| Show SALUTE TO SAMUEL WILSON THE ORIGINAL “UNCLE SAM 99 TheJilcuilUho-O'Talcs and Traditions from Anvnc Political Bj LOUISE M variously serve their Some live others Samuel Wilson renit for die dered the United States of America a service no other individual has yet been able to He gave his country duplicate that symbolic personality which all the traits popu embodies larly attributed to its people the name by which it has been revereu praised and rtviled ind ridiculed the world mer He did it uniquely simply bv Samuel Wilson being himself vas Uncle Sam il For this service Samuel son recently received his naAt the thanks tion’s impressiw upright oblong of granite w hie h marks his grave in Oak wood cemetery in Troy N Y a new flag climbed its pole a stiff fresh wreath tipped against tinstone a band played and Hate txpqpers fired a military salute The New York department of the Veterans of Foreign Wars convening at Troy thus paid homage to an early Troian But “We are not in the final analysis “honoring a single individual” said National Coniman t i FRANK ’"'O ILMO comc i rr T- - si tK J f ' i Vf i:i i I V Anderson Jr of New Jersey obtained a government contract for rationing the New York and New near stationed Jersey troops Albany The contract still to be examined in the War Department records at Washington specifies “2000 barrels of prime pork and 300 barrels of prime beef in full bound barrels of white oak’’ In those days there were no refrigerated freight cars Elbert Anderson took stock of the local sources of supply He advertised in the Troy papers As a result the slaughter houses of S and E to Wilson were commissioned furnish a goodly portion of the meat required and Sam Wilson was additionally United States inspector to pass upon its “prime” condition On every barrel thus approved he stamped the letters U S for United States and E A for Elbert Anderson And now comes the crux of the story muffled as such crisis usually are by legend by hearsay and by local imagWhat actually took inings place may be as clearly deduced from its most dramatic version as from any other It begins like an old familiar with an encounter between an Irishman and an innocent bystander Asked the bystander nodding his head toward one of the certified barrels "And what does the U S stand for?" "Uncle Sam" said the Irishman (You can supply your own brogne) "Oh come now Uncle Sam who?" "Why don’t you know? Uncle Sam Wilson He owns nearly all about here and he’s feedln the army!" So much for the acorn from which grew the mighty oak For which sped that growth to colossal proportions one’ must examine the temper and morale of the troops which fought the War of 1812 It was probably not much different from that of any troops in any war For physical and mental torture so long continued that they have become themselves monotony laughter is a wonderful though perverse panacea Perhaps you think the Irishman's retort in this case not particularly funny Maybe so But the troops to which the story wended its way were composed of boys from in the nourishment Over the Grave of "Uncle Sam" Wilson Erected Mrs Marlon Wilson Sheldon James E Van Zandt “Rather we are dedicatthis ing program to our country itself to the spirit of Americanism which prevails in our relations with one another andjwith the world” Had Samuel Wilson been aware during his lifetime that he was to become all that it is probable he would have thought his metamorphosis a huge Joke That we gather is the sort of person he was Kindly shrewd humorous scrupulously honest: the best of New England broadened a bit by its first adventurous 6tep westward A Bay State Scot He was born In 1766 at Mass now Arlington eighth of thirteeiuchildren In a Scotch family which could claim early and influential connections in Boston but never rose to the dignity of a coat of paint on its own shack! In 1780 the family moved to Mason N H And in 1781 the youthful Samuel' haying attained the advanced age of fifteen years did his duty as he saw it by enlisting as service boy in the American Army of the Revolution Had he been even a drummer might history boy have caught him early But he Va merely a service boy In 1789 at the comparatively mature age of twenty-thre- e Sara ft Mason with his brother Ebenezer and followed the trend of the times westward Not very far west except as measured by eyes of 1789 “jo "hat is today the city of Troy was then but a raw settlement on the banks of the Hudson river Early Trojans Sam and Ed Wilson were among the first to settle there Thy chose well Benind the settlement rose two small hills named In accordance with that Region's taste In classical and Mounts Ida wmpus Their western slopes where is today Troy’s pleasant mspect park contained clay suitable for making bricks Sam nd Eb had learned about bricks in New Hampshire They also sized up shrewdly the t i I Veterans of Foreign Wars Members of the Ladies and a Firing Squad of Auxiliary V F State Police Stand at the Grave of “Uncle Sam” Wilson In Oakwood Cemetery in Troy N Y as Tribute Is Paid to His Memory local situation Already the more substantial utieniy of Albany was advertising its substance by living in brick houses their materials impoited like the urge to own them its native Holland The Wilsons bought a farm on Mount Ida md went into the brick business There are buildings standing in Troy today constructed of Wilson bricks For that matter the whole country is rich with evidence of their lives there At one time Sam ran two fauns one of which he used for a summer and one a winter by home He and his brother left their mark on their holdings