Zanesville City (part 5 of 8)

The Buckeye Building and Loan Company, February 20, 1888, on the permanent plan, and organized the company for business July 26, 1888; it was unfortunate in some of its operations and June 12, 1899, its business was entrusted to F. M. Ford, E. M. Ayers and R. L. Holland, as trustees, who have been closing up its affairs and eighty per cent. has been paid to the creditors to date.

The City Building Company was incorporated May 11, 1890, on the permanent plan, and operated largely in South Zanesville, a "boom" project; the investments sustained heavy shrinkage, and the company went out of business and was an unfortunate enterprise for all who had an interest in it.

The Economy Building and Loan Company was incorporated February 18, 1887, to operate on the permanent plan and the following directors and officers were chosen at the organization of the company, February 23, 1887: R. D. Schultz, president: T. J. Barton and John M. Bonnett, vice presidents; Henry R. Stanbery, secretary and attorney: H. A. Sharpe, treasurer; W. M. Shinnick, jr., Charles F. Hatton, E. R. Sullivan, John \. Steiner, William F. Beaumont, Ed F. Dillon and Henry C. Werner.

The Farmers' Building and Loan Company was incorporated on the permanent plan and organized June 18, 1889, and January 7, 1905, consolidated with and merged into the Economy Building and Loan Company.

The Citizens' Building and Savings Company was incorporated September 19, 1887, on the permanent plan, and was organized October 28, 1887, with the following directors: Mendal Churchill, president; Thomas E. Richards and Edgar M. Hatton, vice presidents; Robert D. Schultz, T. J. Barton, M. D.: Henry C. Werner, H. Eugene Printz, Thomas S. Murphy. William F. Beaumont, Julius Frank, John J. Thomas and John N. Steiner. In addition, Henry R. Stanbery was elected secretary and attorney, and George H. Stewart, treasurer. The number of directors was in later years reduced to nine.

The Ohio Safe Deposit and Trust Company was incorporated September 21, 1889, and was organized April 15, 1890, by electing the following directors: Thomas E. Richards, president; T.

J. Barton, first vice president; W. M. Shinnick, jr., second vice president; Henry R. Stanbery, manager and cashier; W. A. Graham, A. H. Bonnett, Wilbur F. McCoy, W. N. Werner, Thomas H. Fogarty, John N. Steiner, I. N. Clossman, Alexander Grant, S. A. Baldwin, T. J. Davis, M. D., and William Kirk. The company acts as a safe deposit company only and does not accept trusts; the number of its directors has been reduced to seven; the banking room is at No, 11 South Fifth street, and the Economy, Farmers' and Citizens' Building companies occupy the same rooms.

Among the early building companies, on the terminating plan, and which successfully closed out their business, were the Pataskala Building Association, incorporated February 6, 1873; People's Building Company, incorporated March 6, 1880, and the Germania Building Association,

The record of the financial institutions of the city is one to which no taint of dishonest practices attaches, and the losses which have been sustained were the results of incompetency, errors of judgment or inattention to conservative banking methods, and not attributable to corrupt practices of the officials, when more strenuous (?) measures indicate a greater measure of success, the inclination to imitate is strong, but the record of nearly a century of happy results ought to admonish the bank officials and the depositors that the lack of ruins along the road of conservatism is a more agreeable prospect than the wrecks which are spread so frequently along the highways of what has been recently so aptly styled "frenzied finance."

Home

PROMINENT PRIVATE STRUCTURES AND INSTITUTIONS, COMPRISING PUBLIC HALLS, THE ZANE HOUSE, THE ANTHENEUM, THE JOHN MCINTIRE CHILDREN'S HOME, SCHULTZ OPERA HOUSE, WELLER'S THEATER, ZANESVILLE CITY HOSPITAL, GOOD SAMARITAN HOSPITAL, HELEN PURCELL HOME.

Public Halls

for dramatic performances was in the second story of a three-story brick building, on the east side of Tifth street, north of Main, erected in concert and theatrical purposes, and at the time was reputed to be the largest and finest west of the mountains ; it contained a portable stage and scenes, with benches for an audience, and Miss Julia Dean is said to have made her debut in this room, when five years of age. The building was razed when the opera block was erected.

The antiquated, two-story brick building, still standing on the west side of Potter alley, between Main street and Fountain alley, was erected in 1826, by "Joe" Stacy, proprietor of the Stacy House, and was known as Stacy's saloon, although no liquor was sold in it. A thirst parlor was maintained in a room on Main street, at about the site of Nye's drug store, and from it a large arbor, covered with grape vines, extended to the brick building in the rear, and the fruit was pressed into wine, and sold in the Main street room. 'The brick building had windows on the east or alley side, but they opened upon a hall or narrow entry, and two of the rooms on the ground floor had no windows, and sounds from the interior were not audible upon the outside; these rooms were used for gambling purposes, although public sentiment was not so strong against the practice, and the knights of the pasteboards were not pursued with so much persistence by the officers of the law as in the present day, and the shelter of the arbor was welcomed by many who were attracted to the rooms where "the fool and his money are soon parted." The second floor was fitted as an assembly room, concert hall and theater, and the association below did not detract from its popularity as a reputable place of assembly. In 1854 the structure became the property of L. P. Bailey, and was used in the production of organs, pianos and the fine cabinet work for which he and his son, Howard, were so noted.

During the winter of 1831-2 two traveling theatrical companies occupied the boards in Zanesville for thirty-nine consecutive nights, an engagement which the city could not sustain in its present more metropolitan dimensions, but traditions vary as to which of the above mentioned assembly rooms were occupied.

Other assembly rooms were opened in the present brick building at the southeast corner of Main and Fifth streets, and the "City Hall," in the third story of the brick building still standing at the northwest corner of Main and Fourth streets, but those described became secondary in attractiveness when the second floor of the Odd Fellows' building, and the Nevitt and Dixon hall, in the third story of the building still standing at the northwest corner of Main and Seventh streets, were opened for public uses.

The first room permanently fitted for theatricals was Black's Music Hall, erected in 1862, on the south side of Main street. east of Third, and as it appeared until the Opera Block was erected; the gabled building was a livery stable, which with the three story portion of the Zane gave place to the present Opera Block. The balcony shown was a popular place of assembly for the ladies of the hotel and friends.

now occupied by Zanesville Lodge, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, as lodge and club rooms. A balcony was thrown across the width of the room, at the Main street end and the stage occupied the Locust alley end; in the rear of the auditorium the floor was slightly elevated, but the greater portion of the floor was level, and as there was no law at the time requiring the removal of headgear,'a sight of the stage was obtained usually only by continued contortion of the head and shoulders. Upon the opening of Schultz' Opera House, undoubtedly the most popular building ever erected in the city, the Music Hall's occupation, like Othello's, was gone.

Zane House

In 1806 Gen. Van Horne erected a two-story frame hotel building at the northeast corner of Main and Fifth streets, which was opened by Benom Peirce; several landlords succeeded him and in 1818 the proprietor constructed a three-story brick addition, thirty-one by eighty feet, along Fifth street. The owner died in 1825, and his widow removed the original frame and replaced it by a three-story brick to correspond with the addition, and a portion of the frame hotel was moved to the second lot north of the Second Presbyterian church, on Fifth street, and converted into a dwelling, so long known as the N. G. Abbot residence, and still standing and occupied as a residence.

In 1855-6 the fourth story was added to the corner building and this erection of 1825 still remains with its eighty years, a specimen of the substantial handiwork of the craftsmen of that day. When the name of Zane House was applied to the hostelry has not been ascertained, but it was a famous house of entertainment in its day, and was closed as a hotel upon the opening of the Clarendon about 1878.

December 19, 1827, a meeting was held for the purpose of forming a reading society ; Alexander Harper presided, and Alfred Martin acted as secretary: articles of association for the Zanesville Atheneum were adopted, and December 22, 1828, the organization was incorporated by act of the General Assembly, the corporate authority being vested in Alexander Harper, Charles B. Goddard, Richard Stillwell, A. Cadwallader, William A. Adams, Bernard Van Horne, Alfred Martin, James V. Cushing and their associates. The rules were revised February 16, 1829, and the following officers chosen: Alexander Harper, president: Alfred Martin, secretary; James V. Cushing, treasurer ; Seth Adams, librarian; R. Stillwell, A. Cadwallader, C. B. Goddard, B. Van Horne, W. A. Adams, directors.

February 6, 1830, a lease was effected with the County Commissioners for the land on the east end of the court house for a period of one thousand years,and at an annual rental of one cent, and March Io, 1830, a contract was entered into with John Wilson for the erection of a brick building at a cost of $3,500. At the request of John Wilson and Asa R. Cassady, undertakers, and William Blocksom and Charles G. Wilson, building committee, the corner stone was laid April 13, 1830, by Lodge of Amity, No. 5, Free and Accepted Masons, with the following officiating officers: David Spangler, Robert Stewart, Joshua C. Hook, William Berkshire, G. Wynkoop, James Caldwell, Adam Peters and William Twaddle. A procession was formed of Masons, citizens and others, marshaled by Daniel Convers and D. W. Rhodes, and conducted to the site, where Rev. Emory opened the exercises with prayer; after the Masonic rites Gen. C. B. Goddard delivered the oration and the services closed with the benediction by Rev. Emory.

When the erection of the present court house was contemplated it was essential to occupy the ground leased to the Atheneum, and the county paid $6,575.00 to recover the ground. With the proceeds the Atheneum purchased the building on Fourth street, opposite the court house, now occupied by the Zanesville Bank, borrowing some money to pay the difference, but in April, 1876, the number of stockholders was so reduced, and the income so inadequate to maintain the institution that the: MicIntirerestate, by sdecrée 'of the Court of Common Pleas, agreed to pay $1,000.00 per year to its support on condition that ''Each member of the senior class of the Putnam Female Seminary; each scholar of the Zanesville High School, each member of the senior schools of the several districts of the city; each member of the senior class of St. Columbia's Academy; each member of the senior class of the St. Nicholas German Catholic School; each member of the senior class of the then colored schools of the city, and forty others who shall be agreed upon by the Atheneum committee of the McIntire Board, shall each year receive a certificate entitling him or her to the privileges of the library and reading room, subject to the rules and regulations governing them." In 1884 the annual contribution was increased to $1,525.00, and at least four of the Atheneum Board were to be members also of the McIntire Board.

