The local committees of the Waterloo Library and Historical Society, and of the town of Waterloo, early determined to add to the Celebration, the dedication of a monument to be erected in the Academy Park, commemorative of the destruction of the Indian village of Skoiyase, located upon the site of the present village of Waterloo-and at the same time to combine a Re-union of former residents of Waterloo, to celebrate the semicentennial of the erection of the town of Waterloo, from Junius, in 1829, and accordingly issued a large number of special invitations to former residents of the town to be present on this occasion.

In response to invitations of the committee of the Centennial Celebration, and of the committee of the Waterloo Re-union,* a number of replies were received from invited guests some announcing, their intention to attend, and others regretting their inability to be present. Some of these letters appear in the Appendix.

TROOPS OF MOUNTED MEN, YOUNG LADIES IN WHITE, &C.

And now the work of preparation progressed from day to day; in some of the towns active efforts were successfully instituted to recruit and drill troops of mounted men to take part in the procession. In most of the

*See Invitation Circulars in Appendix.

towns, the young ladies were also enlisted in the cause. As they appeared, robed in white, on the day of the commemoration they formed an attractive feature of the procession.

THE LOG CABIN.

"My own native home, in the cot on the hill,

The place of my birth! Oh, it gives such a thrill

Of joy and sensation! I cannot forget

The little log cottage, I honor it yet "

The committee conceiving the idea of adding a very special attraction to the grounds, in the erection of a "Log Cabin," as a reminder of pioneer life, took the necessary steps to secure the requisite material therefor, and designated Tuesday, August twelfth, as the day for erecting the same.

A writer in the Seneca County Courier, describes the "raising" or erection of the log cabin, so fully and so well, that his account thereof, is given herewith, in full, as follows:

"The erection of the primitive Log Cabin on the Fair Grounds on Tuesday, to be used at the Sullivan Celebration, attracted a large number of people, fully six hundred being on the grounds at different periods of the day. The idea of erecting a log house similar to those occupied by the first settlers of this County, was conceived by Solomon Carman, and through his efforts the cabin has become a fixed reality, and is now in readiness for the celebration. It is a structure eighteen by twenty-four feet, and contains thirty-seven logs. The material, with the exception of the sawed lumber for flooring, etc., was secured, by contribution, from the farmers and others. Each of the following gentlemen furnished a log:

Caspar Yost, Jesse Snook, U. D. Belles, S. R. Welles, Wm. Ireland, Geo. K. Marshall, Michael B. Ritter, Geo.

Serven, Jedediah Pierson, Levi Reynolds, John W. Booth, Perry D. Shankwiler, M. Snyder. John Anderson, W. R. Pendall, Peter Traver, Henry S. Bonnell, G. Woodin, David Stewart, W. W. Vandemark, Charles Youngs, N. Seeley, Benj. Bacon, G. Bowdish, Samuel Thomas, Wm. Barrett, Fred Bacon, W. R. Bonnell, Walter H. Allen, Henry Kidd, Alfred Vail, Lorenzo Brownell, and Stephen Cadmus. Michael Thomas and A. F. Illick gave two each. The rafters were supplied by Martin Hough and Henry Bonnell; the material for chinking by Isaac Belles, and the skids by Barney Snyder; the rough slats for roofing were contributed by Charles F. Vandemark and Reamer & Hallsted, and the nails and windows by Carman & Allen; A quantity of scantling was furnished by A. H. Terwilliger & Co., and the chimney was constructed and presented by Charles W. Pratt.

At an early hour Tuesday morning the farmers began to come in with their logs and by eight o'clock operations were begun under the supervision and direction of Mr. Carman. There was a large number of volunteer helpers, including some of the best known citizens in the surrounding towns, and every man worked with a will. The logs at one corner of the building were hewn or notched by Prof. J. S. Boughton, while U. D. Belles, N. Seeley and Isaac Belles, carried up the other corners. Converse G. Johnson contributed one of the finest flag-poles ever erected in this section—a beautiful pine tree, seventy feet in height. This was placed at the south end of the cabin to bear aloft the stars and stripes.

At a quarter past five the colors were run up and floated to the north over the, as yet, uncompleted structure. As the folds of the "standard sheet" were given to the wind, three rousing cheers went up for "the old flag and Solomon Carman ;" but this did not satisfy the enthusiasm of the crowd, and again were given three as hearty cheers as

ever came from human throats, in honor of "the house that Sol. built." Again the men resumed the work with renewed zeal, and by six o'clock the rafters were up and roof-boards on. The building was finished up yesterday, and those who attend the celebration on the third of September will see an excellent fac-simile of the log cabins erected a century ago."

The executive committee, having set apart the log cabin as the headquarters of the pioneer settlers of the County and of the veterans of the war of 1812, imposed the duty of arranging and decorating the cabin, on Col. H. F. Gustin, who spared no effort to adorn the interior and exterior with furniture and equipments of the old time regime.

From the cross beams overhead, were suspended on wooden hooks, flint lock rifles, shot gun and musket, with powder-horn, bullet-pouch and shot-bag. On shelves in one corner of the room were arranged pewter plates and platters, with pewter drinking cups-and near by stood an old-fashioned water bucket, over which was suspended the gourd, as a drinking vessel.

In the open fire-place was the lug pole and trammel, iron pots and kettles used in cooking, bake kettles, skillets and spiders, gridiron, toasting iron, ladles, skimmers, toasting fork, fire dogs or andirons, with heavy shovel and tongs resting thereon. The wooden bread trough in which our grand-mothers kneaded their bread, and the braided straw bread-baskets, in which the dough was deposited preparatory to being placed in the bake-oven, with the olden-time flax wheel and hatchel were duly remembered, and the ancient bed warming pan was not forgotten, while pending from the beams were strings of dried apples and pumpkins.

In the open porch, the ox-yoke and chain, heavy Dutch

harness, Dutch scythe, sickle, winnowing fan, and other implements of old-time husbandry, had an appropriate place—while upon the exterior of the building, the neverto-be-forgotten coon skins were duly affixed.

In short, upon the interior and exterior, were displayed specimens of all the important articles of furniture, adornments and equipments of the log cabin of "ye ancient time."

A lady correspondent of the Waterloo Observer, under the nom de plume of "Jennie Van," wrote of the log cabin, in the following pleasing style:

"THE LOG CABIN."

One of the most interesting, attractive and suggestive objects of the Centennial Celebration at Waterloo is the "log cabin" erected on the Fair Grounds. The idea originated with one of the most esteemed citizens of that place, and met with ready acceptance in the community. Individual contributions and personal efforts have placed this model of an early home in western wilds where it now stands, and where it will, we trust, witness a bi-centennial. You will occasionally see in riding through the county, a few of these structures, greatly dilapidated and deserted, yet left standing, as if spared because of the tender associations of "home and hearth" that linger around them. Dark and cheerless-looking, doorless and roofless, they do not suggest the idea of a pleasant country residence, and would not figure as such in a photograph displayed in the window of a real estate agent. But this is a solid structure, genuine and true in its features, save, perhaps, the modern luxury of glass windows, which were unknown to early settlers.

We have said this "log cabin" was suggestive. It tells of the will, the purpose and enterprise, which led