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The Travels of Daniel Paul, 1909
Posted By Norman Gasbarro on June 29, 2018
During the Civil War, Daniel Paul served as a Private in the 130th Pennsylvania Infantry, Company H. After the Civil War, he moved to Michigan, but kept in touch with his Lykens Valley friends and relatives via correspondence to the editor of the Lykens newspaper.
Five results of that correspondence from the year 1909 are reported below:
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ENDERS
Special to the Standard.
Daniel Paul, Mrs. Daniel Rettinger and daughter Della, and Mrs. Cornelius Rettinger, all of Lykens, spent a day in their former home last week.
“Enders,” Lykens Standard, 4 June 1909.
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Charles E. Paul, of Marion, Indiana, special examiner Bureau of Pensions, spent the latter part of last week in town with his father, Daniel Paul, who has been ill for several weeks with cystitis.
Lykens Standard, 30 July 1909
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Daniel Paul, who had been laid up for several weeks with bladder trouble is about again.
Lykens Standard, 13 August 1909.
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Letter from Daniel Paul
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, 14 October –
EDITORS STANDARD: — I will now write a few lines to let you know I am alive and where I am. Well I left Lykens on the 4th inst. And Harrisburg in the evening for the west; arrived at Constantine, Michigan, on the morning of the 6th; weather was fine; shook hands with friends several days; left on the 9th for South Bend, Indiana; remained there until the 13th; left for Chicago on Monday; it snowed some and was cold; ice formed one-fourth of an inch thick; and of course everything froze, but everything was ripe. I never saw such crops – the corn is immense, also potatoes, and as you go along on the cars and look right and left, you can see whole fields of pumpkins, watermelons, cantaloupes, and acres of cucumbers, tomatoes, and all kinds of vegetables going to waste. People are tired of them and the farmers have left them in the fields to decay. I just thought how glad you people in the eastern part of Pennsylvania, who on account of the drought were short of those vegetable, would be to have them. All fruit, except apples, is cheap here. Potatoes retail in Chicago at 65 cents per bushel. This is a great city – people are all in a hurry and it is a wonder that more are not killed at the street crossings where street cars and all kinds a vehicles go in every direction, beside the elevated railroad over head. Of course, it is the same in all large cities but as I have been in a great many cities throughout the United States it is nothing new to me. Chicago is scattered over a vast territory and they are building in every direction. The Gary Steel Works are a sight to see. They are supposed to be the biggest in the world. Although it is windy (this is called “The Windy City”) there is a dense cloud of black smoke over the city. All civilized nations of the world are represented here, and some that are not civilized. Beggars of every description accost you on the street for a penny, a nickel, or whatever you want to give them. Will close for the present, but write later from different parts of the country I visit. Am quite well at present. Good luck to all my friends.
DANIEL PAUL
Lykens Standard, 5 November 1909
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Daniel Paul returned Monday evening from his trip to Michigan and other points in the west.
Lykens Standard, 3 December 1909.
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News articles from Newspapers.com. This series will continue up through the death of Daniel Paul, which occurred in Lykens in 1911.
Special thanks to Debby Rabold, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, for discovering these articles about her relative.
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