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The contractors were two brothers by the name of Chamberlain of New York, and James H. Fletcher, whose memory embraces a period of over sev- enty years, furnishes this incident.
Among those trundling a wheelbarrow with stone and mortar, was an Irishman, but a stranger here, who had applied and got a job at $1 a day. In constructing the arch over the canal it had twice fallen and the contractors were getting discouraged when this Irishman ventured the remark that accord- ing to mathematical principles they were not building it right to stand. At first he was scoffed at but finally they told him to superintend the work if he thought he knew enough. He did so and the bridge stands a monument to his skill though his name is forgotten, if it ever was known here. Mr. Fletcher, at that time, was going to the private school of Mr. McGookin, where the Grand Hotel stands, and one day this Irishman, in his blue overalls, came to visit the school and took a seat beside Mr. Fletcher, whose geometry was open on the desk. He took it up and began to ask questions showing familiarity with geometry and a trained and educated mind. It was subsequently learned that he was a graduate of Dublin University but had become stranded here.
If the sturdy "arch de triomphe" had kept a record of the doings, sayings and happenings of the last sixty years, and a register of the names of those who have passed over it and under it, it would be a roster of the inhabitants, not only of Sidney but a more complete one of those of the county, than could be obtained anywhere else and thousands, now in the maw of relentless and speechless oblivion, would be rescued.
In view of the fact that the old bridge makes a hump in the paved street leading to the C. H. & D. station, unsightly in aspect and somewhat difficult
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to surmount with heavy loads, the structure is to be removed and another one to suit the grade built.
Sentiment has a poor show in this materialistic age when pitted against traffic and comfort, and in this unequal contest the old bridge must yield and give up the ghost. This bridge gave place to the new one in 1907.
MAYORS OF SIDNEY FROM 1846 TO 1913
1846-James Irwin.
1870-M. C. Hale.
1849-Joseph Cummins.
1871-John W. Knox.
1850-Leonard Werst. 1872-M. C. Hale.
1851-David Carey.
1874-H. Guthrie.
1852-W. J. Martin.
1876-J. G. Stephenson.
1855 --- M. B. Newman.
1878-D. L. Bush.
1856-\V. J. Martin.
1880-C. C. Weaver.
1857-William Serviss.
1882 -- D. L. Bush.
1858-D. B. Rhinehart.
1884-W. C. Wyman.
1861-Samuel Mathers.
1886-M. C. Hale.
1863-D. B. Rhinehart.
1890-H. S. Ailes.
1864-Samuel Mathers.
1896-C. W. Nessler.
1866-J. G. Stephenson.
1901-Emerson V. Moore.
1867-J. F. Frazer.
1906-WV. M. Crozier.
1868-Hugh Thompson.
1912-John Duncan.
1869-J. F. Frazer.
POLICE DEPARTMENT
The police department of Sidney is under the control of the chief, Williani O'Leary, subject to the general supervision of the director of public safety. The department consists of the chief and three patrolmen, Jacob Eisenstein, Charles Williamson, and Frank Kritzer. The chief, William O'Leary, has been identified with the department for twenty years, fourteen as chief. The expense of maintaining this part of the public service was $3,394.41 for the year 1912.
A rather unique system of calling the police obtains in Sidney, two signal lights on the spire of the court house, turned on by the telephone operators, call the attention of the safeguards of the public to the fact that they are wanted in some locality.
FIRE DEPARTMENT
The fire department is full paid and under the control of the chief subject to the general supervision of the director of public safety. The first organization was a volunteer one which was changed to a paid one in 1885. George Hume, the chief, has been identified with the department for nearly seventeen years, five as chief. He is assisted by five men. The expense of this branch of the public safety was $5.738.55 in 1912. The quarters of the fire department are on the first floor of the Monumental building and plans are on foot to make the
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equipment as efficient as the most progressive cities by the purchase of a triple combination pumping, chemical engine, and hose motor car, sealed proposals for which are being received now. The machine, which will cost in the neigh- borhood of $10,000, must have six cylinders with not less than 100 horse power and carry 1,200 feet of 21/2 inch fire hose and one 40 gallon chemical tank.
