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"SEC. 5. This ordinance shall be in force
The Zanesville work-house was erected, by and take effect on and after its passage and authority of an ordinance providing for the publication.
erection and maintenance of a work-house, and providing for the appointment of a board D. 1884. of directors thereof:
Passed in council the 24th day of March, A.
JAMES T. IRVINE, Pres't of Council.
"WHEREAS, The honorable, the board of Attest: W. M. SHINNICK, JR., City Clerk."
county commissioners of Muskingum county, The building was begun soon after this date has agreed to unite with the city in the erection and was finished and occupied in January, and maintenance of a joint work-house, ac- 1885. It is a fine brick structure which cost cording to the statute in such case made and about $22,000. The board of work house di- provided, and have agreed to appropriate as a rectors, 1891-92, is constituted as follows: beginning the sum of $5,000, and provide for George A. Stanbery, term expires April 9, the payment of the same by levy duly made; 1892; H. C. Lillibridge, term expires April 9, therefore
1893; Robert Silvey, term expires April 9, 1894;
"SECTION I. Be it ordained by the city council W. M. Shinnick, Sr., term expires April 9, 1895; of the city of Zanesville, That there be and Frank Myers, term expires Apri 1 9. 1896; hereby is established a work-house jointly be- R. S. Mershon's term expired April 9, 1891, tween said city and county, agreeably with the and Frank Myers was appointed to succeed provisions of the statute in such case made and him for the term ending April 9, 1896. The provided.
officers are: President, George A. Stanbery;
"SEC. 2. There shall be appointed by the secretary, Isaac Humphrey; treasurer, A. V. mayor, with the approval and confirmation of Smith; superintendent, Hugh Fineral; physi- the city council, at the first regular meeting of cian, E. C. Logsdon; guards: William Gilger, the council after the passage of this ordinance, John Reynolds, George W. Durant. Regular or as soon thereafter as may be, a board of five meetings held on the first Thursday in each directors, who shall be called "The Board of month, at 1:30 o'clock P. M. The standing Work-House Directors," and who shall serve committees are made up as follows: I. Fi-
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nance-R. Silvey, W. M. Shinnick, F. Myers. broom shop, the short term men are employed 2. Buildings and repairs-W. M. Shinnick, G. at breaking stone. The demand for the A. Stanbery, R. Silvey. 3. Subsistence and brooms exceeds the capacity of the shop, and clothing-H. C. Lillibridge, W. M. Shinnick, the works are generally taxed to their utmost F. Myers. 4. Supplies, employment and con- to supply the trade. In all cases where pris- tracts-R. Silvey, G. A. Stanbery, W. M. Shin- oners are worked over time, they are credited nick. 5. Rules and regulations-F. Myers, with the same on their commitments.
"During the year contracts for the care of
H. C. Lillibridge, G. A. Stanbery. 6. Disci- pline, paroles and pardons-W. M. Shinnick, prisoners have been made with Nashville, Ohio; R. Silvey, G. A. Stanbery. 7. Religious serv- Newcomerstown, Ohio, Woodsfield, Ohio; and ices and reading matter-G. A. Stanbery, F. Logan, Ohio. There are now twenty-seven Myers, H. C. Lillibridge. counties and corporations that are sending
Following is a portion of the directors' re- prisoners here and taking advantage of the port : "To the council of the city of Zanes- rates."
ville, Ohio, and to the board of commissioners
The city's efficient board of education is of Muskingum county, Ohio: Dear Sirs: made up thus: James T. Irvine, president; J. We herewith present to your separate bodies Hope Sutor, vice-president; W. M. Shinnick, the annual report of the board of work house Jr., clerk; George Rishtine, treasurer; First directors for the year 1891, as required by law. ward, Dr. T. J. Barton; Second ward, W. M. The board has been as successful as usual in Shinnick, Jr .; Third ward, J. T. Irvine; Fourth carrying on the work of the institution. The ward, H. F. Achauer; Fifth ward, J. N. Carr; inmates, receipts and expenditures have in- Sixth ward, George Rishtine; Seventh ward, A. creased over that of any former year. The F. Munson; Eighth ward, D. G. Willey; Ninth average number of prisoners has increased, and ward, S. L. Wiles; Tenth ward, J. Hope Sutor. the prison during the year was generally filled The board of elections is thus organized: M. to its utmost capacity.
