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TYRONE OF TODAY

THE GATEWAY OF THE ALLEGHANIES

BY REV. W. H. WILSON.

TYRONE, PA: PRESS OF THE HERALD, 1897

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quehanna. It sailed down the river to Harrisburg, up the canal to 
Hollidaysburg, and was conveyed over the Portage in a special car to 
Johnstown, whence it resumed its voyage by canal and river to their 
destination in Illinois.

But, like the Alpine traveler, these early settlers pressed onward and their 
motto was "Excelsior." Another twenty years has passed. and in 1846 the 
Legislature is again invoked to lend its sanction to an enterprise greater 
than pike or portage or canal. In that year the Pa. R.R. was incorporated and 
steps were taken to connect the city on the Delaware and the city on the Ohio 
by an iron track. To complete this work eight years were required, and in 
1854 cars were running between Philadelphia and Pittsburg. In the midst of 
these eight years Tyrone had its beginning, and the first train was seen to 
pass the site of the future city on September 17, 1850.

The few who were here to see this great sight must have felt as if a new 
world had suddenly sprung into being. They realized that old things had 
passed away; but they could not know all that it meant for them and the 
inhabitants of this valley who should fill their places in the end of the 
century. The corporation which then owned 350 miles of railroad now controls 
the traffic on nearly 9000 miles of road in the richest portion of the earth. 
Its earnings have increased from about $300,000 in the first year to 
$90,000,000 in 1896, which was a year of depression, not including nearly 
half of its mileage which extends west from Pittsburg. It carried last year 
145,000,000 tons an average distance of 88 miles ; and 72,000,000 passengers 
an average distance of 21 miles each. The report for 1897 will show an 
immense increase on these figures.

The Pennsylvania railroad might be styled the mother of us all in this 
region: not the mother that gave us birth, but the foster mother that 
nourished our being. It found little rude communities like "babes in the 
woods"; it has "raised" them, surrounded with all the comforts of 
civilization.

Tyrone is most concerned with the Division which is named after it. The three 
branches which compose the Tyrone Division of the P.R.R. are: the B.E.V. 
which, about six miles northeast of Tyrone, crosses the divide between the 
Little

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Bald Eagle creek and the Bald Eagle proper, and follows that stream to Lock 
Haven, near which it empties into the Susquehanna; the Tyrone and Clearfield, 
which is laid over the Alleghany mountain, the summit being about ten miles 
to the north, and thence through the towns of Osceola, Philipsburg and 
Clearfield to Curwensville on the west branch of the Susquehanna, sending out 
spurs to various mining towns in this famous Coal region; and the Lewisburg 
and Tyrone, whose present terminus is Scotia, 25 miles distant. The division 
has 270 miles of track, exclusive of sidings, and last year carried 432,165 
passengers and about 4,000,000  tons of freight. It has about 450 employees 
residing in Tyrone and pays out monthly in the town over $20,000. There are 
about 80 residents of Tyrone on the pay role of the Main Line, whose checks 
approximate $5,000 each month.

Here are located the offices of the division in the commodious building which 
serves also for a passenger depot. Here may be seen superintendent S. S. 
Blair who began in the service of the P.R.R. over forty years ago when the 
trains were running over the mountains on the Portage road. From the lowest 
place he went gradually up, conductor, agent, train master, superintendent of 
Baltimore division during the trying times of the war. Since 1873 be has been 
at the head of this division and interested in the progress of the town. As a 
railroad official his long service proves his competency and his 
encouragement of every agency for the benefit of his fellow-citizens has 
established his character as a christian gentleman.

The chief clerk of the division is J. H. Reiley, who has been by the side of 
Mr. Blair for over thirty years, leaving wine with the superintendent from 
Baltimore. More than this need not be said in testimony to the value of his 
services. To the men along the road the appearance of Mr. Reiley about the 
tenth of each month is like the face of the sun as it comes over the 
mountain, for he is the bearer of the cheeks which makes their faces shine 
and their hearts grow warm. Assisting in this office are H. M. Sausser and W. 
C. Barr, two courteous and capable young men. The stenographer to Mr.

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Blair is R. N. Waring, who has made his mark by fidelity and industry in 
everything he undertakes.

C. P. Mc Arthur the Assistant Engineer, is the youngest of the officials in 
Tyrone. He started only fifteen years ago, a graduate of the University of 
Pennsylvania, and has in this short time gained the confidence of his 
superiors and obtained for himself honor and promotion.

D. D. Wood is the veteran among the officers of the road ait this point but 
one of those men who make themselves felt wherever you put them. He rose 
rapidly from brakeman in 1860 to Train Master in 1863 and has managed the 
traffic of the division during till these years. Mr. Wood has watched the 
growth of the town for thirty-five years and done his part to make its 
history.

In a room on the second floor may be heard, not the clack of tongues but the 
click of keys. Here sits A. A. Witter, the Division Operator, in the focus of 
a network of wires, like a spider in the midst of his web and, with the aid 
of his assistants, watches the motions of each train that is out upon the 
road. Unlike the spider his work is not to devour but to save, and he makes 
his fly go whither he will, bringing him up whenever he chooses to the 
central point. These men who carry out his plans are not mutes, though they 
talk with their fingers; neither are they deaf, for they read with their 
ears. They do not practice magic, and yet spirit-like they interpret the 
thoughts of comrades who are scores of miles away, and place an immediate 
answer on the table of the distant correspondent. Men who can do such things 
should not be unknown to fame. Their names are E. W. Stine and P. Halligan, 
train dispatchers; Clarence Wingate and W. T. Charles, operators.

R. B. Freeman has been Assistant Train Master for ten years, a popular man 
whose services are highly valued. The department of Maintenance of Way is 
under the care of M. McCann who, besides being a faithful servant of the 
company, has been one of Tyrone's most useful citizens for over a score of 
years. In the same building is the office where T. J. Scott with his 
assistant Wm. Wolfgang, supervises the movements of the main line trains; 
also the ticket office where agent H.

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L. Hesser dispenses information and furnishes passports to travelers.

The P.R.R. Freight Warehouse is always a busy place. Here may be seen, 
scattered about and piled up, boxes and bales and barrels and bundles and 
crates, containing goods of all descriptions and from all parts. The 
interests of the company, and of its customers, as well, are looked after by 
the gentlemanly agent, Mr. Frank Guyer. The baggage room is in charge of F. 
A. Harris who, by correct handling of their personal property, contributes 
not a little to the comfort of multitudes of people. The operators for the 
main line at this point are Messrs. Thad. Wetzler and W. W. Stowders.

Going up the yard of the division, which extends all the way to Vail, three 
miles distant, we pass the Roundhouse and Lower Shops, where is the office of 
the Master Mechanic, J. A. Beamer. Beyond these is the Tower whence Wm. A. 
Bouse, the E. Tyrone Yard Master, has an outlook upon the cars and crews 
under his charge. Farther on are the Upper Shops where a good force of men 
are at work under foreman O. P. Bush, repairing cars as they come in, 
weakened by the wear and tear of railroad service. Near the extreme limit of 
the yard is the office of the Weigh Master, John A. Lytle, where with 
astonishing dexterity the weight of each car is "caught on the fly" as it 
rushes past the window which overlooks the scales. The railroad men in Tyrone 
have felt the stress of the hard times in short hours and scanty wages. But 
here, as might be expected, the signs of returning prosperity so long looked 
for are showing themselves.

Manufacturers and Trade.

One of the great industries of Tyrone is the production of stone for various 
uses both in building and manufactures. Below the town the great limestone 
hills which rise on either side of the river are being cut into and brought 
down to the level of the roads which skirt its banks. The traveler passing 
along sees high perpendicular walls of rock along the sides of which scores 
of men are at work, doing their utmost to undo the original work of the 
Creator in order that the

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work of man, the creature, may be done. A wise Providence has stored up in 
these projections of the surface the materials with which man may "improve" 
that surface for his own comfort and gratification. So always the Divine 
Builder precedes the human. Even the fair structure of Science is at best the 
student trying to think God's thoughts after Him. Railroad commerce and the 
factories show how men are availing themselves of the "portion of goods" 
which the Father in these valleys has prepared for them.

THE BUILDERS.

Into the dust of the making of man 
Spirit was breathed when his life began, 
Lifting him up from his low estate, 
With masterful passion, the wish to create. 
Out of the dust of his making, man 
Fashioned his works as the ages ran; 
Palace, and fortress, and temple, and tower, 
Filling the world with the proof of his power.  
The clay wherein God made him  
Grew plastic and obeyed him;  
The trees, high-arching o'er him,  
The hills, in silence standing,
Gave up at his commanding, 
Their ancient rock foundations 
To strengthen his creations; 
And all the metals hidden 
Came forth as they were bidden, 
To help his high endeavor, 
And build a house to last forever.

-Henry Van Dyke.

MORRIS' QUARRIES.

The first quarries in all this region were opened up by A. G. Morris about 
1870. He is the head of the firm which leads all others today in the United 
States in the output of limestone. Their works are located at various points 
in Centre, Clinton, Mifflin and Blair counties, employing from 800 to 1000 
hands, with a capacity of 300 carloads daily. Their quarry at Tyrone Forges 
on the left has four crushers which turn out 50 cars of ballast stone a day. 
That on the opposite side produces 75 cars for furnace use with its two

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crushers. In these about 300 men are employed. For chemical as well as 
mechanical uses the product of this firm is unexcelled and orders come to 
them from the Atlantic, Middle and Western States.

STEVENS' QUARRIES.

The Keystone Lime & Stone Company is the commercial name under which A. A. 
Stevens, Esq., conducts his extensive lime and limestone business. The office 
is in Tyrone; the works of the company are on the Tyrone & Lewisburg 
Railroad, near Tyrone, where they have a large amount of superior limestone; 
and near Shoenberger and Union Furnace, along the main line of the 
Pennsylvania Railroad. These quarries extend a distance of 1 1/2 miles along 
the main line of the railroad, and are equipped with all modern improvements 
for the preparation of limestone in its various commercial uses. They have 
also a grinding mill, for the grinding of lime and limestone; also seven 
large lime kilns for burning lime. Their quarries are among the largest in 
Central Pennsylvania, having a shipping capacity at their various quarries of 
150 cars of stone per day, and 2500 bushels of lime. Their lime goes to all 
parts of the country, and is not confined to Pennsylvania consumers. It is 
largely in demand in New York and Eastern states, where nothing but the 
highest grade of material is used, and it has a well earned reputation for 
its superior quality, both for building and chemical uses. Their limestone is 
used for fluxing, furnaces, glass works, railroad ballast and building 
purposes.

THE TANNERY.

The North Star Tannery, the only one now in Blair county, covers a large 
space of ground between the Juniata river and the Pennsylvania railroad, on 
the east side of Pennsylvania avenue. It was established by D. P. Ray, Sr., 
in 1871 and run by him until 1881, when J. K. Ray, D. P. Ray, Jr., and J. W. 
Howe became the firm. It has the most approved modern machinery and a 
capacity of 125 hides a day, employing 40 to 45 men. The bark used is oak and 
hemlock, some brought in from the country but most of it shipped

THE MORRISON & CASS CO. PAPER MILL.

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in by rail from Cambria, Clearfield and Centre counties. Some of the hides 
are obtained from Western cities, Omaha, Kansas City, Chicago and St.. Louis. 
The building is two stories high, 280 by 62, and in the view of Tyrone is 
easily discernible by its tall chimney near the railroad station. The beam 
house is 35 by 32 and the leach house 96 by 66 feet. Besides these, there are 
several smaller buildings. The product is union crop sole leather, all of 
which is shipped to the Boston market.

THE PAPER MILL.

A busy hive is that which inhabits the square extending from Sixteenth street 
to the creek, where it forms the northeast line of the borough, and between 
Pennsylvania and Logan avenues. This is the site of the Paper Mill, its 
buildings covering the whole length of the block along Pennsylvania avenue 
and 16th street, a total frontage of 825 feet. In the enclosed eight acres of 
land almost all the space is occupied with substantial brick structures where 
various departments of the work are carried on. With the exception of the 
railroad interests which were the start of Tyrone, this is the largest 
industry of the place, giving constant employment to about 225 persons. The 
business was begun in 1880, but the company, as at present constituted, was 
incorporated in 1889 under the name of the Morrison & Cass Paper Company, 
with a capital stock of $500,000.