in such local terms as "Wilson’s Bowl” and "Wilson’s Hollow” Betsy Wilson was a New Hampshire girl daughter of a veteran of the Battle of Bunker will- - In 1797 the brick business wellunder way Sam returned to Mason to marry her and bring her back to Troy She bore him two of whom four children Benjamin bereached maturity came a lawyer It was his daughWilson Marion Mrs ter the late to her who erected Sheldon monuthe memory grandfather’s y ment which marks his grave Her son Carlton Wood Shelhis of daughter Kansas City don Mrs Helen Marion Brockett and Sheldon Betty her daughter Brockett are Uncle Sam’s and Aunt Betsy’s only living descendants today Early Packers The brick business well in hand the Wilson brothers extended their efforts Adjoining one of Sam’s farm houses was a large field suitable for grazing watered by two ponds Here the Wilsons undertook to raise stock Their cattle flourished The Wilsons erected a slaughter house and entered the meat business As early as 1803 they could advertise in the local papers: "Two large and convenient slaughter houses” where could be "killed cut and packed 150 head of cattle were at per day” When times their best the slaughter houses 200 men required employment of At Still the Wilsons expanded the foot of what Is now Ferry street they— built a dock tThey Out purchased their own sloops from the firm of S and E Wilson to Hudson the down and at Troy east came 'Albany and points Wilson meats and Wilson bricks by the shipload And what Is so noble In that? and What to warrant flags wreaths and military salutes? was Sam Uncle all Nothing at ' working simply being himself for his shrewdly but with honor own interests 1812 created urgent of War The the demand for provrtsions for the United States troops saving Elbert One British from the I NAOIN scon WATSON ONE VOTE B UTHKRFORD HAYES of of Ohio nineteenth Piesident the United States can be designated “the man who was elected by a single vote “ His contest with Samuel J of New York the Demociatic corn HMN nominee threatened for a time in roust r tOOMO'fC'ft MAAftttW 1876 and early 1877 tccbcing abmit' a resumption of the Civil war Perhaps it explains in some measure Pattern 1187 the bitterness of battles today between Republicans and Democrats No matter what the Season — a of faced the Hayes disadvantage always fun to do running in the wake of the eight sampler's when it offers as colorful years of the Grant administrations followed as they were by sensa- a picture as quaint a verse as tional of financial this You'll find It a grand way te accusations frauds There was little to choose use up scraps of cotton or silk floss and a design that works up between abilities of the candidates and when first returns were in In no time for the background is plain Wouldn’t it go beautifully in Tilden was acclaimed as winner Shortly after election day it was a young glrl'a room? Perchance revealed that Tilden’s managers that Young Miss will want to do were uncertain as to the results this easy cross stitch design hertheir party had achieved in Flori- self! Pattern 1187 comes to you with da South Carolina and Louisiana these states ’a transfer pattern of a sampler Normally Democratic 12 inches color still were in the hands of carpet-by 15 material requirements gestions governments votes illustrations of all stitches used Ttlden had 184 electoral Send 15 cents in stamps or coins and the ballots of any of the three states named would have elected (coins preferred) tar this pattern 168 alt needed him to with The Sewing Circle Need leeraft' Hayes of them to have oue more elec- Dept 82 Eighth Ave New York toral vote than Tilden In Louisi- N Y ana the canvassing board threw Write plainly pattern number votes and your name and address out 13250 Democratic Republigave the state to Hayes cans asserted their candidate had won in both South Carolina and of tha But Democrats Florida three states returned votes for Tilden To make the situation a typical American scene congress waa divided one branch being Democratic the other Republican It was decided finally to appoint five congressmen from each party yand five judges of the Supreme court to make the decision as to from the which set of returns disputed states should be accepted The election of Hayes was assured by the vote of Justice Bradgave the ley whose participation -deliberative body a margin oi eight to seven Democrats Republicans n-down And congress approved these mo-- nervous mentous findings just In time to enable Rutherford B Hayes to take -of the oath of office as President reason THERE Is usually definite so now let’s complaints NAMING A PARTY reason sensibly IRONICALLY enough the names Don’t try to get well in a da r this political parIs asking too much of Nature Rememties once were combined as Demoshe has certain natural processes a grouji of ber cratic Republicans that just cannot be hurried bearer was which the standard Therefore If you are paU tirtd Thomas Jefferson referred to perlack opfttUi kavt di other than leader oftener any a d fnl rundown haps a frequent algn trace their po- that your when Democrats are weak with a aneml— then do trr litical origin towards tendency hi the simple easy way so many Under Jackson the party name was shortened to Democrat which approre— by starting a course ef SJS3 blood Tonic te feel like yourIt continues to bear self again OlUCa Republicans emerged as a separata party as early as 1854 although its first nominating convention waa held two years later Up at RIpon Wis in a comer of the stands campus of Ripon college the Ripon Congregational church scene of the