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CHAPTER XIII. THE INCOMPLETE DECADE.
1880- The Tenth Census-Population of Louisville-Steamer Inspection here-Events of the Year. 1881-Statistics- List of Surviving Old Residents-Events of the Year. 1882-Population, etc .- Events to April 10th-Close of the Record of One Hundred and Nine Years.
1880-THE TENTH CENSUS.
A revision of the Federal census of 1880, adopted by the Board of Trade in its annual re- ports, exhibits the population of the city in this year at 126,566. The official returns, however, as published in February, 1881, make a footing of but 123,762. They were thus tabulated in a comparative statement published in the City Directory and then in the Courier-Journal :
Total Population.
Foreign.
East End.
1880.
1870.
1880.
First ward.
10,307
7,439
2,282
Second ward
9,409
8,375
2,443
Third ward
11,486
9.522
2,747
Fourth ward.
10.332
9,387
2, 106
Center.
Fifth ward.
11,353
10,010
1,699
Sixth ward
7,103
6,042
869
Seventh ward
5,830
5,34I
941
Eighth ward.
7.732
6,734
1,094
West End.
Ninth ward.
8,972
7,830
1,348
45
Tenth ward.
13,067
11,416
2,188
Eleventh ward.
18,437
13,470
3,731
Twelfth ward.
9,734
5,187
1,708
Total
123,762
100,753
23,156
Total increase.
23,009
Reasoning from these data, the editor of the Courier-Journal deduced the following :
The above tables from the city directory for 1880 show these facts : First, that the population of Louisville in 1870 was 100,753, in 1880 123.762 ; gain in ten years, 23,009. Second, that the dividing line of population, which was at First street, had in 1870 moved westwardly to Third street, and that in 1880 it had reached Fourth street. Third, that in 1870 the four west wards had a population of 37,903, which had increased in 1880 to 50,210; a gain of 12,307. The four center wards in the same time inereased from 28, 127 to 32,018; a net gain of 3,891, and the four east wards, during the same period, increased from 34,723 to 41.534. a gain of 6,811. This develops the fact that in the past deca le the population of the four west wards has in- ereased nearly 100 per cent. more than has the four east wards, and largely more than doubled the increase in the other eight wards, or the east and center combined. Also that in 1880 the four west wards had a population of 50,210, against 73,552 in the other eight wards.
In regard to the foreign population of Louisville we have no data save the tables of 1880. In that year it numbered 23, 156, distributed as follows : Four east wards, 9,578; four center wards, 4,603; four west wards, 8,975, the four east wards having 603 more foreigners than the four west wards, and the dividing line of the foreign population being at Second street.
There were inspected at Louisville this year 215 steamers, with a tonnage of 82,764.37 tons, and licensed officers numbering 1,043. Upon all the Western waters were inspected 1,255 steamers, with 279, 704 tonnage and 5, 548 licensed officers.
EVENTS OF THE YEAR.
New Year's Day occurs the death of Captain H. M. Fogg, superintendent of the National Cemetery at Cave Hill; January 9th, that of Colonel Thomas Batman, aged eighty-seven years; 14th, the cashier of the Louisuille Sav- ings Bank proves a defaulter for $150,000; 19th, General Eli H. Murray, of Louisville, was ap- pointed Governor of Utah, and Colonel Kelly re appointed Pension Agent for this district ; 23d, Chancellor Bruce renders a decision against the Louisville Bridge Company, awarding the city $60,000 back taxes, with interest ; 26th, Barnum's jewelry store on Fourth street is destroyed, with loss $50,000.
February 5th, grand opening of the new Board of Trade rooms; 18th, public reception to Charles Parnell, member of Parliament and Irish
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agitator ; 25th, the steamer El Dorado is wrecked on the Falls by striking against a bridge-pier.
March 7th, Judge William H. Hays, of the United States Court, dies suddenly at his resi- dence on Chestnut street ; 13th, unsuccessful at- tempt to assassinate Mayor Baxter by Samuel Redd, a discharged street boss; 28th, death of Judge Henry Pirtle.
