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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 3, 1920)
SALEM IN 1874 IS RECALLED . 1 - . . i . .... But -none' 'Were left to greet" me, Torn - ' And Few were left to know ! ' Who played .wit & us upon tHe . green j . ; just twenty years 'ago. A period of 20 years crrtainly does make a deal of 'difference la a town. Children are born and strangers come from other places; some people - move away and death claims' a nunihar; new streets are opened uji new dwell ings are erected, new business houses, schools land' churches, while some buildings are moved, remodeled torn I dowa t or A de stroyed by fire; young- people grow into grown-ups;" new -families ara created by marriage and ,old ones are wipad out by death and divorce; public officials'come and go; and teachers and preach ers are succeeded by younger blood. But these changes come about so gradually that they are scarcely noticed by those who re main in the old place it is the one who comes. back again after an absence of a score or so-of years that the changes appear startling. He meets young peo ple who were not, born ,when he went away, and old people who were young when he saw them last, the streets jlook narrower than they usSed to; the old build ings seem stiabby and diminished in size; the "merchant of his day, it still alivei is most likely sue- ceeded by his sons; the lawyers who used to get I the big : rases havebeen 'elbowed out by those with younger and more alert minds; the physicians who min istered to the ailments of their fellows in all kinds of weather are now retired or . accept only such casjs as come to their offic es; what was once the biggest building in town is now surpassed in size by many; :the newspaper that used (o get out a four page edition each morning except .Mon day must now issue a big piper every day in-the week with 'As sociated Press dispatches, and the amid Yoy'M WARMING CLOSET COMPARTMENT PORCELAIN ! DOOR PAN El L5 prrri aim em Murtl WASHABLE SANITARY nana- niMcvi ma ca CXECK PAMPUFOSCOAU DRAFT CONTROLLER DAMPER roufl COVERS FOR COAL ANO WOOD FtWBA0IUN6ANBTQA31l6 ST! V orraBTra COAL NO KINDLING DRAFT l5LrtE -UNDER ORATES AU. CAST IRON BODY A UFt TIME RANGE THE; UilVEiSAL COMBINATION RANGE The Most Modern of All Ranges, burns Wood, Coal, or Gas, collectively or in dividually. A simple twist of the wrist converts this range from a wood or coal range to a gas range-nothing like it on the market; all others are mere imi tations, and not made to last like the Universal. , - Yi enave a complete tine ox pirnA Pral -Ran CfGS. Liberal v MIlQwanpe THE OREGON STATESMAN. SALEM, OREGON. old style ;pres?es ara replaced by up-to-dat -machinery. Yes, things change iri 20 years. But- I want to carry jyou back to the . Salem of more ihan 20 yaars ago- twice twenty and then some, and perhaps The Statesman will not care o "un" this for the reason that none! but the old, old-timers will find it of interest, and there may not fe i many left who, knew -alem in 1874. But I'll fend it along anyway. ' , . .Maybe t'd better tell you who j l am: Kqwin Dunbar Crandall, better known as ?,Ed", student at the . Willamette university, during , spare hours compositor and mail clerk In the Oregon Statesman! in 1874, then owned and edited; by my father, Captain C. P. Crandall. I was 18 years old in 74 and now I am 64, but I remember the Salem of that day pretty! well. The population was only about 3.500. There were but thre? streets of any pretention: Commercial, Slate and Court.. Commercial street having about three blocks of business houses. State street two, and Court istrest onlv one. The capitol building and the ,inew"TJn those given by court house surmounted by the let-handed figure of Justice, blindfolded, were really new then-. The Willamette university had its work confined to one two story building and was attended by aboutS200 students.. The fac ulty consisted of Prof. T. M. Oatch. president; - Prof. , Luther Powell, Prof. T. II. .Crawford. Miss. Lizzie Boise, . Miss'' Ellen Chamberlain and; I believe. Miss Teresa Holderness, though she may have icome a year or two later. Asbtiry Starr .afterward president of the college, was a student at that time. I can only remember two public schools: the old Central 5 school on Union street and the East Salem school, just east of the railroad tracks, probably "between Center and Union streets, I'm not quite sure. Then there was the convent at Winter and Center streets, and INDIVIDUALLY SefS IN 40 INCH SfACt DrrapuD3 Wmr on d G da ?