Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 21, 1909, Page 20

X HE story of Nuckolls county commenced with the great trail perfod for the overland route trom 8t. Joo, Mo., to Californis The past year has been oue of unusual prosperity to the faymers of Nuckolls county. For Instance, @ large plano dealer of Lincoln declarss that he fs selling fewer planos to the city pecple than he kold last year, but that the farmers are buying nearly twice as many as they bought the year before The center of this business is swinging awsy from the citles and Into the rural cemmunities. The farmer had good crops Inst year; ha sold them at the best prices on record; and he seems likely to have the same experience this year The Nebraska farmer's first duty is to feed the American people. But one-elghth of his products are sent abroad. The arly consumption of agricultural pro- icts, is 330 per capita. The average acre produces but $11 a year. Opportunity in Nuckolls county yet keeps its door open. If they could only shut the door of waste, the well-being of the people-would surpass gepth, all prev human experence. Nuckolls County was organized as a adapted county in 1571, has an area of 576 square greatest hay-producing grass in the world and hogs are produced I1b Nuckolis county free rural mall delivery. This county is has never caused a total failure In Nuckolls creeks. The Little Blue Is especially noted plums, grapes and berries, are of tho fin miles, a population of 20000, ninety-thrse public sechools, seven high schools, 170 erally in miles telephone, 137.84 miles of telegraph, 141.59 miles of railroad. thres free libraries, watered by the Republican and Little Blus €0 rivers, Elk, Beaver, Ox Bow and Spring for its water power. It furnishes power flavor. for fifteen flouring mills in the state. are noted for fertility and productiveness. No county In the state of Nebraska ean excel Nuckolls county in the ralsing of alfalfa. While alfalfa is raised to a limited extent In all parts of the state, the soll in Nuckolls county is peculiarly adapted to the regfilrements of thls wonder- ful grass. Alfalfa grows in this county or the upland and lowland, rough land and smooth land, In fact anywhere it is planted, which Is evidence thero is no " & Ty gumbo™ soll. There is no crop that can+g = N be raised that will produce the quantity and quality of roughness as alfalfa. Three or four heavy crops of hay are cut from each alfalfa fleld cach season. of alfalfa, as It contains %0 per cent of €oll, but tends to fertilize it. The im- over other alfalfa districts, Is that it ls it is a great advantage to the feeder to his corn with his neighbor. ern tler of countles, the fourth county THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: NOVEMBER 21, 1909 of Nuckolls There are six flouring mills valleys of the Republican and Little Blue °ounty ning on ful consume dally the rallroads. year-old steers fed on alfalfa meal nd corn will gain about four and one-half pounds a day Jewel county, on the south of Nuckolls, ia the banner county of Kansas in the pro- Anavisls gyotion of corn and aifalfa. and experiments have proved that aifalfa g % no, = 0 has much the same feeding value and fat o jts |ana was taken producing qualities as corn. No hay can for gpeculation by the shopmen of re raised that has the fattening qualities {rnion Paclific railroad shops at Omaha. Nuckolls county fat producing elements. As corn, the KIng with natural of grains, alfalfa does not wear out the while on Nuckolls county that well timbered the handiwork husbandman is everywhere portant advantage Nuckolls county has eyidence and is studded a good corn and wheat country. Alfalfa ¢hards and and corn will grow in adjoining flelds, and trees. The artificial young bearing numerous groves timber consists of be able to ralse both hay and graln, as elm, boxelder, ash and catalpa, while along 1150 to the farmer to be able to market the streams abound the black and cottonwood, Nuckolls county is situated In the south- profusion. In the northern part of the county small cast of the center of the state and but a Eraln crops prevail In the southern COUNTY FAIR GROUNDS AT NELSON. sub- picke. filled with golden ears and the thousands of bushels piled upon the ground In great The cattle industry hLas developed to a wonderful degree in the lust few years, and it is no uncommon thing to find 700 and 800 cattle belng fed on one ranch and fitted for the market This industry is conducted on a large and profitable scale al'ng the Republican valley. Within a radlus of elghteen to twenty miles of Superior, there are on an average of 40000 to 60,000 head of cattle grazing and fattening for the market.' The cattle business is made especially profit- able here by reason of the dry, open winters and quality of the grasses. The per cent of loss Is extremely light and the usual maladies afflicting cattle in other secifons, are scarcely known About 20,000 head are shipped yearly from iperior to eastern markets, at an average price of $55 per heid, %0 you can grasp the magnitude of this great {ndustry. Nuckolls