THE TIMES, NEW BLOOMFIELD, PA. MAY M, L878.
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RAILROADS.
PHILADELPHIA AND READING R.R
ARRANGEMENT OF PAB8F.NGERTRAINB,
November 1877.
TRAINS LEAVE HAKKI8BUHO A8 FOLLOWS
For New York. at 8.20, 8.10 . m. fcOOp. m.,
and 7.6ft p. m.
For Philadelphia, at 8.20, 8.10, 9.45 a.m.
and 3.67 p. in. ,
For Reading, at 6,20, 8.10, 9.45 a. m. and 2.00
3.67 and 7. M. . . j . ..
For Pottsvllle at 8.20, 8.10 a. m.. and S.B7
6, m., and via Schuylkill and Susquehanna
ranch at 2.40 p. m.
For Auburn via 8. ft B. Br. at 5.10 a. m.
For Allentown, at S.iit), 8.10a. in., and at 2.00,
3.57 and 7.68 p. m. ..... . ,
The 6.20, 8.10 a. m., 3.57 and 7.55 p. m., trains
have through cars for New York.
The 8.20, 8.10a.m.. and 2.00 p.m.. trains have
through cars tor Philadelphia.
BUNDAYR :
For New York, at 5.20 a. in.
For Allentown and Way stations at 8.20a.m.
For Heading, Philadelphia and Way tltationsat
1.45 p. in.
TRAINS FOR HARRlsnURG, LEAVE A8 FOL
LOWS ! ,
Leave New York, at 8.4ft a. in., 1.00, 5.30 and
7.45 p. m.
Leave Philadelphia, at 9.15 a. m. 8.40, and
7.20 p. ui.
Leave Heading, at tUO, 7.10. 11.20 a. m. 1.30,
6.15 and 1-.. 35 p. in.
Leave Pottsvllle, at 6.10, 9.15 a. in. and 4.35
p. in.
And via Schuylkill and Susquehanna Branch at
8.15 a. in.
Leave Auburn vtaH. H. r. at 12 noon.
Leave Allentown, at 5,50, y.iisa. in., 12.15
4.30 and 9.03 p. m.
SUNDAYS:
Leave New York, at 3.30 p. m.
Leave Philadelphia, at 7.20 p. m.
Leave Reading, at 4.40, 7.40, a. m. and 10.35
P Leave Allentown, nt2 30 a. m and 9.05 p. m.
J. E. WOOTEN, (ien. Manager.
C. G. Hancock, Genernl Ticket Agent.
tDoes not un on Mondays.
Via Morris aud Essex R. R.
Peunsjivaiiia R. It. Time Table.
NEWPORT STATION.
On and arter Monday, June 25th, 1877, Pas
senger trains will run as follows:
EAST.
Mimintown Aco. 7.32 a. m., d jllv except 8unday.
Johnstown Ex. 12.22 P. M., dally " Sunday
Mall, 6.54 P. m., dally exceptSuuday
Atlantic Express, 9.54p.m., Hag, daily.
WEST.
WayPass. 9.08 A. m., daily,
Mall 2.43 p. M. daily exceptSunday.
Millllntown Acc. 6.55 p. m. dailyexcept Sunday.
Pittsburgh Express, 11.57P. M (Flag) daily, ex
cept Sunday.
Paclllo Express, 6.17 a. m., daily (flag)
Trains are now run by Philadelphia time, which
is 13 minutes (aster than Altoona time, and 4 min
utes slower than New York time.
J.J. BARCLAY, Agont.
DUNCANNON STATION.
On and after Monday, June 25th, 1877, trains
will leave Duucannon. as follows:
EASTWARD.
Mlffllntown Aco. dally except Sundayat 8.12a. m.
Johnstown Ex. 12.5 i p. m., daily except Sunday.
Mail 7.30 P. M " " "
Atlantic Express 10.20 p. m., dally (flag)
WESTWARD.
Way Passenger, 8.38 a. m., daily
Mail, 2.09 p. m, dailyexceptSunday.
Mimintown Ace. dally except Sunday at 6.16 p.m.
Pittsburg Ex. dailyexceptSunday (flag) 11.33P. m.
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OLD TIMES.
INTERESTING INCIDENTS.
