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Log of Earl W Baker 1/30/1917 – 2/1/1917

06 Thursday Apr 2017

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Jan 30, 1917

7.15 PM (AM) Ex. G Sales & L/2. E R could not go to show Wed. no so injured. Went to Richardson’s – class got along fine, too little dancing. Must cultivate H.D. & H. R. especially. Exchanged 1.50 for a 2.00 shirt & should have got one at $2.50. Must pay more attention to dress. Nautilus idea did not work out last night. Try again. Ex. 11.40

Feb 1, 1917

This poster is from the 1928 movie. Earl saw the woman who wrote the play act in it in 1917.

7.30 A.M. Wed. eve. I saw Jane Cowl in “Lilac Time” What a mistress of insight and emotion she is! And how sad a story to unfold. War – ruthless – grim – saturnine – And Jeanine – delicate- sensitive – courageous. Surely she typifies France, the France of Jean D’Arc & Lafayette.

And after the shoe – as antidote – reception at Rutherfords. Am in sore need of new suit, etc. Home late. (almost early) Thursday – saw in morning papers Germany’s new blockade note. This seems to be the culmination of our neutrality. The papers are headlining “War”. How utterly sick of war – and munitions – greed and all, some of us are. I am cherishing no illusions. It is only chaos. Are we actually feministic? Will war breed virility? Can I substitute a philosophy of hardihood and bravery and chivalry into my life, to take the place of trial by sword? Values such as thrift, patience, loyalty, steadfastness, and the unceasing concentration of the will on a well planned and worthy objective. Wm James planned a fight with nature, but surely our own devils need some quelling too.  Ex. 11.45 PM

Shoes 1.00 Dance 50 Post 5 Candy 20 Paper 3

Log of Earl W Baker 1/24/1917 – 1/29/1917

16 Thursday Mar 2017

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Mr. Baker’s penchant for not using full names makes me insane! This would be so much more interesting if we knew who he was interacting with… Here’s a bunch of short entries all at once. – SKH

Jan 24, 1917

Arose 7 A.M. Exercised – Lales H & I – Am certainly fickle. Full of sense -. A good pt. To observe 0 “Gratefulness.” Dancing class – met J.S. enjoyable eve. 12 P.M.

Jan 25, 1917

Arose 7.30 AM Exercised. Bad cold – posted last H/ part. Lazy – lack dignity & tact. Over egotistic. Home – typed 4 pages P. for S. 10.30 PM

Jan 27, 1917

26th Arose 7 A.M. Ex. – Club social in eve.

Admire L.B.’s fiance – adaptability – accomplishments.

Miss M there also Miss H. danced with both 12 PM

27 Arose 7.20 AM Ex. cold better – has interfered with my ambit. I do not employ tact sufficiently – quite boorish – home espec. Eve. shopped – 2 shirts 2.89 – piece of music 36, candy 20 – library. “Golden Bowl” by H. James 345. 12.45 PM

Jan 28, 1917

Arose 8.30 AM. Bathed etc. S.S. & Church.

Too critical at home. Home all day – lazy – nothing done. Miss A & B C. called. To Church in eve. Lectured by Hunterberg on the Jews. plea for tolerance and social admission – seemed gratified at the unique privilege of occupying a Christian pulpit. Bo’s copy of “Physical Culture” mag, B Mc F. advocates “vitelysing.” Wilson’s peace program receiving on the whole high commendation. “It’s now up to the Kaiser” 22 ¢ Ex. 11.15 PM

Jan 29, 1917

7.30 PM (probably meant AM) Ex. Received increase – 13.75 to 18.00. Must go thriftily & pay up bonds. Should get the habit of pushing my work. Looked over Lcrap (?) Book & find it valuable- note clipping which calls “Loveableness (sic) an aggressive quality”* – a stimulating view. Home in eve. – typed Haddock – “new thoughtism” Latest idea from the “Nautilus” – ‘charging the subconscious mind at sleep’ – its worth trying. Note that Eliz. Towne believes in astrology. Cold better. Cand 10 ¢ Ex. 11.15 PM
(*See “Human Confessions” by Frank Crane 1912??)

