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Show nauv UTAH STATE JOURNAL SATURDAY, AUGUST 13, 1904. comer of Washington and Twenty-fourtstreet. The site of the present h' A SMUDGY LITTLE VILLAGE i Doctor Condon Tells How Ogden Has Grown from a Swamp to Her Present Broad Proportions. remember It had afternoon ed red-lett- i -- jk i 1 i n er Mrs. J. A. Toller the Reed hotel; the Ogden house, a half adobe Institution, wus where the Utah National bank now la. When I was asked to write this article It was my purpose to steer dear of naming any person, however near and dear to me, for when the catalogue was once started the end would be hard to foretell. But one or two have got in my way and I have used at well aa The event took place down in Middle-ton- s Juat grove and an lmifienae crowd occurred yeaterday if that I arrived In wus there from all over the territory the In and many points outside. That was Ogden, the Junction City, 1874. a day for the Junction City thoae day. It was In February, we esand did ourselves proud. Govermanhoods reached I hail barely nor delivered world the oration and them. Kmery tate then and an unconquered In those days not many lived on the were there speeches from Franklin 8. lay all before me, as it does now and as it was too far away, bench," lawyer, always will to the young and ambi- Richards, the accomplished now It is crowned with palathough tious. Today I look back over the now of Hult Lake City; Charles W. tial residences, the abode of statesflotsam and Jetsam of thirty years and Penrose, then editor of the Ogden men, wealth and beauty. The Condon confess that I ain not a second Alex- Bally Junction, our first daily paper, family live on Madison avenue, and ander, for my one world Is still un- but now the brilliant editor of the the first of all in the Great West; of Deseret Evening News, and some oth- hte primitive water works and it still conquered. ers whose names have escaped me. I works the people) and street cars, a of winters sun The round, red behad the honor of presiding over the drawn by mules (the mules were was afternoon dipping vanishing hind the frosty hills beyond the lake whole function. Since then with va- taught to let out a yell when the prowhile the engine of a pioneer train, rying fortune the years have brought cession was ready to start), and the tired and disheveled, crawled Into the some honors, bestowed by indulgent electric light, at the top of an immense long, rambling structure, by courtesy citizens, but nothing has ever swelled tower at the intersection of Washingstreet; called a depot, a depot built of second my head like that afternoon I spent ton avenue and Twenty-fift- h class stuff and that had been added on a throne In Middleton's grove. I It threw more light into the celestial to from time to time as necessity re- cite this as an instance of Mormon kingdom than into the earthly; and quired. It was about a third of a forbearance toward the Gentiles In the the iron works at the foot of Twenty-fir- st street. Indeed, I would like the mile west of where the present sub- early days of Ogden. From time to time In a sort of spas- time and space to tell how a city has stantial brick station now is, and around which every day may be seen modic way the foothills and mountain been built, the heart-breakidlsap and heard the rush and roar of rest- flnnks east of the little town were ex- polntments, the persistent pluck of the plored by enterprising prospectors for people to lift themselves up. and the less traffic. I was met at the incoming train by precious metal of whatever kind final success; but I am limited in evto be most In evidence. I re- ery way. 8. S. Schramm. William Farrell and member on one occasion it was SatA. D. Shakespear, whom all My first office building was a woodwill pleasantly remember, though they urday afternoon a small party armed en one made of upright boards nailed have long since been gathered to their with pick and shovel and other sub- to Joists and owned by Israel Canfield, fathers I had known Mr. Schramm stantiate went Into the hills with the one of the grand men of those days. down east and he was expecting me; determination to uncover whatever of It stood alone where Reed Bros.' harhe had brought his new friends along. wpalth nature had hidden there. ness shop now is. That was once I supiKise, to help him show me the Among that number was Hiram Lew- when I got In on the ground floor all way up town, for there were no side- is. a prince of good fellows, and when right there was no upstairs to the walks In those days and half frozen they returned thnt night they brought place. There are other physicians with them some rich samples, said to older in yenrs than myself, but none mud was everywhere. Ogden, the Beautiful, was then a lie from a ledge at the foot of the who was here when I came. They little smudgy village with but one mountains. Mr. J. 8. Lewis, father of hu all gone over the Great Divide brick building, if I remember correct- Hiram and nlso of the present popu- or moved away. That I have lived ly. and that was but a story and a lar Jeweler on Washington avenue here so long I rite as exhibit No. 2 In half high. It la still standing half way (Mr. J. 8. Lewis), had at that time a proof of Mormon tolerance of Gentiles street between the Jewelry store and assay shop com- in an early day. and the patience of down Twenty-fift- h Broom hotel corner and Carr's drug bined where Mr. Bpargo's book store people generally. store. There was then no railroad to- now la. The senior Lewis was one of I well remember the first strike' ward the north leading Into Idaho, and the most exert and reliable assayers we ever had In Ogden. It was a small but one to Salt Lake City, and some of mineral In the country. The sample affair and soon burned itself out. Of Impatient people of that time used to was taken to his place, a flame was course, it was during a Republican say that all the rolling stock went blown under the vitrified crucible, administration of affairs; when the down one day and came back the next while those Interested watched the in- Democrats are In the saddle there Is The streets of Ogden were then toxicating process with faces lighted usually not enough In sight to make a Hiram strike worth while the game isn't made of virgin soil, much of which with the hope of fruition. was brought in from the country on made a hasty trip to the bench, where worth the candle. the wheels of farm wagons and dis- articles of Jewelry were made and reBy the way, it was a big day for tributed as the perambulating vehicle paired. Hiram brought back with him Ogden when the corner stone of the a handful of Impalpable dust gathered new depot was laid. It was a drizzly took Its