The Jeffersonian Gazette from Lawrence, Kansas • Page 7

THE JEFFERSONIAN-GAZETTE, LAWRENCEtKANSAS AUGUST 27, harmonv. making: the "Lane Place" front door that replaced a broken free-stone cap attests the burning WOT IMA HOUSES SURVIVING QUANTRELL MASSACRE Mrs. A. B. Mahaney, Topeka; Mrs.

John H. Fritts, Chicago, 111, Mr. and Mrs. C. C.

Mrs. B. P. O'Dowd, Kansas City, Mo. William Wiedemann, Lawrence.

Geo. M. Falley, Lawrence. Mrs. Ella Hubbell Field, Topeka.

W. Mrs. Anna Willey Walton, Lawrence. W. W.

Savage, Lawrence. Mrs. A. H. Graton, Lawrence.

Mrs. A. G. Kincaid, Lawrence. Minnie Selig Gardner, George Ellis, Topeka.

J. G. Reynolds, Lawrence. J. H.

Monroe, LawTence. S. A. Riggs, Lawrence. Mrs.

L. J. Kennedy, Wakarusa. Mrs. O.

H. Dorrance. Mrs. Louise Priesach Dinglested, a model of an ample, dignified home of gentlemanly retirement of otium cum dignitate. The exceptional good fortune of wrest Lawrence in escaping the fires of Quantrell was due to the bravery, assurance and kindly spirit and forethought of Miss Sally Young, temporarily engaged as seamstress in the Eldridge House, and who had been in the same capacity in the family of Governor Shannon, and the prominent families of Lecomp-ton, and whose sympathies were pretty evenly balanced between the north and the south, the north slightly predominating.

According to the fashion of the season she was taking a very early morning ride, escorted by Steve (a brother of J. and John Donnelly. Returning from their jaunt on the Clinton road, when near the foot of Mount Oread, they espied Quantrell's band entering town, and a squad of four dashing out to intercept them. The escorts turned back none too quickly to escape a usilade, but were pursued for nearly a mile by two of the squad, shielding themselves by lying low on their saddles, and distancing their pursuers by the freshness of their horses. But Miss Sallie parleyed with her captors and by her attractive assurance awakened the spirit of gallantry predominant with the southerner, and won them over to promise protection to all her special friends.

Setting out from the Eldridge House in the midst of the furor, a fearless rider, leaving a larger squad, she dashed up Winthrop street, and crossing the ravine swept along Tennessee street, halted a moment at the home of Jimmie Christian, thence on to those of Governor Shannon and Billy Ly-kins, and thence with her long, lowing veil as a streamer, she dashed in whatever direction she could locate an acquaintance a coursing angel of. mercy. In the lull of the storm, when the town was in complete subjection, and the raiders were busily engaged collecting booty, the moving purpose of the raid, she was escorted back to the Eldridge House and entered it unaware of the bloody side of the tragedy. When met by friends her face beaming with joy at what she had accomplished, she explained her movements and exclaimed, "I never knew before how many kin folks I had in Lawrence. Neither time or space will permit naming the many other buildings in in west Lawrence that have escaped the ravages of fifty years and fire; R.

G. Elliott. Chancellor Strong Named. Dr. Joseph Swain, president of Swarthmore college, and president of the National Educational association, has named Dr.

Frank Strong, chancellor of Kansas university, as a member of a committee of ten educators of the United States who will have general charge of organizing a special educational exhibit at the Panama-Pacific exposition in 1915. Paroled from Prison. Fred Keehn, sent to prison for the killing of William Bliesner, in Nemaha county in 1910, has been paroled by the governor. The killing was the result of road overseer and school district differences. Wm.

Bleisner was a brother of Mr. Fred Bliesner of this city. LIVED HERE LONG. Hugo Harttmann Died at His Home in Kansas City. Hugo Harttmann, 90 years old, died at his home in Kansas City at 6 :45 o'clock yesterday morning.

