Davenport Weekly Republican from Davenport, Iowa • 8

THE DAVENPORT TIMKS: WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 7. 1500. George B. S)argent stated that he once four years, when failing health com SAVING CITY WAIFS pellet! her to report the post vacant Foundations of Scott County.

and ask the M. C. A. of Davenport ascended it to the distance of 210 milis. in a steamboat; and hence it was very reasonably supposed that an important junction miglit he found to organize a school in Rockingham which they did on January 18th, 1869 with interior towns and a heavy river and provided us with a superintendent and one teacher a year.

This school REV. J. W. WEDDELL TELLS OF THE WORK OF DR. BERNARDO.

traffic thereby supported. Our First Clergyman. Its Rise Its Fall. In Old Rockingham. would scorn the Idea of closing during the winter months.

The town of Rockingham was early favored with religious institutions. To say that the Rockingham town Traveling preachers occasionally vis GREAT GOOD THE RESULT ship Sunday schools have not tried to keep pace with the other religious Institutions of our county (for this is ited the place at the time of its early settlement. The first minister of the How the Smallest Township in the County Came Very Near a the only-one in the township) would be injustice to our predecessors, and gospel to1 establish himself permanently was the Rev. Enoch Mead, a Pres that we have kept pace would he bet byterian clergyman from the east. Arriving in the winter of 1837-'38, he ter said by persons not so much inter Mission Evolves From Modest Beginning to Mightiest Mission in the British Empire.

to Becoming the Most Important-Some Interesting Details of tne Township. ested as the writer. soon succeeded in gathering a congre Harriet N. McKarg, (Continued Next Saturday.) BY F.J. B.

HUOT. gation and later organized a Presbyterian society which was, we believe, the original church organization in the county. His family soon joined him in his new home. Early after the settlement of that place the brethren of the Methodist faith formed a "class," but had no regular pastor, the pulpit being supplied at random by itiner THEY ARE SEVEN. (From Monday's Daily Rev.

J. W. Weddell, pastor of Cal-ary Baptist church, went abroad this summer on the invitation of Dr. Bernardo, head of the great waif-saving baud, Here we are, a happy, happy to tell the tale of her disappointment McCoy, E. H.

Shepherd. Milliugton Gasify, Franklin Easlev, William Lin -J" On the banks of Rockingham." An Old-Time go. William Mountain, hitnerei tamp, mission, to take charge of a month's Ji, -r "I ants of that denomination. The Pres JVW II I II eervices at Edinburgh in East if vs. is, -a ALTHOUGH Rockingham town- Ji Mi Camp.

William White, William Detro, Mr. Colo, H. W. Higgins, Mr. ship is the smallest in Scott 1 Foster, Dr.

E. S. Barrows, county, still it is one around county, still it is one around byterians and the Methodists were the London. Yesterday morning, Dr. 7 $sria only religious societies in the township, and up to 1882 they remained Weddell took occasion to speak of the ork in general at the services at i ne uia KOCKingnam noici.

In 18,10 a large hotel was erected only detlnitely established church and of her decline. Even Wapello street has become an ordinary township road. What Willard Barrows Says. Speaking of those who were instrumental in building up the village, Willard Barrows, our first surveyor, writing in I860, says: "Of the early settlers of Rockingham many are still inhabitants of Scott county; some have died and many have settled in this portion of the state. We should liko to speak more in detail of the early trials and Calvary Baptist church, and the fol- denominations in that section.

by J. H. Sullivan, James and Adrian Presbyterians at Rockingham, owlng excerpts from the sermon will jive the reader a good idea of the -X '1 II. Davenport, and was kept by II. W.

Higgins. who officiated as its boniface fe The Presbyterians being in great jeueficient missions conducted by need of a place of worship, as a tern for several years. This was considered to he one of the best public houses west of the Mississippi. The Or. Bernardo: norary epedtent in tne which many historical events have centered.

