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Carlton B. Curtis was member of the Assembly in 1837-38, and Representative in Congress from 1851 to 1855. He was also elected to Congress from the Erie district after his removal to Erie.
Chapin Hall represented the district from 1859 to 1861.
Glenni W. Scofield was member of the Assembly in 1850-51 ; State Senator 1857-59; President Judge by appointment in the Venango district 1861, and Representative in Congress from 1863 to 1875, his last term being as Representative-at-Large. He was Register of the Treasury under President Hayes from 1877 to ISSI, and Judge of the United States Court of Claims from ISSI to 1891, when he retired on account of ill health, shortly before his death.
Lewis F. Watson was Representative in Congress from 1877 to 1879, 1881 to 1883, and 1889 to the time of his death, in August, 1890.
Charles W. Stone was member of Assembly in 1 868-69, State Senator in 1877 and 1878, Lieuten- ant-Governor 1878 to 1880, Secretary of the Com- monwealth 1887 to November, IS90, when he re- signed to take his seat in Congress, having been elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of L. F. Watson. He has been re-elected continuously since, and is Chairman of the Committee on Coinage, Weights and Measures.
GROUP OF JUDGES.
N. B. ELDRED. W. D. BROWN.
S. P. JOHNSON.
L. D. WETMORE. R. BROWN.
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Thomas Struthers was member of Assembly in 1857-58, and member of the Constitutional Con- vention in 1872-73.
Nathaniel B. Eldred was appointed President Judge in 1835, and again in 1 840, serving until 1843.
Rasselas Brown was member of the Assembly in 1845, President Judge of the Sixth District by appointment in 1860, and member of the Constitu- tional Convention 1872-73.
Samuel P. Johnson was elected President Judge of the Sixth District, and served ten years, from 1860 to 1870. Lansing D. Wetmore was elected President Judge to succeed Judge Johnson in 1870, and served ten years, until January 1, ISSI, when he was succeeded by Judge William D. Brown.
William D. Brown was member of the Assembly in 1863- 64 and '65, and Pres- ident Judge of the Thirty-Seventh Dis- trict 18So to 1890.
Charles H. Noyes, the present incum- bent, succeeded Judge Brown Janu- ary 1, 1891.
JOSEPH V. JAMES.
Harrison Allen was member of the Assembly 1 866-67, State Senator 1870-72, and Auditor-Gen- eral from 1872 to 1875.
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Orrin C. Allen was State Senator from 1887 to 1 89 1.
Besides those above mentioned, the members of the Assembly residing in Warren have been the following: Josiah Hall, 1836; Joseph Y. James, 1843 and 1852; Benjamin Bartholomew, 1846; Lothrop T. Parmlee, 1854; Ephraim Cowan, 1861- 62 ; Junius R. Clark, 1868-69 ; W. M. Lindsey, 1877-78: Henry Brace, 1885 to 18SS; Caleb C. Thompson, 1888 to 1892, who was Speaker of the House during his last term ; and the sitting member, Edward W. Parshall.
Lansing D. Wetmore and George N. Parmlee were, from the organization of the board, members of the Board of Trustees of the State Hospital for Insane until recently. Orrin C. Allen and Starling W. Waters are at the present time members of that board.
Of the Associate Judges who have at various times sat in the courts of the county the following were at the time residents of the borough : Joseph Hackney, Josiah Hall, Gilman Merrill, Lansing Wetmore, Lewis Arnett, Sidney A. Wetmore, Isaac H. Hiller, Rufus P. King and John H. Sandstrom.
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BLOCK-HOUSE ATTACKED BY INDIANS.
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As the one hundredth anniversary of the laying out of the town of Warren approached, the local news- papers occasionally called attention to the fact, and expressed the general feeling that the event should be in some way appropriately commemorated. The first step was taken by the burgess, J. W. Wiggins, Esq. On Friday, May 3, 1895, the local papers contained the following call :
"CITIZENS, ATTENTION :
" Warren's Centennial year ought to be fitly celebrated. All ladies and gentlemen who think
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so and are willing to assist, are invited to meet at the rooms of the public library this Friday evening at 7.30 o'clock to arrange the preliminaries.
"JAMES W. WIGGINS, Burgess."
