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AN OLD LANDMARK-On First Street between Grand and Liberty Streets.
This row of houses was built in 1836. The original owners and occupants were, beginning [at the left hand side] at the corner of First and Liberty Streets, Samuel G. Sneeden, Benjamin F. Buck- ingham, General James G. Clinton, Rev. John Brown, D. D., and William M. Wiley. The present owners and occupants are: The Sneeden house by the McGahey family since 1849; the Bucking- ham house by the family of William L. F. Warren since 1856; the Clinton house by the family of Dr. N. Deyo since 1848; Dr. Brown's house by his family from the time of its completion until seven years
ago; the Wiley house by the family of George W. Kerr since 1866. Before the ground extending from the rear of the Associate Reformed Church to Liberty Street was occupied by houses, the plot was owned and used by Dr. Brown as a garden, his residence then being in an- other part of the street. At the time of their erection these houses were considered much above the average in cost and elegance, and for this reason, combined with the high social standing of the original occupants, the buildings were known throughout the village as "Quality Row," a designation which still lingers among our old families.
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IN LEISURE HOURS.
Newburgh's Record in Out-Door Athletics-Rowing, Skating, Yachting and Base Ball.
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F late years a decided interest in athletic sports has de- veloped among the people of Newburgh, after a period of apparent iudifference to such pastimes. Years ago . our town filled a prominent place in the world of sports. Newburgh and the immediate vicinity have produced many "champions," both among men and animals. We have produced champion oarsmen, skat- ers, marksmen, pugilists, and trotters; we have had famous yachts, steamboats, iceboats and base ball clubs.
ROWING.
In all civilized countries, for a long period, boat-pulling was merely a means of living to those who rowed people for pleasure, ferried them across rivers, or transported goods. In 1830 there was no boat club in the United States of more than a local reputation. About that period an interest in boat-racing was developed among the fishermen and boatmen of Newburgh Bay. These contests be- came of frequent occurrence in succeeding years, but, as they were rowed in the ordinary heavy working boats, or skiffs, of that day, they at first attracted no particular notice. At length boats were built expressly for racing, regular crews were trained therefor, and the sport became popular. Several clubs were formed, and then, through the efforts of Captain Henry Robinson, an association was regularly organized in 1837, first designated the Newburgh Regatta Associa- tion, and subsequently the Newburgh Amateur Boat Club Associa- tion. Captain Charles Ludlow was president, Judge Johu J. Monell secretary, and many of the leading citizens of the town were con- nected with it. Elaborate preparations were made for their first re- gatta, which was held June 27, 1837. Three years previously (1834) an association of boat clubs had been formed in New York; it was the first organization of the kind in the United States, and was des- ignated the " Castle Garden Amateur Boat Club Association." They had held three regattas, in which only local boats were entered. This association sent six boats to Newburgh, namely, the Gazelle, scarlet boat, red and white dress; Gull, blue boat, blue and white dress; Wave, black boat, gilt stripe, blue and white caps; Halcyon, green boat, green and white dress; Minerva, straw color boat, red stripe, red and white dress; Pearl, white boat, gilt stripe, blue and white check dress. There were four oarsmen and a coxswain in each boat. The Wave was the fastest boat in New York Harbor. The Rollins brothers, who formed a portion of her crew, had great reputation in New York as skillful aud enduring rowers. The Gull, a beautiful barge, was the first boat ever rowed to Philadelphia. The New- burgh Association entered the Highland Wave, black boat, white dress; and the Corsair, black boat, green and white dress and caps. The Wave came in first, the Gull second, the Corsair third and the Highland Wave fourth. The Washington, of Ponghkeepsie, started with them, but was ruled out for not turning the lower stake-boat. A reception was given at the Orange Hotel by the ladies of New- burgh to the visiting clubs, when the prizes were awarded and speeches delivered by Judge Mouell and others. The West Point Band furnished music. A number of excursion boats came to New-
burgh that day. Accounts of the race were published in the princi- pal papers of the land, and it was the first regatta in this country to claim general public interest. An editor came all the way from Boston to attend, which was considered a remarkable feat of jour- nalistic enterprise in those days, when steamboats were in their infancy and railroads and the telegraph practically unknown. Through the success and fame of this regatta, boat-racing became popular, and many clubs were organized along the Hudson and in seaport cities.