He was born in Copenhagen, Germany, in 1823. Forty-seven years ago he settled in Lawrence where he lived until he removed to Kansas City ten yeras ago. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Katherine Harttmann, two sons, Albert F.Harttmann and George M. Hartmann, and three daughters, TheklaHarttmann and Natalie Hartmann of Kansas City and Mrs.

A. Schellhorn of this place. LIKE A PIKE Eudora Road in Fine Condition Since Dragging. The Eudora road was dragged yesterday from Lawrence to Eudora, and today it was in fine condition. A man wiio drove in froni Linwood today said that every foot of the road had been gone over.

Instead of being hard to pull through, it is now like a pike and makes riding a pleasure. The county commissioners' work in having this highway looked over is appreciated, as this road is one of the most traveled in the county. The commissioners have been out viewing roads in different parts of the county, and. the need of the work was seen on their trip. away of the woodwork of the building.

West of Central park only two houses were burned. The first lire was that of Mayor Collamore, northwest corner of Louisiana and Pinckney streets. The dry well is still open in wmcn xne mayo; ana young Keefe sought refuge, and I Joseph Lowe, attempting to recover their bodies perished in the fumes that settled into it from the burning dwelling. The column of smoke that rose to the heavens near the same time indicated that the murderous squad swerving around from the north, that shot down the four prisoners taken from the Griswold home, were the ones that fired the Collamore house. Mr.

Lykens, whose home was guarded by a friendly raider was told that this squad was of Todd's band from Platte county that had joined Quantrell on this expedition. Next arose the smoke from the home of General Lane. A squad, most probably of the same band, put Arthur Spicer, a well known saloon keeper, on horse back, and ordered him, on penalty of death, to lead them in a dash on General Lane's house. Lane barely escaped from the rear to a near-by cornfield as the raiders broke in through the front door. Their most valued prize, and what he felt to be his most grievous loss was a gilt handled sword presented to him by his Indiana constituents, in recognition of his bravery on the battle field of Buenna Vista, dear to him as a badge of military honor and precious as a pledge redeemed with the first installment of his senatorial salary, given to the Hutchinsons, at the lowest ebb of fortune, to secure them for provisions for the subsistence of his family.

Of rare value in his large library that went up in flames, were twenty large folio volumes, more than a century old records of celebrated impeachment trials before the British house of lords. Of the many houses spared by Quantrell in west. Lawrence, the following have been lately recognized. Tennessee street 721, built by G. W.

Hutchinson in 1855. Tennessee street 621, built by Dr. Alonzo Fuller in 1857? Tennessee street 615, first residence of B. W. Woodward, built? Tennessee street 613, former residence of James G.

Sands; removed from the corner of the block-. The stone, house on Pinckney street, in the middle of the block; the only material monument of the New England Emigrant Aid company, built in 1855 and occupied by their agent, C. H. Branscome. On Ohio street, three houses, 700 to 708.

The first occupied for years by ex-Sheriff Carmean; the second built and occupied by Lemuel Fil-more, who fell a victim of the murderous squad of Todd's band. The dwelling on the corner of In diana and Winthrop streets, occupied at the time by Governor Shannon, was built, by George Churchill, the first carriage builder and citizen of Lawrence from 1854. It was his first home and was built for his bride. The Phi Gamma Delta Chapter house is one of a dozen or more dwellings built upon Lane's preemption prior to his contest for the forty, acres on which they were built, including four of the best buildings in west Lawrence. Lane, however, on securing his patent tendered the builder's titles to their lots for a nominal consideration.

The original was built by John B. Sutliff, sold to Steinberg and enlarged, then to Summerfields, and further enlarged, by them to present owners. Jaedicke's dwelling, the most valuable of the four, was built in 1859 by Hiram Towne, ranked as the best carpenter in town. For years it was occupied by Samuel and Eben Poole, the first pork packers in Lawrence. Their establishment replaced the burned store of Allen and the Republican printing office.