Contract this with the early days when the equipment consisted of a hook and ladder wagon pulled by ropes in the hands of the men and a "bucket bri- gade." which worked in conjunction with them.
An incident which is recalled by a survivor of the old days was the burn- ing of the C. H. & D. station when long lines of men were formed and the buckets, which were filled from a near-by creek, were passed laboriously along the line practically empty when they reached the last man. These buckets were of leather and Sidney's were red.
Henry Young was the first chief of the voluntary fire department and the Holly system of water works furnished the extinguishing liquid. On January 28, 1885, the paid fire department was organized and the chiefs in their order are: Jolın B. Edgar, James McClung, A. O. Waucop, John W. Kendall, Jas- per Wade. George W. Covill, John W. Kendall, Jasper Wade, H. C. Jones, Mort McNeil, Henry Yost and George Hume, the present incumbent.
WATER WORKS
If Sidney has one thing more than another of which to be justly proud it is her splendid supply of pure water from artesian wells fed by underground streams adequate for all present and future demands.
The present system was installed in 1889 and consists of six eight-inch and two twelve-inch wells sunk around the pumping station at various depths, none lower than 100 feet. The station embraces about two acres of ground located between the canal and the river in the northeastern part of town.
The Pohle Air Lift system is used with an Ingersoll-Rand duplex air com- pressor with a capacity to lift 1, 100,000 gallons a day. A stand pipe built at the top of Miami avenue hill is connected with the distributing system which has a storage capacity of 300,000 gallons. There are 130 public fire hydrants. This system supplanted the old Holly water works which was installed in 1873 and which was located across the river where the electric light plant now stands.
The plant is owned by the city of Sidney and the system is under good supervision and well managed. It is operated under the direction of the super- intendent of water works. G. A. Hatfield, who has served in his present ca- pacity since 1909. The secretary is S. D. Mccullough. The water works come under the management of the director of service, D. H. Warner.
The water works is now more than self-supporting. The cost of operation in 1911 was $15, 126.09 and the total receipts $26,055.81, leaving a balance of $10,929.72. The figures for 1912 show the cost of maintaining the depart- ment to have been $9,314.41 : extraordinary expenses such as extending the
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mains, $4,278.60; other items which bring the cost of the department to $14,276.58; total receipts $18,159.94, leaving a balance which includes that carried from last year of $14,813.08.
THE COMMERCIAL CLUB COMPANY
These articles of incorporation of the Commercial Club Company; Wit- nesseth, That we the undersigned, all of whom are citizens of the State of Ohio, desiring to form a corporation for profit, under the general corporation laws of said State, do hereby certify :
First: The name of said corporation shall be The Commercial Club Company, Second : Said corporation is to be located at Sidney, Shelby county, Ohio, and its principal business there transacted.
Third: Said corporation is formed for the purpose of promoting the best interests of Sidney, Ohio.
Fourth: The capital stock of said corporation shall be $5,000.00, divided into 200 shares of $25.00 each.
In Witness Whereof, we have hereunto set our hands, this twenty-sixth day of February, A. D. 1903.
