Milford chronicle., 1932-07-08
GLENDALE
SCENES OF LONG Aeo-No. 81
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estate of John Wagamon, deceased
woke that Christmas morning, in
the year 1862 to find the hack which
ran from Georgetown to Bridgeville
of very heavy structure, safely en-
seoned in his porch. How the boys
succeeded in getting this hack in the
porch will be revealed later. Mr..
Hazard with helpers tried in every
way to get the hack out of the
porch. They tried one side, and then
the other, but the top would not go
under the caves and they were won
dering how the boys did the trick,
when a boy who was standing by
watching the maneuvers said to Mr..
Hazard: eff you will take the
wheels off it will come out all
right" Yes, said Mr.. Hazard, you
must have had hand in putting it
in the porch or you would not know
how to get it out. That boy did not
stay long. He left without notice
with Mr.. Hazzard in close pursuit,
but he failed to catch him, but one
thing is certain that boy was not
seen in that portion of the town for
sometimes afterwards. The boy in
question was the writer, but he had
no hand in putting the stage coach
in Mr.. Hazards porch, but he was
present and saw how it was done;
that was why he so readily told Mr..
Hazard how to get it out.
The larger boys who did the trick
would have let Mr.. Hazard work all
day before telling him how to get it
out. They were the good old days
before the railroad came to George
town, when James Evans and Rufus
Warren used to drive the mail
coaches which connected George
town with Milford and Bridgeville;
there they met trains on the Della
ware Railroad and we think the
Junction and Breakwater Railroad
ran into Milford.
If persons wished to go south
there was another line of stage
coaches which connected at George
town and went as far south as
Dagsboro. Some of the inhabitants
of lower Sussex did not get their
mail oftener than twice week and
they were happy just the same.
We have already spoken of the
high wheel timber cart painted red
which was the property of Wesley
Wolfe, a prominent citizen of
Georgetown. This cart had always
been coveted by the boys and was
certain to be always to be found
each Christmas morning among the
vehicles in the public square. In
fact it would have put damper on
the boys doings, if they had failed to
put that particular cart in the pub
lie square, and each Christmas it
was located and when the time came
to move it, it was moved quickly
and placed where they thought it
belonged in the center of the public
square.
Mr.. Wolfe, the owner of the cart,
had gotten tired of sending his team
and pulling it home, and sometimes
it would remain a fixture in the
square for weeks before Mr.. Wolfe
would send his team after the cart
-as we said before Mr.. Wolfe was
tired and said to himself, I will fool
the boys this Christmas; 1 will take
the cart out to my farm nearby and
chain it to large pine, and I will
defy the boys to get it. Mr.. Wolfe
did as he said he would and took |
the cart out to his farm tenanted by |
Joseph Capse, and chained it to an |
immense pine with a large timber
chain and locked it as he thought |
securely and went to bed Christmas |
Eve never thinking for moment |
that the boys would have that cart
in the square the next morning.
Joe Capse, the tenant, was a
friend of the town boys and as soon
as Mr.. Wolfe had finished locking
the cart, he went to the leader of
the boys and told him what had
been done. He also told the leader
to get his gang together and come
to his home about twelve o'clock, to
bring axes along and they would cut
the pine down and secure the cart
and put it as usual in the public
square. They did so-they numbered
about twenty big hearty fellows and
they proceeded to the home of
Capse and commenced their work,
assisted materially by the tenant,
who was used to handling an axe.
The boys or young men worked long
and faithfully with blistered hands,
they perservered until the pine fell
and the cart was secured and with
the chain locked to one wheel found
it's usual place the next morning in
the public square.
Mr.. Wolfe, when informed the
next morning that his cart was in
the square, could not believe it and
not until he had seen the cart was
he convinced. He said then and
there that he would never remove
the cart from the square, which he
never did; but after remaining |
there for months, some one removed
it and carried it home where it !
stood out in the weather until it
rotted down, but it is said that Mr..
Wolfe was so mad that ne never
Used the cart again for any purpose
and the mention of the cart to him
would bring out a flow of language
which old fashioned Methodists, of
which he was one, was not permit
ed to use in the old days. I
The young men who belonged to
he gang which secured the cart, be- !
,ame afterwards some of the best /
.itizens the State had. Some become s
loted lawyers and one reached the
,fice of Chief Justice of the Stata '
yourts, and s9me merchants of high |
tanding and some noted farmers S
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