Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-22
LOOKING BACKWARD.
Mr.. J. C. Toudy, an Old Southsider,
Talks About the City's Past.
WHAT 1T WAS THIRTY YEARS AGO.
His Exciting Escape From Fatal Ship
wreck on the Atlantic.
TEN FEET OF RAIN In CALIFORNIA

J. G. Toudy, manufacturing jeweler of
San Francisco, has been the city for several
days. He is brother-in-law of Mr.. j. h.
Bank of the Southside, and is brother of
o. r. Toudy, the real estate agent. Mr..
Toudy was called to Pittsburg by the serious
illness Of his mother, who is the wife OF the
late DR.. Frederick Toudy, one of the first
homeopathic physicians to locate west Of
the Allegheny Mountains.
Their is peculiar significance attached
to Mr.. Toudy's visit, inasmuch as it is 81
years since he left Pittsburg for California.
edge. Old landmarks are gone. The South
side, where Mr.. Toudy made his home, has
grown from the small town that it was, sur
rounded by woods in which he was wont to
gather hickory nuts when boy, to large
city in itself.
Mr. Toudy left Pittsburg in 1859, after
having learned the jewelry trade with the
veteran jeweler, McFadden, father of the
New York and the Isthmus of Panama.
He missed the boat he was to have sailed on
from New York and took the North Star,
which sailed six hours later.
WRECKED IN A STORM.
When he arrived at Aspinwall he learned
that the boat he missed had been wrecked in
fearful storm and all of the passengers
lost. He will never forget his narrow es-
cape. From Aspinwall he took the Uncle
Sam steamship and sailed up the coast to
the Golden Gates" The journey occupied
three weeks, and he thought he made good
time.
Mr.. Toudy Y started in the jewelry business
as manufacturer, and has done a success
full business. He speaks we'll of San Fran
cisco. The climate is fine; the people are
cultured and refined. His only objection to
the population is the Chinese, of whom he
says there are 10000 in San Francisco.
They have recently taken to learning all
kinds of trades, and are taking the places of
other workmen at lower wages.
California's 'rainy season" has been
pretty severe. There has been an average of
80 inches of rain all over the State, and in
some parts they have had nearly ten feet.
AN ADMIRER OF sTANFoRD's.
Mr.. Toudy is a great admirer of Senator
Stanford. He takes great interest in home
politics San Francisco has Democratic
Mayor now, something it has not had for
many years..
Mr.. Toudy was born in Prussia, of Ger
man parents. He came to PENNSYLVANIA
with the family when he was Is wears of
age. He located on the Southside shortly
after Birmingham borough was organized.
He can remember when the only means of
travel between the city and the Southside
was by ferry boat. There were a few
glasshouses and one or two mills,
but no other manufacturing establishments
on the Southside. When he left the
city the old Smithfeld street bridge had
just been completed. City Hall had not
been built and the Monongahela House had
only been erected but a short time Mr..
Toudy left for Philadelphia last night to
visit brother who lives in that city. He
will return on Monday, and if his mother
grows no worse, he will leave for his home
in California.