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J0I> ^'J> ..^s^ ',,^^)2:> ) i>- 3 J5i:> :>*-■> v>^ ' ,^ *^>i^ I> 3 3>3 3 X>:> >:>.)i\ ... > ^ ^.0:3^^ > > - ■==*> .a^-^ "■^ ^^^i^- n>'-sa5, iX> >> v>* 1 / THE SEMI-CENTENNIAL SOUVENIR AND CHRONOLOGICAL HISTORY OF ROCHESTER. •^1g6g?> '^)SS^.'^ Mi-i^r fB:r\r\^r^ 1 HE liRY iiOODS m A writer who recently visited the places of interest in Rochester stated that in his opinion the Dry Goods Ho-Qse of SIBL.EY, I.INDSAY & CURR held the same relation to other Dry Goods Houses in this city as Powers' Art Gallery did to other art galleries. While this opinion may not he exactly correct, it is true that no one gets a correct idea of the dry goods business of Rochester until he has looked through the five stories and basements of this house- Messrs. SIBLEY, LIHDSAY & CURR commenced business in Rochester in March, 1868, and have since gradually increased their business both at wholesale and retail. They have had the largest retail business in Rochester since 1876, and the largest importing and jobbing business since 1881. In December, 1880, Messrs. Sibley & Lindsay purchased the property known as the Osborn House, corner Main, St Paul and Division streets, and in 1883 connected a portion of the building with their Main street stores, making one of the largest and finest houses for the dry goods business in the United States. THE SEMI-CENTENNIAL SOUVEN I R An Account of the Great Celebration, JUNE 9th and IOth, 1884. ' TOGETHER WITH A CHRONOLOGICAL HISTORY OF ROCHESTER, N. Y. BY WILLIAM MILL BUTLER, and GEORGE S. CRITTENDEN, mjo ^ ROCHESTER, N. Y. : POST-EXPRESS PRINTING COMPANY. 1884. v \3-^ Copyright, 1S84, by W. M. Butler and G. S. Crittenden. S' c a CO THE SEMI-CENTENNIAL SOUVENIR. By Way of lutroduction. The aim of the editors of this little work is not only to present, in convenient chronologi- cal form, a history of Rochester from the ear- liest times to the present day, but to perpetuate a full and faithful account of the semi-centen- nial celebration, the details of which are neces- sarily excluded from the elaborate new his- tories of the city. It may not be amiss to state here that the subject of a proper observance of the fiftieth anniversary of the Flower City's birth was first suggested by D. M. Dewey to Edward Angevine, a veteran journalist on the Post- Express staff, and Mr. Angevine ac- coi'dingly began the agitation in the columns of the paper ou the isth day of June, 1SS3, his article containing, besides a large amount of historical matter pertinent to the occasion, the' following suggestions: " There is no good rea- son, it seems to the Post- Express, whj' this semi- centennial birthday of the Flower City should not be apjiropriately celebrated by her sons and daughters. It is now none too early to begin to make arrangements, for there is much to be done in the way of preparation for the event. Nothing should be done half-heart- edly; no effort should be spared to make the occasion the grandest yet observed in the beau- tiful city, which has so rapidly and solidly grown up around the Falls of the (ienesee. The City of Rochester celebrated the municipal incorporation of the youthful town with the firing of cannon and the ringing of the City Hall bell afterwards for many years hanging in the cupola of the Court House, and the peo- ple made merry over the birth of the city. And now that Rochester has lived for half a century let there be another celebration, when the ol'd bell shall again ring out; again let cannon voice the people's joy and thanks; let there be speech -makiug.and processions, and fire- works; let us eat, di-ink and be merry, for Rochester has now become one of the most important provincial cities of our land. Let the citizens of 18:54 living with us now — there are very few of them to be sure — be given the pxominent places in the celebration, if they be spared until that time, and let them be honored, for they have been the witnesses of the growth of Ro- chester from a citj' of twelve thousand inhab- itants to the fourth nnmcipality of the Empire ytate. Everyone should join in tliis move- ment; the aged citizen wlio helped to clear the fields where now stand stately edifices and where ai'e located broad streets; the child, who may live to witness Rochester's centennial cele- biation; the business man and the capitalist, the banker and the laborer, all should join iii the effort to make next year memorable in the history of Rochester. Hon. Cornelius R. Par- sons and the Aldermen who compose the Com- mon Council should at once take the initiative in this matter. Let them invite aid and coun- sel, resting assured that they have the approval of all the people. " The Post-Express of the .same day contain- ed an editorial advocating the proper celebra- tion of the anniversary and urging that a meet- ing of the citizens be called without delay and the preliminary steps taken. The idea of a semi-centennial celebration must have occurred to several minds at about the same time, for on June 10th, the next (special) meeting of the Common Council, the President, M. Barron, in the chair, the follow- ing communication from the Mayor (dated June IGth) was presented : Mayor's Office, I ROCHE.STER, N. Y.. June 16, 1883. (" To the Members of the Common Council of the City of Bochester. (jEntlemen: On the 28th day of April, 18.34, the legislature of this state passed an act incorporating the city of Rochester, and the same provided that on the first Monday of June following, certain city officers should he elected. The board of trustees of the village, at a meeting convened on the 20th day of May, in that year, adopted the following: " Resolved, That notice be given of the city elec- tion for the first Monday of June next; tliat the election be held at the places in the several wards hereinafter designated, and that the persons here- inafter named be inspectors of elections for the said wards^ respectively." It may l)e of interest for me to state that the polling places were fixed as follows: First ward— Mansion House. Second ward— Allen's Inn, corner Brown and State streets. Third ward — Rochester house. Fourth ward— Genesee house, corner St. Paul and Court streets. Fifth ward — Blossom's tavern. On the 3d day of Jime, 18;i4, the board of trustees again assembled and the following action was tiiken : The clerk produced the statements of election. The trustees proceeded to examine and calculate the same, and therefore made and signed a state- ment of the result of the said election held in the city of Rochester, certifying who were elected to the several offices of the said city. It was also ordered that the statements be filed with the county clerk; that he record the same, and that they be also published in tlie two daily papers of the city. The board then adjourned, sine die." The act of inc:orporation furtlier provided, that