The regatta of 1838 was for the benefit of the Newburgh Library Association, and was restricted to Newburgh boats. The contest- ants were: The Galatea, Highland Wave, Corsair, and Scylla; they finished in the order named. The prizes were awarded at a banquet at the Orange Hotel, as was the custom for years afterwards, and sometimes there was a ball, attended by the best people of the town.
In the regatta of 1839 there were prizes (silver cups) for four- oared and six-oared boats. The contestants were the Scylla, Galatea and Corsair, of the Newburgh Association; Washington, of the Po'- keepsie Club; Wave, Gazelle, and Ariel, of the Castle Garden Associa- tion; Edwin Forrest, Daniel D. Tompkins, and Spark, of the Independ- ent Association, of New York.
The annual regatta of 1841 was termed " the most splendid aqnat- ic pageant ever witnessed in America." The regatta was arranged under the auspices of the Newburgh Amateur Boat Club Association, and by the indefatigable exertions and liberality of Captain Henry Robinson. It was free to all six and four-oared boats; and prizes to the amount of $550 in gold were offered. The course was diamond- shaped. The umpires were Captains Rogers and Cobb, of New York; William H. Denning, of Fishkill; Thomas Chrystie, of New Wind- sor, and Captains Belknap and Reeve, of Newburgh; Thomas Powell, referee. At an early hour crowds began to assemble from the coun- ties on both sides of the Hudson. The Osceola, Troy, Albany, High- lander, Emerald, Gazelle, Telegraph and other steamers, and sail- ing craft of every description, arrived loaded to the water's edge with passengers. The night previous the hotels were filled with visit- ors from a distance. So great a concourse of strangers never before assembled in Newburgh. The roofs of dwellings and storehouses and the wharves were covered with people. The bay was dotted with crowded steamboats on which were fine bands of music, sloops, schooners, and vessels of every size and rig, beautifully decorated with flags, and a multitude of club boats and barges. In the six- oared race the starters were: Washington, Poughkeepsie; Ann, Peeks- kill; New Jersey, Jersey City; Galatea, Newburgh; Dutchess, Hyde Park; Eagle and Spark, of New York; Scylla, Newburgh. The dis- tatice was two miles and repeat. The New York Herald said, " never was a more exciting scene, or a more manful contest of strength and skill." The race was rowed in heats as was the custom in those days. The Dutchess won, Spark second, Galatea third, Scylla fourth, Washington fifth, Eagle sixth. Best time, 16:07. In the four-oared race the boats finished as follows: Thomas Jefferson, New York; Ann, Peekskill; Duane, Ione, Water Witch, and John C. Stevens, New York; Gondola, Newburgh. Time, 16:40.
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The annual regatta of August 31, 1842, is noted in the annals of rowing as the finest and biggest regatta that had ever been held in the country. There were many thousand strangers here, and many excursion boats. There were three races for six-oared, four-oared and double scull boats, and forty-six starters. The distance was three miles and a quarter. The six-oared race was won by the New Jersey, of Jersey City; Galatea, of Newburgh, second; Dutchess, of Hyde Park, third; Eagle, of New York, fourth. Time 20:35. The Galatea was manned in this race by John Baird and Martin Lyon, of Peekskill, Archibald Daly, of Newburgh, Abram Bowen, of Cold Spring, Wil- liam Doherty, Williams Hawkins, of Newburgh; Frank Gerard, of Newburgh, coxswain. The Galatea was built by Shemburgh, of New York, and owned by Captain Robinson, In the four-oared race the George Washington, of New York, won; Duane, of New York, second; Henry Robinson, of Newburgh, third; Morgan S. Farnam, of New- burgh, fourth. Time 23:19. The Robinson was manned by James Moshier, John Moshier, John Ward, Charles F. June, and George June, coxswain, all of New- burgh. The Farnam was built by Chambers, of New York, and man- ned by R. S. Hunt, John Stewart, William Mc- Turk, W. H. Hawkins, and J. R. Sayres, cox- swain. The double scull race was won by the Crolius, of New York, rowed by T. and J. TenEyck.
