Media 130 years ago Part 2 and upcoming events!!

 

The churches of Media from a 1889 booklet, some have changed quite a bit.

Note: This Chester Times article on Media that I put in my history Blog last week is much longer than I thought. This week is part 2, next week is part 3. The article  is very interesting.

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Media from 1893
Part 2

MEDIA’S PERFECT LIGHT – The people of Media have no c

ause for complaint in regard to the electric light furnished by the Media Electric Light Company.  They live in one of the best, if not the best lighted towns in the State.

                The plant of the Media Company was erected nearly four years ago.  The present officers are F. T. Downing, president; W. Rodger Fronefield, secretary and treasurer and William J. Alexander, superintendent.  The system used is the Wood of Fort Wayne, Indiana, for the arc and the Westinghouse incandescent alternating current for house and store lighting of which there is no better.  Compared with the light of other systems in nearby towns, Media’s light outshines them at least twenty five per cent.

                The company has about seventy five miles of wire furnishing light as far away as Swarthmore.  Moyland and Wallingford and the pretty modern homes in that locality all use the Media light.  Thirty arc lights are kept going all night to light the streets of Media, and they have in use 6500 incandescent lights for house and store lighting.

                The business of the Media Company is constantly growing and expanding.  They started with but 500 lights in December ’89, and twice since have had to increase their facilities to keep up with the demand.  At present they are putting in two new dynamos and a 150 horse power Corliss engine, and one additional 1200 horse power boiler.  When the new plant is in working order the service will be the best in the country.  The gentlemen at the head of the concern are progressive and ever on the alert to adopt anything that would tend to make their light the best, and they have managed and conducted the business so as to gain the approval of those who have tried the new light.

                MEDIA FIRE COMPANY NO. 1 – Media at present has the best precautions against loss by fire.  Its fire company is one of the best equipped in the State, everything being new and of the best approved order.  The management is in good hands, for the rules of the company exclude objectionable parties altogether from membership.  The present officers area:  President, Terrence Reilly; vice president, James H. Sweeney, recording secretary, Thomas J. Dolphin; financial secretary, H. R. Greenfield; treasurer, Ralph Buckley; directors, William H. Carey, John J. Rowland, Jr., Townsend F. Green; foreman, J. Harris Sloan; assistant foreman, George F. Fisher; chief engineer, George W. Carey; assistant engineer, Samuel P. Rush, J. E. English, Benjamin Broadbelt, Edward Nolan.

                The equipment consists of a LaFrance steam fire engine, one Bailey & Gleason hook and ladder truck, two hose carts, sixteen hundred feet of cotton hose, the property of the borough; fire hats, rubber coat and boots and fifty dress uniforms for parade.  The value of the company’s personal property is nearly $500.

                The company was organized in 1880 after a meeting of citizens called to discuss means to secure better protection from fire.  It has now over 150 members among whom are some of the best-known citizens.  The Media fire lads not only have the best and most approved equipment, but in their new quarters in the new town hall they occupy a department built especially for them, and is as near perfect as it can be made.  But they deserve it all.

                BURGESS AND COUNCIL – The county seat of Delaware is possessed of a plethoric title.  Its charter calls the corporation, the Burgess and Town Council of the Borough of Media.  The first named official is a sort of figure head.  Many duties are assigned to him by the exclusive Act of Assembly, but he possesses no power to carry them out.  In the Town Council, as the charter says, rests the sole power of the municipality.  But there is generally a cordiality existing between the seven rulers, the Chief Burgess and his Council, and he is seldom called upon to cast a deciding vote, which he has the power to do when the six are at sixes and sevens.  The present Board has the honor of having been in power when improved highways were laid and the trolley system inaugurated between Chester and Media.  It is looked up to with veneration.  It is a good looking body of men, with six or seven exceptions, and way down to hard pen in business matters.  It is also what might be called a live and let live, home industry concern, and if the seven men were penned up in the town there would be no necessity for any but the Burgess to leave it, except, perhaps, for bathing and fresh air, tubs of which are within walking distances at the Rose Tree Inn and on the Black Horse Hills.  Burgess George J. Stiteler sells shell fish and fish with scales and with skins, for these he has to depend on the outside world.  He always hides his stabber when he has official callers.  T. Edwin Rorer is the grocer of the board; he sells to home trade, he says, and stays at home.  Charles B. Jobson sells beef, so he says, and everybody believes him.  Frank I. Taylor builds houses out of home-made bricks, while George E. Darlington and E. H. Hall dole out homemade law and plenty of it to the rest of the board.  Dr. Thomas D. Young is the only medical man in this august body, and he can write a prescription for home-made drugs – when necessity requires it – that goes at any alchemist’s in the town.  Junketting is never indulged in by the board and free passes are tabooed.  The only perquisites that have been known to be accepted are free seats at the circus, side show included, when it comes to town.