In the fall of 1887 the building on Fourth street was sold, and a three-story brick purchased at the northwest corner of Fifth street and Locust alley, and July 1, 1904, the building and library were conveyed to the Board of Education of the city, with the stipulation that the city would assume the mortgage notes for $3,400.00 upon the building, held by the McIntire Board, and maintain a public library, in accordance with the statute of

1902, empowering Boards of Education to create and maintain public libraries; the stipulation was also made that it should be called "The John Mc- Intire Public Library," and that it should be free to school and poor children upon reasonable regulations ; that in case the building was sold and the library not kept public, the property should be returned to the McIntire Board; that the Board of Education was privileged to sell the real estate, but must pay the mortgage note, and use the residue for the purchase of a new site, or if a new site were otherwise provided, such surplus could be applied to the maintenance of the library. If the Board of Education should fail to maintain and keep open for one year the public library, all property conveyed and in possession to be returned to the McIntire Board, and if the real estate had been sold the difference between the mortgage note and the proceeds of the sale to be paid to the McIntire Board; but if the real estate were returned the $3,400.00 should be refunded by the McIntire Board.

During the winter and spring of 1860-1 Mrs. Van Buren had spoken to several ladies about the establishment of a home for children in Zanesville, but the Civil War attracted all attention and the subject was dropped. During June, 1865, Mrs. Van Buren called on Mrs. George James to consult her about her plan, and they conferred with others, and finally a meeting was held in a small class room in the Second street church, and a committee was appointed to canvass each ward and secure subscriptions of five cents or more per week. July 24, 1865, a second meeting was held in the same place to draft regulations, to which Mrs. Van Buren had invited several gentlemen: as the attendance was greater than the capacity of the room the meeting was adjourned to the lecture room, where Rev. Leavitt opened the deliberations with prayer, and Gen. Leggett introduced a gentleman from Cleveland, who made some remarks about a similar home in that city, and was followed by several other of the gentlemen present.

July 31, 1865, an organization was effected by electing Henry Blandy president, Joseph Black and C. W. Potwin, vice presidents; John Taylor, jr., secretary; D. H. Willard, treasurer, and a board of control for the Muskingum County Children's Home was selected by naming Mesdames Van Buren, Hazlett, Brown, Leggett, Brooks, Benjamin Wheeler and T. J. Maginnis; Miss Mary Flood was chosen first matron.

The first inmates were sheltered in a brick building in Market street, east of Blocksom alley, belonging to Miss Flood's mother; the children occupied two upstairs front rooms, one as dor- mitory and the other as school and play room; the family dining room was used for meals. At first only two inmates were cared for, but the number increased until in the ensuing. April there were eight girls and nine boys; more room was required and a one-story frame house, with five acres of land, in the Wheeling road, opposite the Harris brick yard, one mile from the court house, was bought for $2,150.00. Aaron Charlotte and wife were employed April 1, 1866, to take charge, and on that date the Home moved to the new quarters ; but more room was soon needed, and a second story was put on the building, and an annex added. A loan of $2,000.00 was secured from the McIntire estate, and a mortgage given on the premises, and an appeal to the city churches for aid was generously responded to.

May 14, 1866, the Board of Control was increased to sixteen members and the clergy made honorary members; the McIntire estate was appealed to, but the administrators held that its money could not be diverted to the Home as some of the children were non-residents of the city. Messrs. Blandy and Potwin waited on the supreme judges, who decided that the money could be used in the interest of the Home if the children lived within the limits of the city.

April 1, 1867, Mrs. Highfield was appointed matron and resigned September 14, when her daughter, Mrs. Ely, was named and May 16, 1868, the name was changed by the Court of Common Pleas to the McIntire Children's Home. Commencing January, 1869, the McIntire administrators made an annual contribution of $2,000.00 to the Home, and for some time previous had been paying the cost of the teacher. February 27, 1874, the Court of Common Pleas of Muskingum County changed the name to The McIntire Children's Home Association, and in order to introduce the full name of the testator, on September 23, 1880, The John McIntire Children's Home Association was organized, and the old home conveyed its property to the McIntire administrators, in satisfaction of the mortgage, and ceased to exist.

Work on the present beautiful Home was begun May 7, 1879, and the buildings were completed in August, t880. The main building is 90 by 125 feet, the basement of limestone: the central portion is three stories, and the east and west wings two stories; the walls are brick, with stone trimmings, and Mansard roof: the building is heated by steam and cortains thirty-five rooms, and has a capacity of 125 children: the average number of Home children during the period has been forty and only three deaths have occurred.

July 25, 1895, a contract was awarded for the construction of a two-story addition at the northwest corner of the same contour as the original building. The school house is 75 yards east of the Home, and is a handsome two-room building with a capacity for 100 pupils; the attached farm comprises 104 acres upon which are two frame dwellings for the janitor of the Home and the overseer of the farm.

Schultz Opera House

The inferior facilities for dramatic and operatic amusements, which Black's Music Hall afforded, induced Schultz and Company to erect a Temple which would be a credit to the city, and they were so successful that the auditorium became a pride to every citizen, and although it has been "dark" several years, since the more commodious Weller was opened, the popular heart beats for the Schultz, in which the citizens have witnessed nearly all the leading stars of the last twenty years in their principal roles.

The building was designed by Oscar Cobb, of Chicago, and was regarded as his master piece, and no opera house in the west presented so many real excellences; it was rated as-the most perfect and convenient, in all its appointments, in Cleveland, in decoration. Its acoustic properties were perfect, and every sitting was comfortable and satisfactory. The parquette contains 176 chairs, parquette circle, 214, dress circle, 276, and the gallery benches seat 450, making the entire sitting 1,116. The stage is seventy feet wide and thirty-five feet deep ; the drop curtain was painted by Matt. Morgan, of Cincinnati, and represented Apollo standing in a golden chariot, leading out the horses of the sun. Preceding him, on the left, are dancing nymphs and satyrs, on the right, the twin muses, Tragedy and Comedy.

The opening was fixed for January 20, 1880, with the Emma Abbott English Opera Company as the officiating priests in the opera of Romeo and Juliet; a matinee on'the succeeding day, with Chimes of Normandy, and the Daughter of the Regiment, on the second night.

The sale of seats began at Munson's music rooms, Main street, at 9 a. m., January 13; the first purchaser took his stand at the door at 3 a. m., and up to 7 a. m. fourteen had fallen into line, and at g a. m. exactly 129 were counted ; at 10:30 a. m. all of the seats were sold for the opening night.

The audience was the most brilliant and fashionable previously assembled in the city, the majority being in evening costume, and each sought to distinguish the occasion. Governor Foster and family occupied a box, and he was called on for a speech, and the architect, and Miss Abbott were each called before the curtain, and made a brief response to the compliment.

And- Present Of Muskingum County

S. A. Weller, manufacturer of art pottery, decided to erect a theater of greater proportions than Schultz', and purchased the Clements' homestead, on the west side of Third street, north of Main, upon which the present beautiful structure, known as Weller's Theater, was erected. Harry C. Meyer, of Zanesville, and Frederick Elliott, of Columbus, were its architects, and Adams Brothers and C. O. Vinsel, of Zanesville, the contractors. The interior stucco work was designed and executed by Hugo Herbe, an artist at the Weller works, and the mural decorations he produced in the auditorium are equal in artistic design and mechanical finish to those which, in more public places, have earned the highest encomiums for their producers. The stage is forty-two by seventy feet, and the height, from the floor to the gridiron, is sixty-nine feet, while the steel fly gratings will accommodate the scenery carried by any traveling company. To the side and rear of the stage are four dressing rooms, heated by steam, lighted by both gas and electricity, and with outside ventilation; under the stage are four large dressing rooms for choruses, with a room for the orchestra, and in the rear the engine and boiler rooms.

The drop curtain was painted by John Rettig, of Cincinnati, and represents an ancient triumphial procession, which well repavs a detailed study by the waiting spectator. The seating capacity is seventeen hundred, with standing room for eight hundred additional, and six boxes; all seats on the ground floor are heavily upholstered, and the first five rows in the balcony partially so; a special stairway leads to the gallery, and in the rear of its seats is a large lobby and lavatory. In the rear of the balcony is a lobby and on the first floor, in addition to a large lobby is a smoking room on one side, and a ladies' retiring room on the other, in charge of attendants to care for wraps, with manager's and ticket office. Ample exits exist, and crowding is unnecessary to empty the auditorium in a short time.

The opening was set for Monday, April, 27, 1903, and the attraction was "When Johnny Comes Marching Home." The sale of seats began at 7:30 a. m., Thursday, April 23, at Schultz' Opera House, but Tuesday night, twenty-one bovs took places in Fountain alley, working in pairs and relieved each other at intervals; each purchaser was permitted to buy six tickets for each of the four performances, and although it rained continually during Wednesday, the boys held their places, and at 7 a. m., Thursday, two hundred persons were in line, and the sale continued until 5 p. m., and was resumed on Friday. The performances were in every respect suited to the character of the beautiful temple of historionic art, and during its comparatively brief existence has presented some of the most eminent dramatic and operatic stars of the period.

The Zanesville City Hospital Association

On February 19, 1888, C. W. Potwin, James Buckingham, John C. Sullivan, Moses M. Granger, .C.. Stolzenbach, Ty .F, Spangler.andeN. iI. Gant were incorporated as the Zanesville City Hospital Association, but no further action was taken under the authority thus secured; in March, 1890, a few ladies interested in the subject called a meeting in the parlors of the Young Men's Christian Association, which was largely attended, and in April an organization was affected under the incorporation papers of 1888, with twelve trustees, twenty-four managers, all ladies, and an advisory board ot four gentlemen. The trustees were chosen and took the oath of office, May 1, 1890, and fixed the membership fee at $1.00 per annum; a mid-summer festival was held, and in August an aggregate of $9,000.00 was in the treasury or promised. The Peabody homestead, in Underwood street, was purchased for $10,- 000.00, and the building formally opened and dedicated January 22, 1801.

