evening^ Dec. 5, 1908. laboriously moved

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Daily Journal, Saturdaj
Ithaca
From the
5, 1908.
Dec.
evening^
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D3THAIT OF A UNI 'a !
'ica^emy boarding hoitse
ole
fraternity*!
and
teachers who
home in this city
linn Be
aarla
i
.V
If
jafiy carefree attention tc educational
delight every lover of oar community.
rails,
But,
be
would
with
Ike
-That
if
alas,
and
amir
a
Park
thrown
we
tongues
would
laboriously
school
it
and
stop
heavy timbers
the
upon
A
story that
cur
ears
and
their
alhainScpathetic
so
perhaps
memories,
within
beseech them to leave
as
long
lovers,
die
heard
halting
human to
incessant
march
hammered
were
almost
seem
its
it?
frame
well-knit
it
and
its anchorage; as, h lding its own
step by step into Cayuga street, where
from
coerced
tree
anc
pavemant
days
moved
was
fro-
disapproval
of
for five
it
upon
that
unflinching front,
storm
ruthlessly its
ar'l
houses did have
old
their recitals
old
bold
love
matters
happier remembrances.
our
the
ilpha
music
hauses had tongues to tell of tha ho cay scenes enacts-]
patient listeners they would -'ipeoaar ia some of us}
sld
"waly
Kappa
or"
Ithaca's
"ill
it
graced
-ritt'?
was
and
those
greenings
stayed;
slashed
whose
under
eyas
the lash
where
apart
rested
of
adversity.
To
those
locks
school
whitening, it is not rerely as
it was un
as Park school for twelve years,
war1
whitened
or
that the building figured.
Ia truth,
nothing romantic
worthy of its past,
or
of
us,
whose
are
arw1
of
it?
for that
unfitness
IIRACA'S haST UUTIS
No,
as
the
creation
heart
^
brain
and
the
of
around
the memory
a.-a.
the berated house
beheld
we
-;.
clusters
agreeable
purpose.
ia
its
undespi
iled
uncomely structure, as, in 1870.
the most unique women who
one
state,
it
ever
issued
lived
the
T>er-ery recalled
warm from the
our
in
Ithaca.
Fe
academy buildin
old
and see her issuing frott the
for the time) we have not forgotten her stately tread and iffiwarious movements,
her head always high in the air ae she pushed her way among the
timbers during tha process of construction; we remember I ;r black silk gown
trailing-hehind her,
slightly raised in front by her shapely hand, revealing
can
shut
(where
our
she
rear
eyes
of
abode
-aver
an-
the
whits
hesed
and
slipc
red
feet.
X
VISIONS OF TH3 PAST
IJYID
however,
Before attempting to portray Miss Margaret Dudgeon,
the
home, we follow
its desolation,
This
building,
about
1840,
the home
was
where
and
a
long
Miss Dudgeon
of
lived for
she
park school, amid all
two-storied house with a fan over the
the broken foundation
upon
another
front door.
woman
visions
this her later
and
more
of
Ithaca,
to
came
when
she
than
a quarter
of
a
a vigorous
century.
teacher in the Ithaca Academy,
It is probable that It was through
she taught mnfetfcngBand painting as well.
to
that
she
came
Ithaca
as
both
had
Dutton
formerly resided in Utica and were
1 so rh.vVonn
and
succeeded
Mr. George button
as
muwie-
"r.
friends.
In
1870, Miss DudgeAn
North Aurora
and
been
was
old
814.
It
fill lam
house to Mr.
stood
a
few
ago
years
Spence,
with
who
it
moved
to
few exterior changes
It has since
by the peculiar fan over the front door.
its ancient visage is lost and it requires faith to believe
recognizable
easily
until
remodeled
it the
Mo.
street
the
sold
original
boarding house.
**:
MISS DUDG.^N FAITHI'UITY PORTBAYSD.
If only
physically
portrayed!
ful,
even
unless
before
the
she
she
was
Her face
majestic.
attractive
reveals
portray Vies Dudgeon as her
c^uld
we
she
a
superb
was
an
of
specimen
strong but as
though
smiled,
personality deserves to be
unique
early
we
womanhood
recall
portrait
in
it,
tall,
not
grace
particularly
possession
her face In young womanhood.
