Press and Sun-Bulletin from Binghamton, New York • 78

THE BINGHAMTON PRESS TWENTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY EDITION Cord Bed Hard to Put up, Hard to Sleep Upon Wives and Children Left Hearing Range When They Were Being Assembled NEED SPECIAL WRENCH After Labor's Done Antique Still Far from Sleepers' Delight Teletypesetter Is Latest Step Speed News Operator in Distant Place "Now May Direct Machine Casting Type Lines Old Dye Shop" Oldest Building in City, Links Present Day to Early Binghamton Mansion Built in 1837 by Lawyer John Collier Now Motor Freight Depot Powder of Revolutionary Cartridge Owned Here; StiU Win Explode Is old powder a relic? Whether or no, John N. Bogert, Murray street, has half an ounce which was taken from the first Revolutionary war cartridge made in New York city. The powder Is 153 years old. Once in a while Bogert demonstrates its flashing qualifier to friends by placing a pinch of it on a piece of paper and touching a match to It. Of course.

It is black powder, for there was no smokeless powder in those days. flADIO CONTROL NEXT Kf. 1,1 Far-Reaching Effect Expect-1 from Present Step Fos-t tered by F. E. Gannett Pa ere 14 Section 1 I i ft I ifjMI fi dii rYii Jv 4 iz I IJHf 1 tHf i -Hlil V77m I snt )L? "If tern? 1 -lif -Is i -kv''1 "I ii i Loose floor boards ratlle and creak.

Old wooden box covers turn back on rusty hinges. There are dainty and robust bell notes from old chinaware and crockery. A drawer in an old table squeaks, and the rustle of paper follows. There is clattering and clanking; AiftliritiWiMmirtrMimtlfMfl freshness came In the windows on the seasons' winds. But the scene has changed.

No reminders of the once pleasant country life remain at this corner, which industry has claimed as part of its proper domain. The old house, altered for commercial purposes and stripped of the refinements which were part of Collier's life, still stands, but Is only a ghost of Its former grandeur. It was once a carpenter's shop. Later It became a bottling works. Now it is a motor freight depot.

The great fireplaces are indicated only by the sturdy chimneys that Jut from the roof. Gardens, verandas, lamp-posts, long ago disappeared. John A. Collier, If he were living, would not lament these changes. He would applaud them from a mansion on one of the pinnacles that overlook the broad valleys of the Chenango and Susquehanna rivers, now holding great Industries.

didn't do ordinary things. It was a Knew City Would Grow; Built Best House in Town to Watch It House Chimneys Main Cause of Smoke Evil Union Turnptko Hoad in 1811, and the Chenango Turnpike in 1812. No doubt he saw that improved roads would Increase his tavern business, and backed the "good roads'' movement much as hotel-men do today. Were the first church services in Binghamton held In the old shop? Mrs. Woodruff was a charter member of the first church the Presbyterian, founded in 1817.

Karly church hlstorv savs nothinir about where "Eyesore" of Today Once Was Tavern of William Woodruff, First Sheriff CENTER FOR PIONEERS Building May Have Housed Domestic furnaces and not large manufacturing plants are the source of most of the smoke and soot which cover American cities. A recent investigation in Chicago tolling and tumbling; scratching and swishing and slapping and slipping. And all of these noises are from the attic, whe.r8 the dust of years has settled relentlessly upon everything, until each exposed surface looks like a slab of dust. The modern generation Is discovering many things in the old, lifeless and lightless attics, which appeal to its romantic nature. From the space underneath the roof it pulls the old-fashioned bedstead, of one kind or another.

It likes this relic of the sturdy pioneer age an age that is but three or four generations back. The cord bedstead is particularly desired by the worshipers of pioneer days. It has beauty and is a puzzle. "Now that we have got It, how are we going to put It together?" the young wife asks. "You've got to have a bed wrench." grandfather pipes In.