July 4, 1842, the Gal- atea, of Newburgh, won the six-oared race at Castle Garden. Other oarsmen of that day were Thomas C. Ring, William Lisle, Frank Gerard, Enoch Carter, William Randall and Moses Kimball. In 1838 a match race for $1,000 between the Washing- ton, of Poughkeepsie, and the Disowned, of Jersey City, was rowed in Buttermilk Channel, and won by the Dis- owned, of which Charles F. June, of Newburgh, was coxswain. He was once coxswain for the Atalanta crew, of New York, when they won a race in Newburgh Bay, and on other occasions when a lad he steered the fast boats of the time.
The boat-houses of the Scylla and Highland Wave were at the foot of South Street, that of the Henry Robinson at Wells' dock at the foot of Broadway; the Corsair, Galatea and White Lady at the ship- yard, and the James G. Clinton, owned by the Messrs. Shaw, at the Old Red Storehouse, at the South End. The first races in New- burgh Bay were rowed in ordinary skiffs and wherries, but not long before the organization of the association craft had been built ex- pressly for speed, but even they were far larger and heavier than racing craft of the present day, when four men, weighing 150 to 160 pounds each, use a shell of only 17 inches beam, 41 feet in length and weighing only 9 pounds. The four-oared boats of 1837 were from 26 to 31 feet in length, nearly four feet wide and weighed from 200 to 260 pounds. Six-oared boats were from 35 to 41 feet in length,
between four and five feet in width, and their average weight 350 pounds. Outriggers were theu unknown.
After 1842 rowing lost much of its popularity. The principal cause was that the races had assumed a professional character; expert oars- men, usually fishermen, were hired by clubs to row their boats, so that the boats lost their representative character, and public interest declined. The Newburgh Association, and all the old clubs, went out of existence, and there were no regattas of any kind for a long peri- od. In 1852 the first college regatta occurred at Lake Winnepiseogee, N. H., and in 1854 the first of the Boston City regattas was held on the Charles River course, and public interest in the sport began to revive. In 1856 the Newburgh Association was re-organized, and soon resumed its old place as the "head-quarters for rowing in the United States." The first regatta was held July 4, 1856.
The following were the umpires: In the starting boat, Captain T. C. Ring, Captain T. S. Marvel, Franklin Gerard; in the stake-
boat, J. H. H. Chap- man, M. C. Smith; in the second stake-boat, J. K. Lawson, Charles Halstead, jr .; in the third stake-boat, J. T. Hamilton, Robert Baughan. The Secre- tary of the Association was Isaac Wood, jr. First race for four-oared boats, $100 in prizes- $65 to the first, $25 to the second, $10 to the third. Distance three miles. Witch of the Wave, Cold Spring; William Terboss, of New York, rowed by Lynch, Mattison, Wood and Burns; Jacob Swartzer, of New York, rowed by Leary, Val- lerie, O'Neil and Conk- lin; Whitehall, New York. The Terboss won in 27 minutes. Second race, for all two-pair scull boats not exceed- ing 26 feet in length, $50 to first, $25 to sec- ond, Sio to third. Enoch Carter, rowed by Teneyck and Ferguson, of Peekskill; the T. C. Ring, by Decker and Collins, of New York; the William Lisle, row- ed by Charles F. June and R. Rodgers; the George W. Shaw, rowed by E. Hubbard, jr., and H. Ward; Samuel Roach, rowed by Hancon and Moshier; John Blizard, rowed by James Moshier and Charles MacLaren. The Car- ter won in 30 minutes, the Ring second, and the Shaw third. The Gale, rowed by Arthur Meginn, of Newburgh, won the single scull race.
JAMES A. DONOGHUE. JOSEPH F. DONOGHUE.
The regatta of the Fourth of July, 1857, was notable as the occa- sion of the début of William H. and Joshua Ward. The entries in the four-oared race were the Experiment, of New York (the first regular shell ever built in the United States), the Alida, of New York, the B. B. Odell, the I. Wood, jr., and the Frank G. Wood, of Newburgh, and the Ripple, of Haverstraw. The Experiment won, the F. G. Wood a good second. Double scull race: the H. C. Bayley, of New York, first; J. C. Gazely, of Newburgh, second; the Enoch Carter, third. The Gazely was rowed by George and Charles B. Shaw.
