Zanesville City (part 1 of 8)

Zanesville City

Zanesville and its immediate vicinity possess facilities for manufacturing in nearly, if not quite, all the industries requiring skilled labor, it is believed, all things considered, equal, if not superior to those of any place East or West. In every item to be taken into account in the make-up of a manufacturing city comparison is challenged. It was the remark of the late John Quincy Adams made in reference to the water power here existing, that "Zanesville was the Lowell of the West." Henry Clay, in one of his letters, after personal inspection of the water power at this point, said: "The water power furnished by the James river at Richmond makes it the best manufacturing site in the United States save that at Zanesville, Ohio." These opinions were expressed before the era of coal and railway transportation.

The manufacturing interest of Zanesville are at this time its leading attraction. It is a growing interest and is imparting to the city a permanent and solid character, and placing it among the most prosperous cities of the West. The progress made in this direction has been rapid during recent years. Old industries have been enlarged and extended, and new ones added which bid fair to become large and prosperous enterprises. This stimulus to manufacturing industry is attributed to the fact that fuel and living are so cheap, market supplies of all kinds so abundant, the facilities for shipment so superior, and the location so central and generally so advantageous. Besides a more enlightened and liberalized sentiment than heretofore existed now prevails, and there is exhibited more of a disposition to encourage productive enterprises by furnishing money at liberal rates to aid in their prosecution.

foundries, its glass manufactures, its door and sash factories, its cotton and woolen mills, its flouring mills, its paper mills, the manufacture of burial cases, its stone and pottery ware and other great and useful enterprises.

Practically the history of manufactures in Zanesville has, in a former chapter been brought down to about 1820. It is here resumed, and as before, the different branches will, for convenience, be considered in alphabetical order. Previous to 1822 the proprietors of the Muskingum Messenger started a book bindery, which on the second of May, that year they sold to Ezekiel T. Cox & Co. In 1829 Ballentine & Son bought the Joseph Lattirnore brewery, which was on the site quite lately familiar as that of Miller & Co., pork packers, and continued the business until 1835, when the plant was converted into a flour mill. In 1835 C. F- Hass built the American House brewery, and operated it until 1841. Mr. Hass died about 1880, and John Classman bought the property. After continuing the business three years, he sold it to William Fox. In 1843 a brewery was built, near the head of Main street, by Christian I7. Achauer, which had a capacity of 3,000 barrels a year. Rev. George F. Goebel and Conrad Fischer built a small brewery on the northeast corner of Spring and High streets. Its subsequent proprietors were Rev. George F. Goebel, 1856; Keisner & Horn, 1856-65; then John A. Bremer & Co. Edward Didas began to brew in a small way in 1855. Conrad Fischer went into business again the next year. The firm of Fischer Bros, made 2,373 barrels of beer in 1874. In 1865, Adolph Horn, Frank Keisner and Adolph and Fldward Merkle formed the company known as Horn & Co. In 1869 the business passed to the ownership of the Merkle Bros.

The first hearse seen in Zanesville was .a primitive affair without trimming or lining, owned by Stevens & Mussellman. Louis Brenholtz, the first regular undertaker, began business in 1837. He had a hearse built by William Schultz. James Cherry, in Putnam, kept the first ready made coffins. E. N. Hatcher, who began here as an undertaker in 1867, not long afterward formed a partnership with John PI. Crooks, in the manufacture of coffins, which continued until 1878, when they separated, each continuing business on his own account. In 1878, Hatcher wrote and published a Funeral Guide, which as the title page said gave " the minutest detail oT the whole funeral obsequies." In 1869 Messrs. Jonathan Hatcher & Sons built an addition to a building that had been erected about 1854 by Mann & Smith, and opened the first coffin manufactory in town. In 1872 the name of the firm was changed to J. Hatcher & Co., and in 1879 the business passed into the control of an incorporated concern, since known as the Zanesville Coffin Company. Henry Sneerer began undertaking on North Fifth street in 1871, and in 1873 sold out to John H. Crooks, who in 1879 removed to North Fifth street.

Jeremiah Dare built a machine shop in the upper story of his woolen factory, and having procured skilled workmen from Baltimore, constructed machinery for a cotton factory which was established in a building at the northeast corner of Third and Market streets. Until 1832 this mill was operated by Mr. Dare and his son, John D., and then the lower story was converted into a machine shop for the manufacture of cotton and wool manufacturing machinery. They made cotton yarn and batting. Their store was in a one-story frame building on the northeast corner of Third and Main streets. In December, 1846, a subscription was raised to establish a larger cotton mill, and a company known as the " Zanesville Cotton Mill" was brought into existence with John A. Adams, George A. Jones, William Galigher, N. Gattrell, Stephen R. Hosmer, Adam Peters, James L. Cox, Samuel Cox, F. F. Filmore, David H. Lyman, J. V. Cushing and Daniel C. Convers as stockholders. These subscribed 814,000 which Richard Huff supplemented with a subscription of 87,000; making a total of 821,- 000. Work was begun in January, 1847. Mr. Galigher built quite an extensive cotton mill on the southwest corner of Underwood and Zane streets, in 1854, and manufactured sheeting, batting and yarns, until his death, early in 1860. E. Mathews bought the mill, Richard Huff the machinery. In June, 1855, the stock of the Zanesville Cotton Mill v'as owned by Basil Burton, Jesse Duvall, S. R. Hosmer, William Galigher, J. A. Adams, Samuel Clark, George James, J. Galigher and Adam Peters. The Star Cotton Mills Company gave a deed of trust to C. W. Potwin and W. A. Graham. In February, 1879, the property was sold under foreclosure to Hoover & Allison, who carried on business with R. A. Kelly as general manager and Gen. A. Schofield as superintendent. Henry Rockel began manufacturing files in Zanesville in 1854.

Thomas L. Pierce started a foundry on the Jacob Smith & Co. site in 1819. In 1827 he sold it to Richmond & Bostwick, who were succeeded in 1832 by Adams & Wheeler. In 1839, Adams & Wheeler built on the Jones & Abbott site, and in 1848 they were succeeded by Gilbert & Wheeler. In 1863 Sullivan & Herdman became proprietors. Charles H. Jones was admitted to the firm in 1866, and Charles H. Abbott in 1871, when the style was changed to Jones & Abbott. In Fountain alley between Sixth and Seventh streets, Blocksom and Fracker built a foundry in 1826. In 1833 George Wand, A. P. Blocksom and Henry Blandy succeeded Mr. Fracker and did business under the firm name of Blocksom, Blandy & Co. Not long afterwards they leased the Dillon's Falls furnace and forge for two years and there operated as Dillon, Blandy & Co. In 1835 this firm dissolved. In 1838 Henry Blandy, and William Blocksom and his sons G. W. and A. P., began operating under the style of Blocksom, Blandy & Co. In 1840 Mr. Blandy withdrew and organized the firm of H. & F. Blandy, who in 1866 were employing 320 men and doing a business amounting to $780,000. Dare & Ebert began business in 1830, and built the first steam engine ever made in Zanesville. In 1832 the firm became Dare, Whitaker & Co. In 1837 Ebert and Whitaker withdrew and began operating in a new shop, which they builton the corner of Sixth and Main streets. In 1840 they built and removed to the Griffith & Wedge shops, on South Fifth street. Griffith & Wedge became proprietors about sixteen years later. In 1839 John T. Fracker and his son, John F. Fracker, Jr., built a small foundry on the southwest corner of Locust alley and Sixth street. In 1850 the firm changed to Fracker & Brother, and in 1852 the business was controlled by John T. Fracker, Jr., who continued it until 1870. Douglas, Smith & Co., had a foundry from 1851 to the beginning of the war, and then Douglas Brothers controlled it a short time and failed. January 1, 1866, William M. Shinnick, George D. Gibbons, Daniel Hatton and William J. Woodside, under the firm name of Shinnick, Hatton & Co., began a foundry business in the old Blocksom building, in Fountain alley, which they enlarged. Shinnick, Woodside & Gibbons succeeded them in 1870, and the establishment became known as the Union Foundry.

From the small beginning of Jeremiah Dare in 1830, in the manufacture of castings, machinery, etc., arose the great works of Duvall & Co., at the northeast corner of Third and Market streets. The firm of Newell, Davis, James & Co. was organized in 1848, with a capital of $20,000. In 1857 the concern was incorporated as the Ohio Iron Company, with a capital of $75,000. The directors at that time were Henry Blandy, C. W. Potwin, Samuel Baird, E. B.

Greene and E. E. Filmore. The Zanesville F'urnace Company was organized in 1859, and manufactured pig iron. In 1862 it was absorbed by the Ohio Iron Company.

In 1820 the "White Glass Works" were leased and operated by Thomas Mark. Two years later they passed to the possession of Shepherd, Bostwick & Crosby. Mr. Bostwick withdrew in 1835, and Mr. Shepherd in 1838, and the next year Mr. Crosby closed the business. About 1842 George W. Kearns, Joseph Burns, W. F. Spence, Thomas Reynolds, Samuel Turner and George Wendt began operating the works. They were practical glass blowers from Pittsburgh, and at one time they employed about forty men. Reynolds and Wendt sold out in 1844 and Turner and Spence in 1846. Later Arnold Lippet gained an interest in the enterprise. Mr. Burns withdrew in 1848. Mr. Lippet abandoned the works, and for a short time operated the Cassel Window Glass Works as a bottle factory. Later, business was resumed at the old works by the Murdock Brothers. In 1849 Messrs. Kearns, Burns and John W. Carter built the first bottle works in Putnam, in which others had an interest at different times, and which were closed in 1877. In i860 G. W. and Noah Kearns rented, and soon after they purchased, the flint glass house built in 1852 by Cassel & Galigher, at the foot of Main street. In 1863 they built a new establishment, which was operated later by Kearns, Herdman & Gorsuch. Mr. Burns died in 1864, and G. W. and Noah Kearns built their glass house on the southwest corner of Main and First streets, and manufactured window glass exclusively. In 1868 they were joined by Joseph T. Gorsuch and James Herdman. William T. Gray entered the firm in 1874. G. W. Kearns withdrew in 1877 and started the Seventh ward bottle house.

