The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-08-10

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CAPSULE NO. 2e.

tAPSULE U. TO-
sT-HE great fire of 1886 "a SO quickly followed by the beginning of the panic
that the clos harmony between thee W events seemed more than a
coincidence. Since the hard times were generala all over the country it's likely
that is all threw "a to it, unless the fire happened lions to bolster u the old
theories hat misfortune always travels with a large suite of attendants and
that when you are getting it you are likely to get it good. The fire started IN
Market street just east of Broad street october 27, 1896 It acquired a good
start before y noticed it. No youth with every advantage of education.
influential friendships and wealth ever had a better start in life than that fire..
When the fire companies reached he scene HI chief would have pulled the
double six if lie had anything to pull it 7. He was fireman enough to know
that he and his little band were beaten before they started So he Immediately
summoned aid from New York and all the neighbonng towns. All day the fire
companies fought he blaze, and not until it had eaten tut most Of the block
bounded by Mulberry, Mechanic, Broad and Market streets was it CONQUERED.
The old First Presbyterian Church wa saved only after lost desperate fight.
It was a hard blow to the W this fire. but a it came tut 1t was only a
raiser to he great drama OF calamity nd misfortune which was to be
enacted for the next six years.
The panic cam right along in the wake Of the fire. Early n 1887 failures
in New York city aggregated aoomoOo This is always a large sum 1t "a
considerably larger hen than it is now. Newark suffered like the remainder of
the country; perhaps more in that the eitys hardship "a in inverse proper
ton to the prosperity If the preceding years When hard times starts swinging
roun the crcuit here is no place where it shines brighter as a devastator
than in h prosperous places It makes these spots sits particular goal The
nan who is broke before a panic in which all is lost, saw honor STARTS never
feels it Is much Is his neighbor who dropped his only million during the prog
this year he population fell off from 100000 to 10000 Some of the industries
which were laid Iw never did recover The city vas to get back its lost p"a,
perty with interest in about six years but som Individual anuacture
who had been Frustrated by the panic found that factories making the same line
OF goods as their W had been opened up in other parts the State and had a
running start. They had captured the markets
1t took six years for Newark industries to get back their old-hne life and
vigor, n it was a slow process at best
In spite or the panic, me CITY Iounu time au outrage !" ihah Ie present
public school system. That vas done in 1888. The magnificent system O. pub
lie schools in the city tods, shows how wisely the foundation was laid seventy
one years ago
To a braumeister named Stahl is due the distinction of brewing the first
lager beer in Newark. 1t was lot untnm any years. later, in 1885, thatJ John N.
scha1k established he first brewery. The product Oft this brewery was said to
be equal to that made in Germany, nd became famed even abroad.
At this perod the manufacture of Leather vas the ctys greatest industry.
Carriages MADE in Newark were known all over the civilized world When
Martin Van Buren, while a candidate for the Presidency against William Henry
Harrison, was accused oil riding in a carriage which he had imported from
England, he covered his critics with confusion by proving that hsc carriage a
made in Newark. incidentally he vas elected. No HISTORIAN las evergo gone deep
enough inoth III affair to discover TO- much connection there wa between Mr..
Van Burens election and the fact that he had proved he rode in a Newark car
rage. To avoid tresome argument we will assume that such connection ex-
listed n hi it vas of great Importance.