  public  and  private  collections. 

As  you  went  up  Broadway  the  retail  stores 
became  more  numerous  and  varied. 

At  Canal  street  to  the  west  of  Broadway 
were  several  of  the  more  famous  dry  goods 
stores,  as  Lord  &  Taylor's,  Arnold  &  Con- 
stable's, and  many  other  fine  retail  stores.  To 
the  southward  of  Canal  street  was  St.  John's 
Park  and  Hudson  street,  then  one  of  the- most 
beautiful  places  of  residence  in  the  city. 

On  Broadway  were  the  famous  saloons.    In 


u 


1847 — TIIEN- 


-THE  SILVER  STANDARD- 


-now— 1907 


the  Irving  House,  corner  of  Reade  street,  was 
Delmonico's  restaurant  and  bar.  Higher  up 
on  the  West  Side  were  Taylor's  and  Thomp- 
son's. These  were  ladies'  saloons.  The 
large  room  occupied  by  Taylor's  yet  remains, 
but  there  is  no  trace  of  its  former  splendor.  It 
was  one  of  the  show  places  of  the  town  while 
it  lasted.  There  were  gilded  columns,  painted 
ceilings,  marble  floors  and  tables,  stained  glass 
and  cut  glass.  All  was  glitter,  show  and 
splendor,  but  the  cooking  was  poor  and  the 
service  was  bad  and 
it  soon  ceased  to  be. 

The  business  places 
grew  few  and  far  be- 
tween above  Bleeck- 
er  street  until  at  about 
Eighth,  dwellings  and 
hotels  became  the  on- 
ly buildings  seen. 

I  must  not  forget, 
however,  the  great 
hotels  that  gave  life 
and  splendor  to  the 
street.  Near  Prince 
street  the  St.  Nicho- 
las, of  white  stone, 
and  gay  with  brilliant 

curtains  and  rich  shops  was  most  attractive, 
while  on  the  other  side  the  more  sombre  Met- 
ropolitan was  famous  for  containing  Niblo's 
Garden.  This  hotel  was  also  celebrated  for 
its  great  table.  The  silverware  was  reported 
to  have  cost  the  Leland  Bros.,  the  proprietors, 
$  1 4,000,  a  large  sum  for  those  days.  The 
house  accommodated  i  ,000  guests.  Further 
up,  the  New  York  survived  all  its  neighbors, 
and  this  hotel  was  for  many  years  the  favorite 
stopping  place  for  Southern  people. 

Far  up  Broadway,  in  the  then  lonely  and 
secluded  Astor  Place,  stood  the  Astor  Place 
Opera  House,  famous  for  the  bloody  not  in 
1849.  Above  was  the  quiet  and  beautiful 
Union  Square  surrounded  by  fine  dwellings 
and  churches,  and  before  Madison  Square  was 
reached  the  city  ended. 

All  the  retail  business  now  scattered  over 
many  localities,  was  then  centered  on  Broad- 
way, and  here  during  the  month  before  Christ- 
mas there  was  a  carnival  whirl   of  fine  equip- 


ages, gay  people,  fashion,  beauty  and  pleasure. 
Here  thronged  the  strangers  filling  the  hotels, 
the  actors  stood  before  the  theaters,  and  the 
celebrated  people  of  all  kinds  could  be  seen. 

But  there  was  another  side.  Not  ten  min- 
utes walk  from  Broadway  below  Canal  street, 
on  the  east,  were  the  dens  of  the  Five  Points, 
reeking  with  filth,  poverty,  crime  and  disease, 
blown  out  finally  by  the  fresh  air  of  business. 

The  streets  of  New  York  were  badly  cared 
for  then.     They  were  dusty  and  hot  in  sum- 


mer and  in  winter  snow  and  ashes  sometimes 
accumulated  in  frozen  heaps,  over  which  the 
carts  and  omnibuses  bounded  and  banged  to 
the  risk  of  life  and  limb. 

Droves  of  pigs,  hogs  and  goats  came  down 
from  the  squatter  villages  in  the  suburbs,  or 
where  Central  Park  now  is,  and  fed  upon  the 
garbage  thrown  out  or  overturned  from  barrels 
into  the  streets.  These  wandering  pigs  and 
goats  often  caused  disastrous  runaways  by 
running  between  the  legs  of  horses.  After  the 
horse  railroads  came  they  were  kept  away. 

Still,  even  with  these  blemishes,  the  old 
New  Yorker  thinks  fondly  of  the  once  beau- 
dful  city  where  he  could  walk  or  ride  with 
some  freedom  from  discomfort  and  danger, 
and  where  he  was  not  oppressed  by  multitude 
and  distance,  as  now. 

The  cuts  illustrating  the  foregoing  article  we 
believe  to  be  of  especial  interest  and  worthy 
of  somewhat  careful  study  by  any  one  at  all  fa- 


miliar with  New  York  to-day ;  to  those  whose 
memories  go  back  a  half  century  or  over  they 
will  prove  of  still  greater  value. 

The  contrast  between  the  city  of  1847  and 
that  of  1907  could  be  demonstrated  perhaps  in 
no  more  emphatic  manner,  as  the  localities  in 
the  1907  views  are  almost  identically  the 
same  as  in  the  1847  pictures.  In  the  first 
set,  on  Pages  4  and  5,  Castle  Garden  (now 
the  Aquarium)  may  be  distinguished  to  the 
left  in  each  picture.  The  old-time  print  is  re- 
produced from  Val- 
entine's Manual,  a 
publication  that  may 
be  recalled  by  some 
of  our  readers.  The 
modern  view  is  the 
very  latest  picture  of 
the  famous  sky-line 
and  was  procured  at 
considerable  expense, 
never  having  been 
published. 

On  Page  7  are 
shown  the  historic  St. 
Paul's  church,  at 
Broadway  and  Fulton 
street,  and,  just  across, 
on  the  opposite  side  of  Broadway,  the  tower- 
ing St.  Paul  Building.  It  was  from  the  spire  of 
the  church  that  the  view  of  New  York  in 
1847  shown  in  the  smaller  cut  on  this  page 
was  taken,  while  that  of  New  York  today 
was  taken  from  the  St.  Paul  Building.  The 
latter  structure  stands  on  the  site  of  Barnum's 
Museum,  (the  building  on  the  corner  at  the 
extreme  left  of  the  small  picture);  opposite  the 
the  Museum,  in  the  immediate  foreground,  ap- 
pears a  bit  of  the  church's  roof. 

The  contrast  between  the  city  of  three,  four 
or  five  stratas  and  the  other  city,  pushing  ever 
farther  and  farther  toward  the  sky  until  its 
people  almost  forget  that  terra  firma  exists,  is 
marked  indeed.  What  the  New  York  of 
sixty  years  hence  will  look  like  is  more  inter- 
esting than  profitable  to  speculate  upon. 

The  New  York  Mirror  of  1840  describes 
"an  evening  in  the  life  of  a  bachelor"  in  New 
York.     We  find  him  seated   "in  his  chamber. 


1847 — THEN 


THE  SILVER  STANDARD 


now—  I!  M  )7 


looking  out  upon  the  Battery  through  the  open 
casement"  and  soliloquizing:  "What  shall  I 
do  tonight?  In  this  warm  weather  nobody 
goes  to  the  theater.  *  *  *  Skyrockets,  gol- 
den rain,  and  flights  of  fiery  pigeons  at  Castle 
Garden  may  entertain  country  people;  I  am 
weary  of  them. 

Finally  he  determines  to  "call  on  the  Miss 
Hums"  and  prepares  to  make  his  toilet.  "Dick 
held  an  inaudible  debate  for  five  minutes, 
whether  the  white  trousers  which  then  encased 
his  legs  —  or  gun-cases,  as  his  companions 
termed  them — were  not  too  soiled  for  the  oc- 
casion; reflecting  upon  the  unreasonable  charges 
made  by  laundresses,  and  it  occurring  to  him 
that  he  possessed  no  other  pair  of  that  colour- 
less colour,  he  determined  they  would  do. 
Carefully  adjusting  his  neck-cloth,  and  apply- 
ing a  small  quantity  of  'incomparable  Macas- 
sar* to  his  ample  locks,  and  a  few  drops  of 
Farina  to  his  handkerchief,  he  seized  his  ebony 
walking-stick,  mounted  with  gold-coloured  met- 
al, and  set  out  with  a  jaunty  air,"  etc. 

It  is  only  a  glimpse,  but  a  rather  interesting 
one,  that  this  extract  affords  us  of  the  young 
bachelor  of  the  40's. 

The  Scientific  American  in  1848  thus  de- 
scribed a  proposed  "railroad  in  Broadway": 
"It  is  proposed  to  lay  a  double  track  of  cast 
iron  six  feet  in  width,  rails  and  track  together, 
and  to  run  a  train  up  and  down  every  ten 
minutes.  The  cars  are  to  be  very  narrow,  and 
the  track  is  promised  not  to  impede  the  transit 
of  other  vehicles. 

"It  seems  to  us  that  there  is  a  necessity  of  some 
plan  of  general  conveyances  to  supercede  the 
continual  increase  of  omnibuses  which  have 
now  become  almost  a  city  nuisance. 

"The  elevated  railways  of  Randall  and  De- 
Witt  are  objectionable  but  only  on  the  ground 
of  unnecessary  expense  and  inconvenience  in 
comparison  with  terra  firma  locomotion.  'What 
is  the  use,'  it  has  been  said,  'of  building  a  road 
above  plain  level  ground — as  reasonable  would 
it  be  to  build  a  bridge,  over  a  level  and  dry 
plain? 

"It  is  certainly  no  great  credit  to  our  city  to 
exhibit  the  dirtiest  streets  and  the  heaviest  tax- 
ation of  any  other  city  in  the  Union.  Its  ex- 
penses for  last  year  were  $2,709,452,  which, 
allowing  our  city  to  contain  400,000  inhabi- 
tants, amounts  to  the  extraordinary  tax  of 
nearly  seven  dollars  per  head  for  every  man, 
woman  and  child  in  Gotham.  It  is  no  doubt 
easy  to  find  fault,  nevertheless  it  would  be 
saying  but  little  for  our  city's  genius  if  we  con- 
clude to  stick  in  the  mud. 

"  The  great  difficulty  will  be  in  establishing 
branches.  '    The  only  way  to  remove 

this  difficulty,  would  be  to  have  a  scale  of 
prices.  The  main  Broadway  Road  should 
charge  no  more  than  three  cents." 

An  "English  traveler"  (quoted  by  the  New 
York  Mirror)  found  Broadway  in  the  40's 
"nothing  very  remarkable  in  appearance,"  with 
"some  good  houses  and  some  very  shabby 
ones."  He  describes  stalls  of  pineapples, 
"iced  cream  and  iced  lemonade"  and  peaches 
| in  carts  "hawked  about  at  three  for  a  penny." 
!  A  stranger,  he  says,  would  be  puzzled  by 
ithe  announcement  in  a  shop-window  of  "New 
Jersey  shin-plasters  taken  here  at  par"; 
tat  another  "Broken  bank-notes  wanted,"  etc. 


He  dwells  at  considerable  length  upon  the 
tobacco  habit,  especially  the  custom  of  chew- 
ing, which  in  that  period  of  our  history  never 
escaped  comment  from  visitors  from  over  the 
seas.  He  declares  that  with  a  stranger  "amid 
every  impression,  and  above  ihem  all,  would 
be  the  sensation  of  breathing  an  almosphere  in 
which  tobacco-smoke  was  a  principal  ingre- 
dient." 

He  also  speaks  of  ladies  being  "annoyed 
whilst  walking  by  receiving  upon  their  dresses 
an  occasional  proof  of  the  habit  of  chewing; 
an  annoyance  which  is  not  easily  guarded 
against,  as  many  of  the  gentlemen  pass  their 
evenings  sitting  in  clusters  round  the  entrances 
to  the  various  hotels"  with  results  that  may  be 
imagined. 

The  Mirror  admits  "that  there  is  some  truth 
in  the  remarks  relative  to  the  habit  of  cluster- 


WHERE  THE  PICTURES  WERE  TAKEN. 

The  view  of  old  New  York  on  the  opposite  page 
was  taken  from  the  spire  of  St.  Paul's  Church,  looking 
south;  the  photograph  of  the  modern  city  was  taken 
from  the  St.  Paul  Building,  on  the  opposite  side  of 
Broadway.  Both  these  structures  appear  in  the  above 
picture,  showing  their  proximity . 


ing  upon  the  stoups  of  our  hotels"  and  staring 
at  the  pretty  girls,  adding,  "The  custom  is  one 
which  we  should  like  to  see  reformed." 

New  York  may  lay  claim,  among  things 
of  greater  and  some  of  less  importance,  to  the 
pioneer  baseball  club,  the  Knickerbockers, 
which,  formed  in  September,  1845,  played 
the  first  match  game  on  June  19,  1846,  at 
Hoboken,  New  Jersey. 

This  first  game,  according  to  a  writer  in 
the  Scrap  Book,  consisted  of  four  innings,  the 
rule  being  that  the  club  that  first  made  twenty- 
one  runs  should  be  awarded  the  game.  The 
code  adopted  by  the  Knickerbockers  formed 
the  basis  for  the  rules  of  today.  The  Knick- 
erbocker club  was  followed  by  the  Gothams 
in  1 850  and  the  popularity  of  the  "New  York" 
game  soon  spread  to  other  states  and  new 
clubs  sprang  up. 


Then  and  Now-"1847  Rogers  Bros." 

In  the  foreground  of  the  larger  picture  on 
the  opposite  page,  in  the  left  hand  corner,  may 
be  seen  a  part  of  the  building  containing  the 
down  town  warerooms  of  the  International 
Silver  Co.,  in  Maiden  Lane,  where  all  the  lines 
of  the  various  factoiies  are  to  be  found.  Sur- 
rounded by  buildings  typefying  the  growth  and 
progress  of  the  great  city,  this  store,  together 
with  the  old  uptown  branch  of  the  Meriden 
Britannia  Co.,  on  Fifth  avenue,  corner  of  26th 
street  (Madison  Square),  also  represents  growth 
— the  growth  of  a  business.  Indeed,  it  would 
not  be  far  out  of  the  way  to  say  the  growth 
of  a  great  industry,  so  closely  is  the  business 
identified  with  the  silver  plate  industry  from  the 
very  begnning  of  the  latter. 

The  electro-silver  plating  process  was  dis- 
covered in  1847  by  Rogers  Bros.,  then  of 
Hartford,  Conn.,  and  ever  since  that  time 
"1847  Rogers  Bros."  has  been  the  mark  that 
has  distinguished  the  original  brand  of  silver 
plated  flatware.  Not  only  is  the  "  1 847  Rogers 
Bros."  brand  the  original  but — as  the  trade 
knows — it  is  by  far  the  most  largely  sold  to- 
day. During  the  last  ten  years  the  increase  in 
the  output  has  been  160  per  cent.  During 
1 906  it  is  estimated  that  the  increase  in  sales 
of  "1847  Rogers  Bros."  amounted  to  almost, 
if  not  quite,  the  total  sales  of  any  brand  of  sil- 
ver plated  flatware  not  made  by  the  Interna- 
tional Silver  Co. 

There  are  three  elements  that  have  entered 
into  the  making  of  this  success.  In  the  reverse 
order  of  their  importance  they  are:  (I)  Ad- 
vertising; (2)  Reputation  of  the  goods;  (3) 
Satisfaction  of  purchasers. 

As  to  advertising.  We  advertise  the  year 
round — hot  weather  and  cold.  In  the  brisk 
season  we  try  to  turn  trade  our  way — your 
way  if  you  handle  our  goods.  In  the  com- 
paratively dull  season  we  try  to  awaken  or  re- 
vive interest  in  silverware  in  general  and  ours 
in  particular.  All  together  we  advertise  in 
over  500  publications,  including  the  New  York 
and  Brooklyn  daily  papers.  A  woman  can 
hardly  pick  up  a  magazine  that  she  does  not 
see  "1847  Rogers  Bros."  advertising.  No 
other  silver  is  advertised  so  persistently  and 
extensively.  We  are  always  ready  to  help 
the  dealer  advertise,  too,  and  we  supply,  free, 
electrotypes  for  newspaper  announcements, 
signs,  show  cards,  circulars,  etc.  We  are  also 
glad  to  do  anything  we  can  in  the  way  of 
suggestion  and  advice. 

That  the  reputation  of  "  1847  Rogers  Bros." 
is  a  most  potent  factor  in  its  success  goes  with- 
out saying.  Advertising  is  merely  keeping 
this  reputation  before  the  public.  It  is  a  rep- 
utation of  sixty  years'  standing.  Notwith- 
standing this,  we  are  as  jealous  of  it  as  if  it 
were  a  thing  of  but  yesterday.  We  realize 
that  we  must  continue  to  make  good. 

Advertising  and  reputation  would  not  long 
be  of  value  were  it  not  for  the  fact  that  the 
goods  we  advertise  prove  to  be  what  we  claim 
for  them.  We  have  many  letters  in  our  pos- 
session today  from  people  who  know  that 
"1847  Rogers  Bros."  goods  will  wear,  because 
they  have  tested  them  for  a  generation  or  more. 

Summed  up,  the  sales  of  "1847  Rogers 
Bros."  silverware  surpass  the  sales  of  any 
other  brand  on  the  market  because  of  the  ab- 
solute truth  in  the  phrase  used,  to  describe  it — 
"Silver  Plate  that  Wears," 


THE  SILVER  STANDARD,  FEBRUARY,   1847. 


The 

StlucrStandarri 
Established 

in  1847  BY 
Rogers  Bros. 


FEBRUARY,  1847. 

COLT'S  PISTOLS 

ARE  THEY  TO  BE 
HADE  IN  MEXICO? 

Captain  Walker  left 
Springfield,  Mass.,  yes- 
terday for  Washington, 
having  while  in  New 
York,  among  other 
things,  made  a  contract 
for  1,000  Revolving 
Pistols  for  the  new 
Mounted  Rifle  Regi- 
ment, which  is  to  serve 
in  Mexico.  This  regi- 
ment is  to  be  armed 
with  a  pair  of  these 
weapons,  besides  rifles. 
It  was  found  impossible 
to  obtain  any  number  of 
these  pistols  in  Spring- 
field, such  has  of  late 
been  the  demand  for 
them  for  soldiers  and 
others  going  to  Mexico. 

It  is  a  fact  worth 
noting  that  the  German 
who  has  been  the  prin  - 
cipal  mechanic  or 
manufacturer  of  these 
revolvers  has  recently 
left  us  and  suddenly  for 
Mexico  with  his  chests 
of  tools  and  machinery. 
It  is  pretty  well  ascer-] 
tained  that  he  has  had 
most  liberal  and  rich  re- 
wards from  the  Gov- 
ernment of  Mexico, 
which  have  tempted 
him  to  leave  New 
York,  in  order  to  begin 
the  manufacture  of  that 
deadly  weapon  in  a 
foreign  country. 


A  HOGGISH 
CONVEYANCE  — 

A  farmer  of  St.  Al- 
bans, Vermont,  re- 
cently made  a  grand 
entree  into  that  place 
mounted  on  a  car 
drawn  by  four  large 
hogs.  He  entered  the 
town  at  a  full  trot, 
amidst  the  acclamations 
of  hundreds. 

After  making  the 
tour  of  the  market  place 
three  or  four  times,  he 
went  into  the  back 
yard,  and  had  his 
swinish  cattle  unhar- 
nessed, and  taken  into 
a  stable  together,  when 
they  were  regaled  with 
a  trough  full  of  beans 
and  wash. 

JOHN  JACOB 
ASTOR— An  ex- 
change paper,  speaking 
of  John  Jacob  Astor, 
says  he  designs  es- 
tablishing an  institution 
for  the  advancement  of 
deserving  and  honest 
young  men  by  supply- 
ing them  with  a  capital 
varying  from  one  to  five 
thousand  dollars  , 
wherewith  to  com- 
mence life  and  forward 
them  in  their  respective 
callings. 


OUR    RAILROADS 

NOW  5.000  MILES  IN 
COUNTRY. 

In  seventeen  years 
5,000  miles  of  railroad 
have  been  constructed 
in  the  United  States, 
at    an    expense    of 

$120,000,000.     This 

is  unprecedented  in  the 
history  of  civil  construc- 
tions. It  demonstrates 
beyond  any  other  fact 
the  growth,  the  un- 
ceasing industry,  and 
cumulative  power  of 
capital  in  this  new  and 
vigorous  nation. 

The  present  annual 
investment  in  railroad 
construction  is  about 
$15,000,000.  The 
actual  saving  in  ex- 
penses of  transportation 
probably  greatly  ex- 
ceedes  this.  In  this 
way  railroads  on  good 
routes  (and  in  our  new 
country  nearly  all  are 
good),  act  as  Savings 
Banks. 

The  lines  of  road 
number  147.  The 
first  railroad  ever  built 
in  the  United  States 
was  at  Quincy,  Mass., 
4  miles  long,  finished  in 
1827;  the  second  was 
the  Mauch  Chunk 
Road,  Pennsylvania,  5 
miles  long,  having  a 
track  but  3  feet  6  inches 
wide.  The  highest 
grade  of  a  travelled  road 
(80  feet  in  a  mile)  is 
on  the  Springfield  and 
Albany  where  it  crosses 
the  Green  Mountain 
chain.  That  from 
Cleveland,  Ohio,  to  the 
quarries,  has  a  grade  of 
264  feet  to  the  mile. 

FOOLISH-Pro- 

fessor  Hamilton's  re- 
marks at  the  Buffalo 
College  on  asphyxia, 
and  particularly  that 
form  caused  by  wearing 
tight  cravats,  may  be  of 
interest  to  the  general 
reader. 

Some  public  speak- 
ers. Members  of 
Congress,  and  clergy- 
men hang  themselves 
by  wearing  cravats  and 
stocks,  high  and  tight, 


thereby  imped- 
ing the  return 
of  the  blood 
from  the  head; 
this  can  be  ex- 
plained  on 
physiological 
principles. 

Students  are 
not  altogether 
free  from  the 
effects  of  ligita- 
tion  of  the 
neck.  It  is  sur- 
prising how  lit- 
tle pressu'  is 
necessary  to 
prevent  the  free 
flow  of  blood 
from  the  head. 

In  clergy- 
men, who  are 
particu  larly 
prone  to  bun- 
dle their  necks 
with  large  cra- 
vats, bronchitis  ^S| 
is  induced,  and  -Js 
the  vocal  cords  =i§f 
become  relax-  ^jj 
ed  as  a  conse-  ^3 
quence.  Men 
who  speak  ex- 
temporaneous- -.-ajjHB 
ly  can  speak 
longer  and  with 
greater  ease 
than  those  who 
read,  as  their 
voice  is  not  con- 
fined so  much 
to  one  key,  and  can  be 
modulated  with  greater 
freedom . 

CLAY  PITCHER 

—  Henry  Clay  has  just 
had  another  silver 
pitcher  presented  to  him . 
He  will,  by  and  by, 
have  as  many  vessels  of 
this  sort  as  there  were 
in  the  ark  of  Moses. 
Wouldn't  it  be  well 
for  the  Whigs  to  pause 
before  proceeding  fur- 
ther in  so  wasteful  a 
consumption  of  one  of 
the  precious  metals? 
asks  a  writer  in  the  Bos- 
ton Post. 

There  are  thirteen 
manufacturing  corpora- 
tions in  New  York  city 
embracing  a  capital 
stock  of  $11,490,000 
and  numbering  45 
mills.  These  mills  give 
employment  to  7,915 
females  and  3 ,  340  male 
operatives. 


LOLA  MONTEZ. 


LOLA  MONTEZ 

OPERA  DANCER  HAS 
WON  ROYAL  FAVOR 

The  King  of  Bavaria 
has  conferred  a  patent 
of  nobility  and  the  tide 
of  Countess  of  Mans- 
field, together  with  a 
pension  of  25,000 
francs  (about  $10,- 
000)  on  the  Irish  opera 
dancer,  Betsey  Watson 
otherwise  called  by  the 
soft  name  of  Lola 
Montez.  She  is  a  stout, 
strapping  Amazon,  and 
lately  knocked  down  an 
officer  who  accidentally 
ran  against  her  in  the 
street.  The  King  has 
just  pulled  down  five 
large  buildings  to  erect 
a  palace  for  her  in  his 
capital,  Munich,  and  in 
consequenee  several  of 
of  the  most  respectable 
families  have  quit  the 
city,  'tis  said,  in  disgust. 


STRIK- 
ING  SIGNS 

— Wait&Ket- 
chum   is   the 
very  appropri- 
ate name  of  a 
firm    in    New 
York,     which    makes 
patent  medicines  on   a 
large  scale. 

Call  &  Settle  have  a 
tailoring  establishment 
in  Meadville,  Tenn. 
We  presume  they  give 
short  credits. 

Neal  &  Pray  is  a 
business  firm  in  Port- 
land, Me.  It  is  super- 
fluous to  add  that  they 
belong  to  orthodox 
churches. 

One  of  the  drop  cur- 
tains of  the  Broadway 
Theatre  cost  $1,000. 
It  is  of  silk  damask. 

A  man  in  Spring- 
field, Ohio,  thus  an- 
nounces himself  a  can- 
didate for  constable: 
"Phillip  E.  Bametthas 
a  wife  and  thirteen 
children,  is  poor,  afraid 
to  steal,  too  lazy  to 
work  and  would  like  to 
be  elected  constable." 


HEBREW  RELIC 

WAS  IN  POSSESSION 
OF  INDIANS. 

By  the  politeness  of 
Col.  Lea,  Commission- 
er of  Indian  affairs,  we 
have  seen  a  curiosity  of 
great  rarity  and  interest, 
left  for  a  few  days  at 
the  bureau.  It  was 
brought  from  the  Pot- 
tawatomie Reservation, 
on  the  Kansas  River, 
by  Dr.  Lykins,  who 
has  been  residing  on  the 
frontier. 

It  consists  of  four  small 
rolls  or  strips  of  parch- 
ment, closely  packed  in 
the  compartments  of  a 
little  box  or  locket  of 
about  an  inch  cubical 
content.  On  these 
parchments  are  written 
in  a  style  of  unsurpassed 
excellence,  and  far 
more  beautiful  than 
print,  portions  of  the 
Pentateuch. 

The  question  occurs 
here,  does  not  this  cir- 
cumstance give  some 
color  to  the  idea,  long 
and  extensively  enter- 
tained, that  the  In- 
dians of  our  continent 
are  more  or  less  Jewish 
in  their  origin? 

HURLGATE— It 

is  not  disputed  that  the 
name  of  the  crooked, 
rocky  narrows  above 
Harlem,  was  originally 
Hellgate,  and  some 
writers  are  frequently 
quarreling  with  those 
who  call  it  otherwise. 
But  a  better  taste  pre- 
vailing with  the  major- 
ity, whose  good  sense 
teaches  them  that  there 
is  no  binding  necessity 
for  continuing  adher- 
ance  to  original  names 
of  places,  the  place  is 
generally  called  Hurl- 
gate.  Those  who  are 
particularly  partial  to 
the  former  name  are 
left  at  liberty  to  retain  it 
nevertheless. 

All  postages  at  the 
different  offices  throu  gh  - 
out  the  country  are  to  be 
paid  in  gold  and  silver 
coin.  The  law  went 
into  effect  on  Jan.  1 . 


>lT^MONG  the  improvements  in  our  social  condi- 
i«lll»  tion  in  the  last  two  years  we  may  mention  the 
great  increase  of  railroads;  the  rapid  extension  of 
telegraphs;  the  essay  to  share  in  the  navigation  by 
ocean  steamers — and  lastly,  the  use  of  ether  and 
similar  gases. 


Stryker's  "American  Quarterly  Register 


A  correspondent  says  The  manufacturers  The  expense  lncur- 
wood  goes  further  when 'of  Lowell  have  resolved  red  by  the  New  York 
it  is  left  out-of-doors,  I  to  allow  their  operatives  Police  department  dur- 
some  of  his  having  gone,three-quarters  of  an  ling  the  last  year,  for 
a  quarter  of  a  mile  in  hour  for  breakfast  as  carting  drunkards,  was 
one  night.  I  well  as  for  dinner.  ,$1,336.36. 


During  the  year 
1846  208  dwellings 
were  erected  in  the  city 
of  Washington,  D.  C. 
The  total  number  of 
dwellings  is  4,765. 


John  B .  Gough 
proves  a  very  lion 
wherever  he  goes.  He 
has  returned  to  Albany 
after  a  very  successful 
tour  North. 


ETHER'S  EVILS 

INTOXICATION  FOR 
TEETH  DRAWING. 

Intoxication  for  teeth 
drawing  is  patented,  it 
seems,  says  the  New- 
ark Daily  Advertiser, 
by  a  Boston  money 
maker  who  follows  the 
business  cf  dentistry; 
and,  adds  the  Adver- 
tiser, I  wish  to  say  to 
the  reader  in  this  vicin- 
ity that  the  iniquity  is 
distinctly  condemned 
by  respectable  physi- 
cians and  surgeons  as 
fraught  with  mischief. 
Besides  the  possible 
evils  to  the  patient  of 
inhaling  the  fluid  (sul- 
phuric ether),  which 
are  by  no  means  incon- 
siderable, the  intoxicat- 
ing draught  violates  a 
clear  law  of  Nature, 
and  in  some  surgical 
operations  may  prevent 
recovery.  The  pain 
we  suffer  when  injury 
is  inflicted  on  the  nerv- 
ous system  stimulates 
the  recuperative  pro- 
cess and  the  energies  of 
the  body  rally  to  help 
recovery. 


TIGHT  LACING 

— A  Philadelphia  pa- 
per states  that  some  of 
the  ladies  of  Boston 
have  got  to  lacing  their 
corsets  so  tight  that  they 
fairly  cut  themselves  in 
two,  so  one  half  of 
them  can  go  to  church 
while  the  other  half 
goes  to  a  dance.  We 
are  happy  to  state  that 
the  report  has  no  other 
foundation  than  the  de- 
sire of  certain  young 
ladies  to  do  so. 


ONE  OR  TOTH- 

ER— "A  dozen  child- 
ren may  seem  a  large 
family  with  our  folks 
who  are  moderate, '  re- 
marked Mrs.  Parting- 
ton, "but  my  poor  dear 
husband  used  to  tell  a 
story  of  a  woman  in 
some  part  of  the  world 
where  he  stopped  one 
night,  who  had  nine- 
teen children  in  five 
years;  or  five  children 
in  nineteen  years,  1 
don't  recollect  which, 
but  I  remember  it  was 
one  or   tother." 


YANKEE    IN- 
VENTION- A 

Yankee  has  just  com- 
pleted a  very  important 
invention.  It  is  de- 
signed for  country  edi- 
tors, and  when  per- 
(acted  will  cut  out 
items,  patch  trowsers, 
3'ind  out  poetry,  rock 
little  responsibilities, 
stuff  bustles  and  dun 
delinquent  subscribers. 


Telegraphic  com- 
munication was  ex- 
changed between  New 
Haven,  Conn.,  and 
Toronto,  Upper  Can- 
ada, on  Wednesday 
last,  —a  distance  of  900 
miles. 


Cljr  ^tltier  fetan&aru 


ESTABLISHED  IN  1847  BY  ROGERS  BROS. 


Vol.   III.     No.  2. 


APRIL,  1847. 


Five  I 


GOVERNMENT 
RAILROADS 

NATIONAL  SYSTEM  SHOULD 
BE  CONSTRUCTED. 


CONGRESS  MUST  ESTABLISH  RAILWAYS 

AS  POST  ROADS  OR  GIVE  UP 

MAIL  SERVICE. 

The  railroad  has  be-  the  main  routes,  it  is  the 
come  the  great  instru-  only  road  on  which  the 
ment  of  land  commerce  mail  can  be  carried 
nd  trade.  No  general  with  any  advantage  to 
system  worthy  to  bring  the  public.  The  pow- 
the  distant  parts  of  this  er  to  establish  post- 
great  land  into  near  roads  is  not  carried  out! 
neighborhood  with  each  in  the  late  act  of  Con- 
other  has  yet  been  con-  gress  which  authorizes 
structed,  or,  so  far  as  the  Postmaster- Gen  - 
we  are  aware,  contriv-  eral  to  make  contracts 
ed.  It  seems  to  us  that  with  the  owners  of  the 
the  fullness  of  time  has  railroads,  from  year  to 
come  for  the  action  of  year,  to  carry  the  mail. 
Congress  in  this  matter.  Such  a  contract  surely 
Such  a  system  can  establishes  no  post- 
only  be  devised  and  road.  If  it  establishes 
speedily  completed  by  anything,  it  is  the  de- 
the  general  government,  pendence  of  the  generai 
Into  the  hands  of  that  government  on  the  in- 
government  has  been  terest  or  caprice  of  the 
entrusted,  for  the  bene-  owners  of  railroads 
fit  of  the  people,  an  im 
mensebody  of  land,  and  be  compelled  to  estab 


FASHIONS  FOR  WOMAN  AND  CHILDREN. 


THE  RECORD 
OF  CONGRESS 

TWENTY-NINTH  WILL  NOT 
SOON  BE  FORGOTTEN. 


WILL   BE    MEMORABLE   IN   ANNALS  OF 

REPUBLIC  FOR  EVILS  IT 

HAS  DONE. 

The  XXIXth  Con-  movement  toward  war. 
gress  is  one  that  will  not  The  first  session  of 
soon  be  forgotten — one  the  XXIXth  Congress 
of  which  the  acts  and  ended  disastrously  for 
the  omissions  to  act  the  whole  country, 
will,  for  the  evil  it  has  War  had  been  pro- 
done  or  suffered,  be  claimed,  a  prcductive 
memorable  in  the  an-  Tariff,  in  the  requisi- 
nals  of  the  Republic.       tions    of    which    both 

The  issues  upon  commerce  and  manu- 
which  the  Presidential  factures  had  adjusted 
election  has  been  de-  themselves,  was  repeal- 
cided  of  the  annexa-  ed;  and  an  excellent, 
tion  of  Texas  at  all  easy,  economical,  self- 
hazards -of  the  repeal  regulating  currency  was 
of  the  Tariff,  and  a  repudiated,  while  in  the 
return  to  comparative  same  breath  which  de- 
free   trade,    and  to  the  nounced    penalties 


Indianapolis,  and  Tuscaloosa,    Florence,        PASTEBOARD   . 

Springfield   to   Quincy  Nashville.  Frankfort,  SHOES-The  "Arti- 1  barbarian   policy  of    a  against  the  use  of  any 

or  Alton,  on  the  Miss-  Cincinnati,  Dayton,  san"  describes  a  speci_ !  hard  money  currency-   medium    but   gold  and 

issippi.       A    branch  Toledo,    and  Monroe,  men   of   cheatery   i n  I  ^ .  l™5^   yXmch  ,he  sllve,r-    'arge    J?ues    of 

Thar'Congr'esT  will   should   Proceed  from  to  Detroit.     This  line,  shoes,  of  which  we  had  I  X  X '  *  ',n   Congress  irredeemable  Treasury 

«  compelled  to  estab-   Pittsburgh   to    Erie    or  with  its  branch,  would  heard,    but  never  sup- 

the  exclusive    right    of  lish   railway;   as    post-   C   eveland.        1  his  require  a  road  of  about  posed  to  be  the  fact: — 

raising  money  by  taxing  roads   or    give   up   the   would  .embrace  an  ex-  1,100  miles.                              1  he   shoes   are    of 

tent   or   about    I  ,U(JU  An  appropriation  by  the  coarse  brogan  kind, 

miles.  Congress  of   $5,000  a  such  as  sell  at  retail  for 

The  fourth  line  might  mile  would   insure  the  $1. 00  and    $1.25. 

North  and   the  South,   are  the  only  means  by  commence  at   Rich-  completion  of  these  6,-  What  is  usually  the  sole 

are  allowed  to  influence   which  the  Post  Office  mond,  in  V  irginia,  and  800   miles   within    the  is,    in    this   case,    only 

the  proceedings  of  Con-   Department   can    be  Pas»    through     Lynch-  next  five  or  six  years.  very  thin  poor  leather— 

gress,  we  cannot  doubt   made   generally    bene-   burg,  Charleton,  Point  If  Congress  takes  no  !L,may  ,be    sheepskin 


imports.       If  the  wishes  maiJ  service,  no  one  can 

of   the   people    of    the   doubt. 

East  and  the  West,  the       Although  railroad 


that,    before   another  ficial,  and  the  power  to  Pleasant,    and    Chilli-   efficient   action  on  this  The  welt  is  very  thick 

year,  the  representative  construct  them  for  this  cothe   to    Dayton,    on   subject,   mass  meetings  coarse  leather,  to  which 

body  will  devise  a  plan  one  object  is  clearly  de-  !he  j-        K'.  compre-   should  be  held  in  every  both  upper  lea ther  and 

of  improvement  just  to  volved  on  our  nationa  bending   a   distance  of   State    to    confer  as  to 

the  different  sections,  government,  there  are  a"°Jtt  -^U  miles.               the  best  means  of  mak- 

and   satisfactory  to  the  other  national  interests  The  fifth  line  would   ing  the  national  govern  - 

whole  nation.  which    would   be  pro-  commence   at  Charles-   ment  conform  its  legis 


sole  are  sewed  or  peg- 
ged; the  deficiency  in- 
side is  supplied  by  thick 
yellow    pasteboard. 