The plant includes all the latest and best appliances for the manufacture of 
a superior quality of book and writing paper, and the products are in 
constant demand both in the United States and in foreign countries. The firm 
has never closed its work except for needed repairs. The two tall chimneys 
which attract the notice of the visitor walking from the station up 
Pennsylvania avenue, give forth a stream of the black vapor day and night 
from the fires which run its 24 steam boilers and furnish power to its eight 
steam engines. Fifty cords of wood are received daily and by ingenious 
contrivances and manifold processes transmuted into the clean, light, smooth 
paper which passes out of the mill to the amount of 30 tons a day. The wood 
in five foot lengths is thrown into

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the jaws of a giant "chipper" whose teeth or knives of steel, with incredible 
speed "chew" it into little bits of uniform size and pass these into this 
throat, a trough conducting this hard, dry food into ten boilers which form 
the stomach of this system.  There under pressure of steam and by the aid of 
alkalies the process of digestion is carried on, requiring about six hours, 
and the resulting soft substance is submitted to other operations of washing, 
bleaching and sizing.  A certain proportion of rags is worked up and 
incorporated with the wood pulp.  This is now ready for the paper machines, 
four in number.  It is kept in constant motion on endless aprons of wire 
cloth and of felt, to strain the water out of it, and the drying process is 
completed by steam-heated cylinders round which the sheets are driven.  They 
are now ready to be calendered, or run through rolls which act upon one 
another, giving the gloss and finish that mark the output of this mill.  To 
describe these processes in detail or to even mention all the parts of the 
complicated mechanism would fill many pages.  It ought to be said, however, 
that the company has an enviable reputation not only for the work which it 
turns out but for the treatment of its workmen, whose comfort and welfare are 
studied.  There has been no cut of wages under plea of hard times, but with 
unvarying regularity $10,000 in wages is turned into the hands of its 
employees and finds its way into the channels of trade in the town every 
month.  A Relief Association of the employees has 219 members who are 
entitled to a weekly allowance in case of sickness or accident and a death 
benefit of $100.
     
Each season witnesses some additions and improvements to the property of the 
Tyrone Paper Mill.  The president of the company is Joseph K. Cass; the 
secretary and treasurer, J. G. Anderson.  John B. Stroup is the efficient 
superintendent of the paper mill and M. J. Wike of the pulp mill.  In the 
office one meets Messrs. Richard Beaston and S. P. Eby, both of whom have 
been identified with the firm for many years, and F. S. Armstrong, the 
bookkeeper.

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THE FOUNDRY.

The foundry and machine shops of A. G. Morris & Sons are between the river 
and the railroad, half a mile below Tyrone.  The building is of brick, two 
stories high and, with an addition of one story, extends along the track 300 
feet.  There is also a power house and blacksmith shop and a neat two-story 
structure for office use.  The equipment for work is complete.  They build 
stationary engines and have recently constructed a stone crusher of their own 
invention of which three are in successful operation, each capable of making 
50 cars of furnace or 25 cars of ballast stone per day.  Another piece of 
work just turned out of the shops is a newly patented brick machine, the 
invention of Geo. C. Davison, which is likely to come into use extensively.  
The foundry is an indispensable element in the business of the town, whose 
mechanics depend upon it to realize in working from the plans which have been 
wrought out in their brains.  The inventor's mind needs the builder's hand to 
translate its thoughts into facts and make them effective.  The firm have 
just begun the manufacture of the Burley steam and hot water heaters recently 
patented but already in use in several building in Tyrone.

Just on the edge of the town, in an eligible location, are 

THE TYRONE BOILER WORKS, 

Reader Bros. & Hoffman, proprietors.  These gentlemen are prepared to do all 
business in their line in a manner to satisfy their customers, being 
themselves thorough workmen and courteous in their dealings.  Added to their 
own special line they have just begun the manufacture of a hot air heater, 
patented by themselves.  This invention has been fully tested and given 
satisfaction in the Presbyterian church and several other places.  It is 
equally adapted for large or small buildings and is claim to be economical 
and healthful.  For the construction of these furnaces to meet the growing 
demand, an addition has been made to their building, doubling its former 
dimensions.

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THE SHOE FACTORY.

     The Tyrone Shoe Company is a recent addition to the manufacturing 
interests of the town and bids fair to become one of the largest.  The 
business was formerly carried on in Williamsport.  Their new building on the 
hillside opposite the R. R. Warehouse presents a front towards the town of 
100 feet.  It is built of brick, three stories high.  On the ground floor is 
the office, where the manager, J. W. Howe, whose reputation as a first-class 
business man has long ago been made in Tyrone, looks after the general 
interests of the firm.  In this first story, also, the sole leather work is 
done and the shipping attended to.  On the second and third floors the 
cutting, stitching, bottoming and finishing are done, the whole process of 
making a shoe being accomplished by machinery of the most recent design.  
Communication is had from floor to floor by means of an elevator running 
through the middle of the building.  Adjoining the main building is the poser 
house, 20 feet by 26.  About 50 persons are now employed by the company.  

Whilst different styles of shoes are turned out, a specialty at present is 
the Bicycle Shoe which is made with seamless upper and water-proof sole of 
mercury-tanned leather, out-wearing other shoes, and with comfort to the 
wearer.  The capital of the concern is $40,000 and its managers are gentlemen 
who have the confidence of the community in which they live.  The President 
is W. L. Hicks; Treasured, E. C. Poorman; Manager, J. W. Howe, and 
Superintendent, N. A. Hughes, a manufacturer of long experience in this line.  
The other directors, equally well-known in Tyrone, are J. G. Anderson and H. 
A. Gripp.

ELKHURST ART SCHOOL.

The man who has in recent years done more than any other to extend the fame 
of Tyrone is the German Artist, H. A. Gripp.  It is a tribute enough to such 
a one to say that, though not yet forty years of age and beginning with no 
capital but that of brain, he stands in the front rank among the capitalist 
of our town, and at the head of them all in the net

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gains of his business through these dull time.  The splendid establishment at 
Elkhurst shows the growth attained in sixteen years from the seed of an idea, 
first conceived in the brain and then planted and diligently tended by the 
hands of a genius.  Such a career is only possible when to God-given 
capacity, the first essential, and God-given opportunity, the second element 
of success, there is added the third and indispensable factor which converts 
the possible into the actual.  This third factor is indomitable energy, and 
few men living possess it in larger degree than the proprietor of the Art 
School on the Juniata.

The "idea" which has made his fortune and made him the means of helping 
hundreds of his less fortunate fellows is, as he says, a very simple one.  
But to seize this simple thing, grasp the possibilities contained in it, and 
make use of it so that it would do the most good was like transmuting 
charcoal into diamond.  It was doing in the sphere of practical life what 
Newton did in that of scientific knowledge when he deduced the law of 
gravitation from the dropping of an apple.

The work to which Mr. Gripp has given his study and efforts is that of making 
life-like portraits from common photographs enlarged.  The demand for these, 
as is well known, is unlimited; but the American people demand a finished 
product.  It must be "a thing of beauty" that it may be "a joy forever."  
This want was recognized by the young German Artist and he set himself to 
answer it in such a way at to please and satisfy the great public.

The pictures which have made the name of Gripp famous are beautifully 
finished by hand in crayon.  He teaches his method in the school by personal 
supervision and through assistants who are under his supervision.  To others 
who cannot attend he give instruction by mail.  From every state and beyond 
the states in the British Provinces, he draws his pupils or communicates with 
them by Uncle Sam's ubiquitous mail service.  The number of those who have 
since the beginning worked for Mr. Gripp counts up into the thousands.  Many 
who have undertaken have not succeeded, but candid and careful examination 
compels us to say that the cause of failure

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is not in the method taught nor in the method of teaching.  The one 
sufficient proof of this is that so many right her are finding is practicable 
and paying; people of all sorts and classes, not one in ten of whom had 
either any previous training or any natural talent in the direction of art.  
For a very moderate fee the needed instruction is given to all who apply, and 
to all who prove competent employment at their homes is given.  Hundreds of 
men and women are constantly at work on these pictures and the huge packages 
of mail that arrive and depart daily, keeping a horse, wagon and driver 
constantly busy, are evidence of the magnitude of the work.  There are, of 
students and others needed to keep the business running, 130 persons employed 
about the premises.  When to these are added the much larger number of 
workers scattered all over the continent and the soliciting agents who send 
in the photographs, those engaged in enlarging the pictures, the others who 
manufacture the mailing tubes and the increased government force required to 
handle "Gripp's mail," we can see how wide reaching is the influence for good 
that radiates from one man whose "idea" has fructified in blessings to many 
besides himself.  

The esthetic faculty that marks the genuine artist is a manifest in the 
environments of the Art School.  Let us take a look at Elkhurst.  Getting off 
at what was formerly known as Tyrone Forges, as we step upon the platform we 
see before us a group of buildings that command our admiration.  Facing the 
railroad and the break in the mountains that opens into Warriorsmark Valley 
is the main building, large and stately, which is the home of the family and 
of the students who board here during their term of instruction.  This is 
limited to two months, an inexorable rule which many vainly plead to have 
amended, the charms of the place and of the society enticing them to prolong 
their stay.  To the left is the building used for the school and for handling 
the incoming and making up the outgoing mail.  Still farther to the left 
stands a stone structure which is being renovated and enlarged to afford 
larger quarters for the school.  To the right of the main building there is 
seen the new gymnasium which is to

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furnish recreation and health-promoting exercise.  Back of all, the spacious 
barn, seen through the trees, reminds us that there is "room at the top" for 
the 165 broad acres of Elkhurst stretch up and over the hills with their 
fields of grass and grain and woods and springs.  The foreground of this 
picture is the wide curve of the Juniata, making room for the Rolling Mills 
and a Driving Park and, over the river, the cluster of houses known as 
Nealmont at the base of Bald Eagle Ridge.  The proprietor of this estate is 
one who takes delight in seeing others share his good fortune.  In every 
movement for the general welfare he is among the foremost, and all our 
citizens join in wishing long continuance of life and prosperity to Mr. 
Gripp.

SOLAR PRINT HOUSE.	

The large print house of Lindholm & Butler deserves special mention.  This 
firm, which moved from Cleveland, O., is engaged in the business of enlarging 
photographs, nearly all their product going to the great are emporium of H. 
A. Gripp.  They employ about 25 hands, turning out 8,000 to 10,000 pictures 
weekly.  The picture is magnified from a negative obtained by the use of a 
powerful camera under a powerful arc light, and passed through all the 
processes familiar to photographers, until they come out perfect 
reproductions on the large scale of the original.  It is an interesting sight 
to see the force of young men at work in the large building of the old M. E. 
church on Washington avenue and 12th street, busy from dawn till dark like 
the husbandman who makes hay while the sun shines.  They own and operate 
their own electric plant.

BEYER'S MILLS

One of the most indefatigable among the manufacturers of Tyrone is F. D. 
Beyer.  While he has steadily labored to promote his own interests, no one 
man, probably, has done more for the general welfare of the town in the last 
thirty years.  The first Saw and Planing Mills in Tyrone were started and 
operated by a stock company of which Rev. John D. Stewart was an active 
promoter, but the business was bought

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out by Mr. Beyer in the early sixties and he has continued on the same line 
ever since.  The firm of F. D. Beyer & Co., at present consisting of S. B. 
Beyer and F. R. Waring, have furnished materials and work for a large portion 
of the buildings in this place, recently for the Shoe Factory and the elegant 
residence of F. W. Acklin.  The Mills are well located along Lincoln avenue, 
the building reaching from 15th to 16th streets; the yards crowded with logs 
and lumber of all descriptions, covering another square beyond.  They know 
their business and are thorough in their work.

Mr. Beyer owns a large amount of real estate in the borough, and his 
properties are well kept up, so as to be a credit to the town.  He is one of 
the strongest champions of temperance among us and a "pillar" in the Columbia 
Avenue M. E. Church.

TYRONE PLANING MILLS.

The firm of S. McCamant & Co., though not quite so old as that just 
mentioned, is one of the oldest in Tyrone, the property having come into the 
possession of the present owners in 1868.  The Planing Mill on 15th street 
near Adams avenue and the Saw Mill now at work near Bald Eagle station 
furnish the means of support to a large force of men and their families.  The 
Park Avenue School Building and the Presbyterian Church and Manse are 
specimens of the work done by the firm in recent years.

Mr. S. McCamant has taken an active interest in the advancement of his 
adopted town and labored to encourage enterprises that would help to build it 
up.  As a public-spirited citizen he has been chosen to fill the office of 
sheriff of Blair county, and for two terms was a representative in the 
Legislature of Pennsylvania.  He is not President of the Board of Managers of 
the State Industrial Reformatory.

TYRONE MILLING COMPANY.

This firm, whose location is on Sixteenth street, corner of Lincoln avenue, 
operates the only flour mill within the borough limits, where all customers 
may be accommodated, whether producers or consumers of the stuff of which the 
staff 

REV. E. A. BORN.
REV. W. H. I. HOUGHTON.
REV. THOS. ROSENSTEEL.

FIRST LUTHERAN CHURCH.
REV. F. L. BERGSTRESSER.

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of life is made.  The machinery is modern and workmanship skilled and 
careful.  The head of the concern, A. W. Beyer, is a gentleman well known in 
the community and worthy of the confidence of the people which he enjoys.

TYRONE MARBLE WORKS.	