At the meeting thus called there were present but seven or eight gentlemen, but it was organized by the election of the Hon. Charles W. Stone, Chair- man, and F. W. Black, Secretary, and after some exchange of views it resolved, "That it is the sense of this meeting that the Centennial of Warren be suitably celebrated, and that a committee be ap- pointed to report at a future meeting a general plan for such celebration."
Pursuant to the resolution the following com- mittee was then chosen : Charles H. Noyes, Chair- man ; James W. Wiggins, H. A. Jamieson, John M. Siegfried, A. C. Morck. Jr., A. D. Wood, E. H. Boeschlin, W. D. Todd, F. A. Steber, S. Reed Brown, Mrs. M. Waters, Mrs. James Brann, Mrs. F. H. Rockwell, Mrs. A. J. Hazeltine, Mrs. O. C. Allen.
From this time the ball was kept rolling. There were meetings of committees and sub-committees, debates and discussions, plans and counter-plans ; but it all culminated at last in an organization known as the Warren Centennial Association, with the following officers and committees: President, Hon. Charles W. Stone, M. C. ; First V'ice-Presi- dents, Hon. Wilton M. Lindsey and William W. Wilbur, Esq. : Second Vice-Presidents, Christian Smith, A. J. Davis, A. H. Lacy, William Zeigler,
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE AND COMMITTEE ON ANTIQUITIES.
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Andrew Hertzel, L. B. Hoffman, M. D. Waters, M. B. Dunham, John M. Davidson, Warren Brasington, A. T. Hackney, Marcus Spaulding, John O'Hern, Joseph Walkerman, Chester Park, Martin Cribbins, O. W. Randall. Henry Knupp. M. Fitzgerald, Theophilus Messner, Benjamin Williams, James P. Lacy, L. Castater, Chauncey Cobb, J. P. Nesmith, Hon. R. Brown, M. Waters, A. Morck, Sr., Hon. W. D. Brown, J. J. Taylor, Hon. L. D. Wetmore, John Sill, Hon. E. B. Eldred, Henry Cobham, Guy C. Irvine, F. A. Randall, John F. McPherson, I. S. Alden, I. G. Lacy, Dr. E. M. Pierce, John C. Siechrist, James Clark, P. J. Trushel. L. A. Rogers, Gen. J. Y. James, Hon. R. P. King, G. N. Parmlee, S. H. Cogswell, D. M. Williams, O. H. Hunter. J. W. Wetmore, Erie, Pa .; Hon. L. Rogers, Smeth- port, Pa. ; Hon. Junius R. Clark, Philadelphia, Pa .; Hon. George W. Allen, Denver, Col. ; J. W. Stearns, Jamestown, N. Y .; George A. Walker, Emporium, Pa. ; Gen. Roy Stone, Washington, D. C .; Hon. I. H. Hiller, Frewsburg, N. Y .; Philip Gisselbrecht, Dr. Chester W. Stranahan, Erie, Pa .; T. J. Clemons, Columbus, Pa. ; John N. Schnur, Russell, Pa. ; Capt. John H. Mitchell, Hartford, Conn. ; Gen. Harrison Allen, Fargo, N. D. ; Jerome Powers, Ridgway, Pa. ; Albert Kiberger, Wies- baden, Germany. Secretary, S. W. Waters ; Treas- urer, Col. James O. Parmlee ; Director-General, H. J. Muse.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE : Hon. Charles H. Noyes. Chairman ; S. W. Waters, Secretary; Hon. Charles
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W. Stone, Hon. W. M. Lindsey, W. W. Wilbur, Esq., Col. James O. Parmlee, H. J. Muse, Esq., Hon. O. C. Allen. F. M. Knapp, Esq., E. W. Parshall, Esq., Mrs. W. M. Lindsey, D. U. Arird, Esq., Capt. L. T. Borchers, W. D. Hinckley, Esq., Mrs. G. W. Scofield, Mrs. F. H. Rockwell, Mrs. A. J. Hazeltine, Mrs. E. W. Parshall, Mrs. George F. Yates, Mrs. M. Waters.
Special Executive Committee: The President, Chairman of the Executive Committee and heads of departments, ex officio.
