{"1": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3378", "width": "1979", "jp2-path": "sketchofcamdenci00orrh_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3251", "width": "1918", "jp2-path": "sketchofcamdenci00orrh_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "-v.\\n.0^ 6\\n//MSP ^*\\\\.\\\\Vvv5^ N ,^-v ^^^yJIrSB ^*H.\\\\vvv3r\\ne o\\nJ -4 t f rt^ .0-.", "height": "3248", "width": "1817", "jp2-path": "sketchofcamdenci00orrh_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3251", "width": "1918", "jp2-path": "sketchofcamdenci00orrh_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "3\\\\\\\\ttt\\\\i of \u00e2\u0082\u00aciimk% Ueto ^mni\\nA. D. 1813-1873.", "height": "3248", "width": "1817", "jp2-path": "sketchofcamdenci00orrh_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3261", "width": "1742", "jp2-path": "sketchofcamdenci00orrh_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "A SKETCH\\noy\\nCAMDEN CITY,\\nNEW JERSEY.\\n[f 7 77/ rii; }J TO B USIjYESS.\\n|iij aj!: ookcv-(fi)n.\\n^.^.M^T^^ uCfi^W^\\nCAMDEN. N. J.\\nBoiisall Carse, Federal Street;\\n1H73.", "height": "3248", "width": "1817", "jp2-path": "sketchofcamdenci00orrh_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "f\\ny\\nG^\\n60548\\nEntered iicrording to Act of Congreax in the year 1873, hy\\n,\u00c2\u00a7onsulI tC Cixrsc,\\n/n Mr C/f7A Office of the District Court of the United Statea\\nfor the. District of New Jersey.", "height": "3261", "width": "1742", "jp2-path": "sketchofcamdenci00orrh_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "CONTENTS.\\nPreface 7\\nDedication 9\\nEarly Settlement 13\\nThreescore Years ago 19\\nThe Crops 21\\nNew Item 24\\nThe Spell of the Potter 26\\nJamie Charcoal 34\\nCitizen Browning 45\\nFarmer Hatch 47\\nVictualler Heyl 50\\nIlichard Fetters 53\\nKaighn s Point Kaighn 59\\nCapt. John W. Mickle 63\\nDr. Isaac S. Mulford 70\\nJesse Starr *S: Sons TS", "height": "3248", "width": "1817", "jp2-path": "sketchofcamdenci00orrh_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3261", "width": "1742", "jp2-path": "sketchofcamdenci00orrh_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "PREFACE.\\nlitis Sketch IS harely one in\\nchalk, if not in charcoal; the hand,\\nhowever, is that of an eye-witness, who\\nIcnoivs whereof he doth testify.\\nThe sleeping energies of Camden\\nneed hut a hearty nudge or two to\\naivahen them. Let the next Looker-\\non do his share, and the sluggard\\nwill at length arise in earnest.", "height": "3248", "width": "1817", "jp2-path": "sketchofcamdenci00orrh_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3261", "width": "1742", "jp2-path": "sketchofcamdenci00orrh_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "DEDICATION.\\nGen. George B. Carse,\\nUnited States Army.\\nTwelve years ago, when you pressed to\\nthe front at the call of your country, made\\nthrough its chosen agent, Abraham Lincoln,\\npatriot and martyr, you opened a volume of\\nnew experience which was thus thrust upon\\nyou. Every parallel of latitude, if not every\\nnew mile, as you marched southward, pre-\\nsented something of change in man and his\\nworks keeping to the common central cha-\\nracteristics it is true, but branching into cu-\\nrious diversity. There you found not only\\nburied, forgotten, but also undreamed of,\\nplain fireside comforts to which you were", "height": "3248", "width": "1817", "jp2-path": "sketchofcamdenci00orrh_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "X DEDICATION\\nborn. The love of luxury lingering, nay ram\u00c2\u00bb\\npant there; its means of gratification within\\ncall yet practically out of reach. A sort of\\ngeneral crying for the moon existing, and\\nwhich w^as content to cry on. Until, when\\nat length you drove your tent-pins into the\\nalmost unresisting soil of Florida, and turned\\nfrom the fading sunset to the north star for\\nthe first time, you might have exclaimed\\nSurely I have passed over much that is hard\\nto believe, but never to be forgotten!\\nReturned once more to your starting point,\\nafter a triumph the most signal in all the an-\\nnals of war, the habit of improvement which\\nyou applied abroad, should follow you like\\nyour shadow in all after life. Wherever you\\npitch your tent, no second winter should\\nsettle on barren brambles around it; and\\nthough the soft lawn grass may not spring\\nup in the first night, the former sod must be\\nbroken up and better seed put in, knowing-\\nit ^vill be bread some coming day.\\nIn the ri()(li( al ])vess you liavc^ a power", "height": "3261", "width": "1742", "jp2-path": "sketchofcamdenci00orrh_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "DEDICATION. XI\\nto affect society greater than that of all the\\nartillery in Christendom. Let us hope that\\nour battle flags are furled for ever; or, only\\nto be spread, in contrast with their former\\nuse, around the grand triumphal arch on\\nwhich shall be inscribed, He is most illus-\\ntrious who is most useful!\\nTo assist you humbly but heartily in an\\nattempt toward such a consummation, is the\\ndesire of\\nTPIE AUTHOR.", "height": "3248", "width": "1817", "jp2-path": "sketchofcamdenci00orrh_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3261", "width": "1742", "jp2-path": "sketchofcamdenci00orrh_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "SKETCH or CAMDEN,\\nNEW JERSEY.\\nPART FIRST.\\nIn old Diedrich Knickerbocker s cele-\\nbrated history of New York, as presented by\\nWashington Irving, we find the writer, be-\\nfore entering on his obvious task as historian\\nof that city, piling up labored statements to\\nprove that, first, this world had been created,\\nand second, that our hemisphere of it had\\nbeen discovered. I have never been satis-\\nfied as to the authorship of that whim and\\nam still in doubt whether we should credit it\\nto the simplicity of the old Dutchman, or\\ncharge it to the complicity of his waggish", "height": "3248", "width": "1817", "jp2-path": "sketchofcamdenci00orrh_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "14 CAMDEN, N. J.\\ntranslator and editor. Either of them was\\nequal to its production. But I have formed\\nthus much of a conclusion concerning the\\nmatter that I shall not follow the example\\nthere set, but shall assume that all the indis-\\npensable prerequisites to my subject (em-\\nbracing at least creation and discovery) have\\nbeen secured, and ask my readers to step\\nconfidently with me upon that silicious pe-\\nninsula, bounded by Cooper s Creek and the\\nDelaware River and named Camden, as a\\nfixed fact a terrene axiom not to be dis-\\nputed.\\nIn the war of our Revolution this town\\ndoes not seem to have been distinguished.\\nIndeed, Dr. Mulford, in his ample and exact\\nHistory of New Jersey, fails to name\\nCamden once but, while in the act of clos-\\ning his classic volume in disappointment if\\nnot in despair, I found that he had actually\\ndated his preface at the very place which\\nhad been sought for in vain in his text; thus", "height": "3261", "width": "1742", "jp2-path": "sketchofcamdenci00orrh_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "CAMDEN, N. J. 15\\nmaking some amends for previous silence by\\nlifting up his voice to our purpose, even after\\nhe had uttered his last word as historian.\\nWithin the memory of men now living, it\\nwas usual to speak of the whole territory as\\nthe Jerseys; which plural appellative was\\never a stumbling block in our early grammar\\nexercises. Dr. Mulford, however, removes\\nthis obstruction with a few touches of his\\nfluent pen.\\nIt seems that quite early in its history, the\\nentire tract of country known at present as\\nthe State of New Jersey, was granted by its\\nroyal claimant the Duke of York, to John\\nLord Berkeley and Sir George Carteret, two\\nnoblemen of wealth and fame, who proceeded\\nto divide the same between them calling\\nthe upper portion, or that nearest to New\\nYork, East Jersey, and the lower one,\\nWest Jersey. Hence, for a century at\\nleast, it bore something of a duplex standing\\nin history; and though the boundary line", "height": "3248", "width": "1817", "jp2-path": "sketchofcamdenci00orrh_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "If, CAMDKN, N. J.\\nwas never critically defined or insisted on, it\\ngave excuse for the otherwise odd nomen-\\nclature mentioned above.