the board of aldermen should meet at the court house at 12 o'clock m. on the Mh day of June, of that year, for the purpose of electing a Blayor and a Clerk of tlie city. This was complied with. Nine of the ten nieiubei"s were present. Johnathan Cliild was elected Mayor, and John C. Nash, Clerk. Aid. Brooks presented the following resolution, which was adopted : Resolved, That Jonathan Child, having received eight of the nine votes given by the members of the common eoimcil present, is duly elected to the of&ce of Mayor of the city of Rochester, and that Aids. Backus and Kempshall be a committee to wait upon him and notify him of his election. The committee appointed to wait upon the Mayor elect having re- turned, reported that he accepted said office." My object in calling your attention to the date of the city's incorporation, and the subsequent action of the village trustees and the newly elected alder- men, is to direct it to the fact that our first semi- centennial anniversary is rapidly api:)roaching, and that the people of Rochester sliould join with its officials in a proper observance of the interesting event; and while the same is nearly a year hence, it is none too early to begin to consider what might appropriately be done to make the day a memor- able one in the liistory of Rochester. I therefore suggest that a committee of your honorable board and a committee of citizens (both forming a joint committee) be appointed, to take the matter into consideration and in due time make its report. CORNELIUS R. PARSONS, Mayor. The comunication was ordered received, filed and published and the following resolution of- fered by Alderman Hinds, was adoi)ted : Resolved, That the president of the board be, and he is hereV)y requested to appoint a committee of five meml)ers of the common coimcil and six citi- zens of Rochester to consider the propriety of cele- brating the semi-centennial anniversary of the city of Rochester, said committee to report its conclu- sions to this board at its earliest convenience. The committee as finally announced by the President vs^as: Aldermen Hinds, Watson, Strouss, Rice, Southard and Barron and Hon. C. R. Parsons, Patrick Barry, D. W. Powers, Gilman H. Perkins, H. H. Warner, William Purcell, and Charles E. Fitch. At the regular meeting on Tuesday evening, June SGth, on motion of Alerman Pelsinger fourteen addi- tional names were added to the committee, as follows: John H. Rochester, Col. H. S. Green- leaf, D. T. Hunt, S. H. Lowe, Frederick Cook, Mathias Kondolf, George A. Benton, Josej^h W. Rosenthal, Charles S. Baker, James E. Booth, James O. Howard, Henry S. Hebard, David Healy and H. Austin Brewster. At the first meeting of the general commit- tee, Oct. 2(5. 18H3, Mayor Parsons was elected chairman and Major Benton secretary, and the following sub-committee ai)pointed " to re- port a plan of the proper manner and means of the celebration:" Mayor Parsons, Aldermen Barron, Rice and Watson, and Messrs. Fitch, Perkins, Cook, Rosenthal and Benton. This conunittee at the next meeting, Dec. 7, 18s:!, rejjorted the plan substantially as subsecjuently carried out. A discussion was caused by a proposition to raise by taxation |1(J,000 to defray the (>xpenses of the celebration. A motion to raise the funds by subscription was carried by a vote of 11 to 8. At the same meeting Mcssi's. Lowe, Barron, Perkins, VV^ainer, Hebard, Brew.ster and Kon- dolf, with Mayor Parsons added as cliairnian, were ajjpointed a committee on Ways anil Means, and Pati-ick Barry was elected treasurer of the general committee. At the third meet- ing of the latter committee, the following com- mittees were announced: On Invitation and Printing— Messrs. Lowe, Powers, Cook, llel)iird and ]5i-ewster. On ReiHiption and Kntertainmout — Messrs. Bar- ron, Booth, Hunt, Fitch and Hinds. On Procession— Messrs. Warner, Rosenthal, Kon- dolf, Purcell and (Jreenleaf. On Fireworks and Illmiiination— Messrs. Watson, Rice, Strouss, Howard and Healy. On Literary Exercises— Blessrs. Rochester, Barry, Perkins, Baker and Southard. The chairman and secretary of the general committee were added to each of the sub- committees, and the committee on reception and entertainment subsequently added to its members the following named gentlemen: Ja- cob Howe, jr. , H. H. Pryor, Alfred Ely, A. K. Howe, H. Michaels, Abram Htern, Judge J. S. Morgan, J. W. Martin, W. Duffy, C. S. Ellis, J. A. Felsinger, W. C. Barry, Wm. F. Kohl- metz, Wm. Aikenhead, H. F. Huntington, John Fahy. The following named gentlemen were added to the committee on Ways and Means : Messrs. Hunt, Rochester, Fitch and Rosenthal. Sub- sci-iptions amounting to .$4,000 were reported. Additional subscriptions amounting to .$3,640 were reported at the meeting of April 25th, and among the i-eports of the sub-conmiittees made at the next meeting. May 11), that of the procession committee, stated that Colonel John A. Reynolds had been selected as grand marshal of the procession, with power to ap- point assi.stant marshals and aids. Majoi- Benton was given charge of the music and dis- play of bands. Additional subscriptions amounting to $.5(50 were reported, making the amount reported to date $7,200. To this sum $:300 was subsequently added. The fuaal meet- ing of the committee was held June 6th. Rochester's Seini-Ceiiteiinial Celebration. The hour of 12 o'clock noon of Monday, June 9th, 1884, was ushered in with a terrible clangor on the City Hall fire-bell. Its brazen mouth, at each stroke of the hammer, sent forth the hoarse ly exultant announcement,— the semi-centennial celebration of Rochester is at hand. In a few seconds the fog-horn on Kimball's factoiy lent its deep bass voice to the din, the ai-tillery* on Court Street bridge began its still deeper up- roar to the occasion, and then all the bells and whistles in the city took up the hue and ciy, and until four minutes past on(» o'clock pande- monium reigned. Mingled witli the harsher .soimds, were the sweet chimes of St. Peter's Presbyterian church, u])on which the following programme was rendered : *( )\viug to the disbandment of all tlie militia e.v- cept the eighth separate company, Rochester had no artillery of her own to use in the celebration, unless it were the old army relic in posses- sion of Reynolds' Battery. Mayor Parsons had tlierefore secured two brass Napoleon 12-pounders from the state arsenal in New York city for the occa- sion. One of these in charge of a sipiad of veteran art.illci-y officers, headed by Col. Joseph Erbelding, provided the salute of twenty -five rounds from the Court street In'idge, at noon and night on Monday, and in the morning, at noon and at night on Tuos- (lay ; the other in charge of Battery I.,, First New York Light Artillery, Col. (iilbert H. Reynolds com- manding, gave a series of similar salutes at Falls Field. 