An acquaintance
beauty
: to
came
Ithaca, and recalls the impression made upon her,
of
erect,
friend
of a
remembers
one
her
Sabbath
morning, by a tall, graceful woman with several tall, graceful daughters, filed into
It was Miss Dudgeon's beautiful mother, Miss Dudgeon
their church paw ig Utica.
herself
and
her sisters.
-aa
city she dearly loved to talk
from Mary,
In fact, she loved everything and everybody Scotch
about to the. last.
That she
Queen of Scots, rt Hobble'1 Burns and Walter Scott to i bit of Scotch thistle.
was ace mpli shed no one who recalls her will deny.
We are tempted to say that she
was akin to a genius.
She had hands capable of any task set for them from setting
of her own designing, per
the bones of disabled animals to manufacturing furniture
to her fingertips;
she
not
a
she
was
but
artistic
considered
great
was
haps
artist,
she was a skillful musician and formed the musical taste of the Ithaca of her day;
she read the best literature, and wrote with facility; she composed instrumental
Miss Dudgeon
music
and
wrote
in
educated
was
songs, many
-Idinburgh,
of
Scotland,
which were
a
published.
As a conversationalist and story-teller she will be remembered as long as there are
those who recall her.
Her hw'or was Inimitable, her enthusiasms knew no bounds,
while the delicious Scotch accent and the manipulation of her hands added music and.
grace
to all
she
said.
Her generosity was almost unlimited, when she trusted ard loved she gave herself
utterly, sometimes to her disadvantage; and she loved all little children, spirited
young men, all helpless beings and many animals were a?5 dear to her as human beings.
An instance
was
honored by this
(whose
record
recalled
the"othereievening, by
friendship,
remarkable woman's
was
not
food
in his
own
a gentleman
of
whn
her trusting
considered
a
himself
Brazilian
student
in Cornell) to the extent of eight
him money barely sufficient fr his return
country
or
hundred (800) dollars.
His father sent
home and nothing with which to pay his debts.
Miss Dudgeon's advisors were tempted
to say: "Ittolrt you bo," but she was confident that she had not trusted in vain and
based her faith upon the fellow's lineage.
It was one of her hobbies the "blood will
tellrt
She was an aristocrat, every inch of her and in the above instance some
thing" tcld,;
for fhe was repaid in full though she waited long.
,
11
But, oh, how funny
Ithaca's
ever trod
believe
we
thoroughly
she
today
shocked
certainly
Upon the street,
she
big
new,
keep up
not
hat
white
hats,
plumed
We
its
it,
enjoyed
we would
not
and
be
any other woman, often In white,
how she always walked in the middle cf the
of many years
long
and
alas.'
Perhaps,
women who
eccentric
most
she knew it
and
attired unlike
remewber
the former's
with
Dudgeon,
of
shocking people.
In the same degree.
companion
with
One
enjoyed
not
interest.
of
that her
sidewalk and
could
her
with
object
an
was
thi'
eccentric 1
Margaret
was
streets
how
and
was,
she
rapid
white
walked
few
behind
steps
perhaps
We have heard many times of
she could not wear to MkirkH
strides.
which
plume
a
a
on
certain rainy 'Saster sabbath of auld lang syne, of her disgust at the rain and
how she managed to wear her hat all day in her own home to the admiration of the
a
beaux
village
who
visited
her.
vv*.<
The
reverse
the
of
side
picture.
And toal e have not pictured the real ^iss Thi^geon, s -far as ou ability goes we
have described her truthfully, but behold she rises lifeless and tame before us
her faults.
because of one great omission
Tenderly we would touch upon them to
perfect the portraiture the imperious will,
the lack of reverence, her plainness
of speech and sharpness of tongue upon occasion, and alas, her terrible prejudices.
there was no half way ground for her, and she was ad
Yes, she hated or she loved
Sometimes we are amused only as we remember her speech and
mired or hated in turn.
acts
the
when
treasure
,to
nineteen
generous
more
was
spirit
not
and
uppermost,
certainly it
impossible
was
memory when we recall that this gifted woman spent the last
her life In an asyltaa.