Its settlement began simultaneously with those of Princeton, Pleasant Valley and LeClaire, and but one year later than those of Buffalo and Davenport. During the years 1835. 183G and 1837 a few settlers made claims upon the land lying hack from the river, along under the bluffs and on the edge of the prairie. Among these were David Sullivan in spring of 1S38, a log house which had been erected to serve the purposes of i Dr. Bernardo's Homes.

London has become a city of live six millions, and as such it presents i world problem. The difficulties of I county commissioners held their court, jor lather sessions, within its walls until it was finally and irrevocably a school, a house of worshin ana ot miblie assembly, intending at some difficulties through which they passed: I of their joys and sorrows of their (lis-I appointed hopes; auc'. he allowed to But you will have to look earnestly- settled that Davenport was to be the 'future opportunity to build a church khis problem some of us who have county seat. Several stirring elec better adapted to their wants. For to find the many babies in the pic lure although they are there.

tions are on record in the history of i follow each in his fortunes since the days of old Rockingham, but the lim several years this remained the only 1835, who pitched his rude log house the old tavern which already has had jeen thrown up against its great un-lercurrents have seen, and recent novements of the people in the streets London's great holidays have special mention where occasion was place of public worship in the village. Tn the meantime by a united effort on the part of the citizens of the town, a lew church was erected which became he property of the Methodist denomi all the world how great is the 'mrden of control that is laid upon London's municipal authorities. nation. These two modest edifices1 were used for Sunday and other occa sional services for several years, tin its of this work will not allow. There is, however, one truthful remark which may be written.

No village in the far west at that day could boast of a better class of citizens, or of those of whom she could be more proud, than Rockingham, both on account of their high toned moral character, their social and frbndly quail ties, and their kind and liberal attention to the sick and the stranger Many a wanderer from the home circle has been made to know this, wher laid unon a sick bed in a far western village he has found the kindly tones and skillful hands of woman in his In no great respect is the great city naking a more vigorous effort to nect its grave responsibilities than its care for the helpless little ones il the establishment of the county at Davenport, which had the ef- ect of destroying the prestige of )f its borders. Spurgeon's Orphanage ind Dr. Beruaelo's Home are but Rockingham and its value as an 1m oortant town. 3ENUS HOEO HIS DIVERSIONS. (Continued from Page Seven.) brother in our midst," and asked that Red's speech and hearing be restored and we were both ashamed.

Just then Red heard the whistle of our freight. He forgot everything all that I had said and all that he tried to act out, and with a wild whoop he sprang for the door, shout ing back to me as he went out: "Hustle. Cigarette, there's our rattler." There was nothing to do but fol-'ow after him as fast as my legs would carry me and I did so in my dveliest manner. I have never In the town since this experience, and is to be hoped that the parson's 'amily have forgiven and forgotten ioth Red and me. Copyright, 1900 by S.

S. McClure Co endeavors in this direction 1'ho latter has become a national in- Affiliate With Davenport. About the year 1840 the Presbyteri- incorporated under the name; jf the Waifs' asscclatica, and its ins of liocktngnam auaneionea men immediately buck of the village of and under its protecting bluff. His farm extended to the bottom lands. Other settlers were Ru-fus nicker, who arrived in 1836, and Rev.

Enoch Mead, who came in the winter of 1837, and who was the first clergyman to reside in the township. The Bluff and Prairie Settlers. Among those who settled on the bluffs and one the edge of the prairie may be mentioned Lewis Ringleslr in 1837 and John Wilson in 1S35, the latter being familiarly known as "Wiid-cat Wilson from his having boasted that he "whipped his weight in wildcats," and Charles Jacob Friday, the first permanent German pioneer in Scott county, who is credited with breaking the first ground upon the bluffs ten acres for himself and four or Mr. Winglleld in 1S36. John W.