The first trustees were: Mesdames James Herdman, Frank J. Terry, James R. Peabody, James 3uckingham, T. B. Townsend, D. I. Jones, Julius Frank, M. M. Granger, Ellen M. Gattrel, and Miss Mattie A. Taylor; tne last four named resigned, and were succeeded by Mesdames R. G. Silvey, C. C. Goddard, W. W. Harper, and Miss Jennie T. Ball. The first officers were: Mrs. James Herdman, president; Mrs. James Buckingham, first vice-president; Mrs. F. J. Terry, second vice-president; Miss Mattie A. Taylor, secretary, succeeded by Miss Jennie T. Ball; Mrs. Ellen M. Gattrell, treasurer, succeeded by Mr. W. H. Pierpont. The first advisory board was Rev. Frank Richards, F. H. Southard, C. Stolzenbach and M. Churchill.

Good Samaritan Hospital

During 1894 a hospital was opened in south meventh street, by fio 1. Sittton,. M: D,. and placed in charge of Mrs. Vicroy, a professional nurse; the institution was styled the Third Ward Hospital, and when Mrs. Margaret Blue learned of its establishment she made a written tender of financial assistance to Dr. Sutton, with whom she was then unacquainted. Through Dr. J. L. Holden, Mrs. Blue and Dr. Sutton were made acquainted, and the latter was requested to select a lot upon which a suitable building could be erected; he suggested that the one adjoining her home in the Marietta road would be very appropriate, and was told to have plans prepared, which were drawn by the Doctor's sister-in-law, Mrs. Helen Maginnis. During 1895 the Margaret Blue Sanitarium was incorporated as an institution, not for profit, by Hon. T. J. McDermott; H."T. Sutton; M: Dy Ho Ro Geyer, via! J. L. Holden, M. D., and C. L. Crider, M. D., and the building was erected and the first operation performed in it during the week preceding Christmas, 1895. The expense of construction and equipment had exceeded the estimate made to Mrs. Blue, and Drs. Sutton and Holden paid the excess. Dr. Sutton was nominal manager, and the Sanitarium was prosperous from the beginning, its wards being generally occupied, and soon it was more than self-sustaining.

As Mrs. Blue's health was impaired, upon the completion of the building, she took up her residence in the Sanitarium, and died there in 1900. The male trustees then resigned, and in May, 1900, were succeeded by five Franciscan Sisters of Christian Charity, who continued to operate the institution ; in 1902, its capacity was too limited for its demands, and plans for enlargement were considered ; about this time the E. J. Brush homestead, in Laurel avenue, on McIntire Terrace, was offered for sale, and its ample grounds, and greater accessibility suggested it as a more desirable site for the enlarged institution; the property was purchased, an addition of two brick wings, with stone trimmings, and wide verandas on each floor, for the comfort of convalescents, was made, at a cost of $10,000.00, and the building, with an aggregate of twenty-six rooms, was occupied June 28, 1902, and called The Good Samaritan Hospital. The vacation of the Margaret Blue Sanitarium was regarded by the Sisters as a relinquishment of the bequest, and they resigned in favor ot five gentlemen to take the property in the interest of the heirs of the donor, and with the vacation and surrender they paid their successors $1,800.00 in money.

The hospital was dedicated, Friday, June 27, 1902, with solemn splendor; service began at St. Nicholas church at 9:30 a. m., with high mass, after which carriages were taken by the officiating clergy and Sisters to the Hospital, where Rt. Rey. Bishop Henry Moeller officiated in the local exercises. Three rooms were furnished at private expense, one each by W. D. Schultz and wife, and A. E. Starr, and the children's ward by E. J. Brush and wife. ;

The Good Samaritan Hospital has no medical or surgical staff; any physician or surgeon of the city is admitted to practice in it, although Dr. Sutton is recognized as surgeon in chief; about a dozen Sisters are in attendance at all times, and the building has been much overcrowded for some time. Plans are about completed for an entirely new, modern, three-story brick hospital building, on the present grounds, to contain one hundred rooms in the portion which it is contemplated to erect at once, at a cost of perhaps $60,000.00.

Helen Purcell Home

Helen Purcell was born near Harper's Ferry, Virginia, November 24, 1824, and came to Zanesville with her parents in 1827; she was a delicate girl and unable to attend school continuously, and resided at Zanesville all her life, except from 1854 to 1866, which years she spent at Dayton. She was one of the founders of the Womens' Benevolent Society, and one of its most active and earnest workers, and at its meetings was accustomed to speak of the formation of an "old ladies' home," perhaps prompted thereto by her own loneliness as an unmarried woman. She died Sunday, May 31, 1885, and by will, dated March 26, 1885, named C. Stolzenbach, John M. Bonnett, jr., B. V. H. Schultz, Edgar W. Allen and-Z. C. McElroy, M. D., trustees to form a home for "aged, infirm and indigent widows, and unmarried women," the estate being worth about $7,800.00. The trustees were to have free power to prescribe rules for entrance and were advised to charge fees, as her expressed intention was to shelter the worthy and unfortunate, and not create an asylum for those who had wasted their substance.

November 6, 1885, The Helen Purcell Home was incorporated, and a portion of the estate was consumed in contesting the claims of heirs at law to have the will set aside; the will was sustained, and increments to the fund were made by Mrs. Esther M. Clark, $4,304.00; Mrs. Alexander Johnston, $200.00; Daughters of the American Bar aubens $243.46; W. B. S. Calendar, $140.00;

Girls' Club, $100.00; Children's Fund, $109.31; an unknown friend, $300.00; and others. The Childrens' fund was the development of two pennies; the ladies of the Womens' Benevolent Society had asked the school children to contribute to their work by donations of groceries, and in a bag of beans two pennies were found wrapped in paper; thev were given to a little girl to inaugurate some plan of increasing the contribution and she bought some cloth and made an iron holder which was sold for a dime; this was reinvested in more material for similar devices, and the result of the movement was $109.31, which was dedicated to the Helen Purcell Home. Miss Jennie T. Ball was an earnest friend of the, Home and her zealous labors had large pecuniary value.

In 1904 the beautiful grounds and commodious building of the former "Putnam Seminary were purchased ; the furniture in the building, which had been used by the Brunton Sanitarium, was donated by Mr. James B uckingham and his sis- ters, Mrs. S. S. Cox and Mrs. John A. Hardenbaugh; other benevolent persons made contributions, among whom were Mrs. General Samuel Thomas and Mrs. Mary E. Williams.

May 17, 1905, the Home was dedicated and opened. Edgar W. Allen delivered the opening address, reciting some events in the life of the founder; a quartet composed of Mrs. Charles Geis, Mrs. Mary Gebest-Rietz, Clyde Reasoner and H. O. Stanton, sang the "Gallant Troubadour,' Rev. A. M. Courtnay, D. D., offered an invocation; Mrs. Rietz and Mr. Stanton sang a duet ; Rev. D. M. Ross spoke upon the Home, and at its conclusion Mrs. Geis sang "'Love's Echo;" Col. T. F. Spangler spoke of the financial career and condition of the Home, and announced the donation of $2,500.00 in six per cent. securities trom a friend whose identity was withheld by request. The property had been purchased at a cost of $25,000.00, and at dedication had an indebtedness of $3,000.00. The quartet rendered "Lo. it is I," the accompainments to all the musical numbers being furnished by Mrs. Graham Bailey, and the ceremonies were concluded by the benediction by Rev. D. M. Ross.

The present trustees are T. F. Spangler, J. J. Adams, W. R. Baker, W. M. Shinnick and George H. Stewart; and the board of women managers is Mesdames Edward Martin, W. E. Guthrie, W. D. Schultz, Otto A. Bauer, James W. Rusk, Edward A. Green and Anna M. Hill, M. D.

Societies, Dramatic, Art And Literary Items

MISCELLANEOUS SOCIETIES, COMPRISING ABOLITIONISM, TEMPERANCE, YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION, MUSKINGUM COUNTY BIBLE SOCIETY, MEDICAL SOCIETIES, HOMEOPATHIC SOCIETY, EIGHTH ~WARD= PARK "ASSOCIATION, DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, KNIGHTS OF ST. GEORGE AND COLUMBUS, ANCIENT ORDER OF HIBERNIANS AND YOUNG MEN'S INSTITUTE, BANDS AND ORCHESTRAS, SINGING SOCIETIES, DRAMATIC, ART AND LITERARY ITEMS.

Abolitionism

Zanesville was settled originally by Virginians, Marylanders and Pennsylvanians, and a_ few Protestant Irish; they were fond of sports, dancing and music and endeavored to obtain as much pleasure as possible out of life. Putnam was settled originally by Yankees, who were honest, shrewd, industrious and intelligent, who regarded life more seriously, were inclined to reflect upon the sober questions of the day, and discountennee anced what they regarded as the ungodly frivolities of the Zanesville inhabitants, who gave Putnam the sobriquet of "Saint's Rest," which it has ever retained, because of a certain degree of solemnity which cast a gloom over everything.

Zanesville had no objection to slavery and many of its people favored it although its existence was prohibited in the state; the people of Putnam had brought with them, from their New England homes, the Puritan opinions of the institution, and hated it with religious zeal; they despised the Zanesvilleans for their ignorance and disregard of ethics, and the latter reciprocated with a coarse ill will and intense contempt for what they classed as Puritanical cant and hypocrisy. To intensify the disagreement, fortune had smiled on Zanesville and it had outstripped its neighbor as a town, and its citizens were proud and elated over it and never permitted an opportunity to escape to remind their more thrifty but less successful neighbors of the fact.

Although their fortunes might not have prospered their opinions were not modified, and thev were not depressed by loss of prestige; and Monday evening, June 24, 1833, Levi Whipple, A. G. Allen, Thomas Gurney, M. B. Cushing and H. C. Howells met at the latter's residence, northeast corner of Woodlawn avenue and Van Buren street, to consider the expediency of forming an organization to promote the total abolition of slavery, and it was agreed that each one present should invite his friends to meet with them at Mr. Whipple's office on the following Saturday, at which time there were present Levi Whipple, chairman; A. G. Allen, secretary; John Goshen, Thomas Gurney, Horace Nye, H. C. Howells, M. B. Cushing, John Quigley, Charles Mathews and Wm. Joiner. A constitution was adopted, which was signed by all present except Goshen and Mathews, and the first public meeting was held July 4, 1833, in the Presbyterian church, in Zanesville, when the constitution was amended and the name of the society changed to the Muskingum County Emancipation Society to promote the Abolition of Slavery and of Oppressive Laws; although not endorsed very extensively in the city, 220 persons in the county had signed the constitution in a short time.

