The story of Johnstown : its early settlement, rise ... - JohnstownCafe

3- THE STORY OF JOI/XSTOWX.
Richardson. F .order of Deeds, etc. in and for said Count)', personally came B F Ruff.
J,
Howard H.iitlev and A V Holmes and acknowledifed tlie fore^oini; instrument to be their act
and deed tor the purposes therein set forth, and desired tliat the same mi,i.;ht be recorded
as such-
U'i!i\i ni\ hand and seal, the day and year aforesaid \ OFUCi.xL i
K J
Rl< lIAKnSON, / SE\!-. \
A'.r,.) ,/.7-.
And new t.' -i'l! : November 17th. 1S79. tlic within petition and certificate of Organization
having been presented in Open Court and due proof of the notice by publication re^juired by
the Act of Assembly entitled " An Act to provide for the incorporation of certain Corporations."
approved April 20th. i>74. ha\"ing been made and the said Certificate of Organization hav'ing
been pierused and e.xamined b\ the undersigned Law Judge, and the same having been found to
be in proper form and within the purposes named in the first class specified by the second
section of said Act of Assembly, and the same appearing to be law ful and not injurious to the
community, it is ordered and decreed that the said Charter is hereby approved and that, upon
the recording of the same and this order, the subscribers thereto and their Associates and successors
shall be a Corporation perpetually for the purposes and upon the terms therein stated.
Edwin H. Stowe,
Attest \ cotRT 1
B F KeNNEDV. ( SEAL \
Prolhoiiolayy.
Pre;i. jud^e C.'iiil Com. Phuis Xo. J. A!lc-g/u-nv Co.. Pn.
The aggregate wealth of the si.xty members of the chih foots tip dozens
of millions. The capital stock was increased to S33. 000. in order to provide
an attractive retreat for tlie owners and their friends. Could they but have
foreseen the fate of their innocent project !
-A. finer location for a pleasure resort could not be desired. The labor of
a force of men for two years w as expended in restoring and heightening the
dam. increasing th.e basin to a sheet of water three miles long and one mile
wide, of irregular oval shape. The task was completed and the 'water confined
in iSSi. forming the beautiful Lake Conematigh. Along the top of the dam.
thirty-fn'e feet in breadth and in the middle almost a liundred feet high,
ran a dri\"e-'\\'ay. Si.xteen handsome cottages and a club-house of fortvse\eii
rgon;s were erecti;d on the .green slopes which bordered the shores of
7^
the lake. Claude
Melnotte m i g h t
have deri\ed inspiration
from the
mountain ]i a r a -
disc to trace new
beauties in Lake
A EAK.M MuL^r. OS LAk- co.st.MACoH. CoHio for tlic Willing
ear of lair Pauline. The water was clear as Ponce de Leon's Fountain
of Youth, and tlie air pure and bracing as the health-renewing o.;one
of the CatskiUs. Tv.o steam yachts ploughed the basin of the lake, and excur.^ions
were frequent. Poating nn.l lishing parties irom Juhnstown enjoyed