Superintendent of Centennial Grounds : C. W. Uhdey, Esq.
EXHIBITION DEPARTMENT.
FIRST DIVISION-1795 to 1861.
Superintendent, E. W. Parshall, Esq. ; Secretary, W. A. Talbott, Esq.
Indian Committee : W. H. Allen, Chairman ; W. A. Talbott, Charles D. Crandall.
Block-House Committee : L. R. Freeman, Chair- man ; Theodore Messner, George F. Yates, Charles Chase. O. W. Beaty, James Clark, E. W. Smith, F. T. Parker.
Jackson Tavern Committee : Mrs. Charles W. Stone, Chairman ; Mrs. W. H. Copeland, Mrs. George F. Yates, Mrs. J. P. Jefferson, Mrs. W. H. Filler, Miss Lora E. Alden, Miss Gertrude King, Miss Belle S. Valentine, Mr. William A. Smiley, Dr. Joseph T. Danforth, Mr. Emile Amann, Mr. Turk Fehlman, Mr. Samuel G. Allen, Mr. Harold Hazeltine.
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Quilting Party Committee: Mrs. Tamer Gilbert Rockwell, Chairman ; Mesdames Charlotte I. Waters, May Rockwell Henry, Nellie S. Beaty, Jennie Stranahan Brecht, Mary C. Bemis, Isabel Weatherby Henry, Clarissa Gilbert (aged 82), Maria C. Allen, Martha W. Pierce, Matilda I. Ball, Diadama H. White (aged 82), Sarah Ann Sturgeon (aged 86), Arabella Waters Parshall, Salome Arnett Galligan, Florence S. Wood, Rachel Weatherby (aged 87), Josephine E. Mease, Miss Susan T. Daggett, Mrs. Mary P. Gerould, Nancy L. Hoff- man, Hattie M. Talbott. Sarah Antoinette King, Sarah E. Allen, Catherine Alden, Rosamund Hall Waters, Rose Gemmill Messner, Jessie Dunham Stewart. All these ladies appeared in costume at the quilting.
Committee on Antiquities: Mrs. James Brann, Chairman ; Mrs. G. W. Scofield, Mrs. W. D. Brown, Mrs. R. F. Van Doorn, Mrs. Alexander Shaw, Mrs. W. F. Messner, Mrs. P. A. Gilbert, Mrs. Eugene Abbott, Mrs. George Sill, Mrs. Clara S. Blood, Mrs. J. W. Hull, Mrs. W. V. Hazeltine, Mrs. William Keegan, Mrs. D. H. Siggins, Mrs. T. W. McNett, Mrs. N. S. Falconer, Mrs. S. A. Wetmore, Mrs. R. Brown, Misses Anne Stone, Mary Kopf, Ellie G. Scofield, and Messrs. N. S. Falconer, F. E. Hertzel, Willis Cowan, J. P. Jefferson, G. N. Parmlee, J. W. Albrecht.
Sub-Committee on Town Ball : E. T. Hazeltine, Chairman ; William Scott, S. E. Walker, R. Reese.
Sub-Committee on District and Singing-Schools : W. V. N. Yates, Chairman ; Miss Ellie G. Scofield,
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Mrs. W. D. Hinckley, Mrs. Ray Pickett, Charles A. Peterson, Dr. W. W. Freeman, Dr. W. M. Robert- son, Henry Messenger, - Neill.
Sub-Committee on Relics, War of 1812 and Mexi- can War: W. H. Copeland, Chairman ; William McCray, E. B. Jackson, A. W. Jones.
Sub-Committee on Pictures : Mrs. Henrietta Eddy, Mr. W. A. Greaves.
SECOND DIVISION -- 1861 to 1895 .- Mrs. W. M. Lindsey, Chairman.
War Exhibit : Mrs. W. W. Wilbur, Chairman ; Mrs. B. F. Morris, Mrs. L. T. Parmlee, Mrs. Lindsey.
Centennial Booth, consisting of Martha Washing- ton Party in Costume : Mrs. Ellen McDowell, Chair- man ; Mrs. S. V. Davis, Mrs. J. M. Siegfried, Mrs. Grelox. Misses Clemons, Nora Davis, Florence Meacham, Ida Neill.
