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i Thursday Evening, October 19,1944THE ZANESVtsssa»as0Eses!4®lt;aiaBsa»8easK^Putnam in the Old DaysTannery firm 49 tmmn Mm ReealM; Alto tta immviih NmMMbf tfca Santa Tear; Hew Goosa Craafcart Referred fa Uppar fmtamm a* CawfawnPictures of the FlndeUs ftHeckel (now C. Findeiw ft Sons) tannery employes remind Putnam residents that the tannery, on Muskingum avenue between Van Buren and Harrison streets, wsb almost totally destroyed by fire on Tuesday morning, July 5, 1904, It was part frame and part brick.The night watchman first saw the flames about 1 o’clock. They broke out In the boiler room, a one-story brick located north of the main plant. The watchman's first efforts were made with a small hose attached to a hydrant. He soon saw how futile this would be and ran to call the firemen. Before making the run, Chief Tanner notified the men at the Putnam station. All the carriages were then summoned except the one on Monroe street.When the fireman arrived, flames had leaped froni the engine room. They were able to save adjoining property but the main portion of the plant bad to go. Only the hide and ^ hark houses and the office remained..It was in the same year, 1904, that some other notable events occurred. The Japs were fighting the Russians and, as underdogs, had all our sympathy. Who would have guessed then that 40 years later, in 1941, we would be fighting’the Japs and on the side of Russia?On May 4, 1904, the Columbus, Newark and Zanesville Interurban line (known as the Ohio Electric) went into operation and the Southeastern line to Roseville and Crooks-ville (via Moxahala park, followed shortly. The tracks went -across Sixth Street bridge, down Muskingum avenue to, Adams, then down Moxahala avenue to Lincoln, turned west on Lincoln and went over past Erskine’s grocery to the Mays-ville avenue undercut, thence down Maysville to South Zanesville. Little did anyone dream at that time that within 29 years the automobile would be a formidable competitor for trolley car traffic and eventually put them out ‘of busi-The James Boddngfittn elut of the Putnam Presbyterian Sunday schol In 1890. Standing: Nettie Bagtey (Mrs. Barker); Zetta Drake, Lottie Coon (Mrs. Mann). Seated: Stella Cunningham (Mrs. Joe Baxter); Juba Kappe* (Mrs. Frederick Dodd); Daisy Curtis (Mrs. W. E. Stockdale). Mrs. Baxter, Mr*. Dodd and Zetta Draft* (her married name is not recalled) are deceased. The picture Is the property of Mr*. W. H Stockdale, *44 Putnam avenue.Zanesville's 1904 homeeom-ing, arranged for Friday, September 16, moved residents 10 flattering evidences of hospitality, brought former citizens to town In great numbers, and also moved one of these former residents to write some recollections of his boyhood days in Putnam. He wrote so well and so interestingly that this Putnam series would hard-Jv be complete without their i '■■production. They will form substantial parts of the next several intalments.The members of the old City Guard under Col. Fred Geiger, received »he guests in the railroad stations and escorted :iem to entertainment headquarters In the Masonic Temple whic had been erected but two or three years before. The home-coming badges pinned on the guests bore e view of the “Y” bridge which was brand new at that time. Bauer's band was on the job and played the old familiar and appropriate tunes such as “My Old Kentucky Home, “Johnny Comes Marching Home,” “Home, Sweet Home.” Mayor \V. B. Deacon and a special committee of citizens were the official greeters. The committee included: W. W. Hoskins, (\ T. Marshall, John Rowe, c. A, Barton, J. W. Morgan, William Lilienthal, James Benjamin, C. H. Flesher, W. M. Bateman, L. F. Lutz, E. Miles, W. C. Handschy, J. F. Brown, E. B. Roemer, G, W. Shaw, Thomas Goodiive, John Mack, H. C. Lillibridge,* William Lar-zelere, George R. Fox, A. P. Rusk, M. M. Deacon, C. D. Wedge, O. A. Bauer, R. L, Queisser, Robert Price, Parker Bolin, Karl Kappes, J, M. Moore, J. D. Edminston.. To make those home-comers who had once been Zanesville boys and girls feel entirely at home on their arrival, one thing more remained to be dcnc. While guests were being registered, those familiar words “Any washin* tubs to hoop'’ broke upon the air, with all their old-time long-• firawn out melody; and when the visitors looked for Gilbert Turner, there he stood oil the fringe of the crowd, with hammer and bands of hoops in his hand.Employes of the Fbidetes ft Hcckel tannery in 1911. The tannery was located at Muskingum avenue and Harrison street.Back row standing: William Flndeiss, Mose Phillips, Henry Bek, Walter Bauer, Christian Flmlcb*. Gus Taylor, Henry Fisher, William Ernst. William Stemm, James Watkins, Albert Bauer, Georg© Durant.Second row seated: August Kopittfee, George Rudolph, William Stir,It el, Fred HolaichuJier, Russel Harsch, Charles Mil (felt, Sam Ltwby, cimrlae Adams, Howard Haxen.Front row seated:. Erhardt Eck (boy), John Ross, Clarence Gilger, Frits Eck (boy) Harry Eck (boy) Wajtcr Holxchuher, Wilbur Sear!, Lloyd Searl (boy in front of Dad), Brace Taylor,A 1926 picture of employes of C. Find els* ft Sons (formerly Find els* ft Heckel):Back row, standing: Albert Bauer, Fred Stick-e|, Edgar L. Naramore, Fred Popp, William Ftndeiss, Christian Flndeiss, Max