B. M. DONALDSON. E. S. MAXWELL, H. E. BEEBE, JAMES ANDERSON, E. J. GRIFFIS.
The books were opened for subscriptions to the capital stock March fifth, 1903, and the names of the original members of the company are here given : James Anderson, A. W. Reddish, W. T. Amos, C. W. Benjamin, Web W. Robinson, William Binkley, J. D. Barnes, Fletcher M. Roberts, E. W. Bing- ham, A. Braudewie, G. D. Robertson, C. J. Briggs, J. P. Braudewie, H. W. Robinson, H. C. Carey, H. E. Beebe, James Rostron, John H. Durick, John T. Bryant, J. C. Royon; Jessi L. Dickenstiets, A. P. Carey, Fred Salm, E, C. Dyer, Wilson Carothers, C. R. Sargent, A. A. Gerlack, J. W. Costolo, T. A. Sawyer, B. D. Higgins, G. E. Cyshers, T. F. Shaw, E. L. Hoskins, B. M. Donaldson, C. A. Sexaner, T. M. Hussey; C. W. Frazier, William Shine, E. E. Kah, C. E. Given, Luik T. Snodgrass, E. W. Laughlin, John T. Given, L. M. Studevant, Robert Marshall, E. J. Griffis, W. D. Snyder, E. V. Moore, W. H. C. Goode, O. B. Taylor, Charles Neal, William Haslup, I. H. Thedieck, Samuel Piper, C. L. Haslup, J. A. Throckmorton, J. E. Russell, A. J. Hess, W. H. Wagner, N. Sanderson, Milt Herzstam, John H. Wagner, W. K. Sterlim, B. S. Hunt, Milton M. Wagner, W. S. Sears, George W. Henne, Ben P. Wagner, J. B. Shine, R. V. Jones, Henry Wagner, G. E. Smith, Louis Kah, Harry G. Wagner, Charles Timens, W. E. Kilborn, L. Cable Wagner, W. A. Underwood, John Loughlin, James P. Ward, Louis R. Wagner, William S. Ley, H. G. Woodward, H. Wilson, H. T. Mathers, W. P. Metcalf, W. R.
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Wyman, E. S. Maxwell, C. B. Deweese, Charles Wyman, E. C. Nutt. James N. Anderson, H. Young, William Piper, J. Altenbach, William H. Princehouse.
The club occupies the second floor of the Harry Wagner building, on Poplar street, which it has fitted up in luxurious style for the comfort and enjoyment of its members and guests, and its annual banquets are looked forward to by Sidney society as a feature of the winter season.
The company labors faithfully for the welfare of the community, promotes business enterprises, encourages new industries and stands for civic improve- ment ..
After an initiation fee of $25.00 each member pays $10.00 annually. The first Monday is held to hear reports and suggestions, at which time refresh- ments are served. There are about 100 members.
These representative citizens have been presidents of this organization since it started in 1903 in the order of succession: E. J. Griffis, I. H. Thedieck, H. T. Mathers, H. E. Beebe, W. H. Wagner, W. E. Kilborn, James N. Ander- son, P. R. Taylor, C. F. Hiebok, W. H. C. Goode.
CEMETERIES
If Sidney is becoming such a beautiful place to live in it is hardly less beautiful in which to die in, if the word has a place as a qualifying term to the dread hour which Time will bring at last to the high as well as the low. On the banks of the murmuring and willow-fringed Miami is the ever-growing and peaceful white city of Graceland with its shaded drives and silent repose. Views have entirely changed from the pioneer ideas ar to the resting-place for the dead-the neglected graveyards, weed and briar infested, which Whittier so truthfully describes as being
"The dearest spot in all the land To death was set apart ; With scanty grace from Nature's hand And none from that of art."
for now by universal consent there is a laudable strife to make the cemeteries as beautiful as possible and to keep them so.
Sidney can lay claim to one of the most beautiful burial grounds in the state. It consists of 23 acres of gently rolling ground overlooking the Miami river and adjoining the town on the south. This land was bought of H. B. and Robert Reed, in 1866, and three sections were laid out by William Brown and J. D. Moler, of Springfield, Ohio. The first deeds for lots were made August 12, 1867, to J. F. Frazer, George Vogel, D. L. Bush, George Ackerly, Jason McVay, E. H. Arbuckle and Sophia Young.
The first interment was that of Mrs. Jane Irwin. the 27th day of Septem- ber, 1867. Three burials were made that year and eleven during the year 1868. The first sexton was Rudolph Kaser, appointed April 17, 1868, at a salary of $400.
Sections four and five have since been laid out and improvements made from year to year to correspond with the original plan.