About 1820 Isaac Dillon built a saw-mill at the mouth of the Licking, on the north side, and later a grist-mill, just above the bridge, near the old dam, which was leased to different operators until it was swept away by high water in 1830. In 1839 the saw-mill was rebuilt, and in 1840 partially burned. It was operated by John Deavers from 1842 to 1845, and later by Francis Cassidy and Robert Lee. Mr. Cassidy bought it, and in 1847 sold it to James Miller. It was washed away in i860. Soon afterward Mr. Miller erected a steam mill on the west side of the Muskingum at the foot of Mclntire avenue George and Richard Reeve converted their old blast furnace and nail factory into a flouring mill at the west end of the Main street bridge in 1825. George Reeve Jr. succeeded

Richard in 1830. The mill was sold under foreclosure in 1848, and was idle until 1851, when McConnell & Blandy bought it for 818,000. It was remodeled and increased in capacity to 400 barrels a day. In 1855 it was bought by William Galigher for 821,000. At his death, in i860, Charles Galigher became manager. In 1864 the property was again involved financially, and for a time was operated by C. T. Aston in the interest of the mortgagees. Later the state board of public works seized the mill for arrears in water rent, and leased the premises for thirty years to Ball & Cassidy, who, sometime about twenty years ago, transferred their lease to Paul H. Kemerer. In 1828-29 Isaac Dillon built the Pataskala mill on the bank of the Licking. In 1835 he s°ld it to M oses Dillon. The latter sold it to Solomon and William Sturgis. Mr. Dillon also erected a saw mill, woolen mill and flaxseed oil mill. This woolen mill made the first figured woolen carpet made in this part of the state. In 1855 it was sold to William Beaumont. In i860 these mills were damaged by the giving way of the dam. The oil mill was moved down the Muskingum and located next to Pratt's mill. Mr. Beaumont repaired the dam and plant, and in 1868 a portion of the dam was again washed away, when the whole dam was replaced by a new one. In 1872 the mill was thoroughly repaired and improved. Mr. Beaumont died in 1873, and the business was continued for a time by his widow. Cushing, Martin & Pierce built the Cassel mill in 1828. William C. Cassel obtained a half-interest in it in 1843. About ten years later he became sole owner and built a brick addition to the mill. In 1873 he left it by will to his wife, who, in 1875, leased it to Pickering, Grant & Co. In 1881 Messrs. Cassel again came in control and resumed business under the style of C. Cassel & Co. In 1830 Nash & Co. had a steam saw mill near the north end of Third street bridge. Later this mill was owned and operated by Hughes & Spurck until it was torn down. Jesse Dare and Alfred Printz built a two-story steam saw mill, a little north of Nash & Co.'s mill in 1832, which had its engine in its upper story and was running as late as 1838. Richard P'airlamb built a grist mill in 1840, using part of the timbers from the old Jackson mill and the large P'rench buhr stones that were brought from Philadelphia for the Jackson mill in 1816. The next year he added a saw mill and a linseed oil mill. Michael Dulty bought the property in 1843, and in 1850 sold it to Mr. Drone. Daniel Applegate built the city mill, a brick structure, running west from Potter alley to Third street.

Cox & Wright began making paper in 1828, and for many years this was the leading industry of Zanesville. Simeon Wright sold out his interest and the firm became If. T. & J. L. Cox. In May, 1836, the mill was destroyed by fire. It was replaced by a brick structure, and the business was continued for twenty-one years by H. J. Cox & Co., who made an assignment to David Hull, and the property passed into the hands of George Rishtine & Co. After the invention of the telegraph, this firm for many years had the exclusive contract to manufacture the rolls of narrow white paper at first used on the Morse instruments. About i860 the property was conveyed to Mrs. PL M. Cox, and under the firm name of Pdizabeth M. Cox & Co., the business was managed by her husband. The firm became Cox & Gilbert a little later. In 1868, Messrs. Glessner, Gilbert & Terry became the owners of the mill, and not long afterward the firm became Glessner & Gilbert, and under their management the business flourished and increased. About 1865 Pfdward Mathews and George Rishtine formed the firm of Mathews & Co., and began paper making in a building on the southwest corner of Zane and Underwood streets, which had been erected for a cotton factory that had failed, and which they remodeled and improved from time to time. The firm of Mathews & Co. dissolved in 1876 and was succeeded by E. Mathews, with Mr. Rishtine as manager. Coarse wrapping paper and tea paper were the first products. The manufacture of printing and manilla papers was introduced later.

In 1840 Bernard Howson, John Hallam, George Wheaton and two other experienced potters, originally from Staffordshire, England, came to Zanesville and engaged in the manufacture of Rockingham ware. In 1846, John Howson, brother of Bernard, joined them. In 1852, John Howson and his son Bernard became sole owners. In 1863, John Howson died, and the junior member of the firm continued the business, the principal feature of which was the manufacture of ink bottles. In 1874, the establishment was leased by Fischer & Lansing, of New York, for the manufacture of floor tiling.- This was the beginning of the American Emcaustic Tile works. In 1849 George Pyatt, from Staffordshire, England, came here and began making Rockingham and yellow stoneware. In 1851 the fiim of Pyatt & Goetz was formed. Two years later, Mr. Pyatt left the town and the business ceased.

He returned in 1863, however, and was in Mr. Howson's employ until 1866, when he resumed business for himself, with much suceess. He died in 1879, and the pottery, known as the Tremont pottery, was continued by his son, J. G. Pyatt. N. K. Smith began the manufacture of pottery in 1868; Dunfcan Hamelbock in 1874. In 1873, Alfred Wilber started a pottery, which he sold to Calvin Bumbaugh in 1878. This was known as the Star pottery. *

Abbot & Crain had a small rope-walk, about where the canal now runs between First and Second streets, in 1832. In 1833, Abraham Arter began rcpe-making at 61 Main street and continued business until 1876. In 1835, Shinnick & Howard began the manufacture of rope on the northwest corner of Main and Second streets. In 1838, Mr. Shinnick became sole proprietor, and removed the concern to Hov ard street, between Fifth and Sixth.

In 1847, Hiram Rogers and Dr. A. H. Brown bought the old Wilson soap factory on the river bank between Fifth and Sixth streets. In 1848, the firm became Brown & Convers. From 1849 to 1853, Theodore Convers was sole owner. William Schultz bought the establishment in the year last mentioned, and the history of his operations and of the enterprise of his successors will be given later on. It was in 1863 that David Hahn began the manufacture of soap here.

Doster & Darlinton opened a tanyard, in the. spring of 1830, on the south side of the National road near its junction with the old Wheeling road and there operated till 1884 a tannery of 100 vats, the largest in Eastern Ohio. The business was closed out and the land was cut up into lots and sold. Gilbert Blue began tanning on the Marietta road in 1830. His son Curran Blue continued this business and about 1847 opened a new yard on the river road below the city and there conducted a successful business until 1876. N. G. & Charles Abbott in 1844 erected a tannery with 24 vats, near the Muskingum river, just south of the old rope-walk. In 1849 the business was closed out.

The old Taylor tavern at the southeast corner of Main and Fourth streets was torn down in 1842-43 and Dr. Hamm, its owner, contracted with E. H. Church (mason), James Ramage (carpenter), to replace it with a brick hotel building, which was finished in the year last mentioned. "Joe" Stacy kept the new hotel and for a time it was known as the Stacy House. Later it was known as the Mclntire House, and the Mills House, and was finally replaced by the Clarendon hotel, which was built in 1877, the stone and brick work superintended by E. H. Church above mentioned. The St. Lawrence hotel formerly stood on the southwest corner of Main and Fourth streets, but has given place to other business. Other well known hotels of the past were the Sherman House and the Commercial House. Next to the Clarendon the Kirk House, on Fourth street, near Market, takes rank. It has an existence covering the period 1863-92 and is widely and favorably known and specially popular with traveling men. Other hotels are the Windsor and the Grand ( lately re-christened the Mt. Clare) both on Market street and the Ohio house, on Fifth street. There are other lesser ones.

William Schultz had a wagon shop from 1832 to 1849. The Brown Manufacturing Company was incorporated in 1873. Its first board of directors consisted of Peter Black, W. A. Graham, F. J. L. Blandy, Col. M. Churchill, James Herdman, Thomas Griffith and William P. Brown. The works were burned in June, 1880, and at once rebuilt.

Jeremiah Dare had an early woolen mill, on the site occupied by the woolen mill on Main street, near the bridge, which was described as "just below the Granger mill." J. R. Thomas leased it to him, and in 1822 Mr. Dare took his son Jesse in partnership with him. In 1838 another son, Thomas J. Dare, acquired a half and later a whole interest. This mill was burned in 1840, but Jeremiah Dare, rebuilt it and had it ready for operation early in 1841. Thomas J. Dare died in 1865, and the business was conducted by Jeremiah Z., Thomas J., Jr., and Lewis Dare until the mill was closed, in December, 1878.

The manufacturing history of Zanesville has now been brought down to the period 1870-80. The next important interest of the city entitled to consideration, is its trade and commerce, and the position of the place as a commercial center. The advantages the city has in this particular are not inferior in importance to the advantages it possesses as a manufacturing city. Its trade is at this time rapidly increasing. A large extent of territory, densely populated and rich in agricultural resources, through convenient lines of railway, is made tributary to the place. Other new sections, hitherto unknown to Zanesville merchants, will become their most profitable customers. The effect of this is becoming manifest. In the grand rivalry among the cities of the state for commercial power and wealth and securing an industrial population, the chances for Zanesville are daily brightening. The jobbing business of Zanesville will com- pare favorably with that of any other city of like population in the entire country. The proprietors of the principal wholesale houses are, for the most part, old citizens of the place, identified with its prosperity, conservative as business men, and on account of their prudence, good judgment and honorable dealing, have secured the confidence of merchants and traders generally throughout Southeastern Ohio. The capital employed in merchandising in Zanesville is large. The industry is varied. It is a growing one. Every day adds something to what was before established. What yesterday was combined with other branches of business becomes to-day a specialty. Fiach department of trade is conducted as a separate and distinct pursuit. That Zanesville possesses great advantages for becoming a commercial city must be manifest upon a little reflection. Consider, for a moment the position it commands in its geographical location, its transportation facilities, its large and wealthy territory to be supplied, its extensive population and its other manifest advantages. Having the manufacturing and agricultural facilities here to such an extent as has hitherto been shown, it follows that the trade and commerce of the place should exist in a like corresponding extent. The wants of a people are mutual, they are complementary, and a manufacturing city is necessarily a commercial city.