Millinery Booth, Exhibit of Bonnets from 1861 to 1895 : Mrs. F. T. Parker, Chairman : Mrs. D. Shear, Mrs. Jos. Scofield, Misses Julia Harrison, Anna Rockwell, Laura Smith, Annie Henry, Nettie Tal- bott, Josephine Rankin.
Needlework Exhibit : Mrs. W. W. Rankin and Miss Libbie Rogers, assisted by Miss Kate Brown and Miss Lizzie Pierce.
China-Painting Exhibit : Mrs. C. A. Waters and Mrs. C. S. Greenlund in charge, assisted by Mrs. S. E. Walker, Miss Lucia Breed, Miss Clara Parshall, Miss Blanche Mair.
Lemonade and Confectionery : Mrs. L. G. Noyes and Mrs. R. S. Hall, superintendents, assisted by
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Miss Teresa Howard, Miss Hattie Friday and Mr. John S. Smith.
Oil Development Exhibit: Mrs. E. E. Allen, Chairman ; Mrs. Lucie Richards, Mr. Will Messner.
Warren High School Laboratory Exhibits: Prof. MacGowan, assisted by students from High School.
WV. C. T. U. Exhibit, under charge of Mrs. Levi Smith and Mrs. Ellen Lacy.
Trades Exhibits : Capt. W. J. Alexander, Chair- man, assisted by Harold Hazeltine and Eugene MacLaren.
CELEBRATION DEPARTMENT, D. U. Arird, Esq., Chairman.
Department of Finance : Capt. L. T. Borchers, Chairman ; Capt. S. H. Davis, S. W. Waters, J. D. Woodard, J. W. Wiggins.
Committee on Merchandise Bazaar : C. M. Shaw- key, Chairman ; Harry Pickett.
Committee on Transportation : \\. 1). Todd, Chairman ; O. C. Allen, E. W. Parshall.
Committee on Advertising: W. D. Hinckley, Chairman ; W. D. Todd, E. T. Hazeltine, Jas. D. Woodard.
It was, after some consideration, agreed that the celebration should consist of an exhibition on the Fair Grounds, opposite the town, illustrative of the development of Warren and the life and manners of its inhabitants during the century. This was divided, for convenience, into two divisions, the first embracing the features illustrating the period from
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1795 to 1861, and the second those from 1861 to 1895. The celebration was to continue three days, ending on the Fourth of July with a grand indus- trial and military parade and a display of fireworks.
From the first the best of feeling prevailed, and the citizens entered into the matter with heartiness and enthusiasm. As it was obviously expedient to charge an admission-fee to the exhibition grounds, it was agreed beforehand that any money left after paying expenses should be given to the public li- brary, recently made free by the gifts of the citizens. The Warren County Fair Association generously gave the free use of their grounds, and the owners of the several private buildings turned them over for the occasion to the Centennial Association. The Pennsylvania and Warren and Chautauqua Gas Companies furnished natural gas, where their lines extended, without charge, and the Warren Electri- cal Light Company wired the buildings on the grounds at actual cost, and furnished both arc-light and incandescent current without charge. The Borough Council entertained the municipal officers of the city of Franklin and their party and the offi- cers of the Seneca Nation as the guests of the borough, and contributed to the decorations in the streets ; and the citizens gave, through the Finance Committee, headed by Capt. L. T. Borchers, $2351.50 to defray the expenses of the public display. A list of the contributors is appended. The celebration department, under the chairmanship of D. U. Arird. Esq., arranged to have the town most beautifully decorated both by arches and lights in the streets,
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and by the decoration of private and public build- ings, which was general.
Each department subdivided its work, and there were innumerable sub-committees, each carrying on its enterprise in semi-independence, but subject to the control of the general committee of the depart- ment to which it belonged, and the whole under the executive control of the Director-General and the Executive Committee, acting in most cases through its sub-committee, which consisted of the responsi- ble general officers of the Association. Good and efficient service was rendered by all connected with the enterprise ; but from the evening of the first meeting, on the third of May, until the last Indian was safely returned to his home, the distinguished gentleman who honored the office of president seemed to have laid aside all affairs of state, as well as all the multitudinous details of his extensive pri- vate business, in order to devote his time to the Centennial. Early and late he toiled at its affairs, and to his wisdom, enthusiasm and inexhaustible energy, more than to the effort of any other one person, is due its triumphant success.