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There are now buried in the cemetery 4,504 persons, including the removals from the old Presbyterian and Sterrett burying grounds.
Much credit is due W. P. Stowell, who followed Samuel Mathers, the first superintendent for the artistic taste shown in laying out the grounds, planting trees and shrubs, for some most magnificent maples spread their branches in this ever growing city. Mr. Stowell devoted a large share of his time for fifteen years to this work.
The present superintendent, G. C. Anderson, has been connected with the management of the cemetery for more than 30 years and since the death of Mr. Stowell July 10, 1894, has carried on with such marked efficiency the beautifying of the grounds that one might say of Graceland, as was said of the spot where Keats lies buried, that it makes one fall in love with death to be buried in so sweet a place.
Glen cemetery in Port Jefferson, Salem township, is a most beautiful burial ground on the banks of the Miami and Cedar Point in Perry township which takes its name from the cedars planted there, is most artistically laid out on a triangular piece of ground overlooking Mosquito creek. Houston and Hardin in Loramie and Turtle Creek townships respectively have beautiful cemeteries.
FRATERNAL AND SOCIAL ORDERS
Temperance Lodge No. 73, F. & A. M., Sidney, O .; charter granted Jan. 20th, 1826, with William Fielding as master ; Robert Blakely, senior warden ; John Lenox, junior warden. Officers for 1912 and 1913 are as follows: Bros. James H. Millikin, W. M .; Thaleon Blake, S. W .; Chas. E. Betts, J. W .; WV. A. Graham, Treasurer ; Jesse L. Frazier, Secretary ; Benjamin F. Martin, S. D .; Henry B. Albuis Jr., J. D .; John A. Mumford, Tyler.
Sidney Chapter-No. 130, Royal Arch Masons; charter granted in 1872.
Officers for 1912 and 1913: Companions, James H. Millikin, H. P .; George B. Toland, King; Thaleon Blake, Scribe; C. E. Johnston, C. of H .; O. S. Kumy, P. S .; R. H. Toy. R. A. C .; W. A. Graham, Treasurer; Jesse L. Frazer, Secretary ; L. M. Studevant, G. M. 3d V .; Don F. Edgar, G. M. 2nd V. ; Herman T. Reuse, G. M. Ist V .; John A. Mumford, Guard.
Sidney Council No. 70, Royal and Select Masters; charter granted in 1882. Officers for 1912 and 1913: Companions, Chas. E. Betts, T. I. M .; Benj. F. Martin, D. I. M .; Thaleon Blake, P. C. of W .; W. A. Graham, Treasurer; Jesse L. Frazier, Secretary ; C. E. Johnston, C. of G .; L. M. Studevant, C. of C .: R. H. Toy, Steward; John A. Mumford, Sentinel.
Sidney Commandery No. 46; charter granted in 1888.
Officers for 1912 and 1913: Chas. E. Betts, E. C .; W. R. Wyman, Gen- eralissimo; W. J. Emmons, Captain General; J. H. Millikin, S. W .; Jesse L. Frazier, J. W .: Frank D. Elwell, Prelate; W. A. Graham, Treasurer ; George B. Toland. Recorder; William P. Collier, Standard Bearer; R. V. Jones, 11
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Sword Bearer ; J. E. Russell, Warden; J. H. Mumford, Sentinel; M. R. Linn, Third Guard; Hartman Miller, Second Guard; Thaleon Blake, First Guard.
I. O. O. F .- Sidney Lodge. No. 60 meets every Tuesday evening in I. O. O. F. hall. Osceola Encampment, No. 63, meets first and third Friday even- ings of each month in I. O. O. F. hall. Maple Lodge No. 254, D. of R., meets first and third Monday evenings of each month in I. O. O. F. hall.
K. of P .- Summit Lodge No. 50, meets every Wednesday evening in Castle hall. Sidney Company, U. R. K. of P., meets first Monday evening of each month in K. of P. hall. El Shereef Temple No. 32 Knights of Khor- assan, meets the fourth Thursday of each month in K. of P. hall. Summit Temple No. 9, Pythian Sisters, meets second and fourth Tuesday evening of each month in K. of P. hall.