B. Clark, Curtis & Co., Thomas Drake. Building Companies, The Home Building and Savings Co., The Homestead Building and Savings Co., The Mechanics' Building Co. Brewers, Sebastian Bohn, Red Star Brewery, J. A. Brenner & Co., The Merkle Brewery, Washington Brewery (Zinsmeister & Linser, proprietors). Building Paper, C. J. Brenholtz. Building Sand, The Oakland Press Brick Co. Building Stone, E. M. Ayers, John N. Steiner, T. B. Townend & Co. Carriage Manufacturers, J. L. Christ, George W. Coon, Duerr & Schuman, Hoffman Bros. & Co., Huff & Moore, A. J. Hughes, Peter Keck, Mader Bros., Davis Palmer, Charles H. Powell, P. C. Schubach. Clothing, Boston One Price Clothing House,

The principal manufacturing and commercial enterprises at this time may be thus designated: Agricultural Implements, T. C. Berkshire, Gray & Richards, Zanesville Hardware Co. Awning Makers, Henry C. Mylius & Co. Baking Powder Manufacturers, Burchinal & Co. Bent Wood Works, Henry J. Kimble. Bookbinders, The Courier Co., George Lilienthal, C. H. Rea & Co., E. R. Sullivan. Books and Stationery, E. P. Church, G. R. Fox, S. A. Jenkins, M. V. B. Kennedy. Wholesale Boots and Shoes, H. C. Werner, W. N. Werner. Retail Boots and Shoes, 12 houses. Box Manufacturers, Frederick Abel, C. J. Brenholtz, J. Smith & Son. Brass Founders, C. Dockray & Son. Brewers, Bohn's Brewery, J. A. Brenner & Co., Washington Brewery (Simon Linser), The Riverside Brewery. Brick Manufacturies, the Fish Pressed Brick Co., H. M. Gooden, W.

P'ollowing is the historical list of the incorporated companies with offices here: American Encaustic Tiling Co (limited ), office and works Marietta road; incorporated under laws of New York in 1878; capital $150,000; B. Nisher, president; George R. Lansing, treasurer; Wm. G. Flammer, secretary; Geo. A. Stanbery, general superintendent. Brown Manufacturing Co., office and works cor. Underwood and Railroad; incorporated 1873; capital $1 50,000; Jas. Herdman, president; N. IT Moore, secretary ; W. A. Graham, treasurer; U. IT Brown, general manager; D. S. Brown, superintendent of works. Griffith & Wedge Co., office and works 85 to 12 1 S. Fifth; established 1858, incorporated August 4, 1885; capital $150,000; Francis Wedge, president; John Hoge, vice-president; F. N. Wedge, secretary; E. Gigax, treasurer; founders and machinists. The Citizens' National Bank, 130 Main; organized July 1, 1881; capital, $200,000; IT. C. Van Voorhis, president; W. M. Shinnick, vice-president; A. V. Smith, cashier. The Courier Co., office 32 S. Fourth ; incorporated March 14, 1889; capital, $70,000; John Hoge, president; II. C. Tindsay, vice-president; R. B.

Brown, secretary, treasurer and business manager. The Elliot Paper Co., office and warehouse 19 N. Sixth; incorporated Nov. 7, 1885; capital $10,000; Joseph PTliot, president; Thos. H. Elliot, secretary; John Elliot, treasurer; Henry Elliot, general manager. The First National Bank, 134 Main; organized Feb. 24, 1863; capital $200,000; surplus, $100,000; W. A. Graham, president; Geo. IT. Stewart, cashier. The Home Building & Savings Mo. Savings Bank, 155 Main; organized May, 1886; capital $1,000, - 000; Harvey Darlington, president; Jas. T. Irvine, treasurer and secretary. The J. Downerd & Son Co., office 208 Main, 2d floor; incorporated Nov. 18, 1887; capital $50,000; E. C. Downerd, president; M. E. Dunn, secretary and treasurer. The Kearns-Gorsuch Glass Co., office s. e. cor. First and Main; incorporated Feb. 3, 1886; capital $200,000; J. T. Gorsuch, president; Wm.T. Gray, vice president; Noah Kearns, superintendent. Officers Board of Trade - president, George R. Fox; second vice-president, A. E. Starr; secretary, W. S. Bell; treasurer, Alexander Grant. Steamboat lines - Steamer Bessie Siler, Newton Price, captain; runs daily between Zanesville and McConnelsville; dock foot of Sixth street. The Muskingum Coffin Co., office and factory cor. Main and Canal; incorporated 1881; capital $80,000; J. T. Newman, president; N. C. Highfield, vicepresident; Joseph Shaw, secretary and treasurer. The Oakland Press Brick Co., office cor. Market and Third, works at junction of the Bellaire, Zaneville and Cincinnati and Belt Tine railroads; incorporated December 23, 1886; capital $25,000; W. A. Graham, president; C. V. Graham, secretary and treasurer. The Odd Fellows' Beneficial Association, office 160 Main; organized April 26, 1869; incorporated March 12, 1873; Geo. Rishtine, president; J. A. Parshall, vice-president; T. D. McCaddon, treasurer; W. R. Hazlett, secretary. The Ohio Fuel Gas & Incadescent Tight Co., office cor. Sixth and Market; organized Dec. 4, 1888, under the laws of West Virginia; capital $1,000,- 000, stock full paid and noil-assessable; G. E. Meigs, president; P. G. Marshall, IT N. Wedge, C. W. Kauke, vice-presidents; A. E. Boone, secretary, treasurer and general manager; G. F. Axline, assistant treasurer; F. D. Moses, engineer; Cyril Hawkins, general agent. The People's Savings Bank, Monumental Building; incorporated September, 1889; capital $50,000; T. F. Spangler, president; Willis Bailey, 1st vicepresident; C. Stolzenbach, 2d vice-president; Alex. Grant, treasurer; Wm. J. Atwell, cashier. The Shinnick, Woodside & Gibbons Mfg. Co., proprietors Union Foundry, office and foundry

Fountain avenue, east of Seventh; incorporated July i, 1885; capital 8150,000; Wm. M. Shinnick, president; Wm. J. Woodside, treasurer; Geo. D. Gibbons, secretary. The T. B. Townsend Brick Co., office 195 Market, works 3d ward; incorporated January 1, 1890; capital $200,000; T. B. Townsend, president; R. C. Burton, secretary; O. N. Townsend, treasurer. The Times Recorder Co., office 14 S. Fifth. The Union National Bank; organized May 3d, 1890; capital $ 1 50,000; James Herdman, president; M. Churchill, vice-president; E. Martin, cashier; W. H. Pierpont, assistant cashier; 128 Main. The Zanesville Water Works, office 2d floor Market House; Geo. R. Humphrey, president; H. S. Crozier, secretary. The Zanesville Athenaeum, library and rooms 30 and 32 south Fifth; organized December 19, 1827; incorporated December 22, 1828; E. C. Brush, president; J. R. Stonesipher, secretary and treasurer; Miss M. A. Stillwell, librarian; directors, M. M. Granger, J. R. Stonesipher, C. IT. Abbott, C. C. Goddard, J. W. King, T. B. Townsend. The Zanesville Canal & Mfg. Co., office 1 14 Main corner Third; incorporated 1814; M. M. Granger, president; R. S. Mershon, secretary; trustee Mclntire estate. The Zanesville Hardware Co., 169 Main; incorporated Oct., 1888; capital $100,000; W. A. Fillmore, president; A. T. Cassel, vice-president; Wilbur F. McCoy, secretary; W. A. Herdman, treasurer; wholesale and retail hardware. The Zanesville Stoneware Co., office and works northwest corner Woodlawn avenue and Cooper Mill road; incorporated 1889; capital $50,000; PC G. Bowen, president and treasurer; A. T. Clark, secretary. The Zanesville Street Railroad; incorporated August, 1890; capital $200,000; A. L. Conger, president; F. M. Atterholt, vice-president; F. A. Wilcox, secretary; F. A. Seiberling, treasurer; all of Akron, O.; A. H. Johnson, superintendent; office barn, Marysville Pike. Young Men's Christian Association, 51 north Fifth; incorporated August, 1888; A. P. Pinkerton president; C. S. Hoskinson, vice-president; O. L. Martin, recording secretary; J. S. Dewacter, treasurer; E. A. Pierce, general secretary; C. P. Evans, assistant secretary. Zanesville Electric Light and Power Co., office and works 227 north Sixth; organized March 1, 1887; capital $75,000; John IToge, president; R. D. Schultz, vice-president; Frank Durbin, secretary; F. G. Grace, treasurer; Wm. O. Perry, superintendent. Zanesville Gas Light Co., office corner Fourth and Main, 2d floor, works 187 to 219 north Sixth; organized 1849; capital $50,000; Moses M. Granger, president; G. A. Allen, secretary; Citizens' National Bank, treasurer;

Eugene Printz, superintendent; telephone 205. Zanesville Mining Co., office 14 north Fifth, Opera block; incorporated February, 1882; capital $50,000; F. J. Terry, president, J. Hope Sutor, secretary; Geo. Brown, treasurer; Noah Shrigley, superintendent of mines, Salina, Boulder county, Colorado. Zanesville Woolen Manufacturing Co., office and mill north side Muskingum avenue, south end Third street bridge; incorporated 1870; capital $50,000; John C. Harris, president; Robert Fulton, secretary and treasur;r; John L. Turner, superintendent.

Reference has been made to the parent, if such it may be termed, of the present gigantic enterprises of the American Encaustic Tiling Company, whose office and salesroom is in New York, its great manufacturing plant in Zanesville. It was the old Howson pottery, on South Seventh street, opposite Shultz & Co's, soap factory, and a small brick building yet remains to mark the site, although the kilns have long since disappeared. The plant was devoted to the manufacture of crocks and kitchenware, and was conducted on a very small scale.

In 1874, Mr .B. Fischer, of New York, had his attention directed to the clays at Zanesville. He was induced to investigate them and was convinced that tile could be made here. He purchased the plant above mentioned, associating with himself, Mr. George R. Lansing, of the same city. For the first two years, the work was an experimental one. No tile that was merchantable, was made during that whole period, and a man with less tenacity of purpose than Mr. Fischer, would have abandoned the plant altogether. He had faith in Muskingum county's clays, however, and his experiments were continued. Many of the older citizens still remember when kiln after kiln of fresh burned tile were pronounced failures, and were hauled away to fill low lots or to macadamize the roads. Such experiments could not continue forever without some result, and finally merchantable tile was produced. In 1877 the courthouse here was floored with tile manufactured by the, company, and a part of that tile was made at the old factory on the river bank. That floor cost $1 per square foot, and it was considered a triumph of art. The same floor can now be laid for 40 cents per square foot, and it has become quite common as compared with the higher and more beautiful designs that have been developed. The fact had been established that merchantable tile could be made in this country, and that Zanesville was especially adapted to the pur- pose, and the firm decided to build larger. Ground was purchased at the present site in the Third ward. In 1877 a building about onefourth the size of the present one was erected. It consisted of a building 125x68 feet, and six kilns. It was looked upon then as a great manufacturing institution, and its projectors thought that it would be amply sufficient to supply all the demands for tile for the next generation. They little dreamed of the magnificent proportions of the business whose foundations they were laying. In the same year Mr. Stanbery became the superintendent of the works, and he has occupied the position ever since.