D. Frazier, president; H. L. Anderson, secre-
All things considered, the institution may tary; John Morrow, H. L. Shryock, W. H. be said to be practically self-sustaining. The Johnson. Composition of the board of health: total amount necessary for the expenses of the W. S. Bell, president ex-officio; H. T. Sutton, M. work-house during the year was $21,226.85, of D., health officer; Joseph B. Grannon, sanitary which Muskingum county paid $3,985.50, and policeman. Members of board: T. J. McDer- the city of Zanesville paid $4,330.64. The bal- mott, A. E. Starr, Albert T. Baker, James L. ance was raised from the sale of brooms, and Holden, M. D., John S. Price, Rolla E. Silvey. from other counties and corporations that have It seems fitting that this chapter upon Zanes- contracts with the institution. In return for ville's municipal history and institutions should the amount paid by the city and county as close with the latest annual exhibit, of the bal- above stated, the city received 1,671 tons of ances between the receipts and disbursements broken stone, which at a fair estimate is worth of the several funds of the city and of its bonded $1.75 per ton, or $2,924.25 ; $516.70 in fines and debt for the fiscal year ending March 14th, 1892; costs collected and paid into the city treasury, Summary of balances in the several funds- and the prisoners of the city prison were Sinking fund, $1,476.30; interest Nassau bank, boarded by the work-house, which supplied $9,677.90; poor fund, $65.16; Cemetery fund, 1,277 meals during the year, reasonably worth $800; work house, $1,238.72; light, $3,910.43; fire, $228.00. Muskingum county received 2,078 $174.83; police, $5,852.18; street and alley, tons of broken stone, worth at the above esti- $4,988.09; general, 3,707.23; Hall avenue sewer, mate $3,636.50, and $508.61 in collected fines $36.25; eastern sewer district, $1,783.86; Market and costs. No deaths occured at the institu- street sewer, $22.73; Fifth street sewer, $1 59.38: tion this year.
natural gas improvement fund, $85; Main street "The part of the institution devoted to the paving, $866.68; Third street paving, $590.82; manufacture of brooms made and sold $9,631.83 Fifth street paving, $92.85; Sixth street paving, worth of brooms, which was nearly one-half $949.15; Seventh street paving, $756.69; Market the income of the institution. The broom street paving, $1, 504.19; Marietta street paving, factory is under the management of Mr. $29.81; Adams street sewer, $4, 193.86; special Beymer, a practical broom maker, who has fund, $4, 361.56; permanent street improvement handled that branch of the work as well as fund, $127.64; Putnam avenue paving fund, could be expected, considering the peculiar $394.39; Park fund, $505.18; total, $48, 350.88. circunistances attached to convict labor. The Bonded debt -- Bonds outstanding March 15. long term prisoners only are placed in the 1891, $490,347.35; temporary loans, $22,423.00;
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total, $512,770.35; bonds issued for water works 6; foundry supplies, 2; fruit jar manufacturers, extension, $50,000; for Fifth street paving, 9; furniture, 2; glue manufacturers, 2; grocers, $1,814; for Sixth street paving, $8, 120; for Mar- 112; handle and spoke manufacturers, 1; hard- ket street paving, $9, 500; for Hall avenue sewer, ware, 8; harness, 7; hats and caps, 4; hosiery $1,730; for Seventh street paving, $7,353.48; for manufacturers, 2; hotels and restaurants, 30; Third street paving, $4,907.84; for Putnam ave- ice manufacturers, I; iron fence manufacturers, nue paving, $15,000; for Marietta street paving, 1; jewelers, 7; laundries, 3; liquors, wholesale, $5,000; for Adams street sewer, $10,000; 7; livery, 12; lumber, 6; machine manufactur- total, $113,425.32; temporary loans issued, ers, 3; mattress factories, I; meat markets, 25; $130,761.75 ; total, $756,957.42; bonds paid Market merchant tailors, 15; millinery, 17; musical mer- street sewer, $2,500; for Main street paving, $500; chandise, 2; newspapers, 9; notions, II; oils, 3; for Fourth street paving, $500; for Fifth street paints, 5; paper box manufacturers, 5; paper paving, $214; for Sixth street paving, $1,020; mills, I; patent medicine manufacturers, 3; pav- for Market street paving, $400; for Third street ing brick manufacturers, 3; photographers, 6; paving, $407.84; for Seventh street paving, pictures and frames, 3; pig iron manufacturers, $853.48; for Fifth street sewer, $152.29; total,
1; planing mills, 4; plumbers, 4; pork packers, $6,522.67; for temporary loans paid, $151,984.75; 1; potteries, 3; plow works, 2; printers and pub- total, $158,507.42; grand total, $598,450.00; lishers, 14; rolling mills, I ; saloons and liquors, bonds outstanding March 15, 1892, $597,250; 88; sealing wax manufacturers, I; sheet iron temporary loans, $1,200; total, $598,450.