The front of ground floor was an elegant meat shop, the rear rooms with lard vats and presses and all the essentials for the business. The central part, with wide door opening on Winthrop street, was the receiving! room, with cutting block and trap door througtr which the hams, shoulders and sides of porkers were dropped into the basement, where they were packed in salt. The slaughter house was on ground now occupied by S. L. Defos.

Lane's residence was the third in value of the four. It's main bodv was built by John Bronson, a young clothing merchant, who died soon afterward. a Lane paid his widow a satisfactory price for the building, and added the ell on the rear. The walls standing the fire, the house was restored in an improved condition. After Lane's death it passed successively through the hands of Mr.

Perry and J. E. Watson, each of them adding to it. Then it came into possession of who further improved it and brought the ample grounds into True Comradeship in Time of Battle. A true incident of the Civil War by W.

H. Irwin. During the war of the rebellion when nearly all the young men of the north were enlisting, there was living in Wisconsin a widow with an only son Charlie. He was about 17 years old, and plead with his mother for her consent to join the company of the village that was soon to leave for the front. The mother tried in every way she knew to dissuade him, and urged the necessity for him to remain at home, as he was her main dependant for support.

But he daily importuned her to let him go. She finally yielded and Charley donned the blue and marched away from the little cottage home that nestled among the northern pines." In course of time the great battle of Chickmauga was fought, and in that fierce tempest of destruction, the widow's boy received three dangerous wounds. He was borne to the hospital which later in the dreadful conflict fell into the hands of the confederates. The sad news flew home to his mother, and she determined to go to her boy. She was poor and had not the means to make the trip.

Her friends and neighbors raised her a purse and she started for the south. She succeeded in getting to the place where her Charley was lying delirious with fever from his wounds. The young soldier constantly talked about his home and mother. He knew not that she who sat by him was his mother. In every way his sweetest of all earthly friends tried to make make him recognize her, but in vain.

He said "Go away, woman; you are not my mother. My mother lives in the cottage among the pines in Wisconsin." The devoted and patriotic guardian and mother of this young union soldier succeeded in getting a permit from the commandant, and an escort through the lines, and finally got him back to his northern home, where she nursed him back to health after a long siege of mother anxiety and suffering. When the following spring came with all its freshness and blossoms, one beautiful morning mother put Charlie into a big easy chair, drew him out upon the porch and sat down by his side and said "Now my boy, you are well enough to tellme about how you felt in the terrible battle. When you received that wound in your arm, didn't you fall upon the field?" no, mother!" "When you received that awful wound in the side, did you not faint and fall upon that bloody ground?" no, mother?" At this point the widowed mother imagined her son' while physically recovering, had lost his mind and further interrogated her soldier boy. "But Charlie, when you received that shot in the hip did you not fall down upon the ground in the awful battle?" 1 lO no, mother the dear comrades, when they saw that I was wounded, rallied so close about me that when I had gone down I just fell in their arms and was not suffered to touch the ground.

I just felt them carrying me away, that is all." FRANK COMING BACK. Wires to Coach Hamilton That He Will Return. Former Assistant Coach Leonard Frank has telegraphed to Coach Hamilton that he will return to the University for work this fall. This message came yesterday afternoon and settled the question as to the assistant mentor for this season's team. Frank agreed to return last spring in case of his re-election, but after he found a good position at the Uni-vresity of Minnesota open to him, he sent in his resignation.

Being now late in the season, the authorities declined to accept the resignation, and Coach Hamilton telegraphed yesterday that he would expect Frank to return. KEPT JUDGE BUSY. Probate Judge Lindley Married Four Couples. The long period of quiet in the probate judge's office was broken yesterday by four marriages. Besides granting licenses to.the couples the judge also performed the ceremony.