The proprietor of the above deals in a very hard commodity, but A. M. Wasson, 
through a comparative stranger in Tyrone, is well known to be no "marble 
heart," but a gentle man despite the stubbornness of his stock in trade.  A 
glance at his present quarters, just over the bridge on Tenth street, 
indicates that they are inadequate for the extent of his business.  No 
merchant would dare to leave his valuable goods exposed out of doors as does 
Mr. Wasson; but he would be a monumental thief that would steal from one who 
thus shows his trust in humanity.  Besides, the plunder would be heavy to 
haul and hard to hide, a consideration of no little weight to a prudent mind.  
More careful inspection proves that there is a master workman here who can 
compel the very stones to speak, if not to cry out.  A talk with the 
proprietor will satisfy the interested inquirer that, while he understands 
his trade, no rival can underbid him in price.  Samples of his work can be 
seen in a score of cemeteries in this and adjoining counties, and he can 
advise you as to what you should have as well as execute your order for what 
you want.

TYRONE GLASS FACTORY.

Allusion was made in these pages to the Cold Spring Forge and Ax Factory.  
These industries have for several years been defunct, but the resurrection 
time has come and out of their graves has arisen a new Glass Factory, whose 
buildings have just been completed and operations begun under the 
superintendency of Mr. George W. McGraw, an experienced glass worker.  The 
present force comprises about fifty hands, the goods manufactured being 
various kinds of hollow ware, including bottles and jars.  This quiet suburb 
of ours up the river is resuming its wonted activity, an indication of the 
general revival in business and in particular of the waking up of Tyrone to 
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enterprise is largely the result of the energy of the secretary of the Board 
of Trade and one of its members who secured subscriptions of Stock from a 
large number of our citizens.  It is expected that the plant will ere long be 
increased and a larger number of men employed.

TEMPLETON & CO.'S DEPARTMENT STORE.

Facing South on Tenth street, between Pa. and Logan avenue is the store known 
at "Templeton's" for the last 25 years and more.  For the ordinary wants of 
the body in food and raiment, and for most of the adornments and luxuries, 
one need not go elsewhere than to Templeton's store.  This is the 
commissariat department for a little army of customers.  The gardens and the 
orchards of many lands pour into their supplies and out of it many families 
are fed.  Not to mention the substantials which are never "out," the shelves 
are found closely packed with all sorts of condiments and canned goods, and 
delicacies for dainty appetites.  The show cases have the trifles without 
which life would be incomplete, candy which the children want, and soaps 
which mammas say they need.

Is it lamps?  Hundreds of them.  Or tinware?  Ask for what you don't see.  
Biscuits and baskets hang before you eyes, and coffee, sugar, &c., crowd your 
feet.  Gentlemanly clerks wait behind the counters.  Rows of queensware, 
glass and china dishes, plain and fancy, stare at you from the other side.

So much for one half of the first floor.  The other half - ah, is it not the 
better half?  There lady clerks measure off and tie up goods that defy 
description or comprehension by the coarser sex.  There are "prints" whose 
merits cannot be told in print, linens and lawns and linings, silks and 
serges.  What figures and colors, to set off figures and offset colors!  
Large room for exercise of taste and judgment.  No wonder that women stay 
long and come often.  Here they see themselves (in imagination) in the draped 
statues that stare from the windows and stand in aisles and hang from hooks.  
What matter that these forms are headless?  All that is here is for the body 
to put on, not for heads - inside or out.  Such mazes 

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of laces and embroidery and trimmings and trinkets!  Side by side with living 
palms are palm-like parasols for the living.  Patterns of gauze-like 
thinness, buttons and belts - but why say more?

Books for brains in front.  In rear, everything for feet, from "gums" and 
thick-soled shoes that might weigh a pound, to soft slippers and pointed 
toes.  No one keeps more shoes than Templeton, though some may keep shoes 
longer.

The visitor must "go aloft."  In a room well lighted, 40x120 feet, you see 
rolls of carpet.  We need not name them; they are all here.  This is the 
carpet emporium of Tyrone.  Below they fit feet, here they fit floors.  And 
here they fit out windows and decorate everything.  If you are going 
somewhere, get one of their trunks.  When you stop, they have everything for 
your breakfast below, and everything for you bed above.

Well, the half has not been told.  Only we must add that nowhere are salesmen 
and saleswomen more courteous than the fourteen who serve the public in 
Templeton's, or merchants more considerate of the public wants then those who 
conduct the affairs of this department store.

WALTON & ACKLIN, JEWELERS.

One of the oldest establishments of our town is that of Walton and Acklin, 
1041 Pennsylvania avenue.

Isaac Walton, the head of this firm - not "Issak" of piscatorial fame, 
stealthily hooking his victims and filling his wallet with their writhing 
forms - this is Isaac P. Walton, who for nearly forty years has dealt in gold 
and silver, yet is no money shark.  Of the men who were in business as 
merchants in 1859, he alone is still active, and of him it may be said, "his 
eye is not dim," as it looks for the flaw in the works of the watch, and "his 
natural force is not abated."  To his prescient mind Tyrone is indebted for a 
large share of its present prosperity, notably for the Electric Light Plant, 
of which he was the projector and principal promoter.  He has been honored by 
his fellow citizens with offices of trust, burgess for three years, and now 
vice-president of the First National Bank.

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F. W. Acklin has well sustained the reputation of the firm and bids fair to 
become one of Tyrone's foremost citizens.  The business block of this firm is 
an ornament to the town, and the newly erected residence of Mr. Acklin is the 
gem of architecture among dwelling houses.

The throng of pedestrians that promenade Pennsylvania avenue after working 
hours, appreciate the warm glow of Walton & Achlin's windows, the neat array 
of polished silver set off by the colored lights above.  Theirs not to feed 
the hungry or deck the homely with fashion's garb, but many a mind is 
satisfied and many a costume's lack supplied by the wares which Walton & 
Acklin dispense so courteously.  Here may be seen on the eve of some 
interesting occasion, the prospective purchaser looking for birthday gift or 
bridal present or parting keepsake or pledge of affection or souvenir of 
esteem.  Nowhere in Tyrone are so many bundles of happiness tied up and sent 
out - unless, possibly, in the parsonage of the First M. E. Church.

MRS. ELLA BLACK'S MILLINERY STORE.

Every thing for feminine adornment, not the neglect of comfort.  Delight of 
the fair, bewilderment of the other sex.  Waists of the finest style and 
stuff, Dresses ready to put on, Wraps of all sorts, suitable for the season, 
and of prices graded to the capacity of the buyer's purse.  Rolls of ribbon, 
wide and narrow, loud and quiet.  Feathers and Flowers, more tempting to our 
modern Eves than the ancient fruit of the garden.  And Hats!  Plain and prim 
for those who dislike ornament or those who can dispense with it; modest hats 
which would befit the staid matron; dashing hats for the gay maiden, high and 
tapering crowns, low and flat roofed ones.  Hats to cover the head and hats 
to dazzle the eye; airy hats that seem ready to fly, and fairy hats that 
might melt and disappear.  Such permutations and combinations of bits of silk 
and straw and felt and feather, with a sly stitch here and a pin inserted 
there!  Such is the magic of Millinery. In this store is all that woman wants 
to wear except shoes and for this baser garment she must go to man.

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The mistress of this mansion of delight for women and their maids in waiting 
meet all alike, whether customer or caller, with pleasant welcome and 
courteous attention.  Mrs. Black is a good proof of what the feminine 
qualities of pluck, perseverance and tact can accomplish, having developed 
this business to its present proportion from small beginnings, until now a 
force of assistants, sometimes as many as twelve, are kept busy from morning 
to night.

G. W. STRONG'S BARGAIN STORE.

The gentleman named above has only been a resident of Tyrone about three 
years, but has shown his right to the name he bears by becoming stronger each 
year in the confidence of his patrons.  In his place of business may be seen 
at any time, and especially in the evening hours, a throng of plain people 
who have found out where to put their hard-earned dimes so as to get the most 
out of them.  The proprietor and his four assistants have about all they can 
do to wait upon their customers.

A complete Dry Goods Store is here.  Dress goods of all sorts on one side.  
One the other, the little things that go therewith; thread, buttons, breast 
pins, and all the finishing touches which women are always looking for.  
Between are Remnant tables which are not allowed to become dusty.  Umbrellas 
for a rainy day.  Shades for the sunny day.  All that makes comfortable 
sleeping at night. Towels and combs and stationery, and the "fix-ups" which 
all good housekeepers prize so highly.  A well stocked Shoe Department.  
Ready-made suits for workingmen and their boys, and even for their wives and 
daughters.  All this and more at Strong's.  And, best of all, you will find 
the bargain equal to the promise.  And that is why they come and keep on 
coming to the Bargain House down by the bridge.

J. S. GILLAM & CO.

The Wholesale Grocery House of J. S. Gillam & Co. is reached from Tenth 
street by turning south between Logan and Washington avenues.  It is a large 
building of brick and iron, advantageously located on a siding of the P. R. 
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business was established in 1891, and fills an important place for the supply 
of local retailers and merchants in other towns.  The regular staples of the 
trade are kept in stock and orders are promptly attended to.  Mr. Gillam is 
too modest a man to sound his own praises, but his fellow-citizens have 
proved their estimate of him by conferring upon him the chief magistracy of 
the borough, and wish him continued and increased prosperity.

STUDY'S.

Outranking all other business houses in age, having been established in 1858, 
and possessing the most eligible site in the very heart of the town where the 
two main streets cross each other, opposite both banks and the oldest hotel, 
is the Study Dry Goods Store.  This establishment has lost none of its old 
time prestige in the changing of years.  Rather it seems to improve as years 
add experience to its management.  Its head is one whose study is to please 
and whose success in the effort is evident at a glance.

Four show windows arrest the gaze of all passers and, were they to cease to 
shine on this conspicuous corner, life would be less attractive for those who 
frequent our streets.  There are seen, in variety of color and texture, 
Ladies' Waists and Skirts and Dress materials hanging gracefully, with all 
the paraphernalia wherewith feminine humanity is wont to deck or disguise 
herself.  All the staples of woman's wear, and all the accessories; buttons 
and beads and tassels and trimmings.  And notions!

To say that the store has everything in Dry Goods and Ladies' and Children's 
wear would be prosy.  To enumerate particulars would task the writer and tire 
the reader.  Better and easier and pleasanter to call and see for yourself 
what James A. Study knows about it.  He tires no customer; he attires many.

WILLIAM VOGT.

The pioneer Clothing House is that of William Vogt and the progress of the 
years has not left it in the rear.  Piles of clothing upon his tables prove 
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times and seldom is his store seen empty of purchasers.  Through well nigh 
forty years he has kept steadily on like the river's flow, sometimes swift 
and at other times sluggish but never stopping.  So long a career of 
honorable activity gives him a claim upon the patronage of the people, and 
Mr. Vogt is one who will hold the trade of his customers by fair dealing.

TYRONE STEAM LAUNDRY.	

An unassuming but wide-awake man is D. T. Kennedy, the man whose vocation is 
to keep us respectable by making us clean, on the outside.  His work is 
thorough, his place is busy, and he himself is a thriving business man.  He 
is now located in his newly fitted building on East Tenth street, opposite 
the Academy of Music, a three-story brick.  The fact that in about five 
years, from a very modest beginning, he has worked up a business to justify 
and demand enlargements, is proof of his success.  Recent improvements in 
machinery and others to be added shortly strengthen him in public favor.  
With his dozen helpers (and he will double the number when needed,) all at it 
and always at it, he is competent to handle the business of Tyrone.  The most 
delicate fabrics may be safely entrusted to Kennedy.  He'll treat you right, 
and make them white, and send them home right early.

H. H. STRATIFF, MACHINIST.

H. H. Stratiff is one of Tyrone's boys, not one of its babies, but one who 
helped to rock its cradle in the infancy of the town.

Do you want machinery or tools examined and put in order?  Take them to 
Stratiff.  Is there a hard problem of some necessary implement that will not 
work and causes you worry and loss?  Ask Stratiff what to do about it.  In 
short, when you have something that needs doing in the line of mechanical 
work and that no one else can do, try Stratiff and he will make it straight, 
if - you will pay the charges.  A general repair shop is his, and he can 
supply you with all that is usually found at a gunsmith's store, sell you a 
new bicycle or fix up your old one, and give you a deal that is straight, if 
- what people say is true.

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F. G. ALBRIGHT.

The Albright block situated at the corner of Pennsylvania avenue and Twelfth 
street, is occupied by the General Store of F. G. Albright, filling both of 
the salesrooms below and a part of the second floor, besides a full cellar 
and a frame building in the rear for storage.

Nowhere is there a better kept stock or a store that is neater in appearance 
than Albright's.  It will astonish you to see how many things he keeps, 
everything of excellent quality, always presentable, and at prices that are 
as fair to purchaser as to dealer.  It would be hard to think of anything in 
the grocery line that is not here.  and his Dry Goods department includes 
also carpets, oil cloths, and matting.

The proprietor and his clerks know how to make every one feel at home, making 
it a pleasure to do business with them.

D. G. OWENS' DEPARTMENT STORE.

Everything about Owen's indicates business.  The hustling proprietor lets no 
grass grow under his feet.  The present stand has been occupied only about 
three years, but David G. Owens is no novice, having been in former years one 
of Tyrone's successful merchants.