A little computation will convince the most skeptical that the manufacturing and jobbing interests of Zanesville combined will amount to stoves and tinware, II; street railroad compan- about $10,000,000, these figures representing less instead of more than the actual business of
workers, 8; shirt manufacturers, 3; soap manu- facturers, 3; stamp mills, I; starch manufac- turers, I; stationers, 5; stove manufacturers, 3;
ies, 4; tanneries, 2; terra cotta works, I; tile works, I; tobacco, I; trunk manufacturers, 3; the city. The classification of the different twine and cordage manufacturers, I; wagon enterprises is as follows :- Manufacturing es- manufacturers, 4; woolen mills, I; miscellan- tablishments, 134; wholesale houses, 42; retail eous, 163; total, 965,
houses, 640; miscellaneous, 149; grand total, For the establishment and maintenance of a 965. To give an idea of the diversity of her trade and manufacturing center, the question of interests we annex a table giving an analysis transportation is paramount to all other con- of the trade and business of Zanesville at the siderations. Zanesville is well favored in this present time :- Agricultural implements, 5; art respect. In the early days the Muskingum stores, 2; auction and commission houses, 5; river gave her the benefit of a navigable stream awning manufacturers, 2; bakers, 6; baking which was of extraordinary service to the set- powder manufacturers, 1; balcony and railing tlement. Later with the National road pass- manufacturers, 2; banks, 7; basket makers, 1; ing through the village with all of its travel, belting, rubber and leather, 2; bent wood Zanesville felt that she had reached the height works, 2; blacksmith, 12; blank book manufac- of transportation facilities, and at that time turers and binders, 6; blast furnaces, I; boat ranked herself as second only to Cincinnati in builders, 3; boiler works, I; book stores, 3; the Commonwealth. Railroads, however, in boots and shoes, 4; bottling works, I; box man- the present day, have superseded the old ufacturers, 2; brass and bell founders, 1; brew- methods of conveyance and Zanesville to-day ers, 4; brick manufacturers, 4; broom and brush is a common and terminal point for seven rail- manufacturers, 2; builders' hardware, 4; candy roads, viz,: Baltimore & Ohio, Pittsburg, Cin- manufacturers, 6; canning establishments, 1; cinnati & St. Louis, Bellaire, Zanesville & Cin- carriage manufactures and supplies, 14; china, cinnati, Zanesville & Ohio River, Columbus, crockery, etc., 4; cigar manufacturers, 26; Shawnee & Hocking Valley, Cleveland, Akron, clothing and furnishing, 6; coal dealers and & Columbus, and Cleveland, Canton & South- miners, 13; coffee and spice mills, 2; cotton ern. Besides these a belt line road encircles factory, I; coffin manufacturers, I; contractors the city and connects all the roads beside fur- and builders, 26; cracker manufacturers, 2; car- nishing shipping facilities at the door of every pet houses, 4; doors, sash and blind manufactur- manufacturing concern in the city. Combined ers, 4; drugs, 15; dry goods, 17; dyers, 2; elec- they offer unequaled transportation facilities, tric light companies, I; engine manufacturers, as their branches and connections reach to 3; flour and feed, 13; file manufacturers, I; fire every point of this country by the most direct brick manufacturers, 3; flouring mills, 5; flor- route. ists, 3; flour sack manufacturers, I; foundries,
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Chapter XVIII.
