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- By William Andrews
By William Loring Andrews New York: Anno Domini One Thousand Eight Hundred and Ninety-Five
"There's nothing hath enduring youth Eternal newness, strength unfailing. Except old books, old friends, old truth That's ever battling-still prevailing."
In the year 1828 there came to this busy, bustling, aspiring town, from the wilds of Indiana, one William Gowans,* [NOTE.—The family emigrated to America from Lesmahagon, Scotland, in 1821. They settled for a while in Philadelphia, and then moved to Fredonia, Crawford County, Indiana, traveling by wagon via Pittsburgh.] in search of fame and fortune. He was a youth of twenty-five, a Scotchman by birth, and whilom farmer and flat-boatman on the Mississippi. His experience when "a youth navigating the wild Ohio and the wilder Mississippi" may be given best by the pen picture drawn by himself. "Then there were no byways for boats to escape the rugged falls of the Ohio as there now are. All had to pass through the roaring straits of Scylla and Charybdis. We had, therefore, to plunge over unhesitatingly. Swifter than an arrow from an Indian's bow, or thought, or lightning, or the soul's departure from the body. Not a house stood upon the point of land formed by the junction of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, nor was the land even under cultivation, but in its primitive, wild, dreary solitude. I understand that it is now the site of a large, busy city (Cairo). Seventy miles below, on the west bank of the Mississippi, stood the deserted village of New Madrid, consisting of a few log houses, apparently empty, and the surrounding forest all dead, caused, as I learned, by an earthquake a few years ago. The land at this place sunk ten feet from the effects of the shock, and no doubt the concussion caused these monarchs of the forest to wither and die. Fifty miles still further down stood the [present] city of Memphis. The captain of our sluggish-moving boat landed at this place. I accompanied him up the bank, the river being low at the time, for the purpose of buying a supply of whiskey. The town, I remember, consisted of log houses inhabited by a very poor class of people. After falling down below this town about 50 miles, we met with no settlement until we reached the vicinity of Walnut Hill, now Vicksburgh, the distance being about 600 miles. The only music in the daytime which regaled our senses was the puffing and distressed moaning of the high-pressured steamers which occasionally passed up and down the river, as the case might be, and as an afterpiece, the wild screaming of the numerous flocks of paroquets which travel along the bank of the river after descending to a certain latitude; and in the night, the wolf's wild howl, not on Onolaska's shore, but the banks of the gloomy and solitary Mississippi. The only human beings we fell in with during this descent, which took six weeks, were certain roving, half-civilized whites who had pitched their tents at certain points for the purpose of cutting and preparing fuel for the steamboats passing up and down, and numbers of the native sons of the forest, who could be seen every now and then paddling their light canoes close in to the shore if ascending, and on the contrary, in the centre of the river if downward bound. At first these savage-faced, painted men somewhat alarmed me; but they frequently paid us a visit by coming alongside and on board of our own lazy craft. After becoming somewhat familiar with these grim, black-haired, half-naked fellow-beings, I began rather to like them, and wished for their frequent return to break up our monotony. They left the impression upon me that they were both generous and confiding. A party came on board one day; one of them could speak a little English. He informed us that one of their number was condemned to death for having murdered one of the tribe when intoxicated. We urged him to make his escape, as he appeared to be at liberty. We even offered to take him with us in our boat, but they all declared, as we could understand them, that that would be of no use, for in the event of his non-appearance for execution on the day appointed, his wife or one of his children would have to suffer in his stead. The three great rivers which discharge their heavy contents into the Mississippi—the Arkansas, the Yazoo and the Red rivers—at those points where they lost themselves in the great father of waters, were all solitary, heavy-timbered wildernesses. Not a human being appeared to have disturbed their native wild grandeur. Now I understand that at each and all of these points are busy towns, and likely to become large cities. At this time, according to his biographers, Abraham Lincoln must have been a fellow-boatman with me on these rivers, although I never saw him to my knowledge." For a twelvemonth after his arrival in New York Mr. Gowans was engaged in a variety of occupations—namely, that of gardener, stevedore, stone-cutter, news-vender and "super" in the old Bowery Theatre. Evidently he was prepared to turn his hand to any honest means of livelihood. But it was not long before he entered on his vocation, for in Longworth's Directory of New York City, 1829 to 1830, we find the name of William Gowan, bookstall, 119 Chatham Street, house 750 Greenwich Street, so by that time he was established, in a humble way, in the business which was to be his lifelong pursuit. Trade in second-hand books, doubtless, was coy and hard to win, and at the outset of his career he was obliged to seek a market for his merchandise by carrying it in a basket to the doors of his customers. In one of his rounds he chanced upon a benevolent Quaker, named Blatchley, who, apparently unsolicited, loaned him the sum of twenty-five dollars. When some time later the young man came to return the money, the considerate old gentleman suggested that he might have further need of this special capital, and that he had better keep it a little longer. His benefactor lived to see him established in, and paid him frequent visits at, his Nassau Street store. Mr. Gowans informs us that it was largely through the instrumentality of the father of Thomas Cole, the artist, who was a bookseller in a small way, that he himself adopted the profession. He it was who initiated him into the secrets of the secondhand book trade, disclosing his manner and mode of purchase, and the profit he made upon his literary wares. The bookstall at 119 Chatham Street was simply a row of shelves, protected at night and in the owner's absence during the day on his book-selling peregrinations with wooden shutters, an iron bar and a padlock. It was shortly succeeded by a store at 121 Chatham Street, corner of Pearl. In 1830 he occupied the "Arcade," between John Street and Maiden Lane. His business ventures must have been attended with a moderate degree of success, for in 1840-41 Mr. Gowans made a visit to Europe, probably not so much on pleasure bent as with an eye to business. He did not find London as attractive as has Mr. Elias Dexter, the old and well-known print and picture dealer, who never has returned to these shores since he left them, twenty years or more ago, on a flying visit to the British metropolis. In a letter from London during his sojourn there Mr. Gowans writes: "All my wanderings and all that I have seen since I left New York have had a tendency to raise America and its institutions in my estimation. I will feel happier in America, should I ever be so fortunate as to return, than ever I have been heretofore. America is the country for a man making his way in the world. In this country, so far as I can see, if you happen to be born among the mud you must remain there." On his return Mr. Gowans devoted his attention for a time to the book auction business, at a place called the Long Room, at 169 Broadway, but soon resumed his second-hand book trade, for in 1842 he was established at 204 Broadway, opposite St. Paul's Chapel, up-stairs. His subsequent locations, as given on the covers of his catalogues, are as follows:
1844--63 Liberty Street, up-stairs. 1848--178 Fulton Street, opposite St. Paul's Churchyard. 1856--81 to 85 Centre Street (Caxton Building). 1863--115 Nassau Street.
