Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-12-18
FIRST EDITION.
The ''City si p Day"

s2s,OOO HOTEL sFLLs FOR A TEN DOLLAR BILL
The famous and once popular hotel tho
Dtnforth House of PIthole City, Pa which cost
$25, 600. sol the other day for dollar note,
and the furniture. which cost 50 1000, brought
LEES than 800 The evanscenoe of things ter
restiia has seldom had mere striking illustra-
item OF all the marvels III which the history
OF the Pennsylvania petroleum regions abound,
the rise CORY aud fall of the famous city Of
Pithole constitute a prominent chapter. In
the Spring OF 1860 the site of the future CITY
was a backwoDds farm, bordering on
Pitbole creek, where the famous United
States we'll had been "etTuck" a few months be-
fore The only hunee on the farm was that of
its humble proprietor. Mr.. Hulmden The pur.
chusels Of the farm Messrs. Duncan and Pra-
tier foreseting tue rush there was to be to that
oil Mecca, conceived the idea OF bui ding a city
there, and divided the farm up into city lots ac-
curdiugly The lots leased-for they would not
sell them-like "hOt cakes, and the corner lois
toon commanded premiums which even would
startle Broadway Real Estate operator. Build
ings Eprang up in night as il by magic
Aladdns lamp was actually outdone by peiio-
Ieun Within one mouth from the completion
OF the fret house the city boast ed an $50 900
hotel, with elaborate appointments. and vleing
With the hotels OF the metropolis in the excel.
lenGe of it, accommodations la twelve months
1t had a daily paper and lively one 1t was
too IN three months it had theatre dozens
Chat theatre, as we learn from an oil region
paper, went to Pleasantville. thence to Law
teucehnrg, thence to PAIkers Landing, thence
10 where the wopdbiDe twlneth. In the second
great tire at the Landing last winter In four
months another theatre and an academy Of nu-
sic snruug up. We leave the MilIerstoWn Sand
Pump to tell the rest of this story
ln five months she had her celebrated mad
fire. eXiugulnher a cu,iou7 invention for throw
my mud hiled by Il live Yankee, and ID by
ut coesiy for the city had no water-lhs people
AL drauk whisky Iu elk months she had seY
etty-four hote 8 and but rdiTg ion es, where the
substitute Tor water was dspeu-ed Iu seven
months the Miller farm pipe line was completed
which event throw 100 men aud 2 900 horses
ont Ut employment, and PIthole City had reach
IN" NTH OF her glory, She had at that time
L. Oj0 inhabitants. elaborate water works, and
ali no raraphernalia Uf a city government.
She has now no theatre, no newspaper, no
hOtei, no telegraph Office, Ohe telegraph Office
was c usod for time aud eternity last week J aud
but hinA families remain out Of all that multi
tlde. lhe Fiho IL Ol1upoi, Railroad runs but
one train of one car a day, AMI that only TO hold
the chatter
Two hundred vacant houses now cast over
tnat once ~hlrhng. buzzlng, swarmins hillside,
tle L o I'm OF death. ihe elleHcs uf the grave.
Poor pfhulr Ala, poor Y1rrlck IGhahod,
tu} glory has departed. Like JUnalI's gUurd the
:frot cry greT up iH "A night anl vanished III II q
mIu lhn rtR p rod OF its existence
sta'csly more than three years It's hstory II
NJ Ncr Nutreu taiilduilv, both above ground
RYu h,tIw pIouud wlll surpass in interest any
.ptuAAF1 Of Tho age.