Commencing October 26, 1833, a monthly prayer meeting was held for the abolition of slavery, at first in the stone academy, and for many years in the Putnam Presbyterian church; a Bible class for colored adults was formed and later a Sunday school for colored children ; petitions to the Legislature and Congress were forwarded and the society was in active co-operation with similar organizations throughout the country.

Zanesville was not indifferent to these transactions, but regarded them as the futile efforts of "cranks," who were dealing with a subject about which they knew nothing, but were aroused to a feverish condition of excitement when the announcement was made that a state convention of Abolitionists was called to assemble, April 22, 1835, in the stone academy near the intersection of Moxahala avenue and Jefferson street. The coming event was the sole topic at tavern conferences, on the street and in the homes of Zanesville, and it was determined to prevent it. Preceding the convention Theodore D. Weld came by invitation to lecture and his meetings created such opposition and excitement, that April 11, 1835, a committee was appointed to wait on the prosecuting attorney about the disturbances at the meetings, and secure protection.

_ When the day arrived Zanesville was beyond control, and when it was known that the half dozen Abolitionists of Putnam were in actual conference with visitors of similar political persuasion, the slum of Zanesville, encouraged by more respectable and more guilty men, but lacking the courage to engage in actual violence, crossed the river, dispersed the meeting, defaced the building, insulted the ladies and spread terror throughout the village. Putnam was helpless; violence to private property was imminent, and the residences of Major Nye, A. A. Guthrie and H. C. Howells were threatened with incendiarism, and, for some time, were protected by neighbors. The Putnam residents were greatly aggrieved and an intensely bitter feeling grew out of the occurrence.

Time worked partial reconciliation but the slumbering opposition of Zanesville was fanned into a living flame of political hatred by the rumor that the state convention of the Ohio Anti-Slavery Society was to assemble in the stone academy in May, 1839. Zanesville had condoned the first offence but would not permit such incendiary meetings ; inflammatory documents were issued, one especially was filled with the bitterest invectives, designed to excite the worst of human passions, and entitled the "Resurrection of Abolitionists in Putnam." Zanesville was aroused to madness on the day of the convention and the Zanesville rabble invaded Putnam during daylight, but no disturbance occurred until evening, when the barn of Adam France was fired, because he had stabled the horses of some of the delegates, and on the following night Mr. Whipple's barn was burned. Mr. Howells, an Englishman, engaged in tanning at Woodlawn avenue and Harrison street, and others, had made ethusiastic speeches before the convention, which the mob considered inflammatory, and the information was carried into the country, and hundreds of rural pro-slavery men came into Zanesville to reinforce the haters of the Abolitionists. An attack was made on the academy, the Putnam men resisted, routed the ruffians and captured their leader and some of the men. When this intelligence reached Zanesville the friends of the prisoners were hastily notified to rendezvous at the Third street bridge, to rescue their comrades ; in the meantime the citizens of Putnam, without regard to political affiliations, were determined to defend their town and place the prisoners in the Zanesville jail; the Zanesville mob, threatening to burn the town, was- met at the southern end of the bridge by Mr. Z. M. Chandler and an armed force, and a battle with stones, bludgeons and firearms ensued, in which one Zanesville man was severely wounded in the leg. Reinforcements came to both sides, and when the fight was hottest the Sheriff appeared with a posse, read the riot act and ordered the mob to disperse. During the conflict one prisoner escaped but the remainder were marched to jail by the Sheriff.

\When the Zanesville party made the first attack, a detachment had provided a bucket of tar and a sack of feathers to adorn Mr. Howells, but he escaped from the building and climbed a tree on the high ground near the Cooper Mill road, from which he watched the mob searching for him: when the rioters learned that their attack had-been repulsed and some of their party captured, they feared their ability to reach home by the bridge and swam the river.

When the Sheriff had locked up his prisoners, he anticipated a rescue as the city was in turmoil, and popular sentiment was running in that direction: the officers knew the danger and were hoping for the return of the Zanesville Guards, who had gone on an excursion to Dresden. Upon their return they were placed on duty at the court house, and late at night, when the crowd had dispersed, the military were released and a strong civil guard alone held the position. Public sentiment was so favorable to the prisoners that their punishment was nominal and did not "'fit the crime."

Putnam was not on the line of the Undereround Railway. and while the occasions were infrequent to assist a slave to freedom, the Putnam Abolitionists were never found lacking in any of the zeal in action which they so forcibly advocated in theory.

Tem Perance

The prevalence of the use of intoxicating liquors in the early part of the Nineteenth century is affirmed bv social and commercial records ; custom sanctioned their employment upon all social occasions and stores sold them as staple articles ; they were displayed openly upon the sideboard in nearly every home, and whiskey, brandy and wines were as essential to hospitality as solid food. Bitters were administered to the household, at fixed seasons of the year, and their use was regarded as positively necessary to the health of the family; the liquors were too cheap to adulterate and their quality was never impeached, and intoxication rarely extended to the condition of imbecility.

Notwithstanding popular sentiment found no fault with existing customs there were individuals who did, and November 15, 1830, a meeting was held in the Methodist meeting house, in Putnam, for the purpose of forming a temperance society ; Edwin Putnam was chosen chairman and W. H. Moore, secretary; Rev. James Culbertson opened the exercises with prayer and an address was delivered by A. A. Guthrie. A constitution was adopted and those signing it agreed "to perpetually abstain strictly from ardent spirits and wine, except as a medicine, or as a part of the sacrament of the Lord's Supper; also, not to present it to visitors, customers or laborers, except as a medicine, not to be directly or indirectly concerned in the manufacture or sale of ardent spirits, except so far as he shall be convinced that they are intended for medical purposes or the arts." Ninety names were affixed to the constitution, and the officers chosen were: John Goshen, president ; Edwin Putnam, vice president; A. A. Guthrie, secretary; Samuel Chapman, treasurer , W. H. Moore, Horace Nye, Thomas Wilbur, Abraham Josselyn and Col. Wm. Hadley, directors. The society flourished and December 6, 1850, there were 813 signers to the constitution, and April 18, 1853, the society became part of the Temperance Alliance.

At various times an active campaign in the interest of temperance was conducted by the Sons of Temperance and Good Templars, of which no records remain, but the efforts of these societies were limited to persuasive methods and while they accomplished much in molding public sentiment and in reforming hard drinkers, more strenuous measures were demanded by the more radical temperance advocates.

The spasmodic crusade which swept over Ohio in 1874 was vigorously contested in Zanesville; a meeting of the friends of prohibition was held in the Second Street Church, March 3, 1874, with Mrs. Sarah Hazlett as president and Mrs. D. C. Smith as secretary; the meeting was very enthusiastic and largely attended and on the following day the Women's League was formed by electing Mrs. Hazlett president, the wives of the city clergy as vice presidents; Mrs. DirCesmith, Mrs. R. H. Buell and Mrs. S. S. Black as secretaries: an executive committee of nine members and an advisory committee of gentlemen were also selected. The pledge consisted of an agreement "to use judicious and lawful means to rid the city of the curse of the liquor traffic,' and in a short time eight hundred names were subscribed to the agreement. A petition was prepared for presentation to the city council asking the passage of as prohibitory a law as the constitution would permit, and 4,470 names were attached when it was presented. About a score of the most prominent ladies attended at the council chamber on the evening it was presented to council, and they were allowed ten minutes to express their desires; Mrs. L. G. Shrom addressed council in behalf of the league, and H. L. 'Korte, of the law firm of Korte and Archauer, attorneys for the Liquor Dealers' Association, presented a remonstrance and addressed council upon the injustice of the proposed law, and having exceeded his time Rev. W. P. Shrom was given opportunity to reply.

The entire membership of council was present and a motion to suspend the rules was carried by a vote of 17 to 1, and upon the adoption of the ordinance the roll was called and the vote, as enrolled, was:

Daniel Applegate, Henry Blandy, A. E. Cook, Fred. Dieterich, C. W. Fletcher, Wm. Foran, Samuel G. McBride, O. C. Farquhar, George W. Guthrie, P. Morgan, Robert Price, Benjamin Spangler and James L. Taylor, or thirteen ayes; and Michael McDonald, Frank Myers, H. Eugene Printz, Robert D. Schultz and E. B. Williams, or five nays; among those voting aye will be - served several names which were a surprise to public as the parties were not favorable to - question but lacked the courage of the minon y to express their opinions. There having ben thirteen for and five against the ordinance it was declared adopted, and upon this announcement Mrs. Hazlett arose and suggested the singing of the long meter doxology; Mrs. Rev. J. F. Ohl began and the audience arose and joined in the singing.

The influence of the movement extended to the medical society, which passed a resolution to not prescribe spirituous liquors except in cases of absolute necessity, and twelve of the thirteen druggists pledged themselves to not sell except as a medicine. Street meetings were held and saloons were picketed; persons about to enter were requested not to do so and many were deterred from entering by the knowledge that they were watched; antagonism was excited in some, and others, in terror, abandoned the business. April 7, 1874, a party of crusaders sang a hymn and offered a prayer on a sidewalk in front of a saloon in Tarrier street, and quite a crowd collected ; the proprietress was boisterous and threatening and next day filed an affidavit against one of the lady participants for obstructing "'said sidewalk or pavement, to hindrance, inconvenience and damage of affiant and the public, by stopping, standing, kneeling, singing, praying and collecting a crowd on said sidewalk or pavement and street." The accused was arrested and later discharged ; the liquor dealers requested the Mayor "to prohibit street demonstrations of any kind" which he declined doing on the ground that there was no law under which he could act. The Women's League meetings were maintained and interest seemed unabated, but after a six-months' trial the ordinance was repealed, some of the members of council having been persuaded to resume the former practices. Since this effort the temperance movement has been confined to efforts to secure local option, the last having been at an election in the new Third ward in 1904, which was defeated by a narrow majority.