                THE KEELEY CURE – The history of Media’s leading institutions and enterprises would be incomplete if it did not contain some reference to the now well-known and well-established Keeley Institute at that place.  It is one of the many institutes now established throughout the United States for administering the Keeley double chloride of gold remedies for the treatment of inebriety, and to those addicted to the use of opium, cocaine and other narcotics.

                The fame of Dr. Leslie E. Keeley and his wonderful care has extended over the entire land.  It has long ago passed the experimental stage and the demonstrations of its efficiency all around us are sufficient to convince the most skeptical.  As the worth of the Keeley treatment became known it was found necessary to extend the field and the establishment of the institute at Media was the result.

                THE INSTITUTE BUILDING – It was removed here from Philadelphia about a year ago, and is the only branch of the Institute in Eastern Pennsylvania.  It is located in the large old-fashioned Miller mansion at the corner of Front and Orange Streets overlooking the Courthouse Square.  The entire building is used in the work of the institute and contains the redemption rooms, laboratory, treatment rooms and the offices of the manager and the physician in charge, all nicely furnished.  The patients are not confined in the institute and kept under guard, as is generally supposed.   They board at the Charter House, the hotel of the town, or at a private boarding house, as they choose, and go and come to the institute at the hours for treatment, free and unrestrained.

                SAME AS THE PARENT INSTITUTION – The Keeley Institute at Media is doing a great work in reclaiming victims of alcoholism. It is in the hands of men who have long ago proved to the skeptical in Media that Keeleyism is a reality.  The general manager is Mr. J. N. Burson who has the right to administer the Keeley remedies in this State.  A. Kobler is the superintendent and Dr. W. W. Strange is the physician in charge.  They conduct the institution upon the same methods and with the same remedies as at the parent house at Dwight, Ill.  Dr. Strange, who is a graduate of Jefferson Medical College, has received instruction under the personal direction of Dr. Keeley, consequently there is not the slightest difference between the treatment at the Media institute and that at Dr. Keeley’s home institute.

                THE METHOD OF TREATMENT – The remedies only are secret.  The manner of treating patients and the method of applying the remedies can be seen by all who are interested enough in the Keeley cure to visit the institution.  When a patient first presents himself he is asked a few questions in regard to how long he has had liquor, what kind he has used, and in certain difficult cases he is submitted to a medical examination. Then he is given his first injections, and presents himself daily for hypodermic treatment at 8, 12, 5 and 7:30 o’clock, except in case of illness, when he is treated at his rooms.  Lady patients are treated privately.  Each patient is given a bottle of tonic to be taken in small doses every two hours during the day and evening, and such laxatives and sedatives as are necessary.

                FROM INEBRIETY TO SOBRIETY – The attendance of patients at the institute reaches as high as twenty-five or thirty at one time.  It is a study to watch them come up for treatment.  After getting well started, there are seldom any late or tardy.  As they come into the treatment room and remove their hats and coats, it is noticed that some of the faces are serious; on others there are traces of great suffering, and here and there is an over ripe complexion or a nose that blushes as itself.

                But the majority of the faces in line bear not the slightest traces of alcohol.  These latter are those of men who have passed into the second or third week of their stay.  The whiskey is out of them – every drop.  They have been born again, as it were, and the strange exhilaration which comes with freedom and the building up of their depleted systems with natural sleep, not super induced by narcotics, with the bracing air and generous food of Media, and pleasant surroundings and associations have made them into new men.

                INJECTING THE GOLD – Dr. Strange takes his place at a cabinet containing the remedies near the head of the line.  Each man in turn reaches the cabinet and his left wrist is grasped and his pulse noted by the physician.  Each man has removed his coat and each one has a slit cut in the sleeve of his left arm to allow the syringe to reach the flesh.

                The needle of the hypodermic instrument is next dipped into the double chloride of gold and is drawn from the little saucers.  The long sharp needle is deftly thrust into the upper arm and the few drops from the fountain of sobriety go on their errand of mercy and the patient, if he be a comparatively new arrival, is given a bottle of whiskey, and he, with the others, goes on his way, not rejoicing during the first few days of treatment, for a man cannot get over a long debauch without some physical suffering – but the Keeley remedies and the moderate doses of whiskey, to use the expression of a graduate, “let him down easy.”