Earl Martin and Orpha Barnard of Plainville, Kansas, Fred O. Brown and Geneva Clare, George Kirkman and Margaret Jacobs and William McCord and Eliza Boyd of Shawnee were the couples married. Suit for Money. The case of the C. E.

Friend Lumber Company vs. Emma C. Artman, et was filed yesterday. The suit is for $135.26. Survivors of the Massacre of Fifty Years Ago Came Back to Visit Old Scenes.

REGISTER KEPT OF VISITORS Men and Women Who Escaped thw Visit of the Murderers Met to Commemorate the Event. A registers of the survivors of the Lawrence massacre has been kept by securing the signatures of those who were here fifty years ago, and again at th.e anniversary memorial exercises, giving the age and address of everyone. The register is in charge of Mrs. H. B.

Asher, chairman of the entertainment committee, at the headquarters in the Bowersock theater, where badges are also given out to those have registered. Up to noon today those who had registered were as follows Wm. M. Black, Lawrence. Catherine S.

Black, Lawrence. Charles S. Black, Baldwin. Mrs. Ida Wright Barnes, Topeka.

John Harrell, Clinton. G. C. Simmons, Wellseville. Dexter Tucker, Baldwin.

Mrs. Margaret Miller Junkins, Lawrence. Mrs. Annie Miller Adams, 906 Massachusetts street. W.

H. Moys, 620 Kentucky street. Mrs. Emily J. Moys, 333 Indiana street.

Mrs. Lou Rankin Moore, 932 Rhode Island street. Mrs. Mollie Herrington Asher, Lawrence. Mrs.

Charles Lafayette street, St. Louis, Mo. James S. Brown, Wm. Brown, Lawrence.

Mrs. Callie Toinlinson, Lawrence. Mrs. Cyrus Richardson, Lawrence C. L.

Colman, Medford, Okla. G.W.White, Clinton. Emery S. BOurd, Mary R. Johnson McKinley, Baldwin.

D. R. McKinley, Baldwin. J. W.

Adams, Lawrence. Eliza J. Bishop, Lawrence. Martha E. Creel, Lawrence.

Wm. Draper, Lawrence. F. J. Ecke, Lawrence.

Mrs. F. J. Ecke, Lawrence. Mrs.

J. H. Rutherford, LawTence. Amos Duncan, Lawrence. Mrs.

Anna Mugler, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Miss Anna Mugler, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Mrs. Christene Mugler Wientge, Santa Fe, New Mexico. J.

G. Sullivan, Lawrence. Mrs. Zimmerman Hettich, Law rence. C.

S. Shimmons, Lawrence. John William Fisher, Topeka. L. C.

Bowers, Lawrence. E. Huddleston, Lawrence. H. S.

Fillmore, Lawrence. W. M. Haseltine, Llney. John M.

Henry, Lawrence. Mrs. Amanda J. Rankin, Lawrence. James Lawrence, Lawrence.

Mrs. Florence Adams Messer, Lawrence. Mrs. Nellie Adams, Mundy, Linwood. Chas.

Starkweather, Lawrence. Emma Van Hoesen, Lawrence. E. H. VanHoesen, Baldwin.

J. F. Morgan, Lawrence. Mrs. A.

M. Anderson. Mrs. Theckla Fischer. Mrs.

Kate C. Reynolds. Mrs. Elizabeth Martin. Mrs.

Mary Chesley Killam. Mrs. Joel Grover, Lawrence. William Miller, Lawrence. Alice Preisach Learned.

Sudan Savage Alford, Lawrence. Lucy J. Patterson Clarke. William Harper, Lawrence. Harriet Harper, Lawrence.

August Wulfekuhle, Law ence. Mrs. J. F. Roberts, Lawrence.

J. B. Reynolds, Topeka. Mrs. Libbie Reynolds Whitney, North Topeka.

Mrs. Anna Morgan Waid, Lawrence. Miss Nelle Haskell, Lawrence. C. A.

Epley. Lawrence. C. C. Seewir, Lawrence.