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Third race, single scull boats, won by T. Daw, of New York; Arthur Meginn, of Newburgh, second, in the Gale. Fourth race, double sculls, for Newburgh boats only: starters-the G. W. Shaw, the E. Carter, the T. C. Ring, and the Fanny Fern. The Fanny Fern won, rowed by Josh and Hank Ward; the T. C. Ring, second, rowed by George and Charles B. Shaw. It was a close race from start to finish, the Wards winning only by " a dip or two."
In those days the crews were known by the names of their boats, and seldom did the press give the names of the oarsmen. The boat was seemingly considered of more importance than the oarsmen, and the prizes were awarded to the owners of the boats. There was great rivalry between boat-builders. At this period the Shaws were the principal builders here. Timothy Donoghue built the F. G. Wood, and afterward became celebrated as a builder.
The regatta of 1858 was another great event. There were a score of excursion boats in the bay, and thousands of strangers in the city. Newburgh oarsmen won all four races. In the four-oared race the F. G. Wood beat the Dan Bryant and Experiment, of New York. The Wood was rowed by T. Donoghue, W. Tuthill, A. Sheffield and Peter Hunt. The race for fishing skiffs (four boats entered) was won by the Sarvis brothers, of Newburgh. Third race, double sculls; starters-the J. C. Gazely, of Newburgh, the Rappahannock, of New York, and the T. C. Ring, of Newburgh. The Gazely won, rowed by Josh. Ward and George W. Shaw. Time, 44 m. The fourth race, for single sculls, was won by John Hancon; Dillon, of New York, second. Regatta Committee-Captain Robinson, T. C. Ring, F. Gerard, I. Wood, jr., J. H. H. Chapman, Enoch Carter, William Lisle, Ezra Farrington.
1858, August 9, at Staten Island, first race, double sculls, won by the J. C. Gazely (George Shaw and Josh. Ward.) Second race, single sculls, Fay of Brooklyn, first; Hancon of Newburgh, second; Daw of New York, third; Burns, fourth. Third race, four-oars, the Dan Bryant won, defeating the George J. Brown and Experiment, of New York, and the F. G. Wood, of Newburgh.
1858, August 27, Springfield regatta, first race, four-oars, F. G. Wood, of Newburgh, first; Dan Bryant, of New York, second; Bonita, of New London; Pride of Boston, of Boston.
1858, September 15, at Newburgh, Josh Ward vs. John Hancon; Ward's first single scull match; distance two miles, won by Ward by two lengths. Time 16:07.
In the four-oared race of July 4, 1859, at Newburgh, the F. G. Wood won, defeating the Dan Bryant and the George J. Brown, of New York, and the John D. Kelly, of Newburgh. The Wood was rowed by T. Donoghue, B. Marvel, Peter Hunt and William Tuthill. John Hancou won the single scull race.
These were the first of a long series of races and regattas in which Newburgh oarsmen participated. From the oarsmen which the contests at Newburgh Bay developed sprang in a great measure all the principal contests which occurred in this country for years af- terwards. There was at that period no marked distinction between amateurs and professionals. It was the custom to offer small money prizes at nearly all regattas. We cannot attempt to note all the races.
At this time, and in fact for a long time afterward, John Hancon ranked high as an excellent oarsmen. He learned the trade of boat- builder and oar-maker with the Shaws in Newburgh, but afterwards moved to Cornwall, where he still resides. August 4, 1859, at Lake Quinsigamond, Worcester, he defeated T. F. Doyle, champion of Boston; T. Daw, champion of New York; and A. Fay of Brooklyn. On the 15th of the same month he defeated Fay and Burns at Staten Island. On the same day and place there was a championship race for four-oared crews. The entries were the Dan Bryant (now of New- burgh), and the William Lisle, of Newburgh; the George J. Brown, of New York, and three other crews. The Bryant came in first, the Brown second. The Bryant was rowed by Josh. and Hauk Ward, George W. Shaw and Oscar Teed. The Lisle, rowed by T. Donoghue, A. Shaffer, W. Tuthill aud Peter Hunt, was ahead at the stakeboat, but met with an accident and withdrew.
September 12, 1859, a match race for a thousand dollars was rowed on the Harlem River between the Bryant crew and the George J.
Brown crew, of New York. The Bryant crew were Josh. and Hank Ward, O. Teed and G. W. Shaw. The Brown crew were W. H. Dexter, D. Leary, W. Boggs and P. O'Brien. The crews fouled each other, and the race was declared a draw. On the 29th of the same month Shaw aud Ward won the double-sculling race at Albany, and John Hancon the single sculling race.