April 3d, double execution in the jail-yard of Robert Anderson, white, for the murder of his wife, and Charles Webster, negro, for rape; 9th, John W. Barr, Esq., is appointed Judge of the United States District Court; 28th, the steamer Alice is wrecked on the Falls.
May Ist, Louisville celebrates her centennial anniversary, with an elaborate address by Colonel R. T. Durrett and other exercises.
June 6th, six prisoners escape from the jail by climbing through the roof, but are soon retaken; 9th, burning of Arthur Peter & Company's drug- store, loss $150,000-the largest fire for two years; 27th, the steamer Virgie Lee sinks on the Falls.
July 25th, the H. T. Dexter, a new steamer, burns near the city wharf.
August 9th, meeting of the Turners' Associa- tion of the United States at Woodland Garden and Phoenix Hill; 25th, Cornwall's candle fac- tory destroyed by fire, also meeting of the Colored Press Association.
September 6th, negro grand jurors impanneled for the first time in Louisville; 7th, opening of the Eighth Annual Exhibition; 10th, total de- struction of the Finzer Brothers' tobacco factory, the largest in the world.
October 9th, Dr. C. C. Graham and eight other veterans, whose united ages were seven hundred and twelve years, or an average of nearly eighty, dine together at Rufer's; 12th, meeting of the State Board of Health; 21st, death of Thomas L. Butler, a veteran of 1812, aged ninety-one; 25th, the Falls City Pickling Works burned.
November 9th, meeting of the Tri-State Medical Society at the Masonic Temple ; 11th, formal opening of the library of the Polytechnic Society (formerly Public Library of Kentucky).
December 3d, sudden death of John W. Arm- strong, a leading Louisville grocer; 6th, deaths of R. R. Bolling and S. A. Atchison; 13th, ex- plosion of boiler at a soap-factory in Butcher-
town, killing the engineer and carpenter, and in- juring others; 28th, extreme cold weather, clos- ing the river to navigation.
1881-STATISTICS.
The names upon the City Directory this year counted 54,901.
There were received at Louisville in 1881 40,- 500,000 bushels of Pittsburgh coal and 3,000,000 of the Kentucky product.
Colonel Durrett sent to the Courier-Journal in June of this year, the following list of the oldest men in Louisville, which has permanent interest and value. Most of them are still living [April, 1882].
CITIZENS OVER NINETY.
Dr. C. C. Graham 96, H. W. Wilkes 94, Asa Emerson 94, Stephen E. Davis (died the same month) 94, Thomas L. But- ler 92, William Givens 92, John P. Young 91.
CITIZENS OVEK EIGHTY.
Joseph Danforth 89, William Talbot 89, William Jarvis 89, Joseph Swagar 88, E. E. Williams 86, William W. Williams 86, Rev. Joseph A. Lloyd 84, Joseph A. Barnett 84, James Anderson 84, Joseph J. Sheridan 83, Hon. William P. Thomasson 83, Joseph Irwin 82, William Hurst 82, James C. Ford 82, Samuel Campbell 82, Hon. D. L. Beatty 82, James Anderson, Jr. 82, [ames Harrison 81, Samuel K. Rich- ardson 80, Dr. M. L. Lewis 80, J. R. Green 80, Rev. Wil- liam C. Atmore 80.
CITIZENS OVER SEVENTY.