Log of Earl W Baker 1/21, 22, & 23/1917

05 Sunday Mar 2017

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Jan 21, 1917

Arose 9.A.M. – am unspeakably lazy and given to idle daydreaming – I went to S.S. – am anxious to resign as Sect. the position I have held three years – and seek new & deeper channels. Visited Mary Deane in P.M. She seems very helpless and very brave & cheery – seemed so please at my calling that I was quite glad I did.

Crestfallen not to have secured E. R for the P.M. Am over-sensitive and imaginative and must not give up so easily. My first move was squelched and have been in a mood for sackcloth and ashes. Ridiculous egotist, faint-hearted, & all tears.

Plato’s dictum is bearing fruit – already.

Jan 22, 1917

Arose 7 A.M. Exercised – at work early & noted H.D.’s approval. Need to cultivate self-restraint and tactful manner – am absurdly ill-spoken and conceited – and at home also.

Library & movie : Returned 11:30

Liberty 10 ¢ My Lady Eileen (note: Baker ends many entries with these sort of notes, mostly accounting of things he bought or fun he had like this movie he went to see)

Jan 23, 1917

Arose 7 A.M. Exercised. Work O.K. – G, I H/2 done. Day dreaming still. Attended lecture – Mexico this eve. Am neglecting homework. Wilson’s International Peace note, published today 11 P.M. Club Donation 50 ¢

Log of Earl W Baker 1/20/1917

03 Friday Mar 2017

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This post is the first in a series of transcriptions of the Log book of Earl W Baker of Poughkeepsie from 1917. I don’t know much about him other than his ancestors dumped a huge box of genealogy records and I was left to pick it up. This log book full of the thoughts of a man from Dutchess County (albeit not so Northern) from 100 years ago seemed interesting. I should have remembered that I was working on this and posted them on the corresponding dates, but hey. I’m doing it now (thanks, Emily). Like many efforts to keep a journal (*cough*or a local history blog*cough*), Mr. Baker does well out the gate but then by March is not posting but once in a while. Here’s the first entry and the quote that he transcribed on a page before that entry. My notes are in parenthesis.


There is no wealth but life.
Life, including all its powers – of love, of joy – of admiration.
-Ruskin

(Published in 1860, John Ruskin “Unto This Last” an essay/book about economy that changed Gandhi’s life when he read it)

Log of Earl W Baker 1917

Jan 20, 1917

This Diary shall be the record of my daily struggle for Self-Mastery. In it, I shall set forth Plans, Ideas, and Ideals, the lessons of Experience, gleanings from print, impressions of the passing Day.

To the End that I may have, in daily contact with my Life, an incentive, inspiration and goal: a reminder of past failures with the causes thereof. And a Viewpoint toward Life which shall be in Harmony with my real Ambitions and Purposes, and not in compliance with minor and incidental gratification.

‘Humanum est errare.’ (To err is human) I will analyze my failures; sound my blunders. And where I meet with Success, I will credit myself only with that part due to foresight and not with the success due to whim of chance or outside aid.

Now for my Ideals. Simply Honor & Personality. To Live each day as if it were Doomsday, wisely, thoughtfully, unselfishly – To Live each day to the very full – at the very Top of Perfection – my self at its Utmost Best – Alert – Responsive – Volatile. – To embody Energy, Courage, Enthusiasm and Hopefullness (sic)

– To be Gracious, Interested, Tactful, and Kind.

For this Year – This Slogan To Give my Best to Each Passing Moment.

‘Deo Juvante’ (with God’s help)

1917 Baker Log, page 1

1917 Baker Log, page 1

Poughkeepsie Female Academy

29 Thursday Jan 2015

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My great-great grandmother Mary Elizabeth Knickerbocker of Madelin (Tivoli) NY (later Mrs. Dr. John E Losee of Upper Red Hook) attended the Poughkeepsie Female Academy, graduating probably in 1855 at 18. At the time, most children received an “8th grade education” which was not something to look down upon. Those who cared to and could afford to would send their children on to academies and colleges which were often also boarding schools.