FIFTY YE AltS AGO malls and trav
eler's from New York, Philadel
phia, Baltimore and the Ohio river, at
Pittsburgh and Wheeling, were carried
by stage linen largely owned and man
aged by James Reeslde, " the Land Ad
miral." In 181 he began to run aline of stages
from llngerstown, Md., to MeConnells
town, Pa., and a few years afterward he
became one of the largest mnll con
tractors In the United States.
He possessed a grand physique, being
six feet four and a half Inches high, and,
without any superfluous flesh, measured
flfty-three Inches about the chest, and
weighed two hundred and twenty-five
pounds. His hair and whiskers were
sandy red, and his complexion florid.
Great enterprise, remarkable executive
ability, strict Integrity, frankness of
speech and open-handed generosity were
his marked characteristics. He was the
intimate friend of GeneralJackson, the
associate of Clay, Crittenden, Benton, '
McLean and other distinguished men of
that period.
Shortly after the war of 1812 James
Reeslde was concerned in establishing a
daily line of stages across the Allegheny
mountains. At that time there was a
turnpike from Baltimore to Frederick
and Hngerstown, and that portion be
tween Boonsboro' and llagerstown was
the first piece of rnocadamized road In
the United States. From llagerstown,
West, to Wheeling there were no turn
pikes. The charter hud been just ob
tained, and they were about to begin
work. The first through stage Hue be
tween Baltimore and the Ohio river
was organized in relays. These relays
were to lodge the first night at llagers
town, the second at Cumberland, the
third at Uniontown, and the fourth at
Wheeling.
The stoges were of the old-fashioned
kind, somewhat similar to the modern
ambulance, open in front, with a mere
rack behind to hold one or two trunks.
Persons rarely traveled in those days
with a trunk. The passengers all faced
the team, on a level with the driver.
Saddlebags, then the usual baggage of
travelers, were slung around the stand
ards which supported the roof. It was
the custom at night when they
reached the lodging place to give
their saddlebags Into the custody of the
landlord, whose wife put them under
her bed and delivered them to the trav
elers in the morning. Travelers often
carried largo sums In this way.
Shortly afterward the construction of
the turnpike between llagerstown and
Cumberland was begun. The bill au
thorizing the national road passed Con
gress In 1802, but the construction of it
was not begun until 1815. At that time
there was no coaches running across the
Allegheny mountains day or night and
that was the condition of affairs until
about 1827.
Mr. Reeside having given the Post
Office Department great satisfaction in
the South, Judge McLean urged him to
take the contract for carrying the mails
between Philadelphia and New York.
This was In the latter part of 1820. Mr.
Reeslde had not the capital tQ stock the
line and the money was advanced to
him by John 81atterthwalte,of Lebanon,
Ohio.
lleeside put on his line, and between
1827 and 1834 reduced the time from 27
to 12 hours to the trip.
In the meantime he became the con
tractor for the mails between Baltimore
and Wheeling, via. llagerstown and the
National road, and from Philadelphia,
Harrlsburg, Chambersburg and Bedford
to Pittsburgh, upon which routes, prior
to his taking hold of the lines, no mail
had been carried at night. He Intro
duced the system of running day and
night between Philadelphia and Balti
more aud the West, reducing the time
from four days to fifty-two hours, and
thereby earned the soubriquet of "Land
Admiral," bestowed upon upon him by
Joseph R. Chandler, of the "United
States Gazette," who, in giving him
that title, said that he could leave Phil
adelphia with a hot Johnnie-cake In his
pocket and reach Pittsburgh before it
would grow cold.
The carrying capacity of mall coaches
between Philadelphia and New York
was at first limited to six passengers,
leaving Philadelphia at 2:30 P. M., and
reaching New York the following morn
ing at 5 o'clock. This time was subse
quently reduced to twelve hours, the
mail leaving at 5 P, M., and arriving at
5A.M, ; '
This service was performed by land
the year round. The day servlce.at that
time, between Philadelphia and New
York, was performed . by the steamboat
Philadelphia, Captain Abijah Jenkins,
leaving the foot of Chestnut street, PL 11
delphia, at 6 A. M., running to Trenton,
Across the Peninsula from Trenton to
New Brunswlok, mails and passengers
were carried by coaches.
It rarely required more than four
coaches, carrying nine passengers each.
These coaches connected at Long Dock,
one mile below New Brunswick, with the
steamboat for New York, of which Cor
nelius Vanderbllt was Captain.