BUSINESS OF ZANESVILLE.
Z 'ANESVILLE is located near the geograph- the Missouri. A glance at the map will dem- ical center, as also the centre of popula- onstrate that the railroad facilities are equal to lation and business, of Muskingum county. those of any other place. It is situated on both banks of the Muskingum
Zanesville and its immediate vicinity pos- river, and that portion west of the river is again sess facilities for manufacturing in nearly, if divided by Licking river, the different sections not quite, all the industries requiring skilled of the city being connected by large and per- labor, it is believed, all things considered, manent bridges. It is on the meridian of forty equal, if not superior to those of any place degrees of north latitude. Its mean annual East or West. In every item to be taken into temperature is about fifty-seven degrecs, show- account in the make-up of a manufacturing ing that its climate corresponds with that of St. city comparison is challenged. It was the re- Louis, Cincinnati and Baltimore. The distance mark of the latc John Quincy Adams made in of the place from the more important points in reference to the water power here existing, Ohio are, by rail, as follows: Zanesville to Cin- that "Zanesville was the Lowell of the West." cinnati, 170 miles; to Dayton, 123 miles; to Henry Clay, in one of his letters, after personal Columbus, 59 miles; to Toledo, 183 miles; to inspection of the water power at this point, Sandusky, 145 miles; to Cleveland, 137 miles; said: "The water power furnished by the James to Bellaire, 78 miles; to Marietta, 82 miles; to river at Richmond makes it the best manufact- Marietta by river, 78 miles.
uring site in the United States save that at
One of the chief items and indeed of lead- Zanesville, Ohio." These opinions were cx- ing influence in determining the value and at- pressed before the era of coal and railway tractiveness of a place for residence, as also its transportation.
importance in a business point of view, is its The manufacturing interest of Zanesville accessibility. It is a consideration which at are at this time its leading attraction. It is a this day is neither overlooked nor forgotten, growing interest and is imparting to the city a and as trade and commerce increase and popu- permanent and solid character, and placing it lation advances, it constantly gains in impor- among the most prosperous cities of the West. tance. In this particular few places possess The progress made in this direction has been advantages superior to Zanesville. Consider, rapid during recent years. Old industries havc for a moment, the position here commanded. been enlarged and extended, and new ones
By means of the Ohio canal, Zanesville is added which bid fair to become large and connected with Portsmouth on the Ohio river, prosperous enterprises. This stimulus to man- and Lake Eric at Cleveland, and all the princi- ufacturing industry is attributed to the fact pal towns and cities in the interior of the state that fuel and living are so cheap, market sup- situated on the canal and its branches. By the plies of all kinds so abundant, the facilities for Muskingum river, affording a water capacity shipment so superior, and the location so cen- sufficient to transport steamers of from 275 to tral and generally so advantageous. Besides a 300 tons' burden, it is connected with the Ohio more enlightened and liberalized sentiment river at Marietta, and from thencc with all than heretofore existed now prevails, and there points on the Ohio, Mississippi and Missouri is exhibited more of a disposition to encourage rivers and their tributaries. Steamers loaded productive enterprises by furnishing money at at the Zanesville wharf have discharged their liberal rates to aid in their prosecution.