county was organized and held s first election June 27, 1871, The Mormons passed through the country along the « rse of the Littie Blue on thelr westward way; making the first rosd or trail in Nuckolls county, which was, In 1868 adopted, straightened, bridgcd and used by the government. In 1859, Butterfield started the pony express over this road, which, considering the time and route, was a haz- ardous enterprise. The same year, Ru-sell and Waddell started the ove:rland stage line and established stations along the route in Nuckolls, the most noted of which was Oak Grove. In 1867, during the Indian raids, the country was abandoned by the white settler, excepting a mun by the name of John Lorimer, who could not be induced to go. In less than two weeks he fell a victim to the merclless tomahawk and scalping knite. The first permanent settler in the county was B. L. Comstock, locating at Oak Grove, on the Little Blue, with his family in 1861, The first marrlage ccremony in the county was performed March 6, 1873, by little more than 100 miles west of the Mls- halt along the bottoms, corn ig king, as Judge E. A. Davis, it being about the first sourl river. is readily seen from the many long oribs officlal act. The contracting parties were GRAND ARMY VETERANS OF NELSON, NUCKOLLS COUNTY. Mr. J. B. Bunker and Miss Martha John- ston. Being his first attempt, Mr. Davis desired to show dispatch and said, “‘Since there I8 no prescribed law In Nebraska for marrying people, I pronounce you man and wite," The first sermon in the county was preached in the summer of 1572 by Rev. Mr. Penny of the Presbyterian church. The Elkton Sunday school was organized June 12, 1872, being the first in the county, composed of four members, R. Holling- worth, C. C. Fletcher; Joseph Carlon and Maggle Follmer, The last buffalo was killed on the Re- publican bottom, just below Superior, In 1875, by Willlam Crable. The first Fourth of July celebration was held at Oak Grove about two weeks after the first election in 1871 When the first court was held in Nelson, there were only two houses in the town One of the first cases to be tried was that of a horsethief. xt to Thayer county, Nuckolls suf- fered more from Indian raids and depreda- tions than any county in southern Ne- braska. In the great Indlan rald of August 7, 1564, which extended from Gage county to Denver, Colo.,, Oak Grove, the home of Mr. Comstock, was the only place In Nuckolls that held out against the Indians, Superfor pays about one-fourth the en- tire tax that goes into the county treasury, and is the first city of the county, A few short years ago nothing but wooden bulldings could be seen and they were small and inadequate. Today we tind a olty of business houses substantially bullded of brick and stone and occupied by enterprising business men. Superior has made & phenomenal growth in the last fif- teen years. The brick used in the con- struotion of these blocks was produced by its own brick plants and is as good as can be produced anywhere. Its sidewalks are largely brick and cement and as fast as possible old board walks are being re- placed by new brick ones. The boom days are now past and Superior has come out smiling and prosperous and its citizens are all as firm as ever in their determination to push the town. The growth now is steady and substantial. The onward march of Superior Is backed up by the country that surrounds It. Every year #ees more good farmers tilling good farms, more cat- tle grazing and being fed for market and more fat hogs going to market to fill the coffers of hustling stockmen. To vieit Superior and the valley tributary s to at once desire to make a home with this peo- ple. The experience of nearly all business men teaches that well graded and improved wagon roads for a distance of five to twenty-five miles from a trading point Iike Buperior add more .to its business inter- ests and permanent growth than any other one thing that can be done. The Com- mercial club 1s & live body of business men, who appreciate the fact that their succees lles In securing the trade of farmers in this section, and know that the way to attract trade to this city is beet done by the laying out, grading and keeping in strict repair the main roads leading to the city. Every farmer who is looking for a market and trade center, has his eves on Superlor, and the action of the Com- mercfal club will bear fruit at no distant day One of the big industries of the winter season Is the fce crop, harvested from the mill race by the Santa Fe railway and local concerns. Nearly all the fce for the great Santa Fe system is harvested at Superior and shipped to varlous points along the route. Wo hear a great deal of talk of the “wild and wooly west,” and way down east, many people seem to have an idea that business out In this gection of the country is conducted on a very primitive plan, but the fact is, that even way out in Ne- braska the retall merchants are fifty years at least in advance of the retailers of New BEngland and the middle states In store management and In the judiclous display and