Ftodelss, Clifford Weatenbarger, James H.. Watkins, Joseph Ludwig, Wm. Ernst, Bernard E. Todd, Charles Baughman.Second row, kneeling: William H. Stickel, Robert Rodocker, Henry Eck, Clyde Fox, Wilbur Searl, George Kuccriah, Preston Leach, Chester Jewett, Santo Aneilo, Harry Baughman, Wm. Baughman.Front row, seated: Fred Myers, Orville Baughman, Albert Frick, ojhn McCray, ecrge Rudolph, Earl llamler, Harry Jewett, Samuel Beaver, Charles Bauer.aders who have noticed we have been inquiring a plctu.'e of Gilbert Tur-will be. interested in the wing letter . which we re-y received from one of laughters:1918 Bond avenue.East St. Louis, Illinois. Old Times Editor Zanesville Signal Dear Sir:While making a brief visit in Zanesville during August I was told by Mrs. Irma Young, 1144 Moxahala avenue, that you wanted to obtain a picture of my father, Gilbert (Tubs to Hoop) Turner.I have several, and I will have a photographer take some copb s of -them, and I ivil] end you the copies. Gilbert Tv’ivr died in Zanesville ir. is overaber, 1914, Laving a wife and two daughters, Fanny and Lucy Turner. My sister Fanny and I (Lucy) both are teaching public school in the city of East St. Louis, 111. Our mother, Mr*. Sarah Ellen Turner, died out here in 1935, and her body was taken back to Zanesville and buried in Woodlawn cemetery. Our father, Gilbert Turner, 1« also hurled In Woodlawn.Sincerely, Lucy Mae Turner.It was in this same year. 1904, that Zanesville began to take steps to secure a clear and pure water supply. Remember when a turn of the tap used to produce a liquid about the color of root beer? And you had to draw the water for washing the night before, let it settle over night and then skim the clear water off the top? It wasn't an unusual thing to find a water dog in the lines. The situation really got so bad that the state board of health threatened to take a hand.We now have the clear and pure water and now, 40 years later, need soft water to com- ' plete the solution of the water problem. We didn't intend to become editorial but let's not stop until we secure that water-softening plant for which the Sunday Times-Signal has been spearheading thepublicity.ture of Dr. H. T. Sul I on In last Sunday's Times-Signal reminds us that Dr. Sutton wns one of Putnam's early nnd popular doctors and that his residence and office was on the site of the present Findeiss home. We have a very distinct recollection of falling and hitting cur chin on the curbstone near Billy Scott’s grocery and being taken to Dr. Sutton’s office to have It Janced. And somehow or other we’re proud of the resulting scar as is a soldier of his chevron. We have the fondest memory of Dr. Sutton not only because he was a noted physician and a man of great personal charm and kindly manner, but because he was a lifelong friends of ourfather.her .Lawson Willes taught school at the corner Of Maysville pike and Wlngeier lane (now Clay street)?When the Somerset hack ran up Back street (Woodlawn avenue) across the Third Street bridge?When the mule street cars ran up Eppley avenue to the fair grounds’;When, Nell L-hrack could outrun the Ltorie Cassell from the Zanesville hrka to the Taylorsville locks and finish fresh as a daisy?When J. B. Williams rode a pony from his livery atable to his farm and *11 the Putnam Ikes stole his big black-hcart cherries?When the grave robbers stole Goose Egg” Carl's sister from the Putnam cemetery and were chased out West pike and captured and the whole outfit brought back andDr. H. T. Sutton, pictured •hove mu a young man, waa one nf Putnam's early doctors and maintained his office and residence on the east side of Putnam avenue between Jefferson and Madison street* where the Flnddas home Is now located.locked up in the county jail by old Bill Unton?When W. N. Merrick played in the Putnam band?When Chauncel Olcott sang in Jewett's stock bam?The same writer recalls that Putnam produced a lot of notable men, had its own postoffice and that everybody raised hogs and had a cow. Which reminds that In the esrly days there was great rivalry between lower Putnam (the Goose Creek era) and upper Putnam which the Goose Creekeri inelegantly referred to as cowtown.” But more of this anon.Seeing Norris Schneider's interesting article on Good Sa-mtritan hospital and the plc-f Oldtimer” asks, among other things, if we remember W. N. Merrick’s Putnam bend? It was. just a bit before our time but here is a contribution from Alf Merrick, his son, who like his father became a circus band leader. As a member of the band, he Is able to throw a good deal of light on its history:“1 have been very much Interested in the stories running in The Signal about Putnam iln the Good Old Days. Do you remember the Putnam band that wos organized in the early nineties by my father, the late W. N. Merrick? The news got out that he was willing to start a band. There were a lot of tryouts at our home on the point—at Maysville and Putnam avnues. I remember one boy that came with * horn from which one of the valves wa* gone but the spring was tied to the horn. He remarked that he had the “pusher” but the “stopper W»* gone,After a lot of trials the bond was formed with Ralph McCormick, Cess Smith and William Gibbon* on the cor-
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