The Independent Order Of Rechabites

"The word which came unto Jeremiah from the Lord, in the days of Jehoiakin, the son of Josiah, king of Judah, saying, 'Go unto the house of the Rechabites, and speak unto them and bring them into the house of the Lord, into one of the chambers, and give them wine to drink.' Then I took Jaazaniah, the son of Jeremiah, the son of Habazin'%h, and his brethren, and all his sons and the w' . house of the Rechabites; and I brought tnein into the house of the Lord, into the chamber of the sons of Hanan, the son of Igdaliah, a man of God, which was by the chamber of the princes, which was above the chamber of Maaseiah, the son of Shallul, the keeper of the door; and I set before the sons of the house of the Rechabites, pots full of wine, and cups and I said unto them, 'Drink ye wine.' But they said, 'We will drink no wine, for Jonadab, the son of Rechab, our father, commanded us saying, ye shall drink no wine, neither ye nor your sons forever; neither shall ye build house nor sow seed, nor plant vineyard, nor have any; but all your days ye shall live in tents; that ye may live many days in the land where ye be strangers. Thus have we obeyed the voice of Jonadab, the son of Rechab, our father, in all that he hath charged us, to drink no wine in all our days, we, our wives, our sons, nor our daughters; nor to build houses for us to dwell in, neither have we vineyard, nor field, nor seed ; but we have dwelt in tents, and have obeyed and done according to all that Jonadab, our father, commanded us,' And Jeremiah said unto the house of the Rechabites: 'Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel ; because ye have obeyed the commandment of Jonadab, your father, and kept all his precepts and done according unto all that he hath commanded you, therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, Jonadab, the son of Rechab, shall not want a man to stand before Me forever.' "

The members of the order, therefore, are total abstainers, and their place of meeting is stvled a tent. The first tent in Ohio was instituted at Zanesville, August 15, 1877, and designated as

Excelsior Tent, No. 80, with the following officers: A. J. Wolfe, shepherd; D. B. Gary, past chief ruler; James Benjamin, chief ruler; Charles Arter, deputy ruler; I. B. Copeland, recording secretary; L. C. Webster, financial secretary ; Thomas Roach, treasurer; C. Wintermute, Levite ; G. W. Marshall, inside guardian; Benjamin Priest, outside guardian, with eleven additional members ; the tent disbanded in December, 1899.

Lily of the Valley Tent was organized September 29, 1888, with fifty-five charter members and the following officers: Mrs. B. Pritchard, shepherd; Mrs. Jennie Kelso, past chief ruler; Mrs. Elizabeth Lawson, chief ruler; Miss Hattie Toll, deputy ruler; Miss Alice Lampton, recording secretary; Mrs. L. F. Quigley, financial secretary; Mrs. Hattie Parkison, treasurer; Mrs. Elmer Flowers, Levite; Mrs. Charles Taylor, inside guardian; Mrs. Ella Parkison, outside guardian; John L. Stockdale, George Vaughn and George Parkison, trustees; this tent is still working.

Banner Tent, No. 111, was organized August 9, 1879, with fifty charter members and the following officers: Louis Quigley, shepherd; We. Brown, past chief ruler; Lyman Flowers, chief ruler; John Miller, deputy ruler; W. J. Finley, recording secretary; J. W. Donaway, financial secretary: D. B. Gary. treasurer: Hugh Benjamin, Levite; Clark Wilbur, inside guardian ; G. W. Wilson, outside guardian; this tent is still working.

White Rose Tent was organized in August, 1896, and disbanded in 1899, and Willing Workers Juvenile Branch, organized with forty members is doing good work among the children. For a number of years the hall of the order has been in the third story of the building on southwest corner of Fifth street and Fountain alley.

Young Men'S Christian Association

A formal organization of this widespread association was made in Zanesville, November 11. 1867, when A. A. Guthrie was chosen president and was retained in the position until physical disability compelled him to retire. Pleasant rooms were secured in Main street over where Brendel's shoe store has been kept so many years, and for a long time the association flourished and was influential for good. It was active in Sundav-school work where sectarian authority had not been exercised, and extended its labors to sewing missions for girls. but interest ceased and the organization became dormant about 1880-1.

was leased and fitted up, and a frame gymnasium was built in the rear of the lot; after a few years the interest waned and about 1892 it was disbanded, and the gymnasium is now occupied by the Sunkel Plumbing Company as a work shop.

Medical Societies

was organized in September, 1828, with Gen. Isaac Van Horne, president; Rev. James Culbertson, recording secretary, and Levi Whipple, treasurer. In 1842 an executive committee was selected, the first members of which were Isaac Dillon, James Raguet, John Metcalf, Alexander Sullivan, Wm. Schultz, E. E. Fillmore and John Taylor, Jr. MEDICAL SOCIETIES.

The General Assembly passed an act January 28, 1817, to regulate the practice of physic and surgery and a board of censors was appointed for each of the medical districts created by the act: Muskingum county was in the Fourth district and Dr. John Hamm was president of the board whose first meeting was held at Zanesville, on the first Thursday in November, and the examination was begun of such persons as were to be permitted to practice medicine; among those first examined were Doctors Calvin Conant and Dudley W. Rhodes. This act seems to have been recognized as monopolistic in character and another was passed February 26, 1824, by which medical societies were recognized and May 25 the physicians of the Fifteenth medical district, composed of the counties of Muskingum, Morgan, Guernsey, Coshocton, Knox and Licking, assembled in the court house, at Zanesville, and organized a medical society with twenty-seven members, the officers being John Hamm, president ; John J. Brice, vice president ; Thomas Flanner, secretary, and Robert Mitchell, treasurer. This organization continued until

December 12, 1842, when fifteen physicians met at the Eagle Hotel, at Zanesville, and agreed to form the Muskingum County Medical Society, and at another meeting held at the same place, January 10, 1843, effected the organization by electing Robert Safford, president; John Walker, vice president; C. C. Hildreth, secretary; James Helmick, treasurer, and J. G. F. Holston, librarian; thirty-one members were at once secured and in 1874 it merged with the

Zanesville Academy of Medicine, an association which was formed about 1873; the date is undetermined except by the facts from contemporary sources that Dr. Hildreth was president in 1873 and that he was the first president; it is asserted that the organization was incorporated at the beginning but the first record found is that incorporation papers were issued January 20,

1878, with a capital of one hundred shares of $5.00 and every member: was required to hold one; it had authority to issue diplomas, and charge a fee of $25.00 therefor, and the certificate entitled the holder to practice medicine; a valuable library was collected and the meetings were held in the Atheneum building, in Fourth street; only one class was graduated, and professional jealousies wrought the disintegration of the body and its library was scattered among the members.

In 1883 it was succeeded by the Zanesville Medical Society and about the same time the Muskingum Valley District Medical Society was formed as a rival body, but neither flourished and both languished and died, and for some time there was no association of physicians. When time had softened the feelings which had caused the differences in the past, Drs. W. R. Hosick, Edward Cass, "H.* McCreary," ©." Mc" Norman; W.-D. Forsythe, A. E. Bell, J. G. F. Holston and J. F. Kennedy issued a call which was intended to reach every allopathic physician in the county, to meet at the Probate Court room, at Zanesville, September 8, 1892, to consider the subject of organizing a medical society; sixteen attended and formed the Muskingum County Medical Society with the following as the first officers: J. L. Geyer, Norwich, president; Z. C. McElroy, Zanesville, first vice president; J. S. Haldeman, Zanesville, second vice president; J. F. Kennedy, Zanesville, treasurer; J. M. Fassig, Zanesville, secretary, and the organization has been in prosperous condition and productive of much good among the associates.

The Homeopathic Medical Society Of Southeastern Ohio

was organized in July, 1898, by D. H. Crawford, O. B. Crumbaker, S. F. Edgar, Martha A. McBride and W. G. McGee, when officers were chosen as follows: S. F. Edgar, president ; W. G. McGee, vice president; Martha A. Mc- Bridé, secretary; D, H. "Crawtord "treasurer. Territorial limits have not been defined and no members have been received west of Columbus. The active movers in the organization were Drs. McBride and McGee, and at first monthly meetings were held but as the membership increased and became dispersed the assemblies were made semi-annual, and papers are presented and a pleasant social feature given to the occasion. The present officers are: John B. McBride, Zanesville, president; C. L. Ireland, Columbus, vice president; Harry E. Hunt, Newark, secretary; S. F. Edgar, Zanesville, treasurer.

In 1836 John-and Isaac Dillon and others organized an agricultural society. in the county and held an exhibit in the court house; the fairs were held in subsequent years, and when the General Assembly passed the act February 28, 1846, "for the encouragement of agriculture," and recognized the utility of such organizations, the Muskingum County Agricultural Society was born January 21, 1848. The first officers were: Cornelius Springer, president; George W. Gibbons, vice president; James L. Cox, treasurer; Uriah Park, secretary. The first formal exhibit was made in the old market house, Zanesville, in the fall of 1848, and soon after about twenty acres of ground were purchased in Springfield township, along what is now Luck avenue, but which proved too limited for the purpose; this tract was sold and the present commodious grounds purchased, along the Cooper Mill road; during the Civil war the fairs were suspended and the grounds were used as a military camp, and named in honor of Gen. Chas. B. Goddard.

The Muskingum County Horticultural Society was organized January 15, 1869, with Wm. Imlay, president ; S. Jacobs Moore, vice president ; Wm. J. Townsend, secretary; W. A. Graham, treasurer, and twenty other members.

Pioneer And Historical Society

A meeting of elderly citizens of the county was held at the court house, May 21, 1866, to form a historical society, to be composed of elderly citizens only, no person to be eligible to membership unless fifty years of age. Thomas Mc- Lees was made president; B. F. Swingle, vice president, and Wm. Gray, secretary. The organization was maintained more as a social affair than for the collection of historical data, until the formation of the pioneer society into which it drifted.

August 30, 1867, the Old Settlers Association was organized at the Odd Fellows Hall, and September 13th a constitution was adopted, and John Peters was elected president and L. H. Dugan, secretary, but its records cease with those of November 16.

March 4, 1890, Charles C. Goddard, H. D. Munson, Sr., Henry Taylor, H. S. Nye, M. D., B. F. Leslie, Frank Richards and Addison Palmer were incorporators of the Pioneer and Historical Society of Muskingum County, and the first board of trustees were: C. C. Goddard, Rev. Frank Richards, H. S. Nye, M. D.. Addison Palmer, Henry Taylor, B. F. Leslie, H. D. Mun- son, Sr., Edward Cass, M. D., Thomas McLees; the officers were: H. D. Munson,. president; Edward Cass, vice president; Wm. Gray, recording secretary; Mrs. F. C. Dietz, assistant recording secretary; Addison Palmer, corresponding secretary; Rev. Jefferson Chambers, treasurer ; R. J. J. Harkins, curator. The organization occupies rooms in the Memorial Building and is collecting records and relics of the county and preserving what will be of inestimable value to the historians of the future. THE EIGHTH WARD PARK ASSOCIATION.