arrangement of thelr stocks. Waest- ern merchants are nothing if not progres- sive. They are constantly introducing new fdeas into their business, and not only in the interlor arrangement of their re- spective places of business, but In their methods of advertising and extending their trade. No such splendid rallroad facllities can be found in any town in Nebraska three- fold the size of Superior. The Burlington & Missouri River rafiroad is the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy's Kan- sas City-Denver main line and carries eight to ten trains dally. They built through Superior in 1879 and have given this entire valley easy access to eastern and western markets. Superfor is the terminus of the Santa Fe from Strong City, Kan., connecting with the main line of their great system. Superfor has made a remarkable and sub- stantial growth in the quarter of a cen- tury since it sprang into existence. It has thirteen rallroad postoffices, each of which has grain markets and general merchan- dise stores. Deweese and Edgar are just over the county line on the nérth and Davenport, on two railroads, just over the line east. Nelson, the capital of Nuckolls county, is second In size, with a population of 1,200. It has two rallroads, two substantial banks, a flouring mill of 100 barrels capao- ity. Besides numerous retail establish- ments, Nelson has two large department stor rooms, 26x100 feet, elegant high school building, churehes, court house and hotels. Nelson is about the geographical cente of the county. It is a well-built little city and has some very bpretty residences. The court house is a well-constructed bullding, as is also the high school. WHEELER, SPURCK & WHEELER BUILDING, NELSON. each occupying three large store | Nuckolls County One of Southern Nebraska's Richest Garden Spots NUCKOLLS COUNTY FARM VIEW, The officials of Nuckolls county are an efficlent and obliging set of men, well qualified for the poeitions of trust which they have been elected to fill. As a rule the people do not read school journals and do not study school plans and measures, and are left to estimate thelr alue and progress from the several local conditions. The Inestimable value of schools s a sufficlent reason to ask and socure the attention of their patrons with- out apologlzing for doing so. As an in- stitution It is the result of many years of evolution. Ite growth, though, not re- markably rapld, bhas been steady, sub- stantial and along right lines. As an Institution it Is the chief corner stone of our glorious republic. We do not prize it so supremely because we have millfons Invested In wood, brick, stone and marble in the form of magnificent bulld- Ings, but because pur schools are Institu- tlons for the education of our children. The present state of efficienoy of the Nelson public schools is the result of many rs of evolution. Its growth, though not remarkably rapid, has been steady, substantial and along right lines. Golng as far back as the year of 18§1-2 we find the school In charge of W. H. Gerdts as teacher, with an enrollment of forty-five puplls. The next year the en- rolimeny was increased to fifty-four and C. W. Devall was the teacher. In the &pring of 189 the first commence- ment exercises were held, when a class of two boys graduated. It was now becoming evident to many of the citizens that the old school building was inadequate to accommodate the school. In the spring of 1891 a pettion was circu- lated asking for a speclal election to con- sider the question of voting bonds for & new building. The bullding was ready to be occupled in January, 1892. The school had scarcely gotten located in the new building when on the 30th of March a tornado wrecked the bullding. The graduating class of 1902 consisted of nine girls and seven boys, the class of 1504, four girls and six boys and the oclass of 1905, fourteen girls and four boys. At the present time Nuckolls county has ninety-one school districts, with ninety- three school buildings, where 3,170 students aro taught by 1% teachers, who draw $50,647 annual salary. The school property of the county is valued at $170,290. The county has two accredited schools with twelve grades, Nelson and Superior. Superfor has just moved into their Dew #chool building costing $30,00 and modern in every respect. Both of these schools give the normal training course. There are two large Catholio paroechial schools In the county, one in Laurence, and one near Mt. Clare. School interest i3 ex- cellent all over the county, At & teachers” meeting in October, nearly every teacher was present. Fitty of the Nuckolls' county teachers attended the state teachers’ meet~ ing at Lincoln November b-6 Nuckolls county is one of the rich coun- tles of Nebraska. Its entire valuation amounts to $26,000,00. The productiveness of the county can best be exprossed and appreciated, by using a few figures, not many, just a few. The farms of the county contaln 823,000 acres, with 207,000 acres under cultivation. From these farms wera 0ld and shipped out of the county, last year, 32,000 fat cattle and 66,90 fat hogd. Also 