Irown, William Van Tuyl and John Burnsides also made claims or purchased them on Black Hawk Creek just above Rockingham in the present locality known as Black Hawk to the rear and south of Schuetzen park in Davenport as early as 1830. Laid Out in 183S. work is so extensive, so instructive that it deserves to be brought out Drganization and united with the larg core fully before the American peo ple, who must ere long face, in a iieasure, the same difficult prob lem. Wide Scope of the Work. "In one generation nearly 36,803 waif children have been saved from leath and destitution nearly 10,000 of them within the last four years.

The Bernardo Homes bear the motto, wide ly displayed, 'No destitute child de- So they have come up from The marc hioness of Douro, so fam rd for her beauty in the early part )f Queen Victoria's reign, the second luke of Wellington's widow, whose privilege it was to close the clyinr 3es of the great duke, is still alive 'n her 80th year, and is said to lie re gaining strength after an illness. sick room, and had, at the same time, substantial proof that he was not forgotten by the 'sterner This is, indeed, a tribute to the pioneers of Rockingham, coming from one who knew them best, and almost repeats the story of Acadia in those beautiful acres of Scott county's smallest township. The Rockingham Postoffice. A postoffice was established in Rockingham village in 83(1 with J. H.

Sullivan as postmaster. The office was continued until 1841 and then abolished. Upon petition it was restored, but finally, after a precarious existence of ten years, it was discontinued in Aboriculture. Since the decline of the village the farmers of Rockingham have made a specialty of fruit raising, in which they have succeeded to a marked degree. Early in 1840 a Quaker from Indiana came up the river with a load the British Emoire to be cared for, nearly 40.000 of them, and none have been sent away empty.

Agents are ail set-kin? children who are exposed ind in peril or moral deterioration in the streets of the city. And there ae FORMER MEMBER OF CO. DEAD had to speak of the county seat contest. In the spring of 183" two more dry goods and general merchandise stores were opened in the village, one by the Davenports and the other by John S. Sheller Co.

The First Steam Flour Mill. In the summer of that year a steam saw and flouring mill was erected by Mr. Sullivan, it being the first of the kind built in Scott county, in the Black Hawk purchase. This mill rendered efficient service for a great many years. Even after the village ceased to exist it did duty for the farming community in its neighborhood.

It was. however, torn down in 1ST.2. the shell of thf building; being removed and re-erected as a barn or granery, while its machinery was shipped aboard a steamboat and taken to LeClaire where it was installed in the mill established by Adrian II. Daven-port in that village. Two Years After.

In 1838 Rockingham contained fifty houses, including stores and workshops, and in 1S3!) there were four dry goods stores, three grocery stores, one drug store and several saloons, or "whisky shops" as they were called in that day. All the trade were represented by the population, and the town gave every evidence of thrift and longevity. The mill, the hotel, the workshops, the stores and the ferry did an immense pioneer business, and the prestige of the growing village was considered superior to that of Davenport. But there came a sudden decline, the cause of which must be attributed to her failure to secure the county seat. Made a Desperate Effort.

Rockingham made a desperate effort to secure the county seat, and when that failed her hopes began to decline, and from the date the contest was decided in favor of Davenport, all efforts to build up the place ceased anil removals began, one by one, until today but one building remains tip-on the site of the once flourishng village. The visitor to its site wiil behold none of its former importance. Only the old-time hotel, up to ISfHi a farmer's stopping place, with its spacious bar-room, once a hotel office, where the politicians of the latter met to discuss the possibilities' of her seeming the coveted prize, but now an ordinary farm house, remains personal applications to be antici be Remains of Fred Traeger to er church at the county seat. Theii house of worship was sold and the proceeds applied to aid the Presbyterian church of Davenport. The Methodists, however, maintained theii 'class" or society for several year? longer, but finally abandoned it -bout the elate e)f the close of the war.

somewhere about the yeai 1815 or '66, this church property was sold and became private property. The Firet School Taught. The first school session in Rocking hum was held in the summer of 1837 It was taught by Miss Rhoela Vosbury i niece of Judge W. L. Cook.