During the winter season, when navi
gation was suspended, the travel requir
ed only a dally line of two coaches, car
rying nine pnsi!iigqrs each, between
Philadelphia and New York. These
coaches were, in the beginning, of the
egg-shaped, or round top model, without
any railing or capacity on top, and with
but a very slight boot behind for bag
gage. The mall was carried in the front
hoot.
While Mr. Iteeslde was carrying the
mail between New York and Philadel
phia, the celebrated controversy over
carrying the malls on Sunday through
Pennsylvania and New Jersey began.
Violent opposition was made by relig
ious denominations, and frequently at
tempts were made to stone the coaches
carrying the malls. Chains were placed
across the streets In Philadelphia, which
compelled the coaches to stop until the
guard removed the obstruction. These
occurrences excited high feeling, and
the subject of carrying the malls on Sun
day was discussed In the celebrated Sun
day mail report made to Congress by
lllchard M. Johnson,' giving him the
reputation which had much to do with
his election as Vice President of the
United States.
Col. Dave Crockett was another inti
mate friend of Col. Iteeslde, and fre
quently spent days at his house in Phil
adelphia. Speaking of Crockett, John
E. Reeslde says :
" I was a young stripling then, and it
was my duty to drive Colonel Crockett
about the city and out iti the country on
business and pleasure. I was with him
when he visited Derringer's shop, then
on Fourth street In Philadelphia. Der
ringer wa3 the maker of the rifle and
pistol. I used to drive Crockett out
across the Wire Bridge, over the Schuyl
kill, where the bridge to Fairmount
Park, above the Fairmount Water
Works now stands, to Harding's tavern,
then a great place of resort, where he
would try the guns and pistols.. The
rifle and pistols, which Crockett had
with him at Alamo, were purchased of
Derringer, and tried, during one of our
visits to Harding's tavern. Crockett
was a famous shot, and I have freqently
seen him shoot at a silver dollar at a
hundred yardB and hit every time. He
was fond of talking with the country
people, and sometimes got up shooting
matches, at which he got very full.
For the purpose of Bhowing how rap
Idly the mails could be transported be
tween Philadelphia and New York, Col.
Iteeslde at one time ordered his men to
make a trial-trip, and the moll was car
ried from Jersey City, on this occasion,
to the Philadelphia Post Office, by land,
in eight hours and forty minutes.
When Becside was carrying the mail
between Philadelphia and New York,on
its arrival at Jersey City it was taken
across the North river in an ordinary
yawl.
Col. Joseph Dodd, recently deceased,
who was was for many years connected
with the New York Post Office, received
It at Jersey City, and on landing on the
New York side carried it up iu a wheel
barrow to the post office.
Samuel L. Gouverneur was then post
master, and Barnabas Bates, afterward
the great advocate of cheap postage, was
the assistant. Sometimes Col. Dodd had
a colored man named Harry Rodgers to
assist him in rowing the yawl across the
river. Rodgers on one of the trips stole
a letter containing a hundred dollar
note, and was detected in offering it in
payment for a drink. This theft led to
the enactment of a law by Congress,
that no colored person shall be employed
In the post office. Tills law remained
on the statute books until a few years
ago, when Senator Sumner had It re
pealed. Charles Forrester, now superintendent
of the newspaper department in the
New York Post Office, was one of Col.
Dodd's old associates. He tells a story
illustrating the abuse of the franking
privilege In those days, about Colonel
Iteeslde bringing a horse all the way
from Washington to New York, tied
behind the stage coach, the horse hav
ing been franked through by a member
of Congress.
The office of the Reesido Mall Coach
Line in New York was at 1 Cortlandt
Street, advertised by Thomas, Whitfield,
the agent, as being "opposite a pump of
good water." In Philadelphia it was at
28 South Third street" The Red Of
fice" opposite Congress Hall, where a
nurtured people often congregated to
see a mail coach start for New York,
with the driver and guard clad in red
uniform.