1— Rochester Semi-Centennial March (new) E. H. Sherwood 2— Our Fl.i},' is There 3— Hail Coluinbia — 4 — IndepeudMice Day " Oh, freedom now through blood and strife," 5— The FluK of the Fi-ee " Beautiful streamer now dear to me." 6— We Love the Heroes of Our Land " Brave hearts that conquered though they died." 7 — Russian National Hymn S— America "My country 'tis of thee," etc. 9— Marchin}^ Soufj 10 — God bless our Native Land " Blessed is the Nation where God is the Lord." The proclamation of the Mayor,* issued some time previously, calling: upon the citizens to heartily participate in the festivities was hardly needed to kindle the enthusiasm of the people, for at the hour above mentioned, despite the threatening a-spect of the sky and the patter of big drops of rain on the walks, the scene every- where was an animated one. Tliousands had come in from the country on the morning tains to see the sights. The city was decked out in extra holiday attire. The prominent buildings wei-e almost covered with flags and bunting, and the stores, workshops and * It was as follows: Mayor's Office, { KOCHE.STEE, May 28, 1884. ) To /he Citizem of BoehcHcr : The committee in cli.-irge of the semi-centennial celebration 1)1' iiur city has adopted a progranune extending fi-om noon, June itth, to and including the evening of .June loth. It has been appropri- ately determined tliat this slutll be a celebration of the city by lier people, and I trust that every citizen will actively participate in tlie festivities (iftheocca- si(in. Tliere are those ajiiong us who remember tlie handet of Rochester, and who liave seen a great and pi-osjierous t;ity grow up around them, and Hour and lie iwers have extended her name and fame everywliei'(^ Thoiisands of wilUug han. in the morning, and gave a descrip- tion of Rochester as imagined by him in lit84. Then people will have learned to respect the laws of health; the city's debt will have been paid, the private residences were generally decorated. The merchants of the East Side had erected a handsome evergreen arch across Main street near St. Paul. Many of the merchants had se- cured as special attractions for their show win- dows historical relics of various kinds.* It was announced that the general committee of ar- rangements had succeeded in collecting fully $8,000 from patriotic citizens to defray the ex- penses of the two days' municipal merrymak- ing. officials will be honest and taxes low; there will be less attention given by newspapers to jirize fights, cocking mains and dog fights, and there will be no buying or selling of votes. At the J'Mrst Presbyterian Church, in the morning, Rt^v. Dr. Tryon Edwards rei)eated the sermon which he had delivered fifty years ago, when he was installed as a pastor. In the evening Rev. F. DeW. Wai'd, of Geneseo, gave the sanu- sermon he had preached in the First church upon the dav of his ordination, .June 8, 18:W. At St. Luke's! Rev. Dr. Anstice preache<] upon the develoj)ment of tin; churches in Rochester during the past fifty years. At St. Maiy's Catholic tUiurch, Rev. Fatlier Stewart gave the history of the pai'ish which was founded in the same year the city was incorpt)rated. At St. Petei-'s Rev. Dr. Riggs in the morning spoke of " the secret of a city's real fyrosperity," and semi-centennial sermons were also preached by Rev. Dr. Saxe at the First Universalist Church, Rev. Mr. Fisher at the Second Universalist Chureli, and Rev. Myron Adams at Plymouth Church; Rev. Dr. Landsberg had on the day previous delivered an address on the semi-centennial at Heiith Kodesh Temple. On Monday and Tuesday mornings special thanksgiv- ing nia.ss in commemoration of the semi-centennial was .celebrated at St. Patrick's Cathedral. *A notable exhibition of this kind was contained in the window of a firm at No. 22 East Main street (in the Arcade building). It consisted of the following: The desk used by Abelard Reynolds as the first depository of mail matter received in 1813, when it occupied the identical spot where it was placed in the window; the original tin ])aper cutter and sand box used by Mr. Reynolds: many of his old post-oftlee documeid-s, dating from ISI.J to 1827; a piece of the fii'st plank house erecteil by Abelard Reynold in 1812; a branch from a tree that stood on the four corners in 1812; the vertebra of a rattlesnake taken from a ledge of rock, corner of Exchange and Main streets, in isi2; the antler of a deer killed on the same s))ot in lsi2; a spinning jenny, brought to Rochestei- in 1,S17; a fire bucket used by .J. C. Beebe, in 1825; a])ictui-e of the Genesee Falls, painted by G. W. Robinson, in 18:W; an oil portrait of Jonathan Child, the first Mayor, painted from life, in 18.5;i; views of the great Hood of 180."); a drawing of the house built by Enos Stone in 18)0: flowers taken from the grave of Sam Patch, at Charlotte; an engraving of the Gene^see Falls in 18;J4; a life size portrait of Mayor Parsons ; a picture of Alida Mabee Griffin, who came to the town of Boyle (now called Pittsfordt, in ITHS; a picture of Mrs. Huldah (jriffin i''o.ster, l)orn in Pittsford, 1803; a picture of Jonathan lAister, who came to Roches- ter in 1825; and a skidl supposed to be the remains of a mound-builder, found in the mounds at Brew- er's landing. The Literary Exercises. While the vast throng of people was waiting for the literary exercises to begin in the City Hall, the Fifth-fourth Regiment Baud gave an open air concert to the delight of all, rendering the following programme : I 8 Rochester Semi-Centennial March.. E. H. Sherwood Selections from Beggar Student Millocker National Potpourri Heinecke My Queen Waltz Bucalossi Grand March Coni-ada The 3,000 free tickets issued for the admission of the public to the literary exercises were all taken within a few hours after they were offer- ed, those applying first being served first. When 2 o'clock, the hour for the commencement of the exercises, had ari'ived, the vast hall was crowded almost to suffocation and hundreds who did not have tickets had to be turned away.