Jr. O. U. A. M .- Western Star Council No. 340, meets every Monday evening in their hall. Arabian Degree Klan meets on call in Jr. Order hall. Honorable Council No. 104 meets first and third Tuesday evenings of each month in Jr. O. U. A. M. hall.
K. of C .- Sidney Council No. 659 meets second and fourth Wednesday evening of each month in K. of C. hall. Fourth Degree Assembly meets quarterly on call in K. of C. hall.
B. P. O. E .- Sidney Lodge No. 786 meets every Tuesday except June, July and August in Post Office Bldg.
I. O. R. M .- Tawawa Tribe No. 67 meets every Wednesday evening in I. O. R. M. hall. Alpharetta Council No. 108 meets second and fourth Mon- day evening in I. O. R. M. hall, Thompson Bldg.
G. A. R .- Neal Post No. 62 meets second and fourth Monday evenings of each month in G. A. R. hall. Neal Relief Corps No. 76, meets second and fourth Monday afternoon of each month in G. A. R. hall.
U. S. W. V .- Camp J. Rush Lincoln No. 60 meets fourth Tuesday even- ing in G. A. R. hall.
K. of G. E .- Miami Castle No. 8 meets every Thursday night in Golden Eagle hall. Valley City Temple No. 8 meets second and fourth Monday evening of each month in Golden Eagle hall.
U. C. T .- Valley City Council No. 273 meets first Saturday evening of each month in I. O. F. hall.
I. O. F .- Court Ft. Loramie No. 3475 meets every Friday evening in I. O. F. hall.
R. A .- M. R. Waite Council No. 1091 meets second and fourth Friday evenings of each month in G. A. R. hall.
K. O. T. M .- Meets first and third Tuesday evening of each month in I. O. F. hall.
L. O. T. M .- Valley City No. 252 meets first and third Friday evenings of each month in G. A. R. hall.
B. H .- Sidney Court No. 19 meets second and fourth Friday evenings of each month in Jr. O. U. A. M. hall.
C. K. of A .- St. Joseph's Branch No. 115 meets in Holy Angels School Bldg. on call of president.
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M. W. of A .- Sidney Camp meets second and fourth Tuesday evening in K. G. E. hall.
F. O. E .- Sidney Aerie No. 1403 meets Monday evening in their hall, 106 Ohio ave.
American Steel Scraper Aid Association-Meets second Welnesday even- ing of each month in I. O. F. hall.
Business Girls' Association-Meets each Friday evening in their rooms, II31/2 S. Ohio Ave.
Iron Workers' Mutual Aid Association-Meets second Monday evening of each month in I. O. F. hall.
Shelby County Medical Society-Meets first Thursday of each month in Court House.
Ministers' Association of Sidney-Meets first Monday of each month in library.
THE WAGNER CONSERVATORIES
The beautiful park west of Sidney and joining the corporation is a charm- ing spot of over one hundred acres and growing in beauty each year. Twenty acres or so is a natural forest of lofty trees indigenous to Ohio. The under- brush has been removed, the dead limbs also, and drives wind beneath a shaded canopy while artificial lakes abound.
The entire conception of the park originated in the brain of Bernard P. Wagner, one of the four brothers of the Mathias Wagner family. Possessing ample means to indulge fully his exquisite aesthetic taste his fancies have been given full play and landscape gardening has become to him an assiduous study.
In the year 1900 the Wagner Park Conservatories were started, being the outgrowth of the love and interest B. P. Wagner had for years taken in flowers and landscape gardening. The work increased each year and Wagner Nursery stock was recognized for its quality and the care used in packing it for shipment.
The work of planning and planting grounds and the giving of advice has now extended its field over a number of states and the Wagner organization is prepared to go anywhere in the United States to execute or advise on land- scape work.