\\nInto this lower portion as thus designated,\\nsome very desirable emigrants soon entered.\\nA party of Swedes took up lands near to\\nthe present Swedesborough and farther up\\nthe Delaware, say between Gloucester and\\nBurlington, those friends of peace, the disci-\\nples of George Fox, under the countenance\\nof Robert Barclay and William Penn, pre-\\nsented their sober array.\\nBoth of these parties came to cultivate the\\nsoil, and to eat of the fruit of their labor; and\\nto a great extent they succeeded\\nAlong the cool, sequestered vale of life\\nThey kept the noiseless tenor of their way.\\nNor did this mild ambition pass utterly\\naway with t.liem. Tlie fashion of unobtrus-", "height": "3261", "width": "1742", "jp2-path": "sketchofcamdenci00orrh_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "CAMDEN, N. J. 17\\nivc usefulness there and then set up is not\\nquite banished from its neat farms. The\\ndrab coat (whose color seemed to have been\\nadopted in emulation of that of tlic roadbed)\\nhas deepened into the soft olive or dark\\nbrown and the sheltering bonnet on mother\\nand daughter resists the pinched saucer and\\npattypan of the milliner, and the graceful,\\nmajestic skirt defies, ay spurns the hideous\\nGrecian bend", "height": "3248", "width": "1817", "jp2-path": "sketchofcamdenci00orrh_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3261", "width": "1742", "jp2-path": "sketchofcamdenci00orrh_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "CAMDEX, N. J. 19\\nTHREESCORE YEARS AGO.\\nFailing to discover any memorable mention\\nof Camden in our Revolutionary era not a\\nsingle toot from Fame s trumpet about\\nher, we shall find her peaceful record furnish\\ndull materials wherewith to raise a huzzah\\nin these piping times of flaunting flags and\\nspread eagles. It s hard to make a silken\\npurse out of a sows ear say the Scotch\\neven so; but we shall not promise either silk\\nor velvet, but say, if there is nothing better,\\nthere shall be nothing worse than good\\nhomespun.\\nTaking our stand in Clirist Church steeple\\nin Philadelphia, about the close of the war\\nof 1812, we have a tolerable chuuce for\\ngetting what artists call a bird s eye view\\nof the opposite Jersey shore. From above", "height": "3248", "width": "1817", "jp2-path": "sketchofcamdenci00orrh_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "20 CA.MDKX, N. ,1.\\nthe range of Vine street southward to the\\nline of the Navy Yard, the river front of\\nCamden presented a gentle concave curve\\nmeasuring about two miles.\\nThis entire region might be said to answer\\nto the name of Cooper. Had Whistling\\nBob (a noted African oysterman of that day)\\nstood beside us, and in his splendid tenor\\nvoice called out, Friend Cooper! at any\\ntime of day or year, the placable Quaker\\nAnan! would have come back across the\\nbroad Delaware most certainly.\\nThe prevalence of this name in that neigh-\\nborhood has often attracted the attention of\\nthe inquisitive, in the past hundred years.\\nD It has been partly explained by the fact that a\\nperson embraced in Penn s group of original\\nsettlers actually bore that unostentatious pa-\\ntronymic but some ingenious etymologists\\non the western shore have insisted on asso-\\nciating it with the unfailing supply of tough\\nhoop-poles for which this part of our conti-\\nnent was so long celebrated. Whether tlu^", "height": "3261", "width": "1742", "jp2-path": "sketchofcamdenci00orrh_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "CA.VJ)EN, X. J. -Jl\\noriginal Cooper, in noble pride of bis craft,\\nplanted himself among the hoops, or the\\nhoops (by natural evolution rose around\\nthe Cooper, we shall not stop to determine;\\nsufficient for us that, in leaving them toge-\\nther, we consider each in good company.\\nTHE CROPS.\\nThe landscape here offered to our view\\ncould hardly be called striking. The primi-\\ntive forest marked the horizon a short mile\\ndistant from the shore. As we looked east-\\nward in winter we thought of pine wood and\\npork; the latter mostly in the comminuted\\ncondition of sausage-meat. In summer, green\\npeas, cucumbers, musk-melons, water-melons,\\nand sweet potatoes presented their varied\\nclaims to attention, and were duly honored\\nthough crowned and eventually crowded out\\nby that of the incomparable peach, which, at\\nthe price of a ti pLnin\\\\ -bit a ha peck dis-", "height": "3248", "width": "1817", "jp2-path": "sketchofcamdenci00orrh_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "22 CAMDEN, N. J.\\ntanced all competition and clearly overcrowed\\nall other cries.\\nWe step back in plain justice to the ver-\\nnacular of that period, to translate into it a\\nfew of the items above. The melons were\\noffered and accepted as mush-millions and\\nwater-millions, (perhaps owing to the\\nnumber of seeds contained in them;) and\\nthe cucumbers were known as cow-comers\\ndoubtless because no sensible cow could be\\ninduced to swallow one of them!\\nThese varied products of Jersey sand-\\nbank weri3 brought to market in a style of\\nchariot never yet celebrated in song indeed\\nthe only music ever connected with them\\nwas that of their own creaking wheels, four\\nof which were set up and connected in the\\nmost frugal manner, and on which was laid a\\nstructure like a carpenter s wcrk-bcnch turn-\\ned upside down; two broad boards h( Id\\n])erpendicularly on their edges by hickory\\n])ins, forming the sides, and scleral other", "height": "3261", "width": "1742", "jp2-path": "sketchofcamdenci00orrh_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "CAMDKX, N. J.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a228\\nboards, ranged flatly between tliese, making\\nthe bottom of the wagon with a front and\\ntail-board of the same lowly pattern. These\\nbottom boards were not of uniform lenath,\\none or two projecting a foot or more beyond\\nthe others at the tail-board evincing the\\nhearty contempt of the builder for technical\\nniceties, and thus presenting a tempting seat\\nto stray boys ambitious of a ride under any\\ncircumstances.\\nThe moving force of these vehicles con-\\nsisted of a couple of quadrupeds called (by\\ncourtesy perhaps) horses, whose main dis-\\ntinction lay in their difference of color; a\\npeculiarity never sufficiently accounted for,\\nbut so nearly invariable in practice as to\\ncause such a piebald team in Pennsylvania\\nto be styled a Jersey match. It has been\\nhinted that this contrast of color was intend-\\ned to assist the main parties concerned as to\\nthe actual count of the cattle; as otherwise\\nthe owner (from the slight force exerted and\\nthe moderate allowance of oats provided)", "height": "3248", "width": "1817", "jp2-path": "sketchofcamdenci00orrh_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "24 CAMDEN, N, J.\\nmight be undecided in the estimate of his\\nhorse-power. It Avas useful also at the\\nferry, whose rates were almost exclusively\\ndetermined by the number of horses the\\nload being treated as of secondary import-\\nance, and the driver literally thrown in as\\nnot worth namino; in the estimate\\nTHE NEW ITEM.\\nThis short catalogue of marketing had\\nbounded alike the ambition of the farmer and\\nthe cravings of the citizen for a century.\\nWe have already glanced at the dark back-\\nground of woods which met us in Jersey.\\nIts produce did not rate very high as timber;\\nand even as firewood, with plenty of white-\\nheart hickory, barren oak and white oak, it\\nwas far from the level of a staple article in\\ntrade. But nothing is made in vain says\\nthe proverb; which was found in the fullness\\nof tim( to apply even here.", "height": "3261", "width": "1742", "jp2-path": "sketchofcamdenci00orrh_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "CAMDExN, N. J. 25\\nAbout the date of George Washington s\\ndeath, there came to Philadelphia a Scotch-\\nman who had been trained to the trade and\\nmystery of a potter Abraham Miller by\\nname. He proposed to serve the commnnity\\nin the particular of family earthenware, and\\nhe succeeded to the decided satisfaction of\\nboth parties. He cast his lot for life in Penn s\\ncity, facing the extremes of its climate in-\\nvincibly but not insensibly. He knew well\\nthat our dinners did not jump upon the table\\nwithout help, nor get that help without hands;\\nand in the true spirit of his mother he pitied\\nthe whole sisterhood of our cooks during the\\nmonths of June, July and August, and in\\ntheir special behalf he contrived a sort of\\nfire-clay bucket, as a portable furnace, to be\\nheated by charcoal!", "height": "3248", "width": "1817", "jp2-path": "sketchofcamdenci00orrh_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "2C) CAMDRN, y. J.