The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-08-05

CAPSULE NO. q.
BT M.TWIELAS

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DUR1NG the latter part of these first score years of the nineteenth century
l. in Newark n institution had its official beginning another its on
cal ending In 1919 the Methodist Church in Halseys street, which up o that
time had been mission, vas changed to a regular station The following er
slavery was abolished in the Nv 1t is the consensus of opinion that nothing
contributed SO much to the latter onsunmation as the active, vigorous cam
which had been waged for the previous quarters of a century against
slavery by the Sentinel of freedom. The year las saw also, the first ne engine
in Newark. 1t was al ancestor If the old gooseneck nd piano decker which
may be seen in the exempt hemen's parades today. Viewed from a modern
standpoint this engine vas not al instrument which would anyone own
ing valuable infammabe property to allow his fire insurance to lapse It was
a big Improvement though, o-er he bucket brigade, n il VA starred fr
many years every time h volunteer fire companies VI on that stirring panto-
MIN edrama, Fighting the Flames" Also it was made in Newark That a
me advantage of living in he town 1t was w necessary % send for any,
thing. Almost everything makaDie was already being manufactured here.
Even if it was merely al idea someons wanted materianzed, Newark a the
best place in the country to hav a working model of it made
The parish of ST.. Johns, thu parent Roman Catholic chureho Of Newark, VA
established in 1924 The churche dfhce wa built on the site of the present
building. In h same year tn Marquis de L a Fayette was entertained by
Newark with impressive ceremony.
July A. 1926, marked te afheth anniversary of American independence. It
was mad HI occasion of a great celebration in Newark The ordinary Fourth
of July celebration a masnihed an extended, enlarged, and added to
until it was hardly recognizable. Everyone Joined in the merrymaking and
contributed to the noise and listened to the speeches; that is, almost everyone.
While the celebration vas at its heighth-and Military Park ws itsr anyins
ground-seth Boyden at his forge in Orange street, a few hundred yards away,
discovered the process for making maneapie rn n his way, Mr. oydens
performance was perhaps as patriotic as hat of n me o the merrymakes
who was proving his patriotism by the whole ol way in which h entered into
the celebration in honor of the ffueth anniversary. Perhaps even more %.
True he had preferred to stay in and work IN a day all good Americans we're
in tn street But vas lie not justified by he results? Anyway, everyone for
gave him for working N that Fourth If July, and he as even laided to the
skies for his wonderful discovery His action in remaining in o a grand IA
tonal holiday need moth be held up as a example. 1t is probable that a large
percentage of us might work every holiday for a great many years without
turning u anything startling. So it is fortunate that on that particular
Fourth it as Boyden who hung back n worked rather tina some othe cid-
zen. On that day. ALSO, at thu base of hi Liberty Pole, at h southern end of
Military Park a slab of stone as buried. 1t vas forgotten unth1 1877, when it
a accidentally discovered. Since it nay reflect something of the spirit of
that day long past the inscription m the stone is here reproduced:
THE citizens of Newark, in grateful commemorauon of the hfueth 'anniver-
say of American Independence. have. on this Fourth day of July A D. 1885,
deposited this stone al a foundation of a monumental memorial here to be
erected; n when the diipadations of time shall discover this inscription %
future generations may the light of the Gospel illuminate the whole world"