The Honesdale citizen. [volume] (Honesdale, Pa.) 1873-1908, 1908-07-30
Additional Nearly FORGOTTEN Facts.

mlnRe, on the site OF the present IacuO
ner restaurant, and dedicated April
IL, 1886, at which time discourse was
delivered by Rev. f. h. Guild. Later
10 the month DR., Boynton gave four
! lectures on electricity and magnetism
in the hall, exhibiting Morse's system
/ Of telegraphy in complete operation,
and explaining its principles.
Abram l. Stryker settled in Cherry
Ridge township, then part OF Canaan,
10 1901 lie died there Tuesday, May
3. 1876, aged "A years. Enos Wood
wsrd was the first settler in the town
ship. His son EOenezer, lived on what
10 now the Perry A. Clark farm. An
other son AbIsha, who cleared up the
Webb farm near Bethany, was the
father OF the late Supreme Court Judge,
George W. w oodwerd.
The first Main street bridge over the
West Branch was built 10 1876, z W.
Arnold and Elias stanton furnishing
the lumber. 1t was mainly paid for by
private subscription.
A telegraph line connecting Albany
and Buffalo was completed July Ia,
1876, aud was described as being "the
longest in the world"
The act OF Congress pensioning survi-
wing soldiers of the War Of 1912 was
passed. February IA 1871, considerably
more than half century after the war
ended.
Here is century old Printers
Epitaph"
Here lies his IOrHt in pi.
Beneath this bank with bridrs overgrown.
How many eases lar unworIhi"t iW
Meath come imposing Stnu'
Though now IN Deaths en- hrdc,
mouldering heap our lucklr-r brother
lies,
Hen reappenr IN Gabriel's r0Ddl chds,
And 'risLti to the skies.
That "tho world movee" ID we'll illus
t'ated by the wonderful advancement
made 10 the art OF picture taking by
photography, commencing with the
crude daguerreotypos OF lsi9 requiring
half an hours exposure, aud enaing
with tho present "A ,sh OF an eye pro.
cess. Pictures are row taken IN then
original colors, a feat which was ridl
culed while l. l.. Hui Was experiment
ing IN that direction, little more than
half century ago. A claim having
been made Dy him in 1851 tina, he had
accomplished the making OF daguer
rec ty pc showing the natural colore, n
committee Of scientists was app united
to make an investigation. IL reported
- November, 1851, that MIR. H,l! hhs
not only deludcd many professors OF tht
Daguerrean art but himsclf, thorough
y aud completely" that the origin u
.hn discovery was a delusion. that the
,ssuulei progress nd improvement II
It was delusion, pnd that Tho onis
thought respecting 1t in which therci
40 delusion is for every une to a6andor
my possible faith in Mr.. llill's ab!litie,
produce natural colors IN daguerrec-
ypes OF which the whole history has
been an unmitigated delusion."
Probably the fastest "ovcrland" trip
bel ween Hswley ana Honesdale ever
made was accomplished by one OF the
Allen stage outfits on the lth Of April,
1868 forty years ago. The stage, filed
spirited horses, drove up 10 front of the
Even House, in Hawley, the driver
| winding the lines around the brake
handle and jumping from the box to col
so engaged the team started, but before
tho horses got under great head way oil
of the passengers had jumped out, ana
all were unhurt with the exception OF
Engineer Clark, then engaged IN build
ing the Jefferson (Honesdsle Branch
railroad) whose right leg was broken
Meeting and overtaking several teams
on the road and turning out and giving
half the road as occasion required, the
stage made the trip of ten miles to
Honesdale in shirty-five minutes and
ten seconds. When the fact is taken
into consideration that the road is d
bridges and dangerous curves, all o
which we're passed without the slight
est injury to horses or vehicle. and tht
entire distance made at a three and q
1 kol ka Olsn ho
garded as very remarkable one il
more senses than one. The runaway
brought up at the stage barns in Homes
dale with the lines still wound Abou
the brake handle.
, While the late Hon. Ephraim W
aamlin was serving his term as Senate
in 1859, himself and wife were botl
taken desperately i'll in Harrisburg, hi
life, especially, being for some time dc
SPARED OF. They were finally brough
) home by easy stages, Mr. Hamlin MAX
ing the journey in an arm chair. Ii
was afflicted with severe hemorrh age
of the lungs from his youth, yot live
a to be- eighty -one years OF age. 1t We
his custom to sleep with bottle of OLE
i fashioned cod liver oil at his bedside
from which he took copi I9 hrrn.;h hts Q
u occasion required.
John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Jam,
4 Monroe, Zachary Taylor, Martin Val
y Buren, Andrew johnson, James A. Ga
4 field and Ulysses 5. Grant oil died
July. The following Presidents we
born at regular intervening periods
# eight years and retired from Office
x the same regular periods John Adam
l. born 1895; retired 1901 Jefferson, boz
l. l7l3; retired 1909; Madison, born 10
8, retired 1877; Monroe, born 1859; retire
~ 1895. John Quincy Adams was bol
" in 1867, sight years after James Monro
r. and had he served two terms, as did Il