B. F. Avery 79, Samuel Hillman 79, J. McIlvain 79. Ed- ward Stokes 78, Abraham Myers 78, William Musselnian 78, John Lamborne 78, A. G. Hodges 78, John Fielder 78, Herman Eustis 77, A. W. R. Harris 77, James Hamilton 77, Thomas Jefferson 77, [. M. Monohan 76, S. S. English 76, W. H. Evans 76, Dr. T. S. Bell 75. Hon. John D. Delph 75, Dr. R. W. Ferguson 75, T. |. Hackney 75, R. R. Jones 75, William Kriel 75, Christian Hatzel 75, R. P. Lightburn 75, Luther Wilson 75, R. K. White 74, Henry Wolford 74, David Marshall 74, C. C. Green 75. John Christopher 74, Rev. James Craik 74, John Adam 73, Hon. William F. Bul- lock 73, James Bridgeford 73, James M. Campbell 73, H. W. Hawes 73, S. G. Henry 73, John P. Morton 73, Zenos D. Parker 73, B. F. Rudy 73, Francis Reidhar 73, Christopher Steele 73, James Trabue 73, G. A Zeuma 72, L. L. Warren 72, L. A. Tripp 72, George Shoemaker 72, R. F. Orr 72, Warren Mitchell 72, Fount Lochry 72. Dr. William H. God- dard 72, Thomas J. Gorin 72, George L. Douglass 72, M. Lewis Clarl:, Sr. 72, Charles N. Corri 72, Henry Christopher 72, WV. ]. Cornell 72, W. P. Benedict 72, R. M. Alexander 72, Archibald Chappell 71, Benjamin B. Hinkle 71, Rev. E. 1. Humphrey 71, M. W. Sherrill 71, B. H. Thurman 71, Joseph Wolfe 70, Charles Wolford 70, G. T. Vernon 70, L. D. Pearson 70, T. C. Pomeroy 70, Daniel Lavielle 70, Henry Kneaster 70, Conrad F. Keiser 70, T. M. Erwin 70, Rev. Hiram A. Hunter 70, John L. Branham 70, Tarleton Arter- burn 70, l'rof. Noble Butler 70.
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EVENTS OF THE YEAR.
January 2d, explosion of the boiler of Du Pont's paper-mill, fatally injuring Henry Taylor; 8th, twenty-six policemen dismissed; 9th, Holiday W. Cood, a director of the Bank of Kentucky, fell on the ice and was killed; 19th, death of Rev. John N. Norton, D. D., associate Rector of Christ church; 26th, twenty-one new policemen appointed.
February 4th, an ordinance passes the Coun- cil for renumbering all buildings in the city; 14th, sudden death of William Pennington, an old river pilot.
March 4th, Professor G. A. Chase, Principal of the Girls' High School, is stricken with paraly- sis; 9th, meeting of National Association of Wooden Coffin Manufacturers; 12th, death of Colonel Thomas Alexander, a Mexican war vet- eran; 16th, death of Colonel A. G. Hodges, formerly a prominent editor in the city and State; 20th, death of Mrs. Elizabeth Gwin, the first white girl born in Louisville, aged ninety-four.
April 12th, meeting of Kentucky Grand Lodge Knights of Honor; 16th, Rev. Dr. Stuart Robin- son tenders his resignation as Pastor of the Sec- ond Presbyterian church; 26th, the steamer Rainbow is left helpless on the Falls, by explo- sion of her boiler.
May 2d, the public opening of Phoenix Hill and Riverside Parks; 5th, death of John P. Young, an old resident; 9th, opening of the new Short Line passenger depot; extremely warm weather the middle of the month; 23d, death of Hon. M. H. Coler, Chief Justice of the Court of Appeals; 30th, dedication of the Tabernacle (Warren Memorial church), at the corner of Fourth street and Broadway.
June 13th, burning of Robert Dunlap & Com- 'pany's tobacco factory ; 22d to 24th, midsum- mer encampment of the Knights Templars of the State, in Central Park, with a grand street parade on the 23d, and prize military and Tem- plars' drill on the last day ; 30th, a number of residents prostrated by excessive heat.
July 11th,'burning of David Sternberg's store ; 12th, more deaths from heat ; 14th, much dam- age to boats on the river from wind-storm ; 26th, opening of shooting tournament of Louisville Gun Club ; 30th, burning of Gathright & Look's wholesale saddlery and harness store.
August 9th, death of S. K. Richardson, one
of the old residents ; 10th, destruction by fire of Trinity Episcopal Church and of thirteen cars in the Louisville & Nashville yard ; 20th, meeting at Willard Hotel to organize a pioneer associa- tion.
September 7th, opening of the Annual Ex- position ; 18th, Mayor Baxter contracts for a new fire-alarm telegraph ; 24th, Garfield me- morial services in Twelfth-street Methodist Epis- copal Church ; 28th, burning of Stafford's cooper shops, on Southall street.
October 6th, death of Rev. Stuart Rohinson, D. D .; 19th, session of Masonic Grand Lodge ; 23d, closing of the Exposition ; 26th, opening of the Woman's Suffrage Convention at the Opera- house ; 29th, the superb Warren Memorial Church totally destroyed by fire.