(B Mm D oil . . sir cm -I, mi --ii i ai II r i llui.1'1. T'.T' Ii .... H : 'f - 1 ! r-r- ii - f i I 1 n - . - -1 jr u i i ia - bi i a u it - . i: i - mi i i mi wi i N t'J ,1B jsKc i - ia-fl" ;V3 1 a-fc- Tl-T 1 Vl II BURNS COAL WOOD W . ! Vf U OAS AT THE SAME TIME . VA Jjtt OR INDIVIDUALLY . 4 " ; -' Meatier some private schools. The church es w?re the Methodist, at State and Church streets. Rev. Mr. Tower, pastor; the Episcopal at Chiirch and Chemeketa. Rev. MrJ Hancock: the Presbyterian, on I Church. . between Chem keta and CWnter; 'the Congregational, at the corner of Liberty and Ctn tfrj. Rev. Mr. Knight, who. I tnTnk, retired from the ministry to become superintendent of the street car system; right across Center street was the Lutheran church, whose minister, the Rev. Mr. Ilowersox. was a quaint and much loved character; one block further north woo rapilst rnurcn. presided over by the Rev. Mr. Jones. (you see I've for gotten most of the initials); at the corner of High and Central was the Christian church, and at Winter and Chemeketa wa3 the Catholic cathedral: There were two hotels, the ;Chemeketa at Ferry and Commercial streets, and the Commercial at Liberty and Court, a part of Reed's opera house. The Chemeketa in those days was one of tha finest hostel ries in Oregon. Reed'3 opera house was the only theater, and there were held all the important theatrical, musical, political and social gatherings. I sang in many concerts thara. especlal.y the sintrins school of Prof. D. W. Prentice. There was only one bank, that o' Asahel Bush at Commercial and Sfate' streets;, one brewery (Wes tacott's over in Sleepy Hollow. South Salem); one flouring miil (Kinney's, at the foot of Mill street), and a big saw mill down on the river. Oscar Dennis had a sash and door factory at about Mill and High streets, and' there was another in North Salenn wnere was also located the alem li' t ... . ooien muis. we boasted a stove foundry, too. I think there wa3 no other manufacturing to speak of unless Coulter's coop erage and Hoi hart's candy factory might be so classed. There were no electric lights, no telephones no phonographs, no movies, no .automobiles, no steam fire en gines, ro "jazz" music, no bridge acros3 the Wiftamette. Little gas was used in private residences. Make BR0HJNS ANTDASTiHC COMRARTTIENT AUTOMATIC FUME DAMPER NO ODOR IN KITCHEN WHITE PORCELAIN : BROILER PAN I rrvio aiiiBMrRS and lSlMMERER FOR OAS SELF STARTER FOR OAS NO MATCHES J WHITE PORCELAIN , DRIP PAN awn aikt IU rOTK4 ADJUSTABLE AIR HUOUm cast noN eumeR box A LIFE TIME RANGE ASIMPtCTWISTOWKSJS OVEN FROM COALTO GAS WO PARTS TO RtMOVE ovtn taxis mcNno 3 COAL WOOD OR yt uuu Cr iri and the Salem , water company was a small affair, for, outside of the business section of town. mom of the houses were supplied with wells and pumpj. I remember distinctly the reservoir of the water 'company. It was a bl? wooden tank down ncarthe riv er, supported on a framework at an elevation of, I should think. about a hundred feet, into which water was pumped from the riv er, and redistributed by the force or gravity, I suppose now you get pure water from the moun tains. There were, no street-car fther, but Eph. Olinger, with hjs hacks, was a very good sub stitute. The nostoffiie ocrjnied small quarters in the rear ot"Far rar Brother's grocery at tta northwest corner of. Commercial and Court streets, and Tom Rickey was postmaster, the bal ance of his force consisting of hi son Bliss and one other assistant. The Statesman was the only dally paper of consequence, trough Sam Clark : published a small af ternoon sheet. The Statesman's editorial force consisted . of my father, editor-in-chief and Frank E.; Hodgkin, local reporter. The composing room force was made up; cm three typesjttjrs and a foreman, the latter being also pressman. I think Gus Schwatka. brother of the famous explorer, was foreman then. Peter