Sarah B. Stone, Lawrence. Frank Prentiss, Lawrence. Augusta Hunt, Lawrence. Henry B.

Leonard, Kansas City, Mo. Mrs. S. B. Prentiss, Lawrence.

Carrie M. Watson, Lawrence. Laura E. Dumars Fitz, Lawrence. F.

R. Kennedy, Lawrence. Rachel R. Ellis, Lawrence. F.

H. Pettingill, Eudora. Edward E. Dix, Ft. Scott.

Ben. Ellis, Lawrence. Mrs. Oliver Coy, Lawrence. Mrs.

-Mary Colman Topping, Lawrence. Mrs. C. S. Colman, Mrs.

Sophia Leonard Hoene, Kansas City, Mo. Mrs. Kate Leonard Nolan, Kansas City, Mo. Mrs. Chas.

Hase, Lawrence. Mrs. Lizzie Spietz, Lawrence. Mrs. E.

J. Calvert, Garnett. To the Editor of the Gazette: In response to the request of the committe for the location of houses thart escaped destruction by Quan-trell's band in Lawrence. I would suggest as the only way to obtain a complete and correct list is by a canvas to find the location of all those that were built before the raid. A report made soon after the raid for the use of the relief committee, gave the number of dwellings and separate places of business destroyed as 185.

It is easier to mark the location of the buildings burned than of those that escaped. Massachusetts street was swept from Win-throp street to South park leaving on the west side only the two 3-story Miller blocks (the north one unfinished) Dr. Hartman's building, now owned by Alex Marks, and a small stone dwelling next north of Watkins' bank. On the east two stone buildings and one frame. Only the one in block 10 remains, where the opera house stands was the hardware store of A.

K. Allen and on the second floor the printing office of the Republican. Here it is believed was completely incinerated the son of Mr. John Speer and his companion printer, David Purington. This was the only building burned in that block.

On the west side, where Lawrence bank stands, was the Morrow house, used as court house. On the rear of the lot was the cabinet shop of Capt W. H. R. Blackman, the upper room of which was the meeting place of the first Kansas Historical society, -hrncrh nnt, nnrpnt of t.hft Tonfilcn, concern, having a library of 150 volumes.

Further west were two frame buildings, one a tenant house, that on the corner, I believe, a shop. These were all that were burned in this block on Massachusetts street. No. 5, the first residence of W. A.

ii mM m-' i 11. Kimball that stood on the corner of Winthrop and Kentucky street stands enlarged and modernized in the 60Q block on Missouri street. Blocks 700, lying between Massachusetts street and Central park were the "Field of Blood', a view of which on the evening after the massacre, has burned into the brain a vision of woe, unfading with the vears. and that onlv death can efface. Even the contemplation of this scene makes the capitalizing of this calamity for personal and political agrandizement a sacrilege and the commercializing of the name of Lawrence based upon it, a profanation.

Lawrence should forever be known as a city of religious homes, and as a seat of learning; not striving for publicity by glaring special feature advertisements, but winning fame by the sweet fragrance of her virtues and the li inspiring emanations of her manifold benifi-cent institutions. On the "Field of Blood" death and destruction reigned supreme. Gathered within its confines and laid in four rows on the floor of the Methodist church, now the residence of Dr. Bumgardner, their eyes unclosed in death, gazing beseechingly, were forty victims of the massacre numbered for identification. The Johnston house, a large th ee- story hotel on the lots now occupied by the city hall, was a mass of ruins.

In this one there only remains the Eldridge House barn, which was built in 1857. Dr. Bumgardner's residence, R. L. Dix's home, now owned by Dr.

Anderson, and a brick building now used as a bakery This was built for his residence by Mr. Whitney, a most genteel and affable landlord, who built the Whitney house at the foot of New Hampshire street later known as the city hotel, kept by Mr. Stone, and a house of refuge during the massacre. The Whitney home on Vermont street became a choice select boarding house under the mother of Chas. Hoyt, furnishing a home for B.