\\nTHE SPELL OF THE POTTER.\\nThe ancients, on questions of deep mo-\\nment, had a habit of consulting the birds;\\nhad our potter submitted the constitution-\\nality of his furnace to the commonwealth of\\ncrows which, beyond the memory of the\\noldest inhabitant, had roosted in those pines,\\n(and those same thieving birds been half as\\nwise as they are cunning,) they would liave\\ncawed back such a protest as would have\\ndeafened the adventurous Scotchman. But\\nhe was not one of the ancients. He meant\\nto help the Philadelphia cooks, and extend\\nhis business, and he did not raise any more\\nnoise about the affair than was necessary.\\nUp to this period, that ill-defined territory\\nso literally condemned to the shade, had\\nstood in our historv mucli as the /ahara does", "height": "3261", "width": "1742", "jp2-path": "sketchofcamdenci00orrh_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "c a:\\\\iden, n. j 27\\nto the nortlicrn coast of Africa, along which\\nfertile margin the vagrant sons of Ishmael\\nspread themselves, and tested their indivi-\\ndual daring by incursions into the ever-for-\\nbidding Desert. And thus, in the graphic\\nlanguage of the late Joseph W. Cooper\\nEarly purchasers in our part of Jersey ge-\\nnerally bargained for a certain breadth of\\nriver front, and then were allowed to run\\ntheir lines back into the pine-barrens\\nabout as far as they had a mind to!\\nBut henceforth mark the change. In the\\ngrasp of sly Abraham those pine-barrens be-\\ncame as clay in the hands of the potter!\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2At his bidding they did not quite put on\\nfl(^sh tliey became black diamonds, how-\\never; and with a little punning privilege, we\\nmight say, he caused a movement in Burn-\\nem-Wood such as neither Shakespear nor\\nMacbeth ever dreamed of I The house-\\nkeepers of Philadelphia showed themselves\\nto be of one mind for once, and l)0Ufdit said", "height": "3248", "width": "1817", "jp2-path": "sketchofcamdenci00orrh_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "9g CAMDEX. X. .1.\\nlurnaces and called for charcoal; and lo,\\nfrom the vasty deep of the pines they\\nwere answered, not by spirits, but by verit-\\nable Carbonari, ready to serve them with\\nthe one thing needful in the case.\\nThus arose the Jersey charcoal tr^ide in-\\ntroducing an additional item of home pro-\\nduce which never asked for protection or\\npromotion through the Tariff. No letters-\\npatent gave monopoly to the manufacturers,\\nwho, safe in their native shadows, feared no\\nintrusion, and issued into sunshine sure of a\\nwarm reception.\\nIt has never transpired as to what pre-\\nmium was offered for the best form of vehicle\\nfor bringing the coal to the consumer. It is\\nplain that the one adopted was modeled\\nupon the plan of the feed-trough of those\\nsubmissive horses already alluded to; with a\\nshort piece in the tail-board, or a like hole in\\nthe side of the wagon, suggested ])y the front", "height": "3261", "width": "1742", "jp2-path": "sketchofcamdenci00orrh_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "CAMDEN, N. J. 29\\ndoor of a chicken hous(\\\\ wherein to insinuate\\na shovel for unloading.\\nRude as this business might seem to a\\nspectator v/earing white kid gloves, it em-\\nbraced among its practisers genuine artists in\\nthe original sense of the word. In filling the\\nwagon, the best specimens of well-burnt oak\\nwere consciously (if not conscientiously) re-\\nserved for the topping-off layer. Then, the\\nwhole township was searched for the most\\nshrunken specimen of a barl to serve as a\\nmeasure; and ever and anon, in filling the\\nsame, a convenient two-foot piece would\\nstick fast at an angle about equally diverse\\nfrom the horizontal and the perpendicular,\\nforming a cavernous vacuity that helped to\\npay the ferryage!\\nWhy are these metaphorical vacillations\\nof our charcoal men cited? Merely to scout\\nthe abominable monkey theory now so\\nfashionable, as apphVd to tluip. -who. thougli", "height": "3248", "width": "1817", "jp2-path": "sketchofcamdenci00orrh_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "30 CAMDEN, N. J.\\ncoming direct from the fraternity of the\\npossums and woodchucks, presented unde-\\nniable credentials of human nature, and thus\\nmight claim affinity with the rest of the fa-\\nfamily on the Pennsylvania shore, some of\\nwhose prominent members plied short yard-\\nsticks in Second street, or sold stony coffee\\nin Market street. Ahem\\nWithin the embrace of the past threescore\\nyears, a ferry was attempted at the present\\nsite of Gloucester city, to communicate with\\nGreenwich Point opposite and doubtless\\nseveral original invoices of charcoal thus\\ncrossed the river, and found entrance to the\\ncity along the once celebrated Point House\\nRoad, which picked its level way through\\nthe marsh, barely a foot above the spring-\\ntides, and debouched through Greenwich\\nstreet upon old Second street. The main\\nsupply of the coveted carbon, however, came\\nby South street ferry at length, emboldened", "height": "3261", "width": "1742", "jp2-path": "sketchofcamdenci00orrh_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "CAMDE.V, J. ^l\\nby the large demand, the wagons ventured to\\nclimb Market street hill.\\nNotwithstanding this outlay of daring, our\\ncharcoal men found themselves even here\\nbarely on the verge of their speculative Ca-\\nnaan. They were familiar with the water s\\nedge region only, and the city had already\\nbecome a world of streets and houses. But\\nour friend the old potter still watched the\\nwhole field with the eye of Blucher himself;\\nand so he induced the city councils to ap-\\npoint a locality as a charcoal mart. For this\\npurpose they set apart Dock street from the\\nplace of the old Drawbridge up to the line\\nof Second street. This is Penn s sole serpen-\\ntine street, and these sons of the sandbank\\ncoiled themselves into it with an alacrity that\\nseemed to admit its accordance with their\\nown long-accustomed ways! Its width al-\\nlowed two or even three wagons to stand\\nabreast. In the morning, the tall houses on\\nthe eastern side warded off the sunshine in", "height": "3248", "width": "1817", "jp2-path": "sketchofcamdenci00orrh_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "^2 CAMDEN, N.\\nthe afternoon the men hid in the shadow of\\ntheir wagons. It was at once their Rialto\\nand their Academic Grove where those\\nswarthy brethren alternately walked or sat,\\nin seeming imitation of the rival schools of\\nPlato and Aristotle!\\nBesides its appalling extent westward, the\\ncity stood closely built up on Front street\\nand Second street, all the way from the\\nNavy Yard up to Pegg s Eun. Much of\\nthis tract was too distant to allow its re-\\nsidents to run to the Drawbridge for their\\ncharcoal, and no adventurous merchant had\\nas yet the courage to invest in a wagon load,\\nwith a view to serving his neighbors by re-\\ntail. Hence it was hinted that our charcoal\\nmen should break the monotony of their ex-\\nile by hawking their merchandise from\\ndoor to door. A couple of progressive souls\\nacting on this suggestion, made a raid up and\\ndown Second street one day, obtnining fabu-\\nlous prices, and oscapinu safely with their", "height": "3261", "width": "1742", "jp2-path": "sketchofcamdenci00orrh_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "CAMDEN, N. J. g|^\\ncash avails to the other side of the Delaware.\\nStill the aversion of a Jersey man to turn a\\nsquare corner, or follow even a straight line\\nany distance, restricted the trade to narrow\\nlimits.\\n[^^^[This perverse tendency to linear\\naberration^ still haunts Camden, even to its\\nlatest authorized avenue. About a couple\\nof squares seems to be the limit of her right\\nlined course. After proceeding that dis-\\ntance, the target man instinctively shies off\\nto the left or the right, as if he had one day\\nsold a short barrel of charcoal to some one\\nliving right ahead!]", "height": "3248", "width": "1817", "jp2-path": "sketchofcamdenci00orrh_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "34: CAMDEX, N, J.