Hancon's many victories aroused a controversy as to who was the champion sculler of America, and to settle this question a champion- ship belt was designed and made by Tiffany & Co., of New York, and a championship race arranged for Tuesday, October 11, 1859, at Staten Island. The competitors were Ward, Hancon, Daw and Fay. Ward rowed in the Major Morton, built by Timothy Donoghue (at the expense of Benjamin B. Odell). Ward took the lead early in the race, turned the two-and-one-half mile stake-boat thirteen seconds ahead of Fay, and came home in the remarkable time of thirty-five minutes and ten seconds. This time has never been equaled by any oarsman in the world. The course was full five miles, regularly sur- veyed by the U. S. Revenue Cutter, Harriet Lane, expressly for this race. A month later Ward defeated the same oarsmen at Boston.
Joshua Ward was born in the Town of Newburgh May 11, 1838, and during the early part of his racing career lived at " Mud Hole," north of the city limits. Thence he moved to the neighboring village of Cornwall, where he now resides. The Ward family of oarsmen are descended from William Ward, who was a resident of Newburgh as early as 1726.
Another red-letter day in the history of Newburgh oarsmen was July 25, 1860, at Lake Quinsigamond. Josh. Ward won the single scull race in the Oscar Teed; Walter Brown and Charles F. June won the double-scull race, and the Gersh Banker the six and four- oared race. In the latter race the six-oared boats made an allowance of 30 seconds to the four-oared boats. The Banker was a six-oared boat built by Thomas Shaw & Sons. It was rowed by Joshua Ward, stroke, George W. Shaw, Benjamin Marvel, William Tuthill, Charles Sarvis and Peter Hunt, all of Newburgh. Several college crews entered for this race. The Brown college crew had just received a new boat built by Timothy Donoghue, but because of an accident to the boat just before the race they did not start. The Banker covered the three miles in 18:37, the fastest time then on record; Yale second; Union, of Boston, third; Quickstep, of Boston, fourth. In their race Brown and June defeated Doyle and Colbert, the champion crew of Boston, and others. They won by more than two minutes in the three miles. They rowed in a new boat called the Noddle, by special request of the builder, Valerie, of Boston. It was built for Doyle and Colbert to row in, but they condemned it. The victory of the Noddle elated the Boston builder. He refused a large price for the boat, and put it on exhibition in a Boston hotel.
In September, 1860, at Poughkeepsie, Timothy Donoghue and Walter Brown, of Newburgh, won the double-scull race, five miles, 36: 15, defeating among others Gilbert Ward aud John Hancon.
October 4, 1864, at Newburgh, Joshua and Gilbert Ward, T. Donoghue and Charles Sarvis, rowing in the F. G. Wood, defeated the Stranger crew, of Poughkeepsie.
Joshua Ward held the sculling championship, defeating all comers, till August 13, 1864, when James Hamill, of Pittsburgh, wrested it from him on the Schuylkill, and the next day defeated Ward again, but in less than a year Ward won it back at Poughkeepsie. In Sep- tember, 1863, Hamill won the championship again from Ward at Poughkeepsie, and on July 19, 1864, in Pittsburgh, again defeated Ward.
Walter Brown was the next to challenge for the belt. He was then living at Portland, Maine. He was born on the upper Hudson, in 1840, but came to Newburgh when four years old. He attended school till the Autumn of 1856, and then was apprenticed to John D. Kelly, to learn the carpenter trade, and afterwards worked for the Shaws. This brought him in contact with George W. Shaw and Timothy Donoghue, to whom Brown expressed himself indebted for the principles of rowing. About 1864 he moved to Portland and engaged in boat-building. In 1866 he defeated Joshua Ward twice-first in July at a regatta at Worcester, and next in September in a match race at Portland; but the next week Ward defeated Brown
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at Springfield. Brown then challenged any sculler in the country, and Hamill accepted. May 21, 1867, Brown won the championship at Pittsburgh. Hamill thereupon challenged Brown to race at New- burgh, September 6. On that day thousands of people flocked here from all parts. The city police were reinforced by a large number of officers from New York. The New York " rough " was in the ascend- ancy.
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