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THE BROOKLYN. DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK, THURSDAY. OfTODFR 2fi. lOlfi.

REMINISCENCES OF LONG-TIME FRIENDS OF THE BROOKLYN EAGLE dd i-io-in- In the drtMi minded i of earti it'i i Il i. "ti the part da i i tilnt the trewiful eondlUoM Ihe period. Abo ra. tiled at the frequent pre at of "Thi tt Ida banda nrho in hi -i ihe itrt eta carry. Ing ii.oii."- indli -'n Ho I hope thai Unooin uid be i lei tot Fnav 'By Jmlah ft.

V.mil.rcs. im over 68 years of and 1 have read The Brooklyn Uaily Eagle from the first da; of it- appearance until -M tad it read to me, because 1 alder ft a great newspaper In thai il lui in. lit In advoratins the things hii-li mi lo day am. will b. proud in duya come.

Undel" its t.bti editors Th Eagle has exerted and in exerting a Ly (rom j.j j-. fw (lM ln When hoy I 'uu! .1 Sunday School at Pt. Ann' Church, whn Washington street, gun da School. He came lo Bioukljn It life und ko prominent pari social and religious ac II) Mr-. tm Maria IS.

Bertlnf Oil mj hither' aide descendant Eagle Readers for Many Years Seventy-Five Year Readers Daniel M. Tieducll Judali B. Voorbati Mr. Soplnc Omit ton Mrs. Ann Maua Haslins I'eler Oslrander Seventy-Year Readers Will, am I leui Do oe ihelfroin Virginia, I was born a.

I Ja To the Alhr. hi wee not at iii and amuHe-irdlng the old il I and. ar-p nt lu take the menl waa afforded i .1 'errj tot there, tret MRS. CHARLES i. OSBORNE.

urito lianii Mv was down at 1 Fulton i street. In an oyster bouat. I In y' m- t. famous old Si. Br Market where lt- Hi I vi, 'v Bridge anchorage is.

When the "Bk "place. It con" -I up as far as I 4ee jc.r.l The. had to blast lo save 1 A I 1 1 I. reading The ever i I iW 1 it was a hill- of a sheet of 1 pages, published ill the .,1 kl.n wu- il much of a I ben. and The 7 WSHHBB corner of Cortland and I BHbaHlelBHr the jjji.T on located on Ue hoys us-d in pull a MRS.

ANN M. B. HASTINGS. ir i 1 1 1 i -1 i I' 1 1 1 1 a i i "fcv ff 'I iiV" v. t'.

wan' It th- had litiry.ii jt ilPfe 3HfnC r.iMi-j i ii. Wnter time the stages were i liiie.i wiih straw to keep psMtngiit warm The -low was never removed the gutters and what wax -epli Dtlon Noel Ollon Joseph I amiltoo Mumby Charles Bowman Mrs. Abby WelU Sixty to Seventy Year Readers James Mtl.eer Will. am Hem it reel Charles ioalty Morton Mrs. Eliza Ann Pill Mis.

Jen ic- Lynei i El'Jlldge James Troy John Benjamin Bland Octave A. A. Roufliiod Bernard Gallagher Mrs. Marv Clark Ayres Mrs. E.

M. Johnson Fifty to Sixty Year Readers Mrs. CeoiL-r Hurt) Prentisi Mrs. Celine Cuy Thibault lluKene Barnes Mr. and Mrs.

Charles O-lunne John Fit! -nil. Hi-Walter L. Green George Nelson Nuttiass M. Monaghan Mrs. Edward Siuart Cragin James 1 1.

Callender Mr. and Addison V.Whitlock or gold was a. i Height There 1 Qitdueted a trading post. Brooklyn saw me bach In when lands, Conoord i Tills ry street 'ere the fashionable thoroughfares the city. I recall the laying of the firs! rail or the Brooklyn Pity Railroad.

Foi long time the traeka extended un 'ulion stroet as fur a- Smith, they eventuullj reaehed farther out that time farming i of the Walla quartermaster of the Thtr teeiuh Kemm.iii when it for th. from in the civil War Robert was colonel. John B. tward, II. tenant colonel.

I'll- -By Octave Albert A. IlouiUion, The fact thai I have been rcad.mr Tho Brooklyn Daily Eagle SlmOSI sixty-two years adequately express, my opinion of the paper and the un OCTAVE A. A. ROL1LUON. fnrmly good service it has rendei the city.