00 horses and 200 head of sheep. This county also shipped out 15680,000 bushels of corn, 613,000 bushels of wheat and 250,000 bushels of oats. Nuckolls is one of the prominent countfes in the state in the mill- ing business. Last year the flour mills of this county sold and shipped out 7,410,000 pounds of flour and 7,00 pounds of mill feed. The s=plendid crops of alfalfa that are being grown, are fast bringing this county, to the front as one of the prominent dairy section of the stata. More and more each year, the farmers, or the farmers' wives, are turning their attention to the poultry industry. Last year they sold and shipped out 187,39 pounds of butter and H8,360 gallons of cream. They also sent to market 84,000 dozens of eggs and 30,00 pounds of dressed poultry. During the last summer, these farmers used 400 hand separators and kept 6,800 head of cows on thelr farms. Nuckolls county stands third in the state in the production of alfalfa, as they pro- duced last season over £1,000 acres, besides 1,800 acres of timothy and 1,000 acres of clover. During the last season they alsa produced 108,00 acres of corn, 43,000 acres of wheat and 19,00 acres of oats. Tha county is also producing a liberal amount of fruit, largely for home consumption, They have at present, growing and in full bearing, 45,900 apple trees, 107,000 peash, 8900 plum and 13,000 cherry trees. Taking the county as a whole, and from every standpolnt, it will compare favor< ably, not only with any county in Nee braska, but with any county in any state in the Mississippl vallen In the Field of Electrical Experiment Telepost and Telegraph. post system between Indianap- olls and St. Louis. A batch of news dispatches for the Et Louls Republic were handied on the lines with great speed and accuracy. Many startling claims are made for the new service by its supporters. - They say the telepost can transmit sixty messages over a single wire In the same time the Morse system require for one. Four it Is ®aid, will do the work of sixty- eight quadruplex-worked wires of the wires Morse system The company uses ordinary telephone wires for its service, getting leases upon them from thelr owners. A system of coils enables the telephone wires to carry both telephone messages and telegraph messages At the same time. The astonishing rapidity with which me: sages can be transmitted was illustrated last night. An operator, using an ordinary telegraph key, perforates holes in a tape which 18 run by & motor. These holes are in duplicate and represent the ordinary dots and dashes of the Morse code. The tape is put into a transmitting ma- chine. At the other end of the line is a recelving machine. The operator puts his perforated tape Into the first and touches @ button. It is whirled through so rapidly reely follow it. At the re- celving end another tape, chemically pre- the eye can s pared, Is whizzing with equal rapidity The recelving operator removes this from his machine when the message is com- plete. He takes it to & typewriter, where two small motors pull it meross the key- board in front of the typist, who reads the message and writes it. The claim {s made that tho transmitting machine will carry from 80 to 1,000 words & Mminute, The Indianapolis office was opened but a short time ago. It is & new lnk in the chain which is to connect the middle west division of the service with the New Eng- land system. Already the company has ar- lon of its lines from Indianapolis to Chicago. Chicage is then ranged for an ext be connected with New York and the link will be supplied by a York to Boston. cern now has offices open in Bedalia, Mo.; Springtield, Louls and Indianapolis. JCCESSFUL tests were made recently of the new tele- Wireless Telephone on Train The recent experiments with wireless tel- Erle rallroad are pro- nounced by the New York Press as The tests were made on an hour be- notable succese.” running th Newark and South Paterson. operators talked without interruption with on either end of the officlals of the Erie the demonstration were delighted with the Fred Lecrolx, sald when perfected conversation from a train running at can- speed within a radius of participated The inventor, his system His confident statement was relled upon The wireless telephone was oper- The electric current is taken up from a small third rail at the side of the track. the engine Perfection of the reduce almost to zero the possibilities of train accidents by attachments in the cab that show when & talled ahead and indicate how dlis- Another device operates the air brake attachments the instant the recorder shows there is a stalled or derailed train two miles ahead, elals pronounce it @ marvelous invention There was & short test of the Invention on a section of Erie track several months was set apart for The road offi- This section running on schedule, and the efficiency of the invention was proved. Lecrolx, the inventor, is little more than He is M years old He learned electrical and is sald to have & remark- able comprehension of the broad subject test was confined the development of tion means that ing