November 17th, celebration by the Swiss of the 574th anniversary of their national inde- pendence ; 26th, sudden death of two old citi- zens, Jacob Funk and William Denny.
December roth, visit of Jefferson Davis to the city ; 24th, starting of the 80,000-candle-power circuit by the Brush Electric Light Company.
1882-POPULATION, ETC.
An increase of 2,299 names, against 1881, appears in the City Directory of this year, the whole number being 57,200. Multiplying the increase by 3, a growth in population of 6,897 within a year is indicated. It was thought that Louisville and its immediate environs now com- prised a population of not less than 170,000.
On the 2d of January was begun one of the most remarkable revival works of modern times in Kentucky, under the preaching of the Rev. George O. Barnes, the " healing " or " mountain evangelist," who had been successfully at work for several years in the rougher districts of the interior. He was assisted by his daughter Marie, in singing and Bible-reading ; and the largest audience-rooms in the city ultimately became too strait for his congregations. Adopting the for- mula of healing in James v, 14, he anointed for bodily disease, during his seven weeks' work here, two thousand three hundred and fifty-five persons, and received the confession of Christian belief and conversion from two thousand four hundred and seventy-three. On the last evening
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of his services, February 19th, he anointed one hundred and ninety invalids, and one hundred and seventy-six made their confession.
Mr. John H. Ryan, an immigrant to Louisville from Philadelphia in 1837, and a successful leather merehant here for many years, died January 25th.
On the next day Joseph Clements, Esq., was strieken with heart disease in the recess of the St. Nicholas Hotel, while waiting for a street car, and died in a few minutes. He came to the city about 1842, was one of the editors of the Louisville Daily Dime, then a lawyer and finally a justice of the peace for nearly thirty years, be- ing at the time of his death the oldest magistrate in the city.
Professor Noble Butler, a teacher of high re- pute in Louisville since 1839, and author of several successful text-books, died at his "Home School " on Walnut street, February 12th.
A great flood came in February, working more mischief on the river front than any other that ever visited Louisville. It reached its highest on the 22d, when it was thirty-two and one-half feet above low water at the head of the canal, and fifty-six and one-half feet in the channel depth at the foot of the Falls. Though not the highest, it was accounted the most disastrous in undation that ever visited the Ohio Valley.
February 25th, died Dr. E. D. Foree, one of the most eminent physicians of Louisville. He is the subject of a biographieal notice elsewhere.
February 28th, the Grand Lodge of the An- eient Order of United Workmen for Kentucky met at the Liederkranz Hall.
March 5th, the steamer James D. Parker is wrecked upon the Falls, in the Indiana chute, just below the railway bridge. March 8th, death of Henry Clay Pindell, a prominent lawyer of the city. The same day a boat's erew from the Government life-saving station go over the dam, but without loss of life. March 12th, the corner stone of the new Colored Baptist church, on Centre street, between Chestnut and Broadway, was laid in the presence of an immense throng and several eolored Masonic lodges. March 15, Philip Pfau, Esq., an old and well-known citizen and magistrate, died from the effects of injuries received February 26th, by falling through a cellar way. During this month an act passed the Legislature chartering the Louisville
Canal & Water-power Company, for the building of a eanal from deep water above the city to deep water below, thus forming a water-route around Louisville of about six miles' length, and cutting off the Falls, if deemed best, and partially the old canal, as a means of transit for steamers, be- sides furnishing an immense amount of water- power, and draining the southern part of the city, where some of the old ponds still are. It is thought the canal will be made from a point near the water-works to the mouth of Paddy's Run.
April 3d, the bill for a new Government bnild- ing in Louisville, to cost $800,000, passed the Federal House of Representatives. April 5th, the State Medical Society met in the Young Men's Christian Association Hall, with Dr. J. W. Holland, of Louisville, presiding. April 6th, the pupils of the Girls' High School had an inter- esting series of memorial exereises, in honor to the genius and virtues of the poet Longfellow, then recently deceased.