D'Arcy worked in the composing room up till sometime in 1X73. but left to ftake up the study of law. A voting fellow named Charley Godfrey was just lamlng th printing business, and he nearly put the Statesman out of busines? ore night by failing to correct his proof, so ihat the ..well known quotation from Holy Writ ap peared next morning as "O gravel, where Is try victory. "'O death, where is thy string?" The motive Bower for the Campbell cylinder press wa3 a gi gantic colored man. "Hi" Gor man, a human steam engine if there ever was one. E. M. Waite had a fine job printing nlant on State street, and was then, or the next year, state print. I can't remember who was mayor, but I know John Minto was the entire police force marshal, ehief of Do Not -Z-Zlil-lL-Z ...... . , ....... w tuimi ya w i .. i u- i. mun was rvnnrciPU mm i Your 1 Buy Your Heater Now! Have you seen our beautiful line of Bed Room Furniture in all designs and finishes iiy-m -rry ium- - . i - - - . . . i police and night watchman, all rolled Into one. Salem had two fire companies, Capital No. 1 and Tiger. No. 2.--1 was secretary of tha Capitals and Yecetved the lib eral stipend of ,15 pert month. niv duties h-1 n -nrfnrlnallv tn write out and tack up notices of monthly meetings. Mr. Murphy, president, later famous aa the Site of th p9t Stanfnr.t T.ui. ball blaver f'ht Xfnrnhv I a m I right about this I wonder?) Xissd lo say my handwriting looked like copper-plate, which reminds me that in 1875 I took & va.uaoie prize ror being the best Speneer lan penman in the university. You Wouldn't I thinV It nnw. would you?. There ware'soiflTTa mous races between th t-mn fir companies, but the Tigers gener ally goi rirst water", which was considered really more Important. t nave 3ince thought than putting out the fire. We had baseball in those days. too. and the college club held the championship of the state for several years, defeating all comers. Including the famous Pioneers of Portland. George W. Belt was captain and pitcher. Bob Miller of Jacksonville, catcher. Lee Matheny. first base. Jim Mc Cully. also of Jacksonville, .thort top. The others I can not re member. ' I ud to play on an opposing team (the' Acmes) which succeeded in holding the college boys to a pretty cloe con test, but they generally "put it on" us in important games. Our Pitcher was Frank McCully. cou sin of Jim; catch ?r, Jake Wort man, of Oregon City, as plucky a fellow as ever stood behind the bat in the days when catchers scorned to wear masks, ehln- Kuards. rhent nrntwtnr and gloves; A. N. (Allie) Moo res. first base; W. I). Fen ton. afterwards congressmen, shortstop; myself, second baae; John Riggs. i third base. The others I have forgot ten, except that "Al" C. Peebles was one of the fielders. George, (now Judge) Burn?tt. occasion ally played with us, but was not a . regular member of the team. The most popular umpire we had was Billy Stanton, a cripple, who propelled .himself around In a three-wheeled cart, th- nearest Delay P-u r c SUNDAY MORX1NO. VTOnTTR 3, IfrJO approach to the . automobile that we could boast in that day. Billy kept a small cigar store on Commercial street, and made whip-lasheJ In his odd times. I wonder how many of the bus iness places of Salem in 1874, with their locations 1 can remem ber. Let m-s see: At the corner of Mill and Commercial streets was the office of the Kinney Flouring company. - Moving UP Commercial str?et: Northwest corner Commercial and Mill, the Fashion livery stable; at the next corner of the block stood the Chemeketa hotel;. Trest side of Commercial, between Ferry and State,- the 'principal places were. Parmenter1 saloon and billiard room, Henry Haas, the Jeweier. John Wright, grocer. Meyer's clothing house; on the Tast side of Commercial between the same streets, were Pete Emerson's res taurant. Judge Cofrey's new and second-hand furniture store; Lewis Byrne's bakery. Cunning ham's hardware store and the Bush bank. Coffey held court In his business place and it, was no unusual ining to see piaintiir. de fendant, attorneys, judge and soectators seated en chairs. loung?s. tables and stoves which were, to be sold at auction later m"the day. On the west aide of Commercial, between State