The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-09-03
RELICS OF EARLY DAYS,

ON the second floor of Trinity par
ish house, which is located near the
Delaware and Hudson city station is
an exhibition Of relics which recall the
interesting early history of Carbondalc.
The tables and shelves around the
room are laden with relics of the days
when the republic was in its infancy
and long before this period and back
in the colonial days. What will es-
pecially interest the hundreds who
have come to participate i'm the Jubilee
ceremonies are the objects that recall
the days when the city of half CEN
tury was only a village and the great
anthracite industry was in the begin
ming of its development.
How Early Citizens Protested.
In what manner were manifested the
protest and indignation of citizens in
the SOS, who took up arms against
municipal measures which they be-
lieved would be hurtful to their inter-
ests Is shown in petition that Ia dis
played, which was presented to the
councils improvements were contem-
plated which might possibly entail
damages to number Of the leading
merchants of the town. Among those
who might suffer by reason of the con-
templated improvements, petition
was circulated and signed, which read
as follows:
To the Honorable the Select and Common Coun.
ellis
The undersigned, having heard that a plan has
been seriously entertained by one branch of your
honorable body to divert living stream Of water
whose site is in the First and Second wards,
from its natural channel, and throw the same
into side CUTTERS Of Seventh avenue, and thence
| to the Lackawauna
Property owners have with much cvrensc i'm.
proved their sites in the vicinity Of seventh ave-
| nuc and raised them in value until they will
faNorabIy compare with. lots in other sections
| thereby making a value which is assured and
| from which our city derives a part Of her rev.
| enucs, and We hereby protest
| We honestly petition YOU as defendants against
| what We honestly think would be a serious wrong
| on the lower wards, and hope such action NAV
| he taken as will not drive us TO become plain.
| ti's against a city whose interest we have so
| much at heart a. we have the interests Of Car.
| bondale city, and in duty bound will ever pray.
Monday Morning June o. 1857.
The petition Is on a light blue paper
| which seems to have been in vogue in
| those days. as there are several other
| similar documents of the same time
which appear likewise.
The siGners are Nathan jackson, one
OF the early physicians: Patrick Mof.
| NIT, prominent merchant: Anthony
GRADY, once postmaster: Henry Evans
a merchant; l. II. Estabrook. the frs,
stationery dealer; John Merrill Poore
an old merchant; Samuel Adshaad
samuel Mills, father of the Mills
brothers; George Is. Jones, who was
a Delaware and Hudson mine boss
Hon. Henry B. Jadwin. who is the sur.
vior; Horatio S. Pierce. the first banke,
In Carbondale, and $. Johnson.
The signers must have been hotly
| indignant, for their signatures are
written in a bold hand the letter.
three times the ordinary size, and som,
of them underscored. It would appear
that they tried to indicate in thei,
handwriting how wrought up they
| were.
Another Petition.
| Another interesting document is ,
petition prepared in somewhat tn,
same style, which is connected will