in Texa & Pullman sleeper may be aroused from slumber to answer @ call and talk to his mother, wife, aweetheart or business friend 1,000 miles away. It ls predicted the invention will be as wonderful In its development as wireless telegraphy; and its accompan! ment, the device to prevent rallroad accl dents, makes it the more remarkable The third rail, which carries the power tele- for the Lecroix system of wirele: phony, is not “deadly,” men. They erowded into the engine cab, as many as could find® standing room at one time. They found & recelver and transmitter much like the ordinary tele- phone attachments on the side of the cab. Close by were the dlals and attachments of the device for sounding the warning of danger ahead. The members of the party first talked through the transmitter to train dispatch- ers at either end of the line and received messages In response. The train was rur ning at twenty miles an hour; and then the speed was increased five miles, and then to thirty miles. There w slightest interrupti even as the amount of speed was increased To make the test severe the speed was increased quickly, so that the cab shook and the cars wabbled, but there was no interruption of the talk. The wireless telephone having been tested to the satisfaction of the officials, the traln-stopping device was demor strated. The train was run in close upon a passenger train, and the moment th danger zone was reached, the engineer having his grip on the lever, the alr brake attachment was operated automat- fcally and the train stopped within fifty feet, when running at twenty-five miles an no sudden jar; it came andstill gradually. There will be a hour, There wi s public test of this device on Wednesday of next week on the same strelch of track. Tw as a person may walk upon it without receiving the slight- est shock. The test was watched by a few road officials and several newspaper not the 1 of the conversation sngines equipped with the device will be started on the same ralls from opposite directions at full speed. Lecroix says he will be in one of the engines and will prove that collisions can be made impossible by his system Luminous Arc Headlights. The increased size and speed of the elec- tric cars now used In interurban service between cities and large towns, make it extremely dangerous to run after dark without & good headlight. In the begin- ning of electrio rallway service small ofl lamps were thought to be good enough for headlight purposes, but when the cars were made larger and geared to go faster the small old-fashioned arc lamps or large incandescent lamps were used for head- lights, Today It is nothing unusual for the large Interurban cars, carrying over 100 passengers, to hit a speed of nearly a mile & minute and in this case the very best kind of a headlight Is necessary When the new luminous arc lamp, with its flood of mellow light, was produced by the engineers of the General Electric company they immediately designed a luminous arc headlight which will throw a beam of light for many yards on elther side of the track for a distance of nearly 2,000 feet ahead ich fllumination s of great assidtance to motormen In taking curves or avolding collisions with vehicles, animals or persons. Many of the citie however, do not allow these blinding light within the city limits. Fortunately t new lamp can be dimmed by & simple throw of a switch, making it avallabie for both city and interurban service Not the Same Joshua. We had a county judge down my way a few years ago whose love for biblical lore wa 0 pronounced that he couldn't resist the desire to air it on every possible occa- slon,” said Congressman Heary D. Clayton of Alabama a few days since. “One day an old darkey was b ht in from the mountain district under suspicion of main taining an illicit still. There was no real evidence against him What's your name, prisoner? asked the judge as he pee man Mah name's Joshua, jedge,’ was the reply ed at the shambling black Joshua, eh? sald the judge, as he rub bed bis hands. ‘Joshua, you say? Are you that same Joshua spoken of in Holy Writ the Joshua who made the sun stand still? No, jedge’ was the hasty answer, ‘twaru’'t me. Ah'm de Joshua dat made de moon shine.’ "—National Monthly. re and Philanthropist. OHN 8. Kennedy, the deceased New York millionalre whose bequests to educational, relig- fous and charitable institutions surprised the country, was one of the few potential factors in the financial world whose deeds escaped the vigllance of newspapers. “He was a Scotch- man, with humor,” says the Brooklyn Ea “He was & staunch Presbyterian, with hospltality for all sincere denomina- tions. As a railroad man, he was one of the most successtul and wise of his genera~ tion, yet the least ostentatious and the least oppressive of all that great olass. Malnly, however, ho was in business as a banker and his raliroad connections were developed from his relations to the enter- prises which he financed. In addition to this, Mr. Kennedy was a benefactor of education, an organizer of charitles, a student of history, a friend of hospitals, a