W. Woodward at the time. Mrs. Hoyt soon removed to larger quarters in the Waverly house, now a part of Wilder's factory losing none of her boarders, but increasing them by the transfer. The Waverly house was built by Wm.

Hutchinson, and named for his New England home town. On Vermont street first north of the city library, was the dwelling of Judge Josiah Miller. Like the block, he was building on Massachusetts street, it was unfinished. In it Captain Bell, county clerk at that time, was shot down. He was a member of the organized company of defense and was hurrying from his residence, a free-stone building still standing in the 1100 block on Ohio street, with his rifle, which he had not returned to he armory, as ordered by Mayor Collamore.

Pursued by a squad of the he sought refuge vain in the building. A brick arch over the Lawrence. Mrs. Sarah Gardner Woodard, Lawrence. R.

K. McCartney, Topeka. Susie Platts Godding, Lawrence. Florence S. Webster, Hutchinson, Kansas.

James D. Faxon, Kansas City, Mo. Mrs. Lucy Kinnear (Dix). J.

N. Deamer, Lawrence. C. L. Edwards, Lawrence.

G. W. Smith, Lecompton, Kansas. Mrs. P.

E. Emery, Lawrence. Grace Cameron Smith, Cameron's Bluff. L. D.

Howard, Lawrence. Jos. Griffis, Baldwin. G. Grovenor, Lawrence.

Mr. C. E. Fisher, Sterling, Col. A.

J. Anderson, Lawrence. David Garvin, Thomas, Okla. Mrs. Thomas McFarland, Law rence.

C. LeDuvall, Pomona, Kansas. J. C. Saunders, Lawrence.

D. Ulrich, Lawrence. Mrs. Ruth E. Leis, Lawrence.

Col. John K. Rankin, Lawrence. F.I. A.

PICNIC SOME NOVEL STUNTS ARRANGED. Picnic Attractions That Are Fresh. Plans Made Last Night. Some picnic stunts that have not been overworked have been placed on the program of the big Fraternal Aid gathering at Woodland park on August 28. There are to be some of the old time amusements, too, but a large part of the program is to be taken up with novel features that have been planned by the committee in charge.

One of the contests that has been arranged is a pillow fight. This is played by two boys or men, blind-' folded, and sitting astride a pole that is raised about six feet off the ground The men pelt each other with sacks of hay or straw and their object is to stick to their pole after the other fellow has lost his balance. A jug-breaking contest is another of the new stunts that is expected to cause a great deal of merriment among the Fraternal Aiders. Other contests for both men and women are to be held, and after supper the degree team of Athens council, No. 3, is to put on a fancy drill.

The program as made out by the committee last night is as follows: 4:00 Ball game. 5:30 to 6:30 Pillow fightjugbreak-king contest, ladies' nail driving contest, peanut grab, men's baby buggy wheeling contest, ladies' hippity-hop race, etc. 6:30 Basket supper. 7:45 to 11:30 Exhibition drill. Dancing.

NOT TO ORGANIZE. Survivors Not to Unite to Commemorate the Massacre. The survivors of the Lawrence Massacre are not to organize, as was suggested yesterday. There was some talk concerning an association of the men and women who were here on August 21, 1863 to foster patriotism among the younger generation and to make easy the collection of historical material. The survivors, however, did not see to enter into such an organization.

One member of the committee of seventeen explained yesterday that it would be only a few years that the organization would be controlled by the old settlers. It would be difficult to maintain the spirit of such a society if it should pass into younger hands. The survivors Would have little to gain and it was decided not to start such an organization. Mr. Wm.

Eudalay left today for Indianapolis, Indiana, for a visit. Mrs. C. C. Tumme of Topeka spent yesterday in Lawrence.

Miss Susie Eudaly, who has been visiting here returned to Kansas City this morning..