Recently the company has been incorporated under Ohio laws for $100,- 000.00 under the name of the Wagner Park Nurseries Company. The officers are B. P. Wagner, president and treasurer; W. H. Wagner, vice president ; H. L. Brown, secretary. These officers with Messrs. M. M., L. R. and J. F. Wagner and Mr. A. M. Brown make up the board of directors.
Upon entering the grounds of the Wagner park the chief group of build- ings are the conservatories in which many of the flowers are cultivated. Fif- teen thousand square feet of space is under glass for this purpose.
A new office building has recently been built. The first story is stucco and the second mission timber. Mission finish is also carried out in the interior. The room entered first is the library reception room: Here on file the periodi- cals and books relating to flowers and landscape gardening are kept for the
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use of not only the visitors but for the men in the nurseries. On this same floor are the general offices together with the private offices of Mr. B. P. Wagner and that of the secretary and general manager, Mr. Brown. The second floor is given over to the landscape department. It is beautifully lighted and in every way adapted to drafting room purposes. The building has also a fireproof vault for plates and records.
Leaving the office via the green house the first section entered is the palm house which is 20 x 100 ft. in size. Here numerous palms of all varieties are kept for inspection and sale. Two rose houses are maintained. In the first the roses are at present in full bloom and present a most striking appear- ance as the visitor passes into the long glass roofed structure. Roses of all varieties are grown here. In the second rose house which is the exact size of the first recently the plants have been stripped of their bloom and over thirty-five thousand cuttings made which have been transplanted into the sand of the propagating frame.
A large hot water heating system furnishes heat for the entire conserva- tories. This is located in another building equipped for the purpose. The tank house contains a large water tank into which the water for the grounds is pumped by a gasoline engine. From the tank house into the packing house where the plants and flowers are prepared for shipment and the mission plant boxes are made during the slack business months.
The storage building is fifty by one hundred feet in size. Here everything for the use of the conservatories is kept.
Leaving the buildings proper the lath house is next of interest. Here in a structure built entirely of lath as the name indicates are kept boxwoods and the more tender evergreens for use in landscape gardening. The lath house furnishes the slight protection necessary to these evergreens from the changes in the climate so common to this part of the country.
In the propagating frames planted in sand fifteen thousand shrub cuttings and thirty-five thousand rose cuttings are making their struggle for life. The size of this one frame is six by one hundred feet.
Close by the propagation frame is the soil pile in the barnyard court. Here soil fit for certain plants is in the process of manufacture by decay con- stantly. The pile is probably one hundred feet long by twelve feet wide by twelve feet deep.
The growing flelds are over one hundred acres in extent. Here flowers of all varieties are cultivated for the market and the use of the landscape gardening department of the firm. In busy season seventy-five men are required to attend to the cultivation and shipment of these. They present a most entrancing appearance with their variety of colors spread over the fields as far west as the observer can see. Each foot of space is cultivated and ravines and plains, hills and valleys which go to make up the general contour of the land occupied is utilized for different species of flowers, shrubs and trees.
Most unique and interesting is the arboretum just started by the gar- deners. Here every species of plant cultivated by the conservatories will be
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grown for display. Evergreens and plants, flowers and shrubs from China, Japan, France, Germany, in fact from every portion of the known world are here cultivated and nurtured. Over three hundred varieties of evergreens are planted here, the varieties of shrubs number five hundred and of trees two hundred and fifty. The bed is over two thousand feet long and ranges from twelve feet wide at the narrowest place to fifty feet at the widest. The arbo- retum extends the width of the grounds and doubles back following the west park boundaries. Although this was just commenced this spring and the weather was not the best for the purpose the arboretum is most beautiful and interesting. When after a few years' growth it will be as interesting as those of Arnold at Boston and Shaw at St. Louis. Students from all over the country will visit these gardens to study and observe plants and plant life from all over the world, where hundreds and hundreds of foreign plants have been imported and grown in this arboretum. For convenience and study all the plants are arranged in alphabetical order and designated by markers bearing the Latin name.
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