I have a half-dozen letters sent to her from her academy friends Mahala Clarke, Emma Robinson, Almira Culver, Kate Roosa, and Mollie Harris that I have transcribed and will begin a series of posts for each in February and March, but thought a little context and background might be handy, first.

Poughkeepsie Female Academy

Poughkeepsie Female Academy (New York Public Library)

When Mary Elizabeth Knickerbocker attended the Poughkeepsie Female Academy, the principal was Jacob C. Tooker. He was born c. 1800 and when he died in 1856 his widow Caroline Warring ran the Academy in his stead until 1859. They may have had two daughters, Sarah b. c. 1836 who appears in the 1850 census with them, and Ada b. c. 1851 who married John Warnick (they are buried in the same plot with her parents). Caroline died in 1891.

Jacob got a Masters from Union College in 1826. He was from Goshen and resided Montgomery, Orange Co in 1830 and 1840. In the early 1840’s he was a superintendent of Orange County public schools. From 1846-48 he was principal of Brockport Collegiate Institute, an academy west of Rochester (today, SUNY Brockport) where he…

“…was the outsider who was hired as the permanent principal. …There are contradictory remarks about the type of man he was, ranging from “fussy and difficult” to “jovial and well liked.” Principal Tooker and Mrs. Bates, who still ran the boarding establishment after her husband’s death, did not get along. The Trustee Board had to step in on several occasions to settle their battles. Principal Tooker also clashed with the students and was a strong disciplinarian. By the end of the school term in 1848, the board of Trustees had tired of Principal Tooker’s demands and complaints and terminated his relationship with the Institution.” – College at Brockport website

In the 1850 census he was the principal of the Female Academy in Poughkeepsie.  He, along with 60 men like Vassar, Hooker, and Adriance, loaned $300 each in 1853 to the Poughkeepsie Rural Cemetery Association and “were given the option of either being paid back once the cemetery began to sell plots, or using the investment to pay for a family plot.” “A Brief History of The Cemetery”

The Female Academy building was a “fine brick structure on Cannon street, near Market” with “heavy Doric columns” built when the school opened in 1837 per The History of Duchess Co NY, J. H. Smith. It does not exist today, not having survived urban renewal (search this blog/use the tags for posts regarding this topic).

Illustrated Poughkeepsie p.37

Building used as “Women’s Christian Temperance Union” in 1906

Urban Renewal Part 5

29 Tuesday Nov 2011

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Luckey Platt & Co department store, open for business in 1906

“LUCKEY, PLATT & CO., 332 to 344 Main Street, Poughkeepsie. Dry Goods, Carpets, Furniture, Wall Papers, etc. This business was started about the year 1845. From a modest business that required only a small store, the years have brought with them a success that has more than justified the firm in occupying the immense space they now use in carrying on their extensive trade. The present large proportions of the store have made it the largest in Poughkeepsie, in fact, by far the largest store on the Hudson river. The main building, an imposing structure of brick and terra cotta, was erected in 1901, and when completed was joined to the building already in use. Since that date by adding more stores, the firm now occupies something over 60,000 square feet of floor space. Not only is this store prominent in size, but it is equipped with the most modern fixtures, has in use three hydraulic elevators, four delivery wagons, besides outside cartage service. Storage buildings are also used for the accommodation of stock. The present title of the company has been in force since 1869. It now consists of Messrs. Edmund P. Platt and Smith L. DeGarmo, these two gentlemen being the sole proprietors of the store. There are twenty-six different departments, and about one hundred and twenty-five persons are employed.” (I&DP, p.22)

Because the Luckey Platt building was a bit further east of the largest sections of ‘blight’ and did not go out of business until 1981, the building still stands to this day, seen above in November 2011.  “Numerous expansions saw the store swallow up several surrounding buildings in a drive to become the handsomest and most comprehensive department store between Albany and New York.” (DCHS p. 90) It was last expanded in 1923 by architect Edward C. Smith. This is the size and height the building still has today.