* The interior of the hall had been dec- orated in a most gorgeous manner, under the supervision of James Field. In the rear of the stage was a large shield, upon wliich rested the golden figure of an American eagle. The national colors and flags of all nations abound- ed everywhere. The officers who had been se- lected for the occasion were : President— Hon. Cornelius R. Parsons. Vice-Presidents— Ex-Mayors C. J. Hayden, John Lutes, N. C. Bradstreet, George G. Clarkson, D. Clarkson, D. D. T. Moore, G. W. Briggs, Michael Filou, Henry L. Fish, N. E. Paine, and James Brackett; Messrs. James S. Stone and M. F. Rey- nolds and the following old citizens, most of whom voted at the election in 1H84: AUing, David C. Hatch, J. W. Ailing, Stephen Y. Husbands, J. D. Ailing, William Himtington, Elon AlUng, Lewis H. Hull, J. O. Ailing, John Judson, Junius Andrews, Julius T. Jones, James Arnold, George Kirley, Phihp Andrews, Adna G. Leavenworth, Gideon Anderson, Jacob Leonard, Frank Arnold, W. E. Loomis, Isaac Baker, Benjamin M. Leap, Benjamin Bacon, William B. Lear, Isaac Bartholick. Dr. H. A. Moore, William H. Bell, Jacob D. Moses, Schuyler Beamish, Sanniel Moulson, Sanmel Bradshaw, (ieorge McKibben. John BuckJand, A. B. McFarlin, Benjam Bi-yan, Elisha W. Madden, Garrett A. Bush, John P. Newell, A. C. Brewster, Edward O'Reily, Henry Boardman, Silas Osburn, Nehemiah Boorman, Robert M. Perrin, Darius Burleigh, George W. Patterson, Thomas J. Chapin, Louis Pone, Joseph Carter, Giles Quinn, John Church, Sidney Rochester, H. E. Chapman, Timothy Riley, General A. W. Cochrane, Joseph Robertson, B. P. Cram, Ambrose Southwick, J. M. Clague, Daniel Stone, Eben H. Comens, Carlos Sage. Nelson Davis, Hiram Stone, Joseph Densmore, R. Strong, Alvah Dart, John Seward, Jason W. Dicke.y, Rev. David Stevens, Jolm C. Evans, Evan Shields, Robert Fisher, George W. Sherman, H. B. Fenn, H. C. Smith, Carlos Gould, George Stone, James S. Grover, Elihu H. St. John, C. M. Goi-ton,John Tal mage, .Joseph A. Haight, Isaac Thomas, William H. Hanford, William I. Tracy, Jeremiah Howard, Elijah Winslow, J M. Howe, Jacob Ward, H. M. Howell, Richard Warner, Matthew G. Harris, Orrin Wimble, George Haines, Isaac T. Walker, Albert Gihnan, James Wegman, John Grave s, John W. Witherspoon, Samuel F. *The ushers for the occasion were: C. J. Robin- son, C. E. Crouch, C. E. Sunderlin, F. W. Vedder, G. H. Smith, R. W. Bemish, B. G. Saunders, and W. G. Shelp, members of the Rochester Cadets. Secretaries— Fred. A.Whittlesey, Charles T. Smith, Charles A. Hayden, Jonathan H. Childs. Charles C. Morse, A. Erickson Perkins, J. Sherlock Andrews, E. J. Woodbury, W. D. Ellwanger, W. J. Sheridan, Levi F. Ward, H. C. Brewster, Hobert F. Atkinson, Solomon Wile, Henry P. Danforth, George H. Per- kins. There were also on the stage as guests Mayor 8etli Low, of Brooklyn, and Mayor W. B. Smith, of Philadelphia. Mayor Parsons, as President of the day, opened the proceedings with the following address: MAYOR PARSONS' ADDRESS. • Fellow-citizens— The event that calls us together to-day is one truly memorable. Never again in the life history of most of us, so far as our own city is concerned, will a similai- occiirrence present itself. A half century hence— long after our children shall have assumed the mimicipal inheritance we leave them, those who are active participants or quiet listeners to-day will have gone the way of all men — gone to join the innumerable throng. But this is not the time for sad reflection. Neither do we as- semble in a spirit of triiunph or exultation. We have reason to rejoice, however, and have called in our friends to rejoice with us. Fifty years in the life of a municipality, as in the life of an individual, marks an important era. With u.s wonderful changes have been wrought. The mighty forests have disappeared and the earth has yielded its increase. But to the historian .you must look and listen for the tale of a half century ago, and as to what the future is to bring doubtless the orator and poet will most fittingly predict and pic- ture. That an approving Providence may contiinie to smile upon us as we devotedly hope and believe, and when to other hands is committed tlie trust and cares of the present and by them cheerfully borne and in due time surrendered, may it be said of us — they did wisely and well, and faithfully and con- scientiously performed their part. And now, upon this day so glorious, let us pledge anew our vows of devotion to our common coimtry and to this dear city. To our vi.siting friends let me say that Rocli- ester to-day with lier " green lap full of sprouting leaves and bright blossoms" extends a most cor- dial welcome. Her citizens and her officials appre- ciate the honoi' of your presence, full.v realizing the sacrifices you have made in order to meet with us. We shall not soon forsret how nmch this most im- portant day in our local history is graced by your attendance; let the historian of the future in mak- ing mention of these exercises record the fact that some of the most distinguished men of our time and the representatives of many of the cities throughout this broad land met and rejoiced with us. For almost the entire time of the life of our city there has been one loved and honored pastor over one of our leading chiu^ches. In the services of his church and of our city his venerable head has become silvered, his noble heart and deeds have won for him a reverence and affection more pre- cious than any golden offering coukl purchase. In what way could the services of this hour be more appropriately begun than liy uniting with him in thanksgiving to Almighty God for liis blessings to us and our city in the past, and prayer for their continuance in the futm-e. PRAYER BY DR. SHAW. next prayed as Rev. James B. Shaw, D. D. follows : Oh God, oiu' heavenly father, we are assembled here to-day to bless ami praise thy name for the iriunificent blessings thou hast .shown us as a city during the first half century of its existence. Oh God, we come til thee to-day as the God in whom our fathers ti-nsted. We come before thee to humbly confess oui- sins, for we are like sheep that have gont! astray and wandered far from the mas- ter's fold. We know that we have done many things which we ought not to have done, and left undone those things which we ought to have done. But we come to-day to confess all these things and humbly ask tliy mercy iind forgiveness. We desire. Oh Tjord, to tliaiikfully ackiinwledKctlie unbuiiiKhHl mercies tlioii hast sliovvii tills imiiiiri|)ality (hii'iiig the past hair (•ciitiiiT. ^\'(' tliaiik tliee for the iKihle rouiiilers iif tin* cilv wliieh thmi gavest lis; thai they were eoiisrifiilious and hh;li minded iiii'ii fi'Diii whose e.xeiiiplar.N lives has radialcd an in- fliienee for good wnieli has Ijeeu felt through all the years down to the present time. We also ile- sire to thank thee Oh ]>ord for the gi'eat material pi'Ksperity thou hast granted us; for tlie sclmols, sennnaries and other institutions of learning which have lu'cn gi\cn us and havi' done so nnich foi' the intellectual interests (if (lur city; fVir our clnu'ches, asyhuus, hospitals, ami all tiie houses of iiu'rcy which have hecu organi/ed in oiu' midst. And, Oh Lril'il our (iod we would conuneud to thine iidlnile care and guidance tlie Chief !\lagistrate of the laud, the (!ovei-niir of the state, the Mayor and all othei-s in authority, and pray tliat the.v may all reflect I hine own merciful and heueticent autliority in all (heir iifticial acts. May they be able ti> discern the signs of the times and lie wise in all their actions, sn that at that great and lin.il day they ma.