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A STAGE STATION OF NEW ENGLAND'S
PIONEER DAYS
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HE old coach days In this
country are long since gone, but in
many places throughout the United . 3 liar quick-dissolving prop-
States relics of that romantic era fe La on oy \ n Jayer Aspirin. The
in our history are still preserved i oe ; 3 ; { | ike dissolve aimost IN-
as object lessons to us Americans ch. And
he y ! 4 yok ig . h wractically instant re-
and air- § ra : a : 6d Fos 7 i : ief ’ ¢ otf wai :
afe relicl—itissaid.
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mes so fast because of
who live in the automobile
of the hardships endured
by our pioneer ancestors in their
journeys through the wilderness,
ost familiar these is
y and battle-scarred old stage
near the mu
in Yellowstone
plane age
inds on the lawn
National par mail
coach, the fir in Mar wm, once ran between
Helena and me or anothe
er carried such tinguished passengers as Gen,
President Chester Arthur, the first Presi.
dent to visit Yellowstone k (in 1883) and
General Sherman, ing his inspection trip
into Montana In 1877.
Although th aint is scaling off and the
curtainiess windows stare sadly at the passer.
by, there is a certain pride about this old relie
of the early days and well the might be, With
General Shermar ward and “he-ma
ner in contre f » 1 x that
the power, tan
Helena, Mont, } niles, was once negotiated
in the record time of this coach,
There were frequent changes of horses but
P. B. Clark, proprietor of the
drove the entire di
A year or so ago another of these
stage com
pany,
tance
following press dispatch from Washington:
Two of the country's most widely known
comedians, Will Rogers and Fred Stone, have
presented "the dignified Smithsonian institu.
tion something for which It has long been
gearching—a rare old Concord stage coach
built in 18235.
5 has arrived at the museum after jour
neyi from San Francisco to New York by
way = the Panama canal on an army trans
port, thence by boat down the coast and up
the Potomac.
Under orders of the quartermaster gen-
eral, the creaking old relic, with paint peel
ing off the wheels and red leather upholstery
badly worn, was handled as carefully as
though it were a jewel. It came uncrated and
was rolled proudly through the streets of the
Capital to its final august abode.
For some ti the arts and industries see.
tion of the Smithsonian Institution has been
unting for a Concord coach, Very few of
these early vehicles are left as most went to
pieces from hard use.
About a year ago museum officials saw a
picturesque coach which was the property of
Fred Stone, They asked Stone later to give
the coach to the muse He replied that
it had been given his friend Will Rogers and
was in Beverly Hills, Calif,
The Smithsonian Institution began writing
iring Rogers. A month ago the com.
ian briefly stated through his secretary that
the high old earriage which once sheltered
hoop skirts and poke bonnets, was theirs
Lest the treasure glip from them the museum
officials promptly dispatched a bill of lading
with instructions to load the coach on an
army transport with all speed.
Now they are trying to get from Stone or
Rogers a history of the relic, far have
had to be content with the small brass plate
attached to the coach and inscribed: *G. Ger.
ald, Blacksmith, Concord, 1825."
The coach is of the type used to earry
passengers over the national highways In early
days. «Its railed top is reminiscent of the
armed guardsmen who perched above the
passengers on the lookout for robbers in the
then Wild West,
It now takes its place beside Colonel Lind-
bergh’'s famous plane, “We” and a “hobby
horse” presented by Buster Keaton, The lat.
ter is a quaint mode of early transportation
somewhat resembling a modern kiddie car
and propelled by the feet.
but so
coach was featured in a press dispatch from
Las Animas, as follows:
One of the famous stage coaches of the
Bouthwest has been sold to pay a storage bill.
The old coach which once operated between
Leavenworth and Denver and whose passen-
gers include Horace Greeley, President Grant
and other national personages, was sold at
sheriff's sale for £4500 to E. LL. Elder. This
ig just another chapter in its interesting his
tory.
Years ago the coach was purchased by the
Bent County Falr association, When the an-
nual celebration was discontinued the old
vehicle was stored In the barn on the I. OG.
Kurtz farm. A few years ago the coach was
used In a celebration and then was parked
backed of Elder's garage. Later he eleaned
the coach and kept it in the store room.
According to prairie tradition it is the coach
used by Mr. Greeley In 1850, It is known as
the Greeley coach, The old conch was built
in Concord, N. IL. In spite of its abuse the
old vehicle is sturdy and much of its equip.
ment is serviceable. The trip from the Mis.
pour! river to Denver required six days and
nights and horses were changed every ‘12
hours,
The old stage at one time was operated
by Barlow & Sanderson, This was in the early
00s. Bpottswood & MeClelland were the pext
owners of the vehicle. In the early "70s, 8. W.
Nott purchased the old conveyance and used
Colo.
it on a stage line out of Denver. About the
time of the excitement in Deadwood the Gree.
ley coach went Into service on a route to
Elkhorn.