first G O P meeting I Deceives Then Betrayi had been The Ripon meeting Tha xfcal which begins with hycalled by Major Alvan E Bovay pocrisy must conclude la treaciw who a Whig lawyer generally at flrat it deceives at last the ery receives credit for suggesting It betrays— Bacon name of the party He had passed on his idea to Horace Greeley who later advocated the name Republican at a convention in Jackson Mich Although Ripon had a voting list that hardly exceeded 100 In those days of exclusively male suffrage more than half of them attended Tha imBovay’s first gathering pulse which brought them together was the conviction that the slavery question was comint rapidly to a head and that those who opposed must unite In a new group regardAND less of geographical lines Northern states naturally proved for fertile most the ground spreadBefore the ing the new doctrine party’s ’first national convention which was held In Philadelphia on June 17 1856— a firm "toehold" had been secured by senatorial repre' sentation at Washington History fails to record what part if any Major Bovay played In the TEX ITS The delePhiladelphia meeting gates were unanimously in favor of John C Fremont and nominating One of Utah’s Best Ogden’s Finest he waa selected on the first ballot ' 850 looms -3- 50 laths Another attended Republican to $ZQ0 $400 He was however the gangling IlliAbe Lincoln and Delightful Rooms — Air Cooled Corridors nois Grill Room — Coffee Shop some of his colleagues had the Spacious Lounge and Lobby temerity to advance his name as Courteous Service for a candidate ' Every Comfort and Convenience "Honest Abe" lost the nomination will be found at but four years later he was to THE HOm SEN LOMOND carry the party to victory BY Vvd ' appointed Memorial Daughter nn comc in HutAcy COMSTOCK MEN His Quaint Sampler Will Keep You Occupied war Sam's these they were fighting' It is a fact that by 1813 the term was in common use among the tiops stationed near Albany to designate the Unfed States of America It was first pi mtod in this connotation in the papers of that tegiun The Troy Post In un editorial of September 7 1813 referred to the hard link which had lighted “on Untie Sam’s and added in a footshoulders” note “this cant term for our government has got almost as current as John Bull” Shortly thereafter Uncle Sam’s teams his troops and payroll were mentioned in several northern New York and western Vermont papers The Columbia Sentinel in 1814 printed an ediDecember torial entitled “Uncle Sam and John Bull” contrasting the niggardly pay in the American Army with that in the British in Nile’s Register for Finally 1815 we find a definition: “U S or Uncle Sam— a cant term in the army for the United States ’’ It was time and the cartoonist of course who promoted Uncle Sam from a “cant term” to a definite personality It was done by the conventional methods of caricature The first known picturization of the new synonym for the United States appeared in Punch London in 1844 It showed a long lean Uncle Sam In long coat tails and stove pipe hat According to those who should know Samuel Wilson was long and lean and wore a high beaver hat though how the news reached London is beyond conjecture First American cartoon was drawn in 1852 by F Bellow for the New York Lantern a comic weekly of the period It added whether to the London version or to the original we shall never know the familiar waistcoat tight trousers low-chigh collar and bow tie It was Thomas Nast famous American cartoonist who embellished the figure further with chin whiskers striped his trousers starred his waistcoat and otherwise brought it up to what is today accepted as standard Nast began his drawings within a year or two of Samuel Wilson’s death But there is no evidence that he drew from life There are Tro- - M v n K (I "r M If you tired feel out sorts kn J IN UTAH hotel tin - The Thomas IL Nast Version of Uncle Sam— Columbia Chides Coinage of Silver Dollars (From Harper’s nim for the Increased Weekly 171) and about Troy They had known Samuel Wilson all their lives they knew him as Uncle Sam and they found it funny That waa enough Began ns a Joke Whatever the psychology Involved the joke stuck So Uncle Wilson was feeding the Sam army was he? Well if it was Uncle Sam’s meat they were eating why not Uncle Sam'a aoand-- ‘ go uniforms they were wearing Uncle Sam’s lousy blankets they Uncle Sam’a slept under hospitals to which they carried their wounds and Uncle Jans who will loudly deny that their hero ever wore whlskera! Tailleur however is one thing personality another And while it Is as certain as Monday morning that Samuel Wilson would have as soon submitted to one of his own butcher knives as worn stars and stripes it is equally certain that the kindly smile behind the fictitious whiskers the shrewdly the thoughtful twinkling eye brow and the big capable hands of the cartoon were his We must give duo credit to the scorn Samuel Wilson was Uncle Sam £ Writer Ntwppr Union I WMUn Niihh Date OGDEN iccrra UTAH "COME A8 YOU ARE" Rivers That Flow North CHAUNCSY W WUT OoU MM The St Johns River in Florida Is the only river in the supposedly WNU— W 81 Umtea States which flows northward throughout Us entire course There are others however which flow north for a part of their course These Include the Monongahela m the Tennessee in TenPennsylvania improved and smooth skin eftan rw nessee and Kentucky the Rer River 'W Nitorad by daily treatment with rin North of the Minnesota and North Dakota Big Horn in Wyoming ant Montana Powder in Wyoming ant Montana racrctiYOT2: complexions HEAD THE AD3 - |