"These old-time beds don't Jest fall together, yon know." Next to putting up the stovepipe tacking down the carpet with "leather-headed tacks and a flatlron, assembling the cord bedstead called mansion of brick, and the best house in town. From what is now the corner of Prospect avenue and Eldrldge street, he could "look off the west porch and see the Chenango river. There were a few buildings at some distance to the south, but not many. On the north, only his broad meadows, luxuriantly green, could be seen when he looked out of the windows. A few enterprising citizens had built some houses on the east, bordering his lands.

He liked to see the village grow, and watched it creep up to his borders. But while he lived In the house he wanted beauty everywhere. Magnificent gardens were laid out, and some flowers were always in bloom and their showed that these small, Inexpertly John A. Collier knew that Binghamton would grow. He came here as a young lawyer in 1809, knew everybody in town In a few days, and was the most promising young man in the city within a few years.

He made some money, bought the Arthur Gray farm, through which the railroads now run, and thought he was far enough from the center of the city to watch It grow leisurely. On the land he built a house in 1837. "Ingleside," he called it. It was not Just an ordinary house. Collier Farlv Rolio-imi.

Sprvlree i'ho first church services were held, tany IVeUglOUS aerVlCeS certainly, was a con fired heating plants are responsible for more than halt of the smoke there, according to Prof. S. W. Parr, of Neighborhood venient place to meet, and Woodruff no doubt offered It for meeting fuel expert and president of the The great high-road of human welfare lies along the old highway of steadfast well-doing; and they who are the most persistent and work In the true spirit will Invariably be the most successful. Success treads on the heels of every right effort.

Samuel Smiles. The modern newspaper has been made possible by the application of science lo practical problems. As education grew universal, speed In the dissemination of news and views paralleled the growth. Hand made letters were succeeded machine made letters; hand press 'Rave way to machine press; typesetting machines succeeded the hand operator now another source of speed has been added to Mercury. The teletypesetter, developed a few months ago by Frank K.

Gan- ustt and Walter W. Morey, combining forces with the Morkrum-Klein- echmidt Corporation, has still further bridged the distance between an event and the knowledge of it on the streets of the world. Bv means of the teletypesetter, the "copy" is transmitted directly to the typesetting machines, which set it mechanically, with accuracy and with rapidity. The man who sets the type must now become a skilled "operator of a new machine. The elimination of another hand process from the source of origin to the prepared type matter, puts the newspapers in a position to carry more news and later news.

This is a direct and beneficial service to the newspaper readers. The value of this new service in dollars 'f economic worth cannot be measured but it will be tremendously large when the machine is in general use. The rapidity with which news gets trom its source to the interested per- mna is one of the determining fac- -eurs in human progress. It was this realization and others which led r-Vrank K. Gannett, publisher, to 'Struggle for years with the thought that a machine like the teletypesetter be perfected.

came the teletype from the laboratories of the Morkrum-Klein- W.hmldt Corporation, and Mr. Gan- iett believed that the principles of this device could be used in a that would set type by Active work on the Invention commenced four years ago as a result of a conversation between Mr. Gannett and Walter W. Morey. After the work progressed for a while the two men realized that any adaptation of the basic principles of the teletype would be an infringement upon the patents held by the Morkrum-Kleinschmidt Corporation.

The firm was approached and an agreement "between the parties consummated whereby the corporation was to hold A.nerican Chemical society. purposes, since his wife was one of The "Old Dye Shop," at Wash- the 20 members of the congrega- "At the present time there are used about five tons of coal yearly Ington and Henry streets, has had Jtion. per capita. The total anthracite to when and why imomiauun yield is dropping down to very nearly 10 per cent of the whole. That means that about 90 per cent of the fuel used Is of the smoke- making variety." says Prof.

Parr. "The pneumonia ratio In con gested centers is in direct proportion to the smoke density; the more sir a smoke, the more pneumonia. The IE. Jp expense Involved In counteracting dirt and grutie is tremendous. We charge the smoke nuisance up to for the most thorough exercise of the Christian virtues.

But with two; capable persons besides himself. grandfather was able to get the thing toget her. The bed wrench was made pur- posely for this task. It was some- thing like a stout, wooden hand vise. The cord was like the modern clothesline, but of better quality, and It could not be drawn taut enough with the hands.