330-346 Main St, Poughkeepsie, NY today

Luckey Platt was in its day one of the largest and most popular department stores between Albany and New York City. After the 1950’s when people and industry started leaving the City of Poughkeepsie the store’s decline began. Other places to shop located closer to IBM popped up to compete with the downtown shops. Congestion from the explosion of automobiles on the scene also made it more difficult to find parking. One of the first malls to open in the area was the Poughkeepsie Plaza (Marshalls, etc) in 1958. Zimmer Brothers jewelry store which had a shop in the central business district moved just outside the city limits on Raymond Ave. and remained open but many other businesses closed for good. 41,000 people lived in the city limits in 1950. Today, there are just over 29,500.

Main Street looking West with Luckey Platt on the south side of the street

Luckey Platt’s patronage tapered off to 15 employees on the first floor of their massive building when it closed a day ahead of schedule with little fanfare on July 2nd, 1981. A few firms and individuals tried to make use of the space after Luckey Platt closed. In the late 1990’s there were many arsons in the area and the city had to raze a block of old Victorian structures just up the street. However, in 2001 the main mall, once thought of as the answer to the problem of urban decay in Poughkeepsie was ripped up and restored to a through street. I banked at a bank on the main mall before it was torn up and I can attest that in the middle of the day it seemed more like the set of a post-apocalyptic movie than a business district.

“A Queens developer (Astoria-based Alma Realty) has spent the past four years converting the massive former department store into a combination of apartments and commercial space.” (POJO). Luckey Platt closed in 1981 after 112 years in business. “The city sold the building to Alma for $1 after Poughkeepsie spent more than $1 million to stabilize the 19th-century structure, an effort to make it attractive to developers. Alma has spent more than $15 million over the past several years to refurbish it.” (POJO). In 2008 the building opened for business again, this time as a combination retail and residential space. “The resurrection of Luckey Platt has demonstrated the potential of what some might have written off as just another lost cause.” (HVR p.171).

  • “Historic Luckey Platt ‘finally’ opens to tenants” by Michael Valkys, Poughkeepsie Journal Dec. 9, 2008
  • Illustrated and Descriptive Pougkeepsie N.Y., Enterprise Publishing Co, Poughkeepsie NY 1906 p. 22
  • “There Was Hustle But No Bustle” by Helen Meyers from In Their Own Words – Telling Dutchess County History, Holly Wahlberg, ed. Dutchess County Historical Society, Poughkeepsie, NY 2010 pp 88-93
  • Hudson Valley Ruins – Forgotten Landmarks of an American Landscape. Thomas E. Rinaldi + Robert J Yasinsac. University Press of New England, NH 2006 pp 164-171
  • Citi-Data.com, Poughkeepsie New York

Urban Renewal Part 4

28 Monday Nov 2011

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Main Street West from Washington St.

The pole on the right of the 1906 image advertises “Burro’s Ladies and Gents Quick Lunch Parlor, Open Day & Night, Try our Mocha-Java Coffee 5 cents, Best in the City, Steaks…” The image is too small to make out the rest, but the most expensive thing on their menu is 35 cents. In 2011, just down and across the street from Burro’s you can go to Karma Lounge and  get the Karma Dog, a bacon-wrapped house-made knockwurst with tomato-onion relish and fontina cheese on a pretzel bun for $12. The site Burro’s Quick Lunch Parlor is now part arterial, part parking lot.

The plans from the 1960’s for the Rt 44/55 arterial were approved in 1974 by the federal highway administration. It is all I have ever known and cannot imagine how congested traffic must have been before it. Times change, and landscapes change as society progresses. When industry shifted outside the city limits and the workers moved with it, much of downtown Poughkeepsie was left to fester. These 1906 images and descriptions give a sense of closeness and community that seems impossible when you walk down the lonely city streets today. Well-kept and prosperous establishments like Karma Lounge, the Bardavon and others are testament to Poughkeepsie’s perseverance.  I wonder what someone looking at the 2011 images will think of this city in another hundred years.