He seems to have enjoyed the proximity of the quiet graveyard of St. Paul's Chapel. Perhaps he found it conducive to a quiet and reflective turn of mind; or was it, on the contrary, the noisy attractions of Scudder's American Museum that allured him? This popular place of amusement stood within a stone's throw of his premises, on the site of the old Herald Building. It contained specimens of natural history and cosmoramic views, to which the charms of music and sundry "extraneous exhibitions" were added to give variety to the entertainment. The dulcet strains of the brass band stationed upon the balcony in front of this building—but hidden behind the flaring posters which covered its front—on pleasant afternoons, must have penetrated to the inner recesses of Mr. Gowans's stores on Fulton and Nassau Streets. These "al fresco" instrumentalists were fair-weather performers only, for Fitz-Greene Halleck tells us, in his poem of "Fanny," that "music ceases when it rains in Scudder's balcony." Afterward, as Barnum's Museum, this building became the home of the Mermaid, the Woolly Horse and the Perpetual Motion, and the same melodious method of attracting the attention of the passer-by was successfully practiced. Mr. Gowans's store at 115 Nassau Street extended through to Theatre Alley, a distance of over 100 feet. He occupied the store floor, basement and sub-cellar, which in time became crowded with books and pamphlets from floor to ceiling. His stock grew and never diminished. Books lay everywhere in seemingly dire confusion, piled upon tables and on the floor, like Pelion upon Ossian, until they finally toppled over, and the few narrow alleys which had originally been left between the rows became well-nigh impassable. There was no artificial light in the cellar, and the book-hunter must fain grope his way—if permitted—through the bewildering maze by the light of a small tin sperm-oil lamp. The freedom of Mr. Gowans's bookstore was not presented to every passer-by. There was a certain attempt at arrangement and classification, but the owner of this vast store of printed matter could have had but an imperfect knowledge of what it contained; although I fancy that few of the real book rarities that came into his possession were overlooked, and I am quite sure they were seldom undervalued by him. His prices, when once fixed, were as unalterable as the laws of the Medes and Persians. They were marked in plain figures in the front of the book, and the cost price in cipher at the bottom of the twenty-fifth page. I am told by Mr. E. W. Nash (Mr. Gowans's clerk for twenty years), that at the time of his employer's death the stock was estimated at 300,000 bound volumes, besides pamphlets innumerable. Eight tons weight of these were sold by his executors at four and one-quarter cents per pound. A few years earlier he could have realized ten cents per pound (including covers), and could he have smuggled them into the Southern Confederacy during the war he would have reaped a fortune. Although a large proportion of this mass of books and pamphlets was of small interest or value to the bibliophile, still one possessed of sufficient energy and perseverance, and with abundant leisure to delve into these semi-subterranean stores, occasionally might return with a handful of treasure-trove. In a letter to the Journal of Commerce, dated January 15th, 1886, Dr. William C. Prime records a discovery which he made in the cover of a book which he had unearthed in this dusky depository: " It was a small quarto volume, containing two books bound in one, a work of Jerome Gebuiller on the origin and ancestry of Ferdinand, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, printed at Haganau in 1530, and an account of the siege of Vienna by the Turks, under Suleiman, in 1529, printed at Augsburg, 1530. The volume was bound in paper boards covered with calfskin. Inside one of these covers were found the following sheets, which had been pasted and pressed together to form the binder's board, a common practice with the 16th century binders: First--A sheet printed in a large and beautiful black letter, four pages of Low Dutch poetry. Second.-Two sheets from a book, " Exposito Sacri Canonis," a small 16 mo. page, Roman type. Third.--Two sheets from a small (16 mo.) Book of Hours, black letter, late 15th or early 16th century. Fourth.--The last sheet of a black letter 12 mo. book, religious, in Dutch, having one full-page woodcut, the double eagle device of the printer and the colophon of Vosterman. Fifth.--Four pages or one sheet of a neatly printed missal in red and black. Sixth.--Two sheets of a black letter book in Low Dutch—prose and poetry-with colophon of Vosterman, no date or woodcut device. Seventh.--Two sheets from an edition of Despauterius's Latin Grammar, circa 1542. Eighth.—Some sheets of brown paper." An enterprising firm of booksellers in this city placard their window in this enticing fashion: "25,000 books at our price, 50,000 at your price, 100,000 at any price." It was books in the last-named category of which Mr. Gowans was the most liberal purchaser. He, or his representative, was in constant attendance at the auction room. When the auctioneer could obtain no other bid, the lot would be knocked down at a nominal price to "Mr. Chase," Mr. Gowans's commercial pseudonym. Thus he bought extensively without making serious inroads into his capital. At these auction sales Mr. Gowans appears to have been addicted to a practice of interrupting the auctioneer with questions concerning the book that was passing under the hammer. When the celebrated John Keese filled the "pulpit," Mr. Gowans always found his match. A work entitled "History of the Taters," was offered for sale. "Is not that Tartars?" asked Mr. Gowans. "No; their wives were the tartars," was the immediate reply. There are many amusing anecdotes still in circulation that illustrate the ready wit of this popular member of the book auction firm of Cooley, Keese & Co. People flocked to their evening sales as they would to a play, and the comedian Burton, it is said, regarded them as no contemptible rival to his theatre in Chambers Street.
A full list of Mr. Gowans's customers and casual visitors would go far toward supplying the material for a social register and a roll-call of the men of letters of the day. In it we find the names of John Howard Payne, Fitz-Greene Halleck, MacDonald Clark, Millard Fillmore, Rufus Choate, Audubon, the ornithologist, William Cullen Bryant, Dr. Bethune, Dr. William C. Prime, John Carter Brown, Henry Ward Beecher, Dr. S. S. Purple, Dr. Brandreth, of pill fame, Hon. John Bigelow, Robert Balmano, John Romeyn Broadhead, George Brinley, William Allen Butler, George Bancroft, S. L. M. Barlow, Fredericks. Cozzens, George W. Childs, Alexander J. Cotheal, George William Curtis, Judge Charles P. Daly, Evert A. and George L. Duyckinck, David Dudley Field, S. C. Goodrich (Peter Parley), James A. Garfield (before the war), Washington Irving, James Lenox, Daniel D. Lord, Benson J. Lossing, Henry W. Longfellow, George P. Morris, Bishop McIlvane, Henry C. Murphy, James Parton, Henry T. Tuckerman, Richard Grant White, Gulian C. Verplanck, General Dix, and so on. The list might be extended indefinitely. In one of the notes with which his catalogues are interspersed, and which bear the singular nom de plume of "Western Memorabilia," Mr. Gowans informs us that in 1847 he met the "venerable widow of Alexander Hamilton, and took the opportunity of making several inquiries of her regarding Washington, which met with ready and satisfactory answers." He noted that her eyes still possessed their youthful brilliancy, although her other features showed all the marks of extreme old age, as she was then nearly one hundred years old. Mr. Gowans states that he frequently came in contact with John Howard Payne, and that he impressed him as a melancholy, despondent, heart-broken man. The last time he saw the poet was on the eve of his departure on his mission to the Barbary States. He said he had had great difficulty in procuring his appointment, and was compelled to bear his own expenses in repairing to his post of duty—the Government having refused to defray them. Mr. Gowans foretold correctly, that notwithstanding all the songs, dramas, newspaper and magazine criticisms, and biographical sketches Payne had written, posterity would know him only by his single song of "Home, Sweet Home." MacDonald Clarke, "the mad poet," was a daily visitor at Mr. Gowans's store for more than twenty years. "He appeared," says Mr. Gowans, "to have the simplicity of a child, the innocence of the dove, but none of the cunning of the serpent. By nature a poet, but wanting cultivation sadly; nor would he read Shakespeare or Milton, nor any of the great poets, 'lest,' said he, 'I should spoil my own originality.'" From Mr. Audubon, the author of " The Birds of America," Mr. Gowans received the following account of his unfortunate experience with his monumental work: " I did not sell more than forty copies of my work in England, Ireland, Scotland and France, of which Louis Philippe took ten, and offered to subscribe for a hundred if the work was published in Paris." The following subscribers received their copies, but never paid for them: George IV., The Duchess of Clarence, The Marquis of Londonderry, The Princess of Hesse-Homburg; an Irish Lord (whose name Audubon could not give) took two, and paid for neither- the same could be said of a wealthy citizen of the United States. Audubon further stated that he sold only seventy-five copies of his book in America (twenty-six of which were sold in New York and twenty-four in Boston); that the work altogether cost him twenty-seven thousand pounds sterling, and that by it he lost twenty-five thousand dollars. When Edwin Forrest first appeared upon the boards of the Bowery Theatre, Mr. Gowans was connected with that institution in a minor capacity, and enjoyed the opportunity of seeing him act nightly. In 1865, thirty-five years later, he saw the tragedian again, in "Richelieu" and "Hamlet," and declared, that as an actor he pleased him better in 1830. "Nevertheless," he states, "his popularity appeared undiminished, and at all the performances the theatre was literally crammed from roof to foundation." Shortly after the first arrival of Fanny Kemble, Mr. Gowans witnessed her performance at the Park Theatre, where immense crowds flocked to see her, and declared that she was '' matchless as an actress, and divine as a young and beautiful woman." Fifteen years later Mr. Gowans saw and heard her again in the New York Tabernacle, at Broadway and Worth Street, and found that she had grown stout and unattractive. Mr. Gowans devotes much space in his "memorablia" to that singular character, Eleazer Williams, the reputed lost Prince of the House of Bourbon, son of Louis XVI., who was said to have been committed to the care of some unknown person, and by him either carried or sent to America and consigned to a certain tribe of Indians in the western part of New York State, who adopted him and brought him up in their wild habits and customs. By some means he obtained a good education, and after due preparation was ordained by Bishop Hobart, in 1826, and as a minister of the Episcopal Church passed the best part of his life among the Indians. To Mr. Gowans he appeared to have a striking resemblance to Louis XVI as represented by the engraved portraits that he had seen. "Large, massy, full face, aquiline nose, dark eyes, swarthy complexion, heavy, corpulent frame, and he spoke in slow, solemn tones." Dr. John W. Francis, the well-known physician, and a recognized authority on old New York and New Yorkers, was acquainted with Williams for half a century, and he also thought he looked very like a Bourbon. But there have been no less than thirty pretenders who from time to time have posed as the ill-fated Dauphin. Mr. Gowans once asked Eleazer Williams his own views upon this matter. His reply was that "ambition, worldly pride, vanity and notoriety would seem to prompt his carnal mind to adopt the view that he was the actual heir to the French throne; but again," he said, "Christian humility and a consciousness of my position forbid me to entertain such worldly and ambitious views. I therefore have left the whole subject to those who feel any interest in such discussions, to make of it what they may." This is a method of unburdening one's conscience which recalls the story of the artless maiden who, having decided that her fine gowns were leading her to perdition, generously bestowed her entire wardrobe of ball-dresses upon her dear sisters.