\\nJAMIE CHARCOAL.\\nAt length a very Joshua appeared, whose\\nappointed mission seemed to be to lead the\\ncharcoal men clear through the Promised\\nLand. He came in the shape of a five-foot\\nhigh blacksmith, from the north of Ireland,\\nJames was his baptismal name, and in his\\nfirst day s service, as pioneer of Jerseymen,\\nhe was surnamed charcoal, which stuck to\\nhim henceforth through life.\\nJamie Charcoal had a most progressive\\ndislike of hard work; but he knew all about\\ncoal, and could find any spot in Philadelphia\\neither by day or night. So he offered his\\nservices at the charcoal exchange in the\\nmixed capacity of usher and supercarg-o, to", "height": "3261", "width": "1742", "jp2-path": "sketchofcamdenci00orrh_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "CAMDEN, N. J. 35\\nthe dingy custodians of this new summer\\nfuel, who, after crossing the Rubicon of the\\nDelaware, were still halting on the threshold\\nof their fortunes. The bargain was soon\\nstruck, and a change followed.\\nJamie armed himself with a tin trumpet,\\nand at each street corner, and at varying in-\\ntervals in our long squares, he gave a blast\\nthat secured attention from great and small,\\nfollowed by the cry of char-r-r-coal, to\\nwhich was added a couplet or two of doggerel\\nsong, setting forth its virtues and its cheap-\\nness.\\nFor the time, the stolid city seemed to\\nwake up. The good housewives learned to\\nknow Jamie, not only at first sight, but even\\nbefore they saw him they heard his clarion\\nannouncement, and got the alley gate or\\ncellar door open in advance. In lact the\\nenterprise might be said to run through the\\ntown like the literal wildfire of its commodity", "height": "3248", "width": "1817", "jp2-path": "sketchofcamdenci00orrh_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "36 CAMDEN, N. J.\\nwhen kindled under the pot. Miller sold his\\nfurnaces, and the favored wagoners whom\\nJamie took in tow, sold out their entire\\ncargoes by noon, in time to deposit their\\ncash before the bank closed. And our hero\\nfound himself rapidly dividing public fame\\nand favor, with even General Jackson and\\nColonel Pluck.\\nBut here we might well fall back upon\\nRobert Burns s warning about the best laid\\nschemes o mice an men. It came to pass\\nthat our trumpeter, in his indiscriminate en-\\nthusiasm, waked up more than his customers.\\nThere proved to be in Philadelphia divers\\nmen, and even women, whose chief business\\nin life was to eat their irieals; and how\\nthese were produced or earned (much less\\ncooked) was knowledge too mighty for them!\\nWhether a cook was roasted each day along\\nwith the dinner, they neither knew nor\\ncared sufficient for them to find a succession\\nof both as time rolled on. These were just", "height": "3261", "width": "1742", "jp2-path": "sketchofcamdenci00orrh_0040.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "CA.\\\\I[)E J, N, J. 37\\nthe people also to sleep late in the morning,\\nand take a nap after dinner; and Jamie s\\nhearty summons was to them a real startling\\nreproach; it spoke of life and usefulness\\nabroad entirely above their level a standard\\nof true stature entirely beyond their lazy\\nstretch.\\nThere were others, too the quiet and the\\nsick, whom this tin music really afflicted\\nnone more than our worthy drab colored\\nFriends, who always associate the sound of\\nthe trumpet with a scarlet coat if not with\\nblood. The furnace maker also was of peace-\\nful temper, and declined the assistance of the\\nnoise; and complaint was made to the city\\nauthorities, and an ordinance was duly pre-\\npared, in the most approved circumlocution\\nof the official legal scribe, and passed, for-\\nbidding the nuisance.\\nOf this proceeding Jamie was made ac-\\nquainted, and after scleral warnings by more", "height": "3248", "width": "1817", "jp2-path": "sketchofcamdenci00orrh_0041.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "3^^ CAMDEX, N. J.\\nthan one constable, he was at length arrested\\nand taken before the mayor.\\nThe sturdy culprit made no boggling in\\nthe matter, such as pleading not guilty. He\\nwas taken flagrante delicto, and marched\\ninto court with his trumpet stuck in his\\nample breeches pocket, somewhat in the\\nstyle of a dress sword.\\nJames, said the judge, I am sorry to\\nsee you here. Why do you raise this noise\\nPlase yer honor, answered Jamie, just\\nlet the wimmin\\nwid the coal sure!\\nto let the wimmin know that we are coming\\nBut you know it is against the law, and\\nit disturbs the whole town, rejoined the\\nmagistrate.\\nJamie was of the true blue Presbyterian\\nchurch whose members always have a Scrip-", "height": "3261", "width": "1742", "jp2-path": "sketchofcamdenci00orrh_0042.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "CAMDEN, N. J. .-^y\\ntuve text or inference at hand and in a\\nsharp tone he half answered, half inquired\\nAn if my little hor-r-n plagues em so,\\nhow will they stand the last great trumpet?\\nAnd he stared earnestly at the judge, his\\nred nose projecting between his sooty cheeks\\nlike the bill of a poker just drawn from an\\nanthracite fire.\\nThe magistrate was one who brought to\\nthe bench that impressive sort of weight\\nwhich was so highly prized among the early\\nDutch aldermen of New York, and Jamie s\\nreply (which might be characterized as both\\npertinent and pert) seemed to move him\\nalmost off his cushion. He rolled towards\\nthe accused with something of the cumbrous\\ngrace of a mammoth walrus on a mud bank,\\nand in a kindly tone counselled him to lay\\nby his horn. He must fine him, he said, but", "height": "3248", "width": "1817", "jp2-path": "sketchofcamdenci00orrh_0043.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "40 CAMDEN, N. J.\\nhe named the lowest sum possible under the\\nindictment.\\nJamie would have swallowed almost any\\ngiven amount of good advice, that being an\\narticle which was as familiar to him as his\\nold mother s face but this appeal to his\\npurse presented a dose against which both\\nhead and stomach revolted.\\nAnd must I pay the money, yer honorV\\nasked he.\\nYes, here and now, said the magistrate,\\nsternly.\\nSlowly he drew out that grimy buckskin\\npouch, the invariable companion of his race,\\nwhich opens to receive money as easily as a\\nroasted oyster does to the knife, but which\\nsnaps shut upon its prey with the angry vi-\\ngor of the trigger of a revolver!", "height": "3261", "width": "1742", "jp2-path": "sketchofcamdenci00orrh_0044.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "CAMDEN, N. J, ^l\\nHe paid his fine and went his way for the\\ntime, quieted for once while his Honor ad-\\njourned the court; the assembly retiring\\nwith un-vvonted gravity, evidently impressed\\nwith the charcoal man s allusion to the great\\nfinal assize that tribunal to which so few\\nlawyers are apt to appeal!\\nIn a few days, however, our irrepressible\\ntrader was heard from afresh. He had bar-\\ntered off his trumpet, with some of his black\\ndiamonds to boot, for a hand-bell, and he\\nrang all the changes possible thereon through\\ncourt and alley, and shouted charcoal afresh\\nto the alternate delight and dismay of his\\nhearers. Now not one disciple of the realm\\nof red tape, would assert that a statute\\ndrawn against a horn would be effective\\nagainst a bell so the routine of petition and\\nremonstrance had to be travelled anew, while\\nJamie like a comet was flying around in his\\neccentric orbit, leaving his pursuers hope-\\nlessly beliind!\\n6", "height": "3248", "width": "1817", "jp2-path": "sketchofcamdenci00orrh_0045.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "4 2 CJAMDEN N. J.\\nBut there were opposing forces at work on\\nthe side of peace and quietness which the\\nprosecuting- attorney never dreamed of.