McIntire Terrace was platted by George N. Eaton and the dominating idea of the design was a suburb of homes with commodious grounds; the interior streets were irregular in direction and alleys were unknown, and lots so formed that subdivision would prove inconvenient and undesirable. This intention was readilv accepted by the pioneer lot purchasers, but later owners have made subdivisions, and the original plan has been destroyed. With the construction of the bridge at the foot of Fifth street intercourse with the Terrace was made easy and it was rapidly 1mproved by beautiful homes, and_ the owners sought to make then attractive with trees, shrubbery and flowers; hogs, cows and horses roamed the streets at will and the rich lawns were a strong temptation to the four-footed marauders, who, in a few minutes, destroyed the labor and patience of years; fences did not protect as an open gate admitted the animals and the city officials cultivated the votes of the owners by refusing to restrain them from injuring their more aesthetic neighbors.

Continued losses induced the issuance of an invitation, through the Courier, to all citizens of the Eighth ward and \lcIntire Terrace to assemble on the lawn of Mr. David Lee, July 23, 1882, "to consider the expediency of taking concerted action respecting the improvement of Mc- Intire Park and securing relief from the ravages of stock running at large." The attendance was gratifying and the meeting was called to order by Mr. Lee, who stated its purpose, when Thomas Griffith was chosen chairman and J. Hope Sutor acted as secretary. Much interest was manifested, the attendants spoke freely about their wrongs and it was resolved to form The Eighth Ward Park Association, with nine directors to conduct its business and Thomas Griffith, George D. Gibbons, Joseph T. Gorsuch, J. Hope Sutor, David Lee, William T. Maher, William Dunn, Parker N. Young and Edmund J. Brush were elected. A week later rules were adopted and committees appointed on finance, streets and sidewalks, membership, parks and public grounds, drainage and sewerage, destructive insects and the diseases of trees and shrubbery, and law and legislation; and the directors organized by electing Mr. Griffith president, Mr. Lee vice president, Mr. Sutor secretary and Mr. Brush treasurer. An address upon the objects of the association was printed and distributed throughout the ward, in which: it was stated that the association desired to secure "all the comforts possible and make life in Zanesville pleasant - by gathering around our homes, in our public streets and in our parks all the beauties that nature has so generously provided in innumerable varieties of form and eolor. - It will be necessary, in order to accomplish anything in this direction to compel a few persons to respect their neighbors' rights and property. The money, time and careful nursing expended on trees and shrubbery make them valuable property to the owner, and no person should be permitted to injure or destroy them."

The movement met a hearty co-operation in the other residence wards and the Seventh Ward Park and Lawn Association was incorporated August 26th, and the Putnam Park Association was incorporated November 29th, the organizations having been previously formed, and the incorporation was made for the same reasons that prompted the Eighth Ward Association to secure the right to sue.

McIntire Park was enclosed by a fence, was neglected and parties were accustomed to turn cattle in during the night to graze and drive them out in the early morning; the association endeavored to have this stopped but pettifogging city officials obstructed the design to enforce existing laws; inquiry into the appropriations and disbursements on park account disclosed that the money had been misappropriated, and the faithless official was published, restitution was made but the council was so implicated in such practices that the investigation was made a "whitewash:" and to enable the association to prosecute offenders it was incorporated July 31, 1882. In November a man was employed to arrest cattle and drive them to the citv lot, where the officers of the city turned them loose when the association's officer had disappeared. and by every method in their power the officers thwarted the organization in its work.

A joint committee, composed of C. C. Goddard. L. E. Dodd, W. T. Maher. J. J. Thomas and Woop: Vash of the Richth>@. SL. Vandenbark, G. D. Munson and J. A. Knight, of the Seventh, and M. M. Granger, J. C. Gillespie and E. ie Koethen, of the Putnam associations, was formed for co-operative purposes, and a joint meeting of all persons interested in the work of the organizations was called at the court house in May, 1883. and invitations extended to J. Hope Sutor, of the Eighth: Homer White, of the Seventh, and O. C. Farquhar, of the Ninth, to make addresses.

138 PAST AND Finally, Lieutenant Wm. Linton, whose fidelity as an officer was unquestioned, was employed to execute the law, but he was unable to cope with the entire city administration, and secure an observance of official oaths by recreant incumbents, and August 16, 1883, the last meeting of the association was held. The members did not cease their efforts to carry out the purposes of the organization and among the successes which attended their persistence were: regulation of the height to which shade trees should be trimmed; suppression of stock running at large; the removal of fences around public and _ private grounds; the reduction of the width of sidewalks and the cultivation of grass between the walk and the curb; the appointment of park policemen, etc. The members of the association which influenced so much legislation, who were so vigorously denounced by the small fry politicians, each of whom the members have seen politically buried, were: was organized as a national body at Washington, D. C., October 11, 1890, and during the summer of 1893 Mrs. Edmund C. Brush called a few women of Zanesville together at her home to discuss the feasibility of forming a chapter of the society; in October Muskingum Chapter was formed with Mrs. Fanny Russell Brush, regent; Mrs. Mary H. Granger, vice regent; Mrs. Margaret M. Fulton, historian; Miss Alice Searle, registrar; Mrs. Mary Cox Spangler, treasurer; Mrs. Jessie M. Lilienthal, secretary, and Mrs. Mary Brown Stanbery, Mrs. Mary Munson Moore, Miss Julia Munson, Mrs, Ella Brown Abbot, Mrs. Cornelia V. H. Black and Mrs. Minerva Nye Nash.

Mrs. Brush served as regent for the first six years, and Mrs. M. M. Granger was state regent for two vears; the chapter has contributed to the Francis Scott Key memorial: the Martha Washington monument; Continental Hall: Manila library, and during the Spanish-American war sent hospital supplies, magazines, papersyy ete., to the soldiers. The public schools of the city have been furnished copies of the Declaration of

Independence, and a tree has been planted on the court house esplanade. During 1902 an entertainment was given at Memorial Hall for the benefit of the Helen Purcell Home, at which the chapter presented "Early Zanesville in Picture and Story," in a series of historical tableaux, illustrative of pioneer life and founded on established facts. In addition to the original twelve members thirty-six ladies have been affiliated since the formation of the chapter.

Knights Of St. George

Commandery No. 77 was organized in the basement of St. Nicholas church, June 20, 1887, with twenty-four men, and the following officers: Mat. Faller, captain; Fred. Gressel, first lieutenant ; Oscar Geodler, second lieutenant; Ed. Kellar, orderly sergeant; Charles Steil, quartermaster ; Joseph Bauer, color bearer. The commandery is affiliated with the Knights of St. John Union, which embraces commanderies throughout the United States and Canada, and maintains an insurance feature.

Knights Of Columbus Ancient Order Of Hiberntans

Division No. 1, was organized August 26, 1876, with the following officers: P. T. Kelley, county delegate and treasurer; Michael Havden, president; Terrence Farmer, vice president; lames T. Bradley, financial secretary: Michael Liston, recording secretary.

Young Men'S Institute

Montgomery Council. No. 226, was organized in the basement of St. Thomas church, April 30, 1894, with one hundred and two charter members, the following being the first officers : James Me-

Carty, president; A. J. McNalty, first vice president; E. F. McGovern, second vice president ; P. D. McCann, treasurer; Wm. Riley, recording secretary; Charles W. McShane, financial secretary; James Farahay, corresponding secretary ; Patrick Mulvey and Patrick Carr, sentinels.

The first rooms were in the Stone property, No. 41 North Sixth street, in June, 1894, and were removed to the Shinnick block in January, 1895; to the First National Bank building in February, 1897; to the Sharpe hall, in Fifth street, in September, 1898, and to the second story, in the old Masonic building, in September, 1902, where the meetings are now held.

Bands And Orchestras

The first musician of the settlement was Mess Johnson, John MclIntire's colored servant, and the second, Thomas Dowden; these two, for nearly two decades, furnished the music for all public purposes. Perry Wells came in 1820 and is reputed to have known "where the sweetest melodies slept."

The first band was a string and reed organization, about 1820, with Charles Hill, leader, Wm. Lattimore, Robert Hazlett and James V. Cushing, violin; Wm. Hadley, violoncello; John Lattimore, clarionet ; David Spangler, bassoon; Isaac Spangler, triangle, Benjamin Reed, drum.

In 1829 the Zanesville Harmonic Band was formed and maintained an existence until 1835; its members were, James Hough, leader; A. C. Ross, clarionet; John Parker, flute; D. J. Culbertson, piccolo; Henry W. Kent, bugle; Hamilton Hough, violin; James Fortune, drum.

The Mechanics' Band was organized in 1836 and disbanded ten years later; its members were: Thomas Launder, leader, C. Purcell, Monroe Ayers, Bush Eggerman, J. B. H. Bratshaw, John Alter, Daniel Hatton, John Printz, Jesse Fox, Cass Alter, Alva Rivers, Daniel Baldwin, L. Page, Jackson Printz and Fred. Drone. Its services were gratuitous and it received compensation once only, at the commencement exercises at the Muskingum College, New Concord, in 1841.

Atwood's Band was the first brass band and was organized in Zanesville in 1847, with A. D. Atwood. leader, David Hahn, John Bauer, Casper Bauer, Philip Kassell, Charles Roper, Thomas Launder, David Kahn, Timothy Webb, Emerson Howe and Charles Dulty. As Atwood traveled with a circus during the summer the organization was disbanded and in 1855 the band reorganized as Bauer's Band, and is today led by the veteran, John Bauer, who has been a member nearly sixty years; the charm of the musical technique of this matured band is not surpassed, except in volume, by more pretentious organizations.

Heck's Band, organized in the fall of 1856, with ten members, and Heck's orchestra, of 1875, with seventeen members, were accomplished but short lived bodies. Numerous other bands had brief careers and no records are left of their existence.