Two long counters in the Dry Goods Department in the front.  Behind them 
young lady clerks greet you as you enter.  Back of these, shelf upon shelf 
densely packed with goods, enough in quantity and variety to fit out a 
respectable village of people.  Not an inch of space is wasted; barely room 
to edge your way in and through.  More goods than room for them, though the 
store runs back from street to alley.  Lace curtains and fancy table covers; 
domestics and linens; garments for all ages and all seasons, ready made or 
ready for making.  Why should we attempt the impossible, to tell of all that 
is here to deck the form and please the taste of woman?  If you don't see 
what you want, Owens will see that you don't want it - long.  He is here to 
do business and will not be outdone or undersold by any rival.  This long 
space in front is the Court of the Women;  if you are a man you may get 
beyond it and find your level in the "grosser" department which reaches to 
the rear, 

FARRAN ZERBE.

C. S. W. JONES, 
RICHARD BEASTON.
J. W. HOWE

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125 feet from the street, saying nothing of a room for heavier packages still 
farther on.  Great depth, but not great darkness, for the building is on two 
streets and has abundant light and air.  All around you from floor to ceiling 
is crowded.  Here they size up both sexes, food for man and raiment for 
women; making of them gentle man and fair lady.  For the latter, wraps and 
rugs and comfortables and trifles of all names, old-fashioned head gear and 
new-style footwear.  For the former, fruits fresh, dried and preserved; 
vegetables and meats; everything to make bread, to go with your bread, and 
good enough to satisfy the best-bred customer.  That class of people make no 
mistake when they deal at Owen's and he delivers to all parts of town and 
vicinity.

J. W. FISHER, STOVES AND TINWARE.

Others may sound the praises of their choice cuisine tickle the palate and 
lighten the purse, but J. W. Fisher as a public caterer excels them all.  He 
who enables you to do for yourself serves you better than he who does it for 
you - at your expense.  The wise woman of Tyrone has found out long ago that 
for peace in the family Fisher can do more than the squire, and for health in 
the home more than the doctor.  "No such word as fail," to any one who tries 
to cook with the outfit which can be so cheaply obtained at the Stove and 
Tinware Store.  So, when soft, balmy days whisper of the approach of summer, 
and two hearts beat time to the song of robin and lark, they turn their steps 
towards 1010 Pennsylvania avenue to find one who can "set up" young folks - 
right.  And when autumn's blasts warn of coming winter, all know where to get 
everything to make warm and comfortable.  He can set up stoves so deftly that 
the serenity of the home atmosphere is never disturbed, nor the ear shocked 
with unseemly ejaculations.  Rather than try to enumerate the utensils of all 
sorts and the useful contrivances that save you many times their price we 
say, go and see for yourself; or, when things go awry in the kitchen, or in 
the fire and water department of the domestic economy, send for Fisher, and 
soon the skies will clear and peace return to your home.

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PORT'S FURNITURE STORE.

George W. Port is the only exclusive furniture dealer in our town and, by 
concentrating
his attention on a single line, he has established his reputation for good 
stock and low prices.  The latter result is largely due to the fact that his 
store is his own, building as well as contents.  When you look into this neat 
and new three-story brick, your attention is not distracted by things 
extraneous, but every article your eye lights on is staple, so that it does 
not take long here to find what you want.

On three floors, each extending back 138 feet, he has ample room for handling 
and exhibiting everything of wood belonging to the inside of a house, with a 
little of metal and glass thrown in, and some softer stuff to rest the weary 
frame.  Do not fail to look up Port when setting up housekeeping, and 
whenever you need some touch of improvement.  You will find him on West Tenth 
street, opposite Templeton's store.

ARNOLD & MILLER, FLORISTS.

Over the hill is the green house.  That is, West of our Cemetery Ridge is the 
place where green things are started for our gardens and flowers furnished 
for festive occasions.  The ladies know Mr. Arnold and where to go when 
planning for their window gardens.  Over ten years ago he began as a 
floriculturist in Tyrone, for the last five years with a partner, the firm 
to-day being Arnold & Miller.  A hail storm in June destroyed most of their 
stock, but they bravely set to work to retrieve the loss, and a few months 
have brought about an almost incredible transformation.  They are now in 
better condition than ever to accommodate their patrons.  The stock of 
ornamental house plants for winter will repay a visit, and the money expended 
in such decoration for the home will not be spent amiss.  All our people 
speak well of Arnold & Miller and wish them increased prosperity.

A. L. KOONS, MANUFACTURING CONFECTIONER.

A three-story building in Tenth street adjoining the First National bank 
shows signs of recent fire on the bricks in front.  

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But there is no smell of fire nor stain of smoke on A. L. Koons, who has 
build up a large business in the last seventeen years.  This place beyond all 
others is the one which causes the juvenile heart to heave with ambition and 
longing.  What possible attainment more glorious than to manufacture 
sweetness unlimited both in quantity and variety!

There is no idle space and there are no idle folks on any of the four floors 
of this building.  From the basement where are stored the materials used in 
making candies to the third story where the work of making them is done, on 
the second floor where the stock is kept and orders for the wholesale trade 
are filled, and on the ground floor where the office work and retail business 
are transacted there is activity everywhere.  Mr. Koons is a man who has 
prospered in business and is doing no little to add to the general prosperity 
of Tyrone.

His experience at the business runs back to 1868, almost thirty years, having 
learned the practical part of the trade.

FARRAN ZERBE.

In 1881 a boy who found birth and life in our midst began his business career 
at a very early age by the establishing of a news route.  Scores of newsboys 
spring up every year in a town of this size, but most of them spring up as 
the grass to die down the same season.  Very few possess the energy to push 
forward and grow up with the years like a thrifty tree.  But Farran Zerbe was 
one of the few, and today finds him while still a young man doing extensive 
business in the store on the corner of Pennsylvania avenue and Eleventh 
street, where on a floor space of 5000 square feet he handles a great variety 
of goods.

The dispensing of literature being his initial occupation, it continues to be 
a main feature, a large space being devoted to books and periodicals.  
Stationery, blank books and office supplies are leading factors in this 
business and everything from the ordinary to the dainty and latest are kept.

Books for information and entertainment may be brought below or, by going 
upstairs, may be borrowed for less than a song.  For, with enterprise worthy 
of imitation, this mer-

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chant invites his customers to go up higher that they may cultivate a higher 
grade of reading.  On this floor is offered for public use a circulating 
library of several thousand volumes of well selected books.  It takes two 
dollars to buy one good book, but here for two dollars you may, if you will, 
have one new book as often as you wish while the year lasts.  The young 
people of Tyrone who aspire to rise in the world in a true and noble sense 
will find Zerbe's library some of the best stepping stones to success, for in 
our days it is needful that the mind should be fed with suitable diet in 
order to be fitted for the competition of life.

Art, too, has liberal space in his store.  The windows show paintings and 
engravings appropriately framed, indicating the fine stock kept, pictures and 
picture framing occupying an exclusive department,  When you want some 
finishing touch of decoration in your parlor, ask Zerbe about it.  The art of 
music is not forgotten.  The passerby is oft reminded of it, as the sweet 
notes of the world renowned Schomacker gold string pianos temp him to pause 
and listen.  Organs and other instruments and music in sheet and book form 
are offered at popular prices.

And then for curiosity and pleasure seekers there is entertainment.  Who 
keeps and sells more bicycles than the Zerbe Cycle company?  Victors, 
Ramblers, Stormers, Etc. new and second hand.  A bicycle livery is also 
conducted.

For young America there is an endless variety of toys and games.  Sporting 
goods and decorating materials are to be found.  Coins, stamps and curios are 
a consideration.  Specialties and novelties for the pleasure and convenience 
of home and office.  All this and much more every day and all the year round 
at Zerbe's  The proprietor, Farran Zerbe, has associated with him his sister, 
Miss Zerbe, and his brothers Chas. F. and J. Leo, and under the firm name of 
Zerbe's this house is well known throughout Central Pennsylvania and give 
careful and prompt attention to a large mail patronage.

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THE KIRK-CAMP FURNITURE CO.

The uptown furniture store in Beyer's Bazaar is presided over by W. R. Camp, 
who keeps everything that you want in this line.  He keeps it only till you 
want, and come and get of him.  And his customers do say that Camp's goods 
are lowest in price and equal to the best in quality.  All he asks of you is 
to call and judge for yourself.  It will be a pleasure to be waited on by one 
who never tires in his efforts to please you.

This firm also carry on the undertaking business.  Their outfit is complete, 
and every detail connected with the care of the dead and the conduct of the 
funeral is provided for.  When the sad but inevitable visitation of death 
comes to the house and you need some one to see that everything is done 
right, send for Camp and you will not be disappointed.  You will find him 
considerate not only in his feelings but also, in his charges, of the 
circumstances of those who have suffered bereavement.  His office is open to 
call all night at 1344 Logan avenue.

COSEL, THE OAK HALL CLOTHIER AND FURNISHER.

The most brilliant spot in our well lighted streets is Cosel's clothing 
store.  His large windows are a blaze of splendor, a section of the big city 
set down here among the mountains.  In it are men, fair of face and faultless 
in dress; boys, too, in stockings and sailor suits.  Dummies they all are, 
but singing the siren's song to lure the passing crows.  It is worth while to 
walk down town to see the riches and harmony of color that form the 
background to these figures.  The artist derived his suggestion, no doubt, 
from the exquisite touches of the artiste in the window opposite.

The proprietor is irrepressible, and his cheerful good nature has made him 
friends.  Trade may fluctuate and times be close, but Cosel sticks to his 
knitting and is bound to come out all right.

E. D. MOCK, GROCER.

This young merchant, though but lately started in business for himself, is no 
stranger to the people of Tyrone.  They

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know him as an indefatigable worker who is bound to bring things to pass and 
it is confidently expected that he will make his mark.  He has already made 
it, for his place is always astir with customers.  It is impossible for 
anything to be dull where Emanuel Mock is the moving spirit. His aim is to 
meet the wants of the people.  His store is on West Tenth Street next to the 
Boecking Block.
     
J. J.WILMORE, CARRIAGE WORKS.

J. J. Wilmore has carried on the Wagon Making and Blacksmithing business for 
32 years at the same stand, foot of Logan Avenue, in a large two story frame 
building.  He is prepared to meet all the demands of the people of the town 
and country, giving honest work at living prices.

HICKS & TROUTWINE, MEAT MARKETS.

Hicks & Troutwine furnish flesh to eat to a large part of the seven thousand 
people in the "Central City" and would supply them all, if necessary.  
Already they have their two markets, on Logan avenue near Fourteenth street 
and on Washington avenue, corner of Tenth.  With the instinct of the old 
soldier that he is, (though a very young solider indeed he was in 1865), Mr. 
Hicks about three years ago executed a flank movement upon his rivals in the 
trade by establishing a down town shop, and there as well as at the old 
stand, they dispense meat to the satisfaction of their customers.  No need to 
tell what they have in store; in quantity and kind it is limited only by 
production in the country and the demands of the season.
	
OTHER MEAT DEALERS.								

Sprankle Brothers near Logan avenue on Tenth street, have a well supplied 
market which they have kept running for fifteen years and bid fair to 
continue for many years to come, having a steady and prosperous trade.

R. S. Minich & Son, on Pennsylvania avenue near the post office, are always 
ready to serve the public acceptably with every kind of fresh and cured 
meats.  Their shop is well patronized, being located where they catch the 
passing crowd.  

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J. Langenbacher & Son may be found on Pennsylvania avenue a few doors above 
the Empire House.  The senior member of the firm is an old resident of Tyrone 
and has served its inhabitants with meat for many years.

Friedly & Kaup, above Twelfth street on Pennsylvania avenue, are always on 
hand, doing a brisk business and the fair thing by all who buy off them.

Wm. M. Snyder is the youngest of all in this line, and the youngsters of 
Tyrone all know him well, having had a wholesome dread of him before their 
eyes while he served as Chief of Police.  Having turned his guns upon other 
than human carcases, he pursues his new vocation as politely and successfully 
as he served his summons in former days.  His market at the corner of 
Pennsylvania avenue and Eleventh street is never without plenty of meat and 
people who eat it.

JOHN D. COX, GUNSMITH.

Guns and explosives; fishing tackle, wherewith the bungling angler, instead 
of landing fish may "land" himself in the water; razors and sharp knives, 
suggestive of sanguinary deeds; clubs that might do damage to skulls; and all 
the accouterments of baseball and football and boxing.  Hints of various 
shortcuts out of life!

But first impressions may be false.  This is not a depot of destructive 
implements, but the Sporting Headquarters of Tyrone.  Everything here sold 
has legitimate uses.  There are commodities current among us more dangerous 
than Cox's powder and shot cutlery.  Let Nimrod gird himself for war and, 
with outfit secured at Cox's, hie himself afield, while the beasts and the 
fowl hide themselves from his fateful presence.  Let Piscator purchase here 
his poles and tackle to decoy the peaceful fish out of the water into the 
fire. Let the youth train his muscles in all manly games.  But let every man 
while human in his sports be humane as well, not needlessly cruel either to 
beasts or boys.  Let him not pursue pleasure as his end in life, but use it 
as the means whereby he may be stronger to do his part in swelling the sum of 
human happiness.