\\nBlacksmiths are proverbial for the lodge-\\nment of a spark in the throat; and Jamie\\nwas too spirited a craftsmnn to blink any of\\nthe staple requirements of his trade. He\\nalso had a remarkably keen recollection of\\nevery tavern he had ever visited, and a talent\\nat new discoveries in the same longitude that\\nwould have been invaluable to either Mungo\\nPark or Dr. Livingstone. To change the\\nfigure a little, we might say that he was like\\ncertain avaricious sailing masters, who some-\\ntimes pile on more cargo than they can bring\\nsafely to port. And thus it would come to\\npass, that the pilot of the morning occasion-\\nally stood sadly in need himself of a guide\\nbefore sunset. This gave rise to sundry\\ndisputes about commissions and salvage; the\\nJerseymen contending that if Jamie charged\\nfor steering them out, it was worth some-", "height": "3261", "width": "1742", "jp2-path": "sketchofcamdenci00orrh_0046.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "CAMUEN N. J. 43\\nthing to tow him home! Besides, after se-\\nveral seasons training, the wagoners became\\nable to find their own way through town\\nand to pay for anything which they could get\\nfor nothing, was no trait of theirs. Thus,\\nour once sturdy pioneer found his occupation\\ndecline. Even the sun must set as well as\\nrise so he slipped gently down life s western\\nslope, and joined the great unreturning ca-\\nravan. But a bell like his own is still\\ntinkling while I write, over the remains of\\nthe charcoal trade in the streets of Pliila-\\ndelpliia.", "height": "3248", "width": "1817", "jp2-path": "sketchofcamdenci00orrh_0047.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3261", "width": "1742", "jp2-path": "sketchofcamdenci00orrh_0048.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "ADDITIONAL NAMES.\\nFELLOWS AND FOLLOWERS OF THE COOPERS.\\nWithin our allotted limits of time and\\nspace, besides (and by the side of) the ubi-\\nquitous Cooper, a few other names quietly\\npresent themselves, not asking but deserving\\nnotice Browning, Hatch, Heyl, Fetters,\\nKaighn, Mickle, Mulford.\\nCITIZEN BROWNING\\nEstablished a public house and ferry near\\nthe foot of the present Market street, but its\\nslip must have stood a thousand feet in-\\nland from the ample landing- of the West", "height": "3248", "width": "1817", "jp2-path": "sketchofcamdenci00orrh_0049.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "4:6 CAMDEN, N. J.\\nJersey Ferry Company now succeeding it.\\nThe boats (of horse or steam-power) varied\\ntheir place of arrival on the Philadelphia\\nside, between Poplar street and Arch street.\\nMr. Browning also cultivated a clever\\ntruck farm situated a short distance up the\\nfamous Cooper s Creek. The ferry house\\nwas considered commodious and well-kept\\nfor the times, and the shady garden attached\\nwas much resorted to in warm weather by\\nresidents of the hot, red brick city opposite.\\nThe present ferry company (West Jersey)\\nwas mainly founded by his children, who,\\nnumerous and well known, hold a marked\\nstanding in the present generation.", "height": "3261", "width": "1742", "jp2-path": "sketchofcamdenci00orrh_0050.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "(JAMDEX, N. J 47\\nFAEMER HATCH.\\nThis sturdy truckman had made a lodge-\\nment on one of the most desirable tracts of\\nland embraced in Camden limits. His farm\\noccupied the southern shore of the wide\\nchannel of the Delaware river, opposite to\\nPetty s Island, running from the eastern line\\nof the Cooper s Point farm to the mouth of\\nCooper s Creek, and embracing its western\\nshore for a short distance.\\nIts entire water front was covered with\\ncomparatively large trees, and at the mouth\\nof the creek and adjacent thereto was an ex-\\ntensive flat, submerged in winter but covered\\nwith reeds or wild rice in late summer. Va-\\nrious native game abounded there em-\\nbracing in autumn Reed Birds, Swamp Black\\nBirds, and even River Ducks, and in winter", "height": "3248", "width": "1817", "jp2-path": "sketchofcamdenci00orrh_0051.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "48 CAMDEN, N. J.\\nrobins and squirrels. These attracted hoards\\nof sportsmen who, starting with the general\\nassumption of being in a free country, and\\nenlarging their privileges thus inferred to li-\\nmits almost undefined, they annoyed the\\nwhole region. This intrusion was resisted\\nmost ferociously by farmer Hatch. He kept\\nquite a garrison of fierce dogs, and did not\\nhesitate to bear arms, not only in self-de-\\nfence, but in clearing his territory of tres-\\npassers.\\nThe regular navigation of the creek was\\nconfined to the passage of a few market\\nboats bringing produce from the farms lying\\nup the stream; and, thus threatened and de-\\nfended, the mouth of Cooper s Creek was\\nalmost as unknown to the general traveller\\nas the mouth of the Niger!\\nUnder the depredations of the gunners thus\\nalluded to, a statute was enacted forfeiting\\nthe firearms of all such intruders on private", "height": "3261", "width": "1742", "jp2-path": "sketchofcamdenci00orrh_0052.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "CAMDEN, N. J. 4C)\\nproperty and the rude assertion of this pe-\\nnalty caused the death of a son of the suhject\\nof this article, less than twenty years ago.\\nThis farm is now hounded southerly by\\nquite a miniature village of neat dwellings,\\nput up in connexion with a large woollen\\nmill, to accommodate the hands there em-\\nployed. This factory has a side front on\\nState street, and a fine wharf and eastern\\nfront on Cooper s Creek; it stands on an\\neminence a bluff in fact, and, compared\\nwith the usual level of the country, holds a\\nmost eligible position.", "height": "3248", "width": "1817", "jp2-path": "sketchofcamdenci00orrh_0053.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "50 CAMDKN, N. J.\\nVTC TUALT.ER HEYL.\\nWhoever frequented the market house ex-\\ntending from Front street to Second street,\\nin the middle of Market street, Philadelphia,\\nat the times now under remembrance, must\\nhave noted the fine array of fixtures and\\ngoods of the celebrated pork dealer Heyl of\\nCamden. Embracing a long array of cedar\\ntubs painted blue and lettered Heyl in red\\ncapitals.\\nWhat Hudibras s Talgol was among\\nthe beeves, surely stout neighbor Heyl was\\namong the swine. Pork in all its varied\\nphases from the whole carcass to the finely\\nchopped fat and lean meat stuffed in trans-\\nparent casings and linked together by the", "height": "3261", "width": "1742", "jp2-path": "sketchofcamdenci00orrh_0054.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "CAMDEN, N. J. 5-^\\nyard, was displayed on his capacions stalls\\nalong- with finest leaf lard in corn-husk\\nwrappers, and the softer article in metal\\nbuckets.\\nThe genuine Jersey sausage was a fa-\\nvorite item at Philadelphia winter breakfasts;\\nand was distinguished both for quality and\\nstyle. The meat was good pork, seasoned\\nprincipally with fine garden sage, and stuffed\\nin the narrow intestines of the sheep thus,\\nfrom their smaller diameter, they cooked\\nmore readily than the thicker butcher ar-\\nticle, and had a tasteful, lady-finger look.\\nHis extensive works stood about on the\\nline of the present Market street, Camden\\nwhence his sterling stock was sent almost\\ndaily across the river in severe frost using\\neven a sleigh for trans})ort.\\n.is a judge of meat, and a skilful handler\\nof the same, Mr. Heyl had scarcely an equal.", "height": "3248", "width": "1817", "jp2-path": "sketchofcamdenci00orrh_0055.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "52 CAMDKN, N, J.\\nHis movements at the stall were so apt and\\neasy as to be really graceful. He did not\\nwear the full frock of the profession, but had\\nthe whitest of aprons, and over-sleeves drawn\\non his brown coat, and buttoned at the wrist.\\nIn later years a large pleasure garden was\\nestablished by some of his descendants, oc-\\ncupying several acres of ground near the\\ncentre of the city, which became quite a po-\\npular resort.", "height": "3261", "width": "1742", "jp2-path": "sketchofcamdenci00orrh_0056.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "CAMDEN, X. J. 53\\nRICHAKD FETTERS.\\nStrolling southward toward the old limits\\nof the town-plot, we come upon what seems\\nto he almost a distinct settlement. The sur-\\nface is hardly above the high- water level of\\nthe Delaware, and its tenem3nts and town\\nlots vary in size and shape, as if intended to\\nsuit all applicants for the same in fact to be\\nso accommodating as to leave but scanty ac-\\ncommodations when put to the test.