About 1871 the Muskingum Cornet Band was organized by some of the most prominent young men of the period, and now among the city's active business men. They were given the sobriquet of "Buttermilks," because of an incident which occurred at a Knights Templar picnic, at New Lexington, which the band attended in a professional capacity. The day was extremely sultry and a thirsty knight found a quantity of fresh, cold buttermilk at a spring house, and purchased the supply. The band was summoned to the refreshment and a rival band twitted them on their abstinence and declared that horns could not be filled on buttermilk, but they were, and on other occasions the "Buttermilks" filled their instruments without even this thin beverage. The members of the band, as appears from a photograph and the recollections of members, are given for the period of its existence, some of the original members having dropped out: W. gle Wilmot and Louis Heck, leaders: Charles E. Munson and George Convers, E flat cornet; A. Frank Munson, Edward B. Haver, Edward Roper and Hazlett Convers, B flat cornet; Albert W. Hack, J..K. Arnold.and J. A. Hunter. alto; T. F. Spangler and S. C. Abbott, tenor; John Ae Drake, L. R. Ray and C. E. Kahler, baritone; G. A. Allen and Sam. H. John, tuba; W. A. Scott and Marion Snoots, snare drum; Edward P. Waters and Frank Rvan, cymbals; Joseph W. Garside, bass drum. The last public appearance of the band was in the parade in celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of American independence, July 4, 1876.

The Seventh Regiment Band has had a varied experience and passed through several reorganizations, and like many other social associations its records have not been preserved and the changes did not make sufficient impression to enable the participants to fix dates after the lapse of a few years. It originated about 1887 as the Sons of Veterans' Band, with Wm. Huff as leader and teacher, and the former hose house at the corner of Main and Ninth streets was the place of assembly; later the name was changed to the Excelsior Band and again to the Zanesville City Band; when R. B. Tomlinson became leader the name was changed to Tomlinson's Military Band and later it was mustered into the Ohio National Guard as the First Regiment Light Artillery Band. As only a battalion of the regiment was mustered into the federal service during the Spanish-American war the regimental officers, hospital corps and band were not called into service and as the regiment was mustered out of the National Guard service upon the conclusion of the war, the band resumed its former name of Tomlinson's Military Band. Upon the organization of the Seventh Regiment of Infantry, Ohio National Guard, it became the. regimental band under the leadership of A. J. Senhauser.

Singing Societies

The Concordia, a German society, was formed in 1854 and flourished several years; the Mannerchoir began its existence in 1859 and was broken up by the Civil war; the Frohsinn was organized in 1865 but some essential voices were lacking and it suspended after two years to be reorganized in 1878 and to dissolve later. The Harmonie was formed in November, 1872, from members of former societies and disbanded in December, 1874. During the winter of 1879-80 the Mannerchoir was reorganized but was unable to maintain itself; December 5, 1879, the German Singing Society was formed, but business and social engagements prevented its permanency.

The Choral Association was organized January I, 1879, with nearly two hundred members, but as the average attendance was one hundred it could not assemble at dwellings and the expenses of a suitable hall and scores for so many vocalists were heavier than could be borne and the association suspended. The Mendelssohn Glee Club, a male quartette, succeeded it composed of J. D. Luse, leader and first tenor; Hiram Waller, second tenor; J. J. Ingalls, first bass. and James Cox, second bass, all of whom had been members of the Choral Association; the last three named are deceased and the first left the city many years ago.

The "Arions" were a notable organization in their time of activity, and produced a number of operas in a manner that rivaled the efforts of professionals. The Bohemian Girl, Pinafore, Patience, Chimes of Normandy, and similar conceptions were in their reportoire, and although a number of the members are living in the city very little information respecting the organization can be obtained; the activity of the club was during the 'nineties.

The Zanesville Fortnightly Musical Club is not a vocal but an instrumental organization and was formed in the fall of 1895 by Miss Helen Maginnis, who became the first president; the membership was limited to thirty and confined to young women; meetings were private during afternoons and were devoted to the study of various composers and schools of music; occasional public concerts, or recitals, were given and the club was instrumental in bringing good music to Zanesville. After eight years the constitution was entirely remodeled, membership was made unlimited, men were admitted, meetings were held during evenings and in a hall. At the close of its ninth year the club is prosperous and progressive and the present officers are: Miss Katherine S. Stanbery, president; Mrs. Charles Culver, vice president; Mr. Florien' Frazier, secretary and treasurer; Mr. Willis A. Bailey, chairman of the musical committee.

Fine Arts

The artists of Zanesville are not unknown to fame; among the first limners of the city was Thomas Cole, the painter of the "Course of Empire" and "The Voyage of Life," of whom William Cullen Bryant said, in his funeral oration, "had a fixed reputation and was numbered among the men of whom our country has reason to be proud." He was here in the early "twenties" and his portraits of old residents are in many homes in the city.

J. P. Barton painted his first picture in 1842 and devoted his talents to oil. His 'Yosemite Valley," and his replica of Murillo's ""Assumption of the Blessed Virgin," have established his fame. "Jack" Howland's vigorous brush has portrayed the grandeur of the Rocky Mountain region so faithfully that one can near the awful stillness of the scene; and Charles Craig's ""Custer's Last Charge" and 'The Chariot Race," require no encomium. Howard Chandler Christie is a Muskingum county boy whose talents were unappreciated when a few years ago he was sketching around Duncan's Falls instead of attending to his teacher's instructions, but now his fame is national and approaching world-wide.

In water colors, crayon, placque and pottery decoration the list is so extensive names are omitted because of the inability to enumerate all who are worthy of mention. The art pottery works have developed professional work but the most notable creations are in the amateur line.

Among the societies which have existed for the cultivation of art none was more popular in its day than the Murdock Club, an amateur dramatic club which flourished during the 'seventies and gave recitals to honorary members in Black's Music Hall, at least monthly ; there were perhaps thirty active members and several hundred honorary members, the latter paying a fixed annual sum towards expenses for which the former gave a monthly drama or comedy.

Muskingum county has sent many of her voung people to other fields of usefulness, and for no other reason than that their talents were unappreciated at home; the home soil is productive of talent but incapable of developing it to maturity. This was true with respect to Virna Wood, who was born at Wilmington, Ohio, and came to Zanesville while quite young; she attended the public schools and graduated from the high school at the age of sixteen; as a pupil she was a writer and in 1882 moved, with her father's family, to Sacramento, California, where she continued her studies and became an accomplished writer and speaker of Greek, French, German and Spanish, as she was in Latin. From her California home she issued Jason Hildreth's Identity, a story descriptive of Zanesville scenes and persons, which attested the deep impression they had made upon her and the affection she had for the old town which had been indifferent to her ability; the Amason, a lyrical drama, was another production which was favorably received by the critics.

It was in dramatic composition, however, that she excelled and made her reputation. Horatius, a heroic drama, in five acts, was written for Frederic Warde, and produced by him in September, 1901; when the intelligence of its successful presentation and popular approval reached Sacramento the various art, musical and literary societies of the city united in a reception to the authoress, in the state capitol, which had been tastefully and elaborately decorated for the occasion. Her next production was Lord Strathmore, a melodrama, ~zhich was produced by one of Mr. Warde's company, in the title role during the season of 1902-3, and she was employed in the completion of Charles 1X, for the season of 1903-4, when pneumonia ender her career, March 7, 1903.

The Frederick Warde Company was playing Horatius at Sacramento during the last week in February, 1903, and one night, after the performance the entire company assembled at her home to honor the genius that had produced so successful a play; she contracted a cold which developed into the disease that ended her life one week later, at which time the company was playing at San Francisco, and as a tribute of their esteem a benefit performance for her parents was given which netted $700.00.

Arcanum, Ancient Order Of United Work

FRATERNITIES, COMPRISING SECRET SOCIETIES, FREEMASONRY, ODD FELLOWSHIP, KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS, IMPROVED ORDER OF RED MEN, DEGREE OF POCAHONTAS, KNIGHTS OF THE MACCABEES, UNITED COMMERCIAL TRAVELERS, PATRIOTIC ORDER SONS OF AMERICA, GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC, UNION VETERAN LEGION, NAVAL ASSOCIATION, WOMEN'S RELIEF CORPS, SONS OF VETERANS, BENEVOLENT AND PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS, MUNIFICENT ORDER OF CAMELS, ROYAL ARCANUM, ANCIENT ORDER OF UNITED WORK-

Freemasons, Sundry Societies

MEN, KNIGHTS OF HONOR, FRATERNAL MYSTIC CIRCLE, FRATERNAL ORDER OF EAGLES, ANCIENT UNITED ORDER OF DRUIDS, MODERN WOODMEN OF AMERICA, PATHFINDERS, FRATERNAL CENSOR, GRAND UNITED ORDER OF ODD FELLOWS, COLORED FREEMASONS, SUNDRY SOCIETIES.

Secret Societies

A prominent position-must be assigned the -socalled secret societies among the direct influences affecting the moral and temporal welfare of a community, and the fact is indisputable that the best types of citizenship are found where such organizations are most cultivated. The church appeals solely to the spiritual nature and hedges and limits its capabilities with so much theory and dogma, and demands so much self-denial and restraint of natural inclinations that many men decline to enact a role whose requrements their personal sentiments do not endorse. Banks and building companies attract and assist the industrious and thrifty in enlarging their operations, but their influence in behalf of the public weal is exerted only upon those who are themselves exemplars of sobriety and good citizenship.

Secret societies inculcate morality, industry, fidelitv and patriotism; demand from their members no more than can reasonably be performed ; promise and provide material pleasures and rewards during the continuance of health and prosperity, and when sickness and misfortune overtake a member do not desert him nor permit him to suffer for friendly counsel and assistance : they require that members shall be honorable and respectable, not noted for the performance of good deeds, but for their abstinence from evil ones; that they shall observe, as nearly as possible the Golden Rule, and that questions of politics and religion shall be determined by the conscience of each individual. That such organizations are popular is evinced by the large number which exist, and few of the men who join them limit their affiliations to one society. They are active in social, benevolent and protective work and deserve more than mere "honorable mention" for their achievements in the ereat battle of human life. The range of their operations is extensive, the Shrine and Elks being types of the social class; the Freemasons of the charitable, the Odd Fellows, and Knights of Pythias of the benevolent, and the RoyalArcanum, and Modern Woodmen of America of the protective.

Free Masonry

Lewis Cass met May 25, 1805, and "after becoming known to each other as Master Masons, in the manner prescribed by the rules of the craft, entered into conversation respecting the practicability and propriety of procuring a charter, authorizing them to hold a lodge in this place; and in order to determine the question appointed Brother Smyth, Brother Cass and Brother Raynolds a committee for the purpose of preparing such resolution relative to the object of the meeting, as to them should seem expedient, and to report to this meeting on Saturday next." The committee was active and June 1, the obect was reported '"'attainable,' and the committee was continued to prepare and forward the petition to the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania and solicit the endorsement of Washington Lodge, of Philadelphia. The petition was signed by William Raynolds, William Smyth, Daniel Convers, Levi Whipple, Abel Lewis, Lewis Cass, I. Van Horne, Seth Fuller, Master Masons, and Noyce Stone, fellow craft, and June 4 the officers were selected t. be named in the charter: Lewis Cass, worshipful master; William Smyth, senior warden; Seth Fuller, junior warden; Isaac Van Horne, treasurer; William Raynolds, secretary.