\' hearfrum thine own lips the words " Well done, thou good and faithful servant ; thou hast been faithful over a few things and I will make thee I'uler over many. Knter thou into the joy of thy Lord." Our Heavenly I'alher, we would also ask thy blessing on those wild have <-ouu' here as our guests on this festive occasion, and nuiy they return to their homes car- rying with them none liul the pleasanlest of recol- Icclidus (if theii- sta.v among us. ( )h tJod, we would also ask Thee to create such a love for our city in our hearts, that we may coidiiuially strive to make it nearer and neari'r like that New Jerusalem, the city not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. .\ II tliese unmerited mt^rcies we ask in thy name, and with angels and archangels we ^vill glorify and magnify th.y glorious name for ever and ever, Amen. FROM ROCHESTEK, ENGLAND. 'I be reading of the following doctimeiit, by tbe Mayor, wu.s liHteued to atteutively : Town Clerk's Oi^i'k^e, I RociiKSTlCR, 2-M May, 18H4. l' To /he Wtirxliiiifiil, llw Miiiiar of Boche^l'ey, N. Y.: DkarSik: 1 am directed by the Mayor and cor- jioration of this city to forward you copy of i-eso- lution passed at their last ([uarterly nu^eting. The Mayor desires me to exiircss to you how much he woidd have been jilcascnl to have acceiited j-our most kind invitation and to have made a .jour- ney to America and especiall.y to your city, but it is (|uite impossible for him to do so. Allow me personall.y to ofTer my sincere congrat- ulations on your great jtrosperity, and I am sure 1 can add that the feelings of oiu' citizens will be with you on the occasion of your most interesting celebration. I have the honor to be, deal' sir. Yours most trul.y, RICHARD I'RALL. fAtameeting of the Council of I the said city liolden at tlie < iuild Cit.y of Rochester, -| hall, of and in the said city, on I Wednesday, the fourteenth da3' I, of May, lS8t— Present: ('harles Koss Foord, es(|uire, Mayor. Alderman, James (icorge Naylar, esquire. Councillors: I\b-. John Smith Benton, i Mr. Joseph Ord Moore. " Joseph Creasey. " Fravdcliu (i. Honian. " George Henry Curel. " Jolm .James Foord. " Kdward Wm! Willis. " Lewis lilyth Biggs. George \Villiaiu (iill. It was Resolved, That the Council desires to ex- press to the Mayor and citizens of tlie city of Rochester, N. Y.. their apjireciation of the kind feelings manifested in the invitation given by the Mayor to the Mayor of this city to l)e present o\\ tlie ^ occasion of the celebration of the .OOth year of the city's existence. The Mayor of this city is, he re- .grets to say. unable to be present, but he and all the members of this Council would desire to unite in one cordial wish that the celebration nia.y be a suc- cessful one. They congratulate the city on its wonderful progress manifested in the fact that tlie number of Its inhabitants now exceeds KKLUOO, and the.v hope that its prosperity in the future ma.y be eipial to what it has been in the p;ist; And Resolved further. That a copy of this resolution under the common .seal of tiic corporation and signed by the Ma.yoi- and alderman and councillors jiresent at this meeting be forwarded to the Ma.vor of Rochester. N. Y. [Seal] Chari.ks Ro.ss Foord, Mayor. Jamks Georgk Navlar. .John S. Benton. .losEi'u Creasey. (lEIIItdE H. Cl'REL. F. W. Willis. .J. (>. Moore F. G. Homan. .John .J. FooHo. Lewis Blyth Biggs. George W. Gill. The following i-(>sohitions, ofTered by Fred- erick A. Whittlesey wei'e adopted unan- imously: Resolvcci, That we the citizens of Rochester, N. v., assembled on this fiftieth aimiversar.y of its iii- coriioration as a city, have heard with tlie grealesi pleasun^ resolutions of the IMayor, alderman and councillors of the city of Rotdiesfcr, Kent. Kng land, adopted 1 )th May, lS'i4, and transmitted to our Mayor. The continued good will and brotherlv feeling on the ))'irt of that ancient and venerable coi|)oratc body towards this its .youthful namesake which are attested by this missive, are Ixitli grate- full.y received and lu^artily reciprocated b.y this community, and we should liave re.joiced could we have welcomed here any representative from our elder si.ster b.y the Medwa.y on this our da.v of .jubi- lee Resolv(Ml, That our chairman, the Ma.yor, cause a cony of these proceediiiU's to be .sent to the Mayor of 1" jii^ester, J<"ii.glaiid, with the re(inest tliat lie comiiumicate the same to the alderman and coun- cillors. OTHER CONGRATUJ.ATIONS. The following telegrams, received by the Mayor, were also read: WAsiiiNtn'oN, D. (1, June '.». — To His Honor, the :\Ia,yor(if Rochester, N. Y., Sir: In response to your repeated invitation I have to sa.y, it is with surpass- ing regret that I cannot otherwise than in sjiirit walk the streets of your beautiful city to-da.y, and assist in the celebration of its senii-centennial. iMy home for more than a (luarter of a centur.V-, the scene of my earliest endeavors for liberty and hu- manity, endeared to me by the warmest as.socia- tion oi' friendsliip and citizenshiii. I send it greetiig and give you joy on this its (iftieth anniversary, and extend niv heartfelt ^vislles for its continued health, prosjierity and honor. Yours very trul.y, Frederiuk Douglass. t Albany, N. Y., June 'J. Hon. C. It. ParmM: T greatly i-egret that an important suit comes on tomorrow at which I h.ave to be present, so I will not be able to lie present. Albany sends her most liearty greeting and re.joices with you in your great prosperity. A. Bleecker Banks, Ma,yor of Alban.y. Cincin.nati. O.. .June 9. To the Hon. C. R. Parmns, Mai/or of Ilochesd^r: Accept my congratulations and best wishes for 10 Rochester. May she continue to increase iu pros- perity and beauty. Montgomery H. Rochester. After the clioir of St. Peter\s Church* bad rendered the .selection "Angel of Peace" (mu- sic by Mathias Keller), with band accompani- ment, under the direction of Prof. Sartori, the cliairmaii introduced the historian of the day — Hon. Charles E. Fitch, editor of the Democrat and Chronicle: THE HISTORICAL ADDRESS BY HON. C. E. FITCH. -j- I think 1 can understand something of the pride with which an Athenian, amid the crumbling monuments of the age of Pericles, reviews Che record of Attic cuiture in arts and of Attic supremacy in arms ; or that with which a Roman, in the shadow of the Coliseum, looks backward, through the vista or the past to the glory of the republic and the majesty of the empire, and exclaims ' 'I, too, am a Roman citisen. ' ' What thrill of emotion may touch the heart of a Vene-' tian, when he wakes from his dreams, w^ithin the slumbrous air of the Adriatic where, as in Shelley's vision, ' 'The temples and the palaces do seem, Like fabrics of enchantment piled to heaven, ' ' and reflects that all the wealth of architec- tural adornment and visible memorials of medieval luxury are the enduring testimony to the refined taste and the commercial gran- deur of the queenly city which ruled the waters