The  constitutional   moted  by  railroads,  well  ton.    South    Carolina,   lation  to  the  wishes  of    '  he  shoes  thus  appear 

to  have  very  good  stout 


power   of   Congress  to  worthy   the   immediate  and-    passing   through  the  people, 

construct,  or  aid  to  con-  attention   of   Congress.  Hamburgh,    Augusta,  The  executive  com-  soles-          .  very   lllVe 

struct,  a  national  system  The  most   important  of  and  numerous  small  vil-  mjttee  of   the   Chicago  vvear  carries  aw'ay  the 

of   railroads,    rests   on  these  are  internal  com- !' ages   in    Georgia,  convention,  will,  in  that  thin  skin  ot  the  sole,  and 

firmer    and    broader  merce,  national  defence  Chattanooga  and  Nash-  ^     ^H    a    naQona]   the   yellow   pasteboard 


posed  too   late   for  th 
chaser.      We  have 


seemed,  by  the  very  notes  were  authorized, 
circumstances  under  On  4th  January,  the 
which  it  was  consti-  President  sent  a  mes- 
tuted,  pledged  to  carry'  sage  to  both  Houses, 
out.  urging   anew  attention 

In  the  Senate,  an  old  to  the  recommendation 
man  like  General  Cass  that  ten  new  regiments 

to  whom  age  has  be  added  to  the  army 
failed  to  bring  wisdom  and  that  a  general  offi- 
or  moderation,  and,  cer,  to  take  command 
who,  dreaming  only  of  of  all  our  armies  in  the 
how  he  should  com-  field,  be  created, 
pass  the  Presidency,  at  It  was  not  till  the  last 
once  mounted  the  war-  moment  almost  of  the 
horse  talked  of  a  rup-  last  day  of  the  session 
ture  with  Great  Britain  that  the  House  of  Rep- 
as  inevitable,  and  was  resentatives  consented 
anxious,  with  other  not  to  give  way  to  the  Sen- 
wiser  nor  more  disinter-  ate,  which  pe'empton- 
ested  men  "to  prepare  ly  refused  to  ii/est  the 
the  hearts  of  the  people  President  wit .  he  un- 
for  war."  heard-of   power   asked 

Happily  the  modera -  for,    of  puttii  g  juniors 

tion  of  British  counsels,   over  the  heaJs  of  sen- 

and  that  of  some  emi-  iors,  and  consHtuting  by 

nent  men  of  the  South-   his  fiat,  citizen  Benton 

ing  of  the  domi-   —for   everyone  under- 


cut we  do   nant  party,  were   sue- '  stood  that  for  him  was 


Knfrom900   m?grh,faSiiaforrneVhh:;       VALUABLE^;   Calhoun ,  that  |  field  Scott  and  Zachary 
0  miles  long.         t"e  power  nor  the  duty  OFFICES  -  The   of-  j  he  ^dly  °^d  ,hls !  TaJlor !    


fence  v-iiauauymsaauui^oMi-  t^se,    call    a    national  ;  . 

grounds   than  the  con-  and  repressing  insurrec-  X^.     I  ennessee,    and  convention    to    repre-  P£esems   Useir,  and  tne 

struction  of  harbors  and  tion.  thence   directing  its  sent     we   hope>    tne  f_?jel7    '] 

the    improvement    of       What   lines   of   rail-jcourse   to   the  Mississ-  friends  of  a  railroad  sys- 

rivers.  roads  should  be  adopt-  |'PPi  opposite  St.  Louis.  tera  as  well  as  of  river  Purcnaser 

Under   the  express  ed   and   established   as :  with    which   it    should  and    harbor    improve-  J£n  "  ' ■' ^e^'head  I  cessful    in  averting  this ;  all  this  arbitrary  illegal- 
power       to    establish   post-roads  of   the    first  connect^  pass  on  to  its  ments.     A  partial  sys-  ^w  invent  ons  "         great  danger.     It  is  to  itv at.emp.ed-the  mili- 
post-offices    and    post-   class?                                  Western    terminus     a.  ,em     embracing    only  °t  new  inventions.  £  *  ^  m^ 
roads.       Congress    is       One  line  should  con-  Alton  or  Quincy.    l^his  harbors   and   riv 
bound  toestablish,  to  fix   nect   the   States  of  the  linewouli"' 

permanentlyforthecar-   Atlantic   border   from  to  1 ,000  mues  long.  the  power  nor  the  duty 

riage  of  the  mail,   the   Maine    to    Louisiana.       The    sixth   and    last  of   Congress   is    more  nce  of  Flour   Inspector 

best    instrumentality   Another    line   should  line   should   commence  clear  and  imperative  to  >»    the   city  of   New        When   the  magnetic       Mrs.    Whiting,  o' 

which    the    improve-   connect  the  great  mari-  at  New   Orleans,  pass  improve  rivers  and  har-  York  is  said  to  be  worth   telegraph  is  completed   Brooklyn,    N.    Y.„    a 

ments  of  the  age  have  time  ports  on   the  At-   over    the    Rigolets    to  bors,  for  the  purpose  of  $15,000  per  annum;    |0   Cincinnati,    news  young  married   lady, 

brought  into  use.     The  lanb'c    with    the    chief  Mobile,   from    which  regulating    commerce  Healthoffice,$12,000;    will  be  received  in  New  while  attempting  to  fill 

power    to    establish    a   points  on  the  lake  fron-   point  a   branch   should  with  foreign  nations  and  Inspector    of    pot    and    York   from    New  Or-  a   burning   lamp    with 

post-road  is   the  power  tier.       The    third   line  extend   to   the    Navy-  among  the  States,  than  pearl  ashes,  $20,000.      leans  by  way  of   Cin-  that  very    dangerous 

to  establish  the  BEST  should     commence   at  Yard    at    Pensacola.  to  build,  or  aid  to  build,  cinnati  in  from  four  to   fluid,   camphene— the 

post-road.      A    rail-   Philadelphia,  and  pass  From  Mobile,  the  main  railroads.     Thedutyof       The  population  of   five   days,    or    seventy  . use  of  which  ought   to 

road     is    not    only   through   Pittsburgh,  |  line   should   proceed  Congress    was    never  Texas  is  now  estimated   odd  hours  earlier  thanjbe  forbidden  bylaw— 

the  best  road,  but,    on  Zanesville,   Columbus,    northward    through  clearer  than  it  is  now.  at  about  1 23,000.  I  now  through  the  mails,    was  fatally  bumed. 

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We  have  at  hand  a  wide  variety  of  pieces  suitable  for  trophies  and  for 
presentation  purposes.  Our  oak  and  mahogany  chests  of  complete  sets  in 
sterling'  flatware  are  especially  adapted  for  occasions  that  seem  to  call  for  some- 
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SPECIAL  ILLUSTRATIONS 

of  our  line  of  trophies  will  besent  on  application. 
The  dealer  who  supplies  the  trophy  for  an  im- 
portant athletic  contest  Kets  a  certain  amount  of 
advertising  that  will  prove  of  considerable  value 
to  him.  Trophies  and  prizecups  look  well  in  the 
window  and  attract  attention.  Wesuggest  that 
the  dealer  keep  posted  on  what  we  make  and,  in 
many  cases,  it  will  be  advisable  for  him 
proach  the  athletes  instead  of  waiting  for  them 
Upon  him. 


Prize  Cup  with  Ebonized  Base 


Schools,  colleges,  athletic  clubs  and  other  organizations  are  arranging  for  the  summer's 
sports.  Trophies,  naturally,  will  figure  largely  in  their  plans.  Why  not  show  them  the 
advantage  of  getting  of  you  prize  cups,  etc.',  bearing  the  Meriden  Brita.  Co.  trade- 
mark?    A  suggestion  may  be  well  worth  making,  and  may  bring  future  trade  as  well. 


Distributed  to  the  Public  by  Progressive  Dealers. 


1N47—  THEN- 


-THE  SILVER  STANDARD- 


xoff- 1907 


trade — "1847  Rogers  Bros." — mark 

then— 1847 — and — 1907— now. 
Established  in  1847  by  Rogers  Bros. 

issued  BY 
Meridex  Britannia  Co.  .  Meridex,  Ct. 

(International  Silver  Co.,  Successor.) 


Vol.  Ill— No.  2.       APRIL,  1907.       5  Cents. 


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OUR  APRIL  NUMBER. 

The  present  number  sees  The  Standard  al- 
most back  in  its  old  form.  So  much  space  in 
the  February  issue  was  devoted  to  the  "Then 
and  Now  "  idea,  that  there  was  but  one  page 
left  in  which  to  discuss  the  matter  of  silver 
plate.  We  did  not  grudge  the  room  we  gave 
to  New  York,  but  we  shall 
confine  future  articles  more 
nearly  to  our  original  limits. 

Of  course,    we  all   know 
that  Mr.   Bryan  was  not  the 
original  advocate  of  govern- 
ment ownership  of  railroads. 
That,  however,  will  not  les- 
sen our  interest  in  the  argu- 
ments used  in  1847  along  the 
same  line.      The  screed    on 
our    first    page  might  find   a 
place   in  the    columns    of    a 
modern    publication  without 
undergoing    radical    change. 
The   arguments  of    1847   are 
met  with  in    1907    and   per- 
haps   governmental   interfer- 
ence  sixty  years    ago  would 
have  effected    no    more  up- 
heaval of  industrial  and  com- 
mercial   conditions  —  rela- 
tively—  than  it  would   to-day,  although    the 
interests  directly  involved,  of  course,   would  be 
vastly  greater   in  1907  than  in  1847.      In    the 
latter  year   the    147    railroads  in  this  country 
owned  5,300    odd   miles   of    track.     At    the 
close  of  1905  there  were  217,341  miles  in  the 
United  States. 

The  little  item  on  Page  1  calling  attention  to 
the  time  that  will  be  saved  when  the  "magnetic 
telegraph  is  completed  to  Cincinnati"  may  cause 
a  smile,  but  the  telegraph  was  new  and  very 
wonderful  in  1847.  It  was  on  March  3,  1843, 
that  Congress  passed  a  bill  appropriating  $30,- 
000  to  aid  in  establishing  the  telegraph,  and  a 
little  over  a  year  later — May  23,  1844 — the 
historic  message,  "What  hath  God  wrought!  ", 
flashed  from  Washington  to  Baltimore,  announc- 
ing to  the  world  that  man  at  last  had  outwitted 
time  and  space. 

In  the  February  number  we  printed  a  cut  of 
Lola  Montez,  the  dancer  who,  in  1847,  found 
herself  the  favorite  of  the  king  of  Bavaria.  To 
some  of  our  readers  Lola's  presence  may  have 
seemed  an  intrusion  in  a  magazine  devoted  ex- 
clusively to  things  American.  A  few  words  of 
explanation,  crowded  out  in  our  last  number, 
will  show  the  dancer's  right  to  a  place  in  The 
Standard. 

This  really  remarkable  woman  was  born  in 
Limerick,   Ireland,  in   1818.     Her  name  was 


Marie  Dolores  Eliza  Rosanna  Gilbert.  She 
married  Captain  Thomas  James  in  1837.  He 
divorced  her  in  1842,  whereupon  she  began 
taking  dancing  lessons  of  a  Spanish  teacher  and 
appeared  in  London  in  1843  as  "Lola  Montez, 
Spanish  dancer."  After  various  adventures  she 
appeared  in  Munich,  where,  as  appeared  in  our 
last  number,  she  became  the  mistress  of  the  old 
King,  Ludwig.  After  having  been  natural- 
ized, she  received  the  titles  of  Baronne  de  Ro- 
senthal and  Comtesse  de  Landsfeld.  The  Coun- 
tess controlled  the  king  absolutely  and  was  vir- 
tually the  ruler  of  Bavaria,  "a  position,"  we 
are  told,  "in  which  she  displayed  ability  and 
wisdom."  After  about  a  year  the  inevitable 
occurred  and,  owing  to  the  hostility  between  the 
liberal  and  conservative  students  of  the  univer- 
sity, there  was  a  serious  riot  which  came  near 
to  bringing  the  dancer  -  countess'  career  to  an 
abrupt  end.   The  closing  of  the  university  pre- 


ST.  LOUIS 


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ST.  LOUIS  IN  THE  '40s. 

(From  print  loaned  by  Missouri  Historical  Society). 

(  cipitated  an  insurrection  and,  on  March  2 1 , 
1 848,  Ludwig  was  forced  to  abdicate  and  Lola 
was  banished. 

After  more  adventures,  Lola  married  George 
Trafford  Heald  in  London,  July,  1849.  She 
was  summoned  for  bigamy,  but  fled  to  Spain. 
Heald  is  said  to  have  died  in  1853. 

In  1851  Lola  arrived  in  New  York,  where, 
as  might  have  been  expected,  she  attracted  great 
attention  and  drew  crowded  houses.  In  1853 
she  married  P.  P.  Hull,  of  San  Francisco.  Per- 
haps, considering  her  past  adventures,  the  "last 
scene  of  all"  in  her  life  drama  was  the  strangest. 
In  1859  she  devoted  herself  to  visiting  outcast 
women  and  labored  among  them  until  stricken 
with  paralysis.  She  died  at  Astoria,  N.  Y., 
January  17,  1861. 


On  the  first  page  we  show  "the  latest  fash- 
ions, just  from  Paris,"  as  the  magazines  of  the 
day  delighted  to  announce.  Fashions  have 
changed  since  1847,  and  in  many  ways  for 
the  better  (if  we  may  hazard  an  opinion). 

Of  course  the  garments  of  1 847  appear 
strange  to  us,  just  as  ours  will  seem  peculiar 
to  the  people  of  1967. 

A  missing  Yale  freshman  was  described  as 
wearing  a  "brown  frock  coat,  dark  green 
pantaloons,  double  breasted  black  vest  and 
cloth  cap."  Such  a  description  today  surely 
ought  to  land  the  man. 


IN  1847,  83  YEARS  AFTER  ITS 

FOUNDING,  CITY  OBSERVED 

ANNIVERSARY. 

The  population  of  St.  Louis  in  1847  was 
just  a  trifle  over  40,000.  It  had  doubled 
in  the  six  years  since  1 84 1 ,  and  it  was  to 
double  again  in  the  four  years  leading  to  1851, 
and  again  in  the  ten  years  to  1861,  and  still 
again  during  the  following  ten  years,  and  it  is 
now  nearly  twenty  times  as  great  as  in  1847. 
These  introductory  facts  give  some  idea  of  the 
rapidity  of  growth  that  has  brought  the  metrop- 
olis of  the  Mississippi  Valley  to  its  present 
position  of  importance. 

Yet,  in  the  year  1847,  St. 
Louis  was  perilously  nearing 
the  greatest  calamity  in  its 
history,  the  cholera  epidemic 
which  swept  away  8,475 
lives — or  nearly  one-fifth  of 
its  entire  population  in  1849. 
And,  too,  the  great  fire  of 
1 849,  which  destroyed  nearly 
its  entire  river  front,  at  that 
time  the  city's  most  important 
business  district,  was  to  serve 
as  another  blow  to  the 
growth  of  St.  Louis,  notwith- 
standing which,  the  record  as 
already  quoted  was  estab- 
lished. 

It  was  a  progressive  little 

city,  the  St.  Louis  of    1847, 

eager  to  keep  abreast  of  the 

American    progress  of  those 

days.       In  1841    a  company 

had     been    incorporated    for 

the  purpose  of  supplying  the  city  with  gas  light, 

and  the  first  lighting  with  gas   was  done   on 

the  night  of  November  4,   1847. 

Then,  too,  St.  Louis  in  1847  was  on  the 
verge  of  being  opened  up  to  the  rest  of  the 
American  continent  by  a  great  railroad.  The 
movement  to  this  end  had  begun  in  1836-37, 
but  nothing  had  come  of  it  until  renewed 
activity  in  1847  brought  about  the  introduction 
in  the  United  States  Senate  in  1849,  by 
Senator  Thomas  H.  Benton  of  Missouri,  of  a 
bill  to  provide  for  the  location  and  construction 
of  a  central  national  road  from  the  Pacific 
ocean  to  the  Mississippi  river.  On  March  10, 
1849,  the  charter  for  this  Pacific  Railroad 
was  granted,  the  capital  stock  being  placed  at 
$10,000,000,  and  the  incorporators  being 
Thomas  Allen,  John  O'Fallon,  Lewis  V. 
Bogy,  James  H.  Lucas,  Edward  Walsh, 
George  Collier,  Thomas  B.  Hudson,  Daniel 
D.  Page,  Henry  M.  Shreve,  James  E.  Yeat- 
man,  John  B.  Sarpy,  Wayman  Crow,  Joshua 
B.  Brandt,  Robert  Campbell,  Pierre  Chou- 
teau, Jr.,  Henry  Shaw,  Bernard  Pratte,  Ernest 
Angelrodt,  Adolphu  Meier,  Louis  A.  Benoist 
and  Adam  L.  Miles  —  the  sons  or  grandsons 
of  many  of  these  being  still  actively  associated 
with  the  continued  progress  of  St.  Louis.  The 
railroad  thus  begun  was  the  first  railroad 
built  in  the  state  of  Missouri,  and  from  it 
sprang  the  entire  grand  system  of  railroads 
which  today  penetrates  to  every  section  of  one  of 


1847— tii  kx- 


THE  SILVER  STAXDARD 


wow— 1907 


the  richest  territories  in  the  American  Union. 

In  the  ordinary  channels  of  business,  as 
well,  there  was  a  fine  activity  in  the  year  1847. 
Commercial  operations  had  then  reached  such 
magnitude  that  the  project  of  establishing  a 
Merchants'  Exchange  was  being  generally  dis- 
cussed, and  this  led,  in  September,  1849,  to  a 
special  meeting,  at  which  George  K.  McGun- 
hegle  stated  the  objects  of  the  gathering  and 
the  project  of  establishing  the  proposed  Mer- 
chants' Exchange  was  referred  to  a  committee 
of  which  James  E.  Yeatman  was  chairman. 
Under  the  movement  thus  begun,  the  Mer- 
chants' Exchange  of  St.  Louis  was  established 
in  1849,  with  headquarters  at  Main  and  Olive 
streets,  and  in  the  following  year  the  Millers' 
Association,  also  organized  in  1849,  joined 
the  new  body  and  the  business  was  conducted 
thereafter  under  the  charter  of  the  Chamber  of 
Commerce. 

In  this  year  of  1847,  also,  the  Boatmen's 
Savings  Institution,  now  one  of  the  city's  lead- 
ing financial  institutions  under  the  title  of  the 
Boatmen's  Bank,  was  incorporated.  The 
Mercantile  Library  Association,  incorporated 
in  1846,  reported  in  1847  that  its  first  year's 
cash  receipts  amounted  to  $2,689,  its  mem- 
bership numbering  283,  with  a  total  of  1,680 
volumes  in  the  library.  At  this  time  also,  the 
river  traffic  to  and  from  St.  Louis,  the  Missis- 
sippi river  being  then  the  city's  great  trade 
artery,  had  assumed  such  proportions  that  it 
was  estimated  that  more  than  2,500  steamboats 
were  connected  with  this  port  in    1847,  with 


the  president  of  the  Chamber  of  Commerce. 
The  most  notable  public  ceremonial  of  1847 
was  the  public  anniversary  celebration,  on 
February  15,  of  the  founding  of  St.  Louis. 
The  features  of  the  day  were  an  imposing 
public  pageant  and  a  banquet.  Mr.  Pierre 
Chouteau  was  president  of  the  day.  With  him 
in  the  carriage  were  Pierre  Chouteau,  Jr.,  P. 
Liguest  Chouteau  and  Gabriel  S.  Chouteau, 
all  descendants  of  the  man  who,  with  Pierre 
Laclede  Liguest,  founded  St.  Louis  on  Febru- 
ary 15,  1764.  Hon.  Wilson  Primm  was 
orator  of  the  day,  and,  among  other  speakers 
were  United  States  Senator  Lewis  V.  Bogy, 
Robert  Campbell,  Hon.  Wm.  C.  Carr, 
Thomas  Allen,  Dr.  Linton,  George  R.  Taylor 
and  Messrs.  Crockett,  Kennett,  Darby  and 
Treat.  A  ball  at  the  Planters'  House  closed 
the  memorable  day. 

The  city  was  then  growing  rapidly,  but,  to 
appreciate  the  resistless  character  of  this 
growth,  it  is  necessary  to  note  how  little 
checked  it  was  by  the  great  fire  of  1849. 

About  ten  o'clock  on  the  night  of  May 
19,  1849,  this  fire  began  on  board  the  steamer 
White  Cloud,  lying  at  the  wharf  between  Vine 
and  Cherry  streets,  and  the  White  Cloud, 
burning  loose  from  her  moorings,  drifted  down 
stream  and  set  fire  to  other  craft  until  twenty- 
four  in  all  were  in  flames.  A  stiff  breeze  from  ■ 
the  north  east  carried  the  fiery  embers  to  the 
buildings  on  the  river  front  until,  almost  with- 
out exception,  every  building  from  Locust  to 
Market  streets,  and  between  Second  street  and 


Marshal  —  one  captain,  four  lieutenants  and 
forty-five  privates. 

A  St.  Louis  newspaper  of  January  6,  1847, 
gives  a  detailed  description  of  an  engine  then 
being  built  by  Kingsland  &  Lightner  of  St. 
Louis,  for  the  new  St.  Louis  waterworks,  the 
city  until  1846  having  had  no  water  pipes 
reaching  further  west  than  Fourth  street.  This 
engine  was  regarded  as  a  marvel,  and,  after  its 
installation,  visitors  to  the  city  were  not  thought 
to  have  seen  all  the  sights  of  St.  Louis  unless 
they  had  included  the  $25,000  engine  in  their 
round.  A  new  reservoir  was  also  begun, 
which  was  finished  in  1 850,  as  also  a  new 
engine  house.  The  Jefferson  School  was  be- 
gun in  1847  and  opened  in  1848. 

That  St.  Louis  was  beginning  to  be  quite  an 
important  city  in  1847  is  even  indicated  by  the 
theatrical  records  of  those  days.  During  1847 
the  roster  of  stage  stars  who  played  engage- 
ments in  St.  Louis  included  such  famous  names 
as  those  of  N.  M.  Ludlow,  Anna  Cora 
Mowatt,  E.  L.  Davenport,  Julia  Dean,  J.  H. 
Hackett,  the  great  Falstaff,  whose  son,  James 
K.  Hackett,  played  an  engagement  in  St.  Louis 
no  later  than  in  February  of  the  present  year; 
while,  in  1 846,  Junius  Brutus  Booth  had  made 
his  first  appearance  in  St.  Louis,  others  appear- 
ing that  same  season  being  J.  E.  Murdoch,  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Charles  Kean,  J.  M.  Field,  Sol. 
Smith  and  Mr.  and  Mrs.  J.  W.  Wallack. 

These  are  some  of  the  memorable  historical 
facts  of  the  St.  Louis  of  1 847.  They  are 
made    especially    interesting    when    compared 


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an  aggregate  tonnage  of  nearly  400,000,  and 
that  the  number  of  keel  and  flatboats  engaged 
in  St.  Louis  business  was  over  400. 

Another  important  event  of  the  year  1847 
was  that  recorded  for  December  20th,  when 
the  telegraph  lines  connecting  St.  Louis  with 
the  East  reached  East  St.  Louis,  thus  placing 
this  city  in  wire  communication,  for  the  first 
time,   with    the   leading  cities  of   the  country. 

On  December  28,  1847,  an  important  meet- 
ing of  citizens  took  place,  to  consider  the 
advisability  of  the  city  subscribing  $500,000 
toward  the  construction  of  the  Ohio  and 
Mississippi  Railroad,  the  route  of  which  from 
Cincinnati  through  Vincennes  had  been  estab- 
lished. 

The  legislature  was  petitioned  to  authorize 
the  subscription,  which  was  duly  made.  James 
B.  Barry  was  the  mayor  of  St.  Louis  at 
this  time,  and    George    K.  McGunnegle  was 


the  river,  was  destroyed  or  badly  damaged. 
The  progress  of  the  conflagration  was  finally 
stopped  only  by  blowing  up  buildings  with 
gunpowder,  thus  creating  a  great  gap  across 
which  the  fire  could  not  leap. 

The  entire  value  of  property  destroyed 
reached  a  total  of  over  $3,000,000.  Yet  this 
staggering  calamity  did  not  long  daunt  the 
St.  Louis  spirit  and  the  ultimate  result  of  the 
great  fire  was  in  reality  a  gain  to  the  city. 

In  1847  the  "city  guard,"  or  "independent 
police  "  of  St.  Louis  consisted  of  three  lieuten- 
ants and  thirty  privates,  and  the  Mayor  pointed 
out  in  his  annual  message  of  the  following  year 
that  the  city  was  then  "so  much  extended" 
that  it  was  impossible,  "without  great  indus- 
try," for  thirty  men  to  properly  guard  the 
whole  city.  In  accordance  with  the  agitation 
thus  begun  the  police  force  of  St.  Louis  was 
increased   in    1 848   to    one   chief  —  the  City 


with  the  facts  of  the  St.  Louis  of  today,  a  city 
of  over  700,000  population  and  counting  con- 
fidently on  reaching  the  1 ,000,000  mark  during 
the  next  decade ;  that  has  a  river  frontage  of 
over  nineteen  miles  and  that  extends  westward 
six  miles  from  the  river  front ;  the  assessed 
valuation  of  the  property  of  which  exceeds 
$400,000,000;  a  city  already  well  in  the  front 
rank  of  "  sky-scraper "  office  building  cities, 
and  that  has  an  additional  $25,000,000  of 
these  "  sky-scrapers "  now  under  process  of 
construction  ;  that  gained  over  $73,000,000  in 
the  value  of  its  manufactured  output  in  the  five 
years  between  1900  and  1905,  and  that  has 
just  voted  to  spend  $11,000,000  on  public 
improvements.  The  sixty  years  that  have 
passed  since  1847  have  been  memorable  for 
St.  Louis  progress — and  they  are  full  of  bright 
promise  for  continued  development  and  pros- 
perity. 


g    1&4T    KOGERS   BROS 


'SILVER-  PLATE 
THAT    WEARS 


A  child's  set,  of  knife,  fork  and  spoon,  makes  an  ideal  gift — beautiful,  useful  and  one 
that  will  be  treasured  even  after  the  youngster  has  "grown  up."  The  dealer  should  not 
forget  to  display  an  assortment  of  these  sets  and  suggest  their  desirability  as  gifts.  Baby 
spoons,  too,  are  very  desirable,  and  made  in   the  popular  "  1847  Rogers  Bros.-'  patterns. 


Supplied  to  Retailers  by  all  Leading  Jobbers. 


SILVER-  PLATE  „ 
THAT     WEARS 


18  4T    ROGERS   BROS 


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Silver 

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thai  the  ioui 

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that   endures^are  .ill 
perfectly   combined    in 
silver  plate  thai  is  marked 

1847 

ROGERS  BROS!' 

For  three  wore  M-.,rs  this  ».-]| 
known  brand  ol  silvei  plate  has 
been  provi  n  b)  the  lest  "I  ser- 
•.hi  .in.!  Ii.is  worthily  earned 
the  well  in. 
■Siln  r   That  thai  Warn." 

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Mfridrn. 


IF  YOU  SELL 
ADVERTISED  GOODS 

half  the  work  has  been  done  in  ad- 
vance. The  better  advertised — pro- 
vided the  goods  are  what  is  claimed 
for  them — the  easier  for  the  dealer. 
No  producers  of  silver  plated  ware 
advertise  so  thoroughly  as  the  mak- 
ers of 

1847  ROGERS  BROS." 

"Silver  Plate  that  Wears." 

This  brand  has  been  advertised 
for  a  generation  and  the  dealer  gets 
the  accumulated  benefit.  No  other 
brand  has  been  advertised  for  so 
long  a  period. 

The  two  column  advertisements 
shown  here  in  reduced  form  appear 
in  the  May  numbers  of  the  big 
household  magazines,  while  equally 
effective  announcements  are  printed 
in  over  500  publications,  monthly, 
weekly  and  daily. 

In  addition  to  this,  we  are  always 
ready  to  help  the  individual  dealer  in 
any  way  possible.  We  supply  free 
electrotyped  advertisements,  circu- 
lars with  dealer's  name,  show  cards, 
posters,  waterproof  cards  for  out- 
door display,  street-car  cards,  etc. 

When  you  write  for  our  catalogue, 
ask  for  booklet  showing  ready-to- 
print   advertisements. 


Choosi 

Silver 

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Quality 

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excite  admit  ation 
that  makes  lb,    iamous 

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ROGERS  BROS: 

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this   nam, 
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THE  SILVER  STANDARD.  APRIL,  1847, 


Tire 

Stluer. Standard 
Established 

in  1847  BY 
Rogers  Bros. 


APRIL,  1847. 

ABOUT  CLERKS 

DRY  GOODS  REPORT- 
ER HAS  PLAN. 

We  copy  from  the 
"Dry  Goods  Report-! 
er,"  a  weekly  sheet,  [ 
devoted  almost  exclus- 
ively to  that  branch  of 
trade,  the  following 
communication  or  an 
intelligent  correspond- 
ent, which  contains 
suggestions  deserving 
the  attention  of  mer- 
chants and  clerks  gen- 
erally. 

No  single  subject 
connected  with  the  dry 
goods  trade  demands  a 
more  serious  considera- 
tion than  the  present 
condition  of  the  clerks 
engaged  in  its  various 
branches.  Upon  the 
honesty,  capacity,  and 
exertion  of  the  clerk, 
the  success  of  the  mer- 
chant greatly  depends. 

His  good  or  bad  con- 
duct may  either  make 
or  mar  our  present  plans 
or  future  prospects. 
These  we  believe,  are 
truisms  which  are  gen- 
erally admitted. 

It  behooves  us,  then, 
as  sound  and  discreet 
merchants,  io  do  al!  in 
our  power  to  promote 
his  interest;  and,  as  one 
step  toward  the  attain- 
ment of  so  great  a  de- 
sideratum, we  would 
suggest  that  an  associa- 
tion of  dry  goods  clerks 
should  be  formed,  un- 
der some  appropriate 
name,  which  society 
should  embody  all  the 
points  of  the  present 
system  of  Odd-fellow- 
ship, together  with  the 
addition  of  the  follow- 
ing, viz: 

That  each  and  every 
clerk,  when  thrown 
out  of  employment 
through  any  cause,  save 
and  excepting  mis- 
conduct, should  be  en- 
titled to  draw  a  certain 
sum  weekly,  for  six 
weeks. 

No  qualifications 
should  be  necessary  to 
entitle  any  one  to  mem- 
bership, except  honesty 
and  morality;  these  two 
points  of  character 
should  be  rigidly  insisted 
on;  and  the  most  effect- 
ual manner  by  which 
we  could  arrive  at  the 
first  qualification  would 
be  to  require  from  the 
applicant  a  certificate 
of  honesty  from  each 
and  every  employer  he 
hasever  lived  with,  and 
for  the  srcond,  inquiry 
and  report. 

Should  an  applica- 
tion be  made  by  a  per- 
son coming  from  any 
country  town  or  other 
city,  let  him  produce  a 
certificate    from   his 


former  employer  and 
that  employer's  good 
standing  to  be  vouched 
for  by  the  mayor  or 
selectmen  of  said  town 
or  city. 

LITERARY 
PHENOMENA- 

There  are  several  no- 
ticeable characteristics 
of  American  letters  at 
the  present  time.  Many 
old  things,  we  believe, 
are  passing  away  under 
the  influence  of  a  gen- 
eral law  by  which  the 
intellectual  advance- 
ment of  the  country 
bears  some  proportion 
to  its  physical  increase, 
and  the  development  of 
refinement  and  civiliza- 
tion. 

Much  of  theliterature 
of  the  country,  how- 
ever,—the  poems  that 
should  elevate,  and  es- 
says that  should  i  nterest , 
the  biographical  articles 
which  should  be  true 
and  candid,  that  they 
might  as  well  warn  by 
the  exhibition  of  errors 
as  encourage  by  good 
example,  the  criticism 
which  should  purify  the 
taste— most  of  what  is 
read  by  the  people  still 
continues  tobe  furnished 
in  magazines  illustrated 
with  plates  of  the  fash- 
ions and  engravings, 
bad  copies  from  the  bad 
tawdry  originals  of  the 
English  annuals.  The 
purest  literature  flowing 
through  such  a  channel 
must  take  its  tone,  in 
some  degree,  from  the 
adjacent  soil. 


Extraordinary  as  it 
may  appear,  a  company 
cf  men  who  should 
have  been  shut  up  as 
lunatics,  actually  pro- 
posed to  raise  Capt. 
Kidd's  ship,  which  tra- 
dition says  was  sunk  on 
the  Hudson  river,  car- 
rying down  large  sums 
of  gold.  The  stock  in 
this  moonshine  project, 
amounting  to  $300,000 
was  taken  by  many 
wealthy  persons  in  New 
York,  but  the  bubble 
has  burst,  and  they  are 
the  laughing  stock  of 
country. 


DRY  GOODS  CLERK. 


POISON    FLA- 

VORING-A  family 
in  Lancaster  county, 
Penn.,  were  made  very 
ill  by  eating  of  sponge 
cake  flavored  too  highly 
with  "peach  water." 
Our  young  housekeep- 
ers must  beware  how 
they  use  this  agreeable 
and  common  addition 
to  pies,  cake,  &c,  as  it 
is  but  a  mild  form  of 
that  deadly  poison, 
Prussic  Acid. 

Mrs.  Mary  Hoffman 
died  at  South  Bruns- 
wick, N.  J.,  aged  107 
years.  She  left  1  4 
children,     60    grand-, 

1  I  5  great-grand-,  and 

2  3  great-great-grand- 
children. Her  oldest 
child  at  the  time  of  her 
death  was  85;  and  the 
youngest  58  years  of 
age. 

Subscribers  who  in- 
tend changing  their 
p'aces  of  residence  on 
the  first  of  May  will 
oblige  us  by  sending 
notice. 


A  NEW  COT- 
TON PLANT— The 

editor  of  the  New  Or- 
leans Orleanian  has 
seen  a  boll  of  cotton 
which  deserves  the  at- 
tention cf  the  cultiva- 
tors, on  account  of  its 
growth  and  its  early 
maturity.  On  the  first 
day  of  June  last  a  lady 
planted  in  her  garden  a 
few  cotton  seeds  pre- 
sented her  by  a  gentle- 
man. On  the  25th  day 
of  July  a  boll  was  ready 
for  picking;  and  at  the 
end  of  sixty  days  from 
the  time  of  planting  the 
cotton  had  arrived  at 
maturity;  being  in  less 
than  one-half  of  the 
time  it  takes  the  species 
now  raised  by  our 
planters  to  do  so.  The 
lady  was  totally  unac- 
quainted with  the  culti- 
vation of  the  great 
Southern  staple.  The 
seeds  were  introduced 
by  Mr.  Hayams,  from 
Youcatan,  and  are 
styled  the  Alica.  This 
may  mean  much  to  the 
cotton  industiy. 


YALE  LITER- 

ARY  —  The  present 
number  has  an  en- 
graved view  of  "Yale 
College  and  the  College 
Chapel"  as  it  appeared 
in  1786,  and  a  quaint 
thing  it  is — the  antique, 
old  college  officers  in 
their  cocked  hats  and 
gowns,  and  the  antique 
youngsters  in  their  pig- 
tails and  shorts  —  in  the 
foreground  —  make  up 
a  comical  contrast  to  the 
college  appurtenances 
of  1847.-  New  Haven 
Register. 

STATISTICS  OF 
FORKS     AND 

SPOONS- A  work 
on  the  "  History  of  the 
Precious  Metals"  re- 
cently published  i  n 
Hartford,  Conn.,  says 
the  value  of  the  silver 
tea  spoons  in  the  United 
States  is  estimated  at 
$36,000,000;  of  silver 
table  spoons,  $27,000, 
000;  of  silver  forks, 
$4,500,000;  and  of 
plate  and  dining  service 
$5,500,000. 


IMPROVEMENT 
IN  TELEGRAPH 

-Col.  H.  W.  Cleve- 
land, who  has  been 
connected  with  the  line 
of  Magnetic  Telegraphs 
since  their  first  estab- 
lishment as  an  assistant 
has,  we  learn,  by  a  re- 
cent discovery,  over- 
come the  difficulty  here- 
tofore labored  under  of 
crossing  water  courses 
by  a  peculiarly  insulated 
wire  which  is  passed  in 
a  leaden  pipe  under 
water.  One  of  these 
wires  or  improvements 
has  recently  been  placed 
under  the  drawbridge  at 
Gunpowder  River,  and 
has  been  in  successful 
operation  for  several 
days.  It  is,  we  believe, 
the  intention  of  the  com- 
pany to  adopt  this  mode 
of  connection  at  the 
several  draws  and 
streams  along  the  line, 
which  will  obviate 
many  of  the  vexatious 
interruptions  heretofore 
experienced.  If  the 
North  River  and  other 
rivers  can  be  crossed 
with  this  improvement, 
it  will  be  one  of  great 
advantage. 

CENSUS  OF 
THE  UNITED 
STATES-1830, 
12,866,020;  1840. 
17,063,353.    In  1850 

the  population  will  be 
23,149,309.  In  80 
years  hence  will  find 
the  population  of  the 
United  States  240,- 
000,000  ;  quite  equal 
the  present  population 
of  Europe,  or  one- 
fourth  the  population  of 
the  world. 

There  was  a  magnifi- 
cent illumination  in 
Philadelphia  on  the 
1 9th  in  honor  of  the 
late  victories.  A  hun- 
dred guns  were  fired, 
morning,  noon  and 
night. 

William  Polk,  Esq., 
of  Arkansas,  brother  of 
the  president,  is  the 
largest  corn  grower  in 
America.  His  crop 
last  year  was  100,000 
bushels. , 


|||||ARTY-SPIRIT  is,  to  all  appearances,  the  soul 
$1111  of  American  society — regulating  and  control- 
ling everything. 

"  Things  as  They  Are  in  cAmerica,"  by  W.  Chambers. 


BRAVE  LAD 

MAKES   2  MURDER- 
ERS PRISONERS. 

A  boy  seventeen 
years  of  age,  by  the 
name  of  Frisby,  of 
Louisiana,  seeing  a  re- 
ward offered  by  the 
governor  for  the  appre- 
hension of  the  Kelleys, 
murderers  of  Mr.  Cat- 
lin,  in  Jefferson  county, 
went  to  a  grocery  kept 
by  one  of  them,  about 
twenty  miles  from 
Munro,  and  command- 
ed him  to  surrender. 
At  this  Kelley  fired  a 
revolver  at  the  lad.  The 
boy  fired  in  return, 
wounding  Kelley  so 
that  he  was  secured  a 
prisoner. 

By  this  time  another 
Kelley  rode  up  and  dis- 
mounted. Frisby  com- 
manded the  rascal  to 
surrender;  but  he  turned 
to  run,  when  the  de- 
termined lad  fired  at 
him  also,  and  sent  a 
buck  shot  between  his 
shoulders,  that  passed 
entirely  through  his 
body. 