Grandfather grabbed the wrench, tangled it up somewhere it the part of the cord where the tautentng-up process was to begin, and by persistent leverage around and about the bedstead, at last wrenched the cord to a condition of satisfactory tautness, and the crest the engineer, and he, together with the chemist, must help find a way out of the difficulty." a long and varied history. It Is the oldest building within the city limits and was closely associated with the early development of the city. At one time it was the finest structure In the town. In recent years it has been called an "eyesore." Somehow It has remained, substantially as it is today, since 1806. Once on a country lane, it Is now on a busy corner that gets busier and busier every day.

Many times during the last 10 years its doom has seemed imminent. Christ church, built in 1818, stands on the opposite side of the street. Perhaps the oldest church and the oldest general purpose building wonder which will go first. Originally the old shop stood at the northeast corner of Court and Washington streets, where the City National bank now stands. A fire destroyed the first building on that corner.

Daniel Lenny, prominently associated with the early development of Binghamton. came here In 1801 and built his The one effective solution of the the building was moved to Its present location doesn't seem to have been passed down to the present generation. Probably it was moved between the years 1815 and 1835. In 1835. Lorenzo K.

Olmsted came to Binghamton and rented the old tavern as a residence. It was then on its present site. George F. Bragg and Samuel Brown conducted a general store on the old site, previous to its occupation by the Bank of Binghamton in 1855. Olmsted lived in the old shop for a number of years.

He built a brick dwelling, just above it on Washington street, which his son, Laurel L. Olmsted lived in all of his life. George L. Morse, one of the partners of Morse Kraupa, now running the dye shop, says that John Bissell once owned the property. Alvln G.

Morse, father of George L. Morse, turned the old building Into a dye shop in 1852. The buildings are now owned by Joseph Berry, and the land by the United States problem lies in the substitution of smokeless fuels, such as gas and coke, for raw coal, says Prof, Parr. 1 Ll? Jsr -fr: Die Ideal fuel for heating Is gas, because of Its smokeless combustion. high efficiency, cleanliness and convenience.

When gas reaches the stage of volume production, it will br the most powerful Influence in Iff i. th of the shouting subsided. It was the common practice for the- good wife and the children to go down to the cellar while the head of the family and the hired men were dallying with the cords, for their talk was thought Ill-suited to Christian ears when the bedstead wabbled, careened, skidded and slid during the critical stages of assemblage. And now the old bed was ready for use. If It sounds like a sleepers' paradise, any grandfather will tell you that It was "anything but." ridding our cities of the smoke which now ruins our health and damages our property.

"The accentuation of the smoke evil in large industrial centers has set In motion various Investigations looking to its abatement. Sooner or later these studies lead back, for a solution, to the carbonization of coal and the use of smokeless fuel in some form." residence on the corner. Joshua government. As In all early buildings, hewn timbers were used for framework. Wooden pegs were used to fasten the timbers together.

Hand-made lath still retains the plaster that was first put on. No alterations of any extent have been made, except in renewal of floors. Alt! The government purchased the Hnv.M ic. Vice President and General Manager land 10 years ago. expecting to CHAHLRS M'KIXNXKY JresiUent hulld a new postoffice upon It.

Hepresentative John D. Clarke will present a bill to Congress at its next session, providing that the land be transferred to Binghamton. City America's finest Truck Whitney bought the property in 1803, made an addition to the east end of the building and. in partnership with William Woodruff, conducted a store In part cf the dwelling, leasing the rest to his brother. Thomas Whitney.

Thomas Whitney opened a tavern. In the early summer of 1805 the building burned. Efforts were made to save the wooden structure, but in vain. Water had to be carried in wooden pails, after it had been pumped from the wells. The building waa rebuilt, however, in the same summer.

It was this new building which Is the present landmark on the corner of Washington and Henry streets. The store was not reopened In the new building. William Woodruff bought the property and opened a tavern. At the time there were about a dozen houses on Court street. New Englanders, thirsty for some of the land that they had heard about in this locality, hitched their tired mounts in front of the tavern and Inquired about lodgings.