For eight months Mr. Gowans lived in the same house with Edgar Allen Poe. He tells us that he "saw much of and often had an opportunity to converse with him," and he testifies that he never saw him in the least affected by liquor or knew him to descend to any known vice, while he was one of the most courteous, gentlemanly and intelligent companions he had ever met with. His wife he describes as of matchless beauty and loveliness, and of a temper and disposition of surpassing sweetness, and he quotes these fond lines of Poe addressed to her:
"But our love it was stronger by far than the love Of those who were older than we, Of many far wiser than we; And neither the angels in Heaven above, Nor the demons under the sea, Can ever dissever my soul from the soul Of the beautiful Annabel Lee."
The first important collection of books catalogued by Mr. Sabin was that of the comedian, W. E. Burton, in 1860. In 1864 he catalogued the collection of the old Scotch antiquarian, John Allan, of pleasant memory. The title on the cover of this catalogue was not composed by Mr. Sabin. In his opinion it was awkwardly constructed, and, not being willing to father it, he signed himself as "Compiler of this catalogue, the cover excepted." Among the one hundred and fifty or more libraries which Mr. Sabin is said to have catalogued was that of the Shakespearean scholar, Richard Grant White, who remarked, as the result of his observations, that if anybody thought that bibliography was an easy subject he should serve an apprenticeship under Joseph Sabin. The book auction sales at which Mr. Sabin officiated included some of the most important that have occurred in this country. The last at which he presided was the great Brinley sale. This was divided into five parts, and the sale of the third part was set for March, 1881, but was postponed on account of Mr. Sabin's ill-health. His family had already been informed by his physician of the fatal character of his illness. On April 4th Mr. Sabin began the sale, and conducted it to a satisfactory conclusion. On this occasion he had the pleasure and high bibliopolistic distinction of selling the only copy of the Mazarin Bible that has ever been brought under the hammer on this side of the Atlantic. The book was bought by the late Hamilton Cole for $8,000, and the sale created a sensation in the book-buying world, which was revived when the two volumes again appeared at auction in the dispersion of the collection of Mr. Brayton Ives, and were taken to Chicago at a ransom of $14,800. The preparation of the Dictionary was begun about 1860. The prospectus was issued in December, 1866, and the first part was published in 1867. It continued to make its appearance in parts at irregular intervals until the death of the author. It was his "old man of the sea." Early morning hours, the small hours of the night, and stolen moments in cars and on shipboard were devoted to it. At Mr. Sabin's death eighty parts, describing over fifty-eight thousand lots, had been issued, bringing the work down in alphabetical order to the letters Pa. The manuscript left unpublished is now being revised by Mr. Wilberforce Eames, of the Lenox Library, and thirty-six additional parts have so far been printed, completing the work as far as the word Smith. In his process of revision Mr. Eames occasionally must meet with the handwriting of the founder of the institution he serves, as Mr. Lenox was especially interested in this particular work of Mr. Sabin, and rendered him valuable assistance by bringing him titles of rare books in his own collection, which were unobtainable from any other source. Mr. Sabin was a genuine lover of books and a patient, painstaking student of bibliography. He was a better bibliophile than he was a merchant, and his customers would often find him more eager to discuss the bibliographical points of his literary wares than to effect a sale of them. It is not surprising that he should disrelish having his dictum called in question, and that he sometimes met an assumption of superior knowledge with a show of impatience. A youth once brought him for sale a volume of the Mexican Boundary Survey, published by the United States Government. Mr. Sabin told him that it was not perfect, but should be in two volumes. The young man insisted that the book was perfect until Mr. Sabin closed the discussion by saying jocosely, "Young man, if that work was contained in one volume it would make a book as thick as your head." Thirty years ago the art of bookbinding was not receiving in this country the attention now bestowed upon it. A step in advance is credited to Mr. Sabin, to wit, the substitution of calf for the cheaper and less durable sheepskin previously so extensively employed by American binders. Mr. Sabin died in the harness. Against the advice of his physician, he undertook the auction of the third part of the Brinley Library, and his labors in connection with it may have hastened his death, which occurred at his Brooklyn home on Sunday, June 5th, 1881. His funeral services were conducted by the Rev. Dr. Collyer, and he was buried in Cypress Hills Cemetery. They say that there is no money in the old book business; however that may be, there is certainly in this, as in any other honorable pursuit, something quite as much to be coveted as financial success, and that is the regard and good-will of one's business associates. These Mr. Sabin enjoyed. Mr. John Pyne, his near neighbor for many years, said of Mr. Sabin at the time of his death, that he was the acknowledged head of his profession, and was loved and appreciated by all who knew him; and sums up a pleasant tribute to the memory of his friend in these words: "His love for rare books passed into knowledge which he used for the benefit of all who had the pleasure and profit of knowing him."
Mr. Bradburn dealt largely in secondhand law, theological and medical books, and his shop was a veritable boon to impecunious students of theological seminaries and academies of medicine and to briefless attorneys and counselors at law. Books of a less utilitarian character, but possessed of more charms for the bibliophile, also found their way to his shop; and the patient searcher for rarities might at any moment stumble upon one tucked away among the volumes clad in prosaic legal calf which lined his shelves. When first I knew this veteran of the old book trade he was a pleasant-faced, elderly man, with an air of prosperity and contentment about him, in puzzling contrast to the surroundings of his dingy, contracted, but typical old bookshop. The book business prospered so well with Mr. Bradburn that he was able to make investments in such choice Manhattan real estate as Central Park and Fifth Avenue lots, the "unearned increment" of which in course of time made him well-to-do. There is not much ozone about old books, nevertheless dealing in them appears to be conducive to longevity. C. S. Francis, to whom we have still to refer, died at the age of eighty-five; and I have had lately the gratification of sending Mr. Bradburn my congratulations upon his attainment, on April 5th, 1895, of his ninetieth birthday, in good health and the full possession of his faculties. One of Mr. Bradburn's near neighbors was John Pyne, a "man of many friends," who, we are told, resembled Joseph Sabin in this, that he never smoked tobacco or used alcoholic liquors. Mr. Pyne removed from Nassau Street to the corner of Broadway and Astor Place. Not meeting with the success he had anticipated, he returned to his former stand, but found that many of his old customers had drifted away. He finally abandoned the second-hand book business and entered the Register's office of the City of New York, where he remained until his death, in 1894. In Nassau Street, between Fulton and Ann Streets, was the bookshop of T. H. Morrell, at one time the rallying place for antiquarians interested in old New York and Revolutionary history. Mr. Morrell was more conspicuous as an "extra illustrator" than as a dealer in rare books, although he had acquired a knowledge of and trafficked to a considerable extent in the latter. His pronounced penchant was for books on the drama, New York City, and the American Revolution. Although the books he "extra illustrated " were for sale when completed— unless executed to order—he lavished upon them all the skill and taste of an experienced and enthusiastic amateur. His knowledge of the class of prints to which he confined his attention was thorough, and he inserted in his books the choicest and rarest that he could procure. When necessary he had them repaired and restored by George Trent, that unequalled adept in the art of cleaning, mending, and inlaying books and prints, and then consigned the volumes to the skillful hands of the binder, William Matthews. A lasting monument to Mr. Morrell's zeal and industry is the copy of Dr. Francis's "Old New York," which he illustrated and extended to nine volumes. This book finally came into the possession of Mr. J. H. V. Arnold, and at his sale was purchased by Joseph Sabin for Robert L. Stuart at a cost of $230 per volume. It contains over twenty-five hundred prints, water-color drawings and autographs, and among the latter are either letters or signatures of all the mayors of New York up to the time the book was completed. It is by far the most extensively illustrated copy of any book upon New York local history, and will probably never be equaled, for there are no prints which have become so scarce as those which relate to old New York. The lithographic plates in Valentine's "Manual," which earlier collectors affected to despise and hesitated to use, have become Hobson's choice with the "extra illustrator " of this fair city of Gotham of today. Mr. Morrell had always betrayed strong dramatic proclivities, and he finally donned the tragedian's garb. His formal entrance to the stage was made in the character of Cardinal Richelieu, and he selected Philadelphia as the scene of the first and, as I am informed, last public exhibition of his histrionic ability. A few steps further up Nassau Street (No. 140) brought the book-hunter on his rambles to "Old Hollingsworth's," who afterward migrated to the east side of Broadway, near Great Jones Street. He dealt in prints and old magazines; and although his shop was a mere cubby-hole, it was well for the book or print collector to make in it occasionally a tentative cast of his drag-net. Around the corner, in Fulton Street, was the store of Timothy Reeve and Company, who dealt exclusively in imported rare and standard books, which they sold at retail and to the trade generally throughout the country. They relinquished business in 1866, and were succeeded by the present firm of S. B. Luyster and Company. Allan Ebbs was located on the west side of Broadway, near Fulton Street. His specialty was high-class and handsomely bound English books. In 1870, with his family, he took passage for Europe, and was lost on the "City of Boston." C. S. Francis should have had an earlier place in these sketches. He came to the city in 1826 and opened a store at 189 Broadway, near Dey Street. From there he removed to 252 Broadway, under the famous old Peale's Museum. For many years his store was the headquarters for men of letters and lovers of books. His brother, D. G. Francis, who succeeded him in business, although advanced in years, has only within the last few months relinquished the management of the oldest established bookstore in this city. Mr. C. S. Francis published the first American edition of "Aurora Leigh "; and the writer has in his possession Mrs. Browning's note in relation to Mr. Francis's acquisition of the copyright, which reads as follows: "Having received what I consider to be sufficient remuneration for my poem of 'Aurora Leigh' from Mr. Francis, of New York, it is my earnest desire that his right in this and future editions of the same may not be interfered with." This warning to trespassers is prominently displayed in the edition published by Mr. Francis in 1857.