Both  were  made 
prisoners  and  were 
safely  delivered  to  the 
civil  authorities,  and 
the  young  man  was  en- 
titled to  the  $1,000  re- 
ward. 

RAILROAD  AC- 
CIDENTS- We  call 
upon  the  Legislatures  of 
the  various  States  to  re- 
fuse new  charters  for 
new  railroads,  except- 
ing upon  the  condition 
that  each  railroad  con- 
struct a  double  track. 
We  believe  that  such  a 
policy  would  greatly  re- 
duce the  number  of  rail- 
road accidents,  which 
we  regret  to  have  to 
say  are  now  very  fre- 
quent. A  few  weeks 
ago  no  less  than  three 
trains  ran  into  one 
[another  in  succession 
during  short  intervals  of 
time  on  the  Hudson 
River  Railroad. 

THE  DEACON'S 

JOKE — In  a  town  in 
Vermont,  a  church 
deacon  went  to  a  store 
for  wine  for  communion 
purposes;  instead,  how- 
ever, of  calling  for  wine, 
he  requested  the  clerk  to 
give  him  "  a  little  more 
of  that  oil."  The  jug 
was  accordingly  filled 
with  oil,  which  went 
upon  the  communion 
table,  and  was  partaken 
of  by  the  church  mem- 
bers—no one  wishing, 
at  that  peculiar  time  to 
make  his  discovery 
known.  This  incident 
illustrates  the  necessity 
of  calling  things  by  their 
right  names. 


Why  are  the  board- 1  Hon.  Edward  Bates  I  A  new  gaslight  com- 
ers at  the  Astor  House,  jof  Missouri,  the  Presi- '  pany  has  been  recently 
New  York,  like  men  dent  of  the  late  Con- 1  formed  in  Lowell  for 
digging  a  ditch?  Be-  vention  at  Chicago,  the  purpose  of  lighting 
cause  they  are  always  said  he  had  never  seen  i  that  city,  and  especially 
on  the  stoop.  a  railroad!  I  the  factories,  with  gas. 


The  product  of  maple 
sugar  in  1 846  in  the 
United  States  is  esti- 
mated to  have  reached 
twenty-two  million  | 
pounds. 


The  State  of  Florida 
has  repudiated  its  last 
motto,  "Let  us  alone, 
and  substituted  in  lieu 
thereof,  "In  God  is  our 
I  trust." 


C.  MEN  owe  me, 
•*  and  you  better 
hand  over  right  quick, 
or  you  will  catoh  it. 
Now  you  see  if  you 
don't. 

Jason  Bailey. 


ESTABLISHED  IN  1847  BY  ROGERS  BROS. 


Vol.  III.     No.  3. 


JUNE,   is  17. 


i        Cents 


FOR  RAILROAD 
TO  THE  PACIFIC 

OREGON  TO  BE  UNITED 
WITH  THE  EAST. 


Z.AD0C    PRATT    WRITES    INTERESTING 
LETTER    ADVOCATING    MR.    WHIT- 
NEY'S PLAN  TO  BUILD  ROAD. 

Certainly  this  is  an  the  San  Francisco, 
age  of  great  events,  and  which  debouch  upon 
such  as  may  be  produc-  the  ocean,  at  a  point 
tive  of  important  results  six  days,  by  steam,  dis- 
to  the  interests  of  man-  tant  from  the  Sand- 
kind,  says  Hunt's  Mer-  wich  Islands— a  group 
chants'  Magazine.  It  the  independence  of 
is  the  character  of  the  which  is  guaranteed; 
men  that  appear  in  an  !  whose  population  is 
age,  and  stamp  the  im-  100,000,  mostly 
press  of  their  bold  and  American;  the  surface, 
energetic  character  up-  8,000  square  miles,  of 
on  it  which  makes  it  a  soil  the  most  fruitful, 
marked  in  history,  an  and  a  climate  unsur- 
cra  in  human  progress,    passed  in  salubrity. 

When,  at  the    close]      "These   islands    are 
of  1844,  we  wrote  the:situated   in   the  middle,  for  a  railroad  from  Lake  good?       It   is   a    great    In    July,     1838,    Col 
following,    which    ap-  of  the    Pacific,  on  the  j  Michigan,  through  the   plan,  a  great  work;  but   Pratt  published  an  ad- 
peared  in  our  January  I  great    highway   from   South    Pass    of    the  '  we  are  the  people  to  do  j  dress  to  his  constituents, 


number,    we   had  cer-  J  Oregon  to  China.  The   Rocky   Mountains,    to  big  things, 

tainly  no  idea  that  the  great   whale   fishery  of   Oregon  is  so  plain  and  "Then  will  you  take 

suggestion  therein  con-  these  regions  is  conduct- !  simple   that   any   com-  your  money  and   send 

tained   would  be  taken  ed   mostly   by   Ameri- 1  mon  mind  can   under-  it  out  of  the  country,  to 
up   by  energetic   men, jeans,    numbering    200   stand   it.      He   asks!  be  used  against  your  in- 

and    its    feasibility   re-   vessels,    whose   annual   Congress  to  appropriate  terest,  or  will  you  have 

duced  to  a  certainty: — [product  is  about    $5,-   sixty  miles  wide  of  the  the  Oregon  road,  which 


"The  English  gov-  000,000.  This  fleet, 
ernment  hope,  by  com-  in  the  summer  months, 
manding  the  exclusive '  cruise  between  the  ls- 
route  to  China  over  \  lands  and  the  coast  of 
Egypt,  by  way  of  the  Japan,  for  sperm  whale 
Nile  and  the  Isthmus  of  I  and  carry  on  a  large 
Suez  (to  effect  which  a  |  trade  in  furs,  &c, 
negotiation  is  now;  which  are  now  soldin 
pending  between  that  China,  and  the  pro- 
power  and  Pacha)  to  ceeds  in  tea,  sent  home 
obtain  news  earlier  than  to  the  United  States. 
it  can  be  had  in  the  "The  whole  of  this 
United  States;  an  ad- ;  vast  trade  and  that  of 
vantage  that  will  give  China,  via  Sandwich 
her  merchants  control '  Islands,  will  be  com- 
of  the  markets.  |  manded  by  the  state  of 

"Their  diplomacy  Oregon.  Those  per- 
may  succeed  temporari-  sons  are  now  living 
ly  in  this,  but  the  march  who  will  see  a  railroad 
of  events  will  ultimately  connecting  New  York 
give  the  United  States  with  the  Pacific,  and  a 
the  mastery.  Her  steam  communication 
population  is  pushing  from  Oregon  to  China, 
with  a  vigorous,  rapid,  For  the  last  three  cen- 
and  unceasing  march,  turies,  the  civilized 
along  a  line  1 ,200  miles!  world  has  been  rolling 
extent,    westward, ,  westward;  and  Ameri 


towards   the   shores    of 
the  Pacific. 

"The  occupation  of 
the  vast  territory  known 


cans  of  the  present  age 
will  complete  the  circle 
and  open  a  western 
steam   route    with    the 


as  the  Oregon  is  al-  east 
ready  going  forward;  |  Under  the  energetic 
and  twenty  years  will  guidance  of  such  men 
not  have  elapsed  before  as  Zadoc  Pratt  and  Mr. 
a  powerful  state  will  Whitney,  this  end  bids 
have  sprung  up  on  the  fair  to  be  speedily  con- 
shores  of  the  Pacific,  summated.  The  fol- 
This  great  tract  of  the  lowing  is  from  the  pen 
Oregon  is  drained  by  of  the  first  named: 
the  Columbia  river  and  I    "Mr.  Whitney's  plan 


public  lands,  from  Lake1  will   cost   you    nothing 


Michigan  to  the  Pacific 
for  this  especial  pur- 
pose; and,  as  he  builds 
the  road,  he  takes  the 
land  to  reimburse  him- 
self. For  eight  hun- 
dred miles  the  one  half 
at  the  government  price, 
it  is  estimated,  willbuild 
the  road;  the  other  half 
creates  a  fund  for  where 
the  lands  are  poor." 

"When  completed, 
the  road  to  be  free  to 
all  the  world,  except 
for  repairs  and  opera- 
tions, to  be  fixed  by 
Congress.  The  dis- 
tance from  the  lake  to 
the  ocean  is  twenty-fou 


but  your  votes?" 

Col.  Zadoc  Pratt 
was  born  on  the  thir- 
tieth of  October,  I  790. 
at  Stephentown,  N.  Y. 
His  father  (Zadoc 
Pratt,  senior)  was  a  na- 
tive of  Saybrook,  Conn. 
Col.  Pratt's  life  in  many- 
ways   has   been 


declining  a  re-election 
to  Congress.  In  1842, 
he  yielded  to  their  re- 
quest, and  was  chosen 
1o  represent  the  Elev- 
enth Congressional  dis- 
trict, composed  of  the 
counties  Greene  and 
Columbia. 

His  interest   in    M 


public. 


N.  Y.  MAYOR 
IS  ARRESTED 

PROPRIETOR    OF   AUCTION 
ROOM  BRINGS  SUIT. 


ACTION    OF  MAGISTRATE  TO  PREVENT 

SWINDLING  OF  PUBLIC  HAS  RATHER 

UNEXPECTED  RESULT. 

No  one  who  has  visi-  terests.  The  Mayor 
ted  New  York  or  re-  was  thereupon  arrested, 
mained  in  Broadway,  and  was  compelled  to 
if  only  for  half  an  hour,  give  bail  of  $500. 
can  be  ignorant  of  the.  The  complainant,  we 
danger  to  which  those  understand,  thinks  him- 
who  have  more  money  self  entitled  to  $20,- 
tian  wit,  are  subjected  000  indemnity.  The 
at  the  mock  auctions  whole  affair,  however 
with  which  this  beauti-  amusing  to  the  public, 
ful  street  is  infested.  suggests  some  grave  and 

The  worthy  Mayor  gratifying  reflections, 
had  long  tried  the  ordi-  It  shows  the  necessity 
nary  means  but  without  of  a  law  that  will  reach 
effect.  Copper  was  the  great  evil  complain- 
still  \ended  for  gold,  led  of,  by  which  so 
pewter   for   silver,  and   many  poor  and  honest 


cotton  for  linen.  At  men  are  cheated  of 
last,  he  thought  of  a  their  hard  earnings;  and 
device  which  was  con-  it  evinces,  on  the  other 
sidered  the  most  effect-  hand,  a  feature  of  our 
ual  to  which  he  could  institutions,  of  which 
have  recourse.  He  j  we  may  justly  be  proud, 
employed  men  in  front  I  When  have  we  heard 
of  these  dens  of  fraud  cf  a  Lord  Mayor  of 
with  placards  on  their  London  being  arrested 
shoulders,  cautioning  for  so  slight  a  transgres- 
the  unsophisticated  to  sion  of  the  bounds  of 
"Beware  of  Moc  k  J  hisduty?  Never.  There 
Whitney  s  Pacific  Auctions."  Thismust  is  a  spirit  awake  in  this 
railroad I  project  has  have  put  many  on  their  land  which  examines 
brought  him  once  more  j  guardi  though  it  did  not  i  with  jealous  care  the 
prominently  before  the  ob|_ige  ,ne  aucnoneers  !  slightest  sin  of  irregu- 
to  close  their  premises,  larity  or  excess  on  the 
One  of  these  persons,  j  part  of  our  public  offi- 
bolder  than  the  rest,  cers,  and  alack  for  those 
lodged  a  complaint  |  who  are  devoid  of  the 
against  the  Mayor  for  [  intelligence  or  integrity 
having    damaged   h 


essential  to  the  just  ful- 


trade  and   hurt  his  in-    fillment  of  their  dutie 


The  following  hit  we 
find  in  the  New  Haven 

markableone.  In  1 824   Register:  A  gentleman 

while  still  a  young  man    who  prides   himself  on 

he  founded   the  village    being  one  of  the  upper 

of   Prattsville,    which  ]  lier  of  Whigs,  and  who 

lies  in  a  small  valley  on  !  violently  condemns  the 

the   Schoharie    Kill,  I  war  with  Mexico,  stop- 
some  36   miles  west  of  |  ped  a  Democrat  yester- 

Catskill,    on  the  Hud- j  day  and  inquired  "the 

son.      Mr.    Pratt    saw    news."       "There   is 

that  here  was  the  spot   is  nothing  by  the  mails, 
hundred  miles;  theesti-   for   him    to   establish  a    I  believe,"  replied  the    ^ 

mated  cost   when  ready   mammoth   tannery,  an    wag.     except  that  Mr.   ^   b  ,aking     of   bureau   0f   Yards   and 

for  use.  $70,000,000.   enterprise    which    was   Clay    is    said   to  have  tartaremeljc.  whjchhad   Docks.      What   next? 
I  he   number   or   acres  destined  to  become  the 


A  company  of  ladies  A  morning  paper 
and  gentlemen,  who  says  that  the  corner 
were  engaged  in  a  tern-  stone  of  the  New  York 
perance  celebration  re-  '  Dry  Dock  was  laid  on 
cently  at  Shippingsport,  I  Thursday  by  Commo- 
My.,  were  all  rendered   dore  Smith,  chief  of  the 


required  is  92, 1 60,-  largest  of  its  kind  in  th< 
000,  wasteland.  There  world, 
are  1 ,200  miles  without;  In  1 823  he  was  un- 
timber  or  navigable  i  animously  elected  col- 
streams  and  of  small  onel  of  the  I  I6th  Regi- 
value;  and  would  it  ev.*r  ment  of  Infantry  of  the 
settle  or  be  of  any  value   state  of  New  York.  H< 


i      tartaremetic. whichhad   Docks, 
come  out  in  favor  of  the  ;been    ;nlrcduced    in!o   Perhaps  we  shall  hear 


war,  and  will  probably  (hejr  lemonade;  instead   0f  tne  laying  cf  the  cor- 
be  appointed  Lieuten-   of  (artar  acid  |  ner  ,,one  of  a  new  can. 


ant-General,  to  go  to 
Mexico,  and  head  the 
Army."  "You  don't 
say  so!"  exclaimed  the 
Whig.      "Well,    well 


without   the  road?   has  been  through  life  a    that  is  something  like.  I 
Clearly  not.     Then  the   firm   and    consistent   alwaysthought  it  want 


al,  a  turnpike   read  or 
During  an  i'.lumina-   even  a  new  line  of  fer- 
tion  in   New  Orleans,    rybcats,  for  the  sake  of 
last  week,  a  man  placed   Uie  ceremony, 
a  tin  machine  filled  with 
camphene  in  his  shirt-]     Anoldfarmerof York 


,estion  is,  shall  Mr.  Democrat.  In  Novem-  cd  seme  such  man  to  losom,  asa  breast-pin!  I  ,,a,e  proposes  that  the 
Whitney  take  these  ber,  I836.  he  waselec-  whip  the  rascally  Mexi-  "  three  millions  be 
lands,  and,  by  sale  and  ted  one  of  the  represen-  cans."  And  off  he  There  are  eleven  lines  appropriated  to  buying 
setdement  thereof ,  build  tatives  in  Congress  for  went,  in  a  perfect  blaze  of  telegraph  in  the  up  the  Mexican  presses 
this  road,  or  shall  they  be  the  Eighth  Congres-  of  satisfaction,  and  en-  course  of  erection i  in  the  in  this  country,  as  the 
allowed  to  fritter  away  sional  district,  in  the  tiiely  convinced  of  the  United  States  and  Can-  shortest  method  ot  end- 
without  any  perceptible  state   of   New   York,  justice  of  the  war.  ,ada.  ing  the  war. 


We  are  indebted  to  Hampden  Post,  Democratic  Review,  Anglo-American  and  others  of  the  "1 847"  period  (or  material 
this  issue.     Meriden,  Conn.,  June,  1 907— MERIDEN  BRITANNIA  CO.— International  Silver  Co.,  Successor. 


g    16  47    ROGERS   BROS 


SILVER.  PLATE 

THAT    WEARS 


1 


Single  Fancy  Pieces  or  Sets  in  lined  boxes  make  an  attractive  display  on  the  counter 
and  may  supply  a  welcome  hint  to  the  customer  who  is  trying  to  make  up  his  or  her 
mind  regarding  the  wedding  presents  that  are  to  be  selected.  Both  the  bride  and  the 
berry  season  are  at  hand  and  "1847  Rogers  Bros."    silver  plate    will    meet  the  situation. 


Supplied  to  Retailers  by  all  Leading  Jobbers. 


g   flBffyag'  1&47   ROGERS  BR.OS    @     3 


strations  about  one- 
third  actual  size 


711    Columbia 
Salad  Spoon,  Fork  and  six 
Individual  Salad  Forks 


Our  line  of.  Combination  Sets  in  Lined  Boxes  is  designed  to  fill  the  requirements  of  both 
dealer  and  puolic.  Those  who  desire  something  more  than  these  and  similar  sets  will  find 
a  silk  case  containing  twenty-six  staple  pieces  admirably  adapted  to  their  needs,  while  others 
will  look  with  favor  upon  our  oak  or  mahogany  chests  containing  various    combinations. 


Distributed  to  the  Public  by  Progressive  Dealers. 


1847 THEN- 


-THE  SILVER  STANDARD- 


-Now- 1907 


tr»db — "1847  Rogers  Bros." — mark 

then  — 1847 — an  d — 1 907 — now. 
Established  in  1847  by  Rogers  Bros. 

issued  by 
Meriden  Britannia  Co.,Meriden,  Ct. 

(International  Silver  Co.,  Successor.) 


Vol.  Ill— No.  3.        JUNE,  1907.         5  Cents. 


MANY  CHANGES. 

Castle  Garden  has  seen  strange  sights  and 
itself  has  experienced  a  number  of  rather  re- 
markable changes.  Erected  as  a  fortress  on 
an  island  in  1812  it  stood  sentinel  for  some 
years,  guarding  the  city. 

In  1823  it  was  taken  over  by  the  munici- 
pality and  in  1847  we  find  it  a 
fashionable  place  of  public  amuse- 
ment, resounding,  as  the  article  in 
this  issue  declares,  "with  music  and 
hilarious  applause." 

According  to  an  advertisement 
printed  about  that  time,  "no  de- 
scription can  adequately  convey  a 
notion  of  its  numerous  excellen- 
cies." After  enumerating  the  va- 
rious attractions  the  advertisement 
continues:  "and  on  Sundays  there 
will  be  a  Selection  of  Sacred  Mu- 
sic for  the  Million,  at  12  1-2  cents 
admission — the  seriously  disposed 
may  view  the  great  works  of  the 
Creator  from  the  promenades  out- 
side the  walls  while  the  more  cheer- 
ful may  lift  up  their  hearts  in  Sa- 
cred Song.  Operas  on  Mondays, 
Wednesdays  and  Fridays." 

Jenny  Lind  sang  there  a  few  years 
later  and  in  1852  the  centenary  of  the  stage  in 
New  York  city  was  celebrated  by  a  dramatic 
festival  in  which  our  old  friend,  Lola  Montez, 
a  sketch  of  whose  remarkable  life  we  present- 
ed in  our  last  number,  aroused  tremendous 
enthusiasm. 

From  1855  until  1890  the  one-time  scene 
of  fashionable  splendor  was  destined  to  serve 
as  an  immigrant  station.  In  1896  it  was 
transformed  into  the  Aquarium. 

In  our  next  issue  we  intend  to  illustrate 
our  new  pattern  in  the  "1847  Rogers  Bros." 
line,  the  "Charter  Oak."  It's  a  good  name 
and  we  believe  the  pattern  itself 
very  popular. 

The  city  whose  history  we  shall  sketch 
will  be  Hartford,  the  home  of  the  famous  tree 
after  which  our  new  pattern  is  named.  Hart- 
ford, too,  in  1847,  was  the  home  of  Rogers 
Bros,  and  of  the  electro-silver  plating  industry. 

Besides  affording  a  glimpse  of  the  Hartford 
of  1847  we  shall  briefly  recall  the  episode 
of  October  31,  1687,  that  made  the  Charter 
Oak  famous  in  the  annals  of  the  American 
people.  It  is  an  interesting  story.  We  all 
know  it  in  a  general  way  but  our  sketch  may 
give  some  details  that  have  escaped  the  mem- 
ories of  most  of  us. 

It  was  a  crucial  period  in  the  history  of  the 
Connecticut  Colony  and  therefore  of  the 
country.     In  these  days  it  is  well  occasionally 


to  look  back  upon  the  beginnings  of  things  on 
this  side  of  the  Atlantic.  Such  a  glance  can- 
not but  prove  both  interesting  and  profitable. 

There  are  many  men  who  are  centuries  old 
at  sixty;  others  are  hardly  out  of  their  youth. 
So  with  institutions  and  customs.  Some  of 
those  of  1847  went  to  seed  long  ago,  while 
others  are  as  fresh  and  vigorous  today  as  they 
were  then.  Using  them  as  a  basis  of  com- 
parison, 1847  differs  in  no  way  from  1907, 
and  we  are  startled  when  other  conditions 
that  have  greatly  changed  confront  us. 

In  connection  with  the  sketch  of  Portland, 
Ore.,  we  would  call  attention  to  the  article  on 
Page  1  regarding  the  proposition  to  build  a 
railroad  to  the  Pacific.  These  two  articles 
taken  together  afford  an  illuminative  view  of 
the  United  States  of  1847. 


prove 


VIEWS  OF  PORTLAND. 

Pictures  help  us  to  understand  better  than 
words  the  wonderful  growth  of  the  city  of 
Portland. 

The  small  picture  in  the  middle  of  the  op- 
posite page  gives  a  view  of  the  west  side  of 
Front  street,  looking  south  from  Ash  street,  as  it 
appeared  in  the  early  days  of  Portland's  history. 

The  building  in  front  of  which  a  number 
of  men  are  grouped  was  the  first  office  of  Wells, 
Fargo  &  Company  in  Portland. 

The  upper  picture  is  a  modern  view  of 
Front  street  looking  south  from  Ash  street, 
and  taking  in  the  same  localities  as  shown  in 
the  small  illustration. 

The  view  at  the  bottom  of  the  page 
shows  the  Wells,  Fargo  building  of  to-day  on 
Sixth  street,  also  the  Hotel  Portland,  Mar- 
quam  and  Oregonian  buildings. 

The  blackheart  cherry  tree  in  full  bloom, 
shown  on  this  page,  was  hauled  across  the 
plains,  as  a  two-year-old  scion,  from  Iowa  to 
Portland  in  1847. 

Between  800  and  1 ,000  scions  of  other 
kinds  of  fruit  trees  were  brought  at  the  same 
time,  and  this  effort  by  Henderson  Luelling, 
of  Henry  County,  la.,  marks  the  introduction 
of  the  first  grafted  fruit  trees  upon  the  Pacific 
coast  in  what  is  now  American  territory. 

We  are  indebted  to  Mr.  H.  S.  Tuthill,  of 
Portland,  and  the  Oregon  Historical  Society  for 
very  valuable  aid  in  securing  views  and  data. 


PORTLAND 

OREGON  IN  THE  YEAR  1847  WAS 

IN  SOMEWHAT  PECULIAR 

POSITION, 

Oregon,  in  1847,  was  just  settling  down  to 
the  serious  business  of  growing.  The  year 
previous  its  boundaries  had  been  determined 
by  treaty  with  Great  Britain  and  in  1848  it 
became  a  territory.  The  year  1847  was  an 
intermediate  period  in  which  to  become  accus- 
tomed to  the  idea  that  it  was  a  part  of  this 
country  and  not  of  British  America  and  to 
prepare  for  the  part  it  was  to  play  in  the  fut- 
ure history  of  the  United  States. 

Portland  in  1847  was  not  a  very  import- 
ant place  even  in  the  new  and 
sparsely  peopled  Oregon  country. 
So  slightingly  was  the  future  me- 
tropolis of  the  Pacific  Northwest 
regarded  that,  in  1848  when  Ore- 
gon became  a  territory,  Portland 
was  only  "a  place  twelve  miles 
from  Oregon  City." 

The  census  of  1850  gave  the 
city  but  821  inhabitants;  that  of 
1 900  gave  90,426.  An  estimate 
of  the  present  population  places  it 
at  about  195,000 — truly  a  remark- 
able growth. 

In  1846  the  dispute  with  Great 
Britain  over  the  boundaries  waxed 
very  bitter  and  the  newspapers  on 
this  side  were  full  of  war  talk. 
The  territory  in  dispute  was  bound- 
ed on  the  west  by  the  Pacific  ocean, 
on  the  south  by  the  forty-second 
degree  of  latitude,  on  the  east  by 
the  Rocky  Mountains  and  on  the  north  by 
54:40  latitude.  For  twenty-eight  years  a 
treaty  of  joint  occupancy  had  been  in  force, 
but  with  the  settlement  of  the  country,  the 
provisions  of  this  treaty  grew  irksome.  Each 
side  made  a  compromise  offer.  The  United 
States  conceded  all  north  of  latitude  49  to 
Great  Britain,  while  the  latter  wished  to  cut 
out  of  what  would  thus  be  left  to  the  United 
States  the  territory  north  and  west  of  the  Co- 
lumbia River.  "The  comparatively  small 
territory  which  remains  in  dispute,"  the 
Anglo-American  of  November  29,  1845, 
contemptuously  remarked,  "is  not  one-tenth  of 
'the  whole  of  Oregon'." 

The  American  offer  prevailed  and  latitude 
49  became  the  northern  boundary,  with  the 
exception  of  the  southern  part  of  Vancouver 
Island,  which,  although  below  the  line,  re- 
mained British. 

Out  of  the  Oregon  defined  by  the  treaty 
signed  June  15,  1846,  Congress,  on  March  2, 
1853,  carved  Washington  Territory.  On 
March  3,  1863,  Idaho  was  sliced  off  from 
Washington  and  to  Montana  and  Wyoming 
were  added  parts  of  the  original  Oregon 
country. 

The  bill  providing  for  a  territorial  form  of 
government  passed  both  houses  on  August  14, 
1848,  and  General  Joseph  Lane,  a  Mexican 
war  veteran,  was  appointed  the  first  governor, 
after  the  position  had  been  refused  by  Abra- 


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ham    Lincoln,    who    was    destined    to    play 
another  part  in  his  country's  history. 

Portland  dates  back  to  1844,  when  Francis 
W.  Pettygrove  built  the  first  house,  a  log  cab- 
in, on  the  original  town  site  and  he  and  Amos 
L.  Lovejoy  projected  a  town  in  the  wilder- 
ness. Pettygrove  wished  to  name  the  village 
seen  by  his  prophetic  eye  Portland,  in  honor 
of  the  chief  city  of  Maine,  his  native  state, 
but  Lovejoy,  a  loyal  Massachusetts  man,  con- 
tended for  the  name  Boston.  The  tossing  of 
a  cent  decided  the  question.  The  city  was 
incorporated  January  23,   1851. 

The  first  school  in  Portland  was  taught  by 
Dr.  Ralph  Wilcox  in  1847. 
-  In  this  same  year  the  first  frame  building 
in  Portland  was  erected,  and  is  still  standing. 
The  frame  and  the  finishing  lumber  were  ship- 
ped from  Maine  around  Cape  Horn.  For  a 
number  of  years  after  it  was  built  it  was  by 
long  odds  the  most  pretentious  house  in  Port- 
land. 

The  first  United  States  postal  service  west 
of  the  Rocky  Mountains  was  authorized  by 
Congress  during  the  winter  of  1846-7. 

It  was  in  1847  that  Marcus  Whitman,  mis- 
sionary to  the  Indians,  and  thirteen 
others  were  massacred  by  the 
Cayuse  Indians  at  Walla  Walla. 
Five  years  before  that  Dr.  Whit- 
man had  made  his  famous  journey 
across  the  continent  to  Washington 
to  urge  the  administration  to  stand 
firm  in  the  American  claim  to 
Oregon.  "It  is  just,"  says  the 
New  England  Magazine,  "to  rank 
Marcus  Whitman  with  Fremont 
and  other  great  pioneers." 

The  massacre  led  to  the  "Cay- 
use war,"  which  was  prosecuted 
by  a  "Provisional  Government," 
which  declared  war,  raised  an  army, 
se;ured  the  funds  to  carry  on  the 
war  and  fulfilled  other  require- 
ments of  a  government — all  this 
without  the  least  authority  from  the 


government  of  the  United  States. 
"In  this  respect  the  Oregon  story  is 
unique  in  the  history  of  the  states  of 
the  American  Union." 

The  Provisional  Government  was 
managed  by  an  executive  committee 
of  three  until  June  5,  1845,  when 
George  Abernethy  was  elected 
governor  with  a  full  complement  of 
officials.  Abernethy  was  succeeded 
by  General  Lane  in  1 849. 

When  we  consider  that  the  first 
official  census  of  "Old  Oregon"  in 
1 850,  before  the  division  of  the  ter- 
ritory, gave  a  population  of  but 
13,294,  the  progress  made  by  the 
state  and  by  its  largest  city  seems 
wonderful  indeed.  And  Portland 
is  still  growing. 

According  to  the  Portland  Com- 
mercial Club,  the  percentage  of  increase  in 
building  permits  during  the  months  of  May 
and  July,  1906,  over  the  same  months  of 
1905  was  greater  than  in  any  other  city  of  the 
United  States. 

Moreover  it  is  claimed  that  Portland  leads 
every  city  in  the  Pacific  Northwest  in  postal 
receipts,  school  population,  lumber  produc- 
tion, wheat  and  flour  exports  and  wholesale 
trade.  Her  annual  wholesale  business  is  said 
to  amount  to  $205,000,000. 

Compare  this  great  and  growing  city  with 
the  little  settlement  of  1847.  The  conver- 
sion of  a  bit  of  virgin  forest  into  a  prosper- 
ous city,  pulsating  with  the  spirit  of  progress, 
and  all  well  within  the  span  of  one  man  s 
life,  is  not  so  common  a  matter  as  to  be 
d  over  lightly.  It  is  not  difficult  to 
point  out  why  this  was  possible,  but  because 
to  some  degree  we  understand  we  are  none 
the  less  impressed  by  the  wonder  of  it  all. 
The  advance  made  in  sixty  years  is  not  due 
entirely  to  Portland's  natural  physical  advan- 
tages— important  as  they  are — but  in  great 
part  to  the  character  of  her  founders  and 
those  who  succeeded  them. 


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Carving  Sets  are  necessary  the  year  round  in  properly  regulated  households.  More- 
over they  make  popular  presents  at  this  season.  The  persons  receiving  such  a  gift  realize 
its  value  when  they  see  the  trade-mark  "1847  Rogers  Bros."  Each  piece  is  the  result  of 
skill  and  honest  workmanship.     A  bread  knife    also  makes   a  desirable  and  useful  gift. 


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Saves  Time  and  Talk 

"I    find    I    must    handle    the    1847    Rogers    Bros. 
brand,''  declared  a  buyer  recently. 

"It  saves  valuable  time  and  talk.     Whether  some  of 
the  other  brands  are  just  as  good  does  not  enter  into  the 
question.       The    buying   public  know  the  1847  Rogers 
Bros,  goods  and    to  show  them  goods  stamped  with 
that  trade-mark  is  to  satisfy  them  as  to  the  quality. 

"With  other  brands  it  takes  time  to  convince  the  purchaser — time  which  even  the 
most  capable  and  convincing  salespeople  cannot  devote  to  any  one  line. 

"I  am  convinced  that  1847  Rogers  Bros,  is  the  line  for  the  busy  dealer  to  tie 
up  to." 

Without  doubt  many  dealers  have  had  the  same  experience  related  in  the  above 
statement — which,  by  the  way,  was  actually  made  by  the  buyer  of  a  large  and  well- 
known  house. 

The  stamp  "1847  Rogers  Bros."  is  a  guarantee— and  the  buying  public  recognize 
it  as  such. 


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IN  1847  BY 

Rogeks  Bros. 

JUNE.  1847. 

ILLUMINATION 

CELEBRATION  HELD 
IN  NEW  YORK. 

The  grand  celebra- 
tion, recently  held,  is 
admitted  to  have  been 
the  most  splendid 
scene  ever  witnessed  in 
New  York  city.  The 
military  parade,  though 
extensive  and  splendid, 
did  not  constitute  the 
most  interesting  display 
of  the  occasion.  The 
day  was  serene  and 
pleasant,  and  in  the 
evening  Broadway  and 
other  principal  streets  works  were  displayed 
presented  continuous  from  the  City  Hall, 
lines  of  flame.  Museum.  Astor  House 

Commencing  with  I  ammany  and  several 
Castle  Garden,  it  ex-  |  other  buildings  in  the 
tendedin  one  unbroken  immediate  vicinity, 
sheet  to  the  New  York  I  The  Park  and  all  the 
Hotel,  embracing  streets  adjoining  and 
among  the  more  con-  ,  leading  thereto,  were 
spicuous  buildings  the  !  densely  crowded  with 
City  Hotel,  New  Eng-    admiring   multitudes 


land  House,  Rathbun's 
Hotel,  Howard's  Ho- 
tel, the  Franklin  House, 
the  Astor,  American 
Hotel,  City  Hall,  Gal- 
lery of  Fine  Arts, 
Stewart's  Palace  Baz- 
aar, with   hundreds   of 


numbering  at  least  100, 
000  people.  At  10 
o'clock  the  lights  were 
extinguished  and  the 
people  quietly  retired. 

Wilhelmus  Simmons, 
Taghkanie,  N  Y., 
private  dwellings  de-  j  found  a  hornet's  nest 
vised  with  transparen-  j  under  the  eaves  of  his 
cies,  fireworks  and  lights  barn.  He  tied  some 
of  every  description.  I  matches  to  the  end  of  a 
The  Theatres,  the  j  pole,  and  set  the  nest 
American  Museum,  j  on  fire.  By  this  pro- 
and  other  places  of  cess  he  also  burned  up 
amusement  were  all  the  barn,  in  which  the 
brilliantly  illuminated.  |  foolish  man  lost  one 
Lovejoy's  Hotel,  Tarn-  thousand  bushe's  of  oats, 
many  Hall,  and  indeed  a  large  quantity  of  hay, 
the  whole  block  in  rye,  &c,  making  a  loss 
which  Tammany  Hall   of  about  $1 ,200. 


OREGON  AND 
CALIFORNIA- 

The  St.  Joseph's,  Mis- 
souri, Gazette  says: 
Four  hundred  and  thir- 
ty-three wagons  passed 
through  Independence 
this  spring,  destined  for 
Oregon  and  California. 
The  number   that  have 


THE  NEW  POS-  They  surely  cannot  dis- 1  PROFITS  BY 
TAGE  LA  W—  cover  without  breaking  TRASH-Dickens' 
Many  and  loud  are  the  the  seal  of  the  envelope  share  of  the  profits  of 
complaints  of   some   of  i  and   if   they    take  that   the   last    number    of 


the  most  ridiculous  as 
well  as  inconvenient 
features  of  the  "back- 
ward march"  improve- 
ments in  the  post  office 
laws,  passed  by  the  re- 


passed   through    this  I  cent  session  of  sages  at 
place  added  to  the  above  I  Washington 


will  increase  th 
ber  to  upward 


e  ."SIS  '      One  °f  these  objec 


wagons,    now  on  their 
way  to  Oregon. 

Averaging  five  per- 
sons to  each  wagon, 
you  have  6,500  per- 
sons large   and   small, 


,300  tionables  consists  in  re- 


quiring three  cents  pos- 
tage to  be  prepaid  on 
all  transient  newspa- 
pers. The  result  proves 
what  any  sober  man 
might  have  foreseen 


liberty  they  will  open 
all  letters  indiscrimi- 
nately, and  conse- 
quently destroy  the  let- 
ter business  altogether. 
Surely  our  Congress- 
men are  greatly  addict 


"Dombey  &  Son," 
was  twenty-three  thou- 
sand dollars. 

That's  the  way  of 
the  world.  Milton  got 
ten  pounds  for  his 
"Paradise    Lost." 


A  little  girl  died  late- 
ly in  Rahway,  N.  J., 
without  the  physicians 
being  able  to  ascertain 
the  cause.  By  a  post 
mortem  examination  j  seen  at  work,  and  their 
1 30  cherry  stones  were  !  action  to  be  studied, 
found  in  the  stomach.     I  A  discovery  of  interest. 


now   on   their   way  to  that  instead  of  50,000 

Oregon  and  California,  single  copies  of   news- 

We  heard  yester-  papers  being  sent  from 

day  that    nearly    five  friend  to  friend  as  form  - 

hundred  Mormons  had  erly,  there  is  sent  now 

left   their    encampment  leSs  than  50  per  week; 
at  the   Bluffs,  with  the 
intent'on    of   settling  in 
and  near  this  place. 

A  Belgian  savant 
says  he  has  just  discov- 
ered that  the  electric 
light  directed  on  the 
human  body,  makes  it 
so  diaphonous  as  to 
enable  the  arteries, 
veins  and  nerves  to  be 


occasions. 

GIFT  TO  HAR- 
VARD-Abbott 

Lawrence,  of  Lowell, 
Mass.,  has  made  a  do- 
nation of  $50,0UU  for 
the  purpose  of  erecting 
suitable  buildings  and 
endowing  professor- 
ships in  the  University 
of  Harvard. 

The  new  department 
so  that  the  Post  Office  l  is  to  form  a  school  for 
revenue  will  by  this  fol- 1  Practical  Science.  The 
ly  be  reduced  probably  '  donor  specifies  three 
$20,000  per  annum.  |  branches,  viz:  Mining, 
But  a  more  ridiculous !  Engineering  and    Ma- 


ed  to  absence  of  mind  Wilson,  the  American 
on  certain  special  ornithologist,  was  never 
above  want,  while  here 
a  light  novelist  gets 
thousands  for  his  useless 
literature. 


clause,  is  that  forbid- 
ding the  enclosing  in 
the  same  envelope,  let- 
ters addressed  to  differ- 
ent persons.     Now,  tb 


:hin 

It  is  reported  that  the 
Western  Railroad 
Company  has  given  d 


query  is,  how  are   the  •  rections  to  cut  down  all  I  had  carved  the  hand  in 


deputy  postmasters  to 
know  or  find  out  what 
papers  a  close  sealed 
envelope     contains? 


telegraph  poles  which 
lean  so  as  to  endanger 
the  lives  of  brakemen 
on  the  tops  of  trains. 


stands,  was  radiant 
with  light.  The  news- 
paper offices,  without 
exception,  joined  in 
the  fete.  Transparen- 
cies, banners,  and  fire- 
works hovered  over 
them  like  a  mottled 
blaze  of  glory. 