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But have we told it all!  No.  Cox has instruments of music, keeps the best 
bicycles to sell and, when sold, keeps them in repair.  More than that, he 
not only mends wheels but locks, and with bit and brace and various devices 
he can subdue the refractory metal and make it do its owner service.

MAHLON CRYDER, CLOTHIER.

You will easily find him in the fine new Blair County Bank Building.  His 
store is clean and bright, his stock not less so: and here appearances do not 
deceive.  Nor will the merchant deceive you as to the quality of the fabrics 
which he offers.  He sells you honest cloth, not shoddy; pattern of 1897, 
both in goods and making.  There is nothing on his shelves or tables that 
will not bear the closest inspection. What more can we say?	

Well, this we say besides; the man who wears one of Cryder's suits, as 
recommended by the proprietor, will bear inspection by the side of the man 
whose clothes have just come out of the tailor's hands.	

MOCK & BUCK, GROCERS.

Jacob I. Mock began in the grocery line here about three years ago.  With his 
partner, Mr. David Bick, a respected citizen of Tyrone for many years, he is 
doing a lively business in the Smith Block on West Tenth street.  The firm 
are very attentive to their customers and to their trade, and deserve to 
succeed.

WILSON & CO., GROCERS.

The other side of the Smith Block is the stand of this firm.  J. F. Wilson is 
the veteran in this line, having passed the quarter century mark since he 
began to serve the people of Tyrone with groceries.  No man is better known 
in town and few have been more active in public life.  Ripe experience has 
given him taste of this store is largely among the class of people who will 
no other than the choicest goods.  Those who buy of Wilson & Co. need never 
go elsewhere.

DANIEL D. WOOD.

HOTEL MYRON.

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THE BEE HIVE STORE.

F. R. Cox began about three years ago as the "Store Box" merchant, but "no 
pent up Utica contracts his powers," and we have seen him evolve himself from 
a box to a bee hive.  He is still at it and today finds him adding another 
room to his store that he may accommodate growing trade.  If this thing keeps 
on, what will the twentieth century see?  He sells for cash and delivers to 
all parts of town.

W. B. MURDOCK, GROCER.

This gentleman is well known in his line, having formerly had a store on 
Pennsylvania avenue.  For about a year he was out of business and most of the 
time out of town, but "couldn't stay away" and now is here to stay.  Mr. 
Murdock is experienced and reliable, a safe man to deal with.  His present 
location is in the Study Block on East Tenth street.

J. C. McCONAHY'S SHOE STORE.

"Yon's a sensible man; he kens all about leather."  This was the remark of a 
rough Glasgow cobbler about Edward Irving, whose consecrated common sense had 
captured his heart.  Sitting beside him on the bench the preacher discoursed 
about leather and thereby won a listener to his pulpit discourses.

The subject of Leather is one of importance to man as a biped, and J. C. 
McConahy at the uptown Shoe Store, corner of Logan avenue and Fourteenth 
street, is the man who "kens all about" it.  He not only understands fitting 
feet but fitting heads as well.  He is prepared to suit the judgment or the 
fancy of the buyer.  From stogey to ladies' fine footwear, shoes in every 
style and form may be found at McConahy's.  His fifteen years of experience 
as a shoe merchant in Tyrone have made him master of the situation and his 
is, as he confidently claims, the Money Saving Shoe Store.

JONES FURNITURE COMPANY.
	
To write up a store in the dull season is to take an unfair advantage of the 
merchant.  But Jones is never dull.  Just now he seems to be resting on his 
oars a little, but soon he will 

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be pulling away as lustily as ever.  Who would expect a man (even though he 
be a born hustler) to rush things in these hot September days?  But look out 
for what is coming.  Keep your eyes open and you'll see it.  Shut them and 
you may be knocked down and run over; the Fall stock will soon be here.  Then 
the busy establishment by the Juniata will resume its wonted aspect.  Loads 
of ranges and cooking conveniences !  Stacks of chairs and tables !  These 
things go into the basement.  Cargoes of beds and bureaus and couches and 
sideboards !  But why try to mention all?  Name what you want and it is 
yours-for a consideration.  Anything that goes into a house, to sit on, to 
eat on, to lie on, to walk on, to write on, to play on, look on.  Pictures 
well framed.  Music for the million!  Organs and Pianos to interpret to the 
ear the sweet strains that are locked up in volumes and in sheets piled up on 
shelves and tables.

This Jones, he never pays the freight.
Cause why ?  He has no time to wait.
No slow-coach in his busi-ness
He runs his trade by fast express.

THE W. F. WISE CO., SCENIC ARTISTS, DECORATORS AND THEATRICAL ARCHITECTS.

The special business of this firm is to plan and execute decorations for the 
interior of buildings.  In this department Mr. Wise is all that his name 
denotes, with the experience of a quarter of a century in this line to 
perfect his skill.  He can tell you all about the construction of a theater 
from the laying of the corner stone to the opening night and see that the 
work is rightly done in all particulars, or supply what may be needed from 
time to time in repairs and improvements.  His work in churches speaks for 
itself to the eyes of Tyrone church-goers in the frescoed walls of our two 
largest church edifices, also in the elegant building of the Second 
Presbyterian church of Altoona and in other towns of Pennsylvania.  The work 
of this firm in private residences is no less commendable and they can serve 
their patrons more cheaply from not having the large expenses incident to 
business in a great city.

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AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS AND HARNESS - J. A. C. RIDER.

It is especially but not exclusively the farming population to which the 
establishment of Mr. Rider at 105-109 East Tenth street looks for support.  
Our country cousins need not hesitate to deal with him.  From the beginning 
to the end of the season there is no employment of the husbandman that does 
not call for something in his line, and hence he has no day without calls 
from his customers.  He sells the most modern and approved line of Implements 
and haying and harvesting machinery; wagons, buggies, sleighs; robes and 
blankets; Harness, both machine made and his own manufacture; and in 
particular, Pumps of all sorts.  Those who have need of anything in his line 
will find at this store courteous treatment and all reasonable accommodation. 
Note the stand just by the Bridge.

BALD EAGLE CARRIAGE WORKS.

At his eligible location on Tenth street, opposite the Academy of Music, J. 
A. Hoffman builds and repairs wheeled vehicles, doing thorough work and using 
good material.  He came to Tyrone from Huntington county in 1890 and is now 
well established among us.
E. P. IRVIN & CO., HARDWARE

This firm, which succeeds that of H. C. Love, have not been in business long 
in Tyrone, but long enough to establish themselves and make many friends.  
Mr. Irvin, who has also, a half interest in the firm of Daniel Irvin's Sons, 
Bellefonte, knows how to deal with him, a progressive business man who aims 
to help others as well as himself.  The company in the above caption is Hon. 
J. G. Love, President Judge of the Centre Judicial District.
Have you considered how much the Hardware Merchant has to do with our 
civilization?  The surveyor who lays our the town, the laborer who excavates 
the ground, the mason who lays the wall, the carpenter who puts on the 
timbers, the 

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teamster who conveys the materials, the tinner and the plumber and the 
plasterer, all get their tools and supplies from him.  Locks and latches and 
lanterns, ropes and chains and buckets., glass and oils, all cutting 
instruments and things innumerable of iron and steel and tin and zinc and 
brass, such are the hard wares which any one may get at Irvin & Co.'s store 
in Pruner building, just above the bridge.

FRANCISCUS HARDWARE COMPANY.

Splendidly located in the Conrad building adjoining the post office, is one 
of the largest hardware stores in Central Pennsylvania.  The firm of 
Franciscus Hardware Company do a thriving business, both wholesale and 
retail.  Their ample quarters are taxed to the utmost to contain the wares 
they handle.  With all the fullness and variety of its contents, there is no 
dead stock in this store.  The proprietors and clerks are live men and have 
the rare art of making heavy goods look bright and attractive.  Their windows 
rival those of the dry goods and millinery stores for display of goods.  

A dazzling array of lamps, both hanging and standing, their brass mountings 
relieving the somber hues of the black metal which predominates in hardware 
goods; stoves for oil or gas, that may be picked up by the housekeeper and 
put down where she wants then; granite ware and pressed tin utensils for 
cooking; and monstrous copper kettles that shine like a picture; revolving 
churns that a child may work; tools for all sorts of labor; earthen pots, 
plain and bright colored; rolls of belting, both leather and rubber, 
reminding you that here they keep supplies for all kinds of machinery; a huge 
stock of wall paper; these are a few of the things that strike the eye in 
Franciscus' store, but what you want and don't see is there too, if it is 
anything that ought to be there, and only awaits your call.  They are large 
shippers of Bituminous Coal in connection with their retail yard.  They also 
job large quantities of refined and lubric oils, and have one of the most 
successful businesses in Central Pennsylvania.

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THE PRESS.

Tyrone has two newspapers.  The precedence belongs to the Herald which, under 
its present management, has been issued regularly for thirty years, and for 
ten years has made daily visits to its subscribers, keeping them in touch 
with the great world without.  The value of the local paper to the community 
is not recognized sufficiently.  There is no institution which might more 
truly subscribe itself.  "Your Humble Servant" to all in the community.  It 
is the great promoter of every public enterprise and many a private one, but 
is seldom counted in when dividends are declared on the stock.  A good 
newspaper is morally entitled to the benefit of a public tax, and certainly 
our own papers at their subscription price are worthy of a much larger 
circulation.  It is said that the true journalist can always be distinguished 
by the matter he omits, rather than by what he prints.  We are glad to say 
that we have two such papers in Tyrone, whose contents may safely be perused 
by the children in our homes. 

THE TYRONE HERALD, DAILY AND WEEKLY. 

To his fellow townsmen it is needless to say anything commendatory of the 
owner of the Herald, C. S. W. Jones.  The Captain has no enemies that we know 
of; it is hard to conceive of his having any.  Though a veteran of the war 
and holding a commission in the P.N.G. he has no warlike propensities; and 
the spirit of the proprietor seems to pervade the entire establishment.  Here 
is one printing office we believe, that is not possessed of a devil.  The 
force of printers of both sexes are models of decorum and diligence.  We may 
venture to add that the junior member of the editorial staff, Claude Jones, 
whose eye overlooks these pages on their way to the press, is a worthy second 
to the owner, sharing the labors and responsibility of the entire business.  
The Herald building on Pennsylvania avenue, separated from the Conrad Block 
by Herald street, is two stories high, 27 feet wide and 100 feet from front 
to rear.  The printing office occupies all of the first floor and part of the 
second, comprising the several rooms needed for offices, composing, 
stereotyping, binding, presses and engine.

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Its Cottrell newspaper press, four job presses, stereotyping outfit, cutter, 
perforator and stapler, with a full assorted stock of type and other 
materials of the printer's art, enable it to turn out a large amount of job 
work.  A twenty horse power boiler and an eight horse power horizontal engine 
run the presses.  No amount of horse power can express the capacity of the 
Herald itself as a beneficent force in Tyrone and vicinity.

THE TYRONE TIMES.

The Times was established in 1880 by J. N. Holmes and A. M. Wooden as a 
weekly newspaper and has, with several changes of owners, been continued ever 
since.  Like the Herald it is Republican in politics and bright and clean in 
its make up.  The proprietor and editor is H. A. Thompson, formerly of Mt, 
Union, who in about two years residence has made himself a good reputation in 
Tyrone and largely increased both the outfit and business of the 
establishment.  Besides issuing the paper, a four page sheet, which stands 
right on all moral questions of the day, the Times has a job department which 
is constantly busy, its three job presses as wells as the large cylinder 
newspaper press being operated by steam power.  With all the needful 
equipment for work it is prepared to execute orders for all kinds of 
printing, books, bills, circulars, &c.  The times building is on Pennsylvania 
avenue, nearly opposite the Ward House.	

MATT. L. ALLISON, JOB PRINTING.

This gentleman has for about three years carried on a job printing business 
in Tyrone, giving his undivided attention to this work and the wants of his 
customers.  During this time he has established himself in the estimation of 
the people as a good citizen and an adept in his art.  He has had experience 
in the government employ in Washington, D.C., and with his brother, Andrew C. 
Allison, is making every effort to do satisfactory work and build up a 
permanent business.  His presses are run by steam and his supply of type of 
modern designs is ample, additions being constantly made to accommodate 
increased patronage.  All kinds of commercial, catalogue and book printing is 
done and bookbinding and en-

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graving contracted for.  The Bell Telephone puts him in communication with 
all business and others who desire orders quickly filled.

THE BANKS OF TYRONE.