\\nThis stray hamlet is known as Fetters-\\nville, introducing to us the citizen whose\\nname heads the present article; and whose\\nrise and progress may well be associated with\\ntliat of Camden.\\nBorn to the noble inheritance, and tlie still\\nnobler habits, of useful iiuhistiy. he sc^rved a", "height": "3248", "width": "1817", "jp2-path": "sketchofcamdenci00orrh_0057.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "54 CAMDEN, N. J.\\nlong- apprenticeship to several laborious avo-\\ncations; settling eventually upon that of a\\ngardener and florist. He evidently had a\\nnatural talent for the cultivation of plants,\\nand the same cheapness of soil which enabled\\nhim to cover a large surface at small cost,\\ngave ample yards to his neighbors, among\\nwhom his flower crops found ready sale. He\\nalso sent some of his rare specimens to the\\ncity, as Philadelphia was invariably de-\\nsignated.\\nHis habits were as frugal as Stephen\\nGirard s; and his general history, though\\nstretching over a smaller sphere, reads much\\nlike that of the great merchant.\\nThis village of Fettersville arose in this\\nwise. The level of tlie land was low, and the\\ncost of the property to him was proportioned\\naccordingly. It lay comparatively adjacent\\nto the lower feiry which sent its boats to", "height": "3261", "width": "1742", "jp2-path": "sketchofcamdenci00orrh_0058.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "(JAM DION, N. J. ;55\\nSouth street, Philadelphia, tlirou wliioh\\nintercourse the region became known.\\nNow Richard Avas not restricted in his\\ndealings by narrow views about either the\\nclime or complexion of purchasers; and a\\nnumber of colored persons bought town lots\\nin his tract, and improved the same in a\\nstyle w^hich rather strained the literal mean-\\ning of that promising word. But an acre of\\nground cut up to better account in this\\nway, than when laid out in market truck\\nand the humble African here got something\\nof a humble home, safe from the oppression\\nand contamination of white-faced neighbors\\non the Pennsylvania side of the river, whose\\ninner surface was blacker than his own\\nThus both the parties of the first part,\\nas the conveyancers have it, seemed satisfied,\\nand left those who might follow them, either\\nto fall in and keep step, or keep their\\ndistance.", "height": "3248", "width": "1817", "jp2-path": "sketchofcamdenci00orrh_0059.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": ";55 CAMDEN, N. J.\\nIn latter years Richard rose to civic hon-\\nors and weight though small in stature. x\\\\s\\nschool director and bank director he served\\nwith fidelity if not with dignity. His latest\\nmansion, with its wreath of Wistaria, sets\\na sound example to the neighborhood, of a\\ncomfortable dwelling; and the sale of his\\nlarge collection of plants went far to give\\nhim a fragrant remembrance.\\nHis acquirements in book learning were\\nbut moderate; his main choice of reading\\nkeeping in the botanical line. Sometimes\\nthe classical name of a plant cost him more\\neffort to ascertain and pronounce, than the\\npropagation of forty layers or seedlings from\\nthe same but when the coveted orthography\\nand prosody were at last attained, even the\\ncash price of the article seemed secondary to\\nthese for a time; visiters of the greenhouse\\nand garden being dosed with the mangled\\nGreek, whether they bought the plant, or\\nbowed themselves out of hearing.", "height": "3261", "width": "1742", "jp2-path": "sketchofcamdenci00orrh_0060.jp2"}, "61": {"fulltext": "AMDKN, N. J. 57\\nHis inexpensive habits of living have been\\nalready alluded to. His chosen costume was\\nthat of a working man, preferring a style of\\nclothing which nearly defied the worst of\\nweather. After his wealtli had actually\\nthrust public trust upon him, some laughable\\ninstances occurred of candidates mistaking\\nRichard for his latest wheelbarrow man.\\nAmong them we may mention the case of\\nan aspirant for a place to the acquisition of\\nwhich the old florist s vote was indispens-\\nable. He was sought at home and at the\\ncourt-house, and was at length tracked into\\nhis nursery. The young gentleman in broad-\\ncloth inquired of the first person he met\\nIs this Mr. Fetters s placed\\nYes, answered a small man half covered\\nwith compost.\\nIs he in? proceeded the inquirer.\\nHe is, replied the same imperturbable\\nman of clay.\\n8", "height": "3248", "width": "1817", "jp2-path": "sketchofcamdenci00orrh_0061.jp2"}, "62": {"fulltext": "58 CAMDEN, N. J.\\nCan I see him? added the anxious can-\\ndidate.\\nGuess you ll hardly have a better chance,\\nreplied Richard, for I m him but you ll\\nhave to wait till I finish potting these here\\njewranyinn s!\\nAdieu, old knig-ht of the spade and rose-\\ntree! Among his generation, v/e might say,\\nmany worse, bettor few than he.", "height": "3261", "width": "1742", "jp2-path": "sketchofcamdenci00orrh_0062.jp2"}, "63": {"fulltext": "CAMDEN, N. J. )f)\\nKAIGHN 8 POINT KAIGHN.\\nOn the sunward boundary of the town\\nwhich we are surveying historically, just on\\nthe southern horn of that crescent which we\\ndrew topographically on its front at the out-\\nset a name appears of rather occult ortho-\\ngraphy, viz. Kaighn, and pronounced most\\n.suspiciously like that of the fugitive son of\\nAdam!\\nThe immediate date of his advent has not\\nbeen found, but traces of his presence can be\\nidentified within tlie past century, Kaighn s\\nPoint soon became the point aimed at by ex-\\nplorers from old Southwark and the lower\\np;irt of tlie city })roper, who had the courage", "height": "3248", "width": "1817", "jp2-path": "sketchofcamdenci00orrh_0063.jp2"}, "64": {"fulltext": "50 CAMDEN, N. J.\\nor curiosity to cross the Delaware in search\\nof fresh fields and pastures new.\\nSandy and sunburnt the country spread\\naround in summer, drinking greedily all the\\ncrystal tribute of the sky, from the smallest\\ndew drop to the plunging globules of the\\nnorthwest thundergust. And in winter, as\\nCampbell says of Hohenlinden, all bound-\\nless lay the untrodden snow, occasionally\\nbroken by the track of a wood sled, as the\\ngrounds near the point were sometimes\\nused as a depot for firewood, which, when\\nthe river became frozen sufficiently firm, was\\ncarried across on light sleds to the Southwark\\nlandings, especially to that at foot of Almond\\nstreet.\\nA couple of venerable two-story dwelling-s\\nstood on the line of the river road (the pre-\\nsent Second street,) having two or three\\nvery large box-wood trees and two dwarf\\nyew trees in front of tliem. The trees wen^", "height": "3261", "width": "1742", "jp2-path": "sketchofcamdenci00orrh_0064.jp2"}, "65": {"fulltext": "CAMDEN, N. J Ql\\nacknowledged as the oldest living inhabit-\\nants of the region, at the beginning of the\\ncurrent century, and how far backward from\\nthat time their birth or planting dated, even\\ntradition is silent.\\nThe present avenue ran eastwardly not\\nabove one-third of a mile, in a tolerably right\\nline, but following the invariable bent of\\nCamden surveys, it then deflected as old\\nBrace Road, to the only bridge over Cooper s\\nCreek. About twenty-five years ago, by a\\nmost notable stroke of courage, this avenue\\n(or Main Street then called) was opened\\neastward, and entered the Haddonfield turn-\\npike road just at its first toll-gate from Cam-\\nden. This should have added perceptibly to\\nthe business of the ferry, whose position di-\\nrectly opposite to the Philadelphia Navy\\nYard, with a channel unobstructed by island\\nor shoal, surpasses in natural advantages any\\nother thus far established.", "height": "3248", "width": "1817", "jp2-path": "sketchofcamdenci00orrh_0065.jp2"}, "66": {"fulltext": "(32 CAMDEN, N. J.\\nAs early as 1816, a steamboat plied from\\nfoot of South street, Philadelphia, to said\\nKaighn s Point; where several members of\\nthe original family were settled; having\\ndwellings mostly situated upon Main street,\\nwith gardens of liberal dimensions attached.\\nThe commercial advantages of this old\\ncentre of intercourse, have not been thus far\\nrecognised.", "height": "3261", "width": "1742", "jp2-path": "sketchofcamdenci00orrh_0066.jp2"}, "67": {"fulltext": "CAMDEN, N. J. ^^i^\\nCapt. JOHN WHITALL MICKLE.