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Erie Canal boat<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

      In the Episcopal buryin\u2019 ground in Hudson street are the remains of a man to whom New York State, New York city, and the country in general, are vastly indebted\u2013with a debt that will never be paid, not even in gratitude, not even in memory, for who of all the New Yorkers of to-day knows anythin\u2019 of Christopher Colles? And yet Christopher Colles was the man to whom the Empire State, as much almost as to Clinton himself, is indebted for the Erie Canal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The life and death of Christopher Colles isn’t very encouragin\u2019 readin\u2019 for a man of a thinkin\u2019 and inventive turn of mind, and it don’t speak at all well for the appreciation of men and things in old New York.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Christopher Colles<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

      Colles was an Irishman by birth, quite clever and tolerably well-educated. He could write and talk in five different languages, and was posted in all the scientific knowledge of his day. He began public life as a lecturer on scientific subjects, and got a hobby on internal navigation\u2013a first class hobby, by the by. He came over with his lectures and his hobby to this country, and went into internal navigation with all his heart and soul. There was such a big field for it here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      In one of his public lectures in the city, Colles was the first livin\u2019 man who ever suggested and recommended a navigable water communication between the Hudson River and the Great Lakes. The idea was thought a wild one, as impossible as it was grand, at the time when it was uttered, and when Colles commenced to agitate it practically people laughed at him just as they laughed at Fitch about the steamboat, and Morse about the telegraph. But Colles let \u2018em laugh while he talked and worked, and finally got a memorial of his hobby presented to the New York Legislature, and favorably reported upon by a committee thereof.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      This was the first startin\u2019 of a scheme which is to-day developed into one of the world’s familiar wonders, the Erie Canal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      But internal navigation wasn’t Colles\u2019s only hobby. He had another hobby, connected with water (most of his hobbies had something to do with water) which was quite as important to New York city as the Erie Canal itself. I mean the supplyin\u2019 of the Metropolis with water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Colles believed in New York and its growin\u2019 greatness. He saw that its water supply must soon be indefinitely increased, and seein\u2019 this he set himself to thinkin\u2019 about supplyin\u2019 this want. From the first he believed in gettin\u2019 New York’s water from Westchester county, and he tried to get a contract from the city for gettin\u2019 the water supply from the Bronx River.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 But even those two Hobbies were not enough for Colles. He paid his attention to the land as well as to the water, and, surveying the states of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia, got up road maps of these States for the use of travelers. These road maps then were what our railway guide books are to-day, only it cost poor Colles a great deal more trouble to get up his road map then it does the publishers to get up the railway guide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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      And yet with all his schemes for canals through New York State and all his schemes for supplyin\u2019 New York city with water, and all his road maps through the principal states of the Union, Christopher Colles got poorer and poorer, till, at last, this man of brains and ideas, this man of hard thought and hard work, had to make band-boxes, and peddle \u2018em for a livin\u2019 in the city of New York.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      And when the band-box racket had a lull, then he tried his cunnin\u2019 hand at other things. He mixed paints for the painters a while and kept soul and body just together on that. Then he went into manufacturin\u2019 proof glasses to test the quality of liquors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      And then at night he went about the streets of New York givin\u2019 exhibitions with a telescope\u2013which he made himself. At daytime he exhibited a microscope, of his own invention likewise, and between these two instruments night and day and a little marine telegraph which he put up on the old Government house at the Bowlin\u2019 Green, he managed to earn about a dollar a day, from a grateful (?) and appreciative metropolis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      He made some friends though, some friends worth havin\u2019–old Dr. Francis for instance, old John Pintard, Jarvis, the artist, Dr. Hosack and Dr. Samuel L. Mitchell, five of the very best and smartest men in old New York.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Speakin\u2019 of Colles’s friends, this Dr. Mitchell was himself a man who ought to be ever remembered in New York.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Not only was he for twenty years the leadin\u2019 physician at the old New York Hospital in its best days, but, when he was a member of the New York Legislature, he did for Fulton and his steamboat project then, what Fernando Wood did for Morse and his telegraph in after years\u2013gave \u2018em encouragement and official aid, got \u2018em what they were after, legislative sanction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Samuel L. Mitchell<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

      Perhaps it ain’t saying too much to say that every man and woman who now goes up to Albany on the fine day boats, or the still finer night boats, owes dead and gone Dr. Mitchell some gratitude, for if it hadn’t been for Dr. Mitchell’s comin\u2019 to the front with his wisdom and influence, and securin\u2019 Livingston and Fulton the privileges they wanted, the steamboat project might have been at least temporarily abandoned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      As it is, Dr. Mitchell had a hard time of it with the Legislature. The law-makers of that day laughed at what they called Fulton and Mitchell’s \u201chot water bill,\u201d and one of the members, makin\u2019 a speech, alluded to what he styled \u201cthe learned doctor\u2019s tea-pot boat,\u201d meanin\u2019 the steamboat. The legislators grinned, but the doctor got his bill through, and grinned at the legislators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Of course it was a thing for any man to be proud of, to have five such friends as those I have just mentioned. But one can’t eat friends. Friends ain\u2019t fire and food and clothes and house-rent; besides, Christopher Colles wasn’t the sort of man to live off of friends. So he struggled on as best he could. When he couldn’t do one thing, why he did another. When he couldn’t get a new suit of clothes he wore his old suit. When he couldn’t pay for fuel he did without fire, and when he didn’t have any food he did without a meal. But at last this haphazard sort of a life told on his health, and poor Christopher Colles was stricken with a fever. He got worse and worse, and raved in his delirium about his canals and his water supply, especially his pet idea, the Erie Canal, which he shared with Clinton.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Just before he died he dreamed he was goin\u2019 through Central New York towards Lake Erie on a canal boat, and with this dream, so delightful to him, he passed away. He died alone and in abject poverty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      And there were only three people at his humble funeral, in the Episcopal buryin\u2019 ground in Hudson street\u2013Reverend Dr. Creighton, the clergyman who buried him, and Dr. Francis and John Pintard, the chief and only mourners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      No memorial marked the restin\u2019 place of this progressive man and public benefactor, and the very name of the dead man is unfamiliar to our ears to-day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      But it strikes me forcibly that some of our rich men couldn’t honor \u2018emselves better than by doin\u2019 somethin\u2019 to honor the memory of poor Christopher Colles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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