A special committee secured from the railroad special trains and reduced rates for visitors to the Centennial, which the crowds who took advantage of these facilities amply justified.
All the newspapers published in Warren gave much space to the Centennial, and, without any pe- cuniary interest, contributed largely to spreading a knowledge of the character and attractiveness of the Exhibition among the people of the town and
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the western part of the State generally. The De- partment of Advertising, under the chairmanship of Watson D. Hinckley, Esq., left nothing to be de- sired. Posters large and small called attention, and detailed descriptions of the Exhibition were widely distributed in great numbers. These were carried to all places within reach by means of wagons, which were themselves calculated to make a sensation wherever they went, and thus draw attention strongly to the Exhibition.
A notable poster was the great canvas painted by a young artist from Denmark, Mr. Otto Clemen- son, representing Warren's progress from the days of red men to the days of balloon-sleeves, which was nailed to the east end of Mr. Myron Waters' brick livery-barn, and which still attracts the notice of strangers passing along Liberty street.
For the comfort of the crowds of people provi- sion was made for meals and lunches on the grounds, and there were innumerable small stands for the sale of lemonade and other "soft" drinks, sand- wiches, etc. A carrousel or "merry-go-round" was licensed on the grounds, with a few other unobjec- tionable features of this kind; but, in general, all " fakes " and side-shows were excluded, and the ad- mission at the gate admitted to everything on the grounds. The Adjutant-General of the State kindly loaned a quantity of tents and flies, which were dis- posed about the grounds and furnished with seats, thus providing a most grateful rest and shade for a vast number of weary visitors. They were pro- vided in anticipation of rain, but throughout the
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three days the weather was perfect, and assurances of its continuance obtained by private advices to President Stone from the Government Weather Bureau at Washington added to the pleasure and confidence of the managers.
Warren itself never presented in all its previous history such a festal appearance as during the three days of the Centennial Celebration. Flags, bunt- ing and evergreen were to be seen everywhere. Twelve or fifteen arches were raised at different points along the streets. One of them, at the cor- ner of Water and Second streets, had three spans of evergreen and laurel. From the central span hung a transparency, illuminated at night, typifying the progress of the town and county during the century, the main features being the evolution of the better class of homes, of the oil-well, the refinery, of the railroad and the electric street-car. This, also, was by the talented young Dane, Clemen- son.
Other arches of merit and beauty were located as follows: Two at the City Hall, on the Hickory and Third street fronts of the building ; one in front of the office of the Pennsylvania Gas Company, with a neat illumination at night of natural gas ; one in front of the office of the Warren and Chautauqua Gas Company, a beautiful example of what can be evolved from gas-pipes and the green bough of the hemlock-tree and leaves of laurel, also illuminated by natural gas after dark. At the north end of the Pleasant bridge was another handsome arch. The hotels and business houses made most commenda-
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ble efforts to beautify their places. Beautiful work was shown at the Carver House, the Struthers, the Revere, Moran's Hotel, and the Exchange. The Warren Savings Bank building was a mass of bunt- ing and large flags, and by many was pronounced the finest in appearance of the many buildings be- decked for the great event. The merchants devel- oped a decided penchant for unique and startling displays in their windows. Many and varied were the effects presented to view. Private residences, too, were not a jot behind, and some very ornate in displays of the national colors and bunting, and hardly a dwelling-house along the route of Thurs- day's parade was devoid of adornment in honor of the occasion.
Ample provision had been made by the borough authorities and the county peace officers to ensure order and protect the crowds of people from pick- pockets, thieves and confidence-men. A large num- ber of special policemen patrolled the streets of the borough, and some twenty deputy sheriffs were placed on the Exhibition grounds, which, being in Pleasant township, were beyond the borough juris- diction. Special solicitude was felt about the Indian guests, and every effort was made to protect them not only from evil-doers, but from temptations ; and the discipline established in the Indian camp by the Indians themselves was ably seconded by the white authorities, assisted by the trained military police of Company I, 16th Regt., P. N. G., which furnished a detail every day of men who had served at Home- stead. A few arrests promptly made rendered many
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unnecessary, and the good order during the three days was remarkable.
