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Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1921-11-10

Thought once awakened does not
,ain slumber. - Carlyle.
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1921-11-10
Steam Laundry

The Steam Laundry does away with the drudgery of the
wash day in the home. Your flat work is especially hard
for you handle and especially easy for our machinery and
consequently much cheaper Send your laundry the Lano
laundry New arrangements clean white Laundry ana
the price low
FLAT WORK: Sheets pLowslps, towels ETC. washed
and ioned for l0c ID.
WET WASH; any household wash will be washed and
sent home wet for you finish &c Ib.
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1921-11-10
Classified Section

FOR SALE = Two acres in Lees
vile, near High School; no improve
ments, but has bsen cultivated. Price
$400.-See John 'Brostrom, Llano Col
ony.
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1921-11-10
They Are Better
LlanoProducts
For Sale

Equitable economic cooperation is the of hope for
the redemption of the world from wage slavery Every penny
expended in the purchase of comparatively produced goods
boosts the cooperative movement strengthens the hands of
the pioneers and speeds the day when every truly social man
and woman will find opportunity enter the united life
of complete cooperation be secured nhe full products Of
their labor liberated from the haunting fear of want and
enter harmonious relationship where the sharp dealings of
greedy competition unknown, and the spirit of good will
and mutual helpfumess dominate.
By buying syrup you obtain better article than you
can buy elsewhere, sweet potatoes Of good quality
and brooms challenge any other brand for quality and
workmanship.
You benefit yourself and help US to speed the day when
an opening will be ready for to join in this great
ture for a new life.
Pool your purchases with other friends Of cooperation
and start club and money for yourself and friends
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1921-11-10

The highest golf course in the I'm
tied States is at Dawson. New Mexico,
with the altitude of the putting green
Of the first hole at 6,774 feet.
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1921-11-10
VERNON PARISH BRICKS

The Colony Brick Plant is running and is the only
plant in Vernon Parish. Patronze local industry and use
Vernon bricks They good brick and you the freight
Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1921-07-15
YALTliAM

variety shower waa held at the
riprcy home Thursday afternoon la
honor of Miss Lydia Picrcy
Julian Sion OF Ottawa was at RaSh
Siun's Thursday evening
Mn and Mrs William l&dpecomb ana
baby and Mrs. and Mrs Sam Tote.
were at SiOn's sunday,
Willie and Walter Edgccomb We, G
Ottawa business callers Wednesday
Ralph Sion was IN ottawa Saturday
David Edgecumb Sr and son Gil
bert. and George Chaplin were at Dich
Edgocumb's Sunday afternoon
Mr.. and Mr. Gilbert Edgecomr
spent the week end in Waltham.
Mr.. and Mrs. FL Hanley and MIR
and Mrs G. lIaul,y were La Sale
shoppers Wednesday afternoon,
Mr.. and Mrs .Marhall Hess ant
: iJIa were in Ottawa Wednesday.
Albert aad George Monoit have {
new Hudson sedan.
Miss Melinda Erb e Ottawa is Wis
itug Mrs WIN Scott
Mrs. Albert MOnoit and children o.
ottawa spent "Wednesday Afternoon
with Mrs George MCnUit.
Mr.. aud Mrs. David Edgecomb Jr.
I.s,er aud Lloyd Gilmour spent tn,
N.ui'h At Lake Delavan and Belolt
VIZ
Mrs T. J. Ryan IS npending a few
Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1921-07-15

Lutheran parsonage Friday evening
hhoer The auspices OF the Luther
League, A program Viii be gwen
consisting Of readings. songs ANA
music by the Sheridan Juvenile RJuu,
lee cream and cake will be- served.
Mrs Marie FTuland and Miss Anna
nan We're shopping in Aurora FRIDAY.
Miss IVA Brown, who has recently
returned from China, where she spent
TIE past seven years, spoke To- % i.yF'
audience az the Lutheran church sum.
day evening Miss Brown la visiting
ner people here the Brown .Uul}
). n, Collins Was a business visitor
W Chicago Monday
Mr. and Mrs Wallm QWigiry uI
N1rs called on friends ia town Sat-
urddN afternoon,
Miss Ruby Larson, who has been
visiting her friend, Grace SmuuI.ou,
n Chicago, the past two weeks, o.,
turned to her home here Monday
ii, j. Larson WAS 4 busigu.H visitor
in Aurora one day last week
tharIa AlSagor and two uiugos OF
story city, Iowa, are visiting at the
Jars AlsaEer home
Or and Mrs Bert Spokesman auU
daughter Barbara OF De kalb spent
daughter Barbara OF he Ealb spent
the week end Ut the Win CourtuEh.
home sunday they with the VIA
.omtrigut family spent the day at
Starved Rock
Misses Elma and Mildred Larson at
tended birthday party az tl,e home
vi Mr. aAI Mra. Grant Johnson in Lis
bon saturday evening, the occasion
being Mr. Johnson. birthday.
Oscar Weisenburger is having q
modern house built on the lots ne ne
comfy purchased of the Loaf Good
wick estate, Anton Jesk is doing the
work.
Mr.. aud Mrs .. l.. Miller and fam.
lily left the first OF the week on %
motor trip in the East.
Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1921-07-15