from the Rialto to the Zuyder Zee. Thus also may the Londoner muse, as he hears the roar of Cheapside, whose stones seem to echo to the foot falls of the vanished toilers and to glow with the light and color which the long lines of civic pageantry, in brave array of scarlet and of gold, have thrown upon them; or as, within the walls of the Tower, he recalls the weary imprisonments and the somber tragedies they have witnessed ; or, as in the fane of Westminister, by tab'et and vault and chapel, he notes the events with which the names of the quiet sleepers there, once sceptered with royalty or crowned with laurel, have been associated, through seven hundred years of English history. I can understand this pride of retrospec- tion, this identifloation of citisenship with the development of urban life, whose genesis is wrapped in the mists of antiquity. It is 'Soprano, Mrs. F. A. Mandeville; alto, Miss Annie Alexander; tenor, F. A. Mandeville; basSj F. M. Bottum. The excellent manner in which the choir, assisted ))y Prof. Sartori, director, acquitted itself upon this occasion, was the subject of general remark. t Hon. Charles Elliott Fitch was born Dec. 3, 1835, at Syracuse, N. Y. ; {i^radiiated from Williams College, 18.55, and at the Albany Law School, 1S57; practiced his profession until the Summer of ISO J; clerk of the Provost court at Newberne, N. C, from ]HG4 to 1865; editor-in-chief of the Syracu.se Standard, 1SG5 to 1873, and of the Democrat and Chronicle since then. something of which to be justly proud. Cities have been the cradles ot liberty, the watch-towers of progress, the nuclei around which nationalities have gathered. Of nearly all f>nward movements of humanity they have been the iuspirers and the heralds Frooj them have radiated, as beaoi'^ from central suns, the sciences, the arts, the philanthropies. I can undei stand the claims of long descent, as illustrated in the achieve- ments of such municipalities as Athens and Rome and Florence and Amsterdam' and London and Paris ; but I can more than understand, I can fully sympathise with, the newer civilisation of the cities of this western world I can feel its fresh propulsion — the very beatinji of its heart. I can realise the mighty strides it has made, even in my own life. It is part of the work which this generation and the generations immediately preceding it have wrought. It is of us and akin with us Concerning it, some of you may say, with Aeneas, ' 'a part of which I was and all of which I saw. ' ' Because it is the newer civ- ilisation, it is not less worthy of commemor- ation than the old Inheritor of the quali- ties, which conspired in the evolution and the perpetuity of European communities, it has essential energies of its own stimulated especially by the conditions of territorial conquest with which it has had to deal, and strengthened by the assimilation, with its original stock, ot various races combin- ing in the union of peoples which, under the genius of American institutions, is its consummate production Do you realise how new, in the compari- son, this civilisation is '. It was but last week that, at Whitestown, was cele- brated the centennial of the first New England migration which, pushing beyond the frontier of German thrift, began the co- lonisation of Central New York So late as 1800, although the smoke wreathed it-self above the chimney of Peter Schaefier, in his Wheatland clearing, and a few hardy ad- venturers had penetrated to the Ohio and laid the foundations of Marietta, the western line of settlement in the United States was practically drawn at the Genesee river. In the region between the Genesee and the headwaters of the Mohawk the population was comprised in a few straggling hamlets — Rome, Oneida Castle, Onondaga Hollow. Hardenbergh's Corners, since Auburn, Ge- neva, Canandaigua, with their outlying de- pendencies — connected by roads, whose only distinction from forest trails was in the blazed trees upon their course, along which, however, had already begun to move that picturesque procession of high -peaked, can va*8-covered wagons, with their patient oxen, which was, through the coming years, to plod its way from the Hudson to Puget sound. There were solitary farm houses in 11 several of what are now the eastern towns of Monroe county ; quite an ambitious town w»8 projected at King s, subsequently Hanford's, Landing; a few fishermen kept watch and ward over the gateway to Lake Ontario ; and the section south of here had hegun to respond to the quickening efforts of Williamson, of Faulkner ana the Wads- worths. At this place there had been the whir of the mill of ''Indian'' Allan — that strange compound of backwoodsmari, savage and Turk, whose life of lust and crime is still a tale of dread— but its stones, juow preserved at the entrance of this building, had ceased their grinding, and it had fallen into disuse. Jeremiah Olmstead had gath- ered a single harvest upon a site near where the House of Refuge stands, hut had aban- doned it for higher, and apparently more eligible, ground on the Ridge In 1800 also, Wheelock Wood built a saw mill at Deep Gully creek, within the present corpora- tion limits, but, after one year's experience Qi' the fever- breeding miasma, which brood- ed over the low -lying lands, had returned to Lima, whence he came. For a decade longer, the embryo city is to sleep, while the woods keep vigil and the cataract, as if with prophetic voice, mutters its pro- test, untU, at the touch of the advancing time, the spell is dis solved, she starts from her lethargy, and, alert with vitality, asserts her sovereignty. The woods bow at her com- mand, and the waters are swift to do her bidding. Somewhere, in this region so favored by natural advantages, there was to be a thriving town. About this there was no dispute The streams sang of it, and the opulent acres proclaimed it. To the clear vision of the pioneer, its shops, its ware- houses and its shining spires uprose in the mellow light of the future : but, although the approaching fact was definitely appre- hended, its precise location was, at the first, intangible and illusory. Who has ever been able to tell, at the beginning, just where the heart of trade will throb and just in wliat directions the arteries of traffic will run ? These have been the constantly recurring problems of urban development, embracing a goodly portion of the hopes and the heart- aches of humanity. Salem was once the rival of Boston, l)ut the stately ships, laden with the spices of the orient, no longer seek her decaying wharves and the luster of her name is in the romance of her past. New- port was to control the commerce of the continent, but her villas and her casino are but sorry oflf-sets to the cus- tom-house and the exchanges of New York. I can easily remember when real estate in - vestments in Sheboygan were deemed more inviting