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— EL Ta meio
¥ eritent because off the elimination year
3 of! shot ad i
Clubs a8 & Tul) Bave bean very
liberal in muking donations to
various civie nl cou
i to
off earningll and the
profit over the lar. after
and expenses a out,
indt be too gral Unless the
A job of this kind is no cinch ward | theaw
"In some of the “rlassier” places gives the club god business sd
they must be soguainted with all | ministration. st the end of
the ingredients which go into the
| fancy drinks called for today. In
the smaller places while fancy
drinks are not calls for too much |
L Lthey are almost compelled to be
(able to memorize the wishes of
every customer A hartendsy
asually will pour the drink of
your choles the minute you walk
into his establishment. This of
| course, pleases the customer to no
Lend
A good bartender or steward
: usuaily very alert. he tries io
I discuss the subject that is roost
| pleasing to his customer. He also
Lis compelled to listen 10 many
gripes put forth by his customers
Could Disclose Many Récrets
He gets well jidquainted with | §
the domestic affairs of his clien-
tele and if the men back of the
bar were not of hi character
they probably coil disclose many
secrets brought to them when
tipping of glasses is frequent dur.
ing the course of an evening
By ... :
STATE SENATOR
HALUSKA
LACES ¢/ INTEREST |
Jn CAMBRIA COUNTY
N Oy N | weeks zince we wrote our Biir- tablishment they are referred to
By MAHLO BA GARY ER per Story.” it i quite spparnt as hartenders
THE JOHNSTOWN FLOOD
| that a sinister movement is under
It is not our purpose fo revive; lo meet its companion the Stony- | $8¥ - Ww Jew fe Wie woilid
horrid memories of those who are creek and then hasten to make o|foop or i ral 8 ge regard
survivors or relatives of those larger river the Conemaugh. ink pl re yp i)
who were lost in the devastating That was not rue on the night | one toward
flood of May 31, 1888 of the Great Flood when it Dé | 0. barbers |
The fact remains that during came very hastily =a monster | The Sve bars |
the night of the 3list of May one designed to the work of death pers of Patton. |
of the most horrible and destruc- and destruction. The waters of | mentioned fn
tive floods ever witnessed by the the Stonvoereek wire being pushed | our column. are 1
world took piace Johnstown is upwards by the rising Conemaugh our personal &
peculiarly situated in & circuitous Much of Kernville was destroyed (friends : we
valley with two gaps leading into by the rising walters The impact | have the deep-
it The one gap has fiowing however, was on the Conemaugh | est respect for"
through it the stonycreek River side wherdk Cambria Iron stroc- | their mtegrity
[which rises in Somerset County. | tures, iron #¢ hood buildings ang we Kad
ft flows through the Moxham churches, houses steel rails were that the ow
| spetion of Johnstown and has {or torn asunder with Ihe bi of Py Ry out
i western hank the steep Weat- those in the waters or holding on |
oe hill and on its enstern side to rocls and clinging to any mov. Phy PrUF=on © Sen. Halas
the city. The Little Conemaugh ing things with hope of being re he ’ pinit in which they were
enters through the gap an the scound as floated on the! made and that none of them hitve |
male lineage right. It drains the soiithern part crest of waters Logs wire ' pe off.
hist they also number hundreds of Northern of the county. High hills keep it iron roofs detatehed from the But “others: Who are not em
folks descended down the family tree by daugh ters of | confined in the narrow valley houses and horas, wagons and gaged in this profession are reully
ery of the original pioneer. He was John Jacob Bender | The Pennsvivania Railroad debris of ray oh frmaiie Jon Trying to make this an ise
Jocated along the highway between Strittmatter's Corner and tracks follow ihe river level of cription ey 2 y form 3 yo | Which, of course, in the final an-
at the other side of Bradiey Junction. But of more interest the Little Conemaugh Much of A frm ri Was armed all gives is none of their affair
18 the legend of his son, Emmericus. who located near Carrolitown {the then Cambria
fron Works The Stonvereek | co vever. we realize that a
: were located along
Legend handed down from generation to generation refers to
ita borders And a whirl pool resulted from the! 4 uming man will grasp al a
| Johnstown fills a triangular space swirling waters as it wrought | epnw noping that clinging ante
Mn ss “Squire” Bender: He died in 1800 and was perhaps the I= tar onto ‘the Mill sides. Ini its burden laden as it were ght
man in Cambria County who had the distinction of being |
JOHN J.
“As|See It”
P. Cammarats. stewards: in a private licensed eo
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Prices!