In 1878 the plant was placed under the management of a stock company. Strange as it may seem the production of American tile by American artisans did not open the American market. The dealers in tile were prejudiced against them. Finding that they could not sell the tile to the dealers, who would handle none but the European article, the company became contractors as well as manufacturers. They laid tile floors themselves, and soon brought the dealers to recognize the worth of the article they were manufacturing. Since that time their market has been, as is well known to our citizens, constantly expanding until now it embraces every State in the Union. The American Encaustic Tiling Company was the first company in this country to produce merchantable tile. The first products as compared with the present were crude and simple, consisting only of flooring tiles of the most simple designs and the plainest colors. Not satisfied with this end, although it was a decided triumph, the company has continued to experiment until now the finest and most beautiful art tile are produced.

From the time of the building of the first structure on the present site in the Third ward until the present day the growth of the plant has been rapid. New buildings were added until all the ground was occupied, and then it was found necessary to arch over the run which flows through the premises and build over it. The time came when more ground must be had, and it could not be bought at the present location in the Third ward for anything like a reasonable sum. This brings the history down to recent events, which are still very fresh in the minds of the people. The New York stockholders, who own by far the largest interest in the establishment, determined to move it bodily to New Jersey. They communicated their intention to Mr. John llogc, who was interested in the enterprise. By persevering effort he induced them to hold the matter open a few days. He returned home to Zanesville and the situation was made known to the board of trade. The exciting meeting of that body which followed will be remembered by all. Citizens pledged themselves to pay large sums of money provided the city could not be bonded for the amount of money required to meet the demands of the company for a sufficient sum to purchase a site and sink a test well for oil and gas. The bill submitting the matter to a vote of the people passed the legislature, and at the spring election the people voted almost unanimously in favor of issuing the bonds. They were issued to the amount of $40,000. Then followed the choice of a site. Various places were viewed, but the utmost secrecy was observed as to which would be the favored one. The list was finally narrowed down in the minds of the company to two - one in Fair Oaks and the other the present one. At this juncture Col. H. A. Blood, of Boston, president of the C. C. & S. Railway Company, learned of the situation of affairs. He was soon in Zanesville, and made such substantial offers in the way of tracks, switching facilities, etc., that the works were located as at present.

The mammoth plant which was dedicated Tuesday, April 19, 1892, is ample guarantee of the wisdom of President Blood in making so liberal an offer. The present factory is the most complete on the continent, but is a mere plaything when compared with the new one. It consists of a double row of buildings about 1500 feet long. The size of each building is given in the list which was furnished by Evans

7 rooms, one story; bisque kiln house, 132x216 feet, one story; placing house, 32x42 feet, 2 rooms, one story; smear kiln house, 44x1 14 feet, one story; sorting house, 74x120 feet, one story; glazing house, 48x220 feet, 3 rooms, one story; placing houses, 16x20 feet, 4 rooms, one story; glazing kiln house, 96x200 feet, one story; ware house, 216x216 feet, 9 rooms three stories; freight and cooper house, 52x218 feet, 4 rooms, one story; engine and boiler house, 48x172 feet, 2 rooms, one story; machine shop and carpenter shop house, 44x76 feet, 4 rooms, two stories; blacksmith house, 20x44 feet, 1 room, one story; scggar house, 52x106 feet, 4 rooms, two stories; stock houses, 20x76 feet, 5 rooms, one story; locomotive house, 23x44 feet, 1 room, one story; fifteen bisque kilns, 22 feet diameter at base; three smear kilns, 16.8 feet diameter at base; eight glaze kilns, 22 feet diameter at base; one seggar kiln, 26 feet diameter at base; one improved eight tunnel drier; brick smoke stack, 121 feet high, 18x18 feet at the base. Home institutions were patronized to as large an extent as possible in the erection and equipment of this plant, and everything that Zanesville could furnish was purchased here. Evans & Dunsweiler had the contract for laying the 12,000,000 brick. The boilers, air compressors and tile presses were manufactured by Griffith & Wedge. The lumber was furnished by Thomas Drake. The Blandy Machine company furnished iron work. Rcekel & Son laid the fifty miles and more of pipe used in the building. Snyder, the slater, placed the slate roofs used. D. Schmidt constructed the galvanized iron work and spouting. Still other Zanesville firms, employing Zanesville workmen, performed other contracts.

The plant is chiefly valuable to Zanesville because of the labor it furnishes and the resulting increase in prosperity and population. It will give work to from 800 to 1000 persons when running to its full capacity.

The demonstration at the formal opening of these works marked a "red letter" day to the people of this part of Ohio. The program for the dedication was under the direction of an executive committee composed of Hon. Wm. S. Bell, A. E. Starr, H. A. Sharpe, Charles Geis, H. C. Werner, J. A. Morrow, G. R. Clements, J. H. Swart, Edward McGovern, J. A. Dennis, C. C. Harrison, Thomas Trainer, G. A. Allen and Dr. H. T. Sutton. The reception committee consisted of Messrs. T. F. Spangler, John Hoge, R. D. Schultz, F. A. Durban, Geo. H. Stewart, C. Stolzenbach, D. H. Gaumer, H. C. Van Voorhis, F. H. Southard, H. C. Werner, Dr. T. J. Barton, Geo. A. Stanbery, H. H. Sturtevant, Wm. Kirk, S. A. Baldwin, Gen. R. B. Brown, Rev. F. Richards, D. M. Evans, D. S. Brown, W. R. Mathews, E. P. Bloomer, John C. Sullivan, Julius Frank, B. Wheeler, Wm. Bateman, Dr. E. C. Logsdon, David Lee, M. Churchill, Jas. R. Peabody, Charles Brendel, J. Hope Sutor, Capt. Mader, Hiram Waller, W. J. Woodside, G. D. Gibbons, Lieut. C. E. Gillette, R. S. Mershen, A. O. Jones, P'dward Gigax, William Swart, James Herdman, Thomas Murphy, Alexander Grant, Charles Abbott, William Wells, Edward Abbott, James Wheeler, S. A. Weller, Theodore Wiles, J. W. Pinkerton, G. D. Munson, Albert Baker, Dan Buell, J. J. Adams, C. U. Shryock, W. W. Harper, Rev. George P. Torrence, J. W. Conrade, John Crooks, C. D. Wedge, T. J. McDermott, I7. N. Grigsby, T. M. Williams and PC L. Winchell. The program included an address of welcome by Hon. W. S. Bell, mayor of the city, addresses by Hon. Wm. McKinley, Jr., governor of Ohio, Hon. John O'Neill, Col. H. A. Blood, of the Cleveland & Canton R. R. Co., President Fischer, of the Tiling Co., and others. Amusement was the order of the day and evening, and the Barracks band from Columbus, the Seventeenth regiment band of Zanesville, and the Dresden K. of P. bands were in attendance.

Schultz & Co., "The" soap-boilers; factory and office, Canal Bank, between Sixth and Seventh streets, Zanesville, O.; New York office and depot, 164 Franklin street, New York, are well worthy to adorn the pages of a book dealing with the history of Zanesville. Both members of the firm are natives of Zanesville, and have lived in the city of their birth all their lives, and have been active citizens, both as young and middle-aged men, engaging in public-spirited movements calculated to advance the interests of this community. Besides their own large manufactory, they arc heavy holders of real estate, and stockholders in a large number of other manufacturing concerns. Messrs. Robert Schultz and John Hoge are the individual members comprising the firm, so widely known throughout this country as Schultz & Co., manufacturers of several brands of soap which have a world-wide reputation for being the best for family use. Messrs. Schultz & Co.'s factory is a four- story brick structure, the dimensions of which are 70x200 feet, every inch of which is utilized in the manufacture of the firm's products. The building throughout is supplied with all the latest and most improved machinery necessary in an establishmentof the kind, and seventy-five hands find . steady and remunerative employment, besides a number of traveling salesmen, covering territories which know no bounds. They also own a large warehouse at the depots, with switches in from the different roads, used for storing their surplus stocks. Messrs. Schultz & Co. began business in 1866, being successors to Mr. Wm. Schultz, under whom they served from boyhood. Prior to their accession to the business, the trade had been purely local; but shortly after, they introduced into the Western markets their celebrated " Star " brand, which was entirely different from anything else in the soap line. Subsequently the firm placed upon the market their famous brand, " Irish

Soap," which proved to be their first great success, and gave them a national reputation. This brand immediately became an immense favorite as a laundry soap, and at once bounded to the front ranks of all the leading markets of the country. The firm added to their list other famous brands. Messrs. Schultz & Co. now make " Star Soap," one of the best and most desirable for general family use, and the "Duck Soap," a good laundry article. The volume of trade extends to all parts of the United States. The firm's products have no superior, and there are few homes in the land where the name of Schultz & Co. is not familiar. Messrs Schultz & Co. are also sole owners and managers of the Zanesville Opera House, which has the reputation of being one of the finest and best managed theaters in America.

About the year 1875 Schultz & Co. purchased the Zane House property, and the Opera house and Opera House block were erected in 1879, which then, as now, were the pride of this city. Mr. Hoge's enthusiasm was impressed upon his partner, and unaided these two dauntless young men erected a row of metropolitan business rooms and a theater, at that time unequaled in the state. That this was a most expensive undertaking goes without saying. Such was their credit that not the semblance of a mortgage encumbered their property, yet it was freely predicted by the croakers that Schultz & Co. would be ruined. The business sagacity of Mr. Hoge soon manifested itself in the management of the Opera house. The rules laid down by him were unique, and a marked innovation on the established methods of the "profession." The result was a widespread notoriety and a national reputation for the Schultz Opera house. Theatrical people stormed and swore like the army in Flanders, but they eventually yielded gracefully to the iron-clad regulations. Their ravings have turned to exultant praise. The "rules" have been widely copied throughout the country - the best tribute to their fairness. "The Appeal to the Profession," written by Mr. Hoge, and placarded in all the dressing rooms of the theater, won the warmest commendation from the "show people."