lover of art and a promote of civilization &nd learning through mis- slons In forelgn lands. For many years he was a member and trustee of the Fifth avenue Presbyterfan church when Dr. John Hall was’its pastor and even before that time; but at his death he belonged to the dison Square Presbyterian church and was the friend and adviser of Dr. Charles M. Parkhurst, the pastor of that founda tion. Born In Glasgow, January 4, 1530, and one of nine children, John Kennedy was sent to school only from his fifth to the end of his twelfth year, and at 13 be- and messenger in a shipping office. At 17 he was secured by an iron and coal concern and when he was he bec connected with Its interests in the United States. When #7 years old, he became & banker In old New York, and at jcath on Sunday he was probably the ling banker of the old conservative in the United States The great, good and genial man had ne children. He made learning, humanity and uplift take the place of childten in his heart and mind, and, while he would not let his left hand know what his righs hand gave, Le gave much, shought much, designed much and powerfully influenced much which contributed to happiness, to welfare, to religion and to oivilization within this republic, and at the greatest centers of need within the world. His modesty was unusual. His humor was dry, flluminating and ever kind. A courte- ous listener, a close and careful thinker, a wiso reasoner, a delightful companion, a'strong and lovable man, he will be missed by those who knew him well for as long as they will live, and his memory will be cherished in the records and hon- ored in the institutions to which he gave his thought, his time, his means—and him- melf.” il Fisk's Price of Lies. James Fisk, jr., had been a peddler from his boyhood days through New England towns. His father was a peddler, and James had been brought up in that life ab- sorbing wll the bluff, nerve and flashy dis play characteristic of the travellng venders of Yankee notions and tinware, who were conspicuous In the early dayw, before mer- chandise had developed in m perfeot sys- tem. It may be said of Fisk that he had been ® prince of peddlers, and his wagon was spectacular In appearance, being painted in the brightest colors and to which he drove well groomed horses that always attracted a large crowd of rural ad- mirers wherever he went A story of an incident of the days when he was traveling with his father illustrates Fisk's standard of moral honesty. An old woman charged Fisk's senior with having misrepresented the value and quality of & plece of calico sold at 12t cents a yard, ‘Well, now,” sald Fisk, . “I don't think father would tell & lio for 12% cents, though he might tell elght of 'em for a dollar. COlemenceau and the Joker One of the storles concerning M. Clem enceau, the fallen French premler, tells how he recently nonplussed @ praetical Joker who sent out & number of invita- e to people all over Paris to & big dinner at Clemenceau's house. Some days afterward M. Clemenceau was surprised to receive letters from total strangers cepting “bls kind invitation to dinper,” and thanking him most cordlally. Now, the ex-premier is & man of wit, and In- stead of flying Into & temper, he reallzed that some one had been playing a trick upon him, 80 he gave orders for a dinner, and {t was duly held. His unknown guests were highly delighted to be (n-ghe com pany of the distinguished statesman, but their ardor was somewhat dampened when, after the banquet, their host broke the news to them that their presence there was really due to & cholce little joke which had been perpetrated by some person or per- sons unknown. Naturally the diners hast- ened to depart as soon as they oon- veniently could. s torial Courtesy.™ U am Justice Peckhem's death revives the al- most forgotten rame of David B. Hill, to whom it was Indirectly due that Rufus W. Peckham, and not his brother, Wheeler . Peckham, became & justice of the supreme court. «When & vacaney was caused by the death of Justice Blatchford of Now York, in 1883, relates the Philadelphla Ledger, President Cleveland nominated Willilam B. Horablower, then and sin - leader of the New York bar. Mr. Horn- blower had been one of the opponents of iator Hill in New York politics, and Hill, regarding his nomination as an af. front, appealed to “senatcrial courtesy” to prevent his confirmation. The president, therefore, withdrew Hornblower's name &nd nominated Wheeler H. Pe kham, a much more active and pronounced anti-Hill democrat, and Hill succeeded in securing his rejection. Mr. Cleveland did not con- tinue the fight, but named Senator White of Loulstana, whose nomination was bromptly confirmed. Two years later, on the death of Justice Jackson, President Cleveland nominated for this vacanoy Rufus W. Peckham, who was then a mem ber of the court of appeals of New York &% his father had been before him. ll‘ it also was a Tilden democrat, but was out politics, and he met with no objection. But if it had not been for Hill the other son of the elder judge would have been the United States justios ~