In 1873 bandits held up the stage, riddled
it with buliets and killed three passengers,
The driver, Jack Quinn, escaped with the
mail and his exploit is mountain country his
tory. The bullet holes are visible in the old
rounded body,
Nobody knows when the old stage made its
first overland trip from Leavenworth. At the
time of the Civil war It was in service be
tween the river and Denver. Previous to that,
it went over the Santa Fe trail and was no
stranger in Santa Fe. Many buffalo were shot
from its hurricane deck, for it served as the
original “rubber neck™ wagon In the South
west, when the tourists from the East went to
sample the thrills In the wide open spaces,
a stage coach recalls the classic sto
Monk,
the coach In which the famous edit
from Carson City, Nev, over
Placerville, Calif., The story of that
trip is told by Wesley Rtout as follows:
Uncle Horace was the most generous of
men with advice. Thousands of readers held
their breath until he gave them the signal
to exhale: and If governments blundered or
the rainfall was excessive, it was not for lack
of Uncle Horace's omniscient counsel, Actus.
tomed to cosmic affairs, Greeley saw in Monk
only one more Jehu smelling of horses,
Leaning out the window and peering over
his steel spectacles, the editor informed the
driver that he expected to be in Placerville
on the dot, having promised to speak briefly
there before going on to Sacramento, and
wishing to eatch the connecting coach,
“Yea, gir!” said Monk blandly, and started
with a lurch which upset all, The early miles
were upgrade and the pace moderate, but
once Monk topped the Sierras, he opened the
throttle. The normal gait down this alpine
corkscrew was as breath-taking as a shoot.
the-chutes; what this must have been iz bet.
ter left to the imagination. Greeley made
three attempts to get his head out the win.
dow again and was thrown for a loss each
time. On the fourth down, he succeeded and,
his wreath of white chin whiskers bristling
with anger, he shrieked a command to slow
down,
“Keep your seat, Horace,” Monk ealled
back. “I'll get you there on time"
He did. This is the story, at any rate, still
told as gospel. An admiring populace pre.
sented Monk with a heavy gold watch upon
which was inscribed “Keep your seat, Horace”
and thereafter Hank was the commodore of
the fleet,
ern Impatience was as likely as not to be
squelched with this quotation,
Greeley had ample time to advise the public
of Placerville from the veranda of the Cary
house, The name of Monk did not appear in
this speech or In Greeley’s book, but the latter
does refer to the ride: “Yet along this mere
shelf, with hardly a place to each mile where
two meeting wagons can pass“—(reeley Is
writing as of 1850--"the mall stage was driven
at the rate of ten miles an hour—in one
instance eleven-—or just as fast as four wild
horses could draw it. Our driver was, of
course, skillful, but had he met a wagon sud-
denly on rounding one of the sharp points
we were constantly passing, a fearful erash
was unavoidable. Had his horses seen fit to
run away--as they did once on the unhooking
of a trace, but at a place where he had room
to rein them In out of the road on the upper
side—~1 know that he could not have held
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were: “You te forace Gree
to send me
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One of the first acquaintances Goodman
i
across in New ork was the editor
Greeley, 1 have a me + for you from
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Greeley glare
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other man In
Although we
coach as a vehicle
tier. the old Concord coach, h HE of which
became so g
West that ne it,
was a New England product. It was mad y the
Abbott-Downi H.,
a firm that ha
business, foun Browning in 1813
po ried from Englan Coach bui
come an accepted | ish tradit
eenth century, and 1 !
ers had served their
country
The close of the Rex
ence to this country not ofily In
in Industrial domains This was evider
ding had
n the Eight.
| enach build
on broug
development of transportation, The
lish coach was not well
and often precipitous
adapted
. with her
White mom 4 nee one colony, we demand
grew for a vehicel
comfortable ns wmzible i » steepest and
rockiest grades, h ‘oach developed early in
the last of Concord met
this want.
The body of the coach was built of stout
white oak, braced with iron bands It was sus.
pended upon two
tending lengthwise of the coach and attached at
each end to a standard protruding up from the
axle. These thoroughbraces were made of
straps of leather placed on top of each other
to a thickness of about three inches This leath.
er swing wns used in the absence of steel
springs to absorb the jars, and It permitted the
coach to rock slightly forward and back. Be.
hind the body -was the triangular “boot” for
mail, express or baggage, and at the front,
under the driver's seat, was another leather
compartment (the front “boot”) for the ear
riage of similar articles.
The coach had three inside seats, eapable of
holding nine passengers. The front seat faced
backward, and the middie one was often a
mere bench-shanped contrivance that eonld be
removed when the floor of the coach was needed
for mail or express, There was room for an
other passenger (sometimes still another was
squeezed In) on the box with the driver and the
messenger; and on some of the coaches a farthe
er seat was set up above and behind the driver,
capable of holding three passengers. An occas
fonal threepassenger sent at the rear of the
top was not unknown; and on such a stage 17
passengers might be found,
There was frequent crowding, especially when
one or more of the passengers happened to be
of unusual girth. Raphael Pumpelly. who trav.
eled over the Butterfield route from Tipton, Mo,
to Tucson, "Ariz, In what was presumably a
Concord coach, gives us this picture:
“The coach was fitted with three sents, and
these were occupied by nine passengers. As
the occupants of the front and middle seats
faced each other, it was necessary for these
gix people to Interlock their knees; and there
being room Ingide for only 10 of the 12 logs,
outside of the conch was graced by a foot. now
dangling near the wheel, now trying In vain
to find a place of support. An unusually heavy
mail in the boot, by weighing down the rear.
kept those of us who were on the front seat
constantly bent forward, thus, by taking away
all support from our backs, rendering res! at
all times out of the question”
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