1 am 83 years of age, having In I LnaaBM ftUJSL U1IUS. I the four-Mlli House at Pulton road and Maro ave-. In days hy market was i in i ha in Ha bi Borough Mall ark in front dm Maine of Henry Ward Patenter, where 1 1 -fauatafa ia now tied, Hare all the formers mi outlying districts brought their ha for sale or Country ilrta (ram 'way out llaibtish way u-rd in or i Haturdaj morning meet their beaua. Born in England in 1 11 1, I una hi thia country v. my ralner am mother, livo brotheri and su sisters image being nia.li' in the padtojsalu Waterloo, commanded I Captain Allen.

6 and No. 1 down at the ferry to see which could draw and discharge the most water in the least time. Those the happy days. By irrci Otton. My parents, brothers and sisters came tu Brooklyn in September, 18-16, Journeying here from F.nglnnd on the sailing vessel Waterloo.

The passage took thirty-five days, There, wen twelve in the family. All have been Eagle readers from lhtime we arrive. I. The Eagle otlire was then opposite Front street. I well remember the "big fire" of '4.

The Hay Market at Washington and Fulton streets bad a tower equipped with a bell, which waa rung to notif. the firemen and the public when there was a lire The Court House and Municipal Building were called the Military Garden. Il was used as picnic ground and kept by a man named Punch, -s you walked down Fulton road, later Fulton avenue and now Fulton street, yon passed a graveyard exactly where Abraham and Straus' store now A little farther out. at Flatbush road (now Flat-bush avenue) and Fulton street, was a well-known roiidhoiise. called "The staff of life At Flatbueh road and Atlantic avenue Ihe bong Island trains used to slop at the Bullhead Tavern.

A man used to ride on horseback as flagman to the entrance of the At lantic avenue tunnel, which i menred at Smith street and ran lo the water front. The principal ferries were the Atlantic. Fulton. Jackson street mow Hudson avenue I. The old Marine Barracks stood on Park avenue, the present site at that under water at high tide.

In those days there was no water, gas. sewers, paid fire department, and our chief source of light after sunset was tallow candles, and later on camphine. Or burning fluid. Kerosene and gas cameAater. When a vonmrster I was fond nl I gunning.

Many robins and high- holders, thrushes and blackbirds could be "bagged" along Atlantic avenue. 1 was married by old Dr. Johnson on the corner where The Eagle now stands. My first job was down Ot. low er Fulton street, and I was reader Of the Paper when 9 years of age.

I am now 78, so that I have been reading The Eagle less than a year short of seventy years. By Joseph nan.iltnn Miniibv I was born In Washington. D. (V. In and moved to Mott street.

New V-ik. when I small child. I do not retnemhrr how long 1 stayed there, but I was still I small boy when my father. Robert Mumby, brought us over to Brooklyn to be near the cracker factory which he conducted back the old Eagle Building After father sold out Hunter A Manley opened distillery In the building. My father, with Abbott Low.

founded the First Unitarian Church at Plerreponi street and Monroe puwe, tb- first of is ihe Rev. Frederick A. Farley, who Officiated at my father's funeral. 1 conducted a grain and feed in the first building occupied by The Eagle. Shortly after my OCCU pancy of the building The Eagle required more room to meet the needs of its increasing plant, and 1 moved my place to the corner of Columbia Heights and Fulton street.

My recollection of The Eagle at the time it was published at 34 Fulton street Is of a small sheet, even Smaller than tho weekly sheets now published I left Brooklyn In when the gold fever struck this country, reaching Vera CM when I was Jl age. I rode a horse all the way through Mexico, which ot that time I was as hostile lo Americans as It const, live iiiuu or all the com-j then was on Concord street. Over the entrance, with a storm door, a wooden shed had l.een erected. Promptly at 0 "Pup" While would lock the main door, no upstairs, read the Bible and open the school. Then closing the Rood Book, rattan in hand and anticipation in bis eyes, he would descend to alien.

1 to the luckless youngsters who had arrived too late and who were Kutherr.l in Ihe storm shed. With the ferocity of a 1iger, Dad White would jump in aniiiiiR the rattan. The Loys would shoot between the learned legs, dodge around his sides, duck, squirm, wriggle and dash upstairs into their Good old Miss Dennisnn, who taught the girls, and who couldn't hit a cat. used to be much disturbed over these antics. Sometimes these so terrific and the attack bo noisy that some of the girls would faint.