Ome of the pioneer names of Northern Cambria County is that
- of “Bender.” Descendants of the early Bender pioneers are all about
. 85. Not only are they the folks who have carried on the name
they
the
Ro. while some people may ook
down on this professdon. we oan
anly say "hat the most successful
club or private Kednasee depends
entirely upon the man who dis
penses the merchandise Especial
iv is this true with the various
clube in our county since the in
some has been limited to a great |
BE
te both rivers with houses Ravor The waters churned with same may be leneficial to him
i traveling into the oily one does IY on its mad waters The waters
If our criticizes tn Patton have
{ nothing of moe value to discuss
ap Boll rivers merge at The lyou © understand what
not see it because of : Yh Seep Point and some rads foet he | they rd really do if something
| valley in which it is jocated Until =. = 0 She famous stone arch of great importdnce would de
| you are right in the town bridge built and used by the PRR ivelop fo give them the opporiun-
The entire region in which as it crosses over the Rig Cone ity with which to make political
waters enter Johnstown 100 ARF _ on It was here that the wa hay.” So much for that
lin rather a deep valley. On the ters did much of its diabolical Barmens Need Qualifications
t Conemaugh side we find the destruction Houses, men, women Now we mentioned | evra
‘South Fork branch coming IN sogeen jogs animals boards weeks ago that we would say a
from the south merging with he 0 steel anit ron and horses | word about the bartenders of our
Little Conemaugh at South Fork. and wagons wer forced into the
The South Fork dam is located hiripoal of death and destruction
community. The men engaged in | BE BA RY 1s
. this profession are alse, mes of |
on this branch about Lhree mer made more so Decanse the con
{south of the Borough of SOUR o_o vion caught rire The great
high caliber amid above all must | EEE 3 LUTHER
Lr,
Fork. The Little Conemaugh flows c.f water with its burden Hang
be possessed with certain gual. | BEE
southwdstward through the deep 4 ot budge the stone bridge TTON 377)
of
the
a a... EL wionsn.
fications so ax to be able io leep [HN Ie
their trade and 2ill net sflend Lhasa
OM
valley with hills on either
Here many of the unfortunate vie |
varying from 1000 feet to 1406, wore swired into a fiery
the river bed. The
South Fork was about 400 feet
pigher than the City of Johns
town. The Little Conemaugh foi
jows the valley through the will
of Mineral Point, Frankiin
Conemaugh and through Wood.
above
furnace and met their death In
it
flo was the asrrengih of the
now famous Stone Bridge Water
was running over 1t for the arches |
could not take are of the flow |
There was a surging and grinding |
The miracle or the entire dire | §
ithe clientele
Usually, the men in
ube
in oii
RE TT AT
PER FR EE LF Je | E #
thin profession are referred HW aw
A
WEEK ' END OF
vale into the city proper. The _ ihe aw grewsoms speciache
Stonycreek and the Little Cone: 0 up caught in the impact |
maugh merge at what is known and whirlpool The mad waters!
as Point and form the Cone... 4 against the Stone Bridge!
maugh River. The river takes its oi nut move it. It was here
course through the famous Cone: .., (ne great whirl pool of wa}
maugh Gap with high hills on... gouggied to go om its way!
either side for a distance of 8... yu, impeded by the Stone)
number of miles. It flows through pop. The smell Durning |
Sandpatch, Nineveh, Lock Port woest of baddies, mattresses and
and on to Blairsville. The entire 0 etc. cilused the air to
Conema the Allegheny Fiver , ome impregrited with the foul |
and the rivers were involved... ..unsting from the burn!
in the devastating results of he... aris enmiise at the Stone
Bridge. The smoxe hovered over
The entire region or Water shed 1g victims and infested the alr
of Johnstown ex I a most for miles around It was several
downfall of rain for several days after the encompass of the |
to the breaking of the wyter that the charred bodies at
ground was completely (he bridge couli be removed. In
‘Weavy rains THe the morning of the fateful might |
river Waa overflowing ,verything seensed ominous and!
natown while al postentious and s great pall hang- |
time the Conemaugh. ing over the wrecked city i
s rampage. The area News travel] siowly in those §-
the walter shed of the... News of the flood reached
branch Axlends to the op village of |Eiton through its
of Kickey's Ridge prstman who carried mail from |
et called Chemtaut Ridge Salix to Johnstown and back, This
ft iv a wast ares of WRIMPrOved ar morning he did not get
jand and at that time heavily .. 0, Johnstown Post Office.
forested. The musi strumieta If any of my readers survived
became surging rive the Great Flood I will be pleased
of its waters into the foun Fork (to Bear from you and arrange #
mm. | cemference. The decendants of any
It was eminent that’ a flood ony who were lost, too are in
might occur. The breast of Ihe oy | hope to hear from some
now overflowing dam Was care: oo.
fully watched and reports given Strange as it may seem in read
earlier in the day preceding the .. 4. Johnstown Tribune for
flood to authorities mM JORNStOWR. o 0 oguy evening. Mar 29, 1952
A report was given at the ward” Fifty
y, Mar. 20, 1902, we read
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