Another important and beautiful structure is the Memorial building. On June 9th, 1878, some half dozen old soldiers met at the residence of Fred. Geiger, for the purpose of organizing a Soldiers' Monumental Association. At this meeting Geiger presided, W. O. Munson acted as secretary, and Andros Guille was designated as treasurer. The plan was to raise $5,000 by popular subscription. The second meeting of the association was held June 13, in the office of Mr. Geiger, Clerk of the Court. At this meeting a permanent organization was effected and Mr. Geiger was elected president, John H. Drake vice-president, Andros Guille treasurer, and W. O. Munson, secretary. A constitution and by-laws were adopted, and C. W. Potwin, Peter Black and Robert Silvey were appointed, trustees. Thursday, September 19, 1878, wras held a grand county re-union, under the auspices of the association, which in addition to being the largest ex-soldier demonstration held in the county up to that time, was a financial success, netting the association $1,000. At the first annual meeting held June 1 3, 1879, the old officers were re-elected, and an executive committee composed of five ladies and five gentlemen was appointed. This committee was Mrs. F. Cogswell, Mrs. F. J. L. Blandy, Mrs. James Buckingham, Mrs. L. B. Taylor and Messrs P'red. Dietz, R. B. Brown, VV. H. Cockins, W. S. Harlan and Howard Aston. It was now determined to increase the amount for the monument to $10,000, and a plan of guarantee notes was formulated and an active canvass begun. At the annual meeting June 13, 1883, five years after the organization of the association, the secretary in his report alluded to the fact that a trifle over $5,000 was now on hand, that the members of the association had voted to have the monument erected in front of the court house, that the Commissioners had refused to move the fountain to give place to the monument, that many of the heaviest subscribers were in favor of diverting the fund already raised and adding to it fifteen or twenty thousand dollars more, and in lieu of a monument, erecting a " Muskingum County Soldiers' and Sailor's Memorial Building." "This, in the opinion of your secretary, would be a good investment, permanent, progressive and lasting." At this meeting a paper was read, which led to the sending out by the secretary a circular letter requesting each subscriber to designate his choice in the matter, by which it was decided to erect a memorial building instead of a shaft or monument.

To the officers, trustees, executive committee, who labored so faithfully for five years on behalf of the monument, much of the credit of this building is due. For the money which they, through their trustees, turned over to the Memorial building trustees, $5,152.07, served as the first payment on the site of this building, and it may be well to say, that every man, woman or child who paid his dollar or more toward the monument, to-day has a proportionate share and interest in this building, and further, that all of the time and labor bestowed upon the enterprise for five years by those having in charge the Monumental association, was given freely, and not a dollar of the money collected was spent except for stationery, printing and postage. With the appointment of the seven trustees, ably represented by T. F. Spangler, the labor of the Monumental association closed. September 27, 1883, upon the application of C. W. Potwin, W. A. Graham and Robert Silvey, trustees of the Muskingum County Soldier's and Sailors' Monumental Association, Judge Phillips appointed Gilbert D. Munson, Frederick C. Dietz, Joseph T. Gorsuch, Thomas W. Gattrell, James Buckingham, Conrade Stolzenbach and Frank J. Korte, as trustees of the Muskingum County Soldiers' and Sailors' Monumental Association. March 14, 1887, by reason of a vacancy by the resignation of F. C. Dietz, Judge Phillips appointed T. F. Spangler to fill vacancy. These trustees took charge of the funds and business of the Monumental association. About the first business transacted by them was to purchase the property upon which the building now stands, using the money turned over to them to make the first payment. Matters went along without anything of importance happening, the trustees endeavoring all the time to devise some means to have the building erected, until in 1887, the county commissioners, having to provide an armory for the use of Company B and Battery C, of Ohio National Guard in this county, were induced by the trustees to issue bonds of the county for the purpose of erecting a soldiers' and sailors' memorial building, and an armory, on the site purchased by the trustees, the arrangement being for the trustees to pay the interest on the bonds, and the principal as it came due. By this arrangement the Grand Army of the Republic of this county have secured a beautiful post room, the Ohio National Guard, a splendid armory, and the whole people a magnificent structure, well worthy of the name, and a grand tribute to the memory of the 700 brave men of Muskingum county who perished during the war.

Other public buildings and halls in the city are the following: Athenmum building, Athletic hall, Beard block, Bijou opera house, Black's Music Hall block, Blocksom block, Castle hall, Central block, City prison, Choral hall, Christman block, Court house, First National Bank hall, Gold hall, Haver's hall, Heilman's hall, Horn's hall, Lee's hall, Maginnis block, Market house, Martin hall, Masonic hall, Merrick block Nevitt's hall, Odd Fellow's hall (Woodlawn lodge), Odd Fellows' temple, Pinkerton building, Police station, Power House No. 1, Power House No. 2, Power House No. 3, Richard block, Shinnick block and hall, Star block, St. Nicholas hall, St. Thomas hall, Turner's hall, Weller building, Wheeler Stevens' block, Wiles block, Work house, Worrell hall, Young Mens' Christian Association rooms.

Pllijah C. Ross, of Zanesville, produced the first daguerreotype ever made west of the city of New York. It is claimed that the first friction or lucifer matches ever made in the world were produced in Zanesville by William G. Thompson, in 1834. Zanesville was first lighted with gas in November, 1849. Her first street railway was opened for travel December 4, 1875. Zanesville was early and enterprising in the introduction of the electric light.

Since the time of the arrival of the first mails in Zanesville in 1798, when Daniel Convers entered into contract with the national government to carry the mails from Marietta to this point and return weekly, the changes have been numerous and great. Wm. McCulloch, the first postmaster, found but little to do in his official capacity, but with the growth of the village and the establishment of improved mail facilities, the work became greater. In August, 1817, from one weekly mail, Zanesville had risen so that she had the benefit of six mails per week - three from the East and three from the West. At this time the mails were carried upon the regular stage routes which had been established. In this same year, (January 30) Putnam had an office established, with Henry Safford as postmaster. In June, 1838, an office was established for West Zanesville under the name of Muskingum, with John W. P. Lane as postmaster, but was discontinued in 1843, and that village did without a postoffice until in January, 1852, when the West Zanesville postoffice was established with Joseph H. Parke in charge. In 1849, the postoffice at Zanesville became a president appointive office, and soon thereafter the mails began to be delivered by railroads instead of by the old stage coach. In 1864, a money order department was established here and the system was fully inaugurated November 1, 1864. In August, 1880, this office was made the depository for this section of the state, and now receives the deposits from the postoffices in the following counties: Belmont, Coshocton, Guernsey, Monroe, Morgan, Muskingum, Noble, Perry and Washington. The number of postoffices thus depositing is about 400; the average amount deposited here by these offices is $21,000 per annum. At about the same time that theoffice was made a general depository, the free delivery system wasintroduced,andthe postoffices in Putnam and West Zanesville were discontinued. October 1st, 1880, the free delivery system was inaugurated. The inspiration and salvation of every progressive mercantile, commercial and manufacturing community is dependent upon ample banking facilities - upon banks that are sound, rich and reputable, conservatively managed and yet liberal in their treatment of those who, investing their capital, brains and labor in local enterprises of a legitimate and beneficial nature, may at times require reasonable assistance in the way of pecuniary accommodation. It is safe to say that no community of equal numbers in the country is better supplied with fiduciary institutions of this kind than is Zanesville, nor has any set of banks and business men a better or more cordial mutual understanding than exists here. The banks are seven in number - three national, one private, and three savings banks. All of these institutions are in a flourishing condition, as will be seen from the appended official statements: First

In addition to her regular banks Zanesville also boasts of seven loan and building associations which are in a flourishing condition, and are doing a grand and noble work for the laboring class of the community. By their aid the possibility of their securing a home by the laboring man without capital is made easy and safe, and the number of homes now owned by the laboring classes of Zanesville is the best possible indication of their success. We herewith give a list of the associations which are at present doing business in the city: Buckeye Building & Loan, organized in 1 888 ; capital, $1,000,000; resources, $30,000; gross earnings, $1,500. Citizens Building & Saving, organized in 1887; capital, $1,000,000; resources, $64,489.12; gross earnings, $4,339.31. Economy Building & Loan, organized in 1887; capital, $1,000,000; resources, $56,792; gross earnings, $4,908.23. Equitable Building, organized in 1887; capital, $1,000,000; resources, $94,399.75; gross earnings, June 1, 1889, $3>~ 269.69. Farmers Building & Loan, organized in 1889; capital, $1,000,000; resources, $25,000. Home Building & Saving, organized in 1886; capital, $1,000,000; resources, 1888, $131,355; gross earnings, 1888, $9,204. Homestead Building & Saving, organized in 1884; capital, $1,000,000; resources, 1888, $213,168.50; gross earnings, 1888, $20,791.61. Mechanics' Building (Limited), organized in 1884; capital, $150,000; resources, 1888, $110,000; gross earnings, 1888, $20,960.31.

The claims of Zanesville are thus summed up by the board of trade: "Zanesville, Ohio is beautifully located on the Muskingum river, the only interior city of Ohio on a navigable stream, tributary to all points on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. The scenery on the Muskingum is beautiful, and the valley most fertile. The United States Government has control of the river, and' is now spending large sums of money improving the same. Schools, seminaries, churches, parks, etc., a fine opera house, admitting only the best troupes traveling. A new memorial building, erected to the memory of the Union soldiers and sailors of this county; this building has the largest and best convention room or assembly hall in the state, with but one exception ( that of music hall at Cincinnati, Ohio). Seating 2,500 comfortably. We have gas light, electric light, and fuel water gas, one of the best systems of electric street cars, with the latest and most approved equipment. Our water works system is the pride of the city, our fire department first class. Fine suburban residences. Our Fair Oaks, Buckingham Place, Terrace, Maplewood and Belle View, are all new additions to the city of Zanesville. and for places of residence are truly beautiful, and must be seen to be fully appreciated. Greenwood cemetery, Woodlawn cemetery, and Mount Calvary cemetery, places that will justify your visiting.

"The Muskingum valley gives us one of the very best markets, fruit and vegetables in abundance, and at very low prices. Considerable fruit and vegetables are shipped to sister cities. We have seven railroads and four more projected. We have the cheapest and most reliable known fuel. Hotels equaled only by the best, and excelled by none. Our encaustic tile works is the largest in the United States, and the only successful competitor oc the celebrated English tile. Our brick industries have grown to immense proportions our building brick, ornamental brick, -glazed brick and pressed brick are the best made and excelled by none, our shipments of which amount to 3,750 cars a year, or 12 cars a day. Our paving brick industry gives promise of growing to immense proportions; at this time cannot supply the demand. We also manufacture largely stone ware, terra cotta and sewer pipe, fine linings, flower pots, vases, and all kinds of fancy and

It will be seen from the foregoing brief review of the manufacturing and commercial interests of Zanesville that the place is already well supplied with that which gives permanency, stability and growth to a community. There is here a large amount of skilled labor employed. It is that which enlivens trade, which gives character to business, which builds up and establishes communities. Many of these industries which have been enumerated are yet in their infancy, but the encouragement all such are receiving warrants their success, if judiciously managed. What is a success in one locality in another, under the same management may, and often does, prove a failure. Rarely has a manufacturing enterprise been here undertaken which has not been successfully prosecuted, and manufacturing capital here invested has rarely sought to be transferred to other localities. This fact alone speaks more for the advantages this city affords for the employment of manufacturing skill than whole volumes besides. One argument from fact is worth an entire treatise of mere theory. There is also a fine local and wholesale trade.