Her insanity was attributed to blood-
an unkind,
of
years
poisoning.
a.
And,
after
heart
the last days
Her death
sad
is
all
ever
she
told,
many
incompetence.
She
inspired
to be
then
we
,
and
ago,
and
she
the
upon
warmth
was
childlikeness
and
how troubles thickened
remember
last;
to the
she
and
of
upon
the
her
by Ithacans during
times
visited many
amused herself painting
believed her
her
art
by Raphael.
she was
to build according to her
utilize
dwell only
would
years
built her home
she
...
kept toward her friends,
in Ithaca.
not
was
.*
v
-v
i
seemingly in her xenith.
desire,
every inch of space
of
regardless
and
except
the "wee bit
of
She had
the shape
a
or
site
in the
garden**
for years
planned
of
rear
her lote to
she builded
for the large drawing-room which stretched the entire width of the
for the Interior
Her architect and builder, -ho still lives, urged her not to disregard
structure.
the boundary line but her argument was that she had done enough for Ithaca to do
as she pleased,
and because her blinds opened upon a neighbor's garde, and the cornice
beyond her domain,
hung
east
'
side
cropped
was
After the frame
was
It
at
was
to
was
start
to be six
(6)
comes
that
"Corre
no
of
trouble,
and
finally
and
told her builder how
she
wanted
countermands.
the
interior
stairway.
in the had and, at a certain point, the rise
"That axactlyaand not
the tread twelve (12) inches.
it that nay if it
make
"I'll
she had emphasized.
otherwise,"
home that night, however, than
house in. Ithaca
was
ever
"^hen it
otherwise."
upon
it,
constructed
under
was
up,
seemed suasasfie'&ed
a note reached
I will not have it.
tear the stairway out.
directions."
to
and
it is not according
other
the
the cornice on
point
and
tape measure
Terhaps
end
"I cannot
the builder had said.
with
her
she marched.
stately tread
sooner reached
wise;
no
way,"
called, her in,
no
she
certain
inches
one hair' breadth
had
off.
up,
a
she
him
I have
so
worded
he
He had
in this
measured
with
many demands and
my
*
A SOVBWHA'f TflOUBUSD R3ISN.
Nevertheless,
reign
it was,
not.
She
troubled
what
was
certainly
into
cmae
she
exterior
many
mahogany, rare old china and silver a
come from Scotland..
We recall a portrait of
the
it was.
Ithaca,
the
tall,
her
plants
feature
procure
was
fasts
and
the
of
uttered
before
relics
Burns. we
"Bob-hie19
stood upon
which
could
wish we
beautiful
a
re
portrait
it seemed to be appreciated in
She
which came into the market.
of
side
either
the old
collection of
Birds flitted from
drawing-room,
the
profusion
curiosities
natural
were
and arrangements
a unique
to room, and if her pet chickens were
was known to carry one in her pocket,
room
she
peep.
joy to entertain her friends in her own hospitable fashion. Her break
Sunday evening suppers were famous and her teas real, old fashioned teas-
her
and
unique.
Town
and
To the latterkahe
Gown.
remembered
Her
by
yet
The Kappa Alpha
house,
of
many
in turn
house,
who
of
jwstrtook
were
a
She
it.
opened
she
time
one
at
and
those
fraternity completely filled
after
they
her friends among tha
the Scotch cakes, called Hfiose Leaves," are
invited her former
O'lnnan 'daddies and
shortly
though they led her
said;
in growing them,
skilful
was most
raam within the
were
and
many
was
"Bobbie*
she
as
antique and.
Vrass lamps
flowers, her
and.
in its
delighting
It
to
graceful
her rooms.
of
free to
not
her tone
for the
eye
some
a
reigned
she
church pulpit.
