Cleveland County herald., 1921-04-07
RELATES BURIAL
 OF WASHINGTON
Fake Ulster County Gazette Most Noted Newspaper
 Forgery of Country.
NO GENUINE COPY KNOWN
Library Officials Doubt If There Is Genuine Copy of Newspaper of That Date in Existence--For orgery Is
 Easily Proven.

Chicago. = Perennially and usually about this time copies of the most noted newspaper forgery of the coun- try - the Ulster County Gazette of January 4, 1900, with it's account of Washington's funeral-comes to light. The only other newspaper imitation of the kind that compares is the duplica- tion of the Vicksburg Citizen, printed on wall paper during the siege in 1862.
 q doubt if there is a genuine copy of the Ulster County Gazette of that date in existence" Edward A. Henry, who is in charge of the University of Chicago's collection of old newspapers, said. At any rate, I have never seen one nor do I know of anybody who has.
 'Wilberforce Eames of the New York public library told me half dozen years ago that he had made the most careful examinations of copies of the Gazette submitted to him as genuine-even to chemical analysis Of the paper-and had almost come 10 the conclusion that there never was an original.
 2e Different Editions.
 At the Library of Congress 1 was told they had 26 different editions. : The New York public library lists nine in its latest catalog We have three, ; each different from the other.
 "I suppose there was once genuine of bo Iot named, from which all these subse-s : duent copies have been made. The fact ] that the Wisconsin State Historical society, which has the largest collec- { tion of old newspapers in the Middle West, lists two copies of an Ulster Ga-l zette for August IS and September 2, ! 1894, strengthens this belief.
 "The account Of Washington's fun \ eral is accurate and interesting. Nog fault can be found on that score, al- l though l think reports of the funeral in other papers of the same time arel in several instances still more strik- ! ing.
 "It may have been that many yearsf after the funeral some printer prob [ ably in the vicinity of New York, forE Kingston, Ulster county, is on theR Hudson, thought to produce sOmethingE of interest 10 others and profit to him. I self by making a facsimile of ant original account. Had he taken af New York paper, the duplication coud have been instantly detected andE perhaps for this reason the obscure Ulster county paper was made to serve.
 Trick Went Well.
 The trick evidently went well, and perhaps it was this same printer that put out many of the subsequent edi- ticns. That is al' suppoSition of course, but there is no doubt of the multitude of editions. Their genuine ness only an expert can pass on in most cases. The test is the paper Most of these copies were made before 1850, but not early enough 10 have used the fine linen rag paper of 1900 That soft paper will be good for many hundred years yet, while the earliest Ulster County Gazette we have is al ready badly discolored.
 "Nariations are found in the print ing of the different editions of the same date In two of our copies the name of the paper is set in italics; 1E he other it is not. The enterprising publisher of the newest of our forger ies added the word copyright :"