Oxcarts, bringing whole families and furnishings, hitched in front of the tavern while the head of the family got his bearings. Some of the families would stay one night and the patents and Mr. Gannett was to control the sales of the machine. Although the teletypesetter was designed with the view of transmitting news over long distances more 'quickly, it is believed that the whole printing industry will be affected. The new machine is simple, occu-ples little space and can be attached t) any existing standard typesetting machine within an hour.

The tele--typesetter is not a typesetting machine but it operates, automatically, such a machine by electrical impulses. To operate the machine at the sending end. the operator sits at a machine similar to a typewriter, -perforating series of holes in a continuous paper tape, seven-eighths of inch wide. The perforations are the machine code. The tape is automatically fed Into another small ma- and causes a reproduction of a similarly coded tape in the receiving station.

It is then fed into anther machine which operates a typesetting machine to which it Is at-rmhed. 'JEach letter, number or printing is represented by a certain mber and arrangement of perforations across the tape. The message Is decoded automatically in the op-wition of the typesetting machine. As each line of type is set. the continues to operate the typesetting machine as though a person were operating It.

The lines of Type are cleared and new lines fall Into place, a character at a time. The lead type is cast and when the message is cleared through the distributor, it is found in type, ready to be used. i. 1 me S'' 1 otlicials believe that the land could be used to good advantage for the construction of a plaza, to aid In handling the tralflc problem at this corner. John J.

Irving suggests that the Broome County Historical society salvage and restore the old shop. "A number of historical societies throughout the country have bought important landmarks, such as the Old Dye Shop," Irving said. "This old building Is the only building In the. city which connects modern Binghamton with early Binghamton, and It ought to be preserved, somehow." LIFE AND DKATII The deathrate in New York state has dropped from 20.26 per 1,000 In 1S98 to 11.49 per 1.000 in 1925. The birthrate has dropped from 28.

3S per 1.000 In 1908 to 20.16 in 1 925. As the deathrate decreases, it tends to focus more upon the very young and very old. increasing the life span of those who survive early childhood. FIRST IN The total assets of the Empire State ure estimated at 37 billion dollars. Pennsylvania Is second -l-r others a week.

I Woodruff took part in all of the affairs of the hamlet. When he I was appointed the first postmaster jthe old. shop became the first post-j ollice, and every early settler went I there for his mail during the six i years of Woodruff's term of ollice. In 180a. Woodruff was appointed sheriff of Tioga county.

When I Broome county was established a year later. Woodruff was appointed jthe county's first sheriff. Although 'there were two log cells In the old 'courthouse, which stood at the time (where the Hills, McLean store now stands, no doubt VVood- Quality, Service, Strength and Dependability That "bright, clean D. L. W.

Scranton deep-mined coal," chock full of heat units, free from clinkers. Delivered to you by courteous, careful drivers from our big yards with a large reserve capacity, insuring you all sizes of coal at all times, regardless of weather or other conditions. A large fleet of trucks and wagons, guaranteeing quick delivery of what you want when you want it. We Strive Always to Protect You We buy our coal by railroad weight and sell it over our own scales. By the most careful weighing we safeguard our reputation for good weight.

We take a loss of many hundreds of tons a year through loss of coal in transit, screenage, etc. Seventy-eight Years of Good Service Through the Charles McKinney Coal merged with the Atlas Coal and Supply Co. in 1926 to form the present firm, our coal business dates back to 1851 78 years of dependability. High-Grade Building Materials A Complete Line of Building Supplies, Including with 29 billions and Illinois is third with 22 billions. The wealth of jruff temporarily lodged malefactors I at the tavern, at least while he questioned them.

I Woodruff also was twice appointed city clerk, and served from 180fi i to 1S21 as cUrk of the Hoard of Supervisors. And so, again, the Old Dye Shop figured In the early his-: tory of city and county g-ncrnmeni. Woodruff was active In the for New York Is greater than that of I all Italy. The way to wealth is as plain as i the way to market. depends I chiefly on two words.