Next time, the final post in this series… Luckey Platt, a survivor of urban renewal.

Urban Renewal Part 3

23 Wednesday Nov 2011

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Today, two views of the same Poughkeepsie block, Market Street between Main and Cannon. Click to enlarge each set.

Market Street from Main, South

You’ll note the Bardavon sign and marquis on the west side of the street in the 2011 image on the right. In the 1906 image, the theater was called the Collingwood Opera House until it became a movie theater in 1923, then renamed the Bardavon. The theater is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. I don’t think I can do a better job than the Bardavon itself in describing its history, so for more information see their website – or better yet, October through June, the theater offers historic tours.

A structure which survives today (on the west side of the street a few doors up from the Bardavon with the peaked roof) still has evidence of a painted sign, clearly painted over at least once that read “Smith Brothers Restaurant”. The below entry can be found in the Illustrated and Descriptive Poughkeepsie, N.Y booklet, page 29. As it states, between the cough drop plant and the restaurant they provided almost 300 jobs for city residents which vaporized as time marched on. Another example of how different the world was at the turn of the 20th century lies in the fact that the most successful restaurant/caterer in Poughkeepsie didn’t serve a drop of alcohol.

“SMITH BROTHERS’ RESTAURANT AND SMITH BROTHERS’ COUGH DROPS – Nos. 13 and 15 Market Street. The name of Smith Brothers is well known all over the English speaking world as the manufacturers of the famous cough drops of that title. There is hardly a pharmacy or confectionery store, however small, that does not include this firm’s name in their stock in trade. The business is one of old establishment, having been founded in 1847. The cough drop business is the largest of its kind in the world. There are about two hundred persons employed in the manufacture of these drops; the capacity of the plant is between six and seven tons per day. In addition to this business, which has made their name so famous, they are better known locally by the fine restaurant they conduct and by the confectionery and bakery business, the latter being the largest and finest in the city, requiring five wagons to supply the patrons with goods; about ninety people are employed in these departments alone. The restaurant is the most modern and up to-date in the city and seats two hundred people. Also a large feature of their business is in catering, supplying parties, suppers, wedding spreads, dinners, etc., with every requisite, except in supplying or serving intoxicating drinks either in their own business or in the homes where they may be engaged to cater – a rule which has always been strictly adhered to. The kitchen is a model of perfection in cleanliness and sanitary equipment.”

Market Street from Cannon, North

There is no note or description about what’s going on in the 1906 image above, but there is a child with an American flag on the lower right. In the south view above you can also see a large American flag hanging in the middle of the Smith Brother’s Restaurant building. Chances are, the crowd is waiting for a parade. Also interesting are all the modes of transportation visible if you click to enlarge the set – from left to right are a horse and buggy, an early automobile, a trolley car and a bicycle. Structures that escaped urban renewal include the Collingwood/Bardavon and the bank building on the right. The building on the left is the 20th century expansion of the Nelson House hotel, abandoned since the 1980’s. There have been plans to demolish it and replace it with a parking lot. Sadly, the original historic hotel to the north of this was taken down in the 1960’s and the County office building (the white building with no windows on its south side) took its place.

  • Illustrated and Descriptive Poughkeepsie, N.Y., Enterprise Publishing Co, Pougkeepsie NY 1906.
  • Hudson Valley Ruins website
  • Thomas E. Rinadi & Robert J. Yasinsac, Hudson Valley Ruins – Forgotten Landmarks of an American Landscape, University Press of New England, NH 2006 p.
  •  “A Time of Readjustment: Urban Renewal in Poughkeepsie 1955-75” by Harvey K. Flad from New Perspectives on Poughkeepsie’s Past – Essays to Honor Edmund Platt. Clyde Griffin ed. Dutchess County Historical Society 1987 P. 165

Next time, a Thanksgiving break! Then two more posts in this series.