The  illumination  ran 
into  every  nook  and 
corner  of  the  city,  and 
many  private  houses 
displayed  a  magnifi- 
cence that  on  an  ordi- 
nary occasion  would 
have  excited  general 
applause.  The  City 
Hall  and  Sun  buildings 
stand  credited  with 
making  of  themselves 
the  grandest  displays  of 
the  night.  The  Sun 
buildings  were  in  a  per- 
fect blaze,  nearly  one- 
half  of  the  entire  front 
on  Fulton  street  being 
made  up  of  windows, 
while  rockets  darted 
from  its  roof  into  the 
sky,  raining   fire  of  a 

The  united  rays  from  The  principal  names  I  The  Cherokee  Leg- 1  During  the  recent  J  A  gentleman  in  Cin- 
fifty  thousand  candles  in  Waldoboro,  Me.,  islature  have  voted  an  Missionary  Convention  cinnati,  accustomed  to 
dispelled  the  darkness  are  Head,  Horn,  Hide,  annual  pension  of  $300  I  at  New  Haven,  a  gang  bathe  in  alcohol,  acci- 
of  night  in  the  Park,  Hoof,  Sides,  Shank,  to  the  widow  of  George  of  pickpockets  appear- :  dentally  set  himself  on 
while  hundreds  of  gay  I  Blood,  and  (in  place  of  |  Guess,  who  invented  ed  among  a  throng,  |  fire,  and  was  danger- 
rockets  and  other  fire-    tail)  Onberhind.  1  the  Cherokee  alphabet.  I  dressed  as  clergymen.       ously  burned. 


One  of  the  prisoners 
at  Sing  Sing  escaped  on 
Wednesday  last  by  an 
ingenious  expedient. 
The  keepers  at  night 
ascertain  that  each 
prisoner  is  in  his  celi  by 
the  hand,  which  is 
thrust  through  the  bars. 
The  prisoner  manufac- 
tured a  hand,  and  em- 
ployed one  of  his  fellow 
prisoners  to  stick  it  in 
the  bars  of  his  cell, 
while  he  himself  re- 
mained in  the  work- 
shop, from  which  he 
easily  escaped.     H< 


his  cell,  carrying  out 
the  shavings  every 
morning  to  the  work- 
shop. 


IOODENNESS  is  one  of  the  distinctive  features 
of  America— wooden    houses,  wooden  door- 
steps, wooden  slates,  wooden  pillars,  wooden  palings, 
wooden  wharfs,  and  hear  and  there  wooden  roads  and 
wooden  pavements. 

"Things  as  They  are  in  cAmerica,"  by   W.  Chambers. 


A  duel  was  fought  at 
Newark,  N.  J.,  re- 
cently by  Mr.  Valen- 
tine, a  lawyer,  and  H. 
W.  Herbert,  a  gentle- 
man of  the  literati. 


CASTLE  GARDEN 

DESCRIPTION  OF  THE 
RESORT. 

Our  artist  has  here 
given  us  a  very  truthful 
picture  of  this  well- 
known  locality  and 
building.  The  capaci- 
ty of  the  latter  is  per- 
fectlyenormous.  Every 
person  who  has  ever 
visited  the  city  of  New 
York  is  doubtless  aware 
of  the  superiority  of  its 
situation  as  a  fashion- 
able resort  in  the  hot 
and  sultry  days  of  sum- 
mer. 

No  stranger  journey- 
ing to  the  London  of 
America,  will  neglect 
visiting,  among  the  oth- 
er beautiful  and  promi- 
nent objects  of  interest 
with  which  the  city 
abounds,  this  noted 
place. 

A  strange  mutation 
here!  No  longer  de- 
voted to  warlike  pur- 
poses this  place  resounds 
with  music  and  hilari- 
ous applause.  It  has 
been  roofed  entirely 
over,  and  a  cupola  lets 
in  light  from  above,  the 
gravelled  court  has  been 
floored,  an  amphithea- 
tre has  been  built  with- 
in the  walls,  capable  of 
seating  four  thousand 
persons,  the  roof  is  sus- 
tained upon  gothic  pil- 
lars and  the  interior  has 
been  beautified  by  de- 
signs in  Fresco.  A 
stage  has  been  erected 
and  an  orchestra  in 
which  are  thirty-two 
musicians  plays. 

The  principal  mem- 
bers of  the  late  Italian 
opera  company  are 
there  on  alternate 
nights,  giving  the  music 
of  fine  operas,  choruses 
and  all,  but  not  in  cos- 
tume nor  with  change 
of  scene,  and  the  amuse- 
ments of  other  nights 
being  English  vocalism, 
Tight  Rope,  and  other 
popular  exhibitions. 


TELEGRAPH- 
ING— A  correspond- 
ent of  the  Buffalo  Ex- 
press tells  the  largest 
story  yet  of  feats  per- 
formed by  telegraph 
operators.  He  says, 
among  other  marvellous 
things,  that  Mr.  S. 
Porter,  the  Superin- 
tendent of  the  telegr»ph 
line  from  Buffalo  to 
Toronto,  Canada,  for 
lack  of  other  facilities  at 
the  moment,  has  read 
communications  cor- 
rectly by  holding  the 
wires  in  his  hands  and 
observing  the  twitches 
of  the  nerves  at  his 
wrist.  Another  opera- 
tor. Mr.  C.  C.  Hask- 
ins,  who  is  in  charge  of 
the  office  at  Queens- 
ton,  by  placing  the  end 
of  the  wire  upon  his 
tongue,  reads  perfectly 
and  without  the  slight- 
est error,  by  the  sensa- 
tion of  the  shocks. 
This  he  has  often  done, 
and  with  entire  accu- 
racy. 


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ESTABLISHED  IN  1847  BY  ROGERS  BROS. 


Vol.  III.     No.  4. 


AUGUST,  1847. 


Five  Cknts 


U.  S.  BEHIND 
IN  TELEGRAPH 

JOHN  BULL  MAKES  BETTER 
LIGHTNING. 


WHAT   IS  BEING   DONE  WITH  NEW  IN- 
VENTION ON  THIS  SIDE  OF 
THE  ATLANTIC. 


Cannot  our  people 
make  as  good  lightning 
as  the  family  of  John 
Bull?  ask  Fisher's  Ma- 
gazine. In  Great  Brit- 
tain  lines  are  being  con- 
structed in  various  di 
rections  all  in  the  most 
noiseless  and  unosten- 
tatious manner;  so  that 
for  any  and  all  the  pur- 
poses of  peace  and  of 
war  the  British  nation 
are  becoming  asonein- 
dividual,  in  respect  to 
the  means  and  oppor- 
tunites  of  instantaneous 
intelligence  and  inter- 
communication; and 
their  whole  Island  and 
its  immediate  depend- 
encies can  give  and  re- 
ceive advice  of  very  in- 
teresting emergency, 
and  from  the  centre  to 
their  circumference, 
sooner  than  our  people 
can  cross  the  ferry  from 
Courtland  Street  to  Jer- 
sey City! 

And  yet  we  are 
really  persuading  our- 
selves that  we  Ameri- 
cans are  the  most  enter- 
prising, circumventing, 
far-seeing, far-reaching, 
and  quick-moving  peo- 
ple in  the  wide  world! 
We  are  rapid  it  is  true, 
in  some  matters;  but 
they  are  very  apt  to  be 
matters  of  very  little 
moment. 

A  PATENT  1N- 
FRINGEMENT.- 

The  Board  of  Alder- 
men, last  Monday  eve- 
ning, voted  to  permit 
Hugh  Downing,  and 
RoyalR. House, to  lay  a 
line  of  telegraphic  wires 
through  the  west  side 
of  New  York  city,  over 
the  tops  of  the  houses, 
provided  they  first 
obtain  the  consent  of  the 
owners  of  said  houses. 
We  understand  that  as 
soon  as  such  a  line  un- 
dertakes to  operate. 
Prof.  Morse  will  cause 
an  injunction  to  be  laid 
upon  it  for  the  purpose 
of  testing  the  extent  and 
validity  of  his  patent. 
He  maintains  that  his 
patent    involves   the' 


whole  application  of 
electricity  to  telegraphic 
purposes  by  means  of 
continuous  wires  and 
that  no  improvement  in 
the  mode  of  instruments 
by  which  the  telegraph 
is  operated  can  be  used 
except  by  his  permission . 

WESTERN  TEL- 
EGRAPH    CO. 

In  a  letter  to  the  Cin- 
cinnati Gazette,  Eli- 
phalet  Case,  Jr.,  an- 
nounces that  he  has  ob- 
tained a  legal  transfer 
from  the  patentees  of 
their  right  to  construct 
a  line  or  lines  of  mag- 
netic telegraph,  connec- 
ting the  cities  of  New 
York,  Washington, 
Baltimore,  and  Phila- 
delphia westward  with 
Harrisburg,  Pittsburg, 
Cumberland,  Wheel- 
ing, via  Columbus  to 
Cincinnati,  Louisville, 
Nashville.  &c. .  to  New 
Orleans,  and  from 
Louisville  to  St.  Louis, 
and  from  Columbus  to 
Cleveland. 

He  will  proceed  to 
form  a  company  imme- 
diately to  be  known  as 
"The  Western  Tele- 
graph Company,"  for 
the  purpose  of  raising 
the  necessary  funds  to 
connect  the  above 
named  places,  and  in- 
termediate points  of  suf- 
ficient importance  to  re- 
quire an  office.  The 
cost  of  construction,  in- 
cluding batteries,  and 
all  things  necessary  for 
working  Morse's  Elec- 
tro-Magnetic Tele- 
graph, is  not  to  exceed 
$125  per  mile  for  one 
wire  and  $35  per  mile 
for  each  additional 
wire. — The  whole  dis- 
tance will  fall  short  of 
two  thousand  miles,  and 
consequently  the  entire 
cost  will  be  less  than 
$2  50,000— a  very 
small  sum  for  such  an 
important  work. 

The  interruptions  on 
the  eastern  lines  will  be 
avoided  on  this  line  by 
using  iron  wire  instead 


FOR  PEACE 
AMONG  NATIONS 

PROPOSAL  OF  AMERICAN 
SOCIETY. 


ADVOCATES  A  CONGRESS  OF  NATIONS 
FOR  THE  PURPOSE  OF  SET- 
TLING DISPUTES. 


of  copper,  and  of  three 
times  the  size,  and  nine 
times  the  strength,  and 
by  using  great  care  in 
the  insulation. 

In  fact,  the  frail  cop- 
per wire  used  upon  the 
eastern  lines  when  first 
constructed  is  now  be 
ing  replaced  by  a  sub 
stantial  iron  cord,  or 
wire,  of  sufficient 
strength  to  resist  the 
storms,  and  especially 
the  ice,  that  have  here 
tof  ore  broken  it  to  pieces 
and  interrupted  com- 
munication. 

TELEGRAPH 
TORN   DOWN- 

There  are  towers  built 
on  the  banks  of  the 
Hudson. a  shortdistance 
above  New  York  city, 
for  suspending  the  wires 
of  House's  Telegraph, 
which  crosses  the  river 
to  the  Jersey  side. 
Last  week  the  fly  of  a 
sloop  caught  the  curve 
of  the  wires  and  tore 
them  away. 

Our  telegraph  opera- 
tors will  yet  be  forced 
into  the  more  plausible 
plan  of  carrying  the 
wires  across  the  rivers 
by  tubes  laid  down  in 
the  water. 

GOVERNMENT 
CONTROL— It  has 

been  recommended  by 
some  of  the  merchants, 
that  when  Congress 
meet,  to  take  measures 
to  [-lace  the  control  of 
all  the  direct  routes  of 
the  Electric  Telegraph 
in  the  hands  of  the  Gen- 
eral Government. 


GLASS  FOR  PI- 
ANO KEYS.-Itwill 

be  seen  that  they  are 
beginning  to  use  ruby 
glass  for  this  purpose  in 
England.  We  have  on- 
ly to  say  that  the  same 
plan  was  proposed  by 
C.  H.  Packard,  of 
Bridgewater,  Mass., 
some  time  ago,  and  that 
he  has  been  engaged, 
we  believe,  in  perfecting 
his  invention,  and  that 
he  is  the  American  in- 
ventor of  this  substitute 
for  ebony  and  ivory  in 
the  keys  of  organs  and 
pianos. 

Two  large  elephants 
belonging  to  Messrs. 
Raymond  6c  Co.  were 
drowned  in  the  Dela- 
ware river,  near  Phila- 
delphia, on  the  I  5th. 
They  refused  to  walk 
down  a  ferry  slip  to  a 
steamboat;  but  when 
their  keeper  led  them 
to  the  marine  railway 
to  induce  them  to  swim, 
(to  which  they  cheer- 
fully submitted,)  unfor- 
tunately they  were 
yoked  together,  and 
this  so  embarrased  them 
that  both  were  drown- 
ed. 

A  young  man  in 
Newark, N.  J., in  shak- 
ing a  pair  of  pantaloons, 
one  leg  flew  up,  driving 
a  strap  button  into  one 
of  his  eyes,  making  a 
strange  and  very  severe 
wound.  Some  hope  of 
saving  the  organ  is  en- 
couraged by  the  physi- 
cians. 


A  new  shaving  soap 
has  been  invented, 
which  ta  kes  off  the  beard 
by  merely  rubbing  the 
soap  on  the  chin.  The 
only  fault  our  informant 
says  it  possesses  is  that 
it  takes  off  the  skin  too. 

LOCOMOTIVE 

ON  HIGHWAY- 

We  perceive  that  an 
experiment  has  been 
made  in  France  with  a 
peculiar  kind  of  Loco- 
motive, to  run  on  the 
highways.  This  is  not 
a  new  invention.  Steam 
Coaches  ran  for  a  short 
time  on  some  of  the 
roads  in  Scotland,  in 
1843,  but  a  great  ex- 
plosion put  an  end  to 
the  sheme. 

WAS  A  HOAX 

— A  contemporary  has 
discovered  that  a  report 
of  a  marriage  of  a  gent- 
leman in  Boston  to  a 
lady  in  New  York  by 
Telegraph,  is  a  sheer 
hoax  !    Bright  isn  't  he  ? 

GREAT  PRO- 
JECT- It  is  contem- 
plated to  bring  the  En- 
field Canal  to  Hart- 
ford. Ct.,  so  as  to  supply 
the  city  with  water  and 
water  power.  The 
route  has  already  been 
surveyed,  and  found 
practicable.  This  will 
enable  Hartford  to 
work  500,000  spindles, 
thus  exceeding  Lowell. 
The  whole  cost  would 
be  about  $700,000.  It 
certainly  is  a  great  pro- 
ject. 


It  is  proposed  in  this 
article  to  offer  some  re- 
marks on  the  project  of 
the  "American  Peace 
Society,'  for  a  "Con- 
gress of  Nations."  The 
writer  issufficientlysen- 
sible  of  the  disfavor  with 
which  the  project  is 
likely  to  be  regarded: 
"Utopian,  chimerical, 
impracticable"  are  the 
terms  which  doubtless 
many  will  apply  to  it ; 
and  yet,  if  there  is  a  law 
of  Nations,  is  it  extra- 
vagant to  ask  why  there 
may  not  be  a  Court  of 
Nations? 

The  world  is  slowly 
arriving  at  the  convic- 
tion that  there  must  be 
some  other  method  than 
war  by  which  reason- 
able beings  may  settle 
their  disputes. 

Suppose  a  Court  of 
Reference,  then,  as- 
sembled to  settle  some 
great  national  contro- 
versy. How  natural 
would  it  be,  that  other 
and  similar  questions 
should  be  submitted  to 
it!  If  the  court  were 
composed  of  individuals 
of  great  weight  and  dig- 
nity of  character,  we 
persuade  ourselves  that 
it  could  hardly  happen 
but  that  some  other 
causes  would  be  brought 
before  it.  And  thus  in 
time  there  might  grow 
up  a  great  Amphicty- 
onic  Council,  more 
worthy  surely  to  decide 
between  civilized  nat- 
ions, than  the  dread  as- 
size of  battle. 

If  a  congress  of  nations 
were  now  assembled  to 
form  a  code,  would  not 
the  work  be  left  half 
undone  if  a  court  were 
not  organized,  to  inter- 
pret and  apply  it? 

Such  a  cojrt  would 
possess  great  advantages 


in  its  position  and  per- 
manence. From  its  per- 
manence, it  would  be 
in  a  situation  to  form  a 
body  of  precedents  to 
govern  its  decisions. 

That  great  step,  in 
civilization  which  would 
be  taken  by  the  estab- 
lishment of  a  court  of 
nations, .the  greatest  — 
probably  the  most  im- 
portant that  yet  remains 
to  be  taken  does  really 
not  present  itself  in  a 
light  as  extravagant  as 
have  many  successful 
projectsfor  the  improve- 
ment of  the  human  con- 
dition. 

In  the  next  place, 
against  the  proposition 
made  in  this  essay,  no 
prejudice  ought  to  be 
entertained  on  account 
of  its  seeming  novelty  ; 
for  the  very  good  reason 
that  it  is  not  new. 

Far  back  in  the  ages 
of  Grecian  story,  so  far, 
indetd,  that  its  origin  is 
lost  in  the  shadows  of 
antiquity,  flourished,  at 
Thermopylae,  the  Am- 
phictyonic  Council. 

There  has  been  too 
an  alliance  within  the 
present  century,  an  al- 
liance denominated 
"Holy,  "for  the  defence 
of  royalandimperial  pre- 
rogatives against  pop- 
ular encroachments; 
and  without  asking  why 
a  Holy  Alliance  may 
not  be  formed  for  the 
welfare  of  the  people, 
by  the  preservance  of 
peace,  it  may,  at  least 
be  said  that  a  propo- 
sition to  this  effect  ought 
not  to  be  regarded  as  a 
strange  and  monstrous 
project,  to  be  rejected 
because  it  is  new.  It  is 
only  to  change  the  de- 
sign without  changing 
the  form,  and  the  ex- 
ample becomes  familiar. 


AtHagerstown.Md.  in  courting  a  pirlin  the 
a  suit  has  been  instituted  plaintiff's  family.  The 
for  the  recovery  of  75  suit  was  decided  in  fa- 
cents,  on  account  of  vor  cf  the  latter.  Lovers 
candles,  firewood,  &c.  should  do  their  courting 
used  by  the  defendant  in  the  summer  time. 


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THE  CHARTER  OAK 


STORY  OF  THE  TREE  THAT  IS  FAMOUS  IN  THE  HISTORY 

OF  OUR  COUNTRY. 

The  Charter  Oak — for  a  period  the  reposi-  courtly  and  tactful  man  in  the  colony,"  was  was  delivered  to  two  Hartford  magistrates,  Sam- 
tory  of  the  charter  of  the  Connecticut  colony  sent  to  England  on  this  mission,  carrying  with  uel  Wyllys  and  John  Talcott,  the  treasurer 
—stands  for  one  of  the  most  romantic  episodes  him    a   draft    of    the    charter,    and    succeeded  of   the  Colony,    who,  as  commissioners  of  the 


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i    **  CHARTER  DEPOSITED  1687  +  -I-  TREE'  DESTROYED  1856  *+ 


in  the  history  of  our  country.  As  is  usual  in 
such  cases,  time  has  drawn  a  veil  of  mystery 
about  the  incident,  and  it  is  sometimes  difficult 
to  distinguish  between  what  is  fact  and  fiction. 
In  the  present  sketch  we  shall  endeavor  to 
stick  as  close  as  may  be  to  what  appears  to 
be  well  authenticated. 

The  Colony  obtained  its  charter  from 
Charles  lion  April  23rd,  1662.  Governor  John 
Winthrop,   described    as    "perhaps   the    most 


where   doubtless  the  average  man  would  have 
failed. 

The  charter  was  issued  to  Governor  Win- 
throp in  duplicate,  each  copy  being  valid  and 
binding.  One  of  these  he  consigned  to  Simon 
Bradstreet  and  Rev.  John  Norton,  who  were 
about  to  return  to  Massachusetts  colony, 
whence  they  had  come  to  make  secure  their 
own  charter.  They  arrived  in  Boston  Sep- 
tember  3rd,    1662,    and  the  charter  probably 


United  Colonies,  met  at  Boston  the  day  after 
the  arrival  of  Bradstreet  and  Norton.  The  sec- 
ond copy  remained  in  England  for  many 
years. 

For  nearly  a  generation  the  Connecticut 
colony  retained  undisputed  possession  of  its 
charter.  Then  came  trouble.  On  December 
19th,  1686,  Sir  Edmund  Andros  arrived  in 
Boston  bearing  a  commission  as  Governor  of 
New    England.        Charles     was     dead,     and 


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James,  who  had  ascended  the  throne  in  1685, 
had  from  the  first  assumed  an  attitude  calcu- 
lated to  cause  much  misgiving  in  the  minds  of 
the  colonists.  Shortly  after  Andros'  arrival 
in  this  country  he  demanded  that  Connecti- 
cut's charter  be  surrendered.  He  was  not, 
however,  so  successful  as  in  the  case  of  Mass- 
achusetts, which  had  complied  with  a  like 
demand.  The  sentiment  of  the  colonists  was 
unmistakably  against  yielding. 

John  Talcott  and  John  Allyn,  who,  with 
Samuel  Wyllys,  had  been  appointed  by  the 
General  Court  of  Connecticut  as  keepers  of 
the  charter,  questioned  the  wisdom  of  hold- 
ing out,  and  expressed  that  opinion  to  the 
Assembly,  March  30th,  1687.  The  reply  of 
that  body  was  another  and  decisive  vote 
against  surrender. 

On  October  26th,  1687,  therefore,  Gov- 
ernor Andros  set  out  for  Hartford,  escorted 
by  some  gentlemen  of  his  council,  trumpeters 
and  redcoats.  Hartford,  at  this  time,  was  a 
scattered  village,  having  about  1 ,200  inhabi- 
tants. Although  the  wealthiest  town  in  the 
Colony,  its  taxable  estates  amounted  to  only 
£18,118.  It  was  hallowe'en  when  Andros 
and  his  party  reached  Hartford.  The  mem- 
bers of  the  General  Court  were  gathered, 
awaiting  his  arrival,  and  a  session  or  the 
Court  was  held  without  delay. 

There  were  present  Governor  Robert  Treat, 
Deputy  Governor  James  Bishop,  Assistants 
John  Talcott,  John  Allyn,  William  Jones, 
John  Wadsworth,  Andrew  Leete,  Benjamin 
Newberry,  Giles  Hamlin,  James  Fitch  and 
Samuel  Mason,  and  the  following  depu- 
ties of  the  Colony  ;  "  Nathaniel  Stanley  and 
Ciprian  Niccols,  for  Hartford  ;  Henry  Woll- 
cott,  (Windsor);  William  Lewes,  and  John 
Stanley,  (Farmington)  ;  Daniel  Harris,  (Mid- 
dletown) ;  Moses  Mansfield  and  Abram 
Dickerman,  (New  Haven)  ;  John  Beard  and 
Samuel  Buckingham,  (Milford);  Samuel 
Sherman,  (Stratford);  Samuel  Hayes,  (Nor- 
walk);  Thomas  Leffingwell,  Norwich);  Abra- 
ham Brunson,  (Lyme);  Henry  Crane,  (Kill- 
ingworth);  William  Johnson  and  John  Grave, 
(Guilford);  Thomas  Yale  and  John  Hall, 
(Wallingford);  Ebenezer  Johnson,  ( Derby); 
George  Gates,  (Haddam);  Eliezur  Stent, 
(Branford);  John  Chapman  and  William 
Dudley, (Saybrook)." 

The  towns  of  Simsbury,  Woodbury,  Stam- 
ford and  Stomngton  were  not  represented. 

To  all  these  members  of  the  Court  the 
occasion  was  momentous.  They  felt  that 
they  and  the  little  commonwealth  of  which 
they  were  a  part  had  been  brought  face  to 
face  with  a  great  crisis.  They  could  not,  of 
course,  realize  how  much  depended  on  the 
outcome  of  the  meeting  that  night;  they  could 
not  foresee  the  mighty  nation  that  was  to  be 
buiided  on  the  broad  foundation  of  civic 
liberty  they  were  helping  to  lay;  but  to  some 
of  them  doubtless  it  was  plain  not  only  that  the 
rights  of  the  Connecticut  Colony  were  in  jeop- 
ardy, but  that  a  great  principle  was  at  stake 
— a  principle  the  overthrowing  of  which 
would  affect  others  than  the  little  state  cling- 
ing to  it  so  desperately. 

As  to  just  what  happened  at  that  evening 
session  no  contemporary  record  exists,  and 
probably  none  was  made,  other  than  the  sin- 
gle sentence  which  officially  records  the  an- 
nexation of  Connecticut  by  Andros. 


A  summary  of  the  earliest  accounts,  written  the  Assembly  to  be  the  keeper  of  it,  and  the 
by  those  who  might  have  heard  the  story  Council  "concluded  that  it  should  remain  in 
from  participants  in  the  affair,  is  as  follows:  his  custodie"  and  it  "was  delivered  to  him." 
The  session  continued  until  late  in  the  even-  Still  later,  in  May,  1715,  the  following  re- 
mg.  so  that  lights  were  necessary.  The  solution,  passed  by  the  General  Court,  is  inter- 
members  were  very  reluctant  about  taking  any  esting: 

action  towards  surrendering  the  charter.      Gov-        "i  i -i     .        i.l   c  -.lc  i      j        j        •       . 

-P           .           .                    6.           ii       f     ,  Upon  consideration  or  the  faithful  and  good  service  of 

ernor    1  reat  in  a  long   speech,  told    of    the   ex-  Captain  Joseph  Wadsworth,  of  Hartford,  especially  in 

pense    and    hardships    that    the    colonists    had  securing  the  Duplicate  Charter  of  this  Colony  in  a  very 

endured  in  founding   the    colony    and    in    de-  'ro"^s7e -ason  when  our  constitution  was  struck  at. 

£       ,.        .           j    j      i         i  ..    i        •               ii         •  and  ln  safely  keeping  and  preserving  the  same  ever  since 

tending  it,  and  declared      that  it  was  like  giv-  unto  this  day;   This  Assembly  do,  as  a  token  of  their 

ins    up    his    life"    now   to   surrender  the  orivi-  grateful  resentment  of  such  his  faithful  and  good  service. 


leges  so  dearly  bought  and  so  long  enjoyed. 

Then  in  the  midst  of  the  debate,  and  per- 
haps when  it  seemed  that  the  charter  must  be 
given  up,  suddenly  the  candles  were  extin- 
guished. When  they  were  relighted,  the 
charter,    which    had    been   spread   upon    the 


grant  him  out  of  the  CoI< 

shir 


iy  treasury  the  sum  of  twenty 


Thus  it  is  proven  that  Wadsworth  both 
"secured"  the  charter  and  "preserved"  it  for 
more  than  twenty-five  years. 

Joseph    Wadsworth,    the    hero   of    the   ro- 


VV   111^11  I   I.  I!    J  M     <      ||  |)I<         Ml  UUU11  11IC  '  .  .1 

table  in  the  midst  of  the  Assembly,  was  gone.,  ma"tlC  i"'    We       f^ Qattem,Pt^    l°  de" 

Was  this  act  of  taking  the  charter  the  out-  scnbe'    was    born    m     l648 


was    born    in     1 648. 

t  i  ii      ,l        Li  I   .  freeman   of   the   colony   October   12th.    1676 

of   some   carefully   thought-out  plot,  or  ,  ,         ,     ,      >,     ■>    y^"^1    <<■"••   '"'"• 

by  order   of    the  Ceneral  Court.     He  fought 

as'  a   sergeant   in   King    Philip's  war,  and  ap- 

have    b 


come 

was  it  the  sudden  act  of  some  individual  pre- 
sent? Did  Andros  storm  and  threaten  and 
call  upon  the  redcoated  soldiers  to  search  for 
and  recover  the  document  and  to  bring  before 
him  the  guilty  party  who  had  taken  it?  Did 
the  Governor  and  members  present,  conceal- 
ing their  satisfaction,  endeavor  to  apologize  for 
the  incident  and  join  with  Andros  in  a  vain 
search  for  the  missing  document?  We  do 
not  know.  The  answer  to  these  and  other  quer- 
ies is  left  to  the  imagination. 

Andros  did  not  regard    the   spiriting   away 
of  the    charter  as  a   defeat,    however,    as    is 
clearly  evidenced  by  the  following  terse  entry 
which  appears  on  the  records  of  the  Colony: 
His  Excellency,  Sir  Edmund  Andros, Knight, Cap- 


pears  to  have  been  a  man  of  considerable 
consequence  in  the  colony.  He  was  ap- 
pointed lieutenant  and  later  captain  by  order 
of  the  General  Assembly.  He  was  a  deputy 
from  Hartford  in  1685,  '94,  '95,  '99,  1703, 
04,  05.  He  became  a  lawyer  in  1712  at 
the  age  of  sixty-four.  He  died  in  I  730,  and 
his  body  is  supposed  to  have  been  buried  in 
the  cemetery  at  the  corner  of  Main  and  Gold 
streets,  Hartford,  although  no  stone  marks  his 
resting  place. 

We  have  seen  that  the  charter  was  made 
out  in  duplicate,  and  that  Winthrop  forward- 
ed one  of  the  copies  to  the  colony.     It  seems 


tain   General  and  Governor  of  His  Majesty's  Terri-   to  have  been    expected    that    he    would    bring 


lories  and  Dominions  in  New  England,  by  order  of 
His  Majesty,  James  the  second.  King  of  England, 
Scotland,  France  and  Ireland,  the  thirty-first  of  Octo- 
ber, 1687,  took  into  his  hands  the  Government  of  this 
Colony  of  Connecticut,  it  being  by  His  Majesty  an- 
nexed to  the  Massachusetts  and  other  colonies  under 
His  Excellencies  Government.     Finis." 

Meantime,  what  of  the  charter?  It  had 
disappeared  during  the  period  of  darkness 
while  the  candles  were  being  relighted.  Some 
say  that  both  charters  were  taken  at  this  time, 
although  official  records  tend  to  disprove  this. 
The  credit  for  taking  and  preserving  the  char 
ter  (or  charters)  is  given  to  sundry  different 
persons  by  early  writers  on  the  subject  and  by 
the  traditions  handed  down  in  several  families 
But  the  only  official  record  gives  credit  alone 
to  Captain  Joseph  Wadsworth. 

This  session  of  the  Court  is  believed  to  have 
been  held  behind  closed  doors,  and  conse- 
quently, as  Wadsworth  was  not  a  member,  he 
could  not  have  been  present,  and  the  actual 
removal  of  the  charter  from  the  table  must 
have  been  the  work  of  another  hand  than  his. 
But  he  it  was,  no  doubt,  who  carried  the  pre- 
cious parchment  through  the  town  under  cover 
of  the  darkness  and  secreted  it  in  a  hollow 
of  the  now  famous  oak,  which  stood  in  front 
of  the  residence  of  Magistrate  Samuel  Wyllys. 

It  is  unlikely  that  the  charter  remained  hid- 
den in  the  oak  for  a  considerable  time.     Th 


the  other  copy  with  him  when  he  returned 
from  England  the  following  year.  This 
Winthrop  did  not  do,  but  instead  left  it  in 
London  in  the  hands  of  James  Porter.  There 
it  remained  until  late  in  1686,  twenty-four 
years,  when  William  Whiting,  the  Colony's 
agent  in  London,  was  instructed  to  procure  it 
from  Porter  and  have  it  ready  to  exhibit  in 
Court  if  need  be  at  the  hearing  of  Quo  War- 
ranto proceedings  on  the  annulment  of  this 
very  charter.  The  correspondence  that  is 
preserved  between  Whiting  and  the  Colony 
seems  to  prove  beyond  question  that  this 
charter  was  not  sent  to  Connecticut  between 
October,  1686,  when  the  instructions  above 
noted  were  sent,  and  October,  1687,  when 
the  charter  was  hidden.  There  was  no  rea- 
son at  that  time  for  sending  it  to  this  country, 
while  there  was  every  reason  of  retaining  it  in 
London.  Consequently,  there  could  have 
been  but  one  charter  preserved  and  hidden 
by  Wadsworth,  there  being  but  one  in  Con- 
necticut at  the  time  of  Andros'  visit  and  de- 
mand; and  this,  notwithstanding  the  various 
statements  that  the  two  charters  were  hidden 
and  the  sundry  names  given  as  the  traditional 
preservers  of  each. 

Of    the    two   charters,  one  was  the  "origi- 
nal "  and  the  other   the   "duplicate"  only   in 


chance   of   its  accidental  discovery  there  or  of  j  'be  sense  of  one  having  been  sealed  first, 
its   injury   or  destruction  by  dampness  or  ani-  j      Several  other  manuscript  copies  which  have 
mals  would  have  been  too  great.  come  down  to  us  appear,  from  certain  pecul- 

Wadsworth  retained  the  charter  in  his  pos- 1  lanties  of  their  wording,  to  have  been  made 
session  for  many  years.  In  1698,  eleven  years  from  the  charter  which  had  first  received  the 
after  its  preservation  by  him,  upon  order  from  great  seal  of  England — for  the  use  of  which  a 
the  Governor  and  Council  he  brought  it  be-  fee  of  £5  was  paid,  as  was  noted  both  on  the 
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LOLA  MONTEZ  AGAIN. 

Long   ago    we  gave   up   speculating    as    to 
whether    The    Standard  was  being  carefully 
read  by  those  to  whom  it  was  sent.     We  have 
received    so    many 
words  of  commen- 
dation and  so  great 
a  degree  of  genuine 
appreciation    has 
been  and  constantly 
is  being  manifested 
that    that    question 
has  been  very  satis- 
factorily  answered. 

In  this  connection 
a  recent  letter  is  of 
more  than  usual  in- 
terest, dealing,  as  it 
does,  with  a  feature 
of  a  late  issue  of 
The  Standard.  Mr. 
E.  M.  Shepherd,  of 
the  jewelry  firm  of 
Shepherd  &  Ben- 
nett, of  Maiden, 
Mass.,  writes  as  fol- 
lows regarding  Lola 
Montez,  the  dancer 
and  favorite  of  the 
King  of  Bavaria, 
whose  life  we  very 
briefly  sketched  and  whose  portrait  we  printed:  chamber 


rian  of  the  Connecticut  Historical  Society  at 
Hartford.  We  have  regretfully  but  firmly 
turned  our  back  upon  many  details  of  the  story 
that,  although  adding  to  it  much  color  and 
"human  interest,"  do  not  seem  capable  of 
verification. 

To  any  one  desiring  to  read  a  longer  ac- 
count and  one  rich  in  detail  we  would  recom- 
mend Mr.  W.  H.  Gocher's  "  Wadsworth,  or 
The  Charter  Oak,"  published  by  the  author, 
a  Hartford  gentleman.  The  disappearance  of 
the  charter  is  told  in  a  very   entertaining  way. 

The  conference  between  Governor  Andros 
and  the  colonists,  according  to  this  account, 
was  held  in  the  tavern,  to  which  a  wing  had 
been  recently  added.  The  addition  of  this 
wing  darkened  a  window  in  the  upper 
room,    which    was    often    used    as   a    council 


To  the  Editor  of  the  Silver  Standard, 

Dear  Sir : — 

Any  one  who  lived  in  Boston  or  any  great 
American  city  during  the  early  50's,  if  at  that 
time  of  mature  age,  will  remember  Lola  Mon- 
tez, and  there  can  be  no  doubt  as  to  her  right 
to  have  a  place  among  the  miscellanies  of  the 
Standard. 

Here  is  a  "skit"  about  Lola  which  was  pub- 
lished at  the  time  in  a  Boston  paper : 
"  Some  say,  what  stoutly  I  deny, 
That  Lola  Montez  is  cracked  up  too  high;* 
That  su'  ly  none  can  say  who'd  be  impartial; 
She's  booked  for  ten  nights  more  to  Mr. 
Marshall."! 

*A  phrase  of  the  time,  nv  aning  praised  too 
highly. 

tMr.  Wyzeman  Marsh.- J]  Lessee  and  Man- 
ager of  the  Boston  Howard  Athaneum,  had 
just  effected  a  re-eng?.gement  with  Lola  for 
t.  o  weeks,  no  perfor'.iance^  on  Saturday. 

The  foregoing  is  '  not  necessarily  for  publi- 
cation," but  might  be  of  interest  to  a  few  who 
remember  old  times. 

Thanking  you  very  much  for  the  pleasure  it 
gives   me   to   read   and    be   reminded   of    the 
sprightly    things   of    days   gone    by,    by    The 
Standard's  judiciously  culled  items,  I  remain 
Very  truly  yours, 

E.  M.  Shepherd. 


and  was  concealed  by  a  valance.  A  stairway 
was  built  to  connect  it  with  the  lane. 

Just  outside  of  the  window,  on  the  night  of 
the  conference,  there  stood  a  man  destined  to 
play  an  important  role  in  what  was  about  to 
take  place,  for  to  him,  Captain  Joseph  Wads- 
worth,  had  been  assigned  the  task  of  stealing 
the  charter. 

Governor  Andros  presented  his  case  and 
made  his  demand  for  the  surrender  of  the 
document.  Brought  to  bay  as  they  were,  the 
colonists  defended  their  position  firmly  but 
despairingly.  The  discussion  was  at  its  height, 
Andros  determined  and  confident,  the  deputies 
no  less  determined  but  far  less  assured,  when 
suddenly  the  candles  were  extinguished. 

Under  cover  of  the  sudden  darkness  the 
paper  was  passed  to  Captain  Wadsworth,  who 
descended  to  the  alley  and,  evading  Andros' 
soldiers,  made  his  way  as  fast  as  possible  to 
the  home  of  Samuel  Wyllys,  one  of  the  cus- 
todians of  the  charter,  but  who  at  this  time 
was  in  the  West  Indies. 