No time was lost in forwarding the paper, as the Grand Lodge acted upon it and granted the prayer, June 24, but as the charter fee had not been sent ,the papers were withheld and it was not untily May 28, 1806, that the essential payments were made, and as a safe and certain conveyance was secured, and then Captain James Taylor, a non-Mason, brought the long-lookedfor papers. The magnitude of the undertaking will be comprehended when it is considered that the settlement contained about 25 cabins and 150 inhabitants, and that there were not to exceed 300 inhabitants in the entire county; there was no place sufficiently secure for meetings unless guarded exteriorly; every member was _ practically penniless, and those coming to the settlement were in like condition and were seeking it in the hope of bettering themselves; it was the first organization of any character in the settlement, and the Lodge of Amity, No. 5, represents the first effort for social, moral and religious culture.

The authority to constitute the lodge was addressed to Gen. Van Horne, who was the only Past Master in the settlement, but the dispensation was limited to one year and did not reach him until after it had expired; he assumed to act, however, and reported the facts to the Grand Lodge under date of September 23, 1806, and October 20 the Grand Lodge sanctioned his action. There is no official record of the date upon which the constitution was effected, but from private letters it is learned that the ceremony was set for Tuesday, September 49,

1806, the lodge possesses a book of constitutions inscribed as presented by Lewis Cass, September 7, Sunday, and the first lodge record is dated September 26, at which time it was in working order with by-laws, etc. The ceremony of institution was performed in the new twostory, frame hotel building, owned by Gen. Van Horn and occupied by Benoni Peirce, at the northeast corner of Main and Fifth streets, so long the site of a hotel, and of the famous Zane House. The lodge was registered as No. 105, on the Pennsylvania register, but when it participated in the formation of the Grand Lodge of Ohio, its seniority of charter placed it fifth in the Ohio register, and the original seal, furnished by the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania, served for the Ohio lodge by removing the figures "10" from the die. An Ohio charter was issued and dated January 15, 1812, and the original appears to have been returned to Philadelphia.

The early meetings alternated between Zanesville and Putnam, wherever convenient and suitable accommodations could be obtained; private residences, hotels and the court house were used until 1817, when the last meeting was held in Putnam, and the lodge settled permanently in the Senate chamber until December 18, 1821, when it moved into the first Masonic hall; no meetings were held outside it until 1881, when the building was remodeled, and during that summer one meeting was held in the Odd Fellows' hall, in Putnam.

The approaching completion of the first Masonic hall caused a meeting to be held in the Senate chamber, December 6, 1821, to take action towards organizing a chapter of Royal Arch Masons, which was attended by Daniel Convers, Calvin Conant, Levi Whipple, Joshua Downer, Horace Nye, Dudley W. Rhodes, and Charles Hill. A committee was appointed to secure signers to an application to the Grand Chapter, and officers were chosen as follows: Calvin Conant, most excellent high priest ; Daniel Convers, most excellent king; Joshua Downer, most excellent scribe ; Horace Nye, captain of the host; Dudley W. Rhodes, principal sojourner; Charles Hill, royal arch captain; S. S. Miles, Francis Fowler, and Levi Whipple, masters of the veils. December 13, 1821, the Grand Chapter approved the application, and February 1, 1822, Zanesville Royal Arch Chapter, No. 9, was opened in Masonic hall; a full charter was granted January 15, 1823, and May 5, 1822, the constitution was performed in ample form. The anti-Masonic crusade seriously affected the chapter and it remained closed from September 5, 1831, until July 8, 1837, when it was revived through the efforts of Dudley W. Rhodes, Daniel Applegate, Nimrod Barr, David Reed, David Maginnis, William Twaddle, John Anthony, and James Caldwell.

The second lodge in the city and county and the third Masonic body in the city was Lafayette Lodge, No. 79, for which a dispensation was issued May 16, 1825, and the lodge met for the first time in the Masonic hall, May 25, with the following officers: George Jarhes, worshipful master; Calvin Conant, senior warden; William Blocksom, junior warden; L. L. Hamline, senior deacon ; Isaac Van Horne, treasurer; H. Safford, secretary, and a regular charter was issued January 10, 1826. This lodge did not occupy the Masonic hall, but assembled in the Senate chamber, or at Market and Fifth streets, until 1837, when it held communications for a year in the Masonic hall; in 1838 it moved to Main street and Court alley, and 1847 to Main and Fifth streets, where rooms were used jointly with the Knights Templars.

February 22, 1844, a dispensation was issued to Daniel Applegate, George L. Shinnick, John T. Arthur, Charles W. Spaulding, I. Bartol, and George James, to form Zanesville Council of Royal and Select Masters, and when the body was opened Adam Peters, Nimrod Barr, and H. MM. Miller were present in addition to the petitioners, John Barney, grand lecturer, representing the grand puissant. The date of the erection is not recorded, but the evidence points to the last week in February; the officers were: Daniel Applegate, thrice illustrious master; George L. Shinnick, deputy illustrious master ; John T. Arthur, principal conductor of the work ; Charles W. Spaulding, captain of the guard. October 26, 1844, a charter was issued, but no number was assigned, and October 24, 1845, it Wase-tevistered as Nou 13, 'but later a. cof: rection of the register was made and _ the number 12 was permanently assigned. The organization of this body was accomplished in the Masonic hall, and until the completion of the second Masonic hall the bodies meeting in the Market street building were the Lodge of Amity, the Chapter and the Council.

November 27, 1848, John L. Vattier, grand master of Templars in Ohio, issued a dispensation to John T. Arthur, Thomas Bell, Amos Bartholomew, Robert H. Cotton, Gilbert D. Palmer, Israel Hoge, Thomas Launder, Josephus Laken, and Thomas F. Nevitt, to open an encampment of Knights Templars in Zanesville to be known as Cyprus, and named Thomas Bell, grand commander; John T. Arthur, gereralissimo; Gilbert D. Palmer, captain general, and Amos Bartholomew, prelate. January 3, 1849, M. Z. Kreider, past grand master, opened an encampment in Lafayette lodge room, southeast corner of Main and Fifth streets, and November 9, 1849, a charter was issued as No. 10; in

The ruptures in Masonic harmony which attended the Cerneau-Northern Jurisdiction Scottish rite controversy caused the suspension of the charter of Cyprus Commandery, August 20, 1887, on which date Lafayette Lytle, right eminent grand commander, issued a special order arresting the charter, directing that all books and records be surrendered to the eminent grand recorder, and that all meetings be suspended until the revocation of the order. The demand was refused by the local officers and September 12 the right eminent grand commander came in person and renewed the demand and was again refused; October 11-12, the grand commandery being in session revoked the charter, and November 14 a formal appeal from the action of the grand commandery to the grand encainpment was made; no relief was accorded as the grand encampment held that the grand commandery had jurisdiction.

November 5, 1890, Cyrene Commandery, No. 10, was erected in place of the former Cyprus, by W. B. Alelish, right eminent grand commander, and S. S. Williams, deputy grand commander, with the following officers: James C. Gillespie, eminent commander; Herman F. Achauer, generalissimo; Albert B. Worstall, captain general, and a membership composed of former members of Cyprus Commandery.

For half a century the Masonic bodies of Zanesville had no permanent home; the Lodge of Amity was organized in Benoni Peirce's tavern, but the Putnam members wished the inconveniences of crossing the river divided, and when Burnham's tavern was completed the meetings alternated between the towns; when Burnham moved to the northwest corner of Main and Fourth streets the feetings were held there, and later and for some time at the Widow Peirce's home, in Fifth street, between South street and Locust alley, and from there the lodge moved to the Senate chamber, where it remained until the first Masonic hall was erected.

The three-story brick building, in Market street, immediately west of the former Masonic hall, was erected as an academy, and August 15, 1820, Daniel Convers and John Dillon, on behalf of the Zanesville Academy, and John Butler, David Spangler and John Lattimore, on behalf of the Lodge of Amity, agreed that if the lodge would pay one-third of the expense of erecting the building and construct stairways from the second to the third floor at its own expense, it should have the exclusive privilege to occupy the third floor without rent, the academy to have the right to buy the lodge's interest upon payment of the amount expended upon the building, after one year's notice. December 18, 1821, the lodge met in the new hall, and when the Chapter and Council were organized they were permanent occupants.

When Lafayette Lodge was organized it met in the Senate chamber, and when the new brick was built at southeast corner of Market and Fifth streets, met in the garret, where it remained until the spring of 1837, when it moved to the Amity room, and after one yéar moved to the third story of a building on the north side of Main street, between Fifth street and Court alley, where it remained until 1847, when the rooms in the third story of the building, still standing at southeast corner of Main and Fifth streets, were fitted up, and when the commandery was formed it occupied the rooms with Lafayette Lodge until the erection of the hall at Market and Fourth streets.

In 1854 the question of more commodious and suitable rooms for Masonic uses were agitated and proposals to place a third story on projected structures, or to occupy existing ones, were considered and rejected, and the sentiment crystalized into a proposition to erect a building at the northwest corner of Market and Fourth streets, and May 6, 1857, William Galigher, C. W. Potwin, Mark Loudan, Thomas Bell, John C. Hazlett, and William Schultz associated themselves as "The Masonic Hall Association," with a capital of $25,000.00, and filed their certificate next day with the Secretary of State. The association organized at the hall at Main and Fifth streets, and work had progressed so far that the corner-stone was laid July 4, 1857, on which day a special communication of the Grand Lodge was convened in Odd Fellows' lodge room: the Master Masons assembled in the concert room of the Odd Tellows' hall; the Royal Arch Masons, at the Amity lodge room, and the Knights at the Lafayette room. At 1:30 p. m. a parade was formed in Main street and moved west to Third. to South, Fifth, Market, Sixth, South, Seventh, Market, and Fourth, where an arch of evergreens and flowers had been erected: after the ceremonies the procession re-formed and proceeded by way of Market, Third, and Main streets, to the Odd Fellows' hall and was dismissed.