\\nBetween Kaighn s Point and Gloucester, a\\nlarge and (for a long time) well kept farm,\\nbrought before the traveller the name of\\nCaptain Mickle.\\nHis ancestors were decided members of\\nFriends Meeting; but if our subject was\\ncounted in that communion from birth, he\\nmust have leaped the wall when quite\\nyoung for we find him of the party of the\\nwar of 1812.\\nHe chose seafaring as a profession, making\\nvarious voyages on the Atlantic ocean. And\\namong his adventures there was one con-\\nnecting him with an attempt to liberate\\nNapoleon Bonaparte from liis iin])ris(jiiinent", "height": "3248", "width": "1817", "jp2-path": "sketchofcamdenci00orrh_0067.jp2"}, "68": {"fulltext": "{J4 CAMDEN, N. J.\\non the island of St. Helena. This stirring\\nevent was never elaborated into intelli-\\ngible narrative, nor even put upon record by\\nthe only one who knew all the facts.\\nThe dethroned emperor died in 1820.\\nHow long after that event our captain deter-\\nmined to cast anchor on dry land, and furled\\nhis sales permanently, cannot now be ascer-\\ntained but more than forty years ago, when\\nCamden was chosen as the southern terminus\\nof the great rail road between Philadelphia\\nand New York, we find him at the front and\\nready for service.\\nHe chose his permanent residence in the\\ncentre of Camden, and became at once active\\nin the great enterprise which thus rolled in\\nupon that hitherto sequestered town almost\\nlike the eruption of a volcano. The proposal\\nto make the journey from Philadelphia to\\nNew York in the same daylight, sounded\\nlike a revival of the dreams of Oliver Evans,", "height": "3261", "width": "1742", "jp2-path": "sketchofcamdenci00orrh_0068.jp2"}, "69": {"fulltext": "CAMDEN, N. J. (j^\\nthe steam enthusiast of a former a e but\\nthe daring of the attempt alone was sufficient\\nto beckon Captain Mickle towards it. What-\\never his aspirations may have been as a\\nsailor, he seems to have laid them all aside\\nfrom this time forward.\\nIn neighborly intercourse he was rather\\nkindly disposed easily moved at the sorrows\\nof the poor, and comparatively willing to as-\\nsist in relieving such. In business his man-\\nners were ungracious, to say the least he\\nseemed to speak always as from the quarter-\\ndeck, and permitted no appeal from his\\ndecisions, allotting neither time nor space for\\nthe opinions of others. But his duty, as far\\nas he understood it, was most scrupulously\\nperformed; turning back from no proper risk\\nor responsibility.\\nHe admitted his fellowship with the Free\\nThinkers; yet he more than once helped\\na church witli monev. Passing as one witli", "height": "3248", "width": "1817", "jp2-path": "sketchofcamdenci00orrh_0069.jp2"}, "70": {"fulltext": "55 AMIM^X. N. J.\\nsmall belief encumbered, yet he had more\\nthan one anchor that never dragged. He\\nbelieved steadfastly in General Jackson, the\\nCamden and Amboy Rail Road, and the\\nPhiladelphia and Camden Ferry Company\\nand somewhere within the points of this tri-\\nangle he was ahvays to be found. City, state,\\nand national politics were all driven into this\\nenclosure, like sheep into a fold, and fattened,\\nand fleeced, and slaughtered, according to\\nthe demands of the ruling powers there.\\nThis ferry company was charged with the\\nconveyance across the Delaware, of the pas-\\nsengers and freight of the various rail road\\ntrains running between Philadelphia and\\nNew York. In seasons of severe frost, this\\nwas a hard service for the ferry boats of the\\nsize then prevalent. The captain had not\\nstudied marine architecture in due form\\nbut he planned and superintended the build-\\ning of the Dido, a ftn-ry boat which for\\ntwenty years surpassed in good service any", "height": "3261", "width": "1742", "jp2-path": "sketchofcamdenci00orrh_0070.jp2"}, "71": {"fulltext": "CAMDE X. J. (^1\\notlior boat on the Delaware. And certainly,\\nas director of the rail road and president of\\nthe ferry company, we ne er shall look\\nupon his like again.\\nSome seventeen years ago, a small, weak\\nl)oat (the New Jersey) was burnt on her ^-v\\npassage across the river, and a number of\\npersons lost their lives thereby. Botli sides\\nof the river condemned the carelessness in-\\nvolved in the catastrophe, and the company\\nwas cited by the coroner, and complaint was\\nalso lodged in the criminal court of Camden,\\nand Captain Mickle was summoned to the\\nstand.\\nHe admitted that the unfortunate boat\\nbelonged to his company but he insisted\\nthat she was sound and seaworthy in form\\nand in fact and concluded by averring that\\nshe was a better boat the night she was\\nburnt^ than she was the day she was\\nlaunciiedl\\nut^ f^^", "height": "3248", "width": "1817", "jp2-path": "sketchofcamdenci00orrh_0071.jp2"}, "72": {"fulltext": "58 CAMDEN, N. J.\\nThis formed rather an advance over any-\\nthino^ like lec^al testimonv hitherto offered in\\nNew Jersey. However it might bear on the\\nparticular case which drew it out, the gene-\\nral conclusion was, that hereafter, if any\\nexigency arose for swearing a case through\\na stone wall, Captain Micklo would be a\\nlikely man to lead the way.\\nBut we must not forget that, when there\\nwas no such thing as getting a hearty drink\\nof good water in Camden, Captain Mickle\\nsunk an artesian well at his own expense,\\nand made its bright crystal free to all well-\\nbehaved comers.\\nAnd, more than all when the stars and\\nthe stripes were shot down from Fort Sumter,\\nCaptain Mickle presided at the town meet-\\ning in Camden, and in his short, blunt ad-\\ndress he said\\nThe news is, that they hav(^ shot down", "height": "3261", "width": "1742", "jp2-path": "sketchofcamdenci00orrh_0072.jp2"}, "73": {"fulltext": "CA.MDEN, N. J.\\n69\\nour flag from the United States fort at South\\nCarolina. Now you see that flag has got to\\ngo up again!\\nAs true a prophet as patriot, let this be his\\nepitaph I", "height": "3248", "width": "1817", "jp2-path": "sketchofcamdenci00orrh_0073.jp2"}, "74": {"fulltext": "70 CAMDEN, N, J.\\nDr. ISAAC S. MULFORD.\\nIn passing np Federal street from the\\nriver, standing full a hundred feet from\\nthe line of the street, is a large, plain brick\\nmansion. It is the former home, and was\\nfor a long time the residence, of Dr. Mulford\\nof Camden. Its style is that of seventy-\\nyears ago all its features are harmonious\\nso much so, that any thoughtful person facing\\nthe edifice, will seem to hear or to see an ap-\\npeal from the past.\\nDr. Mulford was brother-in-law to Captain\\nMickle, but they did not associate much.\\nThe former was the opposite, indeed the an-\\ntipode of the latter; he was silent, thought-\\nful, and almost austere in aspect. He could", "height": "3261", "width": "1742", "jp2-path": "sketchofcamdenci00orrh_0074.jp2"}, "75": {"fulltext": "CAMOEN N. J, -yi\\nrecollect Camden when he mif^-lit liave count-\\ned all its commodious houses Tipon his ten\\nfingers; and he walked along its lengthening\\nstreets to the last, with the same deliberate\\nstep as he did threescore years ago.\\nAs physician and druggist he must have\\ncome in contact with the residents of the\\nwhole settlement, and of much of the sur-\\nrounding country. His pale, unimpassioned\\nface was familiar at almost every bedside\\nhis low, calm voice was that of a friend in\\nneed. His long white fingers seemed made\\nto feel the pulse, and in tlu^ words of Samuel\\nJohnson, he exhibited the power of art\\nwithout the show.\\nIn middle life the Dr. joined the society of\\nFriends, leaving the severe creed of Calvin for\\nthe milder one of Fox. But, as Milton said\\nof himself, I change my sky but not my\\nmind when I cross tlie sea, so the Dr. carried\\nhis coat unchana ed in color into tlie new", "height": "3248", "width": "1817", "jp2-path": "sketchofcamdenci00orrh_0075.jp2"}, "76": {"fulltext": "72 CAMDKN, N. J.\\nfraternity, sitting in meeting and walking by\\nthe way as the Quaker in black.\\nHis practice as a physician was gradually\\nhanded over to younger aspirants, and his\\nclosing service is that of historian of New\\nJersey. His patience and faithfulness ad-\\nmirably qualified him for the task, and he\\nhas fulfilled every reasonable requirement of\\nthe same.", "height": "3261", "width": "1742", "jp2-path": "sketchofcamdenci00orrh_0076.jp2"}, "77": {"fulltext": "SKETCH OF (WMDF.N,\\nNEW JERSEY.