than in Chicago. And so here. Charles Williamson, the agent of the Pul- teney estate, was a very sagacious, as well as generous minded, man, and yet over Wil- liamsburg, which he designed as a metro- polis, the plow bhare is now driven, its sharp point occasionally tossing to the sur- face fragments of the buried foundations. The busy mart of the Genesee country was to be at Williamsburg, at Mount Morris, at Lima, at Carthage, at Charlotte, at Tryons- town, at Hanford's Landing, at Braddock's Bay — where not in the groping i In its zig zag rambling, the divining rod was pointed in vain to the hidden treasures. But there vpas one man who guessed aright — nay he knew. Nathaniel Rochester was in the prime of life when, in 1800, he first visited Western New York, in com- pany with William Fitzhugh and Charles Carroll. Born in Viginia, in 1752, he was a resident of North Carolina, during the re- volutionary war, and was a mem- ber successively of the committee of safety for Orange county, of the first provincial convention, ana of the first legis- lature independent of the crown, besides holding a number of other important offices, civic and military. Removing to Hagers- town, Maryland, in 1778, he was president of the bank there, member of assembly, postmaster, judge of the county court, sher- iflf and presidential elector. He was a man of affairs always, a lead- er of men in the three com- monwealths in which his lot was cast Up- on his first visit to the Genesee country, he purchased the mills, water power and a portion of the land, upon which he after- ward resided, at Dansville, and Messrs. Fitzhugh and Carroll made large purchases of land near Mount Morris, which they sub- sequently occupied In I 8 j2, the three again visited this section and bought the one hundred acre tract upon which Rochester was laid out In 1810, Colonel Rochester removed to Dansville, erected a paper mill and made other improvements there. In 1811, he had the hundred acre tract, then called Falls Town surveyed into village lots and offered a few of them for sale, he act - ing for all the pi-oprietors. A few years later, the tract was divided between the three. It is a fact not, per- haps, generally known, but exceedingly in- teresting and deserving emphasis, that the chief impulse to the exodus of Colonel Roch- ester from Maryland was his aversion to the institution of human bondage. He could not bear the thought of rearing his family amid its demoralising infiuences He freed all his slaves, bringing the majority of them with him, as hired domestic servants, and, with his household gods, set his face to- ward the north star. Thus Rochester, which the Chrysostom of the colored race was afterward to make his home, and from which New York's most philosophic states- 12 man was to announce the ' 'irrepressible conflict, ' ' is, through the resohition of its founder, most honorably identified with the revival of anti- slavery sentiment in America. It was, after all, a bold experiment to essay a village here. Unquestionably, there was a serviceable water-power, but the locality was marshy and consequently sick- ly, and it was quite north of the line of travel between the east and the west, which then passed through Avon ; but Colonel Roche.ster had faith and pluck and withal liberality. His prices were reasonable and long term payments were conceded freely. Before the end of 1812, he had, through the agency of Eqos Stone, disposed of for- ty-three lots to twenty-six persons, and growth had begun. The river was spanned by a bridge rude as compared with the sub- stantial, yet invisible, structure, which has replaced it, and over which thousands pass daily through Main street, but very famons in its day, and the only crossing which had been erected over the Genesee below Avon. During the same year, Matthew Brown, jr. , Francis Brown, Thomas Mumford and John McKay had bought a section of land imme- diately north of the Rochester tract, had also laid it out in village lots, and called it Frankfort, arter the second of the foregoing named proprietors Two years before Enos Stone, who owned some 300 acres on the east side of the river, then in the town of Boyle, afterward Smallwood, and later still Brighton, had huilr, and occupied a house near what is now the corner of South St. Paul and Main streets, and there, it has generally been asserted, that, on the 4th of May, 18 lo! his son James S was born Mr. Stone has, however, recently corrected this statemenr,, and says that be was born in the house of his uncle, in -what is yet the town of Brijjh ton Tradition, still seekuig as industriously for that first white child, as Jat^het in search of his father, says that a son was born to Colonel Fish, in 1802, ane glimpse of the place as it was in 1820. Buffalo street was settled as far west as High street, now Caledonia avenue, and Main street had bouses as far east as Clinton street, which was the eastern boundary of the village On River street there were five houses below Court street, and with these the southern limit was reached on the east side of the river. With the exception of the mansion of Harvey Montgomery, now the residence of Mrs Abelard Reynolds, there were no houses south of Troup street, and Mr. Montgomery ' s house, within a demesne of eight acres, was approched, not from Fitzhugh street, which was only a Jane beyond Troup, but from Sophia street which had been recently opened Frankfort was mapped out, around the square, which had been given to the village by Dr. Brown and bears his name, but embraced as yet no houses,, except a sprinkling on State, the continuation of Carroll street, the last house being on the corner of Jay street North of Main street, there was but a single house beyond Andrews street Marked changes, as will be seen, have taken place in the names of streets, some of which have been already indicated. Spring was then Falls street. The northern part of Fitzhugh was Hughes street. Plymouth avenue was So- phia street and Sophia was Hart Street North Washington was Franklin street and there was another Washington street on the east side continued beyond its intersection with North St. Paul, then Market street, into Clyde street to the entire length of which the name of Franklin has since been transferred. Allen was Ann street. Center was Fish street. Court now Brown street, which bounds Brown square on the south, then ran through it, a portion of the square having since been appropriated for railroad uses Front was Mason street, and Bridge street, now in part discontinued, crossed the river upon the bridge below Andrews street. Canal was the continuation of Mortimer street. I have been particular in this de- signation of streets because I wished to in- dicate how the names of the pioneers are in some instances thus appropriately preserved, and because, even at this late day, I wish to