Rev Enoch Mead taught a four-months' term in the following winter. The township now has something like three sub-districts with an enrollment of something over 150. Several neat frame sc hoolhouss. chief of which IS the "Walnut Hill." and just, west of town, testify to the ad vance made in the educational his tory of this little township since 1837. The First Sabbath School.

The first Sabbath school was organized in Rockingham in 1838, more than 58 years ago by the Rev. Enoch Mead. No early history of this sclioo' has been preserved except that (latin? from the organization in 1857 and run tiiug onward until covering a period of a quarter of a century. Miss-Harriet X. McKarg gives the following account of the school during that period I Davenport.

Iowa. 1 883. 1 Nearly a quarter of a century since (1857) the Rev. John H. Wlnsor (now of St.

Paul. assisted by Jo seph Bloomer, a student of Iowa college, Davenport, organized a I'nion Sabbath school in the old M. E. church Brought Here for Burial. The Service Men of the Spanish wai lere have telegraphed to the quartermaster general at Washington to forward the body of Fred Traeger who lied last week at the Presidio, in San Francisco to Davenport for burial.

No eply has as yet been received, so the 'ime of the arrival and the funeral is lot known. The services, however, will be under the auspices of the Serv-ce Me of the Spanish war. Fred Traeger had been invalided lonie but had only beem at the San Francisco, six hours when 'lis death occurred. was a member of the Twenty-second regiment at 'he time of his death. In July, 1898 of "grafted" and "budded" trees.

Ho stopped at. Rockingham village, where the entire stock was disposed of. The trees were admirably adapted to the climate and the fruit showed excel ent quality. Among those who made As we have already stated, the town of Rockingham was laid out in ISUi by J. II.

Sullivan, James Davenport. Adrian II. Davenport nnd others, and was located in section 8 of tnat township. In the August of that year Colonel Sullivan with his family and some others came out for settlement. On the first of May.

183(1, the infanto village contained only two log cabins, one being occupied Ivy Adrian H. Davenport and his family and the other by a Mr. Foster. Mr. Sullivan brought with him a small stock of goods, and removing his store from Stevenson now Rock Island where he had been ratling for a year previous, he erected a small building and opened a dry goods and grocery store, the first in the town, which for some time did a thriving business.

With Surprisinq Growth. So rapidly did the little place augment that in the fall and winter of 1S3H Rockingham contained some thirteen houses and about Dt'i inhabitants, among whom may be mentioned the following gentlemen: Colonel and family. A. II. Davenport and family, Davenport and family.

John Coleman and brothers. John Willis. S. S. Brown.

Henry C. Morehead. David Sullivan. Cornelius Harrold. Richard Harrison.

James he came to Davenport and was one of he first, rec ruits from the outside to enlist in Co. B. He went with the "ompany to Camp Cuba Libre and re- 'urne'd home with it to Des Moines, where- he was mustered out. Later he ioined the Twenty-second regiment. V.

S. with which he was in active service in the Philippines. I ne ete-'cnsi-d's parents are dead. He is a nephew of Joe Traeger. of this city.

FEARS FOR SENATOR DAVIS. pated. Annual Expenditure. "All this requires money: large money. We counted up over $700,000 of aggregate expenditure last year.

General Secretary John Adling estimates that the gross daily expenses are never less than C250 sterling-English money. Eighty dollars maintains a child for n. year in the home. It costs less to support them when they are boarded out. as they frequently are, in some moral Christian household.

Fifty dol'ars pays passage-across the sea. A host of secretaries, tepchi-rs and agents are required to look after all this, the central establishment at Stepway Causeway resembling some great clearing houses. The money comes from rich and poor In free-will offerings. 85.708 such gifts came to hand in Royalty and children's hands eomnele in sending help, and in answe to prayer, every emergency and. necessity is met.