\\nPART SECOND.\\nThe observant traveller from Europe, (or\\nindeed from any part of tlie slowly-ehanging-\\nold hemisphere.) who arrives in Chicago,\\nwith correct information furnished him of its\\nage and history will be astonished, if not\\nstunned by the bare evidence laid before his\\nsenses. Streets of palaces are there; temples\\nof trade, where Mammon himself seems sur-\\nfeited; hixurious dwellings, in whose patcli\\nof unbuilt garden surface the almost warm\\nfootprints of the buffalo and wild hog may be\\nfound Tlie dreams of Aladdin liardened\\ninto arcliitectural granite.\\n10", "height": "3248", "width": "1817", "jp2-path": "sketchofcamdenci00orrh_0077.jp2"}, "78": {"fulltext": "74 c.niDKN X. J.\\nPassing- to some other prominent points\\nembraced in our web of railways, let oiiv\\nvisiter at leni^th roll eastward through Penn-\\nsylvania, and after fighting his angular way\\nthrough Philadelphia s red labyrinth, lot\\nhim ferry himself to Camden, N. J.\\nThere he will find a level area, within\\neasy rifle range of the largest territorial city\\nof the world, (and which was once the na-\\ntional capital and still is its true metropolis)\\nwith scarcely a safe landing at its Delaware\\nfront, and with two-thirds of its surface still\\ncohered with sandburrs or spatterdocks! He\\nwill find here nearly enough of stagnancy to\\nrestore his equilibrium of progress.\\nIf we wonder how some of our western\\nwilds have dashed forward into towns and\\ncities in a few years, we may ec[ually wonder\\nhow through a full century Camden has man-\\nao( d to stand still.\\n.Something of an excuse for this sluggish-", "height": "3261", "width": "1742", "jp2-path": "sketchofcamdenci00orrh_0078.jp2"}, "79": {"fulltext": "CAMDEX, N. J. 75\\niicss lias been sought in her water boundary,\\n(Uviding- her from the towering city of Pcnn;\\nbut Brooklyn is also water bounded, and her\\nterritory is actually an island; she is now,\\nhowever, determined to have a bridge cost\\nwhat it may.\\nBut to borroA\\\\ calm counsel from the most\\npassionate people on earth let byganes he\\nbyganes in this matter. Leaving the torpor\\nof one hundred and fifty years to bur} its\\nown dead, let us see what may be done to-\\nday and to-morrow in the wav of sensible\\nadvance.\\nCamden territory is a peninsula of nearly\\nuniform width, bounded principally by the\\nDelaAvare river and Cooper s creek. The\\nibrmer is one of the finest rivers of this con-\\ntinent, and its widest channel at this spot is\\non the Camden side. The most extensive\\niinpr(n-emc nt on this front is that of the\\nCaiiid n and Ambov Rail Road, and consists", "height": "3248", "width": "1817", "jp2-path": "sketchofcamdenci00orrh_0079.jp2"}, "80": {"fulltext": "75 CA.MDliX, X. J.\\nof tracks and stabling for locomotives, and\\nslips for shipment of burden trains. These\\nerections are thus for special nse, and present\\nno accommodations to general commerce.\\nFarther south are the wharf and dock of the\\nDredging Company, also tied up to special\\nservice; and towards Kaighn s Point is the\\nfine property of Starr, Brothers, which is\\nslowly getting into usable condition. The\\nonly complete landing (embracing wharves\\nand docks) for general business, is that of\\nMessrs. John F. Starr and Son, at loot of\\nMarket street.\\nThe various ferries arc not of course pub-\\nlic landings, though tliey are certainly public\\nconveniences of the first order; and the ship-\\nyard at Cooper s Point, has also it^ own re-\\nstricted functions.\\nThe greater part of tlie northern front has\\na fine elevation for dv/ellings, and sliould\\n]la^\u00e2\u0080\u00a2(\u00e2\u0080\u00a2 been kept as a iiortli (^nd terrace for", "height": "3261", "width": "1742", "jp2-path": "sketchofcamdenci00orrh_0080.jp2"}, "81": {"fulltext": "CAMDEN, N. J t t\\nbeautiful mansions in harmony with tho phin\\nof State street. But good natured -Joe\\nCooper sokl any one a lot for any thing, and\\ntlius its real advantages have been marred.\\nThe eastern boundary is by Cooper s\\nCreek and this remains, if not rightly ap-\\npropriated, at least to a great extent unper-\\nverted.\\nThis Creek would count as quite a river\\nin densely-populated Europe. Its navigable\\nextent must be nearly ten miles. Its course\\nis undeniably sinuous, but its depth is\\ncomparatively uniform and sufficient for\\nfloating very heavy freight, with a channel a\\nhundred feet wide. On each side of it are\\nlarge tracts of fertile meadow, now much ne-\\nglected, but capable of profitable cultivation\\nby good embankments, or by improvement\\nin other ways.\\nIt is plain that this region marks the m-d-", "height": "3248", "width": "1817", "jp2-path": "sketchofcamdenci00orrh_0081.jp2"}, "82": {"fulltext": "7y CAMDEN, N. J.\\nnufacturiiig front of Camden, where lies un-\\ndeveloped wealth by millions. Assurances\\nlike these are so easily made these things\\ncalled ciphers so readily fill up a dazzling\\nline, that we offer to try in this closing page\\nto see liow far history will fortify our pro-\\nphecy.\\nJESSE W. STAllR SONS.\\nOn the right hand bank of this creek, as\\nyou travel upwards, may be found the iron\\nworks of Jesse W. Starr and Sons. The ori-\\nginal ])lot occupied by this firm contained\\nabout eleven acres, and is still tlie area in\\nactual use and tlie changes already devel-\\noped on this former little truck farm, deserve\\nmention. Sixty years ago its best results\\nmight have fed and clothed a family of\\nfour on this wise. By unremitting labor that\\nhardly noted the flight of time except by the\\nextremes of heat and cold, a fare of rye bread\\nand molasses, mitigated by sweet potatoes\\nand hot-corn. Mas f \\\\torted. and at times ex-", "height": "3261", "width": "1742", "jp2-path": "sketchofcamdenci00orrh_0082.jp2"}, "83": {"fulltext": "cami)i:v, n. j.\\n79\\ntended to a grudging addition of stiingy pork,\\na portion of which latter was bartered off for\\nlinsey woolsey clothing. While at our pre-\\nsent view, some five hundred and fiftjj\\nfamilies have a comfortahlo living out of those\\nsame eleven acres!\\nThe firm is composed of Jesse W. Starr,\\nBenjamin A. Starr, and Benjamin F. Archer.\\nThe business is that of an extensive iron\\nFoundry, where some of the largest and many\\nof the best cast iron pipes of tlie country have\\nbeen made using at present six cupohi fur-\\nnaces. The property includes the entire\\nsurface of marsh down t(^ the county l)ridge,\\nwhere the Camden and Amboy Company Inn e\\njust laid two tracks of rails for the accommo-\\ndation of these works. The capacity of the\\nwhole creek region is fairly indicated in this\\nsingle instance. Mr. Starr is a thorough mas-\\nter of his business and has devoted his whole\\nenergies to its prosecution. In this state-\\nment we present merely a literal fact; an iron", "height": "3248", "width": "1817", "jp2-path": "sketchofcamdenci00orrh_0083.jp2"}, "84": {"fulltext": "y{) cam;)kn, X. J.\\none indeed, in all its strength b-it not with its\\nusual harshness.\\nReturning from the works, as we cross the\\nHaddonfield road, we come upon a triangular\\ngarden embracing the mansion of Mr. J. W.\\nStarr. This garden is enclosed by the finest\\nlive fence (a hedge of Osage orange) in\\nAmerica, and contains in its seven acres of\\nflowers and fruit enough of peaceful beauty\\nto make any good judge who enters it, say\\nwith Sancho Panza, that he fain would stay\\nthere longer than he is able!\\nThe entire establishment presents a speci-\\nmen of American life fit for the severest\\nscrutiny courageous industry busy to useful\\nends, radiating from and returning to a com-\\nfortable, delightful home. Long may the\\nexample and the exemplar remain among us!\\nW 80", "height": "3261", "width": "1742", "jp2-path": "sketchofcamdenci00orrh_0084.jp2"}, "85": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3248", "width": "1817", "jp2-path": "sketchofcamdenci00orrh_0085.jp2"}, "86": {"fulltext": "u", "height": "3261", "width": "1742", "jp2-path": "sketchofcamdenci00orrh_0086.jp2"}, "87": {"fulltext": "-2.^\\nTrr\u00c2\u00ab .,o ^.^*V V \u00e2\u0080\u00a2^*f^^\\\\o\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2^^0^\\n^0^\\n^^-n^. 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