When Reeslde was contractor for the
mails going out of Philadelphia for Bal
tlmore. Wheeling, Pittsburgh, Reading,
Pottsvllle and New York, a robbery of
the mails was committed, which was the
sensation of the time. The mall for
Klin ber ton, a short line running out of
Philadelphia, was robbed. A few days
subsequent the important mall for Read
ing and Pottsvllle was robbed at the
Junction of Turner's lane and the ltidge
road, near which point Glrard , College
now stands. The driver of the coach
was Charles Wllhower. The coach con
tained nine passengers. It was stopped
at the mouth of Turner's lane by three
men Porter, Poteet and Wilson at
about 2 o'clock In the morning. They
forced the passengers to get out and
stand In line. Wilson and Poteet
watched the team and driver while Por
ter robbed the passengers. After rifling
the mail they allowed the coach to go
on. Porter and Wilson were arrested bv
Reeslde ; Poieet by a man named Andy
McLaln, then a policeman In Philadel
phia. Poteet was remanded to the Mary
land penitentiary ,from which he had es
caped, to serve out the remainder of a
sentence of eleven years. He died before
the expiration of his sentence. Wilson
turned State's evidence, and Porter was
hanged on Cherry Hill in Philadelphia.
It is said thut Oeneral Jackson was In
fluenced to commute the sentence of
Wilson to a few years Imprisonment be
cause of a service rendered to him many
years previous on a race course In Ten
nessee. Gen. Jackson liked horse rac
ing, and on this occasion he was back
ing,splrltedly,the favorite. Wilson, who
had never seen him before, but had a
great admiration for him, watched his
opportunity, and when unobserved told
Old Hickory that he had better with
draw his bets, or hedge, because that
race was fixed, and the favorite was to
be beat.
Jackson was a little incredulous, but
Wilson assured him that he knew all
about it, becuase he was in the job.
Jackson withdrew his bets, and went
away In great disgust, but, before going,
he told Wilson that if he could ever ren
der him a service, to let him know.
Wilson, when arrested for the mail
robbery at Turner's lane, turned State"s
evidence, and Porter and himself were
convicted and Sentenced to be hanged,
the former on April 30th, 1830, and Wil
son May 8th of the same year. In con
sideration of the evidence given by Wil
son, Mr. Reeslde interesting himself to
obtain a commutation ef the sentence.
leaving for Washington, Wilson in
formed Reeslde of the circumstances on
the Tennessee race course, which was
told to Gen. Jackson, who did commute
the sentence to imprisonment in the
penitentiary at Cherry Hill for a term
of years.
During the time of the excitement
about nullification in South Carolina,
General Jackson's proclamation was ex
pressed through to New York. Mr.
John E. Reeslde relates the following
incident concerning it :
" On its arrival at Philadelphia, owing
to the injuries sustained by the express
rider regularly employed, I, on my way
home from school, was substituted to
carry it on to New York. I left Phila
delphia at 6 o'clock in the evening, and
reached Jersey City at 0:20 P. M. four
hours ana twenty-six minutes. I was
taken across the river in the yawl by
Mr. Dodd, and delivered the proclama
tion to Gov. Gouverneur at the post of
fice. The relays of horses used by me
in making the run were from three to
five miles apart. It was a very dark
night. Several of the bridges over
which I had to pass had draws. But
there was no time to stop to think
whether they were opened or closed. I
had to take my chances of jumping them
if they happened to be opened. For
tunately, however.they were all closed.'
A Merchant Who Feels for the Tramps.
"W
ELL," said Albert Gall, the
Indianapolis carpet man, to a
" News" reporter, lighting a fresh cigar,
" I can't help having Borne sympathy for
that institution of modern civilization
known as the tramp. I'll tell you how
the foundation on which this feeling is
based was made. I went to California
in 1800. I was a mere boy then, 17 or 18
years old. When I arrived at San Fran.
clsco I had over $400 an amount of
money that should have lasted me 8 or
0 months, but with boyish Inexperience,
disappeared in less than half that time.
My trunk and watch went to a pawn
broker, the proceeds, small enough, fur
nished means for but a few days longer
living.