How Work Developed. 'How did this great work come to be instituted and developed? Thee account of it reads almost like a modern chapter of the Acts of 0e Apostles. Tliirty-I'our years ago a young medical student, who was preparing tn go abroad for medical mission work, perhaps in China, was detained i'i the lower part of London by a pestilence that was carrying off its multitudes. He took a hand in the work of caring for the sick and destitute. In the midst of his labors he got acquainted with certain lads of the street, who led.

him into the iiside of their daily living and he discovered to his astonishment and horror that a large number of the hoys and girls that roam the thoroughfares of London were absolutely without home or shelter. He took with him the Earl of Shaftshury and some other benevolent men, one nieht, and routed 73 of them from roofs and oil barrels and boxes. That stirred conviction, anil his associates gave a good portion of their future to the work ef res uing and reclaiming the ragged population of England's great cities. The work has grown since the beginning until now it is recognized as one of the established charities of the land. It was ours to attei-d the Inst anniversary gathering in London, where Lord Brassey preside and Sir George Williams anil others of the best men of England congratulated Dr.

Bernardo, standing modestly by. on the greatness and blessedness of the work. 'That Dr. said a prison warden, apologizing half humorously for the small number of prisoners, 'keeps our jails So may it he in more lands than one." Three Bubbles in One And How It Is Done. the oilier end and other two casv c- Chairman of Foreign Affairs Committee May Not Survive Operation.

St. Paul. Nov. 5. United States Senator Cushman K.

Davis is Morlously sick and the chances arc-that he will "not recover. His foot, poisoned accidentally a few weeks ago. fails to yield to treatment, and a sur-eeon from Chicago has been summoned to take charge of the senator's case. Dr. Stone, Senator Davis' family physician, last night stated that it would be- necessary to amputate a part of the foot, and thai it might mean the 'oss of the entire foot if not the leg.

If this should be necessary he fears that the patient will not survive the ipei ation. The se-nator, it is reported, has lost hope of ree overing, and this fact ren-di-rs the case more serious. Tin- specialist from Chicago is ex-pee ted to arrive today, when a consultation will be held. It is thought that a crisis will be reached within the next dav or two. but it is evident from talks with the physiean and members of flie family that the death of the senator would not he a surprise.

in bubbles lies. Whin the soapy, and after water up so thai it a little experiment is a specialty of eriiorcuiture, and horticulture generally, may be mentioned Rev. Enoch Mead, the Presbyterian divine. Charles Jacob Friday and his son. John M.

Friday, Sanford Stevens and Richard Jenkins. Town Platted in 1836. The energetic rival of Davenport in the late '30's was Rockingham, which, from the year 1831 to 1841), promised to divide honors with her, until the contest for the county scat in the latter year shrouded her hopes and dimmed her prestige forever, in March, ope year after the settlement of the present site of Davenport, and two years after the Black Hawk pur-'hase. Adrian H. Dnventmrt made a "htim at Rockingham and he and ins uncle.

James Davenport, and Colonel John Sullivan became proprietors of the site of what thrv dreamed would one day a thriving city. A town was laid out. and a ferry established between its shore and the mouth of Rock river opposite. This was the third ferry operated across the Mississippi river, the first being the celebrated Clark ferry at Buffalo, while Antoine LeClaire divides honors with Colonel George Davenport in the establishment of the second between Davenport and Stephenson mow Roc Island). The Exodus to Davenport.

Adrian II. Davenport also kept a general store in the infant village, and for a time did a large and lucrative business, fie was the moving spirit in Roc kingham until along about 184i). when Davenport was chosen for the county seat, and tin; desertion of the village commenced. All the leading residents of the place, aside from Mr. Davenport, pulled up stakes and re-mo1, ed to the promising young city several miles further up the river.

Admirable Site for a City. In the tall of the city of Rockingham was laid out by a company, among whom were Adrian II. Davenport. Colonel John Sullivan. Ebenezer Cook.

General George B. Sargent. Dr. Barrows. Benjamin W.

Clark, of Buffalo. John P. Cook, a Mr. Robertson and John B. Sheller.