C. B. Richardson, bookseller and publisher of the Historical Magazine, Pollard's "History of the Rebellion," and a number of Southern books, occupied with the old-established firm of book auctioneers, Bangs, Merwin and Company, a building at No. 594 Broadway, near Houston Street. Mr. Richardson suffered a partial loss of his stock in a conflagration on the 19th of September 1864, which at the same time destroyed many rare volumes, the property of Thomas Aspinwall, U. S. Consul to London, the collector of many of the choice books of the late S. L. M. Barlow. Astor Place was for some time and until quite recently a bookselling and publishing centre. Here were established John Wiley and Son, whose business consisted largely of the importation of books bought to order in Europe. Mr. Lenox obtained through their agency his beautiful copy of the Mazarin Bible, the finest of the only two copies of this monument of typography that have ever been brought to this country. The figure of "Old Cronin" bending beneath the weight of the ponderous folios and quartos, which were his principal stock in trade, has been for many years a familiar spectacle in the downtown streets of New York. I am told that he still lives and plies his trade, although he has become quite blind. Another original character incidentally and spasmodically engaged in the old book business was "Jimmy" Lawlor, who kept an uninviting little shop at the lower end of University Place. For a time he enjoyed a virtual monopoly of a fruitful source of book supply. He would purchase by the cubic foot the contents of old garrets, and bought many of his books by the pound, together with the household pots, kettles and pans. The valuable books that occasionally turned up in these job lots cost him next to nothing, and were cheap to his customers if he charged a profit of one thousand per cent. Acquisitions from this source required careful collation on the part of the buyer; still it was surprising how much knowledge of books Mr. Lawlor picked up in the course of his business career. Other dealers in second-hand books in New York thirty to sixty years ago were M'Elrath and Bangs, Calvan Blanchard, Samuel Rayner, Charles B. Norton, and John Doyle, whose signboard modestly declared his place of business in Nassau Street to be "the moral centre of the intellectual world." The old bookshops of the metropolis before the Civil War were for the most part small and unpretentious; but good books and rare ones were constantly to be found in them by alert, persevering and intelligent collectors, and in those days it did not, as it unfortunately does now, require the bank account of a millionaire to ride the hobby of book collecting or indulge in the kindred pursuit of the gentle art of angling. Indulgence in fond recollections of bygone days is considered an infallible sign of approaching senility, and we are assured that the present days are a vast improvement upon any that have preceded them. Doubtless they are-with exceptions-for the book-hunter with a slender purse beyond all question has seen his best days in this or any other land. Alike from the Quay Voltaire, Piccadilly and Nassau Street,
"------the fabled treasure flees, Grown rarer with the fleeting years, In rich men's shelves they take their ease." ....ALDINE'S BODONIS ELZEVIRS.
The magazine began its career with the respectable number of 369 subscribers. The list is headed by their Excellencies the President and V ice-President of the United States, and in its columns appear the names of New York's most prominent citizens, the Jays, Duers, Bleeckers and DePeysters, Richard Varick, Gabriel Eurman, Elias Hicks and John Pintard. There are also a goodly number of out-of-town subscribers, among them Ralph Izard, of Charleston, and the Van Rensselaers, of Albany, and curiously, there are not a few names from that—in those steamerless days—far-off land of the blue noses, Nova Scotia. The New York Magazine certainly began its career under fairly promising auspices, and should have enjoyed a longer period of usefulness. The literary feast which the editors of the New York Magazine spread before its readers was sufficiently diversified to suit the most catholic tastes. It embraced meteorological observations, historical sketches, essays, travels, hints on gardening, short stories, tales of adventure, Congressional reports, foreign and domestic intelligence, marriages and deaths. A large portion of its space was devoted to poetical effusions, and the editors appear to have made every effort to foster the budding American muse, and assist in its laborious ascent of Mount Parnassus. The stories are either of the highly sensational or sentimental order, and are generally pointed with a moral. All are clothed in the stilted phraseology, ornate to the point of grotesqueness, that flowed in such full and turgid streams from the pens of eighteenth-century story-tellers. The poetry leans to the pathetic and lovelorn, and is attuned to touch the tender sensibilities of the members of the gentler sex who were among the favored readers of the only literary magazine of the day. What a fluttering of maidens' hearts there must have been when this sugar-coated sonnet appeared in the department of "selected poetry ":
Illustrations in the New York Magazine are as delightfully varied in character as are its literary contents. Pictures of birds, beasts and flowers are there to please and instruct the embryo naturalist. Views in foreign parts are presented in great variety. By the magic wand of the artist we are transported in open-eyed wonder from the great Pagoda at Tanjore all the way to Kamschatka, stopping long enough en route to catch glimpses of Mt. Etna in a violent state of eruption, and to stand aghast at the sight of a vessel with its shrieking, living freight, on the point of being engulfed in the Maelstrom of Norway. By way of fashion plates we are furnished with pictures of the Esquimaux Indians, of Hudson's Bay, and the dresses of women in the Isle of Nio, in the Grecian Archipelago. The titles of the illustrations to the stories suggest their romantic and sentimental character: "Her Sense had fled," "The Cornish Lovers," "Edwin and Angelina," "Alcanzar and Layda," "Despair, or the History of Delia and Lorenzo," "The Death of Adonis," and "The Babes in the Woods." What a waste of the engraver's time and skill! Would that some good fairy could have stood at his elbow and induced him to give us instead of these copper-plate platitudes more pictures of our beloved city in those olden times. If we omit the portrait of Isaiah, the prophet, which we are hardly justified in believing to be a veritable likeness, we are furnished with only two "counterfeit presentments," those of the Revolutionary heroes, Generals Greene and Wayne. Scattered through the pages of the magazine are a number of views of places in different sections of the country, of which the most important from an historical or topographical standpoint are the following: "West Point from the North as it appeared at the close of the War." "The Palisades." "Town of Kaatskill. Hudson River." "Inside View of the New Theatre, Philadelphia." (A picture of great interest to the collectors of American dramatic illustrations.) "A View of the Town of Boston from Breed's Hill in Charlestown, and another of the Bridge over Charles River, Mass.," will delight the eye of the Bostonian. When he has secured these prints, the engravings of a similar character that are to be found in the Massachusetts Magazine, Paul Revere's noted engraving of the Boston massacre, and the print of Castle William* [Built by Colonel Romer, A. D. 1704, by order of the General Assembly of the Province of Massachusetts.] in the Harbor of Boston, he will have captured about all the graphic memorials of this early period in the history of his native city that exist. The local topographical illustrations which give the magazine its unique value and importance to the New York collector remain to be noticed. They are, with one exception—that of Federal Hall—the only existing pictures of the places they represent, made at the period to which the magazine belongs, or, as far as I am aware, at any previous epoch in the history of our city. These engravings number ten in all, and seven of them appear in the first volume. Two views of the Monument and of the Lighthouse at Sandy Hook are of minor importance; the remaining eight subjects are as follows: "An East View of Trinity Church" (the rebuilding of which had just been completed). "A Perspective View of the Federal Edifice in the City of New York" (then lately reconstructed. As before noted, a contemporary picture of this building, on a larger scale, is to be found in the Columbian Magazine). "A View of Columbia College in the City of New York." "A View of the Present Seat of his Excellency the Vice-President (John Adams) of the United States." This is properly styled a "rural view." It was the famous Richmond Hill House, built by Abraham Mortier, Paymaster General of the Royal forces. It stood embowered in trees and shrubbery near the banks of the North River, at the southeast corner of Varick and Charlton streets, on what was then the road to Greenwich. It was occupied in the summer of 1776 by General Washington as a country residence, and afterward assumed additional historical importance as the residence of Aaron Burr, at the time of his duel with Hamilton. It was sold by Burr's creditors, after his flight, to John Jacob Astor for $25,000. A View of Hell Gate is the last illustration in Vol. I. With this plate the artist appears to have exhausted for the time being this valuable material for his pencil. No other pictures of buildings in this city appear until 1795, in Vol. V., when we are given a view of Belvedere House, a building erected on the banks of the East River, near Corlear's Hook, in 1792, by thirty-three gentlemen composing the Belvedere Club.