In the early days of April there was renewed agitation of the question of removal of the State capital from Frankfort to Louisville. A propo- sition to issue $1,000,000 in the city's bonds, to meet the expenses of removal, was submitted to vote on the 8th and approved by 3,053 to 1, 133. Only one precinct of the city, the first of the First Ward, east a majority against it.
Our record eloses on the roth of April.
CHAPTER XIV.
THE ANCIENT SUBURBS.
Campbellton -Its Foundations - Becomes Shippingport - Survey and Platting by Berthond-Sale to the Tarascons- Population in 1810 and 1830-Its Decadence-The "Ken- tucky Giant "-Notices by McMurtrie, Fanx the Traveler, and Ogden. Portland-Its Beginnings, Rise, Progress, and Absorption into Louisville-Notices by Casseday and Dana-The Flood of 1882.
Before passing to the special chapters in which eertain great interests of the city of Louisville are to receive separate attention, some notice of the two towns formerly independent, but now embraced within the city limits, seems to be de- manded.
SHIPPINGPORT
was the first of these, in the order of time, as it
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once was also in importance. The site of this lies upon the primitive two-thousand acre tract of Colonel Campbell, from which fact is apparent the fitness of its original name of "Campbellton," taken when it was founded in 1785, only seven years after General George Rogers Clark landed his troops and colonists amid the canebrakes of Corn Island. It lies, as all residents of Louis- ville know, between the rapids and canal, and de- rived its second name of Shippingport, which was given it in or before 1806, from its situation fa- voring the transhipment of freight from that point around the Falls on the Kentucky shore, before the canal was made. The title has altogether lost its significance, since the construction of that great work. Much of the site is subject to over- flow in time of high water, and many houses and the mills on the lower ground were thoroughly flooded during the recent inundation of 1882.
A few cabins were erected in Campbellton during 1785 and subsequently; but the place made small progress for ten years. It was regu- larly surveyed and platted by Woodrough in 1804, upon a plan drawn up by Valcom; and the lots were advertised for sale. The streets run- ning with general parallelism to the river were Front (sixty feet wide), Second and Third (fifty feet each), Market (ninety, evidently with the Louisville view of placing markets in the middle of it), Tobacco (sixty), Bengal and Jackson (thirty each), and Hemp (sixty). The streets running at right angles to these were Mill and Tarascon and thirteen others, numbered from First to Thirteenth, all sixty feet wide. It was a town site comparing in size very favorably with that originaily platted for Louisville, being forty- five acres in all.
In 1804 the unsold part of the tract was sold to the enterprising Frenchman, Mons. Berthond, for whom the survey and plat just mentioned were made. It did not yet get forward rapidly, however; and another conveyance was made in 1806, by which the greater part of the lots passed to other Frenchmen, the celebrated Tarascons. Their business energy and influence, and their own identification with its interests, gave it a decided impetus, and in 1810 it ac- tually contained a population of ninety-eight. It probably reached its maximum of inhabitants in 1830, just before the opening of the canal, when it contained six hundred and six
people. One of its chief industries, that con- cerned with the postage of goods around the Falls, being thus destroyed, it naturally fell rap- idly into decadence.
The town was regularly incorporated in 1829, but ultimately lost its separate existence, and was merged in the grasping growth of the neigh- boring city, with which its beginnings were almost contemporaneous.
One of the most famous men of Shippingport was Porter, the "Kentucky Giant," who was ex- hibited for years, and then became a saloon- keeper and hackman at the Falls. A notice was given him by Charles Dickens, in the American Notes, which will be found in our annals of Louisville's Seventh Decade.
NOTICES OF SHIPPINGPORT.
The earliest of these, which has come to our knowledge, is given by Dr. Murtrie, in his Sketches of Louisville, published in 1819. He says :
This important place is situated two miles below Louisville, immediately at the foot of the rapids, and is built upon the beautiful plain or bottom which commences at the [old] mouth of Beargrass creek, through which, under the brow of the second bank, the contemplated canal will in all proba- ability be cut [a prediction verified to the letter ]. The town originally consisted of forty-five acres, but it has since re- ceived considerable additions. The lots are 75 x 144 feet, the average price of which at present is from forty to fifty dollars per foot, according to the advantages of its situation. The streets are all laid out at right angles; those that run parallel to the river, or nearly so, are eight in number and vary from thirty to ninety feet in width. These are all interseeted by twelve-feet alleys, running parallel to them, and by fifteen eross streets at right angles, each sixty feet wide.