Urban Renewal Part 2

22 Tuesday Nov 2011

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Today, two more views of downtown Poughkeepsie, NY. First, Main Street East from North Hamilton Street. I should note the modern image was taken on Veteran’s day which accounts for some of the desolation, but not all.

The November 2011 image on the left shows one building with 1871 on the very top of its facade (out of frame); the only structure that retains its character from the 1906 image on the right. Something I find interesting is the proliferation of wires in the 1906 view. Not only were there telephone/telegraph lines and electric lines running from pole to pole, you can also see the fine lines suspended between the streets which serviced the trolley.

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Below, Main Street looking East from Market Street. Beyond the non-descrip modern structure on the left in the 2011 image is an empty lot. On the wall of the structure beyond that you can see the ironic mural from yesterday’s post. Click here for the link.

PAGE 33 Sweet+Carman PAGE 30 Charles Hickock Music PAGE 29 Smith Bros

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Illustrated and Descriptive Poughkeepsie, N.Y., Enterprise Publishing Co, Pougkeepsie NY 1906.

Urban Renewal Part 1

21 Monday Nov 2011

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Poughkeepsie Urban Renewal

The city of Poughkeepsie’s down-town urban area has come a long way in the last ten or twenty years after a long, hard fall into decay. After the second World War, three factors emerged that lead to this decline: industry changed and moved outside the city, people moved out into the surrounding town to be closer to work and their automobiles enabled them to travel farther to get the things they needed. Poughkeepsie’s once vibrant and bustling downtown area dried up and crumbled and by the 1960’s plans were enacted to raze or rehabilitate whole neighborhoods suffering from ‘blight’. The mural of by-gone Poughkeepsie was painted in 2002 by Franc Palaia who is pleased to see that the city is regaining some of its beauty in the the 21st century.

Plans to ‘renew’ these urban areas were implemented not just locally, but all over the country. In New York State, cities like Kingston in Ulster County and Newburgh in Orange County also had whole sections of historic buildings demolished and the most modern of dull-looking concrete blocks erected in their places.

Last year I bought a booklet at an auction that caught my eye, titled Illustrated and Descriptive Poughkeepsie, NY it was a sort of chamber of commerce booklet published in 1906. It features photos and descriptions of local businesses as well as photos of a handful of intersections. On flipping through I was struck by how busy and crowed the streets were not only with pedestrians, but chock full of prosperous business.

In the coming week, we will feature a selection of comparison photos from the 1906 booklet and photos I took on 11/11/11. The map I traced at right shows the locations from which I took the pictures. Click to enlarge all images.

First, something that hasn’t changed a bit: The Adriance Library on Market St. which has been recently renovated and restored.

And a scene that has changed entirely. Catherine Street, South from Mill St (Arterial Westbound).

Nearly all of the buildings in the earlier image are gone today. “The Mill-Catherine Street Project was instituted in 1955, in part, to increase parking…” as Poughkeepsie’s first foray into urban renewal. Though it was an expensive endeavor to raze the buildings that you see in the below image, the city employed federal grant money to get the job done. This project “displaced 20 families” among other things. As I walked up the street to Main St. from the arterial/Mill St. where I took the photo, a group of young men came across the nearly empty parking lot where I had parked my car (on the left) shouting and cursing at each other at the top of their lungs. It didn’t surprise me, and having lived in Poughkeepsie for five years I knew not to be afraid of everything, but I also carried several hundred dollars of camera equipment and smart phone and so didn’t waste time getting to the next shot.

  •  “A Time of Readjustment: Urban Renewal in Poughkeepsie 1955-75” by Harvey K. Flad from New Perspectives on Poughkeepsie’s Past – Essays to Honor Edmund Platt. Clyde Griffin ed. Dutchess County Historical Society 1987 pp 152-180.
  • Illustrated and Descriptive Poughkeepsie, N.Y., Enterprise Publishing Co, Pougkeepsie NY 1906.
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