Early on the morning of the 2d the town was astir and the sound of music was in the air. The visitor descending from a train at either of the rail- way stations stepped at once into a vortex of excite- ment. The way from the P. & E. station at Chestnut Street to the Pleasant bridge, leading to the Exhibi- tion grounds, was festive with flags, bunting, ever- greens, arches, transparencies, banners, and every conceivable device calculated to beautify the street and convey to the passers-by the knowledge that Warren was one hundred years old. He could reach the grounds by four several modes : First, on foot, which was chosen by the larger number of people; second, by the electric cars, which carried as many as they could accommodate all the three days; third, by carriage direct to the gate; and fourth, by a line of bateaux from the river at the foot of Chestnut Street to a landing on the Pleasant side near to the gate of the grounds-a pleasant and popular mode of conveyance, suggesting the ways of a hundred years ago. The ancient stage-coach which was to have plied between the railway stations and the Jackson Tavern was not secured, though great efforts had been made and considerable ex- pense incurred to procure one. This was the only failure scored against the Centennial management.
In the building at the gate the Director-General had his headquarters, and here the Secretary, S. W. Waters, Esq., and Treasurer, Col. James O. Parm- lee, assisted by the First Vice-President, W. W.
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Wilbur, Esq., administered the somewhat difficult but efficient and satisfactory system of tickets and passes which the peculiar character of the exhibi- tion made necessary. On the grounds the absence of the usual danger from horses was noticeable, the management having provided ample stable room for visitors with teams, but requiring them to be kept off the grounds. A lofty flag-staff in front of a large tent at the end of the first street marked the headquarters of the President and executive committee, and across the race-track the Indian committee maintained headquarters among their guests, who were encamped in tepees made of brown canvas, arranged on the green sward inside the track, with a stage or platform for their dances and other exhibitions in front. Opposite the grand stand a large stage or platform had been erected, covered by an awning, and the track between it and the grand stand was fitted up with seats, which could be readily removed and replaced as occasion required.
Going south from the gate, the first building on the left was the reproduction of the Jackson Tavern, accomplished by a committee under the chairman- ship of Mrs. Charles W. Stone. It was a plain structure (in fact, one of the fair buildings done over for the occasion), with the diamond-paned windows and generous front door of early days. The portico was supported by antique columns rescued by Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Jefferson from the ruins of the Kiantone Tavern, a roadside hostlery nearly one hundred years of age. The sign swung from a post
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at the corner, and in the crotch of a pole set up near it hung the bell which summoned the hungry at the dinner-hour.
Diagonally opposite was the building devoted to the quilting party, and adjoining it the building containing the collection of relics and antiquities. Beyond these stood the curious block-house, built like the one erected here by the Hollanders almost a hundred years ago, of hewn logs with overhang- ing upper story, with loop-holes instead of windows, and roofed with shingles riven out of the log. Still farther away and beyond the track stood the Indian village of brown tepees, looking like one of Bier- stadt's or Henry Farny's western pictures. Except that they were supplied by the commissary, instead of hunting and fishing for subsistence, the Indians lived as they were wont to live in the woods, the squaws cooking the meals over camp-fires, and something of interest to the palefaces was in pro- gress at all times.
Behind the grand stand was a small building in which Messrs. Pickett and Shawkey displayed a collection of merchandise donated by manufacturers and merchants to be sold for the benefit of the Cen- tennial. Facing each other, and connected by a canvas-covered passage, were the buildings occupied by the second division, illustrating the period from 1861 to 1895. There were numerous restaurants and refreshment stands about the grounds, and during the three days there was no time when some- thing interesting or amusing was not to be seen. There was music in plenty. The Warren Cornet
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Band, led by Thad. Reig; the Maccabees Band, of Warren ; the Youngsville Cornet Band ; the Indian Band from the Cattaraugus reservation in their striking Indian uniforms; the Cornplanter Indian Band; Logan's fine Indian Band from the reserva- tion at Gowanda, N. Y .; and last, but by no means least, in the estimation of the performers themselves or the old settlers, the Military Band of fifes and drums, which was always on hand and always delightful to the grayheads.
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