Fearing  that  the  house  might  be  searched, 
Our  sketch  of  the  Charter  Oak  in  this  num-  Mrs.  Wyllys  suggested  hiding  the  charter  in 
ber  is,  we  believe,  as  strictly  in  accord  with  the  hollow  oak  on  the  estate.  Captain  Wads- 
the  facts  as  is  possible  in  the  circumstances,  worth's  further  adventures  are  described  in 
In  its  preparation  we  have  had  the  very  valua-  Mr.  Gocher's  book,  but  lack  of  space  forbids 
ble  assistance  of  Mr.  Albert  C.  Bates,  librar-  their  recital  here. 


HARTFORD        | 

SKETCH  OF  CONNECTICUT'S  CAP- 
ITAL, THE  HOME  OF  THE 
CHARTER  OAK. 

The  view  of  Hartford  in  1847  shown  on 
this  page  is  thus  described  in  Gleason's  Picto- 
rial Drawing-Room  Companion,  a  publication 
of   that  period : 

"This  is  a  view  in  the  centre  of  the  city, 
looking  down  Main  street.  On  the  left  of  the 
picture  is  seen  the  State  House.  This  building 
is  situated  in  a  small  triangular  park  bounded 
by  State  and  Main 
streets  and  Central 
Row,  and  is  similar 
in  style  to  the  City 
Hall,  New  York. 
It  is  occupied  by  the 
State  Senate  and 
Assembly, the  Gov- 
ernor and  other 
State  Officers,  be- 
sides some  of  the 
local  courts.  In  the 
Assembly  chamber 
is  the  original  por- 
trait of  Washington 
by  Stuart. 

"Over  the  buil- 
ding to  the  right  of 
the  cupola  is  seen 
thespireofthe  Uni- 
tarian Uniiversalist 
Congregational 
Church,  :n  the  base- 
ment of  which  is 
the  post-office.  On 
Main  street,  oppo- 
site the  State  House, 
the  building  with  the  Phoenix  upon  it  is  the 
Phoenix  Bank,  just  below  which  is  seen  the 
spire  of  the  Centre  Congregational  Church. 

"Opposite  this  church  and  hidden  by  the 
trees  is  the  Wadsworth  Anthenaeum,  on  the 
same  side  with  which  is  St.  John's  Church 
(Episcopal).  In  the  extreme  distance  on  the 
right  of  the  picture  is  seen  the  spire  of  the 
South  Congregational  Church.  This  Church 
is  a  division  of  the  Centre  Congregational 
Church,  which  was  itself  organized  in  Newtown, 
Mass.,  in  1633,  under  the  pastoral  charge  of 
the  celebrated  Rev.  Thos.  Hooker. 

"Main  street  is  one  of  the  handsomest  streets 
in  New  England,  and  is  about  one  hundred 
and  twenty  feet  wide,  and  from  one  and  a 
half  to  two  miles  long.  In  the  summer  season 
it  affords  a  magnificent  drive,  branching,  as  it 
does,  at  either  end  in  several  beautiful  roads 
leading  to  the  various  towns  and  villages  in  the 
vicinity." 

As  a  contrast,  we  present,  on  the  next 
page,  a  view  of  the  same  locality  as  it  appears 
today,  the  cut  being  made  from  a  photograph 
taken  specially  for  The  Silver  Standard. 

Hartford  sixty  years  ago  was  not  a  large 
city.  The  census  of  1840  showed  a  popu- 
lation of  9,468;  the  1850  enumeration,  17,- 
966.  But  1847  was  a  period  of  development. 
The  Mexican  War,    which   then   was  in  pro- 


1847 


THE  SILVER  STANDARD 


now — 1907 


gress,  had  much  to  do  with  the  growth  of  one 
great  enterprise,  creating  as  it  did,  a  demand 
for  the  Colt  revolver. 

Another  industry  that  dates  back  to  1847 
is  too  well  known  to  readers  of  7  he  Silver 
Standard  to  require  much  emphasis.  Three 
Hartford  silversmiths,  that  year,  first  produced 
electro-silver  plated  spoons  and  forks.  The 
process  thus  introduced  by  the  Rogers  brothers, 
who  shortly  after  removed  to  Meriden,  has 
resulted  in  the  great  business  of  today. 

Two  years  before  that  a  young  man  named 
Pliny  Jewell  had  come  to  Hartford  from  New 
Hampshire  and  was  running  a  lanyard.  The 
outgrowth  of  that  humble  enterprise  was  the 
important  Jewell  Belting  Co. 

The  discovery  of  anesthesia  is  credited  to 
a  Hartford  physician  of  that  period — Dr. 
Horace  Wells. 

In  connection  with 
the  article  on  Page  2 
dealing  with  the  Charter 
Oak,  a  glance  at  the 
early  history  of  Hart- 
ford may  not  be  out 
of  place. 

In  1633  a  band  of 
Englishmen,  led  by  their 
pastor,  Rev.  Thomas 
Hooker,  arrived  at 
Cambridge,  Mass.,  then 
known  as  Newtown. 
In  1 636  they  emigrated 
to  what  is  now  Hart- 
ford.The  land  at  Hart- 
ford they  bought  from 
the  River  Indians. 

Thirteen  years  before 
this —  1 623 — the  Dutch 
had  founded  a  trading 
post  at  the  junction  cf 
the  Connecticut  and 
Little  River  (now  Park 
River).  This  locality  is 
still  known  as  Dutch  Point  in  the  city  of  Hart- 
ford. By  the  time  of  Hooker's  arrival,  it  had 
grown  into  a  small  fort,  enclosing  several 
buildings  and  provided  with  a  small  cannon, 
and  sheltered  quite  a  number  of  people,  in- 
cluding women  and  children, — possibly  thirty 
all  told.  It  was  surrounded  by  a  cultivated 
farm  of  about  twenty-five  acres. 

The  Dutch  also  had  purchased  the  land  of 
the  Indians,  dealing  with  the  Pequots,  to  whom 
the  River  Indians  were  tributary.  Quarrels 
soon  arose  between  the  English  and  Dutch 
settlers  and  when  war  broke  out  between  the 
mother  countries  the  Dutch  moved  to  New 
York. 

On  January  14th,  1639,  about  two  hundred 
men  of  the  Connecticut  colony,  which  then 
consisted  of  the  inhabitants  of  Hartford,  Wind- 
sor and  Wethersfield,  came  together  in  the 
Hartford  meeting-house,  which  was  on  or  near 
the  site  of  the  present  City  Hall.  The  result 
of  this  meeting  was  a  written  constitution — the 
Fundamental  Orders — the  provisions  of  which 
were  at  a  later  date  embodied  in  the  famous 
charter  and  which  remained  in  force  until  1818. 

"From  this  seed,"  says  the  historian  Ban- 
croft, "sprang  the  constitution  of  Connecticut, 
first  in  the  series  of  written  American  consti- 
tutions, framed  by  the  people,  for  the  people. 
Nearly  two  centuries  have  elapsed,  but  the 
people  of  Connecticut   have   found  no  reason 


to  deviate  from  the  government  established  by 
their  fathers." 

It  was  an  important  event,  not  alone  in  the 
history  of  this  commonwealth  or,  indeed,  of 
the  nation,  but  of  the  whole  civilized  world. 
It  was  the  birth  of  a  mighty  principle—  that  of 
"government  of  the  people,  by  the  people,  for 
the  people." 

These  pioneers  who  framed  the  Connecticut 
constitution  were  a  sturdy  folk,  and  their  lead- 
er, Thomas  Hooker,  was  a  remarkable  man, 
— a  man  whose  qualities  and  worth  were  rec- 
ognized by  statesmen  in  England  as  well  as 
by  the  handful  of  Colonists  in  the  new  world. 
He  was  born  probably  in  1586  at  Marfield, 
a  hamlet  in  Leicestershire.  Because  of  his 
opinions  he  was  forced  to  flee  to  Holland  in 
1630,  whence  he  returned  to  England  in  1633 


to  take  passage  to  America,  reaching  Boston 
September  4th,  of  that  year.  On  the  same 
vessel  arrived  Rev.  Samuel  Stone  and  John 
Haynes. 

Haynes  was  a  gentleman  and  of  much  in- 
fluence in  his  new  surroundings.  He  was  cho- 
sen governor  of  Massachusetts  in  1635  and  of 
Connecticut  every  alternate  year  from  1639 
until  his  death  in  1654.  All  three  are  buried 
in  the  old  Hartford  graveyard,  and  their  mon- 
uments may  be  seen  in  the  enclosure  near  the 
rear  of  the  First  (Center)  Church. 

Thomas  Hooker  was  a  genuine  democrat 
with  opinions  far  in  advance  of  even  the  pro- 
gressive men  with  whom  he  was  associated. 
He  declared  that  "in  matters  of  greater  con- 
sequence, which  concern  the  common  good, 
a  General  Council  chosen  by  all,  I  conceive, 
under  favor,  most  suitable  to  rule  and  most 
safe  for  relief  of  the  whole." 

"The  foundation  of  authority,"  to  quote 
from  a  sermon  delivered  by  him  in  1638,  "is 
laid,  firstly,  in  the  free  consent  of  the  people. 
The  choice  of  public  magistrates  belongs  unto 
the  people,  by  God's  own  allowance.  They 
who  have  power  to  appoint  officers  and  ma- 
gistrates, it  is  in  their  power,  also,  to  set  the 
bounds  and  limitations  of  the  power  and  place 
unto  which  they  call  them.  The  lesson  taught 
is — to  persuade  us,  as  God  hath  given  us  lib- 
erty, to  take  it." 


The  conditions  in  those  early  days  were 
primitive.  As  early  as  1641  Hartford  had  a 
bell-ringer  and  town-crier,  who  rang  his  bell 
in  the  streets  every  morning  an  hour  before 
day-break.  Some  one  must  be  up  in  every 
house  fifteen  minutes  after  this  signal  in  order 
to  make  a  light.  The  meeting  house  bell  was 
rung  at  noon  and  at  9  P.  M.,  the  latter  as  a 
signal  to  prepare  for  rest.  There  was  a  week- 
ly market  and  a  Fair  in  May  and  September, 
these  being  Festival  days. 

"A  common  dress  of  women,"  we  are  told, 
"was  a  blue  and  white  linen  waist,  with  short 
sleeves;  joined  to  a  skirt  of  serge,  and  a  white 
apron.  The  good  wife  went  abroad  for  visit- 
ing or  to  meeting  attired  in  a  short  gown  of 
'sad  stuff',  laced  in  front,  with  a  white  kerchief 
about  her  neck  and  bosom,  with  mitts  cover- 
ing the  forearm  and 
bits  of  ribbon  here  and 
there.  Wealthier  la- 
dies of  quality  appeared, 
on  good  occasion,  in 
flowing  brocadesorwith 
gowns  of  cashmere  and 
silk,  with  embroidered 
stomachers,  silk  scaifs 
and  fine  laces.  Clothing 
of  leather  was  much 
worn  by  laborers  and 
servants.  Coarse,  firm, 
homespun  cloth  of  linen 
and  wool  served  for 
better  garments.  The 
magistrate,  the  deputy, 
and  such  as  were  distin- 
guished by  comparative 
rank  or  wealth,  had 
richer  and  gayer  cloth- 
ing." 

The  good  people  of 
the  Colony  were  a  so- 
ber-minded folk,  and 
life  was  a  serious  mat- 
ter. They  married  early;  the  records  speak  of 
one  "antient  maid"  who  had  reached  the  age 
of  twenty-five. 

In  addition  to  a  highly  developed  con- 
science, they  were  troubled  with  many  super- 
stitions, as  were  most  people  of  that  age. 
"Comets  created  alarm.  Eclipses  were  regarded 
as  portentous.  Houses  were  invaded  and  dis- 
turbed by  Satan's  imps.  Diabolical  enchant- 
ments and  Indian  sorceries  were  apprehended. 
Lights  in  the  burying  ground  and  on  the  marsh- 
es were  frightful.  Spinning  wheels,  sleds  and 
weather  vanes  were  bewitched,     etc.  etc. 

Dancing,  cards,  bowls,  shuffleboards  and 
play  acting  were  prohibited.  Musical  instru- 
ments other  than  fife,  trumpet  and  jewsharp 
were  not  sanctioned. 

But  there  was  a  bright  side,  too.  There 
were  house  raisings,  corn  huskings,  quilting 
parties,  apple-bees,  sheep  shearings,  maple 
sugar  makings,  picnics,  sleigh-rides  and  hila- 
rious assemblies  at  weddings  and  parties.  Ath- 
lethic  sports  were  popular,  and  there  were 
election  days,  thanksgiving  days,  training  days, 
and  the  "nigger  election,"  when  a  negro  was 
chosen  to  hold  sway  over  his  colored  brethren, 
to  look  forward  to. 

The  life,  however,  was  that  of  the  pioneer. 
To  the  fact  that  its  duties  were  discharged 
aright,  our  country  today  owes  a  debt  of  grat- 
itude larger  than  possibly  we  realize. 


1847 — THEN- 


-THE  SILVER  STANDARD- 


-now — 1907 


Charter  Oak 

(Continued  from  page  3) 

official  records  and  on  that  copy  of  the  char- 
ter itself.  And  as  some  of  these  early  copies 
bear  internal  evidence  of  having  been  written 
soon  after  the  charter  was  granted  it  follows 
that  the  charter  first  sealed  must  have  been 
the  one  sent  over  by  Winthrop  in  1 662  and 
"preserved"  by  Wadsworth  in  1687.  This 
copy  seems  to  have  remained  in  possession  of 
the  Wyllys  family  for  many  years;  perhaps  from 
1715  when  Wadsworth  received  the  grant  for 
"safely  keeping"  it,  and  when  he  probably 
surrendered  it  to  the  colonial  authorities,  until 
it  was  a  second  time  rescued  and  preserved 
about  1817. 

At  that  time  a  young  man  named  John 
Boyd  was  boarding  in  the  family  of  Rev. 
Abel  Flint,  of  Hartford.  Coming  in  one 
day  he  noted  some  old  parchment  on  the 
stand  of  Mrs.  Bissel,  Dr.  Flint's  mother-in- 
law,  from  which  (so  says  tradition)  she  had 
been  cutting  pieces  to  line  a  bonnet.  Mrs. 
Bissel  told  him  that  the  parchment  had  been 
given  her  by  Mrs.  Wyllys.  He  asked  for  and 
received  the  remainder  of  the  parchment, 
which  he  later  discovered  to  be  the  Connecti- 
cut charter.  Mr.  Wyllys,  his  father  and 
grandfather  had  been  secretaries  of  the  Col- 
ony and  state  continuously  from  I  71  2  to  1809. 

What  remains  of  this  charter,  together  with 
the  box  in  which  it  was  brought  from  Eng- 
land, is  now  exhibited  in  the  rooms  of  the 
Connecticut  Historical  Society. 

The  second  charter,  the  one  left  by  Win- 
throp in  England,  is  now  exhibited  in  the 
Connecticut  State  Library.  Except  for  the 
loss  of  the  seal,  it  is  complete  and  perfect. 

The  Historical  Society  also  possesses  some 
fragments  broken  from  the  seal  of  one  of  the 
Connecticut  charters.  They  are  of  a  wax  of  a 
dark  green  color,  this  color  signifying  that  the 
document  to  which  it  was  attached  was  a  grant 
without  limitation  of  time,  but  one  that  might 
be  considered  as  perpetual — and  so,  through 
Wadsworth's  bravery,  it  has  proved  to  be. 

In  the  official  record  made  in  1715,  Wads- 
worth is  spoken  of  as  having  secured  "the 
duplicate  charter."  This  use  of  the  word 
"duplicate"  has  caused  much  confusion  and 
misunderstanding,  because  it  has  usually  been 
assumed  to  have  been  applied  to  a  particular 
one  of  the  two  copies  issued.  Such  assump- 
tion is  incorrect.  The  word  was  used  then 
exactly  as  we  would  today  use  the  word 
"other" — referring  to  the  copy  not  then  at 
hand  or  under  discussion.  And  it  may  be  and  is 
so  used  in  reference  to  both  copies  of  the  charter. 

The  old  oak  in  which  the  charter  was  hid- 
den stood  until  the  night  of  August  2 1  st, 
1856,  when  it  was  struck  by  a  gale  of  wind, 
and  was  broken  off  about  six  feet  from  the 
base.  All  day  long  the  people  of  Hartford 
made  pilgrimages  to  the  hill  where  the  historic 
tree  had  stood,  and  to  the  memory  of  this  in- 
animate guardian  of  the  people's  rights  was 
paid  a  degree  of  honor  equal  to  that  which 
would  have  been  bestowed  upon  a  statesman 
dying  in  the  discharge  of  his  duties.  Two 
flags  were  draped  around  the  stump,  and  at 
noon  the  band  from  the  Colt  Armory  played 
the  "Dead  March  in  Saul,"  "Home,  Sweet 
Home,"  and  "Hail,  Columbia."  At  sun- 
down the  bells  all  over  the  city  were  tolled. 


CHARTER  OAK  PATTERN 

DESIGN  PRODUCED  ON  60TH  ANNIVERSARY  OF 
"1847  ROGERS  BROS." 

It  is  appropiate  that  the  new  pattern  in  the 
"1847  Rogers  Bros."  brand  of  Silver  plated 
ware  should  be  given  the  name,  ''Charter 
Oak."  The  brand  originated  in  Hartford, 
the  home  of  the  famous  tree,  in  1847 — sixty 
years  ago.  The  "Charter  Oak,"  therefore, 
besides  bringing  to  mind  a  remarkable  episode 
in  our  history,  by  association  of  ideas  recalls 
the  fact  that  it  was  in  Hartford  that  the  silver 
plating  industry  and  the  making  of  the  "1847 
Rogers  Bros."  brand  had  their  joint  beginning, 
sixty  years  ago. 

Whether  anniversaries  are  occasions  for  re- 
joicing or  repining  depends  largely  on  how 
one's  time  has  been  spent. 

A  glance  back  over  these  sixty  years  pos- 
sibly may  show  some  mistakes  in  policy  and 
conduct  of  the  business — it  would  be  strange  if 
it  were  not  so — but,  on  the  whole,  it  brings  a 
pretty  decided  feeling  of  satisfaction.  Anniver- 
saries in  this  case  are  occasions  for   rejoicing. 

Increasing  business  from  year  to  year  shows 
that  "1847  Rogers  Bros."  goods  not  only  have 
maintained   their   popularity  but  actually  have 
caused  it  to  increase  in  a  wonderful  degree. 
ATTEMPTS  AT  IMITATION. 

The  electro- silver  plating  industry  and  the 
"1847  Rogers  Bros."  brand  were  born  to- 
gether, when  Rogers  Bros,  in  1 847  perfected 
the  electro-silver  plating  process. 

How  important  this  fact  is  may  be  realized 


Thus  passed  the  historic  tree,  "800  years 
old,  they  say."  Its  trunk  and  branches  were 
made  into  canes  and  many  other  articles  of 
use  and  ornament,  while  a  scion  is  today 
growing  in  Bushnell  Park.  Mark  Twain, 
the  humorist,  avers  that  the  bridge  over  the 
Connecticut  river  at  Hartford  "  is  built  en- 
tirely of  Charter  Oak." 

When  Rev.  Thomas  Hooker  and  his  com- 
panions purchased  the  site  at  Hartford  from  the 
Suckiag  Indians,  the  latter  had  asked  that  this 
old  oak  be  spared,  explaining  that,  in  addition 
to  being  a  landmark,  it  was  a  peace-tree  of 
the  tribe. 

In  complying  with  this  request  of  the  sav- 
age chief,  the  pioneer  preacher  and  his  hardy 
flock  little  dreamed  what  an  important  part 
the  tree  was  to  play  in  the  history  of  the  Col- 
ony then  unfounded  and  the  mighty  nation 
then  undreamed  of. 

Of  the  Connecticut  charter  a  writer  in  the 
North  American  says: 

"  ll  is  remarkable  that,  although  it  was  granted  at  a 
period  of  the  world  when  the  rights  of  the  people  were 
little  understood  and  little  regarded,  and  by  a  sovereign 
who  governed  England  with  a  more  arbitrary  sway 
than  any  of  his  successors,  the  form  of  government  es- 
tablished by  this  charter  was  of  a  more  popular  descrip- 
tion, and  placed  all  power  within  the  more  immediate 
reach  of  all  the  people  than  the  constitution  for  which  it 
has  been  deliberately  exchanged,  in  these  modern  days 
of  popular  jealousy  and  republican  freedom," 

The  facts  included  in  this  sketch  were 
drawn  largely  from  the  chapter  entitled  "Hart- 
ford, the  Keeper  of  Connecticut's  Charter,"  by 
W.  DeLoss  Love,  in  "Hartford  in  History," 
edited  by  Mr.  Willis  L.  Twitchell,  also  of 
Hartford.  This  work  also  furnished  much  of 
the  material  used  in  the  sketch  of  Hartford  on 
pages  4  and  5. 


in  some  degree  when  one  notes  the  attempts 
made  in  recent  years  by  makers  of  new  brands 
of  silver  plated  ware  to  incorporate  a  date — 
however  arbitrary — in  their  trade- marks,  or  to 
refer  in  their  literature  to  the  antiquity  of  their 
brands. 

As  a  matter  of  fact,  ten  years  ago  there 
was  not  in  use  a  trade-mark,  outside  of  those 
we  own,  which  is  being  advertised  by  makers 
of  silver  plated  flatware  to-day. 

DID  NOT  EXIST. 

Nor  were  these  makers  merely  slow  in  real- 
izing the  value  of  a  recognized  trade- mark 
and  an  established  reputation,  for  the  truth  is 
that  ten  years  ago  they  were  not  making  silver 
plated  ware  at  all  or,  if  they  were,  it  was  of 
the  kind  that  it  would  have  been  hardly  wise 
to  stamp  with  the  maker's  trade-mark  or  name. 

To-day,  therefore,  they  can  not  actually  lay 
claim  to  long  existence  and  well  established 
reputation  on  silver  plated  ware,  but  by  the 
juggling  of  dates  and  skillfully  inexact  referen- 
ces they  seek  to  impress  the  trade  and  public 
with  the  fact  that  their  goods  are  the  result  of 
years  of  experience. 

METHODS  COPIED. 

Another  source  of  satisfaction  is  the  knowl- 
edge that  the  selling  and  advertising  policy 
inaugurated  by  us  has  been  successful.  Even 
had  we  no  other  substantial  proof  of  this,  it 
would  be  indicated  fairly  well  by  the  faith- 
fulness with  which  our  methods  and  suggestions 
are  imitated  and  by  the  smug  complacency 
with  which  attention  is  called  to  them  by  those 
who  have  adopted  them. 

But  years  before  many  of  the  concerns  now 
making  these  claims  were  even  in  existence, 
"  1 847  Rogers  Bros."  ware  was  being  syste- 
matically advertised.  A  short  time  ago  Leslie's 
Weekly,  referring  to  old-time  national  adver- 
tisers still  in  business,  mentioned  the  Meriden 
Britannia  Company,  the  makers  of  "1847 
Rogers  Bros."  ware,  as  a  concern  whose  an- 
nouncements were  often  seen  shortly  after  the 
war,  and  for  a  fact  during  the  last  twenty- five 
years,  the  "1847  Rogers  Bros."  ware  has  been 
advertised  extensively  and  persistently. 

WHY  IMITATIONS  ARE  INEFFECTIVE. 

Our  "follow-up"  system  and  our  policy  of 
co-operation  with  and  aid  to  the  retailer  also 
have  been  imitated  to  a  greater  or  less  extent, 
although  never  withthe thoroughness  and  whole- 
heartedness  that  make  them  effective  (and 
which  are  impossible  of  realization  except  when 
backed  by  abundant  resources) — the  result  in 
the  case  of  the  makers  of  "1847  Rogers  Bros." 
ware  of  long  years  of  successful  energy. 

WHAT  IT  MEANS  TO  THE  DEALER. 

Of  itself  the  fact  that  "1847  Rogers  Bros." 
is  the  original  brand  may  not  be  of  great  in- 
terest to  the  dealer.  Neither  may  he  care  par- 
ticularly whether  "1847  Rogers  Bros."  goods 
and  methods  are  imitated  by  other  makers. 
But  the  fact  that  these  things  spell  success  for 
"1847  Rogers  Bros,  is  of  vital  importance 
to  him. 

Aside  from  the  actual  value  of  the  ware,  it 
is  the  buying  public's  thorough  acquaintance 
with  the  goods  and  complete  trust  in  the  trade- 
mark that  make  "1847  Rogers  Bros."  silver 
plate — as  a  dealer  once  expressed  it — "As 
Staple  as  Wheat." 

Years  of  use  have  conclusively  proved  these 
goods  to  be  "Silver  Plate  that  Wears." 


The  Charter  Oak  pattern,  as  will  be  seen  by  the  illustration,  possesses 
an  unusual  degree  of  character.  The  oak  leaf  and  acorn  are  combined  in  a 
graceful  design  that  lends  itself  readily  to  the  somewhat  unusual  finish — a 
combination  of  Bright  and  French  Grey.  Even  thus  early  it  is  evident  that 
the  Charter  Oak  is  to  be  one  of  the  most  popular  patterns.  We  make  a  full 
line.      We  should  advise  that  orders  be  placed  early  in  order  to  avoid  delay. 


Supplied  to  Retailers  by  all  Leading  Jobbers. 


THE  SILVER  STANDARD,  AUGUST,  1847. 


The 

SilucrJStandarri 

Established 

in  1847  BY 
Rogers  Bros. 


AUGUST,  1847. 


SILENT  WHEELS 

TIRES  OF  INDIA  RUB- 
BER ARE  USED. 


GREAT  LANTERN 

ABOVE  DOME  OF  THE 
CAPITOL. 

A  lantern  has  been 
raised  7  5  feet  above  the 
dome  of  the  Capitol  at 
Washington,  tolightthe 
building  and  public 
grounds.  It  will  cost 
about  $17,000.  The 
diameter  of  the  lantern 
is  6  feet;  body  and 
chamber  6  feet  high; 
base  of  dome  5  feet  6 
inches;  dome  and  upper 
work  to  the  ball  9  feet ; 
arrow  of  vane  6  feet  6 
inches;  globe  on  top  of 
the  vane  I  5  inches  di- 


About  six  years  ago 
appeared  in  the  N.  Y. 
Mechanic"  a  proposi- 
tion for  the  introduction, 
and  a  description  of  a 
mode  of  construction  of  ameter;  totalheightover 
carriage  wheels,  which  ^".i^f'' 
should  run  silendy  over  When  the  glass  is 
the  paved  streets  of  the  Placed  in  the  antern 
city,  but  no  person  here  the  weight  of  the  lantern 
appeared  to  regard  it.  |  and  fixings  will  be  near 
We  are  now  informed  800  pounds.  I  he  mast 
by  English  papers  that ,  will  be  about  3500  and 
some  of  the  carriage  the  upper  braces  2000 
makers  in  London  have  pounds.  I  his  lantern 
adopted  the  plan  then  will  be  a  lighthouse  to 
recommended,  and  that  <he  sailors  on  the  Poto- 
carriages  with  wheels;  mac;  and  a  beacon  to 
of  this  description  are  benighted  travellers 
running  in  the  streets  of  coming  to  the  city,  ra- 
that  city,  and  are  much  'her  than  a  light  to  the 
improved.  grounds. 

The  tire  of  the  wheels  rears  are  entertained 
consists  of  a  thin  iron  about  the  safety  of  the 
plate,  covered  and  en- 1  dome  with  such  a  great 
closed  in  a  band  of  In-  weight  on  the  end  of 
dia  rubber  about  an  inch  a  pole  acting  as  a  lever 
in  thickness;  and  this  is   m  heavy  gales  of  wind. 

covered   and  protected  

by  stout  leather,  thel  CHANGE  OF 
edges  of  which  are  nai  -  NAMES-Lady  and 
ed  to  the  sides  of  the  r.m  female  are  fast  sup- 
or  felloes.  1  he  leather  planting  the  good  old 
being  thus  pliable,  will  names  „f  wife  and  wo- 
notreadilychafeorwear!man  •y/ e  suppOSe 
out,  and  the  motion  of  that  the  same  dandyism 
the  carnage  is  so  smooth    w;i]  nnJ  ou,  some  new 


ind  agreeable,  that 
should  an  omnibus  be 
introduced  with  such 
wheels  in  New  York 
city,  it  would  be  crowd- 
ed with  passengers, 
even  at  double  the  reg- 
ular price. 


name  for  father  and 
mother.  Lady  is  a 
beautiful  word  in  its 
proper  application,  but 
it  does  not  mean  wife. 


luir 


SILVER  COINS 

WOULD    BE   WORTH 
SEVEN  CENTS  EACH. 

Mr.  Edwatd  Hinck- 
ley, of  Baltimore,  pub- 
lishes a  communication 
demonstrating  the  great 
convenience  that  would 
result  from  the  issuing 
of  silver  coins  of  the 
value  of  seven  cents 
each.  This  project  is 
very  ingenious  for  any 
one  who  may  make  a 
calculation  and  find 
that  such  coin  could 
entirely  supersede  the 
use  of  coppers,  prov;de 
the  payer  and  payee 
has  a  sufficient  quanti- 
ty of  small  change. 
Thus,  to  pay  one  cent, 
give  three  seven  cent 
pieces,  and  receive  two 
tan  cent  pieces  in  ex- 
change; pay  two  cents, 
give  a  seven  and  a 
five  cent  piece  and  re- 
ceive one  dime  in  ex- 
change; to  pay  three 
cents,  given  ten  and  re- 
ceive seven  in  ex- 
change. (W  hy  not 
rather  give  us  amalgam 
i  one  cent  piece  made  of 

A    DEACON'S'     EXTENSIVE      EXPENSES  OF  copper  and    silver  if 
INVENTION    A  ADVERTISING-   GOVERNMENT—  j  the  objection  to  the 

curious   invention    to  The   New   York    Ex-  The  following   curious   copper  one  is  its  weight 

prevent   sleeping   in  press  says:     We   were  statement  is  put  forth:    and  size;  it  would   not 

church    has    been  rhown  a  receipt  for  nine  The   expenditures   per   require    exchange    for 

brought   out.     It  is   a  hundred   and   eighteen  minute   of   Washing-    change). 

long  squirt  fixed  on  the  dollars  and  seventy-five  ton's    administration  

deacon's   seat,    under  cents,  the  amount  paid  were   $3.82;    Adams,        T  R  A  V  F  1      IS 

the  pulpit.     It  turns  on  in  advance    for   one  the  elder.    $2.58;   Jef-    rurADrwcn       I 

a  pivot,  and  being  filled  year's   advertising  by  ferson,    $9.95;    Madi-    V<M7     .k     f  * 

with   cold  water  it  can  Dr.    Townsend    in    a  son.  $34.88;   Monroe,1  " 

be  aimed  at  an  individ-  Philadelphia    paper.  $25.18;    Adams,   the 

ualin  any  part  of   the  The  Dr.    paid   one   of  younger,    $24.35; 

house.     One    of    the  the  New    York  papers  Jackson,  $35. 1  5;  Van 


THE  HIGHER  AND  THE  LOWER  CIRCLES. 

AS  the  Fashions  are  held  by  some  to  be  important,  we  have  en- 
gaged a  special  reporter,  who  will  keep  our  readers  advised  of 
the  most  minute  alterations,  "in  advanceof  all  our  cotemporaries," 
and  furnish  the  "only  authentic  fashions."  The  styles  given  above 
are  certainly  later  than  any  we  have  seen,  and  are  quite  as  correct  as 
some. 

Among  the  higher  class  the  mode  is  rather  shadowy,  the  form  being 
more  cared  for  than  the  substance.  Tights  in  every  department  are 
the  rage,  and  among  the  ton  ihe  waists  aid  knees  are  so  managed  as 
to  prevent  a  wasteful  or  needless  supply  of  material.  Among  the 
lower  class  substance  is  a  more  material  matter. 


Chicago  to  Troy  was 
$74.50;  the  stage  fare 
from  Chicago  to  De- 
audience  being  discov-  more  than  double  that  Buren.  $65.78;  Tyler,  r>01f(  i  '  '  4-99°cn° 
ered  asleep,  the  deacon  amount  last  year  and  $43.96;  Polk,  $145.-  off,  x  *  *,e  : 
j-  l  .  f  ,U'  I,  ■  i  i  "  I  tiu  Buffalo  so  lroy,q>lj.- 
discharges  a  stream   or    this.     It  is  not  astonish-  oo.                                     ,  y-       -j-,  '      , 

cold  water  in   his  face,    ing  thathismedicinehas  lL    •  T  P.eSej        i 

which    has,    thus   far,    gained  the   popularity        From  the  Green  Bay   by  ^,e?n;boat  an/d,,rai1' 

never  failed  of  waking   it  has  attained  through-  Advocate  we  learn  that   t°ad   between   Albany 

up  the  sleeper.     Much   out  the  country,  for  he  a  man  was  tarred  and   %&  QO 

credit  is  due  the  gentle-    knows  how,  and  is  not  f?athered  androde  on  a 

man  who  planned  this   afraid,   to    advertise,  a  rail  for  marrying,  four 

ingenious  device.  lesson  some  others  might  days  after  the  death  of       While  the  Rev.  Mr. 

learn.  his  wife,  a  widow  whose    Fuller  assisted    by   the 

A  catfish  was  purchas-  husband  had  been  dead   Rev.  Mr.  Buffet,  were 

ed   in    the   Cincinnati        A  man  in  Maine  ap  but  a  few  months.  administering  the  Sac- 

market,   lately,   which,    plied  for  two  gallons  of  rament   at   Stamford, 

on  being  opened,   was   rum  for  "mechanical        It  is   expected   that    Ct.,    they   were   both 

found  to  contain  in  its    purposes."    "For  what  the  great  Erie  Railroad    struck   by   lightning, 

stomach,   a  silver  thim-    mechanical  purposes?"  will  be    finished   about    which  came  down  the 

ble,  a  gold  ring  and  a    inquired theagent. "For  tue   autumn   of    1848.    chimney,  and  followed 

counterfeit  dime  tied  up  ,  raising   a   barn,"    was  There   are   3000  men    the   stove-pipe.      Both 

in  a  rag.  i  the  reply.  engaged  upon  it.  ultimately  recovered. 


The    Hartford   and 
New   Haven  Railroad 
IMPROVEMENT   Company  have  recent- 
1N  DAGUERREO-   'v  P"1  °n  their  road  two 
TYPE.— Under   this   °f   the    most   splendid 
head,  the  New  Orleans   J;ars   m    the   United 
Times  has  an  articlean- 1  States.      1  he   cost    of 
nouncing  the  discovery  '  the  two  was  five  thou- 
of  an  art  by  which  da-   sand   dollars.       Ihey 
guerreotypesmay  be   are   furnished    beauu- 
taken  in  one  second  of  |  'u"y. 
time.     The  inventor, 
however,   may  be  dis- 
appointed to  learn  the 
fact  that  the  same  thing 
was  performed  by  Prof. 
Morse  six  years  ago,  as 
may  appear  by  an  ad- 
vertisement published  in 
May.  1 84 1 ,  and  which 
closes   with   this   line, 
"likenesses  are  taken  in 
the  sunlight  in  one  sec- 
ond  of    time."     Why 
the  art  has  not  become 
more     extensively 
known,   we  are  not  in- 
formed. 

A  woman  in  Brook- 
lyn, N.  Y.,  eating  a  bit 
ofcocoanut,  and  forget- 
ting she  had  a  torpedo 
in  her  hand,  put  it  into 

her  mouth  instead  of  the  During  a  shower  off  The  man  who  stole  Thecitizensof  Prince-  !  Five  young  girls  in  A  Mormon  elder  has 
meat.  An  explosion  oc-  rain,  at  Pensacola,  a  a  saw -mill  in  a  neigh-  ton  have  petitioned  for  !  Willimantic,  Conn.,  baptized  about  45  re- 
curred instanter,  lace-  young  logger-head  tur-  boring  town  wouldhave  a  law  prohibiting  bill- j  were  fined  $2.67  each  cent  converts  to  that 
rating  the  tongue  badly,  tie  fell,  it  is  said,  on  the  I  escaped,  had  he  not  iardsasnecessary  topro-  for  disturbing  a  Metho-  i  faithatthe  MarineRail- 
and  nearly  blew  a  hole  deck  of  the  steamer  !  gone  back  after  the  wa-  tect  the  morals  of  the  |  dist  meeting  at  that '  way,  Boston,  within  a 
through  one  cheek.         |  Poinsett.  ter  privilege !  college  students.  I  place.  i  short  time. 


■Vs  BELIEVE  it  is  not  in  the  nature  of  an  American 
111  to  sit  still,  or  sit  straight.  They  are  perpetu- 
ally either  rocking  or  balancing  themselves  in  their 
chairs. 

"Texas  and  the  Gulf  of  Mexico,"  by  Mrs.  Houstoun. 


LIBRARIES 

ARE  236  IN  THE  UNI- 
TED STATES. 

According  to  a  table 
compiled  from  the  re- 
sources of  a  literary 
gentleman  inNew  York, 
there  are  in  the  United 
States  no  less  than  236 
public  libraries. 

The  aggregate  num- 
ber of  volumes  is  set 
down  at  2,354,360. 
It  appears  that  the  state 
of  New  York  has  54 
libraries,  with  1  74.000 
volumes;  Pennsylvania, 
32  libraries,  with  I  76,- 
100  volumes:  Massa- 
chusetts 30  libraries, 
with  203,000  volumes; 
Ohio  23  libraries,  with 
68,000  volumes;  Mary- 
land 1  I  libraries,  with 
54,200  volumes;  the 
District  of  Columbia  9 
libraries,  with  65,000 
volumes,  and  the  other 
States  smaller  numbers. 
Rhode  Island,  in  pro- 
portion to  her  popula- 
tion, has  the  largest 
number  of  volumes  cf 
any  state  in  the  Union. 

A  FANNING 

CHAIR  Mr.  Chas. 
Horst  of  New  Orleans 
has  invented,  ar.aisnow 
offering  for  sale  a  chair 
which  is  higl.ly  spoken 
of  as  a  luxury  for  warm 
climates.  The  improve- 
ment (patented  August 
/th,  1847)  consists  of  a 
simple  contrivance  at- 
tached to  a  common 
recking  chair,  which 
with  the  usual  motion 
of  rocking,  is  made  to 
move  a  large  fan  that 
throws  a  current  of  air 
d.rectly  upon  the  head 
and  face.  The  luxury 
of  it  can  be  tested  in  a 
moment  by  taking  a  seat 
in  it  foraminuteortwo. 
The  ladies  will  avail 
themselves  of  1 1  .is  labor 
saving  machine. 

