Post St. Blues-Fiona at the library

[jon]

Officer Bolles charged Erasmus Meeker with drunkenness in the public streets, and John Moore was added to the list of Officer McDermott's victims.

Officer Keim found old Rip Van Winkle drunk in the streets and locked him up. - This white-haired man is said to be one of the best violoncello players in the country. Emily Arnold, an old woman, was found drunk by Officer Gross.

POST AVENUE

Officer Sheridan arrested a colored man on Post Avenue on Saturday night for drunkenness. He was amusing the people of that locality by bending a half-inch bar of iron by striking his arm with it. A white partner named Clarkson, a chap that Blinky Jane beat out of a dollar last week, attempted to take the colored man away from the officer. Both of them were locked up. - Still another white fellow appeared on the scene, with fragments of a broken tumbler rolled up in his handkerchief. He, too, was charged.

A WIFE'S COMPLAINT

John Jones, said to be a sailor, was arrested by Sergeant Clark on complaint of his wife. He has been in the same trouble before.

[jon]

BAD

Thomas Williams, of Marcy, hired a buggy and drove to Mrs. Brealin's house on Court street, last night, after Ellen Hizer, a girl who has been arrested frequently. Both the man and the woman were drunk. Officers Buckley and P. Cahill arrested them for disorderly conduct. The girl is young in years but an old offender.

CAUGHT

Henry Hardaker managed to get away from Officer Gross about two weeks ago, when that officer had two warrants for him for assault and battery. Gross found Hardaker in bed this morning, and now he is under lock and key.

HORSES

The police picked up two stray horses on Saturday night. They were lodged at the Mansion House to await the coming of their owners.

SENT DOWN

John Linn,who distributed the good people of the Orphan Asylum on Saturday night by his drunken capers, and William Cramer, who assaulted Officer Crask, were sent to the Albany Penitentiary for four months.


UTICA OBSERVER - 1874

[jon]

[jon]

AVENUE RAID
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Izora Butler and Trio of Her Friends Are in Custody[/size]

A raid on a Post Avenue dive was planned and successfully carried out shortly before midnight last night by Sergeant Arheilger and a couple of officers. Izora Butler, the proprietress, a colored woman, 31 years of age, was arrested and charged with keeping a disorderly house. A trio of men who were found inside were arrested as inmates. They gave their names as Charles Webster, colored aged 25, a laborer, Thomas Norton 22, white, a millhand, and Patrick Cook, millhand, white, aged 23.

UTICA SUNDAY TRIBUNE - JANUARY 11, 1903

[jon]

TRIED TO SELL BICYCLE FOR $1.34

Walter Williams, colored, who gave his age as 22 was arrested about midnight in East Utica by Officer Cancauson, Williams was trying to dispose of a practically new Exchange bicycle for $1.34. He claimed he came here from Syracuse Friday morning and that he has been making his home on Post Avenue since. When asked where he got the wheel he claimed he found it in front of a store.

UTICA SUNDAY TRIBUNE - SEPTEMBER 15, 1903

[fiona]

more of The Romance Of An old street: Bill Fitch, a white man, lived at the corner of Burnet Street. He was a blacksmith and his principal business was" jumping axes". In the early days wood was the principal fuel and every man had an ax which was kept busy. Constant use rounded the edge of the ax which had to be sent to Fitch's place to be reshaped and resharpened. The process was called " jumping." Fitch had a son named Gill who went to the Civil War in Tom Bates's Battery. During the celebration of the Victory at Gettysburg, in Philadelphia, a premature discharge of the gun he was serving carried off both arms and one eye. Notwithstanding this serious loss, upon his discharge, he went west, took up a farm, married and at last accounts was doing fine.

[keith]

Last night I attended a meeting at the Masonic Hall in Utica. I examined with new interest a map posted on the main floor which I have loooked over a few previous times. It is a map of 1839 Utica published in 1939 by the Bank of Utica to commemorate their 100th Anniversary.

Last night I concentrated on the details of the Post St. area. It is quite detailed showing not just buildings but also some owners or proprietors.

