The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-10-03

neer. He left behind him a loving
home-father, mother and brothers,
all greatly stirred by the event. Lit
tie did they dream that 1t was as
noteworthy as 1t turned out to be.
All were greatly agitated over the
dangers young Hornblower would en-
counter. He was carrying with him
the agent which was to reduce those
dangers to minimum, but then all
he could depend upon for travel were
the fickle winds.
The reason for his errand was this;
Colonel John Schuyler had found a
copper mine on his plantation at New
Barbados Neck, which was the name
In those days for the land which the
thriving towns of Harrison, Kearny,
East Newark and Arlington now oc-
cupy. The mines were not far from
the Schuyler Mansion, which still
stands In Arlington proper, just above
the river road, fronting the Passaic,
with Beleville on the opposite bank.
The accumulation of water in the
Schuyler mines had become so great
that 1t could not be removed by Ordin-
airy means. Accordingly, the energetic
owner, who had heard of the engine
at work in the BLACK Country" near
Stafordshire, and in the Cornwall con-
per mines. directed his agent in Lon
don to procure for him just such an
apparatus. The contract was there
upon made with Hornblower. But
from the date of Colonel Schuyler's
order to his agent to the completion
of the engine, over four years elapsed
so leisurely were the demands of
business in those days.
Young Hornblower, true to expecta-
ton. encountered rough passage. 1t
took him three months to make the
journey. Such was the impression the
trip made on him that he vowed never
to cross the sea again. But the vow
was an easy one to keep as it turned
out. for he soon met the woman who
won him, and he settled down in Sec
ond River, later renamed by him
Belleville.
The fire engine" once installed at
the copper mines became the show
place of the country round about. No
one thought of passing through the
nefghborhood without seeing it work.
Travellers came miles to see it.
Among these was Benjamin Franklin,
who wrote description of it to a
friend.
The engine house was a high rooted
box, about 80 feet square. Through
one wall of it was thrust great
walking beam, connecting like a pump
handle with the end of pump rod
which pierced the ground to depth
OF 100 feet. Five hundred and four
gallons could be raised from the mines
inc one minute. The boiler was about
ten feet in diameter and ten feet high.
Three men were required to set the
engine going. One shifted" Gifted
the condensing clack), one blew the
fire. and the third let in the conden-
sing water.
1t was a great occasion for young
Hornblower when. after testing the
safety valve, he opened the steam
cock and the engine worked
Now where he lies. in the burying
ground of the old Reformed Church
OF Belleville. swiftly flying fire en-
gines are passing with in a stones
throw. The little hamlet of Bellevil!o
has become busy town. and its big
neighbor on the south. Newark. n
Hcrnblower's day somewhat of a set
Element. has become one of the worlds
great industrial cities, and most of
this development has come through
the power he introduced in this con-
tinent. Since he has been lying there
new power has been seized and set
to turning wheels, speeding hundreds
of trolley cars on both sides OF the
Passaic past the churchyard.