The population of Shippingport may be estimated at six hundred souls, including strangers. Some taste is already perceptible in the construction of their houses, many of which are neatly built and ornamented with galleries, in which, of a Sunday, are displayed all the beauty of the place. It is a faet, the Bois de Boulogne of Louisville, it being the resort of all classes on high days and holidays. At these times it exhibits a spectacle at once novel and interesting. The number of steamboats in the port, each bearing one or two flags, the throng of horses, carriages, and gigs, and the contented appearance of a crowd of pedestrians, all arrayed in their " Sunday's best," produce an effect it would be im- possible to describe.
Shippingport is the natural harbor and landing-place for all vessels trading on the Western waters with New Orleans, the Missouri, and upper Mississippi, the lower and upper Ohio, and, in fine, in conjunction with Louisville and Port- land, which in some future day will be all one great city, is the center port of the Western country. Nature has placed it at the head of the navigation of the lower Ohio, as it has Louisville at the foot of the upper one, where all ascending boats must, during three-fourths of the year, of necessity be compelled to stop, which they can do with perfect safety, as immediately in front of it is a basin called Rock Harbor that
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presents a good mooring-ground, capable of containing any number of vessels, of any burthen, and completely sheltered from every wind. Rock Island, which forms the northern boundary of this basin, is a safe landing-place, where boats frequently receive their cargoes, which are carried over the Kentucky chute. This is only, however, when the water is low. The channel by Sandy Island, which offers a pleasant and commodious situation for repairing vessels, was ob- structed by a nest of snags, which probably had existed there for centuries, and had been the cause of considerable loss of property by sinking boats, which, from the swiftness of the current, it was hardly possible to steer clear of them. Last summer, however, Mr. I. A. Tarascon, at his own expense and with considerable difficulty, succeeded in raising and removing them. The whole front of the town will be im- proved this summer by the addition of wharves, which will facilitate the loading and unloading of steamboats that are constantly arriving from below.
Dr. McMurtrie gives the following view of the leading industries of the place in and before İSİ9:
There were formerly here, as at Louisville, a number of rope-walks, which are at present nearly all abandoned, there not being a sufficiency of hemp raised in the county to sup- ply the manufacturers. This has arisen from the great losses sustained in the sales of cordage, which has discouraged the rope-maker, and consequently offered no inducement to the farmer to plant an article for which there was but little de- mand.
NAPOLEON DISTILLERY .- This is conducted by a gentle- man from Europe, whose long experience and perfect knowl- edge of the business enables him to fabricate the different kinds of distilled waters, cordials, liqueurs, etc., which have been pronounced by connoisseurs from Martinique and the Gallieres de Bois to want nothing but age to render them equal to anything of the kind presented in either of those places.
MERCHANT MANUFACTURING MILL. - This valuable mill is remarkable, not only for its size and the quantity of flour it is calculated to manufacture when completed, but for the beauty of its machinery, which is said to be the most perfect specimen of the millwright's abilities to be found in this or any other country. The foundations were commenced in June, 1815, and were ready to receive the enormous super- structure only in the spring of 1817. The building is divided into six stories, considerably higher than is usual, there being one hundred and two feet from the first to the sixth. Wag- gons containing the wheat or other grain for the mill are driven under an arch, which commands the hopper of a scale, into which it is discharged and weighed at the rate of seventy- five bushels in ten minutes. From this it is conveyed by ele- vators to the sixth story, where, after passing through a screen, it is deposited in the garners; if manufacturing, from thence into a " rubber" of a new construction, whence it is conveyed into a large screen, and thence to the stones. When ground, it is re-conveyed by elevators to the hopper- boy, in the sixth story, whence, after being cooled, it de- scends to the bolting cloths, the bian being deposited in a gallery on the left and the shorts in another to the right. The flour being divided into fine, superfine, and middlings, is precipitated into the packing chests, whence it is delivered to the batrels, which are hlled with great rapidity by a pack- ing press.
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