days with her daughter Mrs. Walter
Duffy. ~
Leslie Scott spent Sunday aiternoon
AT ID, BENEFITS
Mr.. and Mrs Marshall Hess and
daughter Viola spent Sunday evening
at Henry Aubrey's @
Nh and Mrs. James MonteIth,
daughter Esther and sOn John Of Kan,
Vas city, Mo, are visiting MIR. and
Mrs. Warner Whipple.
Mrs, Charlotte Whipple, formerly OF
Wallham, is visiting relatives In tho
east
Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1921-07-15
PLEASANT VIEW.

Catherine and Arnold Olson were
Seneca visitors Tuesday afternoon.
Kathleen Sheedy little daughter Of
Mr.. ana Mrs Ed Sheedy, is quite i'll
at her home in Seneca
MIR. and Mrs. John Scheffer and Vim.
cent spent Wednesday with her par
Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1921-07-15
GRAND RIDGE

=
lagos most esteemable residents ceie'
brated her eighteen hirIhua5 ~ g"
most fitting manner on 1hutauaS a. :
ernoon at her home on Ny van 'lt.
nue., Tho celebration, |hleh "n"u'
forty relatives and irlenos pafueii,at
ed in, was complete surprise "ii'ch
had been planned and carried oul .,
her children, A feature oi ,hls tleI'
that all her children ana Hel yi' ~.
brothers were pFeseu, nv '','.''
home was decorated WIN Earoeh nov
ers. A two'coulso iu"ehe""
served. In order lhat we "9'.l@
might assemble MtS' '''"'" '''u VA,
inyitd to eat her DTlha"y uli'Ht1f W.,
her son-in.aN ana uaoRHler' N'' I"o
Mrs. c. W. peterson as 'Hu,
daughter, Mrs Arlliur W"ou"'Iu ~
Fort Dodge, had arrived t'lat mo, "'"@
and would be at the jefferson toIi'
for dinner, also, Al inc appoin.eu
time Mrs. Hlbbs was taken 10 he'
own home, where an were III N'i i'n5
and for u moment sue was SuiP''seu'
but she soon EXTENDED =. 'o'G ,.I.... "..'
come to her sG'.5's' uo anu, nm, i''.g
was one Of social intercourse, .t''' ~. !
the company present lh',' 49,, ' I'a
either reached or Sol'D "i'"L ,'..l,
tourscore years q o.1"'''U' w. ~ VIZ
cake with eighty cauG'e' was = n.
tme which added to the Other farasi
served. Those present. W.T. = Nv ~
Mrs c. Z. Iiibbs Mr.; ana M5 So, -, w W,
Peterson, Mrs, Lou hahtf' o'u&i','..
Miss Marion, ana SON @'a.i.' .,'.,
Clara Hibb, all OF Gr'nu I''I-'' ~. o.
Arthur woodward, Fort D''-.' ive'
and Mrs. G. NJ. SllleiIs '.'" 7ol',' ~ w..
shall and Russell, OF 'i'I'll' , 49,. m
ana MFS NlD''' N""'' =,
Mrs. David Pound stone ana =. -
Poundstone, Mrs Jonah I''o,'', -, q 1'e
teT-in-laW, ana Mt. ,l"' ''- ~, a..
cousin, bolh OF Ottawa ne otne'
guests were Mrs mdi'i,'' 49, A..
Joseph Buto, Mrs I. NJ (nlFoi1' "a, ,I
Sarah Eads, WITS MARY ""'.'e'' '',
+ L. Reese. Mrs Emmy "u I,I.i., III
Mrs. u. H. MlIlo,N' w T. -
ison Mrs John tinker @.s Na'- l.a
Hampson, Mrs. 1h.l8 htaar'' ...
William Anderson MFN' ~, H. l us
ley, Mrs. Belle Andrrs.l n, az Ng.'i
Madison, Mrs J2hh hlIAV.' WI = - e1l
garot BOYD .HI-. ~ - -
Sarah Turner, Mrs. Kate b,"ch an
Mrs. Anna carter ana At''e MIS-
Wanda Aiperi' OF Le'A4!'. ~
have been omitted IN our i,st IHG i.'I'
take Is unintentlonaI. NrS' Hloh
was presented flowers ana 'hasaz'H'
rs little reminders Of the event
Mrs l.. II. GGNm ana Ettls, itbIdt
New-York tribune., 1921-12-04