The industries which render Zanesville con-
cargoes at Pittsburg and Brownsville in Penn- sylvania, at St. Paul and New Orleans on the spicuous are the manufacture of iron, its fur- Mississippi, and at St. Joseph and Omaha on naces and rolling mills, its machine shops, its
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foundries, its glass manufactures, its door and about 1854 by Mann & Smith, and opened the sash factories, its cotton and woolen mills, its first coffin manufactory in town. In 1872 the flouring mills, its paper mills, the manufacture name of the firm was changed to J. Hatcher & of burial cases, its stone and pottery ware and Co., and in 1879 the business passed into the other great and useful enterprises. control of an incorporated concern, since Practically the history of manufactures in known as the Zanesville Coffin Company. Zanesville has, in a former chapter been Henry Sneerer began undertaking on North brought down to about 1820. It is here re- Fifth street in 1871, and in 1873 sold out to sumed, and as before, the different branches John H. Crooks, who in 1879 removed to North will, for convenience, be considered in alpha- Fifth street.
betical order. Previous to 1822 the proprietors Jeremiah Dare built a machine shop in the of the Muskingum Messenger started a book upper story of his woolen factory, and having bindery, which on the second of May, that procured skilled workmen from Baltimore, con- year they sold to Ezekiel T. Cox & Co. In structed machinery for a cotton factory which 1829 Ballentine & Son bought the Joseph Lat- was established in a building at the northeast timore brewery, which was on the site quite corner of Third and Market streets. Until 1832 lately familiar as that of Miller & Co., pork this mill was operated by Mr. Dare and his son, packers, and continued the business until 1835, John D., and then the lower story was con- when the plant was converted into a flour mill. verted into a machine shop for the manufact- In 1835 C. F. Hass built the American House ure of cotton and wool manufacturing ma- brewery, and operated it until 1841. Mr. Hass chinery. They made cotton yarn and batting. died about 1880, and John Classman bought Their store was in a one-story frame building the property. After continuing the business on the northeast corner of Third and Main three years, he sold it to William Fox. In streets. In December, 1846, a subscription 1843 a brewery was built, near the head of was raised to establish a larger cotton mill, and Main street, by Christian F. Achauer, which a company known as the " Zanesville Cotton had a capacity of 3,000 barrels a year. Rev. Mill" was brought into existence with John A. George F. Goebel and Conrad Fischer built a Adams, George A. Jones, William Galigher, N. small brewery on the northeast corner of Gattrell, Stephen R. Hosmer, Adam Peters, Spring and High streets. Its subsequent pro- James L. Cox, Samuel Cox, E. E. Filmore, prietors were Rev. George F. Goebel, 1856; David H. Lyman, J. V. Cushing and Daniel C. Keisner & Horn, 1856-65; then John A. Bre- Convers as stockholders. mer & Co. Edward Didas began to brew in a $14,000 which Richard Huff supplemented with
These subscribed small way in 1855. Conrad Fischer went into a subscription of $7,000; making a total of $21,- business again the next year. The firm of 000. Work was begun in January, 1847. Mr. Fischer Bros. made 2,373 barrels of beer in 1874. Galigher built quite an extensive cotton mill In 1865, Adolph Horn, Frank Keisner and on the southwest corner of Underwood and Adolph and Edward Merkle formed the com- Zane streets, in 1854, and manufactured sheet- pany known as Horn & Co. In 1869 the busi- ing, batting and yarns, until his death, early in ness passed to the ownership of the Merkle 1860. Bros.
E. Mathews bought the mill, Richard Huff the machinery. In June, 1855, the stock The first hearse seen in Zanesville was.a of the Zanesville Cotton Mill was owned by primitive affair without trimming or lining, Basil Burton, Jesse Duvall, S. R. Hosmer, owned by Stevens & Mussellman. Louis Bren- William Galigher, J. A. Adams, Samuel Clark, holtz, the first regular undertaker, began busi- George James, J. Galighei and Adam Peters. ness in 1837. He had a hearse built by William The Star Cotton Mills Company gave a deed of Schultz. James Cherry, in Putnam, kept the trust to C. W. Potwin and W. A. Graham. In first ready made coffins. E. N. Hatcher, who February, 1879, the property was sold under began here as an undertaker in 1867, not long foreclosure to Hoover & Allison, who carried afterward formed a partnership with John H. on business with R. A. Kelly as general man- Crooks, in the manufacture of coffins, which ager and Gen. A. Schofield as superintendent. continued until 1878, when they separated. Henry Rockel began manufacturing files in each continuing business on his own account. Zanesville in 1854.