She loved flowers
of
of
stress
an
she aaoaaged
captured
Dutch
loving
She had
there
and
and
unique
old
produce
own
unattractive, he Interior
beautiful things in the way of
few paintings and some books which had
If the
ana
possessed
her
of
possession
dance
was
smmetlmefi
devoted to her.
as
pupils and
them.
the
two upper
stories
boys*
devoted to "her
one
of them
there
Later,
her
the Dudgeon
she
favorite
other
were
of
as
students
called
them,
recently
in the
Brazilians.
several
A FAMOUS MOCK S3ANCB.
Miss Dudgeon was a spiritualist,
hoax which was played upon her.
and,
we
are
thought
of
one
harm.
of
her
of
carried
pure,
when
he
were
carried
"Gotten
students
out
up"
was
so
in this connection we
Certainly it was cleverly
and
in the
to
of
spirit
personate
cleverly
a
recall
well-known
and
executed,
frolieksomeness without
pure
certain medium
concealed
the
planned
of
thai? she did
note,
not
the
a
identity
recognize
him
introduced as
distinguished stranger who had consented to give a seance
in her drawing-room.
Previously, homefeew, we know not how, strings or wires or both
had been attached to the picture frames and keys of the piano; in some way these
was
a
dmto
the
basement,
Suffice it to say, the
recognised
she
'riends
beheld it,
and
seance
and
~as
l~ng departed,
on
the
evening, manipulated to perfection.
Miss Dudgeon saw visions,
eventful
a pronounced
success.
held her father's
hand,
which
she
knew the
minute
in ecstasy.
was
After the seance,
she invited the boys into her breakfast room to partake of a
sump
tuous repast, capped by her best wine.
It was at this juncture, as we remember, that
the fellows became areatly ashamed.
They uead to say that they never felt so mean
mean in their lives as when
beheld
this token of her goodness and realized how
they
completely hoaxed ?he was.
They
and
sat
up the
r.-st
was
irradiate necessity
this
among her
When told,
turn t.*>sim
hw
an
friends the
the
out
tha night,
next
we
as
planning who should disillusionise h.r,
was determined to invite the "believers"
think,
she
evening to share the dlclceures
worniag by her favorite boy,
her >r>Y)*e *T attempted t<" dn
next
of
of
she
was
so
but
of
the other world.
sufficiently furious to
they propitiated her some-
6
rj%*
how
lYetfe
this
fancy
it
fiTP>nm$~A
house,
new
'last
fell
shadow
*e thought
the
as
~
in 1870,
a
co?t
She
lawsuit.
thisdreamed
all
was
was
not
hyo*\d
the
to
joy
her means.
hard to
its
There
keep
worked
it
structure
of
it
day
and
struggled
into Cayuga
its
since
owner
the
night
till
It
street.
first
of
had
we
was
its
el
calling
old-.
houses nuisances.
C.
CAPTURE OF A "WILD MAN"
Journal, Jan. 27, 1877.
We are reliably informed that last
evening the capture of a veritable wild
man, who has for two or three years
haunted the woods of
Danby, was effected
in that. town.
He is described as
from
to
From The
being
_
forty
forty-five years old, with
long, grizzled
hajr,jmd jhaggy beard falling lpw on his
breast.
rags
He is fierce
tatters,
and
dirty.
ing
looking,
a
living
musket,
forage,
brush
heaps,
bold to
use
of roam
old
could
snow, he has
deep
the
school
repose,
and
capture
him in the
after
house
bay, he
have
woods
the- school
and
house for
last
was
to
forty days.
keep him in
term
of
Our informant
as
cause of
other
he is
lady
his
leading
custody
will
should
readers
leap
it is
fail to
avail
not
to
ment, expecting
and
privileges
to be
supposed
are
see
Jan.