The Blair County  bank began business in 1874 and has from the beginning 
commanded the confidence of the community.  Its affairs have been ably 
managed, its capital and surplus amounting to $152,500, with individual 
liability.  As an institution, while endeavoring to promote its own 
interests, it has been a liberal helper towards enterprises designed for the 
public good.  Its large building, a cut of which appears in this volume, is 
an ornament to the town, and the gentlemen who do business within are genial 
and accommodating.  The president, A. G. Morris, has been already alluded to 
in these pages as one of the leading manufacturers and one who has done a 
great deal for the benefit of the town where he resides.  The other officers 
are: vice president, Lewis H. Eppley; cashier, T. J. Gates.
The First National Bank, whose three story brick building on Pennsylvania 
avenue and 10th street faces the one just mentioned, was established in 1890 
and has a capital of $100,000 with a surplus of $30,000.  In the short period 
of its history it has gained a leading place among the financial institutions 
of this part of Pennsylvania.  The president, J. K. Cass, is well known and 
honored in the business world, the directors are all active business men in 
Tyrone and the conduct of its affairs has been such that it has gained 
steadily in public favor, being at the time a useful factor in advancing 
public interests.  The directors are: I. P. Walton, vice president; D. S. 
Kloss, cashier; A. A. Stevens, Jacob H. Mattern, John A. Crawford, Adie D. 
Mingle.

BUILDING AND LOAN ASSOCIATIONS. 
	
These are in fact co-operative banks through which persons of small means may 
share in the advantages of the use of large capital.  Practically they 
consist of two classes, the investor and borrower.  Out of the accumulations 
of the former loans are made to the latter on the security of his real 
estate.  This is the regular course of business in harmony

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with the specific object of these associations which is to aid working people 
in securing homes.  It not frequently happens that they furnish loans to help 
business men, especially in towns where ordinary banking facilities are 
inadequate. A. B. & L. Association, doing business as such, can never fail.  
In round numbers the three associations named below have assets of $300,000 
and have loaned during last year $100,000 to about 250 persons, the 
stockholders being probably over twice that number.  The names and officers 
of each are as follows: Improvement B.& L. Asso. - President, A. M. Wooden; 
sec'y, H. B. Calderwood; treas., D. S. Kloss; solicitors, Stevens, Owens & 
Pascoe. Citizens B. & L. Asso.- President, F. D. Beyer; sec'y, W. T. Canan; 
treas., T. J. Gates; solicitor, W. L. Hicks. Central B. & L. Asso. - 
President, A. L. Koons; sec'y, H. L. Hesser; treas. T. J. Gates; solicitors, 
Hicks & Templeton.

Since these chapters were placed in the hands of the printers, the energetic 
people of the town have been overturning in their haste the carefully 
gathered statements which the types were publishing to the world. The limits 
we had set to ourselves, both of time and space, forbid the mention we should 
be glad to make of improvements going on, such as the addition to the Paper 
Mill Plant of a mammoth iron building; and those which are coming in sight, 
such as the probably establishment of a manufactory of Paving Brick. We 
should also like to record, as an exemplification of the manner in which the 
vexed question of Capital vs. Labor ought to be handled, the immense 
excursion of the employees of the Paper Mill with their families, crowding 
fourteen cars, to Mariposa Park, the Company bearing the entire expense and 
the day's wages not deducted.

They have been making history so fast that this Directory is already behind 
the times. The population which carries on the business of this growing town, 
including its immediate suburbs, may be safely put at 7,500. The names 
obtained number more than 7,100, not including the families of the operatives 
in the Ballast Quarry of A. G. Morris and the entire population which is 
clustered around the Limestone Quarry on the other side of the river.

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ADVERTISERS.

Beyer, A. W.           Tyrone Milling Co.
Cass, Jos. K.          President and Director, The First National Bank 
                       of Tyrone
Walton, I. P.          Vice President and Director, The First National 
                       Bank of Tyrone
Kloss, D. Shelley      Cashier, The First National Bank of Tyrone
Mattern, Jacob H.      Director, The First National Bank of Tyrone
Mingle, Adie D.        Director, The First National Bank of Tyrone
Stevens, A. A.         Director, The First National Bank of Tyrone
Crawford, John A.      Director, The First National Bank of Tyrone
Harris, D. R.          Manager, The Harris Grocery Company
Boecking's             Boecking's on 10th street, foodstuffs
Smith, A. A.           A. A. Smith & Son Grocery Store
Shellenberger, G. B.   Boarding and Livery Stables
Morris, A. G.          President and Director, Blair County Banking 
                       Company
Eppley, Lewis H.       Vice President, Blair County Banking Company
Gates, T. J.           Cashier, Blair County Banking Company
Humes, William P.      Director, Blair County Banking Company
Curtin, Katharine W.   Director, Blair County Banking Company
Harris, J. P.          Director, Blair County Banking Company
Hicks, W. L.           President and Director, The Tyrone Shoe Company
Poorman, E. C.         Treasurer and Director, The Tyrone Shoe Company
Gripp, H. A.           Director, The Tyrone Shoe Company
Anderson, J. G.        Director, The Tyrone Shoe Company
Hughes, N. A.          Director and Superintendant, The Tyrone Shoe Company
Howe, J. W.            Manager, The Tyrone Shoe Company
Bottorf, J. K.         J. K. Bottorf & Co., Staple and Fancy Groceries
Gray                   Men's tailor
McCamant, S.           S. McCamant & Co., Tyrone Planing Mill
Mauk, G. W.            100 Springs Roller Mills
Beyer, F. D.           F. D. Beyer & Co., Tyrone Saw & Planing Mills
Waring, F. R.          F. D. Beyer & Co., Tyrone Saw & Planing Mills
Beyer, S. B.           F. D. Beyer & Co., Tyrone Saw & Planing Mills
Crawford, John A.      Proprietor, Arch Spring Flour Mills
Mentzer, J. D.         Miller, Arch Spring Flour Mills
Grazier                Grazier Brothers on west 15th
Scullin, W. H.         Tailor
Henry, J. Luden        Civil Engineer and Surveyor
Hay, Jerry C.          Proprietor, French Restaurant
Cox, F. R.             Bee Hive Store
Garner, Geo. H.        Druggist
Wasson, A. M.          Marble and Granite Cemetery Work
McMullen, R.           Proprietor, Livery and Exchange Stable
Eyer, L. M.            Dairy, Bakery, Deli Foodstuffs
Beers, M. R.           Piano, Organ, and Sewing Machine Sales
Miller, D. R.          Notary Public
Dunlap, M. B.          Tonsorial Artist
Hunter, J. W.          Barber
Lancaster              Lancaster's Barber Shop
Cutler, H. W.          Plumber
Stine, Thaddeus        Dentist
Markel, A. R.          Dentist
Swartz, J. T.          Dentist
Witter, James A.       Dentist
Morris, A. G.          A. G. Morris & Sons, Founders and Machinists
Prichard, James        Owner, W. H. Holmes Drug Store
Winter, F. A.          Music Store
Sausser, C. W.         Marble Cutter
Wolf, C. M.            Proprietor, Golden Rule Grocery
Kienzle, John M.       Bakery, Confectionery and Grocery
Allison, Matt. L.      General Job Printer
Widney, S. M.          Optician
Kolb & Jones           Kolb & Jones, House Painters, Paper Hangers, and 
                       Decorators.
Eisenberg, W. F.       Principal, Altoona Business College
Agnew                  Photographer
Scott                  Scott's House Furnishing Goods and Novelties
Gibson, G. G.          Tobacconist
Burley, J. H.          Burley & Graham Funeral Directors and Embalmers
Wooden, A. M.          Wall Paper, Books, Stationery
Piper                  Piper bros., Men's Furnishings and Hats
Law, John H.           Maple Spring Dairy
Rynder, Elizabeth      Piano teacher
Shollar, Fred'c J.     Architect and Building superintendent
Poorman, E. C.         Real Estate
Hamer, J. M.           Real Estate
Zerbe, Farran          Secretary, Board of Trade, Tyrone

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The paper used in this book is from the Morrison & Cass Co.'s mill.  See 
pages 81,82, 112.

The printing was done at the office of the Tyrone Heald.

The half tone cuts used were made by the Philadelphia Photo-Engraving Co., 
147-49-51 N. 13th St., Phila.

The binding is the cork of C. T. Maguire, Stehle block, Altoona, Pa.

The photographs were executed by Tyrone artists.

Tyrone, as set forth in this volume, offers good inducements and facilities 
for the investment of capital, in legitimate business enterprises of trade or 
manufacture.  For particular information address Farran Zerbe, Secretary 
Board of Trade, Tyrone, Pa.

F. A. HARRIS.

ARCH SPRING.

JOHN S. MORRISON.

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Supplementary Chapter.

Some important matters pertaining to the business and social life of Tyrone 
remain to be stated. It will be seen that the people of Tyrone are making 
history faster than the scribe can record it.

We begin with a complete

BUSINESS DIRECTORY.

First in order, as furnishing the prime necessaries of life are, the

GROCERS.

It is needless to repeat those already mentioned in Chap. VII.

Going up Pennsylvania avenue on the East side, we pass the Cash Grocery of T. 
N. MCFEATERS, a young man who came to Tyrone a stranger a little over three 
years ago, but who is now well known and well established here and bids fair 
to be a permanent and prosperous citizen. By diligence and honorable dealings 
he has gained the confidence of the people.

Just above Tenth street is the establishment of the STUDY GROCERY CO. Here as 
in the Dry Goods store adjoining, everything indicates good taste and a 
studied effort to please the public. The stock is large and well selected and 
the service could not be more agreeable to customers.

Above Twelfth street is the store of F. M. BELL. One of the pioneer citizens 
and a man whose character has stood above criticism through all the years, 
Major Bell has a large circle of friends, and he and his clerks, out of the 
abundance of a full and choice stock, minister acceptably to the wants of his 
patrons.

On the opposite side of the avenue, below Eleventh street, is the General 
Store of MINGLE BROTHERS.

On East Tenth street near the bridge, D. B. ETNIER keeps a good stock and is 
perfectly reliable in his dealings.

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On West Tenth street is the accommodating firm of A. A. SMITH & SON, farther 
on the HARRIS GROCERY CO. and past the overhead bridge, J. K. BOTTORF & CO., 
for all of which see advertising pages.

Just adjoining the last mentioned is the office of JOHN H. MILLER who as a 
Broker dispenses large deals in flour and cereals.

On East Tenth street, across the creek, is the Feed Store of LOWER BROS., who 
also carry staple groceries.

The above mentioned are in the Second and Fourth Wards.

In the First Ward, GODFREY FISHER, out on Washington avenue, supplies that 
important part of the town with provisions, saving valuable time to the 
housekeeper.

The Third Ward grocers are: GEORGE A. WALKER, who has for nearly nine years 
carried on the business and won to himself a good trade, by attention to 
business and courtesy of manner. His stand is on Pennsylvania avenue, west 
side, above Twelfth street.

ISAAC I. WHITE may be found on Fourteenth street at the corner of Washington 
avenue; and W. E. HOFFMAN on Logan avenue, near Fourteenth street, has 
everything in the grocery line.

C. M. WOLFE, "Golden Rule," Logan avenue and 11th street.

L. M. EYER, Milk Station, Logan avenue and 11th street.

In the Fifth Ward at Pennsylvania avenue and Fourteenth street, H. C. 
SPRANKLE has a Corner Grocery. He has also the qualities to make business go 
and will doubtless grow with the years as a business man.

The Sixth Ward supports three groceries. That of J. T. PLUMMER on Columbia 
avenue, corner, of Sixteenth street, is a worthy competitor of the down town 
stores and the proprietor is worthy of the support which the people of that 
section accord to his enterprise.

FRANK GARDNER on Fifteenth street and Adams avenue, has a stock of both 
Groceries and Dry Goods, convenient of access to our uptown folks.

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MRS. A. WARD has a grocery, recently started, on Columbia avenue and 
Seventeenth street.

Last, but not LOWEST, is the large store of J. C. GOHEEN & BROTHER, mentioned 
in Chap. IV.

BAKERS.

W. E. HOFFMAN furnishes Bread, Cakes, &c., to a large portion of Tyrone's 
population and keeps Ice Cream in season.

J. M. KIENZLE with his brother George began to serve the people of Tyrone in 
the capacity of baker twenty years ago. For the last eight years he has 
conducted the business by himself at his stand, a few doors above the post 
office in his large building. The bread sent out from his store has a well 
deserved reputation in other towns as well as at home. He gives good, honest 
value to those who deal with him. A full stock of groceries may be found here 
also.

Of GEORGE KIENZLE, one square above, we might repeat what we said of his 
brother. He sells good bread and his store draws a good trade.

RESTAURANTS.

FRED. H. BOECKING in the Boecking building, West Tenth street, serves meals 
at all hours.

JERRY HAY has two stands, the principal one on West Tenth street, above 
Templeton's, the other just by the river bridge.

G. W. WHITSON'S American Restaurant is at 14 West Tenth street.

M. L. FREELAND'S Palace Restaurant is at 1105 Pennsylvania avenue.

MEAT MARKETS.

See page 102.

DRUG STORES.

Besides J. S. SMITH'S two stores and GEO. H. GARNERS store, for which see 
advertising pages, there are:

MUSSER'S Drug Store, Pruner's Building; Ed. S. Eby, manager.

G. C. BOECKING, West Tenth street.

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J. A. COPENHAVER, Pennsylvania avenue, near Eleventh street.