enter my unavailing protest against certain changes that have been made. The names of cities and of streets, like their architec- ture, should have an individuality of their own. The mere mention of Constantinople, of Nuremburg or of Edinburgh suggests the mosques and minarets, the mediteval Gothic devices, or the naany storied structures in stone which give their character to each respectively Deficient as our Ainerican communities are, of course, in originality of architecture, the> are also deficient in apposite nomenclature Simeon DeWitt, surveyor- general of New York, went through the military tract, some ninety years ago, and discharged the contents of a classical die tionary upon its hapless towns indiscrimi- nately, as a pepper-box is shaken over food and the places that might have borne melli Huous Indian syllables, or been associated in- dissolubly with the names of their founders, remain the victims of General DeWitt' s love of classic lore. Happily, Rochester has been saved from the fate of Romei and Syracuse, and Ithaca and Manlius, and Aurelius and Sempronius, and the rest ; but it is to be re- gretted that the names of so few of her early citisens are preserved in her streets, and that they should have been bereft of any such which had once been bestowed upon them Especially to be deplored is the change from Carroll to State street. The one meant something : the other means nothing. But the village had certain litiga- tion with Charles H. Carroll, concerning the title to the site of the river market ; and, al- though Judge Carroll seems to havb had de- cidedly the best of the matter in the chan- cery adjudication, the village trustees had their petty revenge upon him in the passage of the following curt resolution, on the 18th of September, 1881 : ''Resolved, That the name of Carroll street be changed to State street. ' ' This was good in law, but execrable in taste. As the next step, and the last but one, in our hurried progress, let us pause at the year 1837. The population has reached 8, 000, an increase, in fifteen years, parall- eled only by the growth of a few western cities at a later day. Settlement has ex- panded along the lines already indicated and there are some new avenues. There are the changes to Exchange, Spring and Caledonia streets, and Ford, Chestnut, Mechanic, Green, Jackson and Elm appear. Dublin and Cornhill are known as separate commu- nities, and, at the west end, we hear of Stra»>burg, the beginning of that German in- flow which has been of such immense advan- tage to our industries. Monroe county has been erected from Genesee and Ontario, but the village is still in the towns of Brighton and of Gates, on either side of the river. The court house, which was to stand for thirty years, has been erected on the site of the present edifice, and, for five years justice has balanced her scales therein. The canal has been opened under the auspices of De Witt Clinton, great quantities of flour have been shipped upon it, and it has brought the Marquis de la Fayette to the thriving village, to the very spot which he who was to be the citisen king of France 16 had explored thirty years before along the Indian trail. Seven flouring mills are in active operation, and the fame of the Genesee brand, so long to remain supreme, is fully established. There are cotton and woollen and a variety of other manufactories, utilis- ing the swift flowing river. There are breweries and distilleries and tanneries. There are over a hundred stores There are seven clergymen and twenty five physicians and twenty -eight lawyers There are over one thousand mechanics, and more than five hundred who are classed in the directory of the year as laborers. There are ten churches, the First Presbyterian having been organised in 1815, and being followed by St. Luke ' s, Episcopal and the Friends in 1817, the Baptist in 1818, the Roman Catholic and Methodist -episcopal in 1820, the Methodist society in 1823, the Christian in 1823, the Second Presbyterian in 182(5 and the Third Presbyterian in 1827. In the midst of her temporal prosperities, Rochester has never neglected the cause of religion, and, ever distinguished for her philanthropic institu- tions, she has, in 1827, her Female Charita- ble and Female Missionary societies, besides her leadership in the County Bible, Mis sionary and Tract societies. The Franklin institute has just been established as a literary society There is the Bank of Rochester, with a capital of $250,000, and the press is represented by one monthly, one semi-monthly, two weekly, one semi- weekly and one daily publication, the latter being the Advertiser, now the oldest daily newspaper in the United States west of Al ■ bany The village has just had a new char- ter, has been divided into five wards, and Matthew Brown, jr. , is still president. The trustees are William Brewster, Matthew Brown, jr , Vincent Matthews, Elisha Ely and Giles Boulton. The assessors are Pres- ton Smith, Ezra M Parsons, Ira West, Daniel Tinker and Davis C. West. Rufus Beach is clerk and attorney. Frederick F. Backus is treasurer, and Samuel Works chief engineer of the fire department, which consists of two engine and one hook and ladder compa- nies. Dr Penny, afterward president of Hamilton college, is preaching in the First Presbyterian and Dr. C uming in St Lukes church The bar of Rochester is even then pre-eminent in ability. John Birdsall is cir- cuit judge. Ashley Sampson has just re- tired, and Moses Chapin has been appointed, as judge of the common pleas Before the.se, as practicing lawyers, appear Daniel D Bar- nard, a man of rare gifts of speech, who is to represent two dit ear been estabhshed by t\ admitted to the the Bar, 18(17; elected District-Attorney in the fall of 1871, holdhig the office for two terms; elected State Senator in the fall of 1877, serving one term. Since then he has resumed the practice of his pro- fession, Ijcing counted the most suct^essful criminal lawyer in this part of the State. He is the fourth son of Rev. .lolm and Mary Remington Riiines. His mother's falhcr eauie to Canandaigua in 1798, set- tling on what is still known as Remington Hill. Rev. .John Raines, a well-known and respected Methodist clergyman, came to Oanantlaigua in 1830, 21 to the princely palaces of the rich; to tlio tlioii- sand homes of toilers in all th<^ arts of life in wiiich fair women and l)rave men diir deep in tlie lied- rock of conscience tlie foundation of true moral- ity and patriotism for file Kcncratioiis of tlie fu- ture; to hei- tribunals of .justice in wliicli the ritrlit is measuicd to tlu! I'cople; to hei' body of officials, adininisleriuf,' a {jovernnieut of liberty ri'fiulatcii bylaw; to her crunches and cathedral, echoinfr the solemn chant and te deuiu of the relisrion of human eharity and of the holiness of sacrifice. The triumphal i)rocessioii will lead no van