From The Journal,
the
of
them.
awaiting in
timidity
of
fail to
February
They all un
themselves
gentlemen
state
not
year
days.
and
delightful
to
or
is Montgomery,
the immunities
The young
after
expired.
doubt insane.
that this is
confers;
a
this ^wretched life...
name
twenty-nine
derstand
by
could give us no particulars
without
remember
having
they
tried
committment
than that his
Otjb
it
his
when
the
to this creature's
antecedents,
the
and
musket
county
The keeper was
instructed to
the
to
failed,
night caught
house, disarmed,
committed
in
made
fiercely
(justice
in
attempts
his pursuers, always
fearing his
he would present
brought to
or
or
as a place of
several
which
in
army
shoot,
Lately, probably
etc.
the
of
carrying
he
on what
an
of
and
sleeping in hollow trees
and
account
mass
weather-beaten
He has been in the habit
the woods,
and
"show"
20, 1864.
was
no
that
end
she
finan
of
last
at
and
a
excite
begin.
.
M.
St.
J.
to
unburden
the
always
shorn"
Let
by
unwieldy
erection,
ephantupon the hands
and
that it has beer humbled by parading the streets "crumpled
less trouble.
stand upon a lot euf^icienta-awcto it, it may cause
of
hereafter forbear
mistress
sad
it.
athwart
of
offenders.
built
for the
>-s
would
trouble and at
cial
it
forgave the
freely
she
and
perhaps
"ah
now
it
is
to
hope
so
and
and
us
writing:
'
SOME RARE PICTURES
DAYS"
ITHACA IN THE "OLD
A RARE PICTURE TAKEN FROM TOP BALCONY OF OLD CLINTON HOUSE IN 1868
Showing East Seneca Street
from
Cayuga,
the village and East Hill from that point of view; the old Williams grist-mill, the cemetery, the Tompkins House and
Cornell University. In foreground on left are homes of Dr. Patterson, Dr. Stevens, Dr.
Peck, Ben Johnson, Ebenezer Mack, Drs. Coryell and Samuel
Love corner. Star Theater now site of Johnson residence. The Patterson residence was torn down to make room for the High School enlargement.!
that existed
of
The view of Seneca street and East
Hill in 1868 from the Clinton Hpuse will
be especially admired by old residents.
It may have been taken from the roof
or cupola of that hotel.
Below the Casca
dilla Place is the cluster of buildings
owned by Ben
Morse; his Gothic house
just to the left of the tower or home of
the Old Town Hall was built
by Judge
Wallbridge
early
in the late
and
sixties
and
seventies was occupied
by Andrew
D. White and family as a
residence, cor
ner of Buffalo and Parker streets.
Francis
M. Finch had moved into his house built
by Marcus Riggs, on the left of Casca
dilla Ravine, now at the north end of
Fountain Place.
The old
Hibbard-St,
John manor and orchard have been re
placed
of
by
the
the
picture,
where
residence now
of
postoffice, in the center
The house now in this
new
picture.
the
George R. Williams
stands,
was
the residence
General Harvey A. Dowe
was
owned
Scribner,
and
his
later
by Roger B.
and sisters.
That
to Willow avenue.
occupied
mother
residence was moved
and
a
It is behind the
bery in
now
the
Transit Railroad
present
noticed
that
of
born in the
the^west
at
It
street.
end of
will
no street or avenue or
one of
Stewart
where
be
bridge
avenue now
the important thoroughfares
this city, from South Hill to Cornell
Heights.
out
of
and
.Williams
then existed
makes
Was
Rapid
Williams house just below the Ben
Morse buildings
the
Co.,
Williams,
Brooklyn
the
of
and shrub
"Tim"
Col.
picture.
president
"Hod"
tree
evergreen
The
dimly
old
against
Giles
the
Cascadilla Place.
the
mark on
sort
palatial
Place
It is
that has
been
to include the Elmira
road
that
CamDUS
into
a
right
land
a
and
village
extended
and
boundary
eastward
Cortland Rail
its depot from the
distant farm to escape
removed
over
a
In 1868 Cascadilla
the
outside
since
now
business blocks
of
residences.
was
stands
the
that has become
plateau
beehive
of
mansion
skyline on
village
assessment
was repugnant
pioneers
brought
old
carried
on
on
mill
picture
company's sense of
In
stands out so
and
end
else
or
grist
the lower
cemetery
they
their flour and produce the
village
days
earliest
their backs
that
at
that,
taxation-
horse, back their
Williams
in the
to the
justice.
and
reason
and
to this
boldly
of
carried
the
back
same way.
all
-
I
1
A
long
laborious
and
has been;
canvass
made for pictures of old industrial plants
in Ithaca.
