The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-06-14

The manufacture OF paper from ~cod
pulp is now largely taking the place Of
lumber, there being four large paper mills
al or near the town.
A flavor of the primeval has never oea. ed
to haunt the region in the presence Of
remnant OF the old Algonquin race on their
little reservation at st. Regis. The st. Regis
Indians camp near the various towns in
summer selling bat kets. berries and fish
Three generations of st. Regis sn,,aws
have had their summer camp on the bean'i.
full island at Potsdam. where Trinity Flns.
copal Church now stands. The FIRST settlers
knew old Molly. who was welcomed in
early Potsdam homes after the kindly
fashion described Ivy Mrs. Stowe in "Oid-
town Folks The little Potsdam girls
Of that day used to 20 out to the island
to watch the wonderful sw INNING and
diving OF her granddaughter. Catherine.
Catherine came year after year, until she
was known throughout the region as -Gld
Catherine Srluaw; and now that she is
dead her granddaughter. Mary Ann. keers
up the family tradition.
4 bounty on wolves was offered as lats
as 1927, and the last bear in town was killed
in 1880. within two miles Of the village.
,, The old Knowles house Is one OF the most
interesting In northern New York. Tbs
first two-story house in Potsdam vas
built in 1911 by Liberty Knowles and oc-
| cupied by British officers in 1872 Mrs.
Henry l.. Knowles distiuctly remembers
, this occupation how courteously she va.
invited to have her meals with the officers
and how she was perfectly aware that shs
was eating her neighbors chickens. pur-
Joined by the soldiers at night.
John Smith. an uncle of the founder 1t
Mormonism. Was a very early settler, He
accompanied his nephew Joseph to Utah
and became a high priest. Another in.
ciient in the early history of the town
shows the strong religious bias Of tho
pioneers.
In 1893 the American Sunday School
Union passed resolution to establish a
sunday school in every place in the Mis-
sissippi Valley where one could be SUPP
ported Five brothers named Lyman. WHO
had come from Vermont in 1910. Ners
deeply interested In the carrying OUT OF
this resolution. and one day I'M June. 1854.
five emigrant wagons, carrying the hre
brothers with their families and house,
hold goods, stopped on Market street
to bid the assembled people of rotsdam
good-by. Late the following October the
emgrant train reached its destination at
Springfield, H.. and the little colony of
T'otedam people. settling In the country
was instrumental in organizing more than
hundred churchesS and unday schools,
breath Of socialism also blew into II .
early settlemeLt Of Potsdsm, An en't II,
ast from Vermont raned william EnHt I'd
entered the town in 1904, bent en- fcGrdilR
a colony modelled on that Of the Nc raviars.
He located tract of 800 acres north Of ito
village, which ever since has Leen known
as the Union.
All the first settlers in the Union came
everything raised into a common store,
from which ach one was to draw accord
ing to his need.
A story of the dissolution of the Cricn
Judith, built a log cabin. cleared ground.
and planted their first crop. Then Manatsa
went away to Canada to earn morey at his
| trade for the rest Of the summer, charging
Judith to keep careful eye upon the COW
judith was thrifty and industrious SOIL.
killed in the fall. she found that il had 10
be divided with family that had tsento,oo
Is said d. that the gradual rS 10 dssol"ien e III.
Union began from this me ment
The name Ct Clarkscn has always Teen
identified with the town, and tie family
stil ~ resides a the h. n, mioss Of Erea, ss's:
| Ct VIC "VNN eioV " uiS Ivy ''''"
been perpetual ed ty the gifts Of the Thomas
| s. Clarkson Memorial Sc..t ol Of Tic ology.
which attracts students from all over the
| country.
Potsdam is one Of thcee beautiful cid
towns which have matured slowly. Wit ut
any disturbing element to turn tier later
| develor ment into lines divergent ir, m rs
foundation. The stately elrns that line ia
streets were planted by the first settlers.
The public library is an outgroWth Of 10
little reading room opened by the struggling
pioneers in 1914.
The little building erected in 1910 to 10
used for chu, oh and schCo purposes. To-
came later the old st. LawreI CO Academy.
an educational centre for q generation.
where many prominent men srert their
school days-ard later still the State
Normal School. Church and school have
never ceaeed to he TIE paramount in
terest OF the place. and, ursutp.erged ~
more msterialistic tendencies, still color
It's entire stmc * here.
A. the centennial, sterecIti, on lectures
will review the history Of tie town. aid
pic!u Of the early buildings and pioneers
VIII no thrown uIon the screen. Also.
70 tsdsm garrets are Icing unmased for
the cid utensils for f!reside cockirg. card
ing. spinning al weaving, the old hi,.t-
lock muskets. CO tics erd oii. Res used by
the Pioneers, for the exhibit Of hSto al
relics