and Court Weatherby's drug store, two or three smaller places. Ben Strang's tin shop. Billy Stanton's cigar store, a butcher shop. Ben Kelsey's shaving emporium, and Holhert's. confectionery; on the other sld of the street. Bill Wat tkins. saddler. Sol Durbin's livery stable. William England, carriage marer. Orin Barker, house, sign and carriage painter. The States man office. (Seph" (short for Jo- sephus. I suppose) Adklns' sal oon. Lcaeii. pnotograpner. a millinery store, and at tha cor ner the lir establishment of Breyman Bros., which would now he called a department store, for there you could buy most any thing from a paper of pins to a sewing machine, min's furnish' Ings. dry goods, groceries any old thing! Going back to State street, moving east from Com merelal: Next to Bush's bank was itiases 1PV uo you Dutch Look in our what the Jewelry store of Will Martin, who was regarded as about the handsome man In Salem; next came Murphy A Croasman. haber dashers; then Boon's bookstore and the . Welles stationery. It was as a' clerk in the latter slace that Wiley B. Allen, founder of the treat music firm bearing his name started his business career. Waite'a printing office was in this block. Bass paint store, Henry Price s grocery and some small shops. R'ght across State street was the auction and commission house of Friedman, whose initials I have forgotten. He was Salem's original "chea? John." At the northwest corner of Court and Commercial was the Wade Hard ware stbre. and directly across Commercial street were Farrar Bros., and the postoffice. Hernan dez, jeweler, and Coulter, cooper while at Court and Liberty was Stalger. stone cutter. There were but few other bus'ness places worth mentioning. I have no Idea how many of ths fellows who were youngster with me are still in Salem, but some times I hear of the business suc cess of A. N. Moo res and the high professional standing of George Burnett and Peter D'Arcy, who was my next door neighbor. Does it seem possible that I. who once knew nearly every man. woman and child in Salem, do not now know, beyond these three,. who, of my old friends and acquaintances, are there after all these years do not know, in fact, how many of them are alive. Forty sis years Is a long time! I have of ten thought I would like to re visit the good old town before I die. But. after all. it wouldn't be the old town to me. and I have no doubt I would get more of pain than pleasure from such a visit. I am now a resident of Oakland. Cal.. a singing teacher of. I believe, good reputation, and am fairly successful. If any of your readers remember me. here's a health to them and to auld lang syne.. E. D. CRANDALL. September 22. 120. (It will be or Interest. to some readers to know that the writer f the shove was connected with STIFF at lize Auctio ri Means? West Window and see is taking place. Decide to UtllVERSatSSS'SJ It will pay for itself in fuel saving. It will give you snug, warm rooms, with warm floors. Get rid of dirty, dusty, stoves and the endless work of look- ing after three or four fires. Come . - i i in and let us explain this great, new, idea in house -heating. This is the best of all pipeless furnaces. Wo recommend it thoroughly. ; The Statesman fo rther pro t?ly,tban aur m.a now as an editorial wi - - - .iMi when e-ar 7 years oia. i , An ex- citing war new. cajne In An tra then was four r stickful, some mn-Jr. fire line,. ,ton 5 S-wpr and they went wno can iu i" - IWn the shore: but; there . are not many men iivm "'""-', earrj more vltid and r0 mental pictures of the ,.enmt" fifty yeirs ato'than are Inhe back o- the bead of ' Ed Cr dayy. as v, ,.,77 Ninth present address i li l5wlIl street. Okland. Cal. . visit Salem he will find ber of people here who are aMe to compare note with him oo tna old-, times and old timers. Ed. ) Tou never can tell at tion's fiction heroes look ike in the nation's mind's eve. Has not WILL RADIUM AT LAST OPEN THE DOOR OF THE GREAT UNKNOWN? If .r. irk G ! 4 kp Wril r.l far 1.1-r.l.r. th.t M-au. T r ! K1' m!r P 4 4 'h- reriiS lk Klo-AniT Kf rntiol "r ,t.i. k-llkr cirrll'. iariU rtnn k ' .rr. t rl rditlo m'ft tkin jro 1m r trl ' L Hold g trt prorhio. 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