The January number of 1795 contains an interesting engraving of the Government House, so called because it was appropriated to the use of the Governors of the State, although originally intended as a presidential residence when it was thought that New York would be fixed upon as the Capitol City of the country. This building was erected on the spot where Fort George formerly stood, fronting Broadway. The view is taken from the northwest corner of the Battery near the end of Greenwich Street, and shows a part of the city and some portion of the Battery. In the same volume (October, 1795) we have the last of these attractive pictures of old New York. The series closes with a view of St. Paul's Church, which displays, in addition to the chapel, the lower portion of the City Hall Park, then surrounded by wooden palings. The spire of this venerable edifice still points heavenward, as it did in the days when Anderson drew its graceful outlines, but every other architectural landmark depicted in the pages of the New York Magazine has long since vanished as completely as the baseless fabric of a dream. With the exception of a few comparatively large engravings, such as the memorial portrait of Washington standing on a pedestal in front of Bowling Green (also engraved by Tiebout), that rara avis among New York prints known as the Rip Van Dam plate of the Middle Dutch Church, and the "Federal Edifice" in the Columbian Magazine, the old periodical before us supplies all the engravings of New York in the latter part of the last century that to the best of my knowledge exist. These penciled records of the past are few and simple, but precious in the sight of every collector of memorials of this goodly town of Manhattan, and in their modest, unpretentious way they supply important links in the chain of our topographical history.
" One of the books we read about But very seldom see."
"Courteous Reader: "I suppose that my Almanack may be worth the money that thou hast paid for it, hadst thou no other advantage from it than to find the day of the Month, the remarkable Days, the Changes of the Moon, the Sun and Moon's Rising and Setting, and to foreknow the Tides and the Weather; these with other Astronomical Curiosities I have yearly and constantly prepared for Thy Use and Entertainment during now near two revolutions of the Planet Jupiter. But I hope that this is not all the Advantage that thou hast reaped; for with a view to the Improvement of thy Mind and thy Estate, I have constantly interspers'd in every little vacancy, Moral Hints, Wise Sayings, and Maxims of Thrift, tending to impress the benefits arising from Honesty, Sobriety, Industry and Frugality, which, if thou hast duly observed, it is highly probable that thou art Wiser and Richer many fold more than the Pence my Labours have cost thee. Howbeit, I shall not therefore raise my Price because thou art better able to pay: but being thankful for past Favours, I shall endeavour to make my little Book more Worthy thy regard by adding to those Recipes which were intended for the Cure of the Mind, some valuable ones regarding the Health of the Body. They are recommended by the Skillful and by successful Practice. I wish a blessing may attend the use of them, and to thee all Happiness, being
All old Almanacs bear a close family resemblance, which extends to the inferior quality of the paper upon which they are printed. After the title comes an address to the "Kind" or "Courteous Reader." Then appears the conventional, sprawling, disembowelled figure representing the "Anatomy of Man's Body as Governed by the Twelve Constellations," followed by an Ephemeris of the Planets' places for certain days in the month, and then the monthly column of the Calendar begins with spaces left at the top and sometimes at the sides, devoted to reading matter. Frequently only alternate pages are occupied by the Calendar, and the intervening ones are filled with the overflow of wit and wisdom from the spaces, or "vacancies," as Franklin calls them, in the Calendar itself. The pamphlet closes with two or three pages containing sundry items of local interest, tables of distances, rates of duties, and the like. In all Almanacs up to the year 1752, the old style of reckoning was observed, the year beginning on Lady's Day, March 25th. For the convenience of their patrons, the editors of these astronomical diaries provided them with blank memorandum leaves, many of which, covered with the commonplace entries of everyday life, still remain intact and in place. Those who parted with these little books often neglected, either through ignorance or indifference, to remove pages never intended for other eyes than those of the original owners. This is not a matter of surprise either to the bibliophile or the collector of antiquities. Many a treasure which comes to their net uncovers a dead, and to all appearances, discarded past. In the backs of miniatures still lie soft coils of braided hair, and the cover of an old book, with its inscriptions and interlocked emblems and ciphers, is often a poem in leather and gold, replete with romantic interest and full of sad suggestions. The weather predictions of Philomath, it seems, were more to be relied upon if taken by contraries than literally, if the following story has any foundation in fact, although, to be as honest as the story-teller in the " Legend of Sleepy Hollow," I don't believe one half of it myself. A noted Almanac maker, wending his way through the country, halted at a farmhouse, and after watering his horse gathered up the reins to proceed on his journey, when he was informed by the attendant that if he went on he would certainly get wet. Glancing at the sky, in which he was unable to discern a cloud the size of a man's hand, he declared that he could see no indication of an approaching storm, and would take his chances. In about an hour the clouds gathered and the rain fell. Impressed with this remarkable fulfillment of the prophecy he had rejected, our traveler retraced his steps to the farmhouse, and offered the wiseacre a half dollar for the secret of his ability to so correctly forecast the weather. "Nothing easier," said he. "We have that old fool's (here he mentioned the name of the man in the wagon) Almanac in the house. For today it foretold fine weather and very dry. So I knew it would surely rain before night." The line upon line and precept upon precept of these little waifs of books is quaint, old-fashioned literature, but quite as profitable reading now as it was a century ago. We have a sample of its quality in the following extracts from " Poor Richard" and "Hutchin's Improved ":
"I never saw an oft-removed tree, Nor yet an oft-removed family, That throve so well as those that settled be." "For age and want save what you may, No morning sun lasts a whole day."


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A leading religious conservative warned Newt Gingrich Wednesday that he risks losing the support of evangelical women voters if the Republican presidential hopeful refuses to publicly address his "turbulent marital history."
"Mr. Speaker, if you want to get large numbers of evangelicals, particularly women, to vote for you, you must address the issue of your marital past in a way that allays the fears of evangelical women," Richard Land, president of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, said in an open letter to the former House speaker. "You must address this issue of your marital past directly and transparently and ask folks to forgive you and give you their trust and their vote."
Mr. Land urged the new GOP front-runner to take a page out of Arizona Sen. John McCain's 2008 presidential playbook.
"Even my own mother, a rock-solid evangelical, was extremely uncomfortable voting for Sen. John McCain until he acknowledged to Rick Warren that the failure of his first marriage was the greatest regret of his life and it was his fault," Mr. Land, referring to the high-profile evangelical pastor who hosted both Mr. McCain and then-candidate Barack Obama in an influential forum during the 2008 race.
Mr. Gingrich's marital troubles, including two divorces have cast a shadow over his political career and presidential campaign, leaving many to wonder whether he can win over social conservatives in the nomination contest, which kicks off in Iowa where evangelicals play a major role.
Two of the Georgia Republicans three marriages are said to have fallen apart thanks to Mr. Gingrich's extramarital activity. Mr. Gingrich has acknowledged cheating on one of them, with his current wife, Callista, while he served as speaker and pushed for the impeachment of President Clinton over the Monica Lewinsky affair in the late 1990s.