BULL  IN  N.  Y. 
STREETS.  — A  bull 

broke  from  a  drove  of 
cattle,  passing  down  the 
Bowery,  New  York, 
ran  through  Grand  st. 
as  far  as  Mercer,  where 
he  caught  a  lady  on  his 
horns,  whom  he  tossed 
in  the  air,  and  when  she 
fell  broke  her  arm.  He 
ran  into  another  street 
where  he  broke  the 
thigh-bone  of  a  lady, 
and  gored  a  little  boy. 
He  than  charged  upon 
a  shoe-store,  and  finally 
ran  into  a  cellar,  where 
he  was  caught  after  do- 
ing a  prodigious  amount 
of.' 


SOLD  PAPERS 

SUNDAY-Among 
several  indictments  re- 
turned to  the  Municipal 
Court  of  Boston  for  vio- 
lation of  the  Sabbath, 
by  keeping  shops  open, 
was  one  against  George 
W.  Haywood,  for  sel- 
ling newspapers  in  the 
streets  on  Sunday.  He 
plead  guilty,  and  was 
fined  $5  on  each  count, 
with  costs. 


Clje  gulbrr  fetan&ara 


ESTABLISHED  IN  1847  BY  ROGERS  BROS. 


Vol.  III.     No.  5. 


OCTOBER,  L847. 


Five  I 


J.  G.  BENNETT 
GREAT  EDITOR 

SUCCESS  OF  NEW  YORK 
HERALD. 


QUALITIES  THAT  HAVE   HADE  EDITOR 

REMARKABLE  FIGURE  IN 

JOURNALISM. 

The  life-like  portrait  Never  hesitating  at  a 
of  Mr.  James  Gordon  new  idea  until  the  van- 
Bennett  which  we  here  guard  has  carried  thf 
present  will  prove  that  outposts  of  the  opposit 
he  descended  from  a  party  and  success  i 
vigorous  ancestry.  Ev-  probable— never  cling 
ery  lineament  "gives  ln8  to  arj  odand  brok- 
the  world  assurance  of  e.n  s9uad  °<  ld-af  once 
a  man."  But  if  we  they  have  been  beater 
know  anything  about  ~!'  ls  original  without 
American  newspapers.  J*111*  fanatic,  liberal 
as  we  certainly  know  but  not  anarchic  con 
nothing  about  Amer-  servative  generally  bul 
ican  heraldry.  Mr.  Ben-  nevenrreclaimably  des- 
nett's  Herald  is  the  P°.tlc-  Its  editor  seem: 
nearest  model  of  an  to  know  better  than  any 
American  newspaper  man.  the  theory  of  ir 
which  has  yet  been  at-  medio  tutissimus  ibis 
tained.  or     tne  m'ddle   of   the 

A  road  is  no  ditch." 

newspaper,    we  . 

take  to  be,  in  its  true  „  Ml-,  B.  is  always 
purpose  the  exact  re-  safe-  Other  paper; 
flex  for  the  moment  of  may  live  upon  the  pub- 
the  mind  and  the  mood  lie  breast.  Mr.  Ben- 
of  the  community  for  nett  is  wholly  indebted 
whom  it  is  published,  for  his  wealth  and  pow- 
If  it  becomes  the  per-  er  to  himself  and  his  re- 
sistent  advocate  of  an  sources.  He  may  be 
idea  after  that  idea  has  justly  considered  the 
ceased  to  be  a  matter  cf  publicist  general  of  the 
interest  to  the  commu-  main  body  of  the  dem 
nity,  then  it  ceases  to  ocratic  party,  for  the 
be  a  newspaper,  be-  Herald  is  virtually  the 
comes  the  muttering  organ  of  that  party, and 
mouthpiece  of  an  indi-  more  perceptive  and 
vidual  or  the  intrusive  more  powerful  as  an  or 
organ  of  a  person  or  of  Ban  than  any  in  the 
a  clique.  If  it  vaporize  world, 
about  ideas  which  are  It  has  its  errors  be- 
non -existent,  then  it  yond  doubt,  but  corn- 
sinks  back  to  a  Resur-  pared  with  the  London 
rection,  or  commits  it-  Times,  it  is  immaculate; 
self  to  an  abstract  the-  compared  with  its  co- 
ory-  temporary,  theTribune, 

Now  none  of  these  it  is  white,  it  is  more  — 
faults  have  been  charge-  it  is  genial,  erratic  like 
able  to  the  New  York  a  kitten  or  a  widow. 
Herald;  it  neither  ne-  but  never  malicious  and 
gates  what  is,  denies  always  graceful.  Its 
events,  nor  rehabilitates  style  has  the  raciness, 
the  ashes  of  the  Resur-  freshness  and  vigor  so 
rection.  It  cannot,  safe-  necessary  to  make  pos- 
Iyasanewspaper.com-  sible  the  reading  of  the 
mil  itself  irrevocably  to  morning  newspaper ed- 


AMERICANS 
TOO  ANXIOUS 

COUNTENANCE  OF  YANKEE 
SHOWS  WORRY. 


STRANGERS  REMARK  LINES  OF  DISCON- 
TENT THAT  ARE  EXHIBITED 
IN  OUR  FACES. 

All  strangers  who  ble  to  living,  it  would 
come  among  us  remark  demand  cur  pity, 
the  excessive  anxiety  There  is  no  necessity  lor 
written  in  the  Ameri-  the  custom  ;  but  there 
can  countenance.  The  is  a  necessity,  weakly 
wide -spread  comfort,  constituted  as  men  are, 
the  facilities  for  liveli-  that  every  individual 
hood,  the  spontaneous  should  conform  greatly 
and  cheap  lands,  the  to  the  prevailing  habits 
high  price  of  labor  are  of  his  fellows,  and  the 
equally  observed  and  expectations  of  the 
render  it  difficult  to  ac-  community  in  and  with 
count  for  these  lines  of  which  he  deals.  It  is 
painful  thoughtfulness.  thus  that  those  who 
It  is  not  poverty  nor  ty-  deeply  feel  the  essen- 
ranny,  nor  over-com-  tially  demoralizing 
petition  which  produces  and  wretched  influences 
this  anxiety;  that  is  of  this  system  are  yet 
clear.  It  is  the  concen-  doomed  to  be  victims  of 
[ration  of   the  faculties  it. 

upon  the  object,  which  We  call  our  country 
in  its  very  nature  is  un-  a  happy  country  ;  hap- 
attainable — the  perpet-  py.  indeed,  in  being  the 
ual  improvement  of  the  home  of  noble  political 
outward    condition,  institutions,    the    abode 

aj  to   personalities,   se-   these   presses    will   be   nine   per    minute   with   There   are   no  bounch  of  freedom ;    and  very' 

vere  as  Timon  upon  in-   able  to  throw  off  30,-   four  folds;  and  twenty-  i  among  us  to  the  restless  (ar  frcm   being   happy 

dividuals,  no  organ  ha;  000   copies   per   hour,   six  per  minute  with  five  i desire  to  be  better  off;  in  possessing  a  cheerful, 

ever   adhered   so   con-   Their  cost  will  be  twen-   folds.     He  was  able  tc  |  and  that  is  the  ambition  light-hearted,  and  joy - 

sistently  and  with  such   ty    thousand    dollars,    keep  pace  with  the  presr  I  of  all  classes  of  society,  ous  people. 

far-seeing  wisdom  to  the  The  circulation   cf  the   which  worked  off  from       Those  unaccustomed,       It  is  rare  to  see  a  for- 

great  elemental  princi-   Sun  is  more  than  50,-    1 ,000  to  1 ,200  papers  by  reading  or  travel,  to  eigner   without   some 

pies  of  democracy.           000,    and   heretofore   per  hour. 
If  Mr.  Bennett  is  re-   they  have  been  unable  

markable   for   any  one  to  supply  copies  as  early        VALUE     OF 

point  of  greatness,  as  an   as   required,    but   with   NEWSPAPERS 

editor,  more  than  anoth-   then •improved   presses.   The    Philadelphia    U 

er.  it  is  for  the  aptitude ,  the  first  in  New  York.   S  Gazette  recendy  sold 

with  which  he  can  at-   they  will  effect  a  com-  for  $45000,  one   half 

tack  an  individual  and   plete  revolution  in  news-   Gf  the  Boston  Atlas  ha- 

mamtain    the   identical  paper  printing 

principles  of   the   indi 

vidual    whom    h 

tacks. 


other  states  of  society  taste  for  amusement, 
are  probably  not  aw  are  some  power  of  relaxing 
how  very  peculiar  our  his  m;nd,  some  interest 
manner  of  life  here  is.  in  the  arts,  or  in  litera- 
The  laboriousness  of  ture.  This  is  true  even 
Americans  is  beyond  all  of  the  less  privileged 
comparison,  should  we  classes.  It  is  rare,  on 
except  the  starving  op-  the  contrarv,  to  find  a 
been  purchased  at  actives  of  the  English  virtuous  American  past 
cost    of   $35  000     the  ractones.      And  when  middle   lire,   who   does 


at-        FOLDING    OF  Boston    Dailv    Adver    ! we  consider  that  here,   not  regard  amusements 

NEWSPAPERS-  ri^r  is  valued  ar$90-   to  the  labor  of  the  body  of  all  sorts  as  childish  or 

The   rapidity   with  000  — $40  000   has|ls  added  the  greataddi-  immoral. 

MAMMOTH   which   newspapers  are  been    refused   for   one  tlonal   \^r   of  men,al  -   V*"  U,s  ^  l?ss  *?"!" 

PRINTING  PRESS    folded   by  lads   in   the  half  of  it ;  one  third  of  responsibility  and    am-  hed  and  rr.o.e  cordial; 
ES— Messrs.    Hoe   & 


Co.,  are  making  two 
huge  Printing  Presses 
for  the  New  York  Sun. 
The  types  are  placed 
upon  a  cylinder  4  feet 


large  establishments  of  the  New  York  Courier  bm°j-  ",  ls  not  to  **  less  sanctimonious  and 
our  cities  is  a  matter  cf  was  sold  a  few  month.  wondered  at  that  as  a  more  unselfish;  less 
wonder  to  those  not  ini-  since  for  $38,000,  and  race;  Pe  commercial  thnvingand  more  cheer 
tiated  in  the  mysteries  one  quarter  cf  the  New  population  is  dwindling  ful;  less  toilsome  and 
of  newspaper  life.  This  York  Tribune  for  $25  -  |n  size,  and  emaciated  mere  social, 
astonishing  speed  is  at-  000.  and  we  presume  !n  helal,h  so.tha!  P*"0'  ,  NX  e  want;  as  a  f*0- 
in^diamete'r'Tnd'  The  ,ained  by  a  spirit  of  that  a  share  in  the  New  ls.  '.he  natIODal  com-  P'e,  a  rounder  charac- 
what  is  passing  away,  itorial,   and   may  be  inking  apparatus  is  of  a  '  competition  and  theam-   York  Sun  could  not  be  plf,xl?n\  ,         *.r-  ,  LJur  humanity  is 

nor  anticipate  what  is  considered  a  hybrid  be-  novel  d-scription  All '  bition  to  excel  amon8  purchased  at  any  price.  .  lr  thisdevotiontobus-  pinched;  our  tastes  are 
inevitable.      A    news-   tween   attic  wit   and   the    motion    is   rotary.  I  the  boys.  >ness   were    indispensi-  not  generous. 

paper   should    have  slang- whanging.  '  and  it  is  calculated  that |      As  a  specimen  cf  the        News   of   the  death 

brains  enough  to  know  Take  it  on  any  sub-  ■  in  the  saving  of  friction,  I  speed  of  these  youthful  of  Hon.  Alexander  H.  Great  quantities  of  The  Sault  St.  Marie 
when  it  is  time  to  fol-  ject  and  it  is  always|and  wear  and  tear  by  folders,  the  Boston  Everett,  coTimissioner  copper  ore  continue  to  Ship  Canal  is  to  be 
low  a  new  idea  —  to  prepared;  and  decid-  such  means,  the  great1  Journal  mentions  the  of  the  Unitfd  States  at  arrive  at  Pittsburg  from  4.500  feet  in  length 
know  when  public  edlyna  paper  can  jump  amount  of  from  five  to  fact  that  a  lad  employed  Canton,  China,  arrived  Lake  Superior.  Two  and  sixty  feet  in  width, 
opinion  is  prepared  to  frcm  one  subject  to  the  twenty  thousand  dol-  in  that  office,  folds  pa-  October 20th.  Hedied  masses  weighing  3, 100  and  when  completed  it 
discard  the  old  —  and  very  opposite  with  so!  lars  expense  per  annum  persattherate  of  thirty-  June  28th  at  the  house  lbs.  were  lately  melted  will  make  the  entire 
such   capacity   has  the  much  alacrity  or  more!  will  be  avo:ded.  five   per   minute   with   of   Dr.    Peter    Parker,   with  only  a  loss  of   2  chain  of  lakes  naviga- 

Herald.  grace.      Contemptuous!       It  i;  calculated  that  three   folds;    twenty-  the  great  missionary.        percent.  ble. 

NX  e  are  indebted  to  American  Review.  Gleason's  Pictorial,  Scientific  American  and  others  of  the  "1847"  period  for  material  in  this 
Meriden,  Conn..  October,   1907      MER1DEN  BRITANNIA  CO.      International  Silver  Co..  5 


1847  — THEN 


THE  SILVER  STANDARD- 


now— 1907 


GROWTH -A  COMPARISON 


METAMORPHOSIS  OF  MADISON  SQUARE,  NEW  YORK,  LIKE  PROGRESS  MADE 

IN  "J 847  ROGERS  BROS/'  BUSINESS. 


MADISON  COTTAGE.-This^  beau- 
tiful place  of  resort,  opposite  Madison  Square, 
corner  of  Twenty-third  street  and  Broadway, 
is  open  for  the  season,  and  Palmer's  omni- 
buses drive  to  the  door.  It  is  one  of  the  most 
agreeable  spots  for  an  afternoon's  lounge  in 
the  suburbs  of  our  city.  Go  and  see. — New 
York  Herald,  May  9th,  1847. 

"On  Fifth  avenue  between  Twenty-third 
and  Twenty-fourth  streets,  fac- 
ing Madison  Square,  a  tract  of 
land  a  little  over  an  acre  in  area 
has  just  been  sold  for  $7,250,- 
000.  The  old  Fifth  Avenue 
Hotel,  which  occupies  this  plot 
of  ground,  is  to  be  torn  down 
and  a  colossal  office  building  is 
to  take  its  place." 

Perhaps  no  better  contrast  be- 
tween the  New  York  of  1847 
and  1907  is  possible.  The  Mad- 
ison Cottage  announcement  was 
printed  in  1847;  the  reference 
to  the  Fifth  Avenue  Hotel  ap- 
peared in  the  New  York  World 
a  short  time  ago. 

The  Fifth  Avenue  Hotel  to-day  occupies 
the  site  of  the  Madison  Cottage,  which  sixty 
years  ago  was  a  road-house  in  the  suburbs 
of  the  city. 

The  hotel  is  to  be  torn  down,  so  it  is  clear 
that,  as  the  World  goes  on  to  point  out,  the 
$7,250,000  paid  for  the  property  was  paid 
for  the  land  alone. 

The  difference  between  its  value  at  present 
and  sixty  years  ago  is  practically  the  differ- 
ence between  $7,250,000  and  $2,000,  accord- 
ing to  the  World. 

The  present  day  New  Yorker  may  smile 
when  he  reads  that  a  lady  who,  half  a  cen- 
tury ago,  devoted  a  day 
to  visiting  Madison 
Square,  "was  so  fa- 
tigued by  the  jaunt  that 
she  was  sick  for  a  week 
in  consequence.  ' 

The  smaller  of  the 
illustrations  on  this  page 
shows  the  MadisonCot- 
tage  in  1847.  The  low- 
er cut  is  from  a  photo- 
graph of  the  Fifth  Ave- 
nue Hotel  taken  spec- 
ially for  this  issue  of  The 
Standard.  The  contrast 
of  course  will  be  all  the 
greater  when  the  pres- 
ent structure  has  been 
replaced  by  the  pro- 
posed gigantic  office 
building. 

But  the  metamor- 
phosis of  Madison 
Square  is  hardly  more 
noteworthy  than  the 
growth   since    1847   of 


the  "1847  Rogers  Bros."  silver  plate  business. 
Starting  practically  at  zero,  sales  have  reached 
a  point  where  it  is  hardly  possible  to  realize 
how  humble  was  the  beginning  of  it  all. 

Indeed,  it  is  a  conservative  comparison — 
that  between  the  growth  of  Madison  Square 
and  the  "1847  Rogers  Bros."  business. 

Nor  has  the  latter   reached   the  limit  either 


of  growth  or  power  of  growth.  When  it  is 
stated  that  the  output  of  "  1847  Rogers  Bros." 
ware  by  the  end  of  this  year  will,  it  is  ex- 
pected, show  an  increase  of  nearly,  if  not 
quite,  200  per  cent,  over  that  of  ten  years 
ago  (an  increase  of  about  1 5  per  cent,  over 
last  year's  phenomenal  output),  we  begin  to 
realize  that  the  business  must  have  an  extra- 
ordinary degree  of  vitality. 

The  chief  reason  for  this  growth  has  been 
the  quality  of  the  goods — "Silver  Plate  that 
Wears." 

Another  reason  has  been  the  fact  that  we 
have  been  on  the  alert   not  only  for  our  own 


advancement    but    for    that    of    every    dealer 
handling  "1847  Rogers  Bros."  ware. 

It  has  been  most  emphatically  to  our  ad- 
vantage to  help  the  dealer  whenever,  wher- 
ever and  however  possible. 

We  grow  because  the  retailer  grows.  What 
works  to  his  betterment  works  to  ours,  too. 
"1847  Rogers  Bros."  prosperity  is  planted 
in  that  rich  soil,  Quality,  but — 
and  this  is  important  to  the  dealer 
— it  is  watered  by  Co-operation. 
And  co-operation  means  pros- 
perity for  both  dealer  and  manu- 
facturer. 

Let  us  demonstrate  our  belief 
in  co-operation. 

Send  for  our  new  catalogue 
"81  -T" — also  circular  illustrating 
free  electrotypes  for  newspaper 
advertisements,  signs,  cards,  and 
circulars  with  your  name  and 
address  printed  thereon.  We 
have  prepared  a  little  illustrated 
circular  touching  on  these  various 
ways  in  which  we  co-operate 
dealer.  We  shall  be  glad  to  send  it 
to  any  one  interested  enough  to  write  for  it. 

This  is  the  age  of  the  trade- mark.  We 
used  to  buy  crackers  by  the  pound,  now  we 
buy  them  by  the  box.  More  and  more  the 
goods  with  a  name  are  coming  to  the  front. 
This  state  of  affairs  is  due  to  a  number  of 
reasons.  One  is  that  people  are  more  par- 
ticular than  once  they  were,  as  to  what  they 
put  on  their  backs  or  in  their  mouths  or  have 
about  them.  Realizing  this,  producers  guaran- 
tee the  quality  of  their  goods  and  stamp  them 
with  their  trade-marks.  But  a  trade-mark 
does  not  take  the  place 
of  quality  in  the  goods 
themselves.  Indeed,  in 
time,  it  stamps  the  poor 
goods  as  poor,  just  as, 
when  the  goods  do  pos- 
sess quality,  it  stamps 
them  as  good.  A  brand 
of  goods  that  has  been 
known  for  sixty  years 
and  during  the  sixtieth 
increases  its  sales  200 
per  cent,  over  those  of 
ten  years  ago  and  1 5 
per  cent,  over  those  of 
last  year  has  only  one 
reason  to  give — quality. 
Recognition  is  not 
enough.  It  must  be  re- 
cognition as  the  best.  In 
a  case  like  this  the  trade- 
matk  is  an  absolute 
guarantee  of  quality, 
and  for  many  years  has 
been  recognized  as  such 
by   the   buying   public. 


X    "ffrXfVijKl    18  47    ROGERS   BROS         ^ 


The  latest  pattern  in  "1847  Rogers  Bros.",  the  Charter  Oak,  is  here  suggested,  to- 
gether with  two  other  recent  patterns,  the  Priscilla  and  the  Vintage.  The  Priscilla  is 
burnished,  the  Vintage  is  in  French  Gray,  while  the  Charter  Oak  combines  the  two  finishes, 
the  shield  on  the  handle  and  the  bowls  and  tines  being  bright,  the  remainder  gray. 


Supplied  to  Progressive  Retailers  by  Leading  Jobbers. 


1847 — THEN- 


-THE  SILVER  STANDARD 


now— 1907 


trad.- "1847  Rogers  Bros."— mark 


wonderfully  in  our  attempts  to  understand  the 
<_.  -j.  ~  -  -     conditions  of  that  country  or  period.    There 

ulhr  s>tiwr  s>ianuaru  w,err  \-5l\  n™s^7  an«  perin-dicnls  lVhe 

T  United  states  in    1(54/.      Kowell  s  Directory 

for  1906  reported  21,191. 


then— 1s47 — and — 1907— now. 
Established  in  1847  by  Rogers  Bros. 

issued  BY 
Meriden Britannia  Co.,Meriden,Ct. 

(International  Silver  <'"..  S 


Vol.  Ill— No.  5.    OCTOBER,  1907.    5  Cents. 


WHAT  DO  YOU  THINK? 

In  glancing  over  the  pages  of  The  Standard 
did  it  ever  occur  to  you  to  wonder  what 
changes  a  page  headed  "1907 — Then  and 
Now — 1967"  might  reveal?  Sixty  years  from 
now  will  they  be  contrasting  our 
present  skyscrapers  with  cloud- 
capped  steel  mountains  and  smiling 
at  what  we  are  pleased  to  term 
"progress,"  and  "gigantic  enter- 
prises"? 

The  changes,  whatever  they  may 
be,  probably  will  be  in  conditions 
rather  than  in  characteristics.  We 
talk  about  the  "strenuous  life"  as 
if  it  were  a  thing  of  today.  But 
were  conditions  essentially  different 
half  a  century  and  more  ago?  The 
article  on  our  first  page  headed 
"AmericansTooAnxious"  would 
indicate  otherwise.  Indeed,  when 
we  stop  to  think  about  it,  it  appears 
to  us  that  the  American  of  1907 
in  many  ways  is  less  strenuous 
than  was  his  grandfather.  We 
have  golf  and  automobiles  and 
though  we  may  pursue  our  pleas- 
ures at  almost  as  fast  a  clip  as  we 
do  our  business,  at  least  we  do  de- 
vote a  good  deal  of  time  to  re- 
creation. Did  the  good  people  of 
1847  take  their  noses  away  from 
the  grindstone  so  often  or  for  so  long  at  a 
time? 

What  say  you  whose  minds  go  back  to  th.it 
period?  Let  us  hear  from  you  We  have 
received  from  time  to  time  a  number  of  very 
pleasant  letters  from  Standard  readers  whose 
memories  of  people  or  conditions  have  been 
aroused  by  various  articles  in  these  columns. 
We  should  like  to  hear  again.  We  like  to 
know  what  our  friends  think  of  us;  we  like  to 
receive  criticism, — or,  at  least,  we  believe  we 
should  like  it — we  welcome  suggestions.  In 
this  number  we  are  acting  on  a  very  kindly 
sugge:tion  contained  in  a  letter  from  Mr.  W. 
P.  McFarland,  of  Orange,  Texas. 

Now,  regarding  this  question  of  the  com- 
parative strenuousness  of  1847  and  1907.  If 
you  have  an  idea  on  the  subject — and  a  good 
many  must  have — write  to  us.  The  discussion 
should  make  mighty  interesting  reading  and 
may  develop  some  really  valuable  pointers  as 
to  conditions  in  the  daily  life  of  each  one  of  us. 

We  have  devoted  a  good  deal  of  space  in 
this  issue  to  the  newspapers  of  1847.  If  any 
one  is  inclined  to  believe  that  too  much  at- 
tention has  been  paid  to  one  subject,  we  have 
only  this  defence  to  put  up,  that  a  knowledge 
of  the  press  of  any  country  or  period  helps 


The  holiday  season  is  approaching.  In  our 
extensive  general  advertising — an  example  of 
which  we  reproduce  on  pa^es  6  and  7 — we 
urge  early  buying.  The  dealer  should  be 
prepared.  Send  for  our  new  Catalogue, 
"81-T,"  showing  the  "Charter  Oak"  and 
"Priscilla"  as  well  as  the  older  patterns. 

We  have  all  heard  of  and  some  of  us  no 
doubt  have  seen  the  famous  Siamese  Twins, 
but  it  is  safe  to  say  that  to  most  of  us  of  the 
present  generation  the  double-family  portrait 
on  page  8  will  be  new. 


NEW  ORLEANS  HORSE  CAR. 

The  New  Orleans  horse  car  on  this  page 
was  described  as  follows  in  Gleason's  Pic- 
torial : 

"The  accompanying  engraving  is  from  a 
drawing  made  for  us  at  New  Orleans,  by 
Mr.  Bellew,  and  represents  the  horse  car  in 
use  upon  the  city  railroad.  It  is  unlike  any 
employed  at  the  north,  and  will  doubtless 
prove  interesting  to  our  readers,  now  that  the 
introduction  of  horse  railroads  here  is  a  settled 
thing.  It  will  be  seen  that  it  is  intended  for 
accommodation  of  both  outside  and  inside 
passengers;  the  entrance  of  the  latter  being  at 
the  extremities,  as  in  the  New  York  horse  and 
common  steam  car;  while  the  upper  deck 
passengers,  as  they  may  be  termed,  mount  to 
their  lofty  station  by  a  flight  of  steps,  accessi- 
ble from  two  sides.  It  is  evident  that  with 
no  greater  area  than  that  of  a  common  car,  a 
much  larger  number  of  passengers  can  be  ac- 
commodated and  in  fine  weather  the  roof 
seats  must  be  quite  pleasant." 

Except  for  the  motive  power,  this  strange 
looking  double-decker  is  not  unlike  the  auto- 
mobile stages  introduced  within  the  past  few 
months  on  Fifth  Avenue,  New  York  City. 
Perhaps  sixty  years  hence  the  latter  will  be 
viewed  as  curiosities.     Who  knows  ? 


NEW  ORLEANS 

CRESCENT  CITY  IN  THE  YEAR 
1847  WAS  GREAT  COM- 
MERCIAL CENTER. 

"Somebody  has  called  New  Orleans  'the 
boarding  house  of  the  United  States."  Certes, 
its  every  tenth  house  has  furnished  rooms  or 
appliances  for  travelling  appetites."  So  wrote 
the  author  of  an  interesting  little  book,  "The 
Manhattaner  in  New  Orleans"  in  the  year 
1847. 

The  Crescent  City,  sixty  years  ago,  boasted 
1 30,000  inhabitants  and  its  position  in  the 
commercial  world  was  unique.  At 
the  time  of  the  purchase  of  Louis- 
iana from  France  in  1803  the 
population  was  hardly  more  than 
8,000.  But  in  1804  New  Orleans 
was  made  a  port  of  entry  and  de- 
livery and  the  following  year  it  re- 
ceived a  city  charter.  On  January 
10th,  1812,  the  first  steamboat 
arrived  from  Pittsburg,  having  de- 
scended in  259  hours. 

The  growth  of  the  city  from 
that  time  was  both  substantial  and 
rapid. 

"The  position  of  New  Orleans 
as  a  vast  commercial  emporium," 
said  Hunt's  Merchants'  Magazine, 
"is  unrivalled,  as  will  be  seen  by  a 
single  glance  at  the  map  of  the 
United  States.  As  the  depot  of 
the  West,  and  the  half-way  house 
of  the  foreign  trade,  it  is  almost 
impossible  to  anticipate  its  future 
magnitude." 

"Fine commercial  advantages!" 
to  quote  the  Manhattaner  again, 
"so  everybody  thinks.  And 
everybody  in  that  opinion  is  right.  The 
strongest  backward  endeavor  of  black  destiny 
could  not  retard  the  prosperity  of  New  Orleans. 
Nature  had  her  eye  on  the  outlet  of  the  Mis- 
sissippi long  before  she  invited  her  sister  Art 
to  form  a  copartnership  in  the  way  of  com- 
pleting a  grand  commercial  emporium.  The 
waters  of  a  score  of  mighty  rivers  mingle  with 
the  waves  that  dash  the  Levee  and  float  down 
treasures  of  produce  and  wealth  increasing 
every  year.  New  Orleans  is  the  market  for 
the  product  of  three  climates. 

"New  Orleans  is  decidedly  entitled  to  be 
called  the  Calcutta  of  America.  Thwarted 
enterprise,  baffled  endeavor,  youthful  hope, 
desperate  plannings,  all  emigrate  to  its  pre- 
cincts to  battle  with  fate,  or  to  court  fortune; 
to  amass  wealth,  and  if  living  after  the  'gold 
hunt  is  over,'  to  return  home  to  spend  it. 

"'Work,  work,  work,'  is  the  unceasing  cry. 
A  man  of  leisure  is  a  wonder.  On  'change; 
on  street  corner;  at  the  dinner-table;  between 
the  acts  at  opera  and  theatre ;  in  the  draw- 
ing-room ;  at  the  ball  or  soiree;  in  the  sleep- 
ing apartments;  stocks,  cotton,  sugar  and 
money  are  the  liveliest  topics." 

Religion,  or  the  Manhattaner's  idea  of  re- 
ligion, he  declares  to  be  "rather  at  a  discount," 
but  perhaps  we  may  take  that  statement  with 


1847— THEN- 


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the  proverbial  grain  of  salt,  for  he  immediately 
goes  on  to  pay  the  following  tribute  to  the 
"public  morality"  of  the  city  which  he  found 
to  be  "more  pure  in  its  character  than  in  any 
other  American  city": 

"If  Boston,  or  Philadelphia,  could  show 
upon  their  police  books  the  small  number  of 
crimes  committed  and  complaints  presented, 
which  appear  in  the  statistics  of  the  Crescent 
City  municipalities,  they  would  be  very  para- 
dises. Burglars  and  pickpockets,  when  pa- 
raded before  His  Honor  of  the  Criminal 
Court,  are  looked  upon  as  for  a  show  by  the 
gaping  crowds.  The  genus  loafer  is  almost 
unknown  in  the  natural  history  of  New  Or- 
leans; and  cigar  smoking  juvenile-pittites,  fire- 
rowdies.and  brave 
insulters  of  wom- 
en, are  only  heard 
of  now  and  then. 

Certainly  a  note- 
worthy condition 
of  affairs;  not  due 
to  the  homogen- 
eous character  of 
thepopulation.for 
"if  there  is  ever 
to  be  a  Congress 
of  nations,  let  it 
be  held  in  New 
Orleans;  there  will 
be  no  mileage  for 
delegates.  '  The 
"foreign  popula- 
tion'question  was 
only  beginning  to 
assume  import- 
ance in  most  sec- 
tions of  our  coun- 
try in  1847,  but 
New  Orleans  was 
the  exception  for  it  was  at  that  time  made 
up  in  nearly  equal  proportions  of  Americans, 
French,  Creoles  and  Spaniards,  together  with 
a  large  portion  of  Germans  and  a  good 
sprinkling  from  almost  every  other  nation  upon 
the  globe. 

"During  1844,  there  were  more  buildings 
erected  than  any  previous  year — notwithstand- 
ing which  tenements  are  in  great  demand  and 
rents  continue  high.  It  will  not  be  a  matter 
of  surprise,  if  the  number  of  inhabitants  at  the 
next  census,  1850,  should  be  over   160,000." 

The  census  of  1840  showed  New  Orleans 
to  be  the  fourth  city  in  the  Union,  its  popu- 
lation being  exceeded  only  by  New  York, 
Philadelphia,  and  Baltimore.  In  1847,  '48, 
and  '49  yellow  fever  reduced  the  number  of 
inhabitants,    eight     per    cent    of    the    people 


dying    before    the    epidemic    finally     abated. 

"During  the  business  season,  which  con- 
tinues from  the  first  of  November  to  July,  the 
levee,  for  an  extent  of  five  miles,  is  crowded 
with  vessels  of  all  sizes,  but  more  especially 
ships,  from  every  part  of  the  world  —  with 
hundreds  of  immense  floating  castles  and  pal- 
aces, called  steamboats,  and  barges  and  flat 
boats  innumerable. 

"The  levee  and  piers  that  range  along  the 
whole  length  of  the  city,  extending  back  on  an 
average  of  some  two  hundred  feet,  are  con- 
tinually covered  with  moving  merchandise. 
This  was  once  a  pleasant  promenade,  where 
the  citizen  enjoyed  his  delightful  morning  and 
evening  walk;   but  now  there  is  scarcely  room, 


amd  hogsheads,  bales,  and  boxes,  for  the 
business  man  to  crowd  along,  without  a  sharp 
look  out  for  his  personal  safety. 

"The  houses  are  chiefly  constructed  with 
bricks,  except  a  few  ancient  and  dilapidated 
dwellings  in  the  heart  of  the  city,  and  some 
new  ones  in  the  outskirts.  Wooden  buildings 
are  not  permitted  to  be  built,  under  present 
regulations,  within  what  are  denominated  the 
fire  limits.  The  modern  structures  particularly 
in  the  second  municipality,  are  generally  three 
or  four  stories  high,  and  are  embellished  with 
handsome  and  substantial  granite  or  marble 
fronts.  The  public  buildings  are  numerous, 
and  many  of  them  will  vie  with  any  of  the 
kind  in  our  cities. 

"The  view  of  New  Orleans  from  the  river, 
in    ascending   or  descending   is   beautiful   and 


imposing — seen  from  the  dome  of  the  St. 
Charles  Exchange,  it  presents  a  panorama  at 
once  magnificent  and  surprising.  In  taking  a 
lounge  through  the  lower  part  of  the  city,  the 
stranger  finds  a  difficulty  in  believing  himself 
to  be  in  an  Ameiican  city.  The  older  build- 
ings are  of  ancient  and  foreign  construction, 
and  the  manners,  customs  and  language  are 
various. 

"The  Water- works  constantly  supply  the 
people  with  water  forced  from  the  Mississippi, 
by  the  agency  of  steam,  into  a  reservoir,  whence 
by  pipes  it  is  sent  all  over  the  city.  This  water 
is  wholesome  and  palatable. 

"Gas  was  introduced  in  New  Orleans, 
through  the  enterprise  of  James  H.  Caldwell, 
Esq.,  in  1834, 
he  having  lighted 
his  theatre  with  it 
several  years  pre- 
vious. The  dense 
part  of  the  city 
is  now  lighted  by 
it;  and  the  hotels, 
stores,  shops,  and 
many  dwelling- 
houses  within 
reach  have  availed 
themselves  of  the 
advantages  it  of- 
fers. 

"In  the  sum- 
mer of  1844,  afire 
destroyed  about 
seven  blocks  of 
buildings  between 
Common  and  Ca- 
nal streets,  near 
the  Charity  Hos- 
pital. The  ground 
has  since  been  oc 
cupied  with  much  better  buildings,  and  presents 
a  very  improved  appearance." 

Exports  of  cotton  from  New  Orleans  in 
1846-7,  amounted  to  724,508  bales. 

According  to  the  census  of  1840,  there  were 
eight  commercial  and  375  commission  houses 
in  foreign  trade,  with  a  capital  of  $  16,490,000; 
1,881  retail  stores,  with  a  capital  of  $1  1,018,- 
225.  The  total  capital  employed  in  manu- 
factures was  $1,774,200.  There  were  two 
colleges,  with  105  students;  ten  academies, 
with  440  students;  twenty- five  schools,  with 
975  scholars. 

The  view  of  old  New  Orleans  presented 
on  this  page  gives  an  idea  of  the  importance 
of  the  city  as  a  commercial  center.  The 
modern  view  gives  a  glimpse  of  the  great  city 
of  today. 


ARTER  OAK 
HOLLOW   HANDLE 
KNIFE. 


This  Illustration 

and  that  on  page  7  together  occupy  double  page  space  in  the 
Holiday  Issue  of  the  Delineator,  out  November  10,  and 
other  magazines  reaching  about  10,000,000  readers.  This 
is  in  addition  to  the  usual  publications  —  over  500  daily, 
weekly  and  monthly — used  in  our  round-the-year  advertising 
campaign  in  behalf  of 

"1847  ROGERS  BROS."' 

"Silver  Plate  that   Wears." 

If  you  handle  our  ware  this  is  your  advertising. 

The  articles  here  shown  are  merely  suggestive  of  our  line  of  flat  and  hol- 
low ware.     The  list  prices  (subject   to   usual  discount  to  dealers)   are  given  be- 
low in  order  to  facilitate  ordering  goods  for  the  holiday  trade. 
No.  2086.     Coffee  ........     $12. 50 

2086.     Sugar  ........         9.00 

2086.     Cream,  Gold  Lined,  .  .  .  .  .  .7.00 

2086.     Tea,  (to  match)  .  .  .  .  .  .  .11.50 

2086.     Spoon  Holder,  Gold  Lined,  (to  match)  .  .  .         7.00 

2086-     Set  of  Five  Pieces,  (enumerated  above)  .  .  .       47.00 

2086.     Kettle,  one  Quart,  (to  match)  ....       22.50 

2086.     Butter  Dish,  (to  match)  .....       11.00 

2086.     Syrup  Cup  and  Plate,  (to  match)  ■ .  .  .  .        9.50 

00363.     Waiter,  12  inch,  special  discount,  ....         9.00 

234.     Baby  Plate,  Etched,  Diameter  8%  inch  .  .  .         7.00 

*Charter  Oak  Medium  Knives,  hollow  handle,  per  doz.       16.00 

^Charter  Oak  Dessert  Knives,     "  "         .  14.00 

Berkshire  Medium  Forks,  A-l,     .  .  .  9.50 

Berkshire  Dessert  Forks,  A-l,  .  .  8.50 

•(■Charter  Oak  Medium  Ladles        .  .  48.00 

•(•Charter  Oak  Oyster  Ladles        .  .  39.00 

ICharter  Oak  Baby  Spoons  .  .  7.50 

§Priscilla  Child's  Set,  Knife,  Fork  and  Spoon     "    set  2.00 

Oak  or  Mahogany  Chest,  (No.  513)  chamois  or  velvet 

lined, for  fifty  pieces,  with  drawer,  (price  for  chest  only)        32.00 

*One-half  dozen  in  flannel  bag.     tEach  in  lined  box. 
§  Price  includes  box  and  ware  complete. 