In 1878, Hatcher wrote and published a Funeral
Thomas L. Pierce started a foundry on the Guide, which as the title page said gave "the Jacob Sinith & Co. site in 1819. In 1827 he minutest detail of the whole funeral obsequies." sold it to Richmond & Bostwick, who were suc- In 1869 Messrs. Jonathan Hatcher & Sons built ceeded in 1832 by Adams & Wheeler. In 1839, an addition to a building that had been erected Adams & Wheeler built on the Jones & Abbott
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site, and in 1848 they were succeeded by Gil- Greene and E. E. Filmore. The Zanesville bert & Wheeler. In 1863 Sullivan & Herdman Furnace Company was organized in 1859, and became proprietors. Charles H. Jones was ad- manufactured pig iron. In 1862 it was ab- mitted to the firm in 1866, and Charles H. sorbed by the Ohio Iron Company. Abbott in 1871, when the style was changed to In 1820 the "White Glass Works" were Jones & Abbott. In Fountain alley between leased and operated by Thomas Mark. Two Sixth and Seventh streets, Blocksom and years later they passed to the possession of Fracker built a foundry in 1826. In 1833 Shepherd, Bostwick & Crosby. Mr. Bost- George Wand, A. P. Blocksom and Henry wick withdrew in 1835, and Mr. Shepherd in Blandy succeeded Mr. Fracker and did busi- 1838, and the next year Mr. Crosby closed the ness under the firm name of Blocksom, Blandy business. About 1842 George W. Kearns, Jo- & Co. Not long afterwards they leased the seph Burns, W. F. Spence, Thomas Reynolds, Dillon's Falls furnace and forge for two years Samuel Turner and George Wendt began oper- and there operated as Dillon, Blandy & Co. In ating the works. They were practical glass 1835 this firm dissolved. In 1838 Henry blowers from Pittsburgh, and at one time they Blandy, and William Blocksom and his sons employed about forty men. Reynolds and G. W. and A. P., began operating under the Wendt sold out in 1844 and Turner and Spence style of Blocksom, Blandy & Co. In 1840 Mr. in 1846. Later Arnold Lippet gained an inter- Blandy withdrew and organized the firm of H. est in the enterprise. Mr. Burns withdrew in & F. Blandy, who in 1866 were employing 320 1848. Mr. Lippet abandoned the works, and men and doing a business amounting to for a short time operated the Cassel Window $780,000. Dare & Ebert began business in Glass Works as a bottle factory. Later, busi- 1830, and built the first steam engine ever made ness was resumed at the old works by the Mur- in Zanesville. In 1832 the firm became Dare, dock Brothers. In 1849 Messrs. Kearns, Burns Whitaker & Co. In 1837 Ebert and Whitaker and John W. Carter built the first bottle works withdrew and began operating in a new shop, in Putnam, in which others had an interest at which they built on the corner of Sixth and Main different times, and which were closed in 1877. streets. In 1840 they built and removed to the In 1860 G. W. and Noah Kearns rented, and Griffith & Wedge shops, on South Fifth street. soon after they purchased, the flint glass house Griffith & Wedge became proprietors about built in 1852 by Cassel & Galigher, at the foot sixteen years later. In 1839 John T. Fracker of Main street. In 1863 they built a new estab- and his son, John F. Fracker, Jr., built a small lishment, which was operated later by Kearns, foundry on the southwest corner of Locust Herdman & Gorsuch. Mr. Burns died in 1864, alley and Sixth street. In 1850 the firm and G. W. and Noah Kearns built their glass changed to Fracker & Brother, and in 1852 the house on the southwest corner of Main and business was controlled by John T. Fracker, Jr., First streets, and manufactured window glass who continued it until 1870. Douglas, Smith exclusively. In 1868 they were joined by Jo- & Co., had a foundry from 1851 to the begin- seph T. Gorsuch and James Herdman. Will- ning of the war, and then Douglas Brothers iam T. Gray entered the firm in 1874. G. W. controlled it a short time and failed. January I, Kearns withdrew in 1877 and started the Sev- 1866, William M. Shinnick, George D. Gibbons, enth ward bottle house.
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