In a March interview with the Christian Broadcasting Network, Mr. Gingrich touched on his marriage problems, saying he had sought "God's forgiveness" for his actions.
"There's no question at times of my life, partially driven by how passionately I felt about this country, that I worked far too hard and things happened in my life that were not appropriate," Mr. Gingrich said.
"What I can tell you is that when I did things that were wrong, I wasn't trapped in situation ethics, I was doing things that were wrong, and yet, I was doing them," he said. "I found that I felt compelled to seek God's forgiveness — not God's understanding, but God's forgiveness."
Mr. Land, though, suggested in his letter Wednesday that Mr. Gingrich still has his work cut off for him, while advising him to give a speech on his marital history in a "pro-family venue."
"You need to make it as clear as you possibly can that you deeply regret your past actions and that you do understand the anguish and suffering they caused others including your former spouses," Mr. Land wrote. "Make it as clear as you can that you have apologized for the hurt your actions caused and that you have learned from your past misdeeds. Express your love for, and loyalty to, your wife and your commitment to your marriage. Promise your fellow Americans that if they are generous enough to trust you with the presidency, you will not let them down and that there will be no moral scandals in a Gingrich White House."


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The programme was prepared for air forces that do not have the money to purchase an aerial tanker.
September 2011 Archives
Previously there were only indications, subtle ones. Now it is said openly - Rafael, one of Israel's leading manufacturers of weapons systems, has decided to develop a new line of products fully suited for use on unmanned air systems (UAS).
In the past, a very recent past, Rafael has said that it "adapts" some existing weapons systems for use on UAS.
The Israeli company has developed some very advanced weapons systems, such as the Python-5 and Derby air-to-air missiles, the Spice add-on kit for bombs, the Spike missile that is currently used on helicopters, and others that are still classified.
The growing use in the world of armed UAS for different types of missions has spurred the evaluation of the international market for these downsized weapons systems.
Israel has never revealed any programmes of armed UAS. Foreign sources have reported on Israeli UAS performing "surgical" attacks on targets in the Gaza Strip.
Rafael has downsized full-size intelligence-gathering payloads carried by fighter aircraft for use on UAS. The best example is the company's Recce-U, a downsized version of its Reccelite tactical reconnaissance pod.
The change is natural. As UAS become direct substitutes to manned aerial platforms for many types of missions, the need for dedicated "tools" is obvious.
It can be assessed that the Israeli company, with its vast, almost unparalleled experience in developing very special weapons systems, will make a major effort to answer that growing need.
Technical flaw, human error or terror act? Each of these possible causes of jet fuel contamination should turn on a big red warning light in the offices of security chiefs in airports around the world.
That is the recommendation of Israeli aviation security experts who investigated fuel contamination that affected the operation of Ben-Gurion international airport in Tel Aviv in May.
The investigation into the jet fuel contamination at Ben-Gurion on May 5 showed that the source of the unidentified substance was from outside the airport. This very general assertion is worrying.
The investigation committee that was formed by the ministry of transport says in its report that no aircraft was refuelled with the contaminated fuel, after the filtration system managed to block it.
The committee recommended that a second jet fuel tank farm should be built in the airport, with separate refuelling lines.
The fuel contamination caused the immediate stoppage of refuelling. Airlines were instructed to refuel at airports in Cyprus and Jordan.
Refuelling at Ben-Gurion was resumed on May 10 after it became clear that the refuelling system in the airport was clean.
The fact that even after the extensive investigation no-one knows exactly what happened is something that calls for more action to avoid such incidents, whatever the cause.
The experts say that jet fuel tank farms are the "soft belly" of many airports around the world.
At most of them they are located outside the fenced perimeter of the airport, and that makes them an easier target for terrorists.
Is the way helicopter pilots operate in poor visibility about to change?
Tests that are planned in the coming months will determine whether this will happen.
A very advanced uncooled IR sensor developed by Elbit Systems for its passive flight system will be test flown before the end of the year.
The passive flight system is being developed for armed forces' utility helicopters. It will enable pilots to see the outside world in a 220° by 40° view in high resolution.
In bad weather, the system will show the contour of the ground to prevent the helicopter hitting the ground.
The system presents the outside world along with flight data and other relevant data through a very advanced pilot helmet.
According to the Israeli company, the system will include not only the advanced uncooled IR sensor, but additional ones. These will "build" a sufficient picture of the outside world to enable the pilots to function in a high degree of safety.
Elbit says that the system will solve a major problem facing helicopter pilots, "in the best way the technology allows at this point".
The development of the system is another effort by Elbit Systems to use all its technological resources to supply the pilots with the tools for safe operation under most of the conditions that they might face.
If there was scepticism about the initiative, it disappeared. The need simply eliminated it. The USA needs it, other fighting armies need it. Active protection on low-flying aircraft is an urgent operational requirement.
When Flight exposed a few months ago that Rafael plans to adapt its Trophy active protection system for use on helicopters and transport aircraft, some experts raised their eyebrows.
A few days ago, while visiting one of Rafael's main facilities, the issue was raised again. The senior company official was very clear that this time "there will be active protection for low-flying aircraft, simply because there is no alternative".
These words proved again that the Israeli company is already working on adapting the technology used in its Trophy system aimed at protecting tanks and APCs from rockets and shells for aerial use.
The Trophy creates a hemispheric protected zone around the vehicle, in which incoming threats are intercepted and defeated. When a threat is detected, identified and verified, the system launches the classified interceptor and it deflects and destabilises the rocket or shell so that it does not hit its target.
While Israeli air force helicopters are using EW systems against missiles, there is a need to protect them against weapons such as RPG rockets. These have downed many helicopters in Iraq, Somalia and Afghanistan.
Converting the systems will involve downsizing them and changing the way the interceptors are launched to defeat the incoming threat.
The adaptation process is not simple but as the Rafael official put it, "there is no alternative". And when this is the situation, a company such as Rafael is at its best. Rafael managed to field the "Iron Dome" system that protects Israeli cities from rockets, three years after a decision to develop it was taken.
Israel needs more intelligence satellites, and some are in the design and production process.
Unlike in the past, some of the new ones will be in the mini and micro classes.
The demand for these visual data collectors orbiting Earth will be greater than ever before.
Intelligence about hostile and dangerous countries, such as Iran, is useful when it supplies such fine detail.
The mission in the case of optical satellites is on the shoulders of Elop, a division of Elbit Systems.
In the division's labs in Rehovot, scientists are stretching the technology to build the next-generation Jupiter high-performance space camera.
This system will enable Israel to launch small intelligence satellites that offer excellent resolution.
Elop has made the optical payloads for all of the Israeli intelligence satellites launched so far.
According to Elop general manager Adi Dar, the Jupiter is intended for installation on micro and mini platforms.
He added that the new space camera payload is optimised for high-resolution images.
The new system will allow very detailed high-value target investigation, definition of small and discreet vehicles, objects and structures, high-quality intentions and warnings (I&W) and situational awareness. I&W is a process of strategic monitoring that analyses indicators and produces warnings.
The advanced camera contains both panchromatic (PAN) and optional multi-spectral (MS) imaging capabilities. By sharing a common optical assembly it is capable of simultaneous operation and the creation of PAN, MS and pan-sharpened images.
According to Elop, from an altitude of 600km the Jupiter camera provides very high spatial resolutions of 0.5m resolution (PAN) and 2m resolution (MS) while covering a swath of 15km.
When neighbours become angry, frustrated, impatient or even violent, you tend to look over the fence to be ready for any possible outburst.
This is exactly what happens now in the Middle East, and that forces Israel to have the capability to see what is going on in its neighbours' yards, and sometimes in their living rooms.
This is one reason why the Elop division of Elbit Systems is upgrading the capabilities of its long-range oblique photography system (LOROPS), which is marketed under the name Condor-2.
The extra capabilities are aimed at allowing Israel and other countries to get stand-off intelligence under all conditions.
Elop general manager Adi Dar confirmed that the system is being upgraded so that it can operate above the 100km range that is the official operational range.
He was not ready to give specific performance details but said that the new range will be "tens of kilometres better".
Dar also confirmed that the company is improving the night capability of the system.
The Condor-2 is housed in a 300-gallon pod, which contains the camera with an array of CCD detectors in the focal plane, a video processing unit and a scanning mirror. The peripheral units such as the data link transmitter, digital VTR, air conditioning unit, power supply and recce management unit are also installed in the pod.