It was bedlam plus for thr time being. I 'op White has gone into the rattanless beyond. Poor fellow, he must be lonesome with an empt right hand! It is to his credit that he taught the rudimentary subjects thoroughly, same as he taught early attendance, and a number of his pupils made good records In after life. I was a student of law in the office of John B. King, at 3 Front stteet.

which was then the financial center of the city. When I entered the County Clerk's office the judges of the early '50s held court at Raymond Street Jail. Later a building was hired at Fulton and Cranberry streets. This building was owned by George Hall, a painter, afterward elected first Mayor of Brooklyn upon its incorporation as a city. In 1S33 Mr.

Hill Was President of the Viliase of As the city's first Mayor lie must honestly administered its affairs. Mow Brooklyn Volunteers 1 1 ought as Firemen. When I was a young man Brooklyn had nothing but volunteer fire companies. I used to be a member of Franklin Kngine No. 3.

Smith was foreman. He was afterward elected captain of the First Police Precinct, in Washington street, a few-doors from Tho F.agle office. They were the days before the Water partment happened along to bless Brooklyn, when every man had hi-clstern and when Ihe housewives took good care to gather nil Hie rainwater possible in every available pan and crock. At a fire the people would throw the bedding out of the windows; then out went the furniture and other things until Ihe smoke oi the fear of being burned drove them OUt. too.

We would da all the contents of cisterns, while the blessed us fhrire over. When two unfriendly companies met en route to .1 eres! "battles tame compared ti took placo Let Sometimes in our fire and quench hand-drawn appar cast iron coal hole, tho wheel would when Ihe dirt I remember when number of le-Hiiii- ij. in iin.i psoinnte.i i i i paper, win. Ii i I n. I fig) Democrats used to get together at the ollice Of Henry C.

Murphy. At iS" Il 7 un.ieii: i- wot I I. mil dreamed the wnl.l most of ns and glow ihe i ful press it now is. My father was a c.irp.nl.r and buihlrr. who had .1 bu-iii.

-s used to A an il-- every time. 'I hi subject to l.e apt lot wit It. When Top" xvititc 1 when hit- wa- ber those happy Tl HHB g. mrjl devoted la nauer haa a. one year r.

The uu Ine. Ml la CH il in and op Myrtle avenue wa- loll, used (ben Th. i- no ilebca- rulton -ii pultej in. ehurehea i ui hot the w.ii.-r en be i CHAItl.KS (.. the other corner fhere wi store i.

ii building, police BtatloB. All. i Aoaderi I place. 1 Red i Lane, there the old willow tree circus on the I R.imiiu set up il DeKalb nue and Fulton Btrei street, between Jay and Catholic convent, Prosp nil wi s. There we i man on horseback went ahead of the train, waving a red dag to warn th" people.

Bl I mo place the cars entered the tunn. i through Atlantic avenue to Bouth Porry. On the left-hand side of Smith Ferry was a big freight house. Flatbush was farms and nice farmhouses We used to delight to drive through the paths down Into ihe fields where the men were gathering coi and buy II Just as it was taken off the stalks, gi Ring it home in time to cat for thai night's supper, (By Mrs, Jcnnto l.yncss.) The Eagle being our family paper. learned lo r-ad ,1 at the age of 10 years, In isr.fi.

I was born ill Lawrence street In 1S4II. That make- me 7u years Of age. so that I have bl en an Eagle reader I for sixty years, and expert always to keep on reading the paper. I hope it Will continue tO flourish as in past years. used during tho tho: which are the in period.

In lieu a park we went to, hie I the well k'ept lawns and ill" lOVOll g. larding the testing place of the. dead. More of'ea We went Fort llamil 1 thee to enjoy the i call when the South Itered to raise money The pew, of the church were stuffed with precious cotton. Someone suggested that thta he removed and i an lies which Brook.

i is the city in wmcn i i born. and it has always been my pll Hon ItOther police acroKtlffom ed. tin used at Carbon ave Bordin had bobtail ear dr.i oouraa, thete war irtdjm or ubwaya. The is of transit was by loll. i i phia College of Hharmaoy ami th Cnteago Veteran DrucsiaU Aaioehv Accept well niahM and hope- leventy-five addiUoMl yea uaafaUv By Jol Blai Question Ihe past six decades hns.

i beii. vc. counted much foredpreseal suooms and widespread prestige, neral James M. Il is a pleasure for me Join with our citill ns generally IB recognition the sevonty-flfth anniversary of our Brooklyn Dallj i. befor 11.