                HOW THE APPETITE IS KILLED – Manager Burson, in speaking about the mode of treatment and its effects, said, “We first get the patient sober, that is if he comes to us under the influence of liquor.  Then we remove the appetite for liquor.  During this time we give such whiskey as he requires, but in from two to four days he voluntarily stops using it.  He finds that it either nauseates him or that he simply doesn’t want any more.  Then the remedies which have been powerfully, yet painfully at work upon his system continue the work of building up those issues which have been caused by alcohol.  When we are through with him, which is in about four weeks, he is ready to go out into the world he came into, but without the need for a taste for alcohol.  “The craving for it, the appetite – call it what you may – is gone.”

                The Institute at Media has had several hundred graduates during the year.  Nearly all professions and lines of business have been represented and of all the cases treated, not over five per cent, have relapsed.  In Media, men known for years as inveterate drinkers, and whose thirst was thought to be incurable, have taken the cure and been freed from the thralldom of alcohol.  Their wives, children and friends have been made happy and all are glad to sound the praises of Dr. Keeley.  “I took my last drink of whiskey,” said one of these graduates about a year ago, and since taking the Keeley treatment I have never felt like wanting another drink and though I have been in all kinds of places amid the most exciting scenes, I have never had the least desire to touch whiskey.  I know the cure is sure, positive and lasting.”

                IS IT PERMANENT? – The question as to whether the cure is permanent and lasting or not is well answered by John H. Harrison, a prominent attorney of Vincennes Ind.  In a letter written by him to the Louisville Courier Journal, of what the following to an extract:  “One year ago this month I went to the Keeley Institute. I had known all the paces that one of my temperament usually goes, and I brought up at the end of one of those periodical sprees, which always left me in a dreadfully weakened condition.  The physician in charge, received me kindly, and seeing the person’s condition, I was in, offered a drink of whiskey.  To say that I accepted is tame language.  I slid that drink down the receptacle of thousands of former drinks that would do credit to a streak of lightning.  I began the treatment that evening.  The next day I was taken up to the club room and introduced to as kind and courteous a body of men as it has ever been my good fortune to meet.  There were about forty of them and they deemed to vie with each other in trying to make me feel at ease.  I left there with the burden of my life rolled away, and I cannot but recommend all of God’s unfortunates who, like myself, have acquired an appetite which they cannot control, to go there and be cured.  Go and avail yourselves of the cure that has come to me, and will come to you like a blessing from God.  Gain the strength of your manhood; go in the declining of your manhood; go in the declining years of your life; go when old age be standing over you; go and make wife, mother daughter and sister happy; go and bring happiness and joy of your family; go and fill up” with home and joy and gladness and peace, and God go with you.”

                SAMUEL P. RUSH – The oldest harness store in Media, and in fact, one of the oldest and most solid business houses in Delaware County is the store of Samuel Rush, located at 306 West State Street, west of Orange.  The business was established by Mr. Rush in the year 1851e, one year after the incorporation of the borough, and it has been carried on very successfully by him for forty-two years.  He has occupied two different locations in McHaduring this time, but in 1871 he removed to his present location, where he has one of the most complete and convenient stores to be found in the county.  It has 20 feet front and extends to a depth of 50 feet.  It has large double bulk windows where five specimens of harness are always displayed.

                The store throughout is arranged and ventilated after Mr. Rush’s own ideas, and it is impossible for leather to become damp or moldy while in stock.  The whips, traces and hitching straps are all kept in drawers made expressly for the purpose and are easily displayed when a customer calls.  The workrooms in the rear are on the same idea, and are fully in keeping with the rest of the establishment.  The place turns out some exceptionally fine work and many of the handsome turnouts seen on the streets of Media on a bright summer afternoon are supplied by Mr. Rush.  He manufactured nearly every style of harness for farm and road purposes, including Dearborn, carriage and light harness, and keeps on hand a good supply of ready-made stock of his own manufacture.

                In connection with the manufacture of harnesses in all its branches and with a large and select stock constantly on hand, Mr. Rush carries on the business of furnishing and recovering of feathers on the goose and chicken; feathers always on hand, and makes bed ticks, pillows and bolsters do order.  He also scrapes, repairs, varnishes and upholsters all kinds of furniture in the best manner.

                When Mr. Rush first came to Media there were but five or six houses scattered along on what are now known as State and Orange Streets, and he has seen the place grow from a village to a large and prosperous cottage. He can justly claim to be one of Media’s oldest citizens and pioneer business man of the town.

                THE CHARTER HOUSE – The Charter House, Media’s only permanent hotel, has become known as one of the best in the State.  Commercial travelers, who stop at the house, say they find new hotels to equal it in towns of four or five thousand population.  It is a temperance hotel suited to families and to quiet and temperate people.  Many Philadelphians make the place their home a good part of the open season, the head of the family going and returning from business in the city daily.  The hotel is within eight minutes’ walk of Media station, and six express trains and nineteen accommodation trains run to and from Broad Street station daily.  The terminus of the road in Philadelphia at present is at Thirty-First and Chestnut Streets, but after April 1^st they will run to Broad Street.  The express trains make the trip in about twenty-five minutes, and the accommodation trains in about forty minutes.  The hotel is also within a minute’s walk of the starting place of the new trolley road to Chester, on which a car arrives and leaves every half hour.