The history of the real estate business in Zanesville, is different from that of most other American cities in that it is characterized neither by periods when prices were unreasonably inflated, nor by times when property could be purchased far below its actual value. Zanesville, conservative from the very first of its history, has suffered only when the entire country has been demoralized by panic. After the laying out of Zanesville and its sister villages on the opposite bank of the river, the rise in the prices of realty was unusually steady, although slow, until 1836, when the figures reached by property in the heart of the town were almost as high as at present. The terrific panic which swept over the United States the following year, dragged real estate here as everywhere else, to the bott m. Instances are cited where valuable lots in the most thoroughly desirable locations, were sold in 1837, at seventy per cent, less than the prices at which they had been bought twelve months before. The recovery was not rapid, and it was nearly 1850 before property owners could realize anything like the actual value of their town lots. However, after 1851 there was a steady, healthy advance, continuing without interruption until 1866, when property was sold at better prices than ever before in the history of the town. A noticeable feature of this advance was that it affected suburban property as never before. After this time there was little or no increase of the actual selling prices of Zanesville real estate. It held its own, but as practically none had been bought for purely speculative purposes, it was not pushed beyond its real value. In 1873 of course "everything went.'' The recovery of real estate values was slow, it being some time before Zanesville property would bring what it was actually worth. After getting back to the ante-panic figures, there was little if any advance. A good deal of city property was on the market, but sales were not numerous, as owners were not willing to make concessions and buyers were not eager. This state of affairs continued until 1886, the autumn of which year marked the beginning of a new area in local real estate business. The occasion was the first speculation of any magnitude in suburban property, - the platting of the beautiful farm of the Hon. H. J. Jewett, "Fair Oaks," just south of Putnam. The first sale of lots look place in October, and the sales for the single day aggregated $24,000, the lots bringing an average price of $175. Since that the increase of the sales and prices of suburban property has been gratifying. The revival of Putnam property, which began at that time, has continued and still continues. Immediately after this came the advance in property on the Terrace; where in a great many cases lots have doubled, and in some instances trebled, in value. Natchez, also came in for an appreciation in the prices of its lots, with and without improvements. Lots in the higher land in this locality which four years ago brought $350, are now ready sellers at over $500. Property on Marietta street and adjacent has also steadily advanced ; many improvements have been made; and there is less property for sale in this section than in any other part of the city. With the rise of suburban real estate there has naturally come an appreciation of that in the heart of the town. Main street property has slowly and surely advanced and at present there is little or no property on that street in the market. There is also a great scarcity of purchasable property on the streets crossing Main - particularly west of Sixth street. Among the recent advances may be noticed that in the northern part of the city, it having been affected by the bridge now in course of construction at Underwood street. When completed, this bridge is, of course, also bound to cause an increase in values on the Terrace - especially the upper part. It is to be noted that, despite the advances on property here in the past four years, real estate still sold at more reasonable figures than the prices of similar property in other places of Zanesville's size and importance. The recent increases have been from below the real values to the actual worth of real estate - not from its real value to a point above.

South Zanesville, the new manufacturingannex is situated in the broad and beautiful valley immediately south of Zanesville, and is only a few hundred feet from the corporation line of the latter place. The new town was founded by the South Zanesville Land Company in the early spring of 1890, and was platted under the management of W. J. Finley. The first lot was sold in the new town May 10, 1890. Since that time the place has sprung up with magic quickness. Industrial hum, energy and force are witnessed on every hand. New buildings, new methods, new industries are the potent exigencies of the hour. Great care has been exercised in the laying out of streets, alleys and parks. Its lots are large and are generally occupied by cozy cottages, which give an air of comfort and plenty to the place, and bespeak the thrift and prosperous condition of its inhabitants. South Zanesville possesses some of the richest veins of clay to be found in the Muskingum Valley. Numerous veins of shale and potters' clay are found here in abundance. Several good veins of sand, both molding and sharp sand, in most any quantity, coal of the best quality is founu adjacent to the town. The water supply of the place is fine and in keeping with the numerous other advantages. Strictly speaking, South Zanesville is a manufacturing town. Its modern factories are a pride to the place, and constitute the bone and sinew of the village. The leading enterprise in the new town is a large paving-brick works, a stoneware plant, spoke and wheel works, foundry and machine shops, buggy factory, clay specialty works, and soap factory. This large variety of works gives employment to quite a number of hands in different classes of trade. The railroad facilities of South Zanesville are of the very best. The Cincinnati & Muskingum Valley Railway, the Columbus, Shawnee & Hocking Railway and the Zanesville Terminal Railway pass directly through the town, giving direct connection with all the railways diverging out of Zanesville and the large number of roads that cross the southeastern portion of Ohio. Although not an incorporated town, South Zanesville is making giant strides upward and onward. The new town has several enterprising stores, meat market, postoffice, express office, and railroad office. A new graded-school building will be erected in the town thisseason. Telephone connection is had with all the principal places. Taking South Zanesville as a whole, with all her new dwellings, stores, factories and handsome new depot just now in construction, she is a marvel of completeness. The population of the place numbers something over 600 inhabitants.

Tiledale is the beautiful piece of land lying just across River street from the immense new works of the American Encaustic Tiling Company, embracing over seventy acres of land, and will furnish convenient sites for the homes of the employes of these great works. The streets and roadways are now being graded and on and after the 19th day of April, the date of the opening of the tile works, these lots will be offered for sale. Following are a few of the advantages offered to purchasers of lots in Tiledale: They are nearer the tile works than any other lots. They are on sandy and gravel soil, insuring dry cellars and good sewerage. Over thirty acres of them are level and need no grading. The roadways are now being nicely graded. The city water mains, with fire plugs, run along River street, the east front of Tiledale, offering fire protection. The water mains will be extended into the streets of Tiledale. The city gas mains are there also. Tiledale also has beautiful lots on the bluffs, on a level with and connected with the Dresden road, covered with a growth of forest trees, a natural park. The next extension of the Electric street railroad will probably be to Tiledale, along River street. A nicely graded and romantic avenue will be opened through Tiledale, connecting the Dresden road with River street. Tiledale lots will be sold on easy payments. T. F. Spangler & Co. are the sole agents for Tiledale. The real estate dealers of the city, other than the two above mentioned are George Brown, who is pushing Owens' addition to Zanesville which has the Owens' pottery as its nucleus; A. E. Ames, J. H. Gantt, F. S. Gates, H. S. Moody, Homer White and J. B. Wilson.

Zanesville as she stands at this time, surrounded by her limitless wealth of minerals and farming lands; with her network of railroads, leading out in every direction; with her general beauties of broad, well-shaded and well-paved streets; beautiful homes; with her general healthiness; with nearly one thousand manufacturing and mercantile concerns, transacting a volume of trade reaching fully $10,000,000 annually; completely lighted by electricity; having a telephone exchange with five hundred patrons; fine schools; beautiful churches; elegant court house; the finest opera house in the state and the second largest public hall in Ohio, and every line of trade represented by houses of sterling merit and worth; with all these permanent advantages and such bright prospects for her future, can scarcely be eulogized too warmly. To-day she is a handsome city of a goodly population the entrepot and base of supplies for the entire southeastern portion of the state, and her manufactured products find a ready sale throughout the length and breadth of the land. As a rule, the manufacturers and merchants are men who exercise much enterprise in the prosecution of their various ventures. They are men who believe that whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well, and so they cultivate their trade; aim to develop friendly feelings and to secure business to themselves and to bind prosperity, to the city by bands as soft as silk, yet as powerful as steel. They are cultivated, courteous and hospitable, and extend a welcome to industrious laborers, enterprising tradesman and judicious capitalists.

The Zanesville Board of Trade is one of the city's most credible institutions. Several efforts were made in a more or less remote past to establish such an institution, but is was not until in 1886 that anything like a successful organization was secured. In March, 1886, a preliminary meeting was held and a constitution and set of by-laws were drafted, which were formally adopted April 12, 1886. The first officers elected were as follows: President, M. Churchill; first vice-president, Edgar M. Hatton; second vice-president, F. G. Darlington; secretary, William M. Shinnick, Jr.; treasurer, G. H. Stewart. Much good has been accomplished by the organization during their six years' existence. A permanent board of trade room has been established and fitted up, a salaried secretary placed in charge and the organization has moved along swimmingly, gaining with each year a firmer hold upon public respect and confidence. The wisdom of having such an organization in successful operation is best demonstrated when it is remembered that it was largely due to the efforts of this board that the national government assumed control of the Muskingum river and has been making extensive improvements on it; that the board was the chief promoter of the movement for street paving in Zanesville; that to its efforts the citizens are indebted for the Vitrified Sewer pipe works in Fair Oaks; and that it was the board that secured the American Encaustic Tile Co.'s new plant for the city. The various committees of the organization are carefully constituted and discharge the tasks assigned to them most effectively. The officers elected in April, 1891, for the ensuing year were as follows: Geo. R. Fox, president; W. W. Harper, first vice-president; A. E. Starr, second-vicepresident; Wm. S. Bell, secretary; Alex. Grant, treasurer. Directors: Charles Brendel, Rufus Burton, A. O. Jones, Wilbur McCoy, H. C. Van Vorhis, John Hoge, Wm. Kirk, S. A. Baldwin, J. Hope Sutor, A. P. Pinkerton. The organization is composed of Zanesville's leading and most enterprising business men, and is doing a grand work for the city.

Journalism in Zanesville has kept pace with the rapid progress of the city, and there are here a number of live, enterprising newspapers, conducted upon the highest plane of journalistic management. The local papers are vigorous educators of honest public sentiment, ever having the best interests of the people at heart and makingall other interestssubservientthereto. There are at present twelve papers in all, published daily, weekly or monthly. The daily papers are the Signal , Courier, Penny Press and Timcs-Recorder the first three being evening editions while the latter is a morning paper. The Sunday News, Labor Journal, Die Zanesville Post, Weekly Times- Recorder, Weekly Courier, Semi- Weekly Signal, Weekly Press, Saturday Night, and the Political Horoscope, are the leading weekly publications; while the Ohio Farmers' Journal is published monthly. The editorial and business staffs of the dailies are composed of some of the brightest minds in journalism in Southeastern Ohio, and each has a corps of competent special correspondents in various sections of the country. The press of Zanesville and Muskingum maintains the freedom of discussion so peculiarly American, and while in her editorial ranks are found men with all the divergence of political opinions, yet they are among the most fraternal to be found in any community. The important points in the history of Zanesville journalism are included in the history of three of her dailies and weeklies, the Courier, the Signal and the Times-Recorder.