Supplied  to  Retailers  by  all  Leading  Jobbers. 


This  double  page  display  (shown  in  reduced  form  on  this 
page  and  page  6)  will  appear  in  the  Delineator's  Holiday  Issue, 
which  will  be  out  November  10.  This  issue  will  be  adver- 
tised in  500  of  the  most  prominent  dailies  in  the  country, 
special  attention  being  called  therein  to  the  magazine's  lead- 
ing advertisements,  including 

[847  ROGERS  BROS." 

"Silver  Plate  that    Wears-" 


MADE  AND 
GUARANTEED  BY 


Hollow  wai 

Tra.lemar) 


***  ROGERS   BROS 


This  publicity  will  send  buyers  to  "1847  Rogers  Bros."  dealers. 

Below  we  give  the  list  prices  ("subject  to  usual  discount  to  dealers)  on  the 
articles  illustrated.  But  it  would  be  advisable  to  send  for  our  new  catalogue 
"81-T"  illustrating  the  "Charter  Oak,"   "Priscilla"  and  other  flatware  patterns. 


1 


No.  952.       Coffee  Set,  Engraved,  4  Pieces 

"  952.   Coffee     .... 

"  952.   Sugar      .... 

"     952.       Cream,  Gold  Lined 

"     5Q9y&.  Waiter,  Engraved,  12  inches 

"  2085.       Tea  Set,  (to  match  No.  952  Coffee  Set,)  5  pieces 

"  2085.       Coffee  .... 

"  2085.       Tea       ..... 

"  2085.       Sugar 

"   2085.       Cream,  Gold  Lined 

"  2085.       Spoon  Holder,  Gold  Lined 

"  2085.       Kettle,  2y2  Pints      .  .  .  527.01) 

"  2085.       Butter  Dish  .....  12.50 

"2085.       Syrup  Cup  and  Plate  ....  10.00 

"     235.       Jewel  Box,  with  Lock  and  Key      .  .  25.00 

Avon  Bird  Set,  three  pieces,  in  lined  box,      .  per  set 

Vintage  Tea  Spoons,       .  .  .  .  "    doz. 

Avon  Orange  Spoons,  Set  of  six  in  lined  box 
Vintage  Salad  Spoons  and  Forks,  in  lined  box       "      set 
Oak    or    Mahogany   Chest    (No.   507)  chamois  or  velvet 
lined,  for  84  pieces,  compact,  (price  for  chest  only) 


144.00 

14.00 

8.00 

8.00 

14.00 

60.00 

16.00 

15.00 

11.00 

9.00 

9.00 


$6.50 
4.75 
6.00 
4.50 


30.00 


Distributed  to  the  Public  by  Progressive  Dealers. 


THE  SILVER  STANDARD,  OCTOBER,  1847. 


TlTC 

Stlurr§tnntiarct 
Established 

IN  1847  BY 

Rogers  Bros. 
OCTOBER,  1647. 

SIAMESE  TWINS 

REMARKABLE   PAIR 
AND  FAMILIES. 

On  the  page  here- 
with we  give  a  large 
and  finely  executed  pic- 
ture of  Chang  and  Eng, 
the  famous  united  Sia- 
mese twins,  who  were 
born  in  the  city  of 
Meklong,  in  May, 
1811.  They  were 
brought  to  this  country 
by  the  captain  of  the 
ship  Sachem,  arriving  j 
in  August,  1829.  They' 
were  at  once  brought 
before  the  public  for 
exhibition,  and  during 
the  twelve  ensuing 
years  were  visited  by 
millions  of  people,  talc- 
ing in  the  course  of 
their  travels  the  United 
States,  Great  Britain, 
France,  Holland  and 
Belgium. 

They  are  united  to- 
gether by  a  ligature,  or 
band,  about  three  and 
a  half  inches  in  length 
and  eight  in  circumfer- 
ence, formed  at  the  ex- 
tremity of  the  breast 
bone  of  each  and  ex- 
tending downward  to 
the  abdorr.er..  The  up- 
per part  of  the  band  is 
a  strong  cartilaginous 
substance;  the  lower 
part  is  soft  and  fleshy, 
and  contains  a  tube,  or 
cavity,  presumed  to  be 
about  an  inch  and  a 
half  in  circumference. 
The  flexibility  of  thi= 
cartilage  is  so  great  that 
they  can  readily  turn 
those  shoulders  out- 
wards which  are  to- 
gether when  standing 
in  a  natural  position. 
Having  secured  a  com- 
petence by  exhibiting 
themselves,  they  settled 
in  Wilkes  County. 
North  Carolina,  but  af- 
terwards removed  to 
Mt.  Airy, Surry  Coun- 
ty, where  they  now  re- 
side. Soon  after  taking 
up  their  abode  in  thi: 
region,  they  simultane- 
ously became  smitten 
with  the  charms  of  twc 
very  pretty  sisters, 
named  Yates,  and  each 
selecting  his  partner  the 
four  were  made  two 
with  all  due  ceremony. 
This  double  union  ha: 
apparently  proved  high- 
ly satistact  •  ry  to  all  con  - 
cemed.  The  ladies  are  \ 
represented  as  amiable  i 
and  interesting,  while  n 
is  certain  that  the  twin; 
are  devotedly  attached 
to  their  wives.  At  the 
present  time  Mr.  Eng 
has  six  and  Mr.  Chang 
five  children,  all  of 
whom  are  apt  scholars 
and  remarkably  well 
behaved.  They  are  al- 
so of  a  very  prepossess- 


SIAMESE  TWINS  AND  THEIR  FAMILIES. 


ing  appearance,  and  are 
great  favorites  in  the 
community  where  they 
reside. 

The  illustration  will 
give  a  perfect  idea  of 
the  appearance  of  the 
families,  every  likeness 
being  copied  from  da- 
guerreotypes, taken  es- 
pecially for  the  purpose. 

In  closing  these  re- 
marks of  the  twins  and 
their  families,  we  would 
say  ihat  they  seem  to 
be  remarkably  happy, 
enjoy  good  health,  have 
ample  means  to  procure 
not  only  the  comforts 
but  the  luxuries  of  life, 
and  bid  fair,  as  far  as 
human  judgment  may 
go,  to  live  many  more 
years  of  domestic  hap- 
piness and  comfort. 
They  are  both  natural- 
ized citizens  of  our 
country. 

A  species  of  cotton 
worm  has  made  its  ap- 
pearance in  some  of  the 
Southern  States  and  has 
done  much  damage  to 
the  cotton  crop. 


STRANGE  AF- 
FAIR —  A  gentleman 
sixty  years  of  age,  of 
Plymouth,  Mass.,  was 
recently  so  affected  by 
the  death  of  his  wife, 
that  he  cut  off  his  nose. 
He  is  now  in  Boston 
for  the  purpose  of  hav- 
ing a  new  one  made  to 
order.  This  is  a  fact, 
and  was  communicated 
to  the  writer  by  an  of- 
ficer of  the  Marine 
corps,  who  knows  all 
about  it. 

The  man  who  cut 
the  first  tree  in  the  wilds 
of  Ohio  is  still  alive. 
His  name  is  Daniel 
Cushwell,  and  he  re- 
sides on  a  small  farm  in 
Oneida  county,  N.  Y., 
and  is  eighty-six  years 
of  age. 

The  Detroit  Free 
Press  has  an  account  of  i 
31  new  flourishing  mills 
in  that  Stale  that  will 
go  into  operation.  Of 
these  nine  are  in  Ma- 
comb county. 


FOREIGN  NEWS 

— By  the  late  news  by 
the  Hibernia,  it  appears 
that  failures  in  England 
to  the  amount  of  $  1 00,- 
000,000  have  already- 
carried  dismay  to  the 
hearts  of  all  corn  ex- 
porters in  America. 
The  failures  have  swept 
down  some  of  the  old- 
est corn  dealing  firms 
in  Britain. 

Two  of  the  largest 
literary  institutions  in 
London  have  been 
broken  up  and  their  ex- 
tensive libraries,  muse- 
ums and  collections  of 
philosophical  apparatus 
are  to  be  sold  at  public 
auction.  We  are  sor- 
ry to  hear  this. 

A  vessel  has  arrived 
in  London  with  a  cargo 
of  bricks  from  the  Tow- 
er of  Babel,  and  with 
other  architectural  curi- 
osities for  the  British 
Museum. 

Roger  Sherman's 
plough  was  exhibited 
at  the  late  Mechanics' 
Fair  at  Boston. 


WEALTH  OF 
HARVARD-The 

bequests  made  to  this 
institution  are  enor- 
mous. In  the  annual 
report  of  the  overseers 
of  that  institution,  we 
notice  no  less  than  nine- 
teen bequests  which  av- 
erage more  than  $20.- 
000  each.  The  avail- 
able funds  of  the  Col- 
lege given  for  specific 
purposes,  the  interest  of 
which  is  only  used,  ex- 
ceed six  hundred  thou- 
sand dollars!  The  Law 
Department  has  funds 
exceeding  $40,000. 
And  the  Theological 
School  more  than  $80,  - 
000 !  This  opulence 
is  the  result  of  individ- 
ual liberality  of  citizens 
in  Massachusetts  . 

FEMALE  LA- 
BOR Not  far  from 
$5,000,000  are  yearly 
earned  in  Massachu- 
setts by  females  em- 
ployed in  the  various 
manufactories  of  straw 
hats,  stocks,  &c.  About 
40,000  are  employed. 


In  a  Boston  paper  we 
find  an  account  of  the 
doings  of  the  meeting  of 
the  naturalists  there, 
which  says  that  it  has 
been  long  known  that 
two  rays  of  light  may 
be  so  thrown  on  each 
other  as  to  produce 
darkness.  Prof.  Henry 
showed  that  two  rays 
of  heat  may  be  so  com- 
bined as  to  produce 
cold. 

RAILROAD  IRON 
-The  Philadelphia 
North  American  says 
that  there  will  be  sixty 
thousand  tons  of  rail- 
road iron  manufactured 
in  this  country  during 
the  present  year,  which 
will  be  equal  in  quality 
to  any  imported  iron. 
The  value  of  this  quan- 
tity at  present  selling 
prices,  will  be  upward 
of  four  millions  of  dol- 
lars. Pennsylvania, 
alone,  furnishes  one-half 
of  the  pig  iron,  and 
more  than  one-half  of 
the  railroad  iron  made 
in  the  United  States. 


I  REMARKED  that  most  of  the  farmers  and 
laborers  had  pale  complexions  and  a  care-worn 
look.  "This  was  owing  partly,"  said  the  landlord, 
"to  the  climate  ....  and  partly  to  the  ambitious, 
striving  character  of  the  natives." 

Travels  in  the  United  States  by  Sir  Charles  Lyell. 


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Washington  across  the  pay  a  dollar  a  week  in  a  ballet  dancer  — a  progressive  as  the  etern  -  tains  have  pledged 
Delaware  before  the  for  rum  and  tobacco ?  little  of  it  goes  a  great  al  rock  of  Gibraltar."  themselves  to  drink  no 
battle  of  Trenton.  We  never  did.  way.  No  gainsaying  that.         more.     Good! 


ANNUAL  FAIR 

20TH  OF  AMERICAN 
INSTITUTE. 

The  twentieth  annu- 
al fair  of  the  American 
Institute  held  in  New 
York  has  been  distin- 
guished for  a  gTeat  vari- 
ety of  new,  beautiful 
and  useful  inventions. 
The   manufacturing 

i  department  is  well  rep- 
resented by  some  splen- 
did cotton  and  woolen 
cloths.  The  mechani- 
cal department,  on 
which  all  the  rest  de- 
pend, was  never  sur- 
passed or  equalled  for 
useful  inventions, among 
which  we  notice  Ha- 
viland  and  Tuttle's 
patent  centre  vent  pres- 
sure water  wheel  —  a 
model  and  a  beautiful 
one.  We  also  notice 
the  fire  and  burglar 
a'arm,  the  invention  of 
Thomlinson  and  Hop- 
kins, of  Brookfield,  Ct. 
The  burglar  alarm  is  a 
great  and  most  useful 
invention  and  it  should 
be    put    up   in    every 

]  house.  The  chronom- 
eter of  Mr.  A.  T.  Coch- 
rane, of  288  Green- 
wich street.  New  York, 
with  an  entire  new  es- 
capement constructed 
by  himself  is  a  beautiful 
and  good  invention. 

There  were  a  num- 
ber of  cases  of  jewelry, 

such  as  gold  pens,  &c. 

OCEAN  STEAM- 
ERS-New  York  had 
more  ocean  steamers  in 
port  this  week  than  ever 
before  in  any  American 
harbor  at  any  one  time, 
viz :  The  Union 
(French)  ;  Britannia 
and  Sarah  Sands  (Eng- 
land); Guadalquiver 
(Spanish)  ;  Massachu- 
setts, Northerner, 
Southerner,  United 
States  and  Iris,  the  last 
five  being  Americans. 

With  the  Bremen  line 
steamer  Herman,  to  be 
launched  in  a  few  days, 
there  are  ten  in  all. 
The  United  States  and 
Northerner  are  not  in- 
ferior to  any  of  the  trans- 
atlantic steamers.  The 
U  ni  on  will  sail  for 
Cherbourg,  France,  on 
the  30th  inst.,  and  the 
Britannia  on  the  1st. 
The  Herman  was 
launched  on  Thursday 
and  will  at  once  com- 
mence her  regular  trips 
to  Bremen. 

SINGULAR  AC- 
CIDENT—The  Cin- 
cinnati Signal  learns 
that  on  the  1 7th,  as 
Mr.  Sawyer,  a  young 
gentleman  of  high  re- 
spectability, was  riding 
at  a  very  fast  rale  to  see 
a  female  acquaintance 
at  Dearborn  county, 
Indiana,  he  came  up 
against  the  Telegraph 
wires,  which  cut  his 
throat  producing  almost 
instant  death.  The 
wires  had  been  lowered 
for  the  purpose  of  mak- 
ing certain  repairs  on 
the  line. 


CJje  gulber  §>tantiarti 


ESTABLISHED  IN  1847  BY  ROGERS  BROS. 


Vol.  III.     No.  6. 


DECEMBER,  1847. 


Five  Cents. 


THE  YANKEE 
AND  HIS  WAYS 

DESCRIPTION  OF  UNIQUE 
CHARACTER. 

YANKEE  PEDLER  KNOWN  EVERYWHERE 

FOR  HIS  SHREWDNESS  AND  ABILITY 

TO  DRIVE  A  BARGAIN. 

We  present  to  our  ;  soul  engaged  in  the  log- 
readers  herewith  a  cap-  I  ging  business;  a  quarter 
ital  likeness  of  "Yan- ,  of  a  year  hence  you  will 
kee"  Silsbee,  probably  j  hear^of  him  navigating 
one  of  the  cleverest  de 


hneators  of  the  spe- 
cies" extant.  He  has 
won  for  himself  a  high 
reputation  in  London, 
where  he  is  now  per- 
forming. 

Silsbee  is,  of  course, 
himself  a  native-born 
Yankee,  and  off  the 
stage  he  is  as  much  a 

gentleman  in  appear- !  bar   or  in   the  pulpit, 
ance  and  bearing  as  he   Educated  for  the  mini 


the  Ohio.  Let  a  year 
pass,  and  you  may  learn 
of  him  in  Constanti- 
nople. 

Change  appears  to  be 
written  in  the  face  of  a 
Yankee.  He  is  never 
contented.  If  he  is  a 
bootblack  or  a  clamdig- 
ger,  ten  to  one  that 
you  will  find  him  at  the 


appears  green  and  un 
couth  when  presenting 
his  favorite  character 
upon  the  stage.  The 
picture  represents  Mr. 


try,  he  may  be  found 
teaching  at  some  con- 
spicuous corner.  If  his 
father  puts  him  to  a 
hanical  trade,  hi 


Silsbee  in  the  character   will   not   be   contented 


of  the  Yankee  plough 
boy. 

The  best  definition 
of  a  Yankee  we  have 
ever  seen  is  the  one  at- 
tributed to  "an  Eastern 
lecturer,"  who  said  that 
it  would  not  be  a  violent 
stretch  of  the  imagina- 
tion to  believe  that  a 
thoughtful  Massachu- 
setts or  Connecticut 
baby,  six  months  old, 
fits  in  its  mother's  lap, 
eyeing  his  own  cradle, 
to  see  if  he  could  not 
invent  a  better,  or  at 
least  to  suggest  some 
improvement. 

We  would  extend  the 
definition  to  the  whole 


unless  he  sets  up  for  him- 
self in  some  mercantile 
business.  Today  he  is 
one  thing  and  tomorrow 
another.  He  will  dig 
gardens,  saw  wood, 
teachschool,  preach,  or 
even  edit  a  newspaper, 
if  necessary  for  a  sup- 
port; but  he  will  not  be 
idle. 

As  to  that  peculiar 
institution,  the  "Yankee 
Pedler,''  we  have  often 
thought  that  these  itin- 
i  erant  merchants  deserve 
a  place  in  history  as  the 
pioneers  of  civilization; 
for  their  rounds  are  not 
confined  to  New  Eng- 
land alone,  but  extend 
Yankee  nation,  which  wherever  in  the  mighty 
we  understand  is  some-   territory  of  the  starsand 


vhat  extensive  now  in 
the  considerable  patch 
in  the  world  now  known 
as  Uncle  Sam's  corn 
field. 

You  can  always  tell 
a  Yankee  by  the  jack- 
knife  in  his  hand  or  the 
cigar  in  hismouth.  The 
Yankees  are  curious 
characters.  Today  [hey 
are  swapping  horses, 
and  tomorrow  building 
railroads;  this  hour  in 
ihe  gutter,  the  next  seat- 
ed in  a  palace.  Their 
energy  knows  no 
bounds.  This  month 
you  may  find  a  Yank- 


stripes  the  hardy  settle 
has  hewn  a  pathway 
for  his  wagon.  It  is  by 
their  agency  that  the 
rich  products,  the  rare 
improvements,  the 
choice  fancy  articlesand 
fine  arts  of  the  east  are 
introduced  into  the 
backwoods,  before 
commerce  has  pene- 
trated those  distant  re- 
gions, and  warehouses 
have  risen  in  the  re- 
claimed wilderness. 

The  Yankee  pedler 
must  be  a  man  intimate- 
ly acquainted  with 
"human   nature  ";  and 


adapts  itself  to  all  ages, 
both  sexes  and  to  all 
conditions.  He  must  be 
grave  and  respectful 
with  theclergyman,  in- 
telligent and  polite  with 
the  squire,  shrewd  with 
the  lawyer,  jovial  with 
tbe  publican,  frank  and 
insinuating  with  the  far- 
mer, and  full  of  flattery 
and  devotion  to  the 
girls. 

What  a  microcosm  is 
the  interior  of  some  of 
these  pedlers'  carts! 
Thimbles,  history  of  the 
United  States,  maple 
sugar,  fine-tooth  combs, 
soap,  life  of  Gen'l.  Jack- 
son, jackknives,  brace- 
lets, toothpicks,  ear- 
rings, moral  philosophy 
and  glass  cement. 
"Confusion  worse  con- 
founded" here  meet  to- 
gether in  a  heteroge- 
neous mass.  Some  in- 
dividuals devote  them- 
selves to  a  particular  ar- 
ticle; one  man  is  a  faith- 
ful follower  of  Father 
Time,  and  deals  only  in 
clocks.  Much  dreaded 
is  he  by  many  that  fear 
him,  distrust  him,  yet 
patronize  him.  Another 


is  absent  in  the  "field": 
a  present  of  an  ounce 
of  snuff  wins  the  heart 
of  the  "old  lady." 

The  tin  pedler,  who 
barters  his  wares  for  rags 
in  lieu  of  money,  is  a 
man  in  very  bad  repute 
among  housewives:  and 
yet  somehow  or  other 
he  contrives  to  do  a 
thriving  business.  "The 
horrid  tin  pedler, "as  he 
is  called,  rarely  calls  at 
a  house  without  effect- 
ing hisobject;  andmany 
a  lovely  housewife  s 
sideboard  would  look 
grim  and  dismal  were 
it  not  replenished  and 
rendered  glittering  by 
the  visits  of  the  tin  ped- 


We  are  inclined  to 
think  that  pedlers,  as  a 
class,  have  been  unjust- 
ly condemned  by  the 
community.  The  tricks 
of  a  few  individuals 
have  been  charged  on 
the  entire  class,  where- 
as the  truth  probably  is 
that  there  is  no  more 
unfair   dealing  among 


BIG  WAR  DEBT 
CONFRONTS  US 

PRESIDENT  POLK'S  PLEDGE 
IS  BROKEN. 

A  LOAN  OF  $18,500,000   WILL  BE  RE- 
QUIRED FOR  BALANCE  OF  THE 
FISCAL  YEAR. 

On  the  first  day  of  1 848.  But  in  the  mes- 
July,  1846,  there  was  sage  of  the  present 
a  balance  unappropn-  month,  the  President 
ated  in  the  treasury  of  tells  us  that,  in  order 
the  United  States  of  "  to  meet  the  expendi- 
$9, 1  26,439,  asisstated  tures  for  the  remainder 
in  the  Message  to  Con-  j  of  the  present  year" — 
gress  of  President  Polk,  (meaning  the  fiscal  year 
of  8th.  December  1846. )  to  terminate  on  30th 
The  receipts  into  the  June  next!) — "and  fcr 
Treasury  for  the  year ' the  next  fiscal  year  to 
ending30th.  June,  1 846  ,  end on30th  June,  1 849, 
were$29, 499,247. and  a  further  loan  in  aid  of 
for  the  same  period  the  j  the  ordinary  revenue 
same  expenditures  were  |  for  the  government  will 
$28,03  1,1  14,  leaving  j  be  needed.  Retaining 
a  balance  of  $1 ,468,  -!  a  sufficient  surplus  in  the 
133,  which,  added  to  |  Treasury,  the  loan  re- 
the  balancein  theTreas-  i  quired  for  the  remainder 
ury  on  1st  July,  1845, ,  of  the  present  fiscal  year 
$7,358,306,  makesthe  |  will  be  about  eighteen 
above  aggregate  of  $9,- 1  millions  five  hundred 
126,439.  :  thousand  dollars!" 

The  amountof  public  j     After  the  quasipledge 
debt,   including  Treas-   that   no    more    would 
ury  notes,    which,  ac-  j  be  wanted  beyond  the 
cording  to   the   same  |  avails  of   the   twenty- 
message,  was  outstand   !  three   million  loan   till 
ing   on    1st  December ,[  after  June,    1848,    this 
1846,  was  $24,256,-   was  certainly  unexpec- 
494.     Of  that  amount  I  ted ;  and  yet  the  Presi- 
there   was   outstanding  [dent  announces  it  cool- 
on   4th  March,   1845,  |ly,  and  as  a  matter  of 
when  the   present   ad- 1  course,    and  as  though 
ministration   came  into  I  there  had  been  no  dis- 
-   power,    $1  7,788,799.  '  appointment  of  just  ex- 
the  pedlers  than  among       The  President's  last '  pectation,    or  forfeiture 
any  other  class  of  trades-!  message  states  the  whole  I  of  voluntary   pledges 
men    Many  flourishing ;  amount    of   the   public 


dealers  have  com- 
menced life  in  the  hum 
ble  character  of  pedlers 


1 

Shrewd,  calculating, 
cunningand  overreach- 
ing  as    he   is  apt    to 


AMERICAN 

CLOCKS.— It  isstated 
in  the  Annualof  Science 
and  Discoverythat  such 
is  theperfection  to  which 
the  manufacture  of 
clocks  has  been  carried 
in  Connecticut,  that 
time -pieces,  warranted 


be,  yet  the  pedler  is  not  I  to  keep  good  reck 


debt,  including  Treas 
ury  notes,  on  1st  De- 
cember, 1847,  at  $45,- 
659,659;  from  which 
deducting  the  amount 
outstanding    on    4th 


But  not  only  were  the 
proceeds  of  the  twenty- 
three  million  loan  almost 
all  swallowed  up  in  the 
past  year,  but  the  whole 
ordinary  income,  ex- 
ceeding twenty -six  mil- 


housewife.    His  life   islonedollaratretail.  Thej  was  estimated  by  the 
not  a  life  of  ease — he  is   Works  are  all  of  brass.    President  and  the  Sec- 
subject  to  many  vicis-   made  by  machinery.  |  retary  of  the  Treasury 
situdes;  and  to  bear  up  At  the  manufactory  of  that  the  amount  thus  to 
under  all,   he  must  be  ,  Mr.   Jerome,    of   New  i  be  added  to  the  revenue 
a   resolute   and   enter-   Haven,   eight  hundred  J  of  the  Treasury  would 
prisingmanof  character;   of  these  articles  can  be  I  "be  sufficient  to  cover 
deals  in  confectionery;   for  if  he  deals  dishonest-   producedinasingleday.    the  necessary  expendi- 
he  is  a  favonte  with  the   ly,    he   will   very  soon    Wooden    clocks,   but   lures,  both  for  the  war 
girls,    with  whom   he   run   out  his  routes,  and  comparatively  few  years  and  all  other  purposes,' 
on   the   waters    of   the  I  his  manners  must  be  of '  drives   sharp  bargains   come  to  the  end  of  his  i  since,  sold  for  from  ten  I  up  to  the  expiration  of 
Penobscot  heart  and  j  that  flexible  kind  which   while  the   "old   man"   chain.  i  to  twelve  dollars.  1  the  fiscal  year,  in  June, 


March,  1845,  we  shall  lions  of  dollars,  andnear- 
have  for  addition  to  the  ;  ly  the  whole  nine  mil- 
debt  up  to  that  time  un-  lions  of  unappropriated 
der  Mr.  Polk's  admin-  j  funds  in  the  treasury  on 
islration,  the  sum  of  Istjuly,  I846,wereex- 
$27,870,859.  hausted. 

When   the  loan  of  |      So   that,    instead   of 

.„,.  twenty-three  millions  of   having  enough  as  wai 

without  his  good  quali-   are  sold  for  sixty  cents,   dollars  was  authorized,    promised — or  at   least 

ties  and  benefits  to  the   at   wholesale,   and_for  ■  8th  January,   1847,   it  I  held  out  as  probable  — 

from  former  loans  and 
the  ordi  nary  revenue, 
for  "the  war  and  all 
other  purposes."  cp  to 
30th  June,  1848,  we 
find  here  a  deficiency 
anticipated  of  near  six- 
teen millions! 


The  corn  crop  of  this 
year  is  estimated  at 
600,000,000   bushels. 


We  are  indebted  to  Boston  Almanac,  American  Review,  Gleason's  Pictorial  and  others  of  the  "1847"  period  (or  material  in  this  issue. 
Meriden,  Conn.,  December,  1907— MERIDEN  BRITANNIA  CO.— International  Silver  Co.,  Successor. 


1847— THEN 


THE  SILVER  STANDARD 


now — HI07 


trade — "is47  Rogers  Bros." — wrk 

then— 1s47— and— 19(17-  now. 
Established  in  1847  by  Rogkrs  Bros. 

issued  by 
Meriden  Britannia  Cu.,Meriden,Ct. 

(International  Silver  Cu..  Successor.) 


Vol.  Ill— No. 6.  DECEMBER,  1907.  5  Cents. 


ANOTHER  VOLUME. 

The  present  number  of  The  Silver  Standard 
completes  the  third  volume  of  the  publication. 
Barring  conflagration,  earthquake,  pestilence  or 
other  catastrophe,  February  will  see  the  first 
number  of  Vol.  IV.  It  is  probable  that 
the  same  general  policy  that  has  obtained 
during  the  past  three  years  will  be  followed 
in  1908.  We  beg  to  renr.nd  our  readers, 
however,  that  we  shall  continue  to  welcome 
all  suggestions  regarding  the  publication. 


ceased  discounting — whereupon  even  the  mer- 
chants ran  on  the  bank  to  take  out  notes  or 
gold  against  their  deposit  credits.  The  ex- 
chequer intervened,  suspended  the  Bank  Act, 
and  insisted  that  the  Bank  go  on  discounting, 
though  at  8  per  cent,  regardless  of  its  reserve. 
This  announcement  stopped  the  panic,  and 
the  hoarders  instantly  brought  back  their 
notes.  In  reality,  the  suspension  of  the 
Bank  Act  accomplished  nothing  more  than 
the  recourse  to  Clearing  House  certificates 
by  the  New  York  Associated  Banks." 

THE  YANKEE. 
A  few  years  ago  a  newspaper  article  made 
the  statement  that  the  Yankee  dialect  was  a 
thing  of  the  past.  Any  one  who  has  sum- 
mered in  the  rural  districts  of  New  England 
will  smile  at  so  broad  a  statement.  Never- 
theless we  must  admit  that  the  Yankee— the 
uncouth  but  shrewd  fellow  as  he  existed  in 
1 847 — is  comparatively  seldom  met  with  to- 
day. As  will  be  seen  by  the  article  on  our 
first  page,  he  was  once  a  person  to  be  reck- 
oned with.     He  certainly  is  frequently  found 


took  place  from  Old  to  New  England,  we 
find  the  term  "I  guess"  for  "I  think",  or  "I 
suppose",  occurring  frequently;  and  if  we  look 
farther  back,  it  is  met  with  in  the  "Miller's 
Tale"  and  in  the  "Monk"  of  Chaucer: — 

'For  little  heaviness 

Is  right  enough  for  muchel  folk,  I  guess.' 
"And  in  Spenser's  Faerie  Queene' — 
'It  seemed  a  second  Paradise,  I  guesse.' 
"Among  the  most  common  singularities  of 
expressions  are  the  following: — 'I  should  ad- 
mire to  see  him'  for  'I  should  like  to  see  him  ;' 
'I  want  to  know,'  and  'Do  tell,'  both  ex- 
clamations of  surprise,  answering  to  our  'Dear 
me'.  These  last,  however,  are  rarely  heard 
in  society  above  the  middling  class.  Occasion- 
ally I  was  as  much  puzzled  as  if  I  was  read- 
ing Tarn  o'Shanter,  as,  for  example,  'out 
of  kittel'  means  'out  of  order.'  The  word 
'sick'  is  used  in  New  England  in  the  same 
sense  as  it  was  in  the  time  of  Shake- 
speare, or  when  the  liturgy  of  the  Church 
of  England  was  composed.  The  word 
'ill',  which  in  Great  Britain  means  'not 
well',    signifies    in    America    'very    ill'." 


We  have  endeavored  to  make  The  Stand- > 
ard  entertaining,  but  we  have  also  aimed  to 
make  it  of  value  from  an  historical  standpoint,  j 
We  believe  we  have  succeeded  in  transporting 
to  the  twentieth  century  something  of  the  at- 
mosphere of  sixty  years  ago.  At  any  rate 
the  testimony  of  many  of  those  who  remember 
conditions  and  events  of  1 847  would  seem 
to  indicate  that  we  are  justified  in  that  belief. 

While  this  page  was  being  written  we  re- 
ceived a  request  from  Mr.  George  S.  Godard, 
state  librarian,  for  a  complete  file  of  The 
Standard  to  be  placed  in  the  State  Library 
of  Connecticut.  Mr.  Godard  explained  that 
he  wished  to  have  The  Standard  on  file  where 
it  might  be  used  for  reference  by  Connecticut 
historians.  This,  we  believe,  was  as  unique 
a  compliment  as  was  ever  received  by  a  pub- 
lication designed  primarily  for  advertising  pur- 
poses. 

MONEY  HOARDING  IN  1847. 
The  year  1847  witnessed  a  money-hoarding 
frenzy  parallel  to  that  which,  at  this  writing, 
is  troubling  us.  "A  good  many  people",  says 
the  New  York  Evening  Post,  "  have  been 
asking,  the  past  week,  whether  any  community 
in  the  world,  except  our  own,  has  ever  made 
such  an  exhibition  of  itself  in  the  matter  of 
money-hoarding  as  our  own  has  done.  The 
nearest  approach  in  history,  outside  of  this 
country's  borders,  was  in  the  famous  London 
panic  of   1847." 

That  panic  nearly  broke  the  Bank  of  Eng- 
land, which,  under  the  act  of  1844,  "could 
not  enlarge  its  note  circulation  except  on  gold  ; 
but  its  gold  was  already  failing  it,  and  to  con- 
tinue discounting  merchants'  bills  was  to  cause 
a  further  loss.     For  a  day  or  two,   the  Bank 


in  the  ephemeral  literature  of  the  early  half 
and  middle  of  the  19th  century. 

No  paper  went  to  press,  apparently,  with- 
out some  anecdote  like  the  following: 
"A  Yankee  pedler,  with  his  cart,  over- 
taking another  of  his  clan  on  the  roads, 
was  thus  addressed,  'Hallo,  what  do 
you  carry  ?'  'Drugs  and  medicines,'  was 
the  reply.  'Good!'  returned  the  other, 
'you    may   go    ahead;    I    carry   gravestones!" 

The  term  "Yankee"  has  been  a  variable 
one;  for  the  Englishman  it  included  the  whole 
American  nation  ;  by  other  sections  it  was  re- 
stricted to  the  New  Englander,  while  by  the 
New  Englanders  who  dwelt  in  populous  cen- 
ters it  was  still  more  specifically  applied.  The 
English  writers  of  that  day,  as  well  as  this, 
were  fond  of  descanting  on  "Americanisms.' 
One  such  observer  of  sixty  years  ago  comes  to 
the  defense  of  certain  peculiarities  of  speech 
attributed  to  us  as  a  people.  His  remarks  are 
none  the  less  interesting  because  of  the  fact  that 
the  matter  has  been  discussed   more   recently. 

"The  frequent  use  of  the  words  'sir'  and 
'ma'm'  in  the  United  States,  like  'oui,  mon- 
sieur, oui,  madame,'  in  France,  for  the  sake 
of  softening  the  bald  and  abrupt  'yes'  or  'no', 
would  sound  to  a  Frenchman  or  Italian  more 
polite;  and  if  the  Americans  were  to  con- 
form to  the  present  English  model  in  such 
trifles,  it  might  happen  that  in  England  itself 
the  fashion  may  soon  change. 

"There  are  also  some  antique  provincialisms 
handed  down  from  the  time  of  the  first  settlers, 
which  may  well  deserve  to  be  kept  up,  al- 
though they  may  be  subjects  of  diversion  to 
English  tourists.  In  one  of  Shirley's  plays, 
written  just  before  the  middle  of  the  seven- 
teenth   century,    when    the   largest   emigration 


Harriet  Martineau,  at  a  somewhat  earlier 
period,  said  in  her  "Society  in  America", 
"We  are  often  told  that  it  was  a  'dreadful 
fine  day' ;  and  a  girl  at  an  hotel  pronounced 
my  trumpet  to  be  'terrible  handy'.  In  the 
back  of  Virginia,  these  superlative  expressions 
are  the  most  rife.  A  man  who  was  ex- 
tremely ill  and  in  agonizing  pain  sent  for  a 
friend  to  come  to  him.  Before  the  friend  ar- 
rived, the  pain  was  relieved,  but  the  patient 
felt  much  reduced  by  it.  'How  do  you  find 
yourself?'  inquired  the  friend.  'Why',  re- 
plied the  sick  man,  'I'm  powerful  weak;  but 
cruel  easy.'" 

THE  NEW  YORK  HERALD. 

In  the  October  number  we  printed  an  ar- 
ticle on  the  New  York  Herald.  The  Herald 
of  1 847  loomed  large  in  the  eyes  of  its  con- 
temporaries and  attacks,  eulogies  and  quotations 
from  that  paper  abounded  in  the  press  of  the 
day.  One  journal  declared  that  the  Herald's 
motto  was  as  follows: 

"Take  no  shin-plasters,  all  damned  rogues 
who  issue  them — live  temperately — drink  mod- 
erately — eschew  temperance  societies  —  take 
care  of  the  sixpences — never  trust  a  saint — go 
to  bed  at  ten — rise  at  six — never  buy  on  credit 
— fear  Cod  Almighty — love  the  beautiful  girls 
— vote  against  Van  Buren — and  kick  all  pol- 
iticians and  parsons  to  the  devil." 

SKETCH  OF  THE  HUB. 
Considerable  space  has  been  given  in  this 
number  to  the  city  of  Boston.  The  preparation 
of  the  sketch  of  the  "Hub"  was  a  pleasant 
duty.  It  is  hoped  that  those  who  know  the 
city,  especially  who  knew  it  sixty  years  ago, 
will  find  as  much  pleasure  in  the  reading. 


1847    then—  -THE  SILVER  STANDARD 

BOSTON  IN  1847 


-i9o; 


MANY   EVENTS   OF   IMPORTANCE   TRANSPIRED   THAT  YEAR   IN   THE 

GREAT   NEW   ENGLAND   CITY. 


As  Americans  we  take  pride  in  the  growth 
of  such  cities  as  Portland,  Ore.,  which  sixty 
years  ago  hardly  had  a  place  on  the  map,  and 
San  Francisco,  known  as  Yerba  Buena  in 
1847,  when  it  boasted  500  inhabitants.  But, 
in  contrast  with  these  places  of  comparatively 
modern  birth,  it  is  also  pleasant  to  turn  to  the 
city  of  Boston,  which  in  1847  was  rich  in 
history  and  tradition;  staid  and  settled,  per- 
haps a  bit  contemptuous,  in  an  indulgent  sort 
of  way,  of  the  struggling 
settlements  of  the  far 
west. 

Boston  in  1847  had 
a  population  of  over 
114,000.  The  city 
had  been  incorporated 
twenty-five  years. 
Josiah  Quincy,  Jr.,  was 
its  mayor.  I  he  assessor's 
book  showed  real  estate 
amounting  to  $97,764,- 
500  and  personal  estate, 

$64,595,900. 