H. B. EYER, 1604 Columbia avenue.

CONFECTIONERIES AND FRUIT.

A. L. KOONS, Wholesale and Manufacturing Confectioner, Tenth street, East of 
First National Bank.

J. W. GARDNER, in the Ward House building.

CHARLES DEFERIE, next door to First National Bank.

GREGORY DIJORIO, two doors west of City Hotel.  

CIGAR STORES.

J. W. GARDNER, Ward House.

MARTIN HERZOG, in Odd Fellows' building.  

G. W. CURTIN, opposite Herald building.

SNEERINGER & CO., opposite Post Office.

EDWIN WOODRING, next to Walton & Acklin's.

W. D. METCALF, Penn'a avenue, near Eleventh street.

WHARTON & RICHARDS, Tenth street, W. of Templeton's.

HARRY E. SEEDS, in Boecking's building.

G. G. GIBSON, corner of Logan avenue and Fourteenth street, who keeps also 
Confectioneries, &c. 

TAILORS.

Wm. H. SCULLIN, Conrad building.

C. G. GRAY, above Pennsylvania House.

MILLER BROTHERS, Tenth street, W. of Blair Co. Bank.

Wm. BOFFEY, Penn'a avenue, above Hotel Myron.

P. FITZPATRICK, second floor Odd Fellows' building.  

CLOTHIERS.

WM. VOGT, corner of Penn'a avenue and Eleventh street.

SAM. COSEL, Penn'a avenue, above City Hotel.

MAHLON CRYDER, Blair County Bank building.

CHARLES CONRAD at river bridge on Pennsylvania avenue has carried on business 
ten years in Tyrone, having come from Philadelphia. He "knows the points" in 
clothing and has a complete stock.

C. A. PIPER & Co., just below Blair County Bank, deal in Men's Furnishings, 
Hats, &c.

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SHOE STORES.

J. A. ATLEE, just above City Hotel, has everything in the shoe line and gives 
courteous attention to buyers. 

J. W. HEDDING, West of Blair County Bank, has been but a few years in 
business in Tyrone, but has met with much favor from the people. J. C. 
MCCONAHY, Logan avenue and Fourteenth street.

DRY GOODS.

G. W. STRONG, near the bridge, Pennsylvania avenue. 

STUDY'S, Pennsylvania avenue and Tenth street. 

TEMPLETON & CO., West Tenth street. 

F. G. ALBRIGHT, Pennsylvania avenue and Twelfth street. 

MINGLE BROS., Penn' a avenue, above Walton & Acklin's. 

GARDNER, BROS., West Fifteenth street. 

GOHEEN & BRO., Columbia avenue and 21st street. 

MISS LIZZIE MCCLOSKEY, Fine and Fancy Dry Goods, Berlin's building, West 
Tenth street.

MILLINERS.

MRS. ELLA BLACK, Penn'a avenue, above Tenth street. 

HOLMES & SMITH, Study building, Tenth street. 

MRS. M. WILLEY. Berlin building, Tenth street.

WATCHES, JEWELRY, &C.

WALTON & ACKLIN, Pennsylvania avenue. 

J. A. C. STEWART, Stewart building, Tenth street. 

GEO. H. GARNER, Penn'a avenue, opposite Herald office. 

J. W. STEWART, Penn' a avenue, above Conrad's building. 

SAMUEL WIDNEY, 11 East Twelfth street.

STATIONERY, &C.

ZERBE'S, Pennsylvania avenue and Eleventh street. 

A. M. WOODEN, West Tenth street. 

CHARLES A. SPYKER, West Tenth street.

MUSIC STORES.

ZERBE'S; JONES'. 

F: A. WINTER. Hiller Block, near First National Bank.

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HARDWARE.

Besides the firms of Franciscus Hardware Co. and E. P. Irvin & Co., there is
Grazier Brothers & Stine, who have been in business in Tyrone nearly ten 
years, have a large stock and many friends. 

PLUMBERS.

G. H. Barley & Co., 15 West Eleventh street.

H. W. Cutler, Tenth street, West of Boecking's.

A. V. Davis, Logan avenue, above Arlington.

PAINTERS AND DECORATORS.

T. M. T. Symington, on East Tenth street by the bridge, is one of the 
pioneers, having carried on his present business in Tyrone for 44 years. 
Though now infirm, his store is still supplied with all that belongs to this 
branch of trade.

Z. B. Gray, East Tenth street, has a full stock of paints, wall paper, &c., 
and is prepared to furnish both material and work in his line at satisfactory 
prices.

Kolb & Jones have in seven years come to the front as House Decorators. The 
St. Matthew's Catholic church, public school building in Philipsburg, and 
some of our finest residences are evidence of their skill and taste. They are 
also up to date Sign writers in all branches.

AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS.

J. A. C. Rider, East Tenth street, across the bridge.

H. M. Gray, Seeds' building, East Tenth street. 

HARNESS MAKING.

W. H. Schofield, Pennsylvania avenue, above Conrad's building, is the 
exclusive saddler and harness maker. The implement dealers above mentioned do 
a business in this line. 

MARBLE WORKERS.

A. M. Wasson, Tenth street and Bald Eagle avenue.

C. W. Sausser, Tenth street near Woodland avenue.

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FIVE CENT STORE.

W. G. Scott is sui generis and forms a class by himself. His Five Cent Store 
on Pennsylvania avenue in the Flynn Block, above Tenth street, where bargains 
may be had in a great variety of goods, has put forth a branch, and the 
original store is now designated the Toy Store, while the other, just above 
Owens's, is known as Scott's China Store.

LAUNDRIES.

D. T. Kennedy, opposite Academy of Music on Tenth St.

Sang Lee, Chinese Laundry, Pennsylvania avenue, just below Albright's store.

JUNK DEALER.

This useful occupation is represented by C. E. Picher, who has been in Tyrone 
many years, an industrious and honorable business man.

BARBERS.

G. W. Bryant, Ward House.

A. P. Lancaster, Logan avenue near Fourteenth street,

Cornelius Thompson, under Blair Co. Bank.

J. E. Willis, East of First National Bank.

Harry M. Havens, just above Walton & Acklin's.

John H. Ukkerd, just below Pennsylvania House.

Ulysses Crampton, just above Pennsylvania House.

M. B. Dunlap, just above Empire House..

John H. White, Smith building, West Tenth street,

PHOTOGRAPHERS.

W. H. Agnew, Pennsylvania avenue, just above Ward House. Most of the views 
and many of the portraits in this book were taken by "Agnew." He can give 
satisfaction.

Coulter's is on Tenth street, at the bridge. The view of Elkhurst and several 
portraits are their work.

J. H.  Holtzinger, 1247 Pennsylvania avenue, makes a specialty of out-door 
work: The views of Hotel Myron and residence of J. K. Cass are by him.

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It should be mentioned that the vivid pictures of Main's wreck and of Logan 
avenue. school house were taken by Jesse Stewart, 1335 Lincoln avenue, who, 
though but an amateur has done some excellent work.

INSURANCE,

H. B. Calderwood is well known as the agent of some of the most popular 
companies. Office next door to Stevens, Owens & Pascoe.

J. M. Hamer, in Primer's building, represents a number of companies, both 
fire and life, including the famous "Travelers" of Hartford.

W. F. Hiller, in Hiller block, takes risks on both property and life in sound 
companies.

W. H. Flenner has a commodious office over the Blair County Bank. He is an 
old soldier and the people's friend, whom all can trust. He will insure at 
very moderate rates against fire, accident or death itself.

Other trades and professions may be mentioned.

THE MEDICAL FRATERNITY of Tyrone are as follows, those first in the list 
being the older

G. W. Burket, Tenth street and Logan avenue.

C. M. Ewing, 1047 Logan avenue.

D. J. Appleby, 1251 Penn'a avenue.

J. T. Wilson, Logan avenue and Eleventh street.

F. K. Fickes, 1305 Pennsylvania avenue.

W. L. Lowrie, 861 Washington avenue.

L. F. Crawford, 110 West Tenth street.

R. L. Piper, 935 Logan avenue.

B. J. Fulkerson, 1117 Penn'a avenue.

W. L. Musser, office at 1050 Logan avenue.

G. F. Wise, office at 105 West Twelfth street.

J. M. Gemmill, P.R.R: Surgeon, 1215 Logan avenue.

J. B. Lincoln, P.R.R. Relief Physician, Pruner building.

I. P. WALTON, AND BUILDING.

WARD HOUSE.

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DENTISTS.

Elmer Crawford, office in Odd Fellows' building.

J. A. Witter, office in Study building.

Thadeus Stine, office in Blair Co. Bank building.

A. R. Markle, office in Flynn building.

J. T. Swartz, office in Sneeringer building.

ENGINEER AND SURVEYOR.

J. L. Henry, Herald building, Pennsylvania avenue.

J. S. Cunningham, 820 Washington avenue.

Since the previous chapters were put in type, there have been growth and 
enlargement in Tyrone which necessitate the addition of a few paragraphs 
here.

The public spirit of our citizens has been manifested in a spontaneous 
movement to improve the much traveled and picturesque road along the river to 
Birmingham. Cut into the steep hillside as it had to be with great labor and 
at much expense, the road has been in some places too narrow for teams to 
pass with safety. It seemed, indeed, as if it must be so. But a live and 
growing community is not satisfied that it should continue to be so. With 
some co-operation and assistance from the county, but mainly by private 
contributions, the highway has been widened and a permanent guard fence 
placed on the river side for the protection of travelers, and other 
improvements made at a cost of about $2500. In this work the largest credit 
is due to H. A. Gripp whose energy and liberality made practicable what many 
had wished but had not dared to hope for. The Pennsylvania R.R. Co., not 
willing to be outdone by local enterprise, have contributed their share 
towards the good work by removing obstructions at the Lewisburg and Tyrone 
R.R. bridge. Finally, the state authorities have waked up to the construction 
of a new bridge over the river just above Birmingham, where the old one was 
carried away by a summer flood.

The march of improvement is visible in our public schools.  Since October 
1st, two new courses have been inaugurated in the High School. A full 
Commercial course is conducted by Mr. George S. McClure, and a course in 
Shorthand by Mr. H.

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M. Sausser. The number of students in these courses is 45. The enrolment in 
all of the schools for November was 1285.

The Tyrone Post Office is booming and, if it continues to do so at the 
present rate, the energetic postmaster will ere long be obliged to add more 
space for increased business. If the exigencies of politics or the good of 
the country shall call for a new broom to sweep the office, it will need to 
be of picked material and best workmanship to hold up to the standard of the 
present administration. On November 26, a shipment of 200,000 stamped 
envelopes was received, making two large loads for a team of horses to haul 
from the station. The last annual report shows a stamp business amounting to 
$22,423.81. But in the twelve months ending November 30, it reached a total 
of nearly $28,000. This office stands at the head of second-class post 
offices in the United States in the amount of Money Order business. Two 
additional carriers have been set to work, making five engaged in delivery 
now, and a sixth will be added before long when the East Tyrone office will 
be merged into that of Tyrone. Ten new street boxes have been added since our 
account in Chap. V was printed.

Four new societies have to be added to the list given in Chap. VI.  F.M.C., 
or Fraternal Mystic Circle meet in Mystic Hall on second and fourth Tuesday 
evenings. For further unfolding of this mystery we refer to the Professor, 
James L. Beyer.

The Knights of Malta, an order fraternal, religious and beneficial. have just 
organized with a membership of about 100.

The P. M. A. A., or Paper Mill Athletic Association, is but a fledgeling of a 
month old, a lively one, however, numbering about 120 members. Its object is 
the physical, mental and moral improvement of the men who work in this great 
industry. Rooms have been engaged in the Walsh building just adjoining Blair 
County Bank. There is a Reading Room on the second floor, and on the third 
floor a Game Room and the Gymnasium, which is to be fitted up with the best 
appliances for physical culture. The officers are: President, Richard 
Beaston; Vice President, M. J. Wike; Secretary and Treasurer, S. P. Eby.

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Tyrone Ministerial Association was organized on Dec. 6, 1897, for mutual 
improvement and co operation in doing good. The number constituting the 
association was the apostolic number of eleven, all good disciples and no 
Judas to carry the bag. It was deemed proper, however, to elect a President, 
F. L. Bergstresser, and a Secretary, W. H. Wilson. The number will soon be 
increased, it is expected, to sixteen. The autumnal Conferences have brought 
about changes in the pastorate of two of our churches, the U. B. and A. M. 
E., the former being now ministered to by Rev. W. W. Rymer and the latter by 
Rev. A. Smothers.

That our readers may be informed correctly and up to date, we here apprise 
them of another change. The Tyrone Elks would appear to be a migratory order 
of animals, or a company of about 80 strong going into winter quarters. They 
are headed for the Smith building on West Tenth street, opposite Templeton's 
store. We are informed that this is not because of the change of the season, 
nor is it a change for a season, but rather a seasonable change; and the 
elaborate preparations they are making warrant us in assuring our readers 
that, at all seasons for years to come, they will be found comfortably 
domiciled in their new habitation.