IS, II- GEN. JAMES McLEER. for the daily arrival of The my home with far more m- iii 1 listen for tl-' sound of airs of an, I We began to read The Brooklyn I Daily BSagle the day after we reached Ihtt rlt. We have I. -en leaders of the paper ever since.

We were tiling I that our daughters should read il. as I tt has always proven itself to be arc now occupied by tin he.i Catholic Cathedral wai era uaea as a farm Th being iii about tho center cut church the Messiah wematora wi-i i a. i iv.i what la now tho middle of the street Greene avenue was only cm through i as far as i Union avenue. The city naranail apple My family attended the Summerfleld i i lire a.k through his apple orchard. (Attlcl iucr finished.) -Mm I nnannnnnnn I i I I from the ramus that founded As my father was a victim from It, 1, of course, recall the cholera plague.

the tiic i- The fa.g1e was not in our home. We read it now. always have read it, and shall continue to do so. By Mrs. Sophie H.

Ormi-ton. I was b.u-n in Brooklyn in eighty-one years ago. and have been a resident of the city ever since. I was educated at the old Brooklyn Female Academy, now the Packer In-stltute, and atlended the First rresby-terlan Church when Dr. Theodore Cuyter was pastor.

I am now the oldest communicant member of this church. In 185S I was married to Dr. Robert Ormtston, who served as surgeon of the Thirteenth Regiment of Brooklyn and went to the Civil War in 186L' and 1S63. 1 also had a son in tho Twenty-third Regiment, I have six grandchildren and one grcat-grand- lul.l. 1 remember our magnificent Prospect Park when it was a wilderness, and Brooklynites, wishing to avail themselves of the natural beauty of MRS.

SOI'HIE U. ORMISTON. the territory, cut paths and drove roads through its forests. When I wa-a girl the entrance to our great Greenwood Cemetery, the finest in the Slate, if not the Nation, is vcr meager from the imposing architectural edifice which now- stands at the beginning, I have parents and grandparents buried there. Housewives of today turn a handle and eel a plentiful supply of fine water, in the early days we had to ste hill- an i member tne Ban it first appeared sevent) go.

Now the MOD race to get it hen It evefthtff. It bus always piivil-ce of an entrance in the best homes of cause it is clean and member of the family, Bj Noel Otton, I have hleen a reader of The Eagle back in Ihe early '40s, Ijcrty tlr 11 I. Iks I in tho ipa. Not -r ita oung lady I w.is managa ooklyn Orphan Asylum, a ill ii ii was prlvtlaye to was represented a possessing? Ibutes of of youth'st ertalnly sj andy mill Ita ever- Ism havs the Sar.1- I often Hi" man. -si.

of old Brooklyn wiu. are now delving ihe past for the benefit of ihe present generation. I have l.een a reader of Tho Eagle for more than flfty-flve years, and to my knowledge it has ever striven to uphold the causes which represented tho lust interests of our city. By Daniel ML Tmlm-H. Though not a Brooklyntte from my beginning, having been born In Hemp.

Stead, I can claim a residence in. Brooklyn for the past seventy-seven yt tblj i M'. mother was was a Qu iker. toutiuued ou 17t I I laH I DANIEL M. TREDWELL.

it waa my good fortune when a boy to be th- pupil of Professor Uealey, proprietor of I I school occupying two houses on Naa uhett, Death ot C. H. Bainbridge Halted Reminiscences The following remlnlscen Brooklyn was written for The by the late H. Balnbrtdg. in the insurance business at i taguo street.

On the day tin ridge itarled Ma waa taken ii following Thursday sent the nnlii.ishe, le and it la publlshei wrote it. as follows "Constant readers' for old Brooklyn pictures an. personal oi minds nie that am becoming a Brookl nit- fnct 1 cannot help illustrate publication win. iber few thin bridge 1 saw this I had either little courage I ndertmke the trip myself. 1 distinctly remember ihe c.n-..n built Of massive timbers being towed down from somewhere and.

after be- lug placed in position over where il the many humlr.ds of tons masonry ,11,1 si. 'lie which 1- Hi- mi pier near the Fulton Ferry. Kali, avenue near t-son street and I have heard my father say that at thai lime. 1864 he was in bu-lli. i'i -e oi in- walked to Myrtle avenue to catch a tage which ran tO Fulton I erry and he missed It he walked.

At night he had the choice two stage at Ihe ferry. no m-i ran up Myrtle avenue and the other running up Fulton street. A very fiw years.