Rosedale. A little later the great Boston boats
added to the interest of the scene. 1t was
about the time Jim Fiske secured control of
the Fall River line, and no such gorgeousness
ever before seen in steamer travel as he
provided in the Bristol.
Besides being my warm friend, Zenos
Crowden was also the owner Of the fish de-
partment in the Grand Union Market, adjoin-
ing my store, and frequently took some of us
with him in the very early morning to the
Fulton Market, where all the fish came in
We went in his fish cart, but you needn't turn
your nose up at this. All the fish carts and
butcher carts had nifty horses in those days
and brush down the Bowery with q rival
team was heartening sight! Zenos had sew
eral very speedy animals, and greatly enjoyed
these little side trips. Refrigerating cars were
unknown in those days, and the fnny tribe
New-York tribune., 1921-12-04

son Avenue; the Meurice and the Bristol, oc-
cupying the opposite corners of Fifth Avenue
and the Riggs House, on Park Avenue IN the
middle Of a row Of houses between Forty-flrst
and Foity-second streets, and the Westchester,
which faced Forty-second Street, just around
the corner from the avenue. These last two
hotels, as we'll as the entire block, subsequently
became the Grand Union, which for more than
a quarter of century shone with enviable
brilliancy in city soon to be famed for its
remarkable achievements in the line of hotel
accommodations.
About 1880 additions to the station in Forty
second Street caused the removal Of the tax
payers in which I was located, and removed
to the corner of Park Avenue, where the Bel
mont now stands, and remained there for the
greater part Of my life.
The telephone at that time was beginning
New-York tribune., 1921-12-04

store was then at the corner of Vanderbilt
Avenue and Forty-third Street and private
houses clear around to DR.. Tyng's church. The
building of the subway was sad trial for all
of us, as we pretty nearly lost courage and
our business besides. l remember nv friend
Harry Sanford, who had charge of the con-
struction work in Forty-second Street for Deg
non & Mclean, calling it great celery trench,
and so it was. I we'll remember the explosion
at the face of the tunnel on Park Avenue, in
which General Shaler lost his life and which
played havoc with the Murray Hill and Grand
Union and blew my windows clear out and
nearly me also.
We were so far cup town. that the large
wholesale houses sent their drummers only
once a week, or whenever they made their
regular trips up through the state. After stop
ping at Forty-second Street the next thing was
to take the train for Boston, Albany and all
points East and West. When we had to go
down town for anything we left the store
about noon and were rarely back before or
o'clock. There was no rapid transit in those
days, and in very stormy weather in winter
the snow made the trip practically impossible,
and the streetcars had six and eight horses to
draw them. have seen almost a week go by
before normal relations could be resumed with
down town, and in the great blizzard of 1888
we were without communication of any kind
from anywhere for several days, as even the
New-York tribune., 1921-12-04


railroads were wholly out Of commission
In front of the Grand Central, on the
Vanderbilt Avenue side old New Workers will
recall that for many years vacant lot stood
there inclosed in picket fence 1t covered
the entire block. The great Hotel Biltmore
now occupies the identical place.
For many years that was the private play
ground of beautiful Maud S.,the greatest little
trotter, in my opinion, that ever stood on four
feet. She was William H. Vanderbilt's great
pet, and he had her brought where he could
see her out of the office windows, where he
managed the great railroad Many time
have felt the silky nose of this beautiful mare
against my face, and it was rightly considered
a great honor to be allowed this privilege. I
often wonder if Johnny Bowman, himself a
great horse lover, knows that his great hotel
stands on Maud SIS playground?
New-York tribune., 1921-12-04

must not forget the other side Of the Grand
Central Station. On the corner of Vanderbilt
Avenue and Forty-second Street was j.
N. Galway's fine grocery store, two-story
building, and over the store were the first of
the overflow offices of the Grand Central
Depot Judge Ashbel Green and Mr. Van
Arsdale were the legal advisers.
Mrs. Gibson's candy store was next door
to the grocery store in Forty-second Street.
The way into her store was little way from
the street This store was taken over by Will
liam Mendel in after years. To-day he has
many stores in and around the depot.
George Sands. brother Of Professor Sands,
had a drug store in the middle Of the block
on Vanderbilt Avenue, opposite the Harlem
waiting room. Afterward it was taken over
by James Hethrington, who now has corner
in Forty-second Street. The Charles grocery
New-York tribune., 1921-12-04