                HOW ESTABLISHED – The Charter House was started by a stock company in 1851, composed of the advocates and friends of temperance.  When the court house and jail were removed from Chester at that time, there was no hotel in Media for the accommodated of people attending court, and owing to the borough charter prohibiting the sale of liquor, no one would undertake the experiment of running a house on the temperance plan, it being generally regarded at that time as an impossibility.             

                But the friends of temperance took the matter in hand and organized a stock company, built the house and put R. D. Hawkins to charge.  The latter conducted it successfully for over twenty years, and in 1871 he built Idlewild, the fashionable hotel near Media, now managed by his sons, John and Alfred Hawkins.

                Since Mr. Hawkin’s time the Charter House has had four or five different proprietors.  Isaac Ivison, who was proprietor from 1882 until February of this year, did a great deal toward bringing the House up to its present high standards.

                Mr. Samuel D. Hughes, the present proprietor, who has recently taken charge comes from Lebanon.  He is well up to the hotel business and is always studying the information of his guests and seeking to make his house the equal of the best.

                THE HOTEL BUILDING – The building is a four-story brick structure, 50x 50 feet in size, with man sand roof and large double verandahs in front.  It contains sixty-four rooms, thirty-seven of which are bedrooms, and throughout the whole house neatness and cleanliness are everywhere apparent.

                The entire building is furnished with electric light.  The light is in every room and even in the stables and wagon houses connected with the house.

                The accommodations for families at the house are excellent.  The sleeping departments are well ventilated and the whole house is kept in admirable order.

                The dining room is on the first floor and the inner man can be refreshed without taking many weary steps.  On the tables are served the substantial’s, as well as all the delicacies of the season.  The bill of fare is excellent and have given it an established reputation.

                Mr. Hughes is a gentleman, ever ready to adopt any new appliance, or convenience in his business.  He keeps a personal supervision over everything in the house, and is ably assisted by Mrs. Hughes and her daughters.

                CHALFONT’S LIVERY STABLE – Isaac D. Chalfont is Media’s leading livery stable keeper.  He has been engaged in the livery sale and exchange business here for a quarter of a century.  At one time he conducted his business at the Charter House stables.  Mr. Chalfant’s patronage especially in the summer season, is large.  He started in a limited way, but by careful attention to the wants of the public and by thrift and economy, he has built up an extensive business and his establishment is surpassed by few in the county.  Some of his turnout are of the finest, and most stylish description, and he also has some finer ones with horses which any lady can drive with safety.  These horses are well broken and an accident or runaway by any of them is almost unknown.  He keeps about thirty head constantly.  His stables at the corner of state and Jackson Streets, are almost as complete as they can be made.  Chalfant’s line of coaches, from the depot, is a great convenience to the Media people, and they are carried to any part of the borough for ten cents.

                He takes a lively interest in the affairs of the town and has served as the County Council two terms and does good work. 

                MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS – It is a well-known fact that in the purchase of a piano, organ or sewing machine, the purchaser must rely to a considerable extent, on the judgment and honor of the dealer, as fine appearing instruments and machines are not always the best.  The adage, “all that glitters is not gold” will apply here with much force.

                It is fortunate for the people of Delaware County that they have in Media an establishment devoted to the handling of musical instruments and sewing machines that is reliable and can be depended upon with the utmost confidence.       

                We refer to the house of Walter T. Howell, now located at No. 1167 State Street, the building occupied for years by Russell & Company, the clothiers.  This stand was taken only recently by Mr. Howell in order to obtain more room and better facilities for his increasing business.

                He has had a valuable experience in the business in which he is engaged, and keeping a large stock on hand, can furnish almost any kind of a musical instrument with a Jews harp to a piano.  His specialty in the piano line is the Lester and New England, and in organs the Bridgeport.  These instruments have a wide reputation for purity and variety of tone, and as to durability they are unexcelled.

                The Seger sewing machine, which Mr. Howell handles in Media, is without an equal and is a universal favorite all over the civilized world.  Over a hundred are sold every year from this store alone.  The fine set of attachments with the new Singer are far in advance of anything in the market and make it capable of the widest range of work with the least trouble.

                The business was established by Mr. Howell in 1885 and he has been steadily forgoing to the front ever since.  Besides his store at Media he has one similarly at large at Norristown and does a trade extending all over Montgomery County.  He is an active, go ahead young businessman, and his success won by hard work and close attention, is well deserved.

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