The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-10-03

age place for oil and paints. The brick
! building where George Crothers lives was
occupied by Thomas Long. who then car
ried on the butchering business at that
stand. Then came vacant lot since filled
up by the McAllister and Ruff buildings
and the old Washington Hotel, then kept
| by William 5. Wilson. This was a long,
low, old fashioned building most of which
is still standing and forms the dwelling
part of the block of stores lately built by
E. Il. Humphreys. 4 spacious yard sur
rounded it, and on the Salem street front
stood a blacksmith shop in which our
townsman, Chas. p. Reeves then worked
at his trade
Between the large dwelling where Isaac
Ballinger now lives then occupied by
Smith Bowen, (who still owns the proper
ty) and the hotel we recollect but three
buildings viz: the two-story building
where David d. Hollinshead had his cloth
ing store, a one-story building adjoining,
occupying the site of Charles Smith S news
stand, in which for short time telegraph
office was established, and the building
where Esquire Goforth lives, in which
Robert Sellers then had a store. About
the same time, or soon after, Dan Ware
had his chair factory little north of the
store occupied by Hollinshead. This was
afterward removed and now, converted
into dwelling, stands on New street. adj
joining the Presbyterian church property
and is occupied by William Fox. The tele-
graph office was soon removed to Eldridge' 5
Hill by Isaac Ridgway.
The Farmers and Drovers Hotel.
an old style, roomy building, stood
on the site of the present Woodstown
House, a little back from, and stand
ing at an angle to, the street. 1t was
kept by J. Stratton Barber whose widow.
Mrs Abigail Barber, resides on Auburn
street. The brick store now occupied by
Mary NJ. Shute was the next building, and
in it Omar Borton carried ON the drug bust
ness, which he began long before the time
we write of, and still continues as senior
member of the firm of Borton & Andrews.
in his new store adjoining. The next prop
erty extending to the corner of East Ave
nue. then known as Bullet Lane, was the
residence of Hon. VIM. 5. Clawson, then
Judge of the Supreme Court This was a
long, low, comfortable two-story house.
standing well back from the street, in a
shady yard surrounded by "a substantial fence
which projected i'll front a few feet beyond
the line of the drug store In the angle
made by the store and the fence stood a
mulberry tree. under whose shade many
knotty question of politics-settled after
wards by the loud arguments of the cannon
and the keen logic of the mimic bullet
was discussed by men whose voices have
long been hushed in death.
On Bullet Lane. then not more than half
the present width of East Avenue there
We're no dwellings. On one side, Were the
farm buildings belonging to the Clawson
property. On the other. the barn and other
outbuildings of Joseph L. Risley On the
lot beyond the latter buildings was held
about this time the first circus we ever saw.
Alas. We were permitted to sec this only
from the outside. for the domestic author
tiles were deaf to our appeals for the neees-
sary ''quarter, which III those good old
days was the price of admission to the
show. Was ever boy of II in more pite-
Gus plight? We went with our compan-
ions to the end of the town to witness the
arrival of the procession. We recollect it
well 1t was headed by steam calliope,
the like of which we have never seen before
or since, and which shrieked out marvellous
music The elephant will ever remain in
our mind as the very biggest animal Of the
kind that ever was. Jumbo is a fraud
alongside. The Shetland ponies were the
cunningeSt. the zebra was the stripedeSt
and the whole layout was the gorgeousest
our eyes have ever beheld. But We didn t
get into the show all the same, and We're
obliged to content ourselves with second
hand descriptions of the wonders there dis
played, by our companions. We have
seen many circus since, but none of them
equalled the one we wanted to see and
couldn't. twenty-five years ago. IL that
particular show ever comes this way again,
and we are here, we are going in ii we
have to pawn our last pair Of socks to raise
the wherewithal.
Continued next week