The LOROPS has day and night capabilities that are interchangeable during missions.
The Condor-2 EO/IR generates simultaneous high resolution visible and IR images, covering wide areas in a short time span.
Dar said that the main advantage of the oblique photography system is the reduced risk to the aircraft by enabling photography at higher altitudes and longer stand-off distances. "Stand-off intelligence is becoming a very high priority operational requirement."
Israeli sources have pointed out recently that changes in countries such as Egypt and Syria create the stand-off operational need.
The fully autonomous system can operate from a wide variety of platforms including supersonic fighter aircraft, business jets and maritime patrol aircraft at altitudes of up to 65,000ft.
The combination is a winning one. You take an unmanned air platform and put on it a sensor, a very advanced one. The result - a tool for the battle arena that can save many lives.
This effort has already produced some very interesting combinations, but Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) has only unveiled one so far. This is not because the company is against boasting about its successful programmes, but because the initial client, the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF), is against.
Recently, IAI has admitted for the first time that it is developing passive sensors that allow aerial platforms to locate the source of hostile ground fire.
The company has partially unveiled the OTHELLO - the Optical Hostile Fire Source Locator.
The OTHELLO, developed by the ELTA division of IAI, is a passive optical fire locator that detects and precisely locates the sources of hostile fire (anti-tank guided missiles, RPG, cannon fire and gunfire) on the battlefield.
The system automatically transfers the data to weapons systems that can take out the threat.
Ground fire has become a major threat to slow low-flying aircraft, mainly helicopters.
The Israeli company has not released details on the versions that are tailored for aircraft.
But knowing the way the Israeli defence industries work, there is no doubt that this is only the very small tip of the iceberg.
The fast suppression of ground fire aimed at helicopters became an operational requirement during the Second Lebanon War.
Sources say that all the lessons from that war were implemented in the new systems.
Israel's prime minister and president will have to continue travelling on state missions using a "regular" passenger aircraft belonging to one of the Israeli airlines.
These chartered flights were about to become history, if a plan to purchase a dedicated VIP aircraft for these official flights had been implemented.
The big demonstrations in Israel in recent weeks, in which the crowds demanded a major change in the government priorities affecting the cost of living, have put the VIP aircraft programme on hold.
A year ago, the Israeli ministry of finance issued the RFI that should have started the process aimed at selecting a dedicated VIP aircraft to fly the Israeli president and prime minister to visits in foreign countries.
Currently, these flights are performed by one of the Israeli airlines, and in the past by an Israeli air force 707.
The RFI included three options - a dedicated aircraft for these official flights, a dual-use aircraft that will be operated by an airline between the official flights, and a long-term agreement with an airline that would commit to adapting one of its aircraft to the required configuration at short notice.
Sources say that this is "not the right time" to make a decision, in spite of the fact that each chartered aircraft performing the state flights undergoes a "mini conversion", mainly of the passengers cabin, and that is reflected in the bill the airline that is selected by a tender submits to the relevant ministry.
The first decision to install countermeasures was made in 2002, but disagreements between ministries slowed the process to a halt.
Earlier this week, however, a threat alert generated a number of "precautions" - and a decision to expedite the installation process.
The alert coincided with a certification process launched by the Israeli Civil Aviation Authority. When this process is complete, the Elbit Systems C-MUSIC countermeasures system will be ready for installation.
The 2002 decision was to use the Israel Aerospace Industries flare-based Flight Guard system as an interim solution, but this did not come to pass.
Adi Dar, general manager of Electro-Optics (ELOP) - the Elbit Systems division which developed C-MUSIC - said the certification will be applicable for use on Boeing's 737, 747 and 777 and Airbus's A-320.
C-MUSIC is based on the MUSIC system - a direct infrared countermeasure
for military aircraft and helicopters, which causes missiles to veer off course by firing a laser beam.
Dar said the system's reliability, rapid response and ability to deal with multiple threats makes C-MUSIC one of the most advanced systems of its kind in the world today.
According to the Israeli government decision, C-MUSIC will be installed on Israeli aircraft.
After certification is complete, the Israeli government will then have to prove that even after long delays it is serious about its own resolutions.
The threat has been real for years. The experts say now is the time to be ready to foil it.
A change of generations? A leap forward in technology? The definitions can be different, but one thing is sure - hovering platforms are taking over the missions of aerostats.
Hovering air vehicles (HAV) are becoming more efficient and there is a very clear operational trend to use them instead of good old aerostats.
Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI), a leading developer of unmanned air systems (UAS), is a natural source for advanced HAVs.
The company recently highlighted its Electric Tethered Observation Platform (ETOP) as a direct substitute for tactical observation aerostats, deployed along borders and near sensitive installations.
IAI is in the final phase of developing the ETOP, which will become a "family" of very advanced systems in different sizes.
ETOP is an electrically powered, tethered, airborne platform that can be used for observation, surveillance and other applications.
ETOP can either be deployed from a static station, a maritime platform or from a moving ground vehicle. It can carry a payload of up to 20kg and operate up to a maximum altitude of 100m.
ETOP combines an electrically powered aerial platform and a ground system that includes the means for automatic deployment, cables, and a mission management unit.
"We see a meaningful potential market for these systems, mainly in countries that are operating aerostats, but not only," an IAI source said.


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Probably the best known Linux effort coming from Brazil is Conectiva Linux. In development since 1997, Conectiva is a privately held commercial company providing a localized distribution, training and other services for the Latin American market. It is best known for developing a port of Debian's apt for RPM-based distributions, as well as a graphical package management tool called Synaptic. During the course of the last few years, Conectiva provided employment to a number of well-known Linux developers, including Marcelo Tosatti, the current maintainer of the 2.4 kernel series, Alfredo Kojima, the creator of the WindowMaker window manager, and Esveraldo Coelho, the designer of the popular Conectiva Crystal icon sets for KDE. It is interesting to note that all code developed by Conectiva has been released under GPL. The Conectiva Linux distribution is in active development and the upcoming version 10, currently in beta testing and scheduled for release in the 2nd quarter of 2004, will incorporate the latest kernel 2.6, KDE 3.2 and GNOME 2.6.
Compared to Conectiva, Kurumin Linux is a much younger distribution, a community-driven project led by Carlos Morimoto and Flavio Moreira. Based on Knoppix, but stripped down to fit on a mini CD and with support for installation on hard disk, Kurumin has converted a substantial number of computer users to Linux. The two main reason for its dramatic success are great looks and a wealth of documentation written in Portuguese. Kurumin Linux is a well-designed distribution with plenty of eye-candy, logical menu structures, a custom control panel for common configuration tasks and a feature called "magic icons" (see screenshot). Perhaps even more importantly, the Kurumin developers have contributed an enormous amount of quality documentation for novice Linux users, in an easy-to-understand language. No wonder that its forums are buzzing with interest and new versions are released on a regular basis. Kurumin Linux is one of the most influential Linux community projects created anywhere in the world!
The success of Kurumin is evidenced by a number of other projects that use Kurumin Linux as a base. One of the more ambitious among them is Kalango Linux, which attempts to expand the original small set of applications to include some of the often requested ones, thus creating a more complete distribution for desktops. Another Kurumin-based distribution is the newly launched Tupiserver Linux, which as the name suggests, is specifically designed for servers and excludes desktop software. Yet another project with Kurumin as its immediate parent is Dizinha Linux, a distribution designed for old computers, where all resource-intensive applications are substituted with smaller and lighter alternatives.
Brazil's commercial Linux companies face the same challenges as their counterparts in other parts of the world and several attempts at creating commercial Linux distributions for the local market appear to have failed. Tech Linux and LuminuX are two RPM-based distributions which have not produced new releases for nearly two years, while the Slackware-based Definity Linux is a commercial Linux distribution with a comparatively small user base.
One of the most unique projects developed in Brazil is GoboLinux (web site in English). GoboLinux is a Linux distribution which attempts to redefine the UNIX file system hierarchy and replace it with a more intuitive one; see our recent coverage here. GoboLinux's latest release, version 010, was included as a cover disk in the January 2004 edition of Brazil's most influential Linux magazine - Revista do Linux. Other projects from Brazil include MURIX (web site in English), a fairly quiet source-based distribution for advanced users, CEMF Linux, a Slackware-based distribution that can be installed on a FAT32 partition and Litrix, another Slackware-based project, a live CD derived from SLAX and fully localized into Brazilian Portuguese. Also based on Slackware is Projecto JoLinux, one of the first distributions shipping with kernel 2.6 earlier this year.