slow way along. There was no place Into which the from the bench. The crucible was day in autumn, but a great concourse little swamps that abounded In those now hotter thun the bath room of the of people was here, estimated, I bedays could be drained and so the Rednego boys. Hiram leaned affec- lieve, at 25,000. Mr. Parley Williams, streets in spring and full were llllpu-tla- n tionately over his father's shoulder to the stately and eloquent lawyer of types of old Venice. One day, I watch the transmuting process and so Salt Lake City, delivered the oration remember, I saw a load of lumber sifted the Impalpable dust into the and it was a good one, and the underhung up in a mud slough about In crucible that was very hot. Boon the signed read a poem, or at least what front of where F. J. Klesel & Co.'s roasting rock dissolved Into a beauti- was called a poem at that time. It wholesale house now Is on Twenty-fourt- h ful button of pure gold larger than now reposes In the granite heart of street. I believe the lumber be- the egg of the robin. Everybody the corner-ston- e and, though it was longed to Gibson & Wheeler and was fainted. The news spread everywhere, a warm thing, it did not Increase the being taken up the bench to the though everybody promised not to tell. rate of fire Insurance. Wheeler lumber yard. Just bock of Sleep was banished from every pilAnd now that I am at the very limit what Is now the Congregational low that night, and when the gentle of the newspaper space allotted to me church. The load was drawn, when It Pawn with rosy fingers plucked aside and of the time at my disposal, yet I went at all, by two yoke of oxen, but the somber curtain of the Night and am loth to quit. I am loth to stop It remained anchored in the mud all the holy Snhhnth morning looked over writing about the sweet associations day. Why did they not unload the the eastern hills Into this little vil- and the scenes of ye olden time. The lumber? Well. I believe thnt Is what lage. she looked down upon the crazi- people of that day were made up of they finally did after all the village est multitude since the days of Peter sterling manhood and womanhood and philosophers and expert hydrostatic-1- a the Hermit. Every animal and vehi- every day from various parts of the n a had advised every other exped- cle capable of carrying a human being county I meet faces familiar, and alwas pressed Into service, happily to ient ways with a glad hand, though I noAbout this time I bought an acre of reach the goal before those on foot. tice with sorrow that they grow whitland on the corner now occupied by Ministers of the gospel forsook the er and fewer in number. May the the beautiful high school building for pulpit and swung along in the great remnant yet bide longer. 3400 amf thought I paid too much. procession side by side with the colAnd while I. myself, feel exactly as ored Soon after this I bought the same crap player. The town was de- I did thirty years ago, yet doubtless amount of land directly south across serted and the mountain foothills were others see a change physically In me, the street for a like amount. I was black with a struggling mass of peo- even as I do in them, though not In glad subsequently to dispose of both ple. But two familiar faces there were any manifestations of friendship when tracts for a small advance. What a that could not be seen In all that we meet marvelous change! Four hundred do- mighty throng; one was that of Mr. I see a change in everything else! llars would not begin to pay for the Hiram Lewis and the other was. well In the new fares of the crowded water gutters now on one end of let us cull him Mr. John Doe. Hiram streets: In the physical aspects of the went to Balt Lake City and Mr. Doe either. landscape; In the repressed confAll the irrigation ditches were un- to Cnrlnne. and there they remained idences Inrldent to ways and encovered and run across the streets. If till the people had recovered and sent vironment; In the city altered customs and the streets were in the way. and ev- tidings to come home and all would garbs of those I meet. ery rod or two there would be an ugly be forgiven." But the mountains. O, the mounIn those days the Z. C. M. I. did jolt, a little miniature geyser throwtains; ye do not change: ye do not building mud and water when hoof and business in a wooden two-stoforget! Te Druids of granite that in wheel had troubled them, till at the ing where the Eccles structure now Is, serene majesty looked out over the end of the day horse and buggy would and the place It now occupies was desert wastes of still are ye the be plastered with the unctuous and then the tithing yard enclosed by a solemn, austere sand, sentinels of this newer half desicated product of distant high wall of concrete. My good friend earth moulded and embellished by the farma But a little mud did not hurt Tommy Jones was using the goose creations of men's hands! In great shape where the Elite now the vehicles of that period! In thirty years I expect to com If I venture to name the good, is. In a rather poor building, but it again. strong men of those days, I shall find was the best he could get In those A. 8. CONDON. Tommy"-ha- d a great reputamyself up against an impossible task days. In .the limits of this paper, for they tion for giving the boys fits and to HADLEY WAS ABSENT-MINDEwere many, notwithstanding the place them all who still remain he Is the was but a little village. And though same dear, generous soul. May he (From the Boston Post.) they have long since passed away, live forever. William Driver's City President Hadley of Yale has they still live in their children, who Drug Store was a pile of bricks in reputation of being an absent-minde- d have developed the work so well and the middle of the street directly In man. but his father, who was also a so wisely begun by them. The fathers front of where that building now Is. professor at Yale, was even worse in made Opportunity the pillars of Buc There were no sewers then and trou- that respect if possible. Professor cess and the children are adding ble resulted from water accumulating Beymour, the head of the Greed to In the temple. the basement. The pile of bricks strength and beauty pnrtment still tells of the mo, Two years after I came here we cel remained In the street all summer and when old Professor Hadley, seeing him cbrated the anniversary of the Nation till the deluge was overcome. Mr. in a street car. shook hands with the In common with the rest of our coun- Driver had Just set up In business for conductor and offered his nickel to trymen in the states. In great shape. hlinsclf In an adobe building near the Professor Seymour. 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