The Newtown bee., 1906-03-23

IS at the Cummings home. After | esting time we retraced our steps a nile to the home of Fred Lane, who | ives on the west bank of the HOuSa- | Onic river. MT Lane is OverSeer of l he Schaghticoke tribe of Indians, l his father, the late Martin | Lane. MT Lane
 HAS REMARKABLE FREAK )n his place in the form of calf with two noses and no upper jaw. It has a great bunch between the two noses. It runs tongue out through the open ing where the mouth should be and seems to be thriving. MT Lane has been offered s10O for half interest in the queer animal, but doubtless will get handsome price from some me nagerie. MT Lane naS in his possession a large number of fancy baskets made by the Indians, for which he has good sale. It was the writer's pleasure to be entertained at dinner here.
 The center of Bulls Bridge is where the roads from Gaylordsville to Kent and from South Kent to South Dover cross at right angles. The hamlet con- prises few houses, country store, Elmer Potter's, and Tabernacle" In writing of this section the late
 
 "At the furnace
 BRICK KILN RISES AMID A MASSIVE
 RUIN OF ROCKS
 that once stood SOlidly around it. Just west of the ruins wall stands intact Its base is washed by the rapidly flow ing waters of the river. Much money was expended in the construction of the furnace and it was once the nu- cleus of large business, which four ished long before the railroad was built. Probably POO men were em. ployed at the furnace and in thei cart ing work connected with it. The ore was brought from Glove, ADutchess county, N. Y., a distance of fifteen miles, and twenty-One teams em- ployed in the work could frequently be counted in line on the arrival at Bulls Bridge. Elisha Potter was one of the teamsters. The iron or finished pro- ductWas carted to Poughkeepsie, N. Y., the cost for taking ton there being S5. Iron then sold for $60 ton, now the price is about S2O ton. Scotch pig iron was then the kind which had the biggest reputation for good quail. ty, and the iron made at Bulls Bridge was fully equal to it. The ore beds in
 
 not at all or little utilized, and un. trammeled by formidable competition the iron industry flourished in the Housatonic valley. In those good and prosperous days more people lived al and about Bulls Bridge than at pres ent. It is said that sixty children at tended school, whereas now the mum Der is but twelve. The furnace wal built in 1928, and at the time of the Civil War was known as the Monitor Iron Works, because iron made there was used in the construction of iron clad vessels. Frederick J. Fenn, on' of the owners of the blast furnace, re moved to Salisbury. He was the vic tim of a sad misfortune. A keg O. powder was exploded in seam amid the rocks at the furnace. MT FenI stood too near and was struck in tn, eyes by particles of stone. whicl rendered him totally blind. Tom Ian nigan, an emplOye at the furnace, fel into the river near it and was drowned | While men were searching for thu body some odd suggestions were made One was that candle be placed in { bundle of straw which, it was asserted would float to that part of the wate under which the body lay. A wa, claimed, inasmuch as the deceased wa an IriShman, that a potato should b attached to 8 string for the purpose o was finally recovered without recours to the extraordinary expedients There was big wake over the remain and at the funeral the widow frequent ly and lustily cried: "Oh Tim, why di' ye come to America to be drowned"
 Beside the furnace is a beautiful grove where the Sunday school chil dren from Kent frequently hold pie nicS. Just east of the grove are the an cient remains of the Bulls Bridge cem etery. A few broken stones lie aske1 beneath canopy of regardless sumacs
 The chief attractions at Bull' Bridge are the Power Go. s plant an the falls; ;they;begin few rods above tn bridge, tumbling many feet down ledge that extends from bank to ba nl Boiling and dangerous are the torrent and swifter in their course than is tn the river gradually deScendS for man rods over slanting surface of rock, a places jutting upwards sufficiently t cause other and lesser falls. The shore in the vicinity of the falls are wooded picturesque and winding, appropriate ly bounding the daShing waters.
 THE PLACE IS NAMED AFTER JACO
 BULL,
 who over a hundred and twenty-fiy years ago was given permission to ere( a grist mill and iron works at thi point. MT Bull came from Dover, \ Y.
 It used to be said that Bulls Brlde was noted for three things, "lampe els, bull beef and handsome women. The reference to bull beef was h on John Chamberlain, butcher calle Heather Wheels" He was an oris inal character, and devised singuls nicknames for his associates, whic are we'll remembered to this day Some of these names were: 'Hart ack," ''Swing Clear" "Major, "Enoch, "Broad Horns,' "Old Ha Cut, "Forlorn Dove," "John Harn leSS," and "Nogar."
 Between Scatacook mountain an the river there is but narrow stri of valley land. The mountain rise precipitously to a great height an must be at least two miles long. It denSely wooded and in summer time presents a grand bank of luxurian foliage, which can be best seen by tn traveller on the east side of the rivel The road beneath the mountain, witt the winding stream on the right han is full of attractions. It is not unfit ting that in so romantic region, a the south end of ScatacoOk mountain the few last families of the Indian l whO were once the SOle maSterS Of th