The  two  views  of 
old  and  new  Boston  on 
pages  2  and  3  show 
the  same  locality — 
Tremont  Street.  The 
Park  Street  Church  is 
prominent  in  both,  while 
the  State  House  dome 
may  be  seen  in  the 
distance.  In  the  first 
view  appears  the  old 
Granary  Burying 
Ground,  with  the  Tre- 
mont House  on  the 
right.  The  photograph 
showing  modern  Bos- 
ton was  taken  specially  for  The  Standard 
with  the  purpose  of  duplicating  the  old  view 
so  far  as  possible. 

An  English  visitor  of  the  time  writes  thus  of 
the  Boston  he  saw  :  "  I  need  only  say,  that, 
like  most  strangers,  I  was  much  struck  with 
the  old  and  respectable  appearance  of  Boston 
—  its  substantial  and  handsome  houses  of  stone 
and  brick,  its  well  paved  and  cleanly  streets, 
its  busy  and  orderly  population,  as  well  as 
with  the  various  tokens  of  literary  taste  and 
refinement  which  met  the  eye.  The  merest 
glance  at  this  city  and  its  thoroughfares, 
thronged  with  passengers  differing  in  no  respect 
from  those  one  sees  any  day  in  Regent  Street 
or  the  Strand,  would  dispel  the  strange  and 
misty  notions  entertained  in  England  respect- 
ing the  people  of  the  United  States."  Most 
of  us  probably  agree  with  the  desire  of  the 
Scottish  bard  to  see  ourselves  as  others  see  us. 
If  cities  are  like  people  in  this  respect,  Boston 
surely  for  many  years  has  had  the  satisfaction 
of  seeing  herself  reflected  in  the  eyes  of  others. 
Perhaps  we  can  give  no  better  idea  of  the  city 
of  1847  than  by  quoting  somewhat  liberally 
from  these  visitors'  descriptions. 


First  let  us  see  how  she  sizes  up  as  a  com- 
mercial center,  viewed  through  New  York 
eyes. 

"Any  man  who  visits  this  centre  of  eastern 
enterprise,"  declared  the  New  York  Journal 
of  Commerce,  "will  be  astonished  at  its  growth. 
The  last  three  years  especially  have  made  it 
almost  to  burst  with  swelling  greatness.  Such 
a  people,  so  intelligent,  enterprising  and  in- 
dustrious,   where    everybody   works,    will  be 


rich,  and  will  accomplish  everything  they 
undertake.  But  Boston  has  been  more  than 
successful.  Her  other  plans  of  improvement 
have  surpassed  the  expectations  of  their  pro- 
jectors, in  their  favorable  results.  The  number 
of  her  merchants  has  immensely  increased, 
while  everybody  does  a  much  larger  business 
than  formerly,  especially  the  dry  goods  dealers. 

"He  was  a  respectable  jobber  a  few  years 
ago,  who  sold  $100,000  worth  of  goods;  but 
now  from  $300,000  to  $500,000  is  a  com- 
mon thing.  The  stores  of  the  dry  goods  job- 
bers are  built  like  palaces,  with  an  exuberence 
of  cost,  which  is  almost  in  bad  taste.  The 
renowned  peninsula  is  all  built  over  snug  and 
tight,  and  thousands  of  merchants  live  out  of 
town,  conveyed  by  omnibusses  and  railroad 
cars. 

"Hundred  thousand  dollar  men  are  plenty 
now  all  about,  and  millionaires  are  found  here 
and  there.  The  Bostonians  attribute  their 
great  prosperity  to  their  railroads,  especially 
that  to  Albany.  This  road  has  opened  the 
western  trade  more  fully  than  they  had  it  be- 
fore, and  has  made  Boston  more  accessible  to 
the  west,    at  some  seasons  of  the  year,  than 


New  York.  Boston  deserves  whatever  pros- 
perity she  gains  from  this  noble  enterprise. 
It  was  not  built  by  her  capitalists  or  her  re- 
tired men.  They  never  do  these  things.  The 
men  in  active  business,  who  had  less  personal 
interest  in  it,  but  more  enterprise  and  public 
spirit,  did  it,  as  they  must  ever  do  these  things. 
1  hey  could  do  it ;  for  in  Boston  there  is  a 
concentration  of  the  public  mind,  which  brings 
out  and  directs  its  mighty  force  to  great 
achievements." 

SirCharlesLyell,  em- 
inent British  geologist, 
found  that  "the  num- 
ber of  persons  in  Bos- 
ton who  have  earned 
in  business,  or  have  in- 
herited large  fortunes, 
is  very  great.  The 
Common,  a  small  park, 
w  hich  is  by  no  means 
the  only  quarter  fre- 
quented by  rich  citi- 
zens, is  surrounded  by 
houses  which  might 
form  two  fine  squares 
in  London,  and  the 
average  value  of  which, 
in  the  market,  might 
bear  a  comparison 
with  those  in  very  fash- 
ionable parts  of  our 
metropolis  —  sums  of 
from  £4,000  to  £20,- 
000  having  been  paid 
for  them.  The  greater 
part  of  these  buildings 
are  the  property  of  the 
persons  who  reside  in 
them ;  and  they  are 
fitted  up  very  elegantly,  and  often  expensively. 
"Entertainments  in  a  sumptuous  style  are 
not  rare;  but  the  small  number  of  servants  in 
comparison  with  those  kept  in  England  by 
persons  of  corresponding  income,  and  the  want 
of  an  equipage,  impart  to  their  mode  of  life 
an  appearance  of  simplicity  which  is  perhaps 
more  the  result  of  necessity  than  of  deference 
to  a  republican  theory  of  equality.  For  to 
keep  servants  here  for  mere  show,  would  not 
only  be  thought  absurd,  but  would  be  a  great 
sacrifice  of  comfort. 

"To  obtain  a  few  efficient  ones  at  any  price, 
and  to  put  up  with  many  inconveniences  rather 
than  part  with  them — allowing  them  to  con- 
tinue in  service  after  marriage,  is  the  practice 
of  not  a  few  of  the  richest  people,  who  often 
keep  no  more  than  four  domestics  where  there 
would  be  at  least  nine  in  London.  In  conse- 
quence of  this  state  of  things,  the  ladies  are 
more  independent  of  being  waited  on  than 
those  of  similar  fortune  in  England." 

Of  this  matter  of  few  servants  the  editor  of 
Godey's  Lady's  Book  wrote  as  follows:  "The 
late  census  of  Boston  has  developed  some 
curious  facts.     There  is  no  'upper  ten-thou- 


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now— 1907 


sand'  in  that  city — not  if  to  keep  servants  be 
necessary  to  the  distinction.  Only  three  hun- 
dred and  forty  families  in  Boston  keep  more 
than  two  domestics.  And  but  four  thousand 
four  hundred  and  one  families  keep  help  at 
all ;  while  fifteen  thousand,  seven  hundred  and 
seventy- four  families  live  in  household  inde- 
pendence, doing  their  own  work  entirely ! 

"Yet  every  child  in  the  city  has  the  privi- 
lege of  attending  the  free  schools,  and  every 
family  in  town  attends  the  Lowell  Lectures. 
In  the  late  effort  to  raise  $75,000  for  the  new 
Athenaeum,  shares  were  offered  and  the  whole 
amount  obtained  with  ease — the  people  who 
wait  on  themselves  having  abundant  time  to 
read  the  books  and  visit  the  gallery  of  painting 
and  statuary. 

"Of  the  $125,124  received  the  past  year 
by  the  'American  Home  Missionary  Society', 
$41,498,  or  nearly  one-third,  was  from  Mass- 
achusetts— the  most  of  it  given  by  Boston 
people.  They  have  lately  given  $20,000  to 
the  Nantucket  sufferers.  So  there  is  money 
enough  for  every  purpose  of  improvement  and 
charity,  while  in  true  republican 
simplicity  the  city  is  a  model  for 
imitation.  Very  few  private  car- 
riages are  kept.  To  work,  walk, 
or  'ride  in  an  omnibus'  are  not 
accounted  indications  of  poverty 
or  vulgarity ;  but  not  to  be  able 
to  read,  write  or  give  a  little  for 
benevolent  purposes,  would  be 
poor  and  low  indeed. 

"Wealth,  then,  when  united 
with  general  intelligence  and  equal 
laws,  is  not  a  currupter  of  pub- 
lic morals.  The  city  of  Boston 
is  the  richest  in  the  Union,  and 
there  will  be  found  the  least  show 
and  ostentation.  Their  women 
are  better  educated  than  any 
other  in  the  world.  Does  learn- 
ing disqualify  them  for  domestic 
managers?  Let  the  census  and 
the   general  prosperity  answer." 

No  doubt  the  scarcity  of  ser-  = 
vants  had  much  to  do  with  a  difficulty  encoun- 
tered early  in  his  visit  by  Sir  Charles.  "As  we 
intended,"  he  wrote,  "to  pass  nearly  two  months 
in  Boston,  we  determined  to  look  out  for  private 
lodgings,  such  as  might  be  met  with  in  every 
large  town  in  England,  but  which  we  found 
it  almost  impossible  to  procure  here.  It  does 
not  answer  to  keep  houses,  or  even  suites  of 
apartments  to  let  in  a  city  where  house  rent 
is  so  dear,  and  well-trained  servants  so  diffi- 
cult to  hire,  even  at  high  wages.  In  this 
country,  moreover,  the  mass  of  the  people 
seem  to  set  less  value  on  the  privilege  of  liv- 
ing in  private  than  we  English  do.  Not  only 
strangers  and  bachelors,  but  whole  families, 
reside  in  boarding-houses,  usually  kept  by  a 
widow  who  has  known  better  days,  and  is  a 
good  manager,  and  can  teach  and  discipline 
servants." 

Regarding  the  hotels  of  Boston,  W.  Cham- 
bers, in  an  interesting  work  entitled,  "Things 
as  They  Are  in  America,"  speaks  in  appre- 
ciative terms.  "In  Boston,  I  had  the  oppor- 
tunity of  seeing  for  the  first  time  a  specimen 
of  that  extraordinary  hotel  system,  which 
forms  one  of  the  leading  social  features  of  the 
United  States.  I  lodged  at  the  Revere  House, 
an  establishment  consisting  of  several  hundred 


apartments,  including  a  more  than  usually 
splendid  suite  of  public  drawing-rooms  and 
parlours,  and  a  spacious  saloon,  in  which  all 
the  guests  take  their  meals,  as  at  a  table- 
d'hote." 

Elsewhere  he  exclaims,  "An  American  hotel 
is  not  a  house,  it  is  a  town ! " 

Under  the  caption  "Expense  of  Living" 
another  writer  has  this  to  say:  "The  expense 
of  living  in  the  northern  states  is,  upon  the 
whole,  decidedly  more  reasonable  than  in 
England,  although  the  dress,  both  of  men  and 
women,  is  somewhat  dearer.  In  Boston,  also, 
the  rent  of  houses  is  very  high,  but  not  so  in 
the  country. 

"Traveling is  much  cheaper,  and  so  are  food, 
newspapers  and  books.  On  comparing  the 
average  price  of  bread  during  the  present  year 
with  that  in  England,  we  find  that  it  is  about 
twenty-five  per  cent,  cheaper,  beef  and  mut- 
ton ten  per  cent,  cheaper,  and  the  price  of 
poultry  extremely  moderate. 

"  Why  in  so  old  a  city  as  Boston  the  sup- 
ply of  seamstresses,  milliners,  and  dressmakers 


BOSTON  POLICE.  1847. 


should  be  as  inadequate  to  the  demand  as  in 
some  of  our  newly  -  founded  colonies  when 
most  progressive,  I  leave  to  political  economists 
to  explain. 

"My  wife  was  desirous  of  having  a  dress 
and  bonnet  made  up  in  a  week,  but  one  mil- 
liner after  another  declined  to  undertake  the 
task.  It  would  be  a  useful  lesson  to  those 
who  are  accustomed  to  consider  themselves  as 
patrons  whenever  they  engage  others  to  do 
work  for  them,  to  learn  how  in  reality,  if 
things  are  in  a  healthy  state,  the  obligation  is 
mutual;  but  to  discover  that  the  usual  relations 
of  the  employer  and  employed  are  entirely  re- 
versed, and  that  the  favor  is  by  no  means 
conferred  by  the  purchaser,  would  try  the 
patience  of  most  travelers. 

"Friends  interceded,  but  in  vain;  till,  at 
last,  a  representation  was  made  to  one  of  these 
important  personages  that  my  wife  was  about 
to  leave  the  city  on  a  fixed  day,  and  that  be- 
ing a  foreigner,  she  ought,  out  of  courtesy,  to 
be  assisted;  an  appeal  which  was  successful, 
and  the  work  was  then  undertaken  and  sent 
home  with  strict  punctuality,  neatly  made,  and 
every  spare  scrap  of  the  material  honestly  re- 
turned, the  charge  being  about  equal  to  that 
of  the  first  London  dressmakers. 


"We  remarked  in  some  of  the  country 
towns  of  Massachusetts,  where  the  income  of 
the  family  was  very  moderate,  that  the  young 
ladies  indulged  in  extravagant  dressing  — 40 
pounds,  for  example,  being  paid  for  a  shawl 
in  one  instance.  Some  of  the  richer  class,  who 
had  returned  from  passing  a  year  or  two  in 
Germany  and  England,  had  been  much  struck 
with  the  economical  habits,  in  dress  and  in  the 
luxuries  of  the  table,  of  persons  in  easy  circum- 
stances there  and  the  example  had  not  been 
lost  on  them." 

The  English  visitors  of  the  period  seldom 
complained  that  the  American  was  too  meek 
or  modest.  For  the  most  part  they  did  not 
word  their  observations  on  this  point  so  con- 
siderately as  in  the  following: 

"The  Americans,  in  general,  have  more 
self-possession  and  self-confidence  than  Eng- 
lishmen, although  this  characteristic  belongs 
perhaps  less  to  the  Bostonians  than  to  the 
citizens  of  most  of  the  other  parts  of  the  Union. 
On  the  other  hand,  the  members  of  the  great 
republic  are  sensitive  and  touchy  about  their 
country,  a  point  on  which  the 
English  are  imperturbably  in- 
different, being  proud  of  every 
thing  British,  even  to  a  fault, 
since  contempt  for  the  opinion 
of  other  nations  may  be  car- 
ried so  far  as  to  diminish  pro- 
spect of  national  improvement. 
It  might  be  better  if  each  of  the 
great  branches  of  the  Anglo- 
Saxon  family  would  borrow  some- 
thing of  the  qualities  of  the  other, 
— if  John  Bull  had  less  mauvais 
Jwnte  so  as  to  care  less  for 
what  others  were  thinking  of  him- 
self individually  and  if  Jonathan 
cared  less  for  what  others  are 
thinking  of  the  country." 

A  tribute  to  Boston's  morality 
is  paid  by  Sir  Charles  Lyell, 
who  declared  that  "the  impress 
of  the  strict  morals  of  the  Puritan 
=  founders  of  the  New  England 
commonwealths  on  the  manners  of  their  des- 
cendants, is  still  very  marked.  Swearing  is 
seldom  heard,  and  dueling  has  been  success- 
fully discountenanced,  although  they  are  in 
constant  communication  with  the  southern 
states,  where  both  these  practices  are  com- 
mon, though  much  less  so  than  formerly." 

Indeed  Puritanism  sixty  years  ago  went  to 
the  length  of  imposing  a  fine  on  any  one  found 
smoking  on  the  street.  A  "smokers'  circle" 
was  set  apart,  however,  on  the  Common, 
where  the  practice  might  be  indulged  in  out- 
of-doors. 

To  Boston's  intellectuality  and  especially 
the  fondness  for  the  lecture  all  the  travelers 
bear  witness.  One  George  Combe,  who  made 
"a  phrenological  visit"  to  this  country,  was 
very  favorably  impressed  (from  a  phrenological 
standpoint)  by  the  people  of  Boston.  He 
considered  "this  people  naturally  capable  of 
rising  to  a  high  degree  of  civilization."  This 
should  have  been  very  gratifying. 

The  lecture  thrived  at  the  expense  of  the 
theatre,  which  in  1847  was  not  a  very  success- 
ful institution. 

One  of  the  reasons  for  this  fact,  according 
to  Sir  Charles  Lyell,  was  that  many  men  "of 
the  middle  or  even  humbler  class"  preferred 


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to  spend  their  evenings  at  home  reading  aloud 
to  their  families. 

In  1847,  however,  occurred  the  first  presen- 
tation of  Italian  opera  in  Boston  by  a  company 
from  Havana  who  opened  in  April  at  the 
Howard  Athenaeum. 

William  Warren,  the  comedian,  made  his 
first  appearance  at  the  Museum  in  1847. 
Adelaide  Phillips  was  a  danseuse  at  this  house 
in  the  same  year.  The  Federal  Street  Theatre, 
which  had  been  used  for  religious  and  for 
musical  purposes,  was  again  opened  for  theat- 
rical performances  in  1846-47. 

The  Public  Library  may  be  said  to  date 
back  to  1847.  In  a  message  to  the  City 
Council  Mayor  Quincy  "again  brought  to 
public  attention  the 
idea  of  a  great  public 
library.  He  announced 
that  a  citizen  had  of- 
fered to  contribute  the 
sum  of  $5,000  to- 
ward the  establishment 
of  such  a  library,  on 
condition  that  the  sum 
of  $10,000  should  be 
contributed  by  others. 
It  afterward  became 
known  that  this  citizen 
who  so  modestly  veiled 
his  indentity  while  he 
offered  so  munificent  a 
donation  was  nons 
otherthanMayorQuin- 
cy  himself.  This  mes- 
sage of  the  Mayor  was 
referred  to  a  special 
committee  which  was 
to  consider  the  expedi- 
ency of  commencingthe 
formation  of  a  public 
library,  under  the  con- 
trol and  auspices  of 
the  city  with  authority 
to  receive  donation1; 
for  the  same,  either  in 
books  or  money.   The 

report  of  the  committee 

was  elaborate,  and  rec- 
ommended an  order,  which  was  adopted, 
providing  that  whenever  the  proposed  library 
should  reach  the  value  of  $30,000,  a  suitable 
place  should  be  provided  for  it,  so  arranged 
that  the  public  might  use  it  with  freedom. 
An  act  of  the  General  Court  was  procured 
authorizing  the  city  to  establish  and  maintain 
a  public  library  for  the  use  of  its  citizens. 
From  this  moment  the  Public  Library  of  the 
city  of  Boston  had  a  being." 

This  same  year  Alexander  Vattemare,  pre- 
fect of  police,  Paris,  donated  books  to  the 
city  which  became  a  nucleus  for  a  library. 

Failure  of  crops  was  causing  great  distress 
in  1847  in  Europe,  especially  Ireland,  where 
famine  conditions  prevailed.  Wheat  and  corn 
were  abundant  in  America.  On  February 
22  Boston  merchants  petitioned  Congress  for 
the  use  of  a  national  ship-of-war,  which  they 
proposed  to  load  with  provisions  for  the  suf- 
ferers over  sea.  Congress  voted  to  comply 
with  the  request  and  the  charitable  plan  was 
carried  out  on  a  generous  scale. 

Th-^  laying  of  the  corner  stone  of  the  Bea- 
con Hill  Reservoir  took  place  on  Saturday, 
November    19,     1847.       Long    Pond,     lying 


in  the  towns  of  Framingham,  Natick  and  Way- 
land,  was  decided  upon  in  1845  for  the  site 
of  the  water  works.  The  ceremony  of  break- 
ing ground  occurred  August  20,  1 846,  and  the 
name  of  the  pond  was  changed  to  Lake 
Cochituate. 

It  was  but  proper  that  educational  advance 
should  be  a  feature  of  the  growth  of  the 
Athens  of  America.  Lawrence  Scientific 
School  was  founded  in  1847  by  the  gift  of 
$50,000  from  Abbott  Lawrence;  the  School 
of  Theology  was  opened  as  part  of  Boston 
University;  the  cornerstone  of  the  Boston 
Athenaeum  on  Beacon  street  was  laid  in  April. 

The  horse  found  a  powerful  friend  in  1847 
when  Dr.  J.  C.  Warren,  professor  of  anatomy 


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and  surgery  in  the  Harvard  Medical  School 
1815-'47,  delivered  an  address  before  the 
Legislative  Agricultural  Society  in  which  he 
denounced  cruelty  to  horses  and  pleaded  for 
better  treatment  of  them.  In  the  same  year 
John  H.  Dexter,  of  Boston,  published  a 
pamphlet  entitled  "A  plea  for  the  Horse." 

The  actual  organization  of  the  Massachusetts 
Society  for  the  Prevention  of  Cruelty  to  Ani- 
mals did  not  come  until  1 868,  but  this  was 
clearly  the  result  of  the  agitation  begun  in 
1 847  and  credit  for  the  organization  is  given 
to  Mrs.  William  Appleton,  daughter  of  Dr. 
Warren. 

The  philanthropic  spirit  was  active  along 
many  lines.  The  Temporary  Home  of  the 
Destitute  and  the  Needlewoman's  Friend  So- 
ciety were  established,  the  Industrial  Aid  So- 
ciety was  incorporated  and  a  building  erected 
by  the  Boston  Port  and  Seaman's  Aid  Society 
in  1847. 

The  American  Unitarian  Association,  es- 
tablished in  1825,  was  incorporated  in  1847. 

That  year  marks  the  abandonment  of  that 
curious  and,  because  of  the  notable  names 
connected  with  it,  that  very  interesting  experi- 


ment, the  Brook  Farm.  "The  Phalanstery" 
building  was  burned  and  the  community — its 
remaining  members  already  disillusionized — 
were  scattered. 

The  establisment  of  city  institutions  on  Deer 
Island  was  begun  in  1847,  when  hospitals 
were  erected  in  May  as  a  Quarantaine  estab- 
lishment and  a  general  receptacle  for  foreign 
paupers  and  others  arriving  ill  with  contagious 
diseases,  especially  ship  -  fever,  which  raged 
that  year. 

Other  events,  more  or  less  notable,  connect- 
ed with  the  1847  date  include  the  completion 
and  opening  of  the  Revere  House  and  the 
establishment  of  the  National  Exchange  Bank. 
A  serious  fire  in  Causeway,  Medford  and 
Charleston  Streets  oc- 
curredjanuary  22.  The 
old  Custom  House  was 
sold  June  16.  On 
June  29  President  Polk 
visited  the  city.  Iron 
seats  were  placed  in  the 
Common,  the  wooden 
ones  having  suffered 
from  the  characteristic 
Yankee  customof  whit- 
tling. 

ChristChurch  steeple 
in  1846  was  found 
to  be  in  a  decaying 
condition.  In  August, 
1847,  therefore,  the 
spire,  or  all  above  the 
upper  windows,  was 
raised  from  its  fastenings 
and  lowered  from  a 
height  of  130  feet  to 
the  pavement  without 
accident.  The  part 
that  supported  the  spire 
was  rebuilt.  The  ball 
on  the  spire  was  opened 
and  found  to  contain  an 
account  of  the  destruc- 
tion of  the  steeple  in 
1804,  when  it  was 
blown  down,  and  its 
restoration  in  1807. 
This  was  replaced,  together  with  an  account 
of  the  repairs  in  1847  and  other  documents. 
A  rather  extraordinary  robbery  at  the  cor- 
ner of  Washington  and  Milk  Streets,  in  the 
store  occupied  by  Messrs.  Currier  &  Trott, 
and  Widdifield  &  Co.,  the  former  jewelers 
and  the  latter  opticians,  occurred  some  time 
between  Saturday  night,  January  30,  and 
Monday  morning,  February  1 ,  when  the 
building  was  entered  and  stripped  of  watches, 
jewelry,  spoons,  etc.,  to  the  value  of  $10,000. 
This,  then,  was  the  Boston  of  1847 — rec- 
ognized as  the  seat  of  an  austere  yet  kindly 
culture;  a  community  broad  in  many  ways 
yet  with  a  certain  narrowness  bequeathed  by 
Puritan  forebears  still  clinging  to  its  garments. 
Sixty  years  to  an  English  hamlet  are  but  as 
yesterday;  to  one  of  our  hustling  western  cities 
they  are  its  history;  to  New  York  they  are  a 
past  epoch.  To  Boston  they  partake  of  all 
these  features.  The  progress  that  has  marked 
its  life  has  not  essentially  changed  its  character- 
istics. Where  a  dead  and  gone  New  Yorker, 
called  back  to  life,  would  feel  lost  in  the  me- 
tropolis, a  resurrected  Boston  man  would  rec- 
ognize the  city  of  his  own  day. 


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The  "Charter  Oak"  pattern,  illustrated  above,  has  prove'd  very  popular  since  its  intro- 
duction, last  summer.  The  design,  in  which  the  acorn  and  oak  leaf  are  employed  effect- 
ively, is  one  of  marked  individuality  and  character.  The  finish  is  a  combination  of  French 
Gray    and  bright,    the    ornamental  part  being  gray  and  the  tines,  bowls  and  shields  bright. 


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factory anniversary  gift.  An  attractive  display  will  help  trade  wonderfully.  For  those 
who  desire  something  more  costly  there  arc  silk  or  leatherette  cases  containing  combination 
sets  as  well  as  oak  or  mahogany  chests  with  one's  own  selection  of  flatware. 


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DECEMBER,  1847. 


THANKSGIVING 

PURITAN  CUSTOM 
ALMOSTUNTVERSAL. 

The  good  old  Puritan 
custom  of  Thanksgiv- 
ing has  become  almost 
universal  in  every  State, 
thereby  giving  evidence 
that  the  stream  flowing 
from  Plymouth  Rock 
shall  yet  spread  over 
our  whole  land.  We 
have  indeed  cause  to  be 
grateful  to  our  Creator 
for  his  blessings.  He  has 
given  us  a  goodly  land 
and  while  the  waitings 
of  famine  and  distress 
come  floating  on  e^ 
billow  from  Europe,  we 
have  enough  and  to 
spare,  and  let  us  be 
thankful  to  God  that 
while  he  has  given  us 
much  to  spare,  he  has 
also  put  into  our  hearts 
to  cast  our  bread  upon 
the  waters.  It  will  return 
with  interest,  for  "he 
that  giveth  to  the  poor 
lendeth  to  the  Lord.' 
Thanksgiving  is  gener 
ally  a  happy  day,  in 
New  England  especial- 
ly. Then  separate  re 
latives  gather  together, 
and  old  and  young  bas 
in  love,  happiness  and 
friendship.  May  thi 
simple  and  beautiful  cus 
torn  never  be  aban- 
doned, but  become 
closer  and  closer  en 
twined  round  the  hearts 
of  our  people. 

A  NOVEL  MA- 
CHINE.-Mr.  Steph- 

en  Bowerman,  of  De- 
troit, Michigan,  has  in- 
vented and  isexhibiting 
in  Washington  a  very 
novel  machine  for  tak- 
ing the  yeas  and  nays 
in  legislative  bodies.  It 
is  especially  intended 
for  the  use  of  Congress. 
By  the  proposed  ar- 
rangement, a  mere 
glance  of  hiseyeinforms 
the  clerk  whether  there 
is  a  quorum  present; 
and  the  yeas  and  nays 
can  be  enumerated  and 
pointed  out  in  the  course 
of  a  minute  or  two  after 
the  votes  ha  ve  been  cast . 

Several  young  ladies 
of  Newport,  R.  I., 
amuse  themselves  in  the 
evening  by  ringingdoor- 
bells  and  then  running. 
The  BELLES  them- 
selves are  cautioned  to 
desist  from  the  practice, 
or  THEY  will  be 
wrung.     

A  Vermonter  has  ob- 
tained a  patent  for  a 
pocket  telescope  that 
will  bring  cows  tres- 
passing in  his  corn-field 
so  near  that  he  can 
shoot  them  with  a  pock- 
et pistol. 


LIFE  IN  NEW 
ENGLAND.-An 

intelligent  gentleman 
who  has  been  travelling 
extensively  last  sum- 
mer in  New  England, 
speaks  to  us,  says  the 
Richmond  Republican, 
in  raptures  of  the  won- 
derful enterprise  and 
energy  of  the  people. 
Not  only  in  manufac- 
tures, said  he,  but  in 
every  branch  of  trade, 
1  and  especially  in  agri- 
culture, they  have  ex- 
hibited a  wonderful  im- 
provement. Their  un- 
inviting soil,  which 
would  here  be  given  up 
as  past  redemption,  has 
been  transformed  into  a 
garden.  They  are  a 
great  agricultural  peo- 
ple. Their  rough  roads, 
too,  have  been  made  as 
smooth  as  a  bowling 
alley.  Through  every 
part  of  the  country  the 
tide  of  life  rolls  with 
ceaseless  activity .  When 
you  are  on  the  railroads, 
said  our  informant,  you 
meet  with  such  a  multi- 
tude that  all  the  popu- 
lation seems  travelling. 
When  you  leave  the 
cars,  and  get  upon  the 
cross-roads,  visit  the 
farms  or  look  into  the 
shops,  the  whole  popu- 
lation seems  to  work, 
too,  with  theircoats  off, 
and  "fourteen  hours  a 
day"  toiling  for  their 
bread.  Can  Polk's  free 
trade  crush  such  peo- 
ple? 

VOLCANO— 

The  eruption  which  we 
noticed  in  last  week's 
paper  to  have  taken 
place  in  the  Look  Out 
Mountains  is  confirmed 
by  the  late  news  from 
the  South.  Enormous 
rocks  were  thrown  from 
the  mountains  into  the 
valleys  below,  and  it  is 
said  that  the  inhabitants 
in  the  neighborhood 
have  left  their  homes. 
Large  beds  of  bitumi- 
nous coal  are  found  in 
the  Look  Out  Moun- 
tains. The  eruption 
may  yet  turn  out,  how- 
ever, to  be  a  story  like 
that  of  "hey  diddle 
ddle." 


FRED  DOUGLASS. 

'"THE  negro  orator,  Frederick  Douglass,  has  located  in  Rochester, 
N.  Y.,  and  has  started  a  paper,  which,  we  understand,  is  to  be 
devoted  to  the  anti-slavery  principle.  This  former  slave  has  made 
quite  a  name  for  himself  by  his  efforts  in  behalf  of  his  own  race  and 
may  make  considerable  of  a  stir  before  many  years. 


INCREASE  OF 
PROPERTY  IN 
BOSTON.  —  Whole 

valuation  of  property  in 
Boston  in  1844,  $118,- 
450,309;  in  1845, 
$135,948,700;  in 

1846,  $150,000,000. 

Increase  in  1 845,  1 5 
per  cent,  and  in  1 846, 
I  OK  percent. 

THREE  COLD 
MORNINGS.-The 

three  coldest  mornings 
in  November  for  the 
last  25  years  were  on 
the  25th  [and  26th  in 
1838,  and  the  30th  in 

1847,  when  the  ther- 
mometer indicated  5J& 
6,  and  1 0  degrees.  — 
Boston  Almanac. 


In  308  Massachusetts 
towns  with  737.700 
inhabitants,  there  are 
3,475  Public  Schools, 
having  an  annual  aver- 
age attendance  of  1  14,- 
000  pupils.  In  the 
whole  Commonwealth 
there  are  supposed  to 
be  20,000  who  never 
attend  school  at  all.  The 
present  number  of 
teachers  is  2,585  males, 
and  4,997  females. 

Boston, in  1800,  had 
twenty  -  five  thousand 
inhabitants,  in  1846, 
one  hundred  and  fifteen 
thousand.  At  the  same 
time  there  were  thirty 
distilleries,  now  only 
seven.  A  good  show- 
ing every'  way. 


FREE  PUBLIC 
LIBRARY.-A 

movement  is  in  progress 
in  Boston  to  establish  a 
Free  Public  Library  for 
the  citizens,  and  the 
Common  Council  have 
agreed  to  provide  ac- 
commodations as  soon 
as  $30,000  is  raised. 

MR.   EMERSON 
AND  ROOSTERS. 

-A  late  writer  in  speak- 
ing of  Bostomans  says, 
they  divide  their  time 
between  metaphysics 
and  "fancy  poultry;" 
and  while  they  look  up- 
on Emerson  asfarahead 
of  inspiration,  they  look 
upon  a  thirty-pound 
rooster  as  far  ahead  of 
him. 


THE  SCOTCH 
AND  AMERICAN 
YANKEE. -What 

Lord  Stanley  insinua- 
ted, and  the  Lord  Prov- 
ost of Edinburgh  said,  of 
our  countrymen  beyond 
the  Tweed,  was  repeat- 
ed in  other  words  at 
Manchester,  recently, 
by  the  Rev.  Dr.  Bacon 
of  New  Haven,  U.S. 
"The  inhabitants  of 
New  England,"  said 
he,  'are  what  are  call- 
ed in  America  'Yan- 
kees!' Youdon'tknow 
what  a  Yankee  is.  All 
Americans  are  not 
'Yankees,'  no  more 
than  all  the  subjects  of 
Queen  Victoria  are 
Scotchmen.  The  Yan- 
kees, in  fact,  are  the 
Scotch  of  America,  and 
the  Scotch  are  the  Yan- 
kees of  Great  Britain. 
(Laughter)  I  was  say- 
ing this  to  a  lady  in 
Edinburgh,  the  other 
day:  and  I  toldherthat, 
for  .ill  that,  you  would 
find  Yankees  every- 
where but  in  Scotland, 
and  Scotchmen  every- 
where but  in  New  Eng- 
land. And  what  is  the 
reason?  Because  they 
are  both  Yorkshire 
(roars  of  laughter) — or, 
as  we  say  at  home,  they 
have  both  got  their  eye 
teeth  cut."  (A  laugh.) 

The  Lachine  Rail- 
road, Canada,  was 
opened  to  the  public  a 
few  days  ago. 

Arrangements  be- 
tween the  Government 
and  E.  K.  Collins  for  a 
line  of  American  steam- 
ers between  New  York 
and  Liverpool  have 
been  completed. 

There  are  forty-five 
newspapers  published 
in  the  city  of  Boston. 
In  the  city  of  New  York 
their  name  is  legion. 

The  two  Government 
snag-boats  Samson  and 
Sevier,  built  at  New 
York  in  1843,  at  a  cost 
of  60  or  70,000  dollars, 
were  sold  at  Paducah, 
on  the  first  inst.,  for  the 
sum  of  3,643  dollars. 


HERE  has  been  no  period  since  the  government 

was  founded,  when  all  the  industrial  pursuits 

of  our  people  have  been  more  successful  or  when 

labor   in   all    branches  of  business   has  received   a 

fairer  or  better  reward. 

T'res.  Polk's  Message,  December  7,  JS47. 


The  U.  S.  Schooner  I  The  town  of  Colum-  A  clock  worth  $700 
Scorpion  returned  from  bus,  Indiana,  was  de-  has  been  placed  in  the 
a  cruise,  having  secured  I  stroyed  by  fire  on  the  Custom  House,  Boston, 
the  Spanish  top-sail  29th  ult.  It  wasa  place  It  consists  of  an  Ionic 
schooner  which  she  had  containing  about  six  iron  column  placed  up- 
been  sent  to  capture.      !  hundred  inhabitants.  on  a  stone  pedestal. 


Since  1 820  the  births 
of  the  old  stock  of  Bos- 
tonians  have  been  but 
one,  while  that  of  for- 
eign have  been  five  per 
cent. 


Twenty -seven  New 
England  school  mistress- 
es arrived  at  Cleveland, 
Ohio,  November27th., 
consigned  to  the  district 
schools  of  the  West. 


TWO  ENGINES 

ARE  THE  WORK  OF 
ROSS  WINANS. 

Mr.  Ross  Winans, 
of  Baltimore,  has  lately 
built  two  engines,  of 
which  the  Charleston 
Courier  gives  the  fol- 
lowing description : 

Two  of  the  most 
splendid  pieces  cf  mech- 
anism we  have  ever 
seen,  are  the  locomo- 
tives 'John  C.  Cal- 
houn' and  'Rough  and 
Ready,'  lately  received 
:  here.  The  Calhoun  is 
certainly  a  splendid  en- 
gine, of  great  power, 
exquisite  workmanship 
and  perfect  construc- 
tion. She  bids  fair,  like 
her  illustrious  name- 
sake, to  take  the  lead 
on  our  road,  and  to 
command  the  admira- 
tion of  all  by  her  fidel- 
ity in  'keeping  the 
track,"  and  bearing  her 
train  of  followers  safely 
through.  When  we 
saw  her  she  v/as  in  that 
state  yclept  'masterly 
inactivity,'  but  when 
her  steam's  up  she'll  be 
some  punkins  and  no 
mistake. 

"The  Rough  and 
Ready  is  not  so  splen- 
did a  craft,  and  yet  is 
no  less  wonderful  a 
piece  of  machinery .  Its 
beauty  consists  of  its 
simplicity,  the  total  ab- 
sence of  ornament; 
doubtless  constructed  on 
the  principle  that  'beau- 
ty unadorned 's  adorned 
the  most.'  The  former 
engine  is  the  court  beau- 
ty, arrayed  in  splendor, 
glistening  up  with  jew- 
els, proud  and  magnifi- 
cent ;  the  latter,  the  vil- 
lage maiden,  unadorned 
and  yet  :urpassing  fair. 
The  former  brings  to 
mind  the  illustrious 
statesman,  in  the  purple 
and  splendor  of  the  Sen- 
ate ;  the  latter,  the  in- 
dominable  hero  in  his 
farmer  dress,  plain,  yet 
invincible  on  the  battle 
field." 

A_  CROOKED 
FENCE — There  is  a 
piece  of  fence  in  Indi- 
ana, made  of  pine  rails, 
so  crooked  that  every 
time  a  pig  attempts  to 
crawl  through  them  he 
comes  out  on  the  same 
side  he  starts  from.  So 
says  one  who  saw  it. 
We  think  the  man  must 
have  been  wonderfully 
cross-eyed  when  he 
looked  at  it. 

A  farmer's  wife  in 
New  Connecticut, 
Ohio,  is  preparing  an 
immense  cheese  for  a 
present  to  Queen  Vic- 
toria. With  some  few 
of  her  neighbors,  she 
has  procured  the  milk  of 
500  cows  for  one  day. 
The  production  is  a 
cheese  weighing  6,600 
lbs. 

Plank  roads  are  com- 
ing into  very  general 
favor.  They  originat- 
ed in  Canada  in  1835.