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HISTORY OF ERIE COUNTY 449
On December 19, 1889; natural gas was first turned on in the City of
Sandusky.
On December 26, 1887, the Circuit Court decided the Baptist Church
ease against the city, giving the church the right to build an addition
to this building, which was then located south of the Episcopal Church.
On December 1, 1886, the Nes Silicon Steel Company Avas sold for
scrap for $11,000. This was one of the costly experiments which cost
the City of Sandusky over $200,000. They quit doing business
November 16.1882.
The Register of May 7, 1888, gives the death of James Hollister at
Buffalo. lie was a commission merchant in Sandusky in 1827 in the
Marsh Block, where the Wells, Fargo & Co. now have their express
office.
On February 3 and 4, 1883, occurred the most disastrous storm ol
rain and sleet ever known up to that time. On Market Street, west of
Columbus Avenue, it prostrated all the telephone poles for four blocks.
It swept away Abbott's bridge, near Milan, made the raihvay bridge
at Huron unsafe, and caused the Sandusky River at Fremont to overflow
to at least .two miles in width.
The Cleveland Plain Dealer in 1915 says of Dickens* visit: "A local
reader sends us this: 'I have read in "Forster's Life of Charles
Dickens" this letter of the great novelist: "Tuesday, April 26, 1842:
We lay all Sunday night at a town (and a beautiful town,.too) called
Cleveland, on Lake Erie. The people poured on board in crowds by 6
on Monday morning to see me. and a party of gentlemen actually planted
themselves before our*little cabin and stared in at the doors and windows
while I was washing and Kate lay in bed. I was so incensed at this
and at a certain newspaper published in that town which I had accidentallv
seen in Sandusky, advocating war with England to the death,
saying'that Britain must be whipped again, and promising all true
Americans that within the year they should sing 'Yankee Doodle' within
Hydu Park and 'Hail Columbia' in the courts of Westminster, that
when the mayor came on board to present himself to me according to
custom. I refused to see him and bade M. Q. tell him why and wherefore.
His honor took it very coolly, and retired to the top of the Avharf, with a
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