Then I began in earnest to look for
work. I went from door to door along
all the main streets of San Francisco,
but could find no employment. At last
I struck a small job, puttying up nail
holes on a frame house ready for the
painters. I worked all one morning on
the hot side of the bouse, the sun pour
ing down upon me at a broiling tem
perature. At noon I began to felicitate
myself that the afternoon's work would
be in the shade, but the boss drove me
around to the sunny side and I fried
during the long hours of the afternoon
Mv next iob was setting fence posts. It
didn't last long, and after a short season
of cellar digging, I was again . without
work. I began to think I'd starve to
death. You have no idea, unit ss you've
tried it as I did, how little a man can
eat when he has no victuals. f f
I began a tour of the stores again,
searching for employment. One day,
while looking Into a shop window, I
overheard two gentlemen standing in
the door of the establishment in conver
sation. One of them was asking the
other if he knew where a good boy could
be found. I said to myself, "Albert
here's your chance," and my heart
thumped until I thought It would break
out a section of my ribs.' I stepped up
to the gentler.mn and managed to tell
him that I wanted the place, salary no
object, only work and something to eat.
He took me into 41) e store and intro
duced me to the proprietor. That per
sonage was seated on the counter, li
legs folded under him. In answer to
my request he asked me If I knew the
business.
It was a large cloth Importing estate
lishment, one of the largest in the city.
I told him I did not, but I could learn.
When he told me to call again the first
of the month I bubbled over. I said I
wanted work then, The old gentleman
then questioned me ; wanted to know if
I could speak German. I gave him a
sample. Then I gave him some French.
Being but recently from Belgium, my
French was good. The old fellow was
delighted, and I was engaged at a salary
of $35 a month. A Chinaman in the
establishmen got $00. Next morning I
opened the store, swept out, and began
thinking about breakfast, when a pair
of shoes, the proprietor's gaiters, were
handed to me to black. You never'
blacked shoes, did you ? Well, I never
had before, and I felt rather queer. A'
large amount of very red blood came
Into my face. I fairly boiled as the
Chinaman stood by and grinned at the
proud Caucasian manipulating the shoe
brush.
But I blacked them. Then I was al
lowed to go to breakfast at the house of
the proprietor. Everybody had eaten
but me. I got a cup of coffee and piece
of brown bread. Not a sumptuous re
past. Dinner was no better nor was
supper. But I had at the last meal an
understanding with the cook, an honest
Irish girl, who gushed over with sympa
thy and declared that I should have a
better breakfast, and I did. After that
everything was smooth sailing. My
wages were raised time and time again
without any asking, until I became a
favored salesman in the house, at a
monthly salary of $125.
The old man was a good one, and im
proved on acquaintance. I was with
him nearly four years, but got homesick
and came back In 1864.
Why do I have sympathy with the
tramp '( Did you ever notice those boil
ers lying in front of Sinker & DavlsT
foundry 'i Well, for three weeks in San
Francisco I slept in one of those cylin
ders. I could crawl In after dark and put
apleceof board at the end to keepoutthe
wind. It wasn't by any means a quiet
sleeping place. Drunken sailors and be
lated roughs would saunter past my
dormitory, and nearly every passer-by
would strike or kick it. The reverbera
tions are not pleasant, but one may ac
custom himself to them. Now and then
these prowlers would seat themselves on
my boiler and talk for two or three
hours, punctuating their remarks with
their heels.
The .confounded watchman of the
place, too, always struck upon the boiler
at hour intervals. It was so resonant,
you know, that the assurance he was
awake and on ddty was much strong?
than if he had tapped on any other ma
terial. He caught me crawling into my
dormitory a few nights before I gave it
up, but I made such a full explanation!
that he allowed me to continue the oc
cupancy unmolested. He even ceased
sounding the hours with his club. Now
you know how I come to have some
sympathy for the homeless wanderers
called tramps.
A Grateful Boy.
Two of the ragged street children that
Miss Rye brought over to Canada from
England in 1876 have, by the death of
of a distant and previously unknown
relative, fallen heirs to $12,000. Tho
younger, Samuel Gill, a newsboy on the
Great Western railroad, has gone home
to England, but his elder brother, John,
has remained over to help the farmer
who gave him a home to finish his spring
work. ' .
t3TOu last Friday morning, Mrs.
Samuel Schaub, near Dalton, Stokes
county, N. C, was feeding a sow and
young pigs, when the sow attacked her
and threw her down,and,as it attempted
to gather her by the throat, she thru"t
her arm into its mouth, which was bad
ly bitten before assistance could reach
her. The sow seemed perfectly furious,
and attacked a young lady who came to
Mrs. Schaub's assistance, and then at
tacked and knocked Mrs. S. . to the
ground a second time. . She baa been
confined to her beJ, seriously, and her
friends lear fatally, Injured. , ,