The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-06-04
HISTORY RECALLED.

From one of the Boston papers the
Information is obtained that Paul Re-
veTe's old copper works were recently
sold at auction for $780, In late years
the busy iconOclast has been welding
his hammer almost continuously and
an attempt has been made to smash the
record ride of Paul Revere and convict
the poet Longfellow Of drawing upon
his imagination when he wrote the
famous stanzas so familiar to US all.
But the ride hasn't anything to do
with the sale of Paul Revere's copper
works. Outside Of the fact OF his wax
ing up the farmers and enabling them
to prepare a warm and fitting reception
for the redcoats who sailed forth on
that fateful morn of the 18th of April,
1775, history has failed to record any.
thing about Paul Revere. The copper
works recently auctioned off were 10
Gated in Canton, Mass, where a portion
Of the original Paul Revere residence
still stands. For years many Of the
bells which still hang in the steeples
of prominent churches Of the country,
much Of the powder used in the Revolu-
ton, and hundreds of brass cannon
used in the Civil war. were manufac-
tured there. The place which has been
famous the country over passed into
oblivion when the final crash of the
auctioneer's hammer came down, and
hencefoTth will be used as a manurac-
tory of rubber supplies.
The site was first used as a water
| power privilege as far back as 1717,
when the colonists erected a corn mill.
/ Later it was used as a place for the
manufacture Of powder and in 1900
Paul Revere bought the site for the
I purpose of erecting mis- copper works,
/ where he manufactured bells, ship
fastenings and other necessities of the
4 last century. In 1928 it was incorporat-
/ ed under the name Of the Revere COM
I pany, and with remarkable strides a
business was built that was the largest
of its kind in this country. The prop
/ erty continued in the hands of the Re
/ we're family until 1900, when two other
! copper companies merged and their
products were made and finished in an
other part Of the state.
So. in spite of the iconocIast and his
| hammer. Paul Revere was a living.
| breathing patriot, whether or not he
read the signals alleged to have been
/ flashed from the tower of the old North
church. He lived to old age and left
many descendants, who kept the copper
| works going for a century. honored and
/ respected by their Canton neighDors.
/ The anniversary Of Concord and Lex
/ ington is no longer observed. save in
! Massachusetts. and the battle of Bun
ker Hill now calls forth but little COM
ment on each recurring nth Of June.
/ Yet the republic was born when the
/ 'embattled farmers stood their ground
and fired the shot heard round the
world, as described by Ralph Emerson,
I himself a native OF Concord. Holidays
are being added 20 the calendar year by
/ year. and some of them serve no useful
/ purpose save as a day Of rest. There is
a chance that the rising generation will
look lightly upon the valOrous deeds
Of the old Continentals in the hustle
and hustle Of the twentieth century
Attention is hereby called tosthe fact
that the "Continentals in their ragged
regimentals yielded not" and that hOm-
age is due from the youth of the land
/ Lord God Of Hosts be with US yet.
Lest We tOrget, lest we forget.