The wealth of locally developed open source projects has not gone unnoticed by Brazil's authorities. In October 2003, the country's government signed a letter of intent with IBM pledging to develop initiatives that will promote the use of Linux in Brazil. Some of these initiatives include Linux training for government officials and programs to encourage deployments of Linux-based systems in small and medium-sized businesses. The implementation of these programs will be monitored by a small team comprising of government experts and IBM employees. Earlier last year, Brazil launched a program to migrate 80% of public sector computers from Windows to Linux, starting with a 3-year pilot migration in one ministry.
Brazil is often referred to by the general population as a "country of football and samba" (pun not intended). As for the computer enthusiasts among us, it is safe to call it a "country of Linux and Free Software".
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Road weary after back-to-back games and strong wins, Midway's varsity Raiders didn't have much fight left in them Friday when they hit the Rosewood court. The Raiders fell 63-52.
Assistant Raider coach Matthew Creech attributed the loss to that fatigue and injuries that left the team with only 8 healthy players going into the game with Rosewood.
Some of those injuries came during Midway's win Thursday against South Johnston, the second of three road games for the Raiders this week.
"But I also have to tip my hat to Rosewood, they came out and played very aggressively. They did a great job and we were up to par."
In Friday's game, Rosewood took an early 15-6 lead and never looked back. The home team led throughout, amassing a 30-16 lead at the half and only adding to it to stay ahead at the end of three, 47-28.
Justin Thompson led the Raider scoring Friday with 24 points. Quincy Baggett contributed 8; Michael Hall, 8; Heath Smith, 7; and Tyler Pope, 4.
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Two nights earlier, on Thursday, Midway got the road win 64-53, but came away with a lot of injured players.
"Our hat is off to the boys because they showed a lot of heart as they fought through the adversity to win the game. It was a good win against a 3A school, and we were very pleased with the way they played," Creech said.
Justin Thompson led the Raider scoring Thursday with 12 points, Raheem Thomas added 11; Baggett, 10; Taylor Calcutt, 9; Hall, 6; Pope, 7; Jordan Killett, 4; and Smith 3.
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Three teens from different times are each facing problems in their lives. One day they are all transported to a totally different time and place with the help of the mysterious "Time Game". Their only hope of returning home is to accomplish an unknown task set forth by the game. However, the dangers in the game are very real. And what would an adventure be without a little romance?
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"I know," was the reply from the man who had called this meeting. It was set in a narrow alleyway in New York, and the year was 3231. The first was merely an accomplice to the second, who was a highly-esteemed inventor. However, in order to avoid the ever-present possibility of attracting the press, this meeting had to be staged somewhere discreet and deserted. No one ever walked these streets anymore, and since there was no moon or stars tonight, the inventor saw this as a perfect opportunity.
"We can't keep pretending the government will have anything to do with this!" continued the first. "The risks are too high, and the benefits are fairly non-existent!" The man was raising his voice as his temper rose.
"The government barely knows anything about this project," replied the inventor in an eerily calm voice. "They know nothing of the risks, and the benefits for us could be monumental." He remained calm, despite the remarks of his colleague.
"Do not play games with me! I came here upon your request, and all you have to tell me is what I already know! However, what you have failed to inform me of are the physics of the thing. I haven't been shown any proof yet that this can even work!" His voice had now risen to a near-shout.
The inventor looked around to see if anyone had noticed his partner's outburst, but as usual, no one was walking by. Even if they were, no one would recognize these men in their long overcoats, black hats, and dark shades. "Keep your voice down," he whispered. "I'll show you the proof once you've agreed to help me."
"And the money?"
The inventor held up the black briefcase he was holding, and opened it to reveal bundles of hundred dollar bills. "Now will you help me? I know this can work, but I still need one more person to help clean things up. We have the technology already set, but we need you to fix the bugs in the program."
The man hesitated before answering, his eyes glued to the money. "When are you planning on unveiling this 'project'?"
"We plan to unveil it in three days."
The man's eyes widened in shock. "Are you insane? A project like this would take at least a year to clean up!"
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Police say Juan M. Cuellar shot and killed 18-year-old Joshua Holmes Monday near Willowbrook.
A man has been arrested and charged with the murder of 18-year-old Hinsdale South grad Joshua Holmes, the DuPage County Sheriff's Office announced Thursday.
Juan M. Cuellar, 23, of the 700 block of Lilac Lane in unincorporated Willowbrook, has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder. Police say Cueller shot Holmes near the intersection of Honeysuckle Rose and Hyacinth Lanes near Holmes' home at around 6:35 p.m. Monday. Both men were residents of the Hinsdale Lake Terrace apartment complex in unincorporated Willowbrook, according to Dawn Domrose, a spokesperson for the DuPage County Sheriff's Office.
Witnesses told sheriff's detectives after the shooting that they had seen a white four-door vehicle approach the intersection at that time and a male subject allegedly fired several shots at Holmes.
After he was shot, Holmes was transported to Adventist Hinsdale Hospital, where he died from his injuries.
"During the intensive investigation that followed, sheriff's detectives, along with members of the sheriff's multijurisdictional task force, identified Cuellar as the alleged shooter in this incident," the release from Zaruba's office reads. "Through collaborative teamwork of law enforcement agencies, Cuellar was located and taken into custody without incident."
Cuellar is currently being held at DuPage County Jail. He has a 4 p.m. bond hearing.
In 2006, Cuellar appeared before a DuPage County Court judge on charges of mob action and assembly for an unlawful act, as well as unlawful use of weapons. According to court documents the unlawful weapons charge specified possessing a knife or club with intent to use. The 2006 charges stem from an arrest made by Wheaton Police, and the case has since been closed.
Cuellar's mother, 42-year-old Elva M. Hernandez, has been charged with two felony counts of obstructing justice. Hernandez is currently being held at DuPage County Jail on a $150,000 dollar bond.
Holmes graduated from Hinsdale South earlier this year.
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11:01 am on Friday, September 28, 2012
This Is sad that a mother would up hold her son In something like this.
Joe Goodwin
11:01 am on Friday, September 28, 2012
Another important question would be where did he obtain the gun? Did he possess an FOID card?
Darien resident
10:59 am on Saturday, September 29, 2012
He's a thug - of course he doesn't have a FOID card!! The gun is most likely stolen and without serial numbers.
Diablo R
10:59 am on Saturday, September 29, 2012
Another single mom undocumented "hero" for the left. I'm glad they got him before he killed more people. Willowbrook is very dangerous so you have to be in a gang (sarcasm)
glen ellyn resident
10:36 pm on Wednesday, October 3, 2012
Miguel was the sweetest guy i ever knew he would do anything for a friend or family member he worked at dominicks for a long time and has a son my sons age he has been through some amazing things most of us could say we've never experienced all of you judging him for his US status are prejudice and I'm pretty sure we are supposed to be over stereotyping in this country i dont see anyone holding the other kid at fault plus your innocent until THE PROSECUTERS prove you guilty. He is innocent i cannot believe that hes guilty NO WAY he's an awesome person and a great friend please do not judge someone you dont know :0)
Ernest Owens
11:07 am on Thursday, October 4, 2012
How do you hold the other kids at fault??? I could care less about immigration status because I'm not a bigot, but hold the other kid accountable for thus idiot killing him.. Trust me, they wouldn't have heaved thus one dude in particular and his mom for no reason... Everybody that knows these people want to paint the pretty picture of em, but there has to be a dark side to both for a situation like this to even be a reality... Sad on both sides
Lela rice
8:54 am on Friday, October 5, 2012
All that to be said from a glen ellyn resident who know miguel listen he took someone life who give him that right to be God, no he is guilty as charge then open up gun shot during day break I hope he get nail to the cross. How you think that that young man mother feel you will never know he dead and his mother help her son she did think about her other children she a bad mother
Lela rice
8:54 am on Friday, October 5, 2012
This situation has nothing to do with racism I m talking about a man who couldn't control him self and choosed to do the wrong thing everyone has the right to pick and choosed there battle and and only you choosed whats road you going down .No one should every make you made where you want to kill I don't care about his color control your attitude.yeah no one sayning the other young man he kill is perfect but it didn't give him the right to kill him.
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4:06 pm on Sunday, January 6, 2013
i have known Juan for a few years now. I used to work with him at Home Depot. By reading all the articles from different western suburbs, they all conclude that is next court date is on November 27, 2012...so what has happened in this case against him since after this date?


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