Industry and frugality; that is waste neither time i nor money, out ntuae trie oesi 'of both. Benjamin rranklin. mation of the Great Bend and Honest Windsor Pioneer Paid Aaron Burr, Traitor, $1,000 on OuUawcd Note The next step in this particular line of development Is said to be the application of radio In perfecting the new invention. The cutting out of wooden blocks, engraving them, smearing them with ink and pressing them upon paper, is the history of printing at Its dawn. Ml B.

C. The inventive Chinese did this, and yet it was years later before the Chinese arrived at the point where the principal classics were printed by means of large wooden blocks upon which an entire page was engraved in relief. The Chinese are also generally credited with having devised movable types, but hecatise of the lack of an alphabet, the use of this principle was limited. Until the thirteenth century, writings were transcribed on parchment by hand in Kurnpe. Single initial blocks were developed then.

Johannes Gutenberg has the credit for inventing printing with movable type In 1438. 1'rior claims are made, but historians have generally given Gutenberg the benefit of the doubt. William Caxton set up the first press in England In 1477. The first press on the Western Continent was introduced in Mexico In 1540. The first in the colonics was set up at Harvard College in 1 638.

Type founding became a separate business from printing in the sixteenth century, developing first In France, but the first successful tvpe foundry was established In Philadelphia by Binney and Ronaldson. Type casting machines came in use in 1838. The first typesetting machine was patented by Dr. William Church tn 1S22. Frederick Rosenberg Invented, In 1 843, the first machine that distributed the type, in 1885 the first machine for setting, mechanically, a solid line of type was invented by otto Merg nthaler, and subsequent improvements brought the invention up to present time.

Industry Is not only the Instrument of Improvement, but the foundation of pleasure. He who is a Mranger to it may possess, but cannot enjoy; for it is labor only which Bive relish to pleasure. It Is the pointed vehicle of every good to tpn. 't Is the Indispensable con-ilrtion of possessing a sound mind In a ound body. Blair.

whit he thought was the best pro TTHE New Larrabee is sure creat- ing a great amount of talk in the truck field. Orders from large truck users have proven that the 1929 Larrabee is just what they have wanted. Under the new policy of the Larrabee-Deyo Motor Truck Company, you can purchase custom built trucks at production prices. Brick Sand Portland Cement Plaster and Lime Sewer Pipe Be sure and see the New Larra- David Hotchkiss Asked and Spurned Advice of His Three Sons i I The honesty of David Hotchkiss, a I Windsor planner, saved Aaron Burr, who has come down through history accused as a traitor of the Revolution, ltl.000. according to tradition.

Hotchkiss purchased some land In Windsor in about 1S00, and gave his note of $1,000 to Burr. The note was jdue at the Hotchkiss dwelling, one yar from date. When the time came to collect. Burr waa having troubles of his own. and I Hotchkiss was not tailed upon to meet the note.

Seven years passed, land Bu.T was then In Kngland, and no demand was made. In the eighth I year. Judge Foot of Delhi, wrote to Hotchkiss. a -king him to pay the note. The note, of course, was outlawed, Hotchkiss was an honert man, and wanted some sound advice.

He called In his thr sons, asking each cedure. Amra7he! said: "The note Is outlawed. You had the money to pay the note when It was due and kept it for a long time after. I wouldn't pay it." Cyrus said: "It's hard for money, and Burr is a murderer, anv-way, If not a traitor. He ought not to have It." Gilead, the youngest son.

agred with his brothers. "Gilead." said the father. "Go get my horse. 1 must go to Delhi, Im-mellalely." The horse was led to the door, and the saddle bag, filled with oats and thrown on the saddle. It was CO miles to Delhi and there were no roads.

On the wond night of trln, Hotchkiss arrived in Delhi, and went Immediately to see Judge Koote. "I do not feel that I owe on the note." Hotchkiss said, "but I appreciate the fact that I am honestly bound to make good on the note. I have not the cash at hand, but will be glad to give you a new note." To this suggestion, the Judge agreed. When the note felj due, it was promplly paid. Also Agricultural Lime )ee.

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