Although the Courier only dates its inception to November 11, 1845, when it first made its appearance under its present title, it shows an unbroken lineage which carries it back and shows it to be the ligitimate successor of the Express, which was the first paper published in Zanesville, and first made its appearance in 1810. The Express was the beginning of the Whig organ of Muskingum county, and though in those early days the field was ofttimes uninviting, the editors of the little sheet held title was changed to the Express and Advertiser and J. H. Putnam & Co., the founders of the plant were succeeded by O'Hara & Bennett. Under this management the paper continued until in 1823, when " that old, pioneer politician, Colonel David Chambers," took the editorial chair and Adam Peters became the publisher, and the first number of the Ohio Republic appeared, strongly opposing the election of Andrew Jackson to the Presidency and advocating the Whig doctrines. Occupying this position in the Whig party, the paper continued under various managements to be the exponent of its party until November 11, 1845, when David H. Lyman purchased the establishment, and on that day issued the first number of the Zanesville Courier. Under the control of editor Lyman the Courier became one of the leading journals of the state.

On June 21, 1846, the Zanesville Daily Courier was born, but evidently was born too early as its publishers were forced to abandon it in the fall of 1847 from lack of support, and a tri-weekly sheet was substituted. December 16, 1850, Wo. Daily Courier again made its appearance, and has been making its rounds among the people ever since. In 1858 the Zanesville Gazette , a paper started about 1830 by Uriah Parke, was consolidated with the Courier , and while the daily retained its old name the title of the weekly was changed to the Weekly Courier and Gazette. Up to this time it had never been upon a paying basis, but in June, 1861, Mr. John T. Shryock became sole proprietor and brought the plant on a solid footing. « After the close of the war in 1865, Col. J. C. Douglass, of Cambridge, Ohio, located in Zanesville and, with Gen. M. D. Leggett, his old commander, purchased from Mr. Shryock the Courier plant. They took charge in November of that year, with Col. Douglas as the managing editor. A few months later Capt. T. J. Newman purchased a one-third interest, assuming the business management. Soon after Gen. Leggett sold his interest to J. H. Dodd, and the firm became Douglas, Newman & Dodd.

In 1871 Col. Douglas was appointed postmaster of Zanesville and disposed of his interest in the Courier to the remaining partners. The firm of Newman & Dodd conducted the business until 1876, when R. B. Brown was admitted to the partnership. These three gentlemen remained the owners of the plant until in the summer of 1889, when the Courier Company was organized. Of this company, T. J. Newman was president, L. K. Dodd vice-president, J.H. Dodd, secretary and treasurer, and R. B. Brown

The history of the Democratic press of Muskingum county begins with the Muskingum Messenger , which began its career in 1810, and continued for some twenty-five years to be one of the most prominent journals then published in Ohio. In 1832, however, the journal broke from the main wing of the Democratic party and took sides with Calhoun and the "Nullifiers," and in 1837 closed its career as a Democratic journal. In 1833 the Democratic Union was started to take the place of the Messenger as a Democratic organ, but the title was soon after changed to the Aurora. Under this title the Democratic organ passed through many hands during the stormy years elapsing between 1834 and 1864, and in February, of that year, entirely disappeared; it was not until 1865 that the stock company known as the Signal Printing Company was organized. In August, 1865, this company began the publication of the Zanesville Daily and Weekly Signal , with Mr. D. B. Linn as editor. In 1870, under the management of Mr. J. T. Irvine the daily was suspended and only the weekly published. November 1, 1883, Mr. Irvine sold out his interest to the Gaumer Bros., who ran the paper until May, 1887, when Mr. J. T. Irvine again entered the office, purchasing the interest of T. M. Gaumer, and was identified with the paper until January 16, 1889, when Mr. D. II. Gaumer purchased the entire plant, which he has since owned and edited.

The Signal is a six-column, eight-page, daily edition, and the Saturday edition is a seven-column, eight-page edition. The Semi- Weekly Signal is an eight-column, four-page paper, published Mondays and Thursdays. Under Mr. Gaumer's efficient administration the paper has grown to be the best exponent of its party principles in Southeastern Ohio, and is in a most flourishing condition. Mr. Gaumer has been a member of the state senate for this district and is well known throughout Ohio.

On the first day of September, 1852, Messrs. Jacob Glessner and John B. Roberts, under the firm name of Glessner & Roberts, started the City Times. It was a non-partisan weekly paper, and wasissued from a frame building on South Fifth street, just below where the old post-office stood. It was printed on a steam power press, the first of that kind ever used in Zanesville. In 1853 Mr. Glessner bought his partner's interest in the City Times and continued its publication at the old office until 1857, when he removed the establishment to the building which still stands at the southeast corner of Fifth and Main. In 1864 Mr. Glessner sold out to Messrs. Logan & Dodd, who published the paper for fifteen months, when they disposed of their interest to Messrs. Cooper, Ehrman & Evans. Within, perhaps a year, this firm was succeeded in its turn by Gov." John Greiner, of Whig songs' fame, and very shortly he sold out to one Brown, of Belmont county. After a brief ownership Mr. Brown transferred his interest to W. W. Pyle, of McConnelsville, and subsequently Capt. E. Z. Hayes, now of Coshocton county, became a partner of Mr. Pyle for a short time. Meanwhile the publishers had removed to the Maginnis block, and later to the building at the corner of Court and Fountain alleys.

In the spring of 1876 Messrs. Pyle & Hayes issued a Sunday edition which they called the Sunday Times , discontinuing the Weekly City Times. In November of 1876, the Sunday Times was discontinued and a daily paper launched into existence, which its publishers called the Daily Times. In February of 1877, the establishment at the corner of Court and Fountain alleys burned out and publication ceased until the following June, when, the structure being rebuilt, the paper was again issued by a co-operative company, of which E. R. Sullivan was manager and W. W. Pyle editor. The latter became sole proprietor of the Daily and Weekly Times in 1881, and was succeeded in 1883 by a company composed of Messrs. W. E. Krebs. W. H. Cunningham, Jr., Thomas Campbell and Thomas E. Taylor, who published the Times until January 1, 1885, although Jesse Atwell was practically the owner by reason of a chattel mortgage which he held against the concern. On the latter date Mr. Atwell, Edward Spencer, of Adamsville. O., and Rev. M. W. Acton formed a co-partnership which resulted in merging Mr. Atwell's Daily and Weekly Times , Mr. Spencer's Adamsville Register and Mr. Acton's District Visitor , a Zanesville weekly publication, into the Daily Times-Recorder and the Weekly Times- Recorder and Visitor. This partnership lasted about three weeks, when both Mr. Atwell and Mr. Acton retired, leaving Mr. Spencer sole proprietor.

the entire establishment, Mr. Spencer becoming a stockholder and accepting the post of editor, and D. J. Richards that of business manager. When the Times-Recorder Company took hold of the Daily and Weekly Times-Recorder , the word " Visitor" being dropped, the former was a seven-column and the latter a nine-column (folio) paper, and both faced competitors possessing ample capital and with the prestige of age and success. Under the exceedingly able business management of David J. Richards, aided by the mental force displayed by the editor, Mr. Spencer, the Daily and Weekly Times Recorder immediately entered upon a career of extraordinary growth and success. Month by month and year by year, the Times-Recorder Company has extended the circulation of its publications and the scope of their influence until the Daily Times-Recorder , an eight-column folio, ranks among the brightest, ablest and newsiest of the inland Ohio dailies, while the weekly, now a superb seven-column quarto, is regarded as having few equals outside of those published in the great cities of the country. Mr. Spencer severed his connection with the Times-Recorder about January 1, 1889. Business Manager Richards also retired from active work, though retaining an interest in the establishment, on the 6th of March, 1890, and was succeeded by Thos. W. Lewis, as business manager. June 1, 1892, Mr. Lewis resigned, and was succeeded by Mr. J. F. Halloran, who now has business and editorial charge of the paper.

The Times-Recorder Company occupy their own building at No. 14 South Fifth street. The location is an exceedingly good one, being but a few steps from Main street, in the heart of the city, and their large, new building affords facilities for the operations of their business rarely excelled. The office has a frontage on Fifth street of thirty-four feet, and back of that stands the company's new building, reaching to the alley at the rear, embracing editorial, composing, press and job rooms, and having a floor space of 8,160 square feet. The company recently bought three magnificent new presses and equipped the concern with new type, with a part of which latter their publications were given a new dress, and these additions have placed the establishment in a position to take the head of the procession as publishers and job printers.

The Zanesville Penny Press is the pioneer penny daily of the Muskingum Valley. The first issue, April 1, 1891, was a five-column folio, and it was very popular from the start. In three months another column was added. It is independent in politics, fearless in its advocacy of the right and in denouncing the wrong. The first issue of the Weekly Press appeared April 6, 1892, and is an eight-page paper also independent in politics. W. 0. Munson is the editor and manager of both papers.

The News is the original and at present the only Sunday newspaper of Zanesville, and since its establishment in 1884 has outlived four would-be rivals. It endeavors to occupy the same field filled by the daily on the other days of the week, and it is no exaggeration to say that the News is highly successful in this respect. Since the paper passed under the control of its present proprietor, Chas. U. Shryock, in 1888, a complete job printing department has been added, and the facilities for the execution of this class of work is unexcelled by offices in much larger cities. The present home of the news is at 21 North Fifth street, but the proprietor is making arrangements to occupy his own building at no distant day. Mr. Shryock is a native of Zanesville, where he was born in 1863, and after learning the printer's trade, spent several years in work on metropolitan papers. Returning to Zanesville in 1885, he spent three years in journalistic work on the local daily press, and since purchasing the News in 1888 has stamped prosperity upon that plant in unmistakable characters. His father, John T. Shryock, has been connected with the Zanesville press since 1859, and his name will be found elsewhere in these pages.

The Zanesville Post, issued from 41 and 43 South Sixth street, by A. Schneider, who founded it in 1872, is the only German paper published in Muskingum, Guernsey, Noble, Morgan, Perry and Licking counties. It is a four-page, eight column sheet, independent in politics.