Many of them cannot be
found. Jason P. Merrill has
Journal a pen sketch from
the
Ithaca
of
memory
old roundhouse and machine
the
The
given
of
shop
The
Owego Railroad.
wood-burning locomotive is there. The
giant ex-slave
John Peterson is there
&
sawing
wood
years.
The
shed not added
machine"
wood
was
to the
filling the
Selvey the
Mr.
is
pile
a
runaway
highly
by
respected
the
wood.
"wood
working
end of the
or
side
the
slave
for many
the
under
The train
with
other
of
is
sketch.
tender
the
on
out
was
wood pile
is
crew
he
where
big
He, too,
sketch.
like Peterson,
classes in Ithaca.
and
all
E. M. Treman's picture of the Ithaca
Hotel is selected for use here for several
reasons in preference to others.
And it
is the same with his picture of the Clinton
House. His picture of the village from
East Hill, Eddy street, is judged the better!
the two
one of
hand for
at
reproduction
in"
the
Centennial Number of The Journal.
The only boat
building plant picture
obtainable is the B. T. Taber yard
loaned
to
us
Taber's
by Albert Loveless,
one
Mr.
of
old workmen.
The Taber boat
building yard was the last to go out of
existence in Ithaca. The
only canal boats
m the Inlet we could
get are here repro
duced, one owned by Capt. Jerome
Norton between State and Seneca
streets
and one by Capt. "Al"
Rice below Seneca
street, before any bridge had been erected
at Buffalo street.
The
warehouses
A PEN SKETCH BY J. P. MERRILL OF THE OLD LACKAWANNA ROUNDHOUSE AND WOOD SHED
big
and grain elevators are
not
to be found
in any of our pictures. Capt.
Denton D.
Norton owns the picture of the
Frontenac,
|T. D. Wilcox and
the
|sidewheel
the
at
Sheldrake,
"Steam Boat
spring had
"Ino,"
!
lake
three
steamers moored side
Landing"
Morgan"
"Kate
steamers were not
and
in port, in
that winter.
Slave
quarters
in
plantation
is
sight.
in this
a slave
ago.
His
other
slave
mother
or
Caroline,.
James
of
now
the
granddaughter
Mrs. Webb.
about
or
plantation
IN THE DAYS OF THE STAGE COACH
is
miles
plantation mansion
photographs
trations
the old slave
woman]
The farm
from the city of
is about
from this house.
The
a mile
The
slave.
Seven
in that town.
owned by Mrs. Mabel
in the
picture,
a
were
woman'
of
fourteen
Ithaca.
hair, was perhaps
house, about 90 years
was
farms
This farm is
VanDyke,
half
Ithaca,
old man with white
born
|
interesting
an
the
Town
I
The
other
the Speed farm
on
the
side
before
for navigation.
opened
the
by
from
the illus
taken for The.
Dr. Charles H. Gallagher.
which
were made were
Journal by
T. W. Burns
THE B. F. TABER BOAT-YARD
THE OLD CLINTON HOTEL
evidently was taken from the top
the Blood block on Tioga street and is repro
This
of
picture
duced to
show upper portion of
has
since
been
the hotel
changed.
which
JEROME NORTON AND HIS
CANALER,
j. C.
HEATH"
FLEET OF LAKE STEAMERS TIED UP AT STEAMBOAT DOCK
SIMEON DE WITT, OF ITHACA,
T,,'",,
aprtT/jccraT
I.SIMKON
V
DE^'ITT.I
n..
THE STEAMER ITHACA
LANDING AT GLENWOOD
-to.
*
it
^t%J|$j
BmUMm
gJR
...4
-,-,,-.4.1
WRECK OF THE STEAMER
"FRONTENAC"
The wrecked
steamer Frontenac, half
more submerged
in Cayuga Lake,
shown on page 17
is aU that remains of
the once large fleet
of side-wheelers on
or
the
THE SPEED MAXSI0N
IX CAROL
^om a photograph taken
special for The JourQal
Lake.