The staid old comrades of the G.A.R. have also decided on a change of front 
and, having heard that "Westward the course of empire takes its way," they 
are on their way onward and upward to the third floor of the Blair Co. Bank 
building,

The Royal Arcanum has been making rapid growth and has "passed the century 
mark."

We are happy to add that the church interests of the town are not lagging 
behind in the general advancement.

The Baptist Church Edifice on North Logan avenue, has been renovated both 
inside and out, making it practically a new building. Separated from the 
Audience Room by a sliding glass partition is a room 24x20 feet, used for the 
Primary School and for Prayer meetings. New roof, new vestibule, new paint 
and paper, new and handsome windows, new carpets, new opera chairs for large 
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small room, new brass chandelier and side lights, new steam-heating equipment 
- seem to denote that "all things have become new." If now there be added "a 
new heart and a right spirit," (and the signs indicate that these are coming) 
then, like the Baptist of Bible days, they will do their part "to prepare the 
way of the Lord." Generous help has been given towards this work by many 
citizens, not of this faith.

The First Lutheran Church has taken a step in advance by adding to the 
pastor's salary the sum which he was paying annually as interest on the 
Parsonage Loan, a preliminary skirmish to the more arduous achievement which 
another summer will doubtless witness; the building of a larger edifice of 
worship.

The Presbyterian Church is preparing to plant a colony in one of the upper 
wards, and already talk of building a chapel for the new enterprise. For a 
church as strong as this is, the way to multiply is to divide. In union is 
strength, no doubt, but in amicable separation with co-operation there is the 
putting forth of strength, which is better.

Meanwhile, in the Seventh Ward, the Columbia avenue M. E. Church and the 
German Baptist Brethren are enlarging the border of their tent to embrace new 
converts. Similar reports come from the outstation of the U. B. Church, East 
of the borough.

The First M. E. Church is gathering up its energies for the campaign and may 
be depended upon to make a good record not inferior, to any.

The W.C.T.U. are increasing their number. The present active membership 
exceeds 40. The new officers are: President, Mrs. B. Jones Bell; Vice 
President, Mrs. Robert Stewart; Secretary, Mrs. D. R. Harris; Treasurer, Mrs. 
T. A. Goodno. They are sustaining a sprightly column weekly in "The Herald."

The hill overlooking the Railway Station has become a scene of activity. The 
new Shoe Factory has been running at full capacity and the light from its 
windows by night has become a familiar sight to the dwellers in West Tyrone.

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Many of the citizens visited the factory on November 17, and were interested 
in witnessing the successive operations of making a shoe, dexterously and 
rapidly performed by the aid of improved machinery.
	
Koon's Confectionery has likewise spread itself over into the adjoining 
building and now occupies the upper floor over Z. B. Gray's in addition to 
the four floors of its own building.

The Star Ointment Company will be found at 1209 Pennsylvania Avenue.

Some men want the earth, it is said; and some men say they want heaven. But 
what shall be said of the man who is not satisfied with land, even, but 
covets the waters that are under the earth? Who would have thought that under 
the smiling face of R. S. Seeds there throbs so covetous a heart? 
Nevertheless he has almost completed a large three-story building which 
"straddles" the Little Bald Eagle Creek. "If the waters could speak as they 
flow along"-

We expected to present views of several handsome residences of our town; 
particularly those of A. G. Morris, J. L. Mitchell and the exceptionally 
elegant building of F. W. Acklin, only just completed. Partly on account of 
cloudy days, but chiefly because of the rugh of business with our 
photographers, we have failed to obtain them in the time for the issue of 
this volume. We can only say to strangers who may read these pages, come and 
see for yourself. You will find very few towns showing a higher average of 
neatness in the dwellings of their people, of cleanliness in their streets 
and of businesses in their stores. Commercial travelers often say, as we 
overheard one tell on the cars the other day, "Tyrone is the best town 
between Harrisburg and Pittsburg." Our little map following the title page 
shows how convenient a place it is to get to and from. Twenty-six trains 
arrive and 26 depart every twenty-four hours from the station.

In tracing the evolution of the P.P.R., we purposed to mention that Tyrone 
Division has in its service a veteran of the late Portage R.R. (making 
respectful mention of a defunct enterprise) in the person of Joseph Parks, 
the Road 

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Foreman of Engines, who, with mature experience, supervises the iron steeds 
and their drivers that run on the branches. Also we should have called 
attention in our walk about the station to the Adams Express office in the N. 
W. room of the first floor; a very important factor in the handling of the 
large trade of Tyrone, and very acceptably managed by the agent, F. L. Hahne.

A significant fact in support of the claims of "The Central City" is this, 
that the railroad company is now at great expense excavating a tunnel 
underneath their main line tracks so as to better accommodate the passenger 
business at the station. This tunnel begins just opposite the Ward House 
front and runs some distance into the bank on the other side, affording a 
safe passage to and from the waiting room on the South side.

On the ascending slope across the tracks the Blair County Bank is preparing 
to open up streets and lay out lots for building purposes, adjoining the Shoe 
Factory.

So the Central City bids the world Welcome. Her seven and a half thousand say 
to all good people, Come. She has room for other thousands. She has yet room 
to grow. More room for the great railroad to spread herself; room for more 
railroads to ascend the mountains; room for other profitable industries. Boom 
in the great valley of the Juniata; room in the smaller valleys worn by 
prehistoric floods through the mountain ramparts; room at the top for 
illimitable expansion, where the air exhilarates and the prospect pleases.

The people of Tyrone know that they are citizens of no mean city, and wish to 
let others know about it. The author has made close observation of men and 
things in the last few months, which impels him to give expression to his own 
opinions as to some conditions of a health growth. There are certain virtues 
which need to be cultivated.

One of these is Sobriety. We have an excellent average of moral qualities 
among our business men, but more of this virtue would help our town, as it 
helps every town wherever this is practised. It would not be difficult to 
predict the future of some now fairly prosperous men, in whom habits of 
dissi-

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pation are making themselves visible to everybody, but themselves. We have a 
Women's Temperance Society. There should be a Temperance organization which 
would take hold of men; and he would be a benefactor to the community who 
would be the leader in establishing one and making it successful.

Another important virtue is Courtesy. In this we are not below the average, 
but it is to every man's interest to be above the average. There are some who 
lose a letter from the word and spell it curtesy. Such men cannot attract 
and, in their dealings with others, are doomed to failure.

A farther requisite to success is Co-operation. There are those whose 
political creed is high protection, but they make a miserable failure in the 
application of it to their own town. Foster the home industries, encourage by 
your patronage home enterprises, give your support to your own merchants. But 
candor compels this writer to say that business men themselves are, in this 
respect, the most flagrant offenders, assuming the right and the privilege to 
purchase supplies outside of their own line in foreign markets; while they 
claim that, in their line, their townsmen should support them. So the Irish 
parson of hilarious habits used to say to his parishioners, "Don't do as I 
do, but do as I tell you to do." Let merchants pledge themselves to buy of 
each other at home; then with good grace they may lecture the common people 
on supporting home trade.

Our work is now completed but, ere we bid farewell to the reader, let us 
relate to him

THE DREAM OF LOGAN.

THE HERO.

On Alleghany's heights the evening sun
Long shadows o'er the lonely vale had thrown,
And mirrored on the pool a stalwart frame,
The dusky chief who gave that vale his name.

With head upraised the circling hills to scan,
And face whose lines bespoke no common man,
One eye swept round from sun to river's narrow;
One sightless  orb, pierced by the foeman's arrow.

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Flooded with glory of departing day,
The mountain's rift, the valley's gateway, lay.
A while he gazed; then turned him to the East.
Where stately pines adorned Bald Eagle's crest.

Beyond those hills, from Susquehanna's wood,
The warrior's feet five weary days had trod,
A chief disowned; for the one arrow's stroke
That dimmed his eye, his scepter rudely broke.

The day retires; the night comes creeping on.
Another look before the light is gone
Northward, where rise the terraced slopes that shed
The waters fresh from heaven's fountainhead.

That eye that never quailed before a foe
Now films with grief; his feathered hed bends low;
His heart is bowed; his bosom heaves with sorrow.
This vale he called his home, he leaves tomorrow.

And why should cruel fate pursue the brave,
Whose feet has hasted white men's lives to save
From torch and sword and traitor's tory band,
When war and pillage Weston basely planned?

No baser heart in breast of traitor beats
Than his, who true and trusting manhood cheats.
By law, (not right,) the wigwam's site was sold.
The land of Penn betrayed her friend for gold.

That night in shelter of his humble hut,
His blanket wrapped about him, Logan slept.
Nor fear nor care disturbed his resting frame,
But to his soul a gentle vision came.

THE DREAM.

He stood as at eve by the Spring, where it rose
From cavernous depths, whence it issues and flows
To join the blue river that sweeps to the sea,
Shedding mountain top blessings on homes of the free.

He gazes again down the waterworn gap;
The vista with splendor of sunset lit up.
It darkens; the stars twinkle down from the jet,
Like sentinel lights in the canopy set.

VIEW OF THE NARROWS FROM CEMETERY HILL.

E. J. PRUNER.

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Then a spirit low whispers in dreams of the night;
A scroll from the sky is unrolled to his sight;
Down the vista of time his enrapt spirit flew,
And a century's lapse brings a new world to view.

He saw through the pass eager multitudes throng;
On foot and in wagons they hurry along;
To the stroke of their axes the grim forest yields,
And the smoke of their cabins curls up from the fields.

They delve in earth's bowels to mine the rich ore;
The melt it and mold it with furnace's roar;
Forth leaps the live metal; it crawls on the ground;
Fiery monsters glide o'er it with thunderous sound.
And wind through the valley, and coil round the hills;
But each monster a man sways and guides as he wills.

The secrets of ages they haste to unseal.
The depths of the mountains dark dungeons reveal.
Where forests primeval, no woodman had felled,
(The might of the sunbeams, a prisoner held),
From sleep of millenniums rudely bestirred,
"The strength of the hills" offer up to their lord.

The dauntless Cayuga, amazed at the sight,
With quickening pulses beholds a strange light
Illumine the valley; like torches below
That paled with their brightness the firmament's glow.

The voice of the chieftain the quietness broke;
For he saw at the bend of the river a smoke,
As from pillar of fire, soaring up to the sky;
And mad whirring wheels the swift waters defy.

"What is this?" he demanded, and forth from the ground
And answer returned, as from caverns profound:
"The race that have brought the sunbeams from the mine
Here have stabled the lightning, and caused it to shine,
Like torches of war o'er the valleys afar
Where the white man has harnessed the sun to his ear."

"And across Juniata, high up in the air,
Another smoke bursts from a chimney-top there.
Great houses surround, made of boards from the wood,
And their bark peeled and piled; spirit, say, for what good?"

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"Red son of the forest, the paleface is wise.
Skins of oxen, a hundred a day he supplies
That his feet may be shod over rock-paths to tread;
And to toughen the skins, with his bark they are fed.
See, yonder, a hundred bright windows look down
And send merry greeting to dwellers in town.
There a hundred hands join and, with movement like song,
White men's footwear, a thousand a day, pass along."

"But, spirit, behold where the stream rushes through
From the Eagle's Divide to the town; there are two
Tall chimneys, and buildings thick cover the ground.
With their hums, as of beehives, the hilltops resound.
Within them what monsters voracious, whose food
Is black stones from the mountain and trees from the wood?"

To the questioner eager the spirit replies,
"Said I not, chieftain, the white man is wise?
His feet tread the ground, his head mounts the skies,
And distance and difficult things he defies.
Your sachems great multitudes swayed with their voice;
He his messages sends round the world without noise.
The trees of the forest for him tidings bear
As carrier birds wing their flight through the air.
By teeth into shreds the hard timber is torn,
To the maw of the monster resistlessly borne;
As food in our bodies is changed into blood,
By a magical process comes milk from the wood;
Into sheets thin and even the fluid is whirled,
To carry the stamp of man's thoughts round the world."

"Good spirit, enough. My heart sinks within 
Such prodigies vast with strange thoughts crowd my brain.
But where is the race of my fathers, oh, where,
Who through valley and hills tracked the beast to his lair?"

"No more in these waters their paddles are heard;
No more in these forests they chase deer and bird.
Far beyond Mississippi there tent stakes are driven,
Like Ishmaelites finding no rest under heaven."

"Do the white man adore a Great Spirit above
And tell, as I heard, that the Spirit has love
To the children he fashioned and breathed into life?
If one common father, why should their be strife?" 

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Such was the dream to the slumber given.
Awakened at morn by the sunlight from heaven,
Forth from his wigwam a fugitive driven,
He camped by the bank of Moshannan at even;
The next, Susquehanna's fair waters beside;
There made him a home; and there Logan died.

In the soil he loved best the white man drew furrow,
And planted his farm, heeding not Logan's sorrow.
A century passes; the dream is fulfilled;
In its midst a rude village is born in the wild.
"Setting up for herself" when a six-year-old child,
What need we her forty years' record to gild?

In Tyrone of To-day the mountain-girt borough
We hail the Gate City, Tyrone of To-morrow.