The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-12-02
KALI OF A CENTURY AGO
Morristown's Merchants We're
Extensive Advertisers.


Limited Railroad Facilities -'.Packages'
in Evidence in Our Grand Fathers Days
Stage Coach Connections. etc.
The reference elsewhere to golden
wedding led CHRONICLE representa-
tive to look over the files of the Morris
town papers of 1s49. 1t would appear
that the merchants were, even in those
days, firm believers in printers ink, far
larger proportion of them advertising
than at the present time. Among the
advertisers were noticed J.. F. Voorhees,
& Co., hardware, corner Washington
and Bank streets; George E. Voorhees,.
the present we'll known hardware dealer,
son of the senior member Of the firm, later
was clerk in the store of which he is
now the proprietor, G. q. milford & Co,
Etailors and general merchandise, sold
.sgoods cheap for cash or country pro-
ducen The senior member of the firm is
at present living on High street. A. H
lCondict, dry goods and groceries, who
ulO UuslutSS az SO. 9 0llu50 SgASOt, 70
living in Mansfield, Ohio; Silas B. En-
nell, father of Hayward q. Emmell, was
an extensive dry goods dealer; Augustus
/ w. Bell, Jacob Vanatta and Angus
Etus w. Cutler published cards as
attorneys at-law; Stiger & Little
i 1.-THE latter brother Of Theodore
Little, president Of the First National
Bank, being the junior member of the
firm), did large business in general mer-
chandise and drugs. Theodore and
Eugene Ayres advertised all kinds of
merchandise and masons' materials. The
senior member of that concern is still
Living. George Vail & Co., Speedwell,
called attention to the fact that they
were s.Iron workers and merchants. !"
lib. o. Garfield, father of John D. Can
field of Madison avenue, sold everything
in the line Of dry goods, boots and gro
ceries.
John r. Runyon at that time taught
school in the old brown school house on
Franklin street, long since replaced by
a modern house. He opened book
store a year later where the Brown
O'Connell Drug Co. are now located.
1 William F. Halliday, whose son Will
A liam S. is president Of the Hoboken Coal
Co. and resident of this city, was a
prominent dry goods merchant. The
morris Mutual Life and Fire Insurance
Company" had strong board Of direct
ors of whom the only one now living is
John L. Kanouse, of Boonton.
Isaac Bird was in the shoe business,
calling attention to large assortment of
ssLadies' Buskins." David Moorehouse,
carriage manufacturer, notified his
patrons that His shop was the first south
of the Stone church" (Old Saint Peters,
Hoffman & Ryerson did business as tailors
"Corner Court street and the Green. Z
lP. II. Hoffman, is still in business as the
senior member OF the firm of Hoffman
& Son, clothiers. G. V. Freeman,
father of Alderman Freeman. advertised
dry goods and groceries. Daniel Sanders
n sold groceries on the ssSouth Side Of Nor
ris Green" Tucker and Prentiss, of
4 New Vernon, wanted ten to twenty good
tailoresses. "
"The Morris and Essex Railroad
i Company, announced its extension to
i Dover, passing through Rockaway, Den
willie and Morristown, Madison, MilIville.
Orange, to Newark and New York.
Trains leave New York foot of Liberty
street, for Dover and intermediate sta
tions at 81 a. m. and 81 p. M; leave
Newark 6s4 a. m. and AZ p. M The
traveller Of today would kick" were the
rules Of fifty years ago enforced, when
lssAll bundles must be entered on the way
bill, or the company win not hold them
\ selves responsible" Stage connections
are announced from Dover to Schooleys
Mountain, Washington, Succassuna,
Newton, Easton and the West. From
Morristown, Basking Ridge and other
i points were reached by the numbering
coach.
The November term of court was pre-
sided over by Judge Randolph. The grand
jurors were: Ephraim Marsh, foreman,
Henry billiard, Gordon Burnham,
Thomas Green, Aaron Doty, Israel Losey,
Robert D. Salmon, Adonijah V. Harri-
son, Hiram Smith, Charles McFarlan,
philin Welsh John Ackarson. Ashhel
Bruen, James Hulse, Moses A. Brook
field, Charles Thompson, Mahlon Minton,
ISilas R. Lindsey, John Garrigus, Jr,,
William F Holiday.
Judge Randolph's charge bore particu-
larly upon the alleged illegal issue OF
$50, 600 notes Of the Morris County bank
to one E. A. Thompson, which occasion
ed much unfavorable comment, as