The steamer
shown on page
^^
^
Ithaca, also
formerly the T. D.
last big boat built for
17,
W'lcox and the
Cayuga Lake.
was
^ourn-al.
^ou\rna\j
I&51
hlr)
1^51
aa-aa..
Steamboat
This
particular
distance
can
ways was a
landing
be
seen
on
Landing
the Inlet had been
Johnson's Boat House.
principal
means
Erie Canal System in
of
1896
.
The
In the
1830.
used since
Shipping by inland
Ithaca supply
(Photo loaned
1825,
.
a.:a>''-;a,ar:--:^.:-;:a:V:a:#
after
opening
by DeWitt
water
of
the
Historical
Society.)
Old
Inlet
Lighthouse
The first lighthouse on the Inlet was built in 1825 about the time of the
so unnavigable that
opening of the Erie Canal. At that time the Inlet was
boats docked at the lighthouse pier. The picture above was taken in 1 908
by Mrs. Charles Soule. The lighthouse has since been replaced by a concrete
structure.
EAST HILL FROM EDDY
The
learly
rarest old picture
and
JEast Hill,
,
an
Eddy
street.
engraving,
reproduced
beautifully
S. D.
'
now'
original
page
the best
Ithaca is E. M. Treman's
17.
His
rare
view
STREET, LOOKING DOWN SENECA,
1839.
FROM AN OLD PRINT.
of
from
It is from
uncolored
and
in the center
and fine picture
Thompson's Ithaca. Hotel,
on
is
of
of
page
5 is a treasure. The picture
of Ebenezer
Mack is from Mr.
Treman's portrait of
his grandfather by Chas.
'
Merrill
VIEW FROM
>
TERRACE PLACE
1855
N. W. COR. CAYUGA AND SENECA STS., 1830
The Colonial
17,
built
was
building
by
shown on
the directors
page
the Bank
of
Ithaca, and used as a bank till 1850.
It has housed many different classes of
business and professions.
The barber
poll tells of one kind.
The sign ofr the
"Great Five-Cent Dining Room" tells
of
another
the
For
story.
building.
it has been for
now occupied as
by
This familiar
the Atwater
recognized as
level
THE COLONIAL BUILDING, ERECTED 1828-29
one of the most imposing structures on State
Building is today
the
and a glass store
change
in the
Atwater
present
front
exterior
of
replaces
The
grocery.
the
ground
old-fashioned
the building.
For
street and
will
floor has been lowered to the
windows, otherwise there
many years the postofflce
is
was
a number
Grocery.
housed
building
the Post Office from
The Colonial
number of years
Recently the building was
by F. H. Atwater and it is
purchased
of years
a
located in the Colonial
post office was
the
Ithaca Bank only from 1830 to 1850, then
1880 to 1901.
When the
Great Five Cent
Dining
Barber
Shop
Bathroom. Notice the
life of
Atwater's food
and
Room
picture
in the basemeht to the
was
ornate
barber
right
about
and
was used
for
1870 Mausntr's
the
on
left
This is the
pole on sidewalk.
(Loaned by DeWitt Historical
store.
taken
was
was a
present
Society.)
be
A UNIQUE PICTURE
street
The date
no apparent
located here.
of
this
peculiarity
is
picture
dress here
of
-
not given
shown
but the
is
^ESEbrJ^
-l
EAST HILL FROM TIOGA STREET IN
1879, ABOUT THE TIME DEVELOPMENT OF THIS BEAUTIFUL SECTION REALLY
Dutchman's,"
"Old
house
square grout
werck's,
Cornell mansion, long
in the beautiful
page
16,
residents.
on
the
Vor-
Carl
near
the
torn
since
Ezra
down,
East Hill, on
be a matter of interest to
The old hub factory is
will
old
picture
left.
extreme
of
Vorwerck
was
a
very old man, coming here in the
to "assume possession of Valuable
sixties
Mr, Cornell
wished
land in the
to
erect
his
where
village.
great
new
Vorwerck
house but
pieces
mansion on
the
the cheap
erected
friend
one
and
big
field
and
could
lost
no
not
time in
having
R.'