Building soon began on the vacant lots east
of Lexington Avenue and the goat farm dis
appeared. On the corner rose a hotel called
the Vanderbilt. 1t afterward achieved great
local fame as the headquarters of the re-
doubtabe John L. Sullivan. Small boys used
to haunt this locality persistently in the hope
of catching a glimpse of the famous slugger.
l often wish Miss Anne Morgan could have
seen John L. Only if John L. had lived there
would have been no devastated France, be-
cause, in the opinion of the average man in
those days, John L. could have licked the
whole German army with one hand tied be-
hind his back. What Sullivan would have said
could he come back and attend one of those
prize fights CD pulled off by my good friend
Sweeney in the soft carpeted room of the Com
modore, staggers the imagination. Boxing
bout in the ballroom; take the elevators to
the right" Imagine the effect of this an
nouncement on John L.! And when he saw
the mad rush to the tearoom between bouts
for drink Of orange pekoe, the old man
would doubtless have committed murder.
Events along the old street were now moving
with amazing rapidity. The immense amount
of business created by the opening of the new
depot already began to make itself manifest.
Hotels began springing up in every direction,
and soon we had the Allerton, adjoining the
cattle yards at Forty-fourth Street and Fifth
Avenue; the Wellington, at the corner of Madi-
New-York tribune., 1921-12-04

to be introduced, and the company made
strenuous efforts to popularize it's use. 1t was
hard work, as grating, rasping noise all but
drowned the conversation in those days, and
sometimes it took an hour to get a message
through. My dear old friend, the late Mar
shall P. Wilder, used to convulse his audience
by his imitation of telephone conversation.
lie would put an imaginary receiver to his ear
and commence, "Hullo, Billy, is this"-and
then he would break off into series Of "ar-
r-r-r-rs" that reproduced exactly the aggra-
waiting sound with which most of us were famil-
lar. Marshall got away with this story long
after the trouble had disappeared. He kept it
up till the subways were opened when he sub
stituted his now classic story about how they
originally came to be built, $50 that New
Yorker could go to Brooklyn without being
seem" Marshall was very diminutive in ap-
pearance, and once when he announced to an
out-of-town committee where he was to per-
form that evening that he was Mr.. Wilder,
the chairman asked him where is your
father?" What pleasant memory my merry
little friend has left to lot Of us old New
Workers.!
Well, as / was saying, the telephone was
here all right, and I was so much impressed
with it that was among those who decided to
give it a show. I was the only one in the
neighborhood to have all-night service, and
soon after 5, just as to-day, it was surrounded
by group Of tired business men who wanted
to get word to their wives that they were de-
tanned at the Office and not to keep supper for
them. 1t soon began to grow in favor, and
every day, it seemed to me, Theodore Vail
would step off the Boston train on his
tireless quest for more money for its devel-
opment,
Population began to build up the neighbor-
hood rapidly, and soon we were surrounded on
all sides by handsome "brownstones." No one
ever thought of varying the type Of architec-
ture, and long rows of these doleful structures
lined both sides of every street. Churches, too,
began to make their appearance, the most
prominent Of which was, think, DIR. Tyng's,
on the corner of Madison Avenue. The design
of this church was quite bizarre the prevail
ing features being diamond groups of
colored bricks, suggesting nothing SO much
as a piece OF kitchen oilcloth It was
promptly nicknamed the Church of the Holy
Oilcloth
The Grand Union Hotel was a wonderful
place in its day. It was probably at it's best
in the early 9O's On summer evenings they
used to set chairs out on the sidewalk, and
nave counted nearly hundred at a time
Guests used to tilt them back, smoke and chat
till midnight.
About once week couple Of aarkiea used
to come around. One whistled and tha other
New-York tribune., 1921-12-04
Park Avenue, facing Fortysecond Street, about 1880