It was thought to he a most admirable' site for a city, an. I an excellent locality for shipping, tor i lie re ason that it was opposite the embrouelmrc of Bock river, which whs igh lo blow three one iusi-le of simple when here is the explain the first place ing. if soap is used, the fl ol her. It is ou know how. and nation of the trick.

proper eon so that the sisleucy will be obtained. the important is to have the right kind of water to make good bubbles. Take some soap containing a larne amount of glycerine, or better still, take one-third of a part of e-heni-ii ally pure glycerine and one and one- building now standing a few yards from its old site in the town libit ol Rockingham. This school has fifty enrolled names and the teac hers were particular in reguni to the memorizing of the Scriptures, a good custom now considered far behind the times. Mary K.

Mead, Maggie A. Colema'i and Mary E. McKarg. misses in the intermediate class, recited almost complete the four evangelists during the summer, for in that day all country Sunday schools went into winter quarters or losed in October. At the spring opening the school was taken in care of the M.

E. church and John Coleman was appointed superintendent, who kept it in good working order for three successive summers. The place of meeting was afterwards changed to the Franklin school house and was again Union, with Mr. Ether-el Camp for superinlende-tit. This organization continued for three years.

About this time Rev. Enoch Mead conducted a Bicle class in the study of the Westminster short Catechism with the Baker xposition. This was held at another house in a room in an old log bouse on the McKarg farm. In a few weeks we all went to the Franklin school house and elected Mr. John Coates superintendent for two years.

In 1801 it was thought bi'st to have a school in Rockingham independent of the Franklin, as it would ge a few pupils from the river bank to attend who could not be induced to walk to the bluff. Mrs. John Willis had harge of this school, and at the close- of tlm summer the Franklin superintendent. Mr. Charles Hamnora.

was drafted, and on his leaving the school was s.utiered and demoralized. Mrs. Willis worked on faithfully bubbles stand well. Do not blow the bubbles in too warm a room, as the evaporation bursts them. Then cover a p'ate with a thin layer of the soapy water.

Blow a bubble from the widest tube and lay it gently on the plate. Soak the other smaller tube in tie-soapy water, so that it is wet some distance from the outer end. Then very gently insert the tube and blow a bubble Willi it in the bilge bubble already on the plate, as in figure Now yon have two hubbies inside of Republican Estimate. New York. Nov.

5. At the Republican national headquarters this afternoon those in charge reiterated last night's statement that McKinley's electoral majority will be 294. It is said bv the leaders that these figures stand as the final prediction, and are counted conservative. one another. To make the third take a common ciap pipe, wet, it well on the outside in the soapy water, and then, inserting it very gently into the inner of the other two bubbles, blow a bllb- THE MEETING AT ELDRIDGE.

jiue. nm too larue. ami till it win cigarette or i igar smoke, through the. pipe I to make it more distinct. Release the bubble from the pipe end.

withdraw I the pipe ami you have three bobbies niii aculoiiMy inside of each other, or Ante-Election Odds. New York. Nov. 5. J.

J. Judge lias received to bet on Bryan ut odds of one to five-. There is an unlimited amount of money to bet on McKinley at 4 to.l. and some at 4'2 to 1. Secretary Jas.

Wilson Greeted With a Large Audience. If was a very large audience that greeted Secretary James Wilson at Fldi'idge Saturday night. The meeting was one of the most enthusiastic that has ever been seen in that part of the county and the speaking was listened to attentively and long. Besides Mr. Wilson.

Joe R. Lane spoke in a very convincing manner. THREE PERFECT BUBBLES. third distilled water containing a little oleic acid natron. Make two tubes out of rolled wrapping paper, cowling the paper with mucilage on both tides before robing il up.

1-! one tube be about an inch in diameter at ast it seems miraculous to any who not know how it i-. at oie- don services will be held the Congregational C. Davis is to preach Thanksgiving this year in church. Rev. C.

the sermon. S. McCliirc Co. supposed to We navigable. General summer and winter lor the term of (ip iUtl i'liMI.