grout
house torn down.
private
VIEW FROM PLEASANT STREET, 1865
of
that
residence
grout
Carl Vorwerck
gave
eossip
Ithacans
and
now
house.
and
a
H.
includes the
Ezra Cornell
their
wealth
speculation.
of
that
Treman's
new
site
and
houses
reason
for
Vorwerck had
companion
that,
fie re
doga He
paid
spected, and only one, a
board
three dollars a day for his dog's
the
leading
in any
were
of
hotels
accepted
eccentric
landlord
and
refused
them himself
by
personality
and
patron,
induce Vor-- like his master,
verck to sell at any price.
When the old known to man
Dutchman went away Governor A. B.
Cornell got the title to Vorwerck's splendid
grout
STATE ST.) 1S00
BEGAN
a
The
^". E. COR. OWEGO (NOW
-ill
"
&-
of
,.
was
and
that
sum
Bs
overlooked
that
the
animal.
dog
best
at
'board
landlord.
the
upon
and
unless
to
by
lived
things
'/?
BIRD'S EYE VIEW OF ITHACA IN
Showing
course of
the Inlet
and
the
canal
basin
at
foot
of
Mill
Street;
the
1873
REPRODUCED FROM A CONTEMPORARY DRAWING
old coal pockets on
both
sides of
Inlet;
the
buildings housed Cornell University; Renwick Park
old
fair
grounds when
located
on
Railroad Avenue; the Campus
S3
GENERAL VIEW OF ITHACA FROM
when
half
a
dozen
when a cow pasture.
:^^^^d
SOUTH HILL, 1838
A CROWD ON THE FAIR GROUNDS IN 1866.
The
date occupied a site bounded by Cayuga street, Railroad avenue, Willow
a line between the present Lewis and Franklin streets.
The building in the middle
distance is still standing, at the corner of Auburn and Franklin streets.
grounds at
avenue and
that
OWEGO (NOW STATE) STREET ABOUT 1840
Ithaca
The
Hotel-1866
Irhere was keen rivalry among the several fire-companies in the "old days"
populace gathered
to
witness a
test
of
throwing
water
by hand
and
engines
the
picture shows
in front
of
hotel built by Luther Cere in 1809 was 40 feet
by 60 feet and
$6,000. The entire block was purchased for $100. After
a, series of
different owners it burned August 22, 1871 with most of the buildings irr
the block. The present Ithaca Hotel opened in 1872,
costing its owners
Col. W. H. Welch and son $64,000. The Ithaca Hotel was purchased in
1900 by J. A. Causer and still remains in that family. (Photo loaned bv the
7
DeWitt Historical Societal
original
cost
Journal) t^5l
SOUTH CAYUGA
STREET ABOUT
A STREET
Tins
SCENE
THAT WILL REVIVE OLD MEMORIES
typical street scene in the
latter Ws. Note the old wooden
the large number of
farmer's
P1cture represents a
and
vehicles all along the
street.
the
the hotel.
awnings
7)
SOUTH SIDE OF STATE STREET, FROM TIOGA, 1871
The
picture was
and
taken shortly
the Empire
after
EAST STATE STREET ABOUT 1861
The
obstruction shown on
the
right of
the
the
picture
is
an eaves-spout which
emptied
the
State building have
into
street gutter.
EAST STATE STREET AS IT LOOKED IN 1900
burning
since
of
been
the Ithaca Hotel.
The Krum
remodeled, otherwise there
building
is very little
on corner
change.
AURORA STREET LOOKING NORTH
TIOGA STREET LOOKING NORTH
Old Lyceum Theatre
erior of
Perhaps this
view will
of such stars as
Lyceum {erected
Mate tlectnc &
"-
e
oilan8e apparent
from the
collection].
original.
Joe
bring many Ithacans nostalgic memories of the talents
Jefferson, Willie Faversham, Sothern and Marlowe. The
in'
1893) was
Gas Corp.,
the
and
Treman block between Wards
was-
torn down
about
1930.
and
the N.Y.
(Joseph Barr
.11