were still swimming around in the tanks Of the
sloops where Mr.. Crowden bought his supplies.
We generally took breakfast at Billy Hitch
cocks, tremendously popular place with the
all-night workers of the city. He sold fine
cup of coffee and two crullers for three cents.
There was coin of this denomination in cir
culation after the war, but it finally gave way
to the nickel. Then Billy made his cups bigger
and added an extra cruller and charged five
cents.
My very first location is now covered, as |
have said, by part of the Hotel Commodore.
The great Croton Market was on one side of
my little store, the Grand Union on the other
side. AS it was the custom in those days
to have long racks in front Of the market with
beef, mutton and fowl displayed hanging
from them, it was no uncommon thing for
my store to be well hid on either side, and
many time / have gone and asked Henry
Tyson, fine friend Of mine, to let me have
little more gangway for the entrance to my
store. / would like to say now that never
have been thrown in with finer set of men,
and the people also, that came to market.
Joseph Kinch, a relative Of A. r. Stew
art, had of the stands in the Croton
Market, also Henry Tyson, who after the
market was taken down went to Fifth Avenue
and Forty-6fth Street and conducted market
near the Windsor Hotel, of which my friends
w. S. Hawk and George Weatherbee were
the proprietors, afterward taking over the
Hotel Manhattan Then came part Of row of
taxpayer" wooden buildings one story
high. Among the stores were those of J. Abra-
HAMS who kept cigar store, and Billy Wallis
who sold shirts and gents furnishings; the
Croton Market Frederick Brandies, fash
ionable grocer, famed for his Madeira wines
and high class wet goods Beyond him was
perhaps the most important store Of al1-the
Grand Union Market. This place kept the
astonishing number OF twenty-five clerks In
those days all New York did its own market
ing, and it was nothing unusual to see men
like Coils P. Huntington, Henry Clews, Levi
P. Morton, DR.. John W. Draper, Stephen Tying,
A. T. Stewart, Shepard Knapp, Frank Work,
Robert Bonner and others Of that class come
to the market before going downtown to Sc
lect their own supplies. New York was still
in the Gage Of Innocence as Mrs Wharton
says.
Next to the market, on the Lexington Ave
nue. side, was large wallpaper house, War
rem, Fuller & Lang, James Pinchot, the
father of Clifford Pinchot, Mr.. Roosevelt's
friend, being one of the firm. was quite
honored to have the formation Of their part
nership drawn up in my store and to be
witness to it and thereby brought into friend
ship with these men.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-04

the subway have made the struggle tor exist
ence serious problem.
The Grand Union grew out Of row of
private dwellings that stood on the site before
the opening of the depot One by one the
houses were absorbed, the walls knocked in and
the building annexed. These various addi-
tions introduced surprisingly numerous lot
of stairs in the most unexpected places in the
hotel You could always tell regular boarder
by the peculiar way he walked in the open
Every few steps he would climb an imaginary
flight of stairs or open an imaginary door.
When the hotel was finally torn down all these
old-tirners were qualified for parts in 1.-THE
Yellow Jacket"
But the management ran the place in an
orderly businesslike fashion and prospered
nightly. Mr.. Ford told of bis early days
one night at a hotel mems dinner. He said
"When l first plunged into this business
had foolish notion that there should be rules
for the conduct of hotel and that guests
should be expected to observe them. In conse-
quence, made some bad breaks / remember
once when nice, benevolent-looking old gen..
tleman had registered and was about to go to
his room l stepped up to him and, with an
engaging SMILE said: My dear sir, pardon
me for addressing you, but from the hayseed
which still fingers lovingly in your whiskers and
the fertilizer which yet adheres to your cheap
though serviceable army brogans hazard the
guess that you are an agriculturist and unac-
custonaed to the rules to be observed in one of
New Yorks palatial caravansaries. Permit
me- therefore to suggest that upon retiring to
your sumptuous 81 apartment you refrain from
blowing out the gas, as is the me-honored
custom of the residents Of the outlying dis
tricts, but turn the key thus
"He glared at me and went his way, and
noticed that the clerk, who had been standing
by, had broken out into cold sweat.
Why said he, sthat man is United States
Senator from Kansas; didn't you notice his
whiskers? He expected to stop at the Manhat-
tan, but CHANGING to see one of their advertise
ments, observed that the Grand Central Depot
was attached to the house and he was afraid
the locomotives would break his rest, so he
came down to this sequestered nook so
to be quiet and now you have driven him
away"
g. 1t makes no difference to me whether be
is Senator or not replied; I am no believer
in class distinctions. We cannot afford to give
any man a room for 81 and have him absorb e.
worth Of illuminating gas.'
It would take much more space for an ade
quate description of old Forty-second Street.
1t is easily the heart Of the New World in q
sense, as it directly connects with ali thecaps-
tails Of the Old World.