Societies And Associations Of Zanesville

incorporated organization. Its officers are James C. Gillespie, president; John C. Stonesipher, secretary; R. D. Schultz, treasurer. Zanesville Masonic Temple, at the northwest corner of North Fourth and Market streets, was erected in 1857. Lodge of Amity, No. 5, F. & A. M. (Symbolic), was chartered June 24, 1805. Stated communications are held Friday evening on or before full moon. Herman Achauer, worshipful master; R. D. Schultz, senior warden; Henry Rockel, junior warden; Charles H. Brendel, secretary; L. Steinfeld, treasurer, and the present officers. Lafayette Lodge No. 79, F. & A. M. (Symbolic), was chartered January 12, 1826. Stated communications are held the first Thursday evening of each month, The officers are William II. Bolin, worshipful master; John C. Mercer, senior warden; Will T. Lewis, junior warden; S. R. Moore, secretary; John P. Ford, treasurer. Zanesville Chapter, No. 9, R. A. M. (capitular), was chartered January 15,1823. Stated communications are held on the first Monday evening of each month. L. Stcinfeld is most excellent high priest; A. E. Allman, king; John Hartmeyer, scribe; Allen Hunter, secretary; James C. Gillespie, treasurer. Zanesville Council, No. 12, R. & S. M. (Cryptic), organized February, 1884, has its stated assemblies on the second Thursday evening of each month. John Hartmeyer is T. I. M.; A. E. Allman, D. I. M.; Thomas Swan, P. C. of W.; John P. Ford, treasurer; H. C. Waterman, recorder; P'rank Meyers, C. of G.; Harry Rockel, C. of C.; Alva B. Stock, steward; George W. Harris, sentinel. Golden Rule Lodge, No. 30, colored masons, was chartered June 20, 1870. Meets first Tuesday evening of each month in the hall at the corner of Main and Second streets. W. H. Pinn is worshipful master; John Bonnett, senior warden; FI d ward Meeford, junior warden; John Hunnicutt, secretary; James Norris, treasurer. Quinn Chapter, No. 15, meets on the second Tuesday evening of each month. Joseph Barnett is high priest; M. Simpson, king; John Hargraves, scribe; Jas. A. Guy, treasurer; John Hunnicutt, secretary. Malta Commandery, No. 1 7, meets on the third Tuesday evening of each month. J. H. Hargraves, eminent comniander; M. Simpson, general; J. B. Reynolds, C. G.; lames A. Guy, scribe; William Finn, treasurer, are the officers. Esther Court, No. 9, meets on the first and third Fridays of each month in the hall at the corner Main and First streets. Sister Alice Green is M. A. H.; Sister Ella Hamilton, Jr. IT; Sister Elizabeth Grant, treasurer.; Sister Lizzie Pinn, secretary; Wm. H.Pinn.F. J.

Odd Fellows. - Muskingum Lodge, No. 28, meets every Tuesday evening in Odd Fellows' Temple, 100 Main street. J. F. Garrett is noble grand; J. C. Illegal, vice grand; Al. E. Gary, permanent secretary; Robert Bowman, recording secretary; Louis F. Smith, treasurer; D. B. Gary Jr., Robert Thompson, George Kerner, trustees. It was chartered May 11, 1844. Moxahala Lodge, No. 144, instituted February 21, 1850, meets every Monday evening in Odd Fellows' Hall, 100 Main street. J. J. Forsythe is noble grand; S. J. Wills, vice grand; Edward Gigax, permanent secretary; John Myer, recording secretary; Charles F. Hearing, treasurer. Woodlawn Lodge, No. 228, instituted March 16, 1864, meets every Tuesday evening at Odd Fellow's' Hall, Putnam avenue, Ninth ward. E. J. Manley is noble grand; J. J. Drake, vice grand; C. W. Johnson, recording secretary; John H. Drake, permanent secretary; David Gobel, treasurer; George E. Williams, James Shaw, John Parshall, trustees. Mechanics' Lodge, No. 230, chartered February 5, 1854, meets every Thursday evening in Odd Fellows' Temple, 100 Main street, C. S. Richardson is noble grand; A. E. Howell, vice grand; J. Id. Coke, permanent secretary; Ambrose Blocksom, recording secretary; W. Dryfus, treasurer; G. R. Humphreys, Robert Atherton, Joseph Purcell, trustees. Mozart Lodge, No. 423, meets every Wednesday evening in Odd Fellows' Temple, 100 Main street. J. Beckhardt is noble grand; A. Berkstein, vice grand; August Miller, permanent secretary ; C. Russe, recording secretary; Philip Hoffman, treasurer. Odd F'ellows' Hall Association, meets on the first Tuesday of each month at Odd Fellows' Temple, at 7:30 p. m. George D. Gibbons is president; Isaac Humphrey, secretary ; George A. Allen, treasurer; George D. Gibbons, Robert Thompson, Edward Gigax, George Kenner, William L. Langton, Eugene Printz, Louis F. Smith. Elizabeth Lodge, No. 26, Daughters of Rebekah, instituted January 12, 1870, meets each alternate Saturday evening in Odd Fel lows' Temple, 100 S. Main street. Mrs. Anna Stinger is noble grand; Mrs. Louisa Harris, vice grand; Mrs. Agnes Herman, permanent secretary; Mrs. Harrington, recording secretary; John IT Andrews, treasurer. Howard Encampment, No. 79, instituted March 31, 1845, meets first and third Eriday evenings of each month in Odd Fellows' Temple, 100 Main street. George A. Murdock, C. P.; John A. Morrow, high priest; W. S. Vogel, senior warden; J. B. Stockdale, junior warden; Wolf Dryfus, treasurer; W. R. Hazlett, scribe. Canton Nova, No. 9, Patriarchs Militant. Regular meeting on the second Friday evening of each month. Drill fourth P'riday evening of each month in Odd Fellows' Temple, 100 Main street. James A. Taylor, commandant; George Williams, lieutenant; Charles Hess, ensign; J. A. Miner, clerk; W. B. Deacon, accountant. The Odd Fellows' Beneficial Association of Muskingum Valley, organized April 26, 1869, has its regular annual meeting on the second Tuesday in January at Odd Fellows' Temple, Zanesville. George Rishtine is president; J.

Grand Army of the Republic. - Hazlett Post, No. 81, meets every Monday evening in G. A. R. Hall, Memorial building, N. Fifth street. It was organized June 1, 1881, with the following charter members: C. C. Goddard, W. S. Harlan, T. J. Newman, A. H. Watts, Andros Guille, R. F. Smart, J. W. Martin, Alfred Ball, D. B. Gary, FYederick Geiger, George A. Gardner, Fenton Bagley, Howard Aston, J. H. Drake, R. B. Brown, A. H. PAans, D. Zimmer, Finos F. Taylor, A. F. Munson, Charles Grant, J. W. Pinkerton, Moses M. Granger, P'rederick C. Dietz, C. W. Potwin, Samuel L. Wiles, M. V.

geant major; Charles F. Willey, quartermaster sergeant; W. S. Maxwell, L. F. Langton, R. J. J. Harkins, trustees. Hazlett Relief Corps, No. 11 (auxiliary to Hazlett Post), meets first and third Thursday evenings of each month in Memorial hall, N. Fifth street. Mrs. Lida Van- Horn, president; Mrs. Lucy Mack, secretary; Mrs. Lizzie Taylor, treasurer.

G. ; C. J. Heckman, deputy. Zanesville Lodge, No. 172, meets every Thursday evening in Castle hall, Main street. Moses Frank is C. C.; Fred F'riesinger, V. C.; Jacob Eppley, Prelate; Charles Spoerl, K. of R. and S.; Simon Tenser, M. of F. Star Lodge, No. 30, meets each alternate Monday evening in the Athenmum. A. P. Cusac is Diet.; C. W. Smith, Vice Diet.; J. Doudna, Past Diet.; L. W. Welling, Asst. Diet.; J. H. Drake, Rep.; W. S. Ball, Fin. Rep.; B. W. Jones, Treas.; W. W. Roach, Chap.; John Huskins, Guide; George W. Grim, Sent.; J. Doudna, John Huskins, T. E. Richards, Trustees. Zanesville Lodge, No. 31 54, instituted March 25, 1885, meets alternate Monday evenings at Athenaeum hall, S. Fifth street. Samuel Hamilton is Diet.; G. F. Kemp, Vice Diet.; E. H. Hamilton, Asst. Diet.; F. C. McCaddon, Rep.; A. P. Clark, Fin. Rep.; H. E. Printz, Treas.; L.

Knights and Ladies of Honor. - Jewel Lodge, No. 322, meets each alternate Thursday in Athenaeum building, South P'ifth street. M rs. C. C. Curtis, Protector; Pill is G. Ivtzler, Vice Protector; W. II. Haworth, Secretary; C. E. Brooks,

Grand United Order of Odd F'ellows. - Guiding Star Lodge, No. 1880, chartered July 30, 1878, meets on the 1st and 3d Monday evenings of each month in the hall at 166 Main street. W. P'. Jones is N. G.; Wm. Grayson, V. G.; T. J. Brown, N. P\; T. M. Tate, Per. Secretary; W. M. Pinn, Recording Secretary; Augustus Carlisle, Treasurer. Zanesville Patriarchs, No. 51, meets on the second Tuesday evening of each month in the hall at 166 Main street. J. H. Hargraves is Capt.; W. F. Jones,

Royal Arcanum - Hope Council, No. 82, instituted April 16, 1868, meets on the 1st and - 3d Monday evenings of each month over the Citizen's National Bank. John L. Smith is Regent; George E. Glossman, V. Regent; John

American Legion of Honor. - Lincoln Council, No. 354, meets on the 2d and 4th Tuesday evenings of each month in citizens National Bank building, second floor. PL E. Lorimeris Com.; Thomas Coulton, Vice Com.; W. Id. Pierpont, Secretary; R. J. Brown, Collector; A. V. Smith, Treasurer.

Ancient Order United Workmen - Zane Lodge, No. 30, meets on the 1st and 4th Tuesday evenings of each month in the hall over the postoffice. T. IL Kerr is MAV.; D. B. Gary, Financier; John McCaslin, Recorder; John Baltsly, Foreman; Howard Aston, Receiver.

A. A. of I. and S. W. - A. A. of I. and S. W. meets at the northwest corner of Sixth and Main streets, in the Curran Block, every other Saturday evening. Wm. R. Matthews is President; Charles Denner, Secretary.

B. P. O. Elks - Zanesville Lodge, No. 114, meets each alternate Wednesday evening in Elks' Hall, Masonic Building. John A. Morrow is Exalted Ruler; S. A. Baldwin, F.st.