South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-03-06
FIND NO GENUINE
COPY OF ULSTER
COUNTY GAZETTE
Collectors of Antique News
papers Flooded With Wash
ingtOn Funeral Accounts"

CHICAGO. March 5.-Perennialy
and usually about this time copies
OF the most noted newspaper forgery
of the country-the Ulster County
Gazette OF Jan. (. 1900. with its ac-
count OF Washington's funeral
comes TO light The only ether
newspaper imitation of the kind
that compares is the duplication Of
the Nicksburg Citizen printed en-
wall paper during the siege OF 1862.
II doubt if there is a genuine copy
OF the Ulster County Gazette OF that
date in existence" Edward y. Henry.
who is in charge Of the University Of
Chicago's collection of old news pa
pers. said here today. AT any rate.
L have never seen one. nor do know
Of anybody who has.
"Wilberforce Games Of the New
York public library told me half a
dozen years ago that ne had made
the most careful examination OF
copies OF the Gazette submitted TO
him as geluine-even 10 chemical
analysis Of the Paper-and mad all
most come TO the conclusion that
there never was an original.
AT the Library of Congress was
told they had 26 different editions.
The New York Pubic library lists
nine i'm its latest catalog. We have
three each different from the other.
Il suppose there was once a gem
uine Ulster County Gazette of the
date named. from which all these
subsequent copies have been made.
The fact that the Wisconsin State
Historical society, which has the
largest collection of OLD newspapers
in the middle west. lists two copies
of an Ulster Cousty Gazette for Aug
IS and Sept. %, 1904 strengthens
this belief.
The account Of Washington's
funeral is accurate and interesting.
No fault can be found on that score.
although I think reports of the fun
eral in other papers Of the same time
are in several instances still more
striking.
Ingenius Printer Profits.
1T may have been that many
years after the funeral some printer
probably in the vicinity of Hcw
York, for Kingston. UustCr county is
ON the Hudson. thought to produce
something of interest to others and
profit 20 himself by making a fac
simile of an original account Had
he taken a New York paper. the du-
plication could have been instantly
detected and perhaps for this reason
The obscure Ulster County paper
was pade To- serve.
The trick evidently went well and
perhaps it was this same printer that
put out many of the subsequent ad-
ditions That is all supposition. Of
course. but there is no doubt of the
multitude of editions Their genu-
ineness only an expert can pass ON
I'm most cases. The test is the pa
per Most o. these papers were made
before 1880. but not early enough
TO have used the fine rag paper Of
1900. That soft paper will be good
for many hundred years vet while
theearliest Ulster County Gazette we
have is already badly discolored
Turn Up i'm Old Trunks.
Variations are found i'm the print
ing of the different editions of the
same date. In two of our copies the
name of the paper is set i'm italics.
i'm the other it is not. The enter
prising publisher of the newest of
our forEeries added the word copy
right
Perhaps the people of the dag
recognized the Ulster County Ga