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Rose Hill Furniture Company
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6 July 1901. Fred Newman Snr & Jnr being rescued
Thursday, (Penguin.) 9th May 1935.
THIRTY-FIVE YEARS AGO
Mr Fred Newman’s Remarkable Voyage.
Blown Out to Sea for 3 Months.
Thirty-five years ago on Sunday – the 5th of May – Mr Fred Newman started on his remarkable and enforced voyage to Montevideo the circumstances attending which we reproduce with due acknowledgement from the Falkland islands Magazines of 1900.
Mr Newman, who is still a well-known figure about Stanley, is now over eighty years of age and with his wife, who is also still alive, has had a family of some twenty-four children. Both Mr & Mrs Newman have outlived the majority of their children including the son who accompanied Mr Newman when he was blown out to sea in a small cutter while travelling from teal Inlet to Stanley on the momentous occasion which we recount again.
In the May number of the magazine for 1900 is the following report: “Mr Newman’s family left Teal Inlet on the 5th may in the “Shamrock” and reached Stanley in the afternoon. He and a son of nine years old sailed at the same time in a small cutter he himself decked.
They were hailed by the “Shamrock” outside Salvador, but he replied that they were alright and the “Shamrock” need not stand by. They have not been heard of since. The following month the Magazine reported that Mr Newman was seen on the afternoon of the 6th May from the Johnson Harbour camp about three miles north of the Volunteers, a gale from the south-west was blowing and the cutter was tossing about. The “Fortuna” going north was crossing Berkeley Sound at the time she passed the Volunteers at dusk. A sharp look out was kept for F. Newman by Captain Rowland who had heard of his having left Teal Inlet for Stanley but no sign of the cutter was observed. It blew very hard all night; some gear having been carried away on board the “Fortuna” she put back to Port William for refit.
After a cryptic announcement in July that nothing had been heard of Mr F. Newman and his son came the sight of the two missing souls landing safe and sound at Stanley from the Pacific Company’s Royal mail Steamer “Orellana” which arrived on August 10th.
The September magazine gives the following report:
The “Orellana” which arrived at Stanley on August 10th, thus being three days late, brought amongst other passengers Frederick Newman & his little son, who had joined the ship at Montevideo. Most of his friends had almost given up all hope of ever seeing him again. The long interval of time that had elapsed since he was last seen, the fearful weather there had been for several days after he left the Falklands, the comparatively small supply of food and water he was known to have with him and the utter unfitness of his boat for such a lengthened journey – all mitigated against the chances of his having survived.
But here he is safe and sound in Stanley once more, going about his daily work as if it had never been interrupted and looking and feeling (so he says) none the worse for his wonderful adventure.
It will be remembered that Newman and family left Teal Inlet where he had been working for some years on Sunday, the 5th May. The cutter “Shamrock” of Stanley had gone out to bring them and their furniture back to Stanley, but Newman had built a boat in his spare time and wished therefore to sail her in, the distance being some 35 or 40 miles, his boat’s dimensions being 26 ft 7 ins long by 8 ft 2 ins broad and 3 ft 6 ins deep.
Taking his little son of 9 years with him he started off before the “Shamrock” but which afterwards passed him off the Volunteer Rocks, and as they did so hailed him to know he was all right or should they stand by, or tow him in. as he seemed quite satisfied, they left him, and went on to Stanley which they reached all right. Sunday night was wild enough but Newman kept on his course as he also did all Monday. On Monday night one of the fiercest gales of the year blew. So hard did it blow in fact that the “Fortuna” which had started for Hill Cove had to put back into Port William.
On Tuesday morning Newman found that he had been blown away off the land and could only just see the lighthouse at Cape Pembroke and which was now away to the west of him. Putting the vessel about he endeavoured to get back, but was unable to to do so, and to add to his difficulties some of his gear carried away, so that he could not hoist his sails. He was now in a bad way. Fortunately he was well victualled for the short cruise he expected. Of meat, he had a small quantity cooked, a whole dead sheep, and a young pig cut up in salt. His wife had cooked him a fair amount of bread and he had some flour. Tea he also had, but this eventually had to supply the place of tobacco and his means of cooking was very scanty. The water he brought lasted them twenty one days. But what proved to be the best of all was a large quantity of swede turnips and raw potatoes which in consequence of his moving he had taken up out of his garden at Teal Inlet and was bringing them in for h
Rose Hill Mansion - Geneva
Rose Hill Mansion. A bit more history: General William Kerley Strong, a rich, young merchant from NY, came to build his house in 1837, and he wanted a splendid building in the most fashionable style, which would have been Greek Revival. Unfortunately, it is not actually known who the architect was. It could have been one from NYC or it could very well have been some local builders using the many books by Minard LeFever, Asher Benjamin, Alexander Davis and others who gave the builders directions, techniques, scale drawings and proportions for the architecture of houses, both inside and out. The many striking Greek Revival houses and public buildings in Geneva built in the 1820s and 1830s show that the local builders were highly proficient in this style and would have certainly been up to the task. Although General Strong's influence on the farm at Rose Hill was fleeting, his building of the Greek Revival Mansion was lasting. Next came, in 1848, Benjamin Swan, a rich merchant and real estate owner from NYC. He purchased Rose Hill for his son Robert, who at the time, was not in good health and needed an out-of-door life such as farming. In Geneva, NY they found such a place. Robert came and trained at the John Johnstons farm, "Viewfields". Robert trained a year with Johnston and another year with a dairy farmer, learning the latest farming methods as practiced in NYS. When Robert married Johnston's daughter Margaret, the couple were presented with an unexpected gift as a wedding present - Rose Hill Mansion. At age 24, Robert brought an energy to the farm which establshed it in the annals of American agriculture. Having learned about the necessity of proper drainage from his mentor John Johnston, he began to lay the tiles. Robert Swan with his vision soon surpassed his teacher in operations and in his first year laid 16,000 tiles for drainage on his property. When he completed his tile-laying project was completed he had 61 miles of tile drainage on his 344-acre farm. The results of the tile laying were dramatic, from swale ground which had produced nothing but worthless aquatic grass now came thousands of bushels of wheat. In addition to runing a model farm Swan was an active member of the NYS Agriciutural Society and its President in 1881. Forty years of great activity and success came to a sudden close when Swan died of a heart attack in NYC in 1890. His place in the history of American agriculture is assured. The mansion is located on Route 96A in Geneva, NY.
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