[Dave]

May 29, 2010 14:50:36 GMT -5 keith said:

Last night I attended a meeting at the Masonic Hall in Utica. I examined with new interest a map posted on the main floor which I have loooked over a few previous times. It is a map of 1839 Utica published in 1939 by the Bank of Utica to commemorate their 100th Anniversary.

Last night I concentrated on the details of the Post St. area. It is quite detailed showing not just buildings but also some owners or proprietors.

Keith, you can see it isn't even noted in 1825.

[Dave]

Post St. can be seen drawn on this map, for which I have no date, but for some reason think may be from the 1830's. Jon may have better info.

[jon]

[jon]

CITY IMPROVEMENTS

The usual objections to public improvements is the plea of poverty, although streets in front of the poorest class of property in the outskirts were paved when prices for labor and material were high, and streets in the center of the city, were property is far more valuable, are still unpaved. The upper portions of Court, State, Whitesboro, Fayette and Columbia streets, Varick street, South street, and even squalid Post Avenue, were paved, while streets as Mary, Blandina, Lansing, Miller, Steuben, High, West, Howard Avenue, Eagle, Cornelia and other streets of this kind where property is much more valuable, are unpaved. Of the resolutions passed for paving streets by

THE PRESENT COUNCIL

that for paving Columbia street, from Fayette to Court, went down at the meeting three weeks ago, although the property owners are certainly as well able to pay for the improvement as those on the paved streets above mentioned, and is in a remonstrance against paving last year promised to pave this year if action was deferred. The resolution to pave High street barely escaped a similar fate, which, along with Steuben street, is met when the subject came up at Friday's meeting. Alderman Hill, of the ward in which High street is located, was loud in his praises of this street and the value thereof. He unwillingly presented the best argument why the property owners are able to bear the expenses. Early in the meeting - a month ago - Alderman Hayes offered a resolution to pave Washington street - that is, the part below the canal - and it was adopted. Two weeks ago he reported from the committee in favor of granting the prayer of the remonstrate against the projected improvements. Thus another improvement is killed - why, the Alderman knows best.


UTICA SUNDAY TRIBUNE - JUNE 12, 1881

[jon]

[jon]

POST AVENUE NEEDS REFORM
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Rev. James E. Mason Now Engaged in a Commendable Work[/size]


"The religious status of the colored people here is without a parallel in any city north of the Mason Dixon line," is the startling information conveyed to the Globe by Rev. J. E. Mason , of Rochester, who has been in Utica for the past four months. During that time he has devoted himself to the careful study of the condition of Utica's negros, and to devise means to bring about an improvement. He has spent a great deal of time among the people of Post Avenue and found their moral depravity to be shocking. Than he went among the better element of the white population to solicit aid.

[jon]

As a result tomorrow will witness the first step on the pathway of reform. This will be the opening of Hope Chapel on Elizabeth street, the negro house of worship where no services here been held in several years, and tomorrow at 2:45 P. M. is the time fixed for the re-dedication. Several of the leading clergymen of the city will be present and the Westminister quartet will assist. Service will also be held in the evening.

Mr. Mason, who is one of the most eloquent colored speakers in the country, believes that by proceeding upon a non-sectarian basis the colored people may be concentrated, regardless of denominational proclivities. One of his plans is to open a reading room for the negros securing the best reading matter possible. Educational classes will be formed and tracts circulated. His aim is not only to advance the religious interests of the people but minister to their material wants as well. He will endeavor to bring about a renovation of Post Avenue. In the Christian Worker he said recently: - "The unhealthy sanitary conditions are a reproach to the owners of the estate and to the city officials and obnoxious alike to God and man. It is high time the legal authorities or a vigilance committee should blot out this long standing menace to health and morals, and an opening offered to a purer and better manhood and womanhood for our colored population.


UTICA SATURDAY GLOBE - 1885

[jon]

FOR SALE

BUILDING 18 Post